The physique of Ali Mohamed Kibao, who was dragged off a bus by gunmen, was discovered with indicators of getting been overwhelmed, Chadema says.
An preliminary investigation into the killing of a senior opposition official in Tanzania has discovered he was overwhelmed and doused with acid, his social gathering says.
The physique of Ali Mohamed Kibao, a member of the secretariat of the primary opposition social gathering Chadema, was discovered on Saturday, a day after two gunmen pressured him off a bus heading from Dar es Salaam to the northeastern port metropolis of Tanga, social gathering chairman Freeman Mbowe stated on Sunday.
“He [preliminary] “A autopsy has been carried out and it’s evident that Ali Kibao was killed after being severely overwhelmed and even having acid poured on his face,” Mbowe advised reporters, including {that a} full post-mortem report was anticipated on Monday.
“We can’t enable our folks to proceed disappearing or being killed on this manner,” he stated.
He added that a number of different social gathering officers had additionally disappeared, with out giving particulars.
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan stated she had ordered an investigation into Kibao’s “assassination.”
“Our nation is democratic and each citizen has the proper to reside. The federal government I lead doesn’t tolerate such brutal acts,” he wrote on X, providing his condolences to his household, pals and social gathering leaders.
Police stated they had been investigating the “tragic incident.”
Mbowe urged the president to kind a judicial fee to research the abductions and Kibao’s homicide, including that the police had been among the many suspects within the case.
Kibao’s demise comes a month after police arrested and briefly detained greater than 500 Chadema supporters and senior leaders throughout a gathering.
Worldwide rights group Amnesty Worldwide had described the mass arrests in August as a “deeply worrying signal” within the run-up to native elections in December and basic elections subsequent yr.
Hassan has taken some steps to ease restrictions on the media and the opposition since coming to energy in 2021.
However human rights teams and authorities opponents have expressed fears that the current crackdown on the opposition may sign a return to the repressive insurance policies of Hassan’s predecessor, the late President John Magufuli.