PROVINCIAL Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti faces a backlash from his colleagues in government after he gave a flattering account of the situation at Chingwizi Transit Camp at a recent ZANU-PF Politburo meeting that is totally removed from the reality on the ground. Bhasikiti told a Politburo meeting chaired by President Robert Mugabe that swift interventions by relief agencies had arrested a precarious food situation at Chingwizi camp.
State media quoted ZANU-PF's national spokesperson Rugare Gumbo as saying Bhasikiti had told the meeting that food provision at the camp had improved following the intervention of the World Health Organisation. But a visit to the camp by the Financial Gazette established that instead urgent global intervention is required to prevent starvation after food stocks depleted to dangerous levels in the past week.
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