A Zanu PF MP yesterday called on Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
(RBZ) governor John Mangudya to resign as the currency crisis gripping the
country worsened, with bond notes losing value rapidly on the parallel market.
Harare South MP Shadreck Mashayamombe said Zanu PF risked
losing next year’s elections if action was not taken against the RBZ boss.
“As the political commissar of Zanu PF in Harare province,
I am appealing to President Robert Mugabe to intervene with speed to correct
this mess,” he said.
“It will be very difficult for us to mobilise for the
party.
“I had a meeting with church leaders at Stoneridge
yesterday in my constituency.
“The first question that the people asked was about the
issue of money.
“Mangudya has made our work as commissars difficult. We are
targeting to mobilise over five million voters as a party and he should go.
“If the situation is not corrected on time, we will go back
to the 2008 situation when Zanu PF only got one seat in Harare.”
In 2008, Zanu PF only won Harare South while the rest of
the Harare constituencies went to Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T.
Tsvangirai went on to hand Mugabe his first poll defeat,
but failed to garner enough votes to get the presidency.
Inflation eclipsed world records, commodities ran out in
shops, hospitals ran out of medicines and schools closed down due to hunger and
poverty.
Mashayamombe said if the situation continued unabated, the
country would sink deeper into an economic crisis.
“We don’t need to go back to the 2008 era. No investors
will come into the country due to inflation while many companies will be forced
out of business,” he said.
“There will be no foreign direct investment to talk about
because no investor will come. Mangudya should resign so that someone else with
fresh ideas will come.”
Zanu PF blames the so-called sanctions imposed on the
country for the economic implosion. standard
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