Government has handed over 750 hectares of land in Maheba area to 150 former miners who were retrenched last year from Kansanshi mine.
Each of the 150 miners received five hectares of land under the local integration programme.
Solwezi District Commissioner Rosemary Kamalonga handed over the land to the beneficiaries yesterday.
Ms. Kamalonga said government wants to empower former miners under the local integration programme and advised them not to sell the land they have gotten.
She said government will not hesitate to repossess the land that will be sold by the beneficiaries.
Meanwhile, Kalumbila District Commissioner Robinson Kalota said the land was for farming.
Mr. Kalota said the former miners should therefore take advantage and produce a lot of food for the growing population of Solwezi district.
He has however warned Solwezi municipal council against giving land under the local integration programme to people living outside Northwestern Province regardless of their tribe because the land is meant for the local people.
Each of the 150 miners received five hectares of land meanwhile Egyptians Lebanese, Chinese and other foreign nationals are getting more land illegally from some corrupt govt officials
Last time i checked one Mr Zulu from ministry of lands was selling 100s of hectares to one Egyptian man with rotten teeth named Muhamed.
If a Zambian went to Egypt to buy land he would be tortured and left for dead.
Solwezi should not be infiltrated by land grabbers. Don’t forget a quiet dog should never be thrown into a corner and poked continuously, it could bite.
Those retrenchees shud have been armed with a Tractor and plough each. Just how do you grow food on a 12a plot to feed the increasing population in Solwezi with akambwili mwebantu? Little wonder they will end up selling half the land to realise Kwacha to develop the other half simple
so only 30 miners for 5 hecters each and 150ex-miners retrenched how about the 120?may be am missing something here..
ho it’s750hec makes sense..i was feeling drowsy.
Now that’s interesting, we have been given letters but still waiting and I wonder if all miners want to be farmers!!!