Zimbabwe: Govt Urged to Cede Farms to Prisons

The Cold Storage Company should cede some of its farms to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services to help alleviate food shortages affecting inmates, the National Assembly was told yesterday.

Bikita West MP Dr Munyaradzi Kereke (Zanu-PF) said Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made and his deputy, Cde Paddy Zhanda, had agreed that the CSC had idle farms. Dr Kereke was making a contribution to a motion by Zengeza East MP Mr Alexio Musundire (MDC-T) calling for an improvement in prison conditions.

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