By Own Correspondent| Vice President of the breakaway faction of the MDC T led by Dr Thokozani Khupe, Obert Gutu has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be ruthless with illegal forwign currency traders accusing them of being behind the country’s economic woes.

Gutu said Mnangagwa should be ruthless in dealing with illegal foreign currency dealers saying they deserved no mercy.

He blamed the illegal foreign currency dealers for the suffering of the majority of Zimbabweans and said that they should not hide behind human rights.

Said Gutu:

“Do people eat human rights laws written in a statute book somewhere? People eat food and not some fancy Western-styled model of human rights. Mnangagwa has to get at these thieves and deal them a sucker punch.

This is not (the) time for playing around…The majority of Zimbabweans are suffering as a direct result of these selfish and corrupt currency manipulators. These people deserve absolutely no mercy.

Let them cry out and allege that their so-called human rights are being trampled upon, but then who cares as long as the living conditions of the majority of Zimbabweans are going to be improved?”

Mnangagwa has promised to invoke Presidential Powers in a move aimed at crafting legislation to deal with the economic saboteurs who have been blamed for the economic crisis.

Acie Lumumba the spokesperson for Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has revealed that several Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe senior directors  are behind the illegal trade adding that the RBZ is captured.