By Jane Mlambo| National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader Professor Lovemore Madhuku has responded to damaging reports that members of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) are demanding farms, diplomatic passports and top of the range cars.

Responding to MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala who tagged him on his Twitter post asking if the reports are true, Madhuku said not every POLAD member is interested in farms.

Madhuku said there is no special privilege for any POLAD member to benefit from the land reform process.

“The true position is that there is no special privilege for any in Polad to benefit from the land reform process ahead of others. Polad leaders interested in farming and seeking to benefit from the land reform are applying like any other. Not every Polas leader is interested,” said Madhuku.

The weekly Standard newspaper carried a story that POLAD members had put forward their own list of things they wanted President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration to give them including farms with the Secretary for Justice Virginia Mabhiza reportedly looking into their request.

The issue attracted wide condemnation from the public who felt MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had been vindicated for claiming that the POLAD platform was only for material things at the expense of national development.