GOVT PROPERTIES TO BE TITLED, SAYS MINISTER OF LANDS
GOVERNMENT will implement a national titling exercise for all government institutions in order to curb encroachment, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Elijah Muchima has said.
Mr. Muchima made the observation during a familiarisation programme convened between Chalimbana University and the Coalition of African
Parliamentarians Against HIV and AIDS (CAPAH) of Zambian parliamentarians at Chalimbana university on Sunday.
The meeting was meant to farmiliarise the parliamentarians with the education programmes at the university.
Mr Muchima said that the increasing land encroachment on government institutions was a matter of great concern.
He said that people had continued to encroach on land belonging to government institutions, a thing he said, the government was committed to resolve.
The minister said that one way of curbing the illegalities would be to put all government institutions on title and that his ministry would therefore issue further pronouncements by the end of this week on the matter.
This was after Chalimbana University Vice Chancellor ( VC), Geoffrey Tambulukani, appealed to government to help the institution acquire land title. Dr. Tambulukani disclosed that the university management has severally engaged the traditional leadership in the area for consent but this has not yielded any positive results.
He said that the lack of land title for the 234 hectare piece of land has hindered infrastructure developments such as construction of student accommodation and staff accommodation, among others.