Probe Gymkhana land

Minister of Lands Jean Kapata

Dear Editor.

I CALL upon President Edgar Lungu, ACC and Minister of Lands Jean Kapata and her ministry to investigate the land grabbing currently happening at Gymkhana in Chingola by the elite.

There is a vicious cartel that has targeted the vulnerable people in Gymkhana who have been on the pieces of land there, that are even on title or offer from Ministry of Lands.

How then is the Chingola Municipal Council re-planning people’s small holdings without their consent and calling the people living there as squatters?

Is land ownership only for the well to do and civil servants that are being taken there?

We don’t want another Armageddon in Chingola and hence call on President Lungu, ACC and the Lands minister to put this rot to the end before it leaves a bad dent.

The cartel involves some official who expressly gives offer letters that don’t even pass through a council sitting using a company linked to another council official. Let ACC investigate how these offer letters are being issued by the Town Clerk.

Just a week ago, some police officers, teachers and DEBS officers were allocated land on already occupied land scaring the owners of the plots with arrests something that we shall resist and die protecting our land if need be.

Mr President, the land illegality in Chingola is being advanced by some of your people who are supposed to be your vision carriers.

The small holdings in question that council is manipulating to re-plan or have re-planned are 8428, 8429, 8431, 8438 and 8438 where there are already people who are not even given first priority.

Is this the Zambia we want to have where the poor are only important when it comes to voting?

AFFECTED GYMNKHANA RESIDENT.