At a press conference, the priests, led
by Dickson Kaganga from the Assemblies of God Church, said they were not
involved in any way in preparing the letter to the Pope and that
reports in the social media that they were part of the mission are
false.
“Everyone is free to write to the Pope,
and therefore we were not involved to write the letter to the Pope,”
said Bishop Kaganga, who was flanked by Bishop Michael Hafidh of the
Zanzibar Diocese of the Anglican Church of Tanzania.
It was widely reported last week that Mr
Hamad wrote a letter to the Pope, seeking intervention to the political
stalemate – as he maintains to have won the 2015 general elections
before the whole exercise was nullified by the Zanzibar Electoral
Commission (ZEC) Chairman, Mr Jecha Salim Jecha.
Meanwhile, Zanzibar President Ali
Mohamed Shein led hundreds of mourners in the burial of CCM cadre and
former Member of the House of Representatives Ramadhani Nyonje Pandu,
who passed away in Oman on transit back home from India where he went
for treatment.
The late Nyonje represented Muyuni Constituency in the Isles House before the 2010 elections
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