Republican President Edgar Lungu has apologised to the families of Kitwe’s Mufuchani area whose houses were demolished by the Kitwe City Council on Tuesday.
The President sent his apologizes through Copperbelt Minister Mwenya Musenge who visited the affected families on Wednesday.
Addressing the residents Mr Musenge said the President was asking for their forgiveness as no one was authorized to demolish houses without proper procedure.
“The President is asking for forgiveness on what has happened here, on one is authorized to beat up people. When we have challenges it is important to engage one another, it is good that we seat and talk about our challenges. Even when moving people there are procedures,” Mr Musenge said.
The President has further directed the local authority to accommodate the affected families and give them offer letters to new plots.
“The luck you have it that when we finish talking about what has happened here, we want by tomorrow everyone who is affected should be given offer letters to a new location where you will have your own land and no one will come to harass you,” he said.
Last week Local government Minister Stephen Kampyongo ordered for the demolishing of houses built on allegedly illegal land.
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we know for sure that the president cant allow such a thing to happen, kampyongo watch out for your moves. Our president is good and has a heart for the zambian people. Thanks Mr. president
may the almighty God bless you we know for sure that you will lead us up to 2022. Viva EL.
We know for sure you’re a president with full sympathy for the pple you lead. More over, you’re a listening one viva ECL!
Isaac we know it’s good to be a praise singer, do you really need to make amendments to your name just for you to get paid, it’s election year and he is just doing that win back some lost votes, unfortunately this year there will be no sympathy votes.
Ati ba president….he was fully aware what his stupid minister and councillors were doing to those poor people in Kitwe and later on he turns around and apologises for what?No vision mu PF
These Are Qualities Of A Good Leader. Thank You For Showing Your Total Humbleness To Us. We Apreciate You.
where did the minister get the powers from? how do these ministers work first of all?
The Minister is following the law whereas the President is playing politics. ECL might have even been aware that those houses were going to be destroyed. That’s politics for you.
Kampyongo how can you feel if people demolish houses in Shiwangandu or Kwa Mwilwa. It was a dumb move to demolish the houses in Kitwe minister. Nkani ya lula. I see you going into diplomatic service ….maybe high commissioner in Somalia based in Mogadishu near the alshabab strong hold.
The problem is these Council workers are greedy, They want all the land to themselves all the time. They are so greedy they will give themselves 5 plots each.
I have even vowed never to apply for a plot from any council because the idiots have no shame. last time I applied for a plot in Luanshya for the land at the Luanshya turnoff, I got a rude shock when I saw the list of the people who got the plots. It was councillors MPs and council workers and even politicians and their wives including Kaseba Sata. Go and check with that Council now.
They advertised and we paid non refundable fees, large amounts when the land was already allocated. I was called for interviews and had to travel from Lusaka but got fako….!
My bank account was ok and I showed evidence that I had built another 2 houses from scratch within Luanshya from the plot I bought at a commercial price.
The land issue is rotten to the core.
What has appened to the land audit that was conducted in 2012? So they just identified open land and shared.
Shame!
EL good movie
All Zambians know that he is just Acting, in the PFool final episode.
“Last week Local government Minister Stephen Kampyongo ordered for the demolishing of houses built on allegedly illegal land”.
What a disorganized Zambian Govnt we have. MR ECL is clueless on everything mwebantu. Where are we going with this PF Govt. Ever forward and Reverse, forward reverse, forward reverse as if they are dancers. How can the kwacha gain value with such a week president. Anybody who knows that the president is the biggest asset in any country should raise their hands? and I wish show the liability president of his country called Zambia.
He is a listening president, we cried for constitution, he has given us, he listens to complaints of people what a good president. I believe what man proposes GOD opposes, who new ECL would rule? but GOD chooses him, therefore shall we respect our president.
its so sad to hear such. i once saw this in lusaka near the independence or should i say behind, ppl on such lands should be given notices and also be given land on where they will move. a lot of folks have stayed in those areas for many years. they have put in all there hard earnings in the structures demolished.
Demolition was ok. Some of us work hard to buy plots then a silly upnd chap wants to justify illegality. Let them go get land at hhs farm or build illegally on his farm. I support the demolition. Upnd can’t justify illegal land allocation.
Are you saying visionless ECL is UPND?
