By Own Correspondent- Inmates at Mutare Remand Prison have raised concern over the inhumane conditions that they are subjected to at the correctional centre and prison officials have appealed for aid to alleviate the dire situation.

The prisoners told a local publication that they have acute shortages of clean water, balanced diet, clothing, and blankets.

This is despite that the country’s first citizen, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is always in the skies using private jets whose costs have been described by analysts as unnecessary for an already ailing fiscus.

Member-in-charge of Mutare Remand Prison, Maplan Kakoto said:

“We need help to be a real correctional service, but the government can’t afford it alone, so we need partners, who can help in any way.”

Prisoners said:

“It’s difficult here. We are overcrowded. There is no space to sleep; sometimes we sleep seated.

We are urging the government to come up with a solution because we will continue to suffer.

… Our diet is not balanced. Sometimes we eat relish without cooking oil. We don’t have adequate blankets and prisoners who are on anti-retroviral treatment are struggling to get medication.”