Paul Nyathi

 Residents of Bulawayo have on recent months seen their children indulging in a highly intoxicating brew known as “Commander In Chief” and wondering where the brew is coming from.

Online media, Zim Morning Post has reported that Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Raj Modi is the person behind the manufacturing of illicit brew.

According to the media, Modi is making brisk business through the production of the illicit brew.

The brew is known as musombodhiya in street lingo and is composed of ethanol or methanol.

Musombodiya has caused several deaths especially in high density suburbs.

“Modi is behind the illicit brew manufacturing. He runs a plant where he produces a brew called Commander In Chief and he supplies the high density areas in Bulawayo. The beer costs US$1 and each case has 30 units,” said a highly placed source to the media.

Modi’s case comes after the tenant of cabinet minister Joram Gumbo, was arrested and police recovered five drums of ethanol and empty bottles labelled “Two Keys”.