By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said his government will not watch the country’s detractors and economic opportunists plunge the country into chaos through creating artificial shortages and manipulating foreign currency market rates.
Mnangagwa said his government would not let people go without basic commodities, nor allow the willy-nilly depletion of incomes by a few rogue businesses and persons hence the amendment of Statutory Instrument 122 which allows people to import basic commodities.
Addressing the 109th Zanu PF Central Committee in the Harare (Thursday), Mnangagwa said the more than two-thirds majority garnered by the party in the July 30 plebiscite make them so confident that they can reset the developmental agenda in the Second Republic.
He also said the country must be more focused in producing more agriculturally and industrially and he condemned the rampant increase of prices of basic commodities which saw the government amending Statutory Instrument 122 which allows people to import basic commodities.
Said Mnangagwa:
“Government is fully aware of the machinations by some detractors and economic opportunists who are bent on creating despondency in the country through the manipulation of the foreign currency market and creation of artificial shortages.
This has caused untold suffering to our people. As a listening President, I have heard their cries and my government is determined to provide solutions to these perennial challenges.
The lifting of the ban of SI 122 is one such move which is meant to provide interim relief to our people. My government will neither let people go without basic commodities, nor allow the willy-nilly depletion of incomes by a few rogue businesses and persons.”