President Mnangagwa’s ‘great escape’?
January 15, 2018 / comments : 0
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has given graphic narrations of his supposed escape from an elaborate plan to assassinate him following his expulsion from Zanu PF and government by then president Robert Mugabe. The narration is hereunder reproduced as issued by Mnangagwa;
"I was fired at 4pm and left the office and by 6.30 pm, one of the security guys came to inform me that he must be part of a group that had a mission to eliminate me," he said.
"I didn't think it was pleasurable to wait to be eliminated. I left within four hours of being fired for the Mozambican border. I arrived at the border and our side of the border stamped my passport, but before they could lift the boom for me to cross into Mozambique, it was closed. The message came that I was not allowed to leave Zimbabwe. I said in that case there was no need, I (will) go back. They said again I was not allowed to go back into Zimbabwe but I said 'you can't stop me'. What case have I committed? As I was walking away, they tried to fire (at me) but I have one young man, one of my twin sons, was there. He is an officer and was able to grab the weapon and I was not shot."
The President went on: "Then you know for many years I operated in Mozambique in the department of security. I know the area and it's infested with land mines. Those things are still there, you walk in-between strings to avoid landmines. I did (that) from about 9 pm until about 7.30 the next day. I arrived in Mozambique and we had a lift back to the border to have my passport stamped again on the Mozambican side. Then I phoned a colleague from South Africa that I was on my way to Beira. By the time we arrived in Beira, a small plane had arrived from South Africa to pick me up and I went to South Africa."
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