MTWARA KUMEKUCHA

AUSTRALIA SETO TO RECOGNISE ABORIGINES AS FIRST PEOPLE OF CONTINENT

2012-01-24T05:00:00.000+03:00

Julia Gillard says 'time is right to say yes to an understanding of our past' as report recommends end to state discrimination

Australia's Aborigines can be discriminated against under sections 25 and 51 of the constitution. Photograph: Gary Calton

Australia is poised to make historic changes to its constitution, recognising Aborigines as the country's original inhabitants and removing the last clauses of state-sanctioned racial discrimination.

The amendments could be put to the Australian people in a referendum before the next general election in 2013, after the prime minister, Julia Gillard, endorsed the unanimous findings of a panel of 19 experts.

Section 25 of the constitution recognises that states can disqualify people, such as Aborigines, from voting. Section 51 says federal parliament can make laws based upon a person's race. Both were put in the constitution in 1901 to prevent certain races from living in areas reserved for white people or from taking up certain occupations.

The prime minister, Julia Gillard, welcomed the report. "We are big enough and it is the right time to say yes to an understanding of our past, to say yes to constitutional change, and to say yes to a future more united and more reconciled than we have ever been before," she said.

The panel's report followed public consultation with more than 4,500 people and more than 250 public meetings. The panel's co-chair, Aboriginal elder Professor Patrick Dodson, urged bipartisan support for the proposals.

"This is a time when truth and respect for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples needs to be achieved through the recognition in our constitution," he said. "Strong leadership and our national interest are critical for our nation to go forward."

When Australia became a federation in 1901 there were only two references to Aborigines in the constitution: one denied federal parliament the power to make laws with respect to Aboriginal people in any state, while another excluded what it termed "Aboriginal natives" from the census. Both of those sections were scrapped in a 1967 referendum (by a majority of 90%), leaving a constitution that made no mention whatsoever of indigenous people.

Referendums in Australia have historically been hard to pass. Only eight out of 44 have succeeded since 1906, partly because any alteration to the constitution must be approved by a "double majority". This demands that, as well as a majority yes vote being required nationally, a majority must also be reached in four of the six states.

The opposition leader, Tony Abbott, has said he will study the document. "We have some reservations about anything that might turn out to be a one-clause bill of rights but we accept that millions of Australians' hopes and dreams are resting on constitutional recognition of indigenous people," he said.

The report also called for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages to be recognised as the country's first languages. It calls for continuing respect for these cultures, languages and heritage.

The government aims to hold the referendum at or before a general election, due in 2013.

GUARDIAN UK

RAI YA JENERALI

2012-01-23T05:55:00.000+03:00

Urais Umeshuka hadhi, wengine wanaiona Ikulu kama kijiwe

Na Jenerali Ulimwengu

NAFASI anayopewa mtu ndani ya jamii ili awatumikie wanajamii wenzake, kwa maana kwamba wenzake wanamuomba awatumikie, ni nafasi ya uwakilishi.

Anayepewa nafasi hiyo anakuwa katumwa kazi, amebebeshwa mzigo kwa niaba ya jamii yake kwa sababu jamii imetambua kwamba yeye anao uwezo ambao wengine hawana wa kuifanya kazi hiyo.

Katika mjumuiko wa kisiasa, kama vile chama cha kisiasa, hali ni ile ile. Nafasi ya uwakilishi hupewa mtu anayeonekana kuwa na uwezo mkubwa kuliko wenzake katika kutimiza jukumu fulani. Chama ama kundi jingine lolote lenye nia moja humteua mtu au huwateua watu kwa misingi ya jukumu lililopo wakati huo.

Majukumu hubadilika, au yakachukua sura mpya, na ikiwa hivyo basi chama pia kitabadilisha mtazamo katika uteuzi wa mwakilishi wake. Kwa mfano, tukiangalia historia ya kisiasa ya Tanganyika tutatambua kwamba Julius Nyerere, kijana kutoka shamba, mtu “wa kuja” ambaye hata Kiswahili chake hakikuwa na lafudhi ya kuvutia kwa watu wa mwambao, aliteuliwa kuwawakilisha wazalendo waliotamani kupata Uhuru, wengi wao wakiwa watu wa mwambao, kwa sababu yeye ndiye alikuwa na sifa zilizotakikana ili kumkabili mkoloni.

Nyerere alikuwa kapata elimu kubwa kuliko wenzake wengi; aliwajua Waingereza labda kuliko mwingine yeyote miongoni mwao; alikuwa na uwezo wa kujenga hoja na zikaeleweka kwa Waingereza; pia alikuwa na ujasiri wa kusema anachotaka kusema bila kumung’unya maneno. Alikuwa ndiye mtu mwafaka wa kumtuma kupeleka ujumbe kwa Waingereza.

Alikuwa na sifa nyingine pia, ambayo hatuisemi sana ingawa ni wazi kuwa ilikuwa na umuhimu wake: Alikuwa Mkristo na dola aliyotumwa kupambana nayo ilikuwa ni dola ya Wakristo. Kwa hiyo ilikuwa ni rahisi zaidi kwa wakoloni kumwamini, na hususan kwa sababu katika miaka aliyokaa nchini mwao kama mwanafunzi walikwisha kumtathmini na kumuona kama mwenzi wao ambaye asingewasababishia mashaka makubwa.

Tunaweza kufikiria mazingira mengine, na bila kwenda mbali. Kama Tanganyika ingekuwa na hali ya kisiasa iliyofanana na Kenya ya wakati ule, katikati ya uasi wa Mau Mau, na kama wazalendo wa Tanganyika wangekuwa wameamua kwamba njia pekee ya kumng’oa mkoloni ni mapambano ya kisiasa, labda wasingemteua Nyerere.

Labda wangemteua mmoja wao mwenye uwezo wa kuongoza wapiganaji wenye silaha ili ajenge jeshi la kupambana na Mwingereza, na labda kwa mantiki hiyo wangemteua Ally Sykes, aliyekuwa katoka vitani.

Pia, katika mazingira inapobidi kuchukua njia ya mapambano ya silaha, huyo ambaye angechukua nafasi ya uongozi asingeteuliwa kwa maana ya kuteuliwa kwa wengi wa wanaharakati kumkubali, au kumpigia kura. Angejitokeza tu, akasimama, akwaambia wenzake kwamba maneno yametosha na hayawapeleki kokote; sasa ni mtutu wa bunduki. Na historia ya harakati za kutafuta Uhuru ingekuwa tofauti kabisa.

Hali kama hiyo ndiyo iliyotokea Kenya. Hakuna kumbukumbu zinazoonyesha kwamba Dedan Kimathi, shujaa wa vita ya Mau Mau alichaguliwa na mkutano mkuu wa wapiganaji. Na mapema kuliko wakati huo, hatuna ushahidi wa kuonyesha kama Kinjeketile, shujaa wa vita ya Maji Maji alichaguliwa na mtu yeyote kuwa kiongozi wa harakati hizo.

Katika historia ya Kenya tunajifunza, kama nilivyosema mapema, kwamba mazingira yakibadilika na aina ya mtu anayetafutwa kuwawakilisha wenzake inabadilika. Ndiyo maana wakati Kenya inaandaliwa kupata Uhuru na wazalendo wa nchi hiyo wanatafuta kiongozi wa kupokea mikoba kutoka kwa Waingereza, hawakutafuta mpiganaji wa Mau Mau, mfuasi wa Kimathi. Walimtafuta Jomo Kenyatta, ambaye hakuwa na uhusiano na Mau Mau na alikwisha kuwakana hadharani.

Ninachosema hapa ni kwamba nchi, jamii, chama cha kisiasa au kundi lolote linalokabiliwa na changamoto katika ustawi, usalama ama maendeleo, humteua mtu, au huwateua watu wa kuwakilisha mjumuiko wao kufuatana na hali waliyo nayo, na sifa za hao wanaoteuliwa hubadilika kufuatana na mazingira ya wakati huo.

Tukirudi katika hali yetu nchini Tanzania, leo tunashuhudia kwamba wanasiasa wetu wanapigana vikumbo wakiwania kuchukua nafasi ya urais. Nimekuwa nikijiuliza, hivi hawa wanasiasa wanapendekezwa na wanajamii wenzao kwa sababu wamewaona wanazo sifa za kusaidia ama chama ama nchi katika nyanja walizozichunguza na kuzitathmini? Au ni watu wanaojipendekeza wenyewe na kukusanya mashabiki wa kuwafanyia kampeni kwa sababu tu wanakinyang’anyiro hao wana malengo wasiyoyatamka hadharani na wakipata nafasi wanayoitafuta watawagawia mashabiki wao sehemu ya ngawira watakayoiteka?

Bila shaka urais umeshuka thamani, umechuja, (wako wanaoiona Ikulu kama kijiwe) iwapo kila mtu anajiona anaweza kuwa rais, hata mbumbumbu wa kisiasa wasiojua hata historia ya chama wanachotaka kukiwakilisha, wasiojua historia ya dunia wala Afrika, wasiojua siasa ni nini mbali na kutafuta nafasi za ulaji na ufisadi.

Kwa sababu katika mlo hakuna uwakilishi, kila mtu atataka kwenda mwenyewe mezani. Haiyumkiniki kwamba watu watasema wanamwachia mmoja wao awakilishe kwenye mlo. Hicho ndicho kiini cha mapambano makali tunayoyashuhudia leo hii.

Mimi si bashiri, na wala sipigi ramli, lakini jinsi tunavyoenenda na siasa hizi bandia, watu watatoana roho, kama hawajaanza bado. Yote hii ni kwa sababu nafasi iliyokuwa ya uongozi na kazi ngumu na majukumu mazito sasa imekuwa nafasi ya kujinufaisha mtu na familia yake na watu wa karibu, ‘washikaji’ wasemavyo watu wa mjini.

Hali ya mikanganyiko iliyoikumba Tanzania hivi leo isingeweza kukupa sura ya nchi ambayo watu watauana ili wapate nafasi ya kuitumikia. Umasikini unaozidi kujichimbia nchini katikati ya utajiri wa ajabu; kukata tamaa kwa wananchi wasiouona vyema mustakabali wao kwa jinsi wanavyoendeshwa; dalili za vurugu zinazotuchungulia kama tutaendelea tulivyo; vijana waliojaa ghadhabu kwa sababu wanaona wamenyimwa haki zao za msingi; rushwa, wizi, ulaghai kila pembe…. Hii siyo hali ya kuwafanya watu wajipendekeza kuongoza. Ni hali ambayo, katika mazingira ya kawaida, ingeilazimisha jamii kuwalazimisha wanasiasa na viongozi wenye sifa, wakubali kubeba mzigo wa kuikwamua jamii, siyo wao wajipendekeze na watoane roho kwa tamaa ya kubebeshwa mizigo mizito.

Hatuleti maana, tumekiuka mantiki.

RAIA MWEMA

GRAND MAITRE LUAMBO LUANZO

2012-01-20T11:00:00.001+03:00

NIGERIA: A POLICE BOKO HARAM TURNCOAT

2012-01-20T07:58:00.003+03:00

A red flag has been raised in the Nigerian police force after a key suspect in the Christmas Day bombing which killed over 40 people escaped from police custody.

Many now suspect a collusion between the police and Islamist sect Boko Haram after Kabiru Sokoto - suspected member of the group escaped from police charge.

A police commissioner has now been arrested.

After the Christams Day attacks President Goodluck Jonathan voiced concerns that members of Boko Haram had infiltrated government and security agencies.

Police chiefs have accused their own commissioner of "serious negligence" and are treating the escape as a criminal case.Sokoto is believed to have planned the bombing of St Theresa Roman Catholic church in Madalla/Photo/Reuters

Sokoto is believed to have planned the bombing of St Theresa Roman Catholic church in Madalla, just outside the capital city of Abuja.

The police arrested Sokoto on 14 January in Abuja at a lodge owned by Kashim Shettima, governor of Borno state in the north-east of the country.

But while Sokoto was being transported to a police station the next day, youths surrounded the police cars leading to a break out of pandemonium, during which the suspect managed to escape.

"The police view this development as a serious negligence on the part of the commissioner of police and have since queried and suspended him from duty," a statement released by the police read.

According to the police, Sokoto was the only major suspect to be arrested for involvement in the bloody attacks blamed on Boko Haram, which has stepped up its attacks over the last year.

June last year, police commissioners agreed to flush out possible Boko Haram moles who might have infiltrated the police force following an attack by Boko Haram on the police headquarters in Abuja, the country's capital.

In 2010, President Goodluck Jonathan sacked the then Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, over lack of commitment, inefficiency, rampant corruption within the police force and rising insecurity in the nation

AFRICAN REPORT

TUKEMEE UKATILI KWA WATOTO

2012-01-19T13:52:00.000+03:00

Picha ya mtoto Nase Yonah (9) jinsi alivyoharibika mgongoni kwa majeraha yanayodaiwa kutokana na kipigo alichokuwa akikipata kutoka kwa shangazi yake aliyetajwa kwa jina la Anna Minja, mwalimu wa shule ya Msingi Narumu, Hai.

PEMBA NA KUMBUKUMBU MUHIMU ZA KIHISTORIA

2012-01-19T13:28:00.001+03:00

Na Charles Kayoka,

KATIKA mlango bahari unaoruhusu maji kuingia hadi ghuba ya Mikindani, Mtwara, kuna kitongoji kimoja ambacho umaarufu wake sasa haupo tena, lakini ni muhimu sana unapozungumzia historia ya kuabiri baharini, uvuvi, ukoloni na biashara ya utumwa.
Hapo kwenye mlango bahari ndipo watumwa waliouzwa pale Mikindani, walikuwa wakipitishwa na mitumbwi mikubwa kuelekea Zanzibar, Mafia, na Uarabuni. Na sio watumwa tu, bali rasilimali zingine za asili. Kitongoji hicho kinaitwa Pemba, kiko katika kijiji cha (kata ya )Naumbu.

Na hata katika miaka michache kabla na baada ya uhuru, Mkonge ulikuwa ukipita hapa, na kulikuwa na gati maalumu la kupakia bidhaa hiyo, Ananieleza mkazi mmoja ambaye ni mwenyeji wa pale, ambaye ni mtunza Msikiti wa urithi kutoka kwa baba yake.
Lakini Pemba hiyo ina makuu gani?

Hapo zamani, aliniambia mhabarishaji wangu, Unguja ndio ilionekana ni mji ambao kama hujawahi kwenda ulionekana hujasafiri, na unaonekana mshamba bado. Ilikuwa kama Dar-es-Salaam ya sasa, kama hujaenda huko basi wewe bado uko nyuma.
Wakati ule mitumbwi mikubwa ya kufanyia safari hizo ilikuwa hapa, na mabaharia mashuhuri walikuwepo hapa Pemba. Sasa hivi hakijulikani sana kama Pemba, bali Mkayula. Ukifika hapo Pemba unaweza kumaizi kuwa ni eneo linalohifadhi historia ambayo kwa sasa si rahisi kujua utaanzia wapi ili kuiandika.

Hili kaburi tumelikuta, na niliwahi kuambiwa na babu yetu mmoja, wakati huo akiwa na miaka mia moja na saba hivi, kuwa na yeye alizaliwa akalikuta hapa, na wakati huo watu walikuwa wakija hapa kufanya maombi na kuacha fedha kama sadaka zao za kukamilishia maombi.
Nilifikishwa hadi hapo, ni wazi limeanza kufukiwa na mchanga kabisa ingawa linaonyesha kuwa limezikwa mtu mwenye asili ya Uarabuni, kutokana na mfumo wake wa ujenzi.

Kijiji hicho kina misikiti miwili iliyochoka kabisa kutokana na umri mkubwa. Mmoja ni msikiti wa Ijumaa, ingawa kwa kweli unaelekea kufikia kikomo cha matumizi kutokana na hali mbaya ndani na nje. Na Mwingine ni msikiti wa kawaida ambao mhabarishaji wangu anaumiliki kama urithi toka kwa baba yake. Yeye hajui Msikiti huo umejengwa lini kwani, hata kaka yangu alipozaliwa mwaka 1947 hivi aliukuta ukiwa unatumika. Nao umechoka zaidi.

Aliniambia kuwa mwaka jana palikuwa na sherehe nzito hapo kijijini, chini ya mbuyu, iliyolenga kuburudisha wageni wa kizungu kutoka Uingereza. Huenda niseme tu kuwa kwenye mlango bahari huo wamepita watu mashuhuri katika historia ya ukoloni na umisionari, akiwemo John Hanning Speke (mtafiti na mwanajeshi wa jeshi la kikoloni huko India) na Dr. David Livingstone, ambao walikuwa watafiti maarufu wa Kiingereza.
Na ukifika Mikindani mjini utakuta nyumba ambayo mtafiti, David Livingstone, alipata kuishi, na sasa iko kwenye ukarabati.

Hatujui John Hanning Spekes aliishi nyumba ipi, na utafiti wangu hauonyeshi alikuja mwaka gani huko Pemba (ingawa inaonyesha alifika mara mbili Zanzibar kwa ajili ya kufanya safari ya uvumbuzi wa Ziwa Victoria na Tanganyika).
Na kuwa haijulikani alikuwa akiishi nyumba gani kwani hakuna kumbukumbu, kwani kama kulikuwa na nyumba ambazo wageni walikuwa wakiishi, sasa hivi hazipo tena.

Lakini nilionyeshwa, hapo kijijini Pemba mti mmoja mkubwa sana wa mbuyu ambapo inasemekana Spekes alikuwa ana tabia kupumzikia na kupata kivuli. Na hiyo ndiyo sababu ya kufanyika kwa sherehe pale Pemba.
Wageni hao walikuja hapo kijijini kutokana na kumbukumbu ya shajara ya Spekes ambayo inaonyesha kuwa alikuwa akiishi hapo na kuwa alikuwa akipumzika kwenye mbuyu huo wenye pacha, kwenye mlango bahari.

Na kuwa katika shajara hiyo alikitaja kijiji cha Pemba, Mikindani Mtwara. Kwa maelezo hayo, kizazi hicho cha Spekes waliweza kusafiri na hatimaye kufika hapo kijijini. Kwa furaha yao walifanya sherehe kubwa kama kumbukumbu ya mtafiti huyo maarufu wakati wa karne ya 19.
Lakini yote haya mtu huwezi kuyafahamu kwa sababu hakuna mahala unapoweza kufika, pale Mtwara au Dar-es-Salaam, kupata taarifa hizo.

Aidha unaona majengo hayo muhimu yenye uhusiano mkubwa na historia yetu, lakini hakuna anayejali kuyatunza. Lakini wakati huo huo tunahimiza utalii wa ndani. Ni utalii upi kama huu wa kihistoria hatuuzingatii. Lakini la muhimu zaidi, hii ni historia yetu, historia ya maisha yetu kama nchi.

DK. SLAA AMPIGA CHENGA JK MSIBANI

2012-01-19T08:23:00.002+03:00

AKWEPA KUKAA JUKWAA KUU, WENGI WAMZIKA REGIA

Juma Mtanda na Shakila Nyerere, Ifakara

KATIBU Mkuu wa Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema), Dk Willbroad Slaa, jana alimkwepa tena Rais Jakaya Kikwete safari hii ikiwa katika mazishi ya aliyekuwa Mbunge wa Viti Maalumu kwa tiketi ya chama hicho, Regia Mtema yaliyofanyika katika Kijiji cha Lipangalala.Tangu kumalizika kwa Uchaguzi Mkuu wa 2010, ambao Dk Slaa alishika nafasi ya pili kwa kupata kura 2,271,941 sawa na asilimia 26.34 akiwa nyuma ya Rais Kikwete aliyepata kura 5,276,827 sawa na asilimia 61.17, Dk Slaa hakuwahi kukutana na mkuu huyo wa nchi ana kwa ana.

Katika hafla ya kutangazwa matokeo ya urais iliyoandaliwa na Tume ya Taifa ya Uchaguzi (Nec), kwenye Ukumbi wa Karimjee, Dar es Salaam, Dk Slaa hakuhudhuria tofauti na ilivyokuwa kwa waliokuwa wagombea wenzake wote.

Jana, Dk Slaa tofauti na viongozi wenzake wa Chadema akiwemo Mwenyekiti wa chama hicho, Freeman Mbowe, hakutaka kujiweka katika mazingira ambayo yangemkutanisha na Rais Kikwete katika mazishi hayo.
Nyumba kulikofanyika shughuli za awali za mazishi, waandalizi waliandaa majukwaa mawili, moja maalum kwa ajili ya wabunge huku jingine likiwa ni maalumu kwa ajili ya viongozi wakuu ambalo alikaa Mbowe, Spika wa Bunge, Anne Makinda, Naibu Katibu Mkuu wa Chadema, Zitto Kabwe.

Mbali ya kukaa viongozi hao, kulikuwa na nafasi ambayo ilikuwa imetengwa maalumu kwa ajili ya Rais. Mbali ya nafasi hiyo, pia kulikuwa na kiti ambacho ilitegemewa kwamba Dk Slaa angekalia.
Hata hivyo, Katibu Mkuu huyo wa Chadema alikikwepa na kwenda kujichanganya katika jukwaa la wabunge na kiti hicho kubaki bila ya kuwa na mtu.

Hata hivyo, Rais Kikwete hakuweza kufika nyumbani hadi mwili wa marehemu Regia ulipopelekwa katika Viwanya vya Viungani ambako uliagwa na mamia ya waombolezaji.

Uwanjani hapo nako kulikuwa na majukwaa mawili. Kama ilivyokuwa nyumbani, jukwaa moja lilikuwa la wabunge na jingine la viongozi wa ngazi za juu lakini bado, Dk Slaa alilikwepa jukwaa hilo ambalo Rais alitarajiwa kuwa angefikia. Rais hakuweza kufika Viungani pia.

Baadaye wakiwa eneo la mazishi, Rais Kikwete alifika na kushiriki tukio hilo na kisha kusalimiana na wabunge mbalimbali na viongozi waliokuwa wamefika akiwemo Mbowe, Mbunge wa Rombo Joseph Selasini, Zitto na viongozi wengine lakini Dk Slaa hakuonekana.

Ilitegemewa kuwa tukio hilo la msiba lingewaleta wanasiasa hao lakini hadi Rais Kikwete alipoondoka hakuna mahali ambako walisalimiana.
Mbali ya tukio hilo, hata katika hafla mbalimbali ambazo viongozi wa Chadema wamekuwa wakialikwa ikiwemo Ikulu, Dk Slaa hakuwahi kuhudhuria.

Novemba mwaka jana viongozi wa Chadema wakiongozwa na Mbowe, walifanya mazungumzo na Rais Kikwete, Ikulu ya Dar es Salaam kujadili suala la Katiba Mpya, lakini Dk Slaa hakuhudhuria.

Chadema wahaha
Wakati viongozi wa Chadema wakihaha kumaliza mgogoro ndani ya chama hicho wilayani Kilombero, Pacha wa marehemu Regia, Remigia Mtema amesema ndugu yake Regia alikuwa akipeleka malalamiko kwa Dk Slaa mara kadhaa kuomba asuluhishe bila mafanikio.

Hata hivyo, Remigia alisema marehemu Regia alikuwa amepanga kuonana tena na Dk Slaa katika siku za hivi karibuni kumweleza kinachoendelea.

Akizungumzia suala hilo, Dk Slaa alisema alishaanza kushughulikia mgogoro huo lakini msiba huo ndiyo uliomkwamisha.

“Ni kweli nimekuwa nikielezwa tatizo hilo na tayari nilishaanza kulifanyika kazi ila sasa siwezi kusema suala hilo limefikia wapi kwani wote tuko kwenye mazishi,” alisema.

Uchunguzi wa gazeti hili umebaini kuwa wabunge wa Chadema waliotangulia kufika katika msiba huo, Mchungaji Peter Msigwa, Ezekia Wenje na Lucy Owenya, walikutana na uongozi wa kata wa Chadema ili kumaliza mgogoro huo.

Katibu mwenezi wa Chadema kata ya Ifakara, Antony Kamonalelo alisema viongozi hao walikaa na wanachama hao na kuwataka wapunguze munkari ili kumruhusu Mwenyekiti wa Chadema Wilaya ya Kilombero, Salum Ngozi na Mbunge wa Viti Maalumu, Susan Kiwanga kuhudhuria mazishi.

Hata hivyo, inadaiwa kwamba wanachama hao waliukubalia uongozi huo kumruhusu Susan peke yake kuhudhuria mazishi hayo.

Juzi, wanachama hao walimtimua msibani Ngozi kiasi cha kuwalazimu polisi waliokuwa eneo hilo kuingilia kati kwa kumchukua mwenyekiti huyo na kumpeleka katika Kituo cha Polisi Wilaya.

Hiyo ilikuwa mara ya pili kwa Ngozi kutimuliwa katika msiba huo. Mara ya kwanza ilikuwa siku moja iliyotangulia ambayo ilimlazimu Kaimu Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Kilombero, Francis Miti kuingilia kati.

Ngozi amekuwa akidai kwamba anafanyiwa fujo na kikundi cha watu aliowaita wahuni na kwamba amefungua kesi ya kufanyiwa vurugu katika Kituo cha Polisi Wilaya ya Kilombero na kwamba baada ya kumalizika kwa mazishi atasimamia suala hilo ili haki itendeke.

MWANANCHI

RAIS ASHIRIKI MAZISHI YA MHE REGIA MTEMA

2012-01-19T08:13:00.002+03:00

Mheshimiwa Rais akiweka shada la maua kwenye kaburi la aliyekuwa mbunge wa viti maalum wilaya ya Kilombero kwa tiketi ya CHADEMA mheshimiwa Regia Estelatus Mtema.

PICHA: MICHUZI

DAR ES SALAAM YAZIZIMA KWA MAJONZI WAKIMUAGA MPENDWA WAO REGIA MTEMA

2012-01-17T14:34:00.003+03:00

Mheshimiwa Spika wa Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano ya Tanzania Anne Makinda akitoa heshima zake za mwisho kwa nyota iliyozimika ghafla kama mshumaa uliozimwa na upepo. Mheshimiwa Regia Estelatus Mtema katika viwanja vya Karimjee mchana huu kabla ya safari ya kwenda kwenye makazi ya kudumu huko Ifakara mkoani Morogoro

Walinzi wa Bunge " Sergeant at arms" wakiwa wamebeba jeneza lililoubeba mwili wa Mheshimiwa Mtema wakienda kuliweka mahala ambapo heshima za mwisho zitatolewa

Gari ambalo lilitumika rasmi kuubeba mwili wa Hayati Mtema kutoka hospitali ya Muhimbili kwenda katika viwanja vya Karimjee kwa ajili ya kutolewa heshima za mwisho

PICHA: MICHUZI

MFUMUKO WA BEI SASA ASILIMIA 19

2012-01-17T11:11:00.001+03:00

Boniface Meena,

MFUMUKO wa bei nchini umezidi kuongezeka na sasa umefikia asilimia 19.8 kutoka asilimia 19.2 Novemba, mwaka jana.

Taarifa ya farahisi za bei za taifa ya Desemba, mwaka jana iliyotolewa jana na Ofisi ya Taifa ya Takwimu (NBS), imeonyesha kwa ujumla bei zimeongezeka hadi asilimia 121.79 kufikia Desemba mwaka jana kutoka asilimia 101.70 Desemba mwaka juzi.

Kuongezeka kwa mfumuko wa bei kumechangiwa hasa na kuongezeka kwa bei za bidhaa za vyakula. Baadhi ya bidhaa za vyakula zilizochangia kuongezeka kwa bei ni mchele, asilimia 10.6 na mikate asilimia 2.4.

Taarifa hiyo imeeleza pia kuwa bei ya vitafunwa imeongezeka kwa asilimia 1.9, nyama asilimia 4.0, samaki asilimia 2.4, maziwa asilimia 4.0, mafuta ya kupikia asilimia 3.2, limao asilimia 6.2, karanga asilimia 7.2, mbogamboga asilimia 5.5 na asali asilimia 3.1

Taarifa hiyo imeeleza kuwa vyakula na vinywaji baridi vimeongezeka bei hadi asilimia 27.1 kwa mwaka ulioishia Septemba, 2011 kutoka asilimia 26.1 kwa mwaka ulioishia Novemba, 2011.

“Badiliko la farahisi ya bei za bidhaa za vyakula nyumbani na katika migahawa limeongezeka hadi asilimia 25.6 kwa mwaka ulioishia Desemba mwaka jana ikilinganishwa na asilimia 24.7 kwa mwaka ulioishia Novemba, 2011,” imeeleza taarifa hiyo.

Ofisi ya Takwimu imeeleza katika taarifa yake hiyo kuwa kasi ya ongezeko kwa bidhaa zisizo za vyakula imefikia asilimia 12.7 kwa mwaka ulioishia Desemba, 2011 kutoka asilimia 12.6 kwa mwaka ulioishia Novemba mwaka jana.

Taarifa hiyo imeeleza kuwa mfumuko wa bei ambao haujumuishi vyakula na nishati kwa mwaka ulioishia Desemba, 2011 ambao umepungua kidogo hadi kufikia asilimia 8.7 kutoka asilimia 8.8 kwa mwaka ulioishia Novemba, 2011.

Hata hivyo, mfumuko wa bei wa nishati uliongezeka hadi asilimia 41.0 kwa mwaka ulioishia Desemba, 2011 kutoka asilimia 39.2 Novemba, 2011.

Taarifa hiyo imeeleza kuwa mfumuko wa bei wa bidhaa za vyakula na zisizo za vyakula umekuwa na mwelekeo unaofanana na kuongezeka kwa kila mwezi kuanzia Januari hadi Desemba mwaka jana.

“Wastani wa mfumuko wa bei ya taifa umeongezeka kutoka asilimia 5.5 mwaka 2010 hadi asilimia 12.7 mwaka jana hii ikiwa ni ongezeko la asilimia 7.2 wakati wastani wa mfumuko kila mwezi ulikuwa asilimia 1.4 kutoka Januari hadi Desemba mwaka jana,” imeeleza taarifa hiyo.

Taarifa hiyo imeeleza kuwa mfumuko wa bei kwa kipimo cha mwezi umeongezeka kwa asilimia 2.0 na bei za Desemba mwaka jana ziliongezeka kwa asilimia 2.0.

Kwa upande wa thamani ya Shilingi (kipimo cha Sh100), taarifa hiyo ilisema imepungua kutoka Septemba mwaka 2010 hadi kufikia Sh82.11 Desemba mwaka jana.

MWANANCHI

RATIBA YA UTARATIBU WA KUMWAGA MHE. REGIA MTEMA

2012-01-17T07:55:00.000+03:00

TAARIFA KWA VYOMBO VYA HABARI

YAH: MAANDALIZI YA KUAGA MWILI WA MAREHEMU

MHE. REGIA ESTELATUS MTEMA, (MB), TAREHE 17 JANUARI, 2012 KATIKA VIWANJA VYA KARIMJEE NA MAZISHI IFAKARA, KILOMBERO, MOROGORO – TAREHE 18 JANUARI, 2012

UTANGULIZI

Marehemu Mheshimiwa Regia Estelatus Mtema alifariki kwa ajali ya gari katika eneo la Ruvu, mkoani Pwani mnamo majira ya saa 5.30 asubuhi tarehe 14 Januari, 2012. Ofisi ya Bunge baada ya kuthibitisha kifo hicho kupitia Ofisi ya Kamanda wa Polisi Mkoa wa Pwani na baada ya Kuwasiliana na familia, mara moja ilituma Maafisa Waandamizi kwenda katika Hospitali ya Tumbi mkoani Pwani kuuchukua Mwili wa marehemu na kuuleta Muhimbili kuhifadhiwa ikiwa ni pamoja na kufanya maandalizi ya mazishi. Baada ya maandalizi hayo na kwa ushirikiano na familia na uongozi wa Kambi ya Upinzani Bungeni yafuatayo yamekubaliwa kufanyika:-

MWILI KUAGWA NA FAMILIA TAREHE 16 JANUARI, 2012 KATIKA KANISA KATOLIKI SEGEREA

Familia imeandaa Misa ya Marehemu katika Kanisa Katoliki Segerea siku ya Jumatatu tarehe 16 Januari, 2012 kuanzia saa 9 alasiri mpaka saa 11 jioni. Mwili wa Marehemu utaondoka Hospitali ya Muhimbili saa 7 mchana na baadae kurejeshwa tena kwa hifadhi baada ya Misa.

MWILI KUAGWA RASMI KATIKA VIWANJA VYA KARIMJEE TAREHE 17 JANUARI, 2012

Ofisi ya Bunge imeandaa utaratibu kwa viongozi wa kitaifa, Waheshimiwa Wabunge, Wananchi kuuaga rasmi Mwili wa Marehemu katika viwanja vya Karimjee siku ya Jumanne tarehe 17 Januari, 2012. Shughuli hiyo inatarajiwa kuanza saa 3.00 asubuhi na kuhitimishwa saa 5.30 asubuhi (Ratiba imeambatanishwa kama kiambatisho A). Kama ratiba inavyoonesha, Mwili wa Marehemu utaondoka katika viwanja vya Karimjee saa 5.30 asubuhi mara tu baada ya kuaga katika viwanja vya Karimjee kuelekea Ifakara, Kilombero mkoani Morogoro kwa mazishi.

RATIBA YA MAZISHI YATAKAYOFANYIKA IFAKARA

Ratiba ya tarehe 18 Januari, 2012 ambayo ndio siku ya Mazishi nyumbani kwa Marehemu Ifakara, Kilombero Mkoani Morogoro imepangwa kwa kuzingatia mila na desturi za familia. Ratiba hiyo ni kama ilivyo katika kiambatisho B. Kwa ratiba hiyo, shughuli zimepangwa kuanza saa 5 kamili asubuhi na kukamilika saa 10.30 alasiri.

MAANDALIZI MENGINEYO

Mpaka hivi sasa familia imearifu kuwa Msiba huo umepokelewa kwa hisia kubwa katika eneo alilozaliwa Marehemu Mheshimiwa Regia Estelatus Mtema na kwamba tujiandae kwa ushiriki kwa wakazi wa Kilombero takriban 1000. Aidha, Ofisi inaendelea na Maandalizi ikiwa imejiandaa kwa ushiriki wa viongozi wa kitaifa Mkoani Morogoro.

SHUGHULI ZA K AMATI ZA BUNGE SIKU YA JUMANNE TAREHE 17 JANUARI, 2012

Kutokana na uzito wa tukio hili, Ofisi ya Bunge inapenda kuutangazia Umma kuwa shughuli za Kamati za Bunge kwa jumanne tarehe 17 Janauari, 2012 ambazo zinafanyika katika Ofisi ya Bunge , Dar es Salaam, zitasitishwa hadi jumatano tarehe 18, Januari, 2012

Ofisi ya Bunge inaungana na familia ya marehemu katika kipindi hiki kigumu cha majonzi. Mwenyezi Mungu ailaze roho ya marehemu Mhe. Regia Estelatus Mtema, (MB) mahali pema peponi. Amina.

