By Stephen Sarkozy Chuma

Legend has it that once upon a time a legendary fool lied to the whole village that he has seen a dead kudu in the thicket.

It is said the whole village which was queuing on a water well rushed to the bush in ecstasy to get a share of meat from the dead kudu.

What is fascinating from the tale is that the fool surprisingly too started to believe his own lie that somehow there might be a dead kudu in the bush hence he took to heels in pursuit of others.

The tale’s didactic nature explicitly helps to draw a parallel to the current Zimbabwean situation under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s fake ‘New Dispensation’.

Like the legendary fool who believed his own lie, the Mnangagwa administration exhibiting utter sheer madness somehow believes that the current austerity economic measures will somehow solve the economic question.

This is a regime whose Minister of Finance and Reserve Bank Governor once lied to the whole nation that the bond note is at par with the US dollar.

Just as the legendary fool believed his own lie, Mnangagwa in his wisdom or lack of it even proclaimed that the bond note is the region’s strongest currency.

Just like as the Mugabe regime believed the Chinhoyi diesel lie, the Mnangagwa administration even went a step further by lying to the whole nation that ‘bush bakeries’ will solve bread shortage problems.

Probably the biggest joke and lie is Mnangagwa’s self belief that the legitimacy question is best solved by dialogue with political dwarfs and nonentities like Brian Mteki when it is clear that Zimbabwe currently answers to one name- Nelson Chamisa!

This is the same regime that is grotesquely sunk in a false belief that increasing fuel prices, toll gate fees and switching the country into darkness will elongate their stay in power.

So callous is this anti people administration that they somehow believe they can easily abuse the army to wipe out the entire nation for exercising the constitutional rights.

It is unfortunate for Mnangagwa to repetitively keep on selling the old tired lie that the country is heading for prosperity when we all know its becoming worse than a hellhole.

The mood in the country is indicative that people have realised they have nothing to lose except their poverty.

People have realized the only way to extricate themselves from poverty is by confronting the authors of their problems- the Mnangagwa administration!

Stephen Sarkozy Chuma is MDC Youth Assembly National Spokesperson.