In his statement, Mnangagwa only said he made the changes as per some provisions of the constitution.
The Associated Press reported earlier that a bomb scare shut down Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls Airport on , forcing the country’s president to cancel a planned address at a conference on renewable energy.
Mnangagwa was due to address the conference in the morning, but “had to suspend his trip to allow for investigations which are already underway.”
Authorities couldn’t confirm local media reports that the president’s plane made a U-turn while traveling to the conference.
Charamba said that airport authorities were informed by Fastjet airline about an email sent “by a John Doe” claiming a “credible bomb/firearm threat” targeting Zimbabwe’s airports.
In a statement presidential spokesperson, George Charamba, said airport authorities had been made aware of an email sent through Fastjet Airlines by an unknown individual that there had been “credible bomb/firearm threat” targeting Zimbabwean airports.
Charamba added “As a precaution, the country’s security systems are now on heightened alert following this message who source and credibility is also being investigated.
“While our country is peaceful, and all our ports are well secured, such alerts on possible terrorist attacks are taken and treated very seriously, as nothing should be left to chance”.
According to media reports, some flights into the airport were forced to divert to Livingstone, Zambia while Mnangagwa’s plane returned to Harare in the wake of the imminent threat.
The president survived a bomb blast at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on June 23, 2018 in what Zanu PF viewed as an assassination attempt.
