THEY say the more things change, the more they remain the same. That’s the feeling one gets upon hearing the story of government officials and ruling party cadres sharing land in Lusaka National Park catchment area. With help from the Lusaka City Council and the Ministry of Lands, those who governed our country under the Patriotic Front regime gave themselves land in the Lusaka Forest Reserve number 27. Everybody condemned this development, including those who are in power today. In fact some ministers in this government stood on the floor of the National Assembly to denounce the PF administration for building houses in a forest that is ever so important to the ecological cycle of the City. They even vowed...

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