PERFECT STORM 2030 NA NGONJERA ZETU

Pengine ushasikia kuhusu Perfect Storm.Sijui tunaweza kuiitaje kwa Kiswahili lakini kwa kifupi ni hivi: kadri idadi ya watu inavyoongezeka duniani,mahitaji ya chakula,maji na nishati nayo yanaoongezeka.Pasipo jitihada za makusudi na za haraka kufanyika,inatarajiwa kufikia wakati flani bei za vyakula zitakuwa hazikamatiki,watu lukuki watakabiliwa na njaa kutokana na uhaba wa chakula,na idadi wa "wakimbizi" kuongezeka kutoka mahala kwenye uhaba kuelekea kwenye nafuu (ambayo itapelekea sehemu hizo zenye nafuu nazo kujikuta zikishindwa kuhimili mahitaji ya "wakimbizi" hao).

Kwa mujibu wa takwimu zilizopo,inatarajiwa kwamba kufikia mwaka 2030 idadi ya watu duniani itafikia bilioni 8 kutoka bilioni 6 ya sasa,mahitaji ya chakula yatapanda kwa asilimia 50,mahitaji ya maji yatapanda kwa asilimia 30 na ya nishati nayo asilimia 50.

Kama ilivyo kawaida ya majanga makubwa,nchi masikini huwa waathirika wakubwa zaidi kutokana na uwezo duni unaochangiwa pia na viongozi mafisadi walio maarufu zaidi kwa ngonjera kuliko vitendo.Kabla ya hiyo 2030,tayari kumeanza kujitokeza kinachoitwa "ukoloni mpya wa ardhi" ambapo baadhi ya makampuni ya katika nchi zilizoendelea yamekuwa yakinunua ardhi kwa kasi katika nchi masikini.Hali hiyo inajionyesha zaidi huko Ulaya Mashariki,lakini kuna kila dalili kuwa upepo unaelekea kwenye "shamba la bibi",yaani bara letu la Afrika.Urahisi wa Afrika unachagizwa zaidi na mitizamo mifupi ya baadhi ya viongozi wetu kuwa hatuwezi kuendelea pasipo ushiriki wa "wawekezaji" katika mipango yetu ya maendeleo (kana kwamba "wawekezaji" hao ni wazalendo wenzetu).

Itakumbukwa kuwa miezi michache iliyopita viongozi wetu waliwashawishi "masikini wa ardhi" kutoka Saudi Arabia kuja kuwekeza Tanzania huku wakihakikishiwa umilikishwaji ardhi wa muda mrefu.Nawaita Wasaudi "masikini wa ardhi" kwa vile asilimia kubwa ya nchi za Ghuba,Arabia na Mashariki ya Kati zina uhaba mkubwa wa ardhi ya kilimo (sehemu kubwa ni jangwa) japo wana utajiri wa mafuta.Tatizo sio kuwakaribisha Wasaudia au Makaburu,bali ni udhaifu sugu tulionao kwenye udhibiti wa raslimali zetu.Uzoefu tulionao katika namna madini yanavyokombwa kwa pupa na " wawekezaji" huku tukiambulia mrahaba " cha mtoto" ambao asilimia kubwa unaishia mifukoni mwa mafisadi,ni dhahiri kukodisha ardhi kwa wageni kutapelekea kuiweka rehani nchi yetu,achilia mbali wakulima kuporwa ardhi yao kama inavyoshuhudiwa kwenye maeneo yenye madini.

2005 CCM iliahidi Maisha Bora kwa Kila Mtanzania,lakini kabla hatujapewa tathmini ya utekelezaji wa wimbo huo,kunakuja hadithi nyingine ya Kilimo Kwanza.Huu ni usanii wa kisiasa.Kilimo Kwanza mwaka mmoja kabla ya uchaguzi?Kwanini haikuwa kwenye Ilani ya 2005?Na kwa aliyepata muda wa kusoma kilichomo kwenye "kibwagizo" hicho cha Kilimo Kwanza atabaini kuwa ni muendelezo uleule wa kupiga risasi kisha kulenga (shooting then aiming).Yaani,watu wanakurupuka na mawazo ya ajabu ajabu,yanashindikana kisha zinaanza semina elekezi za kujadili kwanini mkakati ulishindwa.

