President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s first public appearance since the explosion on Saturday is reported to have been ultra tight with unprecedented security. Mnangagwa was launching the Women’s Micro Finance Bank (WMFB) at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) yesterday.
A source who spoke to the Daily News said,
We are facing an extremely high threat from these attacks and the government will continue to take precautionary measures to protect the president. We must remain extremely vigilant. You will see an increase in heavy weapons, bomb squad personnel, radiological detection teams and our technology at all public events which the president will address.
Mnangagwa’s security has faced criticism after it was breached a number of times before the explosion. Mnangagwa had to push away an overzealous Zanu-PF politician who tried to get a selfie with the president on stage after he had bypassed security. Self-professed Harare prophet “Madzibaba Guthrie” was also arrested in December after he breached Mnangagwa’s security by pretending to be a CIO agent.
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