Chamisa's World Cup claim should concern every voter

How can we forget that moment when the clearly bemused BBC journalist asked our homegrown boy wonder if he was "Living in Alice in Wonderland".  He was referring to Nelson Chamisa's ridiculous claim that he would build a bullet train that could go from Harare to Bulawayo in a mere 30 minutes thereby breaking all current train speed records - in the world! I was embarrassed, but at the same time thankful. At least the BBC had missed his claims about Wifi for goats and airports in every village!
 
Naughty Nelson Chamisa is getting a bit of a reputation for being our very own Zimbabwean Pinocchio.  He lied about meetings with the Trump administration and being promised 15 billion dollars. He lied about the infamous Nkomo family visit. He even lied about advising President Kagame on Rwanda's ICT policies.
 
Now he is telling the Zimbabwean people that he will bring the World Cup to Zimbabwe, while also promising to serve one three year term.  Let's remember Qatar has already won the World Cup bid for 2022, bids are already closed for 2026 (joint north American bid versus Morocco), and for 2030 there are currently early bids from Uruguay and Argentina (joint) and England - the home of football. So unless he wants to turn his rule into a Mugabe style dictatorship and bid for 2034, this is yet another lie.  
 
Not to mention that we have far more important things to spend our money on.  Brazil nearly bankrupted itself with their World Cup and Olympic hosting when the country should have been building infrastructure, housing and hospitals.  We don't have a stadium worthy of one international match, let alone multiple stadia ready for a World Cup.  
 
Let's be clear.  Character matters.  We have struggled for far too long to be duped by a young leader with dictatorial tendencies.  We must look for the signs now.  Look for those Mugabe-like characteristics and raise the red flags.  The sheer blind self-confidence. The arrogance.  The populist lies which have absolutely no basis in reality.  And perhaps the most worrying; the willingness to use his own personal army (in this case the vanguard) to intimidate and attack.  We must say a big loud "no" to lies and violence.
 
Zimbabwe is an educated and cultured nation, and we have learned a lot from our past.  Forty years of Mugabe has made us tough and cautious.  While we cling to the hope that this new dispensation will bring with it real change, we must not let that hope blind us into taking irrational decisions.
 
One would have thought that an intelligent forty year old would be the perfect agent of change in a country full of wide-eyed youth searching for opportunities.  Yet ironically, Chamisa is the closest thing we have to Mugabe these days.  The agent of change has actually emanated from within, a man of action who rid us all of the nasty dictator and is bringing freedom to the masses. ED is bringing those freedoms.  He is also preaching exactly the opposite of Chamisa: Truth and Peace.  Even yesterday as the MDC called for a march threatening violence and potential destruction.  ED convinced the Zanu-PF leadership to responds with a message of peace.  How ironic!? I never thought I would be saying it, but it seems like in our political system there has been a complete role-reversal, stemmingdirectly from the two main party's leaders; their styles and their characters.
 
The ridiculous World Cup comments are symbolic of something much deeper.  Nelson Chamisa's falsehoods are now stacking up uncontrollably.  At this precarious moment in Zimbabwean history, we need mature leadership, not a pack of lies.