Imetolewa na,

Idara ya Habari, Elimu kwa Umma na Uhusiano wa Kimataifa

DAR ES SALAAM

16 Januari, 2012

KIAMBATANISHO A

RATIBA YA KUAGA RASMI MWILI WA MAREHEMU SIKU YA JUMANNE

TAREHE 17 JANUARI, 2012 KATIKA VIWANJA VYA KARIMJEE

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SN.	MUDA	TUKIO	MHUSIKA
1.	02:00 - 3:00	Ndugu, Jamaa na Wananchi kuwasili	Itifaki
2.	03:00-03:25	Viongozi wa Vyama vya Siasa, Waheshimiwa Wabunge, Manaibu Waziri, Mawaziri kuwasili na kuketi katika nafasi zao	Itifaki
3.	03:25	Kiongozi wa Upinzani Bungeni kuwasili	Katibu wa Bunge
4.	03:30	Mhe. Naibu Spika kuwasili	Katibu wa Bunge
5.	03:35	Mhe. Spika kuwasili	Mhe. Naibu Spika
6.	03:40	Mhe. Waziri Mkuu kuwasili	Mhe. Spika
7.	03:50	Mhe. Makamu wa Rais kuwasili	Mhe. Spika/Mhe. Waziri Mkuu
8.	03:50	Mwili wa Marehemu kuwasili kwa gwaride maalum la Sergeant-At-Arms	Katibu wa Bunge
9.	03:50 - 4:00	Sala fupi	Kanisa Katoliki
10.	04:00 - 04:10	Wasifu wa Marehemu	Katibu wa Bunge
11,	04:10 - 04:15	Salamu na Rambirambi za Mhe. Spika	Mhe. Spika
12.	04:15 – 04:40	Salamu na Rambirambi Vyama vya Siasa vyenye uwakilishi Bungeni:-CHADEMA,CCM, CUF, NCCR – Mageuzi, TLP na UDP Kiongozi wa Upinzani Bungeni Mwakilishi wa Serikali	MC
13.	04:40 - 04:45	Neno la Shukrani toka kwa familia	Mwakilishi wa Familia
13.	04:45 - 04:50	Utaratibu wa safari	Katibu wa Bunge
14.	04:50 - 05:50	Kuaga Mwili wa Marehemu kulingana na Itifaki	MC
15.	05:50	Mwili wa Marehemu kuondoka Uwanjani pamoja na Waheshimiwa Wabunge, Wanafamilia na Maafisa wanaokwenda Ifakara, Kilombero kwa Mazishi	MC
16.	06:00	Viongozi wa Kitaifa kuondoka kulingana na Itifaki	MC

KIAMBATANISHO B

RATIBA YA MAZISHI YA MAREHEMU REGIA ESTELATUS MTEMA, MB YATAKAYOFANYIKA IFAKARA, KILOMBERO, MOROGORO TAREHE 18 JANUARI, 2012

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SN.	MUDA	TUKIO	MHUSIKA
1.	04:00-05:00	Wananchi, Familia na Viongozi wa Kitaifa kuwasili kulingana na Itifaki Uongozi wa Wilaya na Halmashauri Uongozi wa Mkoa Viongozi wa Vyama vya Siasa Waheshimiwa Wabunge Waheshimiwa Manaibu Waziri Waheshimiwa Mawaziri Kiongozi wa Upinzani Bungeni Mhe. Naibu Spika Mhe. Spika Mhe. Waziri Mkuu Mhe. Rais	Katibu wa Bunge
2.	05:00 - 06:00	Chakula cha Mchana	Wote
3.	06:00 - 07:00	Misa	Kanisa Katoliki, Kilombero
4.	07:00 - 07:10	Wasifu wa Marehemu	Ofisi ya Bunge (Mwajiri)
5.	07:10 - 07:20	Salaam na Rambirambi kutoka Uongozi wa Ofisi ya Bunge	Mhe. Spika
6.	07:20 - 07:30	Salaam na Rambirambi kutoka kwenye Makundi mbalimbali ya Uwakilishi Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) Vyama vya Siasa vyenye Uwakilishi Bungeni (CCM, CUF, NCCR-Mageuzi, TLP na UDP) Mwakilishi wa Serikali	MC
7.	07:30 - 08:00	Msafara wa Waombolezaji kuelekea Makaburini na Mwili wa Marehemu kwa Mazishi	Wote
8.	08:00 - 08:30	Ibada ya Mazishi	Kanisa Katoliki, Kilombero
9.	08:30 -08:45	Kuweka Mashada ya Maua kulingana na Itifaki
10.	08:45 - 08:50	Shukrani kutoka kwa familia	Mwakilishi wa Familia
11.	08:50	Viongozi Kuondoka kulingana na Itifaki

REFLECTIONS FROM COMRADE: THE WORLD PEACE HANGING BY A THREAD

2012-01-17T05:30:00.000+03:00

World peace hanging by a thread

YESTERDAY I had the pleasure of conversing leisurely with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I hadn’t seem him since September of 2006, more than five years ago, when he visited our country to participate in the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit which took place in Havana, when Cuba was elected for a second time to the Presidency of this organization for a three year term.

I had become seriously ill July 26, 2006, a month and a half prior to this event and could barely sit up in bed. A few of the most distinguished leaders attending the meeting were kind enough to visit me. Chávez and Evo did so more than once. One midday, four, who I always remember, came: Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General; an old friend, Abdelaziz Buteflika, President of Algeria; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran; and a Deputy Foreign Minister from China who is now the country’s Foreign Minister, Yang Jiechi, representing the leader of the People’s Republic of China’s Communist Party, Hu Jintao. It was really an important moment for me as I was making a great effort to rehabilitate my right hand, which I had seriously injured in a fall in Santa Clara.

With these four I discussed aspects of the problems facing the world at that time. These have surely become even more complex.

In our encounter yesterday, I found the Iranian President absolutely calm and composed, completely indifferent to the yankee threats, confident in the capacity of his people to confront any aggression and in the ability of their weapons, a large portion of which they themselves have produced, to make the aggressors pay a heavy price.

In reality, he barely addressed the issue of war, he was concentrated on the ideas he expressed during the master lecture he gave within the University of Havana’s Aula Magna, focused on humanity’s struggle to "move toward achieving and maintaining peace, security, respect and human dignity as all human beings have desired, far and wide, throughout history."

I am sure that no rash action on the part of Iran, which could contribute to the outbreak of war, can be expected. If such a war should break out, it will only be as a result of the yankee empire’s congenital adventurism and irresponsibility.

I, for one, think that the political situation created around Iran and the resultant danger of nuclear war involving everyone – those possessing such weapons and those who don’t – is extremely delicate because it threatens the very existence of our species. The Middle East has become the most conflictive region in the world and is the area where energy resources vital to the world economy are produced.

The destructive power and massive suffering caused by some of the equipment used in World War II led to a strong effort to ban some weapons such as poison gases and others used in that war. Nevertheless, conflicting interests and the enormous profits gained by arms merchants led to the fabrication of even more cruel and destructive weapons, until modern technology provided the means and materials which, if employed, could lead to extinction.

I hold the opinion, undoubtedly shared by all people with an elementary sense of responsibility, that no country, large or small, has the right to possess nuclear weapons.

These should never have been used to attack defenseless cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, murdering and irradiating hundreds of thousands of men, women and children and causing long-lasting ill effects in a country which had already been militarily defeated.

If fascism had obliged the forces allied against Nazism to compete with this enemy of humanity in the manufacture of such weapons, once the war was over and the United Nations created, the first responsibility of that organization was to prohibit them, with no exceptions whatsoever.

But the United States, the strongest and richest power, imposed the line to be followed on the rest of the world. Today it possesses hundreds of spy satellites and polices all inhabitants of the planet from space. Its naval, air and land forces are equipped with thousands of nuclear weapons and it governs, as it pleases, the world’s finances and investments through the International Monetary Fund.

If the history of every one of Latin America’s countries is studied, from Mexico to Patagonia, through the Dominican Republic and Haiti, it can be seen that, without a single exception, all have suffered for 200 years. Since the beginning of the 19th century to date, in one way or another they have been increasingly suffering the worst crimes that power and force can commit against the rights of peoples. Brilliant writers emerged in growing numbers, one of them, Eduardo Galeano, author of the Open Veins of Latin America, which describes the aforementioned, has just been invited to inaugurate the prestigious Casa de Las Américas Prize, as a recognition of his important work.

Events unfold with such incredible speed, but the technology which disseminates them to the public does so even more rapidly. On any day, like today, important news items emerge at an extraordinary pace. One cable dispatch dated yesterday the 11th included the following information: the Danish President of the European Union affirmed on Wednesday that a new series of more severe European sanctions against Iran will be decided January 23, as a result of its nuclear program, focusing not only on the oil industry but the Central Bank as well.

"We’ll go further both on oil sanctions and on sanctions against the financial structures" in Iran, Danish Foreign Minister Villy Soevndal said during a press conference. It can be clearly seen that, in the interest of preventing nuclear proliferation, Israel can accumulate hundreds of nuclear missiles while Iran cannot produce uranium enriched to 20% [concentration of 235U].

Another news item about the issue from a well-known and expert British agency reported that China showed no sign Wednesday of ceding to United States demands to reduce its purchases of Iranian oil and described the sanctions U.S. against Iran as excessive.

Anyone would be shocked at the tranquility with which the United States and civilized Europe are promoting this campaign with incredible, systematic terrorist practices. These lines circulated by another important European news agency, "The killing, Wednesday, of a nuclear scientist at the Natanz nuclear plant in central Iran, is the fourth of its kind since January of 2010."

January 12, 2010: "A nuclear scientist of international repute, Massoud Ali- Mohamadi, a professor at the University of Tehran who worked for the Guardians of the Revolution, died when a motor-cycle bomb exploded outside his home…"

"November 29, 2010: Majid Shahriari, a founder member of the Nuclear Society of Iran and who headed one of the major Iranian Atomic Energy Organization projects […] was killed in Tehran when a magnetic bomb attached to his car exploded.

"The same day, another nuclear physicist, Fereydoun Abasi Davani, was the target of an attack in an identical situation when he was parking his car outside Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, where the two men were professors." –He was only injured.

"July 23, 2011: Scientist Dariush Rezainejad, who worked on Defense Ministry projects, was shot and killed by unknown assailants on a motor cycle in Tehran."

"January 11, 2012: – in other words, the same day that Ahmadinejad was traveling from Nicaragua to Cuba to give his lecture at the University of Havana – scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who worked at the Natanz plant, where he was deputy director for commercial affairs, died when a magnetic bomb attached to his car exploded close to Allameh Tabatabai University, east of Tehran." As in previous years, "Iran once again accused the United States and Israel."

This is about the selective butchery of brilliant Iranian scientists being systematically assassinated. I have read articles by known Israel sympathizers talking of crimes perpetrated by its intelligence services, in cooperation with the United States and NATO, as something normal.

At the same time, news agencies in Moscow informed, "Russia warned today that a similar scenario to that of Libya is developing in Syria, while noting that, this time, the attack will come from neighboring Turkey.

"Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev stated that the West wishes ‘to punish Damascus, not so much for repression of the opposition but because of its refusal to break off its alliance with Tehran.’"

"…in his opinion, a similar scenario to that of Libya is developing in Syria, but this time, the attacking forces will not come from France, Britain and Italy, but from Turkey."

"He additionally ventured to state, ‘it is possible that Washington and Ankara are already defining various options of flight zone exclusions where Syrian armed rebel units could be trained and concentrated.’"

News is not just coming in from Iran and the Middle East, but from other points in Central Asia in the vicinity of the Middle East. This allows us to appreciate the complexity of the problems which could emerge from this dangerous area.

Its contradictory and absurd imperial policies have led the United States into serious problems in countries such as Pakistan, whose borders with another important state, Afghanistan, were drawn up by colonialists without taking culture or ethnicities into account.

In the latter country, which defended its independence in the face of British colonialism throughout the centuries, drug production has greatly increased since the yankee invasion, and European soldiers, supported by drone aircraft and sophisticated armaments from the United States, are committing disgraceful acts of slaughter which are increasing the population’s hatred and distancing possibilities of peace. This and other atrocities are also reflected in the Western news agency cables.

"WASHINGTON, January 12, 2012 – U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta this Thursday described as utterly deplorable the behaviour of four men presented as U.S. marines urinating on corpses in Afghanistan, as shown on a video circulating on Internet.

"I have seen the images and find the behavior (of the men) utterly deplorable…"

"This conduct is entirely inappropriate for members of the United States military and does not reflect the standards or values our armed forces are sworn to uphold…"

In real terms, he is neither affirming nor denying it. Anyone could be left in doubt, possibly the Secretary of Defense himself.

But it is also extremely inhuman that men, women and children, or an Afghani combatant fighting against foreign occupation should be killed by bombs dropped from drone aircraft. Something else which is extremely grave: dozens of Pakistani soldiers and officers guarding the country’s borders have been destroyed by these bombs.

President Karzai of Afghanistan said in a statement that the desecration of the corpses was simply inhuman, and asked the U.S. government to implement the most severe punishment on all those responsible for the crime.

Taliban spokespersons stated that in the last 10 years there have been hundreds of similar acts which were not revealed.

One even feels pity for those soldiers, separated from their families and friends, thousands of kilometers from their own homeland, sent to fight in countries which they maybe never even heard mentioned as students, where they are assigned the task of killing or dying in order to enrich transnational enterprises, weapons manufacturers and unscrupulous politicians who, every year, are squandering funds needed for the alimentation and education of the countless millions of hungry and illiterate people in the world.

More than a few of these soldiers, victims of trauma, end up taking their own lives.

Am I exaggerating when I affirm that world peace is hanging by a thread?

Fidel Castro Ruz
January 12, 2012
9:14 p.m.

Translated by Granma International

MAJESHI YA BURUNDI NA WAASI YAPIGANA NDANI YA TANZANIA

2012-01-16T14:00:00.001+03:00

Na Frederick Katulanda

MAPAMBANO kati ya majeshi ya Burundi na vikosi vya waasi wanaoipinga Serikali ya nchi hiyo, yamezua hofu kwa wakazi wa Mkoa wa Kagera baada ya vita hiyo kuhamia na kuanza kupiganwa ndani ya ardhi ya Tanzania.

Habari zinaeleza kuwa wananchi kwenye maeneo hayo wanaishi kwa mashaka kufuatia waasi wa kundi la Forces for National Liberation (FNL), kuvamia vijiji kadhaa vya mpakani wilayani Ngara, huku wakipora mazao na mifugo kwa ajili ya chakula.

Habari zilizopatikana na kuthibitishwa na Kamanda wa Polisi Mkoa wa Kagera, Henry Salewi na Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Kagera, Kanali Mstaafu, Fabian Masawe, zilisema mbali ya uovu huo, waasi hao wamekuwa wakifanya mazoezi katika ardhi ya Tanzania.

Taarifa zaidi kutoka Kijiji cha Mumiramira, Kata ya Bugalama zimeeleza kuwa mapigano kati ya Warundi hao yamekuwa yakianzia maeneo ya Kijiji cha Kihinza nchini Burundi, kilichopo umbali wa kilomita moja kutoka eneo la mpaka wa Tanzania na Burundi.

Chanzo hicho kilieleza kuwa waasi hao wanapozidiwa nguvu, wamekuwa wakikimbian na kuvuka mpaka kuingia Tanzania huku majeshi ya Serikali ya Burundi nayo, yakivuka mpaka kuwafuata na kuwasaka.

Hali hiyo imesababisha wanajeshi na waasi hao kukabiliana ndani ya ardhi ya Tanzania, jambo ambalo tayari linadaiwa kusababisha kifo cha Mtanzania mmoja.

Wakizungumza na Mwananchi Jumapili kwa nyakati tofauti, baadhi ya wananchi waliohojiwa pamoja na Ofisa Mtendaji wa Kata ya Bugalama, Josamu John, walieleza kwamba mapigano makubwa yaliyoleta athari zaidi, yalitokea Novemba 19, mwaka jana ambapo milipuko kadhaa ya mabomu, ilisikika.

Hali hiyo ilisababisha wakazi zaidi ya 40 wa Kitongoji cha Kalamba kuyakimbia makazi yao na kuishi kwenye kambi ya Jeshi la Ulinzi la Wananchi wa Tanzania (JWTZ) ya Mumiramira.

Mapigano hayo pia yalisababisha mgodi wa Kabamba Nickel uliopo wilayani Ngara, kufungwa kwa siku 15 na wafanyakazi wake kurejeshwa makwao.

Kabla ya mapigano hayo katika ardhi ya Tanzania, waasi hao inasemekana walikimbilia nchini na kufanya mazoezi Oktoba, 2011.

Miongoni mwa vikosi hivyo inadaiwa vilivamia Kijiji cha Mumiramira na kuingia nyumbani kwa Kamanda wa Mgambo wa Kijiji, James Thomas na kumuua kwa madai kuwa alikuwa akifuatilia nyendo zao.

“Ni kweli hali hii ipo. Hawa watu wanavamia kila mara wanaweza kufika na kuiba mazao kweye maghala ya wananchi. Wakifika inategema wanahitaji nini wakati mwingine hufika kijiji na kupora mifungo ya wananchi na kutoweka,” alieleza Mtendaji huyo ingawa alionekana kuwa na hofu ya kutoa taarifa zaidi.

Habari zaidi zimeeleza kuwa wakazi wa vijiji vya mpakani wamekuwa wakishuhudia waasi hao ambao wamekuwa wakiingia kwa makundi nchini nyakati za usiku na kupora mifugo na vyakula.

Baadhi ya wakazi wa vijiji hivyo, kwa nyakati tofauti waliliambia Mwananchi Jumapili kwamba majeshi ya Serikali ya Burundi yamekuwa yakiendesha operesheni kali kuwasaka waasi hao ndani ya ardhi ya Tanzania kwa lengo la kuwaua.

“Mimi ninaamini kuwa Serikali inaficha ukweli kwa kuogopa kuwapa hofu wananchi. Mfano sisi wafanyakazi wa Mgodi wa Kabanga Nickel tunapokuwa katika shughuli zetu za utafiti wa madini porini, tumekuwa tukikutana nao ndani ya eneo la Tanzania kabisa na tunatoa taarifa lakini hatuoni hatua zozote kuchukuliwa,” alilalamika mmoja wa watumishi wa mgodi wa Kabanga Nickel kwa sharti la kutotajwa jina.

Alisema waasi hao wamekuwa wakionekana kwenye makundi makubwa ya watu zaidi ya 100, huku wakiwa na silaha za kivita.

Alisema mara nyingi wamekuwa wakionekana upande wa Tanzania majira ya asubuhi wakifanya mazoezi na kila inapofanyika hivyo, usiku yamekuwa yakizuka mapambano, huku milio ya risasi ikitawala.

“Sijajua kama ni waasi au la, lakini serikali inapaswa kuchukua hatua zaidi. Kila tunapowaona tunatoa taarifa kwa Serikali, lakini hatuoni utekelezaji kwani hali hii huendelea, kibaya ni pale wanapoingia na kupora mazao kwenye mashamba ya watu na mifugo yao," alilalamika mwananchi huyo huku akisisitiza kuwa iwapo hali hiyo haitadhibitiwa mapema, watu hao wanaweza kuvamia hata mgodi huo.

Mbali na wapiganaji hao inaelezwa kuwa baadhi ya raia wa Burundi wanaokimbia machafuko hayo wamekuwa wakimiminika maeneo hayo kukoa maisha yao.

Kamanda wa Polisi Mkoa wa Kagera Henry Salewi, alisema hali ya mipaka yetu iko salama na kwamba wananchi wamekuwa wakikumbwa na hofu hasa mapigano yanapokuwa yakipiganwa umbali wa kilometa moja nchini Burundi.

Alikiri kuwa hofu kwa Watanzania ni pale milio mikubwa ya milipuko na risasi inaposikika huku baadhi ya risasi na mabomu mengine kuingia nchini.

“Hawa waasi wanapigwa sana. Wakianza mapigano wanapigwa kweli kweli na inapotokea hali imewazidi hukimbilia kwetu na sisi tukiowaona tunawarudisha huko.

"Mfano ni mwezi Novemba (mwaka jana), mapigano yalikuwa makali sana, walikimbilia kwetu na sisi tulituma vikosi maalumu kuwadhitibi na kuwarudisha ambapo kuna baadhi yao tuliweza kuwakamata na kuwakabidhi kwa Serikali ya Burundi,” alieleza Kamanda Salewi.

Alisema kikosi maalumu cha JWTZ kiliingili kati na kurudisha eneo hilo katika hali ya usalama na hadi jana, kilikuwa kinaendelea kuimarisha ulinzi.

Alieleza kwamba hadi sasa, hakuna mwananchi aliyeuawa kutokana na mapigano hayo ya waasi ama risasi na mabomu kufika Tanzania, lakini alikiri kwamba hali hiyo imekuwa ikizua hofu kwa wananchi hao.

Alisema baadhi ya wananchi wamekuwa wakipiga simu polisi kuwajulisha kila wanaposikia milio ya risasi usiku.

Kwa upande wake Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Kagara Kanali Masawe, alisema anachojua yeye ni kuwa kuna kundi la majambazi ambalo limekuwa likisakwa na Serikali ya Burundi.

Alisema kundi hilo limekuwa likikimbilia nchini lakini kutokana na ulinzi wa mpaka huo kuimarishwa, wamekuwa wakidhibitiwa na wengine kukamatwa na kurejeshwa Burundi.

“Tunapozungumza katika vikao vya Kamati ya Ulinzi na Usalama vya ujirani mwema, wenzetu wa Serikali ya Burundi wao wamekuwa wakitueleza kuwa kuna majambazi ambayo wamekuwa wakiyasaka kila yapokimbilia kwetu,"Mara nyingi wamekuwa wakiingia kwetu majira ya asubuhi na kurudi kwao usiku ila hakuna madhara ambayo watu wetu wamepata,” alieleza Mkuu huyo wa Mkoa.

Alisema kwa sasa vikosi vya JWTZ viko eneo la mpaka huo kuimarisha ulinzi na jukumu lao kubwa ni kudhibiti watu hao.Alisema wakati huu ambapo hakuna vita, shughuli ya doria na ulinzi imekuwa ikifanywa zaidi na Jeshi la Polisi.

MWANANCHI

TAMKO LA CHAMA CHA MADAKTARI TANZANIA BAADA YA KIKAO CHA DHARURA

2012-01-16T10:18:00.001+03:00

Kikao cha mkutano mkuu wa dharura wa chama cha madaktari Tanzania (MAT) kilichofanyika leo siku ya jumamosi, tarehe 14/01/2012 ukumbi wa JAFFARY COMPLEX kimejadili kwa kina yafuatayo:

1. Kwamba, chama cha madaktari Tanzania kimejadili na kuazimia kutoa masaa 72 kwa serikali kuwa “Intern doctors” wote waliohamishwa warudishwe Muhimbili mara moja wakamalizie muda wao. Na kwamba ifahamike kuwa interns huomba kwenda kufanya internship katika hospitali fulani kutegemeana na malengo ya baadaye waliojiwekea. Na pili kuna baadhi ya vifaa vipo mf. Muhimbili na huko kwingine haviko. Madaktari wemesikitishwa sana na uamuzi huu kwa vile haieleweki ni kwa nini “intern doctors” waadhibiwe wakati walidai walipwe mishahara yao tu na serikali ilikiri kosa hilo. Wanachama wangependa kuona waliofanya uzembe huo wanawajibishwa mara moja na sio kuachwa waendelee kuwaadhibu madaktari wasio na kosa.

2. Kwamba, kwa kuwa Intern doctors wamekuwa wakifanya kazi bila malipo kwa muda mrefu na hali hiyo ikapelekea kusitisha kazi ndipo serikali ikaamua kuwalipa mishahara yao. Kufuatia kuendelea kusababisha adha kwa madaktari na wataalamu wengine wa afya na hatimaye kusababisha huduma mbovu kwa wagonjwa, Chama cha madaktari kimeona kimshauri Mh. Rais atafute ajira nyingine kwa ajili ya maafisa waandamizi wafuatao:

a. Katibu Mkuu, wizara ya Afya , Ms. Blandina Nyoni b. Mganga Mkuu wa serikali, Dr. Deo Mtasiwa

3. Kwamba waziri wa afya Dr. Hadji Mponda (MB) afute kauli yake inayoashiria kwamba “intern doctors” ni wanafunzi wa udaktari wa mwaka wa 5. Ieleweke kwamba ni madaktari kamili, waliohitimu mafunzo yao na kula kiapo rasmi cha udaktari. Na chama cha madaktari kimesikitishwa sana na upotoshwaji huuu wa mara kwa mara. Kutokana na hayo hapo juu basi chama cha madaktari Tanzania kina msamehe kwani inaonekana hajui atendalo. Ijulikane kwamba mjadala wa hivi ulishawahi kuibushwa mwaka 2005 na waziri wa afya kipindi hicho alikiri bayana kwamba intern ni daktari kamili aliyefuzu.

4. Kwamba, chama cha madaktari Tanzania kimeamua kumsimamisha uanachama wa chama hiki Dkt. Deo Mtasiwa, ambaye pia ni Mganga Mkuu wa Serikali (CMO), kwa kosa la kusaliti fani ya udaktari na pia kwa kushindwa kumshauri waziri wa afya vizuri kuhusiana na mambo yanayohusu fani ya udaktari Tanzania. Mkutano huu unamsimamisha rasmi Uanachama huo kwa kipindi cha mwaka mmoja. Taratibu za kumrejesha zitajadiliwa kwenye Mkutano mkuu wa kawaida wa chama. Hii itakuwa fundisho kwa madaktari wengine wote nchini.

5. Kwamba chama cha madaktari Tanzania (MAT) kimeazimia kuitisha mkutano mwingine mkubwa wa wanachama wote siku ya jumatano tarehe 18/01/2012, kuanzia saa tatu asubuhi na kuendelea kwenye ukumbi utakaotangazwa. Agenda za mkutano huo, pamoja na mambo mengine, zitakuwa zifuatazo:

i. Hatma ya heshima ya fani ya udaktari na mustakabali wa huduma za afya kwa watanzania
ii. Kwa nini serikali haijaanza kulipa posho ya kazi muda wa ziada (on call allowance) kama ilivyopitishwa mwaka 1990 na kufanyiwa maboresho mwaka 2008.
iii. Mshahara mpya wa daktari unaoendana na elimu, ujuzi, umuhimu, hadhi, majukumu, na hali ya uchumi wa sasa na mfumuko wa bei.
iv. Maslahi mengine ya madaktari kama nyumba, posho ya mazingira magumu, ufadhili wa masomo ya elimu ya juu na posho ya kufanya kazi kwenye mazingira hatarishi( Risk allowance).
v. Kuhamishwa hovyo hovyo kwa madaktari bingwa 61
vi. Mengineyo (kwa idhini ya mwenyekiti)

IMETOLEWA NA

DR. NAMALA MKOPI
RAIS – CHAMA CHA MADAKTARI TANZANIA (MAT)

FAREWELL TRIBUTE : KWA HERI REGIA MTEMA

2012-01-16T08:40:00.004+03:00

R.I .P REGIA ESTELATUS MTEMA

Na M.M Mwanakijiji,

Nyota Imezimika

Ni pigo limetufika
Nashindwa la kutamka
Ilikuwa inawaka
Sasa nyota yazimika
Nabaki natetemeka
Machozi yanadondoka!
Namlilia Regia, ni nyota imezimika!

Mwanga ametuachia
Mbele ametangulia
Kaitwa kaitikia
Japo tulitamania
Aishi kitambo pia
Tuijenge Tanzania
Namlilia Regia, ni nyota imezimika!

Ee Mola nakuabudia
Utukufu nakurudishia
Kwa maisha ya Regia
Jinsi ulimtumia
Tupe na nguvu Jalia
Mfanowe kufuatia
Namlilia Regia, ni nyota imezimika!

Nashindwa kuendelea
Majonzi yamelemea
Pema ninamuombea
Rafiki nilimzoea
Mwanga utaendelea
Mapambano yanaendelea
Namlilia Regia, ni nyota imezimika!

Nimepokea kwa masikitiko makubwa, kutokuamini na mshtuko taarifa za msiba wa Mhe. Regia Mtema. Kifo chake kimekuja wakati ambapo moto wa mabadiliko nchini umekuwa ukipamba kwa kasi zaidi na nyota yake ikizidi kuangaza kila kukicha. Regia alikuwa ni mmoja wa vijana ambao wametupa matumaini kuwa kuna vitu vinawezekana nchini na vinaweza kufanywa na vijana.

Msimamo wake, uthabiti wake na kujiamini vilikuwa ni tunu ambazo zilimsimamisha bila woga kutetea kila alichoamini. Kwa baadhi yetu ambao tumepata nafasi ya kuzungumza naye nje ya mitandao hii na wale ambao tumemjua kwa muda mrefu kabla ya kuibuka na kuwa mwanasiasa tunaweza kusema kuwa Regia alikuwa ni mwanasiasa aliyesukumwa sana na moto wa mabadiliko. Moto ambao alitamani kuwa sehemu yake katika kuona cheche zake zinawafikia wengi zaidi.

Alitamani kuiona Tanzania ikiwa bora zaidi na ambayo watu wake wanafurahia matunda ya nchi yao kwa haki, usawa na umoja. Tunaposema alikuwa ni mwanaharakati hatutii chumvi. Wengi tumeshuhudia jinsi ambavyo amekuwa ni miongoni mwa wanasiasa ambao wamekomazwa kwenye mitandao hii. Amekuwa jasiri kuliko wanasiasa wengi wakongwe kuja na kupitishwa kwenye tanuru la maoni ya JF na kila wakati ambapo ulifikiria kuwa labda amekwazika na hatorudi tena Regia alirudi na alirudi akiwa mpya kabisa. Aliweza kusimama katika moto bila kuungua na kama aliungua haikuwa rahisi kujua!

Kwa upande wangu, Regia alikuwa ni mshiriki mkubwa wa mambo mengi ambayo nimeyafanya na yeye ameyafanya. Aliponiomba wakati wa kampeni ya 2010 kumsaidia kupitia Ilani yake kwa Wana Kilombero niliona ni heshima ya pekee. Mapema mwaka huu tulikuwa tumeanza kuzungumzia baadhi ya mambo ambayo tungeweza kuyafanyia kazi kwa kushirikiana na wengine katika Bunge lijalo. Bahati mbaya mbingu imebadili mipango hiyo. Ninaamini hata hivyo huko aliko anatutie shime ya kuendelea kutekeleza mipango mbalimbali.

Regia alikuwa mchangamfu, mcheshi, mwenye kupenda utani, na kwa hakika kabisa alikuwa makini. Kitu kimoja ni kuwa hakuogopa kusema alichokuwa anafikiria au kilichomgusa moyoni. Alisema hisia zake na na mawazo yake pasi ya kutaka kuonesha kumwogopa mtu au kumpendelea mtu. Aliamini katika kutetea msimamo wake na akishawishiwa kuona mapungufu hakuchelewa kujirudi. Kwa kweli haikuwa rahisi kuzungumza naye bila kujikuta unatabasamu. Alikuwa amejaliwa kipaji cha kujenga urafiki na watu wengi na hata kuwa kwake Mbunge hakukuwa kwake kiuzizi cha kuwa karibu na marafiki zake. Hakujiona ni “kigogo” wa aina fulani aliyependa kutukuzwa au kuogopwa. Alijiona yeye ni mwanasiasa na kweli alikuwa hivyo. Lakini alikuwa ni zaidi ya mwanasiasa - alikuwa ni binti wa Kitanzania aliyejaliwa vipaji vingi na mwenye njozi nyingi kwa nchi yake!

Rambirambi zangu nyingi - na labda nawasemea wengine vile vile - ziwaendee familia yake ya Mzee Estelatus Mtema pamoja na tena kwa namna ya pekee kwa pacha wake Remija Mtema. Remija kuliko mtu mwingine yeyote duniani amepoteza sehemu yake na mzigo huu ni mkubwa kupita kiasi. Wakati kwa wengi wetu tumepoteza rafiki, mwanaharakati, mwanasiasa na mshirika wa mabadiliko kwa ndugu zetu hawa wamepoteza binti, dada, shangazi na ndugu yao wa karibu. Ni msiba mkubwa kwao. Nawaombea faraja wote hawa na wale wote ambao wameguswa na msiba huu mkubwa.

Mungu ailaze roho ya Marehemu Regia pema peponi na atujalie sisi wengine dhamira na kiu ya kuendeleza na kusimamia kile ambacho dada yetu alikisimamia na kukipigania. Namna sahihi ya kuenzi maisha ya Regia ni kuendelea kuipigania Tanzania na Watanzania bila kujali jambo jingine lolote linalowatofautisha kama mtu mmoja mmoja.

Hata kama nyota imezimika, mwanga tulioushuhudia unatupa matumaini kuwa zipo siku njema mbeleni!

Mpaka Tuonane tena Paradiso!

MMM

NYALANDU ATAJA VINARA WA URAIS 2015

2012-01-16T08:09:00.000+03:00

Geofrey Nyang’oro,

NAIBU Waziri wa Viwanda na Biashara, Lazaro Nyalandu amewataja vigogo watatu ambao amekuwa akihusishwa nao kwamba anawaunga mkono katika harakati za mbio za urais wa 2015.Vigogo hao ni Waziri Mkuu aliyejiuzulu, Edward Lowassa, Waziri wa Ushirikiano wa Afrika Mashariki, Samuel Sitta na Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa, Benard Membe.

Nyalandu alitaja majina hayo katika mkutano na waandishi wa habari alipokuwa akizungumzia hali ya kisiasa nchini na athari za siasa za makundi katika vyama vya siasa, huku akisema kuwa hali hiyo inaathiri utendaji kazi katika taasisi za umma.

Alisema imefika wakati inakuwa vigumu kuwa na uhusiano hata wa kirafiki na mtu kwani kila unapoonekana ukisalimiana na wale wanaotajwa kuwa katika mbio hizo basi unawekwa alama kuwa mtu mwenye nia hiyo au kuwa katika moja ya makundi.

“Makundi haya yanadaiwa kuwa na wafuasi, endapo haupo kwenye kundi fulani, basi unadhaniwa kuwa adui mkubwa wa kundi hilo, wakitumia dhana isemayo, kama hauko nasi wewe uko kinyume nasi,” alisema Nyalandu na kuongeza:“Taifa limejaa malalamiko, hisia za kupigana vijembe, kutafutana ubaya na kuoneana kisiasa.”

Alisema wanasiasa vijana wanapoonekana kujitolewa kufanya kazi kwa moyo na kujitoa zaidi ya wito wa kazi wanawekwa katika darubini na kupaswa kusema wako katika kundi gani.

Naibu Waziri huyo alisema kuendelea kushamiri kwa siasa za aina hiyo kunaliweka taifa katika hatari kutokana na kuzorotesha shughuli za maendeleo za kila siku.

“Wanapokataa kurubuniwa, wanawekwa kwenye kundi lililo kinyume na kundi husika na kuanza kushambuliwa, kwa kifupi, nchi yetu ni kama nyumba moja na imesemwa zamani, nyumba iliyotengana haiwezi kusimama,” alisema.

Alisema hali hiyo inaliweka taifa katika wakati mgumu na hasa kipindi hiki ambacho inakabiliwa na changamoto nyingi za kiuchumi, kijamii na kukuza demokrasia katika mfumo wa vyama vingi vya siasa.

“Tunaowajibu wa kuhakikisha uwajibikaji unaongezeka nchini na kila mtu anatimiza wajibu wake kwa kufanya kazi kwa bidii ili taifa liweze kuhimili ushindani utakaotokana na ushirikiano wa Afrika Mashariki, zikiwemo fursa na changamoto zake,” alisema Nyalandu.

Alisema hana nia ya kugombea urais wala kujihusisha na kundi lolote akisema hali ya kuwapo kwa makundi ni hatari kwa taifa na inapunguza kasi ya uwajibikaji kwa baadhi ya viongozi wenye nia ya kufanya hivyo.

“Hali ya kisiasa iliyopo sasa na hasa kwa baadhi ya viongozi kujikita katika kutafuta urais wa 2015, huku wafuasi wao wakiendeleza mapambano dhidi ya wale wasiokubali kuwa ndani ya makundi husika inasikitisha na ina lengo la kukatisha tamaa viongozi wenye nia ya kufanya kazi walizopewa kwa bidii,” alisema. Nyalandu alisema kwa sasa Rais Jakaya Kikwete bado anatumikia miaka minne katika nafasi ya Urais na kusisitiza hakuna sababu ya kundi lolote wala mtu kufikiria urais wa 2015.

Lowassa, Membe na Sitta
Nyalandu ambaye ni Mbunge wa Singida Kaskazini, alilalamika kwamba amekuwa mwathirika wa siasa hizo kwani amekuwa akihusishwa na makundi mbalimbali ya wanaotajwa kuutaka urais mwaka 2015 na kwamba hali hiyo kutokana na uhusiano alionao na wanaotajwa.

“Wapo walioniona Monduli na kudai kuwa eti ninaelekea kuwa katika kundi la Lowassa. Mimi sina uhusiano na kundi lolote hata kama makundi hayo yapo,” alisema Nyalandu.

Alisema yeye amekuwa na uhusiano wa muda mrefu na Lowassa kutokana na kufanya naye kazi alipokuwa Waziri Mkuu hasa kufanikisha ujenzi wa shule za sekondari katika Jimbo la Singida Kaskazini.

Kuhusu Membe alisema ni rafiki yake wa muda mrefu. “Membe ni rafiki yangu wa muda mrefu, nimezoeana naye tangu siku nyingi na pia nimefanya naye kazi hata nikifika nyumbani kwake naweza kuingia bila hodi na kula hata chakula bila tatizo lolote,” alisema Nyalandu.

Alitaja pia uhusiano wake na Sitta akisema kiongozi huyo ni kama mshauri wake na mwalimu anayemsaidia katika mambo mengi.Alisema watu kutoka katika makundi tofauti wanapomwona na watu hao wamekuwa wakifikiri kwamba na yeye ni sehemu ya kundi husika jambo ambalo alilipinga.

MWANANCHI

WHY FRANCOPHONES ARE LAGGING BEHIND ANGLOPHONES ? ?

2012-01-14T05:31:00.002+03:00

Lack of infrastructure, a poor corporate culture and bad governance. French-speaking countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are, in recent years, lagging behind their English-speaking neighbours.  

French-speaking SSA is lagging behind English-speaking Africa, even without the weight of South Africa. Whilst languor has spread its tentacles from Dakar through Yaoundé to Kinshasa, inciting people to dream of emigration, life is beaming with vigour from Accra through Lagos to Nairobi, with flourishing projects and business deals only a computer mouse click or phone call away.   

To measure this economic divide calls for the need to eliminate the two prevalent ills that bridge the continental divide: corruption and ethnic conflicts. With the exception of Zimbabwe, where the economic follies of Mugabe's government unleashed an inflation rate of more 200,000,000 percent some two years ago, a look at the overall figures brings some surprising results to the fore.   

French-speaking countries account for only 19 percent of SSA's average GDP whilst English-speaking countries boast of 47 percent (excluding South Africa). Countries belonging to the mainly French-speaking Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) have been growing at an average rate of 3.4 percent per annum in the last ten years, whilst those of the mainly English-speaking East Africa Community (EAC) have registered a 5.4 percent growth rate.  

English-speaking countries are also ranked in more favorable positions by the World Bank's "Doing Business" report, which measures the quality of the business environment. In those countries it is much easier to start a business, clear imports and obtain payment from debtors. Telephone calls in Benin, for example, cost four hundred times more than in Ghana.  

With regard to human development, seven of the ten worst ranked (out of 187) by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are French-speaking African states, and three of them- Burundi, Niger and DRC - occupy the last three positions.

