Tuesday, 31 March 2009
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Monday, 30 March 2009
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CHENGE, HAKI TANZANIA
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ajali ngapi zilizowahi kutokea bila kuundiwa tume ya uchunguzi kwani hii ina nini? tena watu walikufa ni wawili tu! kule arusha,Tanga watu wangapi walikufa katika ajali na hatukusikia tume? kuna nini kinataka kufichwa hapa? kwanza kabisa inabidi chenge awe jela kwa kuendesha gari bila bima ya gari kwa miaka 2! ebu fikiria ungekuwa wewe unaedesha bila bima ya gari wacha kupata ajali? nahisi bado tanzania hatuna usawa!mbona yule kijana aliyemuua chacha wangwe hakupewa dhamana? au tuseme hao marehemu ndiyo walioua chenge katika ajili hiyo wangepewa dhamana? jamani lazima tutenda haki kwa kila mtanzania kwa vile ni haki ya mtanzania kuwa na haki katika nchi yake.kumwachia mzee chenge huru ni kuendeleza matabaka ya walionacho na wasio nacho. .
NAAMINI WAPENDA HAKI WOTE WANAUNGA MKONO MTIZAMO WA MR MUSIKA.HAKI SHURTI ITENDEKE PASIPO KUANGALIA MATABAKA.
(Pichani juu ni siku Chenge alipopokelewa kishujaa jimboni kwake baada ya kulazimika kujiuzulu kufuatia tuhuma za kumiliki vijisenti huko Jersey,UK.Unaweza kujiuliza inakuwaje watu wenye akili zao timamu wajazane namna hiyo kumlaki mtuhumiwa wa ufisadi.....jibu la swali hilo linaweza kutoa mwangaza wa namna vita ya ufisadi ilivyo ngumu,hususan kwenye kuondoa mentality ya kuwaenzi white-collar criminals).
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Leading British Cabinet minister Jacqui Smith's political future is in doubt after her husband admitted to paying for adult movies with taxpayers' money.
The home secretary's husband, Richard Timney, has apologized for the "embarrassment" he caused his wife, while she has promised to repay the money spent, including the £10 ($14) charge for the two films, the British Press Association reported.
According to British media reports, Smith had not seen the videos and was "mortified" that they had "mistakenly" been paid for using her MP's expense account.
Timney, who Smith pays £40,000 ($56,000) a year to be her office manager, submitted an expense claim last June for a £67 ($95) Virgin Media bill for television services in the couple's family home in Redditch, Smith's constituency, The Guardian newspaper reported.
It reported the bill included two adult films, at a cost of £5 ($7) each, as well as two viewings of the heist movie "Ocean's 13" and one of "Surf's Up," a children's film about a penguin.
The revelations could not come at a worse time for Smith, who is already being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over her decision to claim at least £116,000 ($164,000) in second-home allowances for her family home since becoming an MP.
She has claimed the second-home allowance for her family home while living with her sister in London. Smith designated her sister's house as her "main" residence, allowing her to claim the money for her family home.
Conservative and opposition leader David Cameron described the latest news as "deeply embarrassing" for Smith.
He said Smith had "questions to answer," PA reported.
"I do not think this individual thing is the issue. I think she has got some questions to answer about the second home issue. It does seem to me pretty incredible to claim that the home where her family is, that is not her main home.
"I think this goes to a deeper problem, which is the second home allowance for MPs. The prime minister has ordered a review but he has sort of kicked it into the long grass.
"The review doesn't start until September, it is not going to report until after the next election. That is hopeless. We have got to get on with it."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended Smith.
"The home secretary is doing a great job and I do not think this issue should be allowed to detract from everything she is doing to ensure we protect the public and keep our neighborhoods safe," he said.
"She has done the right thing by taking steps to rectify the mistake that was made as soon as she became aware of it.
"This is very much a personal matter for Jacqui. She has made her apology, her husband has made clear that he has apologized."
Last week Brown ordered a review of the complex and opaque system of MPs' pay and allowances.
The home secretary's husband, Richard Timney, has apologized for the "embarrassment" he caused his wife, while she has promised to repay the money spent, including the £10 ($14) charge for the two films, the British Press Association reported.
According to British media reports, Smith had not seen the videos and was "mortified" that they had "mistakenly" been paid for using her MP's expense account.
Timney, who Smith pays £40,000 ($56,000) a year to be her office manager, submitted an expense claim last June for a £67 ($95) Virgin Media bill for television services in the couple's family home in Redditch, Smith's constituency, The Guardian newspaper reported.
It reported the bill included two adult films, at a cost of £5 ($7) each, as well as two viewings of the heist movie "Ocean's 13" and one of "Surf's Up," a children's film about a penguin.
The revelations could not come at a worse time for Smith, who is already being investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over her decision to claim at least £116,000 ($164,000) in second-home allowances for her family home since becoming an MP.
She has claimed the second-home allowance for her family home while living with her sister in London. Smith designated her sister's house as her "main" residence, allowing her to claim the money for her family home.
Conservative and opposition leader David Cameron described the latest news as "deeply embarrassing" for Smith.
He said Smith had "questions to answer," PA reported.
"I do not think this individual thing is the issue. I think she has got some questions to answer about the second home issue. It does seem to me pretty incredible to claim that the home where her family is, that is not her main home.
"I think this goes to a deeper problem, which is the second home allowance for MPs. The prime minister has ordered a review but he has sort of kicked it into the long grass.
"The review doesn't start until September, it is not going to report until after the next election. That is hopeless. We have got to get on with it."
Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended Smith.
"The home secretary is doing a great job and I do not think this issue should be allowed to detract from everything she is doing to ensure we protect the public and keep our neighborhoods safe," he said.
"She has done the right thing by taking steps to rectify the mistake that was made as soon as she became aware of it.
"This is very much a personal matter for Jacqui. She has made her apology, her husband has made clear that he has apologized."
Last week Brown ordered a review of the complex and opaque system of MPs' pay and allowances.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
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A retired US police chief said he was robbed by “probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania” at a police officers’ convention attended by 300 narcotics officers.John Comparetto said that as he came out of a stall in the men’s room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money.
Mr Comparetto gave up his money and mobile phone. But when the man fled, Mr Comparetto and some colleagues chased him.
They arrested 19-year-old Jerome Marquis Blanchett of Harrisburg as he was trying to leave in a taxi.
When a reporter asked Mr Blanchett for comment as he was led out of court, he said: “I’m smooth.”
About 300 police from Pennsylvania and Ohio were attending the narcotics officers’ convention near Harrisburg.
SOURCE: AP
Well,may be he's not the dumbest criminal ever...Look at the list below according to the Daily Mirror:
1: A stupid armed robber held up a petrol station in Vancouver and then returned to ask the cashier for directions. The 22-year-old man was chased by cops at 100mph after holding up staff at knifepoint but got lost and so pulled into a petrol station for help unaware it was the same one he had just robbed.
2: Dozy Californian thief Claud Gipson-Reynolds stole a fire engine and then radioed for help when it got stuck in the mud. Drunk Gipson-Reynolds called for a tow truck on the vehicle's radio – and was surprised when cops turned up instead. He said: "I could probably get on that show, World's Dumbest Criminals. I was pretty intoxicated at the time. My thinking was not the best." Sure was…
3: Brainless burglar John Pearce was left dangling upside down from the window of a house he was breaking into for an hour after getting his foot stuck. Home owner Paul Ives said: "He must be the world's dumbest thief." Pearce admitted a charge of burglary with intent to steal at Dartford magistrates.
4: A not so clever thief obviously didn't consider how easy it would be to spot him when he stole the prototype of a unique high-performance sports car worth £2m. The British-built Delfino Feroce, which has a maximum speed of 150mph, was being driven from a film studio when it was stolen from outside a flat in Fulham, west London
5: Dim-wit joyriders smiled for a speed camera as they raced past in a car they had just pinched. Police later used the photograph in court which clearly showed the teenage louts - nicknamed Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest by cops - turning round to make sure the camera got their best side. Police could not believe their luck when they found the speed trap picture - taken three hours before the Escort was torched.
6: Yob Andrew Kellett was slapped with an Asbo banning him from posting films of his antisocial antics on YouTube. Kellett, 23 - who calls himself Mr Chimp - was seen taking part in high speed car chases and boasting of 140mph speeds. In one of 80 clips, a car drives from a petrol station without paying, in another a wheelie bin is blasted with a firework and a third shows a man taking drugs. He said: "I'm not Britain's dumbest criminal - I'm just misunderstood."
7: Dopey burglar Peter Addison made it easy for police to track him down - by scrawling his name on a wall at the crime scene. The 18-year old wrote "Peter Addison was here" with black marker pen as he and friends raided a campsite for underprivileged children and went on a drunken wrecking spree. And when police tracked him down he did them another favour, by wearing a T-shirt he had stolen from the site to prove they had the right man.
8: Two would-be car thieves had their plans scuppered when they couldn't understand how to drive a manual. After holding up the owner at gunpoint the duo then spent several minutes trying to fathom out how to drive the Honda Accord to make good their escape in Georgia, U.S. However, before they could drive off police arrived and arrested them.
9: Germany's dumbest criminal was jailed for four years after he attempted to rob a bank wearing a mask that he couldn't see out of. He had to lift up his mask so he could demand money from the cashier which allowed cops to identify him.
10: Dim thieves stole presents from under a Christmas tree at a council's offices only to find out they were fake. Despite the boxes being unbelievably light and when shaken, would make no sound, they still made off with them thinking they had got their hands on a festive haul.
Saturday, 28 March 2009
(Picha kwa hisani ya KENNEDY)Gazeti la Majira limepotea mtandaoni kwa muda mrefu sasa,na kwa akina sie tunaotegemea habari za nyumbani kupitia nakala za kielektroniki za magazeti husika mkombozi wetu mkuu amebaki Mr Kennedy.Na ni kwa kupitia tovuti yake ndipo nilikutana na version isiyopendeza ya habari kuhusu ajali iliyomhusisha Mzee wa Vijisenti,Andrew Chenge,na kupelekea vifo vya akinadada wawili.
Gazeti la Majira lilidai kuwa marehemu hao ni "machangudoa waliokuwa wanatokea Maisha Club".Sijui vyanzo (sources) vyao vya habari husika ni vipi lakini mwandishi yeyote mwenye busara angepaswa kujiridhisha kuhusu identity halisi ya marehemu hasa kwa vile tunazungumzia watu waliopoteza maisha.Hivi mwandishi huyo atajisikiaje iwapo baada ya uchunguzi itagundulika kuwa marehemu hao hawakuwa machangudoa?In fact,magazeti kadhaa yameripoti maelezo ya ndugu za marehemu yanayoeleza kwamba mmoja wao alikuwa mfanyabishara na mwingine mfanyakazi wa hoteli jijini Mwanza.
Pengine haikuwa nia ya mwandishi kuwa-describe marehemu hao kama changudoa (labda kutokana na haraka ya kuwahisha habari kwa mhariri) lakini taswira ya haraka iliyopatikana kutoka katika habari hiyo ni ujenzi wa matabaka:kigogo (mzee wa vijisenti) kagonga fukara (changudoa).By the way,hata hata kama hao mabinti wangekuwa machangudoa as suggested by the Majira reporter bado haiondoi haki yao ya kuwa hai muda huu!
Kingine ambacho hakihusiani na uandishi japo kinahusu tukio hilo la kusikitisha ni namna Jeshi la Polisi linavyoonekana "kubabaika" katika kushughulikia ajali hiyo.Kwa mujibu wa vyombo vya habari,Kamanda wa Polisi wa Kanda Maalum ya Dar es Salaam,Suleiman Kova,ameunda TUME MAALUM ya kuchunguza ajali hiyo eti kwa "kuzingatia uzito wa tukio hilo".Chenge ni Mtanzania kama mie na wewe,na kama amehusika na ajali basi sheria za uslama barabarani zifanye kazi yake.Sijui ni madereva wangapi walalahoi wanaopata "bahati" kama ya Chenge ya kuundiwa tume!
Kamanda Kova anadai kuwa tume hiyo imeundwa ili "kusiwepo mwanya wowote ,taratibu zote zitafuatwa bila kujali nani na wala nafasi aliyonayo....na kuleta uwazi na utawala bora" (kwa mujibu wa gazeti la Majira) na pia amenukuliwa na gazeti la Mwananchi akisema kuwa "hapa bwana hakuna mchezo wala hakuna kuangalia vyeo wala nani ni nani...".Hivi matamshi kama hayo (iwapo kesi itapelekwa mahakamini) hayawezi kutumiwa na wakili wa Chenge kudai "ameonewa kwa vile Kamanda Kova alishadai hawataangalia vyeo-which directly points to Chenge ambaye licha ya kuwa ex-minister,pia ni munge na kigogo wa CCM?"
Kama nilivyoandika jana,tuendelee kuwapa polisi benefit of doubt kwa matarajio kwamba wanafahamu bayana kuwa tukio hilo linaangaliwa na Watanzania wengi kama kipimo cha haki sawa kwa wote (huku wakiwa na kumbukumbu ya kesi ya marehemu Ditto).
SHAHIDI katika kesi ya kuomba na kupokea rushwa ya sh 600,000 inayomkabili Ofisa Mtendaji wa Kijiji cha Mbelekese, wilayani Iramba, Singida, Iddi Mughenyi, juzi alipata kipigo kutoka kwa mwanasheria wa Taasisi ya Kuzuia na Kupambana na Rushwa (TAKUKURU) kwenye viwanja vya Mahakama ya Wilaya ya Iramba, kwa madai kuwa alimgeuka katika ushahidi alioutoa mahakamani hapo.Mtuhumiwa alipata kipigo kutoka kwa mwanasheria huyo aliyetambulika kwa jina moja la Mchumi, kwa madai kwamba alimgeuka katika ushahidi aliuotoa mahakamani hapo.
Tukio hilo la aina yake limedaiwa kutokea muda mfupi baada ya Mughenyi kutoa ushahidi katika kesi namba 14/2009 inayomkabili ofisa mtendaji huyo.
Akizungumza kwa njia za simu kutoka Iramba, mmoja wa watumishi wa mahakama hiyo ambaye hakutaka kutajwa jina, alisema kuwa kuna kila dalili kuwa ushahidi uliotolewa na shahidi huyo haukumridhisha mwanasheria Mchumi, kwa madai kwamba ulikuwa kinyume cha walivyokubaliana.
“Idd Mughenyi ni shahidi wa upande wa TAKUKURU kwenye kesi hiyo ambayo Ofisa Mtendaji wa Kijiji cha Mbelekese anatuhumiwa kuomba na kupokea rushwa, lakini juzi aliposimama kizimbani aliikana taasisi hiyo, kitendo ambacho kinawezekana kilimuudhi mwanasheria huyo ambaye ndiye alikuwa mwendesha mashtaka katika kesi hiyo,” alifafanua mtumishi huyo wa mahakama.
Aidha, mtumishi huyo alisema baada ya kesi hiyo kuahirishwa na kutoka nje ya mahakama, ndipo Mchumi alipomweka chini ya ulinzi shahidi huyo na kumtaka apande kwenye gari ili waende ofisi za TAKUKURU Wilaya ya Iramba.
