Eastern Zone DCSA

Figure 36: Respondents’ account on issuance of judgments
Figure 37: Respondents’ account on the enforcement of judgments
Of those who had used traditional elders for the provision of justice
in the past year, 82% went on to state that a judgment had been
issued (Fig 36). A futher 96% of those who had received a judgment
recalled that judgements had been enforced (Fig 37).
As discussed above, most of the land disputes were referred or
taken to the courts, however, some participants claimed that courts
have failed to deliver justice on land disputes. According to a District
Police Commissioner whose name is withheld 46 land dispute cases
were charged without even visiting the disputed land or involving
the right witnesses and local authorities in the trial process “the
police in the district were asked to enforce a land-related court
judgement… when we reached the land under dispute we found a
large family living there, we requested them to vacate the land
,however, they did not know that their land had been transferred to
another owner… currently there are many land related judgements
which we do not want to enforce because the judgement is
46 He consented to be used his name the report, but researchers found the
information sensitive and have chosen that he remains anonymous
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