Thursday, October 31, 2013

KIKWETE TO JOIN UHURU MARATHON DECEMBER

President Jakaya Kikwete will be among competitors in Uhuru marathon expected to e staged in Dares Salaam on December 8, the event’s organizers have confirmed.


The event’s coordinator Innocent Melleck said President Kikwete will be given registration form number one before the Speaker of National Assembly Anne Makinda gets the second.

Kikwete like most of the big shots expected to turn out for the event will cover a distance of three kilometers.

Melleck also confirmed that CHADEMA’s chairman and MP for Hai constituency Freeman Mbowe is also lined up for the event.

So far the coordinator said registration forms are available and will be a special attraction at the Tanzanian Parliament building in Dodoma next week.

The registration forms are available at a price depending on the distance preferred by a competitor.

The bottom line for the event is to nurse the prevailing peace, enhance cooperation and solidarity in the country.
The first edition was staged last year.

Winner of December event will be entitled to 3.5m/-for the 42-kilometer race that has attracted other competent foreign athletes.

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