President Robert Mugabe yesterday fell below mortal levels in his reasoning as he blamed the current cash crisis on the European Union.
While urging civil servants to be patient on salary payments, Mugabe said the West has caused the current national chaos.
Analysts say that the cash crisis has been caused by foreign payments chief of them Mugabe’s travel expenditure.
Mugabe has been blowing over $4million dollars for each trip every time he leaves Zimbabwe for overseas destinations, Finance guru and Zimbabwe’s top barrister, Tendai Biti, has revealed. Speaking in a forum discussion on the VOA channel, Biti said Zimbabwe’s corporate purse is at Mugabe’s mercy. “There are some people, the President for example, each time he goes out, 4 million goes out, that’s not sustainable for an economy like this,” said Biti last month.
Added to Mugabe’s expenditure is the government bill on brand vehicles for MPs and Ministers at every change-over. The vehicles which cost over $50,000 each are all foreign made and imported using money from the state’s purse, a squeeze that will soon see the country crumble by August this year.
But Mugabe yesterday said government cannot be blamed adding that the challenges were only temporary. He also accused the El Nino phenomenon for it all.
Mugabe uttered these words while addressing Zanu-PF supporters at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura yesterday evening after holding a meeting with family members and followers of the Johane Masowe apostolic sect led by Madzibaba Wimbo at Bindura University of Science Education.
Mugabe held a separate meeting with Mashonaland Central legislators and traditional leaders.
He said Zimbabwe was faced with challenges ranging from illegal sanctions imposed by the European Union, the US, to an El Nino-induced drought.
“Ndochienda pakuti muri kunzwa vamwe vachingochema kuti hatisi kubhadharwa; vanosevenza muHurumende, hatisi kubhadharwa nenguva! Ichokwadi varikunonokerwa . . . dzimwe nguva nesvondo, dzimwe nguva nemasvondo maviri, dzimwe nguva ingave nemwedzi kana nemwedzi miviri, vasina kubhadharwa.