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OBAMA'S "NEW" MAIN OPPOSITION
Glenn Beck is the fastest-rising star on American TV. He's part of a right-wing broadcasting boom that's become the most powerful opposition to the President...CONTINUE.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
BAADA YA MWAKYEMBE,KIMARO NAE AJALINI
MHH,AJALI ZINAZOWAANDAMA WABUNGE "WA AINA MOJA" ZINAWEZA KUZUA MASWALI YA NAMNA FLANI JAPO YAWEZEKANA KABISA KUWA NI AJALI KAMA NYINGINEZO.HEBU SOMA KWANZA HABARI IFUATAYO,KISHA TUJIULIZE MASWALI MAWILI MATATU:
Ally Sonda na Rehema Matowo, Mwanga
MBUNGE wa Jimbo la Vunjo, Aloyce Kimaro amenusurika kufa baada ya gari lake alilokuwa akisafiria kuparamia mawe yaliyopangwa barabarani na kupata ajali usiku wa kuamkia jana. Habari zilizolifikia gazeti hili jana na kuthibitishwa na Kimaro na polisi zinasema kuwa, ajali hiyo ilitokea katika kijiji cha Mikongeni kata ya Lembeni wilayani Mwanga, Kilimanjaro kwenye barabara kuu ya Moshi-Tanga, akiwa safarini kutoka Dar es Salaam kwenda jimboni kwake.
Kwa mujibu wa habari hizo, wakati ajali hiyo inatokea, Kimaro alikuwa na rafiki yake Joseph Temu ambaye ndiye aliyekuwa anaendesha gari hilo aina ya Mercedes Benz akiwa na mkewe na watoto wake watatu. Katika ajali hiyo hakuna aliyejeruhiwa.
Kimaro alisema baada ya ajali hiyo mfanyabiashara wa Mwanga, Shafii Hasanal alitoa msaada wa kulivuta gari hilo hadi kwenye kituo cha mafuta Kisangara.
Kamanda wa Polisi mkoani Kilimanjaro, Lucas Ng’hoboko alisema kuwa ajali hiyo ilitokea saa 2:30 usiku, chanzo kikiwa ni mawe makubwa na matofali yaliyokuwa yamepangwa barabarani katika eneo lenye kona na mlima.
Kamanda Ng’hoboko alisema kuwa watu wanaosadikiwa kuwa ni wezi, walipanga mawe hayo barabarani kwa lengo la kusababisha ajali ili kuwaibia abiria.
“Gari ya mbunge huyo ilipofika katika eneo hilo likiwa katika mwendo wa kawaida na mbele yao kukiwa na lori ambalo liliweza kuyapita mawe hayo bila tatizo, wao walipojaribu kuyapita tairi la mbele upande wa kulia na ‘sampo’ ya gari hilo vilipasuka wakashindwa kuendelea na safari,” alisema Ng’hoboko.
Kamanda huyo alisema kuwa miaka ya nyuma eneo hilo lilikuwa na matukio mengi ya aina hiyo ambayo yameanza kujitokeza upya, kwa kuwa awali wananchi wa eneo hilo kwa kushirikiana na polisi walikuwa wameyamaliza. Alibainisha kuwa polisi wanafanya operesheni ili kuwadhibiti wezi hao na kuwasaka waliohusika na tukio hilo ili wafikishwe mbele ya sheria.Kimaro ni miongoni mwa wabunge waliojitokeza hadharani kupambana na vitendo vya ufisadi. Mwaka jana aliibua hoja bungeni kutaka, Rais Mstaafu, Benjamin Mkapa ashitakiwe kwa kutumia madaraka vibaya ya kufanya biashara akiwa ikulu.
Hii ni ajali ya pili inayohusisha wabunge kutokea ndani ya wiki mbili baada ya ajali iliyomhusisha mbunge wa Kyela, Dk Harrison Mwakyembe iliyotokea eneo la Ihemi, Ifunda mkoani Iringa. Dk Mwakyembe, alinusurika kifo baada ya gari alilokuwa akisafiria kutoka Kyela kwenda Dar es Salaam kuacha njia na kupinduka.
Ripoti ya polisi iliyotolewa wiki hii ilieleza kwamba ajali hiyo ilitokana na uzembe wa dereva, lakini mbunge huyo ameiponda na kuifananisha na ripoti ya mpiga ramli kwa vile haikuzingatia vigezo na utaalamu katika uchunguzi.CHANZO: Mwananchi
NAAMINI WENGI WETU TUNAKUMBUKA AJALI ILIYOMHUSISHA MHESHIMIWA CHEYO a.k.a "Mzee wa Vijisenti" AMBAYO ILIPELEKEA VIFO VYA WATU WAWILI.TOFAUTI KATI YA AJALI YA CHENGE NA HIZI ZA MWAKYEMBE NA KIMARO NI REACTION YA POLISI.BAADA YA GARI LA CHENGE KUUA,SIKUWAHI KUSIKIA RPC AU RTC AKIKURUPUKA KUELEZA CHANZO CHA AJALI HUSIKA (JAPO KATIKA MAZINGIRA YA KAWAIDA,NI RAHISI KUIHUSISHA AJALI YA SAA 10 ALFAJIRI NA STIMU ZA KILEVI).BADALA YAKE ILIUNDWA TUME AMBAYO HADI LEO HAIJATUELEZA MATOKEO YA UCHUNGUZI WAKE (IF AT ALL ILIFANYA UCHUNGUZI).WORSE STILL,INAELEZWA KUWA WAKATI AJALI HIYO INATOKEA GARI LA CHENGE LILIKUWA NA BIMA ILIYOISHA MUDA WAKE.
ALIPOPATA AJALI MWAKYEMBE,RPC AKAKURUPUKA NA KUDAI KWAMBA CHANZO CHA AJALI NI MWENDO MKALI NA SHIMO LILILOKUWA BARABARANAI.BAADAYE TUME YA KAMANDA KOMBE IKAZIDI KUCHANGANYA MADAWA KWA KUTOA FINDINGS AMBAZO SI TU ZIMEINGILIA KAZI YA MAHAKAMA KWA KUWAHUKUMU MWAKYEMBE (kuwa alikuwa amelala wakati wa ajali) NA DEREVA WAKE (kwa uzembe) LAKINI PIA HAZIKUHUSISHA MAELEZO YA MWAKYEMBE KWA VILE HAKUHOJIWA NA TUME HIYO!
KINGINE CHA KUSHANGAZA NI KWAMBA WHILE KWENYE AJALI YA CHENGE,DEREVA WA BAJAJI NA MMILIKI WAKE WALIAMRIWA KUJISALIMISHA POLISI MARA MOJA,HATUJASIKIA KAULI YOYOTE KUTOKA KWA POLISI KUHUSU DEREVA WA LORI LILIOHUSIKA KWENYE AJALI YA MWAKYEMBE!
NA SASA KATIKA AJALI YA KIMARO TUNAELEZWA KUWA MAWE HAYO YALIPANGWA NA WEZI.HOW DID THE POLICE KNOW KUWA WALIOFANYA HIVYO NI WEZI NA SIO WATU WALIOKUWA WANAWINDA UHAI WA MHESHIMIWA KIMARO?KWANINI(ANGALAU KWA KUTUZUGA) ISIUNDWE TUME KAMA ILE YA AJALI YA CHENGE AMBAPO HAKUKUWA HATA HAJA YA KUFANYA SPECULATION LET ALONE KUUNDA TUME?
CALL ME A CONSPIRACY THEORIST,LAKINI NADHANI AJALI HIZI ZINA TAFSIRI KUBWA ZAIDI YA TUNACHOSIKIA AU KUONA KWA MACHO YETU.LET'S WAIT AND SEE!
Friday, May 29, 2009
KUMBUKUMBU YA MAREHEMU ADELINA MAPANGO
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ILIKUWA SIKU,WIKI,MIEZI NA SASA UMETIMIA MWAKA TANGU BWANA ALIPOKUCHUKUA MPENDWA WETU MAMA ADELINA MAPANGO (Mama CHAHALI).PENGO ULILOTUACHIA HALITOZIBIKA MILELE.KINACHOTULIWAZA NI MAPENZI YA BWANA.JAPO SIE TULIKUPENDA,LAKINI YEYE ALIKUPENDA ZAIDI,NA NDIO MAANA AKAKUCHUKUA SAA4.30 USIKU WA TAREHE 29/05/2008.JAPO HAUKO NASI KIMWILI,LAKINI TUKO SOTE KIROHO.
KWA NIABA YA FAMILIA YA MZEE PHILEMON CHAHALI,NACHUKUA FURSA HII KUTOA SHUKRANI ZA DHATI KWA WOTE WALIOSHIRIKIANA NASI KWA NAMNA MOJA AU NYINGINE KATIKA SALA/DUA WAKATI TUNAMUUGUZA MAREHEMU ADELINA,NA SAPOTI MLIYOTUPATIA KUTUFARIJI BAADA YA MSIBA.BWANA AWABARIKI SANA.
BWANA ALITOA,BWANA ALITWAA.JINA LAKE LIHIMIDIWE MILELE,AMEN.
PUMZIKO LA MILELE UMPE EE BWANA,NA MWANGA WA MILELE UMWANGAZIE.APUMZIKE KWA AMANI.AMEEN
KWA NIABA YA FAMILIA YA MZEE PHILEMON CHAHALI,NACHUKUA FURSA HII KUTOA SHUKRANI ZA DHATI KWA WOTE WALIOSHIRIKIANA NASI KWA NAMNA MOJA AU NYINGINE KATIKA SALA/DUA WAKATI TUNAMUUGUZA MAREHEMU ADELINA,NA SAPOTI MLIYOTUPATIA KUTUFARIJI BAADA YA MSIBA.BWANA AWABARIKI SANA.
BWANA ALITOA,BWANA ALITWAA.JINA LAKE LIHIMIDIWE MILELE,AMEN.
PUMZIKO LA MILELE UMPE EE BWANA,NA MWANGA WA MILELE UMWANGAZIE.APUMZIKE KWA AMANI.AMEEN
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Friday, May 22, 2009
REAL-LIFE PRISON BREAK IN MEXICO
Astonishing video footage was released today showing prison guards allowing dangerous drug traffickers to stroll out of a Mexican jail without a word of protest.
Now the prison’s entire 51-member staff – including the warden – are themselves behind bars facing a major corruption probe into whether kickbacks were paid to the poorly-paid guards in return for them turning a blind eye to the escape.
A total of 53 inmates walked past guards and were ferried to freedom in a convoy of fake police cars in the most brazen example yet of the sway held by Mexico’ s powerful drug cartels.
At least a dozen of the escapees were drug suspects and others carried out crimes like kidnapping and extortion that are linked to trafficking. It was only after the inmates had fled that the guards leaped into action ‘Jim Carrey-style' to act like they were trying to prevent the break-out.
The action – of lack of it – was all caught on security cameras at the prison in Cieneguillas in Mexico’s northern state of Zacatecas. Interpol described the worst of the criminals, who escaped without firing a shot, as ‘a risk to the safety and security of citizens around the world.’
The inmates stole 23 guns from a prison storage room before walking out through the front gates.
A prison spokesman said the police uniforms worn by the getaway drivers and the fleet of police cars that pulled up outside the prison with flashing lights to ferry away the escapees were all fakes.
But investigators refused to rule out the possibility of police involvement.
Last night’s outcry over the film footage was another major blow to the Mexican government mired in a bloody war with drug cartels that, along with the swine flu outbreak, has devastated tourism. The video was released by the Attorney General’s office after it was leaked to the Reforma newspaper. It shows bored looking guards watching television and stepping aside as a group of prisoners burst in.
A second camera catches two guards opening the front gate to allow in the getaway convoy. Eight gunmen wearing police jackets then escort the inmates to the cars waiting in the car park. When the prisoners have fled, the guards can be seen suddenly coming to life, some running towards the gate and others crouching with their guns drawn.
Mexico’s Reforma newspaper said the guards appear to be over-acting for the cameras, looking like extras in a film by comedian Jim Carrey. All the guards on duty at the time of the escape, along with the prison director and senior officials are being held for 30 days pending an investigation into their possible involvement.
Two of the men who escaped were arrested in January by soldiers who discovered 11.4 tons of marijuana at a house belonging to a local state senator. Mexico has long struggled to reduce corruption and ineptitude in its justice system. President Felipe Calderon has acknowledged that jailed drug traffickers often operate from behind bars, and has extradited a record number of drug dealers to serve time in more secure US prisons.
Two prison guards are serving up to 19 years for aiding the escape of Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. He rode out of prison in Jalisco state in a laundry cart after bribing guards in 2001. And Otto Garcia, who helped turn Guatemala into a corridor for US-bound cocaine, escaped in May 2005 from a jail in southern Mexico City.
That jail's warden, his deputy and 10 others were arrested for allegedly accepting bribes to facilitate his freedom.
SOURCE: The Daily Mail
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
2009/10 BUDGET:ACTIONS,NOT WORDS,SHOULD EXPRESS OUR PRIORITIES
Government axe to fall on luxury spending
*Budget procuring of government vehicles to be strictly prohibited, Cut down of maintenance and running cost of vehicles .
*Funds to be saved in the process will be channelled to financing core activities
By Ray Naluyaga
The Government plans to curb luxury spending in the next Budget, as part of its comprehensive measures to cut costs, the Treasury says.
The implementation of the proposals will see a 10 per cent expenditure ceiling on the administrative costs of funds allocated for development projects.
The measures, according to the ministry of Finance, also reflect the Government's intention to ensure effective use of available resources.
Also targeted in the expenditure control and cost reduction is the tendency in the Government to buy luxury vehicles for use by civil servants, the proliferation of seminars and workshops, allowances, trips by public officials and spending on government hospitality.
The Treasury says allocations to those areas will be reduced and the saved funds channelled into financing core activities. And accounting officers have been instructed to strictly scrutinise and vet such expenses.
There will also be regular inspections of public sector payrolls to, among other things, ascertain their authenticity. This will also ensure that employees removed from the payroll for any reason,death, retirement or dismissal stay off it.
Two experts interviewed yesterday commended the Government move. An activist for good governance, Mr Moses Kulaba, said recurrent expenditure items constituted up to 70 per cent of the total development project budgets.
Deloitte senior tax manager Edward Mwachinga said the expenditure on "managerial issues has been a double tragedy for the national Budget, with seminars and workshops wasting a lot of time and resources.
Those activities, he added, took people away from their workstations with no value being added to their productivity in the end. As result, he said, they were, in fact, inhibiting productivity.
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"While recurrent expenditure items can't be completely avoided in development projects, to cater for administrative costs, accounting officers are required to ensure that such costs do not constitute more than 10 per cent of total project cost," the Treasury notes in its Budget preparation document.
