Sitting tenants of Ndola Itawa National Pensions Scheme Authority (NAPSA) flats have submitted a petition to President Rupiah Banda requesting him to intervene in the pricing of the flats which have been pegged between K120million and K195 million.
The tenants who submitted the appeal letter to one of President Banda’s private secretaries at Ndola’s International Airport yesterday before his departure for North-Western Province, said they were making a passionate appeal to the president because the current price was unaffordable.
A one bed roomed flat had been pegged at K120 million while a four bed roomed flat was going at K195 million.
Spokesperson for Itawa NAPSA Tenants Association Baldwin Chatupa said the flats were not worth the price because they were in a deplorable state and had not been rehabilitated in a long time.
Mr Chatupa said the decision by NAPSA to price the 82 flats highly was against the MMD Government’s policy of home ownership empowerment.
“We are, therefore, making a passionate appeal to you your Excellency Sir to intervene in this matter like you have ably and decisively intervened in the sale of the flats of our neighbours at the Itawa council flats and Chinese complex,” he said.
He said the sale of the Itawa council flats and the Chinese complex housing units had benefited the people with the majority being widows and the unemployed.
“We the residents of NAPSA flats have unanimously resolved to rally behind your leadership and support you in the 2011 elections,” he said.
He commended President Banda for his leadership capabilities and integrity because of his ability to deliver and this could be attested by the re-opening of the mines, construction of the roads, schools, clinics and hospitals taking place in different parts of Zambia.
[Times of Zambia]
Just kissing ,as,s so that you can buy the flats cheaper , the reality is that property value in Zambia has gone bizzerk simply because we have a lot of foreigners paying above market value for property and land leading to artificial values .
Very u fortunate , but this problem is not only in Zambia this is happening in the western world too
In Bemba we say ukupoka icinsenda kunkoko kunakilila.
In 2007 land in a named part of Lusaka was going for 2 mil per one acre , 2009 the same land was going for 150 mill per acre. Crazy but true this trend is going on all over Lusaka .
Once apon a time there used to a so called servants quarters in almost house in residential areas , now that’s no more they are called cottages and are all rented out at wild prices
#2 this is why people have this animosity towards you Bemba’s you assume we all speak Bemba , no disrespect but you don’t see LT writing Bemba articles , they are in English , for a reason , if you want to speak in toungs , blog on the znbc vernacular site .
A one bed roomed flat had been pegged at K120 million while a four bed roomed flat was going at K195 million.Prices have been reduced. Get them now!
A one bed roomed flat had been pegged at K5 million while a four bed roomed flat was going at K8 million.
# HAVE YOU SMOKED??????????
I MEANT # 5
So what prices do they want these flats to be sold at? Far as I know, whenever you’re buying something, it’s always too expensive but when you’re the seller, the price is always too low.
That is kiling Napsa. Why should the flats be sold below their market value? These political inference which the tenants of Napsa flats are drawing the President will not help matters. It will even be better for these given to the police or army in Ndola who in turn will pay Napsa better than the tenants.These tenants i doubt if they are going to vote in 2011 for RB and MMD even after being done a favour.
MANCHESTER UNITED FOR LIFE, I agree with you it looks like # 5 had something very toxic to the brain waves! Kabudula Bamba, what you have stated is true, my bemba sisters and brothers should avoid using my mother tongue on the blog so that we can all interact intelligently.
Itawa NAPSA Tenants Association & Baldwin Chatupa should realise that NAPSA is a pensioners fund and they should dispose of these flats at an economical value to realise a good return on this investment made for the benefit of the fund contributors. Though the government in its zeal to gain some popularity on the copperbelt has asked NAPSA to sale the property, the fund cannot afford to give the flats away like FTJ did to the council houses. All of us who have worked in Zambia before have money with NAPSA.
#4 Kabudula Bamba
No one has stopped you from using your language.And who said you can only blog in the queens tongue on LT?ba LT please clarify.
Wrong move by NAPSA if they are to sell the flats! RB don’t interfere, let NAPSA mek a profit from their assets
#4 Kabudula bamba,
Have you just started bloging on LT? Here we allow bloging even in our sweet mother/father/ grand pa/grand ma languages. Please learn to do so and feel free.
These same chaps will later resell the houses for treble what they have been offered. 195m for a 4 bedrm house is a fair price.
AWE FYABUFI,MU VOTELA SATA SO TAKULI KUBWESHA UMUTENGO.INFACT TWALALUNDAKO ONE BEDROOM 150MLN FOUR BEDROOM 250MLN TAUKWETE GO CHIPULUKUSU
#13 and # 11
You both dont get the point , no one is stopping you from using your frakin Bemba, frankly I don’t give a Matuvi. It’s just nice to blog something we all can read . Thus we can contribute effectively to the discussion .
And I don’t see how you’d expect LT to clarify . LT does not write articles in Bemba , simply put if LT did that readership would drop dramatically . Why is it that all news papers in Zambia or most write articles in English and why did your mother send you to an English school to sit for English exams , and why are you working for a company that when you applied for a job your application was in English and not Bemba .
Don’t both behave like a baby donkey. Would have liked to see you apply for a USA visa in Bemba and see haw far that would have got…
#16 u childish bloger,busy criticising yet u speak broken english,its a pity u missed the whole point of education,ur faulks dint send u 2 school so u cant speak english,get ur facts strait.English came on a boat,english is not wat puts food on yo table Its pipo like u who lack culture Be proud of ur heritage english is a standard bemba is culture america u refering 2 has no culture,they live by trends.Be proud my brother.
Is the president is now a price determinan?
I meant determinant
#16
My brother you who claims to be so very well Educated and condemns my so called broken english , or should I appease you and say ENGRISH .
Know this English does feed me and my family and weather you like it or not English feeds you, and your folks who sent you to school to learn English .. Yes your folks sent you to school to learn English , not Bemba . This is why you can interact effectively on this blog and life . Even a person from japan finds it now imperative to learn English .
It’s not a trend my Brother. It’s a way of life wether you like it or not intact if you want to compete effectively in today’s society you have NO CHOICE!!! but to speak and write English . If your parents saw what you just blogged they would slap u silly.
@# 20 Kabudula Bamba
You have inferiority complex ma brother.The Anglo-saxons were so proud of their language such that it has dominated the world.The Bembas and Ngonis too are doing this pa zed.Very soon the whole zed will be either bemba and nyanja speaking.
VJ rigger
What has inferiority complex got to do in all this . Stop flip floping and trying to dig yourself out of the hole .
The whole point to all this is that English feeds you and your mama , prove me wrong , your life as it is would be to put it mild… Premative at best had you not been sent to school to learn English .
Even now as we debate this you are bogging in English .
I don’t need to prove anything to you because like you rightfuly put it your very well educated . And I assume the education was all conducted in English And not Bemba for obviouse reasons.
Thats why I put it to you that you are a flip flopper , you have gone full circle and soon you will start debating against yourself.
English has made you what you are today . Deal with it.
please lets talk about selling of the houses not that!