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ALLY SYKES, JULIUS NYERERE, ALLY MWINYI TAMBWE NA BI. MAIDA SPRINGER MOSHI 1957
Kutoka mswada wa Ally Sykes, ''Under the Shadow of British Colonialism The Autobiography of Ally Kleist Sykes.''
Kama niliyotangulia kueleza kuwa nilikutana na Bi. Meida Springer katika Nyaraka za Sykes.
Maida Springer alipotoka Zanzibar alipokuwa na Nyerere na Zuberi Mtemvu alikwenda na Nyerere Moshi ambako Ally Sykes alikuwa amepelekwa kama uhamisho baada ya TANU kuundwa mwaka wa 1954.
Uhamisho huu ulikuwa kumuadhibu kwa ajili ya harakati zake katika kuunda TANU na kupigani uhuru wa Tanganyika.
Msikilize Ally Sykes akieleza yaiyomfika alipokuwa Moshi:
In Moshi I renewed my contact with my friend Chief Thomas Marealle.
I had known Marealle since late 1940s when I joined the Labour Department.
I was voted in as TAGSA secretary Marealle as president in 1951.
I stayed with Marealle at his house in Kiboroloni and then after I had settled he made his town house available to me.
I organised a meeting at Machame Girls School in which Nyerere came to give a speech accompanied by an American woman Maida Springer and Ali Mwinyi Tambwe.
Maida Springer was from the labour movement in the USA.
I was able to convince Hamza Aziz and Iddi Mwajasho to attend the Machame meeting in which Nyerere spoke. Hamza Aziz and Mwajasho were young police officers stationed at the Police Training College.
After this meeting the two were reprimanded by the government for getting involved in politics contrary to service regulations. In organising the Machame meeting I had earned for myself the wrath of the colonial administration.
Soon after this meeting I was arrested for allegedly taking bribes.
One day a white officer and an African Inspector walked into my office and arrested me.
There was no evidence to the allegations.
I was suspended and taken to court for trump up corruption charges.
One of the people who was used by the government to frame me was Joseph Kimalando one of the TANU founding members from Northern Province.
I had crossed swords with Kimalando when we were transforming TAA into TANU when we at the headquarters backed Yusuf Olotu and other patriots and advised them to sideline him and register the new party.
Kimalando although was among founders of TANU in Dar es Salaam, once back in Moshi he refused to register the party in Kilimanjaro.
Reports reaching TANU headquarters were that Kimalando was collaborating with the colonial government to frustrate registration of the party.
He was ousted from the party and he joined UTP. Kimalando was a seasoned politician having been in politics since the early days of the African Association.
Kimalando claimed to be among the founder members of the Association together with Sheikh Hussein Juma who was later to be Vice President of the United Tanganyika Party (UTP), an opposition party formed by the British to oppose TANU.
When I was transferred to Moshi from Korogwe in 1957 Kimalando then outside the main stream of the struggle and a member of the UTP framed me against the government.
My mother and Abdulwahid contacted Annur Kassum recently returned from studies in Britain where he had studied law to defend me.
Our parents had known each other in Dar es Salaam for many years.
My father in his early business carrier had tried to join the Chamber of Commerce, which was dominated by Indians at that time.
My father could not fit in that all Indian organisation and left to form his own African Traders Association, which was short, lived.
It is during that period at the Chamber of Commerce that he came to be acquainted with Annur Kassums’s father.
Annur Kassum flew to Moshi by Dakota plane of the East African Airways and appeared in court the following day.
The two policemen who had arrested me did not appear in court but the magistrate asked the prosecutor to proceed with the case. Kassum objected to that and insisted that the two police officers who had made the arrest must appear as witnesses.
For some unknown reasons the prosecution was not very keen to have the two policemen interrogated by my defence council and the magistrate had no choice but to dismiss me.
By then I had been suspended for six months.
I was given four months leave from work and I used this opportunity to go to Accra to attend Ghana’s independence celebrations in 1957.
PICHA: Ally Sykes na Julius Nyerere 1958, Hamza Aziz alipohitimu John Hopkins University, Washington, Mangi Mkuu Thomas Mrealle na mkewe walipohudhuria sherehe za uhuru wa Ghana mwaka wa 1957.
