Dear Editor,THE lead story in your November 29, 2021 edition was “Kitwe plots scandal exposed.” I call the story lead because of the big size of the font of the headline. The story made sad reading for two reasons. Firstly, the justification by her worship the mayor of Kitwe, Ms Mpasa Mwaya was, at best, misplaced and at worst, attempted to down play the gravity of the issue and taking the residents of Kitwe as gullible citizens.Most of us familiar with the land administration in the City of Kitwe know that formal application for land acquisition began to “die” under the MMD administration.The PF administration simply put the death nail to the formal land application process. This was because, besides the markets and bus stations, land was the easily accessible asset for speculative investment by cadres. And the PF cadres really grabbed it at the expense of the law and equitable access by all Zambians. So, it is […]
LAND ALLOCATION SCANDAL