Alisema kutokana na shahidi huyo kugoma kupanda gari kwa madai ya kutofahamu kosa, ndipo mwanasheria huyo alipoanza kumpiga makofi hadi kumuumiza kwenye jicho la upande wa kushoto na kumchania shati.
Alibainisha tukio hilo lilishuhudiwa na baadhi ya mahakimu, na kuongeza kuwa waliwaamru askari kwenda kuamua ugomvi huo, kisha kuwapeleka kituo cha polisi.
CHANZO: Tanzania Daima
RUSHWA NI RUSHWA,IWE NDOGO AU KUBWA.LAKINI INGEPENDEZA ZAIDI KUONA TAKUKURU IKITUMIA MISULI MINGI KWENYE RUSHWA KUBWA NA UFISADI SAMBAMBA NA HIZO RUSHWA NDOGO.MAPAPA WA KAGODA NA RICHMOND (achana na yule Mdosi aliyepandishwa kizimbani) BADO WANAPETA URAIANI SAMBAMBA NA MAFISADI WA RADA.
Friday, 27 March 2009
(Photo credit:JIJI LA DAR)Mayor threatens legal action against street name changers
SEBASTIAN MRINDOKO
Dar es Salaam
A TOP local government official in Dar es Salaam has roundly rebuked the ongoing trend of people clandestinely changing street names in the city without following proper channels, including getting the blessing of the City Fathers.
According to the Mayor of the Ilala Municipality, Abuu Jumaa, legal action will certainly be taken against such people once sufficient proof is obtained.
Referring specifically to a query by THISDAY on the name-change applied to one of the city’s most historically famous thoroughfares Kisutu Street, now apparently going by the name of ’PRAMUKH SWAMI’, Mayor Jumaa stated unequivocally:
’’My office has never received an official application to change the Kisutu Street name into an Indian name. Therefore, such an action is an insubordination to the city authority.’’
The mayor’s statement is a direct contradiction of that made last year by the former deputy mayor of the same Ilala Municipality, Mohamed Yakoub, who asserted in an interview with THISDAY that the Kisutu Street name-change had been given a formal stamp of approval.
’’All the (Ilala) municipality legal procedures were properly followed in changing the name of not only Kisutu Street, but also some other streets around the city centre,’’ Yakoub said.
But according to current mayor Jumaa, there are no records whatsoever showing the change of the traditional Kisutu name to ’PRAMUKH SWAMI.’
THISDAY last year ran a series of articles on the increasing trend of various streets within Dar es Salaam’s central business district, suddenly acquiring bizarre-sounding new names in highly mysterious circumstances.
It has been noted that skepticism is on the rise amongst members of the general public over the supposed ’secrecy’ shrouding the whole exercise, with open suggestions that corruption at certain local government levels may be involved.
The Dar es Salaam City Director, Bakari Kingobi, has conceded in the past that such street name changes could very easily cause confusion particularly for tourists who may be trying to find their way around the metropolis using officially-approved city maps.
According to Kingobi, only the city authorities have the mandate to administer such street name changes.
’’There is only one city authority - not two - responsible for administering such name-changes to the city streets. Anyone who tries to do so without informing this city authority, is violating the law and is liable for prosecution,’’ he said.
Speaking to THISDAY yesterday, Ilala Municipality mayor Jumaa said it amounted to sacrilege for anyone to change a street name on the basis of racial, tribal, or religious beliefs.
’’There are some basic criteria used to endorse suggestions for street name changes. Bias of any sort is not one of them,’’ he asserted.
He also said streets with traditionally famous names like Kisutu should be left alone, while anyone wanting to recommend a street name to suit their own needs should look for streets with no names at all � of which apparently there are still many.
According to Jumaa, the municipal authorities will seek explanations from the local government authorities regarding the Kisutu Street name-change in particular.
Any official found to have been responsible for wrongdoing in the whole episode will be taken to task through legal channels, he added.
SEBASTIAN MRINDOKO
Dar es Salaam
A TOP local government official in Dar es Salaam has roundly rebuked the ongoing trend of people clandestinely changing street names in the city without following proper channels, including getting the blessing of the City Fathers.
According to the Mayor of the Ilala Municipality, Abuu Jumaa, legal action will certainly be taken against such people once sufficient proof is obtained.
Referring specifically to a query by THISDAY on the name-change applied to one of the city’s most historically famous thoroughfares Kisutu Street, now apparently going by the name of ’PRAMUKH SWAMI’, Mayor Jumaa stated unequivocally:
’’My office has never received an official application to change the Kisutu Street name into an Indian name. Therefore, such an action is an insubordination to the city authority.’’
The mayor’s statement is a direct contradiction of that made last year by the former deputy mayor of the same Ilala Municipality, Mohamed Yakoub, who asserted in an interview with THISDAY that the Kisutu Street name-change had been given a formal stamp of approval.
’’All the (Ilala) municipality legal procedures were properly followed in changing the name of not only Kisutu Street, but also some other streets around the city centre,’’ Yakoub said.
But according to current mayor Jumaa, there are no records whatsoever showing the change of the traditional Kisutu name to ’PRAMUKH SWAMI.’
THISDAY last year ran a series of articles on the increasing trend of various streets within Dar es Salaam’s central business district, suddenly acquiring bizarre-sounding new names in highly mysterious circumstances.
It has been noted that skepticism is on the rise amongst members of the general public over the supposed ’secrecy’ shrouding the whole exercise, with open suggestions that corruption at certain local government levels may be involved.
The Dar es Salaam City Director, Bakari Kingobi, has conceded in the past that such street name changes could very easily cause confusion particularly for tourists who may be trying to find their way around the metropolis using officially-approved city maps.
According to Kingobi, only the city authorities have the mandate to administer such street name changes.
’’There is only one city authority - not two - responsible for administering such name-changes to the city streets. Anyone who tries to do so without informing this city authority, is violating the law and is liable for prosecution,’’ he said.
Speaking to THISDAY yesterday, Ilala Municipality mayor Jumaa said it amounted to sacrilege for anyone to change a street name on the basis of racial, tribal, or religious beliefs.
’’There are some basic criteria used to endorse suggestions for street name changes. Bias of any sort is not one of them,’’ he asserted.
He also said streets with traditionally famous names like Kisutu should be left alone, while anyone wanting to recommend a street name to suit their own needs should look for streets with no names at all � of which apparently there are still many.
According to Jumaa, the municipal authorities will seek explanations from the local government authorities regarding the Kisutu Street name-change in particular.
Any official found to have been responsible for wrongdoing in the whole episode will be taken to task through legal channels, he added.
SOURCE: ThisDay
Aliyekuwa Waziri wa Miundombinu, Andrew Chenge (61), amewekwa chini ya ulinzi katika Kituo cha Polisi cha Oysterbay, Dar es Salaam, kwa zaidi ya saa saba baada ya kuhusishwa na ajali ya gari na bajaj ambayo imeua watu wawili. Waliokufa ni wanawake wawili ambao ndugu amejitokeza na kudai kuwa wote ni wageni, waliwasili juzi Dar es Salaam kutoka Mwanza na mmoja alikuwa njiani kwenda Zanzibar kuolewa. Kwa mujibu wa vyanzo vya habari, ajali hiyo ilitokea saa 10 alfajiri usiku wa kuamkia jana wakati Chenge akiendesha gari namba T 512 ACE aina ya Toyota Hilux na kuigonga bajaj hiyo namba T 736 AXC iliyokuwa na abiria hao wawili wanawake.
Chanzo hicho kilidai kuwa baada ya ajali hiyo, Chenge alikwenda kwanza nyumbani kwake na kuripoti kituoni hapo saa moja asubuhi jana na kuwekwa chini ya ulinzi na kuhojiwa hadi saa saba mchana, huku nje akisubiriwa na ndugu zake. Gazeti hili lilimshuhudia mbunge huyo wa Bariadi Magharibi akiingizwa kwenye gari la Polisi namba PT 0217 na kwenda eneo la tukio karibu na shule ya msingi ya Oysterbay katika makutano ya barabara za Karume na Haile Selassie, ambako alieleza namna ajali hiyo ilivyotokea.
Wakati mbunge huyo akitolewa katika kituo cha Polisi, kulitokea vurugu baina ya ndugu zake na waandishi wa habari, ndugu hao wakitaka kuzuia Chenge kupigwa picha, hali iliyosababisha kusukumana na kurushiana maneno makali. “Ninyi mmezidi kumwonea huyu kwani ni lazima mumpige picha ndio muuze? Hebu tokeni hapa,“ alisikika mwanamke ambaye alikuwa mstari wa mbele kusukuma waandishi, huku akilia na almanusra wapigane na mmoja wa wapigapicha waliokuwa kazini.
Hata hivyo, vurugu hizo zilimalizika baada ya waandishi kuwazidi nguvu ndugu hao na kung’ang’ania kumpiga picha mbunge huyo ambaye awali alikuwa akifunikwa magazeti na nduguze, lakini aliyatoa na kupisha waandishi wampige picha vizuri. Akiwa katika eneo la tukio, Chenge alimwelezea Naibu Mkurugenzi wa Upelelezi wa Makosa ya Jinai, Peter Kivuyo, namna ajali hiyo ilivyotokea na alidai ilitokea baada ya bajaj hiyo kutaka kupita gari jingine kwa kasi.
“Bajaj ile ilikuwa inataka kupita gari jingine lililokuwa likitoka Morogoro Stores, bahati mbaya kukawa na gari lingine linakuja, ile bajaj ikabana upande wangu na mimi nilikuwa katika mwendo wa kati ya kilometa 80 hadi 100 kwa saa,“ alidai Chenge. Alidai kuwa baada ya kuona bajaj ile inakwepa gari la mbele wasigongane uso kwa uso, alirudi upande wa kulia ndipo alipoigonga ubavuni kushoto. "Gari la nyuma lingesimama, dereva wake angeweza kueleza vizuri, ila baada ya ajali nikasikia watu wanaita 'Chenge! Chenge!’ nikajua niko salama, nikashuka,“ alidai.
Aliendelea kudai kuwa aliposhuka, alikuta abiria wawili wanawake wakiwa bado wanapumua ingawa kwa shida, lakini walipofika trafiki hali zao zilizidi kuwa mbaya na katika kipindi hicho chote, dereva wa bajaj alikuwa haonekani. Naye askari wa usalama barabarani aliyefika katika ajali hiyo, Mustafa Salum, alimweleza Kivuyo juu ya tukio hilo, ambapo alisema alipata taarifa za ajali hiyo saa 10.30 alfajiri na alipofika eneo la tukio, alikuta tayari abiria hao wawili wameshafariki dunia. “Niliipeleka miili ya marehemu hospitali ya Mwananyamala, ila kwa mujibu wa watu waliokuwa eneo la tukio, waliowaona marehemu hao wawili katika ukumbi wa Maisha Club,“ alisema.
Naye kaka wa mmoja wa marehemu hao, January Constantine, alisema alipata taarifa za kifo cha dada yake, Beatrice Constantine (34) asubuhi na alikwenda kutambua mwili wake hospitalini, lakini kutokana na alivyopondeka alimtambua kwa alama za mwili. Alisema dada yake ni mfanyabiashara na mkazi wa Mwanza na kwamba aliwasili Dar es Salaam, akiwa na rafiki yake huyo na ilikuwa aondoke jana alfajiri kwenda Zanzibar kwa ajili ya harusi ya rafiki yake huyo. Gazeti hili lilishuhudia gari la Chenge kwa mbele likiwa na damu, nywele na mabaki ya ubongo ambao unasadikiwa kuwa wa mmoja wa marehemu hao. Polisi pia iliokota kipande cha fuvu la mtu katika eneo la tukio.
Gari hilo lilikuwa na stika ya Bima ambayo ilikatwa Juni 6, 2006 na kumaliza muda wake Juni 6, mwaka juzi. Naye Theopista Nsanzugwanko anaripoti kuwa Kamanda wa Polisi wa Kanda Maalumu Dar es Salaam, Suleiman Kova, alithibitisha kutokea kwa ajali hiyo na kusema mmiliki wa bajaj hiyo ni Zuwena Nassoro na anatakiwa kuripoti katika kituo chochote cha Polisi huku wakiwa wanamshikilia Chenge Oysterbay ili kuisaidia Polisi. Alisema uchunguzi wa tukio hilo unafanywa chini ya Kivuyo na wataalamu mbalimbali ili kuondoa dhana ya upendeleo kwa kuwa Chenge ni mtu maarufu.
Chenge (62) alijiuzulu uwaziri wa miundombinu Aprili 20 mwaka jana, kutokana na kashfa ya rushwa ya dola milioni moja kutoka kampuni kubwa ya uuzaji vifaa vya kijeshi duniani ya BAE Systems. Alijiuzulu baada ya kudaiwa kupokea rushwa ili kuwezesha ununuzi wa rada ya kijeshi ya pauni milioni 20 za Uingereza na kwamba fedha hizo ziliwekwa katika akaunti yake ya kisiwa cha Jersey.
Baada ya kujiuzulu, alikaririwa akisema pamoja na tuhuma hizo, mapenzi kwa nchi yake na chama chake, ndivyo vilimlazimisha achukue uamuzi huo na kuongeza kuwa fedha zilizokutwa katika akaunti yake hiyo hazina uhusiano wowote na BAE Systems. Tuhuma hizo za rushwa zilichochea kelele pale alipohojiwa na waandishi wa habari na kujibu kuwa fedha anazotuhumiwa nazo ni 'vijisenti (fedha kidogo)'.
Chanzo hicho kilidai kuwa baada ya ajali hiyo, Chenge alikwenda kwanza nyumbani kwake na kuripoti kituoni hapo saa moja asubuhi jana na kuwekwa chini ya ulinzi na kuhojiwa hadi saa saba mchana, huku nje akisubiriwa na ndugu zake. Gazeti hili lilimshuhudia mbunge huyo wa Bariadi Magharibi akiingizwa kwenye gari la Polisi namba PT 0217 na kwenda eneo la tukio karibu na shule ya msingi ya Oysterbay katika makutano ya barabara za Karume na Haile Selassie, ambako alieleza namna ajali hiyo ilivyotokea.
Wakati mbunge huyo akitolewa katika kituo cha Polisi, kulitokea vurugu baina ya ndugu zake na waandishi wa habari, ndugu hao wakitaka kuzuia Chenge kupigwa picha, hali iliyosababisha kusukumana na kurushiana maneno makali. “Ninyi mmezidi kumwonea huyu kwani ni lazima mumpige picha ndio muuze? Hebu tokeni hapa,“ alisikika mwanamke ambaye alikuwa mstari wa mbele kusukuma waandishi, huku akilia na almanusra wapigane na mmoja wa wapigapicha waliokuwa kazini.
