WE agree with lawyer Dickson Jere that Zambia has allowed its land laws to become dangerously permissive and their safeguards scandalously ineffective. Across Zambia, valuable land slips beyond ordinary citizens while wealthy foreign interests gain access. We do not have a credible national inventory establishing exactly what proportion is controlled by foreigners. That uncertainty is itself a national scandal. How can government protect land whose ownership and control it cannot properly account for? Jere has raised a matter far bigger than legal technicalities. This is about sovereignty, economic opportunity, dignity and the inheritance we.......