KUTOKA JF: JOSEPH KIMALANDO 1957

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   JokaKuu,
   Nilikuahidi kisa cha Joseph Kimalando.
   
   ‘’…I was able to convince Hamza Aziz and Iddi Mwajasho to attend the Machame meeting in which Nyerere spoke. Hamza Aziz and Mwajasho were young police officers stationed at the Police Training College. After this meeting the two were reprimanded by the government for getting involved in politics contrary to service regulations. In organising the Machame meeting I had earned for myself the wrath of the colonial administration.
   
   Soon after this meeting I was arrested for allegedly taking bribes. One day a white officer and an African Inspector walked into my office and arrested me. There was no evidence to back the allegations. I was suspended and taken to court for on trumped up corruption charges. One of the people who was used by the government to frame me was Joseph Kimalando, one of the TANU founding members from Northern Province. I had crossed swords with Kimalando when we were transforming TAA into TANU at the headquarters. I had backed Yusuf Olotu and other patriots and advised them to side-line him and register the new party. Kimalando although was among the founders of TANU in Dar es Salaam, once back in Moshi he Kimalando refused to register the party in Kilimanjaro.
   
   Reports reaching TANU headquarters were that Kimalando was collaborating with the colonial government to frustrate registration of the party. He was ousted from the party and he joined UTP.
   
   

   

   
   

   
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   Sheikh Hussein Juma Vice President United
   Tanganyika Party (UTP)
   
   Kimalando was a seasoned politician having been in politics since the early days of the African Association. Kimalando He claimed to be among the founder members of the Association together with Sheikh Hussein Juma who was later to be Vice President of the United Tanganyika Party, UTP, an opposition party formed by the British to oppose TANU. When I was transferred to Moshi from Korogwe in 1957 Kimalando, then outside the main stream of the struggle and a member of the UTP, framed me against the government.
   
   

   

   
   

   
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   Bi Mruguru bint Mussa
   
   My mother, Bi. Mruguru bint Mussa and my brother Abdulwahid contacted Al Noor Kassum recently returned from studies in Britain where he had studied law to defend me. Our parents had known each other in Dar es Salaam for many years. My father in his early business carrier career had tried to join the Chamber of Commerce, which was dominated by Indians at that time. My father could not fit in that all Indian organisation and left to form his own African Traders Association, which was short-lived. It is during that period at the Chamber of Commerce that he came to be acquainted with Al Noor Kassums’s father.
   
   Al Noor Kassum flew to Moshi by a Dakota plane of the East African Airways from Dar es Salaam and appeared in court the following day. The two policemen who had arrested me did not appear in court but the magistrate asked the prosecutor to proceed with the case. Kassum objected to that and insisted that the two police officers who had made the arrest must appear as witnesses. For some unknown reasons the prosecution was not very keen to have the two policemen interrogated by my defence council and the magistrate had no choice but to dismiss methe case. By then I had been suspended from work for six months. I was given four months leave from work and I used this opportunity to go to Accra to attend Ghana’s independence celebrations in 1957.''
   
   (From Under The Shadow of British Colonialism: The Life of Ally Sykes by Ally Sykes and Mohamed Said). Unpublished.
   

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