Emmerson Mnangagwa’s carefree, patronizing and condescending attitude towards the economically hard hit masses was at full glare in Kuwadzana during his routine monthly publicity stunt disguised as clean up campaign.

While the poverty stricken masses clearly tried to drive their point home that prices of basic commodities has gone beyond reach of many, Mnangagwa chose to pull a Marie Antoinette on the suffering citizens.

Just as Marie Antoinette, the infamous French Queen triggered the 1789 French Revolution by mockingly telling the Paris mob to substitute bread for cakes, Mnangagwa condescendingly bragged to the Kuwadzana gathering that they should instead substitute meat for vegetables.

It is not mendacious that the country has become a hellhole to ordinary citizens due to Mnangagwa’s elitist and anti people austerity policies.

What is ironic and more piercing is the fact that the very same man who ridiculously shocked the whole nation by munching ‘mazondo’ in a hired luxurious plane want us to believe meat is a luxury.

Only last week, the austerity king hosted an expensive banquet at his Sherwood farm with his POLAD acolytes where five course meals were on parade yet the very same man want us to be full blown grazers.

If anything, Mnangagwa’s carefree utterances in Kuwadzana should never be taken lightly especially if citizens are to borrow a leaf from the Paris mob’s reaction to Marie Antoinette utterances.

Simply put, Mnangagwa’s Kuwadzana utterances are a cause for concern as far as issues of national peace and security are concerned.

If Mnangagwa is a national leader as he claims, then he should understand that leadership comes with responsibility.

A good leader does not feast amidst poverty as was the case in Sherwood last week but should be able to feel what those in the periphery of periphery feel.