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Mliswa Calls For Military Intervention To Control Prices Of Goods, As SB Moyo Threatens Govt Will Impose “Discipline”
23 April 2019
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By Farai D Hove| As the coup spokesman, Foreign Affairs Minister Gen SB Moyo threatened that government will impose “discipline,” the Norton MP Temba Mliswa has said the Joint Operations Command must move in to address the problem of overpricing.

Writing on Monday, Mliswa said overpricing has become a security threat. The last time this phrase “security threat” was used in Zimbabwe was in November 2017 when former president Robert Mugabe was removed.

Mugabe was removed after ZANU PF politicians determined that his wife had become a security threat. This time, it is businesses that are apparently a threat.

The economy crashed last August when the same Joint Operations Command carried out the killings of civilians for the ourpose of changing election results as earlier declared by Emmerson Mnangagwa on the state broadcaster ZBC (1pm 15 Dec 2017 LIVE footage).

During the commission hearings over the massacre it was determined that Zimbabwe’s econony lost $16 billion as a result of JOC’s military operation in August alone. Military generals who spoke during the commission also revealed that the attack on civilians was a purely joint operations command program triggered 3 weeks before the elections.

Mliswa wrote on his portal saying,

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, it’s not about price controls but market forces. However above all the scourge of CORRUPTION but be dealt.

Unscrupulous businesspeople must stop using any opportunity to fleece the already struggling masses.

Why should talk be left to us, where are the responsible authorities? They must move in with a mechanism to address these issues even beginning with a stakeholder’s meeting which is key to understand everyone’s concerns. Mnangagwa is a listening President.

Where are the Ministers in playing their role? Why isn’t Joint Operations Command (JOC) being given space to do its job or it’ll be redundant in government? Unjustified prices are a security threat. If JOC implement Cabinet decisions and those decisions are reversed then it becomes useless the market a free for all.”