Urban Redevelopment Act not just usurping rights of legitimate owners but selling public land
The URA does not merely entail urban redevelopment of private land, but disturbingly, also postulates the possibility of “privatisation” and “commercialisation” of public land — land gazetted and reserved by state authorities for public purposes under Section 62 of the National Land Code (Act 56 of 1965) and land owned by the Federal Land Commissioner (PTP).