Government in Siavonga district has rescinded its earlier decision to demolish the problematic squatter settlements in the district.
District Commissioner, Brave Mweetwa said the Patriotic Front government will instead upgrade all squatter compounds in the country in order to make them inhabitable for the community as enshrined in its manifesto.
Mr Mweetwa said government will not demolish squatter settlement because the patriotic front government is a pro-poor and that it understands the problems people are faced with.
He made the re assurance last week at his office, when he addressed representatives from Miyanda resettlement area and members of the clergy who are engulfed in a land wrangle near Mitcho compound.
Mr Mweetwa said that as head of government in the district he was not going to sit and watch the land wrangles in the district to continue.
He also said that he will not allow the district council to play hide and seek games in the resolution of the land wrangles in the district.
Meanwhile the district head has instructed the affected churches and the community in Miyanda settlement to halt all the construction works until all the outstanding issues are resolved by the local authority.
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Keep dreaming! You’re failing to pay workers’ salaries in government institutions and now you’re dreaming of upgrading shanties; may be another government not your clueless PF!
While I applaud this intention it would be worth noting that an “ageing” process must be applied to those shanties to be upgraded otherwise there will be a domino effect of more squatter settlements springing up very soon.
Sad uleika fye look at how much the teachers are getting and then you are saying that kafwile ukutali chika la
Typical , CNP.
Yes, however, do it properly, and let there be roads or streets in these upgraded compounds.
Has this man ever seen a shanty compound? Or maybe how does he hope to develop them? Is it possible to develope a place were you find five houses in a 10 by 15 meter plot. I mean put up a nice house, a road in such a place without demolishing any house?
Imwe ba PF stop wasting time just invite tenders for the construction of VLC housing and I will be there in a flash. Thats what development is about.
Go and demolish Chibolya