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Urban
invaders face arrest: Chombo
Moses
Matenga, NewsDay
September 27, 2012
https://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/09/27/urban-invaders-face-arrest-chombo/
Local Government minister
Ignatius Chombo yesterday said government will pull down all illegal
structures and order the arrest of fraudsters cheating people using
the name of Zanu-PF.
This came out during
an interactive meeting between Chombo and stakeholders in Harare
where residents complained of illegal structures mushrooming in
the city spearheaded by people purporting to be Zanu-PF.
Chombo, who was accompanied
by the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs for Harare Miriam
Chikukwa, said they would work with Police Commissioner-General
Augustine Chihuri to get perpetrators arrested.
“In the recent
past, we have witnessed mushrooming of illegal settlements in most
of our urban habitats. You must of necessity remedy the unpalatable
development. On that note, I would like to express my displeasure
on land invasions perpetrated by pseudo co-operatives, who allocate
both municipal and State land without authority from responsible
institutions.”
“Individuals masquerading
as land authorities must be brought to book so as to protect citizens,”
Chombo said.
Harare deputy mayor Thomas
Muzuva disclosed that in Mufakose, the invaders claimed that they
had the authority of the city’s Physical Planning Department
to build houses.
“There is a housing
project that falls under Joshua Nkomo Housing Co-operative and if
council questions them, they say they got the authority from the
Department of Planning,” said Muzuva.
Chombo, however, said
the department did not own land.
He said that those who
had built on illegal space should destroy their own structures before
government stepped in to demolish them.
Chikukwa weighed in saying
if Chombo has been talking without acting, she was a different person
and would soon prove that.
“We must not build
where we are not supposed to build. Maybe minister Chombo was joking,
but I mean it. I will make sure people are arrested. Even if you
are my relative, you will be arrested and I will come to see you
in prison,” she said.
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