1610: VP Dr Chiwenga has finished his address.
1609: “We want to thank him for that. The President should
stay focused and ignore efforts by detractors who use social media to spread
falsehoods. We are heading for elections let’s be peaceful and shun violence.
Let’s be peaceful just like what happened during Operation Restore Legacy.”
1606: VP Dr Chiwenga says the country must move forward
with the mantra “Zimbabwe is open for business” and support the President’s
re-engagement efforts.
“But in doing all this we should have enough food because
food security is important. The President has been on a diplomatic offensive
centred on reengagement and we are now seeing positive results. He has been in
China and the trip was very successful,”
1559: “The President has called for peace and has
reiterated the call to let be bygones be bygones. As a nation, we must show the
unity we exhibited in November last year under Operation Restore Legacy.”
He condemns corruption and says all the corrupt people
should be incarcerated.
1554: “We now have our country after we waged the war and
we have the soil so let’s utilise it. The purpose of the war was to reclaim our
land. We now have it, the war is now on utilising the land. Let’s all go back
and practice what we have learnt at the President’s farm,”
He thanks President for the successes he has made in the
shortest time he has been in power.
1547: “We want to embark on a massive Command Livestock
programme as a nation. Farmers should take notes from President Mnangagwa.
Agriculture contributes 15 to 18 percent of the nation’s GDP. We want it to
reach 30 percent so we must all take farming seriously,”
1541: VP Dr Chiwenga applauds seed makers SeedCo and
Sakunda Holdings for supporting Command Agriculture.
“We did not receive enough rains but the President managed
to do wonders. We should now focus on irrigation as we have more than 10 000
dams with some being idle,”
1538: He says the fact that President Mnangagwa is a leader
in everything including leading the people and country to recover economically.
Farmers should emulate the President as we strive to have enough grain to feed
the nation. Zimbabwe has enough resources and expertise as evidenced by the
success of Command Agriculture.
1532: VP Dr Chiwenga says today is an important day as
everyone has come to see how important farming is for the nation. He thanks
President Munangagwa for a job well done adding that it means he (President
Mnangagwa) is a God-ordained leader who can lead in everything.
1528: Guest of honour VP Dr Chiwenga is now addressing the
gathering.
1522: Agriculture Minister describes VP Dr Chiwenga as a
brave leader who led Operation Restore Legacy and the only army chief in the
world to manage such an operation peacefully.
1516: Minister Shiri has now introduced the guest of
honour, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga.
1514: Minister of Agriculture Perrance Shiri now on the
podium.
“We fought for the land reform programme and now we should
fight to produce enough for the nation. Minerals will diminish but agriculture
will remain relevant forever,” he says
1453: Denias Zaranyika, Managing Director for Seed Co
Zimbabwe, is now addressing the people. He congratulates the First Family for
leading by example in farming.
1439: First Lady Amai Auxilia Mnangagwa thanks farmers for
coming to the field day. She says she was a First Lady of the nation and
everyone who wishes to share his or her problem with her should call her. She
says she has an open door policy to every Zimbabwean and has made her contacts
public.
1437: President Munangagwa took to the dance floor as Jah
Prayzah’s “Kutonga Kwaro” song is played before the First lady speaks.
1431: Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Owen Ncube is
now giving a speech, he thanks the President for being a leading farmer to the
agrarian economy.He thanks the First Lady for relinquishing her political post
to focus on helping the nation. He particularly mentions the First Lady cancer
screening programme which he says has helped many women across the country.
1420: President Mnangagwa and First Lady Amai Mnangagwa
have just arrived at the venue in the company of VP Chiwenga several Cabinet
ministers and senior Government officials.
1415: We are at President Mnangagwa’s Precabe Farm on the
outskirts of Kwekwe where the Ministry Lands, Agriculture and Rural
Resettlement is having a mega field day in conjunction with SeedCo Zimbabwe.
Thousands of people, many of them farmers, from across the country have
gathered for the event where the guest of honour Vice President Dr Constantino
Chiwenga is expected to address them. Herald
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