Sun, 15 Oct 2017 11:31:09 +0000 By Frank Nyambe A Local court in Lusaka has ordered a Landlord to surrender the household goods he was withholding from the tenant for rental arrears because law forbids such practices. Senior Court Magistrates Abbyshine Michelo and Esther Mulomba at Kanyama Local Court ordered Freddie Musonda, 51, a businessman of John Laing compound to surrender the household goods to his tenant Maureen Mwemba, 40, of the same compound which he confiscated for rental arrears. Mwemba told the Court that she occupied the house of Musonda in November 2016 and that she was paying K450 adding that she has arrears of K1, 300. She explained that on August 6, 2017 when she was at the farm Musonda locked the house and couldn’t open it despite telling him that there was K650 inside which she wanted to give him. Mwemba added that she went to stay at the restaurant where she […]
