President delivers on Binga Promise 

President delivers on Binga Promise

 

Hosia Mviringi

 

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has delivered on his election promise, in which he told the community in Binga that they will be recipients of all resources necessary for economic development.

Yesterday, President Mnangagwa delivered on the commitment made during the by-election campaign through handing over fishing rigs and boreholes.

Binga is one of the historically less endowed areas in the country and Government is chipping in to ensure the gap between them and other towns is smaller.

Handing over the rigs in Binga yesterday, the President stressed that the program to give fishing rigs to Chiefs, Women and the Youth was far from being an election gimmick as evidenced by his return to Binga even after the party’s loss in the March 2022 by-elections.

 

“As promised on my last visit here, I am back and here to deliver the fishing rigs. These rigs should help empower people. No one and no place should be left behind because from now we will work together to uplift the people’s lives in Binga,” said the President.

 

President Mnangagwa expressed satisfaction with the electoral support that ZANU PF received from the people of Binga noting that going forward the party will work hard to build up on the goodwill through diligently working with communities to uplift their lives.

 

The President promised a new kind of commitment of the Second Republic to turn a new leaf in the way government engages with the Binga communities.

 

“We must all be united working together for our country to get uplifted. Zimbabwe is blessed with land for us to farm and to never starve. However, some places like Binga don’t have farming land, but you have the big Zambezi river as your natural endowment. You had been removed by the white man. There is fish in the river and as such we must give you power to fetch fish from the river,” he said.

 

The President further revealed that the project was not only happening in Binga but also elsewhere countrywide where communities are empowered through fish farming inputs such as fingerlings and rigs.

 

Fish farming has become big business which helps communities to improve their livelihoods. Communities around such big water bodies as Tokwe-Mukosi were empowered in a similar way when the President donated fingerlings as seed fish for the project.

 

With the new focus and commitment by the Second Republic, it is expected that Binga will soon experience a rapid transformation as more developmental programs are rolled out.

 

The President further announced his commitment to deploy the Presidential borehole drill rig to Binga permanently until all deserving areas have been serviced with a solar powered borehole. The program will be targeting Chiefs’ homesteads, schools, health centres and all villages.

 

“For a country to develop it needs good roads. As such all companies doing road rehabilitation and construction in Binga will not leave until they are done. There is a bore hole rig written Presidential Rig which is drilling boreholes in Binga. It will keep drilling until all Chiefs and villages have clean water,” said the President.

 

Government is constructing large dams countrywide to climate proof the agricultural sector. As such dams such as Gwayi-Shangani, when completed will supply water for irrigation to Binga and other areas in Matabeleland North as well as Bulawayo.