• On March 31, 2021, the General Manager of the North Mara Gold Mine requested of the Chief Government Valuer of the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Devel- opment that her office take over the valuation of 414.83 hectares of land and properties. [...] They were asked to bring personal identification and the sheet with the identification number for their property, with which they were photographed at the end of the evaluation process. [...] Between the time of the assessment of their properties in 2021, and the time when landowners started to be called to the village office to find out what their compensation would be, in 2022, the mine started cutting down trees and clearing people’s land. [...] As they told Mining- Watch, they protested to the hamlet chairman, the village chairman, the village executive officer, Rashid Magetta (the team leader for the evaluations), and the village office.46 Others went to the mine’s grievance office.47 Some protested to the Divisional Secretary, the District Commissioner, the Regional Commissioner, and even to a Land and Housing Department in Musoma. [...] There was no mechanism or procedure provided to allow the people being evicted to challenge either the decision to evict them, or the process of the evictions, either prior to the eviction process or as it was underway.
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