Libeneke la hoja ya mgombea binafsi

Jaji Mkuu Mh. Augustino Ramadhani akiongoza jopo la majaji wa mahakama ya Rufaa kusoma hukumu ya shauri la mgombea binafsi katika uchaguzi mkuu leo jijini Dar
Jaji Mkuu Mh. Augustino Ramadhani akijiandaa kusoma hukumu hiyo

Mwenyekiti wa Chama Cha Demokrasia (DP)

Mchungaji Christopher Mtikila na wafuasi wake wakitoka Mahakamani

Mwenyekiti wa Chama Cha Democratic (DP), Mchungaji Christopher
Mtikila, akizungumza na waandishi wa habari Dar es Salaam leo, baada ya
Mahakama ya Rufani Tanzania kutupilia mbali kesi aliyofungua ya kutaka
awepo mgombea binafsi.

Kinyume na ambavyo imeripotiwa kwa haraka na baadhi ya watu kuwa Mtikilia amepoteza kesi ya "wagombea binafsi" ukweli ni kuwa Mahakama ya Rufani kwanza kabisa imetupilia mbali hoja zote zilizotolewa na serikali kukata rufaa ukiondoa hoja ya suala la uwezo wa Mahakama kutengue kipengele au ibara ya Katiba ambapo katika hilo Mahakama ya Rufani imeweka uzito wa jinsi gani jambo hilo laweza kufanyika. Hukumu hiyo ambayo unaweza kupata nakala yake hapa: http://www.box.net/shared/bhgomz2sat

Kwa ufupi ni kuwa, Nimeisoma hukumu yote..
Juu ya Hoja ya 1:
That the High Court erred in law in proceeding with the
determination of the petition without framing issues.

Mahakama ya Rufaa imeamua:
In fact, we are just being consistent with a recent decision of this Court in
Jaffari Sanya Jussa and Another v. Salehe Sadiq Osman, Civil Appeal No.
51 of 2009 (unreported) citing 17th Edition of MuIla at p. 719 which is in pari
materia with page 1421 of the 15th Edition.
We, therefore, dismiss this ground of appeal.
- Serikali imepoteza hoja ya 1

Hoja ya pili ya rufaa;
That the High Court erred in law and in fact by subjecting
the Constitution to International Instruments.
mahakama ya rufani:

So, we are at one with Mr. Rweyongeza in his reply that reference to
International Human Rights Instruments has been ordained by this Court.
We, therefore, cannot fault their lordships in any way and this ground of
appeal is dismissed, too.

Katika hoja ya pili serikali imeshindwa! -
Katika hoja ya tatu ya rufaa iliyoletwa na serikali inadai:

That the High Court erred in law by assuming legislative
powers.

Mahakama ya Rufani imeamua:
The A. G., the chief legal advisor of the Executive was to take the
necessary steps to amend the laws and the Constitution so that
independent candidates could be permitted. We are, therefore, of the
settled view that the learned judges did not clothe themselves with
legislative powers. This ground fails, too.
Hoja ya tatu ya rufaa, serikali imepoteza vile vile!!

hoja ya nne ya Rufaa ilikuwa hivi:
That the High Court wrongly assumed jurisdiction in
entertaining the Petition.

Mahakama ya rufani imeamua:
Thus the High Court of Tanzania is both for the Mainland Tanzania and for the Union on matters pertaining to the Constitution, such as the one that is the subject matter of this appeal. So, the High Court had jurisdiction to entertain the petition and ground one is dismissed in its entirety.

Hoja ya nne nayo serikali imepoteza.

Hivyo hadi sasa Mtikila anaongoza 4-0

Hoja kubwa ambayo ndio imekuwa ngumu na nzito zaidi ya kikatiba ni hii ya kuhusu kutengua Katiba:

That the High Court erred in law in nullifying the provisions
of the Constitution.

Sasa ukisoma mtiririko wa hoja za mahakama utaona kuwa wamejenga hoja kwenye msingi wa kisheria sana na kutudokeza tatizo la sheria yetu na Katiba yetu. Nitawaaacha msome wenyewe.

Lakini mwisho kwenye suala la wagombea binafsi japo wamerudisha kwa Bunge hata hivyo Mahakama imesema:

Ground one is, therefore, allowed: a court cannot declare an article of the
Constitution to be unconstitutional except where the article has not been
enacted in accordance with the procedure under Art 98(1)(a) and (b).

Na Majaji wanamaliza hukumu yao kwa maneno haya ambayo ni ujumbe mkubwa kwa wapiga kura.

However, we give a word of advice to both the Attorney General and our
Parliament: The United Nations Human Rights Committee, in paragraph 21 of
its General Comment No. 25, of July 12, 1996, said as follows on Article 25
of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, very similarly
worded as Art 23 of the American Convention and our Art 21:
The right of persons to stand for election should not be
limited unreasonably by requiring candidates to be members of
parties or of specific parties.
Tanzania is known for our good record on human rights and particularly
our militancy for the right to self determination and hence our involvement
in the liberation struggle. We should seriously ponder that comment from a
Committee of the United Nations, that is, the whole world.

Kwa hiyo, magazeti mengi na vyombo vya habari vitakuja na vichwa vya habari kuwa "Mtikila ashindwa kesi" au "Mahakama yazuia wagombea binafsi" ukweli ni kuwa mahakama imefanya kile ambacho wengi wetu tulikitarajia;

kwanza, ni kutupa mbali hoja nyepesi zilizotolewa na serikali kukata rufaa na pili kurudisha Bungeni suala la wagombea binafsi ili Bunge lifanye kile ambacho kinajulikana ni haki.

Tatizo pekee ambalo mahakama ya rufani haikugusa ni suala la haki ya msingi ya wananchi kushiriki uchaguzi bila kulazimishwa kuwa katika siasa. Hili bado ni point of contention.

Naomba kuwasilisha

Mdau M.M.Mwanakijiji