Mandevu Constituency Chairperson Jeffrey Nkhata has called on the area Member of Parliament Jean Kapata to take punitive measures against  the area councilor involved in the allocation of plots at the Old Ngoma Cemetery in Chazanga.
Speaking in an interview with ZANIS in Lusaka Mr. Nkhata said it is shocking to learn that the councilor in Chazanga is involved in the allocation of plots at the old cemetery which was closed two years ago.[quote]
Mr. Nkhata said the idea of turning the old cemetery into a residential area is an insult to the people who have buried their loved ones saying it could have been spared as it is a memorial site for many people.
He said the named councilor told him that the land was reserved for the construction of a market by the council and later changed that they would build nursery schools which never happened until cadres started paying K2 million each for a plot.
He revealed that what is most shocking is that the plots were only given to the opposition political party cadres saying the community and the MMD cadres have not benefited from the plots.
The chairperson disclosed that he wrote to the area MP to complain over the matter but up to date the MP has not responded which he said is a sign of irresponsibility by the MP.
He observed that no political party cadre including the ruling MMD has the power to start allocating or selling plots in the country adding that this task is for the  government through the Ministry of Lands and the council.
Mr. Nkhata has also bemoaned poor road net work in the area saying the area MP has not worked on any of the roads using the Constituency Development Fund (CDF).
He added that people in the area are living in the dark on how the CDF has been utilized to develop the area as there has been no development in the area.
But when contacted for a comment, area MP Jean Kapata revealed that the land in question is in the hands of Chieftainess Mungule, the headman,and not the PF cadres.
She said efforts to fight for the land to be spared from being sold by Mungule proved futile as local leader claims that the cemetery is in her area.
Mrs. Kapata ,however, denied involvement of the PF cadres and the councilor in the allocation of plot in question.
She warned that she would not relent to discipline anyone involved in the land saga should evidence point at them.
She emphasized that PF has no authority of allocating plots adding that she would deal firmly with the councilor if found wanting as the party does not condone lawlessness.
She has since called on the people claiming that the PF cadres and the councilor are involved in the saga to visit her office and show evidence so that the culprits could be prosecuted.
ZANIS
The Lusaka City Council is sleeping on the job we elect and put these men and women in office to serve us and they have failed to do their jobs, Look at Chingwere Cemetery it is a dumping ground for garbage and the grass is not cut, the cemetery is not maintained.What a shame if you have run out of ideas to fund all the City obligations please quit or the people will fire you in the next election or impeach you now from Mayor to all the councilors and the area MP. Cemetery are life time memorials and they are not to be destroyed or turned into markets or residential plots, Only animals can sink so low and have no regard for their dead.
I would be nice for another poltergeist sequel set in zambia
In other words, people will be sleeping on top of human remains.
The councils belongs to PF. The area MP is PF. The people in the area are PF. They will still vote them back into power come 2011 looking at the kind of campaigning going around. This is a fact.
What the PF MP is missing is that people are building houses on graves. They will then dig pit latrines. What will they do with the bones? Some of the dead died from contagious diseases whose germs mighty still be lurking in those bones. It is not about who owns the land on which that grave is situated. She is area MP and therefore has a duty to hold talks with headmen in the village. Whose ancestors are these towns people disrespecting? Why wait for evidence. investigate complaint. future PACT minister?
Lusaka is just something else,ah fwebena Ndola ni proper!
What? a plot at the old cemetery?? I wouldn’t go for it..watched so many documentaries of sleepless nights.. so many zombies and stuff…
You gotta be a brave one to get one of those plots. For those of us that are superstitious, we’d pass out on that offer…!
john njebe chikala behaves like he is the erea MP u see now what is happenening masoka yayamba.
Are we talking about the failed nurse now turned minister of tourism? Forget it! That dull woman is a waste of time and space. She herself looks like Ichipuku!!