'Relocate Beitbridge Border Post,' says Zanu-PF Senator

Manicaland Senator Judith Mawire (Zanu-PF) has suggested that people staying close to the Beibridge Border Post should be relocated to reduce rampant smuggling.

She said houses are nearly 100metres from the border.

Mawire said if relocation was not possible then the border post itself must be moved to a secure place.

"The Government should do something at our borders so that it curbs this smuggling of things" she told the Senate on Wednesday.

"We just talk about it and nothing happens. If you look at how our cities are being built, people are building on wet lands but we are not solving such situations as is happening at Beitbridge border post.

"It is about 100 metres from the border to the residential areas.

"So, people can smuggle things and hide them in their houses right there.

"It is just like we are watching from the terraces then cry later" Mawire added.

"However, as Government, I think we should look for places to relocate these people. We should desist from just saying it is dangerous but the Government should look for a place to re-locate those people who are along the border. If it were possible we could move the border itself.

"So, what is only left is for us to re-locate those people so that they will be moved from those areas and a new town will be built for the displaced people"