Farai Dziva| A jittery Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened businesspeople over what he described as unjustified price increases.

Mnangagwa made the remarks at the National Sports Stadium on Tuesday during the Defence Forces Celebrations.

“There are some in our business community, who have taken this difficult transitional phase of our economy as an opportunity to unjustifiably enrich themselves.

There is no justification, whatsoever, why our people should be subjected to some of the high prices of goods and services that we have witnessed in recent months.

The introduction of a market-based foreign exchange rate system is expected to stabilise the economy in the long run.
However, the government is alarmed by the recent wanton and indiscriminate increases of prices which have brought untold suffering to the people.

This conduct by stakeholders in business, industry and commerce is inhumane, unethical, unpatriotic and goes against the grain of economic dialogue which the Second Republic has espoused,” said Mnangagwa.