Tundu Lissu’s personal assistant, abducted in Dar-es-salaam
David Joseph Mghanja, who is the personal assistant of Tanzania's top opposition leader, Tundu Lissu was abducted, taken away, tortured and beaten up in Dar-es-salaam, before managing to escape by sheer luck.
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David Joseph Mghanja, who is the personal assistant of Tanzania’s top opposition leader, Tundu Lissu was abducted, taken away, tortured and beaten up in Dar-es-salaam, before managing to escape by sheer luck.
Speaking of the incident, the deputy Secretary General of the Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) the main opposition party, Amani Golugwa said Mghanja was accosted by a team of people who identified themselves as members of the Police and took him away by force from a car he was riding in.
“We reported the issue to the police but instead of them looking for the abducted person they came to the party office and alleged that Mghanja was actually hiding in the premises,” said Golugwa.
Mghanja, also known as Djumbe, who was clearly destined for death, reportedly managed to escape by sheer luck after some motorcycle riders who were pursuing the vehicle which had captured him somehow scared the abductors.
Mghanja was abducted at the time when his boss, Tundu Lissu, the chairperson of CHADEMA, is still under prison custody.
As they stopped the vehicle, got out and started shooting on the air in an attempt to discourage the motorcycle riders from their hot pursuit, David slipped out and dragged himself into the nearby thickest
Djumbe was later reported to be at his home, badly injured and still handcuffed and according to Golugwa the nation is under siege and nobody in Tanzania is safe anymore.
“He was badly beaten up, and has deep wounds on the head,” Golugwa maintained.
A police statement which was later released from the central Dar-es-salaam district, revealed that Djumbe was abducted in the Bunju area of the city, when a black car, a Toyota Wish with plate registration numbers T 609 DTD in which he was reportedly a passenger.
This car was stopped by the unknown people who then cuffed Lissu’s assistant, bundled him in their own vehicle and sped off.
The owner of the car in which the victim was earlier on riding in was identified as Allan Elisonguo Macha who also reported the incident to the police afterwards.
Anyway, so far, the police in Dar-es-salaam claim to be investigating the incident.