Hata hivyo, vurugu hizo zilimalizika baada ya waandishi kuwazidi nguvu ndugu hao na kung’ang’ania kumpiga picha mbunge huyo ambaye awali alikuwa akifunikwa magazeti na nduguze, lakini aliyatoa na kupisha waandishi wampige picha vizuri. Akiwa katika eneo la tukio, Chenge alimwelezea Naibu Mkurugenzi wa Upelelezi wa Makosa ya Jinai, Peter Kivuyo, namna ajali hiyo ilivyotokea na alidai ilitokea baada ya bajaj hiyo kutaka kupita gari jingine kwa kasi.
“Bajaj ile ilikuwa inataka kupita gari jingine lililokuwa likitoka Morogoro Stores, bahati mbaya kukawa na gari lingine linakuja, ile bajaj ikabana upande wangu na mimi nilikuwa katika mwendo wa kati ya kilometa 80 hadi 100 kwa saa,“ alidai Chenge. Alidai kuwa baada ya kuona bajaj ile inakwepa gari la mbele wasigongane uso kwa uso, alirudi upande wa kulia ndipo alipoigonga ubavuni kushoto. "Gari la nyuma lingesimama, dereva wake angeweza kueleza vizuri, ila baada ya ajali nikasikia watu wanaita 'Chenge! Chenge!’ nikajua niko salama, nikashuka,“ alidai.
Aliendelea kudai kuwa aliposhuka, alikuta abiria wawili wanawake wakiwa bado wanapumua ingawa kwa shida, lakini walipofika trafiki hali zao zilizidi kuwa mbaya na katika kipindi hicho chote, dereva wa bajaj alikuwa haonekani. Naye askari wa usalama barabarani aliyefika katika ajali hiyo, Mustafa Salum, alimweleza Kivuyo juu ya tukio hilo, ambapo alisema alipata taarifa za ajali hiyo saa 10.30 alfajiri na alipofika eneo la tukio, alikuta tayari abiria hao wawili wameshafariki dunia. “Niliipeleka miili ya marehemu hospitali ya Mwananyamala, ila kwa mujibu wa watu waliokuwa eneo la tukio, waliowaona marehemu hao wawili katika ukumbi wa Maisha Club,“ alisema.
Naye kaka wa mmoja wa marehemu hao, January Constantine, alisema alipata taarifa za kifo cha dada yake, Beatrice Constantine (34) asubuhi na alikwenda kutambua mwili wake hospitalini, lakini kutokana na alivyopondeka alimtambua kwa alama za mwili. Alisema dada yake ni mfanyabiashara na mkazi wa Mwanza na kwamba aliwasili Dar es Salaam, akiwa na rafiki yake huyo na ilikuwa aondoke jana alfajiri kwenda Zanzibar kwa ajili ya harusi ya rafiki yake huyo. Gazeti hili lilishuhudia gari la Chenge kwa mbele likiwa na damu, nywele na mabaki ya ubongo ambao unasadikiwa kuwa wa mmoja wa marehemu hao. Polisi pia iliokota kipande cha fuvu la mtu katika eneo la tukio.
Gari hilo lilikuwa na stika ya Bima ambayo ilikatwa Juni 6, 2006 na kumaliza muda wake Juni 6, mwaka juzi. Naye Theopista Nsanzugwanko anaripoti kuwa Kamanda wa Polisi wa Kanda Maalumu Dar es Salaam, Suleiman Kova, alithibitisha kutokea kwa ajali hiyo na kusema mmiliki wa bajaj hiyo ni Zuwena Nassoro na anatakiwa kuripoti katika kituo chochote cha Polisi huku wakiwa wanamshikilia Chenge Oysterbay ili kuisaidia Polisi. Alisema uchunguzi wa tukio hilo unafanywa chini ya Kivuyo na wataalamu mbalimbali ili kuondoa dhana ya upendeleo kwa kuwa Chenge ni mtu maarufu.
Chenge (62) alijiuzulu uwaziri wa miundombinu Aprili 20 mwaka jana, kutokana na kashfa ya rushwa ya dola milioni moja kutoka kampuni kubwa ya uuzaji vifaa vya kijeshi duniani ya BAE Systems. Alijiuzulu baada ya kudaiwa kupokea rushwa ili kuwezesha ununuzi wa rada ya kijeshi ya pauni milioni 20 za Uingereza na kwamba fedha hizo ziliwekwa katika akaunti yake ya kisiwa cha Jersey.
Baada ya kujiuzulu, alikaririwa akisema pamoja na tuhuma hizo, mapenzi kwa nchi yake na chama chake, ndivyo vilimlazimisha achukue uamuzi huo na kuongeza kuwa fedha zilizokutwa katika akaunti yake hiyo hazina uhusiano wowote na BAE Systems. Tuhuma hizo za rushwa zilichochea kelele pale alipohojiwa na waandishi wa habari na kujibu kuwa fedha anazotuhumiwa nazo ni 'vijisenti (fedha kidogo)'.
CHANZO: HabariLeo
I SMELL DITOPILE-LIKE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE......KWA UBINADAMU WA KAWAIDA TU,GARI LAKO LIKIHUSIKA KATIKA AJALI INAYOPELEKEA HATARI YA MAISHA YA MAJERUHI PRIORITY INAKUWA KWENYE KUOKOA MAISHA YA MAJERUHI HAO (KWA MUJIBU WA HABARI HII MZEE WA VIJISENTI ALIKWENDA ZAKE NYUMBANI HADI SAA 1 ASUBUHI ALIPORIPOTI KITUO CHA POLISI NA KUHOJIWA KWA MASAA 7-(DOES IT REALLY MATTER HOW LONG THE INTERROGATION LASTED WHEN TWO PEOPLE HAD ALREADY LOST THEIR LIVES?).
ANYWAY,LET'S GIVE THE POLICE A BENEFIT OF DOUBT HOPING THAT THIS TIME HAKUTAKUWA NA USANII KAMA KATIKA ISHU YA MAREHEMU DITO.
- 01:12
- Unknown
- A TEEN PARENT, ALFIE
- 4 comments
DNA tests on Alfie Patten, the 13-year-old boy who was alleged to have become a father when he was just 12, show that he not the baby girl’s actual dad.
The 300-pound test was conducted on him after half a dozen boys claimed to have slept with schoolgirl pal Chantelle Stedman, 15.
Although Alfie was convinced he was the dad after a single night of unprotected sex with Chantelle, the DNA test proved the 4ft-tall pupil was not the father of her seven-week-old tot Maisie Roxanne.
According to The Mirror, Chantelle had told her half-sister Jodie O’Neill, 17, that her daughter’s father could have been one of the boys she slept with at her parents’ home in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
The paper further reveals that the teen girl also said that her mother Penny had ordered her to keep saying that she has been a virgin when she slept with Alfie.
The 300-pound test was conducted on him after half a dozen boys claimed to have slept with schoolgirl pal Chantelle Stedman, 15.
Although Alfie was convinced he was the dad after a single night of unprotected sex with Chantelle, the DNA test proved the 4ft-tall pupil was not the father of her seven-week-old tot Maisie Roxanne.
According to The Mirror, Chantelle had told her half-sister Jodie O’Neill, 17, that her daughter’s father could have been one of the boys she slept with at her parents’ home in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
The paper further reveals that the teen girl also said that her mother Penny had ordered her to keep saying that she has been a virgin when she slept with Alfie.
SOURCE: ThisIs50.com
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.
Speaking in BrasÃlia at a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, Mr Lula da Silva told reporters: “This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.”
He added: “I do not know any black or indigenous bankers so I can only say [it is wrong] that this part of mankind which is victimised more than any other should pay for the crisis.”
Mr Brown appeared to distance himself from Mr Lula da Silva’s remarks. “I’m not going to attribute blame to any individuals,” he said.
Mr Brown was visiting Brazil as part of a five-day tour of Europe, the US and South America in preparation for the G20 summit to take place in London next Thursday. He made a joint appeal with Mr Lula da Silva for the world’s biggest economies to provide $100bn to boost global trade.
“I’m going to ask the G20 summit next week to support a global expansion of trade finance to reverse a slide in world trade,” Mr Brown said.
Mr Lula da Silva also spoke out strongly against raising trade barriers in response to the global crisis. “I compare protectionism to a drug,” he said. “Why do people use drugs? Because they are in crisis and they think the drug will help them. But its effects pass quickly.”
The two leaders’ remarks demonstrate the desire each will have to secure the other’s support during the G20 meeting.
Brazil – which has long campaigned unsuccessfully to be given a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council – will argue for a bigger voice for Brazil and other emerging nations in multilateral organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Forum, a group of central banks and national supervisory authorities established in 1999.
Brazil is one of many nations calling for increased regulation of global financial markets and greater powers for multilateral regulators.
It will also call for a resumption and conclusion of the Doha round of talks at the World Trade Organisation.
In return for supporting such initiatives, Mr Brown will expect Brazil to endorse calls for fiscal stimulus in a bid to mitigate the impact of the global crisis, such as the proposed $100bn in trade finance.
Speaking in BrasÃlia at a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, Mr Lula da Silva told reporters: “This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing.”
He added: “I do not know any black or indigenous bankers so I can only say [it is wrong] that this part of mankind which is victimised more than any other should pay for the crisis.”
Mr Brown appeared to distance himself from Mr Lula da Silva’s remarks. “I’m not going to attribute blame to any individuals,” he said.
Mr Brown was visiting Brazil as part of a five-day tour of Europe, the US and South America in preparation for the G20 summit to take place in London next Thursday. He made a joint appeal with Mr Lula da Silva for the world’s biggest economies to provide $100bn to boost global trade.
“I’m going to ask the G20 summit next week to support a global expansion of trade finance to reverse a slide in world trade,” Mr Brown said.
Mr Lula da Silva also spoke out strongly against raising trade barriers in response to the global crisis. “I compare protectionism to a drug,” he said. “Why do people use drugs? Because they are in crisis and they think the drug will help them. But its effects pass quickly.”
The two leaders’ remarks demonstrate the desire each will have to secure the other’s support during the G20 meeting.
Brazil – which has long campaigned unsuccessfully to be given a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council – will argue for a bigger voice for Brazil and other emerging nations in multilateral organisations such as the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Forum, a group of central banks and national supervisory authorities established in 1999.
Brazil is one of many nations calling for increased regulation of global financial markets and greater powers for multilateral regulators.
It will also call for a resumption and conclusion of the Doha round of talks at the World Trade Organisation.
In return for supporting such initiatives, Mr Brown will expect Brazil to endorse calls for fiscal stimulus in a bid to mitigate the impact of the global crisis, such as the proposed $100bn in trade finance.
SOURCE: FT
KWA MTU YEYOTE MWENYE AKILI TIMAMU,HATA AKIAMSHWA USINGIZINI AU AKIWA BWII KWA ULEVI,HAIINGII KICHWANI KUSIKIA HOJA ZA KIFISADI ZA KUNUNUA MITAMBO ILIYONGIZWA NCHI KITAPELI NA MAJAMBAZI WA RICHMOND NA HATIMAYE KURITHISHWA KISANII KWA WENZAO WA DOWANS.TUKIRUHUSU HILI LITOKEE,KUNA MAHALA ITAFIKA NCHI YETU NAYO ITAUZWA NA KISHA TUTATAKIWA KUINUNUA BACK....
Tausi Mbowe na Elias Msuya
KATIBU Mkuu wa Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo, Dk Wilbroad Slaa ameitaka serikali kuitaifisha mitambo ya Kampuni ya kuzalisha umeme ya Dowans badala ya kujadili manunuzi yake.
Dk Slaa aliyasema hayo alipokuwa akizungumza na waandishi wa habari jijini Dar es Salaam baada yakutopa taarifa ya kamati kuu kilichokutana kwaajili ya kuandaa mkutano wa baraza kuu.
Alisema kuwa mitambo ya Dowans ilirithiwa kutoka kwenye kampuni ya Richmond ambayo ilibainika bungeni kuwa ni ya kifisadi kwahiyo hakuna haja ya kuinunua tena bali kuitaifisha.
“Msimamo wangu siku zote ni kutaifishwa kwa mitambo ile na siyo kuinunua. Naishangaa serikali, kutaka kuinunua mitambo ya Dowans wakati mitambo ile ilishabainishwa Bungeni kuwa ni ya kifisadi. Kama mtu umekamata kitu chako cha wizi utakinunua tena?" alihoji
Akizungumzia malumbano kati ya Mbunge wa Kyela Dk Harrison Mwakyembe na Mbunge wa Igunga Rostam Aziz, Dk Slaa alisema,
“Mradi wa kuzalisha umeme nimeushughulikia kwa miezi minane. Nilikwenda hadi kijiji cha Kisesida mkoni Singida ambako ndiko kampuni mbili za Power Pool East Africa ya Dk Mwakyembe na wenzake na Wind East Africa ya Rostam Aziz zimewekeza.
Kampuni ya Power Pool East Afrika ni ya wazalendo na imeshalipa fidia kwa wakazi wa kijiji cha Kisesida lakini ile ya Wind East Africa haijafanya hivyo, badala yake inabebwa na kiongozi wa ngazi za juu mkoani ambaye amekuwa akiwakejeli wanakijiji wa Kisesida. Ndiyo maana kuna kuwa na malumbano kati ya Rostam Aziz na Dk Mwakyembe,” alisema Dk Mwakyembe.
Akizungumzia tatizo la mgawo wa umeme ambalo litangazwa na Tanesco hivi karibuni, Dk Slaa alisema,"Baada ya kubainika kwa kashfa ya Richmond, Rais Kiwete alitangaza kuwa suala la mgawo wa umeme litakuwa historia katika nchi hii, sasa mgawo huu unatoka wapi tena? nendeni mkamwulize,” alisema Dk Slaa.
Aidha alimshangaa Rais Kikwete kwa kuendelea kumwacha madarakani Mkurugenzi wa Tanesco, Idriss Rashid wakati anatuhumiwa kwa ufisadi.
"Dk Rashid (PICHANI JUU) alihusishwa na ufisadi alipokuwa Gavana wa Benki kuu. Tumeshatoa vilelezo vyote kuthibitisha jinsi alivyoshiriki kwenye ununuzi wa rada na ndiyo maana sasa hivi anashirkiana na Dowans ili kununua mitambo yake kiufisadi. Tunashangaa kwanini Rais Kikwete hamchunguzi, wala kumwajibisha. Eti wanasema Serikali ya Uingereza inachunguza, wakati si kweli. Uingereza wanachunguza ushiriki wa BAE system siyo watu wetu,” alisema Dk Slaa.
CHANZO: Mwananchi
IT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE,DOESN'T IT?UNAMKAMATA KIBAKA NA MALI YAKO,BADALA YA KUMKWINDA AKUREJESHEE NA HATIMAYE KUMFIKISHA POLISI ETI UNAKUBALI AKUUZIE ALICHOKUIBIA!IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN IN TANZANIA,I SUPPOSE!
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
- 17:35
- Unknown
- BUNGE, HAKI NA USAWA
- 1 comment
YAANI HADI INATIA KIZUNGUZUNGU.HEBU SOMA HABARI IFUATAYO KISHA TUSHIRIKIANE KUJIBU MASWALI NILIYOWEKA BAADA YA HABARI HII
Bunge mradi wa ulaji
na Mwandishi Wetu
WAKATI baadhi ya wabunge wakiendelea kulumbana kupitia katika vyombo vya habari kuhusu masuala mbalimbali yanayogusa maslahi ya taifa,imebainikawamekuwa wakichuma mamilioni ya fedha kupitia katika malipo yao halali ya mishahara, posho na fedha nyingine zisizotokana na malipo yao rasmi wanayostahili.