The Medium Term Plan and Budget Guidelines for 2009/10 -2011/12 says that many development projects constitute more recurrent items than the development ones. That, the document explains, has greatly contributed to failure to implement or complete some projects.
In the forthcoming budget, project funding is forecast at about Sh2.8 trillion, up from Sh2.4 trillion in the current financial year. This time around, local funding of development expenditure will be Sh1 trillion instead of Sh940 billion during 2008/09."In ensuring accountability in using public resources, accounting officers are required to adhere to the approved budgets," the Treasury says.
"Ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), regions and local government authorities (LGAs) will have to exercise a high degree of financial discipline."
According to the document, the procuring of government vehicles "is strictly prohibited". Until further notice, it adds, no funds should be allocated for buying vehicles in the next financial year. Another measure to cut cost is the reduction of maintenance and running expenses of vehicles.
Seminars and workshops have been singled out as one of the items costing the Government dearly, thus contributing to increased expenditure. The Government has conceded that many of these are �unnecessarily conducted in expensive hotels".
Those that will be held after getting approval from the Prime Minister's Office will now be hosted in public institutions, according to the new directives.
"Starting from this financial year, accounting officers are required to seek approval to conduct seminars and workshops from the Prime Minister's Office," the Treasury says.
On per diem and travel allowances, the Government says, accounting officers must ensure that every expenditure incurred has value for money. The only foreign trips that will be authorised will be those of national interest, and which reflect the expected returns.
Furniture bought should be of high quality. The Treasury advises against the tendency to procuring expensive imported furniture that is less durable than locally made items. The Government also expects to curb costs in the public procurement and management.
"A big portion of public expenditure is on procurement of works, goods and services. Accounting officers and public procurement units should take measures to improve supervision and monitoring of purchases."
Deloitte tax manager Mwachinga said that under the current circumstances, the Government had had no choice but to initiate cost cutting measures.
"Taxpayers' money has for many years been used to pay public officials' fat allowances to attend seminars and workshops in expensive luxury hotels where what they do is have a good time," he said.
Mr Kulaba warning the Government against failure to implement the cost-cutting measures, as had been the practice in the past. However, he welcomed the zeal with which Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has been dealing with the matter to curb wastefulness in the Government.
SOURCE: The Citizen.Cartoons courtersy of Kipanya
HOW OFTEN HAVE WE HEARD THAT?DIFFERENT BEATS BUT SAME LYRICS.ONLY EXCUSE NOW,THE CURRENT GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS.THAT'S SIMPLY ALL TALK,BUT DON'T EXPECT ANY SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS.
COST-CUSTING MEASURES SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD NEWS TO EVERY MWANANCHI,BUT WE HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE.REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE TOLD AFTER THE 1978-79 TZ-UGANDA WAR?"TUFUNGE MIKANDA" (WE SHOULD TIGHTEN OUR BELTS).IRONICALLY,MOST OF OUR LEADERS COULDN'T DO SO NOT BECAUSE MADUKA YA KAYA HAD RUN OUT OF STOCK OF BELTS,BUT RATHER THEIR WAISTS WERE TOO LARGE TO BE TIGHTENED!HOWEVER,IN THE SPIRIT OF AMANI NA UTULIVU AND UMOJA NA MSHIKAMANO THE MAJORITY OF US (WALALAHOI) HAD TO DO IT FOR THE PRIVILEGED FEW (VINGUNGE).
OKAY,WE COULD AGREE TO ADHERE TO WISDOM OF OUR FOREFATHERS THAT "YALIYOPITA SI NDWELE,TUGANGE YAJAYO" (LET BYGONES BE BYGONES),AND AGREE WITH THE PROPOSED MEASURES.BUT,COST-CUTTING AT WHOSE EXPENSE?MAFISADI OR WANANCHI?HOW SUCH MEASURES MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN OUR SELFISH MPs UNASHAMEDLY PROPOSE TO SKYROCKET THEIR SALARIES FROM THE CURRENT Tshs 7 Million PER MONTH TO Tshs 12 Million ? Tuesday, May 19, 2009
IN MIDST OF UFISADI,CAN WE REALLY FINANCE COMING BUDGET BY 65%?
Source of funds remains elusive
By Costantine Sebastian
Poor revenue collections, the unpredictability of donor funds and an economy reeling from the biting global recession -- the challenges for the 2009/10 national budget seem just too much to bear.
After months of wallowing in the global economic crisis, the Government should now be talking about finding a way to fund the next budget and get the economy going.
Early this month, President Jakaya Kikwete hinted at the uncertainty of funds for the budget when he revealed that domestic revenues are expected to continue on the downward path since the global crisis was persisting.
While source of funds for the current budget were considered evasive at a time the crunch had not hit this part of the world hard enough, economists predict the worst is yet to come.
Economists say there would be major problems implementing the Government's financial plan for the 2009/10 year.
This is largely due to the falling revenue collections and the unpredictability of donor support caused by the recession that has adversely affected Western donor countries, they say.
For instance, the depletion of tax revenue this year will see the outturn of the current budget falling to Sh6.98 trillion instead of the planned Sh7.22 trillion.
And budget preparation documents confirm the Government's awkward fiscal position. Some economists have raised concerns that the desire to fulfill political promises would make the situation even more desperate.
Decreasing revenues
In the medium term, the Treasury puts domestic revenue at 17 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the forthcoming fiscal year from 17.7 per cent in 2008/09 while aid will fall to 8.9 per cent from 9.1 per cent during the same period.
The Treasury asserts that the overall resource envelope in 2009/10 will decrease to 25.9 per cent of the GDP, which is a 0.2 per cent decline compared to the current fiscal year.
"This trend will persist and reach 22.8 per cent in 2011/12, primarily on account of the projected decline in foreign assistance," the document on resource envelope and expenditure reads in part.
It also notes that foreign aid will further plummet in the medium term to 5.3 per cent of the GDP.
2010 Elections
And the 2010 elections will not take the Government out of its tight corners. Instead, they are widely expected to make the financing and management of the forthcoming budget even more difficult.
"Although the elections will come in the second half of 2010, and therefore a subject matter of the 2010/11 budget, they are expected to impact the 2009/10 budget substantially," Mr Honest Ngowi, an economist and lecturer at Mzumbe University, said.
He added: "The Government will naturally want to be voted back into office. As such, among other things, it will have to deliver on its previous election manifesto."
Mr Ngowi says the "unfulfilled promises" are major poverty reduction projects that would require financing from State coffers.
He based his predictions on the economic theory of government opportunism, which states that sitting governments would to do everything in their power to win support before a competitive election.
In the case of Tanzania, he said, the Government would attempt to implement a number of infrastructure, health, education, water and other social service projects in order to win votes, come 2010.
World Bank economist for the East Africa Poverty Reduction & Economic Management unit, Mr Paolo Zacchia, said Tanzania faces huge budgetary challenges under the prevailing circumstances.
He said the dire situation was evidenced by the failure to meet revenue targets during the current financial year and poor performance of key sectors such as mining and tourism.
Rescue packages?
Yet while Tanzania's budget is heavily dependent on donor funding, last year, donor funds for the 2008/09 budget did not come on a silver plate.
Donors clearly spelt out their conditions: governance issues needed to be sorted out first before any funding pledge could be fulfilled.
The donors, probably irked by corruption among senior government officials, were apparently reluctant to release the general support funds.
Most of them had, however, honoured their commitments by February this year.
And once more the Government is expected to get a kick out of rescue packages pledged by the Bretton Woods institutions and other bilateral donors like the US.
Tanzania recently received a $340 million (Sh452.2 billion) fiscal stimulus from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The World Bank has also promised another bailout package of about $200 million (Sh266 billion).
The major challenge though is how far that crumb of comfort would go to salvage the Government from the 2009/10 budget ordeal.
According to the World Bank economist, the main difficulty faced in financing the current budget was offset by domestic borrowing, which is expected to persist during this coming year.
Excessive domestic borrowing is often said to affect credit lines for the private sector and cause interest rates to skyrocket.
"But borrowing domestically is inevitable, yet it has to be done carefully to avoid a negative impact on interest rates," Mr Zacchia cautioned.
The Government is obviously walking on eggshells before it comes up with a realistic and workable budget amid the global crisis that has started to take its toll on the people.
Key economic sectors stunned by the crunch need to be rescued, otherwise revenue sources will continue to take a nosedive and thousands of people will lose their jobs.
By March, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) had managed to collect only about 70 per cent of the budgeted Sh4,485 billion tax collections, missing the target for the three quarters by about Sh279.2 billion.
Tax revenue constitutes nearly 95 per cent of the domestic resources that were required to finance government expenditure in the current financial year and about 62.2 per cent of the total budget.
The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) said in a March report the cumulative budget deficit of Sh750.7 billion by February was one per cent above the expected level.
"The (July 2008-February 2009) deficit was financed through foreign borrowing to the tune of Sh674.4 billion, and the balance through domestic borrowing," the central bank noted in the March monthly economic review (MER).
SOURCE: The Citizen
LET'S WAIT AND SEE!
HOUSE OF COMMONS SPEAKER QUITS OVER EXPENSES SCANDAL
...and OURS is strongly defending a proposal by our lawmakers to raise their current salary (Tshs 7 Million) to Tshs 12Million.!!!
ISRAEL'S SHIN BET WARNS OF FACEBOOK "SPIES"
Israel's internal intelligence service urged the public today to exercise caution when using Facebook, saying Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site.
The Shin Bet security agency warned Israelis against answering unsolicited messages or sharing telephone numbers and other sensitive information over the Internet. It said there have been numerous incidents recently in which violent groups tried to recruit Israelis through Facebook and other networking sites...continue
SOURCE: The Independent
SO,SIZE REALLY MATTERS...WELL,FINANCIALLY
Tall men earn more than their vertically challenged colleagues, research shows. An extra couple of inches in height can be worth hundreds of pounds in annual income...CONTINUESOURCE: The Daily Mail
Monday, May 18, 2009
A POLITICAL TIMEBOMB? MICHAEL MARTIN CONDEMNED AS "DEAD SPEAKER WALKING"
Michael Martin was condemned as a 'dead Speaker walking' last night after an unprecedented parliamentary mutiny against his rule. During historic scenes, five MPs directly confronted Mr Martin to tell him to resign, the first move to oust a sitting Speaker for more than 300 years...CONTINUE
SOURCE: The Daily Mail
SOURCE: The Daily MailCATASTROPHIC OWN GOAL BY RACIST BNP
The British National Party was accused of staging 'a cynical con' yesterday, after it was revealed that men featured on its keynote poster campaign are foreigners. One of the posters, which is being advertised up and down the country on a BNP truck, shows three men in hard-hats under the slogan 'British jobs for British workers'. But it has emerged they are in fact American models who posed for a photoshoot in the U.S....CONTINUE
SOURCE: The Daily Mail
BRIATAIN'S "MINI-BEYONCE" BULLIED FOR HER SINGING TALENT
That's according to The Daily Mail.Word of encouragement for the little angel is,however,what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
JAJI UFARANSA ARUHUSU UCHUNGUZI WA FEDHA ZA MARAIS WA AFRIKA
KATIKA KUZURURA KWANGU MTANDAONI NIMEKUTANA NA HABARI IFUATAYO,AMBAYO KAMA ITAKWENDA SAWA BASI INAWEZA KUFUNGUA FURSA KUBWA YA KUWAADABISHA MAFISADI.HEBU ISOME KWANZA,KISHA TUJIULIZE A senior judge in Paris is about to cause the French government serious embarrassment with an investigation into the allegedly stolen wealth of three African presidents who are closely allied to France.
Two previous complaints by an anti-corruption group have been buried under pressure by the French authorities. But the most senior investigating magistrate in Paris, Françoise Desset, has now agreed to investigate the portfolios – from chateâux to Ferraris to multiple bank accounts – owned by the ruling families of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo-Brazzaville.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is close to one of the three accused African leaders, Omar Bongo of Gabon, must decide in the next few days whether to order an appeal against the decision.
The investigation, which could last for many months, follows a formal complaint by a French open government pressure group, Transparence International. Daniel Lèbegue, the organisation's president, said the ruling
by Judge Desset was a "historic decision, which could mean the end of the impunity for corrupt leaders around the globe".
"This is the first time, anywhere in the world, that a judge has recognised the right of a non-governmental organisation to bring a law suit in the names of victims of corruption," he said.
The NGO's legal complaint claims that the three families' wealth "could only have been assembled through the embezzlement of public money". The organisation's lawyer, William Bourdon, said: "Each luxury apartment bought by President Bongo's clan is a public hospital less in Libreville."
Two previous law suits brought by Transparence International were blocked after pressure by the French public prosecutor's office,which is under government control. Judge Desset decided this week that there was a possible case.
According to information leaked to the French newspaper Libération, President Bongo – the longest serving leader in sub-Saharan Africa – has property in France worth tens of millions of euros. He and his family are thought to have 70 different bank accounts, several chateaux and 11 houses and apartments in and around Paris.
They also have a family compound in Nice, extending to three houses, two apartments and a swimming pool. The Bongo family car fleet is said to include two Ferraris and five Mercedes.
The family of President Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville – one of the poorest countries in the world – is estimated by French police to have 11 bank accounts, 13 luxury cars and nine properties in the Paris area. President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea is reported to have a more modest portfolio of a private jet, two luxury cars and a $35m villa in Malibu, California.
M. Bourdon predicted that the state prosecution service would appeal against the judge's decision. "I fear that it will become obvious that the prosecution service is the tool of raison d'etat in France," he said.
If the investigation does go ahead, it could lead to a prosecution of the African leaders but this would be unlikely to succeed without state backing. Transparence International's main objective seems to be to embarrass the three presidents – something that it has already achieved.
President Sassou-Nguesso has dismissed the legal moves against him as an "echo of neocolonialism". In 2007, he said: "Every leader in the world has chateaux and palaces in France, whether they are from the Gulf, from Europe or from Africa."
SOURCE: The Independent
SIE TUNANGOJA NINI?
ONLY IN TANZANIA.....
How a deported `EPA mogul` enjoys Dar`s life His dodgy deals cost the government $100million in 1994, but he is today walking and living freely in Dar es Salaam despite the Parliamentary recommendations that he should be arrested and prosecuted immediately.
The man who in 1994 set up and then stole from the debt buy-back programme that is now known as the External Payment Arrears (EPA) account has been living in the country for the last five years despite being declared a prohibited immigrant.
Vidyadhar G. Chavda, an Indian citizen, first came to Tanzania in 1978 without a penny to his name, according to his own words quoted in a 1994 parliamentary report, but after years of working here as an architect he moved into the finance services industry and orchestrated a number of very lucrative, very shoddy deals.
Chavda approached the government with his idea for the creation of the Debt Conversion Programme (DCP) - which sought to reduce the country’s outstanding debts by selling them off to third parties at discounted prices - the deal that cost the country Sh50bn/- ($100m at that time prevailing exchange rate) in taxpayer money from the programme.
