Government is not going to dish out more land to Green
Fuel project until the owner Billy Rautenbach full-fills some pledges he made
to the local people, a minister has said.
Provincial Affairs minister for Manicaland, Mandi Chimene,
said this on Friday when she toured the ethanol plant alongside some members of
the Provincial Joint Operation Command (JOC).
Local villagers are accusing Green Fuel of confiscating
their land without compensation as well failing to full-fill some pledges such
as funding income generating projects.
Green Fuel, through the Arda board chairman Basil
Nyabadza, has requested the provincial lands committee to release extra 250
hectare for sugar cane production in Magogokova.
But Chimene turned down the request, saying Green Fuel
still owes local people in terms of compensation and corporate social
responsibility.
She told Rautenbach point blank that he should take
corporate social responsibility seriously by ploughing back to the local
community.
-allafrica
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