By Own Correspondent| President Emmerson Mnangagwa today ejected journalists hoping to cover an emergency meeting between the presidium and business leaders at State House.

The emergency meeting, comes at the back drop of increasing prices and shortage of basic commodities, a development which has seen government temporarily suspending SI122.

Said Mnangagwa to journalists shortly before the meeting commenced:

“Today i give industry the opportunity to interact with government. But to do so, the media should go away.”

Journalists from the national broadcaster, ZBC, who in the past have been given preferential treatment at government functions ahead of the private media were also told to leave.

Scribes spent the whole morning camped outside the first citizen’s residence where Mnangagwa was having a tete-  a- tete with the country’s business moguls.

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