₦airaland Forum

Heads have started rolling as the fallout over President Robert Mugabe’s embarrasing fall at Harare International Airport on Wednesday begins.

BY SILENCE CHARUMBIRA/PHILLIP CHIDAVAENZI

Sources said up to 27 members of the presidential security and advance team who seemed immobilised as Mugabe tripped and tumbled after addressing hundreds of Zanu PF supporters who had been bussed to welcome him on his return from the African Union summit, have been suspended.

According to the sources, 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.

But Presidential spokesperson George Charamba yesterday dismissed the reports of a shake up 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 shake up it was from us and not from media reports,” Charamba said.

But sources insisted a shake up 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.

When Lungu was departing in his motorcade, Mugabe stood for a few minutes outside before walking back into his office at State House.

Another official said although some people were taking the fall lightly, it was a serious matter that had to be dealt with thoroughly.

“There are many departments that are being investigated, from Air Zimbabwe, the advance team and the security. I doubt if some of them will come back,” said the official close to the developments.

“The issue here is simple. The security team was caught napping.

They were taking things for granted and failed to adhere to basics. It is protocol that the immediate proximity is, at most, three metres from the President. These are the bullet takers and in cases where he falls they are supposed to hold him either by the arm or by the shoulder and should never take their eyes off him.”

The official added: “He went on to touch the ground on all fours.

That should never happen. What if someone pulled a gun? The immediate proximity team should have helped him up because those are the people that are allowed to touch him before anyone else.”

Information gathered revealed that the immediate proximity team was also there to prevent members of the public getting dangerously close to the President as happened when British gay rights activist Peter Thatchell attempted a citizen’s arrest on Mugabe in 1999.

He said the security failed to follow Rule Number 3 of their training manual which outlined the distance they should keep from the President.

The official, however said most of the suspensions could just be decoys by the secret service chiefs who wanted to appear as if they were doing something about the embarrassing incident.

NB: Nigerians must rise and prevent the attempt to turn the country, into a Laughing stock , Men Like Mugabe and Buhari should be in retirement homes,


Placing a 73 year old man to lead a complex nation of over 170 million people is suicide!

Just Ombatse wahala alone is enough to give him stroke

Vote wisely

God Bless Nigeria

Kai Mugabe!
Buhari will soon fall like that...
Old men don't want to leave politics for young and vibrant men.
Hehehehehehehehehe...

Senility at work.He should leave the stage for young people.

Descartes:
Senility at work.He should leave the stage for young people.

Not only him, even Buhari.

SeverusSnape:
Not only him, even Buhari.

He called Mandela all sort of names just because of him handing over the leadership of South Africa to young people. That he(Mugabe) is not as st*pid as Mandela, that he fought the whites and Zimbabwe got her independence; as a result only death can remove him from the throne.

Descartes:
He called Mandela all sort of names just because of him handing over the leadership of South Africa to young people. That he(Mugabe) is not as st*pid as Mandela, that he fought the whites and Zimbabwe got her independence; as a result only death can remove him from the throne.

Don't mind the despotic tyrant. He's a disgrace to democracy.

SeverusSnape:
Don't mind the despotic tyrant. He's a disgrace to democracy.

Can you imagine he is now AU chairperson for a period of one year. He was voted to that position last week at the AU meeting in Addis Ababa.

Descartes:
Can you imagine is now AU chairperson for a period of one year. He was voted to that position last week at the AU meeting in Addis Ababa.

What?!!...Mugabe
AU chairperson!!!
No wonder Africa keeps retrogressing.

SeverusSnape:
What?!!...Mugabe
AU chairperson!!!
No wonder Africa keeps retrogressing.

He was asked by some journalists how the west could see him at the International stage as regards to his tyrant nature but couldn't put a tangible response to the question.

With this and some fools are still calling on buhari ... Dnt forget he fell in calabar ... GEJ till 2019!!!

Chaaiii old pple pls go home and pray for young pple for sound politics...... Example of person I'm taalkin abt is ..........

