Zambia Land Alliance (ZLA) executive director Patrick Musole says the Commissioner of Lands should be held responsible for illegal conversions of land. On Thursday last week during a meeting with the House of Chiefs, President Hakainde Hichilema took the traditional leaders to task after disclosing that some parcels of land as huge as 55,000 hectares were converted from customary to state land without following the due process in the last two years of the PF’s regime. “We agree that land is a heritage from our ancestors, and this government will not encourage land being changed from customary tenure to state land without due process. When we assumed office, we found out that in the last two years of our previous...

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