Harare City Council continues to clear residents fields of crops to prepare roads

Harare City council is reportedly continuing to clear residents crops in areas where it wants to erect roads amid outcry by residents.

Harare Residents Trust reported that Harare City council is in action as it is continuing to clear the land which they have identified for development of residential stands.

"It has raised the concerns of the HRT that St Martins is along the Airport road where the council identified for stands and it is near the once demolished Alington Estate. Is it fair for Alighton residents?" said the trust. " In addition the residents are cultivating on that same open spaces and are about to harvest yet the council is the process of clearing those few crops which residents have. Zimbabwe has recieved very little rains that only a small margin of residents are fortunate enough to have such crops. The question now is why not the council stop until the residents harvest then they continue wth this development. From the light of this argument its clear that the council is becoming enemy of the residents and it does not have the residents at heart."