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RBZ colluding with Zanu-PF govt to steal our money - analysts
04 Nov 2016 at 06:34hrs | Views
Political commentator Pedzisai Ruhanya has said the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has colluded with the government of Zanu PF to steal people's money by introducing the bond notes which are yet to be distributed to the banks - thereby resulting to serious shortage of cash in banks ahead of the distribution of the highly rejected bonds.
President Robert Mugabe has officialised the introduction of the bond notes by signing statutory instrument SI 133 under the Presidential emergency decree. But the RBZ is currently conducting awareness campaigns to educate people on bond notes before putting them in the market.
"RBZ should tell us where our deposits went before the introduction of bond notes. This is official theft. My view is that RBZ and the banking sector colluded with the government to steal from us. This day light robbery should not be accepted. They did it in 2007/8 and impoverished millions and they are doing it for the second time," Ruhanya said.
"This official criminal activity by the state should be resisted. There should be very high costs for this brazen criminal behavior; citizens must make the cost of authoritarian rule, official theft very expensive."
Another concerned citizen who asked to speak on condition of anonymity said the introduction of what he called 'fake money' is taking people back to 2008 where many lost a lot of their savings including himself.
"We must not watch thieves taking all what we worked for. This is very unfair. As we speak we are struggling to get our money from the banks as if we did not work for it. Why are these leaders treating us like this. They have failed why can they not admit and allow us to try others. Zimbabwe has more than 14 million people do they mean we can not have people who can do better that them among this large favour?" he said.
President Robert Mugabe has officialised the introduction of the bond notes by signing statutory instrument SI 133 under the Presidential emergency decree. But the RBZ is currently conducting awareness campaigns to educate people on bond notes before putting them in the market.
"RBZ should tell us where our deposits went before the introduction of bond notes. This is official theft. My view is that RBZ and the banking sector colluded with the government to steal from us. This day light robbery should not be accepted. They did it in 2007/8 and impoverished millions and they are doing it for the second time," Ruhanya said.
Another concerned citizen who asked to speak on condition of anonymity said the introduction of what he called 'fake money' is taking people back to 2008 where many lost a lot of their savings including himself.
"We must not watch thieves taking all what we worked for. This is very unfair. As we speak we are struggling to get our money from the banks as if we did not work for it. Why are these leaders treating us like this. They have failed why can they not admit and allow us to try others. Zimbabwe has more than 14 million people do they mean we can not have people who can do better that them among this large favour?" he said.
Source - Byo24News
