Zambia's Forestry Department in Nyimba does not know and won't listen

The Chairman of the Luembe Headman's Association reports that the Forestry Officer in Nyimba, the district officer in charge of West Mvuvye National Forest, appears to know nothing of the sale of the Forest to private investors on 99 year leasehold. This despite the fact he has received letters of complaint from the Chairman of the Luembe Community Resource Board to that effect. Is the Forestry Department the next Government Department to be temporarily closed down by the President so as to allow it to be investigated for corruption?

The only result so far appears to be the surveillance put in place by agents of the Office of the President (cars: ABH 3491 and ABH 3260) on the residence of I.P.A. Manning, Director of the Luembe Conservancy Trust, the Trust which has had a two year wait for approval of its Joint Forestry Management project with the Forestry Department, and which is working to expunge corruption from the area. The case of the Vice-President of the Patriotic Front, Dr Guy Scott and Manning versus Mr Chipoya, Principal Private Secretary to the President in the Office of the President, who, while the President was absent from Zambia, charged the two - and others, with planning to sabotage the ruling party and of planning the destruction of the maize stocks of Zambia, will shortly appear in court. Could this surveillance be part of the grand design?