![]() The one thing that took me by surprise and which was very good was my reception on arrival in Dar Es Salaam. ![]() So I go back in the midst of all this fear, in the midst of all this worry that I would be arrested or worse, but I went anyway. Of course I feared the worst, I did not fear arrests as much as I feared someone trying to have a go at me again after the unsuccessful assassination attempt on 7 September 2017. READ MORE Tanzania’s Tundu Lissu: ‘I’m a child of Nyerere’s socialism’ So in the course of my treatment, my hospitalisation during these three years I did not turn up in court, and therefore there were all sorts of threats that I had skipped court that in the meantime I was stripped of my parliamentary seat, so there were threats that should I go back Tanzania, I would be arrested. So I had a lots of cases in court, and I left these – of course in the circumstances I left, I did not have time to say goodbye to anyone, to the court and whatever. Prior to the shooting, I had been arrested and charged in court with this or that sedition offence or other free-speech offences eight times. I was taken out of the country after the shooting, but I left behind numerous criminal cases that I was facing. As you may know, I had been out of Tanzania for about three years trying to recover from the bloody assassination attempt against me on 7 September 2017. Tundu Lissu: I think before talking about the obstacles that I faced, I must first give a bit of a background to the return. Can you explain really, since you returned to Tanzania in July, what happened as you were getting ready for the presidential campaign? What sort of obstacles you faced as you tried to register and run a campaign against the incumbent John Magufuli? The Africa Report: Against many people’s advice, it really did put you at risk of life and limb given the circumstances, you went back, you then stood for the presidency but we saw a really disruptive campaign, lots of restrictions on your ability to campaign. ![]()
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