Participation of people in constitution making crucial

Religious organisations crucial for peace, security, urged to increase participation
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Religious orgainsations have a key role to play in ensuring that peace and security prevail in the country and as such they have been urged to scale up their participation in building a law abiding citizenry in Tanzania. Making a call over the weekend, Minister ...

New Constitution Set to Speed Up Popular Political Participation
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WHILE speaking at a meeting in Bagamoyo last year, the Chairperson of the Tanzania Women Parliamentary Group (TWPG), Mrs Anna Abdallah, insisted on the need to have a constitution that addresses gender equality. Now as the Constituent Assembly ...

Public urged to keep track on Constitution making process
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The public has been called upon to follow up the ongoing Constitution making process and later on participate in the referendum to vote for the proposed mother law. Fredy Lyimo, a lawyer with the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) made the call ...

By Special Correspondent,  Hassan Abbas

The African Union Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has exhorted members of  the Tanzania Special Constituent Assembly  to use consensus in the on-going constitution deliberations.

The call was issued today in Dar es Salaam by the APRM Tanzania chapter Executive Secretary Ms Rehema Twalib when addressing the press on commemorating the APRM Day which is marked every 9th March among all APRM member states in Africa.

Ms Twalib congratulated President...

THIS WEEK OF CONSTITUTION MAKING: A pro founding fathers perspective
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I have written before that it is my considered view that the legacy and heritage from the founding fathers should be the capstone in the list of Tanzania's national values and ethos, a provision which was mysteriously missed by the drafters (and subsequently by ...

>Constituent Assembly (CA) member Hamid Masoud Jongo sees the Union of peoples of Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar as being more important than the structure which has been surrounded by controversy.

Readers would like the coming government to call a referendum on the Warioba-led Draft Constitution

Help people better understand proposed constitution - appeal
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The government has been asked to distribute the proposed constitution to wananchi so that they can understand it well before taking part in the referendum scheduled later this year. The call was made yesterday by the Bishop of the Bukoba Roman Catholic ...

Members of Constitutional Assembly (CA) have been urged to endorse a new Constitution that would meet the citizens’ interests than it is seen for the time being where the political parties are fighting to put their agendas of their political institutions.