By NOEL IYOMBWAGOVERNMENT should reduce issuing land titles for huge chunks of land because most remains unutilised when other citizens are in need of land for productive use, Zambia Land Alliance director Patrick Musole has said.Mr Musole said that some huge pieces of land being owned by some individuals remained unused at the expense of locals that were in need.He said Government could not repossess such land because it was on title and legally obtained.Mr Musole said in an interview that apart from avoiding issuing land titles anyhow, the government should also reduce the period for leasing out land.“We have seen situations where land is leased for 99 years whereby they even subdivide the land and the government cannot do anything because it is legal.“So the issue is for the government to come up with laws that would see to it that land is not allocated anyhow,” he said.Mr Musole explained that the Land Alliance […]
STREAMLINE LAND ALLOCATION, GOVT TOLD