Uchunguzi uliofanywa na Tanzania Daima Jumatano umethibitisha pasipo shaka kwamba, fedha ambazo wabunge wamekuwa wakichuma kwa njia mbalimbali kwa kutumia nafasi zao za uwakilishi, zinaweza zikawa sababu mojawapo muhimu ya kuibuka kwa makundi yanayosigana ndani ya Bunge na hususan miongoni mwa wabunge wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).
Kwa mujibu wa uchunguzi huo, gazeti hili limefikia hatua ya kutilia shaka kwamba, mzozo wa hivi karibuni, kati ya Mbunge wa Kyela, Dk. Harrison Mwakyembe na mwenzake wa Igunga, Rostam Aziz, kwa kiwango kikubwa unakuzwa kutokana na sababu za maslahi binafsi zaidi kuliko madai ya uzalendo na maslahi ya taifa.
Shaka hiyo ya Tanzania Daima Jumatano inatokana na ukweli kwamba, wabunge hao wawili ambao wote wawili ni wajumbe wa Halmashauri Kuu ya Taifa ya CCM kwa namna moja au nyingine wamepata kuwa au wanayo maslahi ya wazi na ya moja kwa moja katika sekta ya nishati.
Kauli ya hivi karibuni ya mmiliki wa Kampuni ya Dowans Tanzania Ltd, Mohammed Al Adawi, kukiri kwamba aliwekeza katika sekta ya nishati kwa ushawishi wa Rostam sambamba na ile ya kubainisha kuwa kampuni ya mbunge huyo ilipata kuingia katika zabuni ya kutaka kufanya kazi za ujenzi katika mradi wa kuzalisha umeme wa dharura, ni ushahidi wa wazi wa namna mwanasiasa huyo alivyo na maslahi ya moja kwa moja katika sekta ya nishati.
Kama ilivyo kwa Rostam, taarifa za hivi karibuni, zilizothibitishwa na Mwakyembe mwenyewe
kuwa ni mmoja wa wakurugenzi waanzilishi wa Kampuni ya Power Pool East Africa Ltd yenye malengo ya kuzalisha umeme wa upepo kutoka mkoani Singida, ni ushahidi kwamba naye anayo maslahi ya moja kwa moja katika sekta ya nishati.
Kuingia kwa Rostam na Mwakyembe katika sekta ya nishati, kwa kiwango kikubwa kunaonyesha namna wabunge, hususan wale wa CCM walivyojizatiti kutumia fursa zao za kisiasa kujinufaisha kiuchumi, nyuma ya kivuli cha uwekezaji
kupitia sheria ya soko huria.
Kama hiyo haitoshi, mzizi wa fitina kuhusu ukweli kwamba Bunge limekuwa likitumiwa kama kiota cha wanasiasa kuvuna mamilioni, zilithibitishwa mkoani Kilimanjaro juzi na Katibu Mkuu wa CHADEMA, Dk. Wilibrod Slaa ambaye alisema mshahara anaolipwa mbunge kwa mwezi unafikia sh. milioni saba, hiyo ikiwa mbali na posho nyingine.
Dk. Slaa alitaja kiwango hicho cha mshahara wake wakati akihutubia wakazi wa mji mdogo wa Hedaru, wilayani Same katika mfululizo wa mikutano ya Operesheni Sangara inayoendeshwa na CHADEMA.
Wakati Dk. Slaa akibainisha ukweli huo, uchunguzi wa Tanzania Daima Jumatano umebaini pia kuwa wabunge wanaweza kujikusanyia mamilioni ya shilingi kwa kuhudhuria vikao mbalimbali vya kamati za kudumu za Bunge, semina na safari za ndani na nje ya nchi.
“Ndugu zangu, afadhali msijue mshahara anaolipwa Dk. Slaa kama mbunge, mkijua nalipwa shilingi ngapi mnaweza hata kunipiga mawe,” alisema Dk. Slaa wakati akihutubia mkutano huo na kuitikiwa na sauti za wananchi wakimtaka ataje mshahara wake.
“Mnataka kuujua mshahara wangu, ninalipwa sh milioni saba kwa mwezi. Haki iko wapi? Mimi nalipwa milioni saba, na posho yangu kwa siku ni sh 135,000. Haya ni malipo makubwa mno, fedha ninayopata kwa siku inaweza kuzidi hata mshahara wa mwezi mzima wa polisi. Muulizeni yule polisi pale analipwa shilingi ngapi msikie.
“Juzi nimetaja posho za wabunge na kusema zipunguzwe, lakini Spika wa Bunge analalamika eti naingilia haki na madaraka ya Bunge, sasa leo nasema ninalipwa jumla ya shilingi milioni saba kwa mwezi, acha posho za bungeni. Kweli hii ni haki?” alisema Dk. Slaa.
Alisema kuwa akiwa raia huru, ana haki ya kutaja kwa hiari yake kiwango cha mshahara wake, hasa pale anapoona kuwa kulipwa kiwango hicho ni kutowatendea haki mamilioni ya Watanzania maskini wanaolipa kodi zao wakitegemea serikali iwakomboe kutoka kwenye lindi la umaskini.
Dk. Slaa alisema wabunge wengi wa CCM akiwamo Spika wa Bunge, Samuel Sitta, hawawezi kuunga mkono hoja hiyo kwa vile wapo bungeni kwa ajili ya kutafuta maslahi yao binafsi.
“Wafanyakazi wengi na Watanzania wanateseka kwa mishahara midogo na maisha duni, mamilioni haya ya fedha kwenda mifukoni mwa watu ni aibu kwa nchi na CHADEMA tunasema hapana, fedha hizi ziende katika masuala ya kusaidia jamii na kuongeza mishahara ya walimu, polisi, mahakimu na watendaji wengine,” alisema Dk. Slaa huku akishangiliwa na mamia ya wakazi wa Hedaru waliohudhuria mkutano huo.
Alirejea kauli yake ambayo amekwishakaririwa akiitoa mara kadhaa kuwa Spika Sitta, anapaswa kujiuzulu nyadhifa alizonazo katika CCM, ili awe huru kuliongoza Bunge kwa maslahi ya Watanzania badala ya kushinikizwa na maslahi ya chama chake.
Dk. Slaa alitoa kauli hiyo ikiwa ni siku chache baada ya Mwenyekiti wa Chama cha Wananchi (CUF), Prof. Ibrahim Lipumba, kushangazwa na hatua ya Rais Jakaya Kikwete kuendelea kuwateua wabunge wa CCM kuwa wajumbe katika bodi za mashirika ya umma.
Akizungumza wiki iliyopita katika mkutano uliondaliwa na Jukwaa la Wahariri, Prof. Lipumba alisema, hatua hiyo ya Rais Kikwete mbali na kuwahalalishia wabunge ulaji, inazoretesha utendaji wao katika kuyasimamia ipasavyo mashirika hayo ambayo utendaji wake wa kazi unapaswa kusimamiwa na taasisi hiyo muhimu ya dola.
Wakati hali ikiwa hivyo katika mishahara ya wabunge, Tanzania Daima Jumatano limebaini kuwa wabunge wamekuwa wakilipwa mamilioni ya fedha wakati wanapokutana na baadhi ya taasisi za umma ambazo kamati za Bunge zinazisimamia shughuli zake.
Taarifa za hivi karibuni ambazo gazeti hili limezipata zinaonyesha kuwa, Shirika la Ugavi wa Umeme nchini (Tanesco) lilitumia jumla ya sh milioni 16 kwa ajili ya kulipa posho na usafiri wabunge kutoka majimboni mwao, pamoja na makatibu wawili waliohudhuria kikao cha dharura kilichowakutanisha Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, William Ngeleja, Kamati ya Bunge ya Kamati ya Nishati na Tanesco.
Taarifa kutoka ndani ya ofisi ya Bunge, zinaeleza kuwa licha shirika hilo kuwa na hali mbaya kifedha, lililazimika kuingia gharama hizo baada ya ofisi ya Bunge kuitaka Wizara ya Nishati na Madini kuwagharamia wabunge hao kwa sababu Bunge halikuwa na fedha katika kikao chake cha Desemba mwaka jana.
Katika hali ya kushangaza, habari za wanakamati hao wa Kamati ya Bunge ya Nishati na Madini kulipwa posho na gharama zao nyingine na Tanesco wakati wakihudhuria kikao hicho zimewafanya wabunge, Katibu wa Bunge na Spika kutofautiana.
Spika Sitta, jana alilithibitishia Tanzania Daima Jumatano kuwa, wajumbe wa Kamati ya Nishati na Madini walilipwa posho na gharama za usafiri kwa sababu Bunge halikuwa na fedha wakati Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, Ngeleja alipotaka kukutana na kamati hiyo ili kupata ushauri.
“Lolote linaweza kutokea kutegemea na nani amewaita, kama wameitwa kusaidia jambo ambalo halimo kwenye utaratibu wa Bunge wanalipwa na aliyewaita. Na katika hili ilikuwa hivyo, ninalifahamu vizuri sana, waziri aliomba kukutana na kamati wakati muda wa Bunge ukiwa umepita, Katibu wa Bunge alimuandikia akimueleza kuwa Bunge halina fedha ila kama wizara yake inaweza, basi ilipe posho na gharama za wabunge hao kusafiri hadi Dar ili aweze kukutana
nao.
“Hivyo ndivyo ilivyokuwa, sasa mimi sijui kama ililipa wizara, Tanesco au nani, la msingi hawakulipwa na Bunge, na kama wabunge ambao ni wanakamati wanakanusha hili, ni watu wa ajabu kwa sababu sijui wanaogopa nini kueleza ukweli,” alisema Spika.
Kwa upande wake, Mwenyekiti wa kamati hiyo ambaye pia ni Mbunge wa Bumbuli, William Shellukindo (CCM), alipozungumza na gazeti hili kupitia simu yake ya kiganjani, alikana kupokea senti tano kutoka Tanesco wakati wakihudhuria kikao hicho na kueleza kuwa, kamati yake iliitwa na Spika na malipo yalifanywa na Bunge.
“Hatukumuomba mtu hela, sielewi lolote, sisi tuliitwa na Spika na malipo yetu yalishughulikiwa na Bunge,” alisema Shellukindo na kusisitiza kuwa, kanuni za Bunge zinaeleza wazi kuwa wabunge wanapokuwa katika vikao vilivyo na baraka za Spika, iwe bungeni au nje ya Bunge, posho na gharama zao nyingine zinalipwa na Bunge na si taasisi nyingine yoyote.
Alipoulizwa kuhusu hilo, Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, Ngeleja alieleza kuwa Tanesco ililazimika kulipa gharama hizo kwa wabunge licha ya kikao hicho kufanyika kwa ridhaa ya Spika, baada ya Bunge kueleza kuwa halikuwa na fedha kwa ajili ya kulipa posho na gharama za usafiri kwa wabunge.
Wakati wanasiasa hao wakivutana kuhusu mfumo huo wa ulipaji posho, Katibu wa Bunge, Dk. Thomas Kashillilah, alipotafutwa na Tanzania Daima Jumatano
ili kutoa ufafanuzi wa jambo hilo, alieleza kuwa wabunge wote wanapokuwa katika shughuli za Bunge, ikiwamo vikao vya kamati za kudumu za Bunge, posho na gharama zao nyingine zinalipwa na ofisi ya Bunge, na si vinginevyo.
Alisisitiza kuwa, Tanesco haiwezi kuliwalipa posho wabunge wakiwa katika kikao cha kamati ya kudumu ya bunge na kuongeza kuwa katika utumishi wake ndani ya taasisi hiyo, hajawahi kuona fedha za Tanesco zikitolewa kwa ajili ya kulipa posho wa wabunge.
CHANZO: Tanzania Daima
MHESHIMIWA SPIKA ANASEMA WABUNGE WA KAMATI HUSIKA WALILIPWA NA TANESCO.WAZIRI NGELEJA NAE ANATHIBITISHA HILO.MBUNGE SHULIKINDO ANAKATAA TAARIFA KUWA WALILIPWA JAPO SENTI TANO,NA KATIBU WA BUNGE ANAWEKA BAYANA TARATIBU ZA MALIPO KWA WANAKAMATI ZA BUNGE.
MHESHIMIWA SPIKA ANASEMA WABUNGE WA KAMATI HUSIKA WALILIPWA NA TANESCO.WAZIRI NGELEJA NAE ANATHIBITISHA HILO.MBUNGE SHULIKINDO ANAKATAA TAARIFA KUWA WALILIPWA JAPO SENTI TANO,NA KATIBU WA BUNGE ANAWEKA BAYANA TARATIBU ZA MALIPO KWA WANAKAMATI ZA BUNGE.
JE NANI MKWELI NA NANI ANAONGOPA?
JE ANAYEONGOPA ANAFANYA HIVYO KWA SABABU GANI?
SHERIA NA TARATIBU ZINASEMAJE KUHUSU KUONGOPA KWA AINA HIYO?
NA ADHABU GANI INATOLEWA KWA KOSA LA AINA HIYO?
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
NAKUOMBA SOMA HABARI MBILI ZIFUATAZO KISHA TUJADILI DHANA YA KULAZIMISHA UWAJIBIKAJI.KWA KIFUPI,KATIKA HABARI YA KWANZA,PAMOJA NA MAMBO MENGINE,DR SLAA ANAONYESHA KUWA CHADEMA INA USHAHIDI WA KUTOSHA KUIHUSISHA CCM NA WIZI WA EPA.KATIKA HABARI YA PILI,MWANASHERIA TINDU LISSU ANAMTAKA MKUU WA MKOA WA SINGIDA,MHESHIMIWA KONE,AOMBE RADHI HADHARANI KUTOKANA NA MADAI KUWA ALIWATUKANA HADHARANI BAADHI YA WANANCHI ANAOWAONGOZA.MJADALA UTAKAOFUATA BAADA YA HABARI HIZO UNAANGALIA MANTIKI YA DR SLAA NA CHADEMA KUENDELEA KUTUELEZA KWAMBA WANA USHAHIDI WA KUTOSHA UNAOIHUSISHA CCM NA UFISADI WA EPA,LAKINI KIONGOZI HUYO NA CHAMA CHAKE WAMEKUWA KANA KWAMBA WANATINGISHA KIBERITI VILE...KWA MAANA KWAMBA KAMA USHAHIDI UPO,KWANINI WASIFUNGUE KESI MAHAKAMANI KWA NIABA YA WANANCHI BADALA YA KUENDELEA KUDAI USHAHIDI TUNAO,USHAHIDI UPO...IRONICALLY,TINDU LISSU,MWANASHERIA ANAYEWATETEA BAADHI YA WAKAZI WA SINGIDA DHIDI YA MH. KONE,SIO TU NI MWANASHERIA WA CHADEMA BALI PIA NI MIONGONI MWA VIONGOZI WAANDAMIZI WA CHAMA HICHO.
