“We had to postpone the meeting last week but everything is now in place for the meeting and all the chiefs have been booked at local five star hotel in the city,” an official of the Ministry of Local government said.
The chiefs were also expected to tour the Matopos National Park, the Njelele shrine and Cecil Jonh Rhodes’s grave before a reception in their honour.
Governor Gideon Gono is expected to address the chiefs on the central bank’s new farming inputs scheme which the chiefs are expected to spearhead in the rural areas.
The government has been accused of bribing chiefs with luxuries in return for political favours. During the just ended elections chiefs openly campaigned for the ruling
party in rural areas.
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