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THE LIVINGSTONE City Council (LCC) has constituted a seven man committee to investigate into the alleged illegal allocation of plots by the City mayor Milford Maambo.
Mr Maambo, who is United Party for National Development (UPND) councillor for Simoonga ward, has already been suspended by his party from the position of Livingstone Constituency chairperson over the same allegations.
This is in a case were Mr Maambo and the LCC acting Town Clerk Chabala Chanda are allegdly implicated of having allocated themselves about 18 plots in Highlands area near Tandabale market.
When some councilors got wind of it, they petitioned the council to have a special full council meeting where management and the mayor were supposed to clear the air on the alleged illegal acquiring of plots.
The meeting which, was called on Tuesday and started at 10 hours, was closed to the media and the general public and it concluded its business at 16:30 Hours.
Addressing the press after the meeting, Livingstone City Council public relations manager Emmanuel Sikanyika told journalists that a seven man adhoc committee had been formed to investigate the matter further and that they were given 30 days in which to report their findings to another full council hearing.
Mr Sikanyika confirmed that Mr Chanda and the Mayor Mr Maambo were the main players implicated in alleged land scum, but advised people to treat it as mere allegations and wait for the findings of the adhoc committee.
“In the recent past, we have had adverse news about the council illegally allocating plots to the mayor and that this was done without following any laid down procedure. So this morning we called for a special council meeting and what was agreed was that an adhoc committee be formed to investigate this matter further and report back within 30 days,” Mr Sikanyika said.
Mr Sikanyika said since these were mere allegations for now, no cause of action was taken against the mayor and the T/C until after the report from the committee.
“So no action has been taken against the mayor and anyone implicated in this issue. A number of people have been implicated but until the matter is concluded, it must be treated as an allegation,” Mr Sikanyika said.
The Seven man adhoc committee of councillors comprises of Philemon Musonda from the UPND, Likando Liswani also from the UPND including Stanely Ngoma and Saxon Simachembele from the same party.
Others are Mathews Jere and Friday Nkonde both from the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) including Moses Simbaya from the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party.
