No Arrests At All In Mnangagwa Break In Police Investigation
15 January 2016
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 – Not even a single suspect named by police to date
There are no arrests at all in the Police investigation on the continued break in attacks on Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
More than two days after Mnangagwa had his offices humiliatingly befouled and defaced by thugs, there is to date not even a single suspect named by police. This comes as forensic scientists revealed deep concerns on the matter.

ZRP spokesperson Charity Charamba speaks
ZRP spokesperson Charity Charamba speaks

On Friday morning it emerged the only development in the case is that of the “state broadsheet” media announcing that a crack team comprising specialists from the “country’s security agencies has been set up to investigate the break-in.”  Nothing else was reported.
Not even a single suspect has been named in this trail of events, the fourth in a row Mnangagwa’s office has been broken into.
What has become an embarassment is the fact that the police are not interested in knowing what the intruders did, announcing only they just want to unearth “the identity of the perpetrators and their motive.”

The ZRP announced yesterday that members from the police, military forces and Central Intelligence Organisation, are conducting what they term “a scientific analysis” for this purpose. But Professional Forensic Scientist and legendary investigative agent who exposed the 2008 election rigging, Shephered Yuda told ZimEye.com his view that the police are merely dithering at an obvious case. “There is no way a physical intrusion or entry can occur without the person or persons leaving contact evidence such as DNA that will help solve a crime.

“A criminal entering and leaving a scene not only leaves contact evidence but also carries evidence from the scene.

“But furthermore, it is not only DNA that can be collected from a crime scene which links the perpetrator to the scene. There are numerous materials that can be retrieved: such as fingerprints, footwear impressions, hairs, fibres, paint and glass. Besides blood there are also other biological fluids such as sweat and saliva which can be retrieved.

“Therefore there are so many avenues to track the perpetrator.”
Despite the issues raised by analysts Police chief spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba yesterday said: “We are doing everything possible to establish the (identity of the) perpetrators and their motive.
“That is why specialists from all the security sections have been brought in to investigate what happened.
“From the part of the police, a team of experts is working on the case together with officials from other security departments. This team is doing proper scientific analysis of the incident. We will leave no stone unturned to make sure the perpetrators are brought to book.”
Snr Asst Comm Charamba said high on the investigators’ priority was to establish how the intruders got access into the ceiling of the office.
All in all, intruders have broken into Acting President Mnangagwa’s offices six times — four times at the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, once at Defence House when he was Minister of Defence, and at his Zanu-PF Headquarters office in 2014 during the party’s Congress where President Mugabe appointed him Second Secretary of the Party and Vice President of Zimbabwe.
In the Zanu-PF Headquarters incident, the intruders laced his desk with cyanide, which poisoned his secretary when she entered the office. She had to be hospitalised for several days. Snr Asst Comm Charamba said police had concluded investigations in the party headquarters case.
“The police conducted the investigations and referred the results to the relevant authorities at Zanu-PF, so they have the authority to comment on that,” she said. Contacted on the findings of police investigations, Zanu-PF spokesperson Cde Simon Khaya Moyo referred the matter back to the police, saying they were the ones who conducted the probe.
“Right from the beginning, the matter was handled by law enforcement agents, so I cannot comment on their investigations,” he said. “I am not a spokesperson for the police. We consider this a police matter which law enforcements agents must comment on.”
On the latest incident, the intruders drilled a ceiling panel to gain access into Acting President Mnangagwa’s office on Tuesday night. It is not yet clear how they reached the ceilling since so there are no traces of how they got there. They complex is guarded 24 hours.