STATE HOUSE STATEMENT
THE
UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
DIRECTORATE
OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS
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2116898
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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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