Gomulira villagers demand government intervention in Lin’s dubious land occupation – Malawi Nyasa Times

In a dramatic turn of events, the daughter of a Chinese naturalist Lin Yunhua is said to have come into the spotlight to process the formal registration of her father’s controversial large plot of land that he had dubiously acquired from the village without the knowledge of the chiefs from village chief Gumulira in Lumbazi, Lilongwe. .

Tribal leaders and villagers have since demanded the government intervene in Lin’s questionable occupation of Dambo land, claiming the loss of the land has deprived them of economic opportunities and fueled hunger and plunder among the population.

Chief Gumulira, his deputy Japhet Chimpeni and other villagers told journalists on Wednesday that Lin, who is also answering corruption charges, dubiously purchased the dambo land that was used as a source of income for the people of the village.

They said Lin occupied the land for his livestock farming, while behind the scenes he turned it into a base for his illegal wildlife criminal activities.

The chief and others said people used the land for farming, feeding livestock, mining sand, shaping bricks and selling them to companies and using the money to meet their basic needs, including school fees for their children.

“He occupied the land illegally and established his farm without our knowledge as chiefs, and engaged a headman from another village to provide him with ownership documents. He later appointed the same head as his farm overseer for the period he would be in prison.

“Even officials of the Ministry of Lands were surprised last year how he occupied this big land in question and continued to illegally occupy more lands of villagers even while he was in jail,” Gumulira said.

He said land ministry officials came to investigate the matter last year after media reports of land issues between the chiefs and Lin, and gave people hope that they would intervene.

He said that while they have been anticipating the ministry’s intervention in the matter, villagers are surprised that a self-claimed daughter of Lin recently facilitated the formal registration of the land.

“We saw her come to the farm accompanied by Lin’s employees and inspect the prices of dubious land that her father had bought from the villagers through his father’s agents.

“Her father’s agents, who accompanied her, told us that she has gone to the Ministry of Lands and village head Chinoko Kawenga to help her process the formal registration of the land, and we have been warned not to speak out to speak,” Gumulira and Chimpeni revealed.

In a telephone interview, a highly charged group village head Kawenga demanded that the journalists speak to him personally at his home and cut the line.

Attempts to talk to the Ministry of Lands and Lin’s alleged daughter proved futile.

Lin, who is serving his long sentence in one of the country’s prisons, is also answering corruption charges for attempting to bribe a Supreme Court judge to get a short sentence.

He will soon be deported after serving his prison sentence.

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