ANYWAY,HEBU SOMA KWANZA HABARI HUSIKA
HABARI YA PILI :Chama tawala chaambiwa kuacha kutisha wananchi kuhusu ufisadi
Na Mussa Juma, Same.
KATIBU mkuu wa Chadema, Dk Willibrod Slaa amemtaka katibu mwenezi wa CCM, John Chiligati, kuacha vitisho dhidi ya upinzani, akisema kuwa wataendelea kufichua ufisadi uliotanda kwenye chama hicho tawala.
Chiligati alivionya vyama vya upinzani kuwa visitumie ufisadi kama ngazi ya kujipatia umaarufu, huku akionya kuwa kuendelea kuishutumu CCM kunaweza kuhatarisha amani kwa sababu kama watu milioni nne watachukia (akimaanisha wana-CCM), hakutakuwa na amani.
Lakini Dk Slaa, mmoja wa wabunge ambao wamesimama imara katika kufichua na kupiga vita ufisadi, alisema hakuna ubishi kuwa CCM imeingia madarakani kwa kuchotewa fedha kutoka Akaunti ya Malipo ya Madeni ya Nje (EPA) na kama kinapinga, basi kiende mahakamani. Kauli hiyo ilitolewa jana na Dk Slaa wakati akihutubia mkutano wa hadhara katika kata ya Hedaru na Makayanya wilayani Same na baadaye kukutana na waandishi wa habari.
Dk Slaa alisema Chadema ina ushahidi wa maandishi jinsi CCM ilivyokuwa inachotewa fedha za EPA kupitia kampuni ya Kagoda, hivyo kama inaona inapakwa matope, inaweza kwenda mahakamani kulalamika na sio kutoa vitisho kupitia vyombo vya habari.
“Tunamshangaa sana Chiligati na tunamuomba aache vitisho. Tunao ushahidi hadi muhtasari wa kikao kilichoongozwa na rais mstaafu kikielezea jinsi walivyokuwa wanajichotea fedha za EPA na pia ujumbe mfupi kutoka kwa katibu mkuu wa CCM kwenda Benki Kuu kuomba fedha hizo. Sasa wanaposema hawahusiki na EPA tunawashangaa,” alisema Dk Slaa.CHANZO: Mwananchi
RC atakiwa kuwaomba radhi wananchi
na Deogratius Temba
MKUU wa Mkoa wa Singida, Vincent Parseko Kone, ametakiwa kuitisha mkutano wa hadhara katika Kijiji cha Kisasida, Wilaya ya Singida na kuomba radhi kwa wanachi na mwenyekiti wa kijiji hicho, kwa kuwatukana hadharani na kuwalipa fidia ya sh milioni moja.
Kauli hiyo imekuja siku chache baada ya Mwenyekiti wa kijiji hicho, Ramadhani Mwankumbi, kutoa taarifa kuwa anakusudia kumfikisha mkuu huyo wa mkoa mahakamani kutokana na kumtukana hadharani wakati akiwa katika mkutano wa hadhara kijijini hapo.
Kwa mujibu wa barua aliyoandikiwa jana, Mkuu wa mkoa huyo, kutoka kwa Kampuni ya uwakili ya M/S TUNDU A.M. LISSU Advocates, yenye kumbukumbu namba TAML/SDG/RSM/KSSD/09/01, na kusaniwa na wakili wa kujitegemea Tindu Lissu, ilieleza Februari 24, mwaka huu, mkuu huyo wa mkoa alienda katika kijiji hicho na kutumia cheo chake kwa lengo alilodai kuwa ni kukagua mradi wa kilimo cha umwagiliaji. Badala ya kutembelea mradi huo, kama alivyodai, aliomba kumwona Mwenyekiti wa Kijiji Mwankumbi, na kuanza kumfokea mbele ya wanakijiji wenzake, viongozi wa mkoa na wananchi wengine wengi kwa madai kuwa ameshirikiana na mtu mwingine aitwaye, Josephat Isango, kumchafulia jina lake.
“Mteja wetu alipoomba nafasi ya kujieleza juu ya tuhuma ulizokuwa unamrushia ulikataa na badala yake ulianza kumtukana matusi mazito, baada ya kumtukana ukaondoka na kurudi Singida,” ilieleza sehemu ya barua hiyo. Pia barua hiyo ilieleza kisheria maneno hayo, ambayo yalitolewa na mkuu huyo wa mkoa ni kosa na ni kashfa dhidi ya mteja wao, na yamemdhalilisha, kumnyanyasa, kumvunjia heshima aliyokuwa nayo mbele ya wanakijiji waliomchagua na kumpa dhamana.
“Maagizo kutoka kwa mteja wetu ni kukutaka wewe Parseko Kone, utembelee tena Kijiji cha Kisasida na kuitisha mkutano wa hadhara wa wanakijiji wote na uwaombe radhi hadharani kwa maneno ambayo sisi tutakuelekeza.
“Aidha, tunakuagiza ufanye ziara ya mkutano huo wa kuomba radhi ndani ya siku 14, kutokea leo (jana), pia mteja wetu anadai umlipe sh milioni moja kama gharama za ufuatiliaji kwetu,” ilieleza barua hiyo.
Lissu, alidai kuwa mkuu huyo wa mkoa, endapo atashindwa kufanya hivyo, au kupuuza kutekeleza matakwa yao watamfungulia kesi ya madai katika mahakama watakayoichagua wao. Aliongeza pia kama Kone atashindwa kutekeleza madai yao, hawatasita kumdai fidia zaidi ya fedha na nafuu nyinginezo za kisheria dhidi yao.
Mwishoni mwa wiki iliyopita Kone alizungumza na Tanzania Daima, alikanusha tuhuma hizo zinazomkabili na kudai kuwa alikwenda katika kijiji hicho kukagua mradi wa umwagiliaji na hakumtukana kiongozi yeyote.
MLOLONGO WA KULALAMIKA,KUTOA VITISHO AU HATA KULIA HAUWEZI KUKOMESHA UFISADI AU KUWAKUMBUSHA WAJIBU BAADHI YA VIONGOZI WANAOJIONA MIUNGU WATU.DR SLAA NA CHADEMA WAMEKUWA WAKITUAMINISHA KWAMBA CCM INAHUSIKA MOJA KWA MOJA KATIKA KUFANIKISHA UJAMBAZI WA EPA.JAPO NAFAHAMU KUWA HUKUMU YA UMMA INA MADHARA ZAIDI YA HUKUMU YA MAHAKAMA ZA KISHERIA,SOTE TUNAJUA NAMNA HUKUMU YA UMMA INAVYOWEZA KUPINDISHWA NA ZAWADI ZA KHANGA,FLANI,KILO YA SUKARI,NK KAMA VIVUTIO WAKATI WA UCHAGUZI.
NGOJA NIFAFANUE KAMA HUJANIELEWA VIZURI.YAYUMKINIKA KUAMINI KUWA CHADEMA INAPOITUHUMU CCM KWENYE MIKUTANO YA HADHARA KWAMBA CHAMA HICHO TAWALA KINA MAHUSIANO NA UFISADI/MAFISADI INATARAJIWA KUWA WANANCHI WATATOA HUKUMU DHIDI YA CCM (HUKUMU YA UMMA) WAKATI WA UCHAGUZI.HILO LINAWEZEKANA KATIKA MFUMO HURU WA DEMOKRASIA,NA MIFANO HAI NI NAMNA HUKUMU YA UMMA ILIVYOFANYA KAZI KATIKA CHAGUZI HUKO HISPANIA MWAKA 2004 NA MAREKANI MWAKA JANA.KATIKA CHAGUZI ZINAZOFANYIKA KATIKA MAZINGIRA YA DEMOKRASIA HURU,HASIRA ZA WAPIGA KURA (AU KURIDHISHWA KWAO) NI MIONGONI MWA MAMBO MUHIMU KATIKA KU-DETERMINE MATOKEO YA UCHAUZI HUSIKA.
SASA SOTE TUNAJUA MAZINGIRA YA CHAGUZI NYINGI ZA "DUNIA YA TATU".KANUNI ISIYO RASMI KUHUSU CHAGUZI ZETU INADAI KWAMBA CHAMA TAWALA HAKIWEZI KUSHINDWA UCHAGUZI.KIKISHINDWA BASI AIDHA KILIZEMBEA KUTUMIA MBINU ZAKE ZA AWALI ZA KUBAKI MADARAKANI AU KILIPIGIWA KURA ZA CHUKI NA WAFUASI WAKE AU KULITOKEA MPASUKO NDANI YA CHAMA TAWALA AMBAO ULIZAA MAKUNDI MAWILI YENYE TAKRIBAN NGUVU SAWA,KILA MOJA LIKIFAHAMU MBINU SAFI NA CHFU ZA KUSHINDA CHAGUZI,NK.WAPO WANAOAMINI KUWA HATA KANU YA MOI HAKIKUSHINDWA UCHAGUZI WA 2002 KWA VILE WAPIGA KURA WALIKUWA WAMEICHOKA (WHICH WAS TRUE i.e. kweli walikuwa wameichoka) BALI NI UTEUZI MBOVU WA MGOMBEA UHURU KENYATA.
VINGI VYA VYAMA TAWALA KATIKA NCHI ZA TATU HUSHIKILIA DOLA KWA MAANA HALISI YA KUSHIKILIA,YAANI WANAITUMIA IPASAVYO KUHAKIKISHA UTAWALA UNAENDELEA MILELE.HAKUNA DHAMBI KWA CHAMA KUWA MADARAKANI MUDA MREFU AS LONG AS KINAWAHUDUMIA WANANCHI IPASAVYO.KWA BAHATI MBAYA,U-KING'ANG'ANIZI WA BAADHI YA VYAMA TAWALA KATIKA NCHI ZA DUNIA YA TATU HAUTOKANI NA MAPENZI YAO KWA NCHI AU WANANCHI BALI HOFU YA KUADHIBIWA KWA MADHAMBI YALIYOWAFANYWA WAKATI VYAMA HIVYO VIKIWA MADARAKANI.KADRI MADHAMBI YANAVYOZIDI KUONGEZEKA NDIVYO KADRI VYAMA HIVYO VINAVYOZIDIWA NA HOFU YA NINI KITATOKEA PINDI VIKITOLEWA MADARAKANI,NA MATOKEO YAKE NI KUTUMIA KILA NJIA KUHAKIKISHA VINATAWALA MILELE.NA KWA VINASHIKILIA DOLA,HILO LINAKUWA SIO JAMBO GUMU.
KWAHIYO,KAMA DR SLAA,CHADEMA NA WENGINEO WANADHANI KELELE KUWA CCM INAHUSIKA KATIKA WIZI WA EPA ZITAFANIKISHA KUPATIKANA KWA HUKUMU YA UMMA KATIKA UCHAGUZI WA 2010 AU BAADAYE,THEY REALLY NEED TO THINK AGAIN.KUFANYA HIVYO NI SAWA NA KUTARAJI KUWA HUYO RC ANAYETUHUMIWA KUWATUKANA WANANCHI ANGEAMUA YEYE MWENYEWE KWA HIARI YAKE KUOMBA RADHI BADALA YA KULAZIMISHWA KUFANYA HIVYO (KAMA ANAVYOTAKIWA NA WAKILI LISSU).NAMNA PEKEE YA CHADEMA,ET AL WANAWEZA KUFANIKIWA KATIKA TUHUMA ZAO DHIDI YA CCM NI KWENDA MAHAKAMANI WAKIWA NA USHAHIDI WANAODAI KUWA NAO.
KUITAKA CCM IENDE MAHAKAMANI (INAPOTUHUMIWA KUWA NA UHUSIANO NA MAFISADI) NI SAWA NA KUMTAKA MTU UNAYEMTUHUMU KUTEMBEA NA MKEO/MUMEO (KUTEGEMEA JINSI YAKO MSOMAJI) AENDE POLISI/MAHAKAMANI.....KWA KIFUPI,ATAENDELEA KUKUIBIA NA HATOTIA MGUU POLISI/MAHAKAMANI.COMMON SENSE INATUELEZA KUWA MWENYE TUHUMA NDIO ANAYEPASWA KUWA NA UHARAKA WA KUZIDHIBITISHA AU KUWA NA DHAMIRA YA KUZITOKOMEZA KABISA.MTUHUMIWA ANAWEZA KUWA NA UHARAKA HUO IWAPO ANAONA ZINAMCHAFULIA JINA.LAKINI WHAT IF TUHUMA DHIDI YA MTUHUMIWA NI ZA KWELI?BADO TUTATEGEMEA MTUHUMIWA AJIEPELEKE KWENYE HUKUMU YAKE?
NAHISI CHADEMA WANACHELEA KWENDA MAHAKAMANI SIO KWA VILE WANAHOFIA KUTOPATA HAKI BALI WANAZITUMIA TUHUMA HIZO KUWA MTAJI WA KISIASA.NA-HYPOTHESIZE KUWA CHAMA HICHO KITAZITUMIA TUHUMA HIZO KWENYE KAMPENI ZAKE ZA UCHAGUZI MKUU WA 2010 KIKIAMINI KUWA ZITAKISAIDIA KUPATA USHINDI KWA HUKUMU YA UMMA DHIDI YA CCM.JAPO LOLOTE LINAWEZEKANA KATIKA SIASA,NA MBINU HIYO YA CHADEMA INAWEZA KUFANIKIWA,WAZOEFU WA SIASA WANAWEZA KUAFIKIANA NAMI KWENYE HYPOTHESIS YANGU YA PILI KUWA MKAKATI HUO HAUTOFANIKIWA.KINACHONIPELEKA KUAMINI HIVYO NI UZOEFU KUHUSU NAMNA CCM INAVYOELEWA UDHAIFU WA MPIGA KURA WA KITANZANIA,FAIDA ZA KILOJISTIKI ZINAZOELEMEA UPANDE WA CHAMA TAWALA,MILKI NA SAPOTI YA DOLA BILA KUSAHAU "MBINU CHAFU."
UCHAGUZI MKUU WA 2010 UNAWEZA KABISA KUPITA NA CCM KUIBUKA KIDEDEA HUKU CHADEMA IKIWA "IMEDODEWA" NA USHAHIDI WAKE DHIDI YA CCM.HILO SIO BAO LA KISIGINO BALI NI MITHILI YA KIBAKA KUKUPORA KISHA ANAKUPIGIA KELELE KUWA WEWE NDIO MWIZI....(AND WE ALL VERY WELL KNOW MOB JUSTICE HUKO NYUMBANI ZILIVYO...WATU WAKISKIA UKELELE WA MWIZI,MWIZI HAWAULIZI ILIKUWAJE.NI KIPIGO TU....PASIPO KUJUA KUWA WANAYEMPIGA NDIO ALOPORWA NA KIBAKA).
Monday, 23 March 2009
KADA maarufu wa Chama cha Mapinduzi, Nape Nnauye, amesema malumbano yanayoendelea sasa nchini ni ishara kwamba mafisadi wamejipanga kuifanya nchi isitawalike.
