By General Sarkozy|Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ill-advised and ill-informed decision to further strain the bleeding economy by wasting the tax payers’ money through embarking on futile adventures in West Africa should be condemned by every right thinking mind.
If anything, Mr Mnangagwa’s Guinea trip is a clear sign of desperation blanketed with deficiency of knowledge about African economics.
It is not a secret that Guinea’s cocoa backed economy is currently in a comatose and the former French colony is depending largely on donations and aid from her colonial master.
Other than the barely flourishing cocoa industry, Guinea is largely known for all the negative reasons that have stalked our mother continent from time immemorial.
From endless coups, famine, dependency, Ebola and contested election outcomes Guinea stands toe to toe with Zimbabwe for the ultimate worst run and poverty stricken countries in the world.
Besides exporting football talents to Europe, Guinea is abundantly known to be a face of poverty, diseases and coups.
Given such a background, it is only logical for every right thinking Zimbabwean to question the rationale and logic behind Mr Mnangagwa’s so called business trip to Conakry.
It is quite disturbing that while the economy is currently dripping due to extravagance by this ZANU PF monster regime, a whole President who is facing the legitimacy question even has the temerity to embark on a futile and ill-fated trip to the West African country famed too for being a begging bowl.
Just like his predecessor who looked to the East that was looking to the West, Mnangagwa is also inexplicably looking to Guinea when the very same country is looking elsewhere.
The panacea to Zimbabwe’s economic crisis is not about running everywhere like a headless chicken.
The solution to the current economic crisis can only proffered by a legitimate leader with clean hands that can be trusted by investors.
An extravagant trip to Conakry and having a sumptuous dish with a typical African strongman in the mould of Alpha Conte is not part of the solution.
Such a trip is just but a futile ride on Africa’s ailing donkey.
General Sarkozy is a media practitioner and humanist. Here he writes in his personal capacity.