And these people can't be serious kwa vile wakati wanakuja na Stimulus Package (sijui imeishia wapi) "walisahau" kuwa kilimo bado ni uti wa mgongo wa uchumi wa Tanzania,with exception of mafisadi ambao uti wa mgongo wa uchumi wao ni ufisadi.

Ni katika mazingira hayo tunalazimika kujiuliza itakuwaje hapo 2030 tunapotarajia hiyo Perfect Storm.Of course,sie tushazowea storms mbalimbali miaka nenda miaka rudi.Tunaambiwa taifa letu changa lakini tunamudu kuongeza maradufu mishahara ya wabunge huku walimu wakitishia kugoma kutokana na madai yao ya malimbikizo ya mishahara yao kiduchu.

Kitakachotunusuru ni kudra za Mwenyezi Mungu pekee kwa vile sote tunajua nini kitatukumba come hiyo Perfect Storm tukiwa na wababaishaji kama hawa waliopo sasa.

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GOD FORBID:SPIKA CHENGE,LOWASSA SPEAKER (HAD THE "COUP" SUCCEEDED)?

EITHER ex-prime minister Edward Lowassa or ex-attorney general Andrew Chenge were on the short list to take over the Speaker’s seat in the National Assembly had the attempted ouster of incumbent Samwel Sitta succeeded last week, THISDAY can reveal today.

According to a senior Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) official privy to details of the reported plotting and scheming during last week’s high-level CCM meetings in Dodoma, a good number of ruling party regional branch chairmen had been "compromised" to push for either of the two ex-government leaders to assume the Speakership after Sitta’s envisaged ejection.

It has been confirmed that the entire plan to remove Sitta and put in place a smooth replacement system was hatched and finalized during a series of secret meetings in Dodoma, Dar es Salaam and Mbeya ahead of the Dodoma meetings involving CCM’s central committee and national executive committee (NEC).

”The plotters not only sought Sitta’s removal as Speaker and expulsion from the party...they also took it a step further and earmarked who exactly should immediately replace him (as Speaker),

” the CCM official, also a NEC member, said.

He continued: ”The names that came up were Lowassa or Chenge. But would either of them have actually agreed to have their names nominated for election as Speaker, had the plot to remove Sitta succeeded? Of that I am not sure.”

It is also unclear if either Lowassa or Chenge were even aware that they were in line to replace Sitta at short notice, if it had come to that.

Lowassa was forced to resign from the post of prime minister in February last year, after being heavily implicated by a parliamentary team probing the infamous Richmond power generation scandal.

Hardly a couple of months later, Chenge - the country’s attorney-general for ten years until 2005, and thereafter a senior Cabinet minister - was similarly compelled to quit his government position after being named as an official suspect in the radar deal corruption investigation.

While both have yet to be formally charged with criminal wrongdoing, they remain active as members of both the parliamentary backbench and the various CCM caucuses.

Apart from Lowassa and Chenge, another name floated as a potential replacement for Sitta is the incumbent deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Anna Makinda, who political insiders say is seen as more inclined to ”defend CCM interests” in parliament.

The Speakership of the National Assembly is seen as a powerful and pivotal post within the ruling party and the national political scenario as a whole.

As such, according to various CCM insiders, Sitta’s continued occupation of that post and anti-corruption stance represents a perceived large thorn in the flesh of a powerful group of corrupt politicians with vast personal business interests, who more or less control the party at will through its secretariat.

According to one ruling party insider speaking to THISDAY:"These politicians are now desperate to also control the parliament...and they regard the removal of Sitta as a key necessity towards that goal.”

The said group of politicians is believed to number about five or six, most of them incumbent members of parliament whose public images have in recent years become heavily tainted by serious allegations of grand corruption.

”They want to use the Bunge to clean up their own battered images, so that they emerge smelling like roses ahead of next year’s general elections,” said another CCM insider.

According to THISDAY findings, the plot to remove Sitta from the post of Speaker is understood to have involved large sums of money exchanging hands within the CCM-NEC ranks.

It is also understood that party leaders at various levels within mainland Tanzania were targeted to be roped in, while emissaries were also dispatched to Zanzibar to garner similar CCM grassroots leadership support for the plot over there.

Sources say some NEC members received between 3m/- and 5m/- "to ensure that the plan to get rid of Sitta succeeded."

