DUAL CITIZENSHIP DOES NOT LEAD TO AUTOMATIC LOSS OF TANZANIAN CITIZENSHIP, THERE IS A DUE PROCESS THE INTERIOR MINISTER HAS TO RELIGIOUSLY FOLLOW!
Nothing in the citizenship laws there is a provision leading to automatic loss of citizenship once one renounces her citizenship by becoming a citizen of another country.
In fact, the interior minister needs to declare and register that declaration is what the law says..
The law promulgate a due process before one loses citizenship after renunciation.
Although the law is silent on the right to be heard before, citizenship rights are revoked, but since those rights are constitutional provided the interior minister is required to hear the dual citizens before renouncing their citizenship and registering that declaration.
To the best of our knowledge but we stand to be corrected such a laborious and tasking exercise is yet to be undertaken because the real reason behind citizenship renunciation is evidence of committing heinous crimes against the state purely on divided loyalty.
We have never had such a case so far, although politicians have been quick to stir the subject stoked by unfounded torn loyalty.
If the minister cannot establish a ground of treason or treachery or sabotage or quisling or espionage to abetting unfair advantage to an alien nation of which the suspect clutches dual citizenship and is found guilty then the minister in question has no justifiable ground to cause a hearing and make declaratory reliefs and registration of those decisions.
Without being criminally charged and found guilty of crimes provoked by torn loyalty the interior minister cannot be a judge of his own cause and make those declaration followed by registration of citizenship renunciation because he will not be able to establish how the Republic has suffered as a result of dual citizenship. Perceptions and wild imaginations never a sufficient cause to renounce citizenship on grounds of torn loyalty.
OUR TAKE.
Why does everybody presume automatic citizenship renunciation after acquisition of alien citizenship is very confounding to us, to put it mildly.
Is the dual citizenship case now snaking into our judicial corridors well founded in law. We think not.