NATIONAL Housing Authority (NHA)'s disposal of estates seized by the defunct Taskforce on Corruption is in accordance with the authority's legal mandate, managing director Elias Mpondela has said.

The NHA has on behalf of the Government embarked on the sale of the seized properties through an open tender in three provinces and the exercise is being handled in a transparent manner.

Mr Mpondela said in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that the law mandated NHA to dispose off any estates on behalf of the Government and there was nothing sinister about the exercise.

Vice-President George Kunda last week announced the fusing of the Taskforce on Corruption into the Anti-Corruption Commission in line with the National Anti-Corruption Policy.

Mr Kunda told Parliament that Cabinet agreed that the Task Force would be transformed into an ACC department.

According to the current advertisement being run in the national Press, the NHA is disposing off, by way of open tender, estates in Lusaka, Southern and Copperbelt provinces.

Some of the property earmarked for sale are an incomplete lodge in Siavonga in Southern Province, a disco house, a high cost house and freezing facility in Lusaka.

Others are an incomplete house and warehouse in Chongwe, a high cost industrial plot, a small-holding and two high cost houses, all in Lusaka.

In Ndola a workshop-garage facility formerly the defunct United Bus Company of Zambia (UBZ) is being sold.