HARARE, Zimbabwe, March 5 (UPI) -- Former Zimbabwean Finance Minister Simba Makoni, now challenging President Robert Mugabe, canceled a meeting after a bomb scare.
Makoni and his top campaign staff were meeting Monday in the Old Mutual Center, an office building owned by a life insurance company, Old Mutual Zimbabwe. The meeting was interrupted by the alarm, The New Zimbabwean reported.
Makoni's campaign alleges that Zimbabwean intelligence is trying to sabotage his candidacy.
"In the history of the building, we were told that it had never happened that alarms -- both fire and explosives -- could go off simultaneously," said Kudzai Mbudzi, a retired Army major. "We were forced to abandon our meeting as everyone occupying the building was evacuated. It is hard to ignore what has happened to us in the past few weeks and we have no doubts that this is the work of our enemies."
Mbudzi said that Makoni realizes what he must endure to "rescue Zimbabwe," a country that has been in economic free fall for months.
