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ATI? WATANZANIA WANATAMANI KUWA WAMAREKANI !!! WATUULIZE TULIOFIKA NA KUISHI HUKO !!!

2011-11-08T18:24:00.000-08:00

Watanzania wanatamani kuwa Wamarekani
Saturday, 05 November 2011 21:31

Na Assumpta Nalitolela, Gazeti la Mwananchi, Tanzania.

KUIGA kutoka kwa mtu aliyefanikiwa ni jambo jema, tena linakubalika pale ambapo mbinu safi zilizomfanya mhusika afanikiwe, ndizo zinazoigwa. Hivyo hata katika biashara, mtu anatakiwa ailinganishe biashara yake na ile yenye mafanikio na aangalie ni kipi anaweza kuiga na kukiingiza kwake ili naye apate mafanikio.

Vijana wanaaswa waige kutoka kwa watu wazima ambao wamekuwa na mafanikio ili nao wafuate nyayo. Hivyo kuiga kupo na ni jambo jema. Kwa kulikazia hilo kuna msemo kwamba ‘‘kwanini uhangaike kuunda gurudumu wakati tayari kuna mtu aliyekwisha liunda?’’ Huko ni kupoteza raslimali muda ambayo inahitajika sana kwa mambo mengine ambayo katika dunia hii yapo mengi.

Hivyo kuiga kwa ajili ya maendeleo mimi hakunisumbui, kinachosumbua moyo wangu ni kuiga kulikopitiliza kiasi kwamba mtu anatamani sio tu kuiga bali awe nakala ya huyo mtu anayemuiga. Kama ni suala la mtu moja moja tunaweza kusema mtu anaiga kwa kiasi ambacho anatamani kuwa nakala ya mtu mwingine, hiyo ni kumkosoa Mungu kwa kukuumba kama ulivyo.

Sijui tusemeje kama ni taifa ndilo linalotamani kuwa taifa jingine katika nchi yake yenyewe. Hapa ndipo tulipofikia Watanzania. Tunapenda kuwa Wamarekani tukiwa ndani ya Tanzania. Hali hii ipo toka kwa wasomi mpaka wasioingia darasani, taasisi binafsi mpaka zile za umma, wasanii mpaka wale wa fani zingine. Tulitafakari hili.

Sarafu ni alama moja wapo inayotambulisha taifa. Matumizi ya sarafu katika biashara kwa wakazi wa mahali fulani yanamuongoza mtu kusema kwa uhakikia kwamba, yupo kati ya watu wa taifa fulani.

Hivyo kama ni Shilingi ya Kenya, anajua kwamba yuko ndani ya mipaka ya Kenya. Kama ataigundua kuwa ni Shilingi ya Tanzania basi atajua yuko ndani ya mipaka ya Tanzania.

Umezuka mtindo ambao unakera kweli kweli; na nashukuru umma wa Watanzania umeanza kuupigia kelele, nao ni baadhi ya watu au taasisi kudai malipo kwa Dola ya Marekani badala ya shilingi kwa bidhaa na huduma wanazotoa. Hivi bila aibu mtu au taasisi inamdai Mtanzania kulipia bidhaa au huduma kwa dola katika nchi ya Tanzania, azitoe wapi na yuko kwenye uchumi wa shilingi?

Cha ajabu, haya yanafanywa hata na vitengo vya vyuo na shule ambako ulitegemea kuna wasomi wenye kuelewa vizuri kwamba sarafu ya nchi hii ni shilingi na kwamba ni shilingi ndio inayotakiwa kulindwa kwa sababu ndio yetu.

Shilingi ndio inayotutambulisha utaifa wetu. Sasa hata wasomi wanapokataa kuipokea maana yake nini? Kwamba tuingie kwenye mchakato wa kubadilisha sarafu ili tutumie Dola ya Marekani na Benki Kuu yetu iwe hiyo ya Marekani? Wasomi hawa wanatambua kwamba kudai kwao malipo kwa dola kunazidi kuizorotesha shilingi, cha ajabu hili haliwasumbui.

Natambua uimara wa dola na utamu wake katika biashara kwa mtu anayeipokea lakini hiyo sio yetu. Tutafute mbinu za kuimarisha ya kwetu. Kuibeza pesa yetu kwa kuwa ni hafifu, ni sawa na mtoto kumbeza baba yake kwa kuwa hali yake hailingani na baba wa nyumba jirani.

Jambo lingine linaloonesha matamanio yetu ya kuwa Wamarekani ni mahangaiko ya vijana wetu ya kuwa na lafudhi ya Kimarekani na kuikataa ya makabila ya Kitanzania. Lafudhi hujengeka katika matamshi ya mtu kwa muda mrefu sana. Mtu hujengeka kwa lafudhi ya jamii inayomzunguka kipindi anachokua. Hivyo akikuzwa katika mazingira ambayo watu wanazungumza kwa lafudhi ya Kihaya ya kwake pia itakuwa ya Kihaya, vivyo hivyo Kinyakyusa, Kingoni nk. Baada ya kujengeka sio rahisi kutoka.

Lafudhi sio kitu kibaya, hiki ni kitambulisho cha jamii aliyotoka mtu. Kuikataa lafudhi ni kuikana jamii iliyomkuza. Vijana wanahangaika kutumia lafudhi ya Kimarekani wakati wanapoongea Kiingereza kiasi kwamba wanaishia kumung’unya maneno, yasiyoeleweka.

Hawaeleweki kwa sababu wanajaribu kuzungumza kwa namna ambayo sio wao. Lafudhi ya mtu ipo palepale haijalishi kama mtu huyo anaongea Kiswahili, Kingereza, Kichaga nk. Hivyo mtu anapojaribu kuibadilisha kwa kuwa tu anaongea lugha ya mtu mwingine, lazima itampa shida, na ataishia kuchekesha watu.

Uigizwaji wa lafudhi tunawaachia wasanii katika michezo ya kuigiza kwani lengo lao ni kutuchekesha. Kwa lafudhi yako mtu unajulikana unatokea upande upi wa dunia, kwa lafudhi yako unapendeza, kwa lafudhi yako mtu unajiamini zaidi unapoongea, lakini kwa lafudhi ya mtu mwingine unachekesha na hueleweki. Yanini mtu uishie kuwa kichekesho wakati hiyo haikuwa nia yako?

Tunatamani kuwa Wamarekani mpaka tunapeperusha bendera yao katika nchi yetu. Kama ilivyo kwa sarafu, bendera pia ni alama ya taifa. Tanzania tunapeperusha bendera ya Marekani kwa kubandika kwenye mikokoteni, kuvaa kama vilemba, kuibandika kwenye daladala, kuitangaza kwenye fulana tunazovaa.

Hiyo ni kutamani kuwa Wamarekani , hiyo ni kasoro kubwa sana kwenye taifa letu ambalo tunasherehekea miaka 50 ya kuwa huru. Miaka 50 ya kuwa na bendera yetu wenyewe ambayo sasa tunaikana na kutamani kupeperusha ile ya Marekani.

Haya ni machache tu yanayoashiria kulikana taifa letu la Tanzania. Ukweli nchi yetu ni maskini na ni ukweli tuna kasoro nyingi za hapa na pale zinazorudisha maendeleo ya nchi nyuma, lakini kusahihisha kwake sio kwa kuikana kwa kuendelea kuzorotesha uchumi kwa kutumia sarafu isiyo yetu, au kwa kutumia lafudhi isiyo yetu au kwa kuukana uhuru wetu kwa kupeperusha bendera isiyo yetu.

Tuchangie kwa kuhakikisha nasi tunakuwa taifa ambalo wengi wa watu wake wanaishi maisha yenye neema. Tukosoane, tuwajibike na tuige mambo ambayo mataifa mengine wameyatekeleza na kuwafanya waneemeke. Lakini tubaki kama Watanzania. Kwa wale wanaoukana Utanzania wao basi wahame wakaishi na jamii za taifa hilo wanalolipenda .

Tukutane Jumapili ijayo panapo majaliwa.

CHANZO: MWANANCHI

ROSTAM AZIZ AJIUZULU - HOTUBA YAKE

2011-07-14T01:19:00.000-07:00

Jumatano, tarehe 13 Julai, 2011 7:29:27 AM
Subject: Rostam Aziz Ajivua Gamba Rasmi Leo {Aachia Nafasi zake Zote Hadi Ubunge}

Aliyekua Mbunge wa Igunga-CCM Rostam Aziz
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HOTUBA YA MHE.ROSTAM AZIZ KWA WAZEE WA IGUNGA TABORA LEO

UTANGULIZI

WAZEE wangu, kwanza kabisa kabla ya kueleza kile ambacho kimenisukuma kuzungumza nanyi leo,napenda kuanza kwa kumshukuru Mwenyezi Mungu,mwingi wa rehema kwa kutuwezesha kufikia siku hii ambayo inatukutanisha waja wake.

Wazee wangu wa Igunga,baada ya kufanya hivyo napenda pia kutumia fursa hii kuwashukuru ninyi nyote mmoja mmoja na katika umoja wenu kwa kuitikia wito wangu,kijana wenu, niliyewaomba nije nizungumze nanyi siku hii ya leo.

Nafanya hivyo nikitambua vyema kwamba,kama si nyinyi wazee wangu na wengine wengi ambao hatuko nao hapa leo kwa sababu mbalimbali, ambao mmekuwa na imani kubwa nami nisingeweza kufikia hapa nilipofika sasa.

Wazee wangu, waasisi wa taifa letu walitufundisha kutambua na kuheshimu ukweli kwamba; ‘Uongozi ni Dhamana’dhana ambayo kila ninapokaa na kutafakari huwa inanirejesha nyuma na kukumbuka jinsi nyinyi mlivyokaa katika umoja wenu na kuniteua mimi, miongoni mwa vijana wenu wengi, kuwa mwakilishi wa Jimbo la Igunga tangu mwaka 1994.

Katika kipindi hicho chote cha utumishi wangu,nyinyi wazee wangu mmekuwa mhimili muhimu ambao umeniwezesha kutimiza wajibu wangu kwa bidii kubwa, maarifa na nidhamu ya hali ya juu nikitambua namna ambavyo mmekuwa na imani kubwa juu yangu.

Ari na moyo wa imani, ushirikiano na mshikamano ambao wazee wangu mmekuwa nao kwangu ndiyo ambao kwa kiwango kikubwa umetuwezesha kufanya kazi kwa pamoja, tukishinda changamoto mbalimbali ambazo zimekuwa zikilikabili jimbo letu katika kipindi chote ambacho mmeendelea kuniamini kuwa mbunge wenu kwa miaka 18 sasa.

Wakati nikitambua na kuheshimu ukweli kwamba katika kipindi chote cha ubunge wangu mmekuwa na imani kubwa nami na kuniunga mkono kwa dhati, naamini kwamba kwa upande wangu pia nimejitahidi kwa kadiri nilivyoweza, kutimiza matarajio ya wananchi wa Igunga.

Miongoni mwa mafanikio makubwa tuliyoyafikia kupitia ushirikiano wetu na uongozi wa pamoja ni kwamba, mwaka 1994 Igunga ilikuwa ni wilaya ya mwisho kwa maendeleo mkoani Tabora lakini leo ndiyo ya kwanza, taa za barabarani, bima ya afya kwa kila kaya, zahanati kila kijiji na shule nyingi kuliko idadi ya kata zilizomo kwenye wilaya.

Wazee wangu, nayasema haya nikitambua kwamba, kama ilivyo katika maeneo mbalimbali hapa nchini,mafanikio makubwa tuliyoyapata katika nyanja za elimu,afya, makaazi bora na kilimo katika kipindi chote ambacho mmendelea kuniamini kuwa mbunge wenu kwa miaka 18 sasa.

Wakati nikitambua na kuheshimu ukweli kwamba katika kipindi chote cha ubunge wangu mmekuwa na imani kubwa nami na kuniunga mkono kwa dhati,naamini kwamba kwa upande wangu pia nimejitahidi kwa kadiri nilivyoweza, kutimiza matarajio ya wananchi wa Igunga.

Wazee wangu,nayasema haya nikitambua kwamba,kama ilivyo katika maeneo mbalimbali hapa nchini,mafanikio makubwa tuliyoyapata katika nyanja za elimu, afya, makaazi bora na kilimo katika kipindi hicho chote hayajaweza kumaliza changamoto zote za maendeleo ambazo zinatukabili.

Wazee wangu, ingawa nimekuwa na kawaida ya kukutana na kuzungumza nanyi mara kwa mara, mmoja mmoja na wakati mwingine katika umoja wenu, wito wangu wa leo una makusudi ambayo kwa kiwango kikubwa ni tofauti na yale ambayo tumeyazoea.

Japokuwa ujumbe ninaotaka kuzungumza nanyi wazee wangu, si mgeni sana masikioni mwenu, tofauti ya leo na mikutano yetu mingine iliyopita ni uamuzi ambao nimekusudia kuufanya na ambao nitayatangaza muda mfupi ujao.

YATOKANAYO

Wazee wangu,naamini mmekuwa mkifuatilia kwa karibu hali ya siasa nchini na hususani afya ya kisiasa na matukio mengine ndani ya Chama Cha Mapinduzi(CCM) ambacho mimi ni mwanachama wake na Mjumbe wa Halmashauri Kuu ya Taifa(NEC)nikiuwakilisha Mkoa wetu wa Tabora.

Naamini kwamba katika kufuatilia kwenu mtakuwa mmebaini kuwapo kwa matukio ambayo kwa namna moja au nyingine yamekuwa yakitokea huku yakiligusa jina langu na wakati fulani nafasi yangu kama kiongozi wa chama hicho.

Wazee wangu, nayasema hayo kwa sababu mara kwa mara ninapokutana nanyi nikiwa katika ziara zangu jimboni na wakati mwingine mnapowasiliana nami kwa njia mbalimbali mmekuwa mkionesha kuguswa kushitushwa na kutaka kujua kulikoni kuhusu mambo hayo yanayotokea.

Mimi, kama mnavyonijua nyote, ni mtu muwazi na mkweli. Siku zote nimekuwa mwepesi sana wa kuwaeleza kuhusu kila kinachotokea ili kuwaondoa hofu na wakati huo huo kuwahakikishia kwamba masuala yasiyo na msingi hususani yale yanayogusa siasa za kitaifa hayawezi kutuondoa katika mstari sahihi wa kuwahudumia wananchi wa Igunga, mkiwamo nyinyi wazee wangu ambao mmeniamini na kunituma kuwawakilisha.

Nyinyi wenyewe ni mashahidi wazuri kwamba tangu matukio yanayogusa jina langu yaanze kutokea miezi michache tu baada ya Serikali ya Awamu ya Nne inayoongozwa na Rais Jakaya Kikweti kuingia madarakani kwa mara ya kwanza mwaka 2005, tumekuwa tukiyapuuza na tukaendelea kufanya kazi pamoja kwa bidii.

Bado naamini na nitaendelea kuamini kwamba tulifanya uamuzi sahihi wa kuyapuuza matukio hayo kwani mbali ya kuendelea kutimiza malengo mbalimbali yaliyokuwamo katika Ilani yetu ya Uchaguzi ya CCM, pia mliendelea kuniamini kwa nafasi yangu ya kuwa mwakilishi wenu bungeni na hata mkaniruhusu nibebe jukumu jingine kubwa la kuwa Mjumbe wa NEC ninayewakilisha mkoa wetu wa kihistoria wa Tabora.

Wazee wangu, nyinyi ndiyo watu mnaolifahamu vyema jimbo letu la Igunga na hakika nyinyi ni sehemu muhimu ya watu wanaojua historia ya kisiasa ya Mkoa wa Tabora kwa miaka mingi hata kabla ya kuja kwa mfumo wa vyama vingi hapa nchini.

Hakuna shaka hata kidogo kwamba, Tabora ni kitovu hasa cha uasisi wa siasa za vyama vingi hapa nchini. Ni wazi kwamba huwezi ukazungumzia chimbuko la vyama vya upinzani tunavyoviona hapa nchini leo pasipo kugusa mkoa huu ambao umekuwa chimbuko la wanasiasa wenye mizizi hapa na nchini kwa ujumla.

Majina ya wanasiasa wa aina ya wazee wetu, hayati Chifu Said Abdallah Fundikira na Christopher Kassanga Tumbo, Kasela Bantu (Mungu awalaze mahala pema peponi), James Mapalala, Profesa Ibrahim Lipumba na mengi mengine yana mizizi yao katika Mkoa wetu wa Tabora.

Kutokana na ukweli huo basi ni wazi kwamba, nikiwa Mbunge wa Igunga kwa vipindi vinne mfululizo na wakati huo huo nikiwa Mjumbe wa NEC kwa vipindi vitatu mfululizo, moja ya kazi ambazo nimezifanya kwa uaminifu na kwa bidii kubwa huku nikiungwa mkono na kushirikiana nanyi ni ile ya kuhakikisha kwamba mkoa huu pamoja na kuwa kitovu cha upinzani unaendelea kubakia kuwa ngome muhimu ya kisiasa ya CCM.

Si vibaya tukakumbushana kwamba, wakati nachaguliwa kuwa mjumbe wa NEC wa Mkoa mwaka 1997, jimbo moja katika mkoa wetu lilikuwa likishikiliwa na upinzani. Leo hii Tabora ni mkoa pekee miongoni mwa mikoa iliyotuzunguka ambao haukupoteza jimbo hata moja kwenda upinzani katika Uchaguzi Mkuu wa 2010. Mafanikio haya tuliyafikia kwa pamoja kutokana na ushirikiano wenu wazee wangu.

Wazee wangu, Waswahili wanasema usione vyaelea, vimeundwa. Kazi ya kuijenga CCM katika mazingira yenye mizizi hasa ya upinzani nikiwa mbunge na hususani M-NEC kutoka Mkoa wa Tabora haijapata kuwa rahisi na itaendelea kuwa ngumu na ambayo mapambano yake ni makali sana.

Wazee wangu, kwa namna ya pekee kabisa napenda kuchukua fursa hii kuwashukuru nyinyi wazee wangu wa Igunga na wananchi wenzangu wote wa Mkoa wa Tabora kwa kushikamana na kuifanya kazi hiyo kwa bidii, uaminifu na mafanikio makubwa.

Matunda ya kazi hiyo kubwa yanaonekana. Pamoja na kuwa kitovu cha kihistoria cha siasa za upinzani, Tabora ndiyo mkoa pekee katika eneo hili ambao unaongozwa na wabunge wote kutoka CCM baada ya Uchaguzi Mkuu wa 2010 na hata kabla ya hapo.

Kwa sababu hiyo basi, wazee wangu, sote katika umoja wetu ukiacha mafanikio makubwa tuliyopata katika jimbo na Wilaya yetu ya Igunga, tunayo mambo mengine ya msingi ya kujivunia. Kwa moyo wa dhati na kwa unyenyekevu mkubwa napenda kuwapongeza kwa namna mlivyojitoa kukipigania na kukitetea chama chetu kwa ari na nguvu ya kipekee.

KUJIVUA GAMBA

Wazee wangu,chama chetu chini ya uongozi wa Mwenyekiti wake,Rais Jakaya Kikwete kimeamua kwa kauli na nia moja kujitathmini na kufanya mabadiliko makubwa ya kimfumo yenye lengo la kukiwezesha kiendelee kubakia chama kinachoaminiwa na kuungwa mkono na Watanzania walio wengi.

Dhamira ya mwelekeo huo wa kufanya mabadiliko ya ndani ya chama chetu ilitangazwa rasmi na Mwenyekiti wetu Rais Kikwete wakati wa kilele cha maadhimisho ya miaka 34 ya kuzaliwa kwa CCM, mjini Dodoma.

Katika hotuba yake hiyo, Rais Kikwete aliyafananisha mabadiliko hayo na tabia ya kawaida na ya asili ya nyoka na wanyama wengine kadhaa ya ‘Kujivua Gamba’.

Wazee wangu hatua ya kwanza ya utekelezaji wa azimio hilo na mwelekeo huo sahihi ilifanyika mjini Dodoma wakati wa kikao cha Kamati Kuu ya Taifa ya CCM ambacho mimi nilikuwa mjumbe wake.

Wakati wa kikao hicho, wajumbe wote wa Kamati Kuu na wale wa Sekretarieti ya chama chetu wa wakati huo kwa kauli moja tulikubaliana kujiuzulu, lengo likiwa ni kumpa Mwenyekiti wetu fursa nzuri ya kufanya mabadiliko ya uongozi yatakayotoa nafasi ya kupata mwelekeo mpya wa Chama.

Wazee wangu, tulifanya hivyo tukionesha kuunga mkono kwa asilimia 100 kile ambacho bado naendelea kuamini kuwa ni mawazo sahihi na yenye mwelekeo thabiti ya Mwenyekiti wetu ambayo kwa kiwango kikubwa yalikuwa yakiakisi matokeo ya Uchaguzi Mkuu wa urais, ubunge na udiwani wa Oktoba mwaka jana.

Niliseme kwa maneno machache tu hili. Ingawa ni kweli kwamba Uchaguzi Mkuu wa mwaka jana umekirudisha madarakani chama chetu kwa kukipa ushindi mkubwa katika uchaguzi wa urais, ubunge na udiwani kwa Tanzania Bara na Zanzibar, kiwango cha ushindi tulichopata kimeonyesha waziwazi dalili za wananchi kupunguza imani yao kwetu kuilinganisha na ilivyokuwa mwaka 2005.

Tungekuwa ni chama cha siasa cha ovyo iwapo tungepuuza kupungua kwa kura za rais kutoka zaidi ya asilimia 80 tulizopata mwaka 2005 hadi kufikia aislimia 61 mwaka jana kiwango ambacho ni pungufu kwa asilimia 20 ya kura katika kipindi cha miaka mitano tu, hasa ikizingatia ukweli kwamba mgombea urais ni mtu yule yule.

Tungekuwa ni chama cha siasa kilichokosa umakini iwapo tungekaa pasipo kuchukua hatua zozote za kujiimarisha baada ya matokeo ya Uchaguzi Mkuu kuonesha wazi kukua kwa upinzani ambao umeongeza idadi ya wabunge na madiwani katika pande zote mbili za muungano.

Matokeo hayo ya uchaguzi ambayo hapana shaka yamekitikisa chama chetu yalitukumbusha wasia ambao tuliachiwa na Baba wa Taifa aliyesema; ‘Bila ya CCM Madhubuti Nchi Yetu Itayumba’.

Wazee wangu, kwa sababu ya kutambua ukweli kwamba hakuna haki isiyo na wajibu kama nilivyosema awali, mimi na wenzangu tuliokuwa katika Kamati Kuu tuliona ulazima, haja na umuhimu wa kukubali kwa kauli moja wito wa kututaka tujiuzulu ikiwa ni hatua moja ya kujipanga na kukijenga upya chama chetu.

KUJIVUA GAMBA KWAPOTOSHWA

Wazee wangu, kilichotokea baada ya kujiuzulu kwetu kila aliye ndani na nje ya chama chetu amekisikia na anakifahamu. Chama kilipata safu mpya ya uongozi iliyotokana na kuundwa kwa Sekretarieti inayoongozwa na Katibu Mkuu wetu mpya, Mhe. Wilson Mukama, na Kamati Kuu iliyokuwa na sura tofauti na ile ya awali.

Wakati tukitafakari na kuangalia mustakabali mpya wa kisiasa ndani ya chama chetu, ghafla yalianza kutokea mambo ambayo chokochoko zake zilianza kusikika tangu tukiwa ndani ya Kamati Kuu ambayo ilijiuzulu baadaye.

Mara tu baada ya kumalizika kwa kikao cha Halmashauri Kuu ya Taifa ambacho kilichagua wajumbe wapya wa Kamati Kuu na kuidhinisha uundwaji wa Sekretarieti mpya, dhana ya kujivua gamba ambayo naamini Mwenyekiti wetu aliianzisha kwa nia njema ilianza kuenezwa ikichukua tafsiri na mwelekeo tofauti na ule wa awali.

Wajumbe wawili wa Sekretarieti, Naibu Katibu Mkuu (Tanzania Bara), Mhe. John Chiligati, na Katibu wa Idara ya Itikadi na Uenezi, Mhe. Nape Nnauye, walisikika wakitangaza kwamba Halmashauri Kuu ya Taifa ilikuwa imefikia uamuzi wa kuwapa siku tisini wale walioitwa watuhumiwa wanaokabiliwa na tuhuma za ufisadi ndani ya chama kujitoa katika nafasi zao za uongozi vinginevyo watafukuzwa na chama.

Wazee wangu, baada ya kushinikizwa sana na vyombo vya habari wawataje kwa majina wanasiasa waliokuwa wakituhumiwa kwa ufisadi ambao ni wajumbe wa NEC na ambao wanapaswa kujiuzulu nyadhifa zao, wajumbe hao wa Sekretarieti walikwenda mbele zaidi.

Baada ya awali kuwaeleza waandishi wa habari kwamba majina ya watuhumiwa hao yalikuwa yakifahamika kutokana na kuhusishwa katika kashfa tofauti kama zile za Richmond, EPA na ununuzi wa rada, mwishoni viongozi hao walikaririwa wakiyataja majina ya wanasiasa watatu kuwa ndiyo ambao walikuwa wakilengwa na maamuzi hayo.

Wazee wangu, nilishangazwa na kushitushwa na namna porojo na fitina za kisiasa zilivyofinyangwa kwa mara nyingine tena baada ya kusikia jina la mbunge wenu ambaye ni mimi, likitajwa kuwa miongoni mwa yale matatu ya viongozi waliokuwa wakitakiwa eti kupima wenyewe na kisha kuchukua uamuzi wa kujiuzulu nafasi zao za uongozi ndani ya NEC katika kipindi cha siku tisini.

Niliseme hili mapema. Mshangao na mshituko wangu haukusababishwa na kutajwa kwa jina langu, la hasha, bali namna uamuzi halisi wa NEC na hususani dhana nzima ya ‘kujivua gamba’ ilivyoweza kupindishwa na wajanja wachache na kisha kuendeshwa kwa maslahi binafsi ya kikundi fulani cha watu.

Pili, nilishangazwa na kushitushwa na hatua ya viongozi wa chama changu ambacho nimekitumikia kwa bidii na uaminifu mkubwa kufanya juhudi kubwa hata kukivisha kikao kitukufu cha NEC uamuzi ambao msingi wa hoja zake ni vita vya kimakundi ya kisiasa yaliyo ndani ya CCM kwa upande mmoja na propaganda za vyama vya siasa vya upinzani na vyombo vya habari kwa upande mwingine.

Tatu, nilishangazwa na kushitushwa na ujasiri ambao umekuwa ukioneshwa na baadhi ya viongozi wetu wapya wa Sekretarieti wanaolitaja jina langu na kulihusisha na kile wanachokiita ufisadi ambao hata ukweli wa kimazingira na kihistoria ukiachilia mbali ushahidi wa wazi umeshathibitisha kwamba ni porojo za kisiasa zilizotokana na makovu na matarajio ya Uchaguzi Mkuu wa mwaka 2005 na ule ujao wa 2015.

Wazee wangu, nyinyi ni mashahidi kwamba, mbali ya mimi mwenyewe kujitokeza kupitia vyombo vya habari na kueleza wazi kwamba sijapata kujihusisha katika vitendo vyovyote vya ukiukwaji wa maadili ya uongozi au vya rushwa, hakuna ushahidi wowote uliotolewa unaonihusisha na kashfa yoyote miongoni mwa zile zilizotajwa.

Wazee wangu, ni wazi kwamba kama chama chenye siasa chenye dhamana ya kuwaoongoza Watanzania kutoka katika lindi la ufukara, maradhi, matatizo ya makaazi na mengineyo siku zote tunapaswa kuwa makini katika kuhakikisha kwamba changamoto za kuwaongoza na kuwakomboa wananchi waliotupa dhamana hazitikiswi na mawimbi ya matakwa ya nyakati ama ya vyombo vya habari au wapinzani wetu wa kisiasa walio nje ya CCM.

Ni kwa sababu ya kulitambua hilo na hasa kuyatambua madhara yanayoweza kukipata chama chetu na nchi yetu iwapo tutaendekeza siasa za kupakana matope pasipo na sababu za msingi, kuchafuana kusikokoma na kulipizana kisasi ndiyo maana nimeona nitumie fursa hii kuzungumza nanyi wazee wangu ili kuweka kumbukumbu sahihi.

MAAMUZI YANGU

Wazee wangu, nimetafakari sana na kimsingi nimefikia hatua ya kupima yale ambayo yamekuwa yakisemwa na kuandikwa juu yangu na ambayo kwa mtazamo wangu unaoungwa mkono na wanafamilia yangu, marafiki zangu na washirika wangu wa kibiashara walio ndani na nje ya nchi, naona umefika wakati muafaka wa kuchukua hatua.

Kwa sababu ya kutambua uzito wa hatua ninazokusudia kuzichukua, niliona halitakuwa jambo la hekima hata kidogo iwapo ningefanya hivyo pahala pengine popote bali hapa Igunga mbele ya nyie wazee wangu.

Baada ya kukaa na wanafamilia yangu, marafiki na washirika wangu wa kibiashara niliona halitakuwa jambo la busara hata kidogo kuendelea kuvutana na viongozi wa chama changu na wanachama wenzangu wa CCM katika mambo ambayo yanaweza kumalizwa kwa njia muafaka.

Wazee wangu, sina budi niwaeleze kwamba, mbali ya athari za kisiasa na kifamilia, vita vya ovyo vya kisiasa kama hivi tunavyoviendesha na kuviendeleza ndani ya CCM na ndani ya nchi yetu huwa vina athari kubwa katika ulimwengu wa kibiashara. Athari kama hizo za kibiashara huingia ndani zaidi kuliko vichwa vya habari vya magazeti vinavyolenga kuchafuana, na athari hizo huwa kubwa zaidi kwa mtu kama mimi kwa sababu tofauti na wengine wengi hapa nchini, mimi ni mfanyabiashara wa kimataifa.

Katika ulimwengu wa kibiashara wa leo, vita hivi ambavyo vinaweza kuonekana kuwa ni vidogo tu vyenye malengo ya kuchafuana kisiasa, vinakuwa na athari kubwa katika uhusiano wa kibiashara kuliko hata wale wasioelewa wanavyoweza kukadiria. Ndiyo maana nimeona ni afadhali sasa niwape nafasi wale wanaoendesha siasa hizi uchwara na zisizo na tija waendelee na siasa zao hizo ambazo kwa bahati mbaya kwao, mimi sina muda nazo na siwezi kuwa sehemu yake. Na mimi kwa upande wangu niendelee na maisha yangu.

Kutokana na ukweli huo na sababu zote hizo basi, kwa moyo wa dhati na kwa nia thabiti, hatua ya kwanza niliyoiona kuwa ninapaswa kuichukua ilikuwa ni hii ya kuitikia wito unaotokana na msukumo wa ndani ya nafsi yangu wa kuamua kukomesha kabisa malumbano na mivutano isiyo na manufaa kwangu binafsi, kwa viongozi wa chama changu na chama chenyewe.

Msukumo huo si mwingine bali ni ule wa kuamua kuachia nafasi zangu zote za uongozi ndani ya chama, nikianzia na ile ya ujumbe wa Halmashauri Kuu ya Taifa nikiuwakilisha Mkoa wa Tabora na hii ya ubunge wa Igunga ambazo kama si kwa baraka za chama changu nisingelikuwa nazo.

Napenda kuliweka hili sawa sawa. Uamuzi wangu wa kuachia nafasi zangu zote za uongozi nilizopata kwa tiketi ya CCM haukutokana na wala haumaanishi kukubaliana na shinikizo lililopotoshwa kuhusu azma ya utekelezaji wa dhana ya kujivua gamba, la hasha, bali dhamira ya dhati ya kuachana na siasa hizi uchwara (gutter politics) na kutumia muda wangu kushughulika na biashara zangu.

Aidha, nimefikia uamuzi huo lengo likiwa ni kuwajengea heshima na imani machoni mwa wanachama na wananchi wengine, viongozi wangu ambao naamini baada ya mimi kujitoa watapata fursa ya kutafakari upya changamoto nyingine mbadala zinazowakabili ambazo msingi wake ni dhamana kubwa walizo nazo za kukiongoza chama chetu na nchi yetu kupitia Serikali yake.

Wakati nachukua uamuzi huu, natambua vyema kwamba, watatokea watu ndani ya chama chetu na nje ambao watafanya kila juhudi kupotosha au kupindisha ukweli kuhusu hatima yangu ya kisiasa baada ya kujiweka kando na kujipa mimi mwenyewe na chama changu fursa ya kutafakari kwa kina majaaliwa yangu na ya nchi yangu katika siku zijazo.

Nafanya hivyo nikiwa na imani thabiti kwamba, uamuzi wangu huu, hususani ule wa kuachia nafasi yangu ya ubunge, yatakipa fursa nyingine CCM ya kuendelea kuliongoza jimbo letu la Igunga katika kipindi cha miaka minne ijayo kabla ya Uchaguzi Mkuu wa mwaka 2015.

Kwa upande mwingine, uamuzi wangu huu naona ni fursa kwa viongozi wa Chama changu cha CCM kutafakari na kuamua njia wanayoiona wao ni sahihi kuichukua kwa hatima na mustakabali wa chama chetu na ambayo wanaamini itakipa nguvu mpya ya kisiasa dhidi ya vyama vya upinzani.

Sambamba na hilo, ninayo imani thabiti kwamba, uamuzi wangu wa kubakia kuwa mwanachama wa kawaida na mtiifu wa CCM utakuwa chachu kwa chama changu na kwa Serikali yake kuwatumikia wananchi kwa Ari Zaidi, Kasi Zaidi na Nguvu Zaidi.

Mwisho kabisa, nikimalizia naomba nitumie fursa hii kutoa heshima za pekee kwa Rais Jakaya Kikwete kwa kazi kubwa aliyoifanyia na anayoendelea kuifanyia nchi yetu. Amefanya mengi na makubwa kuiendeleza nchi yetu na watu wake kuliko inavyothaminiwa na kufahamika. Kazi yake kubwa inashindwa kuthaminiwa na kufahamika kutokana na siasa chafu tunazoziendesha Tanzania. Wasia wangu kwa wanasiasa wenzangu, waandishi wa habari na Watanzania wenzangu kwa ujumla ni kuwa tunahitaji kuisaidia nchi yetu kwa kufanya siasa zenye mwelekeo wa kujenga ambazo ndiyo hasa zinapaswa kuwa siasa kwa maana halisi ya neno hilo.

Wazee wangu, baada ya maelezo hayo,nawashukuru sana kwa kunisikiliza na kunielewa.

Ahsanteni sana.

Mwisho…

UCHIMBAJI WA MADINI YA URANIUM SELOUS TANZANIA

2011-07-05T00:44:00.000-07:00

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Mwasambili wrote:

By Gadiosa Lamtey, THE GUARDIAN, TANZANIA.
1st July 2011
Minister for Natural Resourses and Tourism Ezekiel Maige
The World Heritage Centre (WHC) committee has permitted Tanzania to start exploring uranium in Selous Game Reserve, after the country has met two referral conditions she had been required earlier to fulfill.
According to Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Ezekiel Maige, the government had been required to work on the two conditions within a period of one year to allow a report to be submitted in the 36th WHC conference.
Making the revelation on the WHC decision reached in France late last month to journalists in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the minister said Tanzania had first been asked to conduct Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) indicating possible effects that might occur and work out strategies to minimise their impacts.
In the second condition a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) team was required to visit the project site and work together with government officials in preparing a mining plan and strategies to minimise environmental impacts.
The first condition ESIA submitted to the centre was incomplete because it was not approved by the National Environment Management Council (NEMC) and it showed that it could take long time to discover some of the effects and might not be easy to know their magnitudes.
“Under the permit, other activities relating to commencement of mining can continue while the two conditions were being worked on and submitted to the 36th WHC conference,” the minister.
During the conference, the government took the opportunity to endorse the 1972 International Agreement on Biodiversity Conservation and Protection.
Under the agreement, the minister said, areas that have unique heritage will be recognised and listed in World Heritage Sites under Unesco. According to the agreement, exploration projects are not allowed in the game reserve, he added.
However, given the importance of uranium mining to Tanzania, the government submitted a requested to have the boundaries of Selous Game Reserve changed, and have its 34,532 ha reduced to pave way for the project, he said.
“The centre gave us conditions although Tanzania is our land because of the agreement the government signed which prohibits exploration activities at WHS. The project however is important for the community and government because 78 per cent of the mineral products will remain in the country and create employment,” he said.
Commenting on national conservation in the country, he said WHC received the country report but was somewhat pessimistic about conservation of Serengeti National Park (senapa)—specifically on the proposed road project.
At the meeting, the government explained its stance that the Serengeti road project will not be constructed at tarmac level, (the tarmac will end at Loliondo on the eastern side, leaving 123 kilometers which will be under Tanzania National Parks (Tanapa), he said.
On Wednesday Tanzania and Uganda signed a multi-billion-shilling railway construction project to run from Tanga via Arusha to Musoma which authorities said would steer clear of the much contested Serengeti National Park stretch by 100 kilometers to preserve the ecosystem.
According to Transport minister Omar Nundu, the project will consider concerns by Tanzanians and the international community over the need to preserve Serengeti National Park’s ecosystem.
The plan to steer clear of the particular stretch follows reports by the international media that the government has dropped plans to build a highway through the world-famous park.
The reports also suggest that the government has informed Unesco’s World Heritage Committee that it would continue with its plans to build the proposed Arusha-Musoma highway but without touching the 53km stretch through the National Park.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

LUDOVICK LEMNGE UTOUH & CHRIS MAINA PETER OF TANZANIA

2011-07-05T00:40:00.001-07:00

From DAILY NEWS Reporter in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, 1st July 2011

THE number of Tanzanians in various UN institutions is set to increase this year following endorsement by the African Union (AU) Council of Ministers of two candidates earlier this week.

The candidates are Mr Ludovick Utouh who is the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) and Prof Chris Peter Maina, a dean of the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law. The two, together with other aspirants from the rest of the world will be subject for further endorsement by the UN in September.

But President Jakaya Kikwete said here on Thursday night that he is optimistic that the Tanzanian candidates will be elected for the positions.

"We have the support of Africa and some other countries outside the continent. Therefore there is no doubt we will get the posts," he said.

Mr Utouh is seeking membership in the UN Audit Board while Prof Maina wants to join the International Law Committee (ILC).

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation, Mr Bernard Membe, has said that the names were approved by the AU Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

"They are the sole candidates vying for those posts. We are therefore affirmative that they will sail through," said Mr Membe when briefing journalists on the outcome of the Foreign Ministers meeting.

Mr Utouh and Prof Maina's election will be held during the UN General Assembly scheduled for September in New York. Mr Membe said if elected as expected, the CAG will serve in the board for six years (2012-2018).

The minister further said that Tanzania has also been appointed member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

UFUKARA UNAVYONYIMA WATU UAMUZI WA BUSARA!

2011-06-23T02:22:00.001-07:00

Tue Jun 21, 10:36 am ET
Man robs bank to get medical care in jail
By Zachary Roth
Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they'll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank.
Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then he waited calmly for police to show up.
He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week.
Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. He found new work driving a truck, but it didn't last. Eventually, he took a part-time position at the convenience store.
But Verone's body wasn't up to it. The bending and lifting made his back ache. He had problems with his left foot, making him limp. He also suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis.
Then he noticed a protrusion on his chest. "The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," Verone told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything."
Verone knew he needed help--and he didn't want to be a burden on his sister and brothers. He applied for food stamps, but they weren't enough either.
So he hatched a plan. On June 9, he woke up, showered, ironed his shirt. He mailed a letter to the Gazette, listing the return address as the Gaston County Jail.
"When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me," Verone wrote in the letter. "This robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."
Then Verone hailed a cab to take him to the RBC Bank. Inside, he handed the teller his $1 robbery demand.
"I didn't have any fears," said Verone. "I told the teller that I would sit over here and wait for police."
The teller was so frightened that she had to be taken to the hospital to be checked out. Verone, meanwhile, was taken to jail, just as he'd planned it.
Because he only asked for $1, Verone was charged with larceny, not bank robbery. But he said that if his punishment isn't severe enough, he plans to tell the judge that he'll do it again. His $100,000 bond has been reduced to $2,000, but he says he doesn't plan to pay it.
In jail, Verone said he skips dinner to avoid too much contact with the other inmates. He's already seen some nurses and is scheduled to see a doctor on Friday. He said he's hoping to receive back and foot surgery, and get the protrusion on his chest treated. Then he plans to spend a few years in jail, before getting out in time to collect Social Security and move to the beach.
Verone also presented the view that if the United States had a health-care system which offered people more government support, he wouldn't have had to make the choice he did.
"If you don't have your health you don't have anything," Verone said.
The Affordable Care Act, President Obama's health-care overhaul passed by Congress last year, was designed to make it easier for Americans in situations like Verone's to get health insurance. But most of its provisions don't go into effect until 2014.
As it is, Verone said he thinks he chose the best of a bunch of bad options. "I picked jail."

SHUKURANI YA PUNDA KWELI NI MATEKE!

2011-06-23T01:48:00.000-07:00

Jamani, kweli utamaduni tunapishana. Hivi kweli waliwezaje Wachina hawa kudiriki kuwashambulia maafisa wetu wa polisi waliotakiwa kuwalinda wao na mali zao?

Ama kweli, shukurani ya punda ni mateke!

Wachina wampiga Mkuu wa Kituo cha Polisi
Tuesday, 21 June 2011 22:12
Joseph Lyimo, Babati

VURUGU kubwa zilizuka juzi kwenye kituo cha Polisi Babati Mjini mkoani Manyara baada ya wafanyakazi wa kampuni inayojenga barabara ya Chico, raia wa China kumpiga mkuu wa kituo hicho, ASP Shaaban Minginye na mkuu wa polisi jamii mkoani humo, ASP Morris Okinda.

Tukio hilo lililodumu kwa saa mbili kati ya saa 12:30 jioni hadi saa 2:30 usiku liliwalazimisha polisi kutumia mabomu ya machozi na risasi za moto zilizorushwa hewani ambazo hata hivyo zilijibiwa na Wachina hao wakitumiia bastola nao, hali iliyoweka rehani amani mjini Babati.

Wachina hao wanadaiwa kufanya vurugu hizo na kuwashambulia ASP Mingiye na Okinda kwa madai kuwa polisi walimwachia dereva wa basi la abiria aliyelikwaruza gari lao na kusababisha ajali.

Kitendo hicho cha kuwapiga makonde viongozi hao wa polisi mkoani humo kiliamsha hasira za wananchi ambao walianza kumshambulia mmoja wa raia hao wa China.

Mwananchi ilishuhudia raia huyo wa China, Chang Charles akipigwa na wananchi hao waliochukizwa na kitendo chao cha kuwapiga polisi ambapo alijaribu kutumia mtindo wa kujihami 'kung fu' huku akitoa sauti za, 'huu, haa', lakini alipigwa ngumi iliyomjeruhi usoni

Katika tukio hilo, ASP Minginye alipigwa vibao na ngumi na raia mmoja wa China ambapo raia watatu wa China walijeruhiwa vibaya na wananchi na kulazwa kwenye Hospitali ya Mrara mjini Babati na hali zao zilielezwa kuendelea vizuri.

Kamanda wa Polisi wa Mkoa wa Manyara, Liberatus Sabas alithibitisha jana kutokea kwa tukio hilo na kwamba raia 10 wa China wanashikiliwa kwa kuhusika na vurugu hizo.

Alisema chanzo cha vurugu hizo ni raia mmoja wa China, (Chang Charles) kumpiga mkuu wa kituo cha polisi Babati, baada ya kuliachia basi la abiria lililogonga lori linalomilikiwa na kampuni hiyo (Chico), kitendo kilichofanya wananchi kumpiga Mchina huyo.

"Hali hiyo ilijitokeza baada ya basi la abiria aina ya Scania, mali ya Kampuni ya NBS lililokuwa likitokea Kahama kwenda Arusha kukwaruzana na gari la kampuni hiyo ya Kichina lililokuwa linatumika katika ujenzi wa barabara ya Babati-Singida,"alisema.

Alisema baada dereva wa basi hilo kulikwaruza gari la kampuni ya Chico aina ya Ford, tukio hilo liliripotiwa kituo cha polisi Babati na dereva wa basi kutakiwa kuwapeleka abiria Arusha ili kesho yake arudi kituoni hapo.

“Baada ya dereva wa basi kuruhusiwa na kuondoka raia mmoja wa China alianza kurusha mawe kwenye basi hilo na kuvunja taa na kioo cha mbele na kumpiga mkuu wa kituo, ndipo abiria waliposhuka na kuanza kumshambulia Mchina huyo,” alisema Kamanda Sabas.

Alisema baada ya vurugu hizo lilizuka kundi lingine la raia wa China lilijitokeza na kuanza mapambano na wananchi na ndipo katika vurugu hizo askari polisi wakapiga risasi hewani na mabomu ya machozi ili kuwatawanya na kujaribu kusitisha vurugu hizo.

“Hadi hivi sasa Jeshi la Polisi linawashikilia raia 10 wa China wanaodaiwa kuhusika na tukio hilo na tunatarajia kuwafikisha mahakamani leo (jana), ili wakajibu mashtaka ya uaribifu wa mali na kufanya vurugu,” alisema Kamanda Sabas.
Kamanda Sabas aliwataja Wachina hao wanaoshikiliwa na polisi kuwa ni Chang Charles, Luan Hiten(23), Wang Sheng(23), Sing Yun(24), Sing Jin (23), Lin Jun (37), Whang Puong(23) Lu Gang (23) na Sio Jing (23).

Alisema katika vurugu hizo, askari polisi mmoja ambaye hakumtaja jina alijeruhiwa jichoni na Wachina hao na raia watatu wa China walijeruhiwa na kulazwa Hospitali ya Mrara wakipatiwa matibabu.

Aliwataja raia hao wa China waliojeruhiwa kuwa ni Young Gris, Luan Hiten na Chang Charles ambao alisema hali zao zinaendelea vizuri, baada ya kupatiwa matibabu.

Chanzo : Gazeti la Mwananchi

SAKATA LA POSHO ZA SERIKALI NA BUNGE

2011-06-21T01:41:00.001-07:00

2011/6/15 msafiri kweba

Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:43
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HOJA ya kutaka kufutwa kwa posho za vikao za wabunge na watumishi wengine wa umma wa imechukua sura mpya baada ya jana Mbunge wa Bumbuli (CCM), Januari Makamba kuliambia Bunge mjini hapa kuwa suala la kufutwa kwa posho ni la kitaifa na ni sehemu ya Mpango wa Maendeleo wa miaka mitano uliowasilishwa na serikali.
Kauli hiyo yab Makamba ambaye pia ni Katibu wa Mambo ya Nje wa Sekretarieti ya CCM imekuja huku kukiwa na malumbano makali baina ya Spika wa Bunge, Anne Makinda na Mbunge wa Kigoma Kaskazini (Chadema), Zitto Kabwe kuhusu suala hilo la posho za vikao vya wabunge.

Juzi, Spika Makinda alisema Zitto ambaye ni Naibu Kiongozi wa Upinzani Bungeni, anaweza kufukuzwa ubunge kwa kutosaini karatasi za mahudhurio, hatua ambayo Zitto alisema ataichukua ili asilipwe posho za vikao.

Spika alisema Zitto anaweza kukumbwa na adhabu hiyo iwapo hatasaini karatasi za mahudhurio ambazo ndizo zinathibitsha uwepo wa mbunge katika mikutano na vikao vya bunge na kwamba kanuni zinamwadhibu mbunge kwa kumfukuza asipohudhuria mikutano mitatu. Hata hivyo, Zitto amepuuza kauli hiyo ya Spika kwa kusema kwamba kama ni kwa ajili ya kukataa posho, yuko tayari kufukuzwa bungeni.

"Nitafanya hivyo tuone, Kanuni inasema mikutano mitatu mfululizo na siyo vikao vitatu mfululizo. Nitatumia uzoefu wangu wa siasa za wanafunzi kukwepa mtego wake. Lakini kama anadhani ni sawa kunifukuza ubunge kwa kukataa posho, nipo tayari," alisema.

Kauli ya jana ya Makamba pia inaonekana kutofautina na mawazo ya wabunge wengi wa CCM akiwamo Waziri wa Fedha na Uchumi, Mustafa Mkulo ambaye amesema wanashabikia suala hilo wanajitafutia umaarufu.

Akichangia huo wa maendeleo wa miaka mitano jana, Makamba alionekana kupigia chapuo suala la kufutwa au kuangaliwa upya kwa posho za vikao huku akisema kwamba ni la kitaifa na ni sehemu ya mpango huo.

Makamba alisema kuwa suala la nidhamu na usimamizi wa matumizi ya fedha za umma ni muhimu na kwamba mpango huo umeliona katika ukurasa wa 17 wa kitabu kilichochapishwa kwa Kiingereza na kutoa mapendekezo ya kufutwa kwa posho za vikao na zile za usafiri.

"Mpango unabainisha kwamba kuna umuhimu wa kufutwa kwa posho za vikao na usafiri hivyo iwapo wabunge mtalisikia likiwasilishwa hapa kwa mbwembwe kesho (leo), basi msije mkashangaa kwani ni sehemu ya mpango huu," alisema Makamba.

Kujadiliwa bungeni leo

Mjadala kuhusu malipo ya posho ambao umekuwa ukiendelea kwa wiki moja sasa hasa zaidi nje ya Bunge, leo unatarajiwa kuingizwa rasmi bungeni wakati Bajeti ya Serikali iliyowasilishwa na Mkulo Jumatano iliyopita itakapoanza kujadiliwa.

Suala hilo ni dhahiri litajitokeza katika bajeti mbadala itakayowasilishwa na kambi ya Upinzani Bungeni na Waziri Kivuli wa Fedha, Zitto Kabwe ambaye amekuwa katika mvutano usio rasmi na Spika kutokana na kukataa kulipwa posho za kikao.

Mwenyekiti wa Chadema ambaye pia ni Kiongozi wa Upinzani Bungeni, Freeman Mbowe alisema jana kuwa kambi yake inatarajiwa kutoa ushauri mgumu ambao haujazoeleka kwa watendaji wa serikali na kwamba suala la kufutwa kwa posho ni sehemu ya mapendekezo hayo.