“I came to this country without a single penny, a beggar…but I came with a brain worth millions of dollars supported by education and exposure,” Chavda said after the news of his multibillion-shilling scandal broke in 1994.
“The DCP funds were brought totally by my idea and efforts,” he said at the time. “What I have done is beyond the sphere of understanding Parliament…it is a purely financial issue which nobody is capable of grasping.”
To repair the economic damage caused by his sleazy deals, the Central Bank of Tanzania (BoT) was forced to print billions of shillings in 1994.
After his scandal was thoroughly investigated by the Parliamentary Committee chaired by Edward Oyombe Ayila, Chavda was finally deported in 1996, though he was not charged with any wrongdoing.
Despite being deported, Chavda had already caused a strong political rift within the ruling party, and then-minister for home affairs Augustine Mrema resigned because he disagreed with the way the scandal was handled.
In its recommendations, the Parliamentary Committee advised Chavda’s immediate arrest and prosecution for fraud, violation of the Foreign Exchange Act of 1992 and giving false statements contrary to section 122, 309 and 346 of the country’s penal code.
The Committee further recommended that legal action be taken against all traders and lawyers who conspired with Chavda for economic sabotage, and it urged the concerned authorities to cancel the business licenses for those who collaborated with him, including Subhash Patel.
Surprisingly only one recommendation was implemented - to revoke Chavda’s residence permit and deport him - essentially letting him and his partner off the hook.
He is now back in Tanzania where he has been living in the Masaki suburb of Dar es Salaam for the last five years, according to reliable details obtained by The Guardian on Sunday this week.
How he played the game
Having managed to shake the Parliamentary Committee that was formed to investigate him, Chavda carefully planned his comeback in 1997 just three years after he was deported.
On March 18, 1997, Chavda, acting through his lawyers Mkono & Company, asked the High Court of Tanzania to issue a Witness Summons to allow him to testify on August 5 of that year in a pending civil case brought by his wife against him, Civil Case No 130 of 1993.
His wife, an Indian citizen who had continued living in Tanzania legally after Chavda was deported, was suing him over a family financial dispute.
On April 1, 1997, the High Court wrote to the Director of Immigration seeking clarification on the legal position of Chavda’s status once he arrived in the country to testify.
As such, the Director of Immigration informed Mkono & Company on September 25, 1997, that Chavda had been given a visa for 30 days to allow him to enter the country only to testify in court.
Later findings from the court show, however, that during that 30-day period, the civil case was not scheduled for a hearing and Chavda’s claims that he needed to appear in court lacked grounds. His visa expired and he left the country, but with the intention to come back yet again.
Having identified a loophole in the system that could be exploited, Chavda planned a comeback in January 2002 centred on another ‘necessary’ appearance in court.
Chavda again had his lawyers - this time from the firm Gomba & Tadayo - write to the High Court requesting a Witness Summons to testify in Civil Case No 74 of 1996, a separate civil case filed by the National Bank of Commerce against him for an alleged 800m/- in outstanding loan repayments.
He was again allowed to enter the country after being given Entry Visa No 0000695 dated March 4, 2002. Chavda should have left within 28 days of the visa’s issuance, but he had stayed almost a year until the Director of Immigration caught on and ordered him to leave the country immediately.
According to details in our possession, Chavda then filed Miscellaneous Civil Case No 60 of 2003 asking the court to force the immigration department to grant him a visa so that he could testify in the two civil cases facing him.
On March 11, 2004, the High Court issued its ruling in Chavda’s favour, ordering the Director of Immigration to issue a two-year visa to the deportee.
One senior immigration official in Dar es Salaam told The Guardian on Sunday this week that the decision to grant Chavda the visa was both illogical and indefensible.
“The law is very clear; he should be outside the country and is only allowed to come once needed or summoned by the court,” said the official, who asked for anonymity on the grounds that he is not the department’s official spokesperson.
“A hearing can’t take two years, it is just one or a few weeks as long as the pending cases are civil cases.”
Chavda’s two-year visa expired in April 2006, but again neither of the two cases had been heard, and not even preliminary hearings had been held for either of them.
Following of the expiry of his visa, the office of the Attorney General wrote a letter on May 6, 2006, directing the Director of Immigration to act accordingly.
“Since the ruling date was March 11, 2004 then the time for stay in Tanzania has elapsed, and given the fact that Chavda didn’t appeal against the decision, now act according to the law on this issue,” reads part of the letter signed by D.L Chidowu on behalf of the AG.
Despite the AG’s letter, the immigration department has still not taken any action against Chavda.
In a May 25, 2007, letter to Professor Abdullah Safari of Safari Law Chambers - Chavda’s newest lawyer - the AG’s office wrote that it seemed the ministry of home affairs had flipped its position on the matter and was complicit in allowing Chavda to remain in the country.
“The issue of Chavda has taxed much this office. We as advocates of the government and chief legal advisers did our best to defend the position of the government in court to declare Chavda a prohibited immigrant…however it is now clear that the parent ministry [home affairs] has changed its previous position,” reads part of the letter signed by P. J Ngwembe on behalf of the AG.
When asked on Friday why Chavda was still being allowed to remain in Tanzania, Minister for Home Affairs Lawrence Masha was deliberately vague.
“It’s the government that has decided that he should stay in the country because he is still needed,” Masha told The Guardian on Sunday.
The minister would not elaborate on why Chavda was ‘needed’ in the country when he was no longer involved in any currently pending civil cases.
The minister’s response is a curious departure from what his boss, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, told Parliament on April 30 this year, in response to a question asked by Kigoma North MP Zitto Kabwe.
The Prime Minister said he wasn’t aware whether Chavda was still in the country, but he promised to thoroughly investigate on which grounds the Asian tycoon was allowed to stay in Tanzania if he were.
The senior immigration official said this ‘confusion’ among top-ranking government officials speaks to the deliberate obfuscation and questionable protection surrounding Chavda and his status in the country.
“This is a man who was supposed to be arrested and charged with criminal offences but surprisingly he is today a free man enjoying the protection of some government officials and a group of Asian traders,” the senior immigration official said.
SOURCE: Guardian on Sunday
The man who in 1994 set up and then stole from the debt buy-back programme that is now known as the External Payment Arrears (EPA) account has been living in the country for the last five years despite being declared a prohibited immigrant.
Vidyadhar G. Chavda, an Indian citizen, first came to Tanzania in 1978 without a penny to his name, according to his own words quoted in a 1994 parliamentary report, but after years of working here as an architect he moved into the finance services industry and orchestrated a number of very lucrative, very shoddy deals.
Chavda approached the government with his idea for the creation of the Debt Conversion Programme (DCP) - which sought to reduce the country’s outstanding debts by selling them off to third parties at discounted prices - the deal that cost the country Sh50bn/- ($100m at that time prevailing exchange rate) in taxpayer money from the programme.
“I came to this country without a single penny, a beggar…but I came with a brain worth millions of dollars supported by education and exposure,” Chavda said after the news of his multibillion-shilling scandal broke in 1994.
“The DCP funds were brought totally by my idea and efforts,” he said at the time. “What I have done is beyond the sphere of understanding Parliament…it is a purely financial issue which nobody is capable of grasping.”
To repair the economic damage caused by his sleazy deals, the Central Bank of Tanzania (BoT) was forced to print billions of shillings in 1994.
After his scandal was thoroughly investigated by the Parliamentary Committee chaired by Edward Oyombe Ayila, Chavda was finally deported in 1996, though he was not charged with any wrongdoing.
Despite being deported, Chavda had already caused a strong political rift within the ruling party, and then-minister for home affairs Augustine Mrema resigned because he disagreed with the way the scandal was handled.
In its recommendations, the Parliamentary Committee advised Chavda’s immediate arrest and prosecution for fraud, violation of the Foreign Exchange Act of 1992 and giving false statements contrary to section 122, 309 and 346 of the country’s penal code.
The Committee further recommended that legal action be taken against all traders and lawyers who conspired with Chavda for economic sabotage, and it urged the concerned authorities to cancel the business licenses for those who collaborated with him, including Subhash Patel.
Surprisingly only one recommendation was implemented - to revoke Chavda’s residence permit and deport him - essentially letting him and his partner off the hook.
He is now back in Tanzania where he has been living in the Masaki suburb of Dar es Salaam for the last five years, according to reliable details obtained by The Guardian on Sunday this week.
How he played the game
Having managed to shake the Parliamentary Committee that was formed to investigate him, Chavda carefully planned his comeback in 1997 just three years after he was deported.
On March 18, 1997, Chavda, acting through his lawyers Mkono & Company, asked the High Court of Tanzania to issue a Witness Summons to allow him to testify on August 5 of that year in a pending civil case brought by his wife against him, Civil Case No 130 of 1993.
His wife, an Indian citizen who had continued living in Tanzania legally after Chavda was deported, was suing him over a family financial dispute.
On April 1, 1997, the High Court wrote to the Director of Immigration seeking clarification on the legal position of Chavda’s status once he arrived in the country to testify.
As such, the Director of Immigration informed Mkono & Company on September 25, 1997, that Chavda had been given a visa for 30 days to allow him to enter the country only to testify in court.
Later findings from the court show, however, that during that 30-day period, the civil case was not scheduled for a hearing and Chavda’s claims that he needed to appear in court lacked grounds. His visa expired and he left the country, but with the intention to come back yet again.
Having identified a loophole in the system that could be exploited, Chavda planned a comeback in January 2002 centred on another ‘necessary’ appearance in court.
Chavda again had his lawyers - this time from the firm Gomba & Tadayo - write to the High Court requesting a Witness Summons to testify in Civil Case No 74 of 1996, a separate civil case filed by the National Bank of Commerce against him for an alleged 800m/- in outstanding loan repayments.
He was again allowed to enter the country after being given Entry Visa No 0000695 dated March 4, 2002. Chavda should have left within 28 days of the visa’s issuance, but he had stayed almost a year until the Director of Immigration caught on and ordered him to leave the country immediately.
According to details in our possession, Chavda then filed Miscellaneous Civil Case No 60 of 2003 asking the court to force the immigration department to grant him a visa so that he could testify in the two civil cases facing him.
On March 11, 2004, the High Court issued its ruling in Chavda’s favour, ordering the Director of Immigration to issue a two-year visa to the deportee.
One senior immigration official in Dar es Salaam told The Guardian on Sunday this week that the decision to grant Chavda the visa was both illogical and indefensible.
“The law is very clear; he should be outside the country and is only allowed to come once needed or summoned by the court,” said the official, who asked for anonymity on the grounds that he is not the department’s official spokesperson.
“A hearing can’t take two years, it is just one or a few weeks as long as the pending cases are civil cases.”
Chavda’s two-year visa expired in April 2006, but again neither of the two cases had been heard, and not even preliminary hearings had been held for either of them.
Following of the expiry of his visa, the office of the Attorney General wrote a letter on May 6, 2006, directing the Director of Immigration to act accordingly.
“Since the ruling date was March 11, 2004 then the time for stay in Tanzania has elapsed, and given the fact that Chavda didn’t appeal against the decision, now act according to the law on this issue,” reads part of the letter signed by D.L Chidowu on behalf of the AG.
Despite the AG’s letter, the immigration department has still not taken any action against Chavda.
In a May 25, 2007, letter to Professor Abdullah Safari of Safari Law Chambers - Chavda’s newest lawyer - the AG’s office wrote that it seemed the ministry of home affairs had flipped its position on the matter and was complicit in allowing Chavda to remain in the country.
“The issue of Chavda has taxed much this office. We as advocates of the government and chief legal advisers did our best to defend the position of the government in court to declare Chavda a prohibited immigrant…however it is now clear that the parent ministry [home affairs] has changed its previous position,” reads part of the letter signed by P. J Ngwembe on behalf of the AG.
When asked on Friday why Chavda was still being allowed to remain in Tanzania, Minister for Home Affairs Lawrence Masha was deliberately vague.
“It’s the government that has decided that he should stay in the country because he is still needed,” Masha told The Guardian on Sunday.
The minister would not elaborate on why Chavda was ‘needed’ in the country when he was no longer involved in any currently pending civil cases.
The minister’s response is a curious departure from what his boss, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, told Parliament on April 30 this year, in response to a question asked by Kigoma North MP Zitto Kabwe.
The Prime Minister said he wasn’t aware whether Chavda was still in the country, but he promised to thoroughly investigate on which grounds the Asian tycoon was allowed to stay in Tanzania if he were.
The senior immigration official said this ‘confusion’ among top-ranking government officials speaks to the deliberate obfuscation and questionable protection surrounding Chavda and his status in the country.
“This is a man who was supposed to be arrested and charged with criminal offences but surprisingly he is today a free man enjoying the protection of some government officials and a group of Asian traders,” the senior immigration official said.
SOURCE: Guardian on Sunday
MEET 10-YR-OLD NATALIE, BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO BEYONCE
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But,hers wasn't the only act last night to wow the judges and viewers of Britain's Got Talent.Watch this teen-version of Usher,Ne-Yo,You-Name-It...it's Aidan Davis ,an 11-year-old kid from Birmingham,who not only knows how to dance but also holds a Black Belt in karate!
KAMA HII NI KWELI BASI CCM KWISHNE!
NIMEKUTANA NA HABARI ILIYONISHTUA KIDOGO,KWAMBA MMOJA WA WANA-CCM WALIOOMBA KUGOMBEA KITI CHA UBUNGE KATIKA UCHAGUZI MDOGO WA JIMBO LA BUSANDA,DONALD MAX, AMEREJESHEWA GHARAMA ALIZOTUMIA WAKATI WA KUJIPIGIA DEBE.INADAIWA HILO LIMEFANYIKA ILI AWEZE KUSHIRIKI KWENYE KAMPENI ZA MGOMBEA ALIYEPITISHWA NA CCM,LORENCIA BUKWIMBA.
KWA MUJIBU WA GAZETI LA Mwananchi:
Taarifa...za ndani zilisema kukubali kwa Max kupanda jukwaani, kunatokana na makubaliano ya faragha baina yake na Malecela kwa niaba ya Kikwete ambaye aliagiza arejeshewe gharama zake za kampeni katika mchakato wa kura za maoni...Kutokana na makubaliano hayo CCM kiliagizwa kusaka fedha za kumrudishia Max ambazo zililetwa na mbunge mmoja wa Kanda ya Magharibi, ambaye pia ni Mjumbe wa Kamati Kuu na Halmashauri Kuu, ambaye imeelezwa aliingia Geita kimya kimya na kufanya mazungumzo naye.
NASEMA HABARI HIYO IMENISHTUA "KIDOGO" KWA VILE CCM SI NGENI KATIKA ULIMWENGU WA MAIGIZO YA KISIASA.KWA MFANO,TUME YA MAADILI YA CHAMA HICHO BADO IKO CHINI YA UONGOZI WA MZEE WA VIJISENTI,MWANASIASA AMBAYE MAADILI YAKE YA UONGOZI NI QUESTIONABLE KUTOKANA NA TUHUMA ZA KUJILIMBIZIA VIJISENTI HAPO JERSEY.
