Mujuru family not convinced charred remains were Solomon's

The family of the late retired army commander, General Solomon Mujuru, is reported not convinced that the charred remains found at his gutted Beatrice farmhouse were those of the decorated liberation war hero since the police had not positively identified the remains at the time a public announcement was made.

The general's older brother, Joel Mujuru, told the ongoing inquest into the Zanu PF luminary's death in Harare yesterday in an emotional outburst that he had reservations about the identity of the remains found at the burnt out Alamein farmhouse in August last year.

He made the remarks while cross-examining a Zesa expert, Douglas Nyakungu, who was based at Beatrice. This is the second time during the inquest that the older Mujuru has questioned whether authorities were completely certain that the remains found at the badly burnt farmhouse were those of his brother.

On Tuesday Joel asked Assistant Inspector Jokonia Zaza from Beatrice Police Station if he was certain at the time he saw the body that he could identify it as that of the general.

Zaza responded that the body was badly burnt and he "could not identify that it belonged to the general at that time."