Tue, 16 May 2017 10:45:33 +0000
By CHINTU MALAMBO
COUNCILLORS involved in illegalities in the allocation of land in their wards will be dealt with, Minister of Lands Jean Kapata has said.
Ms Kapata said that some civic leaders who seem to have forgotten their primary role of service to communities and resorted to illegal land selling would soon be visited by the law.
Speaking in an interview in Lusaka, Ms Kapata said that councillors were not in the council to sell land but to serve the people.
“I am warning all the councillors country wide; its like they are forgetting why they are in the council. They are not there to sell land but to serve the people in that ward and bring development to the people.
‘‘This issue of selling land or even dividing land amongst themselves is not a good thing. When one is a councillor, they must be able to protect that land and not making private arrangements,” she said.
Ms Kapata said that anybody who would be found wanting would be surrendered to the law enforcement agencies to deal with him or her.
Ms Kapata said that she was aware of the land scandal in Matero’s Kapwepwe ward where a former councillor was alleged to have sold land that was meant for the construction of a maternity ward.
She said that the land belonged to the Government and the Government was in the process of building a public facility on it in line with the developmental agenda of the country.
And Kapwepwe Ward 20 councillor Patrick Salubusa has said that the PF Government will not tolerate individuas that wanted to disturb the country’s development agenda for their own selfish motives.
Mr Salubusa said that there were some people were claiming the land reserved for the construction of a maternity clinic.
He said that it was unfortunate that the same ruling party cadres had been terrorizing Kapwepwe Ward 20 in Matero constituency for the past five years and that he was not going to tolerate such activities in his ward.
“I will not allow that land to fall into private hands of some selfish individuals at the expense of the people of Kapwepwe ward.
