On Wednesday police arrested more than 400 villagers for defying a Government directive to vacate Fox Farm in Matobo District.
Acting District Administrator for Matobo District, Mr Obey Chafusira, urged villagers to follow the Government directive. Said Chafusira:
The villagers know very well that they are there without the Ministry’s official permission and should therefore move away without waiting to be pushed off. We gave them notice to leave on 17 and 18 October and yesterday (Wednesday)’s action was to ensure that they had vacated. It is a government directive which we simply expect villagers to follow.
Matobo North MP Never Khanye (Zanu-PF) said although there is a Government directive, he was not happy that the people were being displaced. He said that he was in Harare to talk officials to consider the villagers’ plight.
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