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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said the latest series of economic measures announced by Mthuli Ncube expose the rift between Treasury and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, adding the latter needs to be disbanded.<\/p>\n

In the fresh set of measures the weekly auction will be limited to US$5 million, government agencies will \u2018substantially\u2019 collect fees in ZWL, all customs duties are now payable in local currency except designated \u2018luxury goods\u2019 and the liquidation of all the foreign currency earned through exports which remain unused for a period of 90 days among other measures.<\/p>\n

Ncube\u2019s latest economic stabilisation measures came barely two weeks after the Treasury boss scrapped duty on all basic commodities imports and ordered transfer of government loans from the central bank as part of a cocktail of measures aimed at strengthening the ZWL which is fast losing value.<\/p>\n

According to Biti, Ncube\u2019s policy statements attest to the deteriorating relations between the two financial administrators.<\/p>\n

\u201cMthuli\u2019s new measures are the latest expression of a desperate regime arrested by a panic attack, schizophrenia and cluelessness,\u201d Biti said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the main they are illegal measures which require Parliament not only that they reflect a cataclysmic fall out between the Central Bank and Treasury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biti called for the disbanding of the RBZ and establishment of a Currency Board.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have consistently argued that de-dollarization has failed and therefore the government needs to dollarise while floating the ZWL.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnything short of this will not work. We have also argued that the auction system should be scrapped and therefore reducing the auction to US$5m will not work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have also argued that the Central Bank has gone rogue and needs to be replaced by a currency board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Biti underscored that the new measures will not derail RBZ from conducting questionable financial activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new measures will not stop RBZ from conducting quasi fiscal activities or its illicit gold dealings. Deeper reform is required. We have also made it clear that the Treasury has no powers of assuming any debt from anyone; only Parliament has this power.<\/p>\n

\u201cImposing on the taxpayer RBZ debt is immoral and illegal .The RBZ over the years has been at the center of major extractive behaviour including borrowings and quasi fiscal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Economist Gift Mugano in his analysis called for the shutting down of the auction system.<\/p>\n

\u201cAuction allocation limited to a max of US$5m per week? That little? Why can\u2019t you shut it down,\u201d Mugano said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn view of the fact that the auction system has been reduced to US$5m per week, isn\u2019t this clear evidence that the economy has dollarised.\u201d<\/p>\n

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