PARLIAMENT UNAWARE OF CUF MOVE TO SACK SAKAYA, NACHUMA
Dar es Salaam. The National Assembly Speaker office has denied to have received a letter from Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad faction of the Civic United Front (CUF) on decision to strip off membership its two Members of Parliaments, Ms Magdalena Sakaya and Mr Maftaha Nachuma.
A letter addressed to National Assembly Speaker, Mr Job Ndugai, signed by Mr Hamad says the Kaliua and Mtwara Urban MPs have been stripped off their membership during the party’s governance council meeting held in Zanzibar on July 28, this year to discuss their acts of sabotage.
But, acting clerk of the National Assembly, Ms Nenelwa Mwihambi, told the Citizen in a telephone interview that CUF’s letter dated July 29, 2017 was yet to reach her office establishing that probably the letter was dispatched directly to the speaker.
But speaker Ndugai’s personal secretary, Mr Athuman Kwikima, said also that no letter related to the issue has been received.
“No letter has been received, therefore, we have nothing to comment,” he said.
In the letter, Mr Hamad tells Speaker Ndugai that party’s supreme governing body evaluated performance of seven members who were suspended last year only to establish that they were indeed sabotaging the party. Therefore the meeting decided to strip off their membership.
“The decision was reached by casting secret ballots, whereby 43 members equivalent to 95.5 per cent of 45 members who attended the meeting voted in favour of sacking the two MPs and several other members,” reads part of the letter adding:
“After they have lost their membership, the MPs have lost qualities to continue serving as parliamentarians. Therefore we ask you to strip off their status.”
Decision made by Mr Hamad’s faction comes less than ten days after party chairman Prof Ibrahim Lipumba faction sacked eight Special Seats MPs over similar reasons.
The decision was quickly endorsed by National Assembly speaker who communicated to national Electoral Commission which endorsed a list of new special seats MPs picked by Prof Lipumba.
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