Abandoned veterans’ land-grab nightmare
The scheme sounded good for the 240 disabled and retired army and police veterans and their families. The government built homes for them and promised a plot nearby on which to plant crops and support themselves. But five years later they are still without their land. Their hard lives have become even more difficult as they become embroiled in an ugly land-grab dispute. More than 10 families from the original 240 have decided to sell their housing plots with the homes on them and move away. They simply could not survive in the area. Another two families, who gave up waiting for land to be allocated to them for cultivation, sold their housing plots and decided to buy small plots on land allocated for the veterans.
