Own Correspondent|Government has failed a major diplomatic case after it allowed members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to carry shoulder high the coffin of the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa covered in a ZAPU Flag and not the Zimbabwe flag.

Members of the Army did not question the ZAPU flag and carried the coffin to a service held at the Nyaradzo parlour in Bulawayo.

Army conduct would not allow the soldiers to carry the coffin with the ZAPU flag.

ZAPU members said they did not want the Zimbabwean flag because the flag was synonymous with the massacre of the people of ZAPU during the Gukurahundi era.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared Dabengwa as a national hero but the family insisted that he will be buried in Ntabazinduma.

Watch the video below as captured by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda.