Businessman Muhamad Diab surrenders land: Government to redistribute Malangalanga plots
The Lilongwe-based businessman Muhamad Diab has voluntarily surrendered to government some of his vast land which he was not developing for many years.
Diab surrendered the land in Lilongwe following lengthy meeting at the lands ministry headquarters.
Government now intends to reallocate the land to Malawians.
Communication specialist for land reforms in the ministry Charles Vintula confirmed to Nyasa Times about the development, saying Diab has surrendered 275 Hectares, which is 500 plots to be allocated.
Muhamad Diab, trading as Diab Dairy Farming, Box 781, Lilongwe acquired a large chunk of land of 550 hectares from Lilongwe District Council in 2005.
The title of the plot is Malangalanga 45/64517 and has a deed plan under Lilongwe District Council number 367/75.
According to Vintula, the plot was located in the catchment area of Lilongwe Water Board and was hence accorded a buffer zone on both sides of the river of 100 metres.
He said “The sale of this land to Mr. Diab was duly approved by the full council and its Development Committee at the price of K25 000 000. Mr. Diab created 1,000 plots of varying sizes on his acquired land and he had 524 of the plots already surveyed, adjudicated and demarcated by qualified land surveyors.”
Vintula said the remaining plots were yet to be formally surveyed.
Physical planners did a clear layout sketch for the land to properly demarcate the plots.
The Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development entered into discussions with Diab on how to consider the land for development and proper planning.
Upon acquisition, the land use was meant for light agriculture.
During the discussions, held on 10th December, 2019 in Lilongwe, Diab has agreed to surrender and offer to Government half of his acquired land for sub-division.
This means that of the 550 hectares, 275 hectares is being offered to Government, which translates into 500 plots.
Vintula said the surrendering of this piece of land to Government conforms to the provisions of new land laws which allow a private land owner to voluntarily give back to government any piece or parcels of land they may not require for further development.
“Such surrendered land parcels are converted to public land. This gives government an opportunity to re-enter the said land and sub-divide it for reallocation to potential developers,” he said.
The first step according to Vintulla will be be to re-survey the land and adjudicate the surrendered part.
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To say the facts guys apapa kalipo kalipo angofuna kuphera awemba apa kufuna kutiphimba mu maso ndi agalu awa apangana zina zake anyaniwa asatibowe mbava siyimabweza zinthu chisawawa.
Osangonena kuti DPP ikufuna kugawana malowa bwanji? And it’s a lie that he has surrendered. DPP gave the guy tax payers money to give up this land. Soon we’ll see dpp cadets building on this land.
Hmmmmmmmmmm I have a lot of unanswered questions!
MALAWI HAS FASTLY BECOME A MAN EAT MAN SOSCIETY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA IF WE FAIL TO DESTROY THE CORRUPT LEADERSHIP WHICH HAS BECOME NOTORIOUS AND SHAMELESS IN OUR CHRISTIAN LAND.THE SO CALLED LEADERS HAVE PUT THEIR HANDS ON POWER AND FINANCES WHICH HAS BECOME THE ORDER OF ThE DAY. CRY OUR BELOVED MOTHERLAND.RIGH NOW,THINGS ARE NOT WHAT MALAWIANS EXEPECTED.THE LEADERHIP OF MATHANYULA HAS BROUGHT ABSOLUTELY CHAOS ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY. ANOTHER PROBLEM IS THE PRESIDENT DESTROYING OUR PEACE AND INSTEAD,HE MAKES MALAWIANS HATE EACH OTHER.MALAWIANS,TIME HAS COME TO UNITE AND AND SAY NO TO THE HATERS OF MALAWI AND AFRICA AS A WHOLE..BY THE WAY,MALAWI BELONGS TO ALL OF US!!!!!!!!
I am confused. The land is meant for light agricultural activity yet when acquired the govt will demarcate it into plots? Someone enlighten me ndikhale mwana pamenepa. It seems akufuna apange ma plot oti agawane defeating the purpose or is it just me?
Aaaaah No this man must be investigated for sure. Malawi why????
I smell rotten fish!!!!…….let’s open this can of worms even wider
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING GOVERNED BY CHILDREN…….THEY ARE ONLY CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR WELFARE (BELLY) REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEIR MOM OR DAD IS GOING THROUGH….THE SAME HAS TRICKLED TO POLICE AND JUDICIARY……. GOD HAVE MERCY!!!
Let’s dig deeper! How did he acquire so much land???. Whose palms were oiled???
There is nothing to commend him about, he only did it because they have been caught….. there is no heroism here!