  Irremediable disability?

  Both development and non-development depend on many factors. Five experts from Africa have agreed to separate wheat from the chaff in order to determine cultural influences that have proved themselves as big barriers to some essential institutions and analyse bottlenecks in the area of monetary and geopolitical issues. The nagging question is: Where does this handicap come from? And is it salvageable?  

According to Jean-Michel Severino, manager at Investisseur et Partenaire pour le Développement (I&P), dedicated to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, and former director general of the French Development Agency (AFD), conflict is the bane of French-speaking Africa. "Over the last decade, two of the principal countries, DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo] and Côte d'Ivoire, have undergone turmoils that have affected development in the whole [Francophone] zone. These countries had experienced growth comparable to that of their English-speaking neighbours after independence."

The common currency among French-speaking countries in both West and Central Africa, the CFA franc has also, seemingly, been a burden, despite the fact that it is more protected from inflation than currencies that are not aligned to the euro. "The CFA franc has been strong over the past decade" says the former executive director of the AFD, "and one can imagine that countries with floating currencies have adjusted better than those using the common currency. Whilst it is not favorable to exports, it is not the strength of the CFA that is under the spotlight, but rather the disconnect of the development of a monetary system outside its African conjuncture. It will require African leaders to reflect on what mechanisms to put in place rather than completely halting the regional monetary union or cutting links between the euro and the CFA franc."

In his final argument, Jean-Michel Severino points out infrastructure as being deficient in most French-speaking countries. "I am struck to see that policies are quite conservative in terms of rates in the area of energy, water and transport. This has generated an infrastructure deficit - phenomenal in the case of Cameroon and Senegal - and impacted development in a big way."

Thierry Tanoh, vice president of the International Finance Corporation (IFC)- a member of the World Bank group, and soon managing director of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), also revisits the infrastructure issue as well as the size of the market, which he deems are the two major weaknesses of the CFA bloc.

Tanoh begins his description of these deficiencies with anecdotal illustrations. "The boss of a food company in Niger is desperate because her company has reached its full potential in the limited home market and yet it is impossible to export her products due to regulatory barriers and transportation costs."

He cites another example about a desperate truck owner who transports cocoa and lives in a francophone country. "Under normal circumstances, a truck's shock absorbers are overhauled over a three year period. But because of the very poor state of roads in his country, his truck requires repairs after only one year. This discourages investors, who seek minimum risk."

"Working Together"

French-speaking countries are too small and sparsely populated. Tanoh goes on to add. "With the exception of DRC, we must acknowledge that the big countries in Africa are English and Portuguese-speaking. This means that market integration is the only solution to compensate for this handicap. But whilst there are more regional economic organisations in the French zone, in reality it is the English-speaking countries, with SADC [Southern Africa Development Community] and EAC, that have become a force to reckon with, all in the absence of a common currency!"

Bouthelier Anthony, deputy chairman of the French Council of Investors in Africa (CIAN), argues that if French multi-national companies, such as Lafarge and L'Oreal, are steering towards English-speaking countries it is because "regionalisation of the market works better [East Africa] than in West Africa."

"Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique give the impression of wanting to work together," he adds.

He believes that collective philosophy accounts for a lot. "Countries with the Anglo-Saxon culture are more oriented towards business and entrepreneurship, and people in those countries are less inclined to yearn to become civil servants than their counterparts with the French culture."

Serge Michailof, professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris argues along the same lines. "The training of elites in English-speaking countries, especially administrative elites, accounts for this trend, as it instills the belief that private business is essential for the development process." He says. "The left-wing oriented training provided by French teachers is a polar opposite." Adding that "the overvalued CFA franc has been very negative, and its particularly disempowering characteristic has been harmful, because it is controlled by its former colonial power."

  Shanta Devarajan, chief economist for Africa at the World Bank, has a more nuanced stance. He suggests that the gap between the two language blocs is "not as strong as we think" and that English-speaking countries have also gone through some tough times. In reference to some of the causes of lethargy in French-speaking countries, he points to the fact that first and foremost West African countries "have significant natural resources, a wealth that go hand in glove with their predisposed fragility by virtue of their multiple conflicts, more than in East Africa". But these conflicts are not only limited to French-speaking countries as Sierra Leone and Liberia were particularly ravaged by civil war.  

An opaque system  

Devarajan especially blames the system of funding by states. "In [francophone] West African countries where revenue generated from natural resources is omnipresent, money does not go through the citizenry, but rather directly channelled to the government by mining and oil companies. This process provides manifold opportunities to re-route revenue in a very opaque system. It does not seek to involve people who do not pay taxes, for lack of income, and are therefore not much concerned about the proper use of public funds." the most dynamic countries in Africa lie in the coastal areas

Corrupt money is therefore not as easy to come by in some English-speaking countries, which could explain not only the lower levels of conflict but also an effective government control, both a macroeconomic necessity.  

Lastly, Devarajan points out that there are more landlocked French-speaking countries in Africa than English-speaking, and trade comes at a higher expense due to glaring infrastructural inadequacies. "The Port of Lomé is not functioning as it should and landlocked partner countries bear the brunt. The most dynamic countries in Africa lie in the coastal areas."

Summing up these analysis, it comes as no surprise that the causes of the Francophone bloc's slowdown have been known for quite sometime, and their remedies have been drummed by the multilateral agencies in order to accelerate the development of the continent. Obviously, the CFA franc is problematic. While it serves to cement a French-speaking culture, it is obvious - as in the case of the euro - that a currency without a common vision or governance can be a handicap, especially when that currency controlled from Paris.

The example of the vast and populous East African English-speaking region shows that investment and wealth are moving towards areas with more consumers. For West Africa, this means going beyond the mere removal of borders and rather into an integration of budgetary policies. But that will be a heroic task as even Europe is struggling to deal with that kind of integration. Nonetheless, in a an address made on 15 December in Geneva, European Commissioner Michel Barnier sought to give Africa his specialist view point and called on the continent to organise and pool its markets into common markets.

It is not surprising that the quest for good governance as well as the fight against corruption remain top priorities. If French-speaking Africa wants to prevent its raw materials from being transformed into a politico-economic curse ownership of revenue must be public and controlled by citizens.

An easy ride

It should be noted that the inadequacies in the transport and energy sectors strangle growth in French-speaking Africa more than anywhere else. According to a study by the World Bank, the additional US$31 billion needed by SSA countries each year, in order to attune its infrastructure to its needs, should be directed to French-speaking countries as a matter of priority.

The remaining efforts should be in the area of formal education to promote a much needed entrepreneurial spirit and deal away with the jobs-for-life gravy train. This will give the emerging middle class in Dakar, Lomé, or Brazzaville the real desire to create wealth.

The battle is not yet lost for French-speaking Africans, as long as their governments, banks, teachers and elites understand the dynamics of openness and modernity.

AFRICAN REPORT

BEI YA UMEME JUU.

2012-01-13T13:15:00.001+03:00

YAPANDA KWA ASILIMIA 40.29, ONGEZEKO HALIWAHUSU WALALAHOI

MAMLAKA ya Udhibiti wa Huduma za Nishati na Maji (Ewura), imeidhinisha kupanda kwa bei ya umeme kwa asilimia 40.29 kuanzia kesho kutwa Januari 15 mwaka huu.Ongezeko hilo halitawahusu wateja wa hali ya chini, wanaotumia chini ya uniti 50 kwa mwezi pamoja na Shirika la Umeme Zanzibar (Zeco), huku wafanyakazi wa shirika hilo wakitakiwa kulipa gharama za umeme kama watumiaji wengine.

Katika bei hizo, wateja wa hali ya chini wanaotumia chini ya uniti 50 kwa mwezi, bei itabaki kuwa Sh 60 kwa uniti wakati watumiaji wa majumbani wanaotumia zaidi ya uniti 50, bei hiyo itapanda kutoka Sh 195 hadi kufikia Sh 273 kwa uniti.

Watumiaji wa kawaida wakiwemo wenye biashara ndogondogo, bei imepanda kutoka Sh 157 hadi Sh 221 kwa uniti wakati watumiaji umeme mkubwa wa kati, bei imepanda kutoka Sh 94 hadi Sh 132 kwa uniti, wakati watumiaji umeme mkubwa hasa wenye viwanda na migodi, bei imepanda kutoka Sh 84 hadi Sh 118 kwa uniti na kwamba Zeco wamepandishiwa kwa asilimia 28.21 kutoka awali ambako, walikuwa wakilipa Sh 83 na sasa watalipa Sh 106 kwa uniti.

Akizungumza Dar es Salaam jana Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Ewura, Haruna Masebu, alisema bei hizo hazihusishi kodi na kwamba Tanesco walitaka umeme upande kwa asilimia 155 lakini, baada ya mamlaka hiyo kuchambua maoni ya wadau, iliamua upande kwa asilimia 40.29 ili maisha yasizidi kuwa magumu.

Masebu alisema ongezeko hilo ambalo ni la dharura, litadumu kwa muda wa miezi sita na kwamba baada ya hapo, Ewura itafanya tathmini nyingine ya kujiridhisha juu ya huduma zinazotolewa na Tanesco na matokeo yake yanaweza kupandisha au kushusha gharama ya umeme.

Alifafanua kwamba kwa sasa kuna mtaalamu anayeangalia gharama halisi ya umeme kama ni halali ama la, ili kulinganisha na sababu za kupandisha gharama zilizotolewa na shirika hilo.

“Tumezingatia weledi wa hali ya juu, tumeona wanastahili japokuwa mambo mengine walisema ni dharura lakini baada ya kupitia, tumeona si dharura,”alifafanua Masebu.

Aliongeza, “Tumewapa uwezo Tanesco wazalishe umeme bila kuwa na mgawo na ikibidi, wakope ili waweze kuwa na mtaji mkubwa zaidi.”

Masharti
Alisema moja ya masharti waliyowapa Tanesco, ni pamoja na kuwataka kuanza kusambaza umeme unaozalishwa katika vyanzo rahisi kama maji na kwamba umeme huo ukipungua, ndipo waanze kutumia ule unaozalishwa kwa gesi, mafuta mepesi na mazito.

“Umeme unaozalishwa katika vyanzo vya maji una unafuu na tumewaeleza kwamba umeme huo ndio wanatakiwa kuanza kuutumia ila ukipungua ndio waanze kutumia unaozalishwa kwa gesi na mafuta,” alisema Masebu.

Akizungumzia upatikanaji wa vyanzo vingine vya umeme, alisema unatakiwa ufanyike kwa kutangaza zabuni ili wawekezaji waweze kupatikana kwa urahisi huku Ewura nao wakihusishwa katika uingiaji wa mikataba mbalimbali.

Naye Mkurugenzi wa Umeme katika mamlaka hiyo, Anastas Mbawala, alisema shirika hilo limetakiwa kutekeleza mambo mbalimbali ambayo yataboresha ufanisi ili wateja wapate huduma nzuri.

Kwa mujibu wa Mbawala, mambo hayo ni kuunganisha wateja wapya zaidi ya 100,000 kila mwaka, kuboresha mifumo ya usambazaji umeme ili kuondoa hali ya kukatikakatika mara kwa mara.

Alitaja mambo mengine kwamba ni kuhakikisha umeme unaopatikana usiwe hafifu, makusanyo yasipungue asilimia 96 kwa mwezi na mfanyakazi mmoja kuhudumia wastani wa wateja 172.

Alisema Tanesco pia wametakiwa kutoa ripoti kila mwezi na kwamba kutakuwa na mfumo wa elektroniki wa upashanaji habari ili kusiwe na matatizo ya kutofautiana kwa ripoti zitakazokuwa zinatolewa.

Mchango wa Serikali
Awali, Masebu alisema kutokana na Tanesco kutaka gharama hizo kupanda kwa kiwango cha asilimia 155, Serikali iliamua kuingilia kati suala hilo ikiwa ni pamoja na kutotoza kodi katika mafuta yanayotumika katika mitambo ya kuzalishia umeme.

“Serikali imefuta kodi ya mafuta kwenye mitambo ya IPTL sasa Serikali itakuwa inalipa Sh 18 bilioni na kusamehe deni la Sh 136 bilioni kwa Tanesco,”alisema.

Sababu za Tanesco
Masebu alisema sababu walizotoa Tanesco za kupandisha bei ya umeme ikiwa ni pamoja na ukosefu wa mvua kunakosababisha upungufu mkubwa wa umeme na kuathiri hali ya kifedha ya shirika hilo na uchumi kwa ujumla, Ewura waliikataa.

Alisema hoja hiyo waliitupilia mbali, baada ya kuwasiliana na Mamlaka ya Hali ya Hewa Tanzania (TMA), ambayo iliwahakikishia kuwa hali ya mvua kwasasa ni nzuri.

Masebu alisema kutokana na uhaba wa mvua, Tanesco iliingia mkataba na kampuni ya IPTL kuzalisha megawati 100 kwa kutumia mafuta mazito, Symbion LLC kuzalisha megawati 112 kutumia gesi asilia na mafuta, pia ilisaini mkataba wa kuuziana umeme (PPA) na Aggreko kuzalisha megawati 100 kutumia mafuta ya dizeli.

Alisema shirika hilo pia lilifafanua miradi yake ambayo itakamilika mwaka huu ambayo ni megawati 220 ambayo itatumia mafuta mazito (HFO) na gesi.

Alisema licha ya Tanesco kueleza kwamba mikataba hiyo imesaidia kupunguza mgawo wa umeme, pia ilieleza kuwa imeongeza kwa kiasi kikubwa gharama za uendeshaji wa Tanesco.

“Kutokana na hali hiyo, Tanesco iliwasilisha maombi ya dharura Ewura, ikiomba kupandisha bei ya umeme kwa asilimia 155, ombi ambalo lilikubaliwa na Waziri mwenye dhamana ya umeme,”alisema.

Mkurugenzi huyo, alisema shirika hilo pia lilitaka madeni yake yaingizwe kwenye bei mpya ya umeme lakini Ewura ilikataa hoja hiyo.

Maoni ya Dk Slaa
Wakati Ewura ikibariki ongezeko hilo la bei ya umeme , Katibu Mkuu wa Chadema, Dk Willibroad Slaa, amesema urasimu wa Serikali kutoruhusu watu na kampuni binafsi kuzalisha umeme, ndicho chanzo cha kuwepo bei kubwa za nishati hiyo nchini.

Dk Slaa aliyasema hayo juzi wakati akihutubia wananchi wa Jiji la Mbeya, katika Viwanja vya Shule ya Msingi Nzovwe, ambako alisema tayari Bunge limeshapitisha sheria kuruhusu watu binafsi kuzalisha umeme lakini Serikali ndiyo haijaruhusu kutokana na urasimu wake.

Alisema hivi sasa Tanesco linafanya linavyotaka kwa kuwapandishia wananchi bei za umeme bila sababu za msingi kutokana na kukosa mpinzani katika biashara hiyo.

Dk Slaa alisema Serikali inatakiwa kuruhusu watu na kampuni binafsi kuzalisha nishati ya umeme, kama ilivyoruhusu kwa sekta zingine kumilikiwa na watu binafsi ili kuweza kuendelea kuzalisha umeme huo na kuchangia maendeleo mbalimbali ya kiuchumi nchini.

Alisema kwa kipindi kirefu, Tanesco inazalisha nishati hiyo lakini imekuwa ikifanya mambo inavyotaka bila kuangalia mustakabali wa watumiaji kwa kujipandishia bei za umeme itakavyo.

“Serikali inatakiwa kuondokana na ukiritimba huo na kutoa fursa kwa watu na kampuni binafsi kuzalisha nishati ya umeme kama inavyofanya kwa sekta zingine na sio kuendelea kuiangalia Tanesco pekee, kwa kuiachia kuzalisha umeme hali inayosabaisha utendaji mbovu katika sekta hiyo,” alisema Dk Slaa.

Alisema viongozi wa Serikali wanashidwa kubuni mbinu zitakazo wawezesha wananchi kuondokana na umasikini katika maisha yao, badala yake wanajali maslahi yao.

“Tatizo kubwa linaloisumbua Serikali yetu ni kwamba viongozi wanashindwa kuwa wabunifu wa kubuni na kubaini matatizo yanayowakabili wananchi wao, ndio maana miradi mbalimbali ya nchi imekufa wakati viongozi wapo, na hii ni sababu mojawapo inayosababisha kuwepo urasimu wa kutotoa fursa hiyo kwa watu na kampuni binafsi kuzalisha umeme,”alisema Katibu huyo wa Chadema.

Alisema wananchi wanaendelea kukubwa na adha kubwa ya kupandishiwa bei za umeme pasipo sababu za msingi, huku wengine wakiendelea kulala gizani kila mara kutokana na Serikali kushindwa kutoa uamuzi mgumu dhidi ya Tanesco na kushindwa kuruhusu watu binafsi kuzalisha umeme.

Habari hii imeandaliwa na Fidelis Butahe na Nora Damian, Dar, Godfrey Kahango,Mbeya,

MWANANCHI

STRICTLY 80'S

2012-01-13T11:33:00.000+03:00

MADAKTARI MMEZIDI KUDHARAULIWA

2012-01-13T10:31:00.000+03:00

Msiposimama pamoja, mtaangamia mmoja mmoja

Na Lula Wa Ndali Mwana Nzela,

TUKIO la hivi karibuni la Serikali kuamua kuwafukuza madaktari wanafunzi waliokuwa wanadai mafao yao mbalimbali na nyongeza za mafao hayo, linahitaji kulaaniwa na kuoneshwa kuwa ni la kibabe. Madaktari wa Tanzania yawezekana ndio madaktari wanaofanya kazi katika mazingira mabovu zaidi wakitarajiwa kuhudumia maisha ya wananchi huku wanasiasa wa nchini wakiishi maisha ya juu zaidi, wakijiaminisha kuwa wanastahili zaidi! Tujadili suala hili katika maeneo mahsusi kama ifuatavyo.

Tiba nchini India

Mojawapo ya vitu ambavyo vinaonesha dharau na kukosekana kwa heshima ya hadhi ya madaktari wetu ni hili la kupeleka wagonjwa India, kwa matibabu ambayo yangeweza kufanyika hapa nchini. Niliandika juu ya hili miezi michache iliyopita lakini yafaa nirudie.

Ningependa kujua kama viongozi serikalini wamewahi kukaa chini na kujiuliza swali jepesi (wengine wanaweza kuliita la kizushi) la ni kwa nini tunapeleka wagonjwa India na siyo kutibiwa hapa hapa nchini?

Jibu la swali hili lina pande mbili – upande wa kwanza wapo wanaodai kuwa gharama ya kutibiwa India ni nafuu zaidi kuliko nchini. Sijui kama kuna ukweli wa hili na ni nani aliyewahi kufanya utafiti wa kupima hili.

Ni kweli gharama ya nauli ya ndege kwenda na kurudi, chakula na malazi na mapumziko huko India ni ndogo kuliko kutibiwa hapa nchini?

Binafsi sitaki sana kuamini hili kwa sababu gharama inasababishwa na vitu mbalimbali, je, Serikali yetu imeshindwa kabisa kufikiria namna ya kufanya gharama ya afya kuwa nafuu hapa nchini? Na ni kitu gani kinafanya gharama iwe juu Tanzania ambacho hakiwezi kuangaliwa na kushughulikiwa?

Upande wa pili ni lile linalodaiwa ni ubora wa madaktari wa India. Wapo ambao wanaamini kuwa India ina madaktari wenye ujuzi mkubwa kuliko madaktari wetu. Watu wengi hawajui kuwa daktari wa Tanzania ili awe daktari kamili, anasomea kwa miaka saba wakati yule wa India anasomea miaka 5!

Madaktari wa Marekani nao wanasomea miaka saba! Na nchi nyingine zina tofauti ya kati ya miaka mitano hadi saba, huku hadi kuwa Bingwa inakuwa ni miaka karibu tisa ya mafunzo. Sasa ubora wa madaktari wa India unatokana na nini ambacho Tanzania haiwezi kukifanya?

Binafsi ningependa sana kuona chombo huru au taasisi huru kama walivyofanya watu wa taasisi za HakiElimu au Tunaweza, kwenye masuala ya elimu kupitia na kufanya ulinganifu wa madaktari wetu kulinganisha na India.

Nadharia yangu ni kuwa karibu vitu vyote vinavyofanywa India vinaweza kabisa kufanywa Tanzania. Watu wanapenda kwenda India kwa sababu zaidi ni hisia ya kuwa wanaenda “nje” kutibiwa.

Lakini nyuma ya hili ninaamini kuna hisia kuwa madaktari wa Tanzania hawaaminiki. Kuwa hawana uwezo – japo wanaweza kuwa wamesoma vizuri na hata kuzidi wale wa India na vile vile kuwa kutokana na maslahi yao duni hujikuta wakiendekeza taasisi zao binafsi zaidi kuliko kufanya kazi kwa weledi katika taasisi za ajira zao.

Hili la mwisho laweza kuwa na ukweli zaidi kwani wapo watu ambao wamewahi kujikuta wanaambiwa waende hospitali ya dokta kwa uangalizi zaidi. Lakini kwenye nchi ambayo maslahi ya daktari ni duni sana, daktari huyo afanye nini zaidi ya kujipatia kipato chake cha ziada pembeni?

Namfahamu Daktari mmoja (sasa Marehemu) ambaye alisomeshwa na fedha za Watanzania lakini baada ya kujitahidi kujitolea sana kufanya kazi ya udaktari aliona kuwa hailipi na matokeo yake alianzisha biashara yake ya baa na maduka na hadi anafariki, alikuwa ni Daktari wa cheo tu akikataa kabisa kurudi hospitali kutoa huduma. Wapo madaktari ambao udaktari ni sehemu tu ya kazi zao lakini wanapotengeneza fedha zaidi ni kwenye miradi yao mbalimbali.

Kutoboresha maslahi yao ni kejeli kwa utu wetu

Ndugu zangu, ni kweli walimu ni muhimu (sitaki kuingia mjadala wa ‘nani bora kati ya daktari na mwalimu’) lakini katika kujenga taifa la kisasa na lenye watu wenye afya bora hakuna nafasi ya pekee kama ya madaktari.

Ni wao ndio wanatupa nafasi ya kuishi na kutumikia taifa tukiwa na afya bora zaidi. Ni watu ambao kutokana na ujuzi wa kazi zao na vipaji walivyojaliwa na Mwenyezi Mungu hujikuta wakiokoa maisha yetu (iwe katika ajali, magonjwa au dharura fulani).

Ni watu muhimu sana kiasi kwamba katika Wagiriki na Wayahudi wa kale uponyaji ulikuwa ni sifa ya kimungu. Waebrania walimuita Mungu Yehova Rapha (yaani Bwana Anayeponya) wakati Wagiriki walikuwa na mungu aitwaye Askelpias ambaye alikuwa ni mungu wa tiba na uponyaji. Kati ya mabinti zake mmoja aliitwa Hygeia (tunapata neno la Kiingereza Hygiene – usafi) na Panacea yaani “tiba ya magonjwa yote”. Ile fimbo yenye nyoka hujulikana kama fimbo ya Asklepias. Hivyo basi, madaktari si watu wa kudharauliwa au kufanywa duni.

Serikali inawaafanya madaktari wetu duni

Sizungumzii suala la kufukuzwa kwa hawa madaktari wanafunzi tu, nazungumzia jinsi tunavyowaangalia madaktari na kuwatendea. Ni kweli hatuwezi kuwalipa sana lakini ukweli ni kuwa kutokana na idadi yao, madaktari wanastahili kulipwa zaidi kwa ajili ya kuwavutia zaidi lakini vile vile kuwafanya wafanye kazi yao ambayo ni wito wao kwa kweli.

Unajua watu wengi hatuna wito wa kukaa na kufumua miili ya wanadamu, kuona uchafu wao na madamu yao na kuwapo pale kuwasaidia kurudi kwenye uzima au kuwasaidia wanapoelekea mauti. Ni wito wa ajabu sana ambao tusipoonekana kuuelewa tutaona kama “ajira nyingine tu”.

Daktari wa Tanzania anayeingia kwenye ajira tu asingelipwa chini ya mshahara wa kama dola 5,000 hivi kwa mwezi pamoja na mafao mengine. Ni lazima tumtoe huyu daktari kutoka kwenye miradi yake ya nyumbani na vibarua na kumhakikishia usalama wa maisha yake.

Hatuwezi kuwa na madaktari ambao ili wawahi hospitali kutoa huduma inabidi wadandie daladala au kununua gari mkweche. Haiwezekani leo tunajenga majumba ya wanasiasa lakini hatujawa na programu ya uhakika ya kuwajengea madaktari wetu nyumba za kudumu.

Hivi katika miradi yote ya Jiji la Dar es Salaam ni wapi wana mpango wa kujenga nyumba za makazi kwa madaktari? Huko mikoani ni wapi ambapo wana miradi ya kujenga nyumba za madaktari karibu na hospitali au kwenye maeneo ya kisasa ambayo yatawapa nafasi ya kupumzika na kutulia na kujifunza kabla hawajarudi kukimbia kuokoa maisha ya wananchi wetu?

Hivi watu wamewahi kujiuliza kuwa Tanzania ina madaktari wangapi? Katika Tanzania yetu hii ambayo watu wanaamini ina neema tuna daktari mmoja kwa kila watu kama 30,000 hivi. Marekani ina dokta mmoja karibu kwa kila watu 400 hivi. Sasa kweli tunaweza hata kufikiria kusimamisha madaktari wanafunzi zaidi ya 200 kwa sababu za kipuuzi – kwamba wamedai kuboreshewa maslahi yao? Kweli? Ni taifa gani ambalo tunajenga?

Yaani, wanasiasa wanaweza kujiongezea posho bila kuhojiwa na yeyote tena kwa asilimia zaidi ya 300, lakini hawa madaktari wetu hata ‘kiduchu’ wanachodai imekuwa ni nongwa? Hivi, kuna mwanasiasa wa CCM anayeweza kusimama na kutuambia akiwa na macho makavu kuwa madaktari wa Tanzania wanalipwa vizuri na mazingira yao ni bora?

Huyu Spika wa Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania (wa CCM) aliyedai kuwa wamejiongezea posho kwa sababu maisha ni magumu Dodoma alikuwa hafikirii kuwa huko Dodoma nako kuna madokta? Nani atawapigania madaktari wetu?

Naomba nitoe taarifa mbaya - madaktari wa Tanzania hawatopiganiwa na wanasiasa wetu! Wanajidanganya wale madaktari waliokaa Wizara ya Afya na ambao wanaishi maisha ya furaha kwa sababu wanakula na wakubwa! Hawa madaktari waliotupwa porini huko Katavi, Bukoba, Mbeya na sehemu nyingine waishi kwa kuombea kudura (kudra) tu! Hawana mtetezi. Na bahati mbaya sana hata vyama vyao haviwezi kuwatetea.

Kuna wakati, madaktari lazima wasimamie maslahi yao kwani kwa kufanya hivyo watasimamia maslahi ya wagonjwa wao na wale watumishi wa afya wa kada nyingine. Na kuna namna moja tu ambayo italazimisha watawala wetu kuangalia maslahi ya madaktari na kuwarudisha mara moja wale wanafunzi na kuhakikisha kuwa madaktari wa Tanzania wanapewa heshima na hadhi wanayostahili – mgomo.

Mimi si shabiki wa migomo ya aina hii lakini tulipofika sasa inaonekana hoja hazitoshi kuwashawishi watawala kufikiri. Mgomo siyo wa kukataa tu bali pia wa kudai kile kinachowezekana.

Kama taifa linaweza kutenga posho ya karibu bilioni 28 kwa watu 350 hivi na wakahalalisha inawezekana, nina uhakika taifa hilo hilo lina uwezo wa kutenga kiasi kikubwa tu cha fedha kuboresha mishahara na posho za madaktari karibu 2,000 tu ambao tunao!

Mgomo ni njia pekee na sahihi ya kutuma ujumbe wa kisiasa ambao umeshindikana kupokewa kwa njia za kidemokrasia na mazungumzo. Mazungumzo yamefanywa miaka nenda rudi lakini bado watawala wetu wanaona kama wanasumbuliwa na ‘madai’ ya madaktari.

Nasema madaktari hamna cha kupoteza isipokuwa utu wenu na hadhi yenu kama waponyaji. Mtaendelea kudharauliwa, kunyanyasika na kudhulumiwa huku na ninyi mkitamani muwe wanasiasa!

Si mmewaona madaktari wenzenu walivyoingia siasa wanavyonona. Hamna mtetezi wala wa kuwapigania isipokuwa ninyi wenyewe! Tangazeni mgomo na simameni pamoja mtasikilizwa. Msiposimama pamoja, mtaangamia mmoja mmoja!

RAIA MWEMA

WANATIMIZA WAJIBU WAO KWELI? AMA NI KUTAFUTA UMAARUFU.

2012-01-13T10:02:00.002+03:00

Pichani ni mkuu wa mkoa wa Iringa Dkt. Christine Ishengoma na Mbunge wa Ludewa Mheshimiwa Filikunjombe wakiwa katika zoezi la upandaji wa miche ya Kahawa hivi karibuni. Hata hivyo muonekano wao wa kimavazi na shughuli yenyewe haviendani. Changamoto kwao je, kama wao alikuwa na nia thabiti ya kushiriki zoezi hilo kwanini hawakujiandaa kwa shughuli hiyo. Ama ni kutafuta umaarufu tuwaone kwenye picha kwamba ni wachapa kazi wa zuri. Hata hivyo sio dhambi kwa kiongozi kuonyesha mfano kwa wananchi wake lakini vitendo hivyo viambatane na nia pamoja na uzalendo wa dhati. CHEO NI DHAMANA

ANOTHER IRANIAN NUCLEAR SCIENTIST KILLED BY CAR BOMB

2012-01-11T13:18:00.002+03:00

Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a leading Iranian nuclear scientist working at one of Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities, was killed in a car bomb explosion on Wednesday in the latest of a series of assassinations and attempted killings the Iranian regime blames on Israel and the United States. "The bomb was a magnetic one and the same as the ones previously used for the assassination of the scientists, and the work of the Zionists [Israelis]," the deputy governor of the capital Tehran claimed.

The 32-year-old professor was a chemistry expert and director of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in central Iran, was killed after two assailants on a motorcycle attached magnetic bombs to his car, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. Two other Iranians were reported injured in the blast. The incident resembles earlier attacks on scientists connected to Iran's nuclear program. Tehran University physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi was killed in January 2010 when a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near his car as he was preparing to leave for work.

In November 2010, a pair of back-to-back bomb attacks in different parts of the capital killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another. Majid Shahriari, the scientist who died, was a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran and cooperated with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. The wounded scientist, Fereidoun Abbasi, was almost immediately appointed head of Iran's atomic agency. In July 2011, gunmen on motorcycles killed Darioush Rezaeinejad, whom initial Iranian reports described as a scientist involved in the country's nuclear program. Officials later denied Rezaeinejad had any links to the program, but blamed his killing on the US and Israel. Both countries have repeatedly the accusations.

The West suspects Iran of developing nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, new sanctions against Iran have started to bite. The Iranian currency rial lost 20 percent of its value against the US dollar in the past week and Iran has threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of trade oil passes. US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, visiting Beijing, appealed for Chinese cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Iran's move to enrich uranium near the city of Qom was "especially troubling".

"This step once again demonstrates the Iranian regime's blatant disregard for its responsibilities and that the country's growing isolation is self-inflicted," Clinton said in a statement that followed Iran's announcement it had started enrichment in the Fordo mountain bunker complex.

REFLECTIONS FROM COMRADE: THE BEST PRESIDENT FOR THE UNITED STATES

2012-01-11T10:15:00.000+03:00

The best President for the
United States

A well known European agency transmitted the news the day before yesterday from Sydney, Australia. "A group of Australian investigators from the University of New South Wales announced the creation of a wire 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, with the same electrical current carrying capability of copper."

"... Bent Weber, head of the project at the Australian university, in an article published by Science magazine, explained, "Interconnecting wiring of this scale will be vital for the development of future atomic-scale electronic circuits."

"The wire was created by Australian and U.S. physicists by precisely placing chains of phosphorus atoms within a silicon crystal, just four atoms wide, one atom tall.

"This finding is essential to the international race to develop the first quantum computer, super-fast machines capable of processing enormous quantities of data in a few seconds, doing complex calculations which would take current computers years or even decades.

"In a traditional copper wire, electricity flows as copper electrons move along the conductor, but as the wire or conductor becomes smaller, resistance to the flow of electricity is greater.

"To overcome this problem Weber and his team used a process called scanning tunneling microscopy which allowed them to place atomically thin layers of phosphorus in silicon crystals.

"This allowed the nanowire to function like copper, with the electrons flowing easily, without resistance problems. Weber said that with this technique makes possible reducing the size of components to the atomic level.

"If the semi-conductor industry continues to miniaturise devices then eventually they will reach the atomic scale," observed Michelle Simmons, director of the research project

These unabated technological advances which should serve humanity’s well-being reminded me of what I had just written four days ago about global warming and the increasing development of shale gas, in a world which in 200 years has consumed fossil energy produced over a period of four billion years.

I imagined Obama, very articulate with words, for whom, in his desperate attempt to be reelected, the dreams of [Martin] Luther King are more light years away than the closest inhabitable planet.

Even worse: any one of the Republican Congress members considering the Presidency or any man or woman leading the Tea Party are carrying more nuclear weapons on their shoulders than ideas about peace in their heads.

Imagine, readers, for one minute, this powerful quantum computer cable of processing an infinite number of times the data processed by modern computers.

Is it not, perhaps, obvious that worst of all is the absence in the White House of a robot capable of governing the United States and preventing a war which would put an end to human life?

I am sure that 90% of U.S. citizens registered, especially Latinos, Blacks and a growing number of those in the middle class, the impoverished, would vote for the robot.

Fidel Castro Ruz

2012

INASHANGAZA WANA -CCM KUGOMBEA HOJA WASIZOWEZA KUTEKELEZA

2012-01-11T10:07:00.001+03:00

Na Elias Msuya,

KIKIWA chama tawala, kinachounda serikali, CCM kina majukumu makubwa mbele ya wananchi.
Kwa kufuatilia ilani ya uchaguzi ya mwaka 2010/2015, CCM iliahidi mambo mengi kwa wananchi huku kukiwa na kibwagizo cha maisha bora kwa kila Mtanzania.
Hadi sasa imebaki miaka minne tu ya utekelezaji wake, chama hicho sasa kimesahau wajibu wake, huku makada wake wakigombea hoja.

Tumeshuhudia hivi karibuni makada wa chama hicho wakigombea hoja huku kila mmoja akitaka kujionyesha kuwa msemaji hodari mbele za wananchi.
Kwa mfano, suala la posho za wabunge, tangu awali suala hilo lilikuwa likipingwa na Chadema ambapo wabunge wake hicho wakiongozwa na Mbunge wa Kigoma Kaskazini, Zitto Kabwe waligoma hata kusaini karatasi za mahudhurio ili kukwepa posho hizo.

Wabunge wa CCM walikuwa mstari wa mbele kuunga mkono posho hizo. Kama hiyo haitoshi, hivi karibuni Spika wa Bunge, Anna Makinda alitangaza azma ya kuongeza posho za wabunge kutoka Sh 70,000 hadi Sh 200,000 kwa siku kwa kila mbunge.
Japokuwa Katibu wa Bunge, Dk Thomas Kashilillah alikanusha taarifa hizo, lakini Spika Makinda alikiri.
Jambo la ajabu, Katibu wa Itikadi na Uenezi wa CCM, Nape Nnauye akatangaza kupinga posho hizo huku akieleza kuwa huko ni kuwasaliti wananchi.

Ni ajabu kwasababu, Spika wa Bunge (Makinda) ni kada wa CCM na ni Mjumbe wa Kamati Kuu ya CCM. Iweje watu wa chama kimoja watofautiane kimsimamo kwa suala nyeti kama hilo?
Kwanini Kamati Kuu ya CCM isimwite Makinda na kumwonya kwamba suala hilo siyo la kupigia debe wakati huu kutokana na hali ngumu ya maisha?
Kwanini CCM isiwe na msimamo mmoja kama chama wa kupinga posho hizo kama walivyofanya wenzao wa Chadema?

Matokeo yake sasa kila mtu anajifanya kuwa msemaji wa posho. Leo, ataibuka huyu na kujifanya kuwa mwema kwa wananchi, eti posho ni haramu, posho zimezidi mno. Mara mwingine ataibukia huku akimpinga.
Yametokea hivi karibuni ambapo Waziri Mkuu Mstaafu Frederick Sumaye alipinga suala la posho wakati akihojiwa na kituo cha televisheni ITV. Kesho yake, Naibu Spika, Job Ndugai akampinga.

Hao wote wanatoka chama kimoja ambapo wangeweza kabisa kukaa na kukubalia lipi ni bora la kuzungumza mbele ya umma, badala ya kukurupuka tu.
Sikatai, inawezekana kabisa watu kutofautiana kwa hoja katika chama kimoja. Lakini, afadhali tofauti hizo ziwe kwenye vikao, siyo hadharani.

