Chair of the finance committee of parliament, David Chapfika, said that the government should come up with rigid mechanisms to deal in order to end cash shortages. Said Chapfika:
If there are thieves they must be stopped. All educated people are poor, the crooks are rich. We need to go through a paradigm shift.
Countries that have gone through what we are going through, Malaysia, China, Japan, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, they have come up with very rigid mechanisms for a period to manage the situation.
In Ghana when I was there, if you were caught stealing, firing squad. Jerry Rawlings was there, line-up shoot (thieves) every Friday.
You would leave your car open and nothing would happen. So, if we continue here dilly-dallying hee open market what what and so forth, we are not doing anybody a favour.
Catch one guru, lock him properly I won’t say shoot but I want to hear that Mahommed Mussa has been arrested and locked, 10 years in jail.
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