How can Kapyongo act in isolation without the head of state knowing of such an act?? I know that he can’t act without the approval of the head of state..kapyongo can’t just wake up and say we are demolishing houses here or there.. If kapyongo acted in isolation,let he be fired NOW..otherwise,I smell a rat here..
PF CARDS, PLEASE. CAN’T YOU EVEN MANAGE TO PRETEND TO BE CIVILISED AND KNOWLEDGEABLE?
A MINISTER CAN’T MAKE A TRIP WITHOUT HIS BOSS’S BLESSINGS. ECL KNEW AND BLESSED ALL THIS. HE IN ANOTHER WORDS SENT HIM TO DEMOLISH LEAVING AN ALREADY PREPARED APOLOGY WITH HIS BOSS.
God by our president!!
Let’s reason beyond our nose country men and women. One creates a problem deliberately and then later solves it to just gain a cheap political mileage. Shame
I for one I need an explanation for this (1)how is our govt working today u here they hv increased tomorrow the president say no re they telling us that they not cop palate with the president? Or they re praying our mind set? No water in kariba rains come even if it rains it ll take 3yrs mr president howe is your team?
Hh cadres or upnd cadres thats why we say u need to know the government runs before crying for the throne, not just from stealing money in privatisation from poor zambia tomorrow u come back to the same poor zambia to say u can be the good leader, how?
Plots OK nomba kalusangu ka foundation
PF officials open an account where we can be depositing money for constructing houses for pipo heartless HH sympathisers demolished. Where was chanda kabwe kanshi?
@kanchine explain kaili how gvment works,can a minister act without the knowledge of the president?moreover the announcement was made last week to demolish those houses,open yo eyes
Edgar LUNGULA KAWAYAWAYAFYE…poor leadership and no coordination in his party….how can he allow his ministers to do something that he is not well aware of? kuyabebele@
Thanks mr ecl.viva 11 agst.Kopala
Honestry speaking this kamponono is very useless and stupid how can you demorish houses in rain season iwe naukwata inganda kupusakwako kuswe iwe shame apon u thank mr president for that action.
ITS THE PRESIDENT WHO SENT THEM TO DEMOLISH PERIOD. SHAME THAT THESE GUYS HAVE SHAME, THIS ONE SAY THIS THE OTHER ONE SAY DIFFERENT THING.
some pipo er working against the gvt! thanx so much 4 coming in so quickly ba presdo!
Ken
I learnt that the hard way.Applying for land or responding to adverts for land allocation in Zambia merely makes you help the 1diots to seemingly hide their corruption as they will be able to portray an image of transparency at your cost-remember you have to pay non refundable fees.By the time they are advertising they would have already shared the land.
ba kampyongo u are too over zealous decompagning ecl,why,land issue is very sensitive,even in kafue u just left confusion,cool down ba mudala.u should be orgainsing the youths the majority voters, and let ps to there job.
Somebody is trying to embaras and decampaign our president the timin of this was so bad. The entire council and Kapyong must be desciplened. Kapyongo and bene Musenge what you are doing is very bad!
What suprises me most is where is the president when all this happening. First it was the issue to do with electricity tariffs nw demolishing of houses. Who does this pupet want to fool?
How could u do that you call yourself the president of pfools demolishing people’s houses and u come and apologise hahahahahahhahah
wen lungu is the 1 who told kampyongo to demolish wen he was drunk.
We are waitig for 2012 concil plots in Livingstone
Its funny how some Zambians can be daft and damn, he has apologized for what??? I have not a read a single thing about punishing the culprits from the minister down to the kaponyas. Plays pay attention some of you damn Zambians, why not just give them that land there were illegally occupying and compensate the land owner. The act of let something bad happen, and deny knowing anything about it and in fact express sympathy and gain points from it. This guy has on his side, Intelligence, OP, Cadres, Chairmen, relatives and many more to give him an heads-up on what is about to happen in his country.
Good Gesture, Viva El
Ine sometimes I get beaten by how some people reason, so everyone here that’s praising Lungu do they mean to honestly say that his minister took this drastic action without Lungu knowing about it? What I’m now getting is that Lungu’s ministers do things without the knowledge of their boss, what a shame.
Chililabombwe MP ni musukwa na mwenya musonda mu Hellen kaunda ward as councellor
Thezy3 – some of the bloggers could be Chama, Frank Bwalya or Mumbi Phiri posting those comments. I’m not surprised that you can’t believe these comments because honestly an average Zambian can’t do that.