CUF ELECT MP DIES AT MUHIMBILI

Civic United Front (CUF) member, Ms Hindu Mwenda 

Dar es Salaam. Civic United Front (CUF) member, Ms Hindu Mwenda, who was among eight members picked to fill posts of Special Seats Members of Parliament, has died.

CUF Deputy secretary general, Ms Magdalena Sakaya confirmed that Ms Hindu died

Friday evening at her home, Kibada in Kigamboni district. She will be burred tomorrow at the Kisutu Cemetery, Ilala municipal.

Ms Hindu dies only days before her swearing as MP when the Parliament opens for business on September 5 in Dodoma.

Ms Sakaya described the former MP elect as hard working and honest to the party and she was already ready to serve the party in any assignment.

She was among the members who actively participated in the building of the party since 1990’s.

“She was so popular in her home region of Tabora. I have no words to correct depict her character but she was a person with good heart and ready to serve the country at the best of her capability,” said Ms  Sakaya, adding that Ms Hindu had stomach complications.

She was among the eight special seats MPs appointed by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) on the end of July to fill the vacancies left by the CUF MPs whose memberships were nullified by the party.