THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
DIRECTORATE
OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Telephone: 255-22-2114512, 2116898
E-mail: ikulucommpress@googlemail.com
Fax: 255-22-2113425 |
RESIDENT’S
OFFICE,
STATE HOUSE,
1 BARACK OBAMA ROAD,
11400 DAR ES SALAAM.
Tanzania.
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STATE HOUSE
STATEMENT
The State
House has learnt, with regret, claims by the Secretary General of the Civic
United Front (CUF) and its Presidential candidate in this year’s General
Elections in Zanzibar, Honorable Seif Shariff Hamad, that he has been ignored
and his request for an appointment with President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, to
discuss the political situation in Zanzibar, turned down.
The State
House would like to categorically deny that it has received any request from
Honorable Hamad for him to meet President Kikwete since voting day in Zanzibar
on Sunday and subsequent nullification of the election process in Zanzibar by
the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) Chairman Jecha Salim Jecha on Tuesday.
What President
Kikwete has received, are complaints by CUF about some actions from some
sections of the Police Force in Zanzibar and a request for him to facilitate a
conversation between Honorable Hamad and the Chief of the Armed Forces (CDF)
General Davis Mwamunyange.
Subsequently,
President Kikwete, who is also Commander-in–Chief, has instructed the
Inspector-General of Police Ernest Mangu to investigate these claims by CUF and
report back to him. Accordingly, he has also instructed his office to
facilitate a conversation between General Mwamunyange and CUF officials.
The State
House would like to confirm that President Kikwete is as concerned about the
political and security situation in Zanzibar as every Tanzanian is, and has
been working tirelessly and consulting widely over the last few days to find
amicable and peaceful resolution to the situation in Zanzibar.
While the
matter remains firmly in the hands of an independent electoral body in
Zanzibar, President Kikwete would like to express his readiness to do whatever
is in his powers to regularize the situation in Zanzibar.
ISSUED
BY THE DIRECTORATE OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS
STATE
HOUSE
DAR
ES SALAAM.
1 NOVEMBER , 2015
ZEC can use pretexts, irrelevant reasons, or no reason at all to cost the country another election?
ReplyDeleteNo courts?
How can one man just decide to nullify the elections? Did the other committee members of the very ZEC say that they were not involved on the decision.
ReplyDeleteDoes it mean to say the committee operates by only 1 man?