Recent events relating to demolition of land on riparian land have sparked off debate on land rights, the promise of the Constitution and the refuge for a citizen when those rights are threatened. This question arises when one watches media reports of citizens who state that they purchased such property after conducting due diligence that confirmed that the property was not subject to any legal disputes nor was it on environmental sensitive land.
Every citizen purchasing property is expected to seek approvals from relevant government authorities and conduct a search at the Land office to determine the legality and propriety of he land before they can proceed to purchase. In instances when these are all done and it later turns out that something was wrong in the results that the process revealed, who shoulder the blame?
