President Robert Mugabe’s business partner and Green Fuel Investments proprietor Billy Rautenbach, has allegedly gunned down four villagers in Chisumbanje.
One of the four (Itai Chikwasha) died on the spot leaving three seriously injured and are battling for their lives at St Peters Mission hospital at Checheche.
According to Chinyamukwakwa villagers the incident happened Wednesday night when guards employed by the Ethanol producing company accused the four villagers of stealing sugar cane.
The security guards are said to be retired soldiers and war veterans who have been rewarded by Green fuel for their loyalty to the ruling Zanu PF party government.
“It is very difficult to justify the killing of unarmed villagers for allegedly stealing sugarcane. Green Fuel is currently harvesting their sugarcane and villagers follow harvesters to pick left-overs, and it’s not news that the villagers can pick and eat sugar cane which they would have found on the roads while walking to their homes as they pass by the controversial plantation and even if they had stolen the sugar cane, we do not think that warrants the killing and we now wonder whether this Ethanol project was a curse to the people of Chipinge,” said one of the villagers.
The villagers said the number of people picking sugar cane residues had increased this year owing to the droughtea.
“Women and children constitute the bulk of those who pick the sugarcane and the number has increased this year due to the Elnino induced drought that has ravaged families,” they added.
The relationship between Green fuel investment and the local community has been sour since the inception of the project in 2008 when the former occupied the latter’s land without full community engagement.
The villagers feel that the company should have compensated them for occupying their traditional land.
They (villagers) are further complaining that the company continues to push them away by encroaching on the boundary while failing to fulfil promises of corporate social responsibility.
The villagers are accusing the company of using superiority tactics and avoid dialogue platforms because of its strong ties with the ruling Zanu PF government. More to follow…
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“Since when did Billy become a security guard….”
Looking at the report from a contextual perspective, pane possibility mbiri dzinoti Billy wakabaye vanhu. Chekutanga, report inoti Billy wakabaye vanhu after masecurity arepota kuti vanhu ava vakange vaba nzimbe. Saka zvinogona kuti pakunzwa report, Billy reacted ngekubaya ava vanhu.
Chechipiri, nyangazi ma security ariwo akabaye vanhu, masecurity vaiita izvi vakamirira Billy. Either way, the buck stops with Billy.
Remember pakaitika Nyanga Bus Disaster in the early 1990s, zvakanzi B & C wauraya vana vechikoro, yet vanaHall vaive mumagumbezu kuHospital Hill kwaMutare pakaitike accident yakaurayisa vana.
Examples galore, but context yenyaya ndiyo inopa tsananguro ye report.
“Since when did Billy become a security guard….”
Looking at the report from a contextual perspective, pane possibility mbiri dzinoti Billy wakabaye vanhu. Chekutanga, report inoti Billy wakabaye vanhu after masecurity arepota kuti vanhu ava vakange vaba nzimbe. Saka zvinogona kuti pakunzwa report, Billy reacted ngekubaya ava vanhu.
Chechipiri, nyangazi ma security ariwo akabaye vanhu, masecurity vaiita izvi vakamirira Billy. Either way, the buck stops with Billy.
Remember pakaitika Nyanga Bus Disaster in the early 1990s, zvakanzi B & C wauraya vana vechikoro, yet vanaHall vaive mumagumbezu kuHospital Hill kwaMutare pakaitike accident yakaurayisa vana.
Examples galore, but context yenyaya ndiyo inopa tsananguro ye report.
Looking at the report from a contextual perspective, pane possibility mbiri dzinoti Billy wakabaye vanhu. Chekutanga, report inoti Billy wakabaye vanhu after masecurity arepota kuti vanhu ava vakange vaba nzimbe. Saka zvinogona kuti pakunzwa report, Billy reacted ngekubaya ava vanhu.
Chechipiri, nyangazi ma security ariwo akabaye vanhu, masecurity vaiita izvi vakamirira Billy. Either way, the buck stops with Billy.
Remember pakaitika Nyanga Bus Disaster in the early 1990s, zvakanzi B & C wauraya vana vechikoro, yet vanaHall vaive mumagumbezu kuHospital Hill kwaMutare pakaitike accident yakaurayisa vana.
Examples galore, but context yenyaya ndiyo inopa tsananguro ye report.
you right ZPF, Yamai mukjura ka, wadoma, kikikikikiki
you right ZPF, Yamai mukjura ka, wadoma, kikikikikiki
Stupid reporting.. so he has been arrested by ZIMEYE?, kikikikikiki. Since when did Billy became a security guard. sent your reporters to at least grade seven education pse.
The real enemy of this country & its people is ZPF.
The real enemy of this country & its people is ZPF.