By Own Correspondent- Government has issued a stern warning to those fueling the parallel market revealing that while it was clueless on who was driving it, plans were at an advanced stage to fish out the real forces behind the ever rising rate.

Speaking during a post Cabinet briefing recently, Information miinister Monica Mutsvangwa said it was highly unlikely that the parallel market was being run by the ordinary person on the street.

She however ruled out suspicion that the central bank governor, John Mangudya and Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube’s policies were behind the acts.

Said Mutsvangwa:

“I think it would be folly for anybody to think that the young people on the street without even shoes are the ones driving the parallel market.It’s time for us to interrogate who exactly is determining the exchange rate in this country. It’s certainly not the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, it’s certainly not the Minister of Finance, and so the question would be what kind of activities would justify a high rate of one hundred percent almost in a week.

We need to interrogate who is pushing the rate and it’s unfortunate that prices of goods and services are now being determined by that black market exchange rate.”