President Irfaan Ali has announced that the Government will make available five hundred (500) new lots on the Linden Soesdyke Highway, to address the question of squatting there.
This was among several announcements made by the President in a brief video release on his social media pages on Tuesday night.
“Importantly today, we also finalized with the Lands and Surveys team and the Ministry of Housing and Water, the coming into operation five hundred new lots on the Linden Soesdyke Highway,” the President said.
Squatting on the Linden Highway has a been a headache for decades, with scores of persons setting up informal settlements at various parts of the highway.
Last year, images surfaced of a number of homes being bulldozed at Hill Foot on the Linden Highway by a private developer.
The President said with the government’s developmental agenda, the issue of squatting will be addressed, and one of the ways he said government will be moving to address squatting is through the regularizing of some squatter settlements.
“Late last year I spoke about regularizing the highway and the creation of three formal housing community on the Linden Soesdyke Highway, so that we can address all the squatting on the highway. We have finalized the first course of action which will see the infrastructure development that will lead to the creation of 500 new lots,” the President said.
In addition, the President said over the course of the next few weeks, hundreds of new leases and land titles will be issued to a number of persons for the Linden Highway, including persons who were residing at Hill Foot.
He said government will continue to work not only on the Highway but other parts of the country to address the question of informal settlements.
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