Alisema kufutwa kwa posho hizo kunaweza kuokoa zaidi ya Sh900 bilioni ambazo zinaweza kuelekezwa katika maeneo mengine ya huduma kwa wananchi.

Uhalisia posho za wabunge

Mmoja wa wabunge wa CCM ambaye hakutaka kutaandikwa jina lake alisema anasikia kuhukumiwa katika nafsi yake kutokana na kupokea posho za vikao ambazo kimsingi ni sawa na "kuwaibia wananchi".

"Ujue bwana sisi ndani ya CCM mambo hayaendi kama kwa wenzetu (Chadema), wale wanaweza kukaa leo na kuamua, sisi ni tofauti lazima kuwepo na mchakato lakini ukweli ni kwamba hoja yao ni nzuri," alisema mbunge huyo.

Uchunguzi uliofanywa umebaini kuwa malipo ya wabunge yamegawanyika katika sehemu nne ambazo ni pamoja na mshahara ambao ni Sh2,300,000 kwa mwezi, posho ya ubunge kila mwezi ambayo ni Sh5 milioni, posho ya kujikimu (per-diem) Sh80,000 wawapo nje ya majimbo yao kikazi na posho ya vikao (sitting allowance) ambayo huwa ni Sh70,000 kwa kila mbunge.

Kwa maana hiyo, kwa kawaida mbunge hulipwa Sh7.3 milioni kila mwezi kabla ya kukatwa kodi na wawapo Dodoma na Dar es Salaam kwa ajili ya vikao vya kamati na bunge au mikoani kwa ajili ya kukagua shughuli zilizopo chini ya kamati zao. Hulipwa kiasi cha Sh150,000 kila mmoja kwa siku ambazo ni Sh70,000 kwa ajili ya vikao na Sh80,000 kwa ajili ya kujikimu.

Kwa maana hiyo bunge linatarajiwa kutumia kiasi cha Sh1.788 bilioni kwa ajili ya kugharamia vikao 73 vya Bunge la Bajeti iwapo wabunge wote 350 waliopo watahudhuria vikao hivyo.

Kwa hesabu hizo, kila mbunge katika mkutano wa Bunge la Bajeti anatarajiwa kuondoka na kikita cha Sh5.1 milioni mbali na Sh 5.58 milioni ambazo ni malipo kwa ajili ya kujikimu, fedha ambazo ni mbali na mshahara wake kwa mwezi na posho ya ubunge.

CCM yakataa posho
Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), kimeanza machakato wa kufuta posho hizo ikiwa ni hatua ya kupunguza matumizi yasiyo ya lazima. Habari kutoka ndani ya CCM, Dodoma na Dar es Salaam zinasema kuwa mkakati wa kufutwa kwa posho ulianzishwa takriban mwezi mmoja uliopita na sekretarieti mpya inayoongozwa na Katibu Mkuu, Wilson Mukama.

Kwa mujibu wa taarifa hizo, baadhi ya wajumbe wa sekretarieti walihoji uhalali wa posho wanazolipwa hata pale vikao vinapofanyika katika sehemu ambako ni makazi yao na kwamba hoja hizo ndizo zilizozaa wazo la kufutwa kwa posho katika vikao.

"Hoja ilikuwa kwamba kama chama hakina fedha na tunataka kupunguza matumizi yasiyo ya lazima, basi posho za vikao zifutwe kwa sababu hakuna ulazima wa posho hizo hasa kwa wajumbe wa sekretarieti ambao kazi zao ni za kila siku," kilieleza chanzo chetu na kuongeza:

"Hivi sasa mpango huo uko kwenye mchakato wa kuwekewa mwongozo na nadhani baada ya kupitia katika vikao vyetu utaanza kutekelezwa. Lakini kimsingi ni kama utekelezaji wake umeshaanza kwa sababu baadhi ya wajunbe wamekataa kabisa kusaini posho hizo."

Habari zaidi zinadai kuwa waraka wa mapendekezo ya kupunguza matumizi ndani ya CCM unakwenda mbali zaidi hadi katika matumizi ya magari na kwamba pale usafiri unapohitaji wa kuelekea kwenye mkutano mmoja, basi viongozi watumie magari machache kwa maana ya usafiri wa pamoja badala ya utaratibu wa sasa ambao unamruhusu kila kiongozi kutumia usafiri wake.

Katibu wa Itikadi na Uenezi wa CCM, Nape Nnauye alipoulizwa kuhusu sekretarieti kufuta posho katika vikao vyake, hakukanusha wala kuthibitisha, badala yake akadai kuwa hayo ni mambo ya ndani ya chama ambayo hayana faida yoyote kwa umma.

"Hivi ninyi waandishi wa habari, haya mambo mnayapata kwa nani! Haya ni mambo ya ndani ya chama sidhani kama yana tija yoyote kwa umma, maana haiwezi kusaidia chochote," alisema Nape kwa kwa simu.

Alipoelezwa kwamba suala hilo lina uhusiano na sakata linaloendelea bungeni, Nape alisema: "Bunge ni bunge na chama ni chama. Kila taasisi inajitegemea na ina uamuzi wake, lakini pia sisi kama chama tulishatoa kauli mara nyingi kwamba suala la posho kwa wabunge na watumishi wengine wa serikali linazungumzika, ni la kisera na wanaohusika wapo waulizeni hao."

Mwishoni mwa wiki iliyopita Nape akizungumzia malumbano miongoni mwa wabunge kuhusu suala la posho alisema suala hilo linajadilika na kwamba si vyema kulipinga kwa sababu tu linatokea kambi ya upinzani.

Kwa upande wake, Makamba alipulizwa kuhusu kufutwa kwa posho katika vikao vya Sekretarieti ya CCM naye kama ilivyokuwa kwa Nape, hakukanusha wala kuthibitisha.

"Wewe si unamfahamu msemaji wa chama ni nani? Mwulizeni Nape tena nadhani anakuja Dodoma. Akija mwulizeni, mimi siwezi kulizungumzia.... lakini ninyi waandishi haya mambo ya ndani ya chama huwa mnayapata wapi? Anyway, mwulizeni mwenezi atawaambia," alisema Makamba.

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HOJA ya kutaka kufutwa kwa posho za vikao za wabunge na watumishi wengine wa umma wa imechukua sura mpya baada ya jana Mbunge wa Bumbuli (CCM), Januari Makamba kuliambia Bunge mjini hapa kuwa suala la kufutwa kwa posho ni la kitaifa na ni sehemu ya Mpango wa Maendeleo wa miaka mitano uliowasilishwa na serikali. Kauli hiyo yab Makamba ambaye pia ni Katibu wa Mambo ya Nje wa Sekretarieti ya CCM imekuja huku kukiwa na malumbano makali baina ya Spika wa Bunge, Anne Makinda na Mbunge wa Kigoma Kaskazini (Chadema), Zitto Kabwe kuhusu suala hilo la posho za vikao vya wabunge.

Juzi, Spika Makinda alisema Zitto ambaye ni Naibu Kiongozi wa Upinzani Bungeni, anaweza kufukuzwa ubunge kwa kutosaini karatasi za mahudhurio, hatua ambayo Zitto alisema ataichukua ili asilipwe posho za vikao.

Spika alisema Zitto anaweza kukumbwa na adhabu hiyo iwapo hatasaini karatasi za mahudhurio ambazo ndizo zinathibitsha uwepo wa mbunge katika mikutano na vikao vya bunge na kwamba kanuni zinamwadhibu mbunge kwa kumfukuza asipohudhuria mikutano mitatu. Hata hivyo, Zitto amepuuza kauli hiyo ya Spika kwa kusema kwamba kama ni kwa ajili ya kukataa posho, yuko tayari kufukuzwa bungeni.

"Nitafanya hivyo tuone, Kanuni inasema mikutano mitatu mfululizo na siyo vikao vitatu mfululizo. Nitatumia uzoefu wangu wa siasa za wanafunzi kukwepa mtego wake. Lakini kama anadhani ni sawa kunifukuza ubunge kwa kukataa posho, nipo tayari," alisema.

Kauli ya jana ya Makamba pia inaonekana kutofautina na mawazo ya wabunge wengi wa CCM akiwamo Waziri wa Fedha na Uchumi, Mustafa Mkulo ambaye amesema wanashabikia suala hilo wanajitafutia umaarufu.

Akichangia huo wa maendeleo wa miaka mitano jana, Makamba alionekana kupigia chapuo suala la kufutwa au kuangaliwa upya kwa posho za vikao huku akisema kwamba ni la kitaifa na ni sehemu ya mpango huo.

Makamba alisema kuwa suala la nidhamu na usimamizi wa matumizi ya fedha za umma ni muhimu na kwamba mpango huo umeliona katika ukurasa wa 17 wa kitabu kilichochapishwa kwa Kiingereza na kutoa mapendekezo ya kufutwa kwa posho za vikao na zile za usafiri.

"Mpango unabainisha kwamba kuna umuhimu wa kufutwa kwa posho za vikao na usafiri hivyo iwapo wabunge mtalisikia likiwasilishwa hapa kwa mbwembwe kesho (leo), basi msije mkashangaa kwani ni sehemu ya mpango huu," alisema Makamba.

Kujadiliwa bungeni leo

Mjadala kuhusu malipo ya posho ambao umekuwa ukiendelea kwa wiki moja sasa hasa zaidi nje ya Bunge, leo unatarajiwa kuingizwa rasmi bungeni wakati Bajeti ya Serikali iliyowasilishwa na Mkulo Jumatano iliyopita itakapoanza kujadiliwa.

Suala hilo ni dhahiri litajitokeza katika bajeti mbadala itakayowasilishwa na kambi ya Upinzani Bungeni na Waziri Kivuli wa Fedha, Zitto Kabwe ambaye amekuwa katika mvutano usio rasmi na Spika kutokana na kukataa kulipwa posho za kikao.

Mwenyekiti wa Chadema ambaye pia ni Kiongozi wa Upinzani Bungeni, Freeman Mbowe alisema jana kuwa kambi yake inatarajiwa kutoa ushauri mgumu ambao haujazoeleka kwa watendaji wa serikali na kwamba suala la kufutwa kwa posho ni sehemu ya mapendekezo hayo.

Alisema kufutwa kwa posho hizo kunaweza kuokoa zaidi ya Sh900 bilioni ambazo zinaweza kuelekezwa katika maeneo mengine ya huduma kwa wananchi.

Uhalisia posho za wabunge

Mmoja wa wabunge wa CCM ambaye hakutaka kutaandikwa jina lake alisema anasikia kuhukumiwa katika nafsi yake kutokana na kupokea posho za vikao ambazo kimsingi ni sawa na "kuwaibia wananchi".

"Ujue bwana sisi ndani ya CCM mambo hayaendi kama kwa wenzetu (Chadema), wale wanaweza kukaa leo na kuamua, sisi ni tofauti lazima kuwepo na mchakato lakini ukweli ni kwamba hoja yao ni nzuri," alisema mbunge huyo.

Uchunguzi uliofanywa umebaini kuwa malipo ya wabunge yamegawanyika katika sehemu nne ambazo ni pamoja na mshahara ambao ni Sh2,300,000 kwa mwezi, posho ya ubunge kila mwezi ambayo ni Sh5 milioni, posho ya kujikimu (per-diem) Sh80,000 wawapo nje ya majimbo yao kikazi na posho ya vikao (sitting allowance) ambayo huwa ni Sh70,000 kwa kila mbunge.

Kwa maana hiyo, kwa kawaida mbunge hulipwa Sh7.3 milioni kila mwezi kabla ya kukatwa kodi na wawapo Dodoma na Dar es Salaam kwa ajili ya vikao vya kamati na bunge au mikoani kwa ajili ya kukagua shughuli zilizopo chini ya kamati zao. Hulipwa kiasi cha Sh150,000 kila mmoja kwa siku ambazo ni Sh70,000 kwa ajili ya vikao na Sh80,000 kwa ajili ya kujikimu.

Kwa maana hiyo bunge linatarajiwa kutumia kiasi cha Sh1.788 bilioni kwa ajili ya kugharamia vikao 73 vya Bunge la Bajeti iwapo wabunge wote 350 waliopo watahudhuria vikao hivyo.

Kwa hesabu hizo, kila mbunge katika mkutano wa Bunge la Bajeti anatarajiwa kuondoka na kikita cha Sh5.1 milioni mbali na Sh 5.58 milioni ambazo ni malipo kwa ajili ya kujikimu, fedha ambazo ni mbali na mshahara wake kwa mwezi na posho ya ubunge.

CCM yakataa posho
Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), kimeanza machakato wa kufuta posho hizo ikiwa ni hatua ya kupunguza matumizi yasiyo ya lazima. Habari kutoka ndani ya CCM, Dodoma na Dar es Salaam zinasema kuwa mkakati wa kufutwa kwa posho ulianzishwa takriban mwezi mmoja uliopita na sekretarieti mpya inayoongozwa na Katibu Mkuu, Wilson Mukama.

Kwa mujibu wa taarifa hizo, baadhi ya wajumbe wa sekretarieti walihoji uhalali wa posho wanazolipwa hata pale vikao vinapofanyika katika sehemu ambako ni makazi yao na kwamba hoja hizo ndizo zilizozaa wazo la kufutwa kwa posho katika vikao.

"Hoja ilikuwa kwamba kama chama hakina fedha na tunataka kupunguza matumizi yasiyo ya lazima, basi posho za vikao zifutwe kwa sababu hakuna ulazima wa posho hizo hasa kwa wajumbe wa sekretarieti ambao kazi zao ni za kila siku," kilieleza chanzo chetu na kuongeza:

"Hivi sasa mpango huo uko kwenye mchakato wa kuwekewa mwongozo na nadhani baada ya kupitia katika vikao vyetu utaanza kutekelezwa. Lakini kimsingi ni kama utekelezaji wake umeshaanza kwa sababu baadhi ya wajunbe wamekataa kabisa kusaini posho hizo."

Habari zaidi zinadai kuwa waraka wa mapendekezo ya kupunguza matumizi ndani ya CCM unakwenda mbali zaidi hadi katika matumizi ya magari na kwamba pale usafiri unapohitaji wa kuelekea kwenye mkutano mmoja, basi viongozi watumie magari machache kwa maana ya usafiri wa pamoja badala ya utaratibu wa sasa ambao unamruhusu kila kiongozi kutumia usafiri wake.

Katibu wa Itikadi na Uenezi wa CCM, Nape Nnauye alipoulizwa kuhusu sekretarieti kufuta posho katika vikao vyake, hakukanusha wala kuthibitisha, badala yake akadai kuwa hayo ni mambo ya ndani ya chama ambayo hayana faida yoyote kwa umma.

"Hivi ninyi waandishi wa habari, haya mambo mnayapata kwa nani! Haya ni mambo ya ndani ya chama sidhani kama yana tija yoyote kwa umma, maana haiwezi kusaidia chochote," alisema Nape kwa kwa simu.

Alipoelezwa kwamba suala hilo lina uhusiano na sakata linaloendelea bungeni, Nape alisema: "Bunge ni bunge na chama ni chama. Kila taasisi inajitegemea na ina uamuzi wake, lakini pia sisi kama chama tulishatoa kauli mara nyingi kwamba suala la posho kwa wabunge na watumishi wengine wa serikali linazungumzika, ni la kisera na wanaohusika wapo waulizeni hao."

Mwishoni mwa wiki iliyopita Nape akizungumzia malumbano miongoni mwa wabunge kuhusu suala la posho alisema suala hilo linajadilika na kwamba si vyema kulipinga kwa sababu tu linatokea kambi ya upinzani.

Kwa upande wake, Makamba alipulizwa kuhusu kufutwa kwa posho katika vikao vya Sekretarieti ya CCM naye kama ilivyokuwa kwa Nape, hakukanusha wala kuthibitisha.

"Wewe si unamfahamu msemaji wa chama ni nani? Mwulizeni Nape tena nadhani anakuja Dodoma. Akija mwulizeni, mimi siwezi kulizungumzia.... lakini ninyi waandishi haya mambo ya ndani ya chama huwa mnayapata wapi? Anyway, mwulizeni mwenezi atawaambia," alisema Makamba.

http://www.mwananchi.co.tz/component/content/article/37-tanzania-top-news-story/12830-ccm-wafuta-posho-za-vikao.html

HIGH SCHOOL PRACTICAL MARRIAGE LESSONS

2011-05-17T07:11:00.000-07:00

Chicago Tribune
WITH DIVORCE WIDESPREAD, SCHOOLS TEACHING MARRIAGE
June 13, 2000

By V. Dion Haynes

As a boom box played kitschy wedding music, Ryan Rutherford and Kati
Weisz held hands and exchanged vows. The ceremony was performed not by
a preacher but a teacher and took place in their classroom.

For five days, they will take on the responsibility of children,
hammer out a household budget, discuss how to juggle work and family
and then grapple with a crisis--either an addiction, an affair or the
death of one partner.

The psychology course with the mock wedding is one of the most
popular electives at Redlands High School and part of a growing
nationwide movement to teach middle school and high school students
about marriage and family to stem the 50 percent divorce rate in the
U.S.

In recent years, hundreds of schools, including some in Illinois, have
introduced curricula dealing with such topics as finding the right
mate, passion, conflict resolution and breaking up. Last year, Florida
introduced a law requiring all students at public and private high
schools to take at least one marriage and family course to graduate.

At the same time, Florida and other states have passed laws offering
reduced marriage license fees and similar incentives to couples who
agree to take marriage classes before heading down the aisle.
Louisiana and Arizona have adopted legislation offering couples
considering a breakup the option of going through intensive counseling
to head off a divorce. And Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating has announced
plans to launch a $10 million program--consisting of statewide
lectures and high school courses--aimed at cutting the divorce rate by
one-third by 2010.

The programs have been criticized by some who assert the government
has no business meddling in such personal matters and by others who
argue that students would be better served if schools focused on
raising their academic abilities rather than improving their social
skills.

While a growing body of research indicates divorce and the breakdown
of the family are responsible for a number of social ills, some
preliminary studies also suggest that providing students instruction
in building healthy relationships can postpone sexual activity and
reduce youth violence.

"If we can have good families, we'll have stable kids. Home is the
first influence," said Charlene Kamper, who teaches the marriage class
at Redlands High School, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles.

"Academics are very important. But if a person is not in a good
emotional state, academics become secondary," added Kamper, who
developed a curriculum called "Connections: Relationships and
Marriage" used in numerous schools nationwide. "So many kids tell me
this is one of the most useful classes they have taken."

The latest movement goes against efforts of the last three decades to
downplay marriage.

With the sexual revolution, women's rights movement and divorce
reform, marriage had been discounted and even derided by some scholars
and by popular culture, experts observed. Indeed, the image of
marriage changed from the idealism depicted in 1950s television shows
such as "Father Knows Best" and "Leave It to Beaver" to the
dysfunction of such 1980s and '90s sitcoms as "Roseanne" and "Married
With Children."

"It was politically incorrect in some academic circles to
talk positively about marriage," said Diane Sollee, founder and
director of Smart Marriages: Coalition for Marriage, Family and
Couples Education, a Washington-based group of scholars, therapists
and clergy.

"Then we got the statistics on all the kids in jail and all the girls
who were having babies because they had no connection with their
fathers," Sollee said, adding that studies also show that children
from single-parent households are more likely to be sexually abused,
less likely to go to college and more likely to get divorced after
marrying. "What's the best way to keep fathers connected with their
children? Marriage."

Even couples living together fare worse than married couples,
according to some researchers.

"Domestic violence is much higher among cohabitating couples," said
Linda Waite, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago and
co-author of the upcoming book, "The Case for Marriage: Why Married
People Are Healthier, Happier and Better Off Financially."

"The emotional well-being doesn't seem to be as high among
cohabitating couples as married couples," Waite said. "Cohabitating
men seem to be quite uncommitted to the relationship."

The emphasis on marriage instruction, according to experts, started
largely with therapists who recognized that most troubled marriages
were not a result of psychological problems but a lack of marital
skills. As the thinking goes among those at the center of the marriage
instruction movement, breakups can be pre-empted by preparing people
before they get married.

Last year, Florida introduced the Marriage Preparation and
Preservation Act, aimed at "promoting stability and continuity in
society." The law gives couples a $32.50 discount on the $88.50
marriage license fee if they take a four-hour marriage instruction
course, requires divorcing couples with children to attend a parent
"stabilization" course, and makes a marriage and family course a
requirement for high school students.

"Throughout the nation, people want to see the divorce rate come down;
they want information on how to build stronger marriages," said state
Rep. Elaine Bloom, a Florida Democrat who introduced the marriage
instruction law.

But with school finances always an issue, some teachers' groups
question whether schools should be spending time and money focusing on
such non-academic issues and whether government should be involved."I
think there is good in helping students learn about
marriage but I just wonder about government intrusion in your
private life," said David Clark, spokesman for the Florida Education
Association, which represents more than 120,000 teachers.

"Were schools designed to do this much socialization and values
clarification? Many teachers would argue it would be great if they
could focus more on academic subjects and worry less about these
things," Clark added. " . . . There is an argument for offering them
marriage classes as an elective, but saying you must teach
them is a little pushy."

The marriage curricula taught in the schools vary widely.

In the "Connections" program, taught at Redlands High School, the
teacher on one recent day discussed how to identify real love: Does
the person accept me for me? Does the person love me without
expectations for me to do something in return? Will the person allow
me to grow in the future?

Kamper, who teaches the class, offered tips on finding the right mate:
Does the person feel like my best friend? Do I want to spend time with
him/her? Is it impossible to see myself without this person in my
life?

And she talked about the role of sex in a marriage. "Sure it's
exciting. It enhances the relationship. But it is not enough," Kamper
said. "Someone has to go to work, empty the trash and take care of the
bills. You can't spend your life in bed."

Though it will be years before researchers determine whether the
programs will preserve the marriages of these students, they have
found the courses have positive short-term effects.

In a study of the Loving Well program, a nationwide program that uses
literature to illustrate romantic love, bad relationships and happy
marriages, only 8 percent of 8th graders who were virgins opted to
have sex after taking the course compared with 28 percent of a control
group who didn't take the course.

And another study showed that students in the Connections course were
less likely than other teens to use violence to solve conflicts.

"Students in Connections were more likely to use reasoning tactics and
less likely to yell, cuss, put someone down or use violence when in a
conflict," said Scott Gardner, an assistant professor of human
development and family sciences at South Dakota State University, who
conducted the study on the marriage curriculum.

"Connections kids were more likely to go to their parents for help in
a personal situation with their boyfriend or girlfriend," he added.
"We measured their attitude on divorce: Is it OK to divorce if you
have unsolvable differences? The Connections group was less likely to
agree with that."

In Room 443 at Redlands High School, about 10 couples stood in the
aisles and took part in the mock wedding. Some paired up just for the
sake of the class, but others--like Rutherford, 19, and Weisz,
18--were real couples seeking information on how to make their
relationship last.

"My parents divorced when I was in the 2nd grade. I blamed a lot of
things that happened in my life on my parents' divorce," said
Rutherford.

"I came out of the class understanding more about myself
and what to expect when I do get married."

PENSHENI KWA WALIOFIKIA MIAKA 60 WOTE TANZANIA?

2011-05-16T01:20:00.001-07:00

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Chris Mwasambili wrote:

By FARAJA MGWABATI, 13th May 2011 Daily News

THE Government has started a process of designing a Universal Social Pension scheme (USP) that will enable all Tanzanians aged 60 and above to get a monthly stipend to sustain their living and reduce abject poverty.

The move follows a study conducted by Ministry of Labour and Employment in conjunction with HelpAge International, which revealed that it was possible to provide a USP to all senior citizens in the country at affordable cost.

“Basically the Prime Minister and the President have agreed on this need for universal social protection scheme, and the ground work has started,” said the Assistant Commissioner for Labour (Social Protection) Mr David Kaali during the workshop on Friday in Dar es Salaam.

Mr Kaali said currently discussions are going on within government machinery, which will be followed by stakeholders’ comments, the cabinet and thereafter the bill will be tabled before the parliament.

“I still cannot tell you when it will be tabled but different ministries need to discuss among themselves to see who will be responsible for what when the scheme starts,” he said during the workshop organized by Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF).

According to the study, there are around two million people aged 60 in Tanzania and are present in almost one out of four households. Also 82 per cent reside in rural areas.

The HelpAge Country Programme Director, Mr Nicodemus Chipfupa, said that it was important for the government to introduce the USP scheme because older people are less able to earn adequate income through work, are more susceptible to chronic illness, disability and more likely experience social exclusion.

“Formal social security mechanisms have not reached the poor and are unlikely to offer a solution to old age poverty. Only 6.5 per cent of the workforce is currently covered by formal social security,” said Mr Chipfupa.

The study has suggested every older person to be paid up to16,586/- per month, which in total will consume 1.2 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product per annum.

The study which was conducted between November 2009 and April last year also revealed that if the USP will be implemented, it will reduce 58 per cent of the old age poverty (from 33 to 13.9 per cent) and could reduce up to 11.9 per cent of national poverty rate.

It is estimated that Tanzania has a labour force of 16 million, out of which 93.5 per cent are in the informal sector and 6.5 percent are in the formal sector, according to Mr Kaali.

It has been suggested by the study that registration and de-registration of beneficiaries of the new scheme should be implemented through the local government structures.

“Voter cards, village registers, letters issued by village or ward officers could be used to identify older people,” said the report of the study.

According to the HelpAge International Programme Manager (Social Protection) Mr Smart Daniel, Tanzanians could seize the opportunity for a new constitution to ensure that rights and entitlements of older people and other vulnerable people, including social pension are protected and provided timely.

HII NDIO HATI YA MUUNGANO WA TANGANYIKA NA SERIKALI YAMAPINDUZI YAZANZIBAR YA1964

2011-05-11T00:06:00.000-07:00

Nimeidaka leo toka INTERNET - BAHAKA -

THE ARTICLES OF UNION

between

THE REPUBLIC OF TANGANYIKA AND THE PEOPLES' REPUBLIC OF

ZANZIBAR
WHEREAS the Governments of the Republic of Tanganyika and of the Peoples' Republic of Zanzibar being mindful of the long association of the peoples of these lands and of their ties of kinship and amity, and being desirous of furthering that association and strengthening of these ties and of furthering the unity of African peoples have met and considered the union of the Republic of Tanganyika with the Peoples Republic of Zanzibar:
AND WHEREAS the Governments of the Republic of Tanganyika and of the Peoples' Republic of Zanzibar are desirous that the two Republics shall be united in one Sovereign Republic in accordance with the Articles hereinafter contained:-
It is therefore AGREED between the Governments of the Republic of Tanganyika and of the Peoples' Republic of Zanzibar as follows: -
(i) The Republic of Tanganyika and the Peoples' Republic of Zanzibar shall be united in one Sovereign Republic .
(ii) During the period from the commencement of the union until the Constituent Assembly provided for in Article (vii) shall have met and adopted a Constitution for the united Republic (hereinafter referred to as the interim period) the united Republic (iii) to (vi). shall be governed in accordance with the provisions of Articles
(iii) During the interim period the Constitution of the united Republic shall be the Constitution of Tanganyika so modified as to provide for-
(a) a separate legislature and executive in and for Zanzibar from time to time constituted in accordance with the existing law of Zanzibar and having exclusive authority within Zanzibar for matters other than those reserved to the Parliament and Executive of the united Republic;
(b) the offices of two Vice-Presidents one of whom (being. a person normally resident in Zanzibar) shall be the head of the aforesaid executive in and for Zanzibar and shall be the principal assistant of the President of the United Republic in the discharge of his executive functions in relation to Zanzibar;
(c) the representation of Zanzibar in the Parliament of the United Republic ;
(d) such other matters as may be expedient or desirable to give effect to the united Republic and to these Articles.
(iv) There shall reserved to the Parliament and Executive of the united Republic the following matters-
(a) The Constitution and Government of the united Republic.
(b) External Affairs.
(c) Defence.
(d) Police.
(e) Emergency Powers.
(f) Citizenship.
(g) Immigration.
(h) External Trade and Borrowing.
(i) The Public Service of the united Republic.
(j) Income Tax, Corporation Tax, Customs and Excise.
(k) Harbours, Civil Aviation, Posts and Telegraphs.
And the said Parliament and Executive shall have exclusive authority in such matters throughout and for the purposes of the united Republic and in addition exclusive authority in respect of all other matters in and for Tanganyika .
(v) The existing laws of Tanganyika and of Zanzibar shall remain in force in their respective territories subject-
(a) to any provision made hereafter by a competent legislature;
(b) to such provision as may be made by order of the President of the united Republic for the extension to Zanzibar of any law relating to any of the matters set out in Article (iv), and the revocation of any corresponding law of Zanzibar;
(c) to such amendments as may be expedient or desirable to give effect to the union and to these Articles.
(v) (a) The first President of the united Republic shall be Mwalimu Julius K.
Nyerere and he shall carry on the Government of the united Republic in accordance with the provisions of these Articles and with the assistance of the Vice-Presidents aforesaid and of such other ministers and officers as he may appoint from Tanganyika and Zanzibar and their respective public services.
(b) The first Vice-President from Zanzibar to be appointed in accordance with the modifications provided for in Article (iii) shall be Sheikh Abeid Karume.
(vii) The President of the united Republic: in agreement with the Vice-President who is head of the Executive in Zanzibar shall-
(a) Appoint a Commission to make proposals for a Constitution for the
united Republic.
(b) Summon a Constituent Assembly composed of Representatives from Tanganyika and from Zanzibar in such numbers as they may determine to meet within one year of the commencement of the union for the purpose of considering the proposals of the Commission aforesaid and to adopt a Constitution for the united Republic.
(viii) These Articles shall be subject to the enactment of laws by the Parliament of Tanganyika and by the Revolutionary Council of the Peoples' Republic of Zanzibar in conjunction with the Cabinet of Ministers thereof, ratifying the same and providing for the Government of the united Republic and of Zanzibar in accordance therewith.
IN WITNESS WHERE Julius K. Nyerere, the President of the Republic of Tanganyika, and Abeid Karume the President of the Peoples' Republic of Zanzibar have signed these Articles, in duplicate, at Zanzibar, on this twenty-second day of April, 1964.
Passed in the National Assembly on the twenty-fifth day of April,1964

MATUMIZI MAOVU YA TEHAMA

2011-02-05T23:17:00.000-08:00

Police uncover massive money-laundering scam
By ThisDay Reporter
2nd February 2011
MORE THAN HALF A BILLION SHILLINGS ALLEGEDLY STOLEN
FROM A BANK CONVERTED INTO MOBILE PHONE VOUCHERS

A Dar es Salaam-based businessman has been charged with alleged fraud and theft of more than half a billion shillings from a bank, in one of the biggest money laundering cases in the country.

Forty-year-old Humoud Ally Salum, a resident of Kariakoo area in the city, was arraigned before the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court on January 17, this year, on 15 counts of fraud, theft and money laundering.

In the elaborate money laundering scam, the businessman was alleged to have stolen hundreds of millions of shillings from one bank, transferred the money to another bank then quickly converted the cash into mobile phone vouchers.

He is alleged to have used the stolen funds to purchase mobile phone vouchers worth more than 500m/- on different occasions to try to hide the source of the illicit money.

The businessman denied the charges before resident magistrate Sundi Fimbo and was sent to remand prison until the case comes up for another mention today.

In the first count, prosecutors alleged that Salum illegally obtained more than 560m/- from CRDB Bank through fraud.

"Humoud Ally Salum ... between November and December 2010 within the city and region of Dar es Salaam, conspired with other persons unknown to defraud CRDB Bank 562,861,500/-," said part of the charge sheet seen by THISDAY.

In the second count, the accused person was charged with theft of the stated amount from CRDB Bank.

Prosecutors charged the businessmen with more than ten counts of money laundering.

According to the charge sheet, Salum "directly engaged himself in a transaction involving the proceeds of a predicate offence by receiving credit in his bank account number 041103001336 at NBC Limited Muhimbili branch amounting to 185,580,000/-, which was stolen from CRDB Bank."

Prosecutors alleged that Salum received another payment of 228,375,000/- in the same NBC bank account on December 7, last year, which was allegedly stolen from NBC Bank.

On December 20, last year, another payment of 148,906,500/- was allegedly made into his NBC bank account from the same stolen CRDB bank funds, prosecutors said.

Salum, who is also known as Salim or Humoud Shkely, is alleged to have used 73m/- out of the stolen funds to purchase mobile phone recharge vouchers from Shivacom Group in Dar es Salaam.

Prosecutors alleged that the move was aimed at "concealing or disguising the illicit origin of that money or assisting persons involved in the commission of the offence to evade the legal consequences of their actions."

Prosecutors said the businessman again bought 85m/- worth of mobile phone vouchers on December 10 with the same money laundering intention.

On December 21, Salum also converted 70m/- cash into recharge vouchers bought from Shivacom.

He then purchased another 20m/- worth of mobile phone vouchers from Selcom Wireless company, said prosecutors.

Other transactions involving the purchase of mobile phone vouchers were made on December 8 from Selcom Wireless (60m/-), November 29 from CHISS JR Company (26m/-), December 22 from CHISS JR company (77.5m/-), December 8 from Come and Call Ltd (90m/-), November 27 from Ace Distributors Ltd (35m/-) and November 26 from Freedom Communication Ltd (20.9m/-).

WAKIHAMA CHAMA CHA MAPINDUZI

2011-02-05T23:13:00.001-08:00

Wanachama 1,550 wa CCM watimkia CHADEMA

WAKATI Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) jana kikiadhimisha miaka 34 tangu kianzishwe, zaidi ya wanachama wake 1,550 wamekihama chama hicho na kujiunga na Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA).
Katibu wa CHADEMA wa Wilaya ya Maswa, Luhende Mipawa, alisema kuwa wanachama hao wamerudisha kadi hizo kwa wakati tofauti siku tatu tangu CCM ilipozindua maadhimisho ya miaka 34 ya kuzaliwa kwa chama hicho.
“Tangu CCM walipozindua sherehe zao za kutimiza miaka 34, tumepokea wanachama wapatao 1,550 kutoka matawi mbalimbali ya CCM katika Wilaya ya Maswa ambao wamejiunga na chama chetu,” alisema.
Alisema kuwa dalili hizo zinaonyesha wazi wananchi wa wilaya hiyo walivyo na imani kwa CHADEMA wanachokiamini ndicho chama kikuu cha upinzani hapa nchini.
“Hizi ni dalili njema kuwa wananchi wanakikubali chama chetu ndiyo maana unaona kwa muda wa siku tatu tumevuna wanachama 1,550, tuna kazi kubwa ya kutimiza kiu kubwa ya wananchi wetu,” alisema.
Akizungumza na Tanzania Daima Jumapili, mmoja wa wanachama wa CCM aliyehamia CHADEMA, Geni Jilala, alisema kuwa kwa sasa chama hicho kimekosa mwelekeo na kupoteza misingi iliyowekwa na Mwalimu Nyerere na matokeo yake kimekuwa ni cha kuwatumikia wenye fedha huku wanyonge wakiachwa, hivyo CHADEMA ndiyo chama mbadala.
“CCM ya leo inawakumbatia wenye fedha, kwani ndiyo wana sauti ndani ya chama, sisi wanyonge tumeachwa, hivyo tumeona heri tukimbilie CHADEMA ambacho ndicho chama cha wanyonge,” alisema Jilala.
Aliongeza kwamba kutokana na mgawanyiko na makundi yanayokitafuna chama hicho wilayani humo, kuna hatari ya kusambaratika na kubaki na jengo la ofisi. Hivi karibuni Katibu wa Uenezi wa CCM Taifa, Kapteni John Chiligati, alishindwa kuhutubia mkutano wa hadhara mjini Maswa katika viwanja wa MADECO, baada ya wananchi kutojitokeza kwa madai kuwa chama hicho hakina jipya la kuwaeleza wakazi wa mji huo.

HASARA ZA KUILIPA DOWANS NI MHIMILI MMOJA KUUDHARAU MWINGINE

2011-02-05T23:05:00.000-08:00

Revealed: The cost of paying Dowans
By ThisDay Reporter
19th January 2011

NATIONAL ECONOMY, GOVERNMENT'S MORAL AND ETHICAL STANDING IN JEOPARDY
AS PRESSURE MOUNTS TO MAKE HUGE PAYOUT FOR AN ILLEGAL POWER CONTRACT

THE decision by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals to agree to pay Dowans Holdings SA/Dowans Tanzania Limited a staggering $65 million plus interest (approx. 100 billion/-) for an illegal power generation contract could have far-reaching and potentially devastating consequences for President Jakaya Kikwete's government, it has been revealed.

The Richmond/Dowans contract with the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) was terminated following recommendations of a parliamentary committee chaired by the Kyela Member of Parliament, Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe, that probed the dubious power generation deal signed in 2006.

The report of Mwakyembe's committee, which was unanimously endorsed by the National Assembly, called among other things for the termination of the contract because it contravened the Public Procurement Act of 2004.

After carefully studying the parliamentary resolution, a team of legal experts at the Attorney General's Chambers concurred with the Bunge recommendations and the contract was duly terminated.

But in an unexpected move, the same Attorney General's chambers has now reversed its initial decision and advised the government to now pay Dowans more than $65 million for the same illegal contract.

"If the government pays Dowans, it means it has effectively gone against its own decision and that of the Tanzanian Parliament to declare the contract null and void and call for its termination," said a senior legal expert in government.

"Parliament declared that the Dowans contract was illegal. A parliamentary resolution to this effect was unanimously approved by all lawmakers. Any payments by the government to Dowans would contravene a valid parliamentary resolution."

There are sharp divisions among senior government officials, including Cabinet ministers, over a controversial ruling of the International Court of Arbitration (ICC) that ordered TANESCO to make questionable payments in favour of Dowans.

The Minister for Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja, surprisingly announced that the government had agreed to pay Dowans as per the ICC ruling without even seeking prior Cabinet approval.

Under normal circumstances, Ngeleja would need to get the approval of Cabinet before making any final decision unilaterally regarding such a massive financial liability to the government.

Apart from creating divisions in the top echelons of the Kikwete administration and eroding the government's moral and ethical standing, the Dowans saga could have a devastating blow on the nation's economy.

"The Dowans situation has already caused shock waves in interbank trading. The market has panicked, thus pushing the shilling downwards towards further depreciation," a trader at a state-run bank told THISDAY.

Commercial banks quoted the shilling at 1,485/1,490 to the dollar last Thursday compared with 1,469/1,475 at the close of trading the previous week.

"There is a scarcity of dollars in the market right now. Therefore, an outflow of 65 million dollars from the market will mean the shilling could slide sharply to 1,500 or even 1,800 levels."

"Paying Dowans will mean exporting $65 million out of the country. This will seriously hurt Tanzania's economy."

A weaker currency could push up the inflation rate and undermine the government's goal of achieving a 7.2 percent economic growth this year.

"There is one golden rule about weak currencies – they affect the economies of poor countries like Tanzania that are import-oriented and carry huge debts," said the bank trader.

"This means that Tanzanians could end up paying more for basics such as food, consumer goods, kerosene and petrol, as a direct result of the Dowans payment. This is something that any sensible government should avoid."

While some government officials are seemingly in a rush to pay Dowans, the Minister for Finance, Mustafa Mkulo, has declared that government coffers have already dried up.

It has been suggested that Ngeleja's ministry and TANESCO could make re-allocations of their existing budgets and try to raise the $65 million, which government bureaucrats admit would be a difficult thing to achieve.

"TANESCO is cash-strapped and has huge debts. Where will the money come from to pay Dowans for a contract that is illegal in the first place?" Asked one well-placed government official.

Several government development initiatives, such as construction of roads and other infrastructure projects, have now been put on hold because of budget constraints.

Some analysts warn that the government could land in a political quagmire if it persists in paying Dowans for the illegal contract.

"Any payments to Dowans could have a major political backlash on the government. Parliament will need an explanation on why the government chose to disregard a valid Bunge resolution on the matter and there is growing public resentment on the move," said one political commentator.

“Donor countries are closely watching the government's next move and could free funds for the 2011/12 budget if it is revealed that the government squandered $65 million on an illegal contract.”

SHERIA ZA KIMILA TANZANIA/CUSTOMARY LAW CASES

2011-02-05T22:14:00.000-08:00

CUSTOMARY LAW CASES
5/2/2011

1. ADAMU MTONDO v. LIKUNA OMARI (1968) HCD 289 – Hamlyn, J.

Divorce –Islamic Law – Divorce Normally Must be Pronounced three times – Revocation of Divorce – Unaffected by Fact Dowry not fully paid.

Appelant orally pronounced a divorce from his wife. Somewhat less than a month later, presumably in a period of “tuhr”, he orally revoked the divorce. The PC held that the divorce was complete and, on appeal, the DC affirmed acting on the advice of an assessor that the revocation was of no effect because the dowry had not been fully paid at that time. Neither court specified the school of Muslim law which the parties adhered.

Held:
1. Under the more common interpretations, divorce is effected only by three pronouncements and was not effected here, where only one pronouncement was given. Trial courts should specify the school of Muslim law which is applicable; in the absence of any indication to the contrary, it should be presumed that the more common interpretation applies.
2. Even if the single pronouncement was effective, the fact that the dowry had not been fully paid did not affect the validity of the revocation and the oral divorce was rescinded. Appeal allowed and respondent declared to be still the lawful wife of appellant.

2. MAHUNDYA MBURUMATARE v. MUGENDI NYAKANGARA (1969) HCD 7
26/11/2968 - Seaton, J.
Customary marriage – Validity depends upon the issue of a marriage certificate.

The respondent claimed compensation for adultery allegedly committed by his alleged wife. The question turned on the proof of marriage. The respondent argued that he married the woman in 1964, and that the marriage certificate was not regarded as necessary under the local customs.

Held:
1. The case falls to be determined under the Declaration of Customary Law, GN 279 OF 1963. Sec. 86 provides that the marriage must be legalized by the issue of a marriage certificate. The traditional ceremonies have no legal force.
2. IN the instant case, besides the non-production of the marriage certificate there were other discrepancies in evidence which indicated that there was no marriage between the respondent and the woman. Appeal allowed.

3. MATIKO CHABHA v. MATHIAS MWITA (1969) HCD 8 - Saidi, J. – 4/11/1968
Divorce – Return of dowry – When permissible.

This was a claim for the return of dowry. The parties were married under customary law, and the Husband had paid dowry. On divorce, normally dowry is not returnable once the children have been born, which was the case here. However, the wife has since remarried, and her father had received a second set of dowry.

Held:
1. Under Clause 52B of the Customary Declaration Order 1963 the claim for the return of dowry b y the husband on dissolution of the marriage cannot be entertained if the wife has borne him children. The Declaration does not touch on the relevant issue raised in the instant case, namely whether it is fair to bar the husband from recovering the dowry or a proportionate part thereof where the wife who has borne him children is divorced and having been re-married dowry is paid again to the father. This way a father could get several sets of dowry for the same daughter. In such a case the former husband is entitled to receive a substantial part of the dowry he has paid.

Note from Blogger:
With due respect to his Lordship, this decision makes the wife look exactly like a commodity on the marketplace and not a human being. It is not fair and I think this was an erroneous decision, even then (1968). The dowry from the first husband or any subsequent husband for that matter was not supposed to be paid, with or without the appearance of children in the marriage!

4. RALANG MUMANYI v WAMBURA MWITA (1969) HCD 9 – Seaton, J. –

The appellant sued the defendant in the primary court in North Mara District for the return of bride wealth. There was evidence that after several years of marriage, the plaintiff’s wife (the defendant’s daughter) had deserted the plaintiff, but there was no evidence that the plaintiff had obtained a divorce. At the trial the plaintiff and the defendant gave evidence but were not allowed to cross-examine one another. It was not recorded whether or not they were allowed to call other witnesses. No issues were framed by the court, nor were the opinion of the assessors recorded. The trial court gave judgment for the plaintiff, relying on ss. 133, 134 and 140 of Law of Persons GN 279/1963, which provide that desertion is a ground for divorce and that the Husband may claim divorce and seek a return of bride wealth without legal obligation to search for his wife.
HELD:

1. After the Plaint had been read and the defendant’s statement in reply recorded, the court should have framed the issues in the case and determined whether or not the defendant admitted or denied the plaintiff’s allegations. [Citing r. 44-47 Magistrates Courts [Civil Procedure in Primary Court] Rules, GN 310 of 1964.
2. The trial court should have recorded whether or not the parties had been given opportunity to cross-examine and to call witnesses.
3. Although a primary court has discretion as to whether or not to sit with assessors [s.8 MCA Cap. 537], once the court decided to sit with assessors it must record their opinions and, if he disagrees with them, give reasons for his disagreement.
4. The section of the law of Persons cited by the trial court must be read together with s. 37A which provides that bride wealth may be required to be returned “in case of divorce.” In the present case, there was no evidence of a divorce and the award cannot be sustained.

5. ADMINISTRATOR GENERAL, ZANZIBAR, ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATE OF TOPAN KARSN RAMJI alias RASHID KARSAN RAMJI, DECEASED v. KULSAM FADHIL MUSSA & 5 ors. (1969) HCD 80 - 7/2/1967 – Kimicha, C.J.

The parties, children of the deceased, claimed a piece of property formerly belonging to the deceased. The Administrator General is the plaintiff in form only, belonging the action in court for instruction on the question of which of the disputants should receive the property. Mohamed Hussein claims the property by way of a deed of gift, made to him by the deceased, his father, in 1960. The deed gift was duly witnessed, but the deceased died without registering it as required by Zanzibar law. Mohamed’s sister argued that the gift was invalid for non-registration, and therefore that the property was properly part of the deceased’s estate, to be distributed among all the heirs.

One Ahmed Juma testified that he had been a tenant on the property since 1960, that the deceased in 1960 told him that he had given the property to his son and that the rent should thenceforth be paid to the son, and that he had since that time paid the rent to the son who issued receipts in his own name. One of the witnesses to the deed of gift testified as to its genuineness. The parties were Muslims, members of the Shia sect.

HELD:-
1. The validity of gifts and the distribution of estates is governed by Muslim law, where the deceased was a Muslim. “In civil matters the law of Islam is and is is hereby declared to be the fundamental law of the republic, under Cap. 3, s.7.
2. Mulla’s Principles of Mohammedan Law, para 150 (3), states: “If it is proved by oral evidence that a gift was competed as required by law, it is immaterial that the donor has also executed a deed of gift, but the deed has not been registered as required by the Registration Act.”
3. According to Shia Law, the requirements for a valid gift are:-

(a) A declaration of the gift b y the donor;
(b) An acceptance of the gift by the donee; and
(c) A delivery of possession to the donee. Since these requirements were complied with here, the gift was valid, and Mohamed Hussein is entitled to the property.

7. SHABANI v. SOFIA (1971) HCD 5 -/11/1970 - Kwikima, AG. J.

The respondent who used to live in concubinage with the appellant’s father sued the appellant for compensation of shs.9.120/= for evicting her from the deceased’s house which she used to occupy in his lifetime. The primary court dismissed the claim because the respondent and the deceased were Muslims and according to Islamic law, a concubine has no right to inherit part of the estate which a legally wedded wife is entitled to. Even under Chagga law which could be applicable were the respondent married to the deceased, Chagga widows do not inherit when there are male issues surviving as in this case. The district magistrate felt that the respondent was entitled to some of the estate after staying with the appellant’s father for 19 years and awarded her a quarter of the amount claimed.
HELD:-

1. With due respect this decision cannot be in accordance with the law. In suing the appellant, the respondent necessarily meant that the appellant had wronged her by depriving her part of the inheritance. How could this be if she was not entitled to any? Both Chagga and Islamic law exclude her from inheriting. According to Chagga law, she would not inherit in the presence of the appellant even if she was legally wedded to the deceased. She could not inherit under Islamic law either, being only the concubine of the deceased.
2. As this suit is not an administration of deceased’s estate matter, the appellant cannot be sued by the respondent. “Compensation” is payable by the husbands who divorce their wives or men who forsake their concubines with whom they have worked together and accumulated some wealth to be shared. In this case the appellant was the son of the man who kept the respondent as his concubine. The respondent could not therefore be heard to sue him.
3. Appeal allowed.

8. MANYASA v. MWANAKOMBO (1971) HCD 13- 20/10/1070 - Georges, C.J.

A divorced wife sued the husband for maintenance of three children. The husband died before the case was finalized. The district magistrate substituted the surviving widow for the deceased husband and made an order of maintenance against her at the rate of shs.50/= per month. On appeal, the learned judge set aside the order because the liability for maintaining the children of the broken marriage rested on the deceased husband and not on his surviving widow. The judge however, awarded the children a house allegedly owned by the deceased. When the divorced wife sought to execute the order, a claimant appeared who asserted that the house was his as it had been transferred to him years ago b the deceased. The chief Justice in this Inspection Note outlined the proper procedure to be followed,
HELD:
1. The divorced wife should have been advised to apply for execution under the MCXA [Civil Procedure in Primary Courts] Rules, 1964, s. 58. The Claimant could then appear and show cause why he should not be evicted. If the court rejects the claim, then the matter would be at an end, the order executed. If the court holds that the property in fact belongs to the claimant, then the divorced wife can appeal if she wishes.

9. IN RE: SALUM OMARI MKEREMI (1973) LRT 80, Mfalila, Ag. J. 14/5/1973.

1. The Law applicable to a “deceased native’s estate” [under Cap 30] is the tribal customary law of the deceased unless he had professed the Mohammedan religion and the court is satisfied from the written or oral declaration of the deceased, or his acts or manner of life, that he intended his estate to be administered according to Mohammedan law.
2. The deceased manner and way of life was far removed from his tribal customs, consequently the deceased estate should be administered in accordance with Mohammedan law of succession and not Hehe customary law of succession.
3. A Christian widow can inherit in the estate of her deceased Mohammedan husband and take 1/8th share as provided for by Mohammedan law as long as their marriage was one recognized under that law. [Administrator-General applied u/s 88(1) (b) of Probate and Administration of Estates Act.]

