IT’S Kibiti again! The nation woke up yesterday to infuriating news of people whose identities and motives remain veiled gunned down two local leaders, bringing the death toll in Coast Region to over 40.
Police confirmed the incident early
yesterday, hinting that the law enforcers were dispatched to the scene
of the incident. The latest killings have come amid strong condemnation
of the gutless murders by top government and religious leaders as well
as members of the public.
The homicides started nearly two years
ago, targeting local leaders and police officers. Coast Regional Police
Commander (RPC), Onesmo Lyanga confirmed the assassinations, naming the
deceofficer, Shamte Makawa and the chairman Maiko Nicholaus.
Earlier information from the scene had
it that the assailants also gorged Nicholaus’s eyes and set on fire the
houses of their prey after the shooting.
“True, the incident has happened and I’m
right now at the scene for the preliminary investigations, so I cannot
go into details,” the RPC told the ‘Daily News’ on a phone interview
yesterday morning.
So far, some 37 people, mostly local
government leaders, CCM cadres and police officers, have been killed in
Kibiti, Mkuranga and Rufiji districts in Coast Region since the killings
started.
Meanwhile, the opposition ACTWAZALENDO
party yesterday condemned what it described as saddening and senseless
killings in the Coast Region’s Mkuranga, Kibiti and Rufiji districts.
ACT-WAZALENDO Leader Zitto Kabwe raised
concern over murders, saying: “We need to unite as a country on this
serious matter … the ongoing killings should not be left to continue ...
the nation should come in one voice against the barbaric acts.’’
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