People with disabilities abused in land policy

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Ignorant people with disability are losing land to members of the public who have found a way in abusing the land policy to their own advantage.

An officer from the Disability office in the Office of President (OP), Phinda Khame, told an empowerment workshop for caregivers and people with disabilities held at the Fairgrounds Holdings recently that the policy stipulates that people with disabilities must not be on a waiting list when applying for plots.

But unscrupulous individuals use people with disabilities to apply for land so that they could buy it cheaply from them.

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People with disabilities abused in land policy

Ignorant people with disability are losing land to members of the public who have found a way in abusing the land policy to their own advantage.

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