PARLY BLOCKS CRIMINIALISING COMMAND AGRI ABUSE

THE Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) has once again rejected a Statutory Instrument promulgated by Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Perrance Shiri seeking to criminalise breaching of the Command Agriculture programme by farmers…

THE Parliamentary Legal Committee (PLC) has once again rejected a Statutory Instrument promulgated by Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Perrance Shiri seeking to criminalise breaching of the Command Agriculture programme by farmers. The committee through its adverse report said the instrument was unconstitutional. Contractual matters, read the report, can only be treated as