Mfano mwingine ni suala la ongezeko la nauli za kivuko cha Kigamboni, ambapo wabunge wa Dar es Salaam (wakiwamo wa upinzani) walipinga kauli ya Waziri wa Ujenzi, Dk John Magufuli ya kutangaza ongezeko hilo huku akiwabeza wananchi kuwa wakishindwa kulipa nyongeza hiyo, wapige mbizi, au wazunguke Kongowe au warudi vijiji walikotoka.
Hapo napo wanasiasa wakapata pa kushikia. Mbali na wabunge wa Dar es Salaam, waliompinga Dk Magufuli, Mwenyekiti wa CCM Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam, John Guninita naye ameibuka na kumpinga Dk Magufuli.

Ni kweli kama kiongozi Guninita naye ameonyesha kuguswa na maisha ya wananchi. Lakini, amesahau kabisa kwamba Magufuli ni kiongozi wa Serikali na pia ni kiongozi ndani ya chama.
Guninita kama kiongozi wa CCM alipaswa kuwasiliana na uongozi wa chama au kamati ya nidhamu ya chama hicho na wakiweza wamwite Dk Magufuli ili kumuuliza kulikoni.
Baada ya kumjadili chama kitoke na msimamo wake mbele ya wananchi. Hiyo ndiyo nidhamu ndani ya chama.

Lakini, mambo yalivyo kwa sasa ni shaghalabaghala. Msimamo wa CCM kama chama haueleweki katikia suala la Kigamboni. Waziri Magufuli anayetoka CCM ana msimamo wake, Wabunge wana msimamo wao na wenyeviti wa chama wana misimamo yao.
Hivi kweli hiki ndiyo chama kilichoahidi kuitekeleza ilani yake ya uchaguzi ya kuleta maisha bora kwa kila Mtanzania? Kitayatekeleza vipi wakati kila kada anasema lake?

Wakati makada hao wakiendelea kulumbana kuhusu kero za wananchi, mwenyekiti wao, Rais Jakaya Kikwete amekaa kimya. Hadi leo hatoi msimamo wake kuhusu nyongeza ya posho za wabunge, wala kuhusu kero zinazowasumbua wananchi.
Rais kama kiongozi wa chama na Serikali hapaswi kukaa kimya bali awaite watendaji wake wanaolalamikiwa na kupanga mambo sawasawa.

Haya malumbano yanayofanywa na makada wa chama chake yanakidhalilisha chama mbele ya umma.

Viongozi wake ( CCM) wanapaswa kujadiliana mambo yao kwenye vikao na kutoka na msimamo wa pamoja. CCM ndiyo chama dola kinachounda Serikali.
Viongozi na watendaji wa serikali wanatekeleza ilani ya uchaguzi ya CCM. Wanapokwenda kinyume waitwe wahojiwe, siyo kupingwa kwenye majukwaa ya siasa. Afadhali kazi hiyo wawaachie wapinzani.

MWANANCHI

UNAMUAMINI YUPI ZAIDI?

2012-01-11T10:01:00.002+03:00

Unaowaona pichani,wote ni wanasiasa.Wote ni vijana.Nape Nnauye(kushoto katika picha) ni Katibu wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM )anayesimamia Itikadi na Uenezi.Kulia ni Mh.John Mnyika(MB) ambaye ni Mkuu wa Habari na Uenezi wa Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo(CHADEMA). Kazi zao zinafanana.Wanaongea na sisi tunawasikiliza.Wanaeneza itikadi na kunadi sera za vyama vyao.

Lakini suala la siasa ni imani.Unaamini kwamba anachokisema yule ni cha kweli na anayo dhamira nzuri kuhusu maendeleo yangu. Sasa wanaposimama hawa wawili kuongea,unamwamini yupi zaidi? Ni kitu gani kinachokufanya umwamini zaidi huyo unayemwamini? Tungependa kupata maoni yako.

NB: Vipima joto hivi vya BC,ni sehemu ya kuhakikisha kwamba viongozi na wananchi wanajua wapi wanaposimama au wanapobidi kusimama kila wakati na sio wakati wa uchaguzi tu.

BONGO CELEBRITY

VIGOGO WAHOJIWA KASHFA YA UDA

2012-01-11T09:19:00.001+03:00

WAMO KIMBISA, DK MASABURI NA IDD SIMBA, RIPOTI YAKE KUTOKA KARIBUNI

Patricia Kimelemeta,

SAKATA la uuzaji wa Shirika la Usafiri Dar es Salaam (UDA), limezidi kupamba moto baada ya Mdhibiti na Mkaguzi Mkuu wa Hesabu za Serikali (CAG) Ludovick Utouh, kuwataja vigogo wapya waliohojiwa na shirika lake kutokana na kutajwa kwamba walishiriki katika mchakato wa uuzaji wa hisa za shirika hilo.Akizungumza na Mwananchi jana, Utouh aliwataja vigogo hao ambao alisema baadhi wameshahojiwa kuwa ni Mwenyekiti wa Bodi, Idd Simba na Mkurugenzi wa Kampuni ya Simon Group, Robert Kisena.

Vigogo wengine ambao Utouh alisema wanatarajiwa kuhojiwa wakati wowote ni Meya wa jiji la Dar es Salaam Dk Didas Masaburi na mtangulizi wake, Adam Kimbisa pamoja na Meneja Mkuu wa UDA, Victor Milanzi.

“Sisi hatufanyi kazi kisiasa, tunafuata sheria na taratibu zote zinazotakiwa katika kufuatilia suala hilo. Hivyo basi, lazima tuwe makini kwa kujiridhisha na taarifa inayotolewa," alisema CAG.

Utouh alisema ili ripoti hiyo iweze kukamilika na kuondoa hofu ya kumwonea mtu, wahusika wote waliotajwa kwenye sakata hilo wanapaswa kuhojiwa.

Agosti 13 Waziri wa Nchi Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (Tamisemi) Keptein mstaafu George Mkuchika, alitekeleza agizo la waziri mkuu na kumpa CAG barua ya kufanya ukaguzi wa UDA ndani ya mwezi, lakini sasa ni zaidi ya miezi minne matokeo hayajatoka.

Hata hivyo, CAG Utouh akizungumzia sababu za kuchelewa kwa uchunguzi huo aliema; “Tulitaka kutoa nafasi kwa watuhumiwa kupata fursa ya kujitetea."

Utouh alifafanua kwamba, lengo hilo la kutenda haki ndilo lililofanya ofisi yake kuwahoji wahusika wote waliotajwa kushiriki kwenye mchakato huo ili ripoti itakayotoka isiwe ya kumwonea mtu.

Aliongeza kwamba kutokana na hali hiyo, wanaamini kuwa kukamilika kwa ripoti hiyo, kutaisaidia serikali kutoa uamuzi sahihi kuhusu sakata hilo na kuwaachia wale ambao wanaweza kuingizwa kwa makusudi kutokana na tofauti zao za kisiasa.

Utouh alifafanua kwamba, hadi jana Kampuni ya KPMG iliyopewa jukumu la kufanya ukaguzi huo, ilikuwa ikikamilisha ripoti yake ambayo, wanaamini inaweza kutolewa mwishoni mwa mwezi huu na kuikabidhi serikalini kwa ajili ya hatua zaidi.

Sakata lilivyokuwa
Serikali ilibaini kuwepo kwa ukiukwaji wa kisheria katika uuzaji wa UDA Agosti mwaka jana, jambo ambalo lilisababisha kuundwa kwa tume ya uchunguzi.

Waziri Mkuu, Mizengo Pinda aliagiza kuunda tume ya kuchunguza sakata hilo huku akizitaka Taasisi ya Kuzuia na Kupambana na Rushwa (Takukuru) na CAG, kuchunguza mchakato mzima wa uuzaji wa hisa za shirika hilo kwa kampuni hiyo ya Simon Group Limited.

Habari ambazo Mwananchi limezipata zinadai kuwa tayari Takukuru pia walishawahoji baadhi ya watu kuhusu suala hilo.

UDA lilikuwa linamilikiwa kwa pamoja kati ya Halmashauri ya Jiji la Dar es Salaam na Serikali Kuu, kupitia Hazina, wakiwa na jumla ya hisa milioni 15, kila hisa moja ikiwa na thamani ya Sh 100.   

Mchanganuo wa hisa za UDA unaonyesha kuwa, halmashauri ya jiji la Dares Salaam ilikuwa inamiliki asilimia 51 na Hazina asilimia 49 za hisa hizo.   

Hata hivyo, Februari 11 mwaka jana, bodi ya wakurugenzi ya UDA, chini ya Idd Simba, ilikutana na uongozi wa Simon Group ikiongozwa na Kisena na kusaini mkataba, ambao ulithibitisha kwamba UDA ilikuwa imeiuzia Simon hisa milioni 7.8 sawa na asilimia 52.6 ya hisa zote kwa thamani ya Sh bilioni 1.142.

Kwa mkataba huo, Simon Group ingekuwa mwanahisa mkubwa katika umiliki wa UDA kwa vile Halmashauri ya Jiji la Dar es Salaam na Hazina, wangebaki na hisa milioni 7.7, ambazo ni sawa na asilimia 47.4. 

Baada ya mkataba kusainiwa, kipengele cha kwanza kiliitaka Simon Group kulipa asilimia 25 ya fedha za ununuzi wa hisa za UDA , ambazo kati ya fedha jumla Sh bilioni 1.142, ni sawa na kutanguliza Sh 285.6milioni.

Fedha hizo zilipaswa kulipwa ndani ya siku 14, tangu kusainiwa mkataba huo ili kuufanya utambulike kisheria na ndipo, Simon Group ililipa fedha hizo siku hiyo hiyo.

Ndani ya Bunge 
Uuzwaji wa UDA ulitikisa Mkutano wa nne wa bunge baada ya wabunge kutaka hatua kali za kisheria zichukuliwe dhidi ya wahusika, huku wabunge wa mkoa wa Dares Salaam wakijikuta katika malumbano na Dk Masaburi.

Wakati mvutano huo ukiendelea, wamiliki wa Simon Group Ltd, walijitokeza hadharani na kuwaambia waandishi wa habari kwamba umiliki wake umekidhi vigezo vyote katika kumiliki Hisa ndani ya UDA.

Mwenyekiti wa bodi ya wakurugenzi wa Simon Group, Robert Kisena alisema kampuni yake ilifuata vigezo vyote vilivyotakiwa na kwamba imejizatiti kuliendesha Uda bila wasiwasi na kwamba hadi wakati huo walikwishawekeza kiasi cha Sh760 milioni.

Hata hivyo, Kamati ya Bunge ya Hesabu za Mashirika ya Umma (POAC) kupitia kwa Mwenyekiti wake, Zitto Kabwe nayo ilisema kuwa mkataba huo ni batili kutokana na fedha zilizonunua hisa husika kuwekwa kwenye akaunti ya kada wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi na mwanasiasa wa siku nyingi, Iddi Simba.

“Taratibu hazikufuatwa,na uamuzi wowote utakaofanyika ni batili kwa kuwa tayari sisi tumeshaanza mchakato wa kubaini kilichopo ndani ya mkataba huo ikiwa ni pamoja kumuagiza CAG na tayari Spika ana taarifa hizo,’’alisema Zitto.

MWANANCHI

WANAFUNZI UDSM WAPIGA "KUNJI" (KUGOMA) WAKISHINIKIZA WENZAO WARUDISHWE CHUO.

2012-01-10T08:42:00.001+03:00

Ellen Manyangu na Keneth Goliama,

WANAFUNZI wa Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam sehemu ya Mlimani (UDSM) jana walianza mgomo ili kushinikiza uongozi wa chuo hicho kuwarudisha wenzao 48 waliofukuzwa na kufutiwa usaili katika vyuo vyote vya serikali nchini.

Uamuzi huo ulichukuliwa kwa madai ya kuwasiliana na uongozi wa chuo hicho bila mafanikio wakati wakiangalia uwezekano wa kumaliza tatizo hilo kwa njia ya mazungumzo.

Wanafunzi hao walifukuzwa Desemba 13, mwaka baada ya kubainika kuwa walihusika katika matukio mbalimbali ya vurugu na uhalifu chuoni hapo.

Hata hivyo, mgomo na maandamano hayo yalifanyika katika mazingira mvutano huku baadhi wakipinge kwa maelezo uongozi wa Serikali ya Wanafunzi (Daruso) umeshindwa kutoa muongozo unaotosheleza.

Wanafunzi wanaopinga mgomo walikuwa wakizomea na kuwataka viongozi wa Daruso kutoa muongozo jambo lililoonekana kuwa gumu ingawa kulikuwepo na kundi jingine lililokuwa linashawishi ufanyike.

Waliokubali kufanya mgomo walizunguka katika maeneo mbalimbali ya chuo hicho wakiimba nyimbo mablimbali huku wengine wakiwa wameshika mabango yenye ujumbe wa kuwataka wenzao warudishwe na haki na sheria zizingatiwe.

Akizungumzia juu ya uhamuzi wa kuitisha mgomo huo, Waziri wa Mikopo Serikali ya Wanafunzi (Daruso), Daniel Naftali alisema huu ni wakati wa wanafunzi kuonyesha ushirikiano na kuona thamani ya wenzao waliofukuzwa kwani haki haikutendeka dhidi yao.

Alisema katika kikao cha Bunge cha Daruso kilichofanyika Jumamosi iliyopita kiliazimia kupitisha mgomo kwa kura 56 za ndio na 5 za hapana na azimio hilo liliafikiwa kwa dhumuni la kudai wanafunzi waliofukuzwa warudishwe kuendelea na masomo.

Alisema huu ni wakati wa kuungana na kujiita sisi sio mimi,kwani inafahamika kabisa kuwa baadhi ya wanafunzi waliofukuzwa walikuwa hawana mbio za kuwakimbia polisi na wengine walikuwa wakipita maeneo ya chuoni.
“Ni kweli vioo na vitu vingine viliharibiwa chuoni hapa lakini ni nani ana uhakika kama wanafunzi ndio wanaohusika na uharibifu huo kwani,katika zoezi la kukamata wapo watu wasio wanafunzi walikamatwa katiak eneo hili la chuo”alisema Naftal

Aliongeza kuwa lengo lao sio kuleta fujo wala madhara chuoni hapo bali ni wajibu wao kuhakikisha kila mmoja anapata haki ya kusoma kama zilivyo ainisha sheria za nchi.

“Tulifungua nafasi ya majadiliano kwa uongozi wa chuo kwa kipindi chote hicho lakini badala ya kuelewana na kufikia muafaka wa nini kifanywe juu ya wenzetu tumeambulia vitisho ambavyo haviana jibu lolote la wenzetu kurudishwa chuoni”alisema Naftal.

Naye naibu spika wa Bunge la Daruso Peter Arnold alisema taratibu zote za kisheria kufanikisha azimio hilo zifuatwe ili kuweza kufanikisha lengo.

MWANANCHI

MAGUFULI HAJASEMA KWELI; ANAFICHA UDHAIFU WA SERIKALI NA WIZARA YAKE

2012-01-09T11:56:00.000+03:00

TAARIFA KWA UMMA

UTANGULIZI

Tarehe 4 na 5 Januari 2011 Waziri wa Ujenzi Mheshimiwa John Magufuli alinukuliwa na vyombo mbalimbali vya habari akitoa madai mbalimbali juu yangu wakati akijibu kauli za Wabunge wa Dar es salaam juu ya ongezeko la nauli katika vivuko vya Kigamboni na maeneo mengine nchini.Toka Waziri Magufuli atoe kauli zisizokuwa za kweli dhidi yangu badala ya kujibu hoja za msingi nilizotaka maelezo toka wizara yake na serikali kwa ujumla sikutoa tamko kwa kuwa nilikuwa katikati ya kazi mbalimbali jimboni Ubungo na majukumu mengine ya kitaifa.

Hata hivyo, kuna msemo kwamba ‘uongo ukiachwa ukarudiwa rudiwa unaweza kuaminika kuwa ndio ukweli’; hivyo naomba kutoa taarifa kwa umma kujibu madai hayo kwa lengo la kuweka rekodi sahihi.Namheshimu Waziri Magufuli, hata hivyo kauli alizozitoa dhidi yangu zinadhirisha kuwa ameanza kulewa sifa kwa kiwango cha kuwa mpotoshaji na mzushi. Ni vyema umma ukachukua tahadhari kwamba imani ya wananchi juu yake ameanza kuitumia vibaya kulinda uzembe, ubabe na ufisadi.Aidha, ni muhimu akawa anajielekeza kujibu madai ya msingi ya wananchi badala ya kuibua masuala mengine kwa lengo la kuhamisha mjadala; hivyo nitarudia tena masuala ambayo nilitaka ayatolee maelezo na vielezo kwa maslahi ya umma.

KUHUSU KIINGILIO KATIKA KITUO KIKUU CHA MABASI UBUNGO (UBT)

Waziri Magufuli amezusha na kupotosha kwamba sijawahi kuhoji kupandishwa kwa kiingilio katika Kituo Kikuu cha Mabasi cha Ubungo (UBT) cha 200. Ukweli ni kwamba kama ambavyo napinga ongezeko holela la nauli za vivuko nchini, nilipinga ongezeko la kiingilio katika Kituo Kikuu cha Mabasi Ubungo kwa maslahi ya wananchi wa jimbo letu na ya wasafiri wote nchini wanaotumia kituo hicho. Ukweli zaidi ni kwamba viingilio vya Kituo Kikuu cha Mabasi Ubungo pamoja na ongezeko lake vilipitishwa kwa kutungiwa sheria ndogo (by law) na jiji kabla ya mimi kuchaguliwa kuwa mbunge.

Hata hivyo, pamoja na kuwa sikuwa mbunge wakati kiingilio kinawekwa mara baada ya kuwa mbunge niliendelea na harakati nilizozianza kabla ya kuwa mbunge za kupinga ufisadi wa mapato katika kituo hicho. Tarehe 28 Januari 2011 nilifanya ziara ya kituoni hapo kama sehemu ya kutimiza wajibu wa kibunge ambapo pamoja na mambo mengine nilikutana na mawakala wa kituo kusikiliza malalamiko yao ikiwemo kuhusu kiingilio. Kufuatia kupinga huko Tarehe 11 Mei 2011 Kamati ya Fedha na Uongozi ya Jiji la Dar es salaam ilipitisha azimio la kupendekeza kwamba utekelezaji wa sheria ndogo iliyoongeza kiingilio usitishwe.

Kwa kuwa sheria ndogo imetungwa na baraza la madiwani, nilikwenda mbele zaidi kupinga kiwango cha kiingilio na ufisadi katika Kituo cha Mabasi Ubungo kwa kuwasilisha hoja binafsi Tarehe 15 Mei 2011. Kutokana na ukubwa wa hoja ya ufisadi katika kituo hicho kwa mujibu wa vyanzo vyetu na ripoti ya Mkaguzi Mkuu wa Hesabu za Serikali suala hilo limekuwa likichukua muda kushughulikiwa na nimeendelea kupinga na kuhoji kwenye vikao vya jiji, kupitia vyombo vya habari na hata bungeni Waziri Magufuli akisikia.

Kwa sasa tayari jiji limekubaliana na hoja hiyo kinachofuata ni baraza la madiwani kupitisha azimio la kufanya mabadiliko husika. Hivyo, Waziri Magufuli hakusema ukweli alipodai kwamba sijawahi kupinga ongezeko la kiingilio katika Kituo Kikuu cha Mabasi cha Ubungo. Jaribio lake dhaifu la kutaka kuonyesha kwamba nimeacha ya kwetu nakwenda kushughulikia ya wengine hatimaye litashindwa ukweli utakapotamalaki.

KUHUSU MADAI KWAMBA SIJAWAHI KUPENDEKEZA BARABARA ZA KUPANDISHWA HADHI NA KUFANYIWA KAZI KWA AJILI YA KUPUNGUZA FOLENI

Waziri Magufuli amezusha na kupotosha kwamba sijawahi kupendekeza barabara za kupandishwa hadhi ili zishughulikiwe na serikali kuu kwa ajili ya kupunguza foleni katika jimbo la Ubungo na Dar es salaam kwa ujumla. Ukweli ni kwamba mara baada ya kuchaguliwa katika kikao changu cha kwanza kabisa kushiriki cha Bodi ya Barabara ya Mkoa mwezi Februari 2011 ambacho chombo cha Wizara yake cha utendaji cha Wakala wa Barabara (TANROADS) kikiwepo nilitoa mapendekezo ya barabara husika na hatua ambazo serikali ilipaswa kuchukua katika maandalizi ya kupandisha hadhi na pia katika bajeti, hatimaye orodha ya barabara husika za kupandishwa hadhi ziliwasilishwa na kupitishwa katika vikao vilivyofuatia.

Pia, nimeandika barua rasmi mbili zenye mapendekezo mahususi kwa TANROADS na Waziri wa Ujenzi barabara za kushughulikiwa kupunguza foleni (Aprili na Mei 2011); lakini Waziri Magufuli hajawahi kujibu barua hata moja huku miezi zaidi ya sita ikiwa imepita. Baada ya ukimya kwa kutokutekelezwa kwa mapendekezo ya kikao cha bodi ya barabara na kutokujibiwa kwa barua nilichukua hatua za kuwasilisha mapendekezo bungeni ya barabara muhimu kwa ajili ya kupunguza foleni na kutaka majibu ya kuzipandisha hadhi barabara husika wakati nachangia kwenye mjadala wa Mpango wa Taifa wa Miaka Mitano Tarehe 14 Juni 2011.

Nikaeleza zaidi hatua zinazopaswa kuchukuliwa na serikali kupunguza foleni jimbo la Ubungo na Dar es salaam kwa ujumla Tarehe 2 Agosti 2011 wakati nachangia mjadala wa bajeti ya Wizara ya Ujenzi ikiwemo kuhusu kupandisha hadhi barabara husika na kuongeza kiwango cha bajeti. Waziri Magufuli kuzusha na kupotosha kwamba sijawahi kupendekeza kupandishwa hadhi kwa barabara inadhirisha kwamba amekuwa msahaulifu na amefanya jaribio dhaifu la kunichonganisha na wananchi wa jimbo letu kuwa sifuatilii masuala yetu. Ukweli ni kwamba foleni inaendelea kuwepo kwa sababu ya uzembe wa Wizara ya Ujenzi na serikali kwa ujumla kushindwa kutenga Fedha za kutosha kwa ajili ya kulimaliza tatizo pamoja na kupata hasara ya mabilioni kila siku, kiwango ambacho kimetengwa kwa ajili ya barabara za pembezoni za kupunguza msongamano ikiwemo za Ubungo na Dar es salaam nzima kwa mwaka wa Fedha 2011/2012 ni bilioni tano tu; hivyo suala la msingi ambalo Waziri Magufuli anapaswa kulijibu ni iwapo serikali imekubaliana na ushauri wangu wa kufanya mapitio ya bajeti na kuongeza Fedha kwenye mkutano ujao wa bunge kwa ajili ya mkakati wa kuondoa foleni Dar es salaam.

KUHUSU MADAI YA KUSHINDWA KUJA NA WAZO LA KUSHIRIKISHA WAKALA WA NYUMBA (TBA) KWENYE KUTAFUTA SULUHISHO LA MALAZI KWA WANAFUNZI WA VYUO VIKUU:

Waziri Magufuli amezusha suala tofauti la madai ya kushindwa kuja na wazo la kushirikisha Wakala wa Nyumba (TBA) kwenye kutafuta suluhisho la malazi kama sehemu ya nyingine ya jaribio lake dhaifu la kuhamisha mjadala na kujaribu kutafuta huruma ya kuungwa mkono na wanafunzi wa vyuo vikuu jimboni Ubungo. Ukweli ni kwamba kazi kubwa ya TBA ambayo iko chini ya Wizara ya Ujenzi na kujenga nyumba za watumishi wa umma, na katika mwaka wa Fedha 2011/2012 ina rasilimali chache za kumalizia miradi iliyopo na kutafuta viwanja vya kujenga nyumba za serikali.

Kwa hiyo, katika kufanya kazi za kibunge kuhusu TBA ninachofuatilia kwa sasa ni nyumba za watumishi wa umma na masuala ya malazi ya wanafunzi nayafuatilia kwa vyombo na mamlaka nyingine. Ingekuwa TBA ina fursa hiyo anayodai Waziri Magufuli angeiwezesha kuwepo katika harambee iliyofanywa na Rais Jakaya Kikwete jimboni Ubungo kwa ajili ya Kituo cha Wanafunzi wa Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es salaam (UDSM) ambao taasisi na watu mbalimbali tulichangia kwa ajili ya ustawi wa wanafunzi. Katika hali ya sasa, TBA haina uwezo wa kuanza kujenga maeneo ya malazi ya wanafunzi wakati haijaweza hata kuziba pengo la nyumba za serikali zilizouzwa kinyemela kwa uratibu wa Waziri Magufuli.

Wanafunzi wa Vyuo Vikuu hawawezi kupotoshwa na Waziri Ujenzi kwamba ana dhamira ya kuwajengea maeneo ya malazi wakati ambapo amesababisha mpaka mawaziri na watumishi wenzake wa umma kukaa mahotelini au kupanga kwa gharama kubwa kwa sababu ya watangulizi wao akiwemo Magufuli kujiuzia nyumba za serikali kwa upendeleo. Waziri Magufuli anapaswa kuwaeleza wanafunzi wa vyuo vikuu na watanzania kwa ujumla kiwango cha ubadhirifu na madeni kwa taifa kinachopunguza uwezo wa serikali kuwapatia mikopo ya elimu ya juu, kuwajengea maeneo ya malazi na kutekeleza miradi mingine ya msingi ya maendeleo na athari ambazo TBA imepata kutokana na kuuzwa kiholela kwa nyumba za serikali.

KUHUSU KUKUTANA KUZUNGUMZIA MAAFA YA MAFURIKO YALIYOLIKUMBA JIJI LA DAR ES SALAAM

Waziri Magufuli amezusha na kupotosha kwamba hatujawahi kukutana kwa ajili ya kuzungumzia maafa ya mafuriko. Ukweli ni kuwa kauli kuhusu suala la kivuko tulizitoa tukiwa tunajiandaa kuingia kwenye kikao cha kamati ya maafa ya mkoa kujadili masuala ya mafuriko, na kabla ya siku hiyo wabunge tumejumuika kwenye vikao vingine vya maafa katika Mkoa wetu. Aidha, toka maafa ya mafuriko yatokee Tarehe 20 Disemba 2011 nimeshiriki kwa hali na mali katika hatua zote ikiwemo hatua aliyoitaja Waziri Magufuli ya kupendekeza njia bora za kuwasaidia wanaoishi mabondeni. Hivyo, kauli hii ni jaribio linguine dhaifu la kujaribu kujenga hisia kuwa hatujali matatizo ya msingi ya wananchi ya wakati huu ili kuhamisha mjadala.

KUHUSU MADAI KWAMBA NILIPASWA KUSHUGHULIKIA MAMBO YA UBUNGO NA SI YA KIGAMBONI

Waziri Magufuli amejaribu kujenga dhana potofu kwamba nilipaswa kushughulikia masuala ya jimbo letu la Ubungo na si kujiingiza kwenye kero za jimbo linguine. Ukweli ni kuwa kero zote tatu alizodai kuwa nimeziacha jimboni bila kuzifuatilia za kiingilio cha Ubungo, kupandisha hadhi barabara za kupunguza foleni na suala la kutumia TBA katika kupata suluhisho la malazi ya wanafunzi wa vyuo vikuu nimezitolea maelezo yenye kuonyesha kwamba nimetimiza wajibu husika wa kibunge.

Maelezo hayo yanayonyesha kwamba ili tuweze kushughulikia kwa haraka zaidi kero za msingi za wananchi mabadiliko ya mfumo wa utendaji kazi yanahitajika kufanya serikali na viongozi wake waweze kuwajibika ipasavyo. Hii inahitaji kuunganisha nguvu ya wengine na mamlaka zingine katika kuisimamia serikali suala ambalo haliwezi kutimia kwa kazi za ndani ya jimbo pekee. Ukweli ni kwamba mbunge pamoja na kuwakilisha wananchi wa jimbo waliomtuma, anawajibika vile vile kwa nchi, kwa chama na kwa nafasi yake. Hivyo, katika kutimiza majukumu ya kibunge yanatokana mamlaka ya bunge ya kuisimamia serikali kwa mujibu wa Ibara ya 63; mbunge anapaswa kuwasimamia mawaziri na serikali kwa ujumla. M

atokeo ya kuwezesha mabadiliko ya kiutendaji na uwajibikaji yanatija kwa wananchi wote ikiwemo wa jimbo la Ubungo. Aidha, kama katibu wa wabunge wa Mkoa wa Dar es salaam nina wajibu wa kushughulikia suala lolote linalomgusa mbunge yoyote wa Mkoa wetu iwapo linahitaji nguvu ya pamoja kwa maslahi ya umma. Izingatiwe pia, mwingiliano wa Dar es salaam wapo wananchi wa Ubungo wanaofanya kazi ama kufanya biashara Kigamboni ambao nao wametaka niwawakilishe kwenye suala hili kama ninavyofanya kwa mengine. Pia, ifahamike kwamba kilichotukutanisha wabunge siku tuliyotoa kauli ni kikao na kamati ya maafa ya mkoa tofauti na madai potofu aliyotoa kwamba wabunge hatujawahi kukutana kwa ajili ya masuala ya maafuriko yaliyoukumbuka mkoa wa Dar es salaam.

KUHUSU KIWANGO CHA UPANDISHWAJI WA NAULI KATIKA KIVUKO CHA KIGAMBONI NA VIVUKO VINGINE NCHINI

Waziri Magufuli ameamua kupotosha kwamba nilichompinga na kupanda kwa nauli kutoka shilingi 100 mpaka 200, na kuacha kujibu hoja kuu ambazo nilitaka azitolee maelezo na vielelezo. Ukweli ni kuwa nilichotaka kisitishwe ni utekelezaji wa agizo kupitia gazeti la serikali (GN 367) ya tarehe 4 Novemba 2011 na kuanza kutumika kwa nauli mpya kwa ujumla wake kutokana na kukiukwa kwa misingi ya utawala bora na pia baadhi ya viwango kutokuzingatia hali halisi. Kwa upande wa kupanda kwa nauli nilisisitiza kuwa kero kuu sio kupanda nauli ya mtu mzima toka shilingi 100 mpaka 200 bali kupandishwa kupindukia kwa nauli za vyombo vya usafiri na usafirishaji hali ambayo itasababisha kupanda kwa bei ya bidhaa katika eneo la Kigamboni na kuathiri watu wengi zaidi.

Mathalani, Baskeli za matairi matatu (Guta) toka Tsh 200 hadi Tsh 1800 (Asilimia 800); bei ambayo ni kubwa kuliko ya gari ndogo; bajaj zimepanda toka Tsh 300 hadi Tsh 1300 (Asilimia 333); mikokoteni imeongezeka toka Tsh 200 hadi Tsh 1500 (Asilimia 650) na mizigo nayo inatozwa kati ya shilingi 200 mpaka 500. Sasa kwa kuwa utekelezaji wa agizo unafanyika kwa ujumla, nikataka viwango vipya kwa ujumla wake visitishwe mpaka kwanza serikali itoe maelezo na vielezo vya msingi wa kufanya ongezeko kubwa la kiwango hicho. Nilitaka serikali itoe maelezo ikizingatia kwamba vivuko ni huduma sio biashara kwa kuwa maeneo mengi yenye vivuko yalipaswa kuwa na madaraja kwa ajili ya vyombo hivyo vya usafiri na wananchi kuweza kupita.

Nilieleza wazi kwamba kazi ya msingi ya Wizara ya Ujenzi ni kujenga barabara, madaraja na miundombinu mingine sio kufanya biashara ya vivuko hivyo, ongezeko la kuangalia soko linaweza kushawishi ucheleweshaji wa ujenzi wa madaraja. Ieleweke kwamba kazi kuu ya Wakala wa Ufundi na Umeme (TEMESA) sio kuendesha vivuko na kama tunataka suala hili kuwa ndio kipaumbele tunayo Wizara ya Uchukuzi ambayo inahusika pia na uchukuzi majini na inashirika la meli. Kumekuwepo na kukosekana na uwazi na udhibiti wa kutosha wa mapato na matumizi ya kivuko hivyo tulitaka serikali ieleze kwa mchanguo badala ya kauli za ujumla kuhusu suala hili ili kujenga uhalali wa kupandisha nauli husika kwa hoja ya kupanda kwa gharama za uendeshaji. Nilipinga ongezeko kubwa la bei ya umeme kwa kisingizio hicho hicho, kwa kuwa mchakato ulikuwa shirikishi naamini kutokana na maoni ya wadau yako ambayo yatarekebishwa na TANESCO tofauti na mapendekezo yao ya awali.

Haiwezekani suluhisho la kupanda kwa gharama za maisha kwa wabunge ikawa kujiongezea posho za vikao na suluhisho kwa taasisi za umma kama Wizara ya Ujenzi na TEMESA ikiwa ni kijiongeza mapato kwa kuongeza nauli bila kuzingatia kubana matumizi na kumjali mtanzania wa kipato cha chini ambaye anabeba mzigo mkubwa wa kupandwa kwa gharama za maisha na sasa anapindishiwa hata na serikali yake nauli za vyombo vya usafiri kuvuka tu kwenye kivuko. Hivyo, Wizara ya Ujenzi kupitia vyombo vyake inapaswa kuhusisha mapato yanayokusanywa kwenye barabara na ujenzi wa miundombinu na uendeshaji wa vivuko vya muda wakati miundombinu inasubiriwa.

Pia, pamoja na nauli, msingi wa uendeshaji wa vivuko unapaswa pia kuwa mapato kutoka kwenye barabara na vyanzo vingine. Badala ya kujibu hoja ya msingi, Waziri Magufuli amejikita katika ongezeko la shilingi 100 mpaka 200 na kulinganisha pia na mazingira yasiyoendana baina ya kivuko cha Kigamboni na vivuko vingine nchini ambavyo vinatofautiana umbali, muda na gharama za uendeshaji.

KUHUSU SHERIA NA UTARATIBU AMBAO UMETUMIKA KUPANDISHA VIWANGO HUSIKA
Waziri Magufuli amezusha na kupotosha kwamba nilisema amekiuka sheria ya uendeshaji wa vivuko. Ukweli ni kwamba katika kauli yangu nilisema wazi kwamba Waziri Magufuli amepandisha viwango vya kivuko hicho kwa mamlaka aliyopewa na sheria mbovu ya vivuko (Ferries Act), hata hivyo nilisisitiza kwamba mamlaka hayo ameyatumia kibabe na kwa kutozingatia misingi ya utawala bora. Nilisema kwamba Waziri Magufuli anapaswa kuzingatia kwamba nchi haiongozwi kwa sheria moja, na ikiwa anataka kutumia sheria moja basi sheria mama ni katiba ya nchi.

Nilisema kwamba kwa mujibu wa ibara ya 8 ya katiba ya taifa letu wananchi ndio msingi wa mamlaka, ibara ya 18 inataka wananchi wapewe taarifa wakati wote kuhusu matukio mbalimbali kwa maisha na shughuli zao na ibara ya 21 inatoa haki ya kushiriki katika shughuli za utawala wa nchi ama moja kwa moja au kupitia wawakilishi. Hivyo, katika kutekeleza sheria ya vivuko na kanuni zake badala ya kutumia ubabe Waziri Magufuli alipaswa kuzingatia misingi hiyo muhimu lakini hakufanya hivyo kwa sababu nauli zimepandishwa bila kuwa na uwazi wala ushirikishwaji. Wananchi na wadau hawakushirikishwa katika kutoa maoni kuhusu suala linalowahusu kama ambavyo mamlaka zingine za kiserikali zinafanya wakati wa michakato ya kupandisha bei, mathalani mashirika ya umma ya umeme, mafuta na gesi hufanya michakato hiyo kupitia EWURA.

Nikasema kwamba pamoja na kuwa sheria hailekezi kwa kina jambo hili, Waziri Magufuli na Wakala wa Serikali wa Ufundi na Umeme (TAMESA) walipaswa kuonyesha mfano hasa kwa kuwa walishaombwa kufanya hivyo kwa barua ya mwaka 2011 mwanzoni ambayo wizara yake haikutimiza wajibu hata wa walau kujibu. Nikaeleza kwamba Serikali imeweka mfumo kama huu kwa usafiri wa nchi kavu na majina kupitia SUMATRA kwa upande wa watoe huduma wengine, hivyo ilipaswa na yenyewe kuonyesha mfano. Ndio msingi wa kusema kwamba kwa kuwa suala hili limelalamikiwa na wananchi na wabunge ni vizuri agizo likasitishwa na taratibu shirikishi zikatumika kwa kushauriana na SUMATRA.

Nilieleza kwamba suala hili linatokana na udhaifu wa mifumo yetu ya utendaji na uendeshaji ambapo taasisi za kiserikali zinahodhi michakato muhimu ya kitaifa na linakuwa zito zaidi kwa kuwa halikuelezwa bayana hata wakati bunge linajadili makadirio ya mapato na matumizi ya serikali bungeni ya Wizara ya Ujenzi Tarehe 1 na 2 Agosti 2011. Nikaeleza kwamba mjadala huu ni muhimu kwa taifa kwa ajili ya kubadili sheria na taratibu husika pamoja na kuweka mfumo mzuri zaidi wa utendaji na uwajibikaji bila kuwa na mivutano kwenye masuala ambayo kama yangekuwepo mawasiliano na mashauriano yasingefikia hatua ya kuwa malumbano. Hivyo, tukiachia hali hii ikiendelea bila uwazi, ushirikishaji na uwajibikaji itaendelea kwenye masuala yanayowagusa wananchi wa maeneo mengine nchini ikiwemo wa jimbo letu la Ubungo. Kwa hiyo, kuunga kwangu mkono suala hili ilikuwa ni sehemu ya kutekeleza ahadi ambayo niliwaahidi wananchi wa Ubungo wakati wa uchaguzi kwamba nitasimamia vyombo vyote vinavyohusika na masuala ya usafiri na mengine ya huduma za msingi wa umma.

