The government of Zambia has set to construct decent housing for all traditional leaders across the country. Government had been allocated US $4m in the 2017 budget for the construction of palaces country wide.
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The palaces will be built in phases. Phase one which will take part in the Southern province will have 3 palaces per province totaling 30 palaces to be constructed. The chiefs’ housing allowance revenues will enable the private company to recover the money invested in the chiefs’ palaces project over a specified and agreed period of time, after which ownership of the palaces would be transferred to the respective local provincial administration as institutional residences for chiefs.
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