Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov: Land grabbing must be stopped from now on

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov said land grabbing must be stopped from now on during a meeting with residents of the Toguz-Toro district. The head of state recalled that in 2021 the land of about 23,000 to 30,000 citizens across the republic, who had seized farmland around Sokuluk and Alamudun districts and the cities of Bishkek and Osh and built homes there, was legalised.

Japarov said local akims and village administrations were found to have been involved in helping people build homes on vacant plots. Stressing that only 6 percent of the country is flat land and 94 percent is mountainous, he said arable, pasture and reserve land must be preserved. He added that homes are being built through the State Mortgage Company on land in district centres and small towns.

At the meeting, the mother of a citizen who bought a land plot in Kok-Jar in 2021 said he is now living there in a house he built and asked for the legalisation issue to be reviewed. Construction Minister Nurdan Oruntayev reported that houses had been built on plot 172 in Kok-Jar after land was declared there. Japarov instructed that the citizen's appeal be considered within a commission.