Page 354 of the HCD Casebook: Mrs. Nelly Mkeremi according to the above para. is Kitabia, therefore her civil marriage under the Marriage Ordinance to the deceased was a valid marriage recognized by Mohammedan law. She is therefore a “wife” under that law. If this is so then she is entitled to her share as a wife in the deceased’s estate. MULLA:- P. 234, Para. 259:
“a Mohammedan may contract a valid marriage not only with a Mohammedan women, but also with a Kitabia, that is a Jewess or a Christian, but not with an Idolatress or a fire-worshiper.”

s.19 (4) of JALO? Or Probate? - Notwithstanding any tribal or Mohammedan law to the contrary (b) a person shall not be deprived of a right to succession to property by reason of that person having renounced or having been excluded from the communion of any religion.

10. MANUGWA LUTALAMILA & 2 ors. V. MARTHA LUTALAMILA (1982) TLR 98 – Mfalila, J.

See MCA, sec. 320/1964.

1. In the administration of estates where the law applicable is customary law the Chief Justice is empowered u/s 14 (2) of MCA, 1963 to confer jurisdiction upon Primary Courts to administer the same.
2. Where the matter in issue is inheritance in customary law, then irrespective of the nature of the property involved, the Primary Court has jurisdiction unless the High Court has directed under section 88 of the Probate and Administration Ordinance that the provisions of that ordinance shall apply to the estate in question.
3. Under s.57 (1) of MCA, 1963 THE District Court is denied original jurisdiction to determine a matter of inheritance arising out of customary law.
4. The District Magistrate was wrong in declaring the proceedings in the Primary Court null and void and quashing them; he should have decided the appeal on merits. Order accordingly.

Warioba Wanyangi v. Romara Romara [1977] LRT 7.,HAMISI GOROGORO v. ASHA MERAGANE (1977) LRT No. 41,MWAMBOPE MWAITENDA v LAZARO MWAKANJUKI (19

2011-01-29T01:17:00.000-08:00

HAMISI GOROGORO v. ASHA MERAGANE (1977) LRT No. 41

Mfalila, J. held that where a transfer of one’s rights over his dota is valid under customary law, such transfer includes the right of the transferee to receive the bride price on the marriage of the dota.

Obiter: Even if Amina (the dota) had been illegitimate the respondent would have had a claim against the appellant. This is because I think the proper people to have made this claim would have been her male relatives; that is to say; the uncles of her child or her own father (Amina’s grandfather). I do not think the respondent could personally stand up and claim Amina’s bride price. p. 183 of LRT.
Justice Mfalila is saying that (under customary law) he does not think that Asha (the mother of the dota) is the right person to claim for and get paid the bride price payment for her own daughter. PATRIARCHY AT ITS BEST!

MWAMBOPE MWAITENDA v LAZARO MWAKANJUKI (1976) LRT 60, Nyalali, Ag. J. – 4/6/1975.
1. The word ‘Ndugu’ in clauses 62 and 64 of the Customary Law [Declaration] Order 1963 must be construed in such wider sense as to keep it within the extended family structure of African Communities to which the declaration relates.
2. The question whether a particular relative qualified to be ‘ndugu’ of the deceased for the purpose of wife-inheritance is a matter of customary law of the community concerned.
3. Where the customary law [Declaration] Order is silent on a question the answer must be found in the undeclared customary law olf the Wanyakyusa.
4. On the evidence given at the trial before the Primary Court, it would appear that the stepson of a widow for purposes of inheriting that widow as a wife, is a ‘ndugu’ of his late father.
5. The customary law [declaration] order being subject to any relevant Act of Parliament is subject to the LMA 1971.
6. S.25(d) of the LMA recognizes marriages contracted according to customary rights but section 14 (3) prohibits any person from marrying the former spouse of his or her parent.
7. As no evidence was adduced at the trial to show the exact date of the alleged marriage, the appellant failed to discharge the burden of proving that the marriage took place before the lst May 1971 when the LMA came into force. APPEAL DISMISSED.

This case translated Clause 62 of GN 279/63 (28/6/1963) at p.237 of the casebook as follows:
“The widow is asked whether she wishes to be taken over by a kinsman of the deceased. If she does not so wish, bride price does not become refundable and she is free to go and live with her own kinsmen”
Clause 64 – p. 238 of the casebook:
If the widow agrees to live as a wife of one of the kinsmen of the deceased, and the family council approves, she becomes the lawful wife of that kinsman of the deceased.

Mbaruka v. Chimonyogo (PC) [1971] HCD 406
Mwakasendo, Ag. J.
Where a mge has lasted for a very long time (in this case over 22 years and 2 issues) the chances are that the return of bride price swill be ordered in inverse proportion to the number of hears that the marriage has lasted. The longer the mge subsists the dimmer will be the prospects for the claimant, whether he is the innocent party or not, succeeding in getting a refund of the bride price that he had paid at the inception of the mge. The reasons why this should be so are obvious. The original parties to the transaction may have died or, even if they have not died, their fortunes may have adversely changed in the intervening period, so much so that is may be unconscionable to order any refund of bride price. If these propositions are not acceptable, as they are bound to by the tremulous and conservative part of our people, I cannot see what would stop a grand old man of 80 claiming the return of bride price paid 50 years before when he married his divorced 66 year old wife. I have deliberately chosen this extreme case to demonstrate the absurdity to which an untrammeled application of customary rules can lead.
3. Speaking for myself, I believe that customary rules are like the reinless wild horse which only the expert horseman can mount and control but left to the uninitiated it can do deadly harm. I believe too that it is the duty of the courts at this momentous period of our history to assist the growth and promotion of equitable customary rules. We would be failing totally in this respect if we were to abide, without reflection or commonsense, by the unchanging and changeless traditions of the past as if they were priceless medieval relics.
4. I have very little doubt in my own mind that there could be no justification whatsoever for ordering the respondent to refund to the appellant the remainder of the bride price. The appellant should in fact count himself lucky that he got the refund of as many as 12 head of cattle, to which, with respect, I do not think he was entitled…

Warioba Wanyangi v. Romara Romara [1977] LRT 7. - MAGANGA, Ag. J. 21/6/1975.
[The Late Judge Maganga thought that a Kuria Custimary rule which holds a father liable for the torts of his adult son repugnant to reason and natural justice.]
A father is not vicariously liable for the tortuous acts of his child who is not a minor. Appeal dismissed.
ALI ZANDA v. Mohamed Ngago (1973) LRT 16 – Mfalila, Ag. J. , p 67 casebook.
Circumstances in which PCs may exercise civil jurisdiction under section 14 (1) (a) (i) of the MCA, i.e. where customary law is applicable. [The MCA 1984 has only s 14 (1)]

1. Such matters must between members of a community in which rules of customary law on the subject matter are established and accepted and if the parties come from different communities the 2 communities must have similar provisions on the matter.
(ii) If the matter relates to status or succession, the person involved must have belonged to a community in which rules of customary law relevant to the matter are established and accepted;
(iii) By the nature of the dispute it is appropriate that the matter be decided in accordance with customary law except where there are strong indications to the contrary.

MSIBA WA KUONDOKEWA NA CHIFU PATRICE KUNAMBI

2011-01-23T06:26:00.000-08:00

SUNDAY NEWS Reporter, 22nd January 2011

ONE of the founders of Tanganyika African Union (TANU) and CCM, Chief Patrick Kunambi, died early on Saturday 22/1/2011 in Dar es Salaam.

CCM Secretary General, Yussuf Makamba said in a statement that Chief Kunambi died at 3:25 am at his home in Ubungo Msewe of heart complications.

He was 94. “CCM received reports of Chief Kunambi’s death with shock and extreme grief. “Chief Kunambi was one of 17 founder members of TANU on July 7, 1954.

He was one of the four founder members of TANU who were still alive until yesterday,” Mr Makamba said in the statement bearing a condolence message to the bereaved family, relatives, friends and all CCM members.

Mr Makamba paid tribute to Chief Kunambi for his enormous and outstanding contribution to the nation throughout his life time, as a nationalist, civil servant and a public leader. Patrict Kunambi was born on August 16, 1916 in Matombo Ward, Morogoro Region.

He was the last of 11 children of Chief Kunambi, who died in 1955 at the age of 145. He attained his secondary school education in Tabora, where he was one of the students of the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere.

Chief Kunambi later attended Tabora Teachers’ College and Makerere University College, Uganda. He taught at different schools and teachers’ training colleges, before going to the University of Duqene in the United States for a Masters Degree between 1962 and 1964.

He served as the Registrar at the University of Dar es Salaam as a volunteer for nine months. Chief Kunambi was Director of Personnel and Administration at the National Transport Corporation (NTC) between 1971 and 1979. Chief Kunambi was an active TANU leader despite his other engagements as the Chief of Waluguru in Morogoro Region and a teacher.

According to the CCM statement, he led a historic TANU meeting in early 1955, which resolved to send Mwalimu Nyerere to the United Nations in New York to press for the independence of Tanganyika.

Mwalimu was in New York to counter a delegation sent by British Colonial administration which campaigned for delay of the independence of Tanganyika for 25 years.

The late Chief Kunambi is survived by two children and seven grandchildren. His wife, Bernadeta, and his two children had passed away.

R I P.

WIZI IDARA YA MAGEREZA WAGUNDULIWA NA WAZIRI?

2011-01-13T07:39:00.000-08:00

9/1/2011 Waziri Mambo ya Ndani adanganywa Magereza (Habari Leo) tanzania

MRADI wa OMIS uliozinduliwa Desemba 17, mwaka jana na Waziri wa Mambo ya Ndani, Shamsi Vuai Nahodha katika Ofisi ya Makao Makuu ya Jeshi la Magereza umetajwa kuwa ulilenga kufunika utaratibu mbaya uliotumika katika utekelezaji wa mradi huo na kuisababishia hasara Serikali. Mradi wa OMIS (Offenders Management Information System), ulibuniwa na Jeshi la Magereza ukiwa na lengo la kuunganisha idara zote zinazohusika na masuala ya uhalifu ambazo ni Magereza, Polisi, Mahakama, Parole na Huduma za Jamii. Lengo la mradi huo ni kuboresha shughuli za wafungwa kwa kuzifanya idara husika ziweze kutekeleza shughuli zao kwa haraka na ufanisi kwa kutumia teknolojia ya kompyuta. Taarifa ya kurasa tisa iliyowasilishwa kwa Waziri Nahodha ambayo gazeti hili limefanikiwa kuipata nakala yake inayoelezea uhalisia wa mradi huo imefafanua upungufu mkubwa wa kiutendaji, jambo ambalo waziri huyo hakuelezwa awali.
Ndani ya taarifa hiyo, ilielezwa kuwa ni aibu kwa Waziri kukaribishwa kuzindua mradi huo huku uongozi wa Magereza ukifahamu wazi kuwa utekelezaji wake ulikwenda kinyume na nyaraka ya zabuni ya mradi wa OMIS-Software kumbukumbu namba 12/2006/2007 iliyoandaliwa Julai 23, 2007. Waraka huo ambao imeelezwa kuwa maelekezo yake hayakufuatwa, uliandaliwa na Wizara ya Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi, ndio ulipaswa kutumika kumpata mzabuni aliyepaswa kusimika mfumo huo katika eneo la majaribio, upande wa Jeshi la Magereza, lakini hilo halikufanyika, kwa mujibu wa waraka huo. Kwa mfano, taarifa hiyo ilieleza, mradi huo ulikwenda kinyume na waraka wa zabuni hiyo Omis-Software, uliosimikwa hauna uwezo wa kupanuliwa punde utakapohitajika kutumika sehemu nyingine za utekelezaji wa mradi huo ili kupeana taarifa katika maeneo yote yenye mfumo huo katika uendeshaji wa shughuli za wafungwa.Pia ilielezwa kuwa utekelezaji wa mradi huo umekwenda kinyume na kifungu namba 5 cha zabuni hiyo ambacho kilikuwa kikifafanua utekelezaji kwenye mahitaji ya mradi husika (OMIS-Software user requirements), jambo ambalo limezua sintofahamu kuhusu utekelezaji na ukamilikaji wa mradi huo. Kutokana na sababu hiyo, ilielezwa kuwa uzinduzi wa mradi huo umemdhalilisha Waziri kwa kuwa walitumia ugeni wake katika wizara hiyo kubariki mradi uliokwenda kinyume na maelekezo ya wizara husika. “Uzinduzi wa OMIS uliofanyika Desemba 17 mwaka jana, ulifanyika wakati mradi wa OMIS-Software ukiwa na kasoro nyingi zinazoashiria ubadhirifu wa fedha za Serikali, kupitia udanganyifu unaotengeneza mazingira yatakayodumisha ubadhirifu wa fedha za Serikali,” taarifa hiyo ilieleza. Pia taarifa hiyo ilieleza kuwa vielelezo vya malipo katika mradi huo vinaonesha wazi kwamba Kampuni ya GIVA ambayo inadaiwa kupata zabuni ya mradi huo kinyume na utaratibu, imetumika kama daraja la kuchotea fedha kupitia mradi huo ambapo hadi Oktoba 5, mwaka jana, ilikuwa imelipwa jumla ya Sh 1,936,541,550. Kwa mujibu wa taarifa hiyo, malipo ya hivi karibuni yalifanyika kwa awamu sita ambapo Aprili 4, kupitia vocha namba 995592 ililipwa Sh 410, 884, 850; Juni 25, kwa vocha namba 996861, ililipwa Sh 89,115,150; Juni 24, kwa vocha namba 696977 ililipwa Sh 46,994,154.50. Malipo mengine yalifanyika Juni 27 vocha namba 694001, Sh 453,005,845.50; Septemba 9 kupitia akaunti namba 021240777055 ililipwa Sh 153,287,550; na Oktoba 5 kupitia akaunti namba hiyo hiyo ililipwa Sh 183,254,000. Pia ilielezwa kuwa katika mazingira ya utatanishi, kampuni hiyo iliiuzia Magereza ‘seva’ sita zenye kasi ya 2.2Ghz kwa Sh milioni 410 kwa kutumia zabuni ambayo ‘ilipikwa’ kwani ilikiuka taratibu. Gazeti hili lilielezwa kuwa wakati Jeshi la Magereza likinunua vifaa hivyo, tayari lilikuwa na vingine vitano vyenye uwezo mkubwa zaidi, kwani vina kasi ya 3.4 Ghz, hivyo vifaa vilivyonunuliwa kutoka GIVA vimepitwa na wakati kwa kuwa havitakidhi mahitaji ya mradi huo. Uongozi wa kampuni hiyo ulikiri kuwa Kampuni ya GIVA ilihusika katika mradi huo, lakini ulikataa kutoa taarifa zaidi kuhusu madai yaliyoandikwa kwenye ripoti hiyo. Ilielezwa kuwa Waziri Nahodha alidanganywa waziwazi, kwani katika hotuba ya uzinduzi wa mradi huo katika eneo la majaribio, aliambiwa kuwa mradi huo umekamilika kwa dola milioni moja za Marekani wakati si kweli. Ilielezwa pia kuwa hiyo ilitokana na ukweli kwamba wakati kauli hiyo ikitolewa hakupewa mchanganuo wa matumizi ya fedha katika mradi huo ambao inaonesha wazi matumizi zaidi ya fedha. Pia ilielezwa kuwa software (data au programu ya kompyuta) za alama za vidole na vifaa vingine vinavyotumika katika mradi huo, mpaka sasa havijulikani kinyume na maagizo ya zabuni hiyo, hivyo kujitokeza walakini katika matumizi ya fedha za ziada zilizolipwa kwa kampuni hiyo. Gazeti hili liliwasiliana na Ofisi ya Waziri Nahodha ili kupata ufafanuzi wa jambo hilo, ambapo Katibu wake aliyejitambulisha kwa jina la Nelson alisema kuwa Waziri bado mgeni katika wizara hiyo anahitaji muda wa maandalizi kabla ya kutoa kauli kuhusu jambo hilo. “Nitawasiliana naye kuhusu jambo hilo, nadhani na wewe unajua kwamba Waziri ndio kwanza ameanza kazi hivyo si rahisi akajua kila kitu kinachoendelea katika kila idara, nitumie namba yako ya simu tukishauriana nitakupigia,” alisema Nelson. Lakini hata baada ya kupita wiki mbili sasa, hakuna majibu yaliyotolewa, ilhali watendaji wakuu ndani ya Jeshi hilo wakionekana kukwepa kulizungumzia hilo kwa kile wanachodai kubanwa na majukumu ya kikazi.

MWAKYEMBE ASEMA DOWANS KAMPUNI HEWA HAISTAHILI KULIPWA CHOCHOTE

2011-01-13T06:55:00.001-08:00

Naibu Waziri wa Ujenzi, Dk. Harrison Mwakyembe
Naibu Waziri wa Ujenzi, Dk. Harrison Mwakyembe, amevunja ukimya kuhusu sakata la kutaka kulipwa fidia ya mabilioni ya Shilingi kampuni ya kufua umeme wa dharura ya Dowans Tanzania Limited, kwa kueleza kwamba itakuwa jambo la ajabu kama serikali itakubali kulipa fedha hizo, kwani kampuni hiyo awali ilibainika kuwa ya kitapeli, lakini sasa inaonekana kuwa ni halali.
“Tulishasema kuwa Richmond ni kampuni hewa ambapo Dowans wamerithi mkataba hewa, hivyo inakuwaje walipwe tena mabilioni ya fedha, tunasubiri kuona msingi uliotumika tapeli kulipwa fidia kwa kazi ya utapeli, nitaangalia amelipwa kwa sheria ipi,” alisema Dk. Mwakyembe jijini Dar es Salaam jana.
Dk. Mwakyembe ambaye alikuwa Mwenyekiti wa Kamati Teule ya Bunge iliyoundwa kuchunguza mchakato wa zabuni ya kuzalisha umeme wa dharura kwa Kampuni ya Richmond Development LLC, alitoa tamko hilo katika mahojiano maalum na NIPASHE ofisini kwake, baada ya kuwa kimya kwa muda mrefu tangu itolewe hukumu hiyo ya Mahakama ya Kimataifa ya Usuluhishi (ICC) na kulitaka Shirika la Umeme Tanzania (Tanesco) kuamuriwa kuilipa Dowans Sh. bilioni 94..Alisema suala la kutaka kuilipa Dowans lina sura mbili, sura ya kisiasa na sura ya kitaalamu.
Alisema katika sura ya kitaalamu yeye kama mwanasheria ambaye amekuwa katika fani hiyo kwa zaidi ya miaka 20, anasubiri kwanza hukumu hiyo isajiliwe na itatoa fursa kila Mtanzania kuyasoma na kuyaelewa yaliyomo ndani.
Dk. Mwakyembe alisema kama mwanasheria, anatilia mashaka na kuzua maswali mengi hukumu hiyo kwa sababu haiwezekani kampuni iliyoonekana mwanzo kuwa ni ya kitapeli leo inaonekana halali.
“Mimi ni mwalimu wa sheria wa siku nyingi na nimekuwa kwenye fani hii kwa zaidi ya miaka 20, kwa hiyo nasubiri kwa hamu usajili wa hukumu hiyo ya ICC ili nione ni sheria ipi iliyotumiwa na wanasheria, tapeli kulipwa fidia kwa kazi yake ya utapeli,” alisema Waziri Mwakyembe.
Dk. Mwakyembe alisema baada ya kusajiliwa kwa hukumu hiyo, pia ana dukuduku la kutaka kujua ni vipi Tanzania imepoteza kesi rahisi kama hiyo ambayo hata mwanafunzi wa mwaka wa kwanza wa Shahada ya Sheria angeweza kuiendesha na kushinda.
“Nina dukuduku kutaka kujua ni vipi tumepoteza kesi rahisi kama hii ambayo hata mwanafunzi wangu wa mwaka wa kwanza wa digrii ya sheria nina uhakika angeshinda kwa sababu Bunge lilishatafuna kila kitu,” alisema.
Alisema kama serikali itaingia mkenge kulipa mabilioni hayo ya fedha, ipo katika hatari ya kuingizwa katika kesi iliyofunguliwa Marekani ambayo Dowans wameshitakiana na Richmond kutokana na kung’ang’ania mtambo mmojawapo wa kuzalisha umeme.
Alisema kesi hiyo kati ya Dowans na Richmond ipo katika Mahakama ya Wilaya ya Kusini (The United State District Court for the Southern District of Texas Houstorn Division) ambapo zipo tetesi kuwa Tanzania itakapolipa fedha hizo itajumuishwa kwenye kesi hiyo ya kugombaniana mitambo.
“Dowans na Richmond wameshitakiana Marekani kwa kung’ang’ania mtambo GE TM2005 S/N 481-364,7LM 2005-PE-MDW GE UNIT ID.W/O 601178, sasa zipo tetesi kwamba Tanzania inasubiliwa kuingizwa katika kesi hiyo itakapokubali kulipa fedha hizo,” alisema.
Alisema hatua ya Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, William Ngeleja, kueleza kwamba serikali imeamua kuilipa fedha Dowans, ameufanya haraka kwa sababu angesubiri kwanza hukumu hiyo isajiliwe.
Aliongeza kuwa kama serikali itakubali kulipa fidia hizo, kutakuwa kuna utata kwa sababu majina ya waliotajwa kuwa ni wamiliki wa Dowans Tanzania Limited, lakini wale wa Dowans Holding SA (Costa Rica) hawajulikani na wala hawana anuani ya posta wala simu nchini.
Alisema anayetajwa pekee kuwa mmiliki wa Dowans Holding SA ni Bernal Zamora Arase ambaye hata hivyo, ana makampuni 100 yanayoishia na SA.
“Huyu Bernal Zamora Arase anayetajwa kuwa mmiliki wa Dowans Holding SA hana simu, ofisi wala anuani ya posta, nyumba ya kuishi, gari wala pikipiki hapa nchini,” alisema Dk. Mwakyembe.
Aliongeza kuwa Watanzania wengi bado wanafahamu kuwa chini ya makubaliano, mali zote za Richmond bado hazijahamishiwa Dowans na hivyo wanalipwa pesa kinyemela na wameshitakiana Marekani.
Naibu Waziri huyo akizungumzia katika sura ya kisiasa kuhusiana na sakata la Dowans, alisema wasemaji wakuu ni Spika wa Bunge, ambaye Bunge lake lilipitisha maazimio 23 mwaka 2008 ambapo kati ya maazimio hayo ambayo yalihukumu Richmond kuwa ni kampuni hewa.
Alisema Bunge hilo pia lilienda mbele zaidi kwa kuagiza kutaka ifutwe kwenye orodha ya makampuni halali Tanzania ambapo Oktoba 2008 Richmond ilifutwa kama kampuni isiyo halali.
“Kimsingi, mwenye mamlaka ya kuelezea hatma ya maazimio 23 yaliyotolewa na Bunge ni Spika wa Bunge la Tanzania, kwa sababu hukumu ya ICC imegusa baadhi ya maadhimisho,” alisema.
Dk. Mwakyembe alisema pia Waziri Mkuu ambaye kikatiba ni msimamizi mkuu wa shughuli za Bunge na serikali hivyo ana imani baada ya kupokea ushauri wa Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali atakuwa na kauli yake ya mwisho.
CHANZO: NIPASHE

LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE NGO (tanzania) BLOCK PAYMENT TO DOWANS

2011-01-13T06:39:00.000-08:00

Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Chris Mwasambili wrote:

BY LAZARO FELIX

12th January 2011

Legal and Human Rights Centre board member Dr Edmund Sengondo Mvungi talks to journalists in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Others are LHRC Director Francis Kiwanga and TAMWA Executive Director Ananilea Nkya.

Tanesco and Dowans` issue took a new twist yesterday after the Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) filed a case at the High Court to block the government’s decision to pay the power firm 97bn/-.

According to the LHRC Executive Director Francis Kiwanga, the High Court (Commercial Division) was expected to set up the date and appoint a judge for the hearing of the case tomorrow.

“In our application, we asked the High Court to speed up hearing of the case. We hope it will do so…we are now waiting for instructions on Thursday,” he noted.

“We are challenging the hefty compensation…it is a huge amount of money, which is unfair to pay to Dowans,” Kiwanga told a press conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

The LHRC has contracted a prominent constitutional lawyer and university lecturer, Dr Sengondo Mvungi to represent them in court.

The latest move by lawyers and activists from the LHRC comes a few days after the government through the Ministry of Energy and Minerals agreed to pay Dowans the money as compensation for breach of the contract by Tanesco.

The government’s stance to compensate Dowans has attracted a fierce condemnation from legislators and civil society organisations. A few days ago, the Minister for Energy and Minerals William Ngeleja said: “The ministry has agreed to pay Dowans as per the ruling of the International Chamber of Commercial (ICC).”

The ICC ordered the state-run power firm, Tanesco, to pay Dowans 97bn/- for breach of contract — a ruling which is now being disputed by the LHRC as unfair and unjustifiable.

Kiwanga criticised elements of secrecy in the Tanesco-Dowans case, saying members of the public were not informed about the filing and hearing of the case at the ICC.

“The members of the public heard about the case after the ruling by the ICC. Why they made it secret?” queried Kiwanga.

He explained that there were civil societies currently working for the welfare of Tanzanians and promised the centre to maintain the spirit by challenging the ICC ruling the High Court. “LHRC and other organisations played an active in role in saving millions of Tanzanian taxpayers’ money in the case between the City Water and government case some years ago.”

He faulted the government’s decision to pay Dowans before considering other legal options to save taxpayers’ money.

Kiwanga pointed out that Tanesco should not pay even a single cent to Dowans, blaming the government for ignoring the Parliamentary report on the capacity and competence of Richmond/Dowans.

“Ignoring the Parliamentary report on the Richmond Company is itself against the rule of law, pillars of democracy and public interest,” said Kiwanga.

Meanwhile, Dr Sengondo Mvungi asked the government to respect the Parliamentary decision on the Richmond/Dowans issue.

“The Parliament through its committee, which probed the issue, said the Richmond contract was null and void and thus unenforceable. This should be respected by the government,” said Dr Mvungi

He explained that the Tanzania High Court (Commercial Division) would have to say if it supported the ICC to exploit Tanzanians or defended them since the government’s decision in the case was to pay the billions of money, while citizens were starving from poor services.

Tanzania Media Women’s Association (Tamwa) executive director Ananilea Nkya said:

“We should work collectively to make sure Tanesco does not pay the compensation to Dowans,” said Nkya.

She said it was a pity to see that the government was not ready even to appeal against the ICC ruling, a situation she explained as the government’s failure to be accountable to the people, who elected its leaders.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

RE: BIRD, DECEASED [1970] E.A. 289 -TESTATE SUCCESSION

2010-11-21T22:08:00.000-08:00

This is a case on TESTATE SUCCESSION [WILLS] in Tanzania, East Africa.

RE: BIRD DECEASED [1970] E.A. 289, PLATT, J. (this is a case note)

The testator left all his property to his "wife Margaret Bird." The Will also provided for the devolution of the estate if the wife did not survive the testator. The testator divorced his wife. Later she remarried and became known as Margaret Fox. The testator had made one alternation in the Will due to the death of his mother but the clause bequething all his property to "my wife Magaret Bird" was not altered. Margaret Fox applied for the probate of the Will and for dispensation with verification (dispense with the legal requirement of verifying that she really was Margaret).

HELD:
1. Divorce does not ipso facto revoke a Will.
2. As the applicant was the person referred to in the Will as Margret Bird she was entitled to the testator's property.

RE: INNOCENT MBILINYI, DECEASED [1969] HCD 283

2010-11-21T21:37:00.000-08:00

THIS IS A PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION CASE from Tanzania, East Africa: The Issue was the Choice of Law to be applied in the administration of The Late Innocent Mbilinyi's Estate.

RE: INNOCENT MBILINYI, DECEASED [1969] HCD No. 283
Georges, C.J.

The Administrator General applied for directions concerning questions which have arisen in the course of the administration of th estate of Innocent Mbilinyi, deceased. The affidavit in support states out that the deceased, a Roman Catholic by religion and MNGONI by tribe died in an accident on 29/2/1968. Surviving him were his widow ELIZABETH whom he married by Christian rites, three (3) infant children of the marriage, his father, his mother, four (4) brothers and five (5) sisters.

The deceased died intestate and accordingly the succession to his property could be determined either by customary law of the WANGONI as set out in the Customary Law Declaration order GN 436/1963 or according to the law applicable to Christians who die domiciled in Tanzania, that is to say, the Indian Succession Act.

The Widow, through her advocate, contends that the Indian Succession Act is applicable while the father and the brothers and sisters state that customary law is applicable.

Leave was given to the widow and the brother HUSTIENE to file affidavits setting out facts from which the mode of living of the deceased could be inferred. The widow had filed an affiavit. Despite several adjournments to enable him to do so no affidavit has been filed by HUSTIENE or by any of the brothers and sisters.

The widow is a Mchagga by tribe and also a Roman Catholic. She says that she had learned from her husband that he had left Songea when he was about seven years old and had been educated entirely outside the region.

In or about the year 1956 he went to Makerere College, Uganda, where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1960. In 1961 he took up employment with SHELL E.A. LTD. as a Salesman after which training was stationed in Moshi. That very year he was transferred to Dar es Salaam where he met her. In March, 1962 they were married and thereafter lived in Mbeya and Moshi. In 1964 the deceased joined Government service and was in 1967 promoted Deputy Director of the State Lottery.

She avers that the fact that the deceased and herself were of different tribes helped to separate both of them from their tribal backgrounds.

The elders of both tribes appeared to disapprove of the attachment and the subsequent marriage. She states that the deceased had very often expressed his happiness at the fact that they were both Christians and had made it clear that he did not wish to have any of his affairs regulated by customary law. She had visited her husband's family once in 1962 and she describes her reception as cool if not actully unfriendly. They visited again in 1964.

Apart from these visits she was not aware that there had been any contacts between the deceased and his relatives.

As far as she was concerned the deceased relatives were strangers. Neither during the lifetime of the deceased nor after his death had they ever visited her nor had they ever brought gifts for the children or attempted in any way to win their affections.

She states also that the deceased had told her that he had made her the beneficiary under two (2) policies of insurance on his life. These policies are the principal assets in the estate. Neither policy was in fact ever assigned to the widow, but in one of the policies the deceased names her in the application form as his proposed beneficiary.

HELD:

On these facts which are in no way controverted I am satisfied that it can be said that the deceased had abandoned the customary way of life in favour of what may be called a Christian and non traditional way. There is satisfactory evidence that he was to a large extent alinated from his family and that his children had no connection whatever with them. Accordingly I would direct that the law to be applied in the administration of the estate of the deceased should be Indian Succession Act.
(emphasis supplied by me)

KUPOROMOKA KWA HIMAYA YA MAREKANI

2010-11-16T06:24:00.001-08:00

Imechangiwa na Mervyn Lobo wa TANZANET
Mervyn1650Lobo
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The simple fact is that the US embarked on two wars that it could not afford.
It funded the wars, like all wars are funded, by borrowing money. The difference
this time is that instead of borrowing the taxes from the citizens who have
not yet started working, the US borrowed money from the Chinese.

Iraq was where the US blew up their money in "shock and awe."
Afghanistan, is where they blew up their soldiers. As usual, Afghanistan did
what it does best. Just like the Russians, the British and every invader since
Alexander the Macedonian, the US will eventually come to its senses, declare
victory, turn around, and leave.

The poor US tax payer and those who are not yet US tax payers, will then be
shafted with the bill for George Bush (43) and Obama's most unexcellent
adventures.

The problem with the US is the type of capitalism it now practises.
The capitalism of today's USA is one that can declare a company too
important to fail. These 'declared' companies are then given taxpayers money
to operate. Let me make this clear, the companies that are making losses are
given tax payer money to continue doing so. A second peculiarity of the current
US system is that it now pays .25% interest to those who save their money.
Since inflation is at more than .25% you now get penalized for saving.

Another prime example of how messed up the US is in is seen in the guy
that runs their economic policy. He still insists that dropping money from a
helicopter is an acceptable economic solver. Even Bob Mugabe did not go
that far......

To answer the question in the heading of your post, yes, the US is heading
towards economic doom. This does not mean a quick collapse. As an example,
Great Britain began its economic doom in the 1960's and yet their standard of
life (fifty year later) is far superior to the life lived in most countries today.

Lastly, in all but the last 250 of the past 2,000 years, India and China have
had the biggest economies in the world. As people in both countries
wrestle the economy back from the central govts, look forward to an upswing
in economic activity there. The increase in prosperity of both these
countries will cause the downturn in the economies of others.

MAMLAKA YA BUNGE YA KUMUONDOA RAIS WA JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA CHINI YA IBARA YA 46A ya KATIBA YA JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA, 1977.

2010-10-22T05:43:00.000-07:00

Ibara ya 46A YA KATIBA YA JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA, 1977; INAYOHUSU KUMUONDOA MADARAKANI (IMPEACHMENT) RAIS WA JAMHURI YA MUUNGANO WA TANZANIA. katika Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania ya mwaka 1977 [Cap. 2 R.E. 2002.] Leo hii Ijumaa 22/10/2010) - Somo la Katiba [Constitutional Law]

ZOEZI HILI HUCHUKUA JUMLA {KAMA KILA KITU KINAKWENDA SAWA - ceteris paribus} YA SIKU 150 au miezi mitano.

Rais (Mhimili wa Utawala) anaweza kuondolewa madarakani chini ya Ibara hii kwa tuhuma za aina nne:
- kuvunja katiba ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania ya mwaka 1977.
- Kukiuka Sheria ya Maadili ya Viongozi [Leadership Code]
- Kukiuka vipengele vilivyomo katika maadili yanayohusu uandikishwaji wa vyama vya Siasa yaliyotajwa katika Ibara ya 20 (2) ya Katiba, au
- Amekuwa na mwenendo unaodhalilisha kiti cha Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania.

1. Ili kuanzisha mchakato huo inahitaji idadi ya asilimia 20 (20%) ya Wabunge waliopo wafikishe Notisi ya maandishi na kuiwasilisha kwa Spika. Siku 30 zipite kabla ya kikao cha kujadili hizo tuhuma:

2. Baada ya kupita hizo siku 30, MTOA HOJA ATAIWASILISHA BUNGENI.

-Aidha tuhuma zitupwe au
- Wapendekeze kuunda Kamati ya Kuchunguza tuhuma hizo.

3. Bunge litapiga kura ili iundwe Kamati ya Kuchunguza tuhuma hizo; lakini kura hizo lazima zifikie au zizidi theluthi mbili ya kura zote. Kama ndio,

4. Spika anatakiwa kutaja majina ya Kamati ya Uchunguzi chini ya Ibara ya 46A(4) ambao ni:
(a) Jaji Mkuu (Mwenyekiti)
(b) Jaji Mkuu wa Zanzibar
(c) Wajumbe saba wanaoteuliwa na Spika; kwa kuzingatia Kanuni za Bunge na Uwakilishi wa Vyama vya Siasa Bungeni.

Matokea ya No. 3 hapo juu chini ya Ibara 46A (5) ni kwamba

- RAis anasimamishwa kazi
- Vivyo Ibara ya 37 (3) inafanya kazi. (Edapo Rais hatakuwepo madarakani wakati huo)

Jambo hili la kumsimamisha kazi Rais litaendelea hadi hapo Spika atakapomfahamisha Rais juu ya matokeo ya uchunguzi uliofanywa [Ibara ya 46A (5)]

Na. 4 hapo juu Kamati inapewa siku 7 kukamilisha uchunguzi wake na kumpa fursa Rais ya kujieleza [Ibara ya 46A (6)]

Kamati ya uchunguzi inapewa siku 90 kukamilisha ripoti yake na kuiwasilisha kwa Spika.

Ibara ya 46A (8) - Spika anawasilisha Ripoti ya Uchunguzi kwa Bunge

Ibara ya 46A (9) - Bunge lenye idadi isiyopungua theluthi mbili litajadili Ripoti hiyo na kumpa Rais fursa ya kujieleza.

Bunge linatakiwa liibuke na aidha ya majibu yafuatayo:

(i) Kwamba tuhuma zimethibitishwa.
(ii) Kwamba Rais hafai kuendelea kufanya kazi
(iii) Kwamba Rais hafai kuwa Rais
(iv) Kwamba tuhuma hazikuthibitishwa.

Ibara 46A(10) - Baada ya hilo kufanyika, endapo ni (i) Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania anatakiwa kuachia ngazi (resign) ndani ya siku tatu.

MCHAKATO HUO WOOOOTE ULIOTAJWA HAPO JUU UKIFUATAWA KAMA UNAVYOTOLEWA kisheria unatakiwa kumalizika ndani ya siku 150 sawa sawa na miezi 5 kamili.

JAMANI, HILI KWELI LINAWEZEKANA AU IBARA YA 46(A) ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa TAnzania imewekwa kiini macho tu kwa sisi walalahoi wa Tanzania tuendelee kuota kwamba tukifanyikwa kinyume na Ibara hii basi rais ataendelea kupeta tu???????? Nasema hivi kwa sababu mchakato mzima ni mgumu na hauna mwelekea wa kufanikiwa hasa ikingatiwa idadi ya wabunge husika wa mchakato huu!!!!!!

TUANGALIE UTARATIBU WA MAMLAKA YA BUNGE KUMUONDOA MADARAKANI (REMOVAL) RAIS, PIA KWA SABABU HIZO HIZO HUKO KATIKA NCHI YA JAMHURI YA AFRIKA YA KUSINI (REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA)
Ifahamike wazi hapa kwamba Kumuondoa Rais kwa Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Tanzania ni "impeachment" wakati katika Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kusini ni "Removal". Haya ni maneno mawili tofauti japokuwa matokeo au hatima ya michakato yake ni moja; ya kumuondoa mtu madarakani.

Chini ya Katiba yao ya mwaka 1996; Sheria Na. 108 ya Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kusini; Ibara ya 89 (1) inasema hivi Kiingereza:

"The National Assembly by a resolution adopted with a supporting vote of at least two thirds of its members, may remove the President from office only on the grounds of -

(a) a serious violation of the Constitution or the law;
(b) serious misconduct; or
(c) inability to perform the functions of office.

Tafsiri ya Kiswahili ya Ibara hiyo ni hii hapa:

"Bunge linaweza kumuondoa rais madarakani kwa kutoa Azimio litakayokubaliwa kwa kupigiwa kura na angalau theluthi mbili ya wabunge wote. Rais anaweza kuondolewa madarakani kwa sababu zifuatazo tu:
(a) Kosa kubwa la Kuvunja katiba ya nchi au sheria;
(b) Mwenendo unaodhalilisha [serious misconduct]
(c) Kushindwa kutekeleza majukumu yake ya kazi ya ofisi hiyo.

Ibara ya 89 (2) inasema kwamba yeyote atakayeondolewa chini ya Ibara ya 89 (1) kutokana na sababu (a) au (b) anaweza kunyimwa mafao yote yaendanayo na ofisi hiyo; na pia anaweza kupoteza sifa ya kufanya kazi katika wadhifa mwingine wowote ya umma.

Vipengele hivi katika Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kusini havitaji muda wowote kutoka kutolewa Azimio hadi kumuondoa madarakani. Kwa maneno mengine, jambo hilo linaweza kufanyika ndani ya muda mfupi iwezekanavyo.

Ibara ya 35 (3) ya Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Afrika Kusini, inayozungumzia haki za mshitakiwa inasema kila mtuhumiwa ana haki ya kupata kuhukumiwa ipasavyo; inayojumlisha haki ya:

(a) Kufahamishwa kosa lake kikamilifu ili aweze kujitetea
(b) Kupewa muda wa kutosha na nyenzo za kuweza kujitetea.
(d) Kupata haki ya kusikilizwa kwa wakati bila kucheleweshwa(zote hizi ni sehemu ya haki ya Kusikilizwa kikamilifu)

Kwa hiyo vipengele hivi vitatu vikifuatwa barabara, hata hivyo, nina hakika haitachukua siku 150 kwa shauri hilo kufikia tamati. Yawezekana pegine kuchukua mwezi mmoja au miwili, bila shaka kutegemea na shutuma zenyewe na uendeshaji wa kesi hiyo.

TAMKO LA FEM-ACT KUHUSU TISHIO LA SERIKALI DHIDI YA TAMWA NA VYOMBO VYA HABARI TANZANIA

2010-10-22T04:49:00.001-07:00

TAARIFA KWA VYOMBO VYA HABARI - Posted here on 23/10/2010

TAMKO LA FEMACT KUHUSU TISHIO LA SERIKALI DHIDI YA TAMWA NA VYOMBO VYA HABARI 21/10/2010

Sisi Mashirika yapatayo 50 yanayotetea Usawa wa Kijinsia, Haki za Binadamu, Maendeleo na Ukombozi wa Mwanamke Kimapinduzi (FemAct) tunalaani kauli ya Katibu Mkuu wa Wizara ya Habari Utamaduni na Michezo, kuwatishia wanaharakati kuwa wasizungumzie masuala ya uchaguzi. Katika kipindi hiki kuelekea Uchaguzi Mkuu 2010, tumebaini dhamira na hatua za makusudi za Serikali kukiuka haki za binadamu kwa kutishia na hatimaye kunyamazisha sauti za vyombo vya habari na raia; mtu mmoja mmoja, wanafunzi wa elimu ya juu, asasi za kiraia, na makundi mengine ya kijamii yanayotoa elimu ya uraia kwa lengo la kuhakikisha Tanzania inapata viongozi bora na kuendelea kuongozwa kidemokrasia, na kujihakikishia mabadiliko chanya wakati na baada ya Uchaguzi Mkuu unaotarajiwa kufanyika Oktoba 31, 2010.

Kwa kuzingatia haki na wajibu wetu kama kiraia chini ya Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Muungano ya 1977, kunako Oktoba 6, 2010 tulitoa tamko kwa vyombo vya habari tukilaani kitendo cha vyombo vya usalama vikiongozwa na Jeshi la Wananchi Tanzania (JWTZ) kuingilia mchakato wa uchaguzi jambo ambalo lingeweza kusababisha vitisho dhidi ya wananchi, vurugu na hatimaye kuchafua hali ya amani na usalama ambayo ni tunu ya Tanzania.

Vyombo vya habari, kwa kuzingatia maslahi ya umma, vilichapisha na/au kutagangaza Tamko la FemAct. Tumeshangazwa kusikia Serikali kupitia kwa Katibu Mkuu wa Wizara ya Habari, Utamadauni na Michezo Ndugu Seth Kamuhanda akikishambulia Chama cha Waandishi wa Habari Wanawake (TAMWA), ni mwanachama wa mashirika ya FemAct, kwamba kwa kutoa tamko hilo TAMWA imeacha malengo yake na inajihusisha na siasa. Tunaona kuwa kitendo cha Serikali kutishia na kuishambulia TAMWA ni sawa na kutishia na kushambulia FemAct na watanzania wote kwa ujumla. Huu ni uonevu usiostahili kuvumiliwa. Ni jambo la kushangaza zaidi kuona Serikali inajiingiza katika masuala ya kampeni za uchaguzi wakati washiriki rasmi wa kampeni za uchaguzi, kwa mujibu wa sheria, ni vyama vya siasa.

Kadhalika tumesikitishwa na kitendo cha Wizara ya Habari Utamaduni na Michezo kutishia kuyafungia magazeti ya Mwananchi na Mwanahalisi, ambayo yamekuwa yakitoa taarifa za matukio ya uchaguzi kama vyombo vingine vya habari, kwa kwa madai kwamba yanaandika habari za uchochezi dhidi ya serikali iliyoko madarakani. Aidha tunalaani hatua ya Serikali kukifungia kituo cha Redio SAUT FM cha Mwanza.

Tunapenda serikali ifahamu kuwa FemAct tunaendelea kufuatilia na watanzania wako macho dhidi ya hujuma yoyote itakayotokea kufifisha sauti za wananchi zinazochagiza na kuhimiza kupanua uelewa, uhuru na ushiriki wa wananchi katika kampeni za Uchaguzi Mkuu na hatimaye kupata uangavu wa kutosha kuchagua viongozi wanaojali na kusimamia maslahi ya wananchi na taifa kwa ujumla. Tunatoa wito kwa wananchi kuunganisha nguvu zao na kudai uwajibikaji kutoka serikalini na kwa viongozi tuliowaweka madarakani.

Ibara ya 18 na Ibara ya 20 ya Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania inatamka na kusimamia uhuru wa kutoa maoni na uhuru wa kujumuika. Haki hizi zimetolewa ufafanuzi katika kesi mbali mbali ikiwamo kesi maarufu ya BAWATA. Katika kesi hii, uhuru wa kujumika umefafanuliwa na tabia ya viongozi kufungia mashirika ya kiraia bila kufata taratibu vimekemewa hata na mahakama kuu ambayo nayo ni chombo cha Katiba kilichopewa jukumu la kusimamia haki kwa wananchi.

Madai yetu:-

1. Serikali iache kutishia mashirika ya kijamii na mtu mmoja mmoja katika kipindi hiki cha uchaguzi kwa madai kuwa wanaingilia masuala ya kisiasa. Wananchi wana haki ya kutoa maoni na mawazo mbadala kwa maslahi ya Taifa.

2. Serikali irejee maamuzi ya Kesi ya “BAWATA” juu ya haki ya wananchi kujumuika na izingatie sheria za nchi kabla ya kufanya maamuzi ya kutoa karipio au vitisho kwa taasisi za kiraia na vyombo vya Habari. Utawala bora unahimiza watanzania wote wakiwemo viongozi wetu tunaowapata kwa demokrasia kuzingatia sheria za nchi.

3. Tunahimiza wananchi kuwa macho na viongozi wanaotaka kutumia nguvu nyingi kuziba midomo wananchi na kuendelea kuwa macho kulinda na kutetea maslahi ya taifa wakati wote.

4. Sisi kama mashirika yasiyo ya kiserikali tutaendelea kufanya kazi ya kutoa elimu ya uraia kwa mujibu wa katiba na sheria za nchi bila kuogopa wala kupendelea mtu yeyote wala chama chochote cha siasa.

MUNGU IBARIKI TANZANIA

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Ananilea Nkya
Executive Director
Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA)
P. O. Box 8981, Sinza-Mori
Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA
Tel: +255-22 2772681 Fax +255 22 2772681 E-mail:ananilea_nkya@yahoo.com
Cellphone:+255-754-464-368

UFUNGAJI WA RADIO YA ST. AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY (saut) TANZANIA

2010-10-22T04:45:00.000-07:00

THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA - 23/10/2010.

TANZANIA COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY

PUBLIC NOTICE

CLOSURE OF RADIO SAUT FM IN MWANZA FOR INTERFERING WITH

AERONAUTICAL COMMUNICATIONS.

The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) would like to inform the

general public that on 23rd August, 2010 ordered Radio SAUT FM in mwanza to close

down due to harmful interference with aeronautical communications to levels that

threaten the safety of aircrafts. The order to close the station was not due to political

reasons as alleged by Majira Newspaper of September 23rd, 2010 a story carried on

page 4 headlined “TCRA yaifungia Radio SAUT”.

The closure of the Radio Station was done after a technical investigation was carried

out by experts from TCRA, Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) and Radio SAUT FM

who found that the Radio was broadcasting on frequency 118.2 to 119.3 instead of

frequency 96.2 MHz assigned to them by TCRA. The frequency 118.2MHz to 119.3MHz

were giving out superous emissions interfering with aeronautical communications.

It should be NOTED that TCRA, cannot compromise the safety of aircrafts using

Tanzania airspace in conformity with national and international standards that when

interference occurs between other forms of communications like the radio station and

aeronautical communications, the immediate action is to close down the radio station

for safety reasons.

Radio SAUT FM, was directed to rectify this anomaly by installing filters to eliminate

unwanted signals, tuning its broadcasting equipments to operate within its assigned

frequencies and avail the station to the Authority for inspection before reopening the

radio station.

