Tanzania to Investigate Incident When Gun Was Pointed At Ex-Minister
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Tanzania's home affairs minister ordered an investigation after a gun was pointed yesterday at the sacked information minister to stop him from addressing the media.
A plain clothes security officer pointed a gun at Nape Nnaye, who had earlier been sacked by President John Magafuli.
On his official Facebook page, Information Minister Nchemba said the inspector general of police should use the footage circulating online to identify the officer involved.
"Nape Mosses Nnauye is not a thug, he is a Tanzanian member of parliament with no criminal record."
Pointing a gun at him is not an act of professionalism, not Tanzanian and not Godly. And if this man was able to do that in front of cameras I can't imagine what he could have done [elsewhere]."
The information minister's sacking followed his decision to launch an investigation into a powerful regional commissioner, who was filmed storming into the offices of a private media outlet in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam to complain over its coverage of a story.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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