Sakubva Residents Overcrowded Like Rats, Mnangagwa Told

The Deputy Minister for Home Affairs, who is also Zanu PF provincial chairperson for Manicaland, Mike Madiro, told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that residents of Sakubva high-density suburb “are living like rats”.

Madiro said this while thanking Mnangagwa for launching the Sakubva Urban Renewal Project in Mutare on Wednesday. Said Madiro:

We would like to thank the president for giving us a worthy Christmas present as people were are living like rats with entire families sharing one room from grandparents to in-laws and grandchildren.

The Sakubva Urban Renewal Project will be funded by Banc ABC. It is a grand project that will see the construction of a state-of-the-art vending market, an upgraded stadium, bus terminus, shopping malls and a new suburb.

The launch of the project comes at a time when the demand for housing has been increasing exponentially with unplanned settlements mushrooming in most urban centres.

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