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Chibombo District hails move to repossess idle plots

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Chibombo District Council has recommended the Commissioner of Lands stance that all undeveloped plots in the district be re-possessed.

Council Secretary Josephine Phiri says his council is in support of the Commissioner of Lands directive to repossess idle lands after remaining undeveloped for a long time now.

Ms Phiri said some of the residential and commercial plots have remained idle for some years now.

She said this has gone far beyond the stipulated period of 18 months within which owners are supposed to develop their pieces of land after receiving the formal offer letters of the plots.

ZANIS reports that the Council Secretary said this in an interview at her office today.

And Chibombo Central Ward Councilor Robby Malindima has described the failure by some people to develop the plots as retrogressive to the much needed infrastructure development in the area.

Mr Malindima in a separate interview wondered why some people rushed to acquire pieces of land when they were not ready to develop them.

He said it is unfortunate that some people have even decided to start farming on the commercial and residential plots allocated to them, at the expense of putting up buildings.

4 COMMENTS

  1. How do people hail & support such a misconception which cannot apply as we are globally still facing a crisis. these repossession s are happening without a physical search and economic assessment criterion on how people are supposed to be sensitized as well as notices individually given to them some matters of correction are not really what a Christian nation may assume generous they are derived from evil meant to harm those owning & deprive them of their blessings because of jealousy…

  2. Hi,
    Aquiring huge junks of land and then failing to develop it
    Is should not be surpoted. This is among the many reasons why
    Land is very expensive in some place because people just buy and keep
    for resale at exobitant prices.if look at this land which is being sold by
    MEWD, one wonders how they got it.

  3. Hear hear; Isupport this move, people holding on to land in Chibombo are impeding the growth of the little town that has potential to develope into a big town.

  4. the move to reposes the undeveloped plots is a good move, but i just wonder the operations of this council people who give plots. other people like me a resident in chibobombo have applied for several times for a residential plot but in vein. the same council gives plot to people who have more than one plot which they even know that, the same people have failed to develop the plots. the recently given plots were also given to people who already have the plots and not developed them. shameful council.

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