Staff Reporter
The New Dispensation’s policy of devolution has greatly transformed the country’s communities as it is ensuring socio-economic development projects that benefited the people.
Addressing the Party’s 19th National People’s Conference in Mashonaland Central over the weekend, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said ZANU PF was alive and undertaking game changing programmes, which the Government continue to implement.
“Our Party is alive, vibrant and undertaking unprecedented and game changing programmes which our Government continues to implement. Devolution has ensured that all communities in our entire nation have witnessed socio economic development projects to show and be proud of,” said the President.
The President said due to devolution, the current modernization of the country’s highways would benefit the people and serve as the accelerators to regional and continental integration outlined within the SADC and ACFTA.
President Mnangagwa added that because of devolution, broad-based and sustainable youth empowerment programmes were being implemented. He further said that the culture of volunteerism should be reignited among the youths.
The President said that the Party and Government had a task to modernize and make rural areas more attractive to live and work in.
“As a Party and Government, we are going beyond agriculture and facilitating value chain development and beneficiation of all our produce. We are setting up rural industry systems and infrastructure.
“Under the Second Republic and in this new development era, programmes are being implemented to comprehensively modernize and make rural areas more attractive to live and work in,” said the President.
President Mnangagwa said development under ZANU PF would leave no one and no place behind, in particular, those in urban areas where residents had been abused and neglected by corrupt and incompetent opposition-led councils.
The Government has adopted the devolution policy that has seen tremendous transformation of the country’s districts as citizens were given the power to determine the development they want in their respective areas.
