VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly been air lifted to
South Africa for medical attention after his health is reported to have
deteriorated yesterday.
A well-placed source said Mnangagwa was taken out of the
country in the company of his wife Auxillia.
“He is now out of the country to seek further medical
attention following (the poisoning). I can’t tell you more,” the source said.
Details were scant at the time of going to print, but
sources had initially revealed that Mnangagwa had been discharged after the
alleged poisoning that happened at President Robert Mugabe’s youth interface
rally in Gwanda on Saturday.
Another source said Mnangagwa left at 10:20am from Manyame
Air Base en-route to Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He was accompanied by his wife, his son and other close
family associates.
Mnangagwa, sources said, was supposed to have an engagement
with war veterans in Mwenezi yesterday, but did not pitch due to his
affliction.
The VP had earlier yesterday been reportedly discharged
from Thornhill Airbase military medical facility in Gweru, where he had been
admitted.
Although Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo and
Information deputy minister Thokozile Mathuthu declined to comment on the
matter citing VIP security concerns, sources in Mnangagwa’s family said he had
been certified fit and discharged from the medical facility.
“It’s nothing to do with the public, it’s a personal
issue,” Mathuthu said.
“If someone has a flu and is not feeling well, why should
the government issue a statement?
“It has got nothing to do with the government, you should
talk to the Vice-President himself.”
Moyo said he was unaware Mnangagwa had been taken ill.
“To be honest my brother, I am in the dark as you are. I
have not been briefed, so I don’t know,” he said.
“If nobody has bothered to tell me, then how would I know?”
Efforts to contact presidential spokesperson, George
Charamba for comment were fruitless, as his mobile phone went unanswered, while
the minister of State in Mnangagwa’s office, Clifford Sibanda, was also
unreachable.
But Mnangagwa’s allies were convinced itwas their foes were
behind the “poisoning”.
“This is the work of G40. They want to kill him because
they have failed to discredit him and now the answer is to eliminate him,” a
top official aligned to Mnangagwa claimed.
“We are going to respond and the response will be felt.”
Even people close to the family said they suspected that
the Vice-President was poisoned by his rivals within the ruling Zanu PF party
in an alleged attempt on his life.
The sources said the VP was taken ill after he complained
of feeling dizzy after drinking a fruit juice during the rally.
“He had some drink during his flight in the helicopter and
at the rally. So we are no longer sure where he could have ingested the
poisonous food,” one of the sources said.
According to protocol used on VVIPs, Mnangagwa was supposed
to be rushed to a military hospital at Thornhill Airbase in Gweru, but he chose
to be taken to a private hospital in the Midlands capital first before he was
later transferred to the airbase after he was ruled out of danger.
“He refused to go to the military base and, instead, chose
to go to the private hospital. He was later transferred to Thornhill after his
doctor saw that he was out of danger,” a close family member said.
Larry Mavima, a close friend to the Mnangagwa family, who
accompanied the Vice-President to Thornhill Airbase, yesterday declined to
comment on his condition.
“I have no comment. Please refer to the Vice-President’s
office for details,” he said.
Sources said when Mnangagwa was discharged from Thornhill,
doctors are reported to have prescribed bed rest and said he was out of danger.
Meanwhile, United Family International Church (UFIC)
leader, Emmanuel Makandiwa reportedly told his followers during a church
service yesterday that he prophesied Mnangagwa’s food poisoning incident on
April 9 this year and publicly shared the prophesy.
“I see someone in authority, who is loyal to a higher
office, swallowing poison through food and vomiting blood and rushed to the
hospital and only prayer can save him,” Makandiwa said in an April recorded
video, which he showed to his congregants yesterday.
UFIC spokesperson Prime Kufa confirmed the prophecy,
saying: “Yes the video was played, re-living the service of the 9th of April
wherein the man of God spoke about the need to pray for a prominent politician
because he was seeing something entering his stomach causing him to vomit —
food first and then blood and ending up in hospital. Though the man of God did
not mention any names, you need to watch the footage in order to come up with
your own interpretation.”
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