Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:33:12 +0000 By BENNIE MUNDANDO THE Ministry of Lands has been implicated in a mega land scandal involving eight residential plots in Lusaka’s Roma area which were wrestled from the rightful owners and given to an Insurance Company and a named foreigner without the knowledge of the council. The eight, led by PF’s Mumbwa central parliamentary hopeful in the 2016 elections, Danny Matembo, sought to buy the idle land along Kiola road in Roma in 2010 and engaged the council to demarcate the plots. As a matter of procedure, the issue was tabled before the Lusaka City Council plans, Works and Development Committee (WDC) meeting on 17th February, 2011 where it was resolved and recommended that the proposed creation of eight residential plots needed go ahead and that the approved layout plan be numbered by the Surveyor General. The plots were numbered. The recommendation was then made to a council […]
