Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has revealed that hungry soldiers would have revolted if her had not printed money. ...
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono has
revealed that hungry soldiers would have revolted if her had not printed money.
“If we had not done what we did printing money and allowing
inflation to skyrocket, then the men and women you see in those beautiful
uniforms, they were ready to get out of their barracks,” he was quoted by The Standard as saying.
“Operation Restore Legacy would have happened much earlier,
but not one that we would have been commanding ourselves. It would have been a
‘restore legacy’ that would have been commanded from elsewhere.
“I had the privilege to come face-to-face with hungry men
and women in uniform. I had the privilege to visit each and every barrack in
this country to come face-to-face with hunger, hunger that was affecting men
and women who have nothing else but their AKs; men and women who, if we did not
do what we did, could have been tempted to get out and look for some food by
whatever means.”
Gono said he never had the resources to do his job during
his tumultuous tenure at the central bank.
“I was given a car, which did not have fuel and expected to
get to a certain destination. You drive on empty. ours was not an ordinary
situation, ours couldn’t be compared to any other country or any other
situation,” he told the Mashonaland West Business Conference in Chinhoyi last
week
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