KUHUSU KAULI ZISIZOZINGATIA MISINGI YA UONGOZI NA UTAWALA BORA

Nilipinga kauli za Waziri Magufuli zisizozingatia uongozi na utawala bora mathalani kuwaambia wananchi wapige mbizi au kumshambulia mbunge katika jambo ambalo kama Waziri Magufuli na TEMESA wangezingatia misingi ya utendaji bora kwa kujibu barua lisingefikia kuwa na malumbano hadharani. Waziri Magufuli angeweza kabisa kujenga hoja bila kuzusha vioja visivyo vya lazima, kisingizio cha kauli ya watendaji wa Wizara yake kwamba alifanya hivyo baada ya kuzomewa na wananchi hakiwezi kuhalalisha misingi muhimu ya uongozi wa busara na unyenyekuvu badala ya ubabe na uropokaji. Jambo hili lisingekuwa na uzito kama ingekuwa ni makosa ya mara ya kwanza, hata hivyo nililazimika kutoa kauli ya kumtaka aombe radhi nikikumbuka pia kauli zake ambazo mpaka sasa hajawahi kuomba radhi kwa umma wakati akijibu wananchi na viongozi waliokuwa wakilalamikia uuzwaji holela wa nyumba za serikali kwamba ‘nyie mwaona wivu’ ama ‘mlie tu’. Hivyo, ameendeleza tu hulka yake na sitarajii kwamba itabadilika hata baada ya taarifa hii kwa umma kuhusu masuala ambayo amezusha na kupotosha juu yangu. Kwa heshima niliyonayo kwake natarajia kwamba atabadilika, na natarajia utakubali ndani ya wiki moja kunijibu kukubali kupokea changamoto hizi na kuzifanyia kazi. Asipofanya hivyo, tutakutana bungeni na nitafuatilia mabadiliko ya kisheria, kikanuni, kimfumo na kiutendaji katika Wizara yake kwa karibu zaidi kwa ajili ya maendeleo ya miundombinu ya wananchi wa Jimbo la Ubungo na Taifa kwa ujumla.Wenu katika utumishi wa umma,

John Mnyika (Mb)
08/01/2012

RAI YA JENERALI

2012-01-07T05:44:00.000+03:00

MWAKA MWINGINE WA UHUNI NA VURUGU CHAMA TAWALA

Ni mwendelezo ununuzi nafasi za ‘uongozi’

HAUHITAJI kuwa nabii kugundua kwamba mwaka huu utakuwa na mivutano na misuguano mingi ya kisiasa. Hili ni jambo linaloeleweka hata kwa wale tunaoweza kuwaita mbumbumbu-mzungu-wa-reli katika masuala ya kisiasa.

Mwaka huu zitafanyika chaguzi nyingi na za ngazi mbali mbali ndani ya CCM, chama-tawala, kuanzia ngazi za mashina hadi kileleni, ngazi ya uongozi wa taifa, hatima yake ikiwa ni uchaguzi wa halmashauri kuu na mwenyekiti wa chama hicho.

Chaguzi zote hizi zinaingia katika mantiki ya kawaida ya kukihuisha chama, kukipa uhai mpya kwa kukipa uongozi mpya na kukiwekea malengo mapya au kushadidia yale ya zamani kwa mwamko mpya.

Chama chochote, hata chama cha wacheza ngoma, hakina budi kufanya kazi ya kujikagua kila mara, kwa vipindi vilivyokubaliwa ndani ya chama husika. Kwa sababu hili ni jambo la kawaida, halitakiwi kuzua mijadala yoyote mizito.

Lakini hali tuliyo nayo si ya kawaida, na hali tunayoishuhudia ndani ya chama-tawala si ya kawaida hata kidogo. Vurugu zilizomo ndani ya chama hicho zinatisha. Matamko yanayotolewa na wakuu wa chama hicho ni ya kustaajabisha. Mambo yanayofanywa na viongozi wa chama hicho ni ya kutia hofu.

Katibu mkuu wa zamani wa chama hicho aliwahi kusema, baada ya kuwa si katibu mkuu tena, kwamba chama hicho kilikuwa kimepoteza dira na hakikuwa na mwelekeo tena. Bila shaka hayo ni maneno yanaweza kuelezwa kuwa ni sawa na yela ya “sizitaki, ni mbichi” ya yule sungura aliyebeza zabibu alizoshindwa kuzifikia, na tungeweza kumsaili juu ya kile alichofanya kurekebisha hali hiyo wakati akiwa katibu mkuu.

Kwa vyovyote vile, jambo lisiloepukika leo ni ukweli kwamba chama hicho kimekwisha kama chama cha siasa, kimebakia kuwa chama-tawala kweli kweli kwa maana kinachofanya ni kutawala tu, basi, na katika kutawala kwenyewe kinatawala vibaya. Tukiirejea kauli ile ya katibu mkuu wa zamani wa chama-tawala tunakumbushwa kwamba matatizo ya chama hiki yameanza kitambo; si ya juzi wala jana. Katika misemo ya ki-msiba, leo tusingezungumzia kifo cha marehemu, wala tusingezungumzia matanga, na wala isingekuwa arobaini. Tungezungumzia kumbukumbu ya miaka kadhaa tangu marehemu atutoke.

Hii ina maana kwamba kilichobaki ni mipangilio ya kuendeleza utaratibu wa ki-dola kwa kutumia jina la chama ambacho hakipo tena isipokuwa mabaki yake (residual essence) yanayoruhusu misemo, kauli-mbiu na vibwagizo, lakini si matendo halisi yaliyosimikwa juu ya misingi ya falsafa na itikadi. Kimebaki ni chama-bua, ndani yake hamna kitu hata kama kwa nje kinaonekana kimejaza.

Sasa hicho ndicho chama kinachoingia katika mchakato mrefu wa uchaguzi mwaka huu wote, na nchi nzima itakokotwa na mkumbo huo, itake, isitake, kwa sababu hiki ni chama-tawala, na kinaweza kutoa maagizo na yakatekelezwa, kwa sababu kina dola.

Kwa hiyo, nchi itaburuzwa katika uchaguzi huu ambao utakuwa si jambo jingine isipokuwa muendelezo wa mipangilio ya ki-dola, hususan mipangilio itakayolenga uchaguzi mwingine. Huu ni uchaguzi wa mwaka 2015, ndani ya chama-tawala chenyewe, na baadaye nchini kwa ujumla.

Kitakachofanyika mwaka huu ndani ya chama-tawala ni kwa kila kikundi ndani yake kuweka utaratibu utakaokiwezesha kikundi hicho kukusanya kura nyingi ndani ya chama-tawala kukiwezesha kikundi hicho kukamata dola baada ya Uchaguzi Mkuu wa mwaka 2015.

Kukamata dola kwa kikundi kimoja maana yake ni kuvishinda vikundi vingine vinavyoiwania dola. Kukamata dola maana yake ni kujihakikishia fursa ya kukusanya utajiri haramu unaotokana na kikundi fulani kuhodhi madaraka ya dola.

Ndiyo maana katika vikumbo tutakavyoshuhudia mwaka huu hadi mwaka 2015 hatutasikia hata kidogo mabishano ya kifalsafa wala ya kiitikadi, hata ya ki-sera; tutakachosikia ni minada ya majina ya watu na majina ya vikundi, ikiandamana na kauli-mbiu zilizotungwa na ma-MC.

Hali hii inanifanya niwe na hofu kuhusu chama-tawala hiki na jinsi kinavyojipeleka kuelekea kwenye vurugu. Kwa chama kinachojinasibu kuwa bingwa wa kujenga nchi ya “amani na utulivu” nchini, chama hiki kimekuwa ni kama genge la vurugu lililojaa chuki, ugomvi, inda, fitna, hiyana na kila aina ya uovu.

Ndani ya chama kimoja yamo makundi yanayoombeana kifo na yanaweza yakasababishiana kifo huko tuendako. Uhasama uliomo ndani ya chama tawala haupo kati ya chama hicho na vyama vya upinzani. Kwa nini?

Kuna mgando wa hisia. Hadi sasa wana-mipangilio wanaojiona ni wanasiasa wanahisi kwamba rais ajaye lazima atoke katika chama-tawala. Sababu ya hisia hiyo ni kwamba tangu mwaka 1961 rais amekuwa akitoka chama hicho hicho. Mgando huo wa hisia hauruhusu kufikiri kwamba inawezekana safari hii rais asitoke katika chama hicho, hata kidogo. Kwani nini kimebadilika hadi tufikie huko? Nchi hii ije kutawaliwa na hawa wahuni?

Hisia zilizoganda haziruhusu kutambua kwamba nchi imebadilika kiasi kwamba sisi tuliokuwapo mwaka 1961 ndio wachache tukilinganishwa na wale waliokuja baada ya Uhuru.

Hisia mgando hazioni kwamba wahuni wamejenga makao ya kudumu ndani ya chama-tawala na wanafanya mambo ya kihuni kama kugawiana nyumba za serikali, kupora Benki Kuu na kujizawadia migodi ya taifa. Kama kuna uhuni zaidi ya huo itabidi tuwajaribu na wengine nao watuonyeshe viwango vya uhuni wao.

Lakini mgando wa ubongo unawatia hamasa wanamakundi ndani ya chama-tawala kuchimbana, kushutumiana, kutukanana, kuwindana, kuhujumiana, na wataendeleza kasi ya mapambano yao hayo hadi mwaka 2015, kabla hawajagundua kwamba ‘wahuni’ wenzao ndani ya vyama vya upinzani wamekwisha kuiteka nchi.

Hata hivyo, ziko mbinu nyingi za kuhakikisha kwamba “kuiteka nchi” ni tofauti na kuchukua dola, kama ‘wahuni’ wengine wa Kenya walivyotufundisha miaka mitano iliyopita. Hawatajali kwamba uhuni wao unaweza kusababisha maafa kwa taifa. Kwani ni lini wahuni walijali mambo madogo madogo kama hayo?

Nimekwisha kuonyesha katika safu hii ni jinsi gani wana-mipangilio wanavyotumia fedha kununua nafasi za utawala ili waweze kutengeneza (kuiba) fedha zaidi. Nimekwisha kuonyesha vile vile jinsi ambavyo bei ya kuinunua nchi nzima inaweza kupangwa. Sasa ninajaribu sana kujishawishi kwamba nilichokuwa nikikieleza ni uwezekano wa kimantiki kutokana na jinsi tunavyoenenda, na si kwamba ni kweli bei imekwisha kupangwa! Sijui.

Viwango vya fedha vinavyoendelea kutumika katika chaguzi zetu tunavijua? Fedha hizo zinatoka wapi? Tukiacha zile zilizochotwa na Mkapa na wenzake kutoka Benki Kuu, vyanzo vingine ni vipi? Hivyo vyanzo vina maslahi gani katika nchi hii? Je, haiwezekani kwamba uamuzi mwingine wa Serikali yetu unakwamishwa na jeuri ya vyanzo hivyo? Wakuu wa Serikali wanashangaa nini, wakati wanajua? Na sisi tunashangaa nini kuhusu wafanyabiashara wa mafuta ya petroli, au wamiliki wa vitalu vya uwindaji?

Tujiandae kuona katika mwaka huu wakuu wa chama-tawala wakipigana vikumbo kwa ari kubwa zaidi, nguvu kubwa zaidi na kasi kubwa zaidi kukusanya fedha haramu kwa ajili ya kununua nafasi za kutengeneza fedha zaidi.

Sheria zipo zilizotungwa eti ili kuzuia fedha haramu zisiingizwe katika uchaguzi, lakini sheria hizo ni mwanasesere wa kuwinda ndege (scarecrow). Asasi za kuzuia rushwa zimeundwa, na hata kupewa majina mapya (PCB ikawa PCCB), lakini ni mwanasesere mwingine, na ndege wamekwisha kumng’amua.

Yote hii ni kwa sababu watungaji wa sheria hizo, na wasimamizi wa utekelezaji wake, hawakuwa na nia, na wala hawana nia, ya kuziruhusu zifanye kazi kwa sababu wao ndio wahalifu wakubwa dhidi ya sheria hizo. Kama wanabisha waseme.

Natoa changamoto kwa yeyote katika asasi za (eti) kupambana na kuzuia rushwa, udhibiti wa mienendo ya vyama vya siasa, ‘sekretareti’ za maadili, na asasi nyingine zinazoendeshwa kwa gharama kubwa za wananchi wa Tanzania wasimame wanisute kwa kusema uongo ninaposema kwamba wote hawa ni wanasesere, wao na asasi zao, na hawana sababu ya kuendelea kuwapo.

Asasi kama hizi zilianzishwa katika nchi nyingi zilizoendelea ili angalau kupunguza vitendo vya ufisadi katika michakato inayotakiwa kuwa mitakatifu, kama vile uchaguzi. Katika nchi hizo, kwa kiwango kikubwa asasi hizi na sheria zake zinafanya kazi, na mara kwa mara wahalifu hukamatwa na kuadhibiwa.

Nchini kwetu, najiuliza, tungetaka kuwakamata wahalifu kama hao, je, tungekuwa na Serikali, au tungekuwa na rais mstaafu, au waziri mkuu mstaafu, au waziri mstaafu asiyekuwa gerezani?

Haya ni masuala ya kutafakari wakati tukiuanza mwaka huu ambao bila shaka utakuwa na mikwaruzano mingi ndani ya chama-tawala, lakini pia utakuwa na mabishano yenye hamasa kuhusu mustakabali wa taifa letu na masuala muhimu yanayohusiana na hilo, kwa mfano uandishi wa Katiba mpya. Nitayajadili.

RAIA MWEMA

MOKILI-ORCHESTRA MARQUIS "CHEKECHA"

2012-01-06T10:54:00.001+03:00

Msikilize Mzee Nguza Viking akilivurumusha gitaa lake. Utadhani Grand Maitre Luambo Luanzo.

UTABIRI WA HALI YA HEWA

2012-01-06T08:52:00.002+03:00

TAARIFA KWA UMMA NA VYOMBO VYA HABARI

TAHADHARI YA ONGEZEKO LA MVUA MAENEO YA KUSINI MWA NCHI

Msimu wa mvua unaendelea katika maeneo yanayopata mvua mara moja kwa

mwaka (mikoa ya Mtwara, Lindi, Ruvuma, Mbeya, Iringa, Morogoro kusini,

Rukwa, Dodoma, Singida, Kigoma na Tabora.)

Katika kipindi cha siku tano kuanzia Januari 5 hadi Januari 10, 2012, mgandamizo mdogo wa hewa katika eneo la rasi ya Msumbiji unatarajiwa kuendelea kuimarika hivyo kusababisha ongezeko la mawingu katika maeneo ya kusini mwa nchi.

Hali hii inatarajiwa kuimarisha makutano ya upepo wenye unyevunyevu katika maeneo hayo, hivyo kusababisha vipindi vya mvua kubwa katika maeneo ya Nyanda za juu kusini magharibi (mikoa ya Iringa, Mbeya na Rukwa), maeneo ya kusini (mikoa ya Ruvuma, Mtwara na Lindi), baadhi ya maeneo ya Kusini mwa mkoa wa Pwani na Kusini mwa mkoa wa Morogoro (Mahenge).

Aidha mvua za kawaida za masimu zinatarajiwa kuendelea kunyesha katika maeneo ya kanda ya kati (Mikoa ya Dodoma na Singida) na magharibi mwa nchi (Mikoa ya Kigoma na Tabora).

Maeneo ya Pwani ya kaskazini ( mikoa ya Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Pwani na visiwavya Unguja na Pemba), baadhi ya maeneo ya Nyanda za juu kaskazini masharikiyanatarajiwa kuwa na vipindi vya mvua ambazo ziko nje ya msimu.

Mvua hizi zinatarajiwa kuambatana na upepo mkali katika maeneo ya Bahari yaHindi, hivyo watumiaji wa Bahari wanashauriwa kuchukua tahadhari.

Mamlaka ya Hali ya Hewa inaendelea kufuatilia mwenendo wa mifumo ya Hali yahewa na athari zake na itaendelea kutoa taarifa.

IMETOLEWA NA

MAMLAKA YA HALI YA HEWA TANZANIA.

BATTLE OF THE RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS (ABRAMOVICH VS BEREVOSKY)

2012-01-05T11:40:00.001+03:00

– My Six Hours with Roman Abramovich at London’s Legal Wimbledon

Ian Mitchell

It is often said that the British government wants the City of London to replicate “the Wimbledon effect”. Britain has neither the best tennis players nor the richest banks in the world, but it undoubtedly stages the most prestigious tennis tournament and accommodates the most globally respected financial centre anywhere on the planet. Thanks in part to the Russian oligarchy, it is beginning to become apparent that Britain is gaining a similar ascendancy in a third form of organised, non-violent combat, namely the law.

The titanic fight between Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich over the billions of dollars that the oil company Sibneft was worth perfectly illustrates this, being the biggest private individual law suit in the world today. Which is why, when I had a few days’ holiday in London recently, I spent every free moment sitting in Court 26 in the Rolls Building in New Fetter Lane watching “Mr Abramovich” being interrogated without stint or respect for his billions by Berezovsky’s cocky South African barrister, Laurence Rabinovitz. I only wished I’d had three months’ holiday because I would have been there every day, all day, and written a book about the case, which would have become a best seller after I was mysteriously murdered. Sadly, I only had about six hours in the company of Mr Abramovich, but that was fascinating enough.

The basic dispute is simple. Was the relationship between the two litigants one of client and protector or was it one of equal partnership? In 1995/6, at the time of the privatisation of Russian state assets by Boris Yeltsin, a company called Sibneft came into being apparently, though not indisputably, controlled by Abramovich. In 2005 he sold it to Gasprom for $13 billion, making him the richest man in Russia. Berezovsky claims half of that money should really be his as they were equal partners in creating the business.

Abramovich made many payments to Berezovsky over the years, usually at the rate of about $50 million annually, even though Berezovsky did not do any work in the company at all. The sums were sometimes larger than the whole profit of the enterprise, especially in the late 1990s when the price of oil dropped to $8 a barrel. But these were not dividends paid to a partner or investor, or loan interest, they were for “krysha” (meaning “roof”), or protection in murky world of Russian business. This word is at the centre of the case, and I must have heard it used fifty or sixty times in the short period I sat in court. It appears to be entering the English legal lexicon. But what exactly does it mean to an oligarch paying for it? This is what Abramovich wrote in his pre-trial witness statement:

“This is how krysha worked: so long as one’s protector provided the services necessary to maintain the particular business being protected, you were expected pay him whatever he asked, whenever he asked. The hierarchy of krysha is clear. It had nothing to do with ownership of the business… It does not make any sense to me to try to characterise krysha as giving rise to any form of legal obligation. Indeed there was a lot of krysha activity in Russia at that time which was well outside the law and was little more than criminal extortion (sic!). Krysha did not create legal obligations, but I was fully aware I had to pay, just like many others… For a period I had no objection if people believed that [Berezovsky] was closely connected with Sibneft, whether as owner, founder or otherwise. The whole point of securing his krysha was for other people to feel that Sibneft was ‘his’ so that the company would not be interfered with.”

Berezovsky (whose middle name is actually Abramovich!) claims that he “sold his interest” in Sibneft to Abramovich in 2002. He should have been paid much more than the “paltry” $1.3 billion he received, especially in the light of the massive price the company commanded just three years later. But Abramovich allegedly told him that if he did not agree to that figure, he would arrange for his share to be expropriated for nothing. Abramovich hotly denies this, saying that he paid the $1.3 billion to buy himself out of the krysha arrangement.

The problem is that there are no documents attesting to what was agreed, and very little paperwork even covering some of the big transfers from Abramovich to Berezovsky. Many of them were made in cash at the Moscow tennis club to which Berezovsky belonged—at least until he was forced to flee Russia after falling out with President Putin in late 2000. But in English law a verbal agreement is as binding as a written one, so the judge will have to decide on the basis of the evidence led what that agreement was: did it constitute partnership or was it mere krysha?

The arena in which this great battle is taking place—the case started in early October and is expected to last till the turn of the year—is the brand new Commercial Court building just off the Strand. The judge is the first woman to sit on the Bench in that court, Mrs Justice Gloster. She is a sharplooking, blonde (there were no wigs in court, and the judge wore the only gown), ex-Roedean and Girton lady who used to earn £2 million a year as one of London’s top commercial barristers, working incidentally from the same chambers as Laurence Rabinovitz.

On both the days I was in the public seats, 1st and 3rd of November, one of the richest men in Russia was sitting at a desk on a raised dais for all to see, with headphones on, replying to yet another of Rabinovitz’s intrusions into his private life. He did not look very comfortable.

“Now Mr Abramovich, could you tell the court how many times you attended Mr Berezovsky’s birthday party. And could you tell us who else was there. I think they were fairly small, rather intimate gatherings were they not?”

This sort of questioning went on for hour after hour: how many joint holidays did you take cruising in the Mediterranean? How often did you go skiing together? Did your wife meet Mr Berezovsky’s wife, and did your children play with Mr Berezovsky’s children? And so on. It was all designed to establish that the two men were close friends and therefore more likely to have been partners than client and protector.

When Rabinovitz put that point explicitly to Abramovich, he denied it saying that in Russia there were always understood to be at least two levels of “friend”, a close friend and an ordinary friend. There were sniggers in court at this apparently cavilling distinction. Few seemed to believe Abramovich when he said he counted Berezovsky as a “friend” but not a “close friend”. A cleverer man (and Abramovich did not look particularly smart) might have pointed out the difference between дкуг, приятель and знакомый. You do not have to be expert in Russian to understand that these words reflect gradations of friendship not adequately translated by the distinction in English between “friend” and “acquaintance”.

And in this lay a much larger problem. Law is all about language, and most of all when verbal rather than written agreements, in a foreign language, are under the microscope. Even in the short time I was in court I noticed half-a-dozen instances of this sort. Often the barrister and the witness appeared to be talking at cross-purposes. What I also noticed was that Abramovich sometimes tried to exploit the court’s inevitable lack of understanding of Russian to make a point

One example stands out. When asked by Rabinovitz why an associate of Berezovsky’s had talked about his connection with Sibneft saying “we” not “you”, as if they were all partners, Abramovich replied that the man concerned was Georgian. He spoke good Russian, but it was common for such people to confuse the Russian words for “you” and “we”! Half the people in court laughed, to the point where the judge had to call for order.

The atmosphere on the landing outside was interesting too. When I first tried to get in, I was stopped by a woman who said the public benches were full. She politely directed me to some other rooms nearby where they had installed massive television screens so that those members of the public who wanted to watch the proceedings but could not find a seat could still see what was happening. One screen in each room showed the scene in court and another recorded the stenographers official words as they were spoken, which was a remarkable way to accommodate the requirement that justice must not only be done but be seen to be done.

When I asked this lady who she was, she said she was one of Berezovsky’s bodyguards. She was a tall, slim woman wearing an earpiece. I told her she had no authority to stop anyone entering the court, which she immediately conceded. Irritated, I rather cheekily asked her if she were armed. She waved her arms meaningfully at me and said, “I have these.” Was Berezovsky in court, I asked? No but his family were and someone might try to attack them. Not inside this building, I suggested. No, but they might try to poison their food, she answered; look what happened to Litvinenko. For all that he was always accompanied by his own bodyguards, there seemed to be a lot less paranoia in the Abramovich camp than in the Berezovsky one.

Perhaps the strongest impression from seeing everything at first hand, and both litigants at close quarters (though Berezovsky only briefly), was Abramovich’s obvious air of personal discomfort. He sat by himself in the chairs outside the court during the tea breaks with everyone milling around but no-one talking to him. He looked sad, almost lonely.

I imagine the powers in the Kremlin are taking a close interest in this case. If one of the richest men in Russia can be forced to come to court and give such a minute account of his comings and goings fifteen years ago, then who is safe from the long arm of British justice? Vladimir Solvyov, a Russian journalist close to Putin, was recently quoted in a One Russia video release about the case entitled, “Russia is not an English colony”, as saying: “That they are talking about our government there, is that not a disgrace?”

He is right. It is a disgrace. Many wealthy Russians who are not intimates of the Kremlin circle really do feel they will get justice only outside Russia. Oleg Deripaska and Michael Cherny likewise have a long-running dispute over billions of dollars of “privatised” assets, and their case will be heard in London next year. They are not alone. Any court system is a “disgrace” when litigants prefer to use foreign tribunals.

As space is limited, I will say about the evidence I heard only that Abramovich gave me the impression that he was unlikely to convince the judge that his relationship with Berezovsky had been based on krysha rather than some form of partnership. Whether or not Mrs Justice Gloster will find that way after hearing all the evidence, I would not like to guess, but I would be surprised if she does not also take account of the fact that the dispute concerns money that many feel neither party is fully entitled to.

But even if Her Ladyship awards Berezovsky a small portion of what he claims, that might still be, by ordinary standards, a vast sum amount of money. Many Russians have asked me, “What happens if Abramovich simply refuses to pay?” That such a question can seriously be asked by intelligent, experienced people shows just what a disgrace the Russian legal system actually is, and therefore why more cases like this are going to come to London in the future.

There are huge sums to be made by Chancery Lane lawyers from rich Russian litigants, and the irony is that they are doing so at a time when the English government (the situation is somewhat different in Scotland) is trying to reduce the amount of Legal Aid available to ordinary people so that fewer claims end in formal court hearings, and more are settled by informal arbitration. It is rather like Wimbledon, where the hoi polloi have to make do with Henman Hill, while the Centre Court is largely reserved for celebrities and rich foreigners— which in a wider sense is rather like Russia. No wonder oligarchs feel at home in London!

PASSPORT MAGAZINE

HAMAD RASHID ANG'OLEWA CUF

2012-01-05T09:22:00.000+03:00

Aziza Masoud na Talib Ussi, Zanzibar

HATIMAYE Mbunge wa Wawi, Hamad Rashid Mohamed na wenzake watatu wamefukuzwa uanachama wa CUF kuanzia jana. Hatua hiyo ilichukuliwa na zaidi ya robo tatu ya wajumbe wa Baraza Kuu la chama hicho katika kikao chake kilichofanyika hapa.

Uamuzi huo umekata mzizi wa fitina wa hatma ya Hamad na washirika wake hao kisiasa ndani ya chama hicho, baada ya kuibuka mvutano wa muda mrefu kati yake na uongozi wa juu.

Mvutano huo uliochomoza zaidi baada ya Hamad kutangaza kuwania nafasi ya Katibu Mkuu inayoshikiliwa na Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar, Maalim Seif Sharrif Hamad.

Hata hivyo, hatua hiyo imepingwa na Hamad ambaye ameiita kuwa ni ya kihuni kwani imekiuka amri ya Mahakama iliyotangaza kusitishwa kwa kikao kilichochukua uamuzi huo.

Naibu Katibu Mkuu wa CUF (Bara), Julius Mtatiro alithibitisha kuvuliwa uanachama kwa Hamad na kuwataja wengine walioondolewa pia kuwa ni Mjumbe wa Baraza Kuu (Tanga), Doyo Hassan Doyo, Mjumbe wa Baraza Kuu (Pemba), Shoka Khamis Juma, Mjumbe wa Baraza Kuu Unguja, Juma Saanane na Mjumbe wa Baraza Kuu (Mbeya), Yassin Mrotwa.

“Kwa mujibu wa katiba ya chama, wasioridhika na uamuzi huo wanaweza kukata rufaa kwenye mkutano mkuu wa taifa,” alisema.

Naibu Katibu Mkuu CUF Zanzibar, Ismail Jussa akizungumza jana jioni na Idhaa ya Kiswahili ya Redio Ujerumani (DW), alisema haoni kama hatua hiyo ya kuwafukuza wanachama hao akiwamo Hamad ambaye aliwahi kuwa Kiongozi wa Kambi ya Upinzani Bungeni kunaweza kuhatarisha mustakabali wa chama hicho.

“Ni kweli Hamad ametoa mchangao mkubwa ndani ya chama. Lakini wakati mwingine unapima faida na hasara sasa hivi Hamad alikuwa anaelekea kuvuruga chama,” alisema Jussa

Hamad: Ni uamuzi wa kihuni

Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari mara baada ya kikao hicho, Hamad alisema anashangazwa na kiongozi wa nchi (Maalim Seif), kushindwa kuheshimu amri ya Mahakama na kuendelea na kikao ambacho ilikuwa imeamuru kisitishwe.

“Kiongozi wa nchi anakaidi uamuzi wa mahakama... uamuzi huu mimi nauita ni uamuzi wa kihuni, nimekwenda kwenye kikao naulizwa maswali ambayo wao wamejipanga na mashahidi wao mimi sijajipanga, sina shahidi nawaambia wanipe maswali ili nipate muda wa kuyajibu na kuandaa mashahidi kama wao hawataki, sasa demokrasia ipo wapi hapo?” alisema Hamad.

Hamad alisema hati ya kusimamishwa kwa kikao hicho ilifika ukumbini hapo saa 6:10 mchana, lakini wajumbe wa kikao hicho walionekana kuipuuza na kuendelea nacho na hati iliyopelekwa makao makuu ya Dar es Salaam saa 2:00 jana ilikatiliwa kupokewa akidai kwamba ni kwa agizo kutoka kwa viongozi wakuu.

Alisema hati ya mahakama inaonyesha kwamba wanatakiwa kwenda mahakamani Februari 14, mwaka huu na kusema kwamba uamuzi wa kuaminika utatolewa huko kwani katika chama hicho wanachama wengine wanaonekana hawana nguvu kama katibu mkuu.

Alisema wanachama wote wa CUF wanapaswa kufurahi kwani hajaumizwa na uamuzi kwa kuwa viongozi wake wamekuwa wakionekana kuhubiri haki sawa huku wakienda tofauti na msimamo wa chama.

“Maalim Seif kila siku anaonekana anahubiri haki sawa kumbe hana lolote, anakandamiza tu watu kwa kuharibu chama na kutoa maamuzi kibabe. Mimi sipo tayari kuburuzwa, wakitaka tuelewane haki wanayoihubiri iwe inatendeka kweli,” alisema Hamad.

Kwa upande wake, Shoka Khamis ambaye alikuwa Mbunge wa Micheweni, Kaskazini Pemba katika Bunge la Tisa, alisema kwa mujibu wa katiba ya CUF hamjui aliyemtuhumu kwani haiwezekani mtu asomewe shtaka bila kujua anayemtuhumu.

“Nimejifundisha mengi sana CUF mazuri na mabaya, lakini leo kwa sababu wamenifukuza ngoja niseme mabaya, CUF sisi ni CCM B kama wanavyosema wenzetu. Chama kina sifa mbaya ya kufukuza watu, lakini anayefukuza wenzake, Seif Sharif Hamad yeye anajiona kama mungu hafanyi makosa,” alisema Shoka.

Alisema hawapo tayari kujiunga na chama chochote cha siasa kama maneno yanavyosambazwa kuwa watahamia Chadema. Alisema watafufua Chama Cha Wananchi (CCW) ambacho kiliungana n Kamahuru na kuipata CUF.

“Tuna mpango wa kuanzisha chama kingine kwani CUF kwa sasa kimeshakuwa chama cha mtu ambaye ni Seif na siyo cha wananchi kama kinavyojulikana katika siasa za nchi hii,” alisema Shoka.

Hamad na hujuma

Desemba 27, mwaka jana Hamad aligoma kuhojiwa na Kamati ya Maadili na Nidhamu, akitoa sababu tano huku akiibua tuhuma nzito za kunasa waraka wa mawasiliano uliotumwa kwa barua pepe na Maalim Seif kwenda kwa Mwenyekiti wa CUF, Profesa Ibrahim Lipumba ukionyesha mpango wa kumshughulikia.

Sababu ya pili, alisema baadhi ya walioteuliwa katika kamati hiyo ya Nidhamu na Maadili walikwisha mtuhumu hadharani na kumtia hatiani hivyo, kikao hicho kisingeweza kumtendea haki.

Alitaja sababu nyingine ya kukataa kuhojiwa kuwa ni kutoelezwa tuhuma zake hasa vifungu vya Katiba alivyodaiwa kuvikiuka.

Pia alitaka apewe hadidu za rejea za kikao kilichounda Kamati ya Nidhamu na Maadili kwa sababu haipo kikatiba, hakuna chombo kama hicho. Aligoma pia kuhudhuria kikao hicho kwa kuwa tayari alibaini njama za kumshughulikia zilizosukwa na Maalim Seif na Lipumba.

Hamad Rashid alijikuta kwenye mgogoro huo baada ya kutangaza dhamira yake hiyo ya kugombea nafasi ya katibu mkuu mwaka 2014.

Kuanzia hapo akajikuta ameingia kwenye mgogoro na chama hicho kiasi cha kunusurika kushambuliwa na watu wasiojulikana wakati akigawa misaada katika matawi ya chama hicho, Kata ya Manzese.

MWANANCHI

TAMKO LA CHAMA CHA MADAKTARI TANZANIA KUHUSU MGOMO

2012-01-05T08:18:00.000+03:00

TAARIFA KWA VYOMBO VYA HABARI NA UMMA KUHUSU SAKATA LA MGOMO WA MADAKTARI WANAOFANYA KAZI CHINI YA USIMAMIZI (INTERN DOCTORS).

Chama cha Madaktari Tanzania kimesikitishwa sana na mgogoro na migomo inayoendelea katika hospitali mbalimbali nchini kwa Madaktari wanaofanya kazi chini ya usimamizi yaani “interns”.

Tatizo kubwa ni kwamba Serikali haijawalipa malipo yao kwa kipindi cha mwezi mmoja hadi mitatu hali ambayo imewafanya washindwe kuendelea na kazi yao ya kuokoa maisha ya Watanzania wasiokuwa na hatia

Ikumbukwe kwamba Madaktari hawa walio chini ya uangalizi ndiyo uti wa mgongo wa utoaji huduma katika hospitali wanazofanya kazi hasa ikichukuliwa kuwa wao ndio wa kwanza kumwona mgonjwa na kumpa matibabu kabla ya kuonwa na Madaktari Bingwa walio wachache.

Hivyo, kutokuwepo kwao kazini kunafanya utoaji wahuduma kwa wananchi kudorora katika hospitali husika.

Baada ya kufanya utafiti wa kina, chama kimebaini kuwa hospitali tano za rufaa nchini tayari Madaktari hawa wameshindwa kufanya kazi zikiwemo:

1. Hospitali ya Taifa Muhimbili
2. Hospitali ya mkoa wa Tanga Bombo
3. Hospitali ya Mount Meru Arusha
4. Hospitali ya Mkoa wa Dodoma
5. Hospitali ya Manispaa ya Temeke

Katika vituo ambavyo Madaktari wameendelea kufanya kazi, imebainika kuwa ni kutokana na vituo, hospitali au halmashauri husika kuamua kuwakopesha wataalam hao ili kuwawezesha wataalam hao kuweza kuendelea na maisha yao ya kila siku huku wakitoa huduma wakati ufuatiliaji ukiendelea kwenye serikali kuu.

Aidha Chama kimebaini kuwa hali hii inaenea katika hospitali nyingine zenye Madaktari hawa na pia inaleta mzigo mkubwa kwa wale madaktari mabingwa na waandamizi na hii inaweza kuleta mgogoro katika fani yote ya udaktari nchi nzima.

Pia Chama kinakitafsiri kitendo cha kutowalipa Madaktari malipo yao na kuwafanya waishi kwa shida kwa muda huo wote kuwa ni kitendo cha dharau kwa fani ya udaktari na huduma wanazotoa kwa wananchi. Pia ni udhalilishaji wa hali ya juu kuwaacha madaktari waishi kwa kuomba omba huku wakitoa huduma kwa wananchi. Pia inatafsiriwa kuwa ni jinsi gani serikali isivyojali huduma za afya kwa wananchi inaowaongoza.

Kutokana na hayo:

1. Chama kinalaani kitendo cha Serikali kupitia Wizara ya Afya kutowalipa Madaktari malipo yao halali hadi kufikia mgomo unaopelekea wananchi kukosa huduma stahili za matibabu

2. Chama kinaitaka jamii na Serikali ielewe wazi kuwa madaktari kuwepo kazini bila malipo kwa muda mrefu ni uvunjifu wa haki za binaadamu, kinyume na kiapo cha udaktari na inapelekea utoaji wa huduma hafifu na vitendo vya uvunjifu wa sheria kama kukaribisha mazingira ya rushwa.{Sehemu ya kiapo inayozungumziwa inasema hivi “...Wakati nikikishika kiapo hiki na ijaliwe kwangu kufurahia maisha na kazi yangu, jamii inikumbuke na kuniheshimu nikiwa hai au nimekufa..."

3. Chama kinaitaka Serikali kuwalipa Madaktari wote malipo yao mara moja ndani ya kipindi cha masaa 48 ili waweze kuendelea kufanya kazi ya kuwahudumia Watanzania

4. Chama kinaitaka Serikali kuheshimu kazi ya udaktari na huduma za afya zinazotolewa kwa wananchi na iepuke kuwa chanzo cha migogoro ya mara kwa mara katika sekta ya afya.

