Sitta gives in to opposition pressure on forming team

>Chadema yesterday advised President Jakaya Kikwete against any move to save culprits named in Parliament’s resolutions on the Tegeta escrow scandal.

>Constituent Assembly (CA) chairman Samuel Sitta yesterday denied seeking to gag the media over its reportage of the Katiba process.

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 A group that is largely made up of CCM Members of the Constituent Assembly (MCAs), Tanzania Kwanza, yesterday came out to condemn a move by their counterparts from the Coalition of Defenders of the People’s Constitution (Ukawa) to organise countrywide demonstrations seeking for the suspension of the draft katiba as fronted by the Constituent Assembly (CA).

>Opposition parties have criticised Constituent Assembly (CA) chairman Samuel Sitta for meeting different groups and receiving their opinions, saying it is against the law.

>The Constituent Assembly (CA) will reopen as scheduled and resume business even if the Coalition of Defenders of People’s Constitution (Ukawa) members will insist on not returning to the august House, it was decided during a reconciliation meeting yesterday.

The chairman of the Constituent Assembly (CA), Mr Samuel Sitta, has formed a 30-member consultations committee, which, among other things, aims at ending the standoff facing the constitution writing process.

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UKAWA, the Alliance for People's Constitution in the Constituent Assembly sounds very unfamiliar to many people, but it is the same people that pushed for national support against the Constitutional Review (Amendments) Bill2013. Ukawa, which is a ...
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>The Constituent Assembly (CA) will reopen as scheduled and resume business even if the Coalition of Defenders of People’s Constitution (Ukawa) members will insist on not returning to the august House, it was decided during a reconciliation meeting yesterday.