Former Chadema’s Deputy General Secretary, Zitto Kabwe, has vowed that
he shall appeal before the General Council of the party against being stripped
off his positions in the party.
Kabwe’s advocate, Albert Msando, told journalists yesterday in Dar es Salaam
that Kabwe shall appeal against the Central Committee on the faulty basis of
procedures used to strip him off his positions.
Msonda said the procedures did not follow the proper channels to strip Zitto
of his position but more importantly, he claimed that the reasons given for
the stringent action taken were false. “The party contravened proper procedures
…Kabwe did not first receive the allegations in writing as per party’s regulations,”
explains the advocate.
“The allegations were against him were delivered over a mobile phone text message
(sms) and later verbally during a meeting,” said the advocate all the while citing the
related sections of Chadema’s constitution.
The central committee for Chadema on November 22 stripped three of its officials
of all leadership posts except their party membership, which may also be at stake.
These were, Zitto Zuberi Kabwe, the party’s deputy secretary general,Chadema’s
member of the central committee Dr. Kitila Mkumbo and the party’s Arusha Regional
Chairman, Samson Mwigamba-,.
The trio is accused of conspiring to ‘disintegrate’ the party’s political movement as
well as to denounce the names of the top party’s national leaders, particularly
national Chairman Freeman Mbowe and his Secretary General Wilbroad Slaa.
Chadema National Secretariat officially issued letters to its three former senior
officials on November 27, 2013. The letters contain at least 11 reasons that led
to the decision to strip the former officials of their posts.
The trio former leaders were given 14 days – November 28 - to give an explanation
as to why the party should not take the measures against them, a deadline that
expired yesterday. Only one of the three has fled an explanation, Zitto Kabwe.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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