Descartes:
He was asked by some journalists how the west could see him at the International stage as regards to his tyrant nature but couldn't put a tangible response to the question.

Of course he can't, because he has nothing to offer.
And he knows that he's a tyrant.

https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-5-720x720.jpg

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/2576886/thumbs/o-MUGABE-FALLS-facebook.jpg

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https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-3-720x643.jpg

https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-4.jpg

Zimbabwe is my home

Papa should quit and leave the stage for young guys to continue.

Reminds me of the way pa buhari fell during a rally at calabar... Old men that have refused to give way for younger men to decide.
May they continue falling till they have common sense.

so no new stories from remo mockery?

Were they the cause of is fall? :|
If this is true,then I'm afraid democracy is being trampled upon by African leaders! :@

ochejoseph:
Placing a 73 year old man to lead a complex nation of over 170 million people is suicide!

Buhari is just 73 years old. Even if is older than that nigerians will vote for him. He is on rescue mission.
pdp has destroyed this country for 16 years. Enough of pdp nonsense.

Horus:
https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-5-720x720.jpg

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/2576886/thumbs/o-MUGABE-FALLS-facebook.jpg

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https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-3-720x643.jpg

https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-4.jpg

Funny. *inbetween.* that's what you get when you have overstayed your welcome and have become a Dictator.

Horus:
https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-5-720x720.jpg

https://i.huffpost.com/gen/2576886/thumbs/o-MUGABE-FALLS-facebook.jpg

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https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-3-720x643.jpg

https://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2015/02/Robert-Mugabe-chute-detournement-4.jpg

lol baddest Photoshop ever

Like Mugabe, Like Buhari

SeverusSnape:
What?!!...Mugabe
AU chairperson!!!
No wonder Africa keeps retrogressing.

You might call him a Tyrant but he is one of the few African leaders that refused to be controlled like a puppet doll by the western world. He is truly a Lion of African, dem no born any white man well make him misbehave for Zimbabwe as they do in SA

SeverusSnape:
Kai Mugabe!
Buhari will soon fall like that...
Old men don't want to leave politics for young and vibrant men.
Hehehehehehehehehe...

And as usual he and the rest of APC supporters would blame GEJ and FG for not having guards to prevent his fall.

Those guards deserve it....they just stand dey look their oga as he dey ground dey try stand up....very bad...

Even if 1million guards are attached to u, what God have destined will happen. Dis is a warning from d almighty, next time, u may not recover from d fall. Pa buhari, pls take note.

Buhari's mentor.

This is the direction APC wants to steer Nigeria towards, a president that will be falling off podiums.

If Buhari wins (only theoritically possible) his guards must practice the skill of catching meticulously if they want to keep their jobs.

Exactly what happens when old men force themselves on their citizens. Buhari and osubade are too old for Nigerians.

HerexG:
You might call him a Tyrant but he is one of the few African leaders that refused to be controlled like a puppet doll by the western world. He is truly a Lion of African, dem no born any white man well make him misbehave for Zimbabwe as they do in SA

Please. Mugabe is a relic from a bygone era. Today progress is achieved by integration and collaboration with the global community not isolation. His style of government was good in its early days but he has failed to adapt with time instead morphing into the tyrant that he is now. Being a lion of Africa is of no use if your people are impoverished.

I support their being sacked. After seeing the pictures, i was like who watches who pays ur bill fall
Like that a whole president, and they just stood there, even if it all hapened in d twinkle of an eye.

Thats wat dey paid for. Rapid response to protect their boss!!

eaglechild:
Buhari's mentor.

This is the direction APC wants to steer Nigeria towards, a president that will be falling off podiums.

If Buhari wins (only theoritically possible) his guards must practice the skill of catching meticulously if they want to keep their jobs.

Oh my hpnourable sir . He didnt just fall while standing mr man. He triped and fell, u could see his legs
Tickled against each other, distraction could cause it, even a man in his 20s can trip n fall.

Stop using everything against buhari, he never said he was usain bolt did he?