LAKINI INAPOFIKIA HATUA YA CHAMA HICHO KUREJESHA GHARAMA ZA MGOMBEA ALIYESHINDWA KWENYE NOMINATION PROCESS INAMWAGA ZEGE ZAIDI KWENYE UKWELI KWAMBA CHAMA HICHO TAWALA KINA UHABA MKUBWA ZA BUSARA ZA UONGOZI.HIVI KUREJESHA GHARAMA HIZO KUNA TOFAUTI GANI NA KUMHONGA MWANASIASA HUYO ILI APANDE JUKWAANI?HIVI,TUKIAMINI KUWA HABARI HIZO NI ZA KWELI,CCM ITOE FEDHA HIZO KISHA MAX APANDE JUKWAANI KUMNADI MGOMBEA BUKWIMBA,KISHA CHAMA HICHO KISHINDWE KWENYE UCHAGUZI (WHICH IS POSSIBLE KAMA KUTAKUWA NA UCHAGUZI HURU NA HAKI)........FILL IN THE BLANKS,MZALENDO MWENZANGU.
KAMA LEO CCM INADIRIKI KUTOA FEDHA KUMSHAWISHI MAX APANDE JUKWAANI,ITASHINDWAJE KUWAPA FADHILA MAFISADI KATIKA UCHAGUZI WA MWAKANI IWAPO CHAMA HICHO KITAELEKEA KUSHINDWA?HAYA YALITOKEA 2005,NA NDIO VYANZO VYA SKANDALI ZA EPA NA NYINGINEZO.SIJUI INGEKUWAJE LAITI MAREHEMU BABA WA TAIFA ANGERUDI DUNIANI NA KUKUTA CHAMA ALICHOKIASISI KINAFANYA UTUMBO KAMA HUU!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
VC WA KENYA AKIRI WANANUFAIKA NA MT KILIMANJARO
Na Leon Bahati
MAKAMU wa Rais wa Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka amekiri kuwa mlima Kilimanjaro umekuwa ukiisaidia nchi yake kukuza sekta ya utalii kutokana na Wakenya wengi kuutumia katika kujitangaza hasa wawapo kwenye nchi za ulaya.
Pamoja na kufaidika huko, alisema kuwa hiyo haifuti ukweli kwamba mlima huo mrefu kuliko yote Afrika, upo Tanzania, ingawa pia huweza kuonekana kutokea Kenya.
Musyoka alisema hayo kwenye hafla fupi ya chakula cha mchana alichoandaliwa na mwenyeji wake, Makamu wa Rais wa Tanzania, Dk Ali Mohamed Shein.
“Wakenya wanapoenda Ulaya wanawaambia wazungu: Njooni Kenya ili muone mlima Kilimanjaro,” alisema Musyoka katika ziara hiyo ya kiserikali kwa mwaliko wa Tanzania...endelea
MAKAMU wa Rais wa Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka amekiri kuwa mlima Kilimanjaro umekuwa ukiisaidia nchi yake kukuza sekta ya utalii kutokana na Wakenya wengi kuutumia katika kujitangaza hasa wawapo kwenye nchi za ulaya.
Pamoja na kufaidika huko, alisema kuwa hiyo haifuti ukweli kwamba mlima huo mrefu kuliko yote Afrika, upo Tanzania, ingawa pia huweza kuonekana kutokea Kenya.
Musyoka alisema hayo kwenye hafla fupi ya chakula cha mchana alichoandaliwa na mwenyeji wake, Makamu wa Rais wa Tanzania, Dk Ali Mohamed Shein.
“Wakenya wanapoenda Ulaya wanawaambia wazungu: Njooni Kenya ili muone mlima Kilimanjaro,” alisema Musyoka katika ziara hiyo ya kiserikali kwa mwaliko wa Tanzania...endelea
CHANZO: Mwananchi
WELL,HUWEZI KUWALAUMU IWAPO SIE "WENYE MLIMA HUO" TUNAENDEKEZA ZAIDI POLITIKI KULIKO KUTANGAZA VIVUTIO VYETU.WANAOPEWA DHAMANA YA KUTANGAZA RASLIMALI ZETU WAKO BIZE ZAIDI NA "TENI PASENTI" YA MIKATABA YA MATANGAZO KULIKO UFANISI WA MATANGAZO HAYO.
UKURUGENZI WA TAASISI ZA UMMA UNAPOFANYWA KISHKAJI...
MSIKIE MATTAKA ANAVYOONGEA KWA KUJIAMINI KANA KWAMBA ALIJITEUA MWENYEWE KUWA MKURUGENZI WA ATCL NA KUJIPA UJUMBE WA NIC.
Mattaka ajiweka kando ATCL
Imeandikwa na Mwandishi Wetu; Tarehe: 16th May 2009
Mkurugenzi Mtendaji na Ofisa Mtendaji Mkuu wa Kampuni ya Ndege Tanzania (ATCL), David Mattaka ametangaza kutoiongoza kampuni hiyo kwa miezi sita kutokana na kuteuliwa kuwamiongoni mwa wajumbe wa Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya Shirika la Bima la Taifa (NIC).
Katika taarifa ya barua hiyo iliyotolewa na ofisi yake kwa wafanyakazi Mei 11, mwaka huu, inaonyesha kuwa Mattaka amelazimikakutofanya kazi ATCL kwa kipindi hicho kutokana na nafasi yake hiyo aliyoteuliwa naWaziri wa Fedha na Uchumi, Aprili 23, mwaka huu kuwamo katika Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya NIC kazi ambayo zinamtaka awapo wakati wote kazini.
Uteuzi huo sambamba na wa Rais Jakaya Kikwete wa Februari 23, mwaka huu wa kuwamo katika kikosikazi cha kulifufua shirika hilo, Mattaka alisema “Katika nafasi zote nilizoteuliwa zinanitaka nifanye kazi muda wote kuanzia Mei mosi.” Kutokana na nafasi hizo mpya, kwa kipindi cha miezi sita ambayo hatakuwao ATCL, Bodi ya Wakurugenzi imemteua William Haji kukaimu nafasi yake.
“Bodi ya Wakurugenzi imemteua William Haji kukaimu nafasi ya Mkurugenzi Mkuu na CEO kuanzia Mei 8 na wakati huohuo kuendelea na nafasi yake ya Mkurugenzi wa Fedha,” alisema Mattaka. Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya NIC iliyoanza kazi Mei mosi, inaongozwa na Mwenyekiti Balozi Charles Mutalemwa na wajumbe ni Michael Mhando kutoka Bima ya Afya, Msajili wa Hazina Agnes Bukuku, Naibu Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Shirika la Taifa la Hifadhi ya Jamii (NSSF) Kate Bandawe na Charles Kilasile.CHANZO: Habari Leo
KWA UPANDE FLANI,HATUWEZI KUMLAUMU KWANI KWA HAKIKA ALIYEMTEUA AMEONEKANA KURIDHISHWA NA UTENDAJI WAKE.USHKAJI KATIKA TEUZI NI MIONGONI MWA VYANZO VIKUU VYA KUSUASUA NA HATIMAYE VIFO VYA TAASISI MBALIMBALI ZA UAMMA,BILA KUSAHAU KUSHAMIRI KWA UFISADI.KWANI HAKUNA WATU WENYE UWEZO ZAIDI YA MATTAKA?KAMA AMECHEMSHA ATCL,ATALETA MIUJIZA GANI HUKO BIMA?
YANI TUNAVYOENDESHA MAMBO KIHOLELA UTADHANI TUSHAPIGA HATUA KUJIKWAMUA KIUCHUMI KUMBE WAPI.VICHWA VILIVYOISHIWA MAWAZO NA MBINU ZA KUNUSURU TAASISI ZA UMMA HAVIWEZI KULETA MAPYA YOYOTE VINAVYOZUNGUSHWA KIUSHKAJI KUTOKA TAASIS MOJA KWENDA NYINGINE KANA KWAMBA NI ZA KIFAMILIA.
BALOZI WA SAUZI ASHANGAA TANZANIA KUOMBA MISAADA
UMASIKINI WA WATANZANIA (KAMA UNAVYOONYESHWA KATIKA PICHA YA JUU kwa hisani ya Dr Faustine) UNACHANGIWA ZAIDI NA MAFISADI WACHACHE WASIONYIMWA USINGIZI NA MISHANGAO KAMA HIYO YA BALOZI WA SAUZI.HAWANA MUDA WA KUJALI NANI ANASEMA NINI,ALIMRADI VOGUE ZAO (kama katika picha ya mfano hapo chini) ZINAENDELEA KUWAPA UJIKO MTAANI!YALEYALE YA MTU ANAKUPORA MKEO KISHA ANAMPTISHA MBELE YAKO MAKUSUDI KUKURUSHA ROHO!
Na Claud MshanaBALOZI wa Afrika Kusini nchini amesema anashangazwa kuona nchi iliyojaliwa rasilimali nyingi kama Tanzania kujiendesha kwa kutegemea misaada kutoka nchi wahisani na marafiki.
Balozi huyo, Sindiso Mfenyana alisema rasilimali zilizo nchini zinaweza kugeuzwa na kuwa tegemeo la misaada kwa nchi nyingine.
Mfenyana alisema hayo wakati akizungumza na wahariri mbalimbali wa vyombo vya habari jijini Dar es salaam. Mfenyana alisema inashangaza kuona Tanzania ambayo imebarikiwa kuwa na rasilimali za kila aina ikiendelea kutegemea misaada katika uchumi wake.
"Kama rasilimali zilizopo zitatumiwa vizuri kwa maendeleo ya nchi hii na pia kukawa na usawa katika matumizi ya rasilimali hizo, nchi hii ingekimbiliwa na watu wengine kwa misaada," alisema balozi huyo.
Mfenyana alisisitiza kuwa Tanzania haina haja kuhofia wawekezaji kutoka Afrika Kusini, hasa wazungu kwa sababu zama za ubaguzi wa rangi zimeshapita na kwamba kilichopo sasa ni kuona nchi inakuwa na ushirikiano wenye manufaa bila kujali rangi wala historia baina ya nchi za Afrika.
"Ni ajabu kuona mtu anakuwa na wasiwasi kuingia ubia wa kiuchumi na 'Mzungu', pengine ni kutokana na historia iliyokuwepo kabla… inawezekana kuwa vyombo vya habari havikutangaza vya kutosha kuwa vita vya ubaguzi wa rangi vimekwisha," alisema.
"Leo hii mtu mweusi wa Afrika Kusini anakuwa na chuki na mtu mweusi mwenzake kuliko hata Mzungu, jambo hili linaonyesha kuwa enzi za kuchukiana kwa misingi ya rangi imeshapita.
Ni lazima tuendeleze uhusiano wetu kwa manufaa ya nchi zetu." Kwa upande wake, Meneja wa Jukwaa la Wafanyabishara wa Tanzania na Afrika Kusini, ambaye pia ni meneja wa hoteli ya Southern Sun, Adam Fuller alisema kumekuwa na maendeleo chanya ya ushirikiano wa kibiashara kwa nchi hizi mbili.
Alifafanua kuwa tofauti na zamani, Tanzania ilikuwa ikijitenga kiushirikiano na nchi nyingine labda kwa kuhofia ushindani, hivi sasa kuna tofauti kubwa na kuongeza kuwa wataendelea kushirikiana zaidi kwa kutumia fursa zilizopo kibiashara.
Kuhusu tatizo la umasikini nchini humo ambalo linachangia kwa kiasi kikubwa kuwepo na wimbi la uhalifu, Mfenyana alisema serikali ya nchi yake imejipanga kukabiliana na hali hiyo na tayari hatua madhubuti zimeshachukuliwa kukabiliana na tatizo hilo.
CHANZO: Mwananchi
INA MAANA BALOZI HUYU HAJUI KUWA RASILIMALI ZETU TAYARI NI MSAADA KWA MAFISADI?NCHI YETU IMEGEUZWA SHAMBA LISILO NA MWENYEWE,WATU WANAJICHUMIA WEE MPAKA WANAKINAI NA KULETA NYODO!INATIA UCHUNGU LAKINI NDIO HIVYO TENA.
Friday, May 15, 2009
"STAREHE" ZA WAINGEREZA USIKU
Pombe bwana!Huyu si "shoga",ni mwanaume ila tu kinywaji kimemkolea kaamua atinge gauni.Na sijui hiyo pozi kajifunzia wapi!
Huyu "Beyonce Mweupe" anaonyesha ufundi wa kunengua.
Hao si watoto wa shule,na huo "upole" ni sehemu ya kinywaji pia!
"Kwanini Mungu aliwapendelea ng'ombe kuwa na miguu minne na sie wanadamu miguu miwili?"Yaelekea ndio "malalamiko ya muungwana huyo anayetambaa.Au anakumbukia alivyokuwa akitambaa wakati wa utoto?Katika pombe,lolote linawezekana!
Kilio tena!?
Pombe huwafanya wanyonge wajione majabali,only kinywaji kinapoyeyuka kichwani hujikuta wakiwa wanyonge vilevile PLUS majeraha.
"Yes!Nimeweza.Si mlisema siwezi kulibalansi hilo boksi la take-away eti nimelewa?Mbona nimeweza.Watu tumeanza pombe zamani,in fact kabla ya kunyonya maziwa ya mama...teh teh teh"
"Basi nikwambie shoga,mwaka 1978 nili....halafu kabla ya hapo mwaka 1749 nilikuwa....na mwaka huu 2004 nita....".Stori za kilevi hazihitaji kuwa makini na tarehe au muda.Na zinaweza kuendelea milele.Kimsingi huwa haziishi,na mada hubadilika kama bendera na upepo.
" Nahisi kama niko 'leba' mtoto najifungua.Hee nimezaa mtoto wa kiume".Si ajabu huyu akiamka asubuhi anamaizi kuwa kweli "alizaa" lakini mtoto ni "pooh" (ile kitu inayotupeleka msalani).
Duh.Hapa ni ujenzi wa mahekalu hewani
Huyu ashukuru ufanisi wa polisi wa doria wanaosaidiwa na CCTV.Ukaaji huo mitaa ya uswahilini ingeweza kumfanya huyo jamaa kwa siku kadhaa asitoke nyumbani kutokana na aibu.Ni mkao hatari sana!
Hoi!
Ah,nani kasema kitanda lazima kiwe chumbani.Hapa napata 'nepu' ya bure buleshi.
" Hee hawa vipi tena?",dada wa kushoto haamini anachokiona."Ahaaa,ndio mana wanaume wa kiskotishi wanapenda hizo kilt zao wanapokwenda out..." Anazidi kutafakari mdada wa watu.
