The Mbeya region restores the old villages of 1,300 households

The villagers come from the villages of Shoga, Mapalaji B and Ikama in the Sangambi district, Chunya district, Mbeya area, who left their villages under the instructions of District Commissioner Rehema Madusa

. About villages were false and indicated that they should all be brought back to their villages.

RC Makalla stated that the inquiry commission formed to investigate this case proved that the villagers did not reside in protected areas.

"The commission found that the villages were just residing in a village forest area given to them by their local authorities, and citizens also had traditional legal titles on their hands approved by the district," he said. .

Some of the villagers claimed that they had been brutally forced to leave the areas with their homes and food destroyed.

Edson Mliliti, one of the residents said that in the operation, at least 300 houses were burned.
"We lost our vital goods like money, clothes and food … It was a very sad action," he said. For her part, Josephine Joseph said that she was forced to deliver into one of the forests because the operation happened while she was experiencing work pains with all her things being reduced to ashes. , including money that could have helped her to go to the hospital. Sangambi Ward Councilor Njunjuru Mhewa praised the RC's decision to bring residents home to continue their daily economic activities.

Last year, Chunya District Commissioner Rehema Madusa led some 18,000 households. It also alleged that more than 9,000 children in communities were not going to school because their parents resided illegally in forest reserves and protected areas where there were no children. ; schools. .

"A number of children having the age to go to school were denied their right to education because of their parents' mistakes; have established settlements in restricted areas where they are all aware that there are no schools, "she said.

According to her, the invaders lived in the interior parts of the forests, 70 km inland from the zones. children to attend schools.