Credit: Allafrica.com
An alert truck driver sent to deliver 19 tonnes of poisonous sodium cyanide to Harare’s main waterworks averted disaster last Wednesday when he raised alarm just when he was about to offload the chemical.

The driver told workers at Morton Jaffray Water Treatment Plant that he suspected he was carrying a poisonous chemical.

The workers were preparing to offload the chemical into drums, which they would have used to “treat” water for consumption by Harare residents.

They were expecting to receive liquid aluminum sulphate water treatment chemical on the day.

Sources said there was a mix up, resulting in the driver with the truck loaded with sodium cyanide being sent to deliver the chemical to the water treatment plant.

The workers at the plant informed town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi after being alerted by the driver.

Dr Mahachi directed that the consignment be returned to Bak Storage.
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