Chief Ndiweni of Ntabazinduna in Matabeleland North Province has allegedly directed the Grain Marketing Board to shut down its depot in his area, arguing that his people were not benefiting from the facility.
The move comes barely a year after the traditional leader ordered the police and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services to shut down their training depots in his area saying youths from his jurisdiction were not benefiting.
He wanted 50 percent of youths being trained at the depots to be from his area.
Umguza representative in the National Assembly Dr Obert Mpofu confirmed the latest incident sighting that Chief Ndiweni cannot shut a public institution which does not belong to him.
Efforts to get a comment from Chief Ndiweni were fruitless as he was said to be in the United Kingdom but people from his area said he was not happy with the GMB because people in his area were facing food shortages but were failing to access grain from the facility. The Government has mandated the GMB to ensure it distributes enough food to its depot to allow people to access grain because of the biting drought.
- Sunday News
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