Environmental Advocates Submit Evidence Ahead Of A Tribunal Against Kapata

By Chileshe Mwango

Environmental Advocates William Harrington and Robert Chimambo have disclosed that they have submitted the needed evidence to Deputy Chief Justice Michael Musonda in readiness for the setting up of a tribunal to investigate whether or not Lands Minister Jean Kapata was in breach of an act when she acquired a small-holding plot in the de-gazetted part of Lusaka East Local Forest Reserve No.27.

Addressing the Media in Lusaka on Monday, former Environment and Natural Resources Minister William Harrington said the two in consultation with some environmental lawyers managed to submit the evidence to the deputy chief justice on November, 18th.

Meanwhile, Mr. Harrington has challenged President Edgar Lungu to show seriousness with his directive that all headwaters should be protected by de-gazetting forest number 27 which he says failure to do so will result in major pollution of ground water supplied to Lusaka and Chongwe.

At the same briefing, Mr. Chimambo has disclosed that the two are devising on punitive measures that will compel Water Development and Environmental Protection Minister Dennis Wanchinga and his Lands counterpart Jean Kapata to reverse the injustice being done to forest reserve no. 27, east of Lusaka.

Mr. Chimambo has also said that technocrats who advise government wrongly should be prosecuted especially on issues of environment and natural resources.

And Caritas Zambia Director Eugene Kabilika has warned that with the ongoing deforestation activities in various forests, Lusaka risks becoming a desert.

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