Jailed Pastor Robert Martin Gumbura has begun a hunger strike at Chikurubi Maximum Prison.
Gumbura and his (8) eight alleged accomplices commenced a hunger strike on Monday, ZimEye.com is reliably informed.
The nine who are being accused of attempting to violently remove President Robert Mugabe from within their prison cells, “are complaining that they are being given sadza and very little spinarch which is soiled.
“The Prisons Service is simply uprooting some spinarch plants which they then cook together with root stems so as to cover up,” the sources said.
They added saying, “the soiled spinarch also does not have any cooking oil.
“Many of the inmates are dying of Pellagra as we speak.”
The development comes as the MDC legal and parliamentary secretary, Jessie Majome opened a motion to urgently address conditions in Zimbabwe’s prisons.
On Monday, Majome presented her “Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Portfolio Committee’s report on the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs’ allocation in the 2016 National Budget. Click the link below to read the report.
She announced of the development writing and saying:
In the committee’s report we gave the following recommendations to government:
1. Disburse funds allocated expeditiously within the year it is budgeted for.
2. To increase the overall operations budgets as most funds of the Ministry are absorbed by employment costs.
3. Ensures the independence of Commissions – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, the Human Rights Commission and the National Prosecuting Authority is reflected in the budget, by having stand alone budgets.
4. To allocate funds to improve productivity of farms run by Prisons and Correctional Services.