Security officials on Monday intercepted two men on allegations of bringing a gun to a function where President Emmerson Mnangagwa was officiating at a groundbreaking ceremony in Beitbridge. 

The men were intercepted when their car was searched at a security checkpoint a few hundred metres from where Mnangagwa and his two deputies Constantino Guvheya Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi were leading several government officials at the ceremony attended by about 1 000 people.

“We are investigating such a case. Our Criminal Investigation Department is holding some men in connection with that offence and that is all I can say for now,” Beitbridge Police District commander, Chief Superintendent Mesuli Ncube said.

-Newsday