Govt releases $1,5 million compensation for Tokwe Mukosi dam flood victims

Masvingo provincial administrator Fungai Mbetsa said that Government has released $1,5 million towards the compensation of nearly 2 000 families who were displaced during the Tokwe Mukosi dam floods in 2014.

He also revealed that Government still owes the victims $7,3 million and the current recipients will get 20% of what they are owed. Said Mbetsa:

We received $1,5 miliion from the central government to compensate about 1 995 Chingwizi villagers. A total of $7,5 million is outstanding what we received is 20% of that amount which is $750 each family and the money is being transferred directly into their bank accounts.

He added that the relocation of the families who are still housed at Chingwizi transit camp to their permanent places was still being looked into by the government. However, the flood victims are said to have threatened to resist any attempts to move them from the current transit camp whose living under conditions have been described by humanitarian organizations as “inhuman”.

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