'Outsiders' running cooperatives in Binga - MP

The fishing cooperates in Binga are reportedly not owned by locals amid concerns by the locals that their resources were being looted out of the district.

An MP B. Tshuma said he have heard of a lot of fishing cooperatives in the area of Binga.

He said but when he went there, there were complaints on the ownership of the cooperatives.

"People in Binga are complaining that as a local resource, people who own these fishing cooperatives are people from other regions. May I know what you are doing as a Ministry so that locals can participate in this fishing industry? That is the first thing on cooperatives," he said.

"Secondly, you talked of cooperatives in Matabeleland North. I come from there. Can you help me on the breakdown of information on the activities on the ground there? I have never seen them and I need that information. Can you help me? Again on the housing cooperatives here in Harare, there are big locations where there are indications that there was a housing cooperative which is here, but there is nothing in Matabeleland North."