Tanzania opposition member ‘kidnapped’, party says

DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania´s opposition ACT Wazalendo party said that the country´s security forces had on Sunday “kidnapped” the head of the party youth wing.

The alleged abduction of Abdul Nondo came days after the governing Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party won a landslide in local elections that some opposition groups said were rigged.

ACT Wazalendo said Nondo was seized at a bus station outside Dar es Salaam while returning from Kigoma in eastern Tanzania following the local polls on Wednesday.

During the campaign he accused the police and immigration services of staging illegal arrests by claiming targets were not Tanzanian citizens.

“Nondo was kidnapped by three people whom we believe are police officers or some other security agents who were waiting for him outside the bus terminal,” Mbarala Maharagande, the party´s deputy secretary for human rights and civic representation, told reporters.