THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

DIRECTORATE OF PRESIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS

Telephone: 255-22-2114512,
2116898
E-mail:
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Website : www.ikulu.go.tz
Fax: 255-22-2113425

PRESIDENTS OFFICE,
STATE HOUSE,
1 BARACK OBAMA
ROAD,
11400 DAR ES SALAAM.
Tanzania.

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 years
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-inChief, 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