Former Tanzanian MP Godbless Jonathan Lema. [Courtesy]
The crackdown on Tanzanian’s opposition has been intensified barely a week after President John Pombe Magufuli was sworn in for a second five-year term.
On Sunday the immediate former MP for Arusha Urban Constituency, Godbless Lema, who had served for two terms, was arrested at Ilbissil in Kajiado County after he and his family crossed over through the Namanga border.
Lema had left his home in a taxi accompanied his wife Neema Godbless, their three children and alighted at Namanga.
He said his wife presented documents to immigration officers who refused to stamp them unless she was accompanied by him.
Lema told The Standard when she called him he went to the immigration offices, he told the officers he did not have his passport with him and that he was not accompanying her and the children because she was just going to look for an international school.
The officials allowed the family to cross the border while Lema asked for permission to go and look for Kenyan currency to give to his wife.
As soon as he crossed the border he slipped into his lawyer’s car.
The lawyer, George Luchiri Wajackoyah, was monitoring the situation from the safety of the Kenya side and drove the fugitive MP out of the border town as soon as he and his family entered his car.
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