Prime Minister
Mizengo Pinda
By Salma Said, Zanzibar
Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda yesterday came under heavy criticism in the Zanzibar House of Representatives over his recent remarks on the Isles sovereignty.
Members from both the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), and the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) disagreed with Mr Pinda´s interpretation of the issue and demanded that the Zanzibar Government clarify their country´s status.
The minister of State in the Chief Minister´s Office, Mr Hamza Hassan Juma, was among those angered by Mr Pinda´s remark that Zanzibar is not an independent country outside the Union Government within which it can only exercise its sovereignty.
Mr Juma warned that people issuing statements that undermine Zanzibar would come to regret it. Zanzibar, he added, was a state like any other in the world.
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