Mon, 04 Sep 2017 09:49:11 +0000 ….oil marketing firm wants to evict them from their 53 year old settlement By Kelvin Siabana MORE than 5,000 residents of Ndola’s Old Regiment are threatened with eviction from land they have occupied since 1964, following the sale of the area by the City Council to an oil marketing firm in Lusaka. However, Bwana Mkubwa constituency member of Parliament, Dr Jonas Chanda, has vowed to fight the eviction of people in his area in a move that he claims was suspicious because he had not seen documentation of the sale. The Ndola law maker said threats by the oil marketing company to evict the residents would not work because they would resist moving on account of having lived on the land for more than 50 years. He said it was inhuman to threaten people with eviction from land that was home to so many people for so many years. […]