Nape alitoa kauli hiyo jana alipotakiwa kutoa maoni yake kuhusu hali ya kisiasa nchini, hususani malumbano yanayoendelea sasa kati ya Mbunge wa Igunga, Rostam Aziz na Mbunge wa Kyela, Dk. Harrison Mwakyembe.
Bila kutaja majina ya watu, Nape alisema chimbuko la malumbano hayo aliyoyaita ya kipuuzi ni kashfa nzima ya kampuni ya kufua umeme wa dharura ya Richmond, iliyosababisha aliyekuwa Waziri Mkuu, Edward Lowassa, aliyekuwa Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, Nazir Karamagi na aliyekuwa Waziri wa Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki, Dk. Ibrahim Msabaha, kujiuzulu.
Huku akiwa makini kuchangua maneno ya kuzungumza, Nape alisema malumbano hayo yanaonyesha kuna baadhi ya watu hawakuridhika na taarifa ya Kamati Teule ya Bunge iliyoongozwa na Dk. Mwakyembe, hivyo kuna ulazima wa hoja hiyo kurudishwa tena bungeni ili kukata mzizi wa fitna.
“Kuna kila dalili kuwa mafisadi wamejipanga kuhakikisha nchi haitawaliki, ndiyo maana mijadala isiyo na kichwa wala miguu inaibuka kila kukicha hata kwa mambo ambayo yamekwishaamuliwa na chombo kikubwa kama Bunge,” alisema.
Katika kuthibitisha kauli yake, Nape alisema ana taarifa za siri kuwa kuna baadhi ya mafisadi wamekuwa wakifanya mikutano ya faragha ambapo pamoja na mambo mengine, wamepanga kuhakikisha nchi haitawaliki kwa kuibua hoja na mijadala kupitia baadhi ya vyombo vyao vya habari.
“Tunakoenda ni kubaya, ila naamini serikali iko imara na CCM kama chama tawala, tutaomba tulizungumze kwenye vikao vyetu kwa nia njema ya kuliokoa taifa linalovurugwa na watu wachache wenye fedha,” alisema Nape.
Nape alisema ili kuhakikisha Tanzania haiyumbishwi, aliwataka wananchi kupuuzia mjadala wa sasa kwa madai kuwa hauna tija na una lengo la kuhatarisha amani na utulivu uliopo nchini.
Kuhusu mjadala wa ununuzi wa mitambo ya kampuni ya kufua umeme wa dharura ya Dowans iliyorithi kutoka Kampuni ya Richmond, kada huyo wa CCM alisema anashangazwa na uamuzi wa Shirika la Umeme Tanzania (TANESCO), kuomba kibali cha Bunge au kamati zake.
“Kwani TANESCO wanapoenda kununua transfoma na vifaa vingine, wanaomba kibali cha Bunge? Kama si hivyo, kwa nini wanataka kuhalalisha ununuzi wa mitambo ya Dowans kupitia kamati za Bunge? Hata hivyo, Bunge lilishatoa msimamo wake juu ya hilo, kama kuna mtu hakuridhika, alirudishe bungeni na si kuwagawa Watanzania kwa mijadala isiyoisha na vitisho,” alisema Nape.
Mwanasiasa huyo machachari aliwataka mafisadi kutambua kuwa hata wakiibua mijadala ya kuwagawa Watanzania kama ilivyo sasa, hakutabadili ukweli kwamba Richmond na hata mrithi wake Dowans, ndio waliolifikisha taifa hapa lilipo.
Kwa upande wake, Mbunge wa Maswa, John Shibuda, alisema malumbano yanayoendelea sasa kati ya Dk. Mwakyembe na Rostam kumetokana na upepo wa kisiasa ambao wakati mwingine huleta tija katika kukuza demokrasia.
Hata hivyo, Shibuda ambaye hupenda kuzungumza kwa mafumbo, alisema mjadala huo umejikita kwenye hila na visa vya kufunika mema na mazuri ya mtu.
“Mimi naona hayo ni mapepo ya kisiasa na mtenguko wa fikra ambao umeleta mng’atuko dhidi ya dhulma, lakini ni mjadala wa heri kwa maana kuwa unawafanya watu kutoa manung’uniko yao, bila hivyo hali ingekuwa mbaya siku moja, kwa hiyo naona mjadala uendelee,” alisema Shibuda.
Mbunge wa zamani wa Morogoro Vijijini, Semindu Pawa (CCM), aliiambia Tanzania Daima jana kuwa, mjadala huo sasa umechacha na kuwataka waandishi wa habari kuachana nao.
“Mimi sitaki kusema nani yuko sahihi, lakini nasema mjadala huo umechacha, umepitwa na wakati, wanahabari mkiacha tu, hautausikia tena, lakini naweza kusema wanahabari ndio mnaoukuza, waacheni,” alisema Semindu Pawa.
Mwishoni mwa wiki, Dk. Mwakyembe alijibu tuhuma zinazomhusisha na kumiliki kampuni binafsi ya kuzalisha umeme kuwa ni kazi mahususi inayofanywa na majeruhi wa vita ya ufisadi, ambao waliumizwa na matokeo ya kazi ya Kamati Teule ya Bunge ya kuchunguza mkataba wa Kampuni ya Richmond, ambayo yeye alikuwa mwenyekiti wake.
Hatua ya Mwakyembe kujibu tuhuma hizo, ilikuja baada ya magazeti mawili ya kila siku, (si Tanzania Daima) kuchapisha habari zinazomhusisha yeye na umiliki wa hisa 1,000,000 zenye thamani ya jumla ya sh bilioni 1.5 katika Kampuni ya Power Pool East Africa Ltd.
Mbali ya habari hizo kuandikwa katika magazeti hayo mawili; moja la binafsi na jingine la serikali, nyaraka kadhaa zinazomhusisha Mwakyembe na kampuni hiyo, zimesambazwa katika mtandao wa intaneti.
Taarifa hizo pia zinamtaja Mbunge wa Lupa, Victor Mwambalaswa ambaye ni Mjumbe wa Bodi ya TANESCO, kuwa miongoni mwa wanahisa wa kampuni hiyo binafsi ambayo wakati fulani Mwakyembe alipata kuwa mtendaji mkuu wake.
Taarifa hizo zinajaribu kujenga hoja zinazojaribu kumuondolea Mwakyembe uhalali wa kuendelea kudai kupambana na ufisadi ndani na nje ya Bunge ilhali yeye mwenyewe akionekana kuwa na ukwasi mkubwa unaotiliwa shaka.
Pia zinaonyesha kuwa, Mwakyembe licha ya kuwa na hisa nyingi katika kampuni hiyo, ameisaidia katika mambo mbalimbali ambayo hata hivyo hayakufafanuliwa, wakati akiwa katika wadhifa wa mtendaji mkuu.
Kwa mujibu wa uchunguzi wetu, lengo kuu la kusambaza nyaraka hizo ni kujaribu kumnyoshea kidole Mwakyembe na kujaribu kumuondolea uhalali wa kuendelea kupigania sekta ya nishati ilhali yeye mwenyewe akijua kuwa na maslahi.
Mwakyembe ambaye kitaaluma ni mwanasheria, alisema kuwa katika Kampuni ya Power Pool East Africa Ltd, hakuwezi kukamsababishia akaingia katika mgogoro wowote wa kimaslahi kutokana na ukweli kwamba, kampuni hiyo iliyosajiliwa kwa Wakala wa Usajili wa Makampuni (BRELA), bado ipo katika hatua ya awali ya mradi ambao bado haujaanza kuzalisha.
Alipotakiwa kueleza ni kwa nini wakati alipoteuliwa kuwa Mwenyekiti wa Kamati Teule ya Bunge iliyoichunguza Richmond kuanzia Oktoba mwaka juzi na kuwasilisha ripoti yake mwaka jana, hakueleza lolote kuhusu kuwa na kampuni ya kuzalisha umeme, Mwakyembe alisema asingeweza kufanya hivyo wakati mkakati wao wa kikampuni ukiwa katika hatua ya mradi tu.
‘‘Kwa mujibu wa sheria ya makampuni, majina yanakuwapo mpaka hapo kampuni itakapoanza ‘ku-take off’ (kuanza kazi). Sikuweza kuitaja kuwa ni sehemu ya makampuni yangu, kwa kuwa bado ilikuwa katika hatua ya mradi,” alisema Mwakyembe.
Mwanasiasa huyo alikwenda mbele zaidi na kuwaeleza wanahabari hao ambao miongoni mwao walionekana dhahiri kukabiliana naye kwa njia ya malumbano kuwa, hata wakati akiandikisha mali anazomiliki chini ya sheria ya viongozi kutangaza mali wanazomiliki, hakuitaja kampuni hiyo ya Power Pool kwa sababu hizo hizo za kutoanza kwake kazi.
Akifafanua tuhuma hizo dhidi yake, alimgeukia mbunge mwenzake wa CCM, Rostam Aziz na kumtuhumu kuwa nyuma ya habari zote mbaya zinazoandikwa dhidi yake.
Huku akilitaja jina la Rostam mara kadhaa, Mwakyembe alisema ni jambo ambalo haliingii akilini kwa mtu ambaye amechafuka kuamua kutumia maji taka kujisafisha.
Nape alitoa kauli hiyo jana alipotakiwa kutoa maoni yake kuhusu hali ya kisiasa nchini, hususani malumbano yanayoendelea sasa kati ya Mbunge wa Igunga, Rostam Aziz na Mbunge wa Kyela, Dk. Harrison Mwakyembe.
Bila kutaja majina ya watu, Nape alisema chimbuko la malumbano hayo aliyoyaita ya kipuuzi ni kashfa nzima ya kampuni ya kufua umeme wa dharura ya Richmond, iliyosababisha aliyekuwa Waziri Mkuu, Edward Lowassa, aliyekuwa Waziri wa Nishati na Madini, Nazir Karamagi na aliyekuwa Waziri wa Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki, Dk. Ibrahim Msabaha, kujiuzulu.
Huku akiwa makini kuchangua maneno ya kuzungumza, Nape alisema malumbano hayo yanaonyesha kuna baadhi ya watu hawakuridhika na taarifa ya Kamati Teule ya Bunge iliyoongozwa na Dk. Mwakyembe, hivyo kuna ulazima wa hoja hiyo kurudishwa tena bungeni ili kukata mzizi wa fitna.
“Kuna kila dalili kuwa mafisadi wamejipanga kuhakikisha nchi haitawaliki, ndiyo maana mijadala isiyo na kichwa wala miguu inaibuka kila kukicha hata kwa mambo ambayo yamekwishaamuliwa na chombo kikubwa kama Bunge,” alisema.
Katika kuthibitisha kauli yake, Nape alisema ana taarifa za siri kuwa kuna baadhi ya mafisadi wamekuwa wakifanya mikutano ya faragha ambapo pamoja na mambo mengine, wamepanga kuhakikisha nchi haitawaliki kwa kuibua hoja na mijadala kupitia baadhi ya vyombo vyao vya habari.
“Tunakoenda ni kubaya, ila naamini serikali iko imara na CCM kama chama tawala, tutaomba tulizungumze kwenye vikao vyetu kwa nia njema ya kuliokoa taifa linalovurugwa na watu wachache wenye fedha,” alisema Nape.
Nape alisema ili kuhakikisha Tanzania haiyumbishwi, aliwataka wananchi kupuuzia mjadala wa sasa kwa madai kuwa hauna tija na una lengo la kuhatarisha amani na utulivu uliopo nchini.
Kuhusu mjadala wa ununuzi wa mitambo ya kampuni ya kufua umeme wa dharura ya Dowans iliyorithi kutoka Kampuni ya Richmond, kada huyo wa CCM alisema anashangazwa na uamuzi wa Shirika la Umeme Tanzania (TANESCO), kuomba kibali cha Bunge au kamati zake.
“Kwani TANESCO wanapoenda kununua transfoma na vifaa vingine, wanaomba kibali cha Bunge? Kama si hivyo, kwa nini wanataka kuhalalisha ununuzi wa mitambo ya Dowans kupitia kamati za Bunge? Hata hivyo, Bunge lilishatoa msimamo wake juu ya hilo, kama kuna mtu hakuridhika, alirudishe bungeni na si kuwagawa Watanzania kwa mijadala isiyoisha na vitisho,” alisema Nape.
Mwanasiasa huyo machachari aliwataka mafisadi kutambua kuwa hata wakiibua mijadala ya kuwagawa Watanzania kama ilivyo sasa, hakutabadili ukweli kwamba Richmond na hata mrithi wake Dowans, ndio waliolifikisha taifa hapa lilipo.
Kwa upande wake, Mbunge wa Maswa, John Shibuda, alisema malumbano yanayoendelea sasa kati ya Dk. Mwakyembe na Rostam kumetokana na upepo wa kisiasa ambao wakati mwingine huleta tija katika kukuza demokrasia.
Hata hivyo, Shibuda ambaye hupenda kuzungumza kwa mafumbo, alisema mjadala huo umejikita kwenye hila na visa vya kufunika mema na mazuri ya mtu.
“Mimi naona hayo ni mapepo ya kisiasa na mtenguko wa fikra ambao umeleta mng’atuko dhidi ya dhulma, lakini ni mjadala wa heri kwa maana kuwa unawafanya watu kutoa manung’uniko yao, bila hivyo hali ingekuwa mbaya siku moja, kwa hiyo naona mjadala uendelee,” alisema Shibuda.
Mbunge wa zamani wa Morogoro Vijijini, Semindu Pawa (CCM), aliiambia Tanzania Daima jana kuwa, mjadala huo sasa umechacha na kuwataka waandishi wa habari kuachana nao.
“Mimi sitaki kusema nani yuko sahihi, lakini nasema mjadala huo umechacha, umepitwa na wakati, wanahabari mkiacha tu, hautausikia tena, lakini naweza kusema wanahabari ndio mnaoukuza, waacheni,” alisema Semindu Pawa.
Mwishoni mwa wiki, Dk. Mwakyembe alijibu tuhuma zinazomhusisha na kumiliki kampuni binafsi ya kuzalisha umeme kuwa ni kazi mahususi inayofanywa na majeruhi wa vita ya ufisadi, ambao waliumizwa na matokeo ya kazi ya Kamati Teule ya Bunge ya kuchunguza mkataba wa Kampuni ya Richmond, ambayo yeye alikuwa mwenyekiti wake.
Hatua ya Mwakyembe kujibu tuhuma hizo, ilikuja baada ya magazeti mawili ya kila siku, (si Tanzania Daima) kuchapisha habari zinazomhusisha yeye na umiliki wa hisa 1,000,000 zenye thamani ya jumla ya sh bilioni 1.5 katika Kampuni ya Power Pool East Africa Ltd.
Mbali ya habari hizo kuandikwa katika magazeti hayo mawili; moja la binafsi na jingine la serikali, nyaraka kadhaa zinazomhusisha Mwakyembe na kampuni hiyo, zimesambazwa katika mtandao wa intaneti.
