A SUCCESS STORY

A success story on one estate issue between one madam Hawa Musa and one Joseph Nabieu Konjo Doma community in the Bagbwe chiefdom in the Bo District.

One madam  Hawa Musa of Konjo Doma community in the Bagbwe chiefdom,Bo District reported a case of plantation between  one Joseph Nabieu of the same village.According to madam Hawa Musa a biological daughter of one pa Alieu Musa planted a huge amount of oil palm and cocao which the said late Alieu is the owner of land and plantation.Mr.joseph Nabieu who is the great grand father of late pa Musa was brought to the house at the age of 27 years from kailahun town to be taking care of by pa Alieu because pa Alieu and the father of Joseph were good friends.

Party A said only she alone was born by late pa Musa in the village of Konjo Doma community and when Joseph Nabieu was brought by the late pa Musa and he was introduced to the community and late father told that as man to care of the plantation and the daughter of the late man.Joseph Nabieu who has claimed this plantation and not related to the late man family.

Party A said,the plantation was handed over the Joseph Nabieu onhalf of his daughter and other related family at Konjo Doma community as a care taker which he said after his death,his daughter and other family members should benefits from the plantation.thereafter,Pa Musa Was seriously sick and was taken to the hospital to Bo government hospital for medical treatment and Pa Musa  did not survive from the sickness.After the death of pa Musa, Joseph Nabieu started processing the plantation over ten without benefiting the daughter and the other relatives but before the death of pa Musa called upon the daughter, other family and the key stakeholders to handed over the plantation to Joseph on behalf of the daughter and other family that the plantation is not belonging to  Joseph Nabieu but the daughter and other family members and he is not the owner of the after the death of late pa Alieu, according to this report, Joseph Nabieu claimed the whole estate forgetting the fact that he is not the owner of the plantation and without the consent of the daughter and other family members.This matter was reported to the family,and some key stakeholders of the community by madam Neima Alieu but no action was taken against the man.The matter was alsy reported to section chief of Jongo section and also the chiefdom speaker of Bagbwe chiefdom and the was not treated to my satisfaction by both chiefs.

Madam Hawa Musa reported this matter to center for Access to justice peace and human paralegal in yamandu station in baoma chiefdom for their quick intervention.Having received the report from party A,paralegals take statement from the party and recorded into the ledger while invite party B to get his own side of the story . Party B came to the office and explain his own side of the story.

Before calling for mediation, paralegal went to the community and engaged some community key stakeholders who were mentioned in the report inorder to get full evidence about the said matter.The engagement was conducted while the paralegal called the both parties for mediation proper.The mediation was conducted in the said community inorder to get more  evidence about this said  matter after explanation are given by both parties with evidences provided by parties.Cross examination also was done.The paralegal explained details of the four gender laws which was enacted by members of Parliament especially the domestic violence act of 2007 and the devolution of estate act of 2007 which is predominant or are increase in the rural communities of sierra Leone.The paralegal focuses  their explanation on the devolution of estate act which are connected with the said matter by party A. A lot of questions were asked by the community people and questions were asked by the paralegal while the town chief  and other authorities of Konjo Doma community appreciated the visit of the paralegal also gained a lot of experience on the legal empowerment and the community themselves.Pa David told the paralegal that,the chiefs are still using the old laws.He told the paralegal that the knowledge gain will be spread into another communities He asked the paralegal to be visiting the community for type of opportunity gain as they need more legal education especially in the area of local  court act and chieftaincy Act .After the discussion of the laws especially devolution of estate act , Joseph Nabieu as party B openly apologize to madam Hawa Musa and other relatives and the estate was handed over to Hawa Musa and other relatives in Konjo Doma community and the mediation agreement was made and distributed among parties.

The summary of success story presented by Akibo K.Boima

Paralegal - Baoma, Bagbwe and Badjia chiefdoms.