By Terrence Mawawa| The Government of Zimbabwe may provide security for Presidential
candidates following a bomb explosion at a Zanu PF Rally yesterday.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson
George Charamba has said that the government is
considering taking over the security of all 23
presidential candidates ahead of the July 30
elections.

Speaking to Business Times, Charamba said:

“While initially, we were looking at between eight and ten casualties; now l am told that the figure has risen to forty-two…It has to be a broad-based
approach to security – which encompasses everyone in the political fray so that everyone is secure because once you have any death to any of the twenty-three contestants, it has a bearing on the entire rating of the electoral process.

So, l see government taking a very broad view including encompassing the security of opposition people so that we make sure that we leave no chance to such negative elements.”