Zimbabwean parliament to send team to Cyprus to investigate reports of prostitution, drug abuse among Zim students in the country

The Zimbabwean parliament on Monday said it has concluded plans to send delegation to Cyprus to investigate alleged reports of prostitution and rampant drug abuse among Zimbabwean students studying in the country.

According to the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kindness Paradza, his committee is on top of the matter.

We are investigating those issues and so far we have interviewed a number of agencies sending students to Cyprus and they have confirmed those problems. We interviewed students on attachment and those on holidays in the country, they confirmed those problems, Paradza said.

We will send a delegation to investigate the issue and we have also got complaints from parents who have students there and so far three boys have been arrested on drug trafficking and each has been given a seven-year jail term,” he said.

Meanwhile a member of the Zimbabwe community in Cyprus who is also a student in the country played down the report describing it as exaggerated.

Like in any other foreign land, there will always be bumps in the process of settling down and the key is to remember one’s purpose in the nation before anything else, said Realsie Mwase.

According to Mwase, Cyprus is not free of ills, but noted that it is nothing like what was portrayed in the media.

North Cyprus is not free of ills, but it is nothing like the hellish Sodom and Gomorrah it is made to be in exaggerated reports…it is time to acknowledge that North Cyprus experience will do the world good to those who utilise the opportunities availed to them and dare to create more,” he added.