{"id":16120,"date":"2019-11-29T22:48:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=16120"},"modified":"2019-11-29T22:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:48:47","slug":"army-boss-replaced-after-keeping-a-mentally-ill-person-to-guard-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/army-boss-replaced-after-keeping-a-mentally-ill-person-to-guard-state-house","title":{"rendered":"Army Boss Replaced After \u201cKeeping A Mentally Ill Person To Guard State House\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samson Murombo, a lieutenant colonel in the Presidential Guard (PG), who was the commanding officer at State House, was last week transferred \u2018\u2018to the pool\u2019\u2019 at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)\u2019s headquarters, now known as Josiah Magama Barracks following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.pindula.co.zw\/2019\/11\/20\/a-presidential-guard-soldier-emptied-his-magazine-firing-in-the-air-at-the-state-house-this-morning-jonathan-moyo-claims\/\">the shooting that took place at the State House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Daily News, unnamed sources said that there was no way Murombo could have retained his position considering that he previously clashed with First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa who accused him of spying on her. One of the sources said:<\/p>\n<p>He (Murombo) was indeed the commander (when last week\u2019s shooting incident happened) and should have been more vigilant \u2026 but he slept on the job by keeping a mentally ill person to guard State House.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, he compromised the security of the president and as such he has had to be removed from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samson Murombo, a lieutenant colonel in the Presidential Guard (PG), who was the commanding officer at State House, was last week transferred \u2018\u2018to the pool\u2019\u2019 at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)\u2019s headquarters, now known as Josiah Magama Barracks following\u00a0the shooting that took place at the State House. Speaking to the Daily News, unnamed sources said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[331,1124],"class_list":{"0":"post-16120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-army","10":"tag-zimbabwe-national-army"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Army Boss Replaced After \u201cKeeping A Mentally Ill Person To Guard State House\u201d - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Samson Murombo, a lieutenant colonel in the Presidential Guard (PG), who was the commanding officer at State House, was last week transferred\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/army-boss-replaced-after-keeping-a-mentally-ill-person-to-guard-state-house\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Army Boss Replaced After \u201cKeeping A Mentally Ill Person To Guard State House\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Samson Murombo, a lieutenant colonel in the Presidential Guard (PG), who was the commanding officer at State House, was last week transferred\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/army-boss-replaced-after-keeping-a-mentally-ill-person-to-guard-state-house\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-29T20:48:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2019\/11\/MASKED-SOLDIER-ZIMBABWE-1200x600.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/army-boss-replaced-after-keeping-a-mentally-ill-person-to-guard-state-house\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/army-boss-replaced-after-keeping-a-mentally-ill-person-to-guard-state-house\",\"name\":\"Army Boss Replaced After \u201cKeeping A Mentally Ill Person To Guard State House\u201d - 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