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Herald Reporter
Burglars yesterday broke into the office of the Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Cde Obert Mpofu, but police said nothing was stolen. Chief police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba said the motive of the break in could not be ascertained.
In a statement Snr Asst Comm Charamba said police had stepped up surveillance on all Government buildings.
“We will take stern action against anyone who will be found trying to cause alarm and despondency on Government officials.
“Investigations are being carried out in connection with the unlawful entry at Cde Mpofu’s office at Kaguvi Building 16th Floor in Harare,” she said.
Snr Asst Comm Charamba added that the burglar forced open three doors and tried to enter into Minister Mpofu’s office but failed.
Recently, unknown assailants broke into Zanu-PF second secretary and Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s party office and laced a deadly poisonous substance that left his secretary hospitalised.
The intention appeared to be for Cde Mnangagwa to inhale the substance as soon as he opened the office and subsequently poison him to death.
This followed the appointment of Cdes Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko as the country’s Vice Presidents after the sacking of Cde Joice Mujuru and the death of former VP, Cde John Landa Nkomo.
However, it was not the first time that Cde Mnangagwa’s offices had been broken into.
Sometime in September last year his offices at the New Government Complex were broken into barely a month after Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku’s Mashonganyika Building offices had been broken into with the assailants stealing a desktop computer and a television set.
A few days after the break-in at the Supreme Court, four judges reportedly lost keys to their offices, a development that prompted the Judicial Services Commission to urgently request police security at Mashonganyika Building, which houses the Supreme and Constitutional courts.
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