The National Land Agency has recovered the first vacant land in Islas del Rosario

There National Land Agency (ANT) announced on Saturday February 18 that it had taken over the property of Los Argonautas, in the Rosary Islands, which was in the possession of an individual on behalf of a contract signed with the nation in 2017. “Jointly, the tenant and the ANT have agreed to terminate the contract 1765-18”, specified the entity.

The director of the ANTGerardo Vega Medina, acknowledged the delivery of the property after inviting the tenants to finalize the contract and hold meetings with several of them.

“We have recovered the first property under this process in Islas de Rosario. We thank a prominent businessman in the country who voluntarily decided to terminate the lease of the Los Argonautas property. We invite other businessmen and people who have these contracts to entrust them with the recovery of these properties for the benefit of the Raizal communities,” Vega Medina explained in his press release.

This action is a consequence after the National Land Agency filed, last week, an action for nullity against 32 lease contracts, joining the group of 10 which had been sued in December 2022, within the framework of the process of wasteland rehabilitation reserved for the Nation of the Archipelago of Nuestra Señora del Rosario.

The national government official pointed out that the property The Argonauts It has been provisionally handed over to the National Police where the Islas de Rosario substation will operate, “to have, for the first time, a permanent presence in this area to ensure the safety of the community”, reads the statement to public opinion.

According to official information, Los Argonauta is located in the area big island and has an area of ​​4,324 square meters. After the ANT team’s inspection, it was found that there are two houses of 110 and 48 square meters, two exits to the sea, an L-shaped pier, a terrace, a gazebo of 280 square meters , a jacuzzi, among other adaptations.

On February 13, 2023, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation opened investigations for irregularities in the leases in the Rosary Islandsfive former officials of the National Land Agency.

Among the defendants are; Olga Yamile González, William Andrés Robledo Acosta, Nubia Pacheco Gómez, Alexander Rivera Sánchez and Campo Elías Vega Rocha for their quality as administrative and financial deputy directors of the entity.

There Attorney General’s Office has under the magnifying glass the leases in the Rosary Islandstaking into account the impact that the preservation of the ecological balance, the protection of the public heritage and the guarantee of the rights of the communities, in particular the ethnic groups of the area, could generate.

From ANT They expressed that there are 158 properties in the Rosario Islands, of which 82 have a lease, and of these, in 20 cases, early termination will be requested, if this is not possible, all legal actions who allow it will be engaged. to the law to recover these assets.

The request of the national entity is to declare “absolute nullity for illicit purposes, for having been concluded against an express constitutional or legal prohibition, and that, therefore, the immediate termination of said contracts is ordered”.

Another of the intentions of National Land Agency is that an acknowledgment of the reimbursements be made, taking into account paragraph 2 of article 48 of law 80 of 1993, “because the contracts in question did not constitute any advantage which would have served to satisfy a public interest”.