| Hamad Rashid goes to court over expulsion | Send to a friend |
| Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:27 |
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The Citizen Correspondents Dar es Salaam. Wawi MP Hamad Rashid Mohamed and ten other members who have been expelled from the Civic United Front (CUF) have gone to the High Court seeking an order to summon the opposition party trustee over contempt of court. Mr Mohamed and his colleagues want the court to summon CUF members of the National Council, including the party secretary general, Mr Seif Shariff Hamad, to state why they should not be penalised for similar offence. Apart from being CUF secretary general, Mr Hamad is also the First Vice President in the Zanzibar Government of National Unity. Mr Mohamed and the team also want the court to nullify decision reached last Wednesday, this year in Zanzibar by the CUF National Council to sack him and three others members. They went to court yesterday in culmination of last week events during which the CUF National Council expelled him and three other members over allegations of sabotaging the party. Before the meeting, Mr Mohamed, through GF Law Chambers Advocates, had gone to the High Court where he managed to obtain a court order barring the meeting, which stripped him of his CUF membership. However, the meeting disregarded the court injunction and went ahead penalising him and three others. While the four were stripped of their membership, the fifth member received a stern warning. They sought the temporary injunction because they had earlier filed another case, questioning the validity of CUF Ethics and Disciplinary Committee, which summoned and questioned them on alleged misconduct. Basing on the applications, Judge Augustine Shangwa of the High Court ordered that the status quo should be maintained in the party pending determination of the main suit. In a sworn affidavit tendered by Mr Mohamed and his colleagues at the court yesterday, they said that they submitted the court order to CUF officials at the party headquarters and to the secretary general, but they neglected it. They told the court that those entrusted to serve the court order at the party headquarters met a party official identified as Mr Mikidadi Nyandula, who refused to receive it at around 12.50am. Mr Mohamed said he also received an electronic mailed copy of the ruling, which he printed and he informed the CUF National Council of the court injunction. However, he said the meeting also snubbed it. “I showed the members present at the meeting the copy of the ruling,” noted Mr Mohamed in the affidavit. Despite the court cases, CUF has already written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, notifying the House of the decision to expel Mr Mohamed. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           |
