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