adminMinister Mpariwa said this in the Senate on Thursday while responding to a question from Mutasa-Nyanga Senator Patrick Chitaka (MDC-T) who sought to know Government policy on beggars.
Sen Chitaka said some of the beggars were making more money than formally employed people.
Minister Mpariwa said there were rehabilitation institutions were such people should go.
“I call upon society, when you are close to a dam and you throw some bait into the water, the fish will dance around but if you do not give them, then they will be attracted to go (to the institutions)” Minister Mpariwa said.
“So, let us not feed or give them money, but actually advise them of where to go.
“It has actually been very difficult for Government to have them permanently in the institutions of rehabilitation. We have institutions where we actually put them in hostels, for example the small boys and girls that you see may have committed crimes and they will be loitering . . . we take them to the rehabilitation hostels.”
Minister Mpariwa said there was an increase in orphans, poverty and unemployment adding that it was Government’s responsibility to take care of them.
Meanwhile, Minister Mpariwa also told the Upper House that Government was working hard to make sure food aid would be distributed at ward level than the current situation where the food was available at district level.
Senators had raised concern that the food aid was not reaching the people on time.
They claimed there was segregation in the distribution of food aid.
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