Don’t quarrel-PS


   
By Chali Mulenga
Southern province permanent secretary Dr Chileshe Mulenga has called on the Government departments in the province not squabble in the issues but to uphold the law in a more humane manner.
Speaking in Kazungula chamber during a stakeholders meeting with the Sekute development trust, Namapanda Resettlement Committee, Disaster Mitigation Management Unit, land resettlement unit, forest department and Kazungula district council, he said Government officers should stop implementing the law blindly but instead embrace the local people.
“Don’t quarrel in the public work together and enforce the law in a more humane way to avoid conflict,” he said.
“I don’t understand why two government departments can fail to agree to resolve an issue and if you explain to the people, then they will cooperate with your department,” he said.
The permanent secretary called on the need to ensure that the original list is produced.
Dr Mulenga said the level of deforestation in the province was worrying and if left unchecked the province would be a desert.
“Let’s resolve these issues in a more humane manner, he said.
Dr Mulenga said in the province to work together so that they do not cause conflict among the local that they are serving.
He said the government will resolve the issue before the end of the year.
Dr Mulenga said the people will only shift after they have harvested their maize.
He said that there is no one that is orphan in this country as we are all part of one family.
“Forest has to there, forest reserve is a protected area, if it is not de-gazetted, then it is not available for development, we have not been talking to each other,” the permanent secretary said.
He said the Government will keep its word and urged the Government departments to be talking to each other.
Dr Mulenga said that if the departments talk to each other the issues will be resolved and noted that the people that are supposed to be resettled especially those that are in the forest reserve.
He said if the people buy into the activities of the government departments then they help even in the policing of the forest reserves as the forest department cannot manage to be everywhere.
“We need to protect the forest in this country, shall create desert, if we do not protect them,” he said.
And SDT chairperson Alfred Mulele said the settlers trespassed in the forest reserves.
He said that the land in question was given to the settlers and to the trust by the chief.
He said that forest reverse area was very important as the KAZA project is where the breeding of the park will be.
Provincial Forest department, Victor Chiiba said that the resettlement and conservancy lands were given by the chiefs.
He said that if the issue of visiting the beacons in the forest reserves should have been done together with the technical persons.
“People that are agitated and the officers fear to go on the ground,” he said.
Sekute resettlement chairperson, Kalimukwa Likanda said the people from the forest department and SDT harassed them using their scouts.
“The forest department told the people then they were brought by the Government, should be compensated,” he said.          
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