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Parley Committee hails Multi Facility Economic Zone plans

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The Parliamentary Committee on Delegated Legislation says the establishment of the Lusaka Multi Facility Economic Zone in Lusaka South will bring development and create employment opportunities for most youths in the area.

The Committee has also commended Government for degazetting the Lusaka South Forest Reserve Number F26 earmarked for the establishment on the Multi Facility Economic Zone.

Parliamentary Committee on Delegated Legislation Chairperson Chishimba Kambili made the remarks and warned that Parliamentarians will not protect Squatters would encroach on the land saying people should start inculcating a culture of respecting existing laws that govern the acquisition of land in the country.

He said the Committee decided to undertake the Field visit to ensure that the proposed area is not occupied by people and whose development will not disadvantage the locals.

Forestry Department Senior Extension Officer jackson Mukosha assured the Committee that no one will be displaced as a result of the development.

Mr. Mukosha said that part of the Reserve was degazzetted between 1954 and 1956 for purposes of mining, refuse disposal, smallholdings, Lilayi aerodrome and for security reasons.

He said once developed, the area would also see the construction of a Lusaka Park in a bid to retain the forest status adding that the Central Business District of the town would also be decongested.

12 COMMENTS

  1. can someone explain what benefit this is to us as zambians, I am just imagining America in 1814 when it was 40 years of independence what kind of strategies it was using so that 220 years later it would be where it is!!!

  2. #1 and 2. The Multi facility economic zone (MFEZ) is an economic model, designed by a Malaysian consultant, which envisages a manufacturing-like place(one-stop shop type) for industries that will be producing goods and services classified as priority prodcuts under the Zambia Development Agency Act. All investors that will be operating in the MFEZ may not pay any taxes on their profits for atleast five years from the year they will make profits. It has provisions much along the lines of the Development Agreements. The idea behind this MFEZ is to entice and woo local and foreign investors. But the ultimate objective remains a mystery…

  3. So in short its a shopping mall…….Why try and complicate everything…….ati multi facility economic zone..I thought it was a space ship….

  4. Ze Big # 4, mwalasa. Fima jargon kwati chintu shani. Yet its a simple thing and even simple for a common man to understand. Tema tricks fye aya?

  5. wats this tax exemption for 5 years! i don’t know how many other countries do that! while the local tax payer is milked dry! tafi panga sense! 2 years would be enuff!

  6. it’s not really like a shopping mall. it’s an industrial center where e.g you get mass production companies like nike tailoring their clothes to sell globally (kind of like chinese/taiwan manufactured goods).

  7. ZAMBIANS, THOSE ARE THE TRICKS OF CONMEN-USING POINTLESS, BUT CONFUSING JARGON SO THAT PIPO DONT KNOW REALLY WHAT IT IS THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. LT also presents editorials in archaic manner. What I have noticed in developed countries is that the editors start with simple explanation of a new term so that the readership is put in the know to contribute effectively if need be. LT, should be responsible for this, too.

  8. These MPs are so ignorant that all they know is the colour green – the colour of the USD!! They cannot even quantify the strategic benefits of what they are endorsing to Zambians. If the so called investor employed 100 Zambians as car washers at this facility, it would not bother these fellows at all. We are up a wrong route with these MPs and their associates in this gutter government.

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