We have some human beings after all.This Diabolic man must be commended. This not withstanding, we should still investigate how he got so much land in the city. We cannot rule out corruption although it could be gross inefficiency on the part of the city authorities.
Read Diab, not diabolic.
Komatu Malawi is a sorry nation. How can we sale 550 hectares of land to 1 person who is not of Malawian origin? Tsiku lina tidzadzuka tonse titagulitsidwa ndithu. …..and how did the 25 million help the country? in the near future our children will be aliens in their own country. Somehow i feel so sorry for our nation.
Not buying the hockey…. lets examine how he got it in the first place
In Blantyre between Chiperon and Kachere Township mmmmmmm, idol for ages.
You mean idle??? Not mafano (idol)
Kikkkkkkkk hahahahahahahahahaaha! School yalelo
True something big in corrupt state happened
Poor timing, this land will end up to the DPP thieves, corrupt land grabbers.
We need a sort of Kagame mindset in Malawi.
Koma I think, we need to critically review our thinking as Malawians and Africans, Iam afraid. Land acquired of such magnitude cannot go without someones heart beating three times without reviewing your decision.
Anthu a ku LANDS ndiotembeleledwa.
please pass at least a positive comment as normal its always negative against amwenyes do you think any of you so called indigenous malawians could have done that
No positive comment because this was bought in a corrupt way. And to be honest we are not satisfied at all. You/him are hiding other things you want to protect. so no positive comment at all. We are coming for you, you corrupt lot.
Do you think this land was acquired legally? My friend, just wait and you will hear something fishy in this. He is afraid of the legal battle thats why he has done that….but we are following him untill he tells us the source.
indigenous malawians can never do that coz we want to share equally and not these mwenyes you are talking about , what kind of malawian are you indeed a malawian?
Lies
Malawians are the greediest most selfish me first thinkers on this continent.
How do you racists not realize some Asians are 3 or even 4th generation Malawians as well. Born here.
Your jealousy for those who have due to their hard work is showing as clearly as the masana sun.
Yes why not, so you think those Malawian the don’t have brain to think
What is positive about oppressors, mwenye ndi mwenye basi!
negative comment ndiyomwe waponya iwe ka moti sugazivere chison wekha ku india ungagule malo ochuluka choncho??????if not uzifuse kt india ndi malawi yayikulu ndi chan??????? stupid minded
Are you serious that this land was bought legally? I do not think so. Do not fool us…..something is wrong somewhere. The parliamentary committee should look into this issue as ell. An Indian giving to government 275 hectres of land just like that? One person from Indian owning such huge amount of our land yet we Malawians are suffering to have access to our own land. This Government is too corrupt.
i am told this dude has more land in Malawi , Salima Dedza Mangochi Lilongwe Blantyre name it . Akuti 257 hecters its nothing to him. The guy owns most of the land in Malawi. Malawi is a sorry state. 70% of the land is owned by obwera whlle Malawians scramble for the remaining unproductive land.
koma Lilongwe district council tulo mpaka kupereka malo onsewo kwa diabulosikkkkkkkkkAmalawi kugona
Good gesture indeed
Thank you very much sir.God will reward you greatly.U have chosen peace over pride.What will u gain when u acquire the whole world.
HRDC and these members of parliament should help Malawians once again to let MHC, Lands, and city council know that they are there to serve the people. A lot of us applied for land long time ago but they never bother to give us the land. Ask for the apprivation forms and ask them why they could not give land to these people. Cruel people. If it means disbanding it let it be.
Demo iyi ndidzapitako
This land is within the Lilongwe river catchment area. Why should government develop this land? Plant trees instead. Our rivers in the city are losing catchment areas at an alarming rate. The flooding that is periodically occurring in our city is partially caused by this lack of cover in the catchment area. This is an opportunity to start getting things right
Great! Let everyone who was involved in this shady land dealsj ust give up the land chifukwa zinthu zisintha posachedwa byFebtuary
Ayamba kale kunjenjemela
Waionera patali. He wants to save his face because this diab man has a lot of land in lilongwe capital city. Let others emulate what this mmwenye has done or else amalawi tizipanga encroach tokha.
………………..Malawi needs to wake up as these IMPOSTORS are denying the 18 million-plus Malawians of an opportunity as most of us are living on the land.
These IMPOSTORS come to public offices in borrowed luxurious saloon cars, clothes, clothes perfume and mobile phones and government officers are made-believe instantly by jumping to their whims, handouts and fake business euphoria………………………………….
Diablosi kikikikikikiiiki,kuopera kutali,yah this is the way to bwezan malo kwa eni ake