BIKITA - Local people are at risk of being attacked by crocodiles after Zanu (PF) youths and war veterans vandalised and ransacked a crocodile breeding project run by lithium mining giant Bikita Minerals.
The war veterans accused mine manager, Nigel Macfail, of being sympathetic to the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) party.
Mcfail was once abducted and beaten by Zanu (PF) youths, who left him for dead in the run up to the bloody June 27 elections.
Villagers under Chief Marozva said they were benefiting from the mines crocodile project, as many got jobs there.
For the past four months, our lives had changed because of this project by Bikita Minerals. Then came the fighters of the liberation struggle and some overzealous Border Gezi youth and destroyed everything. They politicised everything. Now, we have no income and some of the crocodiles have eaten our livestock, said Marvelous Rupiya, a villager.
Mcfail confirmed the project had been sabotaged.
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