THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday advised various stakeholders and the public to disregard a leaked document which had been circulating on social media purporting to reveal its de-dollarisation plan.

In a statement yesterday, RBZ governor John Mangudya said the de-dollarisation document had been leaked prematurely and was not final.

This comes as the central bank recently indicated that it would produce a road-map on how the country would de-dollarise in the next five years, as part of moving towards the single use of the Zimbabwe dollar in the country.

“The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe wishes to advise the public that the document titled “De-dollarisation Road Map” which has been circulating on social media was leaked by senior Bank economist, Philton Makena, who had access to a document on the macro-economic policy measure to support the five-year de-dollarisation strategy which was being worked on by a team of economists in the Bank.

“The draft document is not official as it has not even been discussed at both Bank and government levels.

“The document should therefore be disregarded,” Mangudya said.

“The draft document was being worked on by the team of economists on a computer allocated to a chief economist in the Bank, Paul Gilmour Mukoki.

“The bank has since established that Mukoki was not responsible for the leakage of the document.

“Makena’s conduct amounted to breach of the oath of secrecy by which all Bank employees are bound.

“Accordingly, the Bank has suspended him, with immediate effect, and has commenced disciplinary proceedings against him,” Mangudya added.

He said the RBZ regretted the incident.