Arms find ‘bizarre’
NZPA-Reuter Bulawayo The veteran Zimbabwean nationalist leader. Joshua Nkomo. yesterday described as bizarre the discovery of a big cache of arms on land owned bv his Z.A.P.U. party, and said he suspected the weapons had been planted. “To me there must be a person or persons who hid
these arms on our farm to be discovered at some convenient time." he told reporters in an interview. “It was a revelation to us. This is a bizarre discovery as far as I'm concerned." The interview was the first public reaction by the leader of Z.A.P.G. (Zimbabwe African People’s f'nion). the
junior coalition partner in the Government ot the Prime Minister (Mr Robert Mugabe) to the unearthing last week of vast caches of military equipment, ranging from automatic rifles to rocket launchers and sur-face-to-air missiles, at a party-owned farm north of Bulawayo.
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