MZUZU-(MaraviPost)—Human Right Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has asked government to guard against dubious sale of land and suspicious change of ownership that has of late become order of the day at the Ministry of Land and Urban Development.
Speaking on Friday at a press briefing in Lilongwe, HRDC Chairperson, Gift Trapence, said should government fail to do the needful, they will have no option but to organise demonstrations to express the seriousness about their position.
Trapence said his organisation will always remain independent in order for them to point out any corrupt practices the government ministries, departments and agencies indulge in.
The organisation further called upon government to digitalise land management system as one way of curbing rampant corruption which seems to have covered wider ground at the ministry.
Another radical leader of the organisation, Reverend McDonald Sembereka, said there are several complaints about officials of the ministry monopolising business opportunities, saying such a tendency is a clear indication that corruption characterises the officials.
However, Minister of Information, who is also government’s spokesperson, Gospel Kazako, assured HRDC that the current government is highly committed to fighting corruption and safeguarding human rights.
Recently, HRDC and other human rights organisation asked government to reconstitute the newly appointed boards of directors, arguing that the appointing authorities violated the gender equality act and other statutes of the constitution.