Due to the fact that in the short list are available due to pandemic countries for Russian tourists got in Tanzania, this East African country is our compatriots of great interest. Coincidence: on Monday in the Tanzanian land returned opposition politician with presidential ambitions, who three years ago was fired 16 bullets.
Tanzanian opposition politician and presidential candidate Tunda Lissa returned to the country on Monday, three years after it was made 16 shots. The assassin was never found, the Associated Press reports.
Immediately upon arrival at international airport of Dar-es-Salaam, the former Deputy told reporters and supporters of the opposition center-right party CHADEMA (Party for democracy and progress) that he was all right.
“My leg is shorter by a few inches. I’m okay now, ” – said the 52-year-old opposition.
As approves Associated Press, his return from Belgium is due to the fact that the top opposition party consider the possibility of combining the efforts of a single candidate to challenge President John Magufuli, which applies for a second five-year term.
human rights groups and critics accuse the current administration of the head of Tanzania in that it includes a red light for dissent, barring opposition political meetings, arresting opposition leaders and closing the media.
Hundreds of supporters of the CHADEMA party had gathered at the airport on Monday to meet their leader. Some knelt at the gate of arrival, in violation of a police order prohibiting unlawful public Assembly.
Lissa announced his presidential ambitions, and expects the CHADEMA party support it.
At home Lissa continues to threaten six criminal charges. In particular, he is accused of, what he calls the President Magufuli “dictator”. In his statement to Facebook Lissa announced that he is on bail.
human rights groups and the opposition party called on the authorities to provide him adequate security.
In recent years, Lissa has acquired a reputation as an outstanding lawyer, an outspoken opposition figure and outspoken criticism of the government. He, in particular, was responsible for the study and preparation known as the “List of shame” of the document that have implicated senior government officials in the plundering of public funds. Only in 2017, the policy has arrested at least six times on charges of insulting the President and disturbing public order.
Day the 7th of September 2017 during a break in the parliamentary session Tunda Lissa, who was in his car, was assassinated. It was produced a few RDS��s. The politician was seriously injured.
It happened just a few weeks after Lissa said publicly that some people, instructed heads of security agencies, chased him for several weeks.
Wounded Tunda Lissa out of fear for his safety was sent on a plane to Kenya, where after several months of hospitalization he was transferred to Belgium for further treatment and rehabilitation. In Europe, he has made nearly two dozen operations.
