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AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> Like refugees running from a war-torn country, four Tanzanian opposition leaders\u00a0who sneaked through the Kenyan borders to Nairobi did many things except one; looking back.<\/p>\n

The four members of the Party for Democracy and Progress (CHADEMA), Ngai Kagose, Lazaro Godwin, Edward Ndege, and Andrew Nyakiriga took different paths here but what is similar is the plight they claim to have faced in their motherland.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I left the meeting where my colleague was killed, I ran for the border at night. I couldn\u2019t take my family and I haven\u2019t seen them since I left my country,\u201d recalls Lazaro Godwin, a councillor who served Mkomo ward from 2010 to 2015.<\/p>\n

Their plight is clearly demonstrated by rising cases of people being arrested and locked in by police officers for questioning President John Pombe Magufuli\u2019s whereabouts for the last few days before the government announced his death yesterday.<\/p>\n

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The fifth President of the United Republic of Tanzania the late John Pombe Magufuli.<\/strong> \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For three weeks now,\u00a0Magufuli had skipped\u00a0his customary almost daily appearance in public after speculations arose over his health and capacity to lead the country. However, such claims can be made anywhere in the world except in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice cells are full of people just because they are asking about the president\u2019s health. That\u2019s why you can\u2019t see anything in Tanzanian media,\u201d said Godwin. Ngai Kagose remembers how they were attacked by police and members of Chama cha Mapinduzi while holding a meeting and one of their colleagues Nyatega Wenje was killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to run and days later hide inside a truck ferrying cattle to Suba Kuria to get to Kenya. I don\u2019t even know the state of my family and children,\u201d says Kagose.<\/p>\n

Even though the president was missing from\u00a0the public, his iron fist continued squeezing tight opposition politicians who complained of widespread election fraud in last year\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n

The leaders are in the process of registering with the refugee affairs secretariat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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