Speaker Sitta was on Saturday accorded a hero’s welcome on returning to his Urambo parliamentary constituency in the wake of the failed plot to oust him. He vowed to soldier on with his work in the National Assembly, to ensure greater transparency and accountability in government.

SOURCE: ThisDay

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CRIMINAL PATRONAGE: CCM NA MAFISADI

Labda CCM imekaa madarakani kwa muda mrefu mno hadi imefikia hatua ya kusahau wajibu wake. Pengine ni matokeo ya mafisadi kushika hatamu ndani ya chama hicho, au pengine ni CCM imesharidhika kwamba Watanzania wamezowea kunyanyaswa, kupuuzwa na kuchezewa kama watoto wadogo pasipo kuchukua hatua yoyote.

Najiuliza hivyo baada ya kusoma habari kwamba chama hicho tawala “kimechimba mkwara mzito” kwa baadhi ya viongozi na wanachama wake wanaodiriki kunyooshea vidole ufisadi na mafisadi.Ungetegemea CCM ingekuwa mstari wa mbele kuhamasisha mapambano dhidi ya ufisadi na mafisadi kwa vile so far ndio kikwazo kikubwa katika utekelezaji wa kauli-mbiu Maisha Bora kwa Kila Mtanzania. Lakini kwa vile mafisadi ni watu muhimu sana kwa chama hicho, jaribio lolote la kuwakemea ni sawa na kusigina katiba ya CCM.

Kana kwamba kushindwa ku-meet matarajio ya wapigakura (waliokipa dhamana chama hicho mwaka 2005 kututawala tena) sio jambo linaloinyima CCM usingizi, chama hicho kimeanza kuonyesha dalili za udikteta tukirejea kauli zake nzito za hivi karibuni. Siku chache zilizopita, kiongozi mkongwe na miongoni mwa waasisi wa CCM,Kingunge Ngombale Mwiru,aliwakemea viongozi wa Kanisa katika lugha inayoweza kutafsiriwa kuwa ni ya kidikteta,alipoonyesha dhahiri kukerwa na kitendo cha viongozi wa dini kutumia uhuru wao wa kikatiba kutoa maoni yao kuhusu hatma ya taifa letu.Na sasa tunaambiwa kwamba chama hicho kimeamua kuwafunga midomo wabunge wake wanaojaribu kuwakemea mafisadi, sambamba na kunyamazisha kelele dhidi ya tuhuma zinazomwandama Benjamin Mkapa, Rais wa Awamu ya Tatu.

CCM imefikia hatua ya kulitukana Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano na kulifananisha na kikundi cha vichekesho cha Ze Komedi.Jaribu ku-imagine kauli kama hiyo ingetoka kwa mtu kama Dkt Wilbroad Slaa au Zitto Kabwe! Ni dhahiri watu kama George Mkuchika, anayechanganya majukumu yake ya u-Katibu Mwenezi wa CCM na u-Waziri wa Habari, au Yusuph Makamba wangekurupuka na vitisho kuwa “wapinzani wanaikosea heshima Katiba ya Jamhuri.” Kulilinganisha Bunge na Ze Komedi kwa vile tu limejikongoja kuruhusu sauti zisizopendeza masikioni mwa mafisadi na watetezi wao ni kitendo kinachoashiria utovu wa nidhamu wa hali ya juu.

Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano ni taasisi nyeti na inayopaswa kuenziwa na kuheshimiwa na kila Mtanzania including hao wanaoifananisha na kikundi cha vichekesho. Kama unadhani kauli ya “Bunge ni mithili ya Ze Komedi” haina uzito, tafakari upya. Mtu anapokufananisha na mchekeshaji (comedian) anafikisha ujumbe kwamba hupaswi kuchukuliwa seriously. Kauli na matendo yake pia yanapaswa kuchukuliwa kama mambo yasiyopaswa kupewa umuhimu au kutekelezwa kwa vile ni ya “kusukuma muda” tu. Japo vichekesho vingi huwa na ujumbe uliofichika katika maneno au matendo ya kuchekesha, mara nyingi kauli au matendo hayo hayapaswi kuchuliwa seriously.

