The crowd in Tahrir Square had swollen to several hundred thousand in expectation that Mubarak would announce is resignation in the nighttime address to the nation. Instead, they watched in shocked silence, slapping their foreheads in anger and disbelief.
Wote watatu hawakuingia ndani kukanusha madai hayo ya Simba wala kutoa ufafanuzi, na badala yake Mengi na Malecela walimrushia maneno makali wakimwita kuwa ni mgonjwa wa akili, asiye na maadili, mropokaji na ambaye si msafi huku Kilango akisema kuwa bado anatafakari.