By Paul Nyathi|Very tight security was set up at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rally in Gokwe on Friday afternoon.

Members of the public were barricaded over 40 metres away from where the president was set. Hundreds of heavily armed soldiers and state security agents were deployed all around the venue.

The tight security around Mnangagwa comes after Mnangagwa escaped an assassination bid at the end of a similar rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on the 23rd of June.