Kwa CCM kulifananisha Bunge na Ze Komedi inatueleza kwamba taasisi hiyo yenye jukumu la kutunga sheria za nchi haistahili kuchukuliwa serious katika kauli, maamuzi na matendo yake. Lakini hilo si geni kwa vile hata maamuzi ya baadhi ya kamati za Bunge, kama ile ya Mwakyembe, yameendelea kupuuzwa katika kile kinachothibitisha kuwa CCM imekuwa ikiliona Bunge kama genge la wachekeshaji,with exception of wabunge kama Kingunge,Serukamba,Mkuchika ,Lowassa,Rostam,Karamagi,Chenge na “wateule wengine wachache” wenye umuhimu wa kipekee kwa chama hicho.

La kusikitisha ni kwamba bado mamilioni ya Watanzania wenye akili zao timamu wataipigia kura CCM hapo mwakani irejee madarakani kuendeleza nyodo kama hizi.Na hicho ndicho kinawapa jeuri watu kama Mkuchika kusema lolote pasi hofu ya kukigharimu chama hicho ushindi hapo mwakani.CCM inajivunia knowledge yake kuhusu Watanzania kwamba ni kama wamezowea kupuuzwa (wao na baadhi ya wawakilishi wao wachache wanaopiga kelele Bungeni kutetea maslahi ya walalahoi),kunyanyaswa,kuburuzwa na kudanganywa kama watoto wadogo.

La kusikitisha zaidi ni namna uongozi wa juu (with exception of Makamba na Mkuchika wanaofahamika bayana wanaoelemea upande gani kati ya watetezi na wapinzani wa ufisadi) walivyo kimya japo kila siku wanasikika majukwaani wakiahidi Maisha Bora kwa Kila Mtanzania. Taarifa za vyombo vya habari kuhusu yaliyojiri kwenye vikao vya juu vya chama hicho zinatuthibitishia bayana kuwa uongozi wa juu wa CCM hauna dhamira ya dhati ya kukomesha ufisadi kwa vile badala ya kuwakemea wanaowakwaza wapambanaji dhidi ya ufisadi wanadaiwa kuleta ngonjera za “kujadili mambo ndani ya chama.”Yaani wanataka kutuambia hawajui kuwa ndani ya chama kuna watu kama Lowassa, Rostam, Chenge na wengineo ambao kwa namna yoyote hawako tayari kuruhusu mjadala huru dhidi ya ufisadi kwa vile wao ni watuhumiwa?

Ungetarajia busara za watu kama Mzee Ali Hassan Mwinyi ziwafumbue macho CCM kwamba kuzuia demokrasia katika kujadili mambo yanayowakera na kuwaumiza Watanzania kutapelekea kifo cha mende kwa chama hicho. Lakini pengine wanafahamu nguvu za mafisadi ndani ya chama hicho, na hivyo kuhofia kuwaudhi katika kipindi hiki ambacho CCM inawahitaji mafisadi more than ever ili iendelee kututawala.Wanatupuuza kwa vile wanajua hatuna jeuri ya kuwaadhibu kwa madhambi yao.

They could be right, though! However, they fooled us in 2005.They possibly will fool us again in 2010, but let them rest assured that they will never fool us forever. They are simply buying time to finish digging their own graves.

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KINGUNGE ANAZEEKA VIBAYA,NI VEMA APUMZISHWE

Kingunge Ngombale Mwiru ni mkingwe,kiumri,kisiasa na kimadaraka.Japo umri si kigezo muhimu cha kuwa na busara,ukongwe katika fani flani unatarajiwa kuambatana na busara.Lakini hali si hivyo kwa Kingunge.Kuna nyakati baada ya kifo cha Nyerere baadhi ya watu walitarajia kuwa Kingunge angefanikiwa kuendeleza mema ya Mwalimu hasa kwa vile tuliaminishwa kwamba mwanasiasa huyu (Kingunge) ana damu ya Ujamaa kiasi cha kuachana na mambo ya imani ya kidini.Tuliambiwa dini ya Kingunge ni Ujamaa.

Pamoja na mapungufu ya hapa na pale,Nyerere anaendelea kukumbukwa kwa jitihada zake za kujenga jamii yenye kukaribia usawa na kuchukia unyonyaji.Sijui Kingunge akifa tutamkumbuka kwa lipi zaidi ya kuzeekea kwake kwenye siasa pasipo tija na hili jukumu jipya alilojipachika la u-Baba wa Taifa wa Mafisadi.Kingunge ni mnafiki mkubwa kwa vile wakati anadai kuwa viongozi wa kanisa "wangeufyata" laiti Mwalimu angekuwa hai,sijui yeye Kingunge angemwambia nini anaposimama kidete kutetea mafisadi.

