Government has ordered the illegal settlers whose houses were last week demolished in Mindolo North to vacate the area as it was private land.
Local Government and Housing Minister Emmanuel Chenda also ordered the police to firmly deal with the culprits involved in the illegal allocation of plots in Mindolo North whether they are PF cadres, councilors or council workers.
He said government is not going to support the illegal allocation of land which he said was rampant not only in Kitwe but countrywide.
ZANIS reports that the minister made the order today in Kitwe when he interacted with the victims who complained to him that they were not allocated the pieces of land by the Council.
He stated that government currently had no alternative piece of land to give the people that have been left in the cold but if the council could find some piece of land, they can be allocated.
However Mr Chenda said he was not happy with the council for allowing the illegal squatters to build the houses up to the level they had reached and only move on to demolish when the houses were complete which he said was a waste of resources for the poor victims.
He said the council should have warned the people adequately so that they desist from commencing the construction works.
The Minister further urged the Kitwe City Council to step up its inspections in the communities to prevent construction of illegal structures.
The Kitwe city council has demolished over 600 houses that had been built on private land belonging to Mopani Copper Mine, Phoenix Contractors and the Kitwe City council.
Over 1000 people have been left in the cold as a result of the demolition exercise.
If private land is sitting idle let the people live there and pay rent to the Landlord. Instead of demolishing their habitats and putting families out.
iwe chenda,,thats why your name sound like chende,,,vacate and go where??,,,,these are the same people who voted for you and katongo,,,,, at least find them tents or some shelters,,,, this is mid winter,,, ala iwe,,, have some heart for your fellows blacks thats why muzungus and mwenyes called them babboons,,,,,and find those cadres ,, yes PF cadres who were selling those plots in the name of president katongo
He said and I quote: “Government is not going to support the illegal allocation of land which he said was rampant not only in Kitwe but countrywide.” I strongly agree. Until when they invade your land you will realise it is better to demolish. On this one, govt is spot on- demolish and arrest the con artists selling people land without titles or forged ones. They are attacking advantage of the poor but this does not mean that the govt should not demolish- Thanks PF on this one.
ILLEGAL ALLOCATIONS OF LAND IN ZAMBIA IS AS OLD AS UNIP DAYS. IT NEVER STARTED WITH PF. IT JUST CONTINUED INTO PF. SOMEONE HAD TO PUT HIS FOOT DOWN TO STOP IT, AND THERE WAS NEVER A RIGHT TIME. THIS IS EVEN A VERY GOOD TIME BECAUSE MOSTLY IT WAS PF CADRES AND COUNCILORS WHO WERE ALLOCATING LAND AND AN EXAMPLE SHOULD BE SET ON THOSE COUNCILORS AND CADRES BY STERNLY APPLYING LAW AGAINST THEM TO PRE-EMPTY OTHER WOULD-BE LAND ALLOCATORS. SANITY MUST COME TO THIS COUNTRY. PEOPLE HAVE JUST BEEN IGNORING THE LAW EVEN WHEN AND WHERE THEY KNEW THAT IT WAS ILLEGAL TO DO SOMETHING.
@Ndobo, tents? Most of those people rented houses, people who are buying those illegal plots are out in diaspora. Imagine all the money Saulosi has been sending, ati “I am building houses” back home.
You ***** Chende
Next time vote for UNIP. LOL.
Guy Scott runs the Disaster Management Team, if the situation in Mindolo isn’t disaster then don’t know when his department will work. What do they pay them for?
Someone has the govt by the testicles. 1000 people have nowhere to go and the best you can do is put salt on the wound. Fellow bloggers there are mothers, little kids, sick people with no homes now. The govt can do better and at least they should show more heart for our fellow less privileged Zambians.
I couldn’t imagine that PF could be that cruel.
PF is very cruel, so this land will be given to foreigners, while the indegnous people are left in the cold. We not even benefitting from these mines, they pay less taxes take our land, leaving us with nowhere to shelter our own people.
My worry to PF governance is that these guys seems they have no agenda, for example Kambwili is found all over the show as if he runs all the ministries. You will found him in the shoes of Ministry of Education insulting teachers, he goes to the Hospitals and provokes nurses, Zesco, Local government, Ministry of finance etc, what about other ministers and where are they? I feel he should only look into his own and let others also work. He can not be the Jack of all trades.
iwe zulu, why think of a puff of wind like unip. PF has done what no other party has everdone In Zambia, cracking the whip against illegal land allocation. I salute ba chenda. Its nt gud fo pipo to slip in the cold while its nt gud to live on illegal land.
In the same spirit,my fellow zambian voters ,lets demolish PF and make them vacate house in 2016.
Whose land is that? so it is a PF minister- chickens have come home to roost.
It is true the pipo hve to move away from thre. The land belongs to someone .the owner wants it. why wait. just go back where u came from.. Next time ask the council, not your councilors..
PF is pro poor true or false?
PF?
how many year remaining for the general election? count for selves and judge your selves.
#tukamona
HON CHENDE you are demon possessed and cursed.
True Idah; I agree with you; Kambwili struts around like an over fed rooster or rather pidgeon and fires people or threatens them; kekekeke I wish he could see himself; I too am puzzled by how a minister of sport and youth is supervising roads hospital etc; Kabimba better watch it as soon he l be pushu-ing around the judiciery lol