5. Chama kinaitaka Serikali yaani viongozi wa Wizara na taasisi kuacha kutumia lugha za vitisho wakati tete kama huu hasa baada ya kushindwa kuwalipa Madaktari stahili zao

6. Chama kinaitaka Serikali kuwa na mipango endelevu na ya muda mrefu katika kulipa stahili za wafanyakazi ili kuepuka kufanya kazi kwa zimamoto kama inavyofanya sasa

7. Chama kinaialika Wizara ya Afya kushirikiana nacho katika utendaji wake ili kuepuka migogoro isiyo ya lazima kama hii inayopelekea mateso kwa wananchi wasio na hatia.

Kwa kumalizia, chama cha Madaktari Tanzania (MAT) kinapinga unyanyasaji unaofanywa na Wizara ya Afya kwa wataalamu wake, pia chama kinaona wataalam hawa hawana hatia ya uvunjifu wa kiapo chao katika kutoa huduma kwa watanzania kutokana na serikali kutokutimiza wajibu wake kama inavo elekeza kwenye kiapo na makubaliano ya kazi.

Chama pia kinasikitishwa na matokeo yanayotokana na mgogoro huu kwa wananchi wasio na hatia na taifa kwa jumla.

Pia chama kinazipongeza hospitali, na halmashauri zote zilizoamua kuwakopesha madaktari malipo yao ili kuepusha migogoro isiyokuwa ya lazima.

Chama kinapenda kuweka wazi kwamba iwapo Wizara itashindwa kushughulikia malipo haya ndani ya saa 48 basi itatulazimu kuitisha mkutano wa dharura kwa Madaktari nchini ili kutafakari mstakabali wa jambo hili nyeti na yote yanayohusu fani ya udaktari katika Taifa letu.

Taarifa hii imetolewa na Chama cha Madaktari Tanzania (MAT)

Dr. Namala mkopi
Rais - MAT

MASKINI DR. MWAKYEMBE: ANYONYOKA NYWELE KILA KUKICHA

2012-01-04T12:41:00.001+03:00

HALI ya afya ya Naibu Waziri wa Ujenzi, Dk. Harrison Mwakyembe, inasikitisha kwani licha ya kupata matibabu nchini India na kuendelea na tiba hiyo hapa nchini, hali yake siyo ya kuridhisha.

Watu wa karibu na Dk. Mwakyembe waliopata fursa ya kumwona, waliliambia Tanzania Daima Jumatano kuwa afya ya waziri huyo maarufu nchini bado siyo ya kuridhisha kwani amenyonyoka nywele, kope, nyuzi na hata vinyweleo vyote mwilini.

Mbali ya hali hiyo, Dk. Mwakyembe hulazimika kuvaa gloves mikononi na miguuni, fuluna au mashati marefu pamoja na traksuti au suruali ili kufunika mikono na miguu yake ambayo licha ya tiba anayoendelea kuipata, ngozi yake ina hali mbaya kutokana na kuathirika na ugonjwa wa ajabu uliompata.

Kwa mujibu wa habari hizo, kucha za vidoleni na miguuni zimeoza na zina rangi nyeusi, miguu na mikono yake imepasuka mithili ya mtu mwenye magaga ambayo wakati mwingine hutoa damu na kumsababishia maumivu makali.

“Kwa jinsi alivyo, Dk. Mwakyembe hawezi kwenda ofisini leo au kesho. Siha yake ukimwangalia ni nzuri na anaongea kwa sauti kama kawaida, lakini ngozi yake iko vibaya, kichwani hana nywele wala kope, nyusi…

“Anahitaji muda zaidi wa kupumzika na kuendelea na matibabu,” alisema mmoja wa watu waliofanya ziara ya kwenda kumwona nyumbani kwake Kunduchi Mtongani, jijini Dar es Salaam.

Baadhi ya watu wa karibu na waziri huyo walioshuhudia mkanda wa matibabu yake akiwa India, waliliambia gazeti hili kuwa ukiuangalia, utatoa machozi kwani picha zake zinatisha.

Mkanda huo ambao Dk. Mwakyembe hupenda kuwaonyesha watu wanaofika nyumbani kwake Kunduchi Mtongani kumjulia hali, unamwonyesha katika sura na muonekano tofauti kabisa na jinsi alivyo na kama unauangalia leo bila kuambiwa, huwezi kubaini kama ni Waziri Mwakyembe.

“Ukiuangalia mkanda wa matibabu yake, unaweza kutoa machozi, unasikitisha sana. Kwa kifupi Dk. Mwakyembe amepata mateso makubwa yaliyotokana na ugonjwa ambao hadi sasa haujulikani,” alisema mtoa habari wetu.

Hata hivyo ingawa taarifa rasmi ya serikali haijatolewa, ripoti ya ugonjwa wa waziri huyo kutoka kwa madaktari bingwa wa hospitali maarufu ya Apollo nchini India ambayo hadi sasa imebaki kuwa siri, inadaiwa kueleza chanzo cha ugonjwa wa Dk. Mwakyembe kuwa umetokana na sumu kali aliyowekewa hapa nchini.

Taarifa za Dk. Mwakyembe kuwekewa sumu, mara ya kwanza ziliibuliwa rasmi nchini na Waziri wa Ushirikiano wa Afrika Mashariki, Samuel Sitta, ambaye ni rafiki mkubwa na mshirika wa karibu wa Dk. Mwakyembe katika mapambano dhidi ya ufisadi nchini katika mahojiano na kituo cha televisheni cha ITV katika kipindi chake cha dakika 45 kilichorushwa hivi karibuni, alisema wasiwasi huo unatokana na mabadiliko ya ngozi na nywele aliyoondoka nayo nchini kwenda India.

Sitta ambaye ni Mbunge wa Urambo Mashariki (CCM), alisema alipokwenda kumwona Dk. Mwakyembe nyumbani kwake, alipata mshtuko mkubwa kwani ilikuwa ni mara yake ya kwanza katika umri alionao kushuhudia ngozi ya mtu ikitoa unga.

Sitta alikaririwa akisema, “Kuna kitu kama mba kwenye nywele na kwenye ngozi ya Dk. Mwakyembe. Akishika hivi, baadhi ya nywele zinadondoka. Mkono umevimba, sehemu mbalimbali. Mke wake alichukua video. Alikuwa anatuonyesha kwenye laptop (kompyuta ndogo). Kwa kweli inatisha.”

Hata hivyo, Sitta alihojiwa na polisi kuhusiana na taarifa hiyo kwa madai kuwa ingeweza kuhatarisha amani, lakini alipotakiwa kutoa ushahidi anadaiwa kutoa ushahidi wa habari za kwenye mitandao ya kijamii.

Kabla ya Dk. Mwakyembe kwenda India kutibiwa, kulikuwa na uvumi kwamba kuna uwezekano mkubwa kwa kiongozi huyo kulishwa sumu, ingawa yeye binafsi hajakanusha wala kuthibitisha habari hizo.

Katika mkutano wake wa kwanza na waandishi wa habari tangu aliporejea nchini, Dk. Mwakyembe alisema ripoti ya ugonjwa wake iko serikalini.

Hata hivyo, serikali hadi sasa imekataa kuitoa hadharani ripoti hiyo ya madaktari bingwa wa Hospitali ya Apollo, India, waliomtibu Dk. Mwakyembe.

Habari zaidi zinasema kuwa mwanasiasa huyo amepania kuianika ripoti hiyo hadharani kama serikali itaendelea kuifanya kuwa siri.

Katibu Mkuu wa Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii, Blandina Nyoni, alipoulizwa kuhusiana na ripoti hiyo, alisema kuwa suala hilo haliwahusu na kama wameipokea hawezi kuzungumzia.

Alisema Dk. Mwakyembe ndiye anaweza kuzungumzia na hajui kama imepokelewa au la.
“Hata kama tumeipokea, sina ruhusu ya kuzungumza, mfuate mwenyewe Dk. Mwakyembe akueleze kwani sisi hatuwezi kutaja ugonjwa uliokuwa unamkabili,” alisema Nyoni.

Mwakyembe alipelekwa India Oktoba 9 mwaka jana na kurejea nchini Desemba 11 mwaka jana.

Taarifa za awali, zilisema Dk. Mwakyembe alikuwa akisumbuliwa na ugonjwa wa kisukari ambapo alikuwa akipatiwa matibabu katika Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili.

Lakini, taarifa hizo za ugonjwa wa kisukari zilipingwa na baadhi ya washirika wake wa karibu kisiasa ambao waliamini naibu waziri huyo alilishwa sumu.

TANZANIA DAIMA

OBAMA'S AMERICA: TYRANNY AND PERMANENT WAR

2012-01-04T10:41:00.001+03:00

By Steve Lendman,

December 31, 2011 will be remembered as a day of infamy. More on it below. October 17, 2006 was an earlier one under Bush.

In a White House ceremony, he signed the infamous Military Commissions Act (MCA). It authorized torture as official policy.

It also enacted sweeping unconstitutional powers to arrest, interrogate, and prosecute alleged terrorist suspects and collaborators (including US citizens), detain them (without evidence) indefinitely in military prisons, and deny them habeas and other constitutional protections.

It lets presidents call anyone anywhere an "unlawful enemy combatant," order them arrested, detained and denied all rights.

On the same day, Bush quietly signed the FY 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Included were hidden Sections 1076 and 333. Major media scoundrels ignored them.

They amended the 1807 Insurrection Act and 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. They prohibited using federal and National Guard troops for law domestic enforcement except as constitutionally allowed or expressly authorized by Congress in times of insurrection or other national emergency.

Henceforth, the executive, by diktat, can claim emergency powers, declare martial law, suspend the Constitution on "national security" grounds, and deploy federal and/or National Guard troops on US streets to suppress whatever's called disorder - including lawful peaceful protests.

At issue is abolishing fundamental First Amendment freedoms without which all others are at risk. They include free expression, assembly, religion, and right to petition government for redress. No longer.

In 2009, Obama assured military commission continuity by signing the FY 2010 Defense Authorization Act. Its hidden Section 1031 contained the 2009 Military Commissions Act (MCA). The phrase "unprivileged enemy belligerent" replaced "unlawful enemy combatant."

Language changed but not intent or lawlessness. Obama exceeds Bush extremism. Guantanamo and other torture prisons remain open. US citizens are treated as lawlessly as foreign nationals. Ahead things got worse.

On December 31, he signed the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It gives presidents unchecked power to order military force arrests and indefinite detentions of US citizens, based solely on uncorroborated accusations of terrorist group associations.

Constitutional, statute and international law protections don't apply. America's military may snatch and grab anyone, throw them in torture prisons, and hold them indefinitely without charge or trial, based solely on suspicions, spurious allegations or none at all.

Earlier by Executive Order, Obama authorized indefinite detentions of anyone designated national security threats. Specifically intended for Guantanamo detainees, it's now for everyone, including US citizens at home or abroad.

Moreover, CIA operatives and Special Forces death squads got presidential authorization to kill targeted US citizens abroad. As a result, they can be hunted down and murdered in cold blood for any reason or none at all.

As of December 31, anyone anywhere, including US citizens, can be called national security threats and judged guilty by accusation. Activists opposing America's imperium risk arrest, permanent detention or assassination.

So do social justice protesters. Military dungeons or FEMA camps await them. Martial law may authorize it, claiming "catastrophic emergency" powers. The original Senate bill excluded US citizens. Obama demanded their inclusion.

Inviolable rights no longer apply. Protesting imperial lawlessness, social injustice, corporate crime, government corruption, or political Washington run of, by and for rich elites can be criminalized. So can free speech, assembly, religion, or anything challenging America's right to kill, destroy and pillage with impunity.

It's official. Tyranny arrived in America. The nation's unsafe to live in. There's no place to hide. They're coming for anyone challenging injustice.

Lawlessness At Home and Abroad

They also target independent states. At issue is making them client ones. Tactics include threats, destabilization, violence, sanctions and war if other methods fail.

In 2011, Libya became NATO's latest charnel house. It was ravaged and destroyed for profit. For months, Syria's been ruthlessly targeted. Pressure's building for more. Anything ahead is possible, including replicating the barbarism inflicted on Libya.

Iran's next. Washington's pushing the envelope aggressively.

Tactics include provocations, subversion, fake accusations, isolation, covert or direct confrontation, cyberwar, and punishing sanctions, coming perilously close to acts or war.

In the past five years, four harsh rounds were imposed. In mid-December, Congress enacted another. They're included in the FY 2012 NDAA. They're aimed at penalizing foreign financial institutions doing business with Tehran's central bank. It's the main oil revenue conduit. US corporations, including banks, already can't deal with Iran.

Additional measures expanded sanctions on companies doing oil related business, including investments, selling Iran refinery goods and services, as well as providing Tehran with refined products worth $5 million or more annually.

On December 31, Obama signed the new law. He has 180 days to implement it. He calls it the stiffest measure yet, saying:

"Our intent is to implement this law in a timed and phased approach so that we avoid repercussions to the oil market and ensure that this damages Iran and not the rest of the world."

He has discretionary power to grant waivers, provided they're in America's national interest. Energy analysts fear enactment means disruptively higher oil prices. Others worry that confrontation may follow rogue bullying.

Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said Iran's naval forces can readily block the Strait of Hormuz in response to hostile Western actions.

He spoke a day after Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi warned not a drop of oil would pass through the Strait if Iran's oil exports are sanctioned. If so, expect energy prices to skyrocket until normal flows resume. Also expect retaliation, perhaps including direct US-Iranian confrontation.

Targeting Iran's nuclear program is a ruse. Tehran insists it's peaceful. Nothing proves otherwise. The most recent March 2011 US intelligence consensus agrees. It found no evidence of weapons development. At issue is regime change. Reasons are invented as pretext.

As a result, anything ahead is possible, including potentially devastating general war with nuclear weapons targeting underground Iranian facilities.

No matter the risk, Obama seems headed for the unthinkable. Stay tuned. More on this will follow.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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SUMAYE ATEMA CHECHE

2012-01-04T10:27:00.001+03:00

APONDA POSHO MPYA ZA WABUNGE, ASEMA KUJIVUA GAMBA NI KITANZI KWA CCM UCHAGUZI MKUU 2015

WAZIRI Mkuu Mstaafu, Frederick Sumaye amezungumzia mwelekeo wa taifa huku akionya kuwa nyongeza za posho zisizofuata utaratibu kwa watumishi wa umma ni hatari na ni utawala mbaya kwa nchi.Alisema suala la posho ni jambo ambalo sasa limekuwa tatizo kwa Serikali na kuwa imefika wakati ofisi za Serikali zimehamia hotelini lengo likiwa ni watumishi wa umma kutafuta mwanya wa kulipana posho.

“Ndiyo maana watu wa TRA (Mamlaka ya Mapato Tanzania) wanakusanya fedha nyingi, lakini ni fedha kidogo sana zinazokwenda kwenye huduma za jamii. Nadhani hili ni tatizo na ni utawala mbaya kabisa, lazima kuwepo mabadiliko kama kweli tunataka kuisaidia nchi yetu,” alisema Sumaye.

Kuhusu posho za wabunge, Sumaye alisema ni jambo la hatari kwani ikiwa wabunge watalipwa viwango vya posho vilivyotangazwa, linaweza kuvuruga amani ya nchi.

Sumaye alisema hayo katika kipindi cha dakika 45 kinachotushwa na Kituo cha Televisheni cha ITV. Alisema ongezeko la posho za wabunge linaweza kuchochea makundi mengine kudai akitolea mfano wa wanajeshi, polisi, Mahakama na walimu jambo ambalo alisema litamweka Rais katika wakati mgumu kufanya uamuzi.

“Mwanasiasa mzuri akifanya jambo akiona limewaudhi wananchi anatakiwa aliache, lakini pia kwenye hili, huu mkanganyiko wa Spika na Katibu wake na huu ukimya wa Ikulu ni tatizo. Tungependa waseme ili umma ujue hali ikoje,” alisema Sumaye. Alisema hatua ya Bunge kujipandishia posho ya kikao kutoka Sh70,000 hadi Sh200,000 kwa siku haliingii akilini na kwamba linakiuka utaratibu uliowekwa na Serikali katika kulipa gharama kwa maofisa wake ikiwa gharama hizo ni zaidi ya kiwango cha fedha za kujikimu zilizowekwa.

“Siyo kwamba napinga posho. Wabunge wanastahili posho, lakini kwa kweli kujiongezea kutoka Sh70,000 hadi Sh200,000 siyo sahihi,” alisema Sumaye.Alisema wakati alipoteuliwa na Rais Benjamin Mkapa kwa Awamu ya Pili kushika wadhifa wa Waziri Mkuu, aligoma kwa sababu alikuwa amekwaruzana na wabunge kuhusu nyongeza ya posho.

“Nilimwambia wabunge watanikataa kwa sababu nimegombana nao sana juu ya suala la posho lakini akasema lazima uwe na mimi ndipo nikakubali. Lazima hili suala liangaliwe mara mbilimbili, leo wabunge mmejiongezea kesho jeshi, polisi na walimu nao watataka, tutafanyaje? Tusifanye mambo ambayo yatamuweka Rais pabaya,” alisema.

Kitanzi cha Gamba Akizungumzia Uchaguzi Mkuu ujao wa 2015, alikitahadharisha chama chake cha CCM akikitaka kutekeleza kwa vitendo mkakati wake wa kujivua gamba, la sivyo utageuka na kuwa kitanzi kwake kwenye uchaguzi huo.

Alisema kama CCM kina nia ya dhati katika kupambana na kuhakikisha kinatokomeza rushwa na ufisadi unaoonekana kuwa kikwazo katika maendeleo ya taifa, lazima kiwavue gamba walioshindwa kujivua wenyewe... “Wasipojivua hilo koti, itabidi watu wengine wawasaidie kulivua,” alisema Sumaye.

Alisema hivi sasa suala hilo limeonekana kama vita dhidi ya pande mbili ndani ya chama hicho, ingawa upande unaotetea ufisadi, hautoki moja kwa moja na kujionyesha. “Lakini ukiangalia sana suala la rushwa utaona kuwa hatujapambana nalo vya kutosha, kinachomfanya mtu awe mla ruswa ni cheo, ukimtoa kwenye hiyo nafasi pamoja na fedha zake hatoweza kufanya chochote,” alisema Sumaye.

Alisema chama hicho ni lazima kihakikishe kinatokomeza rushwa wakati wa uchaguzi wake wa ndani, vinginevyo alisema wananchi watakiangusha. Matumizi mabaya ya urais Sumaye alisema rushwa, ufisadi na matumizi mabaya ya urais, ni moja ya sababu inayofanya nchi nyingi za Afrika zizidi kuwa masikini.

Alisema hali hiyo haipo kwa viongozi wa sasa pekee, bali hata kwa wale waliowatangulia isipokuwa wale tu waliogombea uhuru wa mataifa hayo. “Matumizi mabaya ya taasisi ya urais ni tatizo, mtu akiwa Rais anafanya taasisi hiyo inakuwa mali yake alikuwa ni mtu wa kawaida lakini ghafla anakuwa tajiri anataka na watoto wake pia wawe matajiri,” alisema na kuongeza:

“Urais siyo mali ya mtu na familia yake, dhamana hiyo unapewa na wananchi na inatakiwa uwatumikie wao, viongozi kama Nyerere, Kenyatta, Mandela mitizamo yao ilikuwa tofauti sana na viongozi wa sasa,” alisema. Alitoa mfano wa Rais wa Misri aliyepinduliwa Hussein Mubarak ambaye alikuwa na utajiri wa zaidi ya Dola 70bilioni na mtoto wake akiwa na fedha maradufu ya hizo. “Nimesema haya kwa ujumla jinsi nchi nyingi za Afrika zilivyo lakini haya ni matatizo ambayo hata hapa kwetu yapo, Rais Kikwete ameyakuta, atakuja mwingine atayakuta, tusipopiga vita rushwa na ufisadi, hatutakwenda popote,” alisema Sumaye.

Maelezo hayo ya Sumaye, yalitokana na swali aliloulizwa kwamba, kwa nini baadhi ya nchi ikiwemo Korea Kusini miaka ya 1960 zilikuwa karibu sawa kimaendeleo na nchi nyingi za Afrika lakini kwa sasa nchi hizo zimeendelea maradufu huku Afrika ikizidi kuwa masikini.

Rushwa na uchaguzi Sumaye alisema: “Kama tunataka viongozi bora wa kuliongoza taifa hili, lazima tupambane na rushwa katika uchaguzi... Nasema fedha za kuhonga zilizowekwa kwenye bahasha lazima tuhakikishe zinatokomezwa, tusipofanya hivyo tutaondolewa, nadhani ni wakati wa kurudi kwenye enzi za Tanu na ile CCM ya zamani, mtu unazungumza watu wanakuchagua bila kutoa hongo, tusipofanya hivyo wananchi watafanya uamuzi tofauti.”
Alisema watu wanaotaka madaraka kwa kuwanunua wapiga kura lazima wadhibitiwe kwani hali hiyo ikiachwa nchi itaangamia kwa ubinafsi.

Sumaye alilalamika kuwa kuna tatizo ndani ya CCM na Serikali yake ya kupambana na wanaopambana na rushwa badala ya kuwaunga mkono... “Hilo ndilo tatizo kubwa, wale wanaopambana na ufisadi na rushwa sasa wanageuzwa kuwa kambi fulani inayotaka kuiondoa kambi nyingine madarakani. Huo ni ujinga wote tunatakiwa kupambana tukiwa kitu kimoja. Inaonyesha kuna mapambano ya kudhoofisha wale wanaopambana na ufisadi.”

Alikinyooshea kidole CCM akisema kuwa chaguzi zake nyingi zimejaa rushwa huku wala rushwa wakiachwa bila kukamatwa. “Wakati wa uchaguzi fedha zinagawanywa lakini kuna watu wanakamatwa na wengine hawakamatiki. Lazima kama Taifa tupambane. Rushwa ikiendelea kuwepo tutakuwa na nchi isiyo na maendeleo,” alisema.

Sumaye aliongeza kuwa, vyama vya siasa vipambane na watu wanaotaka madaraka kwa njia ya fedha kwani kama wataingia madarakani wataanza kujineemesha wao badala ya kuwatumikia wananchi.

Urais 2015 Kuhusu wanaotaka kugombea urais mwaka 2015 Sumaye alisema alimradi hatafuti nafasi ya kumuondoa Rais aliyepo madarakani wala haleti vurugu, haoni shida kwa mtu yeyote kuota au kutangaza kwamba mwaka 2015 atagombea nafasi hiyo. Alisema kibaya ni endapo mtu huyo atafanya hivyo huku akiwachafua wenzake, jambo ambalo amesema kwa kiasi fulani sasa linajitokeza.

“Tatizo ni pale watu wanapojaribu kuchafua watu, hilo ndiyo tatizo, nafikiri lipo... mimi bado sijatangaza na bado sijaamua nikiamua nitasema. Kuna tatizo kwamba ukisema chochote wanasema huyu anautaka urais sasa ina maana kwamba wanaotaka urais wanyamaze, au wasipumue hata kidogo?”

Uongozi wa Mkapa Akizungumzia changamoto za uongozi wa Serikali ya Awamu ya Tatu ya Mkapa, alisema walifanya kazi kubwa ya kuinua uchumi wa nchi kwani walipoanza kazi nchi ilikuwa katika hali mbaya.

“Wakati Rais Mkapa anaingia madarakani ilikuwa ngumu sana. Pili marafiki wa nje, taasisi za fedha zilitukataa kama nchi. Hata mishahara ilikuwa ngumu kupata wakati huo kima cha chini kilikuwa ni Sh17,000,” alisema na kuongeza: “Hatukuweza kuingia kwenye janga la kuchapisha fedha. Kuchapisha fedha ni janga la kiuchumi. Ukiona nchi inachapisha fedha ujue imeporomoka kiuchumi na ndiyo maana sisi tulihakikisha kuwa hatuingii kwenye kuchapisha fedha,” alisema.

Kuhusu mchango wa viongozi wastaafu katika kuleta maendeleo ya nchi, Sumaye alisema Serikali imewatenga viongozi wastaafu japo wapo wanaotumiwa.

“Kama utakumbuka Mzee Mkapa wakati wa World Economic Forum pale Mlimani City alilalamika akisema tatizo kubwa la Afrika ni kutotumia hazina ya viongozi wa Afrika. Akasema hamtutumii lakini wenzenu wa nje wanatutumia sana na wanatufaidi sana.

“Hilo ni tatizo la Afrika na ni tatizo la Tanzania kwa sababu tunayo hazina kubwa ya viongozi ambao tungeweza kuwatumia vizuri sana. Lakini hawatumiki. Ili niweze kusaidia, lazima awepo mtu wa kukwambia hebu fulani njoo hapa au wewe useme hebu nimwone fulani lakini bila ya hivyo hakuna namna ya kusaidia.”

MWANANCHI

Habari hii imeandaliwa na Fredy Azzah, Ibrahim Yamola na Elias Msuya.

WAZIRI MAGUFULI: NA WA GEZAULOLE YA KIGAMBONI WARUDI TENA MJINI?

2012-01-04T07:58:00.001+03:00

Na Maggid Mjengwa,

“ Gezaulole baba, Gezaulole mama ee,
Twendeni Kibugumo na Mwanadilato kwenye makao mapya,
Gezaulole baba, Geza ulole mama eee!”

Ndugu zangu,

Hapa nanukuu gazeti la Mwananchi leo Jumatano; “Majuzi, Dk Magufuli alifanya ziara ya ghafla katika eneo la vivuko hivyo na kuwaambia wananchi waliomzomea kwamba kama wakishindwa kulipa nauli hiyo ya Sh200 ni vyema wakapiga mbizi baharini au kuzunguka Kongowe kuingia katikati ya jiji au warudi vijijini wakalime.”- Mwisho wa kunukuu.

Utotoni katika Dar es Salaam hii, nilishuhudia kwa macho yangu msako wa wazururaji. Niliona jinsi mgambo wa jiji walivyokuwa wakiwadhalilisha vijana na watu wazima kwa kuwakamata, kuwafunga mashati na kuwapandisha kwenye malori tayari kwa safari za kwenda Gezaulole. Kosa lao, walikuwa wakizurura mijini bila kazi. Hivi, anayetafuta kazi atabaki nyumbani kuisubiri, si ni lazima apige mguu kuitafuta? Sijui leo ungefanyika msako wa wazururaji Dar yangehitajika malori mangapi?
Na miaka ile ya sabini tulipokuwa watoto tulisikia hata nyimbo za redioni kuhimiza ‘ wazururaji’ waende kwenye vijiji vipya vilivyoandaliwa na Serikali kama makazi ya ‘ Wazururaji’. Watoto wa enzi hizo huenda tunakumbuka wimbo huu;

“ Gezaulole baba, Gezaulole mama ee,
Twendeni Kibugumo na Mwanadilato kwenye makao mapya,
Gezaulole baba, Geza ulole mama eee!”

Kigamboni ya enzi hizo ilikuwa shamba kweli. Wengi wa waliofikishwa huko Gezaulole na vijiji vingine kule Kigamboni wakayaanza maisha mapya ya vijijini. Kuna waliokimbia Gezaulole wakarudi tena mjini au kwenye vijiji vyao vya asili. Kuna waliobaki huko Gezaulole, wakafyeka mapori yao. Wakaanza kilimo, . Wakaizoea hali mpya. Wakajenga familia zao huko.

Ajabu, leo wenye fedha ndio wanaokwenda kuyanunua kwa bei ya hadaa, maeneo ya watoto na wajukuu wa ‘ wazururaji’ wa enzi za Mwalimu. Kuna watoto na wajukuu wa ‘wazururaji’ waliobaki na vieneo vidogo. Miongoni mwao ndio hao wanaofanya shughuli za kusukuma mikokoteni na kuendesha maguta.

Ndio hao, waliokisikia kilio cha kutaka uwepo wa pantoni ya uhakika kwa miaka nenda , miaka rudi. Wamesikia kilio cha kujengewa daraja pia na ahadi zake. Na sasa wanaongezewa nauli ya kivuko kwenda na kurudi mjini.
Ni hivi; mkazi wa Magomeni hata kama hana nauli anaweza kutembea kwa miguu kukatisha Jangwani na akamwona mgonjwa wake Muhimbili, au kwenda kuhangaikia kibarua Kariakoo. Na jioni ikifika, hata kama hana nauli ya Daladala, atakatisha Jangwani na kufika Magomeni kwenye chumba chake cha kupanga.

Lakini, mkazi wa Kigamboni kama hana nauli ya mia tatu ya pantoni na kama anataka kuvuka kwenda kumwona mgonjwa wake Muhimbili au kuhangaikia kibarua Kariakoo ana mawili, kwa mujibu wa Magufuli; ama apige mbizi au azungukie Kongowe, kwa miguu, mwendo wa nusu siku kama si siku nzima. Na hapa ndipo ilipo hoja ya msingi ya kumfikiria mtu wa kawaida wa Kigamboni, Gezaulole na kwingineko ng’ambo ya pili ya bahari.

Vinginevyo, kwa kusema kuwa asiye na nauli arudi kijijini akalime ina maana pia, kuwa kuishi Jangwani, Mburahati na Mabibo kunaweza kuwa na nafuu zaidi kwa mtu wa Kigamboni mwenye hali ngumu kiuchumi. Kwamba hatimaye tunawaambia watoto na wajukuu wa ‘ wazururaji’ wa enzi za Mwalimu; “Rudini mjini’. Na wimbo ule leo labda ungeimbwa hivi;

“ Mburahati mama, Mburahati baba ee,
Rudini Jangwani, na Mwananyamala kwenye maisha bora!”
Haki ya Mungu!

Maggid Mjengwa,
Msamvu, Morogoro.

BARUA YA MBUNGE WA KIGAMBONI KUHUSIANA NA SAKATA LA KUPANDA NAULI KWA VIVUKO

2012-01-04T07:45:00.004+03:00

BUNGE LA TANZANIA

OFISI YA MBUNGE WA JIMBO LA KIGAMBONI

Kumb na: KIG/KVK/VOL.1/6 03 Januari 2012

Mhe. Mizengo Peter Pinda (MB)
Waziri Mkuu
DAR ES SALAAM

YAH: ONGEZEKO LA VIWANGO VYA NAULI KATIKA KIVUKO CHA MAGOGONI

Kichwa cha habari hapo juu chahusika.
Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, hivi karibuni Serikali imetangaza nauli mpya katika kivuko cha Magogoni ambazo zimeanza kutumika tarehe 01.01.2012. Wananchi wa Jimbo la Kigamboni wanapinga ongezeko hili kwa sababu zifuatazo:

1. Vivuko na nauli zake zinatawaliwa na sheria ya SUMATRA CAP 314. Masuala ya nauli (tariffs) yanatawaliwa na kanuni ambazo zilichapishwa kwenye gazeti la Serikali namba 92 la tarehe 26 Februari 2010.

a. Kifungu 4.1 kinasema “No service provider shall be allowed to set up and charge tariff which is not approved by the authority (SUMATRA).
b. Kifungu 6.2 kinasema “No service provider shall effect changes in tariff without notification of intended changes to the Authority for determination and approval.
c. Kifungu 10.3 kinasema The Authority shall notify the public of the application through a daily circulated newspaper and call for:

i. Stakeholders’ written submissions within 14 days from the date of publication
ii. Stakeholders’ meeting
Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, WanaKigamboni wangependa kujua yafuatayo:
a. Je nauli hizi mpya zimepitishwa na SUMATRA? Kama ni ndiyo. Lini?

b. Ni lini mapendekezo ya nauli mpya yalitolewa kwa umma? Serikali ilitumia magazeti gani? Matangazo yalitoka tarehe zipi?

c. Ni lini na wapi mikutano ya wadau kuchangia kuhusu nauli mpya ilifanyika?
d. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, WanaKigamboni pamoja na mimi kama Mbunge sijapata kuona tangazo lolote na wala kushirikishwa katika kujadili bei mpya.

Katika barua yangu ya tarehe 19 Januari 2011 yenye kumbukumbu namba KIG/KVK/VOL.1/1 kwenda kwa Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa TEMESA (nakala imeambatanishwa) niliomba na kusisitiza kuwa Wanakigamboni tuhusishwe na kushirikishwa katika mchakato wowote wa kuongeza nauli. Bahati mbaya sana, hili halikufanyika.

2. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, vilevile wanaKigamboni wanahoji vigezo vilivyotumika kufikia bei mpya za kivuko. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu unatambua idadi ya vijana katika nchi yetu ni takribani asilimia 60-70%. Vijana wengi kwa sasa wanajiajiri kwa kuendesha maguta, pikipiki, Bajaj na kusukuma mikokoteni. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu wanakigamboni wangependa vigezo vilivyotumika nauli ya vyombo vifuatavyo:

a. Guta toka Tsh 200 hadi Tsh 1800 (Asilimia 800); bei ambayo ni kubwa kuliko ya gari ndogo.

b. Bajaj zimepanda toka Tsh 300 hadi Tsh 1300 (asilimia 333).

c. Mikokoteni imeongezeka toka Tsh 200 hadi Tsh 1500 (Asilimia 650). Isitoshe mizigo inayopakiwa nayo inatozwa nauli.

Wafanyabiashara wengi wa Kigamboni wanatumia maguta, bajaj na mikokoteni kusafirisha bidhaa. Kutokana na ongezeko la nauli ya kivuko bei ya bidhaa zimepanda maradufu. Hali ambayo inazidi kuwatia umaskini wananchi wa eneo hili.

3. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu Wananchi wa Kigamboni wanaamini kuwa hakuna haja ya kuongeza nauli ikiwa mapato yatadhibitiwa vizuri. Kivuko hiki kinakusanya kiasi wastani wa Tsh 8 milioni kila siku. Makusanyo maalumu yakifanyika mapato hufika hadi Tsh 13 milioni. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu upotevu wa Tsh 5 milioni kila siku ni nyingi. Wananchi hawaoni kwa nini wabebeshwe mzigo wa Serikali kushindwa kusimamia na kudhibiti mapato.

Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu ningependa kutoa mapendekezo yafuatayo:
1. Nauli hizi mpya zisitishwe ili tuweze kubaini uhalali wake kisheria na vigezo vilivyotumika.

2. Utaratibu ufanyike kuhakiki mapato na matumizi ikiwa ni pamoja na kuangalia maeneo ya kupunguza gharama. Kuna maeneo mengi yanayoweza kutumika katika kupunguza gharama.

3. Mchakato uanze upya ukishirikisha wadau wa huduma hizi.

Aidha, wananchi wa Kigamboni wametiwa simanzi na kuongezewa machungu na kitendo cha tarehe 01.01.2012 kilichofanywa na Waziri wa Ujenzi, Mheshimiwa John Pombe Magufuli (MB) cha kuwatukana na kuwadhalilisha. Wananchi wa Kigamboni wanamtaka Waziri huyu awaombe radhi.

Naomba umshauri Waziri Magufuli afanye hivyo. Ni jambo la kiustaarabu na kiungwana na litalinda heshima ya Serikali.
Mwisho, Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu nashauri kuwa suala hili lipewe umuhimu wa pekee kutokana na hali iliyopo Kigamboni sasa hivi. Kumekuwepo na utulivu wa muda kwa kuwa niliwaomba Wanakigamboni wanipe Mbunge wao nafasi ya kulifanyia kazi suala hili. Kwa kuchelewa kutoa maamuzi Serikali inajiweka katika mazingira magumu.

Wako katika ujenzi wa Taifa

Mhe. Dkt Faustine Ndugulile (MB)
MBUNGE

Nakala:
1. Mhe. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete-Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania
2. Mhe. Mecky Sadick-Mkuu wa Mkoa Dar Es Salaam
3. Mhe. Wilson Mukama-Katibu Mkuu wa CCM Taifa
4. Kamati ya Wabunge wa Dar Es Salaam
5. Waheshimiwa Madiwani wote-Jimbo la Kigamboni

SAMUEL ETO'O LAUNCHES HIS OWN MOBILE NETWORK IN CAMEROON

2012-01-03T11:14:00.000+03:00

Samuel Eto’o, the Cameroonian soccer star has launched his own mobile phone network in his country.

The mobile network, Set’Mobile, was launched on Thursday in Douala in the presence of the Indomitable Lions captain.

“Set” stands for Samuel Etoo and the mobile network becomes the third in the country, after Orange and MTN. It has a mobile penetration still under 20%.

The mobile network, with a capital base of 100 million CFA, hopes to impact on the socio-economic development of Cameroon.

According to Charles Gueret, the general manager, Set’Mobile will drop the cost of calls, while offering services such as sms and internet access.

Samuel Etoo is currently the highest paid footballer in the world and plays as a striker for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team.

DR. MAGUFULI ACHAFUA HALI YA HEWA DAR

2012-01-02T10:53:00.000+03:00

BAADA YA KUWAAMBIA WAKAZI KIGAMBONI WAKISHINDWA KULIPA NAULI MPYA ZA VIVUKO WAPIGE MBIZI

Ramadhan Semtawa

WAZIRI wa Ujenzi, Dk John Magufuli amechafua hali ya hewa na kuingia kwenye mgogoro na wakazi wa Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam baada ya kuwaeleza kuwa ni lazima walipe nauli mpya za vivuko vya Mv Kigamboni na Alina na kama watashindwa, wapige mbizi baharini kuvuka.