"Kuanzia leo mto wangu utakuwa tairi..."Chapombe afanya uvumbuzi usiku wa manane.
Huy kibonge sijui anatoa nasaha gani kwa wenzake.Pombe huleta "busara" za ajabu kabisa.
Oh dear dear....Picha hizi zimepigwa na mwanafunzi wa KiPolish jijini Cardiff,Wales.Habari zaidi kuhusu picha hizo na utamaduni wa chapombe (binge culture) BONYEZA HAPA.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
OBAMA'S "NEW" MAIN OPPOSITION
04:25
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Glenn Beck is the fastest-rising star on American TV. He's part of a right-wing broadcasting boom that's become the most powerful opposition to the President...CONTINUE.SOURCE: The Independent
Saturday, May 30, 2009
BAADA YA MWAKYEMBE,KIMARO NAE AJALINI
MHH,AJALI ZINAZOWAANDAMA WABUNGE "WA AINA MOJA" ZINAWEZA KUZUA MASWALI YA NAMNA FLANI JAPO YAWEZEKANA KABISA KUWA NI AJALI KAMA NYINGINEZO.HEBU SOMA KWANZA HABARI IFUATAYO,KISHA TUJIULIZE MASWALI MAWILI MATATU:
Ally Sonda na Rehema Matowo, Mwanga
MBUNGE wa Jimbo la Vunjo, Aloyce Kimaro amenusurika kufa baada ya gari lake alilokuwa akisafiria kuparamia mawe yaliyopangwa barabarani na kupata ajali usiku wa kuamkia jana. Habari zilizolifikia gazeti hili jana na kuthibitishwa na Kimaro na polisi zinasema kuwa, ajali hiyo ilitokea katika kijiji cha Mikongeni kata ya Lembeni wilayani Mwanga, Kilimanjaro kwenye barabara kuu ya Moshi-Tanga, akiwa safarini kutoka Dar es Salaam kwenda jimboni kwake.
Kwa mujibu wa habari hizo, wakati ajali hiyo inatokea, Kimaro alikuwa na rafiki yake Joseph Temu ambaye ndiye aliyekuwa anaendesha gari hilo aina ya Mercedes Benz akiwa na mkewe na watoto wake watatu. Katika ajali hiyo hakuna aliyejeruhiwa.
Kimaro alisema baada ya ajali hiyo mfanyabiashara wa Mwanga, Shafii Hasanal alitoa msaada wa kulivuta gari hilo hadi kwenye kituo cha mafuta Kisangara.
Kamanda wa Polisi mkoani Kilimanjaro, Lucas Ng’hoboko alisema kuwa ajali hiyo ilitokea saa 2:30 usiku, chanzo kikiwa ni mawe makubwa na matofali yaliyokuwa yamepangwa barabarani katika eneo lenye kona na mlima.
Kamanda Ng’hoboko alisema kuwa watu wanaosadikiwa kuwa ni wezi, walipanga mawe hayo barabarani kwa lengo la kusababisha ajali ili kuwaibia abiria.
“Gari ya mbunge huyo ilipofika katika eneo hilo likiwa katika mwendo wa kawaida na mbele yao kukiwa na lori ambalo liliweza kuyapita mawe hayo bila tatizo, wao walipojaribu kuyapita tairi la mbele upande wa kulia na ‘sampo’ ya gari hilo vilipasuka wakashindwa kuendelea na safari,” alisema Ng’hoboko.
Kamanda huyo alisema kuwa miaka ya nyuma eneo hilo lilikuwa na matukio mengi ya aina hiyo ambayo yameanza kujitokeza upya, kwa kuwa awali wananchi wa eneo hilo kwa kushirikiana na polisi walikuwa wameyamaliza. Alibainisha kuwa polisi wanafanya operesheni ili kuwadhibiti wezi hao na kuwasaka waliohusika na tukio hilo ili wafikishwe mbele ya sheria.Kimaro ni miongoni mwa wabunge waliojitokeza hadharani kupambana na vitendo vya ufisadi. Mwaka jana aliibua hoja bungeni kutaka, Rais Mstaafu, Benjamin Mkapa ashitakiwe kwa kutumia madaraka vibaya ya kufanya biashara akiwa ikulu.
Hii ni ajali ya pili inayohusisha wabunge kutokea ndani ya wiki mbili baada ya ajali iliyomhusisha mbunge wa Kyela, Dk Harrison Mwakyembe iliyotokea eneo la Ihemi, Ifunda mkoani Iringa. Dk Mwakyembe, alinusurika kifo baada ya gari alilokuwa akisafiria kutoka Kyela kwenda Dar es Salaam kuacha njia na kupinduka.
Ripoti ya polisi iliyotolewa wiki hii ilieleza kwamba ajali hiyo ilitokana na uzembe wa dereva, lakini mbunge huyo ameiponda na kuifananisha na ripoti ya mpiga ramli kwa vile haikuzingatia vigezo na utaalamu katika uchunguzi.CHANZO: Mwananchi
NAAMINI WENGI WETU TUNAKUMBUKA AJALI ILIYOMHUSISHA MHESHIMIWA CHEYO a.k.a "Mzee wa Vijisenti" AMBAYO ILIPELEKEA VIFO VYA WATU WAWILI.TOFAUTI KATI YA AJALI YA CHENGE NA HIZI ZA MWAKYEMBE NA KIMARO NI REACTION YA POLISI.BAADA YA GARI LA CHENGE KUUA,SIKUWAHI KUSIKIA RPC AU RTC AKIKURUPUKA KUELEZA CHANZO CHA AJALI HUSIKA (JAPO KATIKA MAZINGIRA YA KAWAIDA,NI RAHISI KUIHUSISHA AJALI YA SAA 10 ALFAJIRI NA STIMU ZA KILEVI).BADALA YAKE ILIUNDWA TUME AMBAYO HADI LEO HAIJATUELEZA MATOKEO YA UCHUNGUZI WAKE (IF AT ALL ILIFANYA UCHUNGUZI).WORSE STILL,INAELEZWA KUWA WAKATI AJALI HIYO INATOKEA GARI LA CHENGE LILIKUWA NA BIMA ILIYOISHA MUDA WAKE.
ALIPOPATA AJALI MWAKYEMBE,RPC AKAKURUPUKA NA KUDAI KWAMBA CHANZO CHA AJALI NI MWENDO MKALI NA SHIMO LILILOKUWA BARABARANAI.BAADAYE TUME YA KAMANDA KOMBE IKAZIDI KUCHANGANYA MADAWA KWA KUTOA FINDINGS AMBAZO SI TU ZIMEINGILIA KAZI YA MAHAKAMA KWA KUWAHUKUMU MWAKYEMBE (kuwa alikuwa amelala wakati wa ajali) NA DEREVA WAKE (kwa uzembe) LAKINI PIA HAZIKUHUSISHA MAELEZO YA MWAKYEMBE KWA VILE HAKUHOJIWA NA TUME HIYO!
KINGINE CHA KUSHANGAZA NI KWAMBA WHILE KWENYE AJALI YA CHENGE,DEREVA WA BAJAJI NA MMILIKI WAKE WALIAMRIWA KUJISALIMISHA POLISI MARA MOJA,HATUJASIKIA KAULI YOYOTE KUTOKA KWA POLISI KUHUSU DEREVA WA LORI LILIOHUSIKA KWENYE AJALI YA MWAKYEMBE!
NA SASA KATIKA AJALI YA KIMARO TUNAELEZWA KUWA MAWE HAYO YALIPANGWA NA WEZI.HOW DID THE POLICE KNOW KUWA WALIOFANYA HIVYO NI WEZI NA SIO WATU WALIOKUWA WANAWINDA UHAI WA MHESHIMIWA KIMARO?KWANINI(ANGALAU KWA KUTUZUGA) ISIUNDWE TUME KAMA ILE YA AJALI YA CHENGE AMBAPO HAKUKUWA HATA HAJA YA KUFANYA SPECULATION LET ALONE KUUNDA TUME?
CALL ME A CONSPIRACY THEORIST,LAKINI NADHANI AJALI HIZI ZINA TAFSIRI KUBWA ZAIDI YA TUNACHOSIKIA AU KUONA KWA MACHO YETU.LET'S WAIT AND SEE!
Friday, May 29, 2009
KUMBUKUMBU YA MAREHEMU ADELINA MAPANGO
ILIKUWA SIKU,WIKI,MIEZI NA SASA UMETIMIA MWAKA TANGU BWANA ALIPOKUCHUKUA MPENDWA WETU MAMA ADELINA MAPANGO (Mama CHAHALI).PENGO ULILOTUACHIA HALITOZIBIKA MILELE.KINACHOTULIWAZA NI MAPENZI YA BWANA.JAPO SIE TULIKUPENDA,LAKINI YEYE ALIKUPENDA ZAIDI,NA NDIO MAANA AKAKUCHUKUA SAA4.30 USIKU WA TAREHE 29/05/2008.JAPO HAUKO NASI KIMWILI,LAKINI TUKO SOTE KIROHO.
KWA NIABA YA FAMILIA YA MZEE PHILEMON CHAHALI,NACHUKUA FURSA HII KUTOA SHUKRANI ZA DHATI KWA WOTE WALIOSHIRIKIANA NASI KWA NAMNA MOJA AU NYINGINE KATIKA SALA/DUA WAKATI TUNAMUUGUZA MAREHEMU ADELINA,NA SAPOTI MLIYOTUPATIA KUTUFARIJI BAADA YA MSIBA.BWANA AWABARIKI SANA.
BWANA ALITOA,BWANA ALITWAA.JINA LAKE LIHIMIDIWE MILELE,AMEN.
PUMZIKO LA MILELE UMPE EE BWANA,NA MWANGA WA MILELE UMWANGAZIE.APUMZIKE KWA AMANI.AMEEN
KWA NIABA YA FAMILIA YA MZEE PHILEMON CHAHALI,NACHUKUA FURSA HII KUTOA SHUKRANI ZA DHATI KWA WOTE WALIOSHIRIKIANA NASI KWA NAMNA MOJA AU NYINGINE KATIKA SALA/DUA WAKATI TUNAMUUGUZA MAREHEMU ADELINA,NA SAPOTI MLIYOTUPATIA KUTUFARIJI BAADA YA MSIBA.BWANA AWABARIKI SANA.
BWANA ALITOA,BWANA ALITWAA.JINA LAKE LIHIMIDIWE MILELE,AMEN.
PUMZIKO LA MILELE UMPE EE BWANA,NA MWANGA WA MILELE UMWANGAZIE.APUMZIKE KWA AMANI.AMEEN
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
REAL-LIFE PRISON BREAK IN MEXICO
Astonishing video footage was released today showing prison guards allowing dangerous drug traffickers to stroll out of a Mexican jail without a word of protest.
Now the prison’s entire 51-member staff – including the warden – are themselves behind bars facing a major corruption probe into whether kickbacks were paid to the poorly-paid guards in return for them turning a blind eye to the escape.
A total of 53 inmates walked past guards and were ferried to freedom in a convoy of fake police cars in the most brazen example yet of the sway held by Mexico’ s powerful drug cartels.
At least a dozen of the escapees were drug suspects and others carried out crimes like kidnapping and extortion that are linked to trafficking. It was only after the inmates had fled that the guards leaped into action ‘Jim Carrey-style' to act like they were trying to prevent the break-out.
The action – of lack of it – was all caught on security cameras at the prison in Cieneguillas in Mexico’s northern state of Zacatecas. Interpol described the worst of the criminals, who escaped without firing a shot, as ‘a risk to the safety and security of citizens around the world.’
The inmates stole 23 guns from a prison storage room before walking out through the front gates.
A prison spokesman said the police uniforms worn by the getaway drivers and the fleet of police cars that pulled up outside the prison with flashing lights to ferry away the escapees were all fakes.
But investigators refused to rule out the possibility of police involvement.
Last night’s outcry over the film footage was another major blow to the Mexican government mired in a bloody war with drug cartels that, along with the swine flu outbreak, has devastated tourism. The video was released by the Attorney General’s office after it was leaked to the Reforma newspaper. It shows bored looking guards watching television and stepping aside as a group of prisoners burst in.
A second camera catches two guards opening the front gate to allow in the getaway convoy. Eight gunmen wearing police jackets then escort the inmates to the cars waiting in the car park. When the prisoners have fled, the guards can be seen suddenly coming to life, some running towards the gate and others crouching with their guns drawn.
Mexico’s Reforma newspaper said the guards appear to be over-acting for the cameras, looking like extras in a film by comedian Jim Carrey. All the guards on duty at the time of the escape, along with the prison director and senior officials are being held for 30 days pending an investigation into their possible involvement.
Two of the men who escaped were arrested in January by soldiers who discovered 11.4 tons of marijuana at a house belonging to a local state senator. Mexico has long struggled to reduce corruption and ineptitude in its justice system. President Felipe Calderon has acknowledged that jailed drug traffickers often operate from behind bars, and has extradited a record number of drug dealers to serve time in more secure US prisons.
Two prison guards are serving up to 19 years for aiding the escape of Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman. He rode out of prison in Jalisco state in a laundry cart after bribing guards in 2001. And Otto Garcia, who helped turn Guatemala into a corridor for US-bound cocaine, escaped in May 2005 from a jail in southern Mexico City.
That jail's warden, his deputy and 10 others were arrested for allegedly accepting bribes to facilitate his freedom.
SOURCE: The Daily Mail
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
2009/10 BUDGET:ACTIONS,NOT WORDS,SHOULD EXPRESS OUR PRIORITIES
Government axe to fall on luxury spending
*Budget procuring of government vehicles to be strictly prohibited, Cut down of maintenance and running cost of vehicles .
*Funds to be saved in the process will be channelled to financing core activities
By Ray Naluyaga
The Government plans to curb luxury spending in the next Budget, as part of its comprehensive measures to cut costs, the Treasury says.
The implementation of the proposals will see a 10 per cent expenditure ceiling on the administrative costs of funds allocated for development projects.
The measures, according to the ministry of Finance, also reflect the Government's intention to ensure effective use of available resources.
Also targeted in the expenditure control and cost reduction is the tendency in the Government to buy luxury vehicles for use by civil servants, the proliferation of seminars and workshops, allowances, trips by public officials and spending on government hospitality.
The Treasury says allocations to those areas will be reduced and the saved funds channelled into financing core activities. And accounting officers have been instructed to strictly scrutinise and vet such expenses.There will also be regular inspections of public sector payrolls to, among other things, ascertain their authenticity. This will also ensure that employees removed from the payroll for any reason,death, retirement or dismissal stay off it.
Two experts interviewed yesterday commended the Government move. An activist for good governance, Mr Moses Kulaba, said recurrent expenditure items constituted up to 70 per cent of the total development project budgets.
