The Blantyre City Council (BCC) has given people residing in the city’s hills 60 days ultimatum to destroy the structures built on the hills.
The council says it is illegal to build houses on Soche, Bangwe, Ndirande and Mpingwe Hills and it has been advising people who encroached the hills to relocate to other places.
In 2013, BCC officials descended on Soche Hill and demolished houses and other structures in an operation which was followed by an injunction obtained by one of the illegal residents stopping the council from continuing with the demolition exercise.
However, since then people have been flocking to the hill and other hills in the city a development which has forced the authorities to take another step.
According to the council’s chief executive officer Alfred Chanza, people living in all the hills in the city are doing it out of their will and at their own risk hence the order for them to secure safer places.
“You are hereby informed that the structures that you built on and around Soche, Bangwe, Ndirande and Mpingwe Hills were developed by you without the grant of development permission and in contravention of the Forestry Act.
“You are required to demolish the said structures within a period of 60 (sixty) days from the date of this notice (18 January 2018) or such extended period as the Blantyre City Council may in writing allow,” said Chanza in a notice.
The CEO said failure to comply with the notice within the period prescribed may cause the council with all necessary workmen and other officers, to enter or authorize any other person to enter the land and take all such necessary action in respect of the council.
The government set aside land in Lunzu and Machinjiri where people residing in these hills are to be relocated but the encroachers refuse to leave the hills.
We need sanity in our cities yes but the city authorities are the ones to blame for this mess. They are slow in addressing the issues of plot allocation in the cities. They should be efficient as demand for land in the city is huge
Achoked anawonjeza zachibwana aii
Kumeneko sikomangako akunena zoona…pitani mukakhare Ku mdeka
Mumafuna anthu amange kaye ndipamene mumawa gumulitsa.
Mwina. Poti anavotera MCP
But BCC if failing to clean out operation red Star buildings that look dangerous in Blantyre and Limbe
Shaa
A malawi tinangozolowera kutsutsa zilizonse eti…its a good move…simokhala anthu mmenw muja
Unayamba wabwera kuno ku SouthAfrica???? Anthu ambiri m’makwawomu ndim’mapiri
nde ife tiononge chilengedwe fukwa kumeneko akupanga…let them do…w independent tu paja
hiiii…nnaiwala.kuyankha….sinnayambe ndapita kumeneko
Kusokoneza mitu anthu
Mukagumuleso sanjika, mzuzu state lodge komanso kamuzu palace, all these houses are on top of the hills, even BCA hill , what’s its so special with Soche hill?
Good move those are monkey territories
Hills r for trees not humans why compasate them? A normal person would know better than build a house on a hill in a city
Mafumu alemelera kale kale ndi malo amenewa
destroy? Asintha dzina lija, ndi Destroy Progressive Party.
Zipangani zimenezo, mukuona ngati masankho ali kutali, it is just next year.
Akufuna ayikeko Azungu?
Hahahahahahaha ndiye chani kachipepetso kaperekedwapo?
These people were told to relocate sometime in 2015 and given place I machinjiri.go ahead city go !!!!!
Do you know how much it cost to build a house?relocate them first for the sake of your own votes
relocate them first,,,and where were you when those pple were acquiring land and even making those construction in hilly
A city ntchito ikuwanikanika man
Where r u goin to relocate them?
Ichi nde chipolowe akuchiyambachi
Mmapiri ndi mokhala anyani osati Anthu go ahead city go !!!!