Haya ndio madhara ya kuviacha vikongwe madarakani hadi vinapoteza uwezo wa kufikiri.Na huyu ni mshauri wa kiongozi wa nchi!Kama uwezo wake binafsi wa kufikiri umefikia kikomo atawezaje kumshauri mtu mwingine,achilia mbali kiongozi wa nchi?

Kwanini adai waraka wa kanisa utawagawa Watanzania lakini akae kimya pale chama chake cha CCM kilipocheza karata-tatu ya kisiasa kilipoahidi (katika manifesto yake ya uchaguzi 2005) uanzishwaji wa mahakama ya kadhi kwa Waislam?Binafsi,sina tatizo na uanzishwaji wa mahakama ya kadhi iwapo mambo flani muhimu yatazingatiwa,lakini kwa uendeshaji wa mambo kwa mtindo wa zima moto,au pata potea,ni dhahiri uamuzi huo wa mahakama ya kadhi unaweza kulipeleka pabaya taifa.Narudia,tatizo sio uanzishwaji au kuwepo kwa mahakama hiyo,bali ni ubabaishaji wa viongozi wetu katika kushughulikia uanzishwaji na uwepo wake pasipo kuathiri umoja wa kitaifa.

Na kikongwe huyu (Kingunge) mbona yuko kimya hadi leo baada ya chama chake kusuasua katika utekelezaji wa ahadi hiyo ya uanzishwaji wa mahakama ya kadhi?Kama uamuzi wa CCM kutaja katika manifesto yake juu ya suala hilo ulikuwa hatari (kwa mujibu wa wanaodhani hivyo),kitendo cha chama hicho kurushiana mpira kila kinapoulizwa na waahidiwa (Waislam) kuhusu utekelezaji ni cha hatari zaidi.

Tatizo la Kingunge kuhusu waraka wa kanisa haliko kwenye kile anachodai "kuijua vizuri nchi yetu" bali wasiwasi wake kwamba pindi waraka huo ukitekelezwa kwa vitendo basi yeye na mafisadi anaowatetea watakuwa katika wakati mgumu.Kwa lugha nyingine,Kingunge anatetea maslahi ya tabaka alilomo na analoliwakilisha (mafisadi).

Hivi ni lini umewahi kumsikia Kingunge akikemea ufisadi?Hivi Kanisa lingetoa wapi wazo la kujana waraka huo laiti kikongwe hiki cha siasa kingesimama kidete kuendeleza harakati za Mwalimu kupambana na unyonyaji?Badala ya kutueleza yeye anafanya nini kuhakikisha nchi inakwenda vizuri anakimbil;ia kukosoa wengine kuwa wanataka kuipeleka nchi pabaya.

Halafu inakera zaidi kumskikia babu huyu akijifanya kama yeye ndio mwenye hatimili ya historia,mwelekeo na chochote kuhusu Tanzania.Eti anakemea wenzake "wanaodakia hoja pasipo kujua vema tumefikaje hapa..."Tumefika hapa tulipo kwa sababu ya watu kama Kingunge,wanafiki waliojifika kwenye ngozi wa kondoo wakati wa Mwalimu kumbe ni mbwa mwitu wa kifisadi waliokuwa wakisubiri Mwalimu aondoke kwenye ulingo wa siasa kisha watufisadi.

Kingunge ni mtu hatari sana,na asipodhibitiwa ataiingiza nchi katika machafuko.Kishajizeekea,hajali litakalotukumba kwa vile ashachuma vya kutosha na anamsubiri Muumba amrejeshe mbele ya haki (na huko atakuwa na maswali lukuki ya kujibu atapokutana na Mwalimu).Ni muhimu kwa wanaomlea kikongwe huyu wakamhurumia kwa kumpatia pumziko haraka,la sivyo "atazidi kulikoroga".

Mungu ibariki Tanzania na waangamize mafisadi na watetezi wao,hususan wale wanaotaka ligi na wachunga kondoo wako.

