Bulesi,
Nakuwekea hapa habari za
Edward Mwangosi na
Job Lusinde
kama nilivyoandika katika kitabu changu :
The Founding of TANU in Central Province 1955:
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[TD]''...Tabora began to participate in active politics in 1945 when the African Association was introduced to the township from Dodoma through the efforts of
Edward Mwangosi.
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Mwangosi's stand was that Makererians were very important to the party as they would provide the required leadership.[/TD]
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[TD]A total of about forty people attended the meeting including the Makererians, among them Job Lusinde, later to become minister, and Amon Nsekela, later to hold important posts in the government including Tanzanias High Commission to Britain.
Hassan Suleiman and Ali Ponda did not turn up for the meeting.
While they were assembling for the meeting, the officer-in-charge of the Community Center told them that he had received orders from the District Commissioner that the meeting should be cancelled and people dispersed immediately.
Alexander Kanyamara who was a wealthy African in Dodoma and a personal friend of John Rupia, now TANU Vice-President, called for the postponement of the meeting because of the absence of Hassan Suleiman and Ali Ponda-the TAA top leadership in Dodoma.
Due to this reason and the intimidating order from the DC, the meeting was cancelled without fixing a date for another meeting.[/TD]
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[TD]The following morning Taratibu was arrested by the police and taken to the DCs office, the present Prime Ministers office.
Hassan Suleiman was there amicably chatting with the DC, Mr. Smith.
The DC started to interrogate Taratibu by asking him if he spoke English.
Taratibu replied that in the negative.
Speaking in English, Hassan Suleiman told the DC that he was the TANU secretary in Dodoma.
The DC Mr Smith accused Taratibu of forming an illegal organisation and for calling an unauthorized meeting at the Community Center the previous day which was likely to disrupt peace.
Without fear Taratibu replied that he had the mandate to call for a meeting because he was a member of a legally registered political party.
Taratibu fished out his black and green TANU card from his pocket and showed it to the DC. Mr. Smith asked Hassan Suleiman whether he too possessed a TANU card.
Hassan Suleiman had none.
Hassan Suleiman and the DC conversed in English for some time after which he asked both of them to write statements.
After writing his statement Taratibu was allowed to go home.
It is believed that at that time the only TANU members in Dodoma was Taratibu and Alexander Kanyamara who had bought his card in Dar es Salaam.[/TD]
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[TD]When the Makerere graduates, who
Mwangosi had put much faith in organizing the party, learned about Taratibus ordeal with the DC Mr Smith, they were scared.
They decided to lie low and continue with their academic pursuits at the Kikuyu Secondary School.
Haruna Taratibu and Omari Suleiman now decided to change tactics; they called for a secret meeting at night in the house of Swedi bin Athman.
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The meeting decided that Taratibu should go to TANU headquarters in Dar es Salaam and talk to Julius Nyerere himself on the problems facing TANU in Dodoma.
Mahdi Mwinchumu who was TANU member in Dar es Salaam volunteered to accompany Taratibu to the party headquarters since he was known by the leadership there.
Said Musa, another member of the secret committee, also volunteered to accompany Taratibu and Mwinchumu to Dar es Salaam.
On departure day,
Job Lusinde went to see the secret delegation off at the railway station.
Lusinde told the delegation that Makererians were in support of all the decisions taken by the secret committee.[/TD]
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Bwana Bulesi,
Ikiwa hujatosheka na habari hizi nifahamishe.
[1] Another version of the founding of TANU in Dodoma is that a meetimg of other patriots was called
in which Seif Waziri Kasembo attended in the house of Salim Omari, who was also present, together
with Fulka Mwinchumu Kinyozi, Swedi Athmani Kagulu, Bakari Omari, Fundi Issa, Mzee Magwila, Manywele
Bushiri, Mzee Ibrahim Sururu Mahusi Selemani, Omari Selemani, Nassoro Mussa, Athmani Nyange and others.
It seems there was rivalry between the two groups because in a paper made available to the author by Seif
Waziri Kasembo it is stated that Haruna Taratibu assumed leadership in Party affairs without the consent of
other patriots. Interesting is the fact that some of the names mentioned by Kasembo appear in both Taratibu
and Suleiman's narration. But the two groups, that of Taratibu and that of Kasembo, came to accommodate
each other because eventually, after office bearers had been elected, Kasembo provided his house as the first
TANU office in Dodoma. Kasembo's father, Waziri Kasembo, was once president of the African Association in
Dodoma.
