By Lloyd Takawira
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday brewed yet another shocker when he told Kuwadzana residents to eat vegetables because the meat was not healthy.
The President made these remarks in Harare’s Kuwadzana suburb while conducting part of his monthly National Cleanup campaign
Responding to residents who had complained that meat prices had gone beyond their reach, the President responded by saying people should shun meat because doctors say so.
President Mnangagwa said,
“…Ahh! Meat! How about vegetables? Doctors recommend that people should eat vegetables,” he said amid grumblings from the crowd, adding, “doctors want you to eat vegetables so that you will be healthy, meat is not good for you …”
Sensing the dismay from the crowd the President went on to say “… I think I beg to differ. I listen to doctors and that’s why I eat vegetables.”
Irate residents could be heard dishing out angry chants, saying instead of conducting the cleanup exercise, he should be fixing the current economic decay gripping the nation, once considered southern Africa’s breadbasket.