PRESS SUMMARIES-2 August 2013 LHRC and law society file case after Pinda remarks DPP challenges action against Pinda The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) and Tanganyika Law Society yesterday filed a petition against Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda for the remarks he made in Parliament in June. In the petition Number 24, filed at the High Court yesterday, apart from Pinda the other respondent is the Attorney General Frederick Werema. The petitioners prayed, among other things, that the court should order the Prime Minister to publicly denounce his statement on the argument that it is deemed to infringe human rights enshrined in the country’s Constitution, thus violating the principles of rule of law and accountability. They challenged as unconstitutional, the statement, directive and order uttered in Parliament by the Prime Minister that the law enforcement officials should use force against civilians. Prime Minister Pinda made the statement on June 20 this year when responding to a supplementary question asked by Kilwa North MP (CCM) Murtaza Mangungu who wanted to know the position of the government, among other things, about people’s complaints against the presence of the army in some regions like Mtwara. According to the petition filed to the court by LHRC Executive Director Helen Kijo-Bisimba, the statement and order given by the high profile public leader are deemed enforceable by law enforcement agencies like the police. To the petitioner’s understanding, the police would take this as a lawful order from their superior and implement it in the form of arbitrary and extrajudicial beating and torture of an otherwise innocent citizen contrary to the protection he deserves as prescribed in the Constitution. The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), has said the move by LHRC to take Premier Mizengo Pinda to court is illogical, saying that what the premier said was aimed at those who defy the government and the due process of being arrested. (All Media) ILO supports ex-drug addicts Forty former drug addicts in Temeke Municipality are set to secure capital from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) after completing entrepreneurship training. During a brief ceremony to hand over participation certificates to the trainees, ILO chief technical advisor for Youth Entrepreneurship Facility, Mr Jealous Chirove, said that his organization has set aside funds for such youth for the first time. After completing the training, the rehabilitated addicts were required to come up with business ideas, which the ILO had agreed to give financial support to facilitate their implementation. However, Mr Chirove didn’t mention the amount to be issued to each member of the group. The training was organized by a non-governmental organization called ‘Medecins Du Monde’ (Doctors of the World) which has offices in Tanzania located in Temeke District. The two-week training was part of a programme dubbed ‘Women Entrepreneurship Development Project’, which focused on gender, entrepreneurship and business management. (Mwananchi, The Citizen, et al) JK appoints new envoy to Ethiopia President Jakaya Kikwete has appointed Ambassador Naimi Sweetie Hamza Aziz, Tanzania’s new envoy to the Democratic Federal Republic of Ethiopia. Ambassador Aziz who was the Director of Regional Cooperation, takes over from Ambassador Joram Biswaro who has retired. According to a statement issues in Dar es Salaam yesterday by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr John Haule, the appointment is with immediate effect. (Daily News, Habari Leo, et al)
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 07:06:28 +0000