{"id":146895,"date":"2021-05-26T05:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T09:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/namati.org\/?p=146895"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T15:58:33","slug":"disillusioned-not-defeated-rural-village-took-foreign-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namati.org\/news-stories\/disillusioned-not-defeated-rural-village-took-foreign-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Disillusioned But Not Defeated: How a Rural Village Took on a Foreign Investor","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"lead\">It was good land. Before the company\u2019s arrival in 2011, the people of Ngovokpahun village had used it to grow cocoa and other cash crops to help them pay for their children\u2019s education. But when Italian Agriculture offered to build them a school, health center, and roads, provide them with employment, and pay rent, leasing out the land seemed like the wiser option. The company drafted the agreement and the landowners signed.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_143419\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143419\" class=\"wp-image-143419 size-nam2-tablet-banner\" src=\"https:\/\/namati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Madam-Mamie-Charles_portrait-278x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"402\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-143419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madam Mamie, a landowner and chair of Ngovokpahun village council.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More than 5 years later, Italian Agriculture had not fulfilled a single promise. There was no school, no health center, no roads, and no jobs. What is more, without the consent of the people, the company took and destroyed the community\u2019s only recreational ground for its own use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While the company cultivated the land, they rarely paid for it on time or in full. \u201cOur cocoa, coffee and cola nuts were gone, and the rent not forthcoming,\u201d explains Madam Mamie, a landowner and chair of the village council. Without the income from the crops or the rent, she and the other parents in the village struggled to pay their children\u2019s secondary school fees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The community repeatedly tried to resolve the issues but the company \u201cmade no effort\u201d to address their concerns. \u201cWe felt disillusioned,\u201d says Madam Mamie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Disillusioned but not defeated, the landowners called Namati Sierra Leone\u2019s toll-free legal advice line. After a number of discussions, it became clear to Namati that the situation required more support than could be provided over the phone. Namati\u2019s community paralegals arranged to hold a series of legal literacy sessions, with all of Ngovokpahun\u2019s youth and adults in attendance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After explaining the relevant laws and policies that regulate land and agricultural deals in Sierra Leone, the paralegals guided the community through a review of the terms of their lease agreement. Together they discovered that the rent the company paid fell far below the government-recommended rate, that the promised school, roads, health center and jobs were not captured in the document, and that the company had altered the number of hectares in the agreement after it had been signed. Infuriated, the Paramount Chief described the company\u2019s action as fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The community paralegals assisted the landowners in writing a letter to the company. They laid out their grievances with reference to the law and requested a meeting. This time, Italian Agriculture agreed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The landowners and village chief arrived at the meeting accompanied by Namati and armed with copies of the laws and legal documents. They re-stated their grievances to the senior company officials gathered and pointed to discrepancies between the lease and government policy. They demanded that these issues be addressed and a new lease negotiated that reflected what the parties had actually agreed upon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_143421\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143421\" class=\"wp-image-143421 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/namati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Italian-Agri-sign-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/namati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Italian-Agri-sign-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/namati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Italian-Agri-sign-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/namati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Italian-Agri-sign-1-573x400.jpg 573w, https:\/\/namati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Italian-Agri-sign-1-450x314.jpg 450w, https:\/\/namati.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Italian-Agri-sign-1-430x300.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-143421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signboard of the Italian Agriculture Rubber Farm in Ngovokpahun.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When they concluded, the CEO remarked how impressed he was with their level of legal awareness. He then went on to take responsibility for the alterations to the lease document, explaining that his company had conducted another round of surveying which gave them the new figure, and acknowledging that the exercise should not have been done without the knowledge and involvement of the landowners and local authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"lead2\">\u201cI was surprised at the hospitality and positive behavior of the company staff,\u201d recalls Madam Mamie. \u201cThese once defiant people were respectful this time.\u201d But as she sees it, they did not have much of a choice. \u201cThe argument was put to rest after the CEO read the provisions. He had no option but to accept to do things as per the law and lease.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At a second meeting, held in the village, the two parties agreed on a set of plans and targets for remedying the wrongs. The CEO unreservedly accepted the community\u2019s demand to re-survey the concession area with full community participation and promised that the company would investigate the missed rent payments, and clear up all arrears when they mutually ascertain the actual land size being used. He also agreed to reconstruct the recreational field and negotiate a new lease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The process that followed was not without its challenges, but with the paralegals\u2019 support and the law in their hands, the people of Ngovokpahun village have resolved the nearly decade-long injustice. By the end of 2020, the land had been re-surveyed, all rent arrears paid, a recreational field built, and negotiation of a new lease \u2014 one that protects the rights and interests of the community and all its members \u2014 begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A community in Sierra Leone, guided by Namati paralegals, learned about their legal rights and used this to hold a big firm accountable &#038; successfully renegotiate a land lease agreement. <\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-land","category-land-protection","issues-environmental-justice","languages-english","namati_post_type-story","namati_programs-sierra-leone","region-sierra-leone","tool_types-news-opinions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Disillusioned But Not Defeated: How a Rural Village Took on a Foreign Investor - Namati<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/namati.org\/news-stories\/disillusioned-not-defeated-rural-village-took-foreign-investor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disillusioned But Not Defeated: How a Rural Village Took on a Foreign Investor - Namati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A community in Sierra Leone, guided by Namati paralegals, learned about their legal rights and used this to hold a big firm accountable &amp; 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