PF MEMBERS CRY AGAINST DISCRIMINATION UPND LED COUNCILS
PF Choma District Chairman Kenneth Moola lamented to Lands minister, Jean Kapata in Choma when she met party members in Choma District of Southern Province.
PATRIOTICFront Party members have cried out to the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources over the discrimination by the United Party for National Development led Councils in plot allocations in Choma.
PF Choma District Chairman Kenneth Moola lamented to Lands minister, Jean Kapata in Choma when she met party members in Choma District of Southern Province.
Mr Moola said his members are segregated against when it comes to issuance of plots in the district all because they belong to the Patriotic Front. He wondered why some citizens in the same district should be accorded preferential treatment for simply being UPND.
“Honourable Minister, the Council has many times advertised land to be accessed by all Zambians, but our people as Patriotic Front, these people you are seeing here, no one has accessed land,” he said
Mr Moola who is also Councillor for Namuswa Ward and the only one from PF in Choma reiterated that he sat on the Council planning Committee and witnessed how discriminatory the processes have been.
“Honourable Minister, I once sat in the planning Committee, my people had applied for land and they came with all their qualifications, but now just because of them belonging to PF no one was given an opportunity to own land. They’ve tried so many times to apply for land and no one has been considered,” he said
In responding to the cries by the Councilor, Ms Kapata promised all the aggrieved parties that her
Ministry working in tandem with the District Commissioner’s office and Local Authority will look into the matter to ensure no one is discriminated against because of their political affiliation as every Zambian is entitled to own land irrespective of ones standing in society.
The Minister was in Southern Province to roll out the National Land Titling sensitisation programme funded by Medici Land Governance t with a target of 5 million land owners to acquiring Certificates of Title to their properties.