Neighbourhood watch members fined
planting season as the project has proved to be viable.
“This coming planting season we are expanding. Command Agriculture is the way. We have done it. It has worked for us,” she said.
The 30 tonne Command Agriculture produce, Ass Comm Nkomo pointed out, was planted on five hectares of land. She said the Government required that farmers produce five tonnes of maize grain per hectare.
“We have exceeded Government expectations and we are excited about it. We managed to yield six tonnes per hectare, and this could have even been more. Had it not been for the fall army worm, we could have surpassed Government’s requirement by an even wider margin,” said the Assistant Commissioner.
The prison also grows sugar beans, butternuts, melons, pumpkins and cow peas under irrigation for sale and feeding inmates. — @andile_tshuma. TWO neighbourhood watch committee members have each been fined $50 fine for assaulting a villager.
Sam Ncube (66) and Makeson Moyo (57) of Ntunungwe area in Bulilima District were convicted on their own plea of guilty to assault by Plumtree magistrate, Mr Taurai Manwere.
They were each fined $50 or sentenced to 30 days imprisonment in case of default.
Prosecuting, Mr Elisha Mazorodze said on April 16 Ncube and Moyo whipped Mr Johanne Moyo several times all over the body after suspecting that he had stolen a cell phone.
“On April 15 Mr Moyo is suspected to have stolen a cell phone from his neighbour Ms Samukeliso Maseko and he went away unnoticed. Ms Maseko then advised Ncube and Moyo who are members of the neighbourhood watch committee.
“Moyo and Ncube traced Mr Moyo’s shoeprints from Ms Maseko’s homestead to his homestead. They apprehended him and took him back to Ms Maseko’s homestead,” he said.
Mr Mazorodze said the neighbourhood watch committee members ordered Mr Moyo to show them how he stole the cell phone but he denied everything.
He said they force marched Mr Moyo out of the yard and took turns to whip him with switches all over the body. He said Mr Moyo reported the matter to the police resulting in their arrest. — @DubeMatutu.