Taarifa hizo pia zinamtaja Mbunge wa Lupa, Victor Mwambalaswa ambaye ni Mjumbe wa Bodi ya TANESCO, kuwa miongoni mwa wanahisa wa kampuni hiyo binafsi ambayo wakati fulani Mwakyembe alipata kuwa mtendaji mkuu wake.
Taarifa hizo zinajaribu kujenga hoja zinazojaribu kumuondolea Mwakyembe uhalali wa kuendelea kudai kupambana na ufisadi ndani na nje ya Bunge ilhali yeye mwenyewe akionekana kuwa na ukwasi mkubwa unaotiliwa shaka.
Pia zinaonyesha kuwa, Mwakyembe licha ya kuwa na hisa nyingi katika kampuni hiyo, ameisaidia katika mambo mbalimbali ambayo hata hivyo hayakufafanuliwa, wakati akiwa katika wadhifa wa mtendaji mkuu.
Kwa mujibu wa uchunguzi wetu, lengo kuu la kusambaza nyaraka hizo ni kujaribu kumnyoshea kidole Mwakyembe na kujaribu kumuondolea uhalali wa kuendelea kupigania sekta ya nishati ilhali yeye mwenyewe akijua kuwa na maslahi.
Mwakyembe ambaye kitaaluma ni mwanasheria, alisema kuwa katika Kampuni ya Power Pool East Africa Ltd, hakuwezi kukamsababishia akaingia katika mgogoro wowote wa kimaslahi kutokana na ukweli kwamba, kampuni hiyo iliyosajiliwa kwa Wakala wa Usajili wa Makampuni (BRELA), bado ipo katika hatua ya awali ya mradi ambao bado haujaanza kuzalisha.
Alipotakiwa kueleza ni kwa nini wakati alipoteuliwa kuwa Mwenyekiti wa Kamati Teule ya Bunge iliyoichunguza Richmond kuanzia Oktoba mwaka juzi na kuwasilisha ripoti yake mwaka jana, hakueleza lolote kuhusu kuwa na kampuni ya kuzalisha umeme, Mwakyembe alisema asingeweza kufanya hivyo wakati mkakati wao wa kikampuni ukiwa katika hatua ya mradi tu.
‘‘Kwa mujibu wa sheria ya makampuni, majina yanakuwapo mpaka hapo kampuni itakapoanza ‘ku-take off’ (kuanza kazi). Sikuweza kuitaja kuwa ni sehemu ya makampuni yangu, kwa kuwa bado ilikuwa katika hatua ya mradi,” alisema Mwakyembe.
Mwanasiasa huyo alikwenda mbele zaidi na kuwaeleza wanahabari hao ambao miongoni mwao walionekana dhahiri kukabiliana naye kwa njia ya malumbano kuwa, hata wakati akiandikisha mali anazomiliki chini ya sheria ya viongozi kutangaza mali wanazomiliki, hakuitaja kampuni hiyo ya Power Pool kwa sababu hizo hizo za kutoanza kwake kazi.
Akifafanua tuhuma hizo dhidi yake, alimgeukia mbunge mwenzake wa CCM, Rostam Aziz na kumtuhumu kuwa nyuma ya habari zote mbaya zinazoandikwa dhidi yake.
Huku akilitaja jina la Rostam mara kadhaa, Mwakyembe alisema ni jambo ambalo haliingii akilini kwa mtu ambaye amechafuka kuamua kutumia maji taka kujisafisha.
CHANZO: Tanzania Daima
WALA TUSINGEFIKA HAPA TULIPO IWAPO SHERIA INGEFUATA MKONDO WAKE.VINARA WALIOTUINGIZA MKENGE KWENYE UTAPELI WA RICHMOND HAWAJACHUKULIWA HATUA BAADA YA KUJIUZULU,NA SASA WAMEPATA JEURI YA KUTAKA KUTULIZA MARA YA PILI KWA KUTUUZIA MITAMBO MITUMBA ILEILE ILE YA RICHMOND a.k.a DOWANS.HUU MTINDO WA KULINDANA UTALIPELEKA TAIFA MAHALA PABAYA.
HOWEVER,LET IT BE KNOW TO MAFISADI AND THOSE WHO SHIELD THEM THAT IF THEY TURN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY INTO ANOTHER MADAGASCAR THEY TOO WOULDNT BE SAFE!
Sunday, 22 March 2009
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As the public electricity power supply utility, Tanesco struggles with bail-out plans in order to avoid major power shedding expected to hit the nation by September this year, fresh details have emerged showing how the cash-strapped company missed a $300million power deal due to greed and battle for the control of big money running into billions of shillings.
According to details from the financier - Barrick Tanzania - the project was suspended early in January this year after Tanesco - Tanzania Electricity Supply Company - failed to adhere to the financing conditions issued in order to ensure that the billions are not swindled by some corrupt top officials within the state-owned company.
Barrick Tanzania had agreed to finance the $300million Mnazi bay power project, which could have produced 300megawatts, and forestalled the looming power crisis.
According to inside information, Barrick Tanzania, being one of the potential clients of the proposed deal, was approached by Tanesco and Artumas through a Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA).
Under this arrangement, Barrick, as a prospective client was to consider the possibility of investing in a generating company, TanGen, and recover its investment through sale of power under the Power Purchase Agreement.
It is through this arrangement that Barrick Tanzania was ready to give the needed billions to finance the stalled project.
Investigations conducted by The Guardian on Sunday have established that earlier, Barrick Tanzania, being alarmed by the financial mismanagement within Tanesco, gave the latter a condition that the two should open a joint venture account in order to manage the Sh390billion($300million).
But for unknown reasons, Tanesco flatly rejected the proposal, insisting that it should be given full mandate to control the $300million.
However, the move was strongly rejected by Barrick which among other things questioned the intention of Tanesco of declining to operate a joint venture account with the financier.
A senior official from Barrick Tanzania who declined to be named citing the sensitivity of the current power debate told The Guardian on Sunday this week: ``I am surprised, they (Tanesco) are crying to buy $50million Dowans plants while they have failed to utilise a $300million deal from us…This is a shame.
``We were surprised to hear that Tanesco management wasn`t ready to agree with a very simple condition they were being given by Barrick…And this led us to think that perhaps there were hidden motives about our money.``
After failure to agree on how to manage the billions which is close to the company`s annual revenue collections, Barrick Tanzania`s management decided to stop financing the project, casting a bleak future on the country`s energy sector.
Surprisingly on February 21, this year, while tabling the financial recovery plan of Tanseco before the parliamentary committee responsible for overseeing all publicly owned corporations, the Company`s Managing Director, Dr. Idris Rashidi, told the committee that he wasn’t aware why Barrick Tanzania pulled out of the project.
``This has come as a surprise to us because we banked our hopes on this project…we were shocked to learn that the financier had pulled out of the
project, `` the MD told the committee, indicating that he wasn’t aware why Barrick had pulled out at the final stages.
But contacted for comment, the Minister for Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja said: ``I have already started a process to rescue the project…It is true that the negotiations hit a snag recently, but I am working on it.
``I have organised a meeting on March 25 at my office that will involve all concerned parties - Barrick, Tanesco and Artumas - to discuss how to rescue the plan.``
The Minister went on: ``You know that in any deal there`s always disagreement about contentious issues but that can be sorted out…I will ensure that the country gets the 300 megawatts electricity as planned.”
The revelations come after three weeks of a verbal wrangle between prominent leaders, focused on accusations and counter-accusations over an alleged hidden agenda on the proposed 60bn/- Dowans takeover, a situation that has opened the floodgates of mudslinging politics.
The two parliamentary committees - the one led by legislator Kabwe and the other chaired by fellow legislator William Shelukindo - have strongly differed on the Dowans deal, raising a heated debate during the past few weeks.
The company currently purchases about 59 percent of its power from private producers, which according to financial details eats up to 83 percent of the total revenue collected annually.
With dilapidated infrastructure built mainly during the 1970s, the company`s power supply capacity is estimated at 595 megawatts.
This year, the actual demand is 787 megawatts - creating a deficit of 192 megawatts.
According to available details, the company has only 670,000 customers.
Last year, the company planned to increase its customer base by about 100,000, but the target couldn’t be reached due to financial straints.
Still, based on the current economic growth, demand for electricity is estimated to increase by 15 percent annually, while the production capacity continues to dwindle due to various technical and non-technical factors.
Since there are no comprehensive power generating plans in 2010, the power deficit will surge to 300 megawatts, putting the country at risk of facing an even worse phase of power rationing.
Currently, the state-owned company needs about $200m for major repairs on its dilapidated infrastructure, but so far there’s nowhere to get the money from.
Just two years ago, the company borrowed $300m from a consortium of local banks at 10 percent interest per annum, but almost 80 percent of that money was spent on settling outstanding debts.
Currently according to the inside details, Tanesco is on the brink of collapse due to the heavy costs of operations, largely attributed to capacity charges.
In 2004, the company paid 43/- to private power producers for every 100/- it collected in revenue. By 2006, when dubious government deals were made with private companies, that figure had more than doubled, to 104/- for every 100/- collected, according to the parliamentary committee presentation.
In 2007/08, the company spent 83/- for every 100/- it collected to foot the bill of power generated by private producers, but this year, the figures will soar even higher - to 106/- for every 100/- collected, according to the financial recovery plan seen by The Guardian on Sunday.
In other words, 83 percent of the total revenue collected by the state-owned utility company will go to private power producers, leaving the company in dire financial straits.
Over the past two years, the company`s revenue collection has spiked by 122 percent, reaching 437bn/-, a year up from 196bn/- in 2006.
Today, the company`s electricity loss - meaning the amount of energy lost when transmitted from point A to point B - is 24 percent, a staggering amount when compared to countries like South Africa where that loss is below 4.5 percent.
According to details from the financier - Barrick Tanzania - the project was suspended early in January this year after Tanesco - Tanzania Electricity Supply Company - failed to adhere to the financing conditions issued in order to ensure that the billions are not swindled by some corrupt top officials within the state-owned company.
Barrick Tanzania had agreed to finance the $300million Mnazi bay power project, which could have produced 300megawatts, and forestalled the looming power crisis.
According to inside information, Barrick Tanzania, being one of the potential clients of the proposed deal, was approached by Tanesco and Artumas through a Power Purchasing Agreement (PPA).
Under this arrangement, Barrick, as a prospective client was to consider the possibility of investing in a generating company, TanGen, and recover its investment through sale of power under the Power Purchase Agreement.
It is through this arrangement that Barrick Tanzania was ready to give the needed billions to finance the stalled project.
Investigations conducted by The Guardian on Sunday have established that earlier, Barrick Tanzania, being alarmed by the financial mismanagement within Tanesco, gave the latter a condition that the two should open a joint venture account in order to manage the Sh390billion($300million).
But for unknown reasons, Tanesco flatly rejected the proposal, insisting that it should be given full mandate to control the $300million.
However, the move was strongly rejected by Barrick which among other things questioned the intention of Tanesco of declining to operate a joint venture account with the financier.
A senior official from Barrick Tanzania who declined to be named citing the sensitivity of the current power debate told The Guardian on Sunday this week: ``I am surprised, they (Tanesco) are crying to buy $50million Dowans plants while they have failed to utilise a $300million deal from us…This is a shame.
``We were surprised to hear that Tanesco management wasn`t ready to agree with a very simple condition they were being given by Barrick…And this led us to think that perhaps there were hidden motives about our money.``
After failure to agree on how to manage the billions which is close to the company`s annual revenue collections, Barrick Tanzania`s management decided to stop financing the project, casting a bleak future on the country`s energy sector.
Surprisingly on February 21, this year, while tabling the financial recovery plan of Tanseco before the parliamentary committee responsible for overseeing all publicly owned corporations, the Company`s Managing Director, Dr. Idris Rashidi, told the committee that he wasn’t aware why Barrick Tanzania pulled out of the project.
``This has come as a surprise to us because we banked our hopes on this project…we were shocked to learn that the financier had pulled out of the
project, `` the MD told the committee, indicating that he wasn’t aware why Barrick had pulled out at the final stages.
But contacted for comment, the Minister for Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja said: ``I have already started a process to rescue the project…It is true that the negotiations hit a snag recently, but I am working on it.
``I have organised a meeting on March 25 at my office that will involve all concerned parties - Barrick, Tanesco and Artumas - to discuss how to rescue the plan.``
The Minister went on: ``You know that in any deal there`s always disagreement about contentious issues but that can be sorted out…I will ensure that the country gets the 300 megawatts electricity as planned.”
The revelations come after three weeks of a verbal wrangle between prominent leaders, focused on accusations and counter-accusations over an alleged hidden agenda on the proposed 60bn/- Dowans takeover, a situation that has opened the floodgates of mudslinging politics.
The two parliamentary committees - the one led by legislator Kabwe and the other chaired by fellow legislator William Shelukindo - have strongly differed on the Dowans deal, raising a heated debate during the past few weeks.
The company currently purchases about 59 percent of its power from private producers, which according to financial details eats up to 83 percent of the total revenue collected annually.
With dilapidated infrastructure built mainly during the 1970s, the company`s power supply capacity is estimated at 595 megawatts.
This year, the actual demand is 787 megawatts - creating a deficit of 192 megawatts.
According to available details, the company has only 670,000 customers.
Last year, the company planned to increase its customer base by about 100,000, but the target couldn’t be reached due to financial straints.
Still, based on the current economic growth, demand for electricity is estimated to increase by 15 percent annually, while the production capacity continues to dwindle due to various technical and non-technical factors.
Since there are no comprehensive power generating plans in 2010, the power deficit will surge to 300 megawatts, putting the country at risk of facing an even worse phase of power rationing.
Currently, the state-owned company needs about $200m for major repairs on its dilapidated infrastructure, but so far there’s nowhere to get the money from.
Just two years ago, the company borrowed $300m from a consortium of local banks at 10 percent interest per annum, but almost 80 percent of that money was spent on settling outstanding debts.
Currently according to the inside details, Tanesco is on the brink of collapse due to the heavy costs of operations, largely attributed to capacity charges.
In 2004, the company paid 43/- to private power producers for every 100/- it collected in revenue. By 2006, when dubious government deals were made with private companies, that figure had more than doubled, to 104/- for every 100/- collected, according to the parliamentary committee presentation.
In 2007/08, the company spent 83/- for every 100/- it collected to foot the bill of power generated by private producers, but this year, the figures will soar even higher - to 106/- for every 100/- collected, according to the financial recovery plan seen by The Guardian on Sunday.
In other words, 83 percent of the total revenue collected by the state-owned utility company will go to private power producers, leaving the company in dire financial straits.
Over the past two years, the company`s revenue collection has spiked by 122 percent, reaching 437bn/-, a year up from 196bn/- in 2006.
Today, the company`s electricity loss - meaning the amount of energy lost when transmitted from point A to point B - is 24 percent, a staggering amount when compared to countries like South Africa where that loss is below 4.5 percent.
