THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
DIRECTORATE
OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Telephone: 255-22-2114512, 2116898
Fax:
255-22-2113425
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PRESIDENT’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.
31, OCTOBER, 2015
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