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27 members of the presidential security and advance team who seemed unbothered when Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe tripped and tumbled at Harare International Airport have been suspended.
According to the reports, the guards were handed their suspension letters on Friday.
Officials at Munhumutapa government building said an investigation was launched on the night that Mugabe fell at the airport on his return from Ethiopia where he had just taken charge as the new chairperson of the African Union.
However, the Zimbabwe Presidential spokesperson George Charamba yesterday dismissed the reports of a shakeup in President Mugabe’s security team as a fallacy.
“There is only one hand that shakes up and that hand has not shaken up [anything]. What is there to shake up? The last time you heard about a shakeup it was from us and not from media reports,” Charamba said.
But sources insisted a shakeup had indeed taken place and there were indications that some officials could be fired.
At the State House on Friday afternoon where President Mugabe was meeting newly-elected Zambian leader Edgar Lungu, new faces could be seen on his security team.
After the meeting that took almost five hours, Mugabe escorted Lungu outside the State House with both hands in his pockets. The two did not address journalists who had gathered.
