Though for the last few years the government has been promising reforms in the old rent law situation, absolutely nothing has been done to remedy this unjust situation.

My mother owns a house divided into flats which are leased under these laws. Two years ago she had to pay for the stairwell roof to be repaired. Now a tenant who pays the princely sum of Lm18 annually is insisting that she pays for his drains to be unblocked. An official from the Health Department phoned her twice in one morning threatening to take legal action against her unless she does this.

She is an 81-year-old pensioner and found this extremely upsetting.

It is disgraceful that, in this day and age, situations like these are allowed to occur.

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