Over 1 000 residents of Soweto area in Chingola have refused to vacate their land. This follows Ministry of Lands Northern Region Senior Lands Officer Cecilia Chivunda’s directive that they vacate the piece of land to pave way for a foreign investor.
However, the directive is silent on the fate of the Luano-Kapisha Mini Hospital and the Luano-Kapisha Police Post which government built on the disputed land that has been granted to Mapalo Quarries.
According to a letter addressed to Chingola Town Clerk by Ms. Chivunda on 18th June 2019, the Soweto residents have been asked to leave and will only be provided with transport as they depart the disputed land.
But the residents say they will not comply with the directive because they have been on the disputed land for a long time and that the investor only came in recently and took them to court.
Luano Ward Development Committee Chairperson Bandwell Kapepa says the directive by the Ministry of Lands is suspicious because the people who are being threatened with eviction were not consulted.
And Nchanga Member of Parliament Chali Chilombo has urged the residents of Soweto not to move because President Edgar Lungu would not want to see his own people suffer at the expense of an investor.
Addressing the residents, Mr. Chilombo said he will take the matter up and ensure the residents are protected.
In October last year, the Kitwe High Court ruled that the land belongs to Mapalo Quarries and that the residents should vacate it.
Siavonga District Commissioner Lovemore Kanyama has warned people that acquired land from the ministry of lands or the local authority in the district to develop it or risk losing out.
Mr. Kanyama has since given a three-month ultimatum for the landowners to develop the plots.
The Siavonga District Commissioner says huge tracts of land in Siavonga have been left undeveloped despite people have acquired the pieces of land 3 to 4 years ago.
Mr. Kanyama told ZNBC news in a statement that the District has failed to receive meaningful development due to people failing to develop land.
Kitwe High Court ruled that the land belongs to Mapalo Quarries and that the residents should vacate it. Journalists do your job. What did these high court judges receive from Mapalo?
GRZ should not give land to any investor until every Zambian has a piece of land. The land belongs to the Zambian people.
God bless Zambia.
I urge GRZ to find alternative land for the so called investor. Besides, the best investment is it’s people.
……and the investor in question happens to be a zambian who intends to develop the land and employ these retards.
This so called investor should be given alternative land. Leave the poor Zambian people alone. Find land for him somewhere else. Zambians should be first priority over any foreigner.
The affected residents should use this opportunity and good plots for their residential plots and gardens and leave that desolate patch of granite outcrop to be developed into a quarry and bring some required jobs for the youths in that area. They should only move in exchange for some good pieces of land eapecially south of where they currently are.
“And Nchanga Member of Parliament Chali Chilombo has urged the residents of Soweto not to move because President Edgar Lungu would not want to see his own people suffer at the expense of an investor.”
“Addressing the residents, Mr. Chilombo said he will take the matter up and ensure the residents are protected.”
Forget the law ….. Take the matter to Uncle…. kikikikikikikiki
“And Nchanga Member of Parliament Chali Chilombo has urged the residents of Soweto not to move because President Edgar Lungu would not want to see his own people suffer at the expense of an investor.”
“Addressing the residents, Mr. Chilombo said he will take the matter up and ensure the residents are protected.”
Forget the government of laws ….. take the matter to Uncle.
“And Nchanga Member of Parliament Chali Chilombo has urged the residents of Soweto not to move because President Edgar Lungu would not want to see his own people suffer at the expense of an investor.”
“Addressing the residents, Mr. Chilombo said he will take the matter up and ensure the residents are protected.”
Forget the government of laws ….. take the matter to Uncle.
I have sympathy for our citizens who are being displaced by investors and investors. What worries me is that under PF and its cadres no one knows the law, or rather it does not exist.
Same PF cadre lawlessness wherever you look.
It is bad administration to allocate an investor land that has been occupied by citizens for a long time.
Investors should be allocated undeveloped and unoccupied land.
Don’t displace the children of Zambia in the interest of money.
Recently people of Chililabombwe celebrated the death of an Indian businessman because he threatened to evict people in Kasumbalesa in another land dispute. It’s only a criminal government that displaces its own people. Soweto-Kapisha settlement was founded around 1973, what has happened now for settlers to be treated like animals?
This animal behaviour must be stopped. I came in Chingola in 1978 and i found people living in that area. Why should mapalo quarry claim ownership of the land! Please for once could we learn to respect …..
And hear de area MP instead of him sying I will follow up de matter n c to it dat no one in this area is displaced is now telling de pipo to sy I will take de matter to de president we know dat such matter’s r known by de president let’s not create something bad by ourselves n again try to collect it in de way of politics o to gain political milige by saying de president n de Government r
working one day it will be 2 late to engage de president things will back fire n u will fail to handle these same pipo u r mistreating that’s my advice to de MP n de Government
Ukusesha ba Jerabo…Spax’s people…impossible….bafana chabe!