Issued by

DIRECTOR GENERAL
TANZANIA COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AUTHORITY

MUUJIZA WA UOKOAJI WA WACHIMBA MADINI WALIOFUNIKWA NCHINI CHILE

2010-10-22T04:33:00.000-07:00

Miner Miracle

Date: 14/10/2010
By MICHAEL WARREN The Associated Press

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — The last of the Chilean miners, the foreman who held them together when they were feared lost, was raised from the depths of the earth Wednesday night — a joyous ending to a 69-day ordeal that riveted the world. No one has ever been trapped so long and survived.
Luis Urzua ascended smoothly through 2,000 feet of rock, completing a 221/2- hour rescue operation that unfolded with remarkable speed and flawless execution. Before a jubilant crowd of about 2,000 people, he became the 33rd miner to be rescued.
The rescue exceeded expectations every step of the way. Officials first said it might be four months before they could get the men out.
It turned out to be 69 days and about 8 hours.
Once the escape tunnel was finished, they estimated it would take 36 to 48 hours to get all the miners to the surface. That got faster as the operation went along, and all the men were safely above ground in 22 hours, 37 minutes.
The rescue workers who talked the men through the final hours were being hoisted one at time to the surface.
The crowd in “Camp Hope,” down a hill from the escape shaft, set off confetti, released balloons and sprayed champagne as Urzua’s capsule surfaced, joining in a rousing miners’ cheer. In Chile’s capital of Santiago, hundreds gathered in Plaza Italia, waving flags and chanting victory slogans in the miners’ honor.
In nearby Copiapo, about 3,000 people gathered in the town square, where a huge screen broadcast live footage of the rescue. The exuberant crowd waved Chilean flags of all sizes and blew on red vuvuzelas as cars drove around the plaza honking their horns, their drivers yelling, “Long live Chile!”
“The miners are our heroes,” said teary-eyed Copiapo resident Maria Guzman, 45.
One by one through- out the day, the men had emerged to the cheers of exuberant Chileans and before the eyes of a trans- fixed globe. While the opera- tion picked up speed as the day went on, each miner was greeted with the same boisterous applause from rescuers.
‘Welcome to life’
“Welcome to life,” Chilean President Sebastian Pinera told Victor Segovia, the 15th miner out. On a day of superlatives, it seemed no overstatement.
They rejoined a world intensely curious about their ordeal and certain to offer fame and jobs. Previously unimaginable riches awaited men who had risked their lives going into the unstable gold and copper mine for about $1,600 a month.
The miners made the smooth ascent inside a cap- sule called Phoenix — 13 feet tall, barely wider than their shoulders and painted in the white, blue and red of the Chilean flag. It had a door that stuck occasion- ally, and some wheels had to be replaced, but it worked exactly as planned.
Beginning at midnight Tuesday, and sometimes as quickly as every 25 minutes, the pod was lowered the nearly half-mile to where 700,000 tons of rock collapsed on Aug. 5, 2010 and entombed the men.
Then, after a quick pep talk from rescue workers who had descended into the mine, a miner would climb in, make the journey upward and emerge from a manhole into the blinding sun.
The rescue was planned with extreme care. The miners were monitored by video on the way up for any sign of panic. They had oxygen masks, dark glasses to pro- tect their eyes from the unfamiliar sunlight and sweaters for the jarring transition from subterranean swelter to chilly desert air.
As they neared the surface, a camera attached to the top of the capsule showed a brilliant white piercing the darkness not unlike what accident sur- vivors describe when they have near-death experiences.
The miners emerged look- ing healthier than many had expected. Several thrust their fists upwards like prizefighters, and Mario Sepulveda, the second to taste freedom, bounded
out and led his rescuers in a rousing cheer. Franklin Lobos, who played for the Chilean national soccer team in the 1980s, briefly bounced a soccer ball on his foot and knee.
“We have prayed to San Lorenzo, the patron saint of miners, and to many other saints so that my brothers Florencio and Renan would come out of the mine all right. It is as if they had been born again,” said Priscila Avalos. One of her brothers was the first miner rescued, and the other was due out later in the evening.
Healthy — or not
Health Minister Jaime Manalich said some of the miners probably will be able to leave the hospital today — earlier than pro- jected — but many had been unable to sleep, wanted to talk with families and were anxious. One was treated for pneumonia, and two needed dental work.
“They are not ready to have a moment’s rest until the last of their colleagues is out,” he said.
As it traveled down and up, down and up, the rescue capsule was not rotating as much inside the 2,041-foot escape shaft as officials expected, allowing for faster trips.
The first man out was Florencio Avalos, who emerged from the missile- like chamber and hugged his sobbing 7-year-old son, his wife and the Chilean president.
No one in recorded his- tory has survived as long trapped underground. For the first 17 days, no one even knew whether they were alive. In the weeks that followed, the world was captivated by their endurance and unity.
Worldwide attention
News channels from North America to Europe and the Middle East carried live coverage of the rescue. Pope Benedict XVI said in Spanish that he “continues with hope to entrust to God’s goodness” the fate of the men. Iran’s state Eng- lish-language Press TV fol- lowed events live for a time. Crews from Russia and Japan and North Korean state TV were at the mine.
The images beamed to the world were extraordi- nary: Grainy footage from beneath the earth showed each miner climbing into the capsule, then disap- pearing upward through an opening. Then a camera showed the pod steadily rising through the dark, smooth-walled tunnel.
Among the first rescued was the youngest miner, Jimmy Sanchez, at 19 the father of a months-old baby. Two hours later came the oldest, Mario Gomez, 63, who suffers from a lung disease common to miners and had been on antibiot- ics inside the mine. He dropped to his knees after he emerged, bowed his head in prayer and clutched the Chilean flag.
Gomez’s wife, Lilia- nett Ramirez, pulled him up from the ground and embraced him. The couple had talked over video chat once a week, and she said that he had repeated the promise he made to her in his initial letter from inside the mine: He would marry her properly in a church wedding, followed by the honeymoon they never had.
The lone foreigner among them, Carlos Mamani of Bolivia, was visited at a nearby clinic by Pinera
and Bolivian President Evo Morales. The miner could be heard telling the Chilean president how nice it was to breathe fresh air and see the stars.
Carrier ‘palomas’
Most of the men emerged clean-shaven. More than 300 people at the mine alone had worked on the rescue or to sustain them during their long wait by lowering rocket-shaped tubes dubbed “palomas,” Spanish for car- rier pigeons. Along with the food and medicine came razors and shaving cream.
Estimates for the rescue operation alone have soared beyond $22 million, though the government has repeat- edly insisted that money is not a concern.
The men emerged in good health. But at the hospital in Copiapo, where miner after miner walked from the ambulance to a waiting wheelchair, it became clear that psychological issues would be as important to treat as physical ones.
Dr. Guillermo Swett said Sepulveda told him about an internal “fight with the devil” that he had inside the mine. He said Sanchez appeared to be having a hard time adjusting, and seemed depressed.
“He spoke very little and didn’t seem to connect,” the doctor said.
Chile has promised that its care of the miners won’t end for six months at least — not until they can be sure that each man has readjusted.

UTAJIRI WA LUGHA YA KISWAHILI

2010-10-22T04:20:00.000-07:00

From: Chris Mwasambili
To: list@tanzanet.org
Sent: Thu, Oct 21, 2010 3:19 pm
Subject: [tanzanet] UTAJIRI WA KISWAHILI:Maneno ni mengi, kuyatumia tunashindwa

Imeandikwa na Barnabas Maro; Tarehe: 21st October 2010 Habari Leo

LUGHA ya Kiswahili ina maneno mengi lakini wengi wetu hatuyajui, kwa hiyo tunashindwa kuyatumia.

Matokeo yake tunachanganya maneno ya Kiingereza katikati ya Kiswahili na kufanya kile nikiitacho ’Kiswangereza.’ Sababu hiyo imewafanya baadhi ya watu kusema, kwa mfano, ”wanasiasa ’wanaboa’ kwa maneno yao” badala ya chusha, chukiza, sunza, udhi.

”Wasiasa wanachusha/wanachosha/ wanasunza/wanaudhi.” Hata kuomba radhi siku hizi watu husema ’sore’ (sorry) badala ya ’samahani’ ’kumradhi’ au ’niwie radhi.’ Wengine husema ”tukutane ’hom’ (home)” badala ya nyumbani.

Majuzi nikiwa ndani ya daladala, kijana fulani akiongea na mwenziye kwa simu alimwambia: ”Jana ’nimemwambia’ mkuu kuwa leo napitia benki kuangalia kama fedha zangu za kwenda chuoni zimeingia.”

Kila alipokuwa akielezea mambo yaliyopita alitumia neno ’nime ... ” badala ya ’nili ... .’ Hata nilipomwambia aseme ’nilimwambia’ badala ya ’nimemwambia’ kwa kuwa ni wakati uliopita (jana, juzi, n.k.) hakunielewa ila aliniangalia tu kwa dharau kama sanamu.

Alirudia kosa hilo kila alipozungumza. Kama mwanafunzi wa Chuo Kikuu anakosea na anaposahihishwa haoni wala kujutia kosa lake, itakuwaje kwa mwanafunzi wa msingi?

Kumbe ndio maana wanafunzi hushindwa mitihani ya Kiswahili ingawa ni lugha ya taifa! Kosa kama hili hufanywa na wazungumzaji wengine na waandishi kama ilivyo katika habari ifuatayo: ”Wakati Poulsen akisema hayo, wapinzani wake timu ya taifa ya Morocco ”Atlas Lions” wamewasili juzi usiku ... .”

Ingekuwa: ”Wakati Poulsen akisema hayo, timu ya taifa ya Morocco, Atlas Lions, iliwasili juzi usiku ... .”

Angalizo: Timu iliwasili juzi, jana (wakati uliopita). Kama ujio wake ni siku hiyohiyo, basi husemwa imewasili leo. Naomba wazungumzaji na waandishi wazingatie mambo ya wakati uliopita, uliopo na ujao.

Wengi husema, kwa mfano, ”mimi ’naamkaga’, ’nalalaga’, ’nakulaga’, ’nakwendaga’, ’namwambiaga’, ’nasemaga’.” Kwa ufasaha wa lugha husemwa huamka badala ya ’naamkaga’, hulala badala ya ’nalalaga’, hula badala ya ’nakulaga’, huenda badala ya ’nakwendaga’, humwambia badala ya ’namwambiaga’, na husema badala ya ’nasemaga’.

Baadhi yetu hutumia maneno bila kujua maana yake kama ilivyo katika sentensi ifuatayo: ”Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Chunya, Deodatus Kinawiro amenusurika kupigwa mawe na wananchi wenye hasira katika kijiji cha Mtanila, baada ya gari lake alilokuwamo lenye namba za usajili STK 3770 kukoswakoswa kuvunjwa vioo kwa madai ya kujihusisha na kampeni za uchaguzi mkuu dhidi ya Chama Cha Mapinduzi.”

Moja kwa moja sentensi hii inaonesha kuwa mkuu wa wilaya ya Chunya, Deodatus Kinawiro alinusurika kupigwa na wananchi kwa kujihusisha na kampeni zinazokwenda kinyume na Chama Cha Mapinduzi.

Hata hivyo, sentensi inayofuatia inaeleza tofauti ingawa mwandishi ni yuleyule! ”Habari ambazo ... (jina la gazeti) imezipata jana zinadai kuwa DC huyo amekuwa akifanya kampeni katika kata na vijiji kadhaa kwa kofia ya serikali ili kuhakikisha kuwa mgombea wa CCM katika jimbo la Lupa, Victor Mwambalaswa, anapita kwa kishindo.”

Kosa kubwa la mwandishi huyu ni kutumia neno ’dhidi’ ambalo bila shaka haelewi maana yake. Kwa kumsaidia, maana ya ’dhidi’ (kivumishi) ni –enye kinyume na; -enye kupingana na; kushindana na; mbalimbali na.

Mwandishi ameandika: ”Habari ambazo (jina la gazeti) imezipata jana ...” si sahihi kwani ingekuwa ” ... ilizipata jana ... ” au ” habari ilizopata gazeti hili jana ... .”

Maneno mengine yanayotumiwa kuunda sentensi huleta maana potofu au sentensi kutokamilika ingawa huwa na nukta mwisho kuashiria sentensi imekamilika.

Tusome sentensi ifuatayo: ”Inashangaza katika uwanja huu ambao mimi ndio msimamizi mkuu na mwenye jukumu la kuhakikisha kwamba mambo yanakwenda vyema kama ilivyopangwa.”

Mwandishi ametumia maneno mengi na hivyo kupoteza nafasi na kuharibu sentensi. Ifuatayo ni sentensi iliyofanyiwa marekebisho:
”Katika uwanja huu mimi ndio mwenye jukumu la kuhakikisha mambo yanakwenda kama ilivyopangwa.”

Ni sentensi yenye maneno 13 dhidi ya 20 aliyotumia mwandishi. Hebu sasa tuingie kwenye methali. “Kanga hazai utumwani” maana yake kanga hatagi ugenini. Methali hii huweza kutumiwa kwa mtu anayeshindwa kufanya jambo lolote anapokuwa katika mazingira mageni.

Tunafunzwa kuwa ugeni una shida. Kangaja simle, mchuzi kitoweo. Kangaja ni aina ya samaki ambaye huwa na harufu mbaya lakini mchuzi wake huwa kitoweo kizuri.

Methali hii hutumiwa katika mazingira ambapo mtu fulani hampendi mwengine ingawa anafaidika na matendo yake. Huweza kumshauri mtu anayekataa kitu kizuri kinachotokana na mtu m-baya au mwenye sifa mbaya.

Msi chembe wala uta si muwani. Muwani ni anayepigana au anayepambana. Chembe ni kigumba cha mshale. Maana yake mtu asiye na chembe au uta si mpiganaji. Methali hii hutumiwa kutukumbusha kwamba lazima tujiandae vizuri tunapotaka kufanya jambo fulani.

Kwa kawaida kila jambo huwa na masharti yake ya kimsingi ambayo hatuna budi kuyatosheleza. Mathalan mwanasiasa mzuri lazima awe stadi (mtu aliye na uhodari au ufundi mkubwa wa kutenda jambo fulani; bingwa, farisi, galacha) wa kusema.

Kitendawili: Ngozi ndani nyama n-nje – Firigisi ya kuku. marobarnabas@yahoo.com

USAFIRI MPYA WA MAHUJAJI KUANZIA 2010

2010-10-17T07:31:00.000-07:00

30-day test run for Makkah metro

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A Makkah metro train during a test run. (AN photo)

By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS

Published: Oct 2, 2010 23:44 Updated: Oct 3, 2010 00:33

JEDDAH: The newly established Mashair Railway, which links the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifa with Makkah, will have a 30-day test run before opening to transport domestic and GCC pilgrims during the upcoming Haj season.

Municipal and Rural Affairs Minister Prince Mansour bin Miteb will inspect the railway (also known as the Makkah Metro) on Tuesday to make sure the facility is ready to transport the guests of God. The railway will bring about a dramatic change in pilgrim transportation between the holy sites.

Established at a cost of SR6.5 billion, the new railway will have a capacity to transport 72,000 pilgrims in an hour. Nine stations have been constructed in Arafat, Mina and Muzdalifa, each having three stations. This is the second largest project implemented by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs after the SR4.5 billion high-tech Jamrat Bridge project in Mina.

Habib Zain Al-Abidine, deputy minister of municipal and rural affairs, said the railway will have 10 trains in the first phase, each with a length of 300 meters. “Each train will carry 3,000 passengers.”

He said Saudi authorities have not yet fixed the fare. “The matter is in the hands of Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif, chairman of the Supreme Haj Committee. Once the prince gives his directives, we’ll announce the fare,” he said.

The time for transporting pilgrims from Arafat to Muzdalifa will be reduced to five minutes on the 9th of Dul Hijjah when the faithful will move together from the plain of Arafat to Muzdalifa. And another five minutes will take them from Muzdalifa to Mina on the 10th.

Zain Al-Abidine said the railway would operate throughout the year.

The second phase of the project will link Mashair Railway with the Grand Mosque in Makkah with a station on Umm Al-Qura Road. It will also be linked with the Haramain Railway that connects Makkah with Madinah and Jeddah.

The trains will have a test run covering 6,000 km each before starting regular operations. The first test run took place last Thursday. The railway will have 20 trains in the next stage, each with 12 carriages and each carriage holding 250 passengers. About 20 percent of passengers will be seated while 80 percent will be standing. Trains will have a speed of 80 to 120 km/hour.

RASILIMALI ADIMU ZA TANZANIA NA DUNIANI

2010-10-17T07:03:00.000-07:00

Imeandikwa na Beda Msimbe; Tarehe: 14th October 2010 Habari Leo

MSITU WA MAZUMBAI WA LUSHOTO, TANZANIA

Eneo la kupumzikia wageni wa SUA ndani ya msitu wa Mazumbai.

NDANI ya milima ya Usambara kuna misitu miwili mikubwa inayotumika kwa utafiti.

Misitu hiyo ni ya Amani na Mazumbai. Msitu wa Amani upo Muheza na ule wa Mazumbai upo Lushoto. Nilifika msitu wa Mazumbai wenye
ua linalopatikana kiasili Tanzania pekee, ‘African Violet’.

Nilikuwa sijawahi kuona ua la African Violet, lakini nilipata kulisoma sana katika mtandao na nilipofika Mazumbai kitu cha kwanza kuuliza na kutaka kuoneshwa ni ua hilo, Meneja wa Hifadhi ya Msitu wa Mazumbai, Said Kiparu alikuwa zaidi ya tayari kunionesha, yalikuwa yamepandwa nje ya nyumba ya kupumzikia iliyo hapo.

Nyumba hiyo hutumika na watu wanaozuru msitu huo pamoja na watafiti na siku ambayo nilifika kulikuwa na wazungu kadhaa waliofika
kutalii na walitarajiwa kuwapo hapo kwa siku nne au zaidi walikuwa msituni wakivinjari.

Kuwapo kwa ua hilo si tu fahari ya Tanzania, lakini ua hilo lenyeugumu mkubwa wa kuota na kumea lililopewa jina na Mjerumani mmoja aliyepeleka taarifa kwao kuhusu kuwapo kwa ua hilo la urujuani wakati akivinjari milima ya Usambara.

African Violet au tuseme Ua la Usambara ambalo wenyeji wa Usambaani huliita ‘Dughulishi’, lilijulikana kwa Wazungu mwaka 1892 kupitia Baron Walter von St. Paul na tangu wakati huo mpaka leo zaidi ya aina 20 za maua haya zimebainika.

Kusema kweli pamoja na kutawanyika kwa African violet duniani, Wazungu wanatambua kwamba makao yake makuu yapo Usambara wakati wakielezea historia ya maua hayo ambayo watu wengi wa Ulaya hupenda kuyaweka majumbani kwao kutokana na uzuri wake.

Kwa historia, Baron huyu ambaye alikuwa na hisia za masuala ya mimea ya bustani (unaweza kumuita botania) ndiye aliyewezesha mimea hii kufika Ulaya kwa kumtumia baba yake Baron Ulrich von Saint Paul-Illare, ambaye wakati huo alikuwa ni Rais wa chama cha miti nchini Ujerumani (Dendrological Society of Germany).

Juhudi hizo zilifanya kuanzia mwaka 1893 ua hilo kupatikana nje ya usambara na watu kuanza kulizalisha kwa wingi kwa kutumia mbegu hizo zilizotoka Tanzania.

Sehemu kubwa ya maua ya African Violet katika bara la Ulaya na Marekani si orijino ni haibridi. Kimsingi ua hilo lilitawanyika dunia kupitia Ujerumani na pamoja na kupendwa sana Marekani yalifika huko mwaka 1926 yakitokea Ujerumani.

Sasa hivi nchini Marekani kuna jumuia nyingi zinazojihusisha na African Violet. Botani huyu Baron Walter von Saint Paul, alikuwa ni Gavana wa Kijerumani jimbo la Kaskazini Mashariki la Tanganyika na aliyaona maua hayo yakijiotea katika vipenyo vya majabali.

Ndani ya Msitu wa Mazumbai ambao kimsingi unamilikiwa na Chuo Kikuu cha Kilimo cha Sokoine (SUA) na kutumiwa nadra na watalii lakini sana na watafiti kuna zaidi ya maua, ipo miti aina tofauti zaidi ya 100 ambayo inamea vyema ikiangaliwa isifanyiwe
uharibifu.

Watu wa SUA walikabidhiwa msitu huo na mzungu anayeitwa John Tanner ambaye alikuwa na mashamba yake ya chai katika eneo hilo na aliitunza misitu ya asili aliyopukuta kwa sababu za shughuli yake aliyokuwa akiifanya.

Mzungu huyo aliyezaliwa Tanga mwaka 1918 aliishi Mazumbai kuanzia mwaka 1946 hadi mwaka 1982, kwa sasa yupo nchini kwao Uswisi na habari zinasema yungali hai.

Kuwapo mashamba ya chai kunaonesha kwa nini kulikuwa na misitu kwani utengenezaji wa chai hutumia miti mingi kwa hiyo kulikuwa na haja ya kuwa na miti ya kutosha (misitu) kwa ajili ya kazi hiyo.

Ndani ya msitu huo pia mzungu huyo alikuwa ametengeneza mfumo wa kufua umeme ambao ndio unaotumiwa hadi sasa na nyumba ya SUA kupata nishati. Umeme huo wa maji unaofuliwa katika nyumba kuukuu ni moja ya vivutio ambavyo vinaweza kutoa taswira ya neema katika harufu nzuri ya misitu na maua yake.

Ndani ya msitu huo mnene yapo magogo makubwa ambayo yamechomoza kwa namna inayopendeza zaidi, ingawa huwezi kuona kila kitu kilichopo katika msitu huo pamoja na nyoka wa aina mbalimbali, ndege, kuna mandhari inayokonga moyo hasa kwa wale wanaopenda asili na vitu vinavyofuatana navyo.

Kuna miti ambayo mizizi yake iliyojitokeza nje ina urefu wa zaidi ya futi tano ikitengeneza mandhari ya kustaajabisha zaidi. Ni kama jengo lililofumwa. "Hii ni hifadhi, inasaidia vitu vingi sana na watu hawaruhusiwi kuingia ndani ya msitu na kuvuna," anasema Meneja Kiparu.

Akaongeza kwamba, pamoja na kuwatembeza watalii ni kazi yao kutoa nafasi ya watu kujifunza masuala ya misitu na namna hifadhi
inavyoweza kuokoa misitu na katika hilo watafiti wa ndani na nje hufika kujifunza kwenye msitu huu ambao kimsingi ulikuwa binafsi.

Katikati ya msitu huu wa hifadhi wa hekta 300 kuna mbega na ndege mbalimbali ambao hupendezesha sauti katika msitu unaozizima kwa utulivu.

HABARI ZA UHALIFU WA KIMAFIA TANZANIA HIZI HAPA

2010-10-14T22:19:00.000-07:00

Mengi awalipua polisi

• ABAINI NJAMA ZA KUMBAMBIKIA MWANAE DAWA ZA KULEVYA DAR

TANZANIA DAIMA LA Jumatano, 13 Oktoba 2010

na Mwandishi wetu

MWENYEKITI Mtendaji wa makampuni ya IPP, Reginald Mengi, amedai kubaini njama chafu za kutaka kumbambikia mwanae dawa za kulevya.

Mengi alifichua njama hiyo jana katika mkutano wake na waandishi wa habari, uliofanyika ofisini kwake jijini Dar es Salaam.

Akifafanua kisa hicho cha kusikitisha, Mengi alisema mpango huo umefadhiliwa na mmoja wa watu aliopata kuwataja siku za nyuma kwamba ni mafisadi papa, kutokana na kujihusisha na matukio ya ufisadi katika Akaunti ya Madeni ya Nje (EPA), kupitia Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (BoT).

Waliotajwa na Mengi katika sakata hilo lililotikisa nchi ni pamoja na mfanyabiashara mwenye asili ya Kiasia, Yusuf Manji, Mbunge wa Igunga, Rostam Aziz, Jeetu Patel, ambaye kwa sasa anakabiliwa na kesi ya EPA mahakamani na Tonil Sumaiya.

Huku akizungumza kwa kutulia na kujiamini, Mengi alisema mfanyabiashara huyo ambaye hakumtaja jina, amefadhili mkakati huo kwa kuwahusisha baadhi ya maofisa wa polisi wa ngazi ya juu nchini na Polisi wa Kimataifa (Interpool) ambao kila mmoja angelipwa dola za Marekani 40,000, sawa na sh milioni 47.

Kwa mujibu wa Mengi, mpango huo ambao umegharimiwa kwa sh bilioni tatu, pia umewahusisha maofisa wawili ambao hakuwataja majina kutoka Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wa Mwalimu Nyerere na maofisa kutoka kampuni moja ya simu za mkononi nchini.

Akisimulia mpango mzima wa mkakati huo, Mengi alidai kuwa siku ya tukio, mwanae akiongozana na watu wengine wanne, walitarajiwa kusafiri hadi nchini India kwa shughuli za kikazi.

Alisema walipofika katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Mwalimu Nyerere, alipambana na mazingira ya ajabu na hatimaye kujinasua kwenye mtego uliosukwa ili wamnase na dawa za kulevya.

“Kwa mapenzi ya Mungu, kijana wangu alibaini mbinu hiyo chafu na kwa mapenzi ya Mungu aliahirisha safari. Tulipofanya uchunguzi, tukabaini mpango huo na kuwajua wahusika ambao nitawataja pamoja na kiasi cha fedha walichoahidiwa na walichokwisha kuchukua kama malipo ya awali kwa kazi hiyo haramu,” alisema Mengi.

Mfanyabiashara huyo maarufu nchini, aliwataja aliodai kuhusika katika mpango huo kuwa ni pamoja na Kamishna wa Polisi Msaidizi wa kitengo cha kukabiliana na dawa za kulevya, Godfrey Nzowa, aliyeahidiwa dola za Marekani 40,000, sawa na sh milioni 47 na kulipwa dola za Marekani 20,000, sawa na sh milioni 23.5.

Mwingine ni ofisa wa polisi, Charles Mkumbo na polisi wa Interpool, aliyemtaja kwa jina moja la Henry. Wote waliahidiwa kiasi kama hicho cha Nzowa na kupata malipo ya awali yanayofanana.

“Mkumbo alionekana kwenye ofisi za mfanyabiashara huyo akiwa anaendesha gari lake aina ya Rav4, lenye rangi ya silver, siku hiyo ya Septemba 26, majira ya saa nne asubuhi na alikwenda kuchukua malipo yake ya awali,” alisema Mengi.

Watuhumiwa wengine katika mpango huo ni maofisa wawili wa Uwanja wa Ndege wa Mwalimu Nyerere na ofisa kutoka kampuni moja ya simu za mkononi ambao hata hivyo hakuwataja kwa majina. Hao wanadaiwa kuahidiwa sh milioni 15 na wote walilipwa malipo ya awali ya sh milioni saba kila mmoja.

Mengi alisisitiza kuwa anajua anachokisema na amejiandaa kutoa ushahidi wa kutosha, hivyo aliwataka wahusika waende mahakamani ili akatoe ushahidi zaidi juu ya mpango huo aliouita kuwa ni wa kigaidi.

“Huu ni unyama, maisha ya mwanangu na heshima yangu ingekwisha, kwani kila mmoja angesema Mengi ni muuzaji wa dawa za kulevya. Namfamu mwanangu, hana tabia hiyo na hawezi kujihusisha na biashara hiyo haramu na kama mtego huo usingegunduliwa, huo ungekuwa mwisho wa maisha ya mwanangu,” alisisitiza Mengi.

Mengi alisema Jeshi la Polisi linafanya kazi nzuri na analiheshimu, lakini alidai kuna watu wachache wanaotaka kuharibu heshima ya jeshi hilo.

“Ndani ya Jeshi letu la Polisi, kuna viongozi wazuri, waadilifu, ukianzia na IGP Mwema, wasaidizi wake, kina Kamanda Venance Tossi, Suleiman Kova, Elias Kalinga, Chilogile na wengine, ni wachapa kazi wazuri, waadilifu, lakini wapo wachache kwa sababu ya tamaa ya fedha, wanataka kuliharibu jeshi letu,” alisema Mengi.

Akijibu tuhuma hizo, Nzowa, kwanza alishangaa kusikia taarifa hizo na kuongeza kuwa katika kipindi alichotaja Mengi alikuwa nje ya nchi kikazi.

“Kwanza mimi katika kipindi anachotaja Mengi sikuwepo nchini. Lakini pia sijui kama Mengi au huyo mwanae wananijua. Binafsi huyo mwanae wala simjui, sasa sijui nimehusikaje hapa,” alisema Nzowa.

Kamanda huyo wa kikosi cha kudhibiti dawa za kulevya nchini alisema kauli ya Mengi ina lengo la kumchafulia, kwani kiasi anachokitaja ili kumhujumu mwanae ni kidogo sana ikilinganishwa na ahadi alizowahi kupewa na wahalifu, lakini alizikataa na kusimamia misingi ya sheria.

Kwa upande wake, Kamanda Mkumbo, naye aliruka ‘kimanga’ kwamba hajawahi wala hawezi kuthubutu kumbambikia dawa za kulevya mtu, kwa sababu ya kulipwa pesa.

“Mimi kwanza huyo mtoto wa Mengi simjui na hata sasa sijui tuhuma hizi zinatokea wapi. Hata mbele ya Mwenyezi Mungu niko tayari kukana kuhusika na mpango huo,” alisema.

Kamanda huyo alisema anashangazwa zaidi kuhusishwa na Nzowa kwenye mpango huo, kwani vitengo vyao havihusiani kikazi.

Chanzo: Gazeti la TanzaniaDaima

UCHAGUZI TANZANIA 2010 MAMBO!

2010-10-13T02:58:00.000-07:00

PIMAJOTO INAZIDI KUPANDA KWA KUSINGIZIWA WAPINZANI ETI WATAMWAGA DAMU? KWA KUTUMIA NINI?
WAMWAGAJI DAMU NI CCM TOKA KILOMBERO, MWEMBECHAI, PEMBA, etc.

Kwa nini wanatisha wananchi na wakati vyombo vyote vya mitulinga viko mikononi mwao? Someone is afraid - really afraid!!

By the way, ni utawala gani wanaofanya ambao Watanzania wengine hawawezi?
Kugawiana nyumba za serikali?
Kuiba fedha zetu BOT?
Kugawa mashirika yetu kwa wageni?
Kutumia bilioni 150 kwa mwaka kwenye usafiri wa Presidency?
Kujipangia mishahara ya milioni 10 kwa viongozi?
Kupeana sitting allowance za board meetings za 1 million per day?
Kuachia boda boda na mabasi kufanya barabara zetu ni machinjoni?
Kusinzia bungeni na kupiga piga makofi kwenye kila kikao?
Kuruhusu magogo na pembe za ndovu kupitishwa barabara zetu na kupakiwa melini na kupelekwa nje mchana mchana?
Kuhakikisha Tanzania na haswa Zanzibar imekuwa key transhipment ya drugs from the middle and far east to South Africa, Europe and US? Kuuziwa radar ya million 28 kwa 40?
Kushindwa kumaliza kesi yoyote ya EPA ambao ushahidi uko wazi tangu 2006?
Kuwaachia wageni kuendeleza kila sekta ya uchumi na kujisifu ndio maendeleo?
Kuwagawia watoto wa mfalme wa Saudia ekari mamilioni ya ardhi yetu kulima?
Kudumisha mgawo wa umeme tangu wakati wa Mkapa hadi leo?
Kuagiza kampuni feki (Richmond) ya kuuza vitabu kutununulia injini la ndege bovu feki eti kufua umeme?
Kwenda kununua mvua Thailand?
Rais kujiuzia mgodi wa mkaa wa mawe na mtambo wa kufua umeme Kiwira?
Kusimamia uchumi bei ya mchele toka 600 hadi 1500 in 4 years
Sukari toka 800 hadi 1600 (3000 Mbambabay) in 4 years?
Petroli toka 750 hadi 1800?
Shilingi toka 1000 hadi 1500 kwa dola moja?
Kununua magari ya viongozi ya milioni 200+?
Kufelisha karibu nusu ya wanafunzi wa kidato cha nne?
Kuzalishia mama zetu sakafuni na wagonjwa 3 kuchangia kitanda kimoja?
Kupeleka watoto India au Afrika Kusini kufanyiwa dialysis wakati machine zinauzwa dola 10,000?
Kuua Air Tanzania?
Kuwepo kwa foleni ya masaa 3 toka Kimara kwenda mjini?
Give me a freakin break!! Kujijengea makasri hapo Migombani Street sio kuongoza nchi.

Kwa utawala wa namna hiyo heri vijana wa Chuo Kikuu wangeweza kuongoza nchi hii kuliko hii serikali ya sasa. Kukopa hela na kuweka barabara kadhaa lami na nyingine changarawe ndio ingemshinda Lipumba?

MATATIZO YA ELIMU KATIKA NCHI ZINAZOENDELEA

2010-10-10T01:18:00.000-07:00

UNIVERSITIES IN EAST AFRICA HAVE UNQUALIFIED LECTURERS ! Daily News, Tanzania 10/10/2010

From MARC NKWAME in Arusha, 9th October 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Hits: 247

The Executive Secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa, Prof Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha is worried over the mushrooming of universities not corresponding with the available number of qualified lecturers.

A university lecturer must qualify to the top; anybody teaching at higher institute of learning needs to be a PhD holder, but at the moment our universities seem to have just one doctorate lecturer in every 40 dons.

"As a result our colleges keep churning out half-baked graduates," Prof Chacha maintained. The professor expressed this worry in Arusha over the weekend at a press conference held in the threshold of the forthcoming celebrations to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Revitalization of the Inter-University Council for East Africa, to be held in the Ugandan Capital of Kampala between the 19th and 21st October 2010.

Following the dissolution of the University of East Africa and the establishment of the University of Dar es Salaam, Makerere University and the University of Nairobi in 1970, an Inter-University Committee for East Africa was created under the East African Community (EAC), to facilitate collaboration among the three national universities.

"By then there were only three universities in the region. Now the number is staggering. Yet we keep having fewer and fewer trained professors to correspond with the trainers' demand," said Mr Chacha.

The committee functioned very well under the aegis of the Community and after the collapse of the latter body in 1977, in 1980, the three Vice-Chancellors agreed to maintain the committee through signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which led to the birth of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA).

The MoU set out the objectives, functions, membership and governance of the Council. In 1999 the Partner States recognized the Inter-University Council as one of the surviving institutions of the former East African Community (EAC).

It was agreed to establish a corporate body to be known as the Inter-University Council for East Africa. At that time IUCEA was not a legal entity.

Following the revitalization and recruitment of a new set of staff in 2000, the Governing Board embarked on the development of legal instruments to make IUCEA a legal body corporate.
In 2002 the protocol for the establishment of the IUCEA was signed by the three partner States with the aim of harmonizing and providing a legal framework within which to undertake activities of the IUCEA.

Source:
http://www.dailynews.co.tz/home/?n=13685&cat=home

MAONI JUU YA UCHAGUZI MKUU TANZANIA 31/10/2010

2010-09-30T23:21:00.000-07:00

IMECHANGIWA NA JAMII FORUMS

Hivi kweli hizi ni kampeni, au ni vita ya msalaba?

Mwaka 2005 maaskofu walijifunga vibwebwe na kufanya kile ambacho kisingetarajiwa kifanywe na viongozi wa dini. Bila kujali kuwa walichokuwa wanakifanya ni kinyume kabisa na maadili ya 'FAIR PLAY', yaani kutocheza rafu ya makusudi, walijitoa hadharani na kudai kuwa Taifa lilikuwa linahitaji kiongozi mwadilifu na mcha Mungu; na huyo hakuwa mwingine bali Jakaya Kikwete kwa kuwa huyo ndiye aliyekuwa 'CHAGUO LA MUNGU'!

Hakuna shaka yoyote kuwa kwa kitendo kile maaskofu walicheza rafu ya makusudi. Ni kwa nini nasema hivi? Nasema hivi kwa sababu kwa jinsi mfumo wa uendeshaji wa dini ya kikiristo ulivyo, na hasa kwa dhehebu la Roman Catholic, mlei, yaani muumini wa kawaida, mahusiano yake na muumba wake ni lazima yapitie kwa kiungo ambaye ni padri au askofu. Wabunifu wa utaratibu huu wameweka kanuni mbili muhimu ambazo zinawahakikishia utiifu wa waumini wao kwa muda wote.

Kwanza ni kanuni ya kujumuika kundini. Kwa mujibu wa kanuni hii utahesabiwa kuwa wewe ni muumini wa kweli na mwenye haki za kiroho sawa na waumini wengine, pale tu viongozi wa kanisa watakapojiridhisha kwamba umo 'kundini'; kwa maana ya kuwa unashiriki kikamilifu katika shughuli za kanisa lako chini ya miongozo ya padri wako. Kwa kutumia kanuni hii, wale wanaokwenda kinyume na miongozo ya mapadri na maaskofu wao hujikuta wakipewa adhabu ya kutengwa; na hii ni adhabu kubwa sana kwa sababu unatengwa ukiwa hai mpaka maiti yako!

Kanuni ya pili, ni ile ya mapadri na maaskofu kuwa na mamlaka ya kupokea toba za waumini wao. Kwa mujibu wa kanuni hii, waumini wakifanya dhambi, suala la toba siyo la binafsi kati ya mfanya dhambi na muumba wake, bali ni lazima toba ipitie kwa padri au askofu; ambaye baada ya kusikiliza ungamo lako ana mamlaka ya kutamka kuwa umesamehewa.

Mfumo huu unaozuia mawasiliano ya moja kwa moja kati ya muumini na muumba wake umeweza kujenga utii mkubwa sana wa waumini kwa mapadri na maaskofu wao na kusababisha kanisa kuwa na nguvu ya ajabu. Nguvu hii inatokana na ukweli kuwa kwa kutumia mfumo huu mapadri na maaskofu wamekuwa na mamlaka makubwa sana juu ya waumini wao kuhusu nini wafanye na nini wasifanye.

Maaskofu waliposema kuwa JK ni 'CHAGUO LA MUNGU' ilikuwa ni rafu ya makusudi kwa sababu walikuwa wanajua fika kuwa kwa mamlaka waliyonayo juu ya waumini wao tamko lao lilikuwa ni agizo kwa waumini wao kuhakikisha kuwa siku ya kupiga kura, kura zao zinaenda kwa JK.

Kwa mkristo mkereketwa kutotii agizo la askofu wake siyo tu kuwa ni dhambi, lakini pia ni kutafuta kufukuzwa kutoka 'kundini'. Sasa nani yuko tayari kufanya 'dhambi' ya waziwazi kabisa kama hiyo na kutengwa akiwa hai hadi maiti yake?

Tatizo la kanisa kuwachagulia waumini wao viongozi ni la kihistoria na wala halijajifunga katika mipaka ya kijiografia. Wakina Vladmir Lenin kule Urusi mwanzoni mwa karne ya ishirini walipokuwa wanafanya jitihada za kuwazindua wafanyakazi na wakulima wa huko kuupindua mfumo wa kibwenyenye uliokuwa unawatawala na kuwanyonya, kikwazo chao kikubwa kilikuwa ni viongozi wa kanisa.

Utiifu wa walalahoi hao wa kirusi kwa viongozi wao wa kanisa ulikuwa mkubwa kiasi cha kumlazimisha Lenin kutamka hadharani kwa uchungu kuwa 'DINI NI KASUMBA YA WATU'. Kasumba kama vilivyo vilevi vingine, kazi yake kubwa ni kumzuia mtu kujitambua na kuyatambua mazingira yake katika uhalisia wake.

Wakati vichwa vikiwauma wakina Lenin na Trosky kule Urusi jinsi ya kufuta kasumba ya ukristo kwenye akili za Warusi, kasumba hiyo pia ilikuwa imekamata akili za watu wengi katika mataifa mengine ya Ulaya. Kwa mfano, pamoja na kwamba kule nchini Uingereza hali ya wafanyakazi wengi ilikuwa ni duni sana, jitihada za chama chao cha Labor kushika madaraka ya dola ili kuboresha hali zao za maisha zilikuwa

zinakwamishwa na wafanyakazi wenyewe! Makada wa Labor walikuwa wakitukanwa, kubezwa na hata wakati mwingine kupigwa. Hali kwa makada wa Labor waliokuwa wanaendesha 'Operesheni Zinduka' hiyo iliendelea kuwa mbaya hadi mwaka 1914 pale kitabu cha hadithi cha mwandishi Robert Tressel, kinachoitwa 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists', yaani, 'Wasamaria wema waliovaa viraka', kwa tafsri isiyo rasmi, kilipochapishwa.

Kwa kifupi kitabu hiki kilikuwa kinawazungumzia wafanyakazi wa Uingereza ambao hali zao za kimaisha zilikuwa duni sana. Kilikuwa kinawaashangaa ni kiasi gani walikuwa HAWAJIONEI au KUWAONEA HURUMA WATOTO WAO kwa kuleta mabadiliko ya kisiasa, ukizingatia kuwa uwezo wa kufanya hivyo walikuwa nao kupitia kura zao.

Juu ya hali hiyo, mwandishi wa kitabu hicho, Robert Tressel, alielekeza lawama zote kwa kwa kanisa. Alilituhumu kuwa lilikuwa linatumiwa na watawala mabwenyenye na wakandamizaji waliokuwa wameshikilia mamlaka ya kisiasa kuwadanganya waumini wao - kuwa kuendelea kuwatii waliokuwa na mamlaka ya kisiasa juu yao ni KUMTII MUNGU - kwa sababu ati mamlaka zote za kisiasa zimewekwa na Mungu! Kupitia mhusika mkuu ndani ya hadithi hiyo, Tressel aliwaambia wafanyakazi kuwa njia nyepesi ya kuthibitisha kuwa makasisi wao walikuwa wanasema uwongo ni kuwapa changamoto ya kunywa sumu hadharani kwa sababu Bibilia inasema wazi kuwa muumini wa kweli kabisa hata akinywa sumu haitamdhuru!

Wachambuzi wa siasa za Uingereza za kipindi hicho cha mwanzoni mwa karne ya ishirini wanaamini kuwa kitabu hicho cha Tressel kilikuwa na mchango mkubwa katika ushindi wa chama cha Labor pale chama hicho kiliposhinda kwa mara ya kwanza na kufanikiwa kuunda serikali mnamo mwaka 1924.

Mkakati wa watawala na mabwenyenye ya Ulaya kutumia ukristo kama 'kasumba' ya kuwaleweshea watu ili watawalike na kunyonywa kwa urahisi haukuishia kwenye mipaka ya bara hilo. Wakati tawala za Ulaya zilipokutana na kuamua kugawana bara la Afrika, wamishenari walitumiwa kama 'advance party', yaani wasafisha njia.

Kutokana na uzoefu ziliokuwa nao, tawala hizo zilijua fika kwamba itakuwa ni rahisi zaidi kwa wenyeji wa bara hili kuukubali ukoloni iwapo wenyeji hao tayari watakuwa wametiwa kwenye ukristo.

Afrika Mashariki ni mfano mzuri. Mnamo mwaka wa 1863, makasisi wa Holy Ghost Fathers walitua Zanzibar - nchi ya kiislamu – na kuomba waruhusiwe kufungua kituo chao. Tukio hili ambalo lilikuwa la kwanza la kurasimisha ukristo katika ukanda wa Afrika Mashariki lilitokea takriban miaka 20 kabla ya mkutano wa Berlin wa mwaka 1884. Mkutano huu ndio ulioigawa rasmi ardhi ya Afrika katika mapande mapande na kila tawala iliyohudhuria mkutano huo kukabidhiwa kipande au mapande yake ili kusimika ukoloni.

Baada ya vita kuu ya pili ya dunia, Marekani ilianza kuweka shinikizo kwa mataifa ya Ulaya ili yatoe uhuru wa bendera kwa makoloni yao; na kupisha njia ya kusimikwa kwa ukoloni mamboleo. Kama ilivyokuwa wakati wa ukoloni mkongwe, ukristo ulitumiwa tena kama mbeleko ya kuubebea huo ukoloni mamboleo.

Zilitumika juhudi kubwa kuhakikisha kuwa takriban viongozi wote wa mwanzo wa zile nchi ambazo zilikuwa zimekabidhiwa uhuru wa bendera ni wakristo, ambao pamoja na mambo mengine, wana jukumu pia la kulinda maslahi ya ukristo dhidi ya yale ya Taifa.

Tanzania ni mfano mzuri. Pamoja na jitihada kubwa sana zinazoendelea usiku na mchana za kumtukuza Mwal. Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Nyerere alikuwa ni mmoja wa viongozi hao. Mwandishi Jan P van Bergen katika kitabu chake Development and religion in Tanzania, amefichua taarifa za kikao cha siri Ikulu ya Dar es Salaam mnamo Agosti 3, 1970 kati ya Rais Julius Nyerere, Padri Robert Rweyemamu na muwakilishi wa Papa, Giovanni Cerrano. Kwa mujibu wa van Bergen, katika kikao hicho Nyerere aliwaeleza viongozi wake wa dini kuwa ameunda idara ya elimu ya siasa katika TANU na amemuweka Padri aiongoze kwa sababu ya imani yake madhubuti. Aliwaeleza pia kuwa katika Kamati kuu ya chama ameweka Mapadri lengo likiwa kulipa Kanisa fursa na uwezo mkubwa hapa Tanzania.

Kutokana na matendo na kauli za maaskofu mbalimbali katika kampeni za uchaguzi mkuu zinazoendelea hivi sasa inaonekana dhahiri kuwa rais Kikwete hatakiwi tena na maaskofu. Moja ya matendo ya dhahiri kabisa kufanywa na maaskofu yanayoonyesha msimamo wao ni lile tukio la kuukataa mwaliko wake wa kufuturu naye kule Mbeya wakati wa mfungo wa mwezi mtukufu wa Ramadhani uliomalizika hivi karibuni.

Lakini ukitaka kujua kuwa kweli safari hii hawamtaki, rejea matamshi ya askofu Zakariah Kakobe wakati akitoa elimu ya mpiga kura kwa waumini wake, ambapo pia aliitumia fursa hiyo kufuta ibada katika makanisa yake yote siku ya Jumapili ya uchaguzi, ili tu awe na uhakika kuwa kila muumini wake hatakuwa na kisingizio cha kuacha kwenda kupiga kura.

Kakobe amenukuliwa akiwataka waumini wake wasitilie maanani tabia binafsi za wagombea zinazohusu mahusiano yao ya kingono, na badala yake waangalie kile ambacho amekiita, 'kipaji' cha mgombea. Pamoja na kwamba hakumtaja kwa jina, lakini kwa kuzingatia kuwa kati ya wagombea wote wanaowania nafasi ya uraisi kwa sasa, ni Dr. Slaa pekee ndiye aliyekumbwa na kashfa ya ngono, moja kwa moja inaonyesha kuwa Kakobe alikuwa anawapa maagizo waumini wake wajitokeze kwa wingi siku ya kupiga kura na kumpigia Dr. Wilbrod Slaa.

Jambo la kushangaza sana kwa ndugu zangu maaskofu ni kwamba, ukiondoa mambo kadhaa yanayomwongezea sifa, 'Kikwete chaguo la Mungu' wa 2005, ndiye huyo huyo ambaye tunaye mwaka 2010. Hata hivyo tofauti na Kikwete wa 2005, hivi sasa Kikwete amekomaa zaidi, kwa maana ya kwamba ameongezeka umri na pia amepata uzoefu wa ziada. Katika tamaduni zetu za Kiafrika 'Mtu mzima ni dawa' , na katika taratibu za uendeshaji wa mambo 'uzoefu wa kina' ni jambo linalotukuzwa.

Aidha Kikwete na serikali yake wameweka mtandao mkubwa wa shule za sekondari za kata na kuongeza kwa kiwango kikubwa sana nafasi za masomo katika taasisi za elimu ya juu, hususan kupitia ujenzi wa chuo kikuu cha Dodoma kinachochukua zaidi ya wanafunzi 40,000 na kile ambacho kiko mbioni kujengwa mkoani Mara kitakachochukua idadi hiyo hiyo ya Wanafunzi. Ni wazi kabisa kuwa katika kipindi cha miaka kumi ijayo mtandao huu wa shule za sekondari na vyuo vikuu utakuwa umefuta kabisa pengo kubwa la kielimu lililopo siyo tu kijiografia, lakini pia kati ya jamii mbalimbali nchini.

Miaka kumi ijayo jamii ya Waislamu haitakuwa tena na sababu za kusema kuwa serikali inawapendelea Wakristo katika nyanja ya elimu; na viongozi wa serikali nao hawatakuwa tena na wakati mgumu wa kuwaambia Waislamu kuwa 'tatizo lao ni la kihistoria' kila wanapofikishiwa malalamiko ya Waislamu. Bila shaka hali hii siyo tu kuwa itaimaarisha mshikamano nchini, lakini pia itakuwa imeweka msingi mzuri kutuhakikishia kuwa amani tuliyonayo nchini inazidi kudumu.

Kikwete pia ametoa mchango mkubwa sana kwa demokrasia nchini kwa kitendo chake cha kubariki maridhiano baina ya vyama vya CCM na CUF kule Zanzibar. Tofauti na Watangulizi wake ambao walikuwa wakifanya kila linalowezekana kuhakikisha kuwa Zanzibar muda wote inaendelea kuwa chini ya genge la CCM wahafidhina, Kikwete kwa mara ya kwanza katika historia ya nchi yetu amejenga mazingira ya kuhamisha kitovu cha madaraka kutoka kwenye mikono ya wahafidhina hao, na kukiweka kwenye mikono ya Wananchi. Kama jina lake lilivyo, Serikali ya umoja wa kitaifa Zanzibar itakuwa ni serikali ya Wananchi kwa kila hali.

Aidha, tofauti na Mkapa ambaye aliunda tume ya Warioba kwa nia ya kutambua vyanzo na mianya ya rushwa na kisha baada ya kukabidhiwa ripoti akaifungia kabatini na kuisahau; Kikwete kwa mara ya kwanza katika historia ya nchi amethubutu kuondoa kulindana na u-mwenzetu katika vita dhidi ya ufisadi.

Kitendo chake cha kuruhusu kesi kadhaa za vigogo wa serikali yake na ile ya mtangulizi wake, Benjamin Mkapa, kufikikishwa mahakamani kujibu tuhuma mbalimbali za ufisadi; ni kielelezo cha wazi cha mabadiliko hayo ya msingi yanayolenga kuondoa dhana kuwa kuna watu 'wasioguswa' na sheria.

Thamani ya kitendo chake haimo kwenye utambulisho binafsi wa nani kafikishwa mahakamani na nani hajafikishwa, ila iko katika 'ujasiri wa kuvunja mwiko' ambao tumeuzoea kuwa siku zote wanaokamatwa na kufikishwa mahakani ni vidagaa tu wakati mapapa, masangara na manyangumi ya ufisadi yanaachiwa yaendelee 'kutesa'.

Aidha kitendo chake cha kuliachia bunge lichunguze kwa kina zabuni ya ukodishaji wa mitambo ya umeme iliyozaa kashfa ya Richmond na kupelekea aliyekuwa waziri mkuu, Edward Lowasa na mawaziri wenzake wawili kujiuzulu, ni moja ya vielelezo vya 'ujasiri huo wa kuvunja mwiko'.

Kashfa ya Richmond haina tofauti sana na kashfa ya ununuzi wa meli ya MV Bukoba enzi za utawala wa Mwalimu Nyerere. Hata hivyo tofauti ni kwamba enzi ya Nyerere bunge halikuwa na uhuru wa kujadili lolote kwa kina; na kwa maana hiyo basi mjadala wa kina juu ya kashfa ya meli hiyo ukaepukwa.

Enzi ya Nyerere zilikuwepo pia kashfa za kukodi ndege mbovu, kashfa ya farasi wa makatibu kata, nakadhalika. Utawala wa Nyerere ulikwepa kashfa hizi kwa sababu tu vyombo huru vya habari havikuwepo; na pia kwa sababu Nyerere hakuona haya kutumia mamlaka ya kikatiba aliyokuwa nayo kutishia kuvunja bunge pale lilipoonekana kutaka kuchafua hali ya hewa. Tusisahau kuwa hadi leo raisi wa Tanzania bado ana mamlaka hayo kikatiba, na Kikwete angeweza kuyatumia kama angetaka.

Kama nia ni mabadiliko, huenda maaskofu wangehangaika kumpigia debe Prof. Lipumba kwa kigezo cha sifa huenda kidogo tungewaelewa; kwani hakuna mtu yeyote mkweli ambaye hatakiri kuwa Prof. Lipumba kawazidi sifa kwa kila hali wagombea wenzake wanaowania nafasi ya uraisi kwa sasa.

