Zanu-PF bombing probes still on

No one was injured.
Midlands provincial police spokesperson Inspector Patrick Chademana yesterday said investigations were in progress.

“Investigations are still in progress and the Forensic Unit has not yet submitted their report. As of now there are no further developments on the case,” Insp Chademana said.
While police could not disclose the cause of the explosion, occupants of the building – which houses other offices – suspect it was a pre-meditated attack on the Zanu-PF offices.

Sources close to the investigations ruled out the use of petrol bombs like in previous bombings that targeted Zanu-PF offices.
Zanu-PF provincial administrator Cde Passmore Washaya said the attack could have been an act of aggression by MDC-T activists.

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MDC-T Midlands provincial spo-kesperson Mr James Tsuro dismissed as unfounded, allegations that his party was responsible for the bombing of Zanu-PF offices.
MDC-T was implicated in various politically motivated bombings that targeted police stations ahead of the March 2008 harmonised elections.

According to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, an MDC-T empl-oyee identified as Charles Mutama told US Embassy political officer Aud-u Besner that the party’s security, intelligence and youth branches plan-ned dynamite and petrol bomb attacks on targets in the country’s five cities.

Mutama, a well-known MDC-T informant to the embassy’s political section, was recruited in 2000 from the students’ movement and claimed to have received military training in Uganda.
The attacks increased in March 2007. Among the targets that were petrol bombed were police stations in Unit N, Chitungwiza, Nehanda in Gweru, Marimba in Harare and Sakubva in Mutare.

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