By Own Correspondent- Remigious Matangira who is the sitting Bindura South legislator has hailed the recently announced SI 142 adding that the policy measure was important as it ensured that “thieves” or money changers would relocate to their rural homes.

Contributing to debate in parliament on Tuesday, the Zanu Pf legislator accused the people on the street of possessing more forex than the country’s central bank.

He said:

“….I stand on a point of privilege to raise issues that bother people outside and inside this country regarding this Statutory Instrument 142:2019 which was gazetted by the Minister of Finance.  If we are a family that has no totem we are lost.  

A country without its own currency has no roots and has no ancestral spirits.  More-so, if a country that has imposed economic sanctions on you and you go on to use their currency, that country does not want you to develop.  

Those on the left are saying we should continue being in this situation; old people are dying in the communal lands due to lack of drugs.  What type of a country are we Zimbabweans.  All countries are saying we must use our own currency.

The Minister of Finance and Economic Development says despite the fact that you want the American Dollar, use the American Dollar and use it at the inter-bank rate but people on the streets have more US dollars than the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, why should that be the case?

What has been done is good.  Thieves that have been involved in money changing should go to their communal homes.”