President Mnangagwa has described as warped thinking people criticising his soldiers brutality following the national shut down. He tol...
President Mnangagwa has described as warped thinking people
criticising his soldiers brutality following the national shut down.
He told journalists in Russia that it was illogical to
castigate law enforcement agencies for doing their jobs.
“I’m not sure there’s a country which would have their
security go to sleep when shops are being looted, when there is burning of
tyres to stop people from going to work.
“And then you have people focused on the effort to bring
law and order and not focused on those who are breaking law and order in the
country. You can see it’s warped thinking by such people.”
He went on: “That is why I am saying in a democratic
country like Zimbabwe, people are allowed to dream, people are allowed to
criticise. But no one loses sleep because of such negativity, because of people
who just criticise.
“But only when you are not doing anything, you will not be
criticised. If you are doing something, then you find people are criticising
you. That makes us in Government feel good because we are doing something.
On jibes that he was visiting economically insignificant
countries, the President rhetorically asked: “Do we have oil like they do
have?”
“These two you are mentioning (Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan)
are actually oil producers. We right now have problems back home in the area of
oil.
“But besides that, these countries have invited me to visit
them. They would want to be part of the mantra ‘Zimbabwe is Open for Business’.
“The countries you have mentioned, Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan, have areas they have developed and they are willing to come and
embrace Zimbabwe in agriculture and manufacturing. They would also want to see
where they can strike a relationship where we can benefit from the abundant oil
reserves which they have.”
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