Former Environmental Minister William Harrington says the Lusaka City Council did not approve any building plans in the controversial Forest 27.
This came to light when Mr Harrington and fellow Activist Robert Chimambo met the Directorate of Planning at Lusaka City Council as part of their ongoing research on the de-gazetting of Forest 27.
He described the revelations from LCC as shocking.
Mr Harrington stated that no developer has obtained Council approval prior to construction as required by law.
He said the Directorate however confirmed that plans were underway to undertake a site inspection and verification exercise on what is going on in Forest Reserve No. 27 as it was only brought to the attention of the LCC through recent press coverage.
Mr Harrington said the Directorate also assured that all structures which had not obtained Council approval are illegal and therefore the relevant law would be applied without fear or favor.
“Accordingly, all illegal structures should not be spared from demolition,” he said.
Demolish them like you have done to other illegal buildings.
They can not be desyroyed…..lungu and his gang are chewing from proceeds of corruption from that forest.
Waste of time. PF is a party of perpetual fraudsters, starting with Sata who defrauded ZISC (avondale housing) , Medical board, Merzaf , stolen vehicles and houses.
Look what has happened to Madison Assets Management belonging to Larry Sikutwa who was given two tracts of land in Forest 27 in exchange for 30,000,000 donation to PF.
This is the big problem in Zambia. Vice president, lands minister, chief justice, speaker erecting illegal structures. And you expect an ordinary citizen to have planning permission before he can start building?
Fact is they don’t need LCC permission to do anything. The LCC itself knows it. They’re the law.
Harrington work to revive your misfortunes, going to the council to check building plans wont bring food on your table.
Typical corrupt African……the man is trying to protect the country by way of protecting forests and all you can think of is food on the table by destroying everything ???
Imwe ka Bungwe so for you ni food chabe….everything else does not matter. Hungry semi-illiterate ..
@Bungwe you are the most corrupt thing that happened on this platform. Stand before a mirror and read this “Harrington work to revive your misfortunes, going to the council to check building plans wont bring food on your table”. God help us!
#2.2 Ububi pamenso nge tole lyambwa. What you chaps are forgetting is protecting the forest is about pushing for legislation that will protect forest through wanton cutting of trees and illegal bush fire starting. If you have entered Zambian airspace from any angle, you must have sees multiple charcoal sites with bellowing smoke. This is evidently absent in all our neighboring countries.
Ask William Harrington to push government to revive bakapenda mabula under forestry department and not checking who has approved plans or not. I am sure his ramshackle at his farm has no building permit.
I am 100% sure all in favour of william are Akainde’s useful idio.ts
You’re an !d!ot mune.
That is lungus corruption for you…..
Every system of governance in Zambia has been corrupted and destroyed by that debarred thieving lawyer lungu.
After lungu it will take generations and a messiah to correct the damage done by that thief……
The most bezzar thing is the thief goes to the UN to attend a climate change meeting with a begging bowel and stright face while back home he and his gang of theives have looted and destroyed reserve forests sharing the land amogest themselves.
All Presidents before him all resisted that.
Not this insatiable corrupt thief.
His fellow leaders are busy seeing to it that deforestation is reveresed while lungu does not give a shi.t…..
Nowadays I just keeping getting dumbstruck. It’s like this party in government wants to make sure the unusual, the incorrigible and the indefatigably stu.pid carry the day with maximum impunity.
JONA THE SHAMELESS (WIDOW CASH EMBEZZLER), HAS BROUGHT LAWLESSNESS, & CADRE S@VAGERY TO ZAMBIA!!
Every morning you check the news, NEW P.F scandals.
Those forests that lungu has looted and destroyed should have been kept for future generations of our children of Zambia.
Lungu and his gang of thieves are so Brooke that we are now hearing they looting game parks and wantonly selling the wildlife.
We warned you some time back that the only thing left for lungu and his gang to loot are the game parks ……..
I can assure you, the looting is getting into high gear now, starting with that fake story of lungu meeting an American tycoon who wants to by a game park……
All these thugs of PF will be locked up when HJ led government takes over in 2021. Time is ticking for all the thugs who know the law and got land by corrupt means.
From all the people upndist talking of locking up! HH has been a sophisticated crook. Show one person who can anand the kind of wealth HH has amassed without cutting deals, taking advantage of the system (ZPA), tribal influence (Mazoka and Anglo American nexus and appointment of freebies earning boards), stolen animals (Zambia Railways ) , Zambezi sun (recommendation to give entire Zambezi river front on Victoria Falls to one group which he is appointed chairman of, illicit flesh trade (Maureen ).
HH is musical chair game elitist.
We have reports of lungu and PF looting game parks and selling animals all over the world………
That fake story of a tycoon meeting lungu in the USA to buy a game park in Zambia is a prelude and cover for the looting of our game parks to come……
Lungu is broke and desperate and his gang have identified the game parks and animals as the only valuable thing left to sell…..
Be aware and on guard Zambia.
You will wake up to find everything has been looted and sold with future generations of our children left with massive debts and being over run by foringners……..
What really is going on with Harrington. He has been going for people for a while now. Masebo was fired because of him.
The fight by Mr. Harrington is good and need the support of every meaningful Zambian. But he is leading nowhere considering the people who got land there including the Head of the Judiciary herself.
Most probably Harrigton was fishing in a wrong river. Forest 27 falls either under the jurisdiction of Chongwe Planning Authority or Lusaka Province Planning Authority.
Bungwe – Sounds very dull. The fact is Harrington has enough food even to feed you and your family if he wanted. But what he is doing is a matter of patriotism. You think if you brought ba kapendamubula they will control Lungu and his cohort of thieves. In fact bakapendamubula are already there in the forestry department, the only power they have is to control charcoal burners. Can they control Jean Kapata & Lungu? Kolwe iwe.
The laws are already there we don’t need any new laws. If the law that stops them from sharing land in forest reserve and constructing buildings without plans was broken, what will bakapendamabula stop?
wtf is going on in Zambia?
it’s like nobody knows what the hell is going on
and then once they are pushed in the corner dora would come and say some sh it..
everyone of them is busy doing illegal shi t and then when it comes to light they want to retract and …
the poor people just want these guys to give them a fair shake to put food on the table and send their children to school
Why should William Harrington be shocked by revelations on Forest 27? From the time this government took over in 2015 it has been one scandal after another and we are yet to seen more scandals……
@bungwe, are you of sober mind? i will avoid commenting on your class of language because we all have our faults..but to the point you thought u raised, u want Mr William to push for legislation to protect forests, in-case you are not aware for some crazy reason, those already exist, did that stop this bunch of mentality delinquent nincompoops from chopping up area 27???
When our forests are destroyed that is the beginning of hunger in our country. No forest no rain no food. See Tanzania they respect their forest like anything. Some Tanzanian come to do chitemene in Zambia where the government is weak. Please protect the forests and let every well meaning Zambian not politicise this.