Kutoka mswada wa Ally Sykes, ''Under the Shadow of British Colonialism The Autobiography of Ally Kleist Sykes.''
Kama niliyotangulia kueleza kuwa nilikutana na Bi. Meida Springer katika Nyaraka za Sykes.
Maida Springer alipotoka Zanzibar alipokuwa na Nyerere na Zuberi Mtemvu alikwenda na Nyerere Moshi ambako Ally Sykes alikuwa amepelekwa kama uhamisho baada ya TANU kuundwa mwaka wa 1954.
Uhamisho huu ulikuwa kumuadhibu kwa ajili ya harakati zake katika kuunda TANU na kupigani uhuru wa Tanganyika.
Msikilize Ally Sykes akieleza yaiyomfika alipokuwa Moshi:
In Moshi I renewed my contact with my friend Chief Thomas Marealle.
I had known Marealle since late 1940s when I joined the Labour Department.
I was voted in as TAGSA secretary Marealle as president in 1951.
I stayed with Marealle at his house in Kiboroloni and then after I had settled he made his town house available to me.
I organised a meeting at Machame Girls School in which Nyerere came to give a speech accompanied by an American woman Maida Springer and Ali Mwinyi Tambwe.
Maida Springer was from the labour movement in the USA.
I was able to convince Hamza Aziz and Iddi Mwajasho to attend the Machame meeting in which Nyerere spoke. Hamza Aziz and Mwajasho were young police officers stationed at the Police Training College.
After this meeting the two were reprimanded by the government for getting involved in politics contrary to service regulations. In organising the Machame meeting I had earned for myself the wrath of the colonial administration.
Soon after this meeting I was arrested for allegedly taking bribes.
One day a white officer and an African Inspector walked into my office and arrested me.
There was no evidence to the allegations.
I was suspended and taken to court for trump up corruption charges.
One of the people who was used by the government to frame me was Joseph Kimalando one of the TANU founding members from Northern Province.
I had crossed swords with Kimalando when we were transforming TAA into TANU when we at the headquarters backed Yusuf Olotu and other patriots and advised them to sideline him and register the new party.
Kimalando although was among founders of TANU in Dar es Salaam, once back in Moshi he refused to register the party in Kilimanjaro.
Reports reaching TANU headquarters were that Kimalando was collaborating with the colonial government to frustrate registration of the party.
He was ousted from the party and he joined UTP. Kimalando was a seasoned politician having been in politics since the early days of the African Association.
Kimalando claimed to be among the founder members of the Association together with Sheikh Hussein Juma who was later to be Vice President of the United Tanganyika Party (UTP), an opposition party formed by the British to oppose TANU.
When I was transferred to Moshi from Korogwe in 1957 Kimalando then outside the main stream of the struggle and a member of the UTP framed me against the government.
My mother and Abdulwahid contacted Annur Kassum recently returned from studies in Britain where he had studied law to defend me.
Our parents had known each other in Dar es Salaam for many years.
My father in his early business carrier had tried to join the Chamber of Commerce, which was dominated by Indians at that time.
My father could not fit in that all Indian organisation and left to form his own African Traders Association, which was short, lived.
It is during that period at the Chamber of Commerce that he came to be acquainted with Annur Kassums’s father.
Annur Kassum flew to Moshi by Dakota plane of the East African Airways and appeared in court the following day.
The two policemen who had arrested me did not appear in court but the magistrate asked the prosecutor to proceed with the case. Kassum objected to that and insisted that the two police officers who had made the arrest must appear as witnesses.
For some unknown reasons the prosecution was not very keen to have the two policemen interrogated by my defence council and the magistrate had no choice but to dismiss me.
By then I had been suspended for six months.
I was given four months leave from work and I used this opportunity to go to Accra to attend Ghana’s independence celebrations in 1957.
PICHA: Ally Sykes na Julius Nyerere 1958, Hamza Aziz alipohitimu John Hopkins University, Washington, Mangi Mkuu Thomas Mrealle na mkewe walipohudhuria sherehe za uhuru wa Ghana mwaka wa 1957.
