Exposed: Inside Manyame shady land deals . . . Zanu PF MP implicated . . . villagers resist land takeover

A PROMINENT ruling Zanu PF party lawmaker has been implicated in disputed plot allocations which have exposed the involvement of the Manyame Rural District Council (MRDC) in questionable land deals.

MRDC jurisdiction spans rural Chitungwiza, Darwendale, Manyame, parts of Norton and Beatrice as well as rural Seke.

A five-month investigation has established that, in at least two instances, MRDC played an active role in allocating land to Herentals Group of Colleges owned by Innocent Benza, the Zanu PF lawmaker for Mutasa Central in Manicaland province after the August 2023 general elections.

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