The Challenges of the Right to Property of Citizens Guaranteed Under FDRE Constitution: The Case of Dila City

Abstract

Property right of citizens is addressed under Article 40(1) of the FDRE constitution as it stated that “every Ethiopian citizen has the right to ownership of private property. This right include right to acquire, to use and in a manner compatible with the right of other citizens. The right includes to dispose of such property by sale or bequest or to transfer it.” In addition to this provision, Article 41(1) of the constitution granted the economic rights to every Ethiopian the right to engage freely in economic activity and to pursue a livelihood of his choice anywhere within the national territory. Though, the constitution recognised the right to property it did not realized in some situations. The identity based federalism come out as a challenge for the realization of this right. The recent conflict incidents here and there excerpted by “we and others” or “titular and non-titular” local politics costs individuals property right. The research had coined an objective to investigate the challenges of the right to property of citizens guaranteed under FDRE constitution by taking Dilla City as the focus of research. It devised doctrinal research method to investigate hurdles of property right in the area. Subjects of the research determined by the purposive sampling method to illicit most trust worthy result which is triangulated by different techniques of the research.