By Own Correspondent| Current fuel shortages which have seen the emergence of fuel on the black market where 5 litres of fuel is fetching between $20- $25 have been attributed to fuel dealers.

Deputy minister of Information, Energy Mutodi accused fuel dealers of causing the shortages through withholding fuel in anticipation of price increases.

Mutodi said government is pumping fuel worth at least US$10 million into the market daily.

Said Mutodi:

I’ve spoken to Minister of Finance this morning & he has said at least $10m worth of fuel is being pumped into the market daily. An anticipated rise in fuel prices in the first week of Dec could be causing some fuel dealers to withhold stocks. ZERA is on the ground monitoring.

— Dr Energy Mutodi (@energymutodi) November 30, 2018

Citizens however blasted the deputy minister for his statement.

We publish below some of the reactions to the tweet:

You are doing a disservice to this nation stop such reckless tweets

— Garikai Goremusandu (@Garikai1Gorey) November 30, 2018

Comrade Deputy Minister you have the energy to write all this and thanks but reality is most people do not want explanations but fuel, at any reasonable cost, to go where they want. I do not want to hear how much is being pumped, I want the liquid in the car and I drive chete

— Leonard Makombe (@lmakombe) November 30, 2018

Are you guys governing from mars or what???

Your tweet is an insult to say the least, goes to show you have no idea of the situation on the ground, later on how to solve it

Disappointing

— Kudzi Muyangwa (@khanyie04) November 30, 2018