Is it possible to reflect buyers’ details on the EFD Tax invoice?

Minister of Lands Jean Kapata

Probe Gymkhana land

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?

K A P E N Y A BY ANDREW

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HH JUST ANSWER; DON’T THREATEN US OVER PRIVATISATION

Dear Editor,

THERE are misgivings on the ongoing quality debates going on regarding the pertinent questions that are being asked to UPND unelected life President Hakainde Hichilema.

The loudest proponents of the commission of inquiry in the manner privatisation has been conducted have even been at the receiving end of unknown threats and we have become endangered species.

The barrage of misguided outbursts that are flowing in the opposition camps are evident that there is inbuilt dictatorship and inherent intolerance deep rooted in the whims and caprices of UPND.

Notwithstanding our strong opposition to the questionable deals which enriched a clique, our cause is devoid of malice but the interest of the nation.

There is no doubt HH is vying the highest and most powerful post in the nation. It is folly that we can exempt him from forensic scrutiny including demanding for answers from him in the manner state strategic national assets such as RAMCOZ were sold for a song.

As a professional then, he is expected to exercise his professional calling with diligence as any person professing his

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skill and especially that he is a Zambian for that matter.

It is inconceivable that we can pile blame or fault his then clients (MMD Government) who acted in good faith.

We find it immoral for HH to gather the audacity and insolence to mock the “sleeping Government” as he apparently took the manipulative approach.

We still retain liberty to raise questions on the suspicious conflict of interest. We cannot be told to keep quiet because we are asking how come a hired evaluator ended up becoming a shareholder in the privatised company.

We cannot be told to keep quiet when we demand that HH tells us how a viable company like Lima Bank which was entrusted to be under receivership ended up being liquidated despite having prospects of redemption save for its indebtedness.

We cannot be told to keep quiet when we are not told how much was Mr Hichilema worth before and after privatisation. Our honest questions deserves answers and not threats.

We have received constant threats for our courageous step. We wish to assure you despite the threats, we will not stop, we may consider engaging 24/7state security to thwart any criminal attempts to harm us. We are determined to defend the interests of Zambians and the future of our children’s children.

We do not take pleasure to see the privatisation anthem rising to the prominence of the traditional ceremony. It is his hostile approach toward our questions which are in good faith.

Unless Mr Hichilema withdraws his intention to contest for the 2021 elections, our pursuit for the truth about his past dealings will not be brought to rest until we are satisfied.

The interests of the nation to have quality leaders of integrity supersedes the interest of Mr Hichilema to become President.

MARVIN CHANDA MBERI,

Youth Rights Activist,

We just want answers!

Dear Editor,

NO doubt it was a good deal, but it’s the corruption surrounding the sale that’s of concern.

Why should HH take advantage of his position as negotiating chairman to acquire shares?

If he had no interest, maybe we would have sold for a price higher than $6.5 million, he deprived Zambia of this money...that’s what the issue is...

We need to find out at what point he became Director... but that doesn’t even matter...because if he was Director before, he should have declared interest and should not have been chairman, if it was after the sale, then it means it was a reward for awarding the sale...and that’s corruption...simple