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CCM women’s wing dumps heavyweights
2005-08-13 08:07:24
By Ludger Kasumuni, Dodoma
The General Council of CCM’s Women Wing (UWT) has purged the names of women heavyweights from its ranks after they lost in the nominations.
The losers include long-serving legislators Roda Kahatano, Benadine Ndaboine and Lydia Boma.
Other losers are district commissioners Halima Kihemba, Hawa Mchopa, Esther Malyeta and the daughter of former Prime Minister Edward Moringe Sokoine, Einoti Sokoine.
The other big names that failed to go past the nominations are the director of Twanga Pepeta Band, Asha Baraka and former CUF MP who crossed over to CCM, Zamda Bozzen.
The council also approved the names of women candidates who won Special Seats nominations on the Mainland and Zanzibar.
The winners, are: Dr Batilda Burian and Halima Mohamed Mwamuya (Arusha), Janet Kahama and Janeth Mourice Massaburi (Dar es Salaam) and Mariam Salum Mfaki and Felista Bura (Dodoma).
The others are Lediana Mng’ong’o and Pindi Chana (Iringa), Elizabeth Batenga and Bernadetha Mushashu (Kagera),Sijapata Nkayamba and Josephine Ngenzabuke (Kigoma)and Salome Mbatia and Shally Raymond (Kilimanjaro).
The list also includes Fatma Mikidadi and Lulida Riziki Saidi(Lindi), Martha John Umbula and Dorah Herial Mushi(Manyara), Gaudensia Kabaka and Rosemary Kirigini(Mara) and Cynthia Hilda Ngoye and Florence Kyendesya(Mbeya).
Anastazia James Wambura and Mariam Kasembe (Mtwara), Esther Nyawazwa (Mwanza), Lucy Sewere Nkya and Christina Gabriel Ishengoma (Morogoro) and Zainab Vullu and Halima Kimbau Coast region) also made the list.
There are also Eliata Switi and Anna Lupembe (Rukwa), Devota Likokola and Stella Manyanya (Ruvuma), Diana Chilolo and Martha Mlata (Singida) and Joyce Namanilo and Joyce Masunga (Shinyanga).
Aziza Suleyum Ally and Mwanne Mchemba, Dr Aisha Omar Kigoda and Mwantumu Mahiza (Tanga) and Bahati Abeid and Kidawa Saleh (Unguja-North) were among the winners.
The others are Dr Maua Daftari and Maida Hamadi Abdallah (Pemba-North), Asha Mashimba Jecha and Jina Khatib Haji (Unguja-South) and Fatma Othman Ali and Mwaka Ramadhan (West-Town region).
The other winners are Bihindi Hamad Khamis and Kidawa Seleman Khatib (Pemba-North), Mkongwe Nassor Juma and Dawa Juma Makame (Unguja-North), Samia Hassan and Mosi Kajala (Unguja-South), Zainab Mohamed and Ashura Abeid Faraji (Pemba-South) and Fatma Abdallah Tamim and Thuwaiba Kissasi.
Meanwhile, UWT Chairperson Anna Abdallah said that the names of winners would be vetted further pending approval by higher party organs.
The National Executive Committee and Central Committee are expected to meet next week to endorse them.
She also said that final approval would depend on the decision of the National Electoral Commission.
Meanwhile, the president of the Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA), Margaret Sitta, and Director General of St Mary’s International Schools Dr Getrude Pangalile Rwakatare were yesterday declared winners of Special Seats slots following nomination process that lasted the whole of Thursday night.
Announcing the results yesterday morning, assistant returning officer Zakia Meghji said that Sitta, polled 60 votes on the TUCTA category, while Dr Rwakatare romped to victory with 74 votes against
nine other candidates from Tanzania Mainland.
Out of 63 contestants for the Mainland Special Seats are long-serving legislator Sophia Simba (60), Deputy Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children Shamin Parkar Khan (58) and CCM’s Secretary General for Dodoma Urban-District, Grace Benjamin Kissie (53 votes).
The others are Elizabeth Machangu (51), Domina Ngwada (50), Asha Shaban Kipangula (50), Amina Butoye Kanyogoto (46) and Mariam Abuu Mallya (39).
Meghji named the five winners from Zanzibar as Fakharia Hamis Shomari (87), Khadija Saleh Ngozi (87), Dogo Iddi Mbarouk (63), Kijakazi Ali Khamis (46) and Harusi Said Seleman (44).
On the list for Zanzibar House of representatives were Zainab Khamis Shomari (62) and Catherine Peter Nao (52).
Margareth Mkanga (46 votes) from Mainland won on the disabled people’s category, while the NGO’s slot went to Shamsa Selengia Mwangunga (96).
The general council of CCM’s women wing (UWT) nominated its chairperson, Anna Abdallah and her deputy Amina Salum Ali.
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