By Farai D Hove| President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday claimed that he escaped on foot into Mozambique on the 7th November last month. Did he tell the truth? Even his nemesis Saviour Kasukuwere has claimed in a conversation with businessman Mutumwa Mawere that he and Professor Jonathan Moyo in November also fled Zimbabwe into Mozambique (all the way from Harare) on foot “Tekere-Mugabe style”. Are these politicians telling the truth and not playing mind games with the public?

Even poison attack, was it real?

President Mnangagwa has before claimed that deadly poison failed to kill him in an assassination attempt in Gwanda in August 2017, and has another case of cyanide attack in his office in 2014 which white powder according to a government report by the then State Security Minister, Kembo Mohadi, Ngwerewere mealie meal is more harmful than it. (Mealie meal is more poisonous than the powder found in his office), a development that saw his secretary, Catherine Magaya who reported the “poison attack” being declared by doctors to be merely psychotic, when she also added that a rock had fallen from heaven and gone straight for Mnangagwa’s desk.

Escape into Mozambique witnessed by public

The President’s escape into Mozambique was witnessed by several people who have told it and they state that he clearly left the Forbes Border post (not at all on foot) in a car and had a driver and bodyguards.

Details have also emerged from his own personal advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa who has added evidence on his escape. SEE ON THE MAP THE ROUTE OF MNANGAGWA’S ESCAPE:

Earlier reports claimed he attempted to flee to Mozambique and was blocked at the Forbes Border post. The report said he then returned to Zimbabwe and was eventually assisted by the army to escape via air to South Africa.

The report was covered on the day it happened after reporters from a local newspaper traveled to the border post after hearing of the man’s violent encounter at the border.

The local paper, TellZim had claimed that he returned back into Zimbabwe.

But Mutsvangwa told ZANU PF supporters in Manicaland at the end of November that Mnangagwa escaped into Mozambique via road.

The original report confirms Mutsvangwa’s account as it reveals that after a scuffle at the border, Mnangagwa returned into the car he was in and they quickly fled the scene. Mnangagwa who was in the company of four other people believed to be his relatives, had a torrid time trying to exit the border despite that their passports had already been stamped.

Eye witnesses who spoke to the TellZim journalists said the problem started when Mnangagwa’s car was being searched by security details at the border.

“When he reached at the exit gate, it took almost 20 minutes searching his car and at that moment he disembarked the car after being delayed. The gate pass was for five people but only four people were there.

“He started walking back to the entrance gate but no one could quickly identify him as he was wearing a poor boy cap. He was stopped by police who grabbed him from behind but stopped after noticing who he was.

“Another policeman who had his AK47 cocked was unfortunate as he was kicked by Mnangagwa’s aide who had come to whisk him away. They fled the scene in two cars while the other car managed to cross the border,” said the source.

The incident happened around in the morning of the 7th November 2017.

After that incident, the then Manicaland Minister Mandi Chimene then mocked Mnangagwa labelling him a border jumper. But that appeared to be merely rhetoric as Mnangagwa was witnessed by many at the border leaving Zimbabwe in a vehicle.

“We thank you the people of Manicaland for giving our President safe passage into Mozambique when he was about to be killed by the G40 so that he comes back alive to lead the country. I would like to applaud you for being bold enough,” said Mutsvangwa

He continued saying “we would have lost our President if you did not accord him the opportunity to escape.”