Robert Mugabe, the 90-year-old authoritarian ruler of Zimbabwe was recently in the news for a gaffe that showed him tripping and falling down the steps of a podium. The Inquisitr earlier reported that several security officers surrounding Mugabe ordered journalists and photographers assembled there to delete the photographs that showed Mugabe tripping. However, many of the photos eventually ended up on the Internet. In fact, the controversial decision by Mugabe’s security men to try and censor these images seems to have created a backlash of sorts and has only increased their tendency to be shared far and wide on the internet.
Much to the annoyance of the Mugabe regime, several images have been altered and photoshopped in hilarious ways and are being shared on Twitter and Facebook as we file this story.
We have selected some of the most hilarious ones below.
You people won’t let Mugabe rest. cc @thatfunke pic.twitter.com/Re6quSS5bM
— Atane Ofiaja (@atane) February 6, 2015
@ThePoke ? Mugabe, are you OK? Are you OK, Mugabe? You’ve been tripped by A smooth CRIMINAL ? #MugabeStumbling pic.twitter.com/cbI1WBHpv1
— Lee Healey (@HealeyCartoons) February 5, 2015
Gallery: Mugabe fall tickles funny bone on social media http://t.co/d82MUN9LJR pic.twitter.com/y54k8QMSs9
— Times LIVE (@TimesLIVE) February 5, 2015
This has to be my favourite Mugabe pic yet – so apt #WreckingBall pic.twitter.com/pllEJCDoYp
— Chantal Wood (@Choffel) February 6, 2015
Mugabe insists that he most definitely did not fall yesterday http://t.co/NFMpAtZdgM pic.twitter.com/tjoIq3Be9v
— GlobalPost (@GlobalPost) February 5, 2015
A reader just emailed me with even more #MugabeFalls pictures including this one #blessed http://t.co/YwzJQKD9X2 pic.twitter.com/RFnPNQiz8P
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) February 5, 2015
@SakinaKamwendo Mugabe didn’t fall they right!! @cingo_84 pic.twitter.com/pcxGGPALdX
— Lungile Tsolekile (@Ngile21) February 6, 2015
Quidditch Match… Mugabe after the snitch pic.twitter.com/gH8U7OlURs
— Hillary Horse Gvy (@iamHighDee) February 6, 2015
This #MugabeFalls craziness is solid gold. pic.twitter.com/zlJTh0Y5pV
— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) February 5, 2015
The never ending #MugabeFalls memes. pic.twitter.com/7q7qokWKJH
— Maps Maponyane (@MapsMaponyane) February 5, 2015
Daily Brief: Pakistan executions; No justice in Spain; Paying for AbuGhraib; And #MugabeFalls http://t.co/vEh3wyrzqK pic.twitter.com/gKMC7HO6KZ
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) February 5, 2015
This summer I shall be vacationing at…. wait for it…. Mugabe Falls! #MugabeFalls pic.twitter.com/1BUWGYWNm0
— Lee Healey (@HealeyCartoons) February 5, 2015
When you are having fun in town and one of your church members sees you #MugabeFalls #Mugabeing pic.twitter.com/N3rmRRCKEM
— Efo Dela (@Amegaxi) February 5, 2015
It is unclear if Robert Mugabe will try to censor and take down these images too. However, it is extremely unlikely that he would be able to do so because all the sites operate outside of Zimbabwe and are not bound by Zimbabwean law.
Anyway, which one of the above images do you think is the most hilarious of them all? Also, this might as well be a reminder for people who try to suppress information from spreading over the internet. More than once, it has been proven that the harder you try to suppress things on the internet, the faster it is likely to spread. Robert Mugabe and team seem to have learned this lesson the hard (or rather, funny) way!
[Images via Twitter.]
