ED Sona saga: Full-blown witch hunt ensues

THERE seems to be conflicting statements with regards to the power outage that rocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Tuesday, as Parliament is blaming a “circuit breaker supplying the load [that] had tripped”, while power utility Zesa Holdings has suspended one of its managers over the outage.

Mnangagwa ignored the mishap and continued to read his speech with the aid of torch light.

In a statement on Tuesday, clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda apologised to the President for the embarrassment and stated that: “The loss of power supplies to key systems occurred when the Parliament building wasrunning on a generator as the main source of supply, with Zesa supply as a standby.

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