Deloitte senior tax manager Edward Mwachinga said the expenditure on "managerial issues has been a double tragedy for the national Budget, with seminars and workshops wasting a lot of time and resources.
Those activities, he added, took people away from their workstations with no value being added to their productivity in the end. As result, he said, they were, in fact, inhibiting productivity.
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"While recurrent expenditure items can't be completely avoided in development projects, to cater for administrative costs, accounting officers are required to ensure that such costs do not constitute more than 10 per cent of total project cost," the Treasury notes in its Budget preparation document.
The Medium Term Plan and Budget Guidelines for 2009/10 -2011/12 says that many development projects constitute more recurrent items than the development ones. That, the document explains, has greatly contributed to failure to implement or complete some projects.
In the forthcoming budget, project funding is forecast at about Sh2.8 trillion, up from Sh2.4 trillion in the current financial year. This time around, local funding of development expenditure will be Sh1 trillion instead of Sh940 billion during 2008/09."In ensuring accountability in using public resources, accounting officers are required to adhere to the approved budgets," the Treasury says.
"Ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), regions and local government authorities (LGAs) will have to exercise a high degree of financial discipline."
According to the document, the procuring of government vehicles "is strictly prohibited". Until further notice, it adds, no funds should be allocated for buying vehicles in the next financial year. Another measure to cut cost is the reduction of maintenance and running expenses of vehicles.
Seminars and workshops have been singled out as one of the items costing the Government dearly, thus contributing to increased expenditure. The Government has conceded that many of these are �unnecessarily conducted in expensive hotels".
Those that will be held after getting approval from the Prime Minister's Office will now be hosted in public institutions, according to the new directives.
"Starting from this financial year, accounting officers are required to seek approval to conduct seminars and workshops from the Prime Minister's Office," the Treasury says.
On per diem and travel allowances, the Government says, accounting officers must ensure that every expenditure incurred has value for money. The only foreign trips that will be authorised will be those of national interest, and which reflect the expected returns.
Furniture bought should be of high quality. The Treasury advises against the tendency to procuring expensive imported furniture that is less durable than locally made items. The Government also expects to curb costs in the public procurement and management.
"A big portion of public expenditure is on procurement of works, goods and services. Accounting officers and public procurement units should take measures to improve supervision and monitoring of purchases."
Deloitte tax manager Mwachinga said that under the current circumstances, the Government had had no choice but to initiate cost cutting measures.
"Taxpayers' money has for many years been used to pay public officials' fat allowances to attend seminars and workshops in expensive luxury hotels where what they do is have a good time," he said.
Mr Kulaba warning the Government against failure to implement the cost-cutting measures, as had been the practice in the past. However, he welcomed the zeal with which Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has been dealing with the matter to curb wastefulness in the Government.
SOURCE: The Citizen.Cartoons courtersy of Kipanya
HOW OFTEN HAVE WE HEARD THAT?DIFFERENT BEATS BUT SAME LYRICS.ONLY EXCUSE NOW,THE CURRENT GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS.THAT'S SIMPLY ALL TALK,BUT DON'T EXPECT ANY SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS.
COST-CUSTING MEASURES SHOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD NEWS TO EVERY MWANANCHI,BUT WE HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE.REMEMBER WHAT WE WERE TOLD AFTER THE 1978-79 TZ-UGANDA WAR?"TUFUNGE MIKANDA" (WE SHOULD TIGHTEN OUR BELTS).IRONICALLY,MOST OF OUR LEADERS COULDN'T DO SO NOT BECAUSE MADUKA YA KAYA HAD RUN OUT OF STOCK OF BELTS,BUT RATHER THEIR WAISTS WERE TOO LARGE TO BE TIGHTENED!HOWEVER,IN THE SPIRIT OF AMANI NA UTULIVU AND UMOJA NA MSHIKAMANO THE MAJORITY OF US (WALALAHOI) HAD TO DO IT FOR THE PRIVILEGED FEW (VINGUNGE).
OKAY,WE COULD AGREE TO ADHERE TO WISDOM OF OUR FOREFATHERS THAT "YALIYOPITA SI NDWELE,TUGANGE YAJAYO" (LET BYGONES BE BYGONES),AND AGREE WITH THE PROPOSED MEASURES.BUT,COST-CUTTING AT WHOSE EXPENSE?MAFISADI OR WANANCHI?HOW SUCH MEASURES MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN OUR SELFISH MPs UNASHAMEDLY PROPOSE TO SKYROCKET THEIR SALARIES FROM THE CURRENT Tshs 7 Million PER MONTH TO Tshs 12 Million ?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
IN MIDST OF UFISADI,CAN WE REALLY FINANCE COMING BUDGET BY 65%?
Source of funds remains elusive
By Costantine Sebastian
Poor revenue collections, the unpredictability of donor funds and an economy reeling from the biting global recession -- the challenges for the 2009/10 national budget seem just too much to bear.
After months of wallowing in the global economic crisis, the Government should now be talking about finding a way to fund the next budget and get the economy going.
Early this month, President Jakaya Kikwete hinted at the uncertainty of funds for the budget when he revealed that domestic revenues are expected to continue on the downward path since the global crisis was persisting.
While source of funds for the current budget were considered evasive at a time the crunch had not hit this part of the world hard enough, economists predict the worst is yet to come.
Economists say there would be major problems implementing the Government's financial plan for the 2009/10 year.
This is largely due to the falling revenue collections and the unpredictability of donor support caused by the recession that has adversely affected Western donor countries, they say.
For instance, the depletion of tax revenue this year will see the outturn of the current budget falling to Sh6.98 trillion instead of the planned Sh7.22 trillion.
And budget preparation documents confirm the Government's awkward fiscal position. Some economists have raised concerns that the desire to fulfill political promises would make the situation even more desperate.
Decreasing revenues
In the medium term, the Treasury puts domestic revenue at 17 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the forthcoming fiscal year from 17.7 per cent in 2008/09 while aid will fall to 8.9 per cent from 9.1 per cent during the same period.
The Treasury asserts that the overall resource envelope in 2009/10 will decrease to 25.9 per cent of the GDP, which is a 0.2 per cent decline compared to the current fiscal year.
"This trend will persist and reach 22.8 per cent in 2011/12, primarily on account of the projected decline in foreign assistance," the document on resource envelope and expenditure reads in part.
It also notes that foreign aid will further plummet in the medium term to 5.3 per cent of the GDP.
2010 Elections
And the 2010 elections will not take the Government out of its tight corners. Instead, they are widely expected to make the financing and management of the forthcoming budget even more difficult.
"Although the elections will come in the second half of 2010, and therefore a subject matter of the 2010/11 budget, they are expected to impact the 2009/10 budget substantially," Mr Honest Ngowi, an economist and lecturer at Mzumbe University, said.
He added: "The Government will naturally want to be voted back into office. As such, among other things, it will have to deliver on its previous election manifesto."
Mr Ngowi says the "unfulfilled promises" are major poverty reduction projects that would require financing from State coffers.
He based his predictions on the economic theory of government opportunism, which states that sitting governments would to do everything in their power to win support before a competitive election.
In the case of Tanzania, he said, the Government would attempt to implement a number of infrastructure, health, education, water and other social service projects in order to win votes, come 2010.
World Bank economist for the East Africa Poverty Reduction & Economic Management unit, Mr Paolo Zacchia, said Tanzania faces huge budgetary challenges under the prevailing circumstances.
He said the dire situation was evidenced by the failure to meet revenue targets during the current financial year and poor performance of key sectors such as mining and tourism.
Rescue packages?
Yet while Tanzania's budget is heavily dependent on donor funding, last year, donor funds for the 2008/09 budget did not come on a silver plate.
Donors clearly spelt out their conditions: governance issues needed to be sorted out first before any funding pledge could be fulfilled.
The donors, probably irked by corruption among senior government officials, were apparently reluctant to release the general support funds.
Most of them had, however, honoured their commitments by February this year.
And once more the Government is expected to get a kick out of rescue packages pledged by the Bretton Woods institutions and other bilateral donors like the US.
Tanzania recently received a $340 million (Sh452.2 billion) fiscal stimulus from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The World Bank has also promised another bailout package of about $200 million (Sh266 billion).
The major challenge though is how far that crumb of comfort would go to salvage the Government from the 2009/10 budget ordeal.
According to the World Bank economist, the main difficulty faced in financing the current budget was offset by domestic borrowing, which is expected to persist during this coming year.
Excessive domestic borrowing is often said to affect credit lines for the private sector and cause interest rates to skyrocket.
"But borrowing domestically is inevitable, yet it has to be done carefully to avoid a negative impact on interest rates," Mr Zacchia cautioned.
The Government is obviously walking on eggshells before it comes up with a realistic and workable budget amid the global crisis that has started to take its toll on the people.
Key economic sectors stunned by the crunch need to be rescued, otherwise revenue sources will continue to take a nosedive and thousands of people will lose their jobs.
By March, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) had managed to collect only about 70 per cent of the budgeted Sh4,485 billion tax collections, missing the target for the three quarters by about Sh279.2 billion.
Tax revenue constitutes nearly 95 per cent of the domestic resources that were required to finance government expenditure in the current financial year and about 62.2 per cent of the total budget.
The Bank of Tanzania (BoT) said in a March report the cumulative budget deficit of Sh750.7 billion by February was one per cent above the expected level.
"The (July 2008-February 2009) deficit was financed through foreign borrowing to the tune of Sh674.4 billion, and the balance through domestic borrowing," the central bank noted in the March monthly economic review (MER).
SOURCE: The Citizen
LET'S WAIT AND SEE!
HOUSE OF COMMONS SPEAKER QUITS OVER EXPENSES SCANDAL
...and OURS is strongly defending a proposal by our lawmakers to raise their current salary (Tshs 7 Million) to Tshs 12Million.!!!
ISRAEL'S SHIN BET WARNS OF FACEBOOK "SPIES"
Israel's internal intelligence service urged the public today to exercise caution when using Facebook, saying Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site.
The Shin Bet security agency warned Israelis against answering unsolicited messages or sharing telephone numbers and other sensitive information over the Internet. It said there have been numerous incidents recently in which violent groups tried to recruit Israelis through Facebook and other networking sites...continue SOURCE: The Independent
SO,SIZE REALLY MATTERS...WELL,FINANCIALLY
Tall men earn more than their vertically challenged colleagues, research shows. An extra couple of inches in height can be worth hundreds of pounds in annual income...CONTINUESOURCE: The Daily Mail
Monday, May 18, 2009
A POLITICAL TIMEBOMB? MICHAEL MARTIN CONDEMNED AS "DEAD SPEAKER WALKING"
Michael Martin was condemned as a 'dead Speaker walking' last night after an unprecedented parliamentary mutiny against his rule. During historic scenes, five MPs directly confronted Mr Martin to tell him to resign, the first move to oust a sitting Speaker for more than 300 years...CONTINUE
SOURCE: The Daily Mail
SOURCE: The Daily Mail
CATASTROPHIC OWN GOAL BY RACIST BNP
The British National Party was accused of staging 'a cynical con' yesterday, after it was revealed that men featured on its keynote poster campaign are foreigners. One of the posters, which is being advertised up and down the country on a BNP truck, shows three men in hard-hats under the slogan 'British jobs for British workers'. But it has emerged they are in fact American models who posed for a photoshoot in the U.S....CONTINUE
SOURCE: The Daily Mail
BRIATAIN'S "MINI-BEYONCE" BULLIED FOR HER SINGING TALENT
That's according to The Daily Mail.Word of encouragement for the little angel is,however,what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
JAJI UFARANSA ARUHUSU UCHUNGUZI WA FEDHA ZA MARAIS WA AFRIKA
KATIKA KUZURURA KWANGU MTANDAONI NIMEKUTANA NA HABARI IFUATAYO,AMBAYO KAMA ITAKWENDA SAWA BASI INAWEZA KUFUNGUA FURSA KUBWA YA KUWAADABISHA MAFISADI.HEBU ISOME KWANZA,KISHA TUJIULIZE A senior judge in Paris is about to cause the French government serious embarrassment with an investigation into the allegedly stolen wealth of three African presidents who are closely allied to France.
Two previous complaints by an anti-corruption group have been buried under pressure by the French authorities. But the most senior investigating magistrate in Paris, Françoise Desset, has now agreed to investigate the portfolios – from chateâux to Ferraris to multiple bank accounts – owned by the ruling families of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo-Brazzaville.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is close to one of the three accused African leaders, Omar Bongo of Gabon, must decide in the next few days whether to order an appeal against the decision.
The investigation, which could last for many months, follows a formal complaint by a French open government pressure group, Transparence International. Daniel Lèbegue, the organisation's president, said the ruling
by Judge Desset was a "historic decision, which could mean the end of the impunity for corrupt leaders around the globe".
"This is the first time, anywhere in the world, that a judge has recognised the right of a non-governmental organisation to bring a law suit in the names of victims of corruption," he said.
The NGO's legal complaint claims that the three families' wealth "could only have been assembled through the embezzlement of public money". The organisation's lawyer, William Bourdon, said: "Each luxury apartment bought by President Bongo's clan is a public hospital less in Libreville."
Two previous law suits brought by Transparence International were blocked after pressure by the French public prosecutor's office,which is under government control. Judge Desset decided this week that there was a possible case.
According to information leaked to the French newspaper Libération, President Bongo – the longest serving leader in sub-Saharan Africa – has property in France worth tens of millions of euros. He and his family are thought to have 70 different bank accounts, several chateaux and 11 houses and apartments in and around Paris.
They also have a family compound in Nice, extending to three houses, two apartments and a swimming pool. The Bongo family car fleet is said to include two Ferraris and five Mercedes.
The family of President Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville – one of the poorest countries in the world – is estimated by French police to have 11 bank accounts, 13 luxury cars and nine properties in the Paris area. President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea is reported to have a more modest portfolio of a private jet, two luxury cars and a $35m villa in Malibu, California.
M. Bourdon predicted that the state prosecution service would appeal against the judge's decision. "I fear that it will become obvious that the prosecution service is the tool of raison d'etat in France," he said.
If the investigation does go ahead, it could lead to a prosecution of the African leaders but this would be unlikely to succeed without state backing. Transparence International's main objective seems to be to embarrass the three presidents – something that it has already achieved.
President Sassou-Nguesso has dismissed the legal moves against him as an "echo of neocolonialism". In 2007, he said: "Every leader in the world has chateaux and palaces in France, whether they are from the Gulf, from Europe or from Africa."
SOURCE: The Independent
SIE TUNANGOJA NINI?
ONLY IN TANZANIA.....
How a deported `EPA mogul` enjoys Dar`s life His dodgy deals cost the government $100million in 1994, but he is today walking and living freely in Dar es Salaam despite the Parliamentary recommendations that he should be arrested and prosecuted immediately.
The man who in 1994 set up and then stole from the debt buy-back programme that is now known as the External Payment Arrears (EPA) account has been living in the country for the last five years despite being declared a prohibited immigrant.
