SHURUGWI MP Joseph Mpasi has launched an ambitious mining programme that is set to benefit hundreds of families in Shurugwi North constituency.
Over the years villagers in the mineral-rich communities of Shurugwi have been calling for greater transparency in local mining activities.
Mpasi recently launched the mining programme in ward 16 (Zvumwa), where more than 500 families are set to benefit from chrome mining.
“The community is appreciative of our mining programme where over 500 families are benefiting from mining consortiums of chrome,” Mpasi told Southern Eye.
“We want to talk less and act more.
“My main goal under my leadership is that I want to try as much as I can to empower communities, especially the marginalised.”
The legislator said the programme would spread across the constituency.
“People have reached to us complaining that ‘migrants’ were extracting minerals, but I told them that under this second republic, no one would be left behind,” he said.
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“We are taking this programme across the constituency and every person has the right to benefit from the mineral resources.”
The MP encouraged villagers to be sensitive to the environment and to invest in infrastructural development.
