BREAKING: Top Politician Found Dead With A¢id Poured On Him, Video
Ally Kibao, an abducted member of the secretariat of the main opposition CHADEMA party in Tanzania has been found dead.
According to Reuters, Kibao’s death was confirmed by his party, which said his lifeless body was found with acid poured on his face.
The deceased was abducted from a bus by armed men and his corpse was found on the outskirts of the commercial capital Dar es Salaam with signs of being severely beaten by his abductors.
CHADEMA chairman Freeman Mbowe told journalists late on Sunday that Kibao’s body was found on Saturday morning a day after his abduction.
The killing of Ally Kibao may taint the reformist image of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who has tried to ease repression since succeeding John Magafuli who died in office three years ago.
“The (preliminary) post-mortem has been done and it is obvious that Ally Kibao has been killed after being severely beaten and even having acid poured on his face,” Mbowe said, adding that a full autopsy report would be completed on Monday.
President Hassan said she had ordered an investigation into what she described as Kibao’s assassination.
“Our country is democratic and every citizen has the right to live. The government I lead does not tolerate such brutal acts,” she wrote on X on Sunday.
Police said in a statement they were investigating the “tragic incident”.
Mbowe urged the president to form a judicial commission to investigate abductions and the killing of Kibao. According to Mbowe, the police are among the suspects in the case.
Kibao’s death comes a month after police arrested and briefly detained more than 500 CHADEMA supporters, including their top leadership, as they attempted to gather for a meeting of the party’s youth wing in the southwest of the country.