Vidyadhar G. Chavda, an Indian citizen, first came to Tanzania in 1978 without a penny to his name, according to his own words quoted in a 1994 parliamentary report, but after years of working here as an architect he moved into the finance services industry and orchestrated a number of very lucrative, very shoddy deals.
Chavda approached the government with his idea for the creation of the Debt Conversion Programme (DCP) - which sought to reduce the country’s outstanding debts by selling them off to third parties at discounted prices - the deal that cost the country Sh50bn/- ($100m at that time prevailing exchange rate) in taxpayer money from the programme.
“I came to this country without a single penny, a beggar…but I came with a brain worth millions of dollars supported by education and exposure,” Chavda said after the news of his multibillion-shilling scandal broke in 1994.
“The DCP funds were brought totally by my idea and efforts,” he said at the time. “What I have done is beyond the sphere of understanding Parliament…it is a purely financial issue which nobody is capable of grasping.”
To repair the economic damage caused by his sleazy deals, the Central Bank of Tanzania (BoT) was forced to print billions of shillings in 1994.
After his scandal was thoroughly investigated by the Parliamentary Committee chaired by Edward Oyombe Ayila, Chavda was finally deported in 1996, though he was not charged with any wrongdoing.
Despite being deported, Chavda had already caused a strong political rift within the ruling party, and then-minister for home affairs Augustine Mrema resigned because he disagreed with the way the scandal was handled.
In its recommendations, the Parliamentary Committee advised Chavda’s immediate arrest and prosecution for fraud, violation of the Foreign Exchange Act of 1992 and giving false statements contrary to section 122, 309 and 346 of the country’s penal code.
The Committee further recommended that legal action be taken against all traders and lawyers who conspired with Chavda for economic sabotage, and it urged the concerned authorities to cancel the business licenses for those who collaborated with him, including Subhash Patel.
Surprisingly only one recommendation was implemented - to revoke Chavda’s residence permit and deport him - essentially letting him and his partner off the hook.
He is now back in Tanzania where he has been living in the Masaki suburb of Dar es Salaam for the last five years, according to reliable details obtained by The Guardian on Sunday this week.
How he played the game
Having managed to shake the Parliamentary Committee that was formed to investigate him, Chavda carefully planned his comeback in 1997 just three years after he was deported.
On March 18, 1997, Chavda, acting through his lawyers Mkono & Company, asked the High Court of Tanzania to issue a Witness Summons to allow him to testify on August 5 of that year in a pending civil case brought by his wife against him, Civil Case No 130 of 1993.
His wife, an Indian citizen who had continued living in Tanzania legally after Chavda was deported, was suing him over a family financial dispute.
On April 1, 1997, the High Court wrote to the Director of Immigration seeking clarification on the legal position of Chavda’s status once he arrived in the country to testify.
As such, the Director of Immigration informed Mkono & Company on September 25, 1997, that Chavda had been given a visa for 30 days to allow him to enter the country only to testify in court.
Later findings from the court show, however, that during that 30-day period, the civil case was not scheduled for a hearing and Chavda’s claims that he needed to appear in court lacked grounds. His visa expired and he left the country, but with the intention to come back yet again.
Having identified a loophole in the system that could be exploited, Chavda planned a comeback in January 2002 centred on another ‘necessary’ appearance in court.
Chavda again had his lawyers - this time from the firm Gomba & Tadayo - write to the High Court requesting a Witness Summons to testify in Civil Case No 74 of 1996, a separate civil case filed by the National Bank of Commerce against him for an alleged 800m/- in outstanding loan repayments.
He was again allowed to enter the country after being given Entry Visa No 0000695 dated March 4, 2002. Chavda should have left within 28 days of the visa’s issuance, but he had stayed almost a year until the Director of Immigration caught on and ordered him to leave the country immediately.
According to details in our possession, Chavda then filed Miscellaneous Civil Case No 60 of 2003 asking the court to force the immigration department to grant him a visa so that he could testify in the two civil cases facing him.
On March 11, 2004, the High Court issued its ruling in Chavda’s favour, ordering the Director of Immigration to issue a two-year visa to the deportee.
One senior immigration official in Dar es Salaam told The Guardian on Sunday this week that the decision to grant Chavda the visa was both illogical and indefensible.
“The law is very clear; he should be outside the country and is only allowed to come once needed or summoned by the court,” said the official, who asked for anonymity on the grounds that he is not the department’s official spokesperson.
“A hearing can’t take two years, it is just one or a few weeks as long as the pending cases are civil cases.”
Chavda’s two-year visa expired in April 2006, but again neither of the two cases had been heard, and not even preliminary hearings had been held for either of them.
Following of the expiry of his visa, the office of the Attorney General wrote a letter on May 6, 2006, directing the Director of Immigration to act accordingly.
“Since the ruling date was March 11, 2004 then the time for stay in Tanzania has elapsed, and given the fact that Chavda didn’t appeal against the decision, now act according to the law on this issue,” reads part of the letter signed by D.L Chidowu on behalf of the AG.
Despite the AG’s letter, the immigration department has still not taken any action against Chavda.
In a May 25, 2007, letter to Professor Abdullah Safari of Safari Law Chambers - Chavda’s newest lawyer - the AG’s office wrote that it seemed the ministry of home affairs had flipped its position on the matter and was complicit in allowing Chavda to remain in the country.
“The issue of Chavda has taxed much this office. We as advocates of the government and chief legal advisers did our best to defend the position of the government in court to declare Chavda a prohibited immigrant…however it is now clear that the parent ministry [home affairs] has changed its previous position,” reads part of the letter signed by P. J Ngwembe on behalf of the AG.
When asked on Friday why Chavda was still being allowed to remain in Tanzania, Minister for Home Affairs Lawrence Masha was deliberately vague.
“It’s the government that has decided that he should stay in the country because he is still needed,” Masha told The Guardian on Sunday.
The minister would not elaborate on why Chavda was ‘needed’ in the country when he was no longer involved in any currently pending civil cases.
The minister’s response is a curious departure from what his boss, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, told Parliament on April 30 this year, in response to a question asked by Kigoma North MP Zitto Kabwe.
The Prime Minister said he wasn’t aware whether Chavda was still in the country, but he promised to thoroughly investigate on which grounds the Asian tycoon was allowed to stay in Tanzania if he were.
The senior immigration official said this ‘confusion’ among top-ranking government officials speaks to the deliberate obfuscation and questionable protection surrounding Chavda and his status in the country.
“This is a man who was supposed to be arrested and charged with criminal offences but surprisingly he is today a free man enjoying the protection of some government officials and a group of Asian traders,” the senior immigration official said.
SOURCE: Guardian on Sunday
The man who in 1994 set up and then stole from the debt buy-back programme that is now known as the External Payment Arrears (EPA) account has been living in the country for the last five years despite being declared a prohibited immigrant.
Vidyadhar G. Chavda, an Indian citizen, first came to Tanzania in 1978 without a penny to his name, according to his own words quoted in a 1994 parliamentary report, but after years of working here as an architect he moved into the finance services industry and orchestrated a number of very lucrative, very shoddy deals.
Chavda approached the government with his idea for the creation of the Debt Conversion Programme (DCP) - which sought to reduce the country’s outstanding debts by selling them off to third parties at discounted prices - the deal that cost the country Sh50bn/- ($100m at that time prevailing exchange rate) in taxpayer money from the programme.
“I came to this country without a single penny, a beggar…but I came with a brain worth millions of dollars supported by education and exposure,” Chavda said after the news of his multibillion-shilling scandal broke in 1994.
“The DCP funds were brought totally by my idea and efforts,” he said at the time. “What I have done is beyond the sphere of understanding Parliament…it is a purely financial issue which nobody is capable of grasping.”
To repair the economic damage caused by his sleazy deals, the Central Bank of Tanzania (BoT) was forced to print billions of shillings in 1994.
After his scandal was thoroughly investigated by the Parliamentary Committee chaired by Edward Oyombe Ayila, Chavda was finally deported in 1996, though he was not charged with any wrongdoing.
Despite being deported, Chavda had already caused a strong political rift within the ruling party, and then-minister for home affairs Augustine Mrema resigned because he disagreed with the way the scandal was handled.
In its recommendations, the Parliamentary Committee advised Chavda’s immediate arrest and prosecution for fraud, violation of the Foreign Exchange Act of 1992 and giving false statements contrary to section 122, 309 and 346 of the country’s penal code.
The Committee further recommended that legal action be taken against all traders and lawyers who conspired with Chavda for economic sabotage, and it urged the concerned authorities to cancel the business licenses for those who collaborated with him, including Subhash Patel.
Surprisingly only one recommendation was implemented - to revoke Chavda’s residence permit and deport him - essentially letting him and his partner off the hook.
He is now back in Tanzania where he has been living in the Masaki suburb of Dar es Salaam for the last five years, according to reliable details obtained by The Guardian on Sunday this week.
How he played the game
Having managed to shake the Parliamentary Committee that was formed to investigate him, Chavda carefully planned his comeback in 1997 just three years after he was deported.
On March 18, 1997, Chavda, acting through his lawyers Mkono & Company, asked the High Court of Tanzania to issue a Witness Summons to allow him to testify on August 5 of that year in a pending civil case brought by his wife against him, Civil Case No 130 of 1993.
His wife, an Indian citizen who had continued living in Tanzania legally after Chavda was deported, was suing him over a family financial dispute.
On April 1, 1997, the High Court wrote to the Director of Immigration seeking clarification on the legal position of Chavda’s status once he arrived in the country to testify.
As such, the Director of Immigration informed Mkono & Company on September 25, 1997, that Chavda had been given a visa for 30 days to allow him to enter the country only to testify in court.
Later findings from the court show, however, that during that 30-day period, the civil case was not scheduled for a hearing and Chavda’s claims that he needed to appear in court lacked grounds. His visa expired and he left the country, but with the intention to come back yet again.
Having identified a loophole in the system that could be exploited, Chavda planned a comeback in January 2002 centred on another ‘necessary’ appearance in court.
Chavda again had his lawyers - this time from the firm Gomba & Tadayo - write to the High Court requesting a Witness Summons to testify in Civil Case No 74 of 1996, a separate civil case filed by the National Bank of Commerce against him for an alleged 800m/- in outstanding loan repayments.
He was again allowed to enter the country after being given Entry Visa No 0000695 dated March 4, 2002. Chavda should have left within 28 days of the visa’s issuance, but he had stayed almost a year until the Director of Immigration caught on and ordered him to leave the country immediately.
According to details in our possession, Chavda then filed Miscellaneous Civil Case No 60 of 2003 asking the court to force the immigration department to grant him a visa so that he could testify in the two civil cases facing him.
On March 11, 2004, the High Court issued its ruling in Chavda’s favour, ordering the Director of Immigration to issue a two-year visa to the deportee.
One senior immigration official in Dar es Salaam told The Guardian on Sunday this week that the decision to grant Chavda the visa was both illogical and indefensible.
“The law is very clear; he should be outside the country and is only allowed to come once needed or summoned by the court,” said the official, who asked for anonymity on the grounds that he is not the department’s official spokesperson.
“A hearing can’t take two years, it is just one or a few weeks as long as the pending cases are civil cases.”
Chavda’s two-year visa expired in April 2006, but again neither of the two cases had been heard, and not even preliminary hearings had been held for either of them.
Following of the expiry of his visa, the office of the Attorney General wrote a letter on May 6, 2006, directing the Director of Immigration to act accordingly.
“Since the ruling date was March 11, 2004 then the time for stay in Tanzania has elapsed, and given the fact that Chavda didn’t appeal against the decision, now act according to the law on this issue,” reads part of the letter signed by D.L Chidowu on behalf of the AG.
Despite the AG’s letter, the immigration department has still not taken any action against Chavda.
In a May 25, 2007, letter to Professor Abdullah Safari of Safari Law Chambers - Chavda’s newest lawyer - the AG’s office wrote that it seemed the ministry of home affairs had flipped its position on the matter and was complicit in allowing Chavda to remain in the country.
“The issue of Chavda has taxed much this office. We as advocates of the government and chief legal advisers did our best to defend the position of the government in court to declare Chavda a prohibited immigrant…however it is now clear that the parent ministry [home affairs] has changed its previous position,” reads part of the letter signed by P. J Ngwembe on behalf of the AG.
When asked on Friday why Chavda was still being allowed to remain in Tanzania, Minister for Home Affairs Lawrence Masha was deliberately vague.
“It’s the government that has decided that he should stay in the country because he is still needed,” Masha told The Guardian on Sunday.
The minister would not elaborate on why Chavda was ‘needed’ in the country when he was no longer involved in any currently pending civil cases.
The minister’s response is a curious departure from what his boss, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, told Parliament on April 30 this year, in response to a question asked by Kigoma North MP Zitto Kabwe.
The Prime Minister said he wasn’t aware whether Chavda was still in the country, but he promised to thoroughly investigate on which grounds the Asian tycoon was allowed to stay in Tanzania if he were.
The senior immigration official said this ‘confusion’ among top-ranking government officials speaks to the deliberate obfuscation and questionable protection surrounding Chavda and his status in the country.
“This is a man who was supposed to be arrested and charged with criminal offences but surprisingly he is today a free man enjoying the protection of some government officials and a group of Asian traders,” the senior immigration official said.
SOURCE: Guardian on Sunday
MEET 10-YR-OLD NATALIE, BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO BEYONCE
CLICK HERE to read more about this little princes.
But,hers wasn't the only act last night to wow the judges and viewers of Britain's Got Talent.Watch this teen-version of Usher,Ne-Yo,You-Name-It...it's Aidan Davis ,an 11-year-old kid from Birmingham,who not only knows how to dance but also holds a Black Belt in karate!
KAMA HII NI KWELI BASI CCM KWISHNE!
NIMEKUTANA NA HABARI ILIYONISHTUA KIDOGO,KWAMBA MMOJA WA WANA-CCM WALIOOMBA KUGOMBEA KITI CHA UBUNGE KATIKA UCHAGUZI MDOGO WA JIMBO LA BUSANDA,DONALD MAX, AMEREJESHEWA GHARAMA ALIZOTUMIA WAKATI WA KUJIPIGIA DEBE.INADAIWA HILO LIMEFANYIKA ILI AWEZE KUSHIRIKI KWENYE KAMPENI ZA MGOMBEA ALIYEPITISHWA NA CCM,LORENCIA BUKWIMBA.
KWA MUJIBU WA GAZETI LA Mwananchi:
Taarifa...za ndani zilisema kukubali kwa Max kupanda jukwaani, kunatokana na makubaliano ya faragha baina yake na Malecela kwa niaba ya Kikwete ambaye aliagiza arejeshewe gharama zake za kampeni katika mchakato wa kura za maoni...Kutokana na makubaliano hayo CCM kiliagizwa kusaka fedha za kumrudishia Max ambazo zililetwa na mbunge mmoja wa Kanda ya Magharibi, ambaye pia ni Mjumbe wa Kamati Kuu na Halmashauri Kuu, ambaye imeelezwa aliingia Geita kimya kimya na kufanya mazungumzo naye.
