Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged the police to arrest corrupt elements like middlemen and Grain Marketing Board (GMB) officials who are manipulating farmers into selling Command Agriculture maize for less than the gazetted $390 price.
Said Mnangagwa:
This Statutory Instrument thus makes the abuse of inputs distributed under the Command Agriculture Scheme for domestic crop, livestock and fisheries production a criminal offence. In view of the lessons learnt from previous programmes, with regards to middlemen and opportunists, who thrive on profiteering from Government funded programmes, SI 79 of 2017, therefore, protects produce and Government property acquired under the Command Programme from abuse and misappropriation.
That is corruption. Down with corruption. We now have a law to arrest such people. Manipulating others into giving up their maize for less than the gazetted price, stealing fertiliser, seed and inputs will lead to arrest.
If the police did not know that we now have such a law in place I am telling them today that they should start arresting offenders.
More: Herald
Back to top