Mazabuka Town Clerk, Ekan Chingangu says the local authority has demolished 272 houses in Ndeke township in a bid to decongest the cholera prone township.
Mr Chingangu also revealed that 13 roads have been opened up to ease up the movement of people, goods and services in the same.
He told ZANIS in Mazabuka today that the demolishing exercise which has been conducted in consultation with the residents is among the measures put in place by the Mazabuka District Disaster Management Committee to ensure Cholera does not break out in the township.
Mr Chingangu said all the 272 families affected have equally been relocated to the Airstrip which has been degazzetted by the government to provide plots to the affected families.
He said he is happy with the cooperation the local authority was receiving from the affected residents.
Meanwhile, Mr Chingangu has called for calm among illegal squatters at the Mazabuka Show grounds.
Mr Chingangu said the council was doing everything possible to relocate the residents to an approved township where the residents will be issued with title deeds and proper sanitary facilities installed.
Yesterday, Show Grounds Vice Chairman, Enerst Mukelabai urged the Ministry of Lands to suspend the council for allegedly mismanaging the issuance of plots to residents.
Mr Mukelabai alleged that the council management collected K 25 million from the poor families but has to date failed to relocate them to a new township.
He alleged that the township where they were promised to be relocated to was given to other developers.
Mr Mukelabai accused the council of not telling the squatters the truth as they have been given promissory notes since 2005.
But Mr Chingangu explained that the area where the Show grounds residents were earmarked for relocation is under contention in the courts of law.
According to Mr Chingangu only 76 families will be moved to the new township.
ZANIS
Lets hope cholera does not break out in this attempt to fight cholera.
Nine Chile! People should never live on hopes. The solution is to get the local govts and the council in particular, working again in this country. But then we all know that it all bows down to lack of leadership in Zambia.
What a wrong timmimng! how do you demolish peoples homes in the rain season? Are they telling us that the development MMD is giving Zambians? What a shame! Zambian goverment must think twice before we become Zimbabwe. most bigest lands in Zambia belongs to foreigners look at the land almost from lusaka city to the airport belongs to Tickley and look at how many people are living in a compressed compound like Kalingalinga? Mwebantu please!
This is a very good decision by Mazabuka Council although the timming may not be appropriate. Zambia has a lot of land to allow people to be living like insects. I hope Lusaka city council will do the same to decongest Kanyama, Chibolya, Chawama Mandevu and the like. Lusaka is developing well but if these places are left like that the council will never benefit from these compounds. We need to see proper roads, proper numbering of houses not the chaos that is there.