Lakini maaskofu hao wanapojifunga vibwebwe kujaribu kuwaghilibu wafuasi wao kuwa 'wasiangalie mambo binafsi ya wagombea' wakati wa kupiga kura, hata kama mambo hayo yanakiuka zile AMRI KUMI ZA MUNGU, hapo ni lazima tupate wasiwasi juu ya ajenda halisi ya maaskofu wetu. Ndiyo maana tunauliza: Hivi kweli hizi ni kampeni, au ni vita ya msalaba?

AFRICA'S DEMOCRACY DEFICIT

2010-09-17T01:43:00.000-07:00

CONTRIBUTED By Meshach K. Ampwera.
The author meshachampwera@yahoo.com is an Alumni of Mbarara University of Science and Technology.

Africa's Democracy Deficit: A Reflection

Nowhere is Africa's democracy deficit more clearly shown than in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region where economics determines politics of the day and where a culture of democracy has been absent most of the time. For instance, there are few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that extensively define democratic opportunities for the youth. Even the little democratic opportunities are economically conditioned especially during elections because of poverty, illiteracy and unemployment.

Democracy is the most complex of all forms of government because it is not compatible with all African traditions. For example, a transition from chiefdoms to democratic institutions will take time to fully embrace Western democracy. Every time African leaders try to adjust to the tunes of Western democracy, economic interests get in because it is filled with tensions and contradictions, and requires that its members labor diligently to make it work.

Democracy that is based on Sub-Saharan African traditions can be surplus or balanced to address both personal and social concerns like poverty, access to scarce national resources, education, pandemics or inequality. This is possible if a fine line is drawn between giving the executives (democratically elected presidents) sufficient powers to do the job and, at the same time, limiting that authority to prevent a dictatorship.This will make the presidents lead through their political skills, establishing a framework of co-operation with the legislature and above all with the people. The citizenry will consequently feel secure and apprehend that the presidents are always servants and not economic parasites.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, democracy is known for economic gains instead of accountability. Whoever goes to power through democracy perceives it as a finished product, not always evolving and for economic interests. Sub-Saharan leaders should not forget the best-known definition of democracy as "the government of the people, by the people, and for the people" (Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865).

Most Sub-Saharan African governments have changed the perception of democracy. For example, during presidential elections, they have always fought to be both loved and feared using national resources and to them, that seems to be the very best understanding of democracy. The governments try to keep their subjects faithful. They do not care about the infamy of cruelty, because very few elections have been free and fair. When one wants to be both loved and feared, it will be difficult to preserve democracy.

Similarly, if it is in the Sub-Saharan context, democracy can act as a political system that is capable of correcting its own dysfunctions. It is largely restricted to the economic institutional framework and not embodied in a culture, a state of mind that fosters tolerance and respect for other people, as well as pluralism, equilibrium and dialogue between the forces that make up a society.

In cases where Western democracy is to partly work in Sub-Saharan Africa, it requires all social, economic, governmental and non-governmental actors, as well as the relationship which links or separates them, to be taken into consideration. This further requires to be examined more closely so that public opinion everywhere can apprehend the challenge it represents. Most Sub-Saharan constitutions tilt toward dictatorships which are used to weaken the most important system of checks and balances that should help to involve the auxiliary precautions of impeachment and removal for high crimes and misdemeanors. Without checks and balances, democracy remains a deficit in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The checks and balances help to limit economic interests and presidential prerogatives. For instance, presidential appointments to high level government positions must be consented by the parliament through majority votes. The presidential powers to ratify treaties should be subject to the advice and consent of two thirds of the parliament. Any presidential executive order or agreement (with another nation) should be subject to the power of judicial review, whereby the Supreme Court may declare the order null and void on grounds that it is unconstitutional.

It is worth noting two major understandings of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The first being political, where most Sub-Saharan nations fall. This is where leaders perceive their election as the apex and end of democracy. The second is economic, which seldom helps people. This defeats the purpose of democracy. For the former, political life is highest. For the latter, economic life is lowest. These differences have thus far remained unnoticed, or at least insufficiently understood. Nevertheless, severe decline or loss in the equal practice of both the former and latter would be a source of corruption of the well-being.

I partly agree with Alexis de Tocqueville who is widely regarded as the most astute of American democracy that, "success is confined to the present; the long-term is insignificant. To live for ages is undemocratic sentiment. It is appropriate for democracy; to put limits on the exercise of leadership, but it would be a blunder to try to eliminate it". Therefore, for Sub-Saharan Africa to come out of democracy deficit, economic interests in the politics of every day should be checked. Above all, Africa should grow its own democracy that will among other factors emphasize the importance of education in civic responsibility in a bid to inculcate in modern individuals a commitment to public service.

KWA NINI PAUL KAGAME HUSHINDA KWA KISHINDO RWANDA

2010-09-08T05:10:00.000-07:00

Rwanda's Savior Has Become a Monster

· Ruth Wedgwood

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· Rwanda's Savior Has Become a Monster

· August 5, 2010 | 12:00 am

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If you’re a betting person, here’s a safe bet: On August 9, the balloting in the east African state of Rwanda will give world-famous military leader Paul Kagame yet another seven-year term as president. The astonishing margin of victory will impress even the modern grand viziers of Central Asia. The outcome is quite easy to predict, when no other candidates are allowed to campaign.

Given this and much else besides, it’s time Washington began to create some distance from a man who has earned his reputation as a de facto despot who terrorizes critics and does not shrink from political violence.

Kagame revels in his fame as the strategist who led a Tutsi invasion force from Uganda in 1994, pushing back the Hutu army and Hutu militia, though not before they perpetrated a shocking genocidal slaughter of hundreds of thousands of the country’s Tutsi minority, as well as moderate Hutu. Washington, reeling from Somalia and fearing another Black Hawk Down, refused to intervene. Madeline Albright was directed to inform the U.N. Security Council that, no, we would not reconstitute the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, and, further, the United States would veto any resolution that authorized other countries to do so. It was the season of peacekeeping misadventures, and the Clinton White House decided, as one former National Security Council official recalls, that it could not afford to intervene both in Haiti and Rwanda. Presidential Decision Directive 25, drafted by Richard Clarke as a white paper for peacekeeping, morphed into an excuse to “just say no.”

For the last 15 years, Kagame has at every turn invoked these memories to shoehorn the West into a nearly reflexive support for his government. Even Bill Clinton came back to apologize. Kagame has become a fixture at the United Nations in New York, regaling delegations in the Indonesian Lounge, extolling his vision of benevolent autocracy, claiming to admire Singapore as his model for economic growth and insisting that he and only he can keep Rwanda’s torn society knitted together.

In truth, the Rwandan leader presides over nothing more than hollow democracy. He has attacked and exiled any and all viable political opponents. The local press, as well as international journalists, have been bludgeoned and harassed. The regime uses the Stalinist crime of “divisionism” as a pretext to silence and prosecute any critic who dares question its policies or the state sanctioned version of the 1994 conflict.

Unsurprisingly, the intimidation extends to international institutions. President Clinton supported the effort to create an international war crimes tribunal to mete out justice for perpetrators and victims alike. The U.N. court was tasked to investigate the behavior of both sides in the 1994 conflict, operating from a neutral perch in Tanzania. Prosecutors decided first to take on the crimes of the prior Hutu government and militia, since the scale of its violence was larger and the cooperation of Kigali was necessary to obtain witnesses from Rwanda. A decade later, with numerous convictions under its belt and dozens of Hutu defendants still on trial, the U.N. tribunal turned to smaller-scale allegations against the Tutsi invasion force, Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front—including alleged massacres of civilians in the northeast and northwest of the country, as well as attacks on mostly Hutu refugee camps.

At this point, the Bush Administration decided, unwisely, to pull the plug—repudiating the Hague prosecutor who planned to bring the cases, and insisting that the RPF cases could be entrusted to Kagame’s national courts as part of a “completion strategy.” Needless to say, that was the last of the investigations.

This was unfortunate, and not just for history’s sake. The West’s failure to address Tutsi violations of the laws of war has allowed Kagame to conclude, justifiably, that he can do nearly anything with impunity. He certainly hasn’t been intimidated by the observation of the U.N. Human Rights Committee in May 2009 that it was “concerned at the large number of persons, including women and children, reported to have been killed from 1994 onwards in the course of operations by the Rwanda Patriotic Army, and at the limited number of cases reported to have resulted in prosecution and punishment by the Rwandan courts.”

Nor has there been any penalty for Kagame's destructive expedition into the Eastern Congo. The cross-border intervention gave the regime access to minerals ripe for extraction and valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Millions of civilians have been killed in the Eastern Congo conflict, and while Kagame was not the only culprit, his troops hardly quelled the violence.

At the same time, Kagame’s domestic critics have met with unfortunate fates. An outspoken political rival was recently shot and wounded in South Africa. A prominent newspaper editor was gunned down at the end of June, and the deputy president of the Democratic Green party was decapitated in July. Public meetings of rival parties have been banned. Kagame felt audacious enough to jail and threaten a 10-20 year sentence against an American lawyer and law professor–-who hails from former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger’s alma mater in Minnesota—when he went to Rwanda to consult with one of Kagame’s political rivals.

Other smash-mouth ironies abound in this muzzled state. In 2007, President Kagame offered to contribute 3000 Rwandan troops to the peacekeeping force in Darfur, but only if his former chief of military intelligence, Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, was brought on as deputy U.N. force commander for the entire mission. Though Karake’s earlier career was dogged by unresolved allegations of atrocities against civilians in the northwest and northeast regions of Rwanda, the State Department’s Africa desk reportedly vouched for Karake and he got his appointment. In the middle of the mission, a Spanish court indicted Karake for war crimes, and still, he was reappointed to a second term. (Karake has now apparently broken with Kagame; he was arrested in April on "serious charges of immoral conduct.")

Even Rwanda’s celebrated “gacaca” process—sending accused genocidaires to be tried and sentenced in local settings, rather than molder without trial in inconceivably overcrowded prisons—has not lived up to its reputation. The U.N. Human Rights Committee recently noted the “lack of legal training for judges and reports of corruption” in the Gacaca courts—along with impairment of “the rights of defence” even “in cases where sentences of up to 30 years’ imprisonment may be handed down.”

In promoting humanitarian and democratic ends abroad, the Obama administration initially got off to a slow start. The ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt took a back seat to the desire to be “not Bush.”

But the record has lately improved. With this new moral realism, the Obama team ought to take a close and critical look at its erstwhile friend in Africa. He is not what he seems.

Ruth Wedgwood is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of international law at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

MZALENDO WA KWELI !

2010-09-06T07:52:00.001-07:00

THOTHI: [www.eThinkTankTz.org] Mzalendo wa kweli

Mtanzania yeyote Mzalendo wa kweli, mwenye akili timamu, asiye na mtindio wa ubongo, wala mtumwa wa hila chafu, wala udumavu wa kiakili, tena asiye na utando wa buibui wala tongotongo za ufisadi machoni, wala asiye mzembe wa kufikiri, anaalikwa asome kwa uangalifu na azingatie makala hii na awashirikishe ndugu, jamaa na marafiki zake popote pale walipo..

Dr Slaa yes we can! Huyu ni mtanzania wa pili baada ya Nyerere kuchukia ufisadi kwa vitendo. Ni mtanzania wa pili kuchukia umaskini wa watanzania kwa vitendo. Ni Dr. Slaa aliyesimama na kutaja majina ya wala rushwa na mafisadi. Akataka wale wanaopinga wampeleke mahakamani. Hakuna aliyethubutu kujitokeza kumpeleka mahakamani.

Ni Dr. Slaa aliyesimama bungeni kuomba posho za wabunge kupungzwa kuzielekeza zaidi kwa watanzania maskini. Ni Dr Slaa aliyesimama bila woga kunyosha vidole kwa matumizi mabaya ya ofisi za umma. Ni Dr Slaa amekuwa mtanzania baada ya Nyerere kutoa hoja za nguvu zinazomlenga kumkomboa mtanzania maskini. Maisha bora kwa kila mtanzania yako wapi? Ajira milioni moja ziko wapi? Hebu mwenye mbavu za kujibu swali hili ajibu bila unafiki!

Ni Dr Slaa anayeweza kudhibiti matumizi mabaya ya ofisi za umma. Ni Dr Slaa anayeweza kuwapa elimu ya bure watoto wetu pale mlimani. Achana na longolongo za CCM kuwatoza ushuru watoto. Waulizeni majukwaani wao Nyerere aliwatoza ada? Kama si kutaka watanzania waendelee kuwa mambumbumbu ni nini? kama si kutaka watanzania tuendeleee kuwa watumwa ni nini?

Ni Dr. Slaa anayeongelea treni ya umeme kwenda Kigoma, Dodoma, Tabora, na Mwanza. Waulize mpango wao ccm kama si kuwapa wahindi wanaoleta mabehewa ambayo mababu zetu walitumia wakati wa ukoloni. Sasa wahindi wanabaki kutudanganya na bajaji wakati vyuma chakavu vya reli sasa vinatumika kujenga vyoo. Hawa hawatutakii mema. Hawana tofauti na akina Carl Peters.

Ni Dr Slaa anayeongelea mfumko wa bei -nani hajajua dola leo hii ni sawa na tsh 1500. Uchumi unadidimia kwa kasi. Ahadi nyingine za uongo lukuki zinatolewa tena, wakati zile tulizoahidiwa mwaka 2005, hata moja haijatekelezwa. Watanzania walio wengi na hasa wa vijijini, wamelala usingizi. Wanafumbuliwa macho, lakini wamesinzia bado! Wanatabasamu, wanachekelea na kuridhika na vitisheti vya kijani na vikofia za njano. Wamekwishazoea shida kiasi kwamba wanadhani ni sehemu ya maisha yao. Ee mwenyezi Mungu, tunusuru na hili balaa..

Ni Dr.Slaa anaweza kuzuia wizi wa matrilion ya pesa kutoka migodi yetu ya Buzwagi, Geita, Bulyankulu, Buhemba, Nyamongo, Tulawaka, Nzega na Tanzanite. CCM wameshindwa kwa sababu ni washirka wakubwa na wameruhusu wizi huo. Ni Dr Slaa anaeweza kuwalipa wafanyakazi zaidi ya shilingi 350.000 achana na CCM ambayo imeshindwa kusimamia maliasili ambazo zingeliwapa wafanyakazi kima cha chini kinachokidhi mahitaji yao.

Ni Dr.Slaa anayeweza kusimamia mashirika ya umma kuleta tija achana na CCM wanaofyonza michango yetu kule, kwani haya mashirika yameshindwa nini kuwajengea nyumba wanachama wake? Mbona kwingine yameweza? Ni Dr.Slaa anayeweza kuongoza nchi bila woga, kwa utawala wa kweli wa sheria bila kuwaonea watu wala bila kulipiza visasi.

Ni Dr. Slaa ambaye amepanga kubadili katiba ili Rais afuate matakwa ya walio mwajiri ambao ni wananchi. Waulize CCM hata kama mtu kaiba anapewa mda arudishe pesa. Hivi inaingia akilini kweli? Utawala wa sheria uko wapi? Naomba niwape heko ITV kwa kuturejeshe kwenye hotuba za mwalimu. Katika hotuba yake moja alisema waziri mmoja kule uingereza aliandikwa kidogo tu gazetini juu ya kashfa, yule waziri alijiuzulu na waziri mkuu hata hakumjibu bali aliteua mtu mwingine.

CCM hawawezi hayo? Eti wanataka ushahidi. Nani kawambia rushwa tule wawili harafu tutoe vielelezo? Tunaiona rushwa kwa matokeo yake. Matengenezo ya barabara ya bilion 200, baada ya siku mbili imeharibika. Kwanini usimfukuze waziri na katibu wake wa wizara kwanza? CCM hawawezi! eti wanataka vielelezo!

Ni Dr Slaa anayeweza kufanya hayo. Si tumeona mnazi mmoja alivyowataja mafisadi wote! hapo akiwa ni mbunge tu! Je akiwa rais si watakimbia nchi? Jamani nawambia tumpe miaka mitano tu awakurupushe muone moto utakavyowaka.. Tutapata dawa, tutapata shule za bure, tutapata madawati. Jamani hivi kweli karne ya leo watoto wanasoma wamekaa chini? we must be serious! Hivi kweli dunia ya leo watu wanavuliwa nguo njiani kwenda Mwanza, Shinyanaga, Tabora, Kigoma, Mbeya, Lindi na Mtwara kwa sababu ya usafiri wa malori?

Nani asiye jua madaktari wetu wengi bingwa wapo botswana kwa sababu ya maisha duni Tanzania na hivi kwenda kutafuta maisha bora wakati hapa kwetu wananchi maskini wanakufa bila madawa? Nani asiyejua matatizo ya umeme, maji, makazi, maradhi, yanavyotutesa? Nani asiyejua wakulima wetu wasivyokuwa na masoko ya mazao yao? Nani asiejua asilimia 85 ya watanzania wanatumia vibatari au makoroboi kama mwanga? nani asiejua tunavyonyonywa na hawa wakoloni waliokuja kuchukua kila kitu??

Jamani wafanyakazi, wakulima, na wanafunzi, kwa nini mnalala usingizi? Kwa nini mnapiga miayo ya njaa wakati maghala yetu yamejaa nafaka? Ni akili gani hii? Nchi yetu inazo raslimali za kututosha, lakini wanaozifaidi ni vibaka wachache. Mtalala hadi lini?

Ni Dr Slaa mzalendo wa kweli, na sio kwa ajili ya sifa, anaweza kutuvusha tulipo. Nchi hii ni maskini na umaskini wenyewe ni wa kujitakia. Tanzania ni tajiri tuna kila kitu - mito, maziwa, national parks, migodi, mazao ya misitu, na kila aina ya utajiri. Lakini tuko maskini wa kutupwa! Naona huruma na umaskini wa kifikra wa watanzania.

Hivi kuna mtu hajui mapolisi wanalala kwenye vibanda vya mabati? Hivi kuna ambao hawajui mapolisi watendaji wanalipwa laki moja? Wamekosa nini hawa? Ni ajabu! pamoja na laki yao moja utakuta bado wanatumika kuwanyanyasa watetezi wao. Hata maaskari amkeni hiyo laki moja yenu haina tija hadi mrubuniwe kuwanyanyasa wapinzani ambao kimsingi wanawatetea ninyi! Hivi maaskari mnayo macho ya kuona? Jamani tuache woga inawezekana! Mbona Kenya wameweza? Mbona malawi wameweza?Mbona zimbabwe wameweza? Mbona Ghana wameweza? Kufanya mabadiliko sahihi, inawezakana na nafasi ni hii tuitumie.

Tumtume Dr Slaa atukurupushie wezi wote na atuwekee katiba sawa. Huo ndio msingi wa yote. Ni Dr. Slaa asiyeogopa kuwepo na mgombea binafsi. CCM hili hawaliwezi. Wamelipinga hadi mahakamani. Wanataka wao tu ndio waendelee kututawala na kutunyonya.

Jamani 2010 hakuna kudanganyika! enough is enough. Acheni kudanganyika. Wakati ndio huu. Watanzania msipoamua sasa, mtamlaumu nani tena? Nawatamani watu wa kule Mara -hakuna kura inaibiwa. Zote zinasimamiwa. Tukibadilika inawezekana, tena ni rahisi. Peleke ujumbe huu kwa marafiki, ndugu, jamaa, babu na bibi yako kule kijiji ambako wanadhani bado Nyerere ndiye rais wa nchi hii. Peleka ujumbe huu haraka kwa simu kama ipo, au kwa njia ya posta, mradi tu wale jamaa waliochoka kuishi wasiikwapue barua wakidhani ni hela..

FREDERICK SUMAYE ASHITAKIWA KWA KIKWETE KILOSA

2010-09-06T07:17:00.000-07:00

Imeandikwa na Mgaya Kingoba, Kilosa; Tarehe: 6th September 2010 Habari Leo

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Waziri Mkuu katika Serikali ya Awamu ya Tatu, Frederick Sumaye

WANANCHI wa vijiji vya Mvumi na Mvomero mkoani Morogoro, wamewashitaki mfanyabiashara Jeetu Patel na Waziri Mkuu wa Awamu ya Tatu, Frederick Sumaye kwa Rais Jakaya Kikwete, kwa kuhodhi ardhi kubwa bila kuiendeleza na kutaka wanyang’anywe.

Kwa nyakati tofauti jana, wananchi hao walieleza masikitiko yao kwa Rais Kikwete wakati aliposimama kuwasalimia akiwa katika kampeni ya kuomba kura ili achaguliwe tena kuiongoza Tanzania baadaye mwaka huu.

Akiwa njiani kutoka Kilosa alikohutubia mkutano mkubwa wa kampeni, mgombea huyo wa CCM alisimama katika Kijiji cha Mvumi, ambako moja ya kero alizokumbana nazo ni ya Jeetu kuhodhi mashamba makubwa matatu.

Kwa mujibu wa Mwenyekiti wa Kijiji hicho, Jeetu ambaye ni mfanyabiashara maarufu wa Dar es Salaam, anamiliki mashamba hayo na hayamudu katika uwekezaji wake, na zaidi anayakodisha kwa wananchi kwa Sh 50,000.

“Jeetu Patel, amehodhi mashamba bila ya kuyamudu na anatoza shilingi elfu hamsini kwa ajili ya kulima. Suala hili limepelekwa kwa uongozi wa Wilaya na Mkoa, lakini hakuna utatuzi,” alisema na kushangiliwa na wananchi wenzake.

Mbali ya kero hiyo, Mwenyekiti huyo alizitaja kero nyingine ambazo serikali inapaswa kuzifanyia kazi ni maji, elimu na barabara.

Akijibu hoja ya suala la Jeetu Patel, Rais Kikwete alisema, “niacheni nihangaike nalo, halikuwahi kufika kwangu, ndio kwanza nalisikia kwenu, lakini hakuna lisilowezekana. Niachieni nitafute ukweli wake.”

Akiwa Kijiji cha Mvomero katika Wilaya ya Mvomero, kilio cha ardhi kilisikika tena, na safari hii, kilimgusa Waziri Mkuu wa kipindi chote cha miaka 10 ya Awamu ya Tatu, Sumaye anayemiliki ardhi kijijini hapo.

Mwenyekiti wa Kijiji hicho hakuwepo wakati Rais Kikwete aliposimama na kusalimia wananchi, lakini mgombea wa udiwani wa CCM, Selemani Shomari maarufu Siri, alieleza wazi kero inayowasumbua ni shamba la Sumaye.

“Tunataka shamba la Mheshimiwa Sumaye lirudi katika Mamlaka ya Mji Mdogo kwa sababu lipo katikati ya mji,” alisema Shomari na kushangiliwa na maelfu ya wakazi wenzake wa mji huo wa Mvomero.

Kama ilivyokuwa katika majibu yake kwa wananchi wa Mvumi, Rais Kikwete alisema, “niachieni nihangaike nalo, nilijue vizuri na kupata majawabu stahili, kwa sababu ardhi ikishatolewa na serikali, kubadili ni lazima ufuate taratibu.”

Shamba la Sumaye alilolinunua akiwa madarakani, linadaiwa lilikuwa la Ushirika wa Wakulima wa Mvomero, uhamishaji wa miliki yake unadaiwa kwamba haukufuata utaratibu husika. Sakata lake lilivuma sana mwaka 2005.

Akiwa Dumila, alilalamikiwa na wananchi wa mji huo kuwa ekari zao 420 zimeporwa na Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa Wilaya ya Kilosa pamoja na maofisa ardhi, licha ya hati za kijiji kuonesha kuwa ni mali yao.

bali ya kuzungumzia suala la shamba la Sumaye lililoko katika barabara iendayo Kijiji cha Makuyu, Shomari alizitaja shida zao nyingine kuwa ni maji; kituo cha afya; kituo cha Polisi na gari lake na kujengewa barabara za mitaa.

Akijibu hoja hizo, Rais Kikwete alisema atawapigania wapate Mamlaka ya Mji Mdogo, hivyo kuweza kumudu kujenga barabara zao wenyewe na pia atasaidia kupatikana kwa kituo cha afya.

Akiwa njiani kutoka Kilosa alikoanza kampeni zake jana, Rais Kikwete alisimama katika vijiji vya Ilonga, Mvumi, Msowero, Kitete, Dumila, Mvomero na kuwasili Turiani ambako alihutubia mkutano mkubwa jioni.

MORE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD - SAUDI A

2010-09-01T07:53:00.001-07:00

The Miami Herald
Posted on Tue, Aug. 31, 2010
Foreign women are treated like slaves

BY FRIDA GHITIS
FJGhitis@gmail.com
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- When Mrs. L.P. Ariyawathie showed up at the hospital in the town of Kamburupitiya, near the southern tip of Sri Lanka, few could imagine that the 49-year-old mother of three would make headlines across the world. Normally, the news from Sri Lanka fails to garner much international attention. Ariyawhathie's story, however, managed what decades of civil war, suicide bombings and last year's bloody end to a brutal war failed to do: It made the world pay attention. At first, the woman whose eyes still radiate intense sadness told a story almost too bizarre to believe, except that Sri Lankans have already heard disturbing tales from poor friends traveling to strange lands to earn a living. Those stories are often most outrageous when they describe the experiences of women traveling to Saudi Arabia, as Ariyawhathie did.

In May, she started working as a housekeeper with a Saudi family. The suffering began immediately, with cruel mockery by her employer every time she tried to speak the few words in Arabic she had learned in preparation to leave her home and her family and travel to the mysterious kingdom. Before long, the taunts turned to torture. Then one day, after she accidentally broke a plate, her boss asked if she was blind, aiming his hand toward one of her eyes. When she raised her arm over her face, the first nail went in. By the time she made it back home to Sri Lanka and arrived at the hospital, her Saudi employer had hammered 24 nails and needles into her hands, legs and forehead.

This is not another story about the unspeakable sorrow that poverty inflicts on its victims. It's about how some of the wealthiest, most privileged people on Earth fail the most basic test of humanity, and how the time has come for the Saudi government -- which never tires of proclaiming its piousness -- to make reforms aimed at protecting the most vulnerable in its midst.

Saudi Arabia hosts some eight million foreigners, mostly poor people from Asia and the Middle East, desperate for work. Hundreds of thousands are women employed as domestic workers, living in conditions that are often no better than slavery. Some 400,000 Sri Lankans live there, mostly women working in private homes. Too many of them experience horrific abuse, including beatings, rape and even murder.

Sri Lankan politician Ranjan Ramanayake says he frequently receives pleading calls from relatives of workers in the Gulf. ``Saudi Arabia is the worst,'' he noted. ``It is followed by Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and Abu Dhabi. Our mothers, sisters and daughters undergo unspeakable harassment.''

Under a Saudi system called Kafala, workers become practically property of employers, surrendering their passport on arrival, becoming trapped in a country where law and culture leave laborers, especially foreigners, with few rights. The situation for migrant women -- impossible as it would seem -- is far worse.

Nonpayment of wages across the board has been thoroughly documented by human rights and labor organizations, as have harsh working and living conditions. But nothing compares to the plight of South Asian women in Saudi Arabia, and for that matter in much of the Middle East.

There is no shortage of examples. Earlier this year, 26-year-old Balakrishnan Dharshan, who had left the Sri Lankan city of Kandy to work in Saudi Arabia, was found dead, her body covered with burn marks. A 25-year-old Indonesian housekeeper lost fingers, toes and part of a foot after her employer kept her tied in the bathroom. A Saudi paper reported last year that the Sri Lankan embassy receives 10 runaway maids every day.

The situation is so desperate that India and Nepal have already banned their women from accepting placements in Saudi Arabia, following thousands of abuse reports.

Kafala ensures that workers have practically no recourse and often no way out. Attitudes towards women, non-Muslims, foreigners and workers in menial occupations set the stage for brutality and impunity.

If the Saudis want to earn some respect from the rest of the world, they now have our attention. All abusers should be prosecuted and punished.

But there's more. Not only should foreign workers have a right to keep their passports and leave the country without special permission, but the laws must be revised to protect their most basic rights. The Ariyawathie case made the world look in a direction it seldom does, toward Sri Lanka. What the world saw, however, is what most urgently needs to change in Saudi Arabia.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/31/1799823/foreign-women-are-treated-like.html#none

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BREEDING A VISCIOUS CIRCLE OF MORE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2010-09-01T07:50:00.000-07:00

Maid ‘killed mother and daughter’
Awad Mustafa

* Last Updated: August 17. 2010 12:13AM UAE / August 16. 2010 8:13PM GMT

DUBAI // A housemaid stabbed her employer 70 times before killing the woman’s two-year-old daughter by setting fire to the home on Saturday, according to police.

The 21-year-old African maid fled the scene, but she was found by police hiding in another emirate less than 24 hours later and arrested on suspicion of murder, said Lt Col Salim Sultan al Darmaki, the chief of the Ras al Khaimah CID.

The apartment was completely gutted by the blaze, leaving not much more than the toddler’s two bikes, which yesterday lay abandoned in the smoke-streaked corridors of the building.

The killings happened in the Nakheel area of RAK, said the watchman at the building, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

He said he spotted the fire at 8.30am and called police, who arrived within minutes. “There was lots of smoke and broken glass everywhere,” he said.

According to Lt Col al Darmaki, a fire was reported inside the flat where the bodies of a 35-year-old Arab woman and her daughter were found. Police immediately launched a search in a bid to find the housemaid.

The deceased’s Emirati husband told police the maid had started working for the family only 10 days before the deaths.

“Investigators found and arrested the maid in another emirate, where she was staying with female compatriots,” said Lt Col al Darmaki.

The maid, who had been living in the country for just 20 days before her arrest, had already been sacked by two Emirati families before her employment agency sent her to the home where she allegedly killed the mother and child. Police forensic reports show that the woman died from stab wounds while the child died from smoke inhalation.

Lt Col al Darmaki said the maid confessed to police claiming she killed the Arab woman because she mistreated her. Police say that the two women got into an argument and the maid was told she would be sent back to the employment agency.

The mother contacted the agency and ordered the maid to pack her belongings.

The maid then stabbed the woman 70 times in different parts of her body and placed her blood soaked clothes in a bag before setting light to it and fleeing.

The fire swept through the flat, killing the little girl.“She said in her confession that her work was continuously criticised by her employer and they had repeated arguments during which the Arab woman threatened to fire her and send her home,” said Lt Col al Darmaki.

Lt Col al Darmaki warned the hiring of maids should not be taken lightly.
“The decision to employ a servant at home should be taken with a lot of care and caution, and people should always try to treat each other better and avoid conflicts that can lead to such disasters,” he said.

The case has been referred to the public prosecutor.

HATIMAYE KENYA YAPATA KATIBA MPYA YA 2010 !

2010-09-01T07:36:00.000-07:00

REALLY, TANZANIA SHOULD LEARN FROM ITS NEIGHBOURS. NOBODY IN THOSE NEIGHBOURING COUTRIES WAS AFRAID, SCARED, OR APPREHENSIVE OF LEGISLATING THEMSELVES OUT OF POWER! SHAME ON TANZANIA !

WAY TO GO AFRICA !

Kenya gets new American-style constitution

By TOM MALITI (AP) – 19 minutes ago

NAIROBI, Kenya — African leaders joined tens of thousands of Kenyans on Friday to witness a once-in-a-generation event: the signing into law of Kenya's new constitution.

The East African nation replaced a colonial-era constitution with one that curtails the president's powers with an American-style system of checks and balances.

President Mwai Kibaki's official signing into law of the new constitution has been billed as the single most important political event in Kenya's history since it gained independence from Britain in 1963.

Friday's event comes after an overwhelming majority of Kenyan voters adopted the new constitution in an Aug. 4, 2010 referendum. Kibaki's signature formally marks the end of a decades-long struggle to cut down the massive powers of the presidency.

The government and parliament now must implement the ambitious document that requires, among other things, the formation of a Supreme Court and a Senate. It also demands that the country's judiciary be vetted to rid it of corrupt or incompetent judges and that parliament pass 49 new laws.

Both Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga back the new charter, part of a reform package they committed themselves to after signing a power-sharing deal in February 2008. That deal ended violence that killed more than 1,000 people following Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential vote.

A surprise guest at Friday's ceremony was Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. This is the second time that al-Bashir has risked arrest by traveling to a member state of the International Criminal Court. In July he traveled to Chad.

Before his visit to Chad, al-Bashir had traveled abroad only to countries that are not ICC members since he was first charged in connection with violence in Sudan's Darfur region in 2009. The ICC has no police force and depends on member states to enforce its orders.

It was not immediately known why Kenyan authorities allowed him to attend.

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda also attended the event.
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Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iPhX1mecO0eC1pULJkFnsLjHsKkwD9HRMU8G1

KWA HILI, TIDO MHANDO [TANZANIA BROADCASTGING CORPORATION] IMEISHIWA NA NI YA KIBAGUZI !

2010-09-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

A BIG SHAME ON THE TANZANIA BROADCASTING CORPORATION !

SUNDAY NEWS Reporters, 28th August 2010

Insults and hate speeches against CCM and other parties dominated the CHADEMA election campaign launch on Sunday, forcing the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation [TBC] to suspend live transmission of the event at Jangwani grounds in Dar es Salaam.

TBC Director General, Mr Tido Mhando said later that they cut off nationalwide broadcasting to remind the opposition party of its obligation to condact decent campaigns are required by a code of conduct signed by all political parties. There was also similar agreement between CHADEMA and the station.

"We suspended live broadcasting because CHADEMA went contrary to our agreement, which, among other issues, emphasizes decent conduct. We are glad that they realized their mistake and reformed, after which we immediately resumed our coverage,"clarified Mr Mhando in a telephone interview aftrewards.

The diatribe against the ruling party and its presidential candidate, President Jakaya Kikwete, was led by CHADEMA legal secretary Tundu Lissu, NCCR-Mageuzi defector Mabere Marando and CCM defectors turned the opposition party's parliamentary candidates Fred Mpendazoe and John Shibuda.

The attacked the government over grand corruption accusing the CCM candidate and his predecessors of endorsing dubious deals, including the siphoning of funds from Central Bank's External Payments Accounts [EPA].

Their messages urged workers, pastoralists, artisanal miners, midwives, teachers, higher learning students and retirees not to vote for CCM. They also attacked election coordinating bodies and their leadership, such as the National Electoral Commission [NEC], the office of the Registrar of Political Parties, Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau [PCCB], accusing them of favouring the ruling party.

After interruption of live coverage of the campaign, members of the TBC broadcasting teams at Jangwani were besieged by rowdy CHADEMA members and supporters, who insulted and told them to leave the grounds.

CHADEMA Chairman, Freeman Mbowe later pleaded for the crew but joined the attack on TBC management, threatening unleash the crowd on them.

"You should know that you go on air using tax-payers' money. If the crowd present here descends on you no armed force can save you," he said to TBC bosses.

Meanwhile, Dr Slaa on Sunday unveiled his party’s 2010 Election Manifesto which primarily focuses on nine priority areas, that include building of strong economy based on strong tertiary industries and provision of quality education and other social services as well as promotion of good governance.

He told the gathering that it was through sound tertiary industries that the country would be able to bring about agricultural development.

“We should not deceive ourselves that there can be any agriculture transformation by using power tillers which cannot till hard surfaces,” he argued.

He said that the country cannot just indulge in Kilimo Kwanza without first researching on other variables, such as comparative advantages and markets for the produce.

The presidential aspirant also said if elected to power his government would raise compulsory education to form six, which would be provided for free to all Tanzanian children.

He said he would also come up with new government structure which would be lean and less costly. The move, he said was aimed to minimize wastage as 75 per cent of the revenue was currently going into the running of the government.

The money to be saved, he said would go into financing development activities. Dr Slaa further promised to provide employment and decent work and raise the minimum wage to 315,000/- per month.

U M S O L O P A G A A S KUMBE ALIKUWA MSWAZI !!!

2010-08-21T23:08:00.000-07:00

Thumbs up H. Rider Haggard's Hero Umslopogaas - Posted on 22/8/2010
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H. Rider Haggard's Hero Umslopogaas

Where is he buried?

by Stephen Coan

Is the mighty Umslopogaas, the axe-wielding hero of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain and Nada the Lily, buried under the playing fields of Clarendon Primary? Possibly. But what is a fictional hero doing in a grave, known or unknown, in the first place?

Well, Umslopogaas was based on a real person, his name was M'hlopekazi, & the young Haggard met him in Pietermaritzburg in the 1870s. When Haggard accompanied Sir Theophilus Shepstone on his mission to annex the Transvaal in 1877 the sixty-year-old M'hlopekazi was one of the small party.

Haggard described him as a "a kind of head native attendant to Sir Theophilus." A son of M'Swazi, king of Swaziland, he was a "tall, thin, fierce-faced fellow with a great hole above the left temple over which the skin pulsated, that he had come by in some battle. He said that the had killed ten men in single combat ... always making use of a battle-axe ... He was an interesting old fellow from whom I heard many stories."

M'hlopekazi came to Natal from Swaziland in 1859 claiming to be an ambassador from his father to the British, possibly a deliberate diplomatic move as he was too close to the throne for his own safety.

The young M'hlopekazi had fought in the Nyati Regiment - "the crack corps of the country," according to his obituary in the Natal Witness published after his death in 1897. On his arrival in Pietermaritzburg "being a 'Prince of the Blood' & a warrior of some renown, Umhlopekazi (sic) appears to have commanded a considerable amount of respect from the first & shortly after his arrival he was taken into the service of the late Sir Theophilus Shepstone accompanying that gentleman as a kind of aide-de-camp in his travels & mission through the Cape Colony, Basutoland & the Transvaal."

M'hlopekazi & his battle-axe were inseparable, he referred to it affectionately as nkosi-kaas, the iron Chieftainess, or Woodpecker - for reasons which Haggard makes graphically clear in Allan Quatermain: "it was but rarely that (he) used the crashing doubled handed stroke: on the contrary, he did little more than tap continually at his adversaries head, pecking at it with the pole-axe end of the axe as a woodpecker pecks at rotten wood..."

"He apparently cherished his Inkosikaas like a wife," writes Lilias Rider Haggard in her biography of her father. M'hlopekazi said the axe "was evidently a woman because she pried so deep into things - that she was clearly a chieftainess as so many people fell down before her. When asked why he talked to her when puzzled or heavy of heart he replied: 'She must needs be wise, having looked into many men's brains.'"

Lilias describes the axe as "a beautiful weapon, long light & slender, the haft fashioned from an enormous rhinoceros horn, flexible as cane, bound at intervals weith brass wire & a knob at the end to prevent the hand from slipping."

In the Rider Haggard display room at Fort Amiel in Newcastle (Haggard lived briefly in the area) there are photographs of M'hlopekazi/Umslopogaas with his axe. The axe itself is in a display case, though it bears little resemblance to the one described by Haggard or his daughter.

Changed from a Swazi to a Zulu, & under the name Umslopogaas, M'hlopekazi featured in three books by Haggard: Allan Quatermain (1887), Nada the Lily (1892) and She & Allan (1921).

Allan Quatermain finds Umslopogaas joining up with the heroes of King Solomon's Mines on an expedition to the land of the Zu-Vendi where he meets his death after a heroic battle in the chapter "How Umslopogaas held the Stair."

His earlier life is featured in Nada the Lily. This is Haggard's only "all black" novel. Set during the reign of Shaka, it is the tale of Umslopogaas's love for the Nada of the title & his friendship wtih Galazi, a warrior-shaman who lives on Tshaneni or Ghost Mountain near Mkuze & runs with a wolf pack (for wolves read hyenas). The tale inspired Rudyard Kipling to write The Jungle Books.

By the time Haggard wrote She & Allan his popularity had waned &, in a bid to fan his literary flame, he resurrected his most popular heroes - She, Allan Quatermain & Umslopogaas.

M'hlopekazi was aware of his pseudonymous literary fame. In a conversation with Melmoth Osborn he asked whether Haggard received any remuneration for these stories which featured him. Being told "yes" he suggested some of this might be passed his way. Haggard sent him not money but a knife with his name engraved upon it.

On another occasion he was asked if he was proud of his name being in books. "No," he answered, "to me it is nothing. Yet I am glad that Indanda (Haggard) has set my name in writings that will not be forgotten, so that when my people are no more a people, one of them at least, will be remembered."

M'hlopekazi died on Sunday, October 24, 1897 at the age of 80 after being bed-ridden with rheumatism for two months. He was reported to have died of rheumatism of the heart.

In an address given on January 1, 1898, the Maritzburg architect William Lucas recalled "the final handshake I received not many hours before Umhlopekazi (sic) passed away."

"Ah! What a handshake. Few hands, in fact or fiction, I thought, had played more stirring parts in the conflict of life than that I then grasped for the last time. In the extreme weakness of Umhlopekazi I had no intention of touching it, but was contenting myself with waving a farewell. He, however, gradually drew his arm from beneath his covering & moved his hand towards me. The pathos of the last glimpse of that historic right arm was intense. I grasped the hand, hardly as tenderly as I might have done, it gave him a twitch of pain, yet the interpreter assured me his goodbye was most affectionate. The sense of kingliness supremely displayed linked with the simplicity of that life, impressed me much."

According to the Natal Mercury M'hlopekazi "was buried in the Native Cemetery on the Town Hill, Pietermaritzburg." And this is where the confusion arises concerning his final resting place.

Where was this cemetery? Nobody seems to know. In Pietermaritzburg 1838-1988, edited by John Laband & Rob Haswell, reference is made to the fact that "Maritzburg's non-Christians were banished to a burial ground which was set aside on the Town Hill in 1963." This was for Hindus, Muslims & Jews. Was it also the "Native Cemetery." According to the same source in 1896 this cemetery "was reduced in area to make way for suburban growth on the hill, & builders unearthed unmarked graves & skeletons in the process."

But M'hlopekazi died in 1897, a year after the date given for the dismantling of what might have been the "native" section of the cemetery. I have not been able to pin down a source for the 1896 removals. Today, though no longer in use for burials, the are still a Muslim & Jewish cemetery off Roberts Road, adjacent to Clarendon Primary. Other graves lie untended nearby. Were the Clarendon playing fields the site of the "Native Cemetery"? Can any readers provide an answer?

Whatever the whereabouts of M'hlopekazi's remains, perhaps his most enduring resting place is within the pages of Allan Quatermain where, as the fictional Umslopogaas, he is buried, facing towards Zululand, "at the top of the stair he defended so splendidly ... There he sits, & will sit for ever, for they embalmed him with spices, & put him in an air-tight, stone coffer, keeping his grim watch beneath the spot he held alone against a multitude. The people say that at night his ghost rises & stands shaking the phantom Inkosi-kaas at phantom foes. Certainly they fear during the dark hours to pass the place where the hero is buried."

The following correspondence was received from the essayist by way of an addendum:

Dear Jessica: Yes, the Umslopogaas story is a sad one - another illustrative of South Africa's apartheid past. Thanks for putting it on your website. A number of telephone calls were received following publication of the article "A fictional hero in a city grave" in The Natal Witness concerning the real identity of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's hero Umslopogaas. In reality a Swazi called M'hlopekazi, the article suggested his bones lay under the playing fields of Clarendon Primary School. One reader recalled her father digging up "loads of bones" during the building work at the school in 1963. Another caller, a pupil at Clarendon in the 1970s, remembered that when graders came to level the lower playing field work was halted while human remains were removed. Unless further information comes to light it seems that the bones of Umslopogaas/M'hlopekazi were or are indeed under the playing fields of Clarendon Primary.
Recently a friend found a reference in a local magazine to a plaque being unveiled in Pietermaritzburg in 1947 to mark the 50th anniversary of Umslopogaas/M'Hlopekazi's death. However it doesn't seem to exist any more. When I get some time I will go through the papers of the year to see if I can find out more.

This article first appeared in The Natal Witness, November 2, 1999, & is copyright © 1999 by Stephen Coan. The author has annotated a previously unpublished Haggard diary of his Natal days & Violet Books will be importing copies for sale the instant this is in print from its South African publisher.

The portrait of Prince M'hlopekazi of Swaziland was
borrowed from Peter Berresford Ellis's H. Rider Haggard: A Voice from the Infinite.

Source: Violet Books: Umslopogaas

RAIS KIKWETE WA TANZANIA AANGUKA JUKWAANI KWA MARA YA 4

2010-08-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

Kwanini Rais Kikwete ameanguka tena? Habari hii imehifadhiwa humu 22/8/2010

Ansbert Ngurumo

NATOA pole kwa Rais Jakaya Kikwete, ambaye ameanguka tena jukwaani jana (21/8/2-2010).

Namuombea apone haraka, aweze kuendelea na majukumu yake, na kutafakari upya uzito wa ujumbe wa makala za safu hii ya Maswali Magumu.

Aamini kwamba safu hii inalenga kumsaidia kwa kumfikishia ujumbe mzito ambao wasaidizi wake wanaogopa kumpatia.

Ajue pia kwamba tunapomuonya yeye au wasaidizi wake, dhidi ya mambo fulani, hatusukumwi na chuki binafsi, bali uzalendo; mapenzi yetu kwa nchi yetu. Na baada ya tukio la jana, la rais kuanguka tena (mara ya nne), jukwaani akiwa anahutubia kwenye viwanja vya Jangwani, Dar es Salaam, imenilazimu kuwahoji tena madaktari wake, kwa kuwakumbusha hoja niliyoitoa katika makala ya Oktoba 11, mwaka jana.

Nilitilia shaka taarifa ya daktari; nikahisi imetolewa kisiasa, si kitabibu. Nikahoji, Rais Kikwete akianguka tena, daktari wake atatuambia nini? Nairudia. Isome.

Naandika kwa uangalifu mkubwa kwa sababu mada yenyewe ni nyeti, kuhusu mjadala uliotawala wiki hii juu ya afya ya Rais Jakaya Kikwete, hata baada ya ofisi yake kujitetea na daktari wake kutoa taarifa kwenye vyombo vya habari. Wananchi wamekataa kunyamaza. Kwa nini?

Ni vigumu kuwanyamazisha watu na si vema kuwanyamazisha, wanapojadili suala gumu na zito kama hili. Na hapa si tu kwamba wanajadili, bali wanamjali rais wao; na wanaipenda nchi yao.

Na katika hili hatugombani na rais hata kidogo. Tunamfariji. Rais ni mgonjwa kwa daktari wake; ni kiongozi kwa wananchi wake. Ingawa ugonjwa wa rais ndiyo ajira ya daktari wake, naamini kwamba sote, na daktari akiwamo, tunaguswa sana na msukosuko wa kiafya unaomgusa rais kwa namna yoyote ile.

Na inapofika mahali ofisi ya kiongozi mkuu wa nchi ikatoa idhini kwamba daktari wake azungumze hadharani kuhusu afya ya mgonjwa wake, ujue kuna tatizo kubwa.

Lakini kubwa ninaloliona hapa ni kwamba kisaikolojia rais amefedheheshwa na matukio ya kuzidiwa na kudondoka hadharani pamoja na lile la kuishiwa nguvu hivi karibuni jijini Mwanza, na njia mojawapo ya kuyakabili na kupunguza porojo juu ya afya yake ni kufanya hiki walichofanya wiki hii.

Binadamu yeyote mwenye akili timamu na moyo wa utu, atamuonea huruma rais wetu, atamtakia mema na hata kumwombea apone (hata kama wanatuambia hana tatizo). Ndivyo tunavyofanya sasa. Lakini kuna jambo la ziada.

Tuna ugomvi na wasaidizi wa rais. Hatuwezi kuwaacha wamdhalilishe na kumfedhehesha kiongozi mkuu wa nchi, halafu wakatoa taarifa za kujisafisha. Wakitaka kutoa maelezo rasmi wajiandae vizuri zaidi.

Katika blogu yangu ya Kiingereza (www.ngurumo.wordpress.com) nimelijadili suala hili kwa kifupi, nikisisitiza kwamba kiongozi wa nchi hapaswi kuzidiwa na kuanguka hadharani; na nikatoa mifano ya wachache waliovunja kanuni hii, Rais Kikwete akiwamo.

Nimedokeza pia kwamba kuzidiwa kwa Rais Kikwete akiwa anahutubia umati wa waamini wa Kanisa la African Inland (AIC), Mwanza, lilikuwa tukio la tatu ninalokumbuka kumpata hadharani ndani ya miaka 12.

Alipokuwa waziri wa Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa, aliwahi kuzidiwa ghafla mwaka 1997 katika Uwanja wa Ndege wa Brussels, Ubelgiji, akiwa njiani kuelekea Cuba. Ilibidi alazwe kwa saa nane kabla ya kuruhusiwa kuendelea na safari.

Tunakumbuka pia kilichomtokea mwaka 2005, siku moja kabla ya Uchaguzi Mkuu; alipozidiwa ghafla na kudondoka kutoka jukwaani, akakatiza hotuba yake katika viwanja vya Jangwani, Dar es Salaam. Viongozi waandamizi waliokuwapo, wanausalama, wanahabari na wananchi waliokuwa uwanjani na hata waliokuwa wanafuatilia katika redio na runinga, walipata mshtuko mkubwa.

Baada ya ‘mgonjwa’ kupewa huduma hospitalini, aliweza kuzungumza na vyombo vya habari akiwa nyumbani kwake, akasema alianguka kwa sababu ya uchovu wa kampeni, na kwa kuwa siku hiyo alikuwa amefunga. Naamini tukio hilo lilimpatia pia ‘kura za huruma.’

Sijui tukio jingine la kuanguka kwake hadharani au faragha, lakini hili la Mwanza la juzi, lilikuwa la tatu. Kwa serikali iliyo makini, na kwa wahudumu wanaotaka tuwaamini kwamba wanatimiza wajibu wao katika kumhudumia kiongozi mkuu wa nchi, tukio la Mwanza lilipaswa kuepukwa.

Wanaofanya kazi kwa karibu na rais wamekuwa wakisimulia jinsi ambavyo katika miezi yake ya awali ya utawala wake, alikuwa akipatwa na hisia mbaya kila alipokumbuka anguko la Jangwani.

Fedheha ya kuanguka hadharani ilimnyima imani ya kujiamini mbele ya umma, kiasi kwamba alikuwa akizungumzia mara kwa mara kwa utani ili kuliondoa kwenye hisia chafu.

