The Chairman of the Luembe Headmen's Association says ...

Today the Chairman of the Luembe Headmen's Association, Patson Lungu, said in Lusaka that he would shortly call a meeting of all the headmen in the Luembe Chiefdom to discuss the illegal alienation of the Mvuvye National Forest No. 54 to so-called investors by Senior Chief Luembe - one, Francis Kalungu Njobvu, whom the community wish to remove and have replaced by Devalias Phiri Besa. Lungu said that he would hold another meeting with the Zambia Anti-Corruption Committee, and, after the Headmen's meeting, would petition Parliament to undo the illegal alienation by corrupt elements within the Nyimba District Council, the Forestry Department and the Ministry of Lands. He expects shortly to be joined by Mr Axon Lungu, Chairman of the Luembe Community Resource Board, a Board empowered under the Wildlife Act of 1998.