community members who support “wrong political parties” would not benefit from the food aid. 3.8. Complainants from Bikita East Constituency also stated that they were being left out of the Productive Safety Net Programme whereby food insecure households with excess labour were supposed to be given the opportunity to participate in rehabilitation of community assets and in turn receive a 50kg bag of cereal or $20 cash per month. 3.9. Complainants from Mazowe Central and Muzarabani further highlighted that in some instances names of MDC supporters were not removed from the lists of beneficiaries but unknown persons received agricultural inputs and food aid using their names without their knowledge. They said they found out about this when they followed up with the distribution committees and they were advised that records indicated that they had already benefited when in actual fact they had received nothing. 3.10. Complainants in Muzarabani indicated that there is corruption in the way food aid is handled at grassroots level. They said that whilst it was indicated that food aid was for the elderly and vulnerable, it was not uncommon to find that those who were benefiting were neither old nor vulnerable. Village heads were implicated as the most corrupt in this exercise and they were interfering with the process making sure that they benefited together with members of their own families at every distribution of food aid. 3.11. Complainants from Buhera and Mazowe alleged that they sought the intervention of the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the respective District Administrators. The District Administrator for Mazowe district is alleged to have initially made an undertaking to resolve the matter and to direct the Councillors of the respective wards namely, Councillors Mukahiwa and Demberere, to give them the inputs and food aid. However it was alleged that the District Administrator was Page 6 of 21