Miaka minne baadaye, linapomtokea tukio jingine linalofanana na hili katika mazingira ya jukwaani mbele ya umma, linamtonesha vidonda na kumdhuru kisaikolojia. Kujiamini kunatoweka tena.

Hawezi kusema hadharani, lakini sasa hivi rais anapaswa asaidiwe kuondokana na hofu ya kusimama hadharani.

Baada ya yote yaliyotokea, haitoshi kauli ya daktari wa rais kwamba “tumejifunza, na tunaahidi kuwa waangalifu zaidi”, inaeleza kwamba anatambua kosa lake na wenzake, lakini haitoshi.

Wanapaswa wafanye jambo la ziada la kumuimarisha rais mwenyewe kimwili na kisaikolojia. Bila hivyo, ataanguka tena, na tutaambiwa “hana tatizo la kiafya.”

Haitoshi kabisa kusema kwamba rais hana tatizo lolote la kiafya, bali uchovu pekee ndio umesababisha matukio yote hayo.

Tunavyojua, kwa kawaida, watawala na wanajeshi hawaanguki hovyo hovyo - tena hadharani. Si kawaida, ni aibu, na haitarajiwi kwa watawala na wanajeshi kuzidiwa na kuanguka hadharani.

Inakuwaje Amiri Jeshi Mkuu, mtawala na mwanajeshi kitaaluma azidiwe na kudondoka mara kadhaa, halafu wasaidizi wake wanacheka cheka na kusema hakuna tatizo? Wanamdanganya yeye au wanatudanganya sisi?

Si tu rais ni mwanajeshi, bali anatunzwa kama mtoto - anakula vizuri, anapimwa afya kila mara, analala pazuri, anasafiri kwa raha katika daraja la juu kwenye ndege, anafunguliwa hata mlango wa gari, anapangiwa ratiba ya kazi, anapangiwa hata muda wa kulala.

Ndiyo, anafanya kazi zinazoweza kumchosha akili lakini hayuko peke yake.

Rais wetu si dhaifu kama wananchi wake ambao wengi wanalala au kushinda njaa; wanapata mlo mara moja moja (na wenyewe haujakamilika virutubisho); wanafanya kazi nzito na ngumu zinazokula nguvu ya mwili na akili; wana pato duni sana (chini ya shilingi 1,000 kwa siku); wanakabiliwa na magonjwa hatari na hawana huduma ya matibabu inayoeleweka na inayoaminika; wanaishi katika mazingira hatari; wanakabiliwa na magonjwa sugu kwa miaka mingi; wanatembea kwa miguu au baiskeli, Bajaj au wanasafiri kwa malori na mabasi mabovu; hata kwa wanaosafiri kwa ndege, wanatumia madaraja ya chini yanayochosha; wanalala kwa saa mbili au tatu kila siku; wanasumbuliwa na umaskini wa kutisha kiasi kwamba kila wanapolala hawana tumaini kama wataiona kesho.

Watanzania hawa hawazimii, hawaishiwi nguvu wala hawaanguki, aanguke rais mwenye afya isiyotetereka (kama tulivyoelezwa) na mwenye matunzo ya viwango vya juu? Hapa ndipo kuna swali kuu ambalo daktari wa rais, Dk. Peter Mfisi, hajalijibu.

Na ingawa tunajua kuwa afya ya mgonjwa ni siri yake na daktari wake, kwa kuwa Dk. Mfisi amepewa ruhusa na mteja wake (rais) kutangaza taarifa hiyo, alipaswa kujua kwamba ripoti yake ingeibua maswali mengine yaliyofichika.

Kwanza, wapo wanaosema amekwenda mbali kuliko alikopaswa; kwamba ingetosha tu yeye kutoa tamko kwamba rais anaumwa nini, au kwamba haumwi bali amezidiwa kutokana na uchovu tu.

Kauli hiyo pekee kutoka kwa daktari wa rais ingekuwa na uzito wa kutosha, na labda ingeibua maswali machache zaidi.

Pili, uungwana wa kawaida unatulazimisha kukubaliana na daktari, maana sisi hatuna taarifa za ziada.

Lakini kwa kuwa daktari na mteja wake wamewasiliana na sisi kwa kutumia taarifa ya kisiasa kupitia vyombo vya habari; wala hakuna mwanahabari au mwana taaluma mwingine aliyeonyeshwa faili la afya ya rais, wananchi wana haki ya kuendelea kujadili suala hili na kuhoji maswali zaidi, hata yanayoudhi. Tusiwachukie. Tuwavumilie.

Hili la kuchoka na kuzidiwa si kosa binafsi la rais, bali ni la wasaidizi wake, ingawa naye ana uamuzi wa kufanya au kuacha jambo lolote analopangiwa. Washauri wa rais katika fani mbalimbali lazima walinde heshima yao kwa kuzingatia kwamba wao ni wataalamu wa maeneo husika.

Rais anapaswa awasikilize wao wanapomshauri kwa kuwa ndio wataalamu aliowateua au aliokabidhiwa. Ni makosa makubwa rais kudhani kwamba wataalamu waliomzunguka ni matarishi wa kumbebea mafaili na kuimba vibwagizo vyake kwa madhumuni ya kisiasa.

Yeye mwenyewe amekiri kwamba walimshauri akawagomea. Tungetarajia mambo mawili: kwanza, wataalamu hao wangelinda heshima ya taaluma zao kwa kujiuzulu kazi, kwa sababu hawana sababu ya kufanya kazi ya kumshauri kiongozi asiyeshaurika. Hawana kazi ya kufanya Ikulu.

Pili, baada ya tukio la Mwanza, rais alipaswa awawajibishe, kwamba wameshindwa kummudu na kumlindia afya na heshima mbele ya umma.

Bahati mbaya, kama ilivyo kawaida yake, badala ya kuwawajibisha kwa kumfedhehesha, amewatetea!

Wamepata bahati ile ile wanayofaidi mafisadi wanaocheka vizuri na wakubwa - kulindwa.

Matarajio yetu ni kwamba wasaidizi wamejifunza, lakini wajue bado wananchi wanahoji: Kama rais ni mzima kiasi tulichoelezwa, mbona anazidiwa na kuanguka? Kama ni uchovu tu, na kama wanasema wamejifunza, watatuambia nini iwapo rais atazidiwa tena hadharani kwa mara ya nne?

Imetokea. Sasa wana majibu? Bado wasaidizi wako Ikulu wanakula kuku?

UCHAKACHUAJI WA UCHAGUZI TANZANIA 2010

2010-08-16T23:53:00.000-07:00

IMEINGIZWA HUMU TAREHE 17/8/2010.

Ismail Jussa

Nadhani ukiweka ushabiki wako pembeni, na ukawa objective kidogo tu, utaona kuwa kama kuna haja ya kuungana mkono basi Slaa na Chadema ndiyo waliopaswa kumuunga mkono Prof. Lipumba na CUF. Hoja zangu ni hizi

1. Kwanza Prof. Lipumba is more... competent and more exposed in both local and international affairs and leadership than Slaa whose experience is merely of a whistleblower;

2. CUF ni chama cha kitaifa wakati Chadema iko Tanganyika tu;

3. Kwa performance ya kisayansi na si ya kukusanya watu kwa helikopta, CUF ina nguvu zaidi Bara na Zanzibar, kigezo ni kila uchaguzi CUF imekuwa mara zote inashika nafasi ya chama cha pili na hivyo kukipa sifa ya kuwa chama mbadala - angalia matokeo hata ya uchaguzi wa serikali za mitaa, vijiji na vitongoji ambapo pamoja na magazeti kuibeba sana Chadema, bado CUF imeshika nafasi ya pili (kumbuka huu uchaguzi ulikuwa Bara peke yake);

4. CUF imejijenga kitaasisi na kuweza kuwa stable party na kufanya maamuzi kwa utaratibu unaoleweka na ndiyo maana kina-manage migogoro ya ndani kwa njia za kikatiba na zinazoeleweka wakati Chadema kinaendeshwa na familia moja na zaidi Mtei/Mbowe. mfano mzuri wa kukosekana institutional framework na operationalisation ya Chadema ni ukweli kwamba kila kikifanya chaguzi za bawacha, bavicha etc zinavurugika kwa kukosa mwelekeo na mwongozo na kutawaliwa na matakwa binafsi ya baadhi ya viongozi;

5. Chadema kimeshindwa kujivua gamba la ukabila na udini na sasa ndiyo kinazidi kutopea huko wakati CUF imetanda kila pembe ya Tanzania;

6. CUF kina mtandao wa chama wenye muundo uliokamilika wa uongozi uliojipanga kitaasisi wakati Chadema hakina muundo na huishia kuokota wajumbe wa vikao mitaani kupata uhalali wa vikao;

7. CUF kimeonyesha umakini mkubwa katika uongozi na hata katika Kambi ya Upinzani Bungeni kimeonyesha ukomavu tofauti na Chadema ambao hata wale wabunge wake 11 tu wanashindwa kuelewana;

8. CUF kina misingi ya kidemokrasia na ndiyo maana hata Prof. Safari aliachiwa kushindana kwa uwazi na Prof. Lipumba kwenye nafasi ya Uenyekiti wakati Chadema kina uongozi wa kiimla wa muasisi wa Chama mwenye uwezo wa kumuengua mgombea Uenyekiti ili mkwewe apite bila ya kupingwa;

9. CUF kinaeleweka kiitikadi na kisera kuwa chama cha kiliberali na kimebakia hivyo katika historia yake yote ya miaka 18 wakati Chadema hakijitambui - kilianza kuwa mwanachama wa uliberali (Liberal International) na kuishia kujiunga na mtandao wa vyama vya kihafidhina ulimwenguni (International Democrats Union). Hata viongozi wake wako wanojiita capitalists, wengine wanasema ni liberals na wengine wanajiita social democrats. Kikishinda uchaguzi kitaongoza kwa itikadi na sera ipi? Hata chenyewe hakijitambui - kimejiunga na mtandao wa vyama vya mrengo wa kulia (Uhafidhina waliko Republicans, Conservatives, Christian Democrats, Likud etc) lakini Katiba yake inadai ni chama cha mrengo wa kati ambao ungepaswa kuwa ni Centrist - Liberal).

10. Na kutokana na sababu hizo zote nimalizie kwa kuweka hitimisho ambalo ni nukta ya

(1) Tiketi ya Lipumba/Juma Duni ni tiketi imara na yenye nguvu kiuongozi na kiuwezo ukilinganisha na ile ya Slaa/Said Mzee. Kwa hoja hizi chache tu kutokana na ufinyu wa nafasi na muda, nadhani utakubaliana na mimi kuwa ni Chadema iliyopaswa kuiunga mkono CUF mpaka hapo Chadema itapoweza kukua na kuwa na hadhi ya chama cha siasa badala ya kuwa kampuni ya Mtei and family" mwisho wa kunukuu. Nadhani tujielekeze kwenye hoja hizo na tusiishie kwa kutoa lugha za matusi ambazo ni dalili ya kuishiwa hoja na nguvu. competent and more exposed in both local and international affairs and leadership than Slaa whose experience is merely of a whistleblower;

(2) CUF ni chama cha kitaifa wakati Chadema iko Tanganyika tu;

(3) Kwa performance ya kisayansi na si ya kukusanya watu kwa helikopta, CUF ina nguvu zaidi Bara na Zanzibar, kigezo ni kila uchaguzi CUF imekuwa mara zote inashika nafasi ya chama cha pili na hivyo kukipa sifa ya kuwa chama mbadala - angalia matokeo hata ya uchaguzi wa serikali za mitaa, vijiji na vitongoji ambapo pamoja na magazeti kuibeba sana Chadema, bado CUF imeshika nafasi ya pili (kumbuka huu uchaguzi ulikuwa Bara peke yake);

(4) CUF imejijenga kitaasisi na kuweza kuwa stable party na kufanya maamuzi kwa utaratibu unaoleweka na ndiyo maana kina-manage migogoro ya ndani kwa njia za kikatiba na zinazoeleweka wakati Chadema kinaendeshwa na familia moja na zaidi Mtei/Mbowe. mfano mzuri wa kukosekana institutional framework na operationalisation ya Chadema ni ukweli kwamba kila kikifanya chaguzi za bawacha, bavicha etc zinavurugika kwa kukosa mwelekeo na mwongozo na kutawaliwa na matakwa binafsi ya baadhi ya viongozi;

(5) Chadema kimeshindwa kujivua gamba la ukabila na udini na sasa ndiyo kinazidi kutopea huko wakati CUF imetanda kila pembe ya Tanzania;

(6) CUF kina mtandao wa chama wenye muundo uliokamilika wa uongozi uliojipanga kitaasisi wakati Chadema hakina muundo na huishia kuokota wajumbe wa vikao mitaani kupata uhalali wa vikao;

(7) CUF kimeonyesha umakini mkubwa katika uongozi na hata katika Kambi ya Upinzani Bungeni kimeonyesha ukomavu tofauti na Chadema ambao hata wale wabunge wake 11 tu wanashindwa kuelewana;

(8) CUF kina misingi ya kidemokrasia na ndiyo maana hata Prof. Safari aliachiwa kushindana kwa uwazi na Prof. Lipumba kwenye nafasi ya Uenyekiti wakati Chadema kina uongozi wa kiimla wa muasisi wa Chama mwenye uwezo wa kumuengua mgombea Uenyekiti ili mkwewe apite bila ya kupingwa;

(9) CUF kinaeleweka kiitikadi na kisera kuwa chama cha kiliberali na kimebakia hivyo katika historia yake yote ya miaka 18 wakati Chadema hakijitambui - kilianza kuwa mwanachama wa uliberali (Liberal International) na kuishia kujiunga na mtandao wa vyama vya kihafidhina ulimwenguni (International Democrats Union). Hata viongozi wake wako wanojiita capitalists, wengine wanasema ni liberals na wengine wanajiita social democrats. Kikishinda uchaguzi kitaongoza kwa itikadi na sera ipi? Hata chenyewe hakijitambui - kimejiunga na mtandao wa vyama vya mrengo wa kulia (Uhafidhina waliko Republicans, Conservatives, Christian Democrats, Likud etc) lakini Katiba yake inadai ni chama cha mrengo wa kati ambao ungepaswa kuwa ni Centrist - Liberal). Na kutokana na sababu hizo zote nimalizie kwa kuweka hitimisho ambalo ni nukta ya

(10) Tiketi ya Lipumba/Juma Duni ni tiketi imara na yenye nguvu kiuongozi na kiuwezo ukilinganisha na ile ya Slaa/Said Mzee. Kwa hoja hizi chache tu kutokana na ufinyu wa nafasi na muda, nadhani utakubaliana na mimi kuwa ni Chadema iliyopaswa kuiunga mkono CUF mpaka hapo Chadema itapoweza kukua na kuwa na hadhi ya chama cha siasa badala ya kuwa kampuni ya Mtei and family" mwisho wa kunukuu. Nadhani tujielekeze kwenye hoja hizo na tusiishie kwa kutoa lugha za matusi ambazo ni dalili ya kuishiwa hoja na nguvu.

2010-08-13T06:39:00.000-07:00

Source: The Guardian, Tanzania.

US firm chooses Mbeya cocoa beans for its chocolate
By Beatrice Philemon 10th August 2010

Cocoa Beans

Askinosie Chocolate, a US company from Missouri, has chosen Tanzania as origin of its cocoa beans for its chocolate and will source it directly from farmers in an unexpected twist of the Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB) marketing campaigns started earlier this year.

A report issued by the TTB Director of Marketing, Amant Macha, says Doug Pitt, the Goodwill Tanzania’s ambassador in the US arrives in Tanzania this week accompanied by 13 juniors from Springfield’s Central High School who are part of Askinosie Chocolate’s neighbourhood outreach programme called Cocoa Honors.

The guests will be in the country for seven days in a trip which will combine tourism and a search for good chocolate.

Macha says Pitt told him he decided to bring the students along so that they can understand the African cocoa industry. The students’ team comes to Tanzania accompanied by Askinosie Chocolate founder, Shawn Askinosie, who says he wants to start sourcing coco beans directly from farmers.

The Americans will meet UWATE farmers at Tenende in Kyela District and drill deep water wells for domestic use at the village and for irrigation.

The chocolate is to be labeled authentic from single origin, Macha said noting that Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch chocolate manufacturer located in Springfield Missouri, with a tradition of sourcing cocoa beans 100 per cent directly from farmers in different countries of the world.

“As ambassador I’m excited to announce this partnership and I am thankful to Shawn Askinoise and Askinosie Chocolate’s cocoa honours programme for choosing Tanzania as the site for its newest cocoa origin,” Doug Pitt was quoted as telling TTB officials.

Instrumental in Askinosie Chocolate’s selection of Tanzania as its newest source of cocoa beans was Springfield philanthropist Doug Pitt in a partnership that marks one of his first initiatives as Tanzania’s goodwill ambassador.

“The move creates opportunities for Tanzania and its people,” Pit said.

“In addition to meeting the source of their newest cocoa bean farming first–hand, the youths will also be drilling a well which help provide potable water to around 2,000 Tenende citizens, and will distribute samples of processed chocolate to school children. Some of the children have never tasted processed chocolate in their lives, despite the fact that the community produces cocoa beans,” he said.

On the other hand, Shawn Askinosie added that “this event is a taste of what is to come in the future, to do with developing sustainable ventures throughout Tanzania”.

“As a firm, we are excited that we are able to impact future generations and utilise the country’s rich resources combined with enterprising residents to create a winning scenario for all of us,” he is quoted as saying.

“We normally travel to regions of Mexico, Ecuador and Philippines to work directly with farmers and source cocoa beans for his chocolate,” he said.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

CHIEF JUSTICE DEFENDS COURT OF APPEAL DECISION ON INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES

2010-08-02T01:38:00.000-07:00

Chief Justice: Independent candidate verdict valid
BY DOMINIC NKOLIMWAm THE GUARDIAN,TANZANIA,31st July 2010

Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani addresses a ``Change Your Destiny Conference`` at the University of Dar es Salaam`s Mabibo Hostel grounds yesterday. (Photo: Khalfan Said)

Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani has said the Court of Appeal was not influenced by the government in its recent ruling on the independent candidate case.

The CJ made the clarification shortly after addressing an international religious conference attended by students from various higher learning institutions. It was held at Dar es Salaam University (UDSM) Mabibo Hostel.

Responding to reporters’ questions, Chief Justice said the panel of the Appeal Court reached the decision on the independent candidate case without any influence from the government.

In its ruling, the Appeal Court said it had no jurisdiction to determine the case on the independent candidate, “as the matter was not a legal but a political one, which should be settled by the Parliament and not courts.”

“But what I want to clarify here is that the court made its decision in accordance with the laws of the country,” he said, adding: “It is true the matter drew public attention and most of the people did not expect the outcome of the case. But the public must understand that the government did not influence the court.”

According to CJ Ramadhani, the President had never called him or any member of the Appeal Court panel with the intention of trying to twist proceedings of the court.

He criticised the media for blindly reporting the issue of private candidates without clearly understanding what the law said about it.

“The media failed to understand that such a matter is a political issue, which should be settled by the Parliament and not courts of law. Sending the matter to the Parliament was a wise decision,” Ramadhani explained.

He noted that the mater was now in the hands of the State Attorney who is supposed to present it to the Parliament, which had powers of effecting amendments to the country’s Constitution. “It is not the duty of the court to change articles of the Constitution,” he said.

The recent ruling by the Appeal Court has sparked debate with lawyers, politicians and academicians challenging the decision as unfair.

Lawyers, who met in Dar es Salaam recently to discuss the issue, called on the judiciary to revisit its ruling.

They made the call in Dar es Salaam at a roundtable consultation organised by the Tanganyika Law Society with the theme: “The Court of Appeal Judgment in the Attorney General and Christopher Mtikila ramifications, rule of law and international justice in Tanzania”.

Prof Gamaliel Mgongo Fimbo, a long-serving lawyer and law lecturer, described as “a disaster” the June 17 Court of Appeal ruling that the issue of allowing or blocking the participation of private candidates in the country’s elections could only be conclusively dealt with by the Parliament.

Other panel members were Eusebia Munuo, January Msoffe, Natalia Kimaro, Mbaruku Mbaruku, Bernard Luanda and Sauda Mjasiri.

Declaring that the issue was political and not legal, the judges quashed and set aside an earlier High Court ruling allowing private candidates to run for office in civic, legislative and presidential elections.

SABABU MIA MOJA ZA KUMREJESHA KAGAME MADARAKANI

2010-07-29T07:34:00.001-07:00

KAGAME AFAGILIWA NA WANYARWANDA

"100 Reasons to Re-elect Paul Kagame"

1. Education

1. Ensuring 9-Year Basic Education for all Rwandan children that will tremendously improve literacy levels in the country
2. A promise to have Universal Secondary Education by 2017
3. Making education accessible by all with no segregations, particularly promoting Girls' and Special Needs' education
4. Encouraging parents and communities' involvement in education
5. Introducing English as medium of instruction in schools to make Rwanda more competitive on the global stage
6. Creating 14 new Higher Learning Institutions, almost tripling Higher Education enrolment in 7 year years
7. Providing scholarships to the best and brightest Rwandan students to pursue their studies in the best universities of Europe and North America;
8. Promising to achieve 100% literacy by 2017 through effective adult education;
9. Introducing technology in schools starting with primary schools under the 'One Laptop Per Child' program
10. Increasing the number of qualified teachers at all levels of education through effective distance learning and in-service training and remunerating them adequately.

2. Health

1. Raising the life expectancy in Rwanda from 43 to 53 years;
2. Introducing 6 types of health insurance including the famous "Mutuelle de Santé" resulting in a health insurance coverage of 94% of the population;
3. Introducing universal immunisation programmes;
4. Introducing health awareness programs;
5. Reducing deaths from malaria by 75%;
6. Reducing infant mortality by 70%;
7. Reducing HIV infections from 9 percent to 2%;
8. Building a clinic in every sector;
9. Reducing water-borne diseases by 60%;
10. Ensuring that more doctors and nurses are trained and deployed evenly across the country

3. Justice

1. Trying over 1,100,000 cases in the Gacaca court system;
2. Undertaking a complete restructuring of the justice sector;
3. Introducing many laws for different sectors that brings orderliness in State functioning;
4. Releasing over 80,000 genocide convicts safely into the community while ensuring law and order in the society;
5. Making convicted prisoners give back to society through work schemes;
6. Building over 100 new courts of law;
7. Training over 300 new judges;
8. Creating an independent judicially and an independent Judge selection process;
9. Promoting local mediation services to reduce backlog of court cases;
10. Introducing the commercial courts and streamlining the justice system by merging the administration process;

4. Agriculture

1. Introducing crop intensification programme and boosting agricultural production by 10 percent annually;
2. Introducing the cooperative system to buy produce from farmers;
3. Diversifying the crops cultivated through sensitisation;
4. Significantly reducing poverty and mal-nutrition through the one cow per family: "the Girinka" programme;
5. Introducing a phone text service that can inform farmers of the latest crop prices
6. Making subsidized seeds and fertilizers available on credit;
7. Promoting mechanised agriculture through a scheme of 1 tractor per village
8. Making veterinarians more widely spread across the country
9. Introducing irrigation farming
10. Making 'hunger' a history in our country

5. Economy

1. Increasing average earnings of Rwandans from $220 to $560 in 7 years!
2. Strengthening the private sector and streamlining doing business in Rwanda;
3. Increasing the tax base and total revenue collected domestically ;
4. Promoting credit to small to medium sized enterprises;
5. Increasing domestic funding of government to development projects in national budget from 10% to 50%;
6. Promoting transparency by fighting corruption;
7. Diversifying the economy by promoting new sectors like mining and tourism;
8. Promoting foreign direct investment to nearly $1 billion annually;
9. Making poverty-reduction the hallmark of economic development;
10. Cutting down on government expenditure through initiatives like reducing on the number of government vehicles;

6. Security

1. Making Rwanda one of the safest places in the world
2. Devolving security responsibility down to the local level
3. Reducing crime through local initiatives
4. Professionalising the Army and integrating former hostile elements
5. Fighting impunity and corruption in the army and hence cementing discipline
6. Sending Rwandan soldiers and Police officers to keep peace in war ravaged places like Darfur, Haiti, Liberia, etc.
7. Introducing electronic ID cards to all adults
8. Instituting a police force that is disciplined and highly professional
9. Establishing a credit scheme for the Army and Police
10. Making peace with neighbours like Democratic Republic of Congo

7. Foreign policy

1. Making Rwanda a respected partner in regional and international affairs
2. Improving Rwanda's relations with former hostile nations like France and DRC
3. Making Rwanda one of the biggest contributors of peace-keepers in the UN
4. Working tirelessly to track and prosecute Genocide suspects
5. Joining the East African Community and the Commonwealth
6. Being one of the foremost advocates of fully integrated EAC
7. Relentlessly promoting Rwanda abroad and expanding her relations to countries such as Australia, Singapore, South Korea, etc.
8. Chairing powerful global initiatives like the UN MDGs and the ITU Broadband Commission and serving on the Advisory board of the World Bank.
9. Creating special friends for Rwanda that have always defended our cause.
10. Refusing to be bullied by the west and always insisting on an equal voice for Africa on the global scene.

8. Technology

1. Making ICT the main focus of our long-term development
2. Making technology integral to government service provision
3. Supporting the one laptop per child policy
4. Laying thousands of kilometres of fibre-optic cables
5. Connecting all government centers to the internet
6. Abolishing import duties on ICT equipment
7. Building one of the best telephone network systems in the region
8. Strongly advocating for undersea cable to land on EA coastline and now eventually in Rwanda
9. Turning Rwanda into an influential country on ICT global issues
10. Emphasising on ICTs in our education programs and setting up institutions to oversee this program

9. Infrastructure

1. Constructing good roads across the country
2. Building communication towers to help link outlying areas
3. Setting up building regulations to improve basic infrastructure
4. Reducing tax on building materials to encourage growth of the industry
5. Bringing electricity to all major areas, with plans to expand it to every village
6. Coming up with a master plan and securing funding for a new international airport
7. Advocating for Isaka railway line which will reduce transport costs
8. Ensuring that Kigali master plan is implemented
9. Building district and sector headquarters nationwide
10. Investing heavily in ICT infrastructure

10. Kagame, the man

1. He is a man of principle and values
2. He is pragmatic and ready to make tough choices in the interest of his country
3. He promises and delivers
4. He is patriotic and wants the best for Rwandans
5. He is a visionary and inspirational leader
6. He is intelligent, skilful and innovative
7. He is a humble man who does not value personal gains
8. He is not a man to bully and he is never shaken by circumstances
9. He has a humble background that shapes his character as a down-to-earth leader
10. He is a family man and cherishes family values

"You Do Not Change a Winning Team"

MTU MWEUSI WA KWANZA KUCHAGULIWA URUSI

2010-07-29T07:18:00.000-07:00

POSTED HERE ON 29/7/2010.

SOURCE: http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20100725/ ap_on_re_ eu/eu_russia_ black_politician

By KRISTINA NARIZHNAYA, Associated Press Writer Kristina Narizhnaya, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 22 mins ago -
NOVOZAVIDOVO, Russia – People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man. Now they say they see in him something equally rare — an honest politician.
Sagbo last month became the first black to be elected to office in Russia.
In a country where racism is entrenched and often violent, Sagbo's election as one of Novozavidovo' s 10 municipal councilors is a milestone. But among the town's 10,000 people, the 48-year-old from the West African country of Benin is viewed simply a Russian who cares about his hometown.
He promises to revive the impoverished, garbage-strewn town where he has lived for 21 years and raised a family. His plans include reducing rampant drug addiction, cleaning up a polluted lake and delivering heating to homes.
"Novozavidovo is dying," Sagbo said in an interview in the ramshackle municipal building. "This is my home, my town. We can't live like this."
"His skin is black but he is Russian inside," said Vyacheslav Arakelov, the mayor. "The way he cares about this place, only a Russian can care."
Sagbo isn't the first black in Russian politics. Another West African, Joaquin Crima of Guinea-Bissau, ran for head of a southern Russian district a year ago but was heavily defeated.
Crima was dubbed by the media "Russia's Obama." Now they've shifted the title to Sagbo, much to his annoyance.
Click image to see more photos of Jean Gregoire Sagbo

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"My name is not Obama. It's sensationalism, " he said. "He is black and I am black, but it's a totally different situation."
Inspired by communist ideology, Sagbo came to Soviet Russia in 1982 to study economics in Moscow. There he met his wife, a Novozavidovo native. He moved to the town about 100 kilometers (65 miles) north of Moscow in 1989 to be close to his in-laws.
Today he is a father of two, and negotiates real estate sales for a Moscow conglomerate. His council job is unpaid.
Sagbo says neither he nor his wife wanted him to get into politics, viewing it as a dirty, dangerous business, but the town council and residents persuaded him to run for office.
They already knew him as a man of strong civic impulse. He had cleaned the entrance to his apartment building, planted flowers and spent his own money on street improvements. Ten years ago he organized volunteers and started what became an annual day of collecting garbage.
He said he feels no racism in the town. "I am one of them. I am home here," Sagbo said.
He felt that during his first year in the town, when his 4-year-old son Maxim came home in tears, saying a teenage boy spat at him. Sagbo ran outside in a rage, demanding that the spitter explain himself. Women sitting nearby also berated the teenager. Then the whole street joined in.
Russia's black population hasn't been officially counted but some studies estimate about 40,000 "Afro-Russians. " Many are attracted by universities that are less costly than in the West. Scores of them suffer racially motivated attacks every year — 49 in Moscow alone in 2009, according to the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy Task Force on Racial Violence and Harassment, an advocacy group.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, Novozavidovo' s industries were rapidly privatized, leaving it in financial ruin.
High unemployment, corruption, alcoholism and pollution blight what was once an idyllic town, just a short distance from the Zavidovo National Park, where Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev take nature retreats.
Denis Voronin, a 33-year-old engineer in Novozavidovo, said Sagbo was the town's first politician to get elected fairly, without resorting to buying votes
"Previous politicians were all criminals," he said.
A former administration head — the equivalent of mayor in rural Russia — was shot to death by unknown assailants two years ago.
The post is now held by Arakelov, a veteran of the Soviet war in Afghanistan who says he also wants to clean up corruption. He says money used to constantly disappear from the town budget and is being investigated by tax police.
Residents say they pay providers for heat and hot water, but because of ineffective monitoring by the municipality they don't get much of either. The toilet in the municipal building is a room with a hole in the floor.
As a councilor, Sagbo has already scored some successes. He mobilized residents to collect money and turn dilapidated lots between buildings into colorful playgrounds with new swings and painted fences.
As he strolled around his neighborhood everyone greeted him and he responded in his fluent, French-African- accented Russian. Boys waved to Sagbo, who had promised them a soccer field.
Sitting in the newly painted playground with her son, Irina Danilenko said it was the only improvement she has seen in the five years she has lived here.
"We don't care about his race," said Danilenko, 31. "We consider him one of us."

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2010-07-26T07:54:00.001-07:00

Na Muhingo Rweyemamu, RAI - 26/7/2010

KWA vyovyote itakavyokuwa, Uchaguzi Mkuu wa mwaka huu utatawaliwa na vijana, Rai inaweza kuthibitisha.

Tofauti na miaka ya nyuma ambayo siasa za uchaguzi ziliongozwa na kutawaliwa na wazee huku vijana wakiwa wasaidizi wa ushindi wa wazee hao, mambo yanaonekana kubadilika sana katika uchaguzi wa mwaka huu na vijana wanaonekana kujizatiti na mbinu mpya kuliko watu wa makamo.

Gia aliyoingia nayo Januari Makamba, ya kutembelea Jimbo zima la Bumbuli na kufanya kile wataalam wanaita ‘participatory research’ huku akibuka na kitabu kinachoeleza hali halisi ya wakazi wa Jimbo hilo, ni moja ya mambo yaliyowashitua siyo wagombeaji wenzake tu, bali pia hata vijana waliomo bungeni.

Wakielezea hali hiyo, Ismael Jussa, Mbunge wa kuteuliwa pamoja na Zitto Kabwe, walisema jambo alilolifanya Makamba, limewapa changamoto kama vijana ili waweze kufanya mambo makubwa zaidi ya hayo siku z ijazo.

Takwimu za idadi ya watu, zinatuonyesha kwamba Tanzania ni taifa changa. Kwa maana kwamba ina idadi kubwa ya watoto na vijana kuliko watu wazima. Kwa mujibu wa Shirika la Ujasusi la Marekani, CIA, wastani wa umri wa Watanzania ni miaka 18.7 Hii maana yake ni kwamba ukichukua umri wa wazee , ukajumlisha na umri wa watoto , kisha ukagawa mara mbili, umri wa wastani ni miaka 18

Katika Tanzania watoto wenye umri wa chini ya miaka kumi na tano ni milioni 17 wakiwamo wavulana 8,853,529 na wasichana 8,805,810. Wastani wao ni asilimia 43.

Watu wenye umri kati ya miaka 15-64 ni milioni 22 wakiwamo wanaume 10,956,133 na wanawake 11,255,868 na wastani wao ni asilimia 54 ya Watanzania wote wakati wenye umri juu ya miaka 65 wanafanya asilimia 2.9 ya Watanzania kuwa au kama watu milioni moja na nusu.

Hata hivyo, ukichukua watu wenye umri tangu miaka 0 hadi miaka 29 wanatengeneza asilimia 70 ya Watanzania ambao wengi wao ndiyo kundi kubwa la wapiga kura na hasa wanaopiga kura kwa mara ya kwanza ambao wanaingia katika uchaguzi na vionjo vyao, maono yao na matamanio yao.

Idadi kubwa ya vijana wapiga kura wamo katika Shule za Sekondari za kidato cha tano na sita (1.5) na kutoka Vyuo Vikuu wamo 82,428 ambao wanatarajiwa kuleta hamasa kubwa katika kampeni hizi.

Kihistoria, vijana wamekuwa nguzo muhimu katika ukombozi wa nchi yetu kupitia TANU, na pia katika kuhakikisha ushindi wa chama hicho na Chama Cha Mapinduzi ambacho ndiyo mrithi wa TANU.

Kwa bahati mbaya, katika miongo ya karibuni, vijana wengi wamekuwa daraja la wazee katika kufikia uongozi. Umoja wa Vijana wa CCM umekuwa ukitumika kuhamasisha watu kupiga kura, kujibu mashambulizi na kwa ujumla kutia hamasa chaguzi za chama.

Miaka ya karibuni, chama hicho kikongwe kilianzisha kikundi cha ‘Tanzania One Theatre Group’ ambacho kwa kiasi kikubwa, kimefanikiwa kuwakusanya Watanzania katika sehemu za kampeni na hivyo kusikiliza hotuba.

Vyama vingine vinejitahidi kuanzisha vikundi ingawa hakuna chama chenye kundi lenye nguvu kama TOT. Hata ndani ya CCM, vikundi vingi vya vijana vimejaribu mara kadhaa kuibuka lakini havikufika mbali.

Safari hii, mambo yamebadilika kabisa, badala ya vijana kuwa wasindikizaji wa wazee, sasa vijana wameamua wenyewe kushika bendera ya chama hicho. Katika sehemu kadha wa kadha, mwitikio wa vijana umewakosesha raha wazee hata kabla ya kipindi cha kampeni kuanza.

Idadi ya vijana waliochukua fomu kugombea Ubunge na Udiwani kwa tiketi ya CCM ni kubwa mno na kutakuwa na shughuli pevu wakati wa uteuzi.

Sambamba na hilo, ujio wa waziwazi wa wanafunzi wa Vyuo Vikuu katika harakati za uchaguzi mkuu wa mwaka huu, unaonyesha mabadiliko makubwa yatakayotokea wakati wa kampeni.

Katika mkutano mkuu wa CCM, vijana waliwafunika wazee kwa kila hali. Ukumbi ulikuwa ni wa shamrashamra zilizoongozwa na vijana.

Nyimbo pamoja na hotuba za vijana zilikuwa za mikiki mikiki. Wakati fulani ilionekana kwamba vijana wanataka kuimaliza enzi ya kikundi cha TOT ingawa waswahili walisema uzee ni dawa.

Pale vijana kwa mfano wa Vyuo Vikuu waliposimama kuimba wimbo wao, ukumbi mzima ulilipuka kwa shangwe na kujumuika katika kucheza wimbo huo unaokwenda kwa jina la NI KIKWETE.

Vijana kama Bushoke, Marlow, Flora Mbasha na Doki waliwafanya wajumbe wa mkutano mkuu kushindwa kuketi kwenye viti vyao. Katika kipindi cha burudani hizo, muda pekee wajumbe walipopata nafasi ya kupumzika, ni pale nyimbo za TOT zilipokuwa zikipigwa.

Ujio wa vijana katika kampeni hizi, unatufundisha jambo moja kwamba hali ya sasa ya siasa, ni sawa na jini aliyefunguliwa kwenye chupa. Uwezekano wa kumrudisha ni mgumu na kwa msingi huo, ni lazima tujifunze namna ya kuishi naye.

Mazingira ya zamani ya siasa za nchi zetu, yalikuwa yanatoa nafasi pana kwa viongozi waliomo madarakani kuwa walezi wa vijana wanaochipukia katika uongozi. Kwa sasa, hali hiyo haipo sana. Hivi karibuni, Chama Cha Mapinduzi kilikuwa na semina kule Iringa ambayo ilikuwa ikiwaandaa vijana wake. Hata hivyo, hayo siyo maandalizi ya kisiasa, yalikuwa maandalizi kwa ajili ya uchaguzi wa mwaka huu.

Vyama vya upinzani navyo vinao vijana machachari waliokuwamo bungeni na wale waliomaliza shule. Kwa bahati mbaya, habari zao hazisikiki sana kama zinavyosikika zile za CCM na labda sababu kubwa ni ukosefu wa chombo cha kitaifa cha kuwaunganisha na kuwapatia mafunzo vijana. Baada ya siasa kupigwa marufuku katika shule na katika vyuo, vijana wanasiasa wanaokotwa barabarani au wale ambao waliasi amri ya kuzuia siasa katika taasisi za elimu. Kinachoshangaza ni kwamba hata wale vijana wanaochukua kozi za Political Science, hawana muda rasmi ulioruhusiwa kisheria na kitaratibu wa kufanya mazoezi kwa yale wanaotarajia kufanyia kazi.

Kwa nini vijana wanahitaji kuandaliwa? Kwanza kilichojitokeza kule Dodoma ni sababu tosha ya kuwafikirisha wazee na kuwaandaa vijana ili watambue nini cha kuongea, wakiongee lini na wapi.

Kwa mfano katika mkutano huo wa Dodoma, vijana wa Vyuo Vikuu walikaribishwa kusoma risala yao ambayo baadaye tulikuja kupata taarifa kwamba haikuwa imesomwa na yeyote. Yaani ilikuwa risala ya mashtukizi.

CCM ilikuwa imewaalika viongozi wa vyama vya upinzani. Walikuwapo Mwenyekiti Mrema, Mwenyekiti Lipumba na Mwenyekiti Dovutwa pamoja na wengine. Vijana katika hotuba yao, waliwageukia wageni hao ambao kimsingi walikuwa ni wageni wa mwenyekiti wa chama chao, wakasema: “Hawa Mavuvuzela, hawatuwezi”.

Kwa ujumla, maneno hayo yaliwaudhi viongozi wengi wa vyama hivyo. Mmojawao, Profesa Ibrahim Lipumba aliamua kuondoka kabla ya muda wake. Ilipofika muda wa Mwenyekiti kuongea, tofauti kati ya watu waliopata malezi ya kisiasa na wale ambao hawajapata malezi ya kisiasa ilijionyesha. Kikwete aliwakaribisha wageni wake, kuwasifia, kuwapa nafasi ya kuongea na kuwaomba uchaguzi wa mwaka huu uwe wa kistaarabu kwa sababu “tunajenga nyumba moja, hatuna sababu ya kugombania fito”. Hayo ni maneno yaliyosemwa na mtu aliyewakaribisha wageni nyumbani mwake. Mwenyeji, hatarajii watoto wake ‘wawachape fimbo’ wageni wake.

Mwanzo wa ngoma ni lele. Tunatarajia kuyaona mengi wakati wa uchaguzi.

MAOFISA WA TAKUKURU WANUSURIKA KIPIGO

2010-07-26T07:50:00.000-07:00

Imeandkwa na Martha Mtangoo, Dodoma; Tarehe: 25th July 2010 Habari Leo

MAOFISA watatu wa Taasisi ya Kuzuia na Kupambana na Rushwa (Takukuru), mkoani hapa juzi walinusurika kupigwa na wananchi katika Kata ya Makulu,Kijiji cha Njedengwa baada ya kudhaniwa ni wezi.

Mkuu wa Takukuru mkoani hapa, Eunice Mmari aliwaambia waandishi wa habari jana kuwa tukio hilo lilitokea juzi saa mbili usiku baada ya kupatiwa taarifa na raia mwema kuwa kuna baadhi ya viongozi wa eneo hilo wapatao 30 wamekusanyika nyumbani kwa Mwenyekiti wa Tawi la CCM Njedengwa kwa ajili ya kupewa pesa ili wamchague diwani.

Mmari alisema mara baada ya kupatiwa taarifa hiyo wakiwa njiani kuelekea eneo la tukio, waliona mtu akiwa katika pikipiki akiwa mbele ya gari lao waliamua kumpita na baada ya kumpita mtu huyo alipiga kelele za kuwataarifu Takukuru waliokuwa wanaelekea eneo hilo.

Kwa mujibu wa Mkuu huyo wa Takukuru wananchi hao waliokuwa wamekusanyika katika nyumba hiyo walipiga filimbi na kuwataarifu wanakijiji wenzao kuwa wameingiliwa na majambazi hali ambayo iliwafanya wanakijiji hao kuwazingira maofisa wa Takukuru na kutaka kuwapiga wakidai kuwa ni wezi.

Akielezea zaidi juu ya tukio hilo, alisema kuwa zaidi ya wanakijiji 200 waliwazingira na kutaka kuwapiga ambapo wengine waliwamwagia pombe na kudai kuwa ni wezi huku wengine wakisema kuwa kama wamekuja kwa ajili ya kumharibia diwani wao hawamuwezi ni bora wakamuacha.

Alisema kuwa waliwekwa chini ya ulinzi huku wakiwa wamezungukwa na wananchi kwa zaidi ya saa mbili.

Alifafanua kuwa sakata hilo liliisha saa nne na nusu usiku baada ya Mwenyekiti wa kitongoji hicho kuwasihi na kuwaachia huru wananchi hao ambao walitaka pia kuvunja vioo vya gari ya maofisa hao.

Aidha alisema kuwa, mbali na tuhuma hiyo pia Diwani huyo wa Kata ya Makulu, Ali Biringi anachunguzwa na Takukuru baada ya kukutwa na kadi 98 zisizo halali za CCM.

Alisema kuwa awali Takukuru ilipata taarifa juu ya diwani huyo kuwa na kadi hizo ambapo alikutwa na jumla ya kadi 177 za CCM ambapo baada ya kukaguliwa alikutwa na jumla ya kadi 98 zisizo halali na kuwa uchunguzi bado unaendelea

M A Z I N G A O M B W E YA C C M TANZANIA

2010-07-26T07:48:00.001-07:00

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*Yajipanga kusimamia njia kuu za uchumi
*Yasisitiza elimu ya kujitegemea kwanza

*Yasema bila sayansi Taifa halifiki popte
*Yaagiza Serikali kufumua mitaala ya elimu
*Yakiri wingi wa wasomi umeanza kuwa tatizo

CHAMA cha Mapinduzi (CCM), kimeufanyia mapinduzi makubwa Mwelekeo wake wa sasa kwa kuamua uwalenge zaidi wananchi wa kipato cha chini ili waweze kushiriki katika mfumo halisi wa uchumi wa dunia ya sayansi na teknolojia.

Sambamba na hayo, Chama hicho kimeangalia kwa kina mwenendo wa uchumi wa dunia, na siasa za hapa nchini na kubaini kwamba kuna kila sababu ya kupunguza pengo kati ya walio nacho na wasio nacho.

Na ili kufanikisha mambo hayo, CCM imeamua kwamba kuanzia sasa itarejesha mfumo wa Upangaji wa Mipango na Usimamizi wa Uchumi ili kuipa dola nafasi ya kuwa mhimili wa uchumi katika mazingira ya ujenzi wa msingi wa uchumi wa kisasa wa Ujamaa na Kujitegemea katika mazingira ya uchumi wa soko na utandawazi.

Maamuzi hayo yamo katika madokezo yake kadhaa, ambayo yalipitishwa na Halmashauri Kuu ya CCM kabla ya kuwasilishwa katika Mkutano Mkuu wa chama hicho uliomalizika mwishoni mwa wiki mjini Dodoma.

Maamuzi hayo, yanaonekana kwamba Tanzania imeamua kufuata mfumo wa uchumi wa China; nchi ambayo Ujamaa pamoja na Ubepari vinafanya kazi sambamba, huku nguvu ya kiuchumi ya mabepari ikisaidia kupambana na umaskini wa walio wengi.

Tangu mageuzi hayo ya kukumbatia mifumo miwili ndani ya nchi moja yaasisiwe mwaka 1978, China imepiga hatua kubwa katika maendeleo ya uchumi. Mwaka jana, pato la nchi hiyo lilikuwa Yuan trilioni 30.07 ambazo ni sawa na dola za Marekani trilioni 4.287, ikiwa na ongezeko la uchumi la asilimia 9.3.

Mageuzi hayo, yaliletwa na Den Xiao Ping, ambaye alibadilisha mfumo wa Kikomunisti uliokuwa umeitenga China ya Mao Tse Dong na ulimwengu wa nje.

Baada ya mabadiliko hayo, uchumi wa China umekuwa ukikua kwa kasi ya ajabu, kiasi cha kuwa tishio kwa mataifa makubwa kiuchumi kama vile Marekani na Japan.

Katika kijitabu cha CCM cha Mwelekeo wa Sera za CCM katika Miaka ya 2010 hadi 2020, CCM inataja malengo makuu ya mwelekeo huo ambayo yana mambo kama sita hivi.

Baadhi ya mambo hayo ni pamoja na kupambana kikamilifu na suala la uchumi duni na tegemezi, kwa kujenga msingi wa uchumi wa kisasa wa Taifa linalojitegemea, na unaozingatia matumizi ya kiwango cha juu cha maarifa yatokanayo na sayansi na teknolojia.

Ili kuweza kufanikisha jambo hilo, chama kinaziagiza Serikali zake kujipanga kuwawezesha wananchi kiuchumi, kwa kuwapa elimu ya kisasa itakayowawezesha kufanikisha Mapinduzi katika Kilimo na Ujasiriamali.

Chama hicho kinasema ili mkakati wa kujenga msingi wa uchumi wa kisasa wa Taifa linalojitegema, ni lazima itolewe elimu ya kisasa. Na kwa msingi huo, Chama kinaziagiza Serikali zake mbili; Serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano na Serikali ya Mapinduzi Zanzibar, kuchungulia upya katika mitaala yake na kuifumua ili kuweza kukumbatia sayansi na teknolojia tangu ngazi ya awali ya mfumo wa elimu.

“Kwa vile uchumi wa kisasa unahitaji watenda kazi wenye ujuzi na maarifa ya sayansi na teknolojia, ni lazima (watenda kazi hao) waandaliwe kwa kupewa elimu bora na ya kisasa,” inasema sehemu ya kijitabu hicho cha Mwelekeo wa CCM.

Aidha, chama hicho kinasema bila matumizi ya elimu ya sayansi na teknolojia, nchi haiwezi kuondokana na uchumi ulio nyuma na tegemezi.

“Kwa hiyo, lazima yafanyike marekebisho katika mitaala ili mafunzo yanayotolewa yapate mwelekeo wa sayansi na teknolojia. Serikali itatilia mkazo uwekezaji wa raslimali katika utafiti na kuufanya utafiti kuwa agenda ya kitaifa kwa kutenga asilimia moja (1%) ya pato ghafi la Taifa, kwa ajili ya utafiti na maendeleo,” inasema sehemu ya kijitabu hicho na kuongeza kuwa lazima Serikali isimamie taratibu za uhawilishaji wa teknolojia na utoaji hakimiliki kwa watafiti na wagunduzi.”

Kwa ujumla, mwelekeo huu unaonyesha dhamira ya CCM katika uwezeshaji wa wananchi mmoja mmoja na katika vikundi.

CCM inasema: “Mkakati mkuu wa uwezeshaji wa kiuchumi wa wananchi, ni ule unaohakikisha kwamba wananchi wenyewe wanamiliki na kuendesha uchumi wa nchi yetu ama mmoja mmoja kwa kupitia vyama vyao huru vya ushirika au kwa kupitia kampuni za wananchi ya ubia.

“Wakati huo huo, Watanzania wenye vipaji wataandaliwa katika fani za uongozi wa uchumi na kuwasaidia watu ambao wako tayari kuthubutu kuchukua hatua za kiuchumi. Kuthubutu kiuchumi, ndiyo chimbuko la msukumo katika uchumi wa kisasa.”

Moja ya mambo ambayo yamekuwa yakimhangaisha Rais Jakaya Kikwete tangu alipokuwa akinadi Ilani ya CCM ya mwaka 2005, ilikuwa ni tatizo la uwezeshaji wa watu wenye uwezo wa kuthubutu. Amerudia kusema mara kadhaa na amerudia tena kwenye mkutano mkuu uliomalizika Dodoma, kwamba benki za biashara si rafiki wa masikini.

Kwa maneno mengine, Mwelekeo huuu wa sasa wa CCM umekuja na majawabu juu ya dukuduku la muda mrefu la Rais Kikwete, la kutafuta uwezeshaji wa watu wenye nia ya kuthubutu kufanya mambo makubwa.

Kwa mujibu wa CCM, kwa mtazamo mpana wa Sera ya Uwezeshaji Kiuchumi, aina ya kwanza ya uwezeshaji ni ile ya mtu mwenyewe kujiwezesha. Yaani mtu anajiwezesha pale anapotambua vipaji alivyonavyo na anaamua kujituma kwa kuvitumia vipaji hivyo.

“Kwa ujumla, elimu yetu hadi hivi sasa imeegemea kwenye kuelimisha watu ili waajiriwe au watumwe. Lazima sasa elimu tunayoitoa kwa vijana wetu ijielekeze kwenye kuandaa watu wenye kujituma. Wanaojiajiri ni watu wanaojituma.

