Zambia Land Alliance (ZLA) executive director Sampa Chikolwa has asked the government to go beyond setting up a lands task force and review the land policies governing allocation of land in the country.
Although the setting up of a lands task force was highly commendable, Chikolwa said, more needs to be done to address the root causes for illegal land occupation in the country.
The government on Monday announced that it has set up a land task force that will among other things curb illegal land allocations that have become rampant especially in urban areas which face high populations and a shortage of land for residential purposes.
Recently the city council in the northern city of Kitwe razed over 400 houses that had been built on a piece of land owned by a college, sparking riots from those whose homes had been demolished, but attracting little public sympathy.
In other incidents land owners have lost their lives while attempting to evict squatters from their properties, which has prompted the government come up with the task force in a bid to end illegal occupations of land.
Chikolowa however said the country needed to overhaul its land policies in order to get the root of the problem which was the skewed access to land that only favoured wealthy and influential people leaving out those with limited finance.
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