By A Correspondent- Zimbabwe police officers who are enforcing the 21-day lockdown have revealed that they no longer have food.

They claim that they were promised food to sustain them for the duration of the lockdown but their bosses are not sending them any.

One officer who spoke to a local publication on condition of anonymity said:We were promised to be fed throughout the lockdown.

The food ran out after only two days and the bosses had hope that government, through the Ministry of Health, was going to allocate funds to cater for the food and our protection but that was never the case.

My wife has to pack rice and soup that I carry to work daily.

Sources privy to developments also revealed that the police procurement department fulfilled its obligation of raising requisition invoices for food, but some suppliers had no commodities or had closed due to the lockdown.

The source said:

I hear that because of the lockdown the guys responsible for buying food changed traditional suppliers and enlisted services of unreliable suppliers and their friends.

As a result of the mismanagement, the quartermaster only distributed the rations that were available.-ZimMorningPost