“Kuna vijana wengi wanaomaliza masomo ya sekondari, ya vyuo na hata vyuo vikuu, lakini hawapati kuajiriwa kwa sababu uchumi haupanuki kwa haraka kiasi. Hivyo jambo jema la nchi kuwa na watu wengi, vijana wengi waliosoma vizuri, sasa limeanza kuwa tatizo kwa nchi

“Kuwa na vijana wengi waliosoma, ni nguvu kubwa kwa Taifa. Ili Taifa liweze kuitumia nguvu hiyo kwa maslahi ya vijana wenyewe na kwa maendeleo ya kiuchumi na jamii ya nchi yetu, CCM itazitaka Serikali kuibua Mpango Kabambe wa kuwawezesha kiuchumi vijana wasomi walio tayari kujituma kwa kujiajiri ili watumie nguvu na maarifa waliyonayo,” CCM inaagiza.

Je; ni mpango gani umeandaliwa kwa vijana hawa? Chama hicho kinasema kwamba Serikali italazimika kuwapa mafunzo ya ujasiriamali na yanayohusu shughuli wanazokusudia kuzifanya, lakini pia Serikali iweke utaratibu mwepesi wa kupata mikopo nafuu.

Chama hicho kinasema wale wote watakaokuwa na nia ya kushiriki katika mpango huo, washauriwe kuunda chombo chao cha kushauriana.

“Utaratibu wa aina hii, wa kuwawezesha wasomi na wataalamu kujiajiri, una manufaa mawili kwa Taifa. Kwanza, unatoa ajira ya uhakika kwa wahusika na hivyo kuipunguzia nchi tatizo la watu kukosa ajira na madhara yake, na pili; unawezesha wasomi kutoa mchango chanya katika kujenga uchumi wa kisasa na kuongeza utajiri wa nchi,” inasomeka sehemu ya kijitabu hicho.

Chini ya utaratibu wa kuwawezesha wasomi, wajasiriamali, wafanyabiashara wa kati na wa juu, CCM inaziagiza Serikali zake kuandaa mkakati wa kibenki ambao utawezesha upatikanaji wa mikopo kwa makundi yote hayo.

“Benki nyingi tulizonazo sasa kwa aina ya shughuli zao, ni benki za kibiashara zaidi kuliko zile za kuendeleza sekta za uzalishaji mali, hususan kilimo. Aidha, hutoza riba kubwa. Hivyo ni muhimu Serikali ikahakikisha kuwa kwa makusudi, vinaanzishwa vyombo vya fedha ambavyo vitasaidia kuwawezesha wananchi kwa riba nafuu kuliko ilivyo sasa, ikilenga uanzishwaji wa Benki ya Kilimo, Benki ya Kuendeleza Viwanda na Benki ya kutoa mikopo ya muda mrefu ya ujenzi wa nyumba,” inaagizwa.

WAGOMBEA MCHINGA WATUHUMIANA UCHAWI

2010-07-26T07:42:00.000-07:00

Imeandikwa na Rashidi Mtagaruka, Lindi; Tarehe: 25th July 2010 Habari Leo

KAMPENI za kuwania uteuzi wa kugombea ubunge ndani ya Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) jimbo la Mchinga lililopo Lindi Vijijini, mkoani Lindi, zimeingia sura mpya baada ya mgombea mmoja kumtuhumu mwenzake kuwa mchawi.

Tukio hili lililoshuhudiwa na mwandishi wa habari hizi, lilitokea juzi saa tatu na nusu asubuhi katika ofisi za CCM mjini hapa, lilimhusisha Mbunge anayetetea nafasi yake, Mudhihir Mudhihir ambaye alimuomba Mwenyekiti wa CCM Wilaya, Muhamed Gwaja kuwaondoa watu watatu wanaofuatana na mgombea mwenzake, Saidi Mtanda.

“Mheshimiwa Mwenyekiti, sina imani na watu walio ndani ya gari ya Mtanda, kwa maana ni wachawi,” alisikika akisema Mudhihir.

Hata hivyo Mtanda ambaye katika kampeni hizo zilizoanza Julai 22 mwaka huu, katika kata za Kiwawa na Milola alikuwa akitumia gari lake binafsi, alipinga pendekezo hilo kwa madai linapingana na kanuni za uchaguzi.

“Mwenyekiti kabla ya kukubaliana naye, kwanza atoe ushahidi wa kauli yake, maana Kanuni za uchaguzi hazijasema mahala popote kwamba mgombea haruhusiwi kuongozana na ndugu zake wakati wa kampeni,” alisema mgombea huyo ambaye ni msaidizi wa Katiku Mkuu wa CCM, Yusuf Makamba. Mtanda aliongeza kuwa:

”Lakini pia kama Mudhihir mwenyewe si mchawi aliwezaje kuwabaini ndugu zangu katika msafara huo kuwa ni wachawi?”

Baada ya mabishano ya muda mrefu, Mtanda alitumia busara ya kuepusha mzozo huo ambao ulionekana kutaka kuathiri msafara wao uliokuwa ukielekea kata za Rutamba na Nangaru.

Akizungumza na gazeti hili baada ya ndugu hao watatu wa Mtanda kushushwa, Mkurugenzi wa Uchaguzi wilayani humo, Mohammed Nyama alisema haoni sababu ya kushushwa kwa watu hao. “Mudhihir hakupaswa kuwa na wasiwasi kiasi hicho, maana nchi yetu haiamini masuala ya uchawi.

Ninachoshukuru ni kuwa busara zimetumika kuepusha shari katika kampeni,” alisema. Uchunguzi uliofanywa na mwandishi wa habari hizi anayefuatilia kampeni hizo, baadhi ya wagombea wamekuwa wakipata wakati mgumu kuwashawishi wanachama wa CCM wa jimbo la Mchinga.

Jimbo la Mchinga kwa miaka 15 sasa limekuwa chini ya Mudhihir ambao katika uchaguzi wa mwaka huu wamejitokeza wanachama wengine watano wanaoomba kuteuliwa kuiwakilisha CCM katika jimbo hilo. Mbali ya Mudhihir na Mtanda, wengine ni Mayasa Mikidadi, Khalfan Ng’uto, Said Farahani na mgombea aliyetambuliwa kwa jina moja la Mpwatile.

MGOMBEA AKUTWA NA MGUU WA MTU MAKONGOROSI, CHUNYA, TANZANIA

2010-07-26T07:37:00.000-07:00

Mgombea akutwa na mguu wa mtu Mbeya
*Ni wa Chadema aliuficha uani, akamatwa

Na Maregesi Paul

MGOMBEA ubunge wa Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA), katika Jimbo Jipya la Makongorosi lililoko Wilaya ya Chunya, Mkoa wa Mbeya, George Mtasha (50), amekamatwa na Jeshi la Polisi Mkoa wa Mbeya baada ya kukutwa na mguu wa mtu.

Katika tukio hilo, Mtasha ambaye pia ni mwenyekiti mstaafu wa chama hicho Mkoa wa Mbeya, amekamatwa na mwenzake aliyefahamika kwa jina la Paul Mnyambwa (43).

Kamanda wa Polisi Mkoa wa Mbeya, Adcocate Nyombi, aliiambia MTANZANIA kwa njia ya simu jana kuwa, Mtasha na Mnyambwa walikamatwa jana saa 12.50 alfajiri baada ya polisi kupata taarifa kutoka kwa raia mwema, kwamba watu hao wanamiliki mguu wa mtu.
“Ni kweli kuna watu wawili wakazi Bwawani, Makongorosi Chunya ambao wote ni wafanyabiashara wa madini ya dhahabu, tunawashikilia hapa. Kabla ya kuwatia mbaroni, awali tulipata taarifa kutoka kwa raia wema ambao walitwambia kwamba, watu hao wanamiliki mguu wa mtu kitendo ambacho ni kinyume cha sheria.

“Tulipopata taarifa hizo, vijana wetu kutoka hapa mkoani, walikwenda huko na kufanya upekuzi katika nyumba ya Mtasha ambapo walikuta mguu wa kushoto ukiwa umefukiwa kwenye takataka ndani ya ua wa nyumba yake. Kwa hiyo, hivi tunavyozungumza watuhumiwa wote wameshafikishwa hapa mkoani, tunaendelea kuwahoji ili tujue ni kwa nini wanamiliki mguu huo na wameutoa wapi,” alisema Kamanda Nyombi.

Kwa mujibu wa Kamanda huyo wa polisi, mguu huo ni wa kushoto na ni kipande kilichoanzia gotini hadi kwenye nyayo.

Akizungumzia tukio hilo, Mwenyekiti wa Chadema Mkoa wa Mbeya, Shambwee Shitambala, alisema kukamatwa kwa Mtasha ni pigo kwa chama hicho kwa kuwa alikuwa ameahidi kukisaidia chama wakati wa uchaguzi mkuu.

“Taarifa za kukamatwa kwa Mtasha ninazo ila inaonekana kuna mazingira ya kisiasa kwa sababu ni juzi tu amerudisha fomu za kugombea ubunge katika Jimbo la Makongorosi. Katika tukio hili nasikia mtoa taarifa alimpigia simu RPC badala ya OCD wa Chunya, kisha askari polisi wakatoka Mbeya Mjini kuja kuwakamata watuhumiwa Chunya wakati hata hapo Chunya kuna polisi,” alisema Shitambala ambaye kitaaluma ni mwanasheria.

Mtasha amekuwa Mwenyekiti wa Chadema tangu chama hicho kilipoanza kujulikana mkoani Mbeya miaka mingi iliyopita. Aliondolewa katika wadhifa huo Machi mwaka huu baada ya kushindwa katika uchaguzi uliomweka madarakani, Sambwee Shitambala.

UCHAGUZI CCM (TANZANIA) SI SHWARI

2010-07-26T07:27:00.000-07:00

Imeandikwa na Martha Mtangoo, Dodoma; Tarehe: 25th July 2010 Habari Leo

WAKATI kukiwa na taarifa za kusimamishwa kwa Makatibu wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) katika baadhi ya wilaya nchini kutokana na kile kinachodaiwa kuegemea upande fulani wa wagombea na hata kujihusisha katika utoaji wa rushwa, Katibu Mkuu wa chama hicho, Yusuf Makamba amekuja juu na kusema hatambui jambo hilo.

Taarifa za kusimamishwa kwa makatibu hao zimekuja kutoka katika majimbo matatu ya Dodoma Mjini ambako Katibu wa CCM wilayani, David Mzuri ametajwa kusimamishwa kama ilivyo kwa Katibu wa Wilaya ya Bukombe, Mberito Magova na msaidizi wake, Novatus Kibati.

Hata hivyo, akizungumzia suala hilo jana Makamba alielezea kushangazwa kwake na taarifa za kusimamishwa kwa makatibu hao, akisema yeye kama mtendaji mkuu wa chama, atakuwa kichaa kama ataamua kuwafukuza Makatibu wa CCM wakati huu wa uchaguzi.

Alisema kuwa kinachofanywa sasa na chama chake ni kuimarisha usimamizi wakati wa uchaguzi wa kura za maoni.

“Ninyi mnazipata wapi habari za kuwa tunafukuza Makatibu wa CCM, mimi ndiye Katibu Mkuu wa chama hatuna sababu za kuanza kufukuzana, tunachofanya ni kuimarisha usimamizi wa zoezi hili, mfano Mikumi imekuwa wilaya mpya ambayo haina Katibu, sasa nikaona badala ya kumpeleka Msaidizi wa Mkuu wa Mkoa, nikaamua kumpeleka Nduta, na hata mzee Mzuri tumempeleka kusimamia Gairo,” alisema.

Lakini taarifa za awali ambazo gazeti hili ilizipata kupitia Mwandishi Martha Mtangoo aliyeko mjini Dodoma zinasema kwamba, tuhuma nzito za rushwa na upendeleo kwa baadhi ya wanachama wa CCM wanaowania kuteuliwa kugombea ubunge katika jimbo la Dodoma Mjini, zimemtia matatani Katibu wa Wilaya wa Chama hicho, David Mzuri na kwamba amesimamishwa kazi kuanzia jana.

Mzuri aliyekuwa pia Mkurugenzi wa Uchaguzi wa Wilaya hiyo kwa CCM, ametajwa kufikwa na balaa hilo akituhumiwa ‘kumbeba’ waziwazi mmoja wa wagombea 18 wa jimbo hilo, Alhaji Adam Kimbisa.

Kimbisa, Meya wa Jiji la Dar es Salaam, ambaye pia ni Katibu wa Chama cha Msalaba Mwekundu Tanzania, ameibukia Dodoma Mjini kuusaka ubunge, dhamira ambayo haikuwa inafahamika na wengi mpaka alipochukua fomu.

Kusimamishwa kwa Mzuri kulithibitishwa jana na Katibu wa CCM wa Mkoa wa Dodoma, John Barongo, aliyesema baada ya kupokea malalamiko mengi juu ya Katibu wake wa Wilaya akihusishwa `kumbeba’ Kimbisa, uongozi wa Mkoa umeamua kumsimamisha kazi.

Alisisitiza, kusimamishwa kwake kutasaidia kufanyika kwa uchunguzi juu ya tuhuma hizo na kama itathibitika alitenda makosa ya kumsaidia Kimbisa, atafukuzwa.

Mzuri mwenyewe alipotakiwa kuzungumzia suala hilo, hakuwa tayari kwani aliwakimbia waandishi kwa kutumia gari binafsi.

Kabla ya uamuzi wa jana, mgombea huyo alikuwa anatuhumiwa yeye na familia yake kuwa walikuwa wakimpigia debe mmoja wa wagombea wenzake na hata kutoa rushwa.

Na baadaye haikuwa siri tena, kwani karibu wagombea wote walimtaja Kimbisa kuwa ndiye ‘anayebebwa’ na Katibu aliyesimamishwa.

Kimbisa alidai, anapikiwa majungu ya kisiasa kwa kuwa yeye ni tishio zaidi miongoni mwa wana-CCM waliojitokeza kuwania ubunge Dodoma Mjini.

Alikwenda mbali zaidi na kumtaja Haidary Gulamali ambaye pia ni mgombea kuwa ndiye anayeongoza timu ya kumchafua kisiasa na kwamba hakuna rushwa yoyote anayoitoa kwa wananchi kwenye mchakato huo.

“Hizi ni hisia za kisiasa tu ambazo zinasababishwa na baadhi ya watu ambao wananiogopa na kuna watu ambao wameitwa na Gulamali, ili kunichafua kisiasa, lakini haya si ya kweli,” alisema Kimbisa.

Kwa upande wake, Gulamali alisema akiwa Katibu wa Mkoa wa Uchumi na Fedha, alitumia cheo chake kufikisha ujumbe wa wagombea wengine waliotaka haki na usawa iwepo katika mchakato unaoendelea wa kuwania kuteuliwa na CCM.

“Kilichotokea, ni kwamba nilielezea tukio ambalo lilitokea ili kuhakikisha kuwa haki inatendeka, simwogopi mgombea yeyote na nipo tayari kuyakubali matokeo ambayo yatatolewa na wananchi,” alisema Gulamali.

Kamanda wa Taasisi ya Kuzuia na Kupambana na Rushwa (TAKUKURU) mkoani hapa, Eunice Mmari, alisema taasisi yake ina taarifa juu ya malalamiko hayo na kuwa bado iko katika uchunguzi.

Kutoka Bukombe mkoani Shinyanga, Raymond Mihayo anaripoti kuwa, wanachama 16 kati ya 18 wanaowania kuteuliwa kugombea ubunge kwa tiketi ya CCM katika majimbo ya Bukombe na Mbogwe mkoani Shinyanga, juzi na jana walisusia kufanya kampeni zao kwa madai kuwa, uongozi wa chama hicho wilayani Bukombe ulikuwa unawakumbatia baadhi ya wagombea.

Kutokana na hali hiyo, uongozi wa CCM mkoani humo umechukua hatua ya kuwasimamisha kazi Katibu wa CCM Wilaya ya Bukombe, Mberito Magova na msaidizi wake, Novatus Kibati.

Habari zilizopatikana jana kutoka wilayani humo na kuthibitishwa na Katibu wa CCM mkoani Shinyanga, Mohammed Mbonde.
Alisema kwamba, wagombea hao waliandika barua za kujiuzulu kutokana na kuwapo kwa dalili za upendeleo kwa baadhi ya wagombea.

Tayari nafasi ya Magova ya kusimamia jimbo la Bukombe imechukuliwa na Katibu wa Umoja wa Vijana wa CCM (UVCCM) wilayani humo, Mathias Mbogo wakati katika jimbo la Mbogwe, nafasi ya Kibati imezibwa na Mjumbe wa Kamati ya Siasa ya Wilaya, Mgohoma Mgohoma.

Mchakato wa kampeni za ndani ya chama kupata wagombea wa udiwani na ubunge katika majimbo na kata mbalimbali nchini leo unaingia katika siku ya nne kati ya kumi zilizopongwa na chama hicho tawala.

Katika hatua nyingine, wagombea wawili wa udiwani kupitia Viti Maalumu ndani ya CCM, jana waliripotiwa kupoteza fahamu kutokana na kile kinachodaiwa kupata mshituko baada ya kuambulia kura sifuri licha ya wao wenyewe kujipigia kura katika mchakato wa udiwani katika Kata ya Hombolo.

Wagombea hao waliotajwa kuwa ni Alice Kitendya na Rosemary Kaka waliokuwa wanachuana na wengine saba, wameripotiwa kulazwa katika wadi namba 9 katika Hospitali ya Mkoa wa Dodoma. Kufikia jana jioni, walikuwa hawajarejewa na fahamu.

NAPE NNAUYE ACHEZEWA RAFU UBUNGO DSM

2010-07-25T04:49:00.000-07:00

Imeandikwa na Angela Semaya; Tarehe: 24th July 2010 "Habari Leo", Tanzania.

MWANACHAMA wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Nape Nnauye, anayeomba ridhaa ya kugombea Jimbo la Ubungo amelia kuchezewa rafu katika kampeni za kura za maoni zinazoendelea Dar es Salaam.

Nnauye akiwa kati ya wagombea 13 wa CCM waliopanda jukwaani kunadi sera zao kwa ajili ya kuomba kura kwa wanachama jana, alilalamika kuchezewa rafu baada ya kunyimwa nafasi ya kujibu maswali aliyoulizwa na wanachama waliotoka eneo la Tupendane na Kilimani kata ya Manzese waliokuwa wamekusanyika katika uwanja wa Kilimani.

Mara baada ya Nnauye kujinadi mbele ya wanachama, Mwenyekiti wa Kampeni, Thadeus Kiwenge, alihoji iwapo kuna mwenye swali wakajitokeza watu wawili ambao waliuliza maswali ambayo hata hivyo, Mwenyekiti huyo alidai hayakuwa ya msingi na kusababisha mtafaruku.

Muuliza swali wa kwanza alisema amesikia kuwa mgombea huyo ni mkorofi na ‘alikivua nguo’ chama hadharani, wakati muuliza swali wa pili alisema wamesikia mtaani kwamba hata wanachama wakilipigia kura jina lake haliwezi kurudi.

Kiwenge alisema hayo hayakuwa maswali ya msingi hivyo yasijibiwe na mgombea licha ya yeye Nnauye kutaka apewe nafasi ya kujibu huku wananchi nao wakishinikiza apewe nafasi hiyo, lakini akakataliwa.

Nnauye aliyeonekana kukerwa na kuzuiwa kujibu maswali hayo, ghafla alishuka jukwaani huku akirusha mikono na kulalamika na baadaye kuonekana akitulizwa na mgombea mwenzake, Hawa Ng’humbi.

“Hapana haiwezekani, hali hii tangu jana kuna watu wanapangwa kuniuliza maswali, halafu hawataki kunipa nafasi ya kujibu … nitapigania haki yangu hadi mwisho,” alisikika akisema.

Katika hali ya kuonekana kuchanganyikiwa, Nnauye aliondoka na gari lake kwenye mkutano na kisha kurudi baada ya muda, wakati wagombea wote wakiwa wamemaliza kujinadi.

Akizungumza na waandishi nje ya uwanja kutokana na tukio hilo, Nnauye alisema hali ilivyo ni dhahiri kuna mgombea amepangwa kwa alichodai ni kupewa muda mfupi wa kujieleza tofauti na wagombea wengine na kunyimwa haki ya kujibu maswali aliyoulizwa.

“Nina hakika nitashinda, mimi ni mwanachama halali. Nitadai haki yangu hadi mwisho … nitakachofanya ni kupeleka malalamiko yangu sehemu husika,” alisema.

Awali akijinadi, Nnauye alisema inahitajika damu mpya na kamanda atakayekuwa na nguvu ya kupambana na wapinzani, hasa katika jimbo hilo lenye upinzani mkali na kwamba yeye anaweza kupambana.

Ng’humbi alijikuta naye akiulizwa swali linaloshabihiana na la Nnauye na muuliza swali yule yule, hata hivyo yeye alipewa nafasi ya kulijibu na Mwenyekiti wa Kampeni.

Muuliza swali alimwambia Ng’humbi kwamba alikuwa meneja wa kampeni za Mbunge wa sasa, Charles Keenja ambaye inadaiwa hakurudi kwa wananchi kwa miaka yote akiwa mbunge na kuhoji ni namna gani mgombea huyo atawashawishi waweze kumwamini kumpa nafasi hiyo.

Ng’humbi ambaye alionekana kujibu kwa ujasiri, alisema alipewa jukumu na chama la kuwa meneja, lakini wenye mamlaka ya kuchagua mbunge walikuwa wao wananchi.

“Jamani mimi nilipewa jukumu la chama nikafanya, nikamleta kwenu. Lakini waliopiga kura kumchagua si ninyi au? Kama

hakurudi miye si kazi yangu, maana baada ya hapo niliondoka zangu baada ya kupewa kazi ya ukuu wa wilaya katika

maeneo niliyowatajia,” alisema.

Waziri wa Maliasili na Utalii, Shamsa Mwangunga ambaye pia anaomba ridhaa ya CCM kugombea Ubungo, alitoa mpya baada ya kumaliza kujinadi na kisha kukiamkia Chama Cha Mapinduzi, shikamoo.

Mwangunga akijinadi alisema amekuwa na mchango mkubwa wa kuhamasisha na kuwezesha wanawake kuingia bungeni kwa kile alichoeleza kuwa ni mzoefu wa masuala ya wanawake, serikalini na bungeni. “Mimi si mshamba bungeni. Nina uchungu na kwetu Ubungo.

Niko jikoni, mkinipa nafasi naweza kuwatetea. Mimi ni mchapakazi hodari.

Rais Kikwete alisema wanawake hawajamwangusha na mimi ni sehemu ya wanawake hao,” alisema. Wagombea wengine waliojinadi ni Zangina Shanang Zaninga, Assumpta Nalitolela, Alfred Nchimbi, Kanali Gaspar Hiza, Peter Msuya, Dk. Apollo Kissai, Eliona Nkya, Slastaus Mwisomba, Perpetua Haule na Michael Lupiana.

Wakati huo huo, wagombea katika jimbo la Kinondoni nao walipita kuomba kura katika kata mbalimbali zilizopo katika wilaya ya Kinondoni.

Akijinadi katika Kata ya Makumbusho, mgombea mwenye umri wa miaka 23 na mwanafunzi wa Chuo Kikuu cha Tumaini, McDonald Runilinyilija alijifananisha na Mtume Muhammad na Bwana Yesu kwa kile alichosema walitumikia wananchi katika umri mdogo.

Runilinyilija alisema bungeni hakuna umri na kwamba akipewa nafasi anaweza kuwatumikia wananchi wa Kinondoni. Alisema, “chako ni chako tu hata kikiwa kizani utakiona, nipeni kura zenu.”

Iddi Azzan ambaye anatetea kiti chake, aliomba wanachama wampe tena kura za ndiyo ili arudi bungeni miaka mitano mingine kufanya kazi kwa kile alichoeleza miaka mitano iliyopita ilikuwa ya kujifunza.

Mgombea pekee mwanamke katika jimbo la Kinondoni, Shy-rose Bhanji, alisema sifa yake kubwa ni ya kutokata tamaa na kuwaomba wanachama wamwamini, wampe kura ili aweze kuwatumikia.

Wagombea wengine waliojinadi kuomba ridhaa Kinondoni ni Bakari Maige, Kakolwa Mbano, Mkuruma Muniwori, Mustafa Nuru, Mpoki Mwambulukutu na Issa Mohammed Issa.

WALIOMUUWA PROFESA JWANI MWAIKUSA SI MAJAMBAZI !!???!!

2010-07-19T00:50:00.001-07:00

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MTOTO wa Profesa jwan Mwaikusa ambaye aliuawa kwa kupigwa risasi akiwa nje ya nyumba yake, amesema hahusishi mauaji hayo na ujambazi kwa kuwa waliotoa maisha ya baba yake hawakupora chochote.

Profesa Mwaikusa, ambaye atazikwa kesho nyumbani kwake Tegeta Salasala, aliuawa usiku mara baada ya kurejea nyumbani kwake wakati watu wasiojulikana walipomvamia kwenye gari na kumtaka ashuke na baadaye kumfyatulia risasi mbili.

Kabla ya kumuua mwanazuoni huyo, watu hao walimuua mpwa wake, Gwamaka mMwakilasa kwa kumpiga risasi mbili mgongoni na baada ya kumuua Prof Mwaikusa walikwenda nyumba jirani na kumuua mfanyabiashara, John Mtuikifuani na kutoweka.

Baada ya kumfyatulia risasi, watu hao wameripotiwa kuwa walimburuzia profesa huyo nje ya gari na kumkanyaga kwa miguu wakati wakimsogeza ili wapekue vitu ambavyo walikuwa wakivitaka.

Akizungumzia mauaji hayo ya baba yake, Baraka alisema ni vigumu kuhusisha mauaji hayo na wizi wa kawaida au ujambazi kwa kuwa majambazi wangeweza kuchukua gari na vitu vingine vilivyokuwa ndani ya gari la marehemu.

"Sioni kama tukio hili ni wizi au ujambazi kwa sababu hawajaiba kitu chochote ingawa walikuwa na uwezo wa kuiba kila kitu walichokitaka. Gari halikuwa na tatizo lolote.

"Kama wangekuwa majambazi, wasingekuja kwa miguu, lazima wangekuwa na usafiri wa kueleweka na lazima kungekuwa na wenzao nje, lakini wao walikuwa wawili tu tena ni vijana ambao wanaweza kuwa na umri kama wangu," alieleza Baraka.

Kwa mujibu wa Baraka baadhi ya watu waliofika kwenye msiba huo walieleza kuwa eneo hilo limekithiri vitendo vya kupora na watu kadhaa wamekuwa wakivamiwa na kuporwa vitu mbalimbali.

Kwa masikitiko, Baraka alisema Profesa Mwaikusa hakustahili kukatishwa maisha yake kikatili kiasi hicho na kusisitiza kuwa huo hauwezi kuwa ujambazi tu.

"Nilimuona mmoja wa majambazi na kwa sura nitamfahamu. Alikuwa mwembamba na kichwani alikuwa na nywele nyingi. Baba ameuawa kama jambazi, kifo hiki kimenisikitisha sana kwa kweli siwezi kusahau maishani," alisema kwa uchungu.

Baraka pia alisema kuwa mwanazuoni huyo, ambaye pia alikuwa wakili, atazikwa kesho nyumbani kwake Tegeta Salasala jijini Dar es Salaam na kwamba ratiba ya mazishi itatolewa leo baada ya vikao vya wanandugu.
Alisema kuwa familia ya marehemu imeamua kumzika Profesa Mwaikusa nyumbani kwake kwa kuwa kabla ya kufikwa na mauti, alitaka azikwe katika nyumba yake hiyo.

"Kabla ya kifo chake baba aliwahi kutuambia kuwa akifa azikwe hapa nyumbani. Uzuri ni kwamba maneno hayo hakutuambia sisi tu, alikuwa akiwaeleza na ndugu zetu wengine," alisema Baraka.

"Baba alikuwa na nyumba nyingi, lakini aliwahi kusisitiza kuwa akistaafu atakuwa anaishi hapa na akifa azikwe hapahapa nyumbani kwake."

Awali kabla ya kupangwa siku ya mazishi, taarifa zilieleza kuwa baadhi ya ndugu wa marehemu walitaka marehemu akazikwe Mbeya, lakini mke wake na watoto, walishinikiza azikwe Dar es Salaam.

"Hili jambo tumeshalimaliza; hayo ni mambo ya kawaida ambayo hutokea msibani, lakini tulivyowaeleza ndugu zetu juu ya kauli alizozitoa baba, mambo yote yakaenda sawa. Kwa hiyo baba yetu mpendwa tutamzika hapa nyumbani," alisema Baraka.

NADHARIA YA KUUWAWA KWA PROFESA JWANI MWAIKUSA WA TANZANIA

2010-07-19T00:05:00.000-07:00

IMEINGIZWA HUMU 19/7/2010.

Law Professor Jwani Mwaikusa: Martyr for truth at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)?
Posted By Mary On July 17, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

Introduction

On the morning of July 15, I spoke to William Mitchell Law Professor and international criminal defense attorney Peter Erlinder about the grisly assassination of Democratic Green Party of Rwanda Vice President Andre Kagwa Kwisereka. Kwisereka was found beheaded, with a machete left nearby, near Butare, Rwanda, on July 13, 26 days after Professor Erlinder’s release in Rwanda, where Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime had arrested and incarcerated him for three weeks. Erlinder had traveled to Rwanda to defend Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Rwanda’s FDU-Inkingi party leader and presidential candidate, only to be arrested and accused of “genocide ideology,” which means disagreeing with Rwanda’s official history of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and/or with the regime of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Professor Jwani Mwaikusa headed the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Dar Es Salaam.
When I told Professor Erlinder about Andre Kagwa Kwisereka’s assassination, he said, “Yes, and an ICTR [International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda] defense attorney, Professor Jwani Mwaikusa, was just assassinated, too, in Dar es Salaam.”
He also said:
“No one knows for sure whether he was assassinated by Rwandan Patriotic Front operatives, but we do know that lawyers put themselves in danger by defending people whom the RPF have identified as their enemies.”
Professor Erlinder put himself in great danger by traveling to Rwanda, and says that he would have been “disappeared” had he not sat down, started hollering, demanded to speak to the U.S. Embassy, and made the sort of scene that white Americans feel empowered to make, in the Kigali hotel where he had been arrested. Professor Mwaikusa, however, put himself in far more danger and paid the ultimate final price, along with a nephew and neighbor who attempted to come to his defense.

Law Professors Peter Erlinder and Jwani Mwaikusa both served as defense attorneys for the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR).
Professor Erlinder and Professor Mwaikusa were both towering, world renowned legal scholars, teachers and human rights defenders, but Professor Erlinder was an American who survived, Professor Mukwaisa an African who paid with his life. His assassins no doubt knew that, though their stature and accomplishments were similar, the international outcry and consequence would not compare.
As U.S. citizens, we are complicit in Professor Mwaikusa’s death because President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is the highest per capita recipient of U.S. aid in Africa.
Thanks to Professor Charles Kambanda for sharing his thoughts on Professor Mwaikusa and his legacy. – Ann Garrison

Professor Jwani Mwaikusa: Martyr for truth
by Charles Kambanda
The identity, motive and/or sponsors of Professor Jwani Mwaikusa’s assassins, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, may remain “unknown,” meaning “unproven,” for some time, but Professor Mwaikusa’s friends and colleagues know that whoever was responsible deprived the legal fraternity and the entire human race of an irreplaceable, independent and incorruptible mind.
We will remember his extensive knowledge of philosophy and law, his both Cartesian and naturalist legal theory, his deep humanity, his great sense of humor and his courageous, landmark work at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR). Professor Mwaikusa contributed much of his valuable time to defending the accused at the ICTR. His concise and precise objections to any inadmissible evidence or testimony was his unique contribution. The quality of his research in preparation for his court appearances will also remain an ICTR landmark.
In order to defend his clients, Professor Jwani Mwaikusa, a Tanzanian by birth, inquired into Rwanda’s social and political environment prior, during and after the 1994 genocide. His findings led him to a crucial conclusion that “both parties to the Rwandan Civil War within which the 1994 genocide surfaced committed international crimes.” This conclusion, which he referred to as “the bitter truth,” deeply angered Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his top Rwandan Patriotic Front officers and officials, and they have thus, inevitably, become suspect in his death.

Professor Jwani Mwaikusa was renowned far beyond the borders of his native Tanzania. Here he consults with the law faculty at the University of Cape Town.
Professor Mwaikusa often argued that by not prosecuting Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A) senior officers who allegedly committed crimes, the ICTR was acting in contravention of its own founding treaty. He insisted that there is overwhelming evidence, collected by private investigator and former ICTR Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte for RPF/A senior officers to be prosecuted by the ICTR before the court closes. He did not mince words about the Kagame regime’s political meddling into the International Court’s affairs and administration of justice in particular, and warned that the ICTR risks leaving a legacy of “victor over vanquished” justice. The liberty with which the Rwandan regime exerted pressure on the ICTR meant, in his view, that international justice was being replaced by international politics and diplomacy.

When Kagame’s government jailed Professor Peter Erlinder, Professor Jwani Mwaikusa spoke out. He condemned the move and said that it was a “strategy” to deprive the ICTR of independent defense attorneys. Professor Mwaikusa worried that it would be a matter of time before he too would be in a Rwandan jail for the same reason. Now we can only speculate as to whether he had any premonition that his own fate would be even more harsh and final, or that a nephew and a neighbor would both die attempting to come to his defense.
In a landmark case at the ICTR in which the Kigali regime and the prosecutor at the ICTR sought to transfer some of the ICTR’s cases to Rwanda, Professor Jwani Mwaikusa convinced the court that the defendants had no chance of a fair trial in Rwanda. He also successfully argued that the regime in Rwanda lacked the moral authority to try its former political rivals because there is too much evidence that leaders in the Kigali regime are guilty of the same crimes.

University of Dar es Salaam Law Professor Jwani Mwaikusa was assassinated in Dar es Salaam on July 14. He taught constitutional development and practice, human rights, including community rights, democratic governance, land rights and environmental law. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is headquarted in Arusha, Tanzania. - Photo: U.S. State Department
Professor Jwani Mwaikusa accused the Kagame regime of twisting the terms of the U.N. resolution that instituted the ICTR. He argued that the U.N. Security Council used the term “Rwandan Genocide” knowing that extremists from both of the two rival ethnic groups committed atrocities against the other, but that the Kagame regime uses the term “Tutsi genocide” to water down the regime’s role in the atrocities.
“Robbery gone wrong” is not an option in the professor’s assassination because the assassins did not part with anything of monetary value. The assassins parted with ICTR case-related documents. By coincidence or design, the manner in which Professor Jwani Mwaikusa was assassinated is not different from the way some other critics of the Kagame regime met their death. Seth Sindashonga and Major Theoneste Lizinde, both strong critics of the Kigali regime, were assassinated in 1998. The two had sought refuge in Kenya. Journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage was assassinated on June 24 after writing that Kagame had ordered the assassination attempt on Rwandan exile Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa. A week later, Professor Mwaikusa, a strong critic of the Kigali regime, was gunned down. On the same day, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda Vice President Andre Kagwa Rwisereka was beheaded near Butare in southern Rwanda.
The perpetrators remain unknown, but the United Nations secretary general, on July 15, called for an investigation into the deaths of Jean Leonard Rugambage and Andre Kagwa Rwisereka. He has not yet ordered an inquiry into Professor Mwaikusa’s assassination, but one is certainly called for, discomfiting as the truth may be to some of the world’s most powerful people.
Professor Charles Kambanda is an American of Rwandan origin and a former professor of law, business and philosophy at Makarere University in Kigali, Rwanda, where both the Umuseso newspaper editor and Democratic Green Party of Rwanda President Frank Habineza were his students. He was once a member of Rwandan’s ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front Party. He first met Professor Jwani Mwaikusa in 2001 when they were both teaching at the University of Dar es Salaam and they remained friends from that time on. Professor Kambanda is now involved in research on Rwanda’s ongoing social and political conflict. He can be reached at kambacha@yahoo.com [6].
San Francisco writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View, [7] Digital Journal [8], Examiner.com [9], OpEdNews [10], Global Research [11], Colored Opinions [12] and her blog, Plutocracy Now [13]. She can be reached at anniegarrison@gmail.com [14].
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LAND GRABBING BY CITY OFFICIALS IN TANZANIA

2010-07-14T05:07:00.001-07:00

LAND MIS-ALLOCATION BLAMED ON CITY OFFICIALS

By BILHAM KIMATI, 13th July 2010 Daily News

A PROBE team formed last month by the Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner, Mr William Lukuvi, has discovered that 104 open space plots out of 154 surveyed sites were illegally occupied.

The team has discovered that indiscriminate change of land use plans in Dar es Salaam could not have been possible without the patronage of dishonest land officials, some known to have issued land occupancy documents to family members.

Presenting the report to the RC at his office yesterday, the team leader, Ms Albina Burra, said Kinondoni was notorious in open space grabbing whereby 88 out of 110 open space sites visited in the municipality were taken for different use.

"I commend the team because within 25 days of intense probe from June 18 to (yesterday) July 13, it probed the matter and compiled this thick report with proposals that will be used to redress the situation," Mr Lukuvi said.

The team drew its members from the police force, the army, prisons, land officers, city planning office and academics.

The first step towards restoration of the snatched land, said Lukuvi, would be to hold an urgent meeting with members of the regional security and defence committee prior to legal and disciplinary action against people behind the racket.

"This is the first report ever that is seriously addressing land problems in Dar es Salaam. I am not surprised to hear that land grabbing is rampant in Kinondoni. But one thing for sure is that both legal and disciplinary measures will be taken against all culprits," the RC pledged.

After learning about massive cheating and double allocation of land in Kinondoni early last month, the regional commissioner formed two separate probe teams.

The first surveyed the three municipalities of Dar es Salaam -- Temeke, Ilala and Kinondoni -- and finally presented the report yesterday.

The second team of inquiry was assigned with the duty to gather information from office files in municipal land department to uncover tricks involved in changing land use and ownership. The team is also scheduled to present its report today.

Sources from within the team revealed that indiscriminate forgery of signatures and forged stamps facilitated the illegal occupation of land.

"Some of these places have been turned into department stores gradually taken under the pretext of being a political party project, some with guest houses, filling stations and local markets," the source revealed.

It was further learnt that among the recommendations, was immediate demolition of structures coupled with legal measures against 'owners' together with land officials who assisted on the cheat.

Previously, the Special Zone Police Commander, Mr Suleiman Kova, had said that police in Dar es Salaam had interrogated a dozen of people in connection with the land fraud in Kinondoni Municipal Council.

He said that more people were lined up for questioning, but declined to disclose the number, adding that the suspects would be prosecuted after completion of investigations.

It all started when Mr Lukuvi suspended Kinondoni Municipal Land Officer, Mr Magesa Magesa together with 16 other officials to facilitate investigations on land related fraud.

Five Kinondoni Municipal councillors including the Municipal Mayor, Mr Salum Londa, together with the Municipal Director, Mr Noel Mahenga, were also nabbed in connection with the scam.

Other councillors already questioned by the police include Mr Eliachim Magafu (Manzese ward), Mr Rajab Suleiman Hassan (Makurumla) and Salum Mwaking'inda (Sinza).

Kinondoni Municipality has repeatedly been accused of issuing dubious land ownership permits including reserved open space.

GWIJI LA SHERIA PROF. JWANI MWAIKUSA AUWAWA DAR

2010-07-14T04:23:00.000-07:00

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Marehemu Profesa

Jwani Timothy Mwaikusa

Habari zinasema Wakili na Mwanasheria nguli na Mhadhiri mwandamizi wa chuo kikuu cha Dar es salaam Prof. Jwani Timothy Mwaikusa amefariki dunia baada ya kuuwawa na watu wasiojulikana usiku wa kuamkia leo wakati akirejea nyumbani kwake maeneo ya Salasala jijini Dar es salaam.

Prof. Mwaikusa pia alifanya kazi katika mahakama ya kimataifa ya I.C.T.R Arusha na alikua rafiki wa mahakama ambaye alitetea vizuri hoja alizowasilisha kuhusu mgombea binafsi.

Kwa wale waliosoma literature A- Level kama mimi, Prof. Mwaikusa pia alikua mwandishi mzuri wa poems ambazo wengi wetu tulizijibia mitihani.
Pamoja nae pia ameuwawa mwanae aliyekua akitoka nje kumfungulia geti, na mtu baki aliyekua akipita njia.

Kwa jicho la kawaida tu, haya yatakua mauaji ya kisasi au ya kumnyamazisha kuhusu jambo fulani kwakua habari za awali zinasema wauwaji hao hawakuiba kitu chochoteSee More

Na Mdau Nkundwe Mwakilema

NILIYOYAFAHAMU:
Career:
* Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Dar es Salaam 1999
* Mkono & Co Advocates since 1998
* Advocate, High Court of Tanzania since 1988
* Managing Editor of the Tanzania Law Reports.
Qualifications:
* Ph.D., School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, UK, 1995
* LL.M, University of Birmingham, UK, 1985
* LL.B (Hons), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1981.

URAIA WA NCHI MBILI TANZANIA WAKUBALIWA KISHERIA

2010-07-07T00:21:00.001-07:00

> URAIA WA NCHI MBILI WAKUBALIWA KITAIFA

Jul 5, 2010
>
> Serikali imekubali kuwepo kwa uraia wa nchi mbili kwa Wabongo walioko nje ya
> nchi na kwamba wasichukuliwe kama wasaliti.
>
> Kutokana na hatua hiyo, Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa
> iko kwenye mchakato wa kuwasilisha muswada kuhusu uraia wa nchi mbili kwenye
> kikao cha Baraza la Mawaziri.
>
> Hayo yalisemwa juzi mjengoni 'Bungeni' na Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje na
> Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa, Benard Membe.
>
> Waziri Membe alisema siyo dhambi, Watanzania kutafuta riziki nje ya nchi na
> ni haki yao kubaki na uraia wa Tanzania.
>
> Alisema wakati umefika kwa Watanzania, kupatiwa haki yao ya msingi kwani
> licha ya kuwa ni manufaa kwao pia ni manufaa kwa nchi kutokana na fursa ya
> kuongeza pato la taifa.
>
> "Tusiwaangalie Watanzania walioko nje ya nchi kama wasaliti, watu hawa ni
> raia wema lakini walikwenda kutafuta riziki tu ili wachumie juani na kulia
> kivulini, hivyo tunapowafutia uraia wa ndani hatuwatendei haki,".
>
> Alisema kama Tanzania imeweza kutoa uraia kwa wakimbizi 169,000 kutoka
> Rwanda na Burundi, haiwezi kushindwa kuwabakishia uraia wao wananchi wake
> wanaokwenda kutafuta nje ya nchi.
>

MAENEO YA KUOGOPWA KWA UHALIFU DSM, TANZANIA

2010-07-06T22:56:00.001-07:00

Imeandikwa na Anastazia Alfred, Magdalena Balisidya, Amina Mrope (DSJ), Beatrice Shayo, Restuta James, Joseph Mwendapole, Richard Makore, Moshi Lusonzo, Romana Mallya na Eliwinjuka Shani.

CHANZO: NIPASHE la tarehe 06/07/2010.

Ukiwa Dar ogopa maeneo haya

Na Waandishi wetu

5th July 2010

Uhalifu, mauaji nje nje!

Eneo la Mbezi wilayani Kinondoni hivi sasa ndilo linaloongoza kwa matukio ya uhalifu katika Jiji la Dar es Salaam.

Kuna mlolongo wa matukio ya ujambazi katika maeneo ya Mbezi ambapo watu kadhaa wameuawa miezi ya karibuni kwa kupigwa risasi kwa kuvamiwa nyumbani na wengine kuvamiwa wakiwa kwenye magari yao wakati wakijiandaa kuingia nyumbani na kupigwa risasi.

Miongoni mwa matukio yaliyotokea Mbezi ni la takribani wiki moja iliyopita na kulihusisha kundi la watu saba waliokuwa na silaha za moto ambao walivamia kwenye nyumba inayomilikwa na mfanyakazi wa Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii, Elinawinga Massawe mkazi wa Mbezi Msakuzi, Makondeko kata ya Kibamba, na kumuua kinyama kwa kumpiga risasi ya kichwa Nkingwa Mboja (25), mfanyakazi wa kiume wa nyumba hiyo.

Aidha, katika tukio hilo watu wawili walijeruhiwa ambao ni mwalimu wa Shule ya Chekechea iliyopo eneo hilo, aliyetambuliwa kwa jina moja la Ndimpo ambaye alipigwa risasi kifuani wakati mama wa baba wa nyumba hiyo, Mamboloo Massawe (85) alijeruhiwa na kitu chenye ncha kali kwenye mkono wake wa kushoto.

Jeshi la polisi lilifanikiwa kuwatia mbaroni watuhumiwa wanne.

Juni 13, mwaka huu, Padri wa Kanisa Katoliki Parokia ya Mavurunza, Athanas Zengo, akitoa mahubiri ya Jumapili, alilaani matukio ya ujambazi pamoja na mauaji ya raia wasio na hatia katika maeneo ya Kimara na Mbezi na kuwatupia lawama viongozi wa serikali wenye dhamana ya usalama wa raia kutokuwajibika.

Alisema kila baada ya siku chache anashiriki kuwazika raia wasio na hatia wanaouawa na majambazi.

Padri huyo alisema viongozi hao walioshindwa kutimiza wajibu wao ni afadhali wakajiuzulu na wasipofanya hivyo, wananchi wasiwachague katika uchaguzi mkuu ujao.

Uporaji pikipiki Goba

Matukio ya kuwapora pikipiki vijana wanaofanya biashara ya usafirishaji wa abiria na kuwaua yameshamiri katika maeneo ya Mbweni, Goba na Tangi Bovu kwa kutaja machache.

Katika eneo la Mbweni kuna matukio zaidi ya manne yameripotiwa hivi karibuni baada ya watu wasiofahamika kuwakodi vijana wenye pikipiki na kisha kuwaua na kuwapora pikipiki.

Tukio la karibuni lilitokea Jumatano usiku Mbezi Tangi Bovu na kuwalazimisha vijana wanaofanya biashara hiyo katika eneo hilo wiki iliyopita kuandamana kupinga vitendo vya polisi wa Kawe kuwatishia pale wanapotaka watuhumiwa wachukuliwe hatua.

Watoa huduma wa pikipiki huko mbweni, Bunju na maeneo mengine wilayani Kionondoni wanalalamika kuwa polisi hawafuatilii matukio ya kuuawa licha ya kupelekewa taarifa.

Kwa upande wa Makongo Juu, wakazi wake wanasema kuwa vitendo vya uhalifu eneo hilo bado ni tatizo.

Wakizungumza kwa nyakati tofauti, wakazi hao walisema kuwa matukio ya uhalifu hasa utumiaji wa silaha kama rungu, panga, shoka na silaha za moto yamekuwa yakiendelea.

Mmoja wa wananchi wa eneo hilo akizungumza na gazeti hili kwa masharti ya kutotajwa jina, alisema vitendo hivyo vimekuwa vikitokea nyakati za usiku.

Alitolea mfano tukio lililotokea zaidi ya wiki moja iliyopita majira ya saa 2:00 usiku ambapo majambazi walivamia maduka mawili, grosari na genge na kupora mali na fedha.

Makongo nako moto

Katika tukio hilo lililotokea Makongo eneo la Saiberia, watu watatu walijeruhiwa sehemu mbalimbali za miili.

Katika kipindi cha mwaka huu zaidi ya matukio matatu makubwa yalitokea ambapo kati ya hayo moja lilisababisha kifo cha mkazi mmoja baada ya majambazi kuvamia kwenye duka moja.

“Maeneo ya huku kama unavyoyaona ni mapori, yametuzunguka na nyumba zipo moja moja, hivyo wahalifu wamekuwa wakitumia mwanya huo kupora wananchi au kuvamia na kupora mali kwenye maduka au majumbani,” alisema.

Alisema Jeshi la Polisi linatakiwa kujipanga ipasavyo ili kuhakikisha maeneo kama hayo yanapata vituo vidogo vya polisi.

“Tunahitaji tuwe na kituo cha polisi huku kwanza wakazi ni wengi na kituo tunachokitegemea ni cha Chuo Kikuu ambacho kinahudumia watu wengi,” alisema.

Ubungo Darajani himaya ya vibaka

Nalo eneo la Ubungo Darajani linatajwa kushamiri vitendo vya uhalifu hasa wa kupora watu.

Inadaiwa kuwa genge la vijana zaidi ya 20 linalofanya uhalifu limepiga kambi katika eneo hilo kiasi ya kuhatarisha maisha ya wakazi wa eneo hilo na wasafiri wanaotumia barabara ya Mandela.

Mwenyekiti wa Serikali ya Mtaa wa Kibangu, Kata ya Makuburi, Desdery Ishengoma, alithibitisha kukithiri kwa vitendo hivyo na kueleza kuwa vinachangiwa na biashara ndogondogo zinazofanywa kando kando mwa barabara ya Mandela, eneo la Darajani.

Alisema tayari ofisi yake imeandika barua kwa Mkurugenzi wa Manispaa ya Kinondoni na kupendekeza kuwa eneo hilo lifanywe bustani za miti na maua badala ya biashara ndogondogo.

Alisema mbali ya pendekezo hilo, ofisi yake imetengeneza mpango wa kuweka sungusungu katika eneo hilo na kwamba kwa sasa vijana watakaoshiriki kazi hiyo wameanza mazoezi.

“Kwa kweli hapa darajani hali ni mbaya sana, watu wanaumizwa na kuporwa kila saa na kila siku...sisi tumeshaliona tatizo hilo na kama nilivyokueleza, tumeanza kuchukua hatua,” alisema Ishengoma.

Alisema kwa siku wamekuwa wakipokea malalamiko zaidi ya matano kutoka kwa watu mbalimbali wanaojeruhiwa na kundi hilo la uhalifu.

“Lakini naamini hao ni wale wachache wanaoamua kuja kwetu, matukio ni mengi sana kutokana na hatari iliyopo,” alisema.

