The number of people compensated by the
"We urge those who have already been paid compensation to leave so that the mine can continue to clean up this area and finally be able to invest. Habitable houses will not be demolished. Demolition exercise will only cover vacated houses," he said.
The DC also used the opportunity to call on the public to be careful with people who try to politicise the issue and distort the truth of what is happening in the Komarera area.
"There are politicians who bring politics into this issue, something that is not good because people are being paid according to properties that existed before. Now if you continue to develop when the ban was already done, it is illegal.
If you start to mix political issues and listen to politicians, you will waste your time instead of leaving and making development elsewhere so that the mine can continue to do its activities.
"We should also be aware that this mine [north Mara] has a partnership with the government through
According to the government valuer, Rashid Mageta, the 4,881 people already compensated are among the 5,162 citizens who are on the list to be compensated for their various properties found in the Komarera area.
Mr Mageta said there are a few people who after being compensated for their houses rented them to others before the clean-up started in the area.
The chairman of Ntarechagini Township in
"For example, my grandmother, after the committee elaborated to her what she deserves to be paid agreed, but many have resisted taking the compensation claiming that their properties were undervalued," he said.
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