Industrial establishments in Lusaka are owing the Lusaka City Council about K15 Million in land rates.

This was disclosed in Lusaka today when the council pounced on some rate payers who have not been remitting to the council in industrial area.

LCC Public Relations Manager George Sichimba says both Domestic and Commercial residents delay in paying their land rates to the council.

Mr. Sichimba says LCC has since engaged Bailiffs to help the council collect the funds failure to which the owing companies’ properties risk being ceased.

Mr. Sichimba says the exercise commenced last week, but said he was not sure how much has been collected so far.

Speaking in an interview after a challenging attempt to collect what they are owed in Lusaka’s industrial area, Mr. Sichimba says some places were showing wrong plot numbers.

The Council, working together with the bailiffs this morning visited five commercial residents out of which, only one settled their rates.

Mr. Sichimba has since disclosed that should such challenges persist, the council will go back to the drawing board and find ways to help the council effectively execute the operation.