Wananchi waliozungumza na gazeti hili walisema kikundi cha vijana hao kimekuwa kikifanya uhalifu na kukimbilia chini ya daraja.

Alfred Mushi, mkazi wa eneo hilo alisema vibaka kwenye eneo hilo wamekithiri huku polisi wakifumbia macho matukio ya uporaji na kuwaacha vibaka wakitamba.

“Si unaona kituo cha polisi kipo jirani tu, lakini hapa vibaka wanatamba utafikiri hamna vyombo vya dola...ukienda polisi unaulizwa una gari? au wanakuambia hawawezi kutoka kwa sababu hakuna askari wa kubaki kituoni,” alisema Mushi.

Alisema wakati mwingine askari wamekuwa wakiandika maelezo na kuahidi kufuatilia tukio, lakini hawafanyi hivyo na ndio maana vibaka wanatamba katika eneo hilo.

Alisema: “Hali hiyo imekuwa ikichochea hasira za wananchi, ndio maana wakifanikiwa kukamata mhalifu wanamchoma moto kwa kuwa polisi wakimkamata kibaka asubuhi, mchana unamkuta mtaani.”

Mwananchi mwingine, Abdalah Jumaa, aliwalaumu askari wa vituo vidogo kuwa na kasumba ya kupuuza malalamiko ya wananchi.

“Ukiongea na Kova (Suleiman Kova, Kamanda wa Kanda Maalum ya Dar es Salaam) anakujibu vizuri kuliko hawa askari wadogo, yaani ukiwa na tatizo huwezi kuhudumiwa bila kuwasiliana na Kamanda Kova ili awaagize watu wake katika vituo husika...sijui kwa nini hawa askari wako hivyo,” alisema.

Polisi wa Kituo kidogo cha Ubungo Kibangu ambao hawakupenda kutaja majina yao, walisema wakati mwingine wananchi wamekuwa wakikuza matukio ikilinganishwa na hali halisi.

“Kama wananchi wanasema hapo Darajani kunatisha, mbona hawaleti malalamiko yao hapa? Ni kweli pale kuna vibaka, lakini sio tatizo kubwa kama ulivyoelezwa na hao unaosema ni wananchi,” alisema askari mmoja.

Baada ya kueleza hayo, askari wa kituo hicho walimtaka mwandishi wa habari hizi kuwasiliana na Kamanda wa Kanda Maalum kwa ufafanuzi zaidi kwa maelezo kwamba wao sio wasemaji wa jeshi la polisi.

Mwananyamala na vibaka

Kwa upande wa Mwananyamala, wakazi wa eneo hilo wamelalamikia ongezeko la vibaya na kulitupia lawama Jeshi la Polisi kwa kushindwa kukabiliana na vitendo vya uhalifu vinavyoendelea kutokea eneo hilo.

Siwema Juma, mkazi wa eneo hilo alisema, kila kukicha eneo hilo kumekuwa na ongezeko la vibaka ambao wamekuwa wakiwaibia wakazi na wapita njia.

Alisema baadhi yao hujifanya kuwa ni wapiga debe ambao wamekuwa wakiwaibia abiria.

Siwema alisema vibaka hao wanazidi kushamiri katika eneo hilo na hakuna hatua zozote zinazochukuliwa.

Mwanyekiti wa Serikali za Mtaa, Kitwana Katembo, alisema mara kwa mara wamekuwa wakiwakamata wahalifu na kuwachukulia hatua.

Hata hivyo, alisema hivi sasa kuna unafuu kulinganisha na kabla ya Januari.

Alisema ndani ya mwaka huu matukio yanayojitokeza zaidi ni ya uporaji wa simu.

Eneo lingine ambalo linatisha kwa uhalifu ni Jangwani ambapo wakazi wake wamesema kuwa eneo hilo kuanzia Magomeni hadi Faya sio salama.

Licha ya kutoa taarifa kwenye jeshi la polisi eneo hilo bado ni hatari.

Baadhi ya wakazi wa jiji wakizungumza na gazeti hili, walisema bado tatizo hilo linaendelea eneo hilo na kwamba wanaoibiwa mara nyingi ni wanawake.

Mkazi wa eneo hilo aliyejitambulisha kwa jina moja la Mwajuma, alisema kuwa kuna uhalifu wa kutisha katika maeneo ya Magomeni hadi Jangwani.

Wakazi wengine wanasema inapofika saa moja usiku ni hatari kuvuka eneo hilo kwa miguu na kwamba hali ni kama hiyo majira ya afajiri.

Aidha, wanasema vibaka wanapora watu simu, mikufu, mikoba ya na mali nyingine za wanaokuwa kwenye magari na kukimbia.

Wakati wakazi wakilalamikia hali hiyo, Mwenyekiti wa Serikali za Mitaa Magomeni, Shawedi Abdallah, alisema uhalifu katika eneo hilo umepungua kulinganisha na miaka ya karibuni.

Tabata Relini moto

Eneo la Tabata Relini nalo linatajwa kushamiri kwa uhalifu ambapo wakazi wameliomba Jeshi la Polisi kuweka ulinzi katika kituo cha Tabata Relini kufuatia eneo hilo kushamiri vibaka na kufanya uporaji.

Wakazi hao walisema vitendo vya uhalifu vimezidi kushamiri katika kituo cha daladala na kwamba kila siku watu wanaporwa vitu ikiwemo simu, mikoba na kuachiwa majeraha mwilini kwa kuchanwa na vitu vyenye ncha kali.

Amina Omary, mkazi wa eneo hilo alisema wanawake wanaongoza kwa kufanyiwa uporaji na vibaka ambao amedai wanaofanya vitendo hivyo ni vijana wanaotumia dawa za kulevya.

Alisema ingawa polisi wanafahamu eneo hilo ni hatari, hawaweki ulinzi wakati wa usiku.

“Polisi wanafahamu eneo hili lina vibaka lakini hawaweki ulinzi na kila leo watu wanaporwa ikifika saa mbili usiku tunaogopa kusimama kituoni kusubiri usafiri,” alisema.

Balozi wa Nyumba 10, Juma Selemani, alisema vitendo vya ukabaji katika eneo hilo ni tatizo sugu na watu ambao sio wenyeji wa eneo hilo wanaporwa kwa kutokana na kutofahamu kuwa muda wa usiku eneo hilo ni hatari.

Alisema ili kukomesha vitendo hivyo eneo hilo ameliomba Jeshi la Polisi kufanya ulinzi na kuwakamata wapiga debe na kuongeza kuwa ndio wahusika.

Tabata Kimanga nako kunatajwa kushamiri kwa vibaka ambao ni tishio.

Wakazi hao walisema kuwa wakati mwingine vitendo vya wizi na uporaji hufanyika mchana, lakini hakuna hatua zinazochukuliwa.

Mkazi wa Tabata Bima, Boniface Shangwe, alisema vibaka wengi ni wale wanaopiga debe mchana na inapofika usiku wanageuka wezi.

“Hapa Tabata Bima usithubutu kupita peke yako zaidi ya saa tano, huwa wanajibanza hapa kona kuna ka-uchochoro haipiti siku tatu utasikia mtu kaporwa,” alisema.

Alisema wapiga debe hao pia wamekuwa wakiwakwapulia mabegi wanawake kwenye daladala na kuchukua simu za wanaume kwa kujifanya wanawania kupata usafiri.

Mkazi wa Tabata Savannah, Justa Mbiro, naye aliwaelekezea lawama wapiga debe kuwa mara nyingi huwa ni vijana ambao wameshindikana nyumbani kwao hivyo kuamua kuhamia katika kazi hiyo.

“Kuna mtu juzi alikuwa anatoka muziki hapa Tabata Mawenzi akapigwa panga kichwani, hawa ni vijana wa hapa hapa wanavizia watu wanaotoka muziki na kuwafuatilia hadi sehemu wanazoona giza wanaanza kazi yao,” alisema Mbiro.

Kutokana na shida ya usafiri kutoka Ubungo Extenal kuelekea Kisukuru kupitia shule ya Yusuf Makamba, watu wengine huamua kutembea kwa miguu kukatisha jeshini kuelekea Kisukuru sehemu yenye umbali kama kilomita tatu.

“Eeneo hili lina msitu mkubwa kwa kuwa ni eneo la jeshi sasa ukipita usiku ni giza kweli kweli na unapaswa kuwa na roho ngumu kama uko peke yako maana vibaka wamekuwa wakijificha vichakani na wakiona kama kuna mtu anapita peke yake wanamvamia,” alisema mkazi wa Kisukuru, Amina Mwamba.

Roba mbao ya misumari

Maeneo mengine yaliyokithiri kwa wizi ni maeneo ya Tabata Dampo barabara ya Mandela ambapo wizi wa maeneo hayo umebatizwa roba ya mbao.

Vibaka hao wamekuwa wakitumia njia ya kuwakaba koo watu wanaopita maeneo hayo kwa kutumia mbao iliyojazwa misumari.

“Roba ya mbao isikie tu maana hiyo hata ungekuwa na nguvu gani wakikuwekea hiyo unapaswa kutulia tu na kutoa kila ulichonacho, ile mbao inakuwa na misumari iliyochomekwa sasa wakikuwekea wanakwambia toa ulichonacho ukibisha wanazidisha kukaba na inaweza kukutoboa koo,” alisema mkazi wa maneo hayo, Joseph Minde.

Buguruni kituo cha mabasi nako ni eneo hatari lisilofaa kupita kuanzia saa nne usiku. Wapiga debe wa maeneo hayo wanaodaiwa kufanya kuwakaba watu na kuwapora.

Maeneo ya Temeke nayo si salama kutokana na kutapakaa kwa vibaka. Kwa mfano, Jumapili iliyopita, mkazi mmoja wa Tabata aliporwa simu, Sh. 20,000 na heleni majira ya saa nne usiku eneo la Temeke Hospitali.

Mkazi huyo alisema aliporwa baada ya kukabwa na kundi la vibaka, lakini hakuripoti polisi kuepuka kupoteza muda wake.

Naye Mwenyekiti wa Serikali za Mitaa wa Bahari Beach, Gaspari Raphael, amesema uhalifu umezidi katika mtaa huo na kwamba unasababishwa na vijana wasio na ajira na wengi ni waliofukuzwa kwenye machimbo ya Ununio.

Gilbert Mrosso, mkazi wa eneo hilo, alisema hivi karibuni alinusurika kufa, baada ya kuvamiwa na majambazi na kumjeruhi vibaya na kuporwa mali na kuwa alipohitaji msaada wa polisi hawakufika.

Yombo usiamke alfajiri

Nao wakazi wa Yombo Kilakala wamelalamikia kuwepo na makundi ya ujambazi, hali ambayo inawazuia kuamka mapema kwenda katika biashara zao.

Catherine Mrema, alisema wanapokuwa wakipita kuelekea kituoni hukutana na makundi hayo kisha kutishiwa na mapanga na kuporwa.

Mkazi mwingine, Allen Ngugo, alisema mara nyingi majambazi huvamia maduka na kupora.

Aidha, alisema eneo hilo ni sehemu ya majambazi kujificha baada ya kufanya uhalifu maeneo mengine.

Mwenyekiti wa Serikali za Mitaa wa eneo hilo, Yahaya Mnari, alithibitisha kutokea kwa matukio hayo.

Alisema matukio ambayo yametokea karibuni ni uvunjaji wa maduka na kuvamia nyumba za wageni na kuwapora mali zao.

Mnari alisema hata katika tukio la wizi wa ujambazi uliofanyika katika ATM ya NMB iliyoko katika eneo la Hospitali ya Temeke gari ilifichwa darajani baada ya kufanya uhalifu huo.

Alisema kwa sasa wametafuta kikundi cha watu 30 ambao watapatiwa mafunzo ya ulinzi shirikishi ili kupunguza wimbi la ujambazi katika eneo hilo.

Vitendo vya uhalifu pia vimeshamiri Yombo Dovya, ambapo wananchi wanalalamikia hali hiyo.

Lina John, alisema kuwa eneo la shule linatumiwa na makundi ya vibaka na wahalifu wengine kuwapora mali zao.

Kwa upande wao, wakazi wa Mbagala wanasema kuwa matukio ya wizi wa kutumia nguvu yanaendelea kuwapa hofu, ambapo makundi ya vijana wanaofahamika kama ‘Mbwa Kachoka’ na ‘Mbwa Mwitu’ yanaendelea kuvamia nyumba na kuiba.

Wanaliomba Jeshi la Polisi kuendelea kukabiliana na makundi hayo ambayo ni hatari kwa maisha yao.

Hassan Ngayonga, mkazi wa Mbagala Kiburugwa, alisema licha ya polisi kukabiliana na makundi hayo, bado yanaendelea kuvamia na kupora.

Maeneo ambayo yanaonekana kuvamiwa mara kwa mara ni Charambe, Nzasa, Kiburugwa na Shimo la Mchanga.

Diwani wa kata ya Mbagala, Tito Osoro, akielezea matatizo hayo, alisema kwa ujumla tishio la makundi ya watu hao hakuna kwa kuwa Polisi wamewasambaratisha kwa kuvamia kambi zao na kuwakamata.

Eneo lingine linalotisha kwa uhalifu ni Daraja la Salender ambako licha ya kuweko na kituo cha polisi, vibaka wanawakaba wapitia njia na kuwapora.

KWAHERI UKOLONI, KWAHERI UHURU (SHAIRI)

2010-07-04T01:39:00.000-07:00

Sehemu ya Tatu SOMA KUANZIA CHINI SEHEMU YA KWANZA HADI HAPA. IMECHANGIWA NA BWNATOSHA WA UFARANSA. Salim H. Bwanatosha
Paris, France
(L/Line:+331-74301059;Mbl:+336-27146412)

21.
Kwa yote yanayosemwa
Kitabuni kutetema
Tarehe haijatemwa
Harithi anabaini!
22.
Harithi anabaini
Kutwambia kwa yakini
Ya mazito na laini
Ushirazi na Mwambao!
23.
Ushirazi na Mwambao
Bara Hindi na Hiyao
Mrima kwetu kwao
Barawa hata Nosy Be!
24.
Barawa hata Nosy Be
Bukini na Darugubey
Wadebuli na Wa-Pate
Uswahili ndo mkate!
25.
Uswahili ndo mkate
Zinjibari tupakate
Temedeni tuzipate
Sote ni waja wa M'Ngu!
26.
Sote ni waja M'Ngu
Kuvamiwa na Mzungu
Tufinyange zetu nyungu
Unguja na yetu Pemba!
27.
Unguja na yetu Pemba
Taifa-Dola kubeba
Kwa vikoi na vilemba
Watwani usende tete!
28.
Watwani usende tete
Makunduchi hata Wete
Ni kama Chanda na Pete
Chuki nyingi ni za nini?
29.
Chuku nyingi ni za nini?
Shetani kutuzaini
Ungwanetu kuukhini
Zinjibari kwenda pogo!
30.
Zinjibari kwenda pogo
Si wa chai si muhogo
Badili pua na chogo
Tu'auni Bwana M'Ngu!
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"Aliyesifu ugari, huyo ni mpuuzi
Bila ya mchuzi, huuli mtupu ugari!"

Afrabia ndio yetu
Swahilini ndiko kwetu
Tusitupe kilo chetu
Kwa watu waso wenzetu!

Sefu na wetu Amani
Wamesokota kamani
Saa yetu ikhiwani
Itawadi kwetu Pwani!

Tushangirie ukweli
Uchaguzi kuwa meli
Ya kabwela na kubeli
Kwa Karume na Mugheiry!
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Wama 'ala Rasul Ila-l-Balaghu-l-Mubiin!

Salim H. Bwanatosha
Paris, France
(L/Line:+331-74301059;Mbl:+336-27146412)

From: bwanatosha@hotmail.com
To: afrabia@gmail.com

Sehemu Ya Pili

11.
Maudhu'i si kidogo
Chimbuko umbua pogo
Harith ni Mwana Jogoo!
12.
Atwambia za Mzungu
Kufita yetu matungu
Ngezi, Nungwi, Takaungu!
13.
Tuchimbue historia
Nyongo na mbovu fagia
Wana tupate wambia!
14.
Tuweze sogea mbele
Ponyesha zetu ndwele
Mashina hata vilele!
15.
Simisha yetu IMANI
Sefu na khasa Amani
Kuwashinda maruhani!
16.
Hawa ni kweli vigogo
Wapambe sura na chogo
Kufinyaza vyombo dongo!
17.
Tataga uzi wa M'Ngu
Hizbu na Afro mbumbumbu
Umma na Nduwaro maumbu!
18.
Na zetu kweli tabia
Sote tuweze sikia
Zahitaji manabia!
19.
Tuwache hizi kelele
Tupate pika mchele
Taifa lisonge MBELE!
20.
Sote tuwe IKHIWANI
Wana sote wa Watwani
Tula'ani SHAITWANI!
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Salim H. Bwanatosha
Paris, 23/06/10

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Sehemu Ya Kwanza

01.
Hakika, lelo, ndo naanza
Mapesi kusoma na kuwaza
Ha kukanguwa nto mapanza
Kwa elimu inu ya kwanza!
02.
Kwa elimu inu ya kwanza
Zenjibari ilipoanza
Maji mema ya kutawaza
Kuwa na Taifa letu sote!
03.
Kuwa na Taifa letu sote
La michango kutoka kote
Tusiwe na khofu yoyote
Marithi ni ya wana wote!
04.
Marithi ni ya wana wote
Tindo, haiba, kote kote
Na kujifahari kwa yote
Hayo tuyajue yakini!
05.
Hayo tuyajue yakini
Ghassany weledi makini
Atupa tarehe 'aini
Ya kujenga matumaini!
06.
Ya kujenga matumaini
Tusije katika maini
Taifa-Dola kulikhini
Poteza muruwa na CHEO!
07.
Poteza muruwa na cheo
Mwinyi, Sultani, mambo leo
Walaji wingi vitoweo
Kwa ukali na makemeo!
08.
Kwa ukali na makemeo
Unguja hata Kiwa Ndeo
Watubane kwa makoleo
Kukana uweza wa M'Ngu!
09.
Kukana uweza wa M'Ngu
Kwa kupika yao majungu
Watapa tapa na mikungu
Na kuenda mbio za nyumbu!
10.
Na kuenda mbio za nyumbu
Kwa kukimbia kumbu kumbu
Vichwa mchangani kuumbu
Zanzibar si sawa na MBU!

HUKU NDIKO KUJIENZI KWA KWELI - KUOKOA KONOKONO WASIOJIOKOA

2010-07-04T01:05:00.000-07:00

From LEONARD MWAKALEBELA in Dodoma, 2nd July 2010 Daily News

A RARE species of snails have delayed a multi-billion power project at River Malagarasi in Kigoma Region. The Minister for Energy and Minerals, Mr William Ngeleja, informed the National Assembly on Friday that the snails were discovered after completion of feasibility study on the 8-megawatt project in March this year.

He observed that the project cannot proceed due to environmental concerns.

"However, financers of the project --Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) have agreed to sponsor a fresh feasibility study in another area of the river (Igamba III) to implement the project by producing power from the river's waterfalls", the minister stated.

This will be bad news for residents of Kigoma who have been experiencing power shortage for years and electricity for River Malagarasi waterfalls could have been a panacea.

The discovery of the snails at the waterfalls reminds Tanzanians of the discovery of spray toads at Kihansi, which delayed the Kihansi hydro-electric power project a couple of years ago. The minister was presenting government's report on implementation of various projects under sponsorship of MCC, African Development Bank (AfDB) and Rural Energy Agency (REA).

Mr Ngeleja told the House that REA was going to implement power projects in 16 regions that will subsequently enable TANESCO to connect 20,000 new customers, at a cost of over 98.4bn/-. The regions are Arusha, Kilimanjaro, Manyara, Tanga, Coast, Morogoro, Dodoma, Singida, Mbeya, Rukwa, Tabora, Kigoma, Kagera, Mwanza, Mara and Shinyanga.

"Agreement contract for rehabilitation and expansion of power transmission lines in Mbeya, Iringa, Dodoma, Morogoro, Mwanza and Tanga will be signed by the end of this month. The process to get a consultant for another project, which is being sponsored by AfDB at the cost of 60bn/-, is in its final stages," the minister stated.

It will involve Mwanza, Shinyanga, Dar es Salaam and Arusha regions. He explained that the government was engaged in discussions with Sweden on the implementation of the 13-2KV Makambako-Songea power project, to cost 85bn/-. Upon its completion, 30,000 new customers will be connected.

Mr Ngeleja said that REA was considering plan to distribute power in Mtwara and Lindi villages from natural gas produced at Mnazi Bay in Mtwara Region. He also said that Kilwa District would get electricity from the Songosongo natural gas reserve by this month while Liwale District will get its power from heavy/furnace oil.

"Construction of power projects at Magindu and Mbwewe villages in Bagamoyo District under sponsorship of the government at a cost of 2.8bn/- has started," Mr Ngeleja said.

According to him, power project in Longido district, at a cost of 1.4bn/- will take seven months from now and will connect 291 new customers. The minister added that implementation of power project in Kishapu District at a cost of over 342.7m/-had started and that construction of a submarine cable from Dar es Salaam to Unguja will be accomplished by August, 2012.

LULU NA BUSARA ADHIMU ZA WANAMTANDAO WA TANZANET

2010-07-04T00:36:00.001-07:00

3 Julai, 2010, Saada Al-Ghafry

Katibu,
Ahsante sana kwa ripoti hii. Nawaomba wanaukumbi nichukue nafasi hii kufanya jambo la kidikteta, nilishaahidi kuwa anapotakiwa dikteta, niko tayari wakati wowote, na ninawaomba wanaukumbi wengi, kama si wote, mniunge mkono kwa haya nitakayosema ili ukumbi usonge mbele badala ya kukwama kwenye matope na magurudumu yanabaki yakizunguka hapo kwa hapo.

Kwanza, sahani ukiziweka mahali pamoja, zinagongana, na binadamu ni hivyo hivyo.

Pili, uongozi ni jukumu, na uongozi wa Tanzanet hauna hata faida ya kulipwa wala marupurupu. Ingekuwa vizuri iwapo mawasialiano baina ya viongozi kwa viongozi, na viongozi na wanachama yangekuwa ya kiungwana na kuvumiliana.

Tatu, naomba tutambue kuwa kwa sababu uongozi ni jukumu, uongozi una wajibu wa kuwa mfano kwa wanachama na taifa, kama vile wazazi wanavyotakiwa kuwa mfano kwa watoto.

Nne, panatokea migongano, ni uungwana tukiwa wepesi wa kuombana msamaha tunapokoseana, na mwenye kuombwa msamaha, ni uungwana kuridhika na kumsamehe aliyekukosea. Hata kama huko nyuma tulikuwa wagumu wa kufanya hivyo, tufungue ukurasa mpya na tuanze kufanya hivyo sasa. Hakuna aliyekamailika: Sote tuna mema yetu, na sote tuna mapungufu.

Tano, wanaukumbi wote ni watu wenye majukumu mengi sana. Majukumu mengine yasitufanye tukazembea majukumu yetu humu ukumbini. Tuko hapa kwa ridhaa zetu wenyewe, hatukulazimishwa.

Sita, ni wajibu wa kila mwanaukumbi kuhakikisha kuwa uanachama wake ni hai, hata kama una uhakika kuwa umetuma pesa, kunaweza kukatokea matatizo kwenye mawasiliano baina ya chombo kinachotumiwa kutuma (km paypal, western union nk) na chombo kinachopokea (bank, mtu binafsi nk). Wakati wa mchakato wa kupokea ada, Stella alikuwa muwazi, alikuwa akitoa orodha ya wote ambao ameshapokea ada zao, na kushauri kila mmoja ahakiki kuwa orodha iliyotolewa imekamilika. Wajibu wa kuhakikisha kuwa jina lako liko kwenye orodha wakati wewe umeshalipa, ni lako mwenyewe, maana mwakilishi wa kanda na Mhazini, wote ni binadamu na inawezekana wamekosea. Kati ya mhazini, mwakilishi wa kanda na wewe binafsi, ni jambo rahisi kutafuta tatizo liko wapi iwapo una hakika umelipa na jina lako halipo kwenye orodha.

Saba, kuhusu ripoti ya Katibu, na kwa kukosa wadhamini, ndipo ninapoigiza udikteta:
Namba 1 na 2 ni wazi. Kwenye namba 3, nakubaliana na Stella, hasa ukizingatia hayo niliyokwishaandika hapo juu. Nitaacha namba 4 kwa sasa, na ningeomba majibizano baina ya Katibu na Mwasa2 yasitishwe mpaka hapo watakapopatikana wadhamini na/au mnadhimu wa ukumbi. Namba 6, inaelekea mwenyekiti amepitwa kidogo na wakati. Toka enzi za uenyekiti wa LGF ilibadilika kuwa walioko Tanzania pia walipe ada. Hata hapo ilipokuwa Watanzania wamepewa msamaha, aliyetaka kuwa na haki ya kura au kupigiwa kura, ilibidi alipe ada, kwa hiyo msamaha huo usingemuhusu PDN kama mwenyekiti hivyo halikuwa suala la kujadili kabisa wakati wa tatizo hili. Namba 6, 7 na 8 ningependekeza zisijadiliwe kwa sasa bali Katibu aziingize kwenye agenda ya mkutano mkuu kwa sababu maamuzi yake yawe ndiyo muongozo kwenye uendeshaji wa Tanzanet baadaye.

Nane, kuhusu mapendekezo ya Katibu, namba 2-6 pia ni mambo ya kujadiliwa kwenye mkutano mkuu kwani maamuzi yake yataingizwa kwenye uendeshaji wa Tanzanet.

Tisa, kwa niaba ya ukumbi, namuomba radhi Stella kwa kutomtendea haki. Wakati wa uchaguzi, alijinadi kinagaubaga kuwa yeye ni perfectionist. Ametekeleza wajibu wake kwa ufanisi wa hali ya juu kama alivyojinadi, sidhani kama kuna mtu yeyote ambaye haridhiki na utekelezaji wake. Mimi binafsi, na kwa niaba ya ukumbi, namuomba aendelee kwa sasa. Kazi aliyokwishaianza ni nzuri, aiendeleze kwa muda mpaka uchaguzi utakapofanyika. Namshauri PDN, kwa nia njema ya kuijenga Tanzanet, amwombe radhi Stella binafsi au kwenye kurugenzi, tujikwamue tulipo, tusonge mbele.

Yaliyopita si ndwele, tugange yaliyopo na yajayo.

Kumi, naomba uongozi uitishe mkutano mkutano mkuu. Nadhani ni miaka mitatu sasa hatujawa na mkutano mkuu kwa hiyo kuna mengi yanayohitaji kurekebishwa, kutoa madukuduku ya wanachama na viongozi nk.

Nawasilisha na naomba wanaukumbi mniunge mkono, tufupishe majadiliano na tusonge mbele.

Rgds,
Saada

2010/7/4 Dan Nkurlu

Wana Tanzanet,

Kwa asilimia 95, nimemaliza uchunguzi wa suala zima lililofikia kwa Mhazini wetu Stella Semiti-Munuo kujiuzulu wadhifa wake. Kikubwa kilichotokea ni mgongano wa mawasiliano na bahati mbaya, jambo hili lilikuzwa kupita kiasi kwa makusudi ya kuleta vurugu ukumbini na si kuleta upatanishi na kuhakikisha kuna maelewano kati ya Mhazini na Mwenyekiti.

Uchunguzi huu umebainisha yafuatayo :

Mwenyekiti alichelewa kulipa ada yake katika muda uliopangwa na hivyo mgongano wa mawasiliano na expectations pamoja na kutumiwa jumbe za kukumbushwa na kupewa upendeleo maalum.
Mwakilishi wa Kanda Salim Khatri, hakuwasilisha jina la Mwenyekiti kwa Mhazini baada ya kupokea ada kutoka kwa Mwenyekiti. Tarehe kamili ya ada hii kupokelewa haijathibitishwa.
Kuvunjika na mgongano kimawasiliano (communication and professionalism/cultural breakdown) kati ya Mwenyekiti na Mhazini ambayo yanaonekana wazi kwenye email kati yao za siku hiyo June 23. Kuna mgongano wa expectations na define roles za kimajukumu. Mwenyekiti anaona wajibu wa kuhakikisha orodha ya walipa ada inakamilika ni kati ya Mhazini na wawakilishi, huku Mhazini anaona kuwa wajibu wa mwanachama yeyote bila kujali cheo au eneo ni kuhakikisha anawasiliana na mwakilishi au anawasilisha jina lake na uthibitisho wa kulipia ada.
Mwasambili kwa kudhamiria aliamua kuchafua hali ya hewa ukumbini kwa kuleta hadharani majadiliano kati ya Mwenyekiti, Mhazini, Khatri, Madete na yeye Mwasambili na kudai Mwenyekiti kachemsha na anapaswa kuomba samahani, huku akiuacha kwa makusudi ujumbe wa Khatri ambao ulithibitisha kuwa Mwenyekiti amelipia ada na ni Salim aliyechelewa kupeleka uthibitisho kwa Mhazini.
Tuna tatizo la makusanyo ya ada Tanzania na kuna suala la kudai walioko Tanzania wasiwe walipa ada (mazungumzo yangu na mwenyekiti yaliashiria kuwa kuna kipengele kinachodai WanaTanzanet Tanzania wawe exempted kulipa kodi, unless wanagombea).
Wasio mafundi mitambo au wanachama bado wameorodheshwa kama mafundi mitambo (Mwasambili, Henry Mgaya)
Mhazini kawateua George Kakoti na Seppy Nyang’oro kuwa wenye funguo za Benki bila Kurugenzi na Wanachama wote kuwa na tarifa.
Kuna tatizo la ukusanyaji ada kwa ujumla bila kujali kanda. Hii inatokana na baadhi wanachama kuchelewa kulipia ada ama kwa makusudi au mazoea ya kutokuwa makini kulipia ada pindi mchakato wa kukusanya ada unapoanza. Kuna wanachama ambao walijitahidi kuwasilisha ada zao lakini walikosa mwakilishi wa kanda na hivyo ada zao ama kuchelewa au kuwa na tatizo katika kuzifikisha zinapopaswa.

Mapendekezo yangu ni kama ifuatavyo:

Kumuomba radhi Stella Semiti kutokana na yaliyotokea na kumsihi aendelee na kazi yake kama Mhazini. Ama upatanishi ufanyike kuondoa mgongano uliotokea kati yake na Mwenyekiti.
Kurugenzi iwasilishe mchakato wa kuchagua wanachama watano ambao watakuwa ni baraza la wadhamini ambao watakuwa na uwezo wa kuusaidia na kuushauri Uongozi ulioko madarakani kwenye shughuli za utendaji wa kila siku na panapokuwa na mfarakano au mgongano ndani ya Kurugenzi au kati ya wanachama.
Kuwepo kwa muda maalum kila mwaka ambao Wanachama wa Tanzanet watawajibikia kulipia ada zao. Hili litakuwa ni suala la kuongezwa katika taratibu za Tanzanet na kuelimishwa kwa kila mwanachama mpya na hivyo kuondoa utata unaoendelea kutokea (rejea majibu ya email yangu kwa Richard Madete mwishoni mwa Mwezi May 2010 kuhusiana na Panga).
Wanachama wa Tanzania wapewe maelekezo kulipia ada zao moja kwa moja kwenye akaunti CRDB na kuwasilisha nakala ya deposit slip kwa Salim Khatri na LGF ambao ndio washika funguo wa akaunti Tanzania. Aidha, online access ya akaunti hii ifunguliwe na Mhazini apewe access yak u-monitor account activities.
Mitambo ya Tanzanet na walio mafundi mitambo wawekwe wazi na wenye access wawe na udhibiti. Hand over inapofanyika, waliondoka kazini wanapaswa kuwa deleted na access zao kusitishwa.
Akaunti zilizoko BoA na CRDB, ziwe chini ya Tanzanet na majina ya Signatories na wenye access kwenye akaunti hizi zifanyiwe mabadiliko kila mara panapotokea mabadiliko ya wasimamizi wa fedha hizi na majina ya washika fedha yawe yamepitishwa na Wanachama wa Tanzanet kwa umoja baada ya kupendekezwa na uongozi.
Ukumbi ujadili na kutolea uamuzi kitendo cha Mwasambili kutuma email za majadiliano kati ya Mhazini na Mwenyekiti kama uchochezi na kupuuzia email ya Khatri na kuendelea kwake kudai Mwenyekiti amechemsha
Ripoti hii imekamilika kwa kutumia mtiririko wa email zilizotumwa hapa ukumbini na majibu ya maswali niliyotuma binafsi kwa Mwenyekiti Nkwera, Mhazini Stella, Mwasambili na Salim Khatri.

Wenu Katibu Tanzanet

Dan Nkurlu

Revolutionary Right Reverend Kishoka

RAIS JAKAYA MRISHO KIKWETE WA TANZANIA ADANGANYWA TENA

2010-07-04T00:19:00.000-07:00

ON 3 July, 2010, Mwita Chacha wrote:
> JK adanganywa tena, AZINDUA BWAWA WAKATI KESI IKO MAHAKAMANI Send to a
> friend
> Saturday, 03 July 2010 06:18
>
>
> Rais Jakaya Kikwete akifungua bomba la
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> katika wilaya ya Serengeti mkoa wa Mara jana, uzinduzi huo ulifanyika
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>
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> kitengo cha ardhi chini ya Jaji Nyangarika inahusisha wananchi 77 ambao
> wanadai kiasi cha Sh2 bilioni.
>
> Mmoja wa wawakilishi wa wananchi hao, Jackson Mwita aliwaambia waandishi wa habari wakati wakimsubiri Rais Kikwete bwawani hapo kuwa kutokana na fedha walizotakiwa kuwalipa wahanga wa mradi huo zililipa watu wasiokuwa na maeneo huku uongozi wa
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> wasiibue uozo huo ambao umeishagharimu serikali karibu Sh 2 bilioni kwa
> ajili ya fidia, fedha ambazo zinaishia mikononi mwa wajanja na kuwaacha
> walengwa.
>
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> kwa saa zaidi ya nne na Jeshi la polisi na ikiwa ni pamoja na juhudi za
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>
> Kwa zaidi ya mara mbili serikali imeishatoa fedha kwa ajili ya kulipa fidia
> wananchi hao, malipo ambayo yanadaiwa kutawaliwa na ufisadi kwa baadhi
> ya viongozi kujiingiza ndani na kuwalipa wasiokuwa na maeneo na ambao
> wengi ni wafanyabiashara.
>
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> hiyo na timu yake.
>
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>
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>
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> kusafisha maji,”alisema Rais Kikwete.
>
> Alisisitiza uundaji wa kamati za maji huku akisisitiza kuwa wanawake wawe wengi, kwa kuwa miradi iliyosimamiwa na wanaume matokeo yake yamekuwa si mazuri.
>
> Mapema Waziri wa Maji na Umwagiliaji, Profesa Mark Mwandosya akitoa taarifa
> fupi ya mradi huo alisema, mradi huo umejengwa kwa fedha za serikali na umegharimu Sh10.2 bilioni na lina lita za ujazo milioni 14.2
>
> Hii si mara ya kwanza kudanganywa kwani rais ameshadanganywa zaidi ya mara kumi mojawapo ikiwa ni ile ya kudanganywa kwamba, Daraja la Mkenda lililopo Ruvuma ambalo ni njia muhimu kuelekea Msumbiji, lilikuwa limekamilika.
>
> Kutokana na hali hiyo, Rais alilazimika kukatisha safari yake mbele ya Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Ruvuma Monica Mbega, (wakati huo)ambaye alionekana pia kutofika katika daraja hilo kabla.
>
> Katika tukio jingine, Rais aliwahi kupewa taarifa zisizo sahihi kuhusu tuhuma za rushwa zilizokuwa zikimkababili Anatory Choya kisha akamteua kuwa Mkuu wa Wilaya, lakini siku siku chache baadaye akafunguliwa mashitaka na Takukuru.
>
> Mwaka jana, akiwa ziarani Mbeya Rais msafara wake ulishambuliwa kwa mawe na watu, lakini wasaidizi wake wakaja kutoa taarifa kwamba watu hao walikuwa ni wahuni na walikuwa walimsubiri Rais kwa muda mrefu bila mafinikio.
>
> Hata hivyo, baadaye uchunguzi huru ulibainisha kwamba tukio hilo lilikuwa na mafungamano ya kisiasa na makovu ya mchakato wa uchaguzi ndani ya CCM kwa mwaka 2005.
>
> Mlolongo huo mrefu wa upotoshaji taarifa kwa Rais uliibuka tena katika utoaji wa magari ya misaada, ambako badala ya kupewa Mkurugenzi wa Halmashauri ya wilaya ya Longido alipewa wa Ngorongoro.
>
> Tukio hilo lilimfanya mkuu huyo wa nchi kufura na kumzodoa mkurugenzi huyo, lakini baadaye ikabainika mkurugenzi huyo alikwenda kutokana na makosa ya maafisa wa Ikulu.
>
> Katika mlolongo huo, tukio kubwa kabisa ni Rais kutia saini kwa mbwembwe Sheria ya Gharama za Fedha za Uchaguzi ambayo ilichomekwa vipengele nje ya Bunge kitu ambacho ni kinyume cha sheria.
>
> Tukio hilo ambalo ni la uvunjifu wa katiba, liliibuliwa na Katibu Mkuu waChadema, Dk Willibrod Slaa ambaye awali, Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali Jaji Fedrerick Werema, alikanusha.
>
> Hata hivyo, baadaye sheria hiyo ilirudishwa bungeni na kukarabatiwa kwa mgongo wa mabadiliko ya sheria mbalimbali.
>
> Mei mwaka huu, Rais alipewa taarifa za upotoshaji kuhusu mazungumzo ya Shirikisho la Vyama vya Wafanyakazi (Tucta) na serikali, kwa kuelezwa shirikisho hilo halikuhudhuria mkutano wa saa 4:00 asubuhi kama ilivyopangwa.
>
> Hata hivyo, Tucta wakatoa ushahidi wa barua za mwaliko wa mkutano huo wa Aprili 22, ambazo zilikuwa mbili moja ikionyesha walitakiwa kufika katika mazungumzo
> Hazina saa 4:00 asubuhi na nyingine saa 8:00 mchana.
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> Katika kuonyesha upotoshaji kwa Rais, wasaidizi hao walimpa barua iliyokuwa
> ikionyesha walipaswa kukutana saa 4:00 asubuhi huku ile ya saa 8:00 wakawa wameificha.
>
> Rais akizungumza na wazee wa mkoa wa Dares Salaam aliwashambulia viongozi wa Tucta hasa Naibu Katibu Mkuu Nicolas Mgaya, akimwita mnafiki, mzandiki, mchochezi na hiana.
>
> Wakati huo huo ahadi ya Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa aliyowahi kuitoa Rais
> Kikwete kuwa utajengwa Serengeti ameshindwa kusema utaanza lini.
>
> Rais Kikwete akiwa ziarani wilayani humo aliwahi kusema kuwa Serikali
> itajenga Uwanja wa Ndege wa Kimataifa wilayani hapo kwa ajili ya
> kurahisisha usafiri kwa watalii na kukuza uchumi wa wilaya na taifa.
>
> Akihutubia wakazi wa mji wa Mugumu na viunga vyake wakati wa uzinduzi wa
> mradi wa bwawa la Manchira, Rais Kikwete alisema kuwa ahadi yake iko pale pale kuwa utajengwa.
>
> Alisema kuwa uwanja huo licha ya kukabiliwa na vikwazo vingi ikiwemo taarifa kutoka kwa nchi jirani kuwa kujengwa kwa uwanja huo kutasababisha nyumbu kutoa mimba kwa wingi.
> “Maneno ni mengi kuhusu uwanja huo, lakini nasema ahadi iko pale pale, tutajenga na
> huenda nyumbu wakaongezeka maana hayo si maneno ya kitaalam, maana wageni wanapata shida sana hapa, wanateremkia Kilimanjaro, wanakuja kwa magari, lazima tujenge,” alisema bila kufafanua ni lini.
>
> Kuhusu barabara ya lami kutoka Makutano hadi Tabora kupitia Hifadhi ya
> Serengeti alisema itajengwa kwa baadhi ya maeneo ambapo kilometa 50 ndani ya hifadhi hazitajengwa ili kuhifadhi mazingira.

MAJIBU YA KUKATISHATAMAA BINAFSI NA KITAASISI

2010-06-19T23:23:00.001-07:00

KUJENGA NCHI NI KAZI, NA NI KAZI KUBWA SANA.

Hatimaye baada ya kuelezea ugumu wa mimi kufanya mambo mawili kwa pamoja yafuatayo; ambayo yote yalihitaji muda na kujitolea kwangu kwa bidii yangu yote, yaani:

1. Kuandaa Mabadiliko ya Andiko (Proposal improvement) la kuanzia Kituo cha Kutoa Msaada wa Sheria Chuo Kikuu Mzumbe

2. Kukazania kusoma sana kutayarisha andiko la kwanza kwa masomo ya Digrii ya Uzamivu (PhD Proposal rectification and modification).

Niliandika barua kwa Mkuu wangu kuomba kwamba Jambo la kwanza likabidhiwe kwa mtu (watu wengine) kwa sababu nimetingwa sana na jukumu la pili ambalo tayari nilikuwa nimechelewa (time-barred).

Mkuu wangu wa Kazi akanifahamisha tarehe 14/6/2010 kwamba kwa kuwa hakushirikishwa katika jambo hilo tangu mwanzo, yeye hawezi kufanya lolote. (Wakati nalifanya jambo hili, yeye alikuwa masomoni, na pia kila barua niliyoandika juu ya suala hili niliinakilisha ofisini kwakwa kwa taarifa). Hii maana yake ni kwamba dhamira yangu ya kukienzi chuo changu kwa kufungua kituo kama hicho imekufa kifo cha MENDE.

Hivi sasa nahaha sana kuhangaikia shule yangu ambayo nikifanikiwa nayo, inshaallah, sijakata tamaa, nitaendelea na jambo hilo Na. 1 hapo juu hata kama italazimika kufanya hivyo nje ya Taasisi yangu niliyodhamiria kuwa kianzishwe hapo. Mungu anajua yote, amin.

MAJAJI WAMEPOTOKA RUFAA YA SHAURI LA MGOMBEA BINAFSI

2010-06-19T23:14:00.000-07:00

Dk Mwakyembe: Majaji wamepotoka
Friday, 18 June 2010 23:01
Imeandaliwa na Fidelis Butahe, Hussein Issa, Geofrey Nyang'oro na Freddy Azzah
Chanzo : Gazeti la Mwananchi 18/6/2010.

NI KWELI WATANZANIA WANASHERIA WOTE TUNAJIULIZA MAHAKAMA YA RUFAA NI YA KAZI GANI KAMA SIO KUAMUA HAKI ZA WATU KAMA ILIVYOAINISHWA KATIKA IBARA YA 107A ya Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania ya mwaka 1977???

WANASIASA na wasomi nchini wamesema kuwa majaji saba waliotoa hukumu ya mgombea binafsi wamepotoka na kujichanganya kwa kuliachia Bunge jukumu hilo.

Alhamisi, tarehe 17/6/2010 Mahakama ya Rufaa ya Tanzania ilitupilia mbali uwezekano wa kuwepo kwa mgombea binafsi licha ya Mahakama Kuu kuamua katika kesi iliyofunguliwa na Mwenyekiti wa DP, Mchungaji Christopher Mtikila kuwa sheria inayozuia mgombea binafsi inakiuka Katiba ya nchi.

Kutokana na hali hiyo Mahakama ya Rufaa imerudisha hoja hiyo bungeni ambapo katika hukumu yake ilieleza kuwa suala hilo lazima liwekwe na Bunge ambalo lina uwezo wa kisheria wa kufanya marekebisho ya kikatiba na si mahakama ambazo hazina uwezo huo kisheria.

Mbunge wa Kyela, Dk Harison Mwakyembe ndiye amepinga vikali suala hilo na kusema kuwa haikustahili kupelekwa bungeni kwa ajili ya kujadiliwa.

Alisema yeye kama mwanasheria anafahamu kuwa suala hilo ni la haki, kilichotakiwa kutolewa na mahakama ni mwongozo kwamba nini Bunge linatakiwa kufanya, kwa sababu mahakama ndio inayosimamia sheria badala ya Bunge kuzitunga na kuzipitisha.

"Nikisema suala hili la mgombea binafsi sio haki nikiwa kama mwanasheria, wenzangu na hata wanafunzi wangu watanishangaa sana, ukweli ni kwamba ni haki ya kuwa na mgombea binafsi, ila haina manufaa kwani hawana nguvu, mfano Marekani wanao wagombea binafsi, lakini hawafahamiki," alisema.

Mwakyembe ambaye alisema hayo katika mahojiano ya moja kwa moja na kituo chaTBC jana asubuhi, aliongeza kuwa mahakama ni zao la katiba, hivyo kilichotakiwa ni kusimamia katiba kama ilivyotungwa na Bunge na sio kurudisha tena majadiliano bungeni badala ya kumaliza kesi hiyo.

Mhadhiri wa Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam ambaye kitaaluma ni mwanasheria, Dk Sengondo Mvungi alisema maamuzi ya mahakama hiyo yameiidhihirishia dunia kuwa Tanzania haiheshimu haki za msingi za binadamu na utawala bora.

"Uamuzi wa jana (juzi), ulimaanisha kuwa Watanzania wote tumepoteza, tumeipoteza miaka zaidi ya 48 ya kupigania uhuru, utawala bora na kuheshimu haki za binadamu," alisema Dk Mvungi ambaye pia ni mtaalamu wa masuala ya katiba.

Dk Mvungi aliendelea kufafanua kuwa, makosa ya Bunge na serikali ya kutomtambua mgombea binafsi, kisheria yalipaswa kurekebishwa na mahakama.

Mvungi alifafanua kuwa, haki za msingi za binaadamu, zilikuwepo tangu siku ya kwanza aliyoumbwa na kuongeza kuwa mahakama inapaswa kulizilinda haki hizo za kiasili.

"Haki za binadamu hazijaundwa na dola wala katiba, mahakama wamekopeshwa tuu kulinda haki hizi, katika utawala bora mahakama lazima iwe na mamlaka ya asili ya kulinda haki za binadamu, kitu ambacho hawa waheshimiwa walikisahau," alisema na kuongeza;

"Kwa hukumu iliyotolewa na mahakama hiyo imedhihirisha kuwa Tanzania katika suala la utawala bora na kuheshimu haki za msingi za binadamu iko nyuma sana, katika hili mahakama imejipiga risasi yenyewe wala hakuna aliyeishinikiza na imejipotezea heshima yake mbele ya wananchi,".

Naibu Katibu Mkuu wa CUF upande wa Zanzibar, Juma Haji Duni alisema kwa hatua hiyo ya Mahakama ya Rufaa imeonyesha kuwa kwa sasa wananchi hawana mahali pa kupata haki zao za msingi.

"Kama Mahakama na Bunge vimeshindwa kuwasaidia wananchi sasa sijui watakimbilia wapi, unapoona nchi nyingine zina machafuko usidhani kuwa yameanza siku moja, machafuko hayo yanatokana na wananchi kuelemewa na mambo kama haya,"
alisema Duni.

Duni alidai kuwa wananchi wameshavulimilia kwa muda mrefu kukaa bila kupata haki zao za msingi na kwamba hivi sasa wamechoka na hatma ya nchi iko mikononi mwao.

Alidai uamuzi wa mahakama hiyo ulikuwa na shinikizo la serikali na CCM.

Duni alisisitiza kuwa, duniani nzima Mahakama na Bunge vinatakiwa kulinda haki za binadamu na kuwa kwa Tanzania vyombo hivyo vimeshindwa kutimiza majukumu yake hayo ya msingi.

Kwa upande wake mbunge wa Viti Maalum kwa tiketi ya Chadema , Halima Mdee alisema kuwa kesi ilitakiwa iishe kwa mujibu wa sheria na si kuipelekea Bunge kwa kuihusisha na siasa.

Alisema anachokifahamu yeye kama mwanasheria mahakama ni mlinzi wa matakwa ya watu.

"Hili sio suala la kisiasa zaidi kwani kila mtu analifahamu kilichokuwa kinatakiwa hapa ni kutoa maelezo kwa Bunge tu lifanye nini ,"alisema Mdee

Alisisitiza kuwa mahakama inafahamika kuwa ni zao la katiba na sheria, hivyo ilichokuwa inatakiwa ni kutoa maelekezo kwa kufuata vifungu vya sheria.

Katibu Mkuu wa NCCR-Mageuzi, Samwel Ruhuza alisema hatua hiyo ni sawa na kesi kupelekwa mahakamani halafu mahakama ikatoa amri kuwa kesi hiyo ikasikilizwe kifamilia na kufafanua kuwa hatua hiyo haiwezi kutoa haki kwa anayeshitaki na aliyeshitakiwa kwa kuwa familia itapendelea upande mmoja.

Wakati huohuo na wanaharakati wa kituo cha Sheria na Haki za Binadamu(LHRC), wameibuka na kuipinga vikali hukumu hiyo.

Wanaharakati hao sasa wanajianda kulifikisha suala hilo kwenye mahakama (African court of Justice and Human right) yenye makao makuu mjini Arusha.

Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari ofisini kwake jana Mkurugenzi wa kituo hicho, Francis Kiwanga alisema maamuzi hayo yanayonyesha mahakama kushindwa kufanya kazi yake ya kutafsiri sheria kama ilivyopewa mamlaka hayo na katiba.

“Ikumbukwe kuwa msingi mkuu wa utawala bora ni kutofautisha majukumu na mamlaka ya mihimili ya nchi ambayo ni Mahakama, Serikali na Bunge, kama mahakama inakiri kutokuwa na mamlaka ya kutoa haki ni chombo gani kingine kinaweza kuwa na mamlaka hiyo?”alihoji Kiwanga na kuongeza;

“Kituo kinaanda jopo la wataalamu wa sheria ili kupeleka suala hili kwenye vyombo vya kimataifa vya utoaji haki,”alisema Kiwanga.
Kiwanga alisema mahakama ndio chombo peke kikatiba kinachotakiwa kutafiri sheria na kutoa maamuzi bila upendeleo wowote.