Committee sets five-day deadline for land seizure bill

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The Parliament’s Decentralization Committee has set a five-day deadline to wrap up its review of a contentious new bill that seeks to grant the central government greater powers to seize land under the jurisdiction of local councils. The bill, which proposes introducing new provisions to the Decentralization Act, was submitted on August 5 by Thulhaadhoo MP Abdul Hannan Aboobakr, an independent