1. The regime is playing hide & seek with the beleaguered Chilonga community. It has issued a new statutory instrument but the change is largely an illusion. The Chilonga community is still in danger of removal. Here’s why:
SI50/21 SI63A/21
SI50/21 SI63A/21
SI50/21 designated the Chilonga land for growing Lucerne, grass for @dendairy’s cows. It provided for the permanent removal of the Chilonga community. SI63A changes the designation to establishing an irrigation scheme. BUT the provision for permanent removal remains UNCHANGED.
3. Therefore, the only change is from growing grass to irrigation but the most important clause, which is the permanent displacement of the Chilonga community is still law, according to the terms of SI50/2021. The only constant is that according to the regime the people MUST go.
4. This begs the question, if the Chilonga community must depart permanently from their land as SI50/21 commands, who is the intended beneficiary of the irrigation scheme when they are gone?
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