Government has disclosed that investigations into the alleged illegal plot allocations by the Lusaka City Council (LCC) have reached an advanced stage.
Local Government and Housing Deputy Minister Moses Muteteka said today that the committee which was constituted to investigate the matter has received overwhelming response from the general public.
Mr. Muteteka said a number of affected individuals have made submissions to the committee, which is now scrutinizing what it has collected from members of the public.
He said the investigation results which were supposed to be published 90 days after the council had been suspended, will be published later due to the overwhelming response from members of public.
He explained that this is in order to accommodate more people to submit and to allow the committee to look at all the submissions.
He said the committee is working tirelessly to ensure that the investigations are concluded and the report be made available to the Zambian people as soon as possible.
The council has been suspended for 90 days and government appointed Solomon Finandi Sakala, the Copperbelt Provincial Local Government officer, as the administrator.
Minister of Local Government and Housing, Brian Chituwo announced the suspension of the council on January 22, 2011 following reports that the local authority was involved in some land allocation scams.
Dr. Chituwo announced that the suspension of LCC was to pave way for investigations into the alleged illegal land allocation.
Some Lusaka City Council officials have been accused of illegally allocating land to themselves without following the law governing the allocation of land.
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Who, in the current Zambian govt has not allocated themselves something illegally?
At least the land is in the hand of Zambians.
we’ll never develop as a country if we don’t stick to time. we keep extending everything from voter registration, trail judgements, roadworks, election results, etc.
learn to stick to time 90 days is plenty time
What are these mappets saying? Illegal land allocation has been a practice for a long time now and its all perpetrated by MMD cadres. What overwhelming response is he talking about?? Talk of Kamwala and Libala south with over 2000 houses worth billions of kwacha all of which were allocated by MMD cadres and built without a single legal document. These idi..ots should just issue titles to owners thats it. That land is the hands of Zambians who legally entitled to it. Even the K10 million kwacha they are demanding from people who own this land is too much because most of the areas in question are not serviced and will never be serviced by the council. So why should struggling Zambians pay such amounts of money. The council has failed to service even legally plots such as Chalala.
let the thieves pay for it ..don’t leave any stone unturned..if William Banda is involved..arrest the granny too..
Pwetete Pwetete