Zanu-PF Secretary for Security, Lovemore Matuke, has said that the nation feels disillusioned because everyone thought that President Emmerson Mnangagwa would transform lives of people overnight.
Speaking during Masvingo 2018 election victory celebrations in Mashava recently, Matuke said:
We all had one problem of thinking that after President Mnangagwa assumed office, our lives were going to change overnight.
I want to tell you that running a country is different from undertaking household chores.
Running a country is a process. When President Mnangagwa assumed office, Government had a lot of debts accumulated by the previous Government. To move forward, we have to pay those internal and external debts and coming up with policies that bring our economy back on a recovery path.
We have programmes that were being implemented to plug loopholes to ensure a good take-off.
Matuke claimed that there were economic saboteurs who were choking efforts to resuscitate the economy.
He said that the activities of these saboteurs had actually worked in hardened the general populace.
Matuke’s remarks come when some quarters of the society have argued that former President Robert Mugabe was better than his successor.
When Mugabe was toppled in 2017, the nation thronged into the streets and claimed that a new dispensation had arrived.
They wanted a departure from Mugabe’s type of governance that had been linked with the demise of the Zimbabwean economy.
Last year, the government introduced austerity measures which have caused severe pain to the citizenry.
The country is bedevilled by the soaring inflation, fuel shortages, food-deficit and scarcity of medicine.
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