Ukawa says will block sly ‘tweaks’ to #Katiba Assembly rules [VIDEO]

Six weeks in and things are still a bit murky at the Sitta-led Constituent Assembly, as ‘Citizen’s rights’ group threatens to block key amendments to CA Standing Orders.

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

11 May

Ukawa may return to Katiba Assembly

The Tanzania Centre for Democracy (TCD) is keen on negotiating a deal that will see opposition parties return to the Constituent Assembly. The umbrella organisation brings together all 22 registered political parties.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Jul

Will Sitta bring Ukawa back to the Katiba Assembly?

The 30-member consultative  committee  formed last week by chairman of the Constituent Assembly (CA), Mr Samuel Sitta, begins its two-day sitting in Dar es Salaam today in the hope of ending a stalemate in the ongoing constitution writing process.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

14 May

Go back to Katiba assembly, UNDP supremo urges Ukawa

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) administrator, Ms Helen Clark, yesterday urged members of Constituent Assembly (CA) who walked out of debating chamber to go back and engage in constructive debate when the sitting resumes in August.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Jul

Katiba Assembly 'to go on without Ukawa,' says Sitta team after Mbowe, Lipumba skip 'peace talks'

>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.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Mar

#Katiba House Rules: ‘Ignore’ the whole voting thing, shall we? [VIDEO]

The team, lead by veteran policy wonk Costa Mahalu, wants two contentious clauses -- Articles 37 and 38 of proposed standing orders -- amended to remove any dictum on how to vote.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

27 Mar

Here’s why nothing EVER gets done at the #Katiba Assembly [VIDEO]

There are simply too many lobby groups working against each other to further their own political and ideological ends.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Mar

Assembly may block CAG from tabling report

The ongoing Constituent Assembly (CA) meeting will block the Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Mr Ludovick Utouh, from tabling his annual report in Parliament, a CA member has hinted.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Mar

New chief for Katiba Assembly? Check, so now what? [VIDEO]

The Constituent Assembly has put its fate in the hands of veteran administrator Samuel Sitta.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Aug

Sitta hits back as #Katiba Assembly resumes [VIDEO]

>Hostilities that have clouded the Constitution review process intensified as the divided Constituent Assembly (CA) resumed business in Dodoma yesterday.

 

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