Dar es Salaam police bosses skip key meeting in Dodoma as hunt for billionaire Mo intensifies
Dar es Salaam Special Police Zone Commander Lazaro Mambosasa
What you need to know:
All Regional Police Commanders (RPCs) are meeting in Dodoma for a five-day training session on leadership but their colleagues from Dar es Salaam are not present as they are busy with the hunt for abductors of Africa’s youngest dollar billionaire, Mohammed Dewji.
Dodoma. Dar es Salaam Special Police Zone Commander Lazaro Mambosasa and Kinondoni Regional Police Commander Muliro Jumanne Muliro are some of the notable absentees at a leadership training seminar for police commanders which kicked off here on Monday, October 15, 2018.
The five-day seminar is a brainchild of Uongozi Institute, a government body that supports African leaders to attain sustainable development for their nations and for the continent at large.
This is taking place at a time when police in Dar es Salaam is intensifying the search for Africa’s youngest dollar billionaire, Mr Mohammed Dewji (Mo), who was abducted on Thursday, October 11 by gunmen when he walked into a gym at Colloseum Hotel.
So far, there has been no breakthrough in the hunt for the abductors for the man, whose fortune, Forbes Magazine puts at $1.3 billion.
The family announced on Monday, 15 October 2018 that it will issue a Sh1 billion (about $440,000) reward to any person who will have credible information that will help them and the authorities to secure Mo’s freedom from the kidnappers.
“I think you know the reasons behind the absence of the Dar es Salaam Special Police Zone Commander and the Kinondoni Regional Police Commander. We all know and that’s why they have remained there,” said the Commissioner for Administration and Human Resources at the Tanzania Police Force, Mr Abert Nyamuhanga.
On the training, Mr Nyamuhanga called upon participants to take it seriously.
“In most cases, whenever police commanders are exposed to a training seminar, they tend to regard it as part of resting from receiving directives from the police headquarters. In reality, this is not your resting time….Let’s observe what has brought us here for that is what the Inspector General of Police, Mr Simon Sirro is directing us,” said Mr Nyamuhanga.
