A List Of Mugabe’s Motorcade Incidences Over, Recent Years

June 2016-A 28-YEAR-OLD Harare truck driver appeared in court yesterday charged with intercepting President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade in Borrowdale at the weekend before speeding off in his tipper truck. Chakanetsa was driving an ERF tipper vehicle turning into Borrowdale Road.
 
The State alleged that Chakanetsa did not stop, but proceeded into the intersection while Mugabe’s motorcade was passing.
 
Sergeant Mazowe, who was in the backup police vehicle ordered Chakanetsa to pull off the road and Chakanetsa complied.
 
Mazowe then ordered Chakanetsa to drive to Borrowdale Police Station to be formally charged for contravening road traffic regulations. However, Chakanetsa took the opposite direction and sped off with Mazowe in hot pursuit and sounding the siren. He allegedly continued driving, passing through red traffic lights and was only apprehended in Rugare on his way to Kambuzuma.
 
June 2016-A HARARE commuter omnibus driver, who collided with a police outrider in President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade, is brought before the courts facing five counts of negligent driving.
 
June 2016-Two police officers are taken to court for assaulting President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade outriders and also charged with threatening the life of the 92-year-old leader.
 
Nov 2014-A COMPANY director in Bulawayo appeared in court for allegedly violently confronting a police biker who was part of President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade after he had arrested his colleague for interfering with the motorcade.
 
March 2013-Two people were injured when a police outrider in President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade collided with a Peugeot 206 belonging to the International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva) at the intersection of Prince Edward Street and Josiah Tongogara Avenue in Harare..
 
December 2012-A BULAWAYO motorist who, in November 2012 allegedly obstructed President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade while the Zanu PF leader was coming from a graduation ceremony at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) appeared in court.
 
Nov 2012-Prayer Gavhanga (27) of Magwegwe West at Ascot shopping centre, was signalled to pull off the road by one Sergeant Jeche, who was part of Mugabe’s escort.
However, he allegedly continued driving along the road behind Jeche and interfered with the motorcade.
 
October 2012- A police outrider in President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade is burnt to death after his bike collided with a T35 truck while trying to clear traffic near Sam Levy’s Village in Borrowdale, Harare. The bike exploded on impact and the outrider was burnt beyond recognition.
 
June 2012-Mugabe’s long motorcade , involved in two separate accidents while traveling to his rural home, Zvimba after one of his outriders knocked down a vagrant and moments later a land cruiser burst a tyre resulting in an accident which left security details injured and rushed to Kutama Hospital.
 
June 2012 President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade is involved in an accident with a commuter omnibus, leaving one person dead and 15 others injured.
 
Nov 2011-For at least 15 minutes, President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade(advance squad) at night, was stuck in a traffic jam with wailing sirens at the intersection of Rotten Row and Samora Machel Avenue following heavy rains that pounded Harare city centre.
 
In May2011-Ugandan opposition supporters stoned vehicles in convoys of African heads of state — including President Robert Mugabe’s — as they returned from the inauguration ceremony of Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni.
 
Nov 2010-Zanu PF Bulawayo youth chairman Butholezwe Gatsi rammed his car into a vehicle in President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade, which was headed for the National University of Science and Technology (Nust). source-NewsDay

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