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MGOGORO WA KIDIPLOMASIA KATIKA TAMASHA LA "FILIMBI"

Kuna tamasha kubwa la kimataifa linaloendelea jijini Glasgow.Wenyewe wanaliita World Pipe Band Championships.Ni mashindano ya bendi za kupuliza filimbi kama zile za brass band (pipes).Kumejitokeza mgogoro wa kiplomasia baada ya Wakala ya Mipaka ya Uingereza (UK Border Agency) kuwanyima viza wanabendi ya kupuliza filimbi kutoka Pakistan.Licha ya bendi hiyo inayojulikana kama Lahore Piping Band,msafara wa wafanyabiashara kutoka Pakistan nao umenyimwa viza.Kinachochochea zaidi songombingo hilo ni ukweli kwamba Glasgow na Lahore ni miji pacha (twin cities).

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12:34:56 7/8/9 ULIKUMBUKA TUKIO ADIMU LILILOJIRI LEO?

Kwa mfumo wa tarehe za "kwetu" tunaanza na tarehe kisha mwezi,tofauti na wenzetu wa kwa Obama ambao wanaanza na mwenzi kisha tarehe.Yaani,kwa hapa,na kama ilivyo huko nyumbani TZ,ni tarehe 07/08/09 japo kwa wenzetu wa US itaandikwa 08/07/09.Basi,leo mchana kulikuwa na tukio adimu katika uhai wa wengi.Kama inavyoonekana pichani juu,kuna muda saa na kaelnda ilisomeka 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9,yaani saa 12 na dk 34 na sekunde 56 tarehe 7 mwezi wa nane mwaka 2009 (12:34:56 7/8/9).Ulikumbuka kuhusu tukio hili?

MHAMASISHA VITA DHIDI YA MAFUA YA NGURUWE NAYE AAMBUKIZWA....

Na the funny side ya "maadhimisho" hayo ni habari hapa Uingereza kwamba jamaa aliyetumika katika tangazo la "Wizara" ya Afya katika runinga kuhamasisha jamii dhidi ya mafua ya nguruwe (swine flu) nae ameambukizwa ugonjwa huo.Msanii Davidi McCusker (pichani juu).Hata hivyo,lililo dhahiri ni kwamba maambukizo hayo hayana mahusiano na ushiriki wa msaanii huyo David McCusker katika tangazo hilo.

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BOOST FOR MIGRANTS WHO CHOSE TO SETTLE IN SCOTLAND

IMMIGRANTS who come to live and work in Scotland could have a better chance of earning full UK citizenship, it was revealed yesterday.

The Home Office unveiled plans for an Australian-style points systems for foreigners who want to settle in Britain.

Workers from overseas will receive extra points based on their skills and qualifications. Once they have enough points, they will be able to move to Britain permanently.

It also emerged yesterday that extra points will be given to migrants who settle in parts of the UK where population is set to fall - such as Scotland.

The move would build on the Fresh Talent Initiative, set up by former first minister Jack McConnell to let foreign students stay after graduation.

A Home Office spokesman said: "There are parts of the country where spaces in the workforce aren't being filled by UK residents and could very easily be filled by hard-working migrants."

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy last night said he was "pleased" at the move.

He added:"Our need for a growing population is ranked alongside the need to recruit to occupations where we have a shortage."

SNP MP Pete Wishart gave the plans a cautious welcome. He said:"The Home Office must demonstrate the new points based immigration system is fit for Scottish purpose.

"Scotland's population and immigration requirements are completely different from the rest of the UK and this has to be recognised when points are added up."

SOURCE: The Scottish Daily Record

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AMIRI JESHI MKUU ANAPOTANGAZA VITA DHIDI YA ASKARI WAKE

Na Awila Silla, Singida

RAIS Jakaya Kikwete ametangaza vita dhidi ya askari wa usalama barabarani ili waweze kufanya kazi kwa kufuata sheria na kanuni za nchi.

Kikwete alitoa kauli hiyo nzito mkoani Singida alipozungumzia kero kubwa ya ajali nchini ambayo alisema inakwamisha juhudi za serikali kuleta maendeleo kwa wananchi.

"Na nyie watu wa usalama barabani manaendekeza urafiki na madereva wa nini badala ya kukagua gari mnazunguka nyuma ya gari na makonda kufanya nini? huku umeona kabisa gari bovu na dereva hana leseni, nawambia, safari hii naanza na nyie," alisema Rais akionyesha ukali

"Msinilazimishe sana niendelee kufoka kila siku wimbo umekuwa huo huo nimechoka jamani , Wizara mnafanya nini fanyeni kazi yenu fukuzeni hawa watu kama hawataki kufuata sheria warudi nyumbani kufua au wakafanye kazi nyingine" alisisitiza .