Kauli hiyo ya Dk Magufuli imekuja siku mbili baada ya wizara hiyo kutangaza viwango vipya vya nauli mnamo Desemba 29, mwaka jana ambavyo vimepanda kwa asilimia 100 na vilianza kutumika jana Januari Mosi nchi nzima.

Baada ya kutangazwa kwa viwango hivyo vipya vya nauli, wakazi wengi wa Kigamboni walipinga kutokana na kile wanachosema hawakushirikishwa na ndipo jana asubuhi, Dk Magufuli alipoamua kufanya ziara ya ghafla katika vivuko hivyo na kusisitiza kwamba viwango hivyo lazima vilipwe.

Katika ziara hiyo, vyanzo vya kuaminika vilisema Dk Magufuli alipofika eneo hilo la Kivukoni, alitoa msimamo huo na ndipo wananchi waliokuwa wakimsikiliza walipoanza kumzomea na kukatisha hotuba yake mara kwa mara.

Vyanzo hivyo viliongeza kwamba, kitendo hicho cha zomeazomea, kilimkera Dk Magufuli ambaye pamoja na mambo mengine, alisisitiza nauli hizo lazima zilipwe na mtu asiyetaka ni vyema akapiga mbizi kwa kuogelea kutoka Kigamboni hadi ng'ambo ya pili au apite Kongowe kuingia katika katikati ya jiji.

Msemaji: Waziri amechukizwa
Akizungumzia tukio hilo, Msemaji Mkuu wa wizara hiyo, Martin Ntemo alisema Waziri Magufuli hakufurahishwa na kitendo cha baadhi ya watu kumzomea wakati alipokuwa akizungumza... “Amechukizwa na baadhi ya watu kuzomea wakati alipokuwa akizungumza. Alichokuwa akisisitiza ni kwamba nauli mpya lazima ilipwe lakini wapo waliokuwa hawataki kuelewa wakawa wanapinga.”

Alisema kuna watu walikuwa wamepangwa kufanya mgomo kupinga nauli mpya kitendo ambacho pia kilimkera waziri alipokuwa kwenye ziara hiyo.

Magufuli na waandishi
Baada ya kuzomewa Kigamboni, Dk Magufuli alifanya mkutano na waandishi wa habari na kusisitiza kwamba, “Kuanzia Januari, Mosi, mwaka huu Wizara ya Ujenzi kupitia Wakala wa Ufundi na Umeme (Temesa), imeongeza viwango vya nauli katika vivuko vyote vya Serikali nchini.”

Alisema kwa muda wa miaka 14 iliyopita Kivuko cha Kigamboni kimekuwa kikitoza nauli ya Sh100 kwa mtu mmoja, wakati vivuko vingine vyote nchini, vimepandisha nauli zaidi ya mara mbili tangu mwaka 1997 kuendana na gharama za uendeshaji.

“'Kwa mfano, Kivuko cha Pangani ambako umbali wa uvushaji hauzidi ule wa Magogoni kilikuwa kinatoza Sh 200 na hali ya uchumi kwa wananchi ni ya chini kuliko Dar es Salaam. Kivuko cha Kilombero kilikuwa kikitoza Sh200 ikilinganishwa na Sh100 zilizokuwa zikitozwa hapa Magogoni.”

Dk Magufuli alitaja sababu zilizochangia kupandisha nauli hizo kwamba ni pamoja na ongezeko la mishahara ya watumishi serikalini kwa zaidi ya asilimia 100, ongezeko alilosema la zaidi ya asilimia 400 la bei ya mafuta ya dizeli na mafuta ya kulainishia mitambo ambayo hutumika kuendeshea vivuko hivyo.

Alitaja sababu nyingine kwamba ni pamoja na: “Ongezeko la bei za vipuri na kodi zake linalowiana na kushuka kwa thamani ya shilingi na ongezeko la bei kwa jumla.”

Alisema upandishaji wa nauli hizo ulifanywa kwa kuzingatia taratibu za kisheria na hatimaye kutangazwa kwenye Gazeti la Serikali toleo Na. 367 la Novemba 4, mwaka jana kwa mujibu wa sheria za uendeshaji wa vivuko vya Serikali.

“Sura 173 Kifungu cha 11(b), mwenye mamlaka ya kupanga nauli za vivuko vya Serikali ni Waziri mwenye dhamana na vivuko vya Serikali. Hata hivyo, kabla ya kufikia uamuzi huu, kumekuwa na jitihada za aina mbalimbali katika kuimarisha mapato ya vivuko. Machi, 2009, Wakala wa Ufundi na Umeme wakishirikiana na
Jeshi la Polisi pamoja na Askari kutoka Kikosi cha Wanamaji waliendesha zoezi la kudhibiti mapato ya Kivuko.”

Alisema hilo liliwahi kufanywa na na Kampuni ya udalali ya Yono Auction Mart mnamo Aprili 17 hadi 20, mwaka jana kwa makubaliano na Temesa. “Zoezi hilo liliendeshwa tena Septemba 16 hadi 20, 2010 na
Wizara kwa ushirikiano na Jeshi la Polisi.”

Alisema Julai, 2011, Temesa iliamua kubadili wakata tiketi na kuajiri wengine akisisitiza kuwa Serikali imechukua hatua mbalimbali kupambana na matukio ya watumishi wasio waaminifu. Hatua nyingine ni ile ya Temesa kuondoa askari wa kuajiriwa na badala yake kuingia mikataba na kampuni za ulinzi.

“Kwa sasa katika Kivuko cha Magogoni, Kampuni ya ulinzi ya Suma JKT ndiyo inayotumika kufanya kazi hiyo,” alisema.

Alisema juhudi hizo zimesaidia kuongeza mapato kwa siku kutoka Sh5.5 milioni mwaka 2009 hadi Sh9 milioni kwa sasa katika Kivuko cha Magogoni na kusisitiza kwamba wizara itaendeleza hatua hizi kwa lengo la kubana uvujaji wa mapato na matumizi yasiyo ya lazima kwa vivuko vyote.

Magufuli alisema kwa utaratibu, watumiaji wote wa huduma za vivuko wanatakiwa walipie huduma hiyo na kuongeza: “Tunaomba utaratibu huu uzingatiwe isipokuwa kwa wanafunzi waliovaa sare za shule. Tunasisitiza watumiaji wa vivuko waheshimu sheria na taratibu zote za vivuko kwa ajili ya usalama wao na ufanisi wa huduma.”

Mbunge achukizwa
Kwa upande wake Mbunge wa Kigamboni, Dk Faustine Ndugulile alikiri kusikia maneno ya Magufuli ambayo hayakuwafurahisha wapiga kura wake na kuahidi kuendelea kufuatilia kujua undani hasa wa kauli hizo.

Dk Ndugulile alifafanua kwamba baada ya tangazo hilo la ongezeko la nauli, aliwasiliana na Waziri Mkuu, Mizengo Pinda na Mkuu wa Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam, Said Mecky Sadiki na taarifa alizonazo ni kwamba nauli hizo zimesitishwa.

Alifafanua kwamba baada ya kuwasiliana na waziri mkuu, jibu alilopata jana saa 1: 00 usiku ni kwamba mpango huo wa kupandisha nauli umesitishwa hadi hapo itakapoamuliwa vinginevyo.

Dk Ndugulile alisema sababu zilizomfanya yeye na wananchi kupinga nyongeza hiyo ya nauli ni Serikali kushindwa kueleza wazi vigezo vilivyotumika na kushindwa kuwashirikisha wananchi wa maeneo husika. Alitoa mfano wa Bajaji ambao alisema ni usafiri wa wanyonge uliokuwa ukitozwa Sh300 lakini kwa viwango hivyo vipya, itavushwa kwa Sh1,300 huku baiskeli ya miguu mitatu inayotumiwa na wanyonge pia kuchukulia bidhaa kutoka Kariakoo ikiongezewa nauli kutoka Sh200 hadi Sh1,800 na gari ndogo sasa zinatakiwa kulipa Sh1,500 badala ya Sh800.

“Sasa angalia hivyo vigezo, utaona mwananchi wa kawaida amezidi kuumizwa. Leo hii tayari bei za bidhaa zinazoletwa Kigamboni kutoka sokoni kama Kariakoo kwa kutumia maguta zimepanda. Mtu mwenye gari anapadishiwa bei chini ya mwenye guta, vigezo gani hivi? Baada ya kuona hivyo, niliwasiliana na Waziri Mkuu Ijumaa (Desemba 30, mwaka jana) na jana Mkuu wa Mkoa akanipa jibu kwamba Waziri Mkuu kasema nauli hizo zisipandishwe kwanza. Kwa hiyo mimi na wananchi wangu tunajua hivyo,” alisema na kuongeza:

“Hili ni jambo la ajabu sana. Yaani Waziri Mkuu anasema hivi halafu waziri wake anafanya vingine! Uko wapi sasa utendaji kazi wa pamoja wa Serikali?”

Baadhi ya wananchi wamelaani kauli hiyo za Dk Magufuli wakisema haikupaswa kutolewa na waziri ambaye ana dhamana ya kuhakikisha matatizo ya wananchi yanatatuliwa. Mmoja wa wakazi wa Kigamboni aliyejitambulisha kwa jina la Hamis Bwamkuu alisema: “Waziri anatoa kauli za kejeli namna hii! Ametusikitisha sana na kwa kweli tunamuomba Rais Jakaya Kikwete amchukulie hatua za kinidhamu.”

Pia wananchi hao wamemshutumu Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya Ujenzi, Dk Hurbet Mrango na Temesa kwa kushindwa kuwashirikisha na pia kumshauri vibaya waziri katika jambo hilo.

"Katibu Mkuu ndiye mtendaji na Temesa wao ndiyo wakala lakini hawakumwambia kwamba wananchi hawakujua na hata mbunge wetu. Kwa hiyo hawa ni sehemu ya tatizo na hii si mara ya kwanza.”

MWANANCHI

DEMOCRACY LESSONS FOR FIDEL CASTRO

2011-12-30T10:24:00.001+03:00

The US' tendency to demonise and formulate assassination attempts on Fidel Castro shows a glaring double standard.

In the 1950s, my father's uncle Benito was summoned to Havana by Santo Trafficante Jr, Mafia boss for the southeastern United States and Cuba and a childhood friend of Benito's from the Ybor City neighbourhood in Tampa, Florida.

In Havana, Benito was tasked with surveillance duties at the Sans Souci night club and casino run by Trafficante, a close friend of pro-US Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Trafficante had inherited the position from his father, the Sicilian-born Santo Trafficante Sr, who had been appointed by organised crime icons, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, to oversee gambling and drug operations in the Cuban capital, which served as a storage facility for heroin en route from Europe to the US.

Benito's responsibilities at the Sans Souci included sounding an alert if the wife of a casino patron or other relevant figure arrived at an inopportune moment. Prospects for job security were slashed with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, however, and Benito returned to Florida to sell furniture while Trafficante enhanced his CV by becoming an accomplice of the CIA in the mission to assassinate Fidel Castro.

As journalists Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair note in their book Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, anti-Castro plots concocted by the Agency ranged from "tr[ying] to devise a way to saturate the radio studio where Castro broadcast his speeches with an aerosol form of LSD and other 'psychic energisers'" to sabotaging his appearance before the United Nations in New York in 1960 by "plac[ing] thallium salts in Castro's shoes and on his night table in the hope that the poisons would make the leader's beard fall off".

As for Trafficante's contributions to the effort, he delivered six lethal CIA-manufactured botulinum pills as well as a box of toxic cigars to an ally within the Cuban government in 1961. The plan fell through.

According to Cockburn and St Clair, US Attorney General Robert Kennedy, "who was obsessed with the elimination of Castro, told [CIA director] Allen Dulles that he didn't care if the Agency employed the Mob for the hit as long as they kept him fully briefed".

Lest US taxpayers worry that government expenditures over the years have been wasted on projects that do not reinforce national security, a 2006 article in the Guardian entitled "638 ways to kill Castro" outlines additional CIA assassination schemes:

Entertainment value aside, such endeavours might of course also be construed as illegal according to international law - just as the blowing up of 73 people on board a Cubana de Aviacion flight might, under objective scrutiny, qualify as terrorism.

The accused mastermind of the latter event, which occurred in 1976, is Luis Posada Carriles: ex-CIA asset, Bay of Pigs veteran, Havana hotel bomber, and would-be Castro assassin. A Cuban exile and Venezuelan national, Posada was recently acquitted by a Texas court on charges related not to terrorism, but rather to lying to US immigration authorities about how he entered the country.

Despite Venezuela's 2005 extradition request to try Posada on 73 counts of murder, the New York Times described him last year as having "lived freely in Miami since 2007" and as "spending his days painting landscapes, which are sold by the dozens at shows in Miami frequented by a shrinking, but powerful group of hardened anti-Castro exiles".

One can speculate as to the reaction in the US had, for example, Mohammed Atta survived 9/11, fled to Caracas, and commenced a tranquil life as a watercolour artist, interrupted only by a trial in which he was acquitted of lying to Venezuelan officials by telling them he had swum to the country from New Jersey.

Among the ranks of Cubans who have not evaded long-term castigation by the US justice system, meanwhile, are the Cuban Five - now reduced to Four with the release on probation of René González - who were incarcerated in 1998 on charges of spying against the US after they infiltrated Miami-based groups dedicated to overthrowing Castro.

As Noam Chomsky has pointed out, the Five were in fact, "exposing to the US government crimes that are being committed on US soil[,] crimes the US government is tolerating and theoretically should be punishing itself". It also bears reiterating that the Cubans have not devised 638 ways to assassinate the US president.

This past October, the Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady - free-market fanatic, apologist for right-wing extremism in Latin America, and hallucinator of an alliance between Castro and the US State Department - detected further proof of the superior Cuban determination to subvert democracy. In an article entitled "Cuba's Repression Escalates", she complained: "The non-governmental organisation Capitol Hill Cubans has reported that in the first 12 days of September, [Cuban] authorities detained 168 peaceful activists".

This is approximately the same number of persons who, according to a WikiLeaks cable released in April, were held for varying numbers of years at a certain illegal US detention facility on Cuban soil despite US knowledge of their innocence.

Perhaps more strikingly, O'Grady's article was published the day after New York City police arrested 700 anti-Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Belen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, released by Verso in Nov. 2011. She is an editor at PULSE Media, and her articles have appeared in the London Review of Books blog, Guernica Magazine, and many other publications.

RIPOTI YA UDA KUTOLEWA JANUARY

2011-12-30T07:54:00.000+03:00

Aidan Mhando
na Fidelis Butahe,

MKAGUZI na Mdhibiti wa Hesabu za Serikali (CAG), Ludovick Utouh amesema ripoti ya Shirika la Usafiri Dar es Salaam (UDA), ipo katika hatua za mwisho na ifikapo mwishoni mwa mwezi ujao, kila kitu kitawekwa wazi.
Wakati CAG akiweka wazi kuhusu ripoti hiyo, Mbunge wa Ubungo, John Mnyika ametoa taarifa ambayo pamoja na mambo mengine, inasisitiza ripoti hiyo kutolewa haraka

Agosti 13 mwaka huu, Waziri wa Nchi Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu (TAMISEMI), George Mkuchika alimwagiza CAG kufanya ukaguzi huo ndani ya mwezi mmoja, lakini kutokana na majukumu mengi ya ofisi hiyo, kazi hiyo ilikabidhiwa Kampuni ya Kimataifa ya KPMG.
Akizungumzia na gazeti hili jijini Dar es Salaam wiki iliyopita, CAG Utouh, alisema kuchelewa kukamilika kwa ripoti ya UDA kunatokana na jitihada kubwa zinazoendelea za kutafuta namna ya kupata ufumbuzi wa kina wa tatizo hilo.

Hata hivyo, Utouh alisema ukaguzi wa shirika hilo unakaribia kufikia tamati na kuongeza kwamba, kwa sasa upo katika hatua za mwisho.

“Najua watu wanahamu ya kufahamu ukaguzi wa ripoti ya UDA unavyoendelea hasa kujua kitu gani kimejiri katika ukaguzi huo, lakini nataka niseme sio kazi nyepesi kama wanavyofikiria na kwamba inahitaji muda mwingi ili kuifanya kwa umakini na kutoa majibu sahihi,” alifafanua CAG Utouh.

“Ukaguzi unaendelea na sasa umefikia katika hatua za mwisho kukamilika, itakapofika mwezi wa kwanza (Januari) mwishoni, nitawafahamisha kipi tulicho kiona katika ripoti hiyo ukaguzi wa UDA bila kuficha jambo lolote,” aliahidi Utouh na kuongeza:

“Watanzania wote hasa watu wa Dar es Salaam najua wanapenda kufahamu kitu gani kinaendelea mpaka sasa, lakini nataka niwatoe shaka, kila kitu kitakwenda sawa na nitaiweka wazi (ripoti) itakapo kamilika kwa muda huo nilioutaja.”

Kwa mujibu wa Utouh, hatua ambazo zimeshafikiwa katika ukaguzi huo ni nzuri na kinachotakiwa ni Watanzania kuwa na subira katika jambo hilo kwani kila kitu kitaelezwa katika ripoti ya ukaguzi itakapo kamilika rasmi.

“Ukaguzi ni jambo ambalo linahitaji muda ila kitu ambacho naweza kuwaambia Watanzania kwa sasa ukaguzi wa UDA ujumuisha vitu vingi hivyo unahitajika umakini wa hali ya juu ili kutoa majibu sahihi,” alisisitiza.

Kauli ya Mnyika
Kwa upande wake, Mbunge wa Ubungo, Mnyika ameitaka Serikali kutoa taarifa kuhusu hatua iliyofikia juu ya ukaguzi na uchunguzi wa tuhuma za ufisadi, ukiukwaji wa sheria, kanuni na maslahi ya wananchi katika mchakato wa ubinafsishaji wa UDA

Katika taarifa yake aliyoitoa jana kwa vyombo vya habari, Mnyika ameitaka Serikali kuagiza kusitishwa mara mojakwa kile alichokiita, mkataba batili na uamuzi haramu uliofanyika kukabidhi hisa, mali na uendeshaji wa kampuni ya UDA kwa Kampuni ya Simon Group Limited.

Alisema katika kipindi cha uchunguzi, masuala yote ya kampuni hiyo yaratibiwe na bodi huru, itakayoundwa na kusimamiwa kwa mujibu wa sheria.Taarifa hiyo inaeleza kuwa ukimya huo umeanza kupoteza matumaini juu ya hatma ya ukaguzi na uchunguzi huo ambao Serikali iliahidi ungefanyika katika kipindi cha mwezi mmoja, lakini mpaka sasa, miezi minne imepita.

“Pinda anapaswa kutoa taarifa kwa kuwa alitoa agizo bungeni Agosti 4, 2011 wakati wa kipindi cha maswali kwa mujibu wa Kanuni za Bunge kifungu cha 38 (4), ” imeeleza sehemu ya taarifa hiyo.

Mnyika alisema agizo hilo lililenga kuvielekeza vyombo vya dola kama Taasisi ya Kuzuia na Kupambana na Rushwa (Takukuru) , CAG na Ofisi ya Mkurugenzi ya Upelelezi wa Makosa ya Jinai (DCI), kufanya uchunguzi kuhusu tuhuma husika.Alisema tangu agizo hilo litolewe, umma wala wabunge hawajaelezwa hatua ambayo Takukuru na Ofisi ya DCI imefikia katika uchunguzi wa tuhuma hizo.

Mnyika alisema mpaka sasa kilichofanyika ni ile hatua ya Agosti 13, mwaka huu ambayo Mkuchika alimkabidhi CAG barua ya kumtaka afanye ukaguzi maalumu katika kipindi cha mwezi mmoja.

“Miezi miwili ilipita bila ukaguzi husika kukamilika na hatimaye mwezi Oktoba, CAG akatangaza kwa umma kwamba ameshindwa kumalizia ukaguzi husika kutokana na kutingwa na majukumu mengine,” inaeleza taarifa hiyo.
Alifafanua kwamba kutokana na hali hiyo, CAG alieleza kwamba ofisi yake imeiteua kampuni binafsi ya KPMG kufanya ukaguzi husika katika kipindi cha mwezi mmoja.

“Takribani miezi miwili imepita bila ukaguzi huo kukamilika hivyo CAG anapaswa kutoa taarifa kwa umma kuhusu hatua iliyofikiwa juu ya ukaguzi huo na kuhakikisha kwamba ukaguzi unakamilika kwa haraka,” alisema katika taarifa hiyo.

Mnyika aliongeza kwamba mpaka sasa, uchunguzi uliokuwa ufanywe na Kamati iliyoundwa na Kamati ya Kudumu ya Bunge ya Hesabu za Mashirika ya Umma (POAC), bado haujaanza kutokana na uongozi wa Bunge kuelekeza kwamba uchunguzi huo unapaswa kusubiri ukaguzi wa CAG.

Alisema hali hiyo imevifanya vyombo vya uwakilishi wa wananchi, Bunge na baraza la madiwani kubanwa kiufundi kuchukua hatua kwa kuwa vinasubiri uchunguzi huo.

“Wakati ambapo ukaguzi haujakamilika na Kampuni ya Simon Group imeshaingizwa katika umiliki na uendeshaji wa kampuni ya UDA,” alisema na kuongeza:

“Wakati ukaguzi huo ukiendelea kuchelewa, maofisa waliohusika katika jiji, kampuni ya UDA, wizara mbalimbali na taasisi za serikali wanaendelea na utumishi kama kawaida katika mazingira ambayo yanaacha mianya ya hujuma kwa mali za kampuni na vielelezo mbalimbali.”

Inaeleza kuwa maamuzi yote yaliyofanywa na Mstahiki Meya wa Dar es Salaam, Didas Masaburi kuhusu kampuni ya UDA yanayotajwa kuridhiwa na vikao vya jiji ni batili kwa kuwa yalifanyika kwenye vikao visivyokuwa halali bila kuzingatia sheria na yalifanyika bila ridhaa ya wabunge ambao ni Wajumbe wa Baraza la Halmashauri ya Jiji.

Taarifa hiyo ilisema kwamba katika kufanya ukaguzi na uchunguzi ni muhimu kwa serikali kuzingatia kuwa pamoja na udhaifu kwenye uongozi wa Jiji la Dar es salaam, matatizo ya UDA yamechangiwa pia na Ofisi ya Msajili wa Hazina kutokuwa makini katika hatua zote kwa kushirikiana na CHC katika masuala ya ubinafsisaji wa UDA.

Sakata la kuuzwa kwa UDA liliibua mjadala mzito bungeni na kuwaingiza katika vita ya maneno Meya wa Jiji la Dares Salaaam Dk Masuburi ambaye aliwaambia baadhi ya wabunge wa mkoa wa Dares Salaam kwamba, wamekuwa wakifikiri kwa makalio badala ya ubongo.

MWANANCHI

KIM JONG -KILLED? SPECULATION SURROUNDS DEAR LEADER'S DEATH

2011-12-29T08:24:00.003+03:00

A cloud of mystery has shrouded the death of Kim Jong-il, as South Korean intelligence pokes holes in the official version of the Supreme Leader’s passing. The latest news begs the question: is Pyongyang involved in an assassination cover-up?

North Korean state television said Kim died of a heart attack on Saturday while traveling by train to a field inspection outside Pyongyang.

However, during a special session of the South Korean National Assembly Intelligence Committee, National Intelligence Service (NIS) head Won Sei-hoon claimed that Kim's famous armored train was parked at Pyongyang’s train station at the time the he reportedly died, the Korean Herald reports.

Won said the intelligence was confirmed by US military satellite photos, which purportedly showed that the train was stationary in the capital city at the official time of death.

Won also said the NIS had been tracking Kim’s movements up until December 15. However, they lost track of him from the following day until the time of his death, the daily reports.

Now, the sudden nature of Kim’s death is fueling suspicion that Pyongyang is hiding something.

When Kim Jong-il traveled to Russia this past August, he appeared to be relatively healthy, albeit a bit thin. This, coupled with the fact that it took Pyongyang two days to announce Kim's death, has prompted speculation that he could have been assassinated, the Korea Joongang daily reports.

Analysts noted that Kim, like his father, died succumbed suddenly to cardiac arrest due to “fatigue and overwork.”

Moreover, both men passed away during periods of strained international relations over the isolated state’s nuclear weapons program.

In July 1994, Kim Il-sung died just after agreeing to halt the country’s uranium enrichment program during a period of attempted rapprochement with the West. After his death, talks of freezing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid would not resume for months.

Likewise, Kim Jong-il had recently been in negotiations with Washington as both sides attempt to kick-start the stalled Six Party talks. While it has been widely reported that Kim was willing to suspend Pyongyang’s uranium enrichment program, those hopes have been dashed as the third round of talks, which was set to take place in Beijing Thursday, will now most likely be canceled.

However, as heart problems tend to be hereditary and a diplomatic chess game over nuclear weapons is bound to raise anyone’s blood pressure, the fact that both men, who were reportedly diabetics, died suddenly is less of a conspiracy than an inevitably.

“Kim Jong-il’s carnivorous eating habits, frequent stress, smoking and drinking habits, as well as having a family history of disease were the contributing factors to his cardiac arrest,” Hong Soon-jun, professor at the Cardio Vascular Center of Korea University Anam Hospital, told the Korea Joongang Daily.

Moreover, Hong said their seemingly unexpected deaths should not be surprising, as “acute cardiac infarction accounts for more than 80 percent of sudden deaths.”

Meanwhile, South Korean Intelligence Committee Chairman Kwon Young-se told local media the NIS analysis regarding Kim’s death was not final, and in any case it was inappropriate for the government to publicly comment on such matters.

MKATE WA USHOGA NDIO HUO UNAPAKWA "BLUE BAND" WAAFRIKA TWAWEZA KUUEPUKA?

2011-12-29T05:30:00.000+03:00

Kutoka kwa Profesa Matondo,

Inaonekana mabwana wakubwa hawa hawajaridhika na utumwa wa kiuchumi, kifikra, kisaikolojia na kitamaduni waliouanzisha wakati wa biashara ya utumwa, kuupalilia wakati wa ukoloni na kuuendeleza kupitia ukoloni mamboleo hadi leo.

Hawajaridhika:

Pamoja na ukweli kwamba bado tunaendesha mifumo yetu ya elimu kwa kutumia lugha zao – lugha ambazo wala hatuzielewi vizuri; na hivyo kufanya elimu tuwapayo vijana wetu kuwa kichekesho. Pamoja na ukweli kwamba tungali tunadhani kuwa kila kitu chao ni bora kuliko cha kwetu.

Pamoja na ukweli kwamba tungali tunaiga kila kitu wanachofanya: wakitembea uchi nasi tunaiga, wakilegeza suruali zao nasi tunalegeza, wakitoboa masikio na kusuka nyweli nasi tunafanya vivyo hivyo.

Pamoja na ukweli kwamba tumezungukwa na utandawazi wao kila kona.

Sasa wanatulazimisha kuhalalisha ushoga – jambo ambalo naamini katika makabila mengi ya Kiafrika (lilikuwa) linafanyika kwa siri ingawa sasa, kutokana na utandawazi tumeanza kuona “maanti” wakijitokeza waziwazi. “Blue Band” hii inayopakwa kwenye huu mkate wa ushoga ni nini?

Ni Donge nono la misaada ambalo, kama makinda ya ndege yasiyojiweza, tumezoea kumegewa pamoja na ukweli kwamba Mungu Ametujalia kila kitu; na sehemu kubwa ya donge hili huishia katika midomo mipana ya wachache.

Serikali ya Uingereza imeweka wazi kwamba haitatoa misaada yake kwa nchi ambazo hazikubaliani na ushoga. Serikali ya Marekani pia imetoa masharti kama hayo. Kutokana na mikwara hii, serikali ya Malawi ilibidi kulegeza kamba kuhusu msimamo wake kwa sababu asilimia kubwa ya bajeti yake inategemea misaada kutoka Uingereza na Marekani.

Hata Uganda imeonyesha dalili za kutetereka katika msimamo wake kuhusu suala hili. Ni nchi chache za Afrika zinazoweza kujiendesha bila “Blue Band” hii ya wakubwa na tusije kushangaa huko mbele tukisikia washika kurunzi wetu wameshatia sahihi mikataba ya kuukubali ushoga – hata kama majukwaani wanajipiga kifua na kulaani.

Msimamo wa sasa wa Tanzania kuhusu suala hili ni wa kutia moyo sana. Natumaini kwamba hautabadilika; na hata ukibadilika basi usiwe ni kutokana na kulazimishwa na hawa wakubwa. Bila kujali maoni na msimamo wangu kuhusu ushoga, kinachonikera mimi ni kulazimishwa kukubaliana na matakwa ya hawa wakubwa wetu.

Utumwa haukutosha? Ukoloni haukutosha? Ukoloni mamboleo je? Pamoja na yote haya, mpaka tukubali ushoga kweli ndo tupate misaada? Ni lini tutaweza kusimama tisti na kuendesha mambo yetu bila kutegemea mikate hii iliyopakwa "Blue Band"
yenye sumu ???

MATONDO BLOG

MAMBO YA "NDUMBA NANGAI "MKOANI MTWARA

2011-12-28T12:57:00.005+03:00

Na Baraka Mfunguo,

Wahenga wanasema kua uyaone, wengine wanasema kuishi kwingi ni kuona mengi na wengine wanasema ukimwona nyani amezeeka ujue amekwepa mishale mingi na wengine wanasema kama wewe unajua hivi na wenzio vile. Hiyo sio misemo yangu, ni misemo ambayo nimekua nikiisikia na nimekuwa nikionywa na kufunzwa nayo toka nikiwa mdogo.

Pichani Mtaalam wa kuzingua "mang'opo akiwa amefukua mauchawi katika eneo mojawapo mjini Mtwara/Mikindani hivi karibuni.

Pia ukiingia kwa watu kama wewe ni mgeni usionyeshe tofauti kwa wenyeji shurti uishi kama wanavyoishi wao. Huku Mtwara kuna mambo ambayo yanasifika sana na mojawapo ni hili la "ndumba nangai-yaani uchawi" Uchawi unatofautiana na pia unazidiana. Lakini ambao ni almaarufu sana ni ule unaotumika kuwaibia watu fedha zao bila wao kujijua kwa huku wanaita "Mang'opo".

Unaweza ukawa unafanya biashara yako kuanzia January mpaka Disemba usione fedha iliyoingia wewe kila siku ni kutoa fedha kwa ajili ya kuendesha biashara na mtaji hauonekani.

Ukiona hivyo ujue wapo wataalam tayari wanakula fedha yako. Wapo wale ambao wanajifanya ombaomba ole wako umpatie fedha na aone kwenye pochi yako kuna kiasi gani unakuja kushangaa hakuna fedha, ama kuna ile ya kutoa pesa dukani ambayo itahitaji chenji ole wako ile chenji uchanganye na fedha zako nyingine katika pochi , Utalia.

Ama kuna wafanyabiashara ndogo ndogo ambao wanauza vitu kama matunda, nguo za watoto na waakina mama wakishakukamata tu wewe utajikuta pesa yako huelewi umeitumia vipi. Lakini kuna wale wafanyabiashara wa Sokoni, utamkuta mtu kazi yake ni kuuza viberiti tu ama majani ya tumbaku kwa ajili ya kutengeneza ugoro ama sigara za goso na kwa siku aweza kuwa na wateja wasiozidi 5. Lakini jioni fedha anayokuhesabia ni mabulungutu kwa mabulungutu. Hapo ni lazima mtu ujiulize.

Hivi sasa amejitokeza mtu ambaye anafanya kazi hiyo ya kufukua hayo "mang'opo" pamoja na mauchawi mengine na anazunguka kijiji kwa kijiji mtaa hadi mtaa. Na inasemekana wapo watu wamechimbia "mang'opo yao sehemu za biashara na mikusanyiko ya watu ambapo mzunguko wa hela unakuwa mkubwa ambapo kila mtu anayepita sehemu hiyo ni lazima alipie lakini bila ya yeye kujijua .

Changamoto ni kwa wale ambao wanagundulika kuhusika na mang'opo hayo kutishia kwenda polisi. Kutokana na serikali kutotambua uchawi , mara nyingi kesi hizi huishia kimya kimya.
Iko haja kubwa ya kupambana na hawa watu wanaofanya haya "mang'opo" kwani kwa kiasi kikubwa wanarudisha maendeleo ya watu wengi nyuma. Hii ndio hali halisi ya Mtwara kama wewe ni mpenda maendeleo katika maisha yako unatakiwa uwe makini kwa mtu unayepeana naye mkono kwa kusalimiana, makini kwenye fedha zako za matumizi na makini unapokutana na mtu unayemtilia mashaka. Hivi vitu ni vya kweli huku umakondeni.

NORTH KOREA MOURNS

2011-12-28T11:15:00.003+03:00

By Associated Press,

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday, wailing and clutching their chests as a black hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il’s body wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.

The funeral procession from Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where Kim’s body had lain in state, was accompanied by top military and party officials, but there was little doubt who the leader was. Son and successor Kim Jong Un was the head mourner, walking with one hand on the hearse, the other raised in salute, his head bowed against the wind.

State media — which over the past week have called Kim Jong Un “great successor,” ‘’supreme leader” and “sagacious leader” — made it clear that the family’s hold on power would extend to a third generation, declaring the country in the younger Kim’s “warm care.”

The funeral procession passed by huge crowds of mourners, most of them standing in the snow with their heads bare, many screaming and flailing their arms as soldiers struggled to keep them from spilling onto the road.

The procession was expected to head to the city’s main plaza, Kim Il Sung Square, where hundreds of thousands of North Koreans have been paying their respects over the past 10 days. Sobs and wails filled the air as mourners in the front rows stamped their feet and cried as the hearse passed by.

“How can the sky not cry?” a weeping soldier standing in the snow said to state TV. “The people ... are all crying tears of blood.”

Kim Jong Il, who led the nation with an iron fist following his father Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994, died of a heart attack Dec. 17 at age 69, according to state media.

Even as North Koreans mourned the loss of the second leader the nation has known, the transition of power to Kim Jong Un was under way. The young man, who is in late 20s, is already being hailed by state media as the “supreme leader” of the party, state and army.

Like his father’s in 1994, Kim Jong Il’s coffin was wrapped in a red flag. A limousine carrying a huge portrait of a smiling Kim led the procession, and soldiers followed the hearse and lined the streets. A national memorial service will take place at noon Thursday, state media said.

Wednesday’s footage was accompanied by rousing military music. North Korean state media said the memorial route was about 25 miles (40 kilometers) long, though top officials did not walk the entire route.

Outside observers will be watching Wednesday’s footage closely for clues on the make-up of Kim Jong Un’s inner circle.

Walking behind him was Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Il’s brother-in-law and a vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission who is expected to play a crucial role in helping Kim Jong Un take power.

Also escorting the limousine were military chief Ri Yong Ho and People’s Armed Forces Minster Kim Yong Chun. Their presence indicates they will be important players as the younger Kim consolidates his leadership. Top Workers’ Party officials Choe Thae Bok and Kim Ki Nam and senior military officer Kim Jong Gak also were prominent positions, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry.

“It shows they will be core powers in North Korea,” said Yoo Ho-yeol, a professor at Korea University in South Korea. “Particularly, Jang Song Thaek and Ri Yong Ho will be key to Kim Jong Un’s leadership.”

The military presence at the funeral Wednesday also suggests Kim will uphold his father’s trademark military-first policy, Yoo said.

After the funeral, the young Kim is expected to cement his power by formally assuming command of the 1.2 million-strong military, and becoming general secretary of the Workers’ Party and chairman of the party’s Central Military Commission, Yoo said.

Kim Jong Il’s two other sons, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chol, have not been spotted.

Kim Jong Un made his public debut just last year with a promotion to four-star general and an appointment as vice chairman of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers’ Party.

Heavy snow was falling in Pyongyang, which state media characterized in the early days of mourning as proof that the skies were “grieving” for Kim Jong Il as well. Footage on state TV showed images of swirling snow, the log cabin in far northern Mount Paektu where Kim is said to have been born and the mountain named after him, where his name is carved into the rocky face in red.

Earlier, state television also replayed images of missiles being fired and the April 2009 long-range rocket launch that earned North Korea strengthened U.N. sanctions. The U.S., South Korea and other nations called it a test for a missile designed to strike the United States; North Korea said the rocket sent a communications satellite into space.

Even as they mourned his father with dramatic displays of grief at memorials and at Kumsusan, North Korea’s officials have pledged their loyalty to his son.

In an essay paying homage to Kim Jong Il on Wednesday, Workers’ Party mouthpiece Rodong Sinmun said North Korea under his leadership had been “dignified as a country that manufactured and launched artificial satellites and accessed nukes,” referring to the country’s nuclear program.

“Thanks to these legacies, we do not worry about the destiny of ourselves and posterity at this time of national mourning,” the essay said, carried in English by the Korean Central News Agency.

“Supreme leader of our party and people Kim Jong Un takes warm care of the people left by Kim Jong Il. Every moment of Kim Jong Un’s life is replete with loving care and solicitude for the people,” the essay said.

Wednesday’s procession had a stronger military presence than in 1994.

Kim Jong Il, who ushered in a “military first” era when he took power, celebrated major occasions with lavish, meticulously choreographed parades designed to show off the nation’s military might, such as the October 2010 display when he introduced his son to the world.

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Associated Press Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee and writers Hyung-jin Kim, Foster Klug, Scott McDonald and Sam Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report. Follow North Korea coverage at twitter.com/newsjean, twitter.com/APKlug and twitter.com/samkim_ap.

