Addressing residents in Kuwadzana, Harare in January 2020, President Emmerson Mnangagwa unwittingly exposed how he deploys the army to beat up civilians.

He was speaking about lengths the government goes to in order to secure food for the country due to the ongoing drought during a national clean up campaign event on Friday.

Mnangagwa was lamenting how it is not in his power to do anything about the rains.

He expressed how he wished that the situation could have been different and the authorities could target people behind the dry spell.

He said that in such a scenario if the authorities suspect that the people of Kuwadzana are behind the dry spell then he would just deploy the military to surround the area and beat up everyone in it.

Said Mnangagwa: