There was an attempt to assassinate the newly appointed Zanu PF Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday morning, President Robert Mugabe sensationally reported.
Mugabe personally broke the news way before any media house had received it including the ZBC itself, announcing while addressing his Politburo ceremony that unnamed assailants dramatically sprinkled cyanide in Mnangagwa’s office at the new government complex in Harare.
The Jonathan Moyo controlled ZBC reported that the poison instead affected Mnangagwa’s secretary on entering the office on the morning of Mnangagwa’s promotion to vice president. ZBC further said Mnangagwa’s secretary was rushed to hospital for treatment.
Cyanide is a deadly poison, which when inhaled causes a coma with seizures, apnea, and cardiac arrest, with death following in a matter of seconds. At lower doses, loss of consciousness may be preceded by general weakness, giddiness, headaches, vertigo, confusion, and perceived difficulty in breathing. Last year, cyanide killed over 100 elephants at Hwange National Park after it was put in a water source within the national park.
“Considering the fatality of the poison, one would wonder what would have happened had Cde Mnangagwa had entered his office together with his secretary for his routine official duties,” the ZBC later reported.