Terrence Mawawa | Senior government officials in Matabeleland South Province have accused former President Robert Mugabe of deliberately stifling infrastructural development in the area.

The officials said the roads in the area were in bad shape because Mugabe’s government was not interested in channelling funds towards infrastructural development in the area.

“We do not have even a single tarred road in this area,” said John Brown Dube, the Bulimia Rural District Council Chief Executive Officer.

“Those who were in power over the past three decades totally neglected us.

They concentrated on channelling funds to a few selected provinces, neglecting us in the process,” said another government official in the area.