ENGINEERING Institute of Zambia (EIZ) president Wesley Kaluba says the floods currently being experienced in Lusaka are not driven by engineering problems, but lawlessness. In an interview, Monday, Kaluba noted that people had erected structures in areas where water was supposed to discharge, therefore causing flooding. “This is not an engineering problem, it’s mostly a social and planning problem whereby people have built settlements in areas where they were not supposed to. Most people force their way to go and build in those areas. Maybe working with other people, they pay some money and they demarcate areas which were not allowed for or planned. That’s not engineering. There is city planning where before land is allocated…I think from 1964, a...

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