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Tanzania: Day of Reckoning for CCM's Old Elite
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The East African (Nairobi)
EDITORIAL
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Nairobi
THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF Tanzania's ruling party is this week expected to endorse an arrangement to end political violence in Zanzibar.
The Muafaka accord has been drafted by a committee appointed by the two rival political parties - Chama cha Mapinduzi and the Civic United Front.
It is good to hear that CUF has agreed to share power with CCM on the Isles. CCM appears finally to be heeding the words of Tanzania's first president, the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who stated that the only solution to the longstanding political impasse in Zanzibar or any African country for that matter, was to have a government of national unity.
The meeting in Butiama, where Nyerere was born and is buried, will also decide the future of some members of the ruling elite who are prominent in both politics and business and those implicated in the Richmond Company scandal.
The latter include former prime minister Edward Lowassa and former minister Nazir Karamagi; they are expected to be called before the disciplinary committee of the ruling party to give their side of the story.
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