By Own Correspondent- President Emmerson Mnangagwa said the country has been under sanctions for a long time resulting in the collapse of the economy. 

This, he said, left the country’s development stagnated.

Said Mnangagwa:

“While indeed we still say to those who imposed sanctions on us, remove them because there is no justification for the embargo, we should not bury our heads in sand because of those sanctions.

We should realise that we have resources in our country. We must therefore focus on harnessing those resources to develop, modernise and industrialise our country and our economy.

We should not have sanctions impugn our capacity and capability to use our resources to the benefit of our people. We should rise using the resources at our disposal and move forward.”-StateMedia