TAHADHARI YA MVUA KUBWA YATOLEWA

2011-12-28T11:04:00.002+03:00

Taarifa za Mamlaka ya Hali ya Hewa Tanzania (TMA) zinatahadharisha kutokea mafuriko mengine makubwa katika Jiji la Dar es Salaam kutokana na mvua zinazoendelea kunyesha maeneo mbalimbali nchini.

Taarifa ya TMA imeonya wakazi wa jijini Dar es Salaam kwamba kutokana na mvua zinazoendelea kunyesha nchini mafuriko makubwa yatatokea kati ya Desemba 29 hadi 31 mwaka huu.

TMA wanasema kwamba mvua kubwa na ambazo zinaweza kusababisha mafuriko zinatarajiwa kunyesha kwa wingi katika mikoa ya Dar e Salaam, Pwani , Mtwara , Lindi na Kisiwa cha Unguja.

Pia maeneo mengine ambayo yatakumbwa na mvua hizo ni Nyanda za Juu Kusini Magharibi katika Mikoa ya Mbeya, Iringa na Rukwa na Kanda ya Kati katika Mikoa ya Dodoma na Singida.

Vilevile, taarifa hiyo imetaja kwamba Mikoa ya Kigoma, Tabora, Kilimanjaro, Arusha na Manyara nayo inatarajiwa kuwa na vipindi vya mvua kubwa

Ni dhahiri kwamba mvua zilizonyesha wiki jana zimeleta madhara makubwa kwa wakazi wa Jiji la Dar es Salaam, hata kusababisha maelfu ya watu kukosa makazi ya kuishi, kusababisha vifo vya zaidi ya watu 40 na nyumba zao kuzolewa na maji.Kutokana na mvua zilizonyesha kwa siku tatu mfululizo, udongo umetuama maji mengi hivyo maji yatakuwa hayana sehemu ya kwenda.

Kutokana na hali hiyo ni dhahiri mvua hizo zitakaponyesha zitaweza kuleta mafuriko makubwa hata kuliko yale ya nyuma.Hivyo basi, kutokana na tahadhari hizi za mamlaka ya hali ya hewa, tungependa kuchukua nafasi hii kuwataka wakazi wanaoishi maeneo ya mabondeni kuhama mara moja ili kuepuka madhara makubwa ya mafuriko ya siku tatu zijazo.

Kwa kuwa tunatambua kwamba mafuriko yanaweza kuleta madhara kwa watu wote hata wale ambao hawaishi mabondeni hivyo tunatoa tahadhari kwa wananchi kuwa makini katika kipindi hiki kigumu cha kuishi katika Jiji la Dar es Salaam.

Tunaandika maoni haya huku wenzetu ambao walikumbwa na mafuriko katika maeneo ya mabondeni wakiwa tayari wamerejea huko licha ya kupewa tahadhari na Serikali na hata kutengewa maeneo ya kukaa kwa muda wakati wakitafutiwa eneo la makazi ya kudumu na yenye usalama.
Sisi wa Mwananchi tunaona hatua ya wakazi wa mabondeni kurejea katika maeneo hayo ni sawa na kuamua kujilipua wenyewe.

Ndio maana bila kumumunya maneno, tunaziomba mamlaka za Serikali kuchukua hatua za haraka ikiwa ni pamoja na kuwaondoa kwa nguvu mabondeni ili kuwapusha na maafa yatokanayo na mafuriko.

Tunaamini kwamba Serikali kwa upande wake, imejitahidi kutenga eneo la muda ambalo wahanga wa mafuriko wanaweza kujisitiri, lakini pia imetenga eneo la Mabwepande kwa ajili ya makazi ya kudumu kwa wahanga hao wa mabondeni.

Angalizo ambalo tungependa Serikali ikatafakari ni uwezekano wa familia za wapangaji nao kupatiwa maeneo ya makazi huko Mabwepande baada ya wenye nyumba kugaiwa maeneo.
Tunasema hivi kutokana na uhalisia wa maisha ya watu hao ambao ni wapangaji wa nyumba zilizoko mabondeni.

Kwanza kabisa tunaamini mpaka mtu kuamua kwenda kupanga nyumba ya bei rahisi katika eneo hatari ni kutokana na umasikini uliokithiri. Hivyo basi jaribio lolote la kusaidia wahanga wa mafuriko, lisiwaache nyuma wapangaji ambao mali zao ndogo walizozipata shida kutokana na kipato kidogo zimetekelea.

Vilevile, tunalaani tabia ambayo imejitokeza kwa watu ambao hawakukumbwa na mafuriko kwenda mstari wa mbele ili wapewe viwanja. Tunasema tabia ni kukosa utu na uzalendo.
Ni maoni yetu kwamba Watanzania wote watachukua tahadhari, ikiwa ni pamoja na wale waishio mabondeni kuhama moja kwa moja.

MWANANCHI

MWAKA WA MAJONZI YA VIFO VYA WASOMI -UDSM

2011-12-27T11:01:00.000+03:00

Na Fredy Azzah

PAMOJA na kuadhimisha miaka 50 tangu kuanzishwa kwa Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, mwaka 2011 unaaga huku ukiacha majonzi makubwa kwa wanajumuiya wa chuo hicho waliondokewa na wasomi wenzao mbalimbali.

Makala haya yanarejea taarifa kuhusu baadhi ya wasomi hao walioacha pengo kubwa siyo kwa jumuiya hiyo, lakini hata kwa jamii ya Watanzania kwa jumla.

Februari 21
Aliyekuwa mhadhiri katika Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam upande wa Shule Kuu ya Elimu, Dk Alphonce Ndibalema alifariki dunia jijini Dar es Salaam baada ya kupatwa na shinikizo la damu.
Dk Ndibalema atakumbukwa kwa mchango wake mkubwa wa kuwapa maarifa Watanzania kuhusu sekta ya elimu aliyokuwa akiyatoa kupitia magazeti mbalimbali nchini.
Hakua mchoyo wa kuwafikishia wengine kile alichokijua. Hakutosheka na kufundisha darasani, kutoa mihadhara au kuandika katika majarida ya kitaaluma. Aliona iko haja ya kugawa utajiri wa maarifa na mawazo yake kwa Watanzania wengi zaidi kupitia vyombo vya habari.
Dk Ndibalema aliyejiunga na chuo hicho mwaka 1991, alikuwa msomi farisi wa taaluma ya elimu hususan nyanja za Menejimenti ya Elimu, Mipango na Sera. Kwa muda wote wa usomi wake, alijipambanua kama mwanazuoni mahiri na makini aliyetoa mchango maridhawa katika nyuga hizo za elimu.
“Alifanya tafiti katika masuala mengi yaliyohusu maendeleo na mipango katika elimu, alitoa makala nyingi katika majarida ya kitaaluma, alishiriki kuandika sura za vitabu, mada za makongamano na ripoti kadhaa za kitafiti,’’ ilisema taarifa ya tanzia iliyotolewa na Ofisi ya Uhusiano wa Umma ya chuo hicho.
Dk Ndibalema alijiunga Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam mwaka 1991 akiwa mhadhiri msaidizi katika Kitivo cha Elimu kabla ya kupanda daraja na kuwa mhadhiri mwandamizi mwaka 2025.Kuanzia mwaka 2005 hadi anafariki, alikuwa Mkuu wa idara ya Misingi ya Elimu, Menejimenti na Masomo Endelevu.
Marehemu alizaliwa mwaka 1952. Alisoma shule za msingi Kazi na Kanazi zilizopo mkoani Kagera kuanzia mwaka 1960 hadi 1966 kabla ya kujiunga na shule za sekondari za Ihungo na Mirambo na kuhitimu mwaka 1972.
Mwaka 1975 hadi 1976 alikuwa mwanafunzi katika kilichokuwa chuo cha ualimu Chang’ombe na baadaye kujiunga na chuo kikuu cha Dar es Salaam kusomea shahada ya kwanza katika elimu na kuhitimu mwaka 1982.
Masomo ya shahada za juu za Uzamili na Uzamifu aliyapata kutoka vyuo vikuu vya Massey cha New Zealand na Toronto cha nchini Canada

Machi 31
Jumuiya ya Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, ikapata tena pigo baada ya mhadhiri wake Dk Justine Katunzi kufariki dunia baada ya kuanguka akiwa anafundisha darasani.

Taarifa iliyotolewa na Makamu Mkuu wa Chuo hicho, Profesa Rwekaza Mukandala, ilisema baada ya kuanguka alipelekwa katika zahanati ya chuo hicho ambako alifariki muda mfupi baada ya kufikishwa.

Dk. Katunzi alikuwa akifundisha katika Shule ya Biashara ya chuo hicho, na alijiunga na chuo hicho mwaka 1976 akiwa mkufunzi msaidizi na baadaye mwaka 1978 alipandishwa cheo na kuwa mhadhiri msaidizi.

Alipanda ngazi na mwaka 1980 alikuwa mhadhiri, na mwaka 1998 alipanda daraja kuwa mhadhiri mwandamizi hadi alipostaafu kwa mujibu wa sheria mwaka 2010. Alikuwa akiendelea na kazi chuoni hapo kwa mkataba.

Kitaaluma alikuwa amebobea katika fani ya menejimenti, akiwa mmoja wa waasisi wa Kitivo cha Biashara na Menejimenti (sasa Shule ya Biashara).

Katika kipindi chote cha utumishi wake alitoa mchango mkubwa katika uandishi wa majarida, utafiti na machapisho mbalimbali ya kitaaluma. Aidha, kati ya mwaka 1990 na 1995 alikuwa mbunge wa Geita.

Julai 23
Kwa mara nyingine jumuiya ya chuo hicho na jamii ya Watanzania kwa jumla ikapatwa na huzuni kubwa baada ya kutangazwa kwa kifo cha msomi nguli wa masuala ya siasa na utawala, Profesa Samuel Mushi.

Profesa Mushi alikuwa mwalimu wa walimu, akigubikwa na sifa kuu ya kuwa mshauri na mwelekezi kwa wanataaluma wenzake na wanafunzi.
Karibu asilimia 95 ya wahadhiri wa idara ya siasa na utawala walipitia katika mikono yake kwa nyakati tofauti wakiwamo wasomi maarufu katika fani ya siasa nchini.
Akitoa wasifu wa marehemu, Profesa Gasper Munishi alisema, Profesa Mushi alikuwa mwanafunzi bora aliyepikwa na kupikika katika vyuo vinavyoheshimika kwa wanataaluma kama Chuo Kikuu cha Yale kilichopo Marekani alichosomea shahada yake ya Udaktari wa Falsafa (PhD).
“ Umahiri wa Profesa Mushi ulitokana na kujituma kwake katika kufanya kazi za kitaaluma zilizozaa matunda ambayo sio tu yalikidhi vigezo vya juu vya kuendelea kuitumikia taaluma, bali yaliweka ziada iliyopanua taaluma yake,” alieleza na kuongeza:
“Profesa Mushi alitengeneza viwango vyake mwenyewe vya umahiri wa juu katika taaluma na mpaka sasa wenzake wengi wanaviona viwango hivyo kuwa ndivyo vya juu kabisa vinavyoweza kufikiwa.’’
Kumbukumbu zinaonyesha marehemu alisoma shahada ya kwanza, shahada ya Uzamili na shahada ya Uzamifu katika vyuo vikuu vya Makerere, California Berkeley na Yale.
Kabla ya kujiunga na Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam mwaka 1967 wakati huo kikiwa sehemu ya Chuo Kikuu cha Afrika Mashariki, Profesa Mushi alifanya kazi za utawala serikalini kwa kushika nyadhifa kadhaa kama vile mkuzaji wa Kiswahili na Fasihi na Kaimu Kamishna wa Utamaduni katika iliyokuwa Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Jamii.
Kimataifa aliwahi kuwa Mkurugenzi Msaidizi wa kitengo cha Siasa, Historia na Utamaduni cha taasisi ya Umoja wa Mataifa nchini Namibia na Katibu Mkuu wa Chama cha Wasomi wa Siasa Afrika (AAPS).
Akiwa chuoni alianza kufanya kazi ya utawala katika kitivo cha sheria kabla ya kubadilishwa kazi na kuwa mtafiti msaidizi na kisha mhadhiri msaidizi katika Idara ya Sayansi ya Siasa mwaka 1970 .
Kwa kipindi kisichozidi miaka 10, alipanda ngazi mbalimbali za kitaaluma hadi kufikia daraja la uprofesa aliotunukiwa mwaka 1980.
Pamoja na kustaafu utumishi wa umma mwaka 1999, aliendelea kufanya kazi kwa mkataba hadi mauti yalipomfika

Vifo zaidi vya wahadhiri

Wasomi wengine walioaga dunia mwaka huu katika chuo hicho ni pamoja na Dk Tumaini Kimario, aliyekuwa mhahiri katika kitengo cha uhandisi wa vyanzo vya maji aliyefariki Januari 22.

Pia mwanasayansi nguli katika chuo hicho, Profesa Chrysanth Kamuzora alifariki dunia februari 15 mwaka huu. Juni 22 chuo hicho kilimpoteza tena msomi mkongwe katika fani ya wanyama na utunzaji wa mazingira, Profesa Alfreo Nikundiwe.

Julai 29, mtaalam wa mazingira kutoka koleji ya sayansi asilia, Dk Kristoko Msindai alifariki dunia na baadaye Oktoba 18, Profesa Michael Kishimba aliyekuwa mtaalamu wa Kemia katika koleji hiyo naye akafariki.

Wanafunzi sita wafariki katika ajali
Novemba 19 ilikuwa majonzi tena kwa chuo hicho baada ya wanafunzi sita wa shahada ya uzamili kufariki dunia katika ajali ya basi walipokuwa wakisafiri kutoka Dar es Salaam kwenda Kigali Rwanda kwa ziara ya kimasomo katika Taasisi ya Sayansi na teknolojia ya nchini humo.

Wanafunzi hao waliofariki walikuwa wakisoma shahada ya uzamili ya hesabu kupitia programu maalum ya Hisabati ya Afrika Mashariki (EAUMP)

MWANANCHI

MERRY CHRISTMAS

2011-12-25T05:00:00.001+03:00

Christmas Cards

US BLOCKS ACCESS TO BRADLEY MANNING'S HEARING

2011-12-24T05:25:00.000+03:00

The WikiLeaks saga is centered on issues of government transparency and accountability, but the public is being strategically denied access to the Manning hearing, one of the most important court cases in our lifetime.

Twenty-four year old Private First Class Bradley Manning is facing life in prison or even the death penalty for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents about US wars and diplomacy to the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. Some of the documents in question are now posted online and have been the fodder for news articles and public discussion about world politics for well over a year. This case will show much about the United States’ tolerance for whistle-blowers who show the country in an unflattering light. Are we a nation that tolerates criticism and values transparency? Or are we willing to crack down on whistleblowers of conscience? Unfortunately, the military is taking steps to block access by the media and the public to portions of the trial, robbing the world of details of this critically important trial.

No full transcript available

The details of Bradley Manning’s prosecution aren’t making their way into the public domain in large part because there is no full transcript being made public. During a recess from the hearing, I questioned a Public Affairs Officer who refused to provide his name about when a transcript would be made available. He said that it would likely be three to four months before any transcript would be available to the public—long after the media interest had faded.

Computers and recording devices denied

The government has denied any recording devices, audio or video, to be in the media center or the courtroom. This is particularly galling because the government has ample ability to record the proceedings in full and make them publicly available; in fact, the proceedings are being recorded and livecast to the media center where reporters under the strict supervision of Public Affairs Officers are taking frantic notes.

Journalists are forbidden from connecting to the Internet, making the possibility of live tweeting and live blogging challenging. The government allowed a mere 20 members of the public into the hearing. Spectators were denied laptops, meaning the only way for the public to get notes on the pretrial hearing is by scribbling notes on paper.

Media access denied or rescinded

When Nathan Fuller applied for a press pass to attend the hearing and take notes from the media center, his request was granted—and then rescinded. Among other things, Fuller is an intern with the Bradley Manning Support Network, a coalition of individuals and organizations working to cover the financial costs of Manning’s defense and educate the public about the issues involved. On Monday, I asked the Public Affairs Official at the hearing what criteria was used to assess whether someone qualified as a journalist for the purposes of receiving a press pass, and he said he did not know. I asked how many other individuals had been denied press passes to the hearing, and he again replied that he didn’t know. I asked how many other individuals had received press passes only to have them rescinded and got the same non-response. He didn’t know if there was a phone number to someone who would have the answers to these questions. I asked my questions again on Tuesday, and the Public Affairs Officer still knew nothing—except that he wouldn’t have an answer for my questions that day.

Overflow theater closed down even when people barred from courtroom

On the first day of the hearing, individuals who were not among the first twenty to arrive at the hearing were given access to a theater across the street. While recording devices were not allowed, this theater offered individuals the flexibility to enter and leave at will. As a result, there was access to cars where laptops and cell phones were stored, which facilitated reporting on the hearing. The theater also provided a way for individuals who were late to the hearing to be able to sit down and start watching the proceedings right away, instead of waiting in an empty trailer for an hour or more for the first recess. This is particularly important because there were long lines to have vehicles inspected to gain entrance to the base, and there was no published schedule for when the hearing would begin, making lateness a frequent occurrence.

After the second day, however, the overflow theater was closed down. I spoke to a military representative who said the theater was closed down because the courtroom wasn’t full. It is true that Saturday the courtroom was not at spectator capacity, but that was the day of the public rally protesting the prosecution of Bradley Manning, so it’s not surprising there were fewer people in the court. The courtroom was at capacity on Tuesday and two individuals who had driven in from Occupy DC were denied entrance because there were not enough available seats. Nonetheless the military still refused to open the theater.

No accommodations for disabled and elderly access

If you’ve got a small bladder, poor hearing or can’t handle stairs, then forget about attending Manning’s trial. I was particularly sad to see famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg struggling to hear the proceedings. I spoke to the military police and urged them to open the public theater so that individuals like Ellsberg could sit closer to the sound system. I was rebuffed.

Access denied

Manning’s pretrial hearing is being held at Fort Meade in Maryland. Individuals who want to drive on base have to undergo a lengthy inspection of their vehicle, often waiting in line for a long period of time. And sometimes even waiting in line won’t get you in: Lt. Daniel Choi, a veteran and outspoken advocate for ending the military’s discriminatory policies toward LGBT servicemembers, was held at the entrance at length. The military personnel at the entrance to the base took issue with Lt. Choi’s military uniform and delayed him entering base for some time. Though he eventually passed through security, Choi was there only briefly before being removed from the base, his uniform ripped and his wrist injured as he was forcibly evicted. The military, which did not charge him, accused him of “heckling,” though no witnesses saw any evidence of untoward behavior on Choi’s part.

Lt. Choi spoke out against the Manning trial during an interview with Keith Oblermann. "You don’t have to be in the military to understand this is a show trial," he said, "This is a farce of justice and being in that courtroom this weekend, I don’t think that America has had lower moments.”

The long delay at the entrance caused Choi to arrive late at the courtroom, and because the theater was closed he was unable to watch much of the proceedings.

While the documents attributed to Manning have been widely dispersed and are the subject of many news articles, the government insisted on shutting the public and the media out of large portions of the hearing. On the third day of the trial, the investigating officer decided to accommodate the prosecution’s request for a closed hearing for a portion of the next day. The investigating officer found that the information had been properly classified and that the need to maintain that classification outweighed the value of a public and open trial. But the public, who has had access to the WikiLeaks releases for well over a year, was not given an opportunity to object. The only one who did object was the defense team of Bradley Manning, to no avail. No explanation was provided regarding what information would be reviewed in the closed portion of the trial. And notably, the investigating officer allowed “relevant government agencies” to remain even as the public was ousted, without providing any information on what agencies were considered relevant.

No media organizations have yet contested the right to have access to the closed portions of the proceedings.

Wikileaks Thrown Out

Among those thrown out of the courtroom during the closed portions of the hearing were attorneys for the whistleblower website WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks had petitioned for guaranteed access to the hearing, and had sent in an attorney who had the highest level of secret security clearance. The Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing Assange and WikiLeaks, is appealing their right to access the trial. In a press release, CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy said, “As counsel for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, we must be given access to these proceedings. The lack of transparency that has been a hallmark of the military’s prosecution of Private Manning to date also serves to obscure his abusive conditions of confinement.” Assange and his lawyers are also concerned about the threat of an extradition request from the US on matters raised in Private Manning’s proceedings.

At its heart, the Bradley Manning trial is about secrecy, about understanding how our own government as a world power operates in complex international waters, about debating the sacrifices we’re willing to make to advance our interests. Whatever interests the military may have in conducting its case against Manning behind closed doors, we as a society cannot tolerate attempts to rob us of knowledge of the court proceedings. This trial will change the history of our country; I only hope we get to be in the room when it happens.

Rainey Reitman

Rainey Reitman, a steering committee member of the Bradley Manning Support Network, reported live from Manning’s...

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NORTH KOREA'S CINEMA OF DREAMS

2011-12-23T10:12:00.000+03:00

THE CIA AND MOSSAD: A MURDEROUS ALLIANCE

2011-12-23T05:43:00.000+03:00

Arrests of a dozen alleged CIA agents in Iran threw a spotlight on long-standing, covert U.S.-Israeli actions in the Islamic republic -- including purported involvement by the CIA and Mossad in the recent killings of Iranian nuclear scientists. Though enduring, the collaboration between Western and Israeli intelligence agencies in intelligence and assassination operations reveals a relationship of cooperation and distrust.

The Mossad (Hebrew for "institution") is Israel's main intelligence agency. According to the Global Security site, Mossad also oversees "covert action and counterterrorism"; its operations are widely held to include targeted killings. At the time of its founding, the Mossad's motto was the biblical quote "By way of deception thou shalt make war." The motto was later changed to a different Proverbs passage: "Where no counsel is, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors there is safety." Sources refer variously to the Mossad's international assassination unit as "Metsada," "Caesarea," or "Kidon" ("Kidon" is Hebrew for "bayonet"). Rafi Eitan, a former director of Mossad operations, compared its assassins to "the official hangman or the doctor on Death Row who administers the lethal injection. We are simply fulfilling a sentence sanctioned by the prime minister of the day."

In the past half-century, Israel has allegedly killed hundreds of members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hamas, Hebollah, and Islamic Jihad. Mossad targets have also reportedly included German rocket scientists working for Egypt in the 1960s and, from the 1980s to the present, Iraqi and Iranian nuclear scientists. Early on, the Mossad kidnapped and killed alleged Nazi war criminals; one well-known example was Adolf Eichmann, whom the Mossad abducted from Argentina and brought to Israel for trial and execution. The Mossad allegedly assassinated Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965, and is said to be responsible for killings throughout Europe and the Middle East during the 1970s. In 1972, Dr. Mahmoud Hamshari was killed by a bomb placed in the telephone of his Paris apartment. Also killed in France was PLO associate Zuheir Mohsen. PFLP leader Dr. Wadie Haddad allegedly died in 1978 via poisoned chocolate. In retaliation for the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, the Mossad conducted its "Wrath of God" campaign, murdering 11 of the "Black September" terrorists. The operation ended in a scandal known as the "Lillehammer affair," with the Norway killing of Ahmad Boushiki, a North African waiter whom Mossad agents had mistaken for PLO leader Ali Salameh -- alleged mastermind of the athletes' massacre. Later, the Mossad allegedly killed Salameh with a car bomb in Beirut. The Wrath of God effort additionally involved the sending of letter bombs. Purported recipients included alleged Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner and PFLP member Bassam Abu Sharif; Sharif, though badly disfigured, survived the attack.

Alleged Mossad victims in the 1980s and 1990s included Fathi Shiqaqi, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Gerald Bull, a Canadian scientist and ballistics expert who worked for Iraq on the "Super Gun" project; they were among several individuals who died from point-blank gunshot wounds to the head. In 1997, Mossad operatives tried but failed to assassinate Khalid Meshaal, a top Hamas leader in Jordan. (After using fake Canadian passports to enter Jordan, Mossad agents injected poison into Meshaal's ear.)

Dubai police observed the "Mossad method" in the 2010 torture and killing of Hamas chief and accused arms smuggler Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a hotel room by more than two dozen alleged Mossad agents travelling on British, Irish, French, and Australian passports obtained via forgery and identity theft. The hit squad allegedly injected Mabhouh with a heart attack-inducing drug. Although Israel has responded evasively to questions regarding its hand in the killing, a Haaretz reporter noted: "There is no need for the government of Israel to answer the question of whether Mossad agents were responsible for assassinating [Mabhouh] ... the smiles on the ministers' faces as they left the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday said it all." Sudanese officials later fingered Mossad in the missile killing of Mabhouh's successor. Since 2004 some have alleged Mossad responsibility for the Syria assassinations of Hamas officer Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil (by car bomb), Brigadier-General Muhammad Suleiman (by gunshot), and Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah (by exploding headrest). At least half a dozen other Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad members reportedly died from car bombs placed by the Mossad. In 2009, warplanes hit a truck convoy and a ship in Sudan carrying arms for Hamas, killing 119 persons. Israel was accused, but made no comment.

Close U.S.-Israel relations have reportedly existed since the beginnings of Israel's statehood. The U.S. and Israeli intelligence worked together in 1957 to create Iran's secret intelligence agency SAVAK. The book Gideon's Spies details both collaboration and tension between the Mossad and the U.S. assassination squad JSOC. Another account of the Mossad, published in 2007, describes the agency's joint operations with the CIA against Hezbollah. Mossad tactics have reportedly had significant impact on U.S. and British intelligence operations. "According to usually reliable intelligence sources," Asia Times reported, "it can be taken as highly significant that the CIA formally established an assassination team" soon after former Mossad director Meir Dagan paid a visit to former CIA director George Tenet. At least one source has indicated that, during the last Bush administration, Republican party members "authorized the entrance into the Pentagon of top Israeli Defense Force and Mossad officers, including Kidon personnel." Israel has also relied heavily on the U.S. A 2006 diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks describes a meeting during which Israeli counterterrorism bureau officials requested help from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with a number of counterterrorism projects. Another cable provides insight into strong U.S.-Israeli cooperation in "combating financial flows from Saudi Arabia and Europe." Israel is also said to have played an important part in covert British counterterrorism operations. MI5 and MI6 have reportedly "shown a willingness to 'sub-contract it to Mossad'" when addressing controversial political situations.

Mossad-U.S. cooperation has, however, been marred by mutual distrust, purportedly because Mossad has often been prone to scandal and credibility issues. Both parties appear to have participated in deception. One account reports that, during the Carter administration, the CIA bribed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, providing Sadat with Israel's secret military information in exchange for Egyptian compliance with the Camp David Accords. The same source describes similar CIA intelligence-sharing with Saudi Arabia. Allegedly, Israel learned of the deception, but did not object because "America was the only ally Israel had left." Some in the U.S. have alleged Israeli involvement in the 2001 terrorist attacks -- pointing to family ties between the Mossad and at least one 9/11 hijacker, and to the fact that, one month before the terrorist attacks, the Mossad informed the U.S. that terrorists were entering the country and planning "a major assault" that would make Americans "very vulnerable." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did nothing to defuse these accusations when he stated that Israel had benefited from the terror attacks.

Recently, U.S.-Mossad efforts have purportedly focused on sabotaging Iran's nuclear program. Diplomatic cables show heavy Israeli lobbying for "robust U.S. involvement" in curtailing Iran's development of nuclear capabilities. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Iran "the main threat to Israel"; Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz characterized Iran's completion of the enrichment process as the "point of no return." Israel and the U.S. were alleged to have been behind the Stuxnet computer worm, which in 2010 sabotaged the operating systems at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant. Intelligence experts suspect that the Mossad is responsible for the recent assassinations of Iranian scientists.

Since 2007, at least five Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed by bomb, gunshot or poison. The private U.S. intelligence firm Statfor reported that the Mossad killed nuclear scientist Ardeshir Hosseinpour. In 2010, Professor Massoud Ali-Mohammadi died when a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated near his home. Darioush Rezaeinejad was shot outside his daughter's kindergarten by snipers on a motorcycle; Israel and the IAEA have asserted Rezaeinejad's involvement with work on a nuclear detonator. Der Spiegel reported that "an Israeli intelligence source" admitted Mossad responsibility for the murder. Purportedly, a nuclear scientist identified as "Dr. Boronzi" was later assassinated in the same location where Rezaei was killed. University professor and nuclear physics expert Majid Shahriari was the next to die. The Mossad and CIA are also suspected of being behind the attempted assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Fereydoon Abbasi, who survived after would-be killers on a motorcycle reportedly affixed a magnet bomb to Abbasi's car door while he was driving. On November 12, a blast at an Iranian military base killed 17 people, including Brigade General Hassan Moghaddam, known as the "architect" of Iran's missile program. Commentators suggested that either Mossad or the CIA was behind the attack; a former Iranian government official stated that this and a similar 2010 incident were "part of the covert war against Iran, led by Israel." Some have reported that a joint Mossad/JSOC operation run by former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was responsible for a series of plane crashes in Iran that killed Iranian military personnel and individuals associated with the country's nuclear research facilities. In May 2009, a bomb was found on board Kish Air flight Y9-7030 MD-82, en route to Tehran.

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has announced that it has evidence that the Mossad, CIA, and MI6 were responsible for the attacks. Encountering questions regarding Israel's involvement, one journalist states that, "[g]rinning suggestively, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak vaguely told reporters, 'Israel is not responding.'" Some describe the assassination campaign as part of a "covert war" against Iran. Such allegations may have gained strength last week, when Iran reportedly arrested 12 CIA agents. High-ranking parliamentary official Parviz Sorouri announced that the agents were operating in coordination with the Mossad and other agencies to target Iran's military and its nuclear program: "The U.S. and Zionist regime's espionage apparatuses were trying to damage Iran both from inside and outside with a heavy blow, using regional intelligence services." Last week's news follows Hezbollah's announcement that it unmasked a CIA spy ring in Lebanon earlier this year. American officials admitted the truth of this allegation; Hezbollah MP Hassan Fadlallah lauded his group's victory over the U.S. and Israel in "the intelligence war." U.S. officials, in turn, uncovered an apparent Iranian scheme to bomb a Washington establishment, possibly in retaliation for the killings of Iranian scientists.

In November, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) asked the UN to take action against the assassination of the country's nuclear scientists. The Iranian government stated that the IAEA head had made the country's scientists into Mossad and CIA targets when the IAEA published the researchers' names in its new report on Iran's nuclear weapons program. Soltanieh said that this disclosure of the scientists' names violates the agency's rules.

Iran denies allegations that it is pursuing a nuclear weapon program. Last month, however, the IAEA released a report "presenting new evidence" to suggest that Iran is "secretly working to obtain a nuclear weapon." News items and editorials published by The Guardian, The New York Times, the BBC, and the Daily Telegraph appeared to support the IAEA's position. These views echo the substance of 2008 U.S.-EU-Canada trilateral meetings on Iran, during which the three delegations "agreed that Iran sought to undermine everything that the international community sought to achieve in the Middle East, and that its nuclear program and state sponsorship of terrorism constituted direct challenges to the international community and its norms of behavior."

Others dispute such pronouncements. In an interview last month with Democracy Now!, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh compared the allegations regarding Iran's nuclear program to the WMD claims leading to the recent war against Iraq:
"It’s just this — almost the same sort of — I don’t know if you want to call it a 'psychosis,' but it’s some sort of a fantasy land being built up here, as it was with Iraq, the same sort of — no lessons learned, obviously ... Cheney kept on having [JSOC] send teams inside Iran ... they would do everything they could to try and find evidence of an undeclared underground facility ... there's not much you can do in Iran right now without us finding out something about it. They found nothing. Nothing. No evidence of any weaponization ... no evidence of a facility to build the bomb. They have facilities to enrich, but not separate facilities for building a bomb. This is simply a fact. We haven’t found it, if it does exist. It’s still a fantasy.'"
Although Iran did investigate the possibility of making a bomb, Hersh stated, "they stopped in ’03. That’s still the American consensus. The Israelis will tell you privately, 'Yes, we agree.'" This position has been supported by Greg Thielmann, a former US State Department and Senate Intelligence Committee analyst, and by Robert Kelley, a nuclear engineer and IAEA inspector, who opined that the IAEA report "misleads and manipulates facts in [an] attempt to prove a forgone conclusion," and also "recycles old intelligence ... to bolster hard liners."

Additionally, some have pointed to an embassy cable reporting that new IAEA chief Yukiya Amano stated that he is "solidly in the U.S. court on every key strategic decision, from high-level personnel appointments to the handling of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program." In a later cable, an official notes: "The coming transition period provides a further window for us to shape Amano's thinking before his agenda collides with the IAEA Secretariat bureaucracy.'" Hersh described U.S. efforts behind Amano's election as IAEA chief:
"We supported him very much ... He was considered weak by everybody, but we pushed to get him in ... He responded by thanking us and saying he shares our views ... it was just an expression of love. He’s going to do what we wanted." Hersh added: "... inside the IAEA ... they’re very bothered by the direction Amano is taking them.'"

Nevertheless, press reports note that embassy cables as late as 2009 revealed Israeli plans for "a large scale war" in the Middle East, "probably against Hamas or Hezbollah." Similarly, a 2005 cable (pre-dating the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah) revealed an "initial authorization" for an attack on Iran, and noted: "... it may not be possible to detect preparations for any military strike ... any attack order would be closely held."

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Kichwa cha habari hapo juu chahusika.Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, hivi karibuni Serikali imetangaza nauli mpya katika kivuko cha Magogoni ambazo zimeanza kutumika tarehe 01.01.2012. Wananchi wa Jimbo la Kigamboni wanapinga ongezeko hili kwa sababu zifuatazo:

1. Vivuko na nauli zake zinatawaliwa na sheria ya SUMATRA CAP 314. Masuala ya nauli (tariffs) yanatawaliwa na kanuni ambazo zilichapishwa kwenye gazeti la Serikali namba 92 la tarehe 26 Februari 2010.

i. Stakeholders’ written submissions within 14 days from the date of publicationii. Stakeholders’ meetingMheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, WanaKigamboni wangependa kujua yafuatayo:a. Je nauli hizi mpya zimepitishwa na SUMATRA? Kama ni ndiyo. Lini?

b. Ni lini mapendekezo ya nauli mpya yalitolewa kwa umma? Serikali ilitumia magazeti gani? Matangazo yalitoka tarehe zipi?

c. Ni lini na wapi mikutano ya wadau kuchangia kuhusu nauli mpya ilifanyika?d. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, WanaKigamboni pamoja na mimi kama Mbunge sijapata kuona tangazo lolote na wala kushirikishwa katika kujadili bei mpya.

Katika barua yangu ya tarehe 19 Januari 2011 yenye kumbukumbu namba KIG/KVK/VOL.1/1 kwenda kwa Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa TEMESA (nakala imeambatanishwa) niliomba na kusisitiza kuwa Wanakigamboni tuhusishwe na kushirikishwa katika mchakato wowote wa kuongeza nauli. Bahati mbaya sana, hili halikufanyika.

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b. Bajaj zimepanda toka Tsh 300 hadi Tsh 1300 (asilimia 333).

c. Mikokoteni imeongezeka toka Tsh 200 hadi Tsh 1500 (Asilimia 650). Isitoshe mizigo inayopakiwa nayo inatozwa nauli.

Wafanyabiashara wengi wa Kigamboni wanatumia maguta, bajaj na mikokoteni kusafirisha bidhaa. Kutokana na ongezeko la nauli ya kivuko bei ya bidhaa zimepanda maradufu. Hali ambayo inazidi kuwatia umaskini wananchi wa eneo hili.

Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu ningependa kutoa mapendekezo yafuatayo:1. Nauli hizi mpya zisitishwe ili tuweze kubaini uhalali wake kisheria na vigezo vilivyotumika.

2. Utaratibu ufanyike kuhakiki mapato na matumizi ikiwa ni pamoja na kuangalia maeneo ya kupunguza gharama. Kuna maeneo mengi yanayoweza kutumika katika kupunguza gharama.

3. Mchakato uanze upya ukishirikisha wadau wa huduma hizi.

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Waziri Mkuu
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Kichwa cha habari hapo juu chahusika.
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i. Stakeholders’ written submissions within 14 days from the date of publication
ii. Stakeholders’ meeting
Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, WanaKigamboni wangependa kujua yafuatayo:
a. Je nauli hizi mpya zimepitishwa na SUMATRA? Kama ni ndiyo. Lini?

c. Ni lini na wapi mikutano ya wadau kuchangia kuhusu nauli mpya ilifanyika?
d. Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu, WanaKigamboni pamoja na mimi kama Mbunge sijapata kuona tangazo lolote na wala kushirikishwa katika kujadili bei mpya.

Mheshimiwa Waziri Mkuu ningependa kutoa mapendekezo yafuatayo:
1. Nauli hizi mpya zisitishwe ili tuweze kubaini uhalali wake kisheria na vigezo vilivyotumika.

Wako katika ujenzi wa Taifa

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MBUNGE

Nakala:
1. Mhe. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete-Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania
2. Mhe. Mecky Sadick-Mkuu wa Mkoa Dar Es Salaam
3. Mhe. Wilson Mukama-Katibu Mkuu wa CCM Taifa
4. Kamati ya Wabunge wa Dar Es Salaam
5. Waheshimiwa Madiwani wote-Jimbo la Kigamboni