President Mnangagwa did not gallivant with Reuben Barwe around Bulawayo soon after the explosion, according to his spokesman, George Charamb...
President Mnangagwa did not gallivant with Reuben Barwe around Bulawayo soon after the explosion, according to his spokesman, George Charamba.“I think the word to use is not gallivanting; he went about checking on his colleagues who had been hurt. These are soldiers, don’t forget, and when you have had an attack of this nature, you don’t cow into a shell, do you?” he asked rhetorically.
Precautions are being taken, the trouble is that you guys expect us to deal with security issues in the public domain. If the president had gone straight for the airport, what is he suggesting? That the people in Bulawayo can’t be protected? Or that those injured shouldn’t be commiserated with? So he does his human and State duties. And it’s his responsibility anyway to secure the country. So people shouldn’t reduce matters that are so serious to fanciful scenarios,” Charamba told the Daily News.
He said authorities were approaching the bombing with an open mind and exploring every possibility.
“The reflex is you think wide, you think broad, and you eliminate less likely probabilities,” Charamba told this publication.
“Why don’t we wait and see what the investigation will yield. Except we are saying these attempts have been done in the past, and that tells you that it might have something to do with the contestation that has not yet been resolved, even internally.”
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