Armed men claiming to be law and order police raided the home of Daily News editor Guthrie Munyuki early Friday morning.
This happened after its sister publication, The Financial Gazette made a mistake in an advertisement that suggested President Emmerson Mnangagwa had died.
Armed men claiming to be law and order police raided the home of Daily News editor Guthrie Munyuki early Friday morning.
This happened after its sister publication, The Financial Gazette made a mistake in an advertisement that suggested President Emmerson Mnangagwa had died.
Citing a Daily News executive briefed on the raid, ZimLive reported that Munyuki was not home at the time but the gunmen temporarily took his wife and children’s phones and looked through their messages.
The executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said a group of men in two vehicles, a Toyota Fortuner and a Toyota Hilux, went to Munyuki’s house asking for him. Said the executive:
Guthrie’s brother also lives in the same neighbourhood in Westgate and he too was woken up by nearly a dozen men driving in a Toyota Fortuner and a Toyota Hilux. They demanded his whereabouts.Lawyer Alex Muchadehama planned to meet with the police on Friday to get more information about the situation.
The Financial Gazette had published an advertisement on Thursday from the Zimbabwe Defence Forces congratulating Mnangagwa on his birthday, but it mistakenly ended with, “May his soul rest in eternal peace.”
On Friday, the Daily News apologised, saying the mistake was due to a production error. Said the
Mistakes in advertisements happen often in Zimbabwean newspapers. This is because the advertising staff usually use old templates for regular clients, making only small changes to the text.
Unfortunately, this error occurred at a very bad time for the publication as it happened just days after a military helicopter crashed while trying to take off to pick up President Mnangagwa from Bikita.
