Zanu PF blames MDC for bomb threat at HQ

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By Staff Reporter

OFFICIALS of Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF were sent scampering out of the party headquarters in Harare on Tuesday after a caller threatened to bomb the building, it has been learnt.

Police were deployed to the building, and the area cordoned-off, but no bomb was found or has anyone claimed responsibility for the threat.

However, this did not stop Zanu PF officials blaming the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for allegedly making the threats.

Zanu PF spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira said: "We suspect that the bomb scare at our office was part of the continuing effort by the MDC to discredit the election and Zimbabwe.

"MDC is therefore strongly advised to take the hand of cooperation extended by the president at a press conference on Sunday. The president called for peace and for MDC to cooperate with ZANU-PF in and outside Parliament in the interest of the nation," he said.

Zanu PF won 78 seats of the 120 seats in last Thursday's parliament while the MDC trailed with 41 seats, down from the 57 it garnered in the 2000 elections. The MDC has called the election a "sham" and demanded a re-run.

Shamuyarira insisted Wednesday that any talk of re-running the election was a "pipe dream". He also urged the MDC to abandon any plans for popular uprisings of risk confrontation with security forces.

"They must drop those ideas right away and completely," he said, adding that the only course they should follow was to cooperate with ruling party.
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