BY SILUMESI MALUMOWE shall investigate how land under the Zesco pole lines near Praise Worship Centre in Lusaka was given to a Chinese firm to build a mall, Lands and Natural Resources Minister Jean Kapata has said.The land belongs to the Chainama Hospital, which the Presidential Housing Initiative was allowed to build structures following extensive invasion by squatters.A shocked senior PHI official told the Daily Nation that strict instructions were given at the commencement of the construction that a large leeway should be provided to distance Zesco powerlines from the housing development and a fence was subsequently constructed to stop any development.The minister said she would ensure that she got to the bottom of the matter and establish how the Chinese firm bought the land in question.Residents in PHI area in Lusaka blocked the Chinese developer from constructing a shopping mall on land dubiously allocated by the Lusaka City Council.The residents have mounted security to […]
LAND SCAM ROCKS LUSAKA