Mbali ya kauli hiyo nzito pia alisema haoni sababu ya kuendelea kufoka kuhusu baadhi ya matatizo ya ajali na badala yake aliitaka pia Wizara ya Mambo ya Ndani kuchukua hatua mathubuti kutatua matatizo hayo.

Alisema jukumu la sasa kwa Wizara hiyo ni pamoja na kuweka mpango mkakati wa utaratibu mpya wa sheria ya usalama barabarani juu utoaji leseni kwa madereva na kufanya marekebisho ya adhabu ambazo alisema zimepitwa na wakati.

Rais alisema hatua ambazo zinaweza kuchukuliwa chini ya wizara hiyo ni unyang'anywaji wa leseni bandia kwa madereva wasio na taaluma au wanaokiuka sheria na masharti ya usalama barabarani.

Kutokana na hilo aliitaka Wizara hiyo kuongeza ukali na kuondoa urafiki na ulegevu kwenye mambo yanayozuika ili kuboresha usalama wa barabara na kulinda uhai wa watu.

Akifafanua juu ya hilo Kikwete alisema licha ya matatizo mengi yanayojitokeza kwenye miundombinu hiyo, lakini utafiti unaonyesha kuwa asilimia kubwa ya ajali nyingi inatokana na matatizo ya kibinadamu ikiwemo uzembe wa madereva hao.

Kwa mujibu wa utafiti huo takribani asilimia 88 ya vifo hivyo kwa mwaka vilisababishwa na uzembe wa madereva,ulevi wa kupindukia na mwendo kasi.

Katika hatua nyingine alitoa mfano wa kusikitishwa na ajali mbaya ya basi la Kampuni ya Mohamedi iliyotokea hivi karibuni Wilayani Korogwe mkoani Tanga na kusababisha vifo vya watu vya zaidi ya watu 28,jambo alilokemea kutohitaji lisikia tena.

Alisema badala ya serikali kufanya ubinadamu mwema kwa wananchi lakini imekuwa ikilazimika kutuma salamu za rambirambi kwa vifo vinavyotokana ama kusababishwa na uzembe wa wachache huku ikiwa na majukumu mengi hatua aliyosema kuwa imechangia kuzorotesha maendeleo.

Aidha ametaja sababu nyingine kuwa ni pamoja na mashindano ya uendeshaji baina ya magari unaotokana na matajiri wa magari hayo hususani wa mabasi kutaka madereva hao kufika mapema kwenye vituo lengwa kwa kile kinachodaiwa cha kuwapa takrima ama posho nzuri nje ya mshahara anaopata.

Rais Kikwete alisema hayo jana kwenye uzinduzi wa miradi mikuu 3 ya barabara iliyofanyi kwenye eneo la Kititimo yenye urefu wa km 224 ya mikoa ya Singida, Manyara na Arusha (Singida, Babati na Minjingu) iliyoko kwenye mchakato wa ujenzi kwa kiwango cha lami kwa miaka 3.

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KATIKA KUMSAIDIA MHESHIMIWA RAIS,AMBAYE PIA NI AMIRI JESHI MKUU WA MAJESHI YA ULINZI NA USALAMA,KIINI CHA TATIZO NI RUSHWA NA UFISADI.LAITI AHADI ZA 2005 ZA KUPAMBANA NA RUSHWA ZINGETIMIZWA NI DHAHIRI TATIZO LA AJALI ZINAZOSABABISHWA NA TRAFIKI KUTOTEKELEZA MAJUKUMU YAO IPASAVYO (BAADA YA KUSHIKISHWA KITU KIDOGO) LINGEPUNGUA KWA KIASI KIKUBWA.

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Na bado itapojiri 2010 utaskia watu wazima na akili zao wamefungiwa baa au shuleni (na mgombea mmoja) ili wasinunuliwe na mgombea mwingine!Wawakilishi wetu wanafahamu kuwa hata wakizembea namna gani bado siasa itaendelea kuwa shughuli yenye mvuto mkubwa miongoni mwa wananchi kuliko jambo lolote lile.

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