Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:06:46 +0000 HOUSE of Chiefs chairperson Chief Ntambu of the Lunda people of Mwinilunga district in North-Western Province has maintained that the traditional leadership remains in-charge of land alienation in rural areas. Government is in the process of strategising the process of reviewing the draft National Land Policy with the view to finalise the document and various stakeholders such as traditional leaders have since been engaged in the process. But Chief Ntambu observed that the issue of the National Land Policy had remained controversial and that the traditional leaders were still opposed to most of the sections. He explained in an interview with the Daily Nation that the current state of the Land Policy gave too much power to Government, reducing chiefs to mere surrogate custodians. “The issue of the National Land Policy is a hot cake because the traditional leadership is very much opposed to the sections. We don’t want […]
