Haya habari nyingine ndiyo hizo.. Inadaiwa mbunge wa Arusha Mjini Felix Mrema naye amekamatwa tangu jana usiku na TAKUKURU kwa kudaiwa kuhusika na vitendo vya rushwa (japo kama kawaida hajakamatwa akitoa) yaani amekutwa na "paraphenalia ya rushwa" vitu kama:
bahasha zenye fedha
kadi feki za CCM
shahada za kura n.k
Daily News
AS more CCM aspirants for the race to parliament have fallen on the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) trap, the party has said it was highly impressed, so far, by efforts in fighting the vice in the ongoing election campaigns.
CCM Secretary General Yussuf Makamba said in Dar es Salaam on Thursday that the party would be surprised if PCCB would not detain any of their members in this campaigning season.
Mr Makamba said this in reaction to a number of incidents whereby senior government officials and seasoned politicians were nabbed on suspicion of bribing party members to win votes.
Meanwhile, PCCB has said that the anti-corruption crusade in the campaigns targets no one.
In an exclusive interview with the ‘Daily News' in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, PCCB Director General, Dr Edward Hosea, said politicians who have been nabbed should keep quiet as there was incriminating evidence on the allegations.
"Can these people have the nerve to claim that such evidence was fabricated against them? They are just looking for excuse, but the reality is that one should not give or take bribe," he said.
Meanwhile, MARC NKWAME from Arusha reports that the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Arusha Urban Mr Felix Christopher Mrema, was nabbed by the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) on Wednesday night allegedly for bribing party members.
The head of PCCB in Arusha region, Mr Akida Ayoub, confirmed here that Mr Mrema was arrested along 21 other CCM members in a residential house at Olamuriaki area at Sombetini about an hour before midnight.
The suspects were interviewed for seven hours and released on bail at about 6.00am on Thursday. The MP has since resumed his party nomination campaigns but his phone remained off-air all day.
"PCCB earlier on got a tip-off about suspicious meeting of party members that night and when officers went round the suspected house they came across a meeting which confirmed an unusual set-up," said Mr Ayoub.
The ‘suspicious environment' which PCCB claimed to have found include the meeting of 22 people in a house late at night, seven ten-cell leaders at the same venue and three envelopes con¬taining 115,000/- equally in each of them.
"We also found 25 CCM membership cards inside a bag which was in the person of the area party secretary, Ms Shamsi Cyril Mwacha, who was among the people gathered in the house¬hold," said Mr Ayoub, adding that there were some other suspects outside the building but escaped after seeing strangers arriving.
Some of the CCM cards bore neither holders' names nor photos even though they were signed and stamped. The MP, however, was found with nothing.
The ten-cell leaders arrested along the MP were; Paul Mollel, Jacob Mweta, Boniface Mweu, Cyprian Mwamba, Abdallah Gege, Mama Sara, and Shamsi Mwacha, who is the party secretary for Kirika CCM branch and who was allegedly found with the said envelopes as well as the CCM cards.
Others who got nabbed by the PCCB are Bakari Issa, Abdalla Juma Omar, Shaibu Hassan Waziri, Asha Juma, Monica Michael Nzota, Kolumba Hassan Mariri, Julius Yohana Laizer, Alex Kisioki, Waziri Kibuno, Dickson Miambi, Elias Kileo, Peter Ongiri and Fatuma Mohammed Al.