WATCH: President Mnangagwa commissions houses for war veterans

Farai Dauramanzi in MAPHISA

President Mnangagwa has handed over houses built under the Presidential War Veterans Housing Scheme to war veterans in Maphisa, reaffirming the Government’s commitment to improving the welfare of war veterans.

The President, who was accompanied by the First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa, commissioned and toured the houses before handing over grocery hampers and bicycles to war veterans.

He also commissioned one of the boreholes drilled in Maphisa under the Presidential Borehole Drilling Scheme.
Zanu PF Secretary for War Veterans, Ex-Political Prisoners, Detainees and Restrictees, and Non-combatant Cadres, Cde Douglas Mahiya thanked the President for looking out for war veterans.

He said the War Veterans Housing Scheme is an ongoing programme building houses for war veterans nationwide.

“We have a listening President who initiated empowerment programmes for war veterans – the housing and borehole drilling programmes, among many other empowerment schemes.

“On behalf of the war veterans, I thank the President. We wish him to live longer. These programmes should continue, hence Constitutional Bill Number 3. We support the idea that the President has got to be in office up to 2030 so that these programmes continue,” he said.

Speaking on the sidelines of the ceremony, War Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs Minister Monica Mavhunga thanked the President for taking care of war veterans’ needs.

“I want to thank the President because he saw it fit to establish a fully-fledged ministry, which I head, to look into the welfare and economic empowerment of war veterans.

“I am happy that these houses are being handed over as we celebrate our hard-won independence,” said Minister Mavhunga.
She also thanked Presidential Advisor Dr Paul Tungwarara for supporting the various Presidential schemes aimed at uplifting the lives of liberation war fighters.

“I want to thank His Excellency for giving us his Special Advisor, Dr Tungwarara. We are working well with him in all the empowerment projects that are being extended to war veterans,” she said.

The Presidential War Veterans Housing Scheme seeks to construct decent accommodation for war veterans across the country, with Maphisa being among the latest beneficiaries.