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Sacked leader wants Bakwata property...
2008-07-02 10:20:25
By Ley Mlelwa, KIU
The Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA) has been asked to take charge of property belonging to the National Muslim Council of Tanzania (Bakwata).
The plea was made by former Bakwata executive council chairman Khamis Mataka at a press conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
Mataka said that at the moment the council did not have trustees responsible for supervising property belonging to Muslims.
According to Mataka, in April 2008, the council`s chief Sheikh, Mufti Issa Shaaban Simba, while in India for medical treatment, suspended indefinitely an amended Bakwata constitution which had been adopted at the council`s general meeting held in July, 2005.
He said the Mufti had said the reason for suspending the constitutional amendments was due to the council\'s failure to register the amendments with the Ministry of Home Affairs.
``The problem that Bakwata faces at the moment is lack of trustees who were appointed at the general meeting that endorsed the constitutional amendments,`` Mataka said.
"My interest is not knowing who came in or who went out, but to know who will now administer Bakwata property," Mataka added.
He said the Mufti`s decision to suspend the amendments meant that Bakwata now had no central committee, the organ charged with administrative and financial matters, according to the constitution.
Mataka expressed dismay over the safety of Bakwata property, saying it could easily fall in the hands of people out to enrich themselves, citing a case in which a Bakwata house along Bibi Titi Road in Dar es Salaam was allegedly clandestinely sold at 40m/- to a business tycoon.
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