Government, through the Roads Development Agency [RDA], has released about K 163 million for compensation to farmers whose fields were destroyed during the construction of the Kalabo-Mongu Road in the year 2007.
Roads Development Agency Accounting Officer, John Chishala Musonda, told ZANIS in an interview in Kalabo today that the total number of 103 farmers that were affected started receiving their money on Wednesday, this week.
Mr Musonda said the farmers who were being compensated were those whose fields were destroyed along the stretch from Kalabo to Tapo area during the construction of the Kalabo-Mongu Road by the Consolidated Contractors Company [CCC].
Mr Musonda said that out of the 103 farmers that were being compensated, the farmer who was affected most received an amount of K11.8 million while the least affected farmer received a compensation of K140, 000.
He further stated that during the construction works a total number of 103 maize, cassava and rice fields for 103 farmers were destroyed.
ZANIS
i think it is good that the farmers are being compensated even if don’t know modalities of how it is being done and it has taken  5 years. Better than nothing
Marubbish, why compensate farmers with tuma cassava fields in the road reserve? We have rules as to how many metters away from the road reserve one should build or grow vyamba. This money is a syndicate, i dont think SATA when he takes over RDA from state house would compensate useless farmers
What is a farmer going to do with K140,000 does that include interest accrued from 2007, (5years ago).