Kinana, Makamba and Membe to be grilled by CCM disciplinary committee

Dar es Salaam. Retired Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) secretary generals Mr Yusuph Makamba and Abdulrahaman Kinana alongside former foreign affairs and international cooperation Mr Bernard Membe have been directed to appear before the party’s security and disciplinary committee to answer disciplinary charges against them.

The decision to summon the retired CCM Stewarts was reached by the party’s National Executive Committee, which sat in Mwanza today under the chairmanship of President John Magufuli.

NEC also endorsed the decision by President Magufuli, who is also CCM national chairman to forgive three other party members-Mr January Makamba, Mr William Ngeleja and Mr Nape Nnauye, who were also accused of acting against party’s regulations.

The three were given a stern warning.

These are Mr January Makamba Junior (Bumbuli MP), Mr William Ngeleja (Sengerema MP) and Mr Nape Nnauye (Mtama MP). The three were given a stern warning.

The three, together with Mr Ngeleja, January Makamba and Mr Nnauye were implicated in a vocal clips scandal that reportedly ‘insulted’ the Head of State.

The said telephone conversation recordings allegedly involved Mr Makamba speaking with his father, Yusuph Makamba; Mr Ngeleja speaking with former minister Nape Nnauye, and former CCM secretary-general Mr Abdulrahman speaking with Mr Kinana and Mr Nnauye.

But, speaking during a meeting with stakeholders in the construction sector in Dar es Salaam in September, President Magufuli said he was “by more than 100 per cent sure that the voices were theirs.”

He was talking to engineers, contractors and surveyors on the importance of ‘forgiveness.’ He also forgave Mr Nnauye who went to the state house in Dar es Salaam to ask him for forgiveness a few days later.

“I remember that, recently, there were some people who insulted me, I sat down and thought if these people were to be sent to the political committee [CCM’s]; but they might face serious consequences,” the CCM Chairman was quoted as saying.

Unlike Nnauye, Makamba (January) and Ngeleja, Mr Kinana, Mr Makamba (Yusiph) and Mr Membe didn’t apologized to the party chairman-cum-head of the state. Instead Mr Makamba and Mr Kinana wrote a controversial letter to the chairman of retired CCM secretarys-general complaining about allegations that they were plotting to harm the president - as was reported in the one of the local weekly tabloids.

Some analysts associate the sacking of Mr January Makamba as minister of the Union Affairs and the Environment with the clip and the letter. He is alleged to have engineered the developments with his father and Mr Kinana.

Reached for comment after the decision was announced by the CCM Ideology and Publicity secretary, Mr Humphrey Polepole, through the media, Mr Membe said he would heed the call.

Mr Membe said: “I have received the news through the media, and I am waiting for official communication.

Mr Yusuph Makamba refused to comment on the matter - also saying he would only do so after receiving an official communication.