Lawmakers pay their last respects to Ukonga MP Eugene Mwaiposa at
Parliament grounds in Dodoma yesterday. Mwaiposa died in her sleep on
Monday night. PHOTO | EDWIN MJWAHUZI
By Alawi Masare
Posted Thursday, June 4 2015 at 08:11
Posted Thursday, June 4 2015 at 08:11
In Summary
“We must acknowledge that the late Mwaiposa won in a
very competitive constituency. Winning in Ukonga, a constituency within
the country’s commercial and political capital of Dar es Salaam, was
not an easy task” OPPOSITION MP TUNDU LISSU
Dodoma. MPs were united yesterday in paying their last respects to fellow lawmaker Eugene Mwaiposa.
Ms Mwaiposa (Ukonga-CCM), who was reported to have
a long history of high blood pressure, died in her sleep on Monday
night at her home in Dodoma, and her body was later yesterday taken to
Dar es Salaam, where she will be buried on Saturday.
Following her sudden death, Deputy Speaker Job
Ndugai postponed House business until today for MPs and other National
Assembly officials to pay their last respects at Parliament grounds.
Many MPs were overcome with emotion as they filed past the casket bearing Mwaiposa’s body.
CCM Special Seats MPs Al-Shaymaa Kwegyir and
Esther Bulaya were among lawmakers who had to be assisted after they
were overwhelmed by grief.
Mr Ndugai said the burial ceremony was delayed
until Saturday as the family was waiting for Ms Mwaiposa’s two children
from the UK and Canada.
“I wish to convey the condolences of the
Honourable Speaker of the National Assembly Anne Makinda, who is now
travelling back home from Switzerland after receiving this sad news.
Parliament has also donated Sh5 million to the family of our colleague,”
he said.
Mr Tundu Lissu, who spoke on behalf of the
Opposition, said the late Mwaiposa was aa notable lawmaker in that she
was among only 21 women MPs representing constituencies in Parliament.
“We must acknowledge that the late Mwaiposa won in
a very competitive constituency. Winning in Ukonga, a constituency
within the country’s commercial and political capital of Dar es Salaam,
was not an easy task,” said Mr Lissu, who is also the Opposition Chief
Whip in Parliament.
The chairperson of the Tanzania Women
Parliamentarians Group, Ms Anna Abdallah, described the late MP as an
affable and easy-going individual.
The late Mwaiposa is the second woman MP to have died since the tenth Parliament was elected in 2010.
Chadema Special Seats MP Regia Mtema died in January 2012 in a road accident.
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