President Mnangagwa says he never hoped to be the President of the country. He told editor-in-chief of Tass new agency, Mikhail Gusman, tha...
President Mnangagwa says he never hoped to be the President of the country. He told editor-in-chief of Tass new agency, Mikhail Gusman, that the ruling Zanu-PF and the legislature – guided by the party constitution and the national Constitution respectively – had deployed him to that role.He said he subsequently won an election to secure a five-year term. He said that he was dedicating up to 95 percent of his time to affairs of State, leaving very little time for his family.
“I don’t view it as being about power,” he said, “it is about the burden leadership, a duty to be discharged for one’s country.”
Mnangagwa dismissed speculative reports that Zimbabwe was on an arms shopping spree, pointing out that his number one priority was economic development.
“But down the line as Zimbabwe becomes stronger in terms of its economic muscle, we should be able to buy the type of hardware which we know the Russian Federation has and which we require.
“But we are not in a hurry. Our priority is now to develop our economy in terms of modernising and mechanising.
“(When the time comes) we don’t think we will concentrate on hardware; we will concentrate on manpower training in the area of the Army and the Air Force. We have a lot of our officers who trained here and we think they received the best training for our size of army.”
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