Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Mthuli Ncube has reassured the public that this time around, the government will not raid their foreign currency accounts (FCA)s. In 2008, under the tenure of then Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono, holders of FCA accounts lost all their hard currency after the government raided the accounts to finance its projects and expenditure. Said Ncube,
I want to assure you that these FCAs will not be raided. They have been ring-fenced. These are kept offshore and you have a mirror account (domestic) which reflects those accounts. You know what happened the last time we did that when we shut them down, the US dollar just disappeared. So we have learnt that if you raid these FCA, if you shut them down, the US dollar disappears and you go back to disintermediation, which is what we have now…So we learnt a hard lesson. I would not recommend that to anyone to say raid people’s accounts. It is not a good idea, not under my watch if I am allowed to watch over those FCAs as Minister of Finance.
Announcing the mid-term monetary policy on Monday, RBZ governor John Mangudya ordered banks to separate Nostro FCA from RTGS FCAs within the next two weeks in order to preserve value for exporters.
More: Herald
Sometime in 2016 them promised us that the “Bond Note” will be forever at par with the USD. but where are we now? RTGS FCA account (Bond note account) and Nostro FCA account (USD account).
Let them answer, “Are we able to withdraw USD from our accounts?” if we are then they will not raid, if we are not then it simply means we can’t trust them again and again, whilst we continue to be short changed.
l hope the good Dr, minister of finance knows that the interjection”if” means it may not be. what we need is a constitutional and a prosecutable guarantee “if” our accounts are raided.
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