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By Staff Reporter

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has commissioned the construction of a multi-billion dollar security radar at his rural home in Zvimba, it was reported last night.

Zimbabwe's independent SW Radio Africa said the construction work will be undertaken by the country's electricity utility company Zesa.

The radar, recently acquired from China, would be linked to other security gadgets being installed at Mugabe's mansion in Harare on the outskirts of the upmarket Borrowdale Brooke suburb.

"Military sources have told SW Radio Africa that the construction of the security radar could be a cover for a more sinister plot by the government for concealing weapons in the Darwendale area," it reported.

A few kilometres from the home, a secret Airforce of Zimbabwe hangar was built into the mountain ranges of Darwendale commercial farming area. The hangar was built a few years after independence.

A former logistics officer in the army, retired colonel Esau Sibanda, said the radar could be there to protect an arms cache. He explained that the hangar being talked about could actually be hiding sophisticated military hardware such as air defence missiles.
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