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Govt must honour rural farmers in GMB maize deals
11 Oct 2015 at 07:56hrs | Views
Uzumba MP Simbaneuta Mudarikwa has challenged the government to honour the majority of farmers in the rural areas in terms of payment for their produce indicating that failure to do so was close to witchcraft.
Speaking in parliament Mudarikwa said villagers in the rural areas recently expressed their anger on what Grain Marketing Board and the banks are doing to them.
"As a nation we must also realise that those people out there are 80% of our population and they also need money. When the money is available, we must ensure that the rural areas access the money first, so that they benefit," he said.
We must also have a process in place of securitising. We have 5 million cattle in Zimbabwe and if we insure all the cattle, we can use that as collateral. Everybody will be able to borrow a minimum of US$5000 and then the nation can move forward. We do not want a situation where we have a corner with rich people and another corner with very hungry people."
He said he does not believe in witchcraft but when leaders are enjoying themselves while they very poor neighbour and every night they dance to music and when they fry the aroma goes next door, obviously they will try something to deal with the leaders.
"This is because there is no economic democracy, which can only be addressed by allowing our people to participate fully in the economy. His Excellency has laid this down to us as hon. members and it is our duty to map the way forward so as to benefit our people in our constituencies and in Zimbabwe as a whole," he said.
"I want to say thank you very much to those who were listening and to those who were not listening but were on their phones because they never disrupted my speech."
Speaking in parliament Mudarikwa said villagers in the rural areas recently expressed their anger on what Grain Marketing Board and the banks are doing to them.
"As a nation we must also realise that those people out there are 80% of our population and they also need money. When the money is available, we must ensure that the rural areas access the money first, so that they benefit," he said.
He said he does not believe in witchcraft but when leaders are enjoying themselves while they very poor neighbour and every night they dance to music and when they fry the aroma goes next door, obviously they will try something to deal with the leaders.
"This is because there is no economic democracy, which can only be addressed by allowing our people to participate fully in the economy. His Excellency has laid this down to us as hon. members and it is our duty to map the way forward so as to benefit our people in our constituencies and in Zimbabwe as a whole," he said.
"I want to say thank you very much to those who were listening and to those who were not listening but were on their phones because they never disrupted my speech."
Source - Byo24News
