Marauding political cadres are abusing the ruling party’s name to perpetuate illegalities that they started during the previous regime, it has been established.
The said cadres who were being sponsored by a named politician are using the name of the ruling party to commit illegalities among which is the grabbing of land from companies that have potential to create employment for the locals.
Mulberry Development Limited acquired a parcel of land from First Quantum Minerals Limited for the purpose of developing an Industrial Commercial Park in Ndola.
The area is purely an industrial and mining area with a small residential potion where the company is planning to put up workers houses and community amenities that includes, Health Centre, School and the Skills Development Centre for the youths.
When the said cadres grabbed the land prior to last year’s elections, Mulberry Development Limited reported the matter to the Police.
It is however believed that the Police were unable to take any action because of political interference at that time.
With the zero tolerance policy to caderism the UPND government has come with, Mulberry Development Limited is optimistic that the matter will now be looked into.
The company has further sought government intervention through the office of the Provincial Permanent Secretary for Copperbelt Province who set up a meeting where both First Quantum Minerals and the cadres in question were present.
The cadres and their so-called leaders were advised to desist from the illegal land allocations and allow the legal owner of the parcel of land, Mulberry Development Limited, to undertake their projects.
Further, in an attempt to warn the public against taking part in the illegal land allocations, Mulberry Development Limited went further to issue public notices in the newspapers and through the Ndola City Council were call outs were sent and tools were confiscated from those who were found undertaking activities on the parcel of land.
The company also issued two more notices in the newspapers and on the premises of the property warning illegal developers with the help of the Zambia Police Service.
The New Dawn government should be wary of the cadres in question who have gone into the ruling party only to seek protection from the illegal acts they started in the previous regime with their leaders who are busy campaigning to regain lost parliamentary seat and are now powerless and unable to protect them from the due process of the law.
These illegalities the cadres have continued to perpetuate on the land belonging to Mulberry Development Limited has slowed down the implementation of a great project which is meant to employ over 1500 people in Ndola directly.
The implementation of the project would give opportunities to suppliers and cooperatives to undertake civil jobs.
It would also enable them supply goods and services in the construction and operational phases.
Mulberry Development Limited is of the view that zero tolerance to caderism, opportunities to businesses and jobs is being implemented on a national level which should see sanity everywhere without discrimination.
The company is alive to the fact that land administration in the country is solely in the preserve of the Ministry of Lands and its agents the local councils and has nothing to do with cadres.