The government will soon venture into an urgent development project in Binga District.
The project is expected to rehabilitate roads, construct a vocational training center and refurbish a set up of a nursing school at Binga Hospital.
It will also refurbish and operationalise the mortuary at Binga Hospital.
Further initiatives on the project will include, increasing access to Zimbabwean television and radio stations.
Speaking during a post cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Hon Monica Mutsvangwa said the Binga district development project came to light when President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited Binga during the just-ended by-election campaigns.
“The nation is advised that following the president’s visit at Siyabuwa in Binga there arose the need to develop the district,” she said.
Meanwhile, Mnangagwa last week donated dozens of bicycles and fishing boats to people in Binga, a few days before the March 26 by-elections, but the move was viewed as vote-buying.
Political analyst Vivid Gwede described vote buying as an act of corruption, adding that this must be dealt with before the 2023 elections.
“Vote buying is obviously outlawed in the electoral laws and is an act of electoral corruption for which candidates must be held accountable,” said Gwede.
