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President
John Magufuli of Tanzania has revoked appointment of Home Affair Minister
Charles Kitwanga for getting in the National Assembly when he was allegedly
drunk.
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| Charles Kitwanga |
According to a statement issued by the Tanzania's
State House's communication unit on Friday evening, the fired minister got into
the Parliament and responded to question concerning his ministry, when he was
drunk.
In the statement, Tanzanian State House didn't specify
the date in which the suspended minister got into the National Assembly when he
was drunk.
When
asked by some Tanzania's media outlets on Wednesday, Kitwanga insisted that he
want resign from the ministerial position due to what he called baseless
allegations against him.
WHY KITWANGA SACKED?
For
some weeks now, the fired minister was under pressure from members of
opposition camp in the National Assembly sitting in Tanzania's capital Dodoma.
MPs from the opposition wanted the minister to
step-down voluntarily for allegedly to have been deeply involved in a
dubiously-implemented 16.89 million dollars contract between Tanzania Police
Force and the privately-owned Lugumi Enterprises Limited Company for supply of
finger print scanners to police stations across the country.
MPs from the main opposition Chadema party have lately
been at the forefront of growing calls for the minister to step down over
implied conflict of interest factor in a deal which has become smeared by
allegations of high level impropriety.
This is the first minister to be suspended since
President John Magufuli got into power six months ago.
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