SOURCE: Sunday Observer
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Na Khamis Mkotya
MAMLAKA ya Mapato Tanzania (TRA), imesema orodha ya majina ya watumishi wasio waaminifu kwenye kitengo cha kudhibiti mapato bandarini (TISCAN), bado haijawasilishwa Makao Makuu kama ilivyoahidiwa na Rais Jakaya Kikwete. Akizungumza Dar es Salaam jana, Mkurugenzi wa Elimu kwa Walipa Kodi, Protus Mmanda, alisema Menejimenti ya TRA chini ya Kamishna Mkuu, Hary Kitillya, inayasubiri majini hayo kuweza kuchukua hatua stahili.
Mmanda alisema, watumishi wote wa TRA watakaotajwa kwenye orodha hiyo watashughulikiwa kwa mujibu wa sheria na taratibu zote za nidhamu, ikiwa ni pamoja na kufukuzwa kazi kama Rais alivyoagiza. Machi 2, mwaka huu, Rais Kikwete alifanya ziara ya ghafla bandarini kukagua utekelezaji wa maagizo yake kuhusu ufanisi katika utendaji kazi wa bandari ya Dar es Salaam, hasa kuhusu mrundikano wa makontena. Katika ziara hiyo, Rais alionyesha kukerwa na baadhi ya watumishi wa TISCAN ambao wamekuwa wakishirikiana na wafanyabiashara wakubwa kuwaonyesha mbinu za kukwepa kodi, vitendo vinavyolisababishia taifa hasara. Rais Kikwete alisema, orodha ya watumishi wanaoendekeza mchezo huo mchafu anayo na kumtaka Kamishna Mkuu wa TRA, kuwafukuza kazi watumishi hao atakapokabidhiwa majina.
“Orodha ya majina hayo bado haijafika kwetu, tunaendelea kusubiri sijui yatakuja lini, maana mimi kwa wadhifa wangu siwezi kwenda Ikulu kuuliza majina hayo yataletwa lini. “Labda kwa kuwa nyinyi waandishi wa habari mnakutana na Salva Rweyemamu, (Mkurugenzi wa Mawasiliano Ikulu) muulizeni hayo majini yatakuja lini, lakini sisi huku hatuwezi kuuliza, hadi hapo yatakapoletwa,” alisema. Mmanda alisema kuwa, wakati majina hayo yanasubiriwa, TRA imechukua hatua kadhaa zinazolenga kuweka mfumo mzuri wa utendaji, ikiwa ni pamoja na kufanya mabadiliko kwa baadhi ya maofisa wake.
Kwa mujibu wa Mkurugenzi huyo, TRA imeshafanya mabadiliko kwa kuwahamisha idara baadhi ya maofisa wake, wanaoonekana kuwa na chembe za ukosefu wa maadili kama hatua za awali za kutekeleza maagizo ya Rais. “Hatuwezi kukaa tu bila kufanya tathimini yoyote juu ya utendaji kazi wetu, kwa sababu tunasubiri majina kutoka kwa Rais. Baadhi ya hatua tulizochukua ni pamoja na kufanya mabadiliko katika baadhi ya idara zetu. “Tumefanya marekebisho pale palipostahili, mahala palipokuwa na watumishi wazembe wasiokuwa waadilifu tumewaondoa na kuweka watumishi wengine,” alisema Mmanda, ingawa hakutaja idara na maofisa wake walioguswa na zoezi hilo.
Mkurugenzi huyo alisema, hatua nyingine zilizochukuliwa ni pamoja na kurahisisha taratibu za usajili wa magari, kuondoa kero ya muda mrefu ambayo imekuwa ikilalamikiwa kuhusu uchelewashaji wa usajili wa magari. Kwa mujibu wa Mmanda, taratibu zote za usajili wa magari yanayoingizwa nchini hivi sasa zitafanywa na ofisi moja, ili kuondoa usumbufu kwa watu, tofauti na zamani ambako taratibu hizo zilikuwa zikishughulikiwa na ofisi zaidi ya moja. Alisema kuwa, utaratibu huo mpya pia utasaidia kuondokana na watu wa ‘kijiweni’ maarufu kwa jina la ‘vishoka’, ambao wamekuwa wakiwatapeli watu kwa kisingizio cha kuwasaidia katika taratibu za usajili wa magari.
CHANZO: Mtanzania
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THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
CONTROVERSY surrounds the mysterious disappearance of a large consignment of local currency notes with a value running into millions of Tanzanian shillings, as it was being airlifted into the country from Germany on a Qatar Airways flight.
Sources within the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) have confirmed the apparent large-scale theft which was discovered on arrival at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam early last week.
It has yet to be established exactly at what point the consignment of bank notes got stolen whether it was in Germany, where the notes were manufactured; in Doha, where the flight made a stopover; or at the final JNIA destination in Dar es Salaam.
According to THISDAY findings, the consignment contained crisp new bank notes of 10,000/- denomination. However, the exact number of such notes involved � and hence the total value of the package � could not be immediately verified.
’’The consignment arrived at the airport in Dar es Salaam on the evening of Monday, March 9. But because the following day was a Maulid holiday, it could not be dealt with until Wednesday, March 11. That’s when it was discovered that the notes were gone,’’ said an informed BoT source.
It is understood that besides the new 10,000/- notes, the consignment also contained a substantial amount of old local currency notes that had long been removed from circulation.
Said the source: ’’The old notes were under audit query...during an earlier auditing exercise, the auditors wanted to know why these notes had not been returned for so many years since being sent to the printers overseas because of various technical problems.’’
But it remains unclear of what use the old notes long out of circulation were expected to be at this moment in time, or whether the government or central bank has received or is expecting any compensation from the company manufacturing the notes.
The discovery of a consignment of defective Tanzanian currency notes with a total value of 3.5bn/- back in 2001, led to serious repercussions including the launch of an official investigation by the then Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB).
However, no arrests or prosecutions were ever made.
The notes were printed by the German company Glesecke & Devrient Gmbh, on behalf of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT). They were of 1,000-shilling denomination, amounting to a total value of $3,237,492.
Following this scandal, the government vetoed central bank plans to award another print order to the same German firm, while the defective notes were said to have been quietly withdrawn from circulation.
Dar es Salaam
CONTROVERSY surrounds the mysterious disappearance of a large consignment of local currency notes with a value running into millions of Tanzanian shillings, as it was being airlifted into the country from Germany on a Qatar Airways flight.
Sources within the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) have confirmed the apparent large-scale theft which was discovered on arrival at the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam early last week.
It has yet to be established exactly at what point the consignment of bank notes got stolen whether it was in Germany, where the notes were manufactured; in Doha, where the flight made a stopover; or at the final JNIA destination in Dar es Salaam.
According to THISDAY findings, the consignment contained crisp new bank notes of 10,000/- denomination. However, the exact number of such notes involved � and hence the total value of the package � could not be immediately verified.
’’The consignment arrived at the airport in Dar es Salaam on the evening of Monday, March 9. But because the following day was a Maulid holiday, it could not be dealt with until Wednesday, March 11. That’s when it was discovered that the notes were gone,’’ said an informed BoT source.
It is understood that besides the new 10,000/- notes, the consignment also contained a substantial amount of old local currency notes that had long been removed from circulation.
Said the source: ’’The old notes were under audit query...during an earlier auditing exercise, the auditors wanted to know why these notes had not been returned for so many years since being sent to the printers overseas because of various technical problems.’’
But it remains unclear of what use the old notes long out of circulation were expected to be at this moment in time, or whether the government or central bank has received or is expecting any compensation from the company manufacturing the notes.
The discovery of a consignment of defective Tanzanian currency notes with a total value of 3.5bn/- back in 2001, led to serious repercussions including the launch of an official investigation by the then Prevention of Corruption Bureau (PCB).
However, no arrests or prosecutions were ever made.
The notes were printed by the German company Glesecke & Devrient Gmbh, on behalf of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT). They were of 1,000-shilling denomination, amounting to a total value of $3,237,492.
Following this scandal, the government vetoed central bank plans to award another print order to the same German firm, while the defective notes were said to have been quietly withdrawn from circulation.
SOURCE: ThisDay
Friday, 20 March 2009
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The first black chief executive of a FTSE 100 Index company was appointed when insurer Prudential named Tidjane Thiam as its next boss...MORETuesday, 17 March 2009
By Mkinga Mkinga
The Government is assessing the impact of the global financial crisis on the Tanzanian economy.
The deputy minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Mr Omar Yusuf Mzee, told The Citizen yesterday by phone that officials from his ministry had been dispatched to regions to talk to stakeholders on problems facing them as a result of the global financial crisis.
"I am in Kigoma on a similar mission and my colleague [deputy minister Jeremiah Sumari) is in southern regions," he said.
The assessment is aimed at collecting crucial information on the crisis. He said his tour would take him to Kigoma, Tabora, Singida and Dodoma regions while Mr Sumari would visit Lindi and Mtwara regions to gather similar information.
"We need to know the real picture when we call stakeholders to a national meeting to discuss the crisis.During the meeting we will focus on how we can help businesses which have been affected," he said.
He said a national roundtable with chief executive officers of various firms to discuss the situation would be held soon after completing the assessment.
Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Governor Benno Ndulu, did not say what the Government could do to shore up businesses amid the crisis.
"I cannot say that the Government will offer stimulus packages to affected businesses. But we are aware of the situation and we are planning something for our local entrepreneurs," he said. Prof Ndulu said BoT was closely following the developments.
He noted that so far there was no indication that local banks would face difficulties in the near future as a result of the global crunch.
"People should go on with their activities; there is no need to worry as we are closely following the developments here and abroad. In case of any serious problem, we will issue an alert immediately," he said.
Recently, Finance and Economic Affairs minister Mustafa Mkulo did not rule out direct Government intervention, as members of the business community called for a state plan to save them from collapse.
He said during the forthcoming roundtable meeting, the Government would discuss with CEOs and draw up a joint strategy to deal with the problem.
"Our intervention will be within the limitations of the budget and it is my hope, as the Finance minister, that our engagement will be effected as soon as possible. It should be before the conclusion of the budget proposals," he said.
"If employers are thinking of retrenching workers, this will be discussed to see the best way in which the Government could assist," said Mr Mkulo.
Many countries are offering stimulus packages to private companies.
Such countries include the United States where the financial crunch started, sending financial institutions crumbling.The ministry has dispatched its team to regions at a time when businesses are calling for quick plans to remedy the situation.
The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) has confirmed that it had received urgent appeals for assistance from three companies. ATE executive secretary Aggrey Mlimuka warned of difficult times ahead unless the Government intervened.
The Tanzania Horticultural Association bemoans a 50 per cent business slump.It has urged the Government to support the small-scale growers and supply chains using a portion of the money that President Jakaya Kikwete pledged to give to agriculture.
It has also asked for the rescheduling of loans through commercial banks with BoT's intervention.
The Government is assessing the impact of the global financial crisis on the Tanzanian economy.
The deputy minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Mr Omar Yusuf Mzee, told The Citizen yesterday by phone that officials from his ministry had been dispatched to regions to talk to stakeholders on problems facing them as a result of the global financial crisis.
"I am in Kigoma on a similar mission and my colleague [deputy minister Jeremiah Sumari) is in southern regions," he said.
The assessment is aimed at collecting crucial information on the crisis. He said his tour would take him to Kigoma, Tabora, Singida and Dodoma regions while Mr Sumari would visit Lindi and Mtwara regions to gather similar information.
"We need to know the real picture when we call stakeholders to a national meeting to discuss the crisis.During the meeting we will focus on how we can help businesses which have been affected," he said.
He said a national roundtable with chief executive officers of various firms to discuss the situation would be held soon after completing the assessment.
Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Governor Benno Ndulu, did not say what the Government could do to shore up businesses amid the crisis.
"I cannot say that the Government will offer stimulus packages to affected businesses. But we are aware of the situation and we are planning something for our local entrepreneurs," he said. Prof Ndulu said BoT was closely following the developments.
He noted that so far there was no indication that local banks would face difficulties in the near future as a result of the global crunch.
"People should go on with their activities; there is no need to worry as we are closely following the developments here and abroad. In case of any serious problem, we will issue an alert immediately," he said.
Recently, Finance and Economic Affairs minister Mustafa Mkulo did not rule out direct Government intervention, as members of the business community called for a state plan to save them from collapse.
He said during the forthcoming roundtable meeting, the Government would discuss with CEOs and draw up a joint strategy to deal with the problem.
"Our intervention will be within the limitations of the budget and it is my hope, as the Finance minister, that our engagement will be effected as soon as possible. It should be before the conclusion of the budget proposals," he said.
"If employers are thinking of retrenching workers, this will be discussed to see the best way in which the Government could assist," said Mr Mkulo.
Many countries are offering stimulus packages to private companies.
Such countries include the United States where the financial crunch started, sending financial institutions crumbling.The ministry has dispatched its team to regions at a time when businesses are calling for quick plans to remedy the situation.
The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) has confirmed that it had received urgent appeals for assistance from three companies. ATE executive secretary Aggrey Mlimuka warned of difficult times ahead unless the Government intervened.
The Tanzania Horticultural Association bemoans a 50 per cent business slump.It has urged the Government to support the small-scale growers and supply chains using a portion of the money that President Jakaya Kikwete pledged to give to agriculture.
It has also asked for the rescheduling of loans through commercial banks with BoT's intervention.
SOURCE: The Citizen
EACH REGION HAS A REGIONAL COMMISSIONER,REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY,REGIONAL PLANNING OFFICER,etc,etc,...AND SO ARE THE DISTRICTS.DOES THIS DECISION TO DESPATCH OFFICIALS FROM THE MINISTRY SUGGEST THAT THOSE AT REGIONAL/MUNICIPAL/DISTRICT LEVEL HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS THAT THEY CAN'T FURNISH THE GOVERNMENT WITH THE DATA NEEDED FOR THE ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT,OR THEY ARE TOO DUMB TO TALK TO STAKEHOLDERS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE AREAS, OR IT IS ALL ABOUT THE NOTORIOUS PER DIEM SYNDROME AT THE TIME WHEN WE SERIOUSLY NEED TO KEEP OUR EXPENDITURE IN CHECK...!?
Sunday, 15 March 2009
KIPINDI CHA INSIDE AFRICA CHA CNN WIKI HII KINA SEGMENT KUBWA KUHUSU TANZANIA.MOJA YA YALIYONIVUTIA KATIKA KIPINDI HICHO NI MAHOJIANO KATI YA RIPOTA WA CNN,DAVID MCKENZIE, NA MSANII WETU NAKAAYA SUMARI.MWANADADA ALIJIELEZA CONFIDENTLY.I WISH NINGE-RECORD VIDEO LAKINI KWA SABABU ZILIZOKUWA NJE YA UWEZO WANGU NILIAMBULIA PICHA HIZO HAPO JUU.UKIPATA WASAA UNAWEZA KUCHEKI VIDEO YA SEGMENT HIYO KWENYE TOVUTI YA CNN-INSIDE AFRICA PINDI WATAKAPOIWEKA (HADI MUDA HUU BADO HAIJAWEKWA).PENGINE BAADA YA KUANGALIA SEGMENT NZIMA UNAWEZA KUBAKI NA MASWALI,LIKE I DID, KUHUSU ASSESSMENT YA RIPOTA HUYO WA CNN KUHUSU MWENENDO WA UCHUMI WETU.
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