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Land reform chaotic - Mnangagwa
17 May 2015 at 07:27hrs | Views
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that several cabinet ministers are multiple farm owners and government would soon descend on them
Mnangagwa said senior government officials allocated themselves several big farms in contravention of the government's policy of one person one farm.
Mnangagwa said the land audit was going to expose all the multiple farm owners, The Standard reported.
"In 1988 I was switched from being the minister of national security to minister of Justice. I was given a task by President [Robert]Mugabe to craft a law to take our land. That time there was no text- book of taking land," he said in Mutare on Friday..
"We now have Chapter 16 of agricultural land in our constitution which is meant to address the unjust and unfair pattern of land ownership that was brought by colonialism. Yesterday [Thursday] I met a delegation from the United States who wanted to meet the President, but he was not around. We discussed the issue of land reform and it was said that the land reform was chaotic."
"I responded by saying that being chaotic was our method. We took this land through chaos. We decided to take the land first, then we can redistribute the land again because we now have it in our hands."
He said the on-going land audit was going to expose several senior government official who owned multiple farms.
"We know there are other senior government officials who own multiple farms and there are those who parcelled the land to their relatives, friends and girlfriends. All this is going to be exposed as each individual should own one farm," he said.
Mnangagwa said senior government officials allocated themselves several big farms in contravention of the government's policy of one person one farm.
Mnangagwa said the land audit was going to expose all the multiple farm owners, The Standard reported.
"In 1988 I was switched from being the minister of national security to minister of Justice. I was given a task by President [Robert]Mugabe to craft a law to take our land. That time there was no text- book of taking land," he said in Mutare on Friday..
"We now have Chapter 16 of agricultural land in our constitution which is meant to address the unjust and unfair pattern of land ownership that was brought by colonialism. Yesterday [Thursday] I met a delegation from the United States who wanted to meet the President, but he was not around. We discussed the issue of land reform and it was said that the land reform was chaotic."
"I responded by saying that being chaotic was our method. We took this land through chaos. We decided to take the land first, then we can redistribute the land again because we now have it in our hands."
He said the on-going land audit was going to expose several senior government official who owned multiple farms.
"We know there are other senior government officials who own multiple farms and there are those who parcelled the land to their relatives, friends and girlfriends. All this is going to be exposed as each individual should own one farm," he said.
Source - thestandard
