By James Gwati- A Government minister has fired the senior manager with the Agricultural Rural Development Authority (Arda) in front of journalists for “not following President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s economic reform agenda”.

Anxious Masuka, the new Agriculture minister fired on-site the Bubi-Lupane Irrigation Project manager for alleged incompetence saying the same would befall officials who fail to meet the Government’s expectations in the transformation of the agriculture sector.

The state media which was covering the tour could however not establish the official’s name.
Minister Masuka said the parastatal’s operations were not in sync with the Second Republic’s thrust of transforming the country’s economy through agriculture.

“I’m not happy with Arda’s performance, you are still in the past. Arda must wake up to the realities of the Second Republic and the President’s thrust of using agriculture as a vehicle for the attainment of vision 2030,” said Masuka giving the Arda official some marching orders.

He said Government had set minimum requirements for managing Arda irrigation sites.