NASEMA HABARI HIYO IMENISHTUA "KIDOGO" KWA VILE CCM SI NGENI KATIKA ULIMWENGU WA MAIGIZO YA KISIASA.KWA MFANO,TUME YA MAADILI YA CHAMA HICHO BADO IKO CHINI YA UONGOZI WA MZEE WA VIJISENTI,MWANASIASA AMBAYE MAADILI YAKE YA UONGOZI NI QUESTIONABLE KUTOKANA NA TUHUMA ZA KUJILIMBIZIA VIJISENTI HAPO JERSEY.
LAKINI INAPOFIKIA HATUA YA CHAMA HICHO KUREJESHA GHARAMA ZA MGOMBEA ALIYESHINDWA KWENYE NOMINATION PROCESS INAMWAGA ZEGE ZAIDI KWENYE UKWELI KWAMBA CHAMA HICHO TAWALA KINA UHABA MKUBWA ZA BUSARA ZA UONGOZI.HIVI KUREJESHA GHARAMA HIZO KUNA TOFAUTI GANI NA KUMHONGA MWANASIASA HUYO ILI APANDE JUKWAANI?HIVI,TUKIAMINI KUWA HABARI HIZO NI ZA KWELI,CCM ITOE FEDHA HIZO KISHA MAX APANDE JUKWAANI KUMNADI MGOMBEA BUKWIMBA,KISHA CHAMA HICHO KISHINDWE KWENYE UCHAGUZI (WHICH IS POSSIBLE KAMA KUTAKUWA NA UCHAGUZI HURU NA HAKI)........FILL IN THE BLANKS,MZALENDO MWENZANGU.
KAMA LEO CCM INADIRIKI KUTOA FEDHA KUMSHAWISHI MAX APANDE JUKWAANI,ITASHINDWAJE KUWAPA FADHILA MAFISADI KATIKA UCHAGUZI WA MWAKANI IWAPO CHAMA HICHO KITAELEKEA KUSHINDWA?HAYA YALITOKEA 2005,NA NDIO VYANZO VYA SKANDALI ZA EPA NA NYINGINEZO.SIJUI INGEKUWAJE LAITI MAREHEMU BABA WA TAIFA ANGERUDI DUNIANI NA KUKUTA CHAMA ALICHOKIASISI KINAFANYA UTUMBO KAMA HUU!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
VC WA KENYA AKIRI WANANUFAIKA NA MT KILIMANJARO
Na Leon Bahati
MAKAMU wa Rais wa Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka amekiri kuwa mlima Kilimanjaro umekuwa ukiisaidia nchi yake kukuza sekta ya utalii kutokana na Wakenya wengi kuutumia katika kujitangaza hasa wawapo kwenye nchi za ulaya.
Pamoja na kufaidika huko, alisema kuwa hiyo haifuti ukweli kwamba mlima huo mrefu kuliko yote Afrika, upo Tanzania, ingawa pia huweza kuonekana kutokea Kenya.
Musyoka alisema hayo kwenye hafla fupi ya chakula cha mchana alichoandaliwa na mwenyeji wake, Makamu wa Rais wa Tanzania, Dk Ali Mohamed Shein.
“Wakenya wanapoenda Ulaya wanawaambia wazungu: Njooni Kenya ili muone mlima Kilimanjaro,” alisema Musyoka katika ziara hiyo ya kiserikali kwa mwaliko wa Tanzania...endelea
MAKAMU wa Rais wa Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka amekiri kuwa mlima Kilimanjaro umekuwa ukiisaidia nchi yake kukuza sekta ya utalii kutokana na Wakenya wengi kuutumia katika kujitangaza hasa wawapo kwenye nchi za ulaya.
Pamoja na kufaidika huko, alisema kuwa hiyo haifuti ukweli kwamba mlima huo mrefu kuliko yote Afrika, upo Tanzania, ingawa pia huweza kuonekana kutokea Kenya.
Musyoka alisema hayo kwenye hafla fupi ya chakula cha mchana alichoandaliwa na mwenyeji wake, Makamu wa Rais wa Tanzania, Dk Ali Mohamed Shein.
“Wakenya wanapoenda Ulaya wanawaambia wazungu: Njooni Kenya ili muone mlima Kilimanjaro,” alisema Musyoka katika ziara hiyo ya kiserikali kwa mwaliko wa Tanzania...endelea
CHANZO: Mwananchi
WELL,HUWEZI KUWALAUMU IWAPO SIE "WENYE MLIMA HUO" TUNAENDEKEZA ZAIDI POLITIKI KULIKO KUTANGAZA VIVUTIO VYETU.WANAOPEWA DHAMANA YA KUTANGAZA RASLIMALI ZETU WAKO BIZE ZAIDI NA "TENI PASENTI" YA MIKATABA YA MATANGAZO KULIKO UFANISI WA MATANGAZO HAYO.
UKURUGENZI WA TAASISI ZA UMMA UNAPOFANYWA KISHKAJI...
MSIKIE MATTAKA ANAVYOONGEA KWA KUJIAMINI KANA KWAMBA ALIJITEUA MWENYEWE KUWA MKURUGENZI WA ATCL NA KUJIPA UJUMBE WA NIC.
Mattaka ajiweka kando ATCL
Imeandikwa na Mwandishi Wetu; Tarehe: 16th May 2009
Mkurugenzi Mtendaji na Ofisa Mtendaji Mkuu wa Kampuni ya Ndege Tanzania (ATCL), David Mattaka ametangaza kutoiongoza kampuni hiyo kwa miezi sita kutokana na kuteuliwa kuwamiongoni mwa wajumbe wa Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya Shirika la Bima la Taifa (NIC).
Katika taarifa ya barua hiyo iliyotolewa na ofisi yake kwa wafanyakazi Mei 11, mwaka huu, inaonyesha kuwa Mattaka amelazimikakutofanya kazi ATCL kwa kipindi hicho kutokana na nafasi yake hiyo aliyoteuliwa naWaziri wa Fedha na Uchumi, Aprili 23, mwaka huu kuwamo katika Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya NIC kazi ambayo zinamtaka awapo wakati wote kazini.
Uteuzi huo sambamba na wa Rais Jakaya Kikwete wa Februari 23, mwaka huu wa kuwamo katika kikosikazi cha kulifufua shirika hilo, Mattaka alisema “Katika nafasi zote nilizoteuliwa zinanitaka nifanye kazi muda wote kuanzia Mei mosi.” Kutokana na nafasi hizo mpya, kwa kipindi cha miezi sita ambayo hatakuwao ATCL, Bodi ya Wakurugenzi imemteua William Haji kukaimu nafasi yake.
“Bodi ya Wakurugenzi imemteua William Haji kukaimu nafasi ya Mkurugenzi Mkuu na CEO kuanzia Mei 8 na wakati huohuo kuendelea na nafasi yake ya Mkurugenzi wa Fedha,” alisema Mattaka. Bodi ya Wakurugenzi ya NIC iliyoanza kazi Mei mosi, inaongozwa na Mwenyekiti Balozi Charles Mutalemwa na wajumbe ni Michael Mhando kutoka Bima ya Afya, Msajili wa Hazina Agnes Bukuku, Naibu Mkurugenzi Mkuu wa Shirika la Taifa la Hifadhi ya Jamii (NSSF) Kate Bandawe na Charles Kilasile.CHANZO: Habari Leo
KWA UPANDE FLANI,HATUWEZI KUMLAUMU KWANI KWA HAKIKA ALIYEMTEUA AMEONEKANA KURIDHISHWA NA UTENDAJI WAKE.USHKAJI KATIKA TEUZI NI MIONGONI MWA VYANZO VIKUU VYA KUSUASUA NA HATIMAYE VIFO VYA TAASISI MBALIMBALI ZA UAMMA,BILA KUSAHAU KUSHAMIRI KWA UFISADI.KWANI HAKUNA WATU WENYE UWEZO ZAIDI YA MATTAKA?KAMA AMECHEMSHA ATCL,ATALETA MIUJIZA GANI HUKO BIMA?
YANI TUNAVYOENDESHA MAMBO KIHOLELA UTADHANI TUSHAPIGA HATUA KUJIKWAMUA KIUCHUMI KUMBE WAPI.VICHWA VILIVYOISHIWA MAWAZO NA MBINU ZA KUNUSURU TAASISI ZA UMMA HAVIWEZI KULETA MAPYA YOYOTE VINAVYOZUNGUSHWA KIUSHKAJI KUTOKA TAASIS MOJA KWENDA NYINGINE KANA KWAMBA NI ZA KIFAMILIA.
BALOZI WA SAUZI ASHANGAA TANZANIA KUOMBA MISAADA
UMASIKINI WA WATANZANIA (KAMA UNAVYOONYESHWA KATIKA PICHA YA JUU kwa hisani ya Dr Faustine) UNACHANGIWA ZAIDI NA MAFISADI WACHACHE WASIONYIMWA USINGIZI NA MISHANGAO KAMA HIYO YA BALOZI WA SAUZI.HAWANA MUDA WA KUJALI NANI ANASEMA NINI,ALIMRADI VOGUE ZAO (kama katika picha ya mfano hapo chini) ZINAENDELEA KUWAPA UJIKO MTAANI!YALEYALE YA MTU ANAKUPORA MKEO KISHA ANAMPTISHA MBELE YAKO MAKUSUDI KUKURUSHA ROHO! Na Claud MshanaBALOZI wa Afrika Kusini nchini amesema anashangazwa kuona nchi iliyojaliwa rasilimali nyingi kama Tanzania kujiendesha kwa kutegemea misaada kutoka nchi wahisani na marafiki.
Balozi huyo, Sindiso Mfenyana alisema rasilimali zilizo nchini zinaweza kugeuzwa na kuwa tegemeo la misaada kwa nchi nyingine.
Mfenyana alisema hayo wakati akizungumza na wahariri mbalimbali wa vyombo vya habari jijini Dar es salaam. Mfenyana alisema inashangaza kuona Tanzania ambayo imebarikiwa kuwa na rasilimali za kila aina ikiendelea kutegemea misaada katika uchumi wake.
"Kama rasilimali zilizopo zitatumiwa vizuri kwa maendeleo ya nchi hii na pia kukawa na usawa katika matumizi ya rasilimali hizo, nchi hii ingekimbiliwa na watu wengine kwa misaada," alisema balozi huyo.
Mfenyana alisisitiza kuwa Tanzania haina haja kuhofia wawekezaji kutoka Afrika Kusini, hasa wazungu kwa sababu zama za ubaguzi wa rangi zimeshapita na kwamba kilichopo sasa ni kuona nchi inakuwa na ushirikiano wenye manufaa bila kujali rangi wala historia baina ya nchi za Afrika.
"Ni ajabu kuona mtu anakuwa na wasiwasi kuingia ubia wa kiuchumi na 'Mzungu', pengine ni kutokana na historia iliyokuwepo kabla… inawezekana kuwa vyombo vya habari havikutangaza vya kutosha kuwa vita vya ubaguzi wa rangi vimekwisha," alisema.
"Leo hii mtu mweusi wa Afrika Kusini anakuwa na chuki na mtu mweusi mwenzake kuliko hata Mzungu, jambo hili linaonyesha kuwa enzi za kuchukiana kwa misingi ya rangi imeshapita.
Ni lazima tuendeleze uhusiano wetu kwa manufaa ya nchi zetu." Kwa upande wake, Meneja wa Jukwaa la Wafanyabishara wa Tanzania na Afrika Kusini, ambaye pia ni meneja wa hoteli ya Southern Sun, Adam Fuller alisema kumekuwa na maendeleo chanya ya ushirikiano wa kibiashara kwa nchi hizi mbili.
Alifafanua kuwa tofauti na zamani, Tanzania ilikuwa ikijitenga kiushirikiano na nchi nyingine labda kwa kuhofia ushindani, hivi sasa kuna tofauti kubwa na kuongeza kuwa wataendelea kushirikiana zaidi kwa kutumia fursa zilizopo kibiashara.
Kuhusu tatizo la umasikini nchini humo ambalo linachangia kwa kiasi kikubwa kuwepo na wimbi la uhalifu, Mfenyana alisema serikali ya nchi yake imejipanga kukabiliana na hali hiyo na tayari hatua madhubuti zimeshachukuliwa kukabiliana na tatizo hilo.
CHANZO: Mwananchi
INA MAANA BALOZI HUYU HAJUI KUWA RASILIMALI ZETU TAYARI NI MSAADA KWA MAFISADI?NCHI YETU IMEGEUZWA SHAMBA LISILO NA MWENYEWE,WATU WANAJICHUMIA WEE MPAKA WANAKINAI NA KULETA NYODO!INATIA UCHUNGU LAKINI NDIO HIVYO TENA.
Friday, May 15, 2009
"STAREHE" ZA WAINGEREZA USIKU
Pombe bwana!Huyu si "shoga",ni mwanaume ila tu kinywaji kimemkolea kaamua atinge gauni.Na sijui hiyo pozi kajifunzia wapi! Huyu "Beyonce Mweupe" anaonyesha ufundi wa kunengua. Hao si watoto wa shule,na huo "upole" ni sehemu ya kinywaji pia! "Kwanini Mungu aliwapendelea ng'ombe kuwa na miguu minne na sie wanadamu miguu miwili?"Yaelekea ndio "malalamiko ya muungwana huyo anayetambaa.Au anakumbukia alivyokuwa akitambaa wakati wa utoto?Katika pombe,lolote linawezekana! Kilio tena!? Pombe huwafanya wanyonge wajione majabali,only kinywaji kinapoyeyuka kichwani hujikuta wakiwa wanyonge vilevile PLUS majeraha. "Yes!Nimeweza.Si mlisema siwezi kulibalansi hilo boksi la take-away eti nimelewa?Mbona nimeweza.Watu tumeanza pombe zamani,in fact kabla ya kunyonya maziwa ya mama...teh teh teh" "Basi nikwambie shoga,mwaka 1978 nili....halafu kabla ya hapo mwaka 1749 nilikuwa....na mwaka huu 2004 nita....".Stori za kilevi hazihitaji kuwa makini na tarehe au muda.Na zinaweza kuendelea milele.Kimsingi huwa haziishi,na mada hubadilika kama bendera na upepo." Nahisi kama niko 'leba' mtoto najifungua.Hee nimezaa mtoto wa kiume".Si ajabu huyu akiamka asubuhi anamaizi kuwa kweli "alizaa" lakini mtoto ni "pooh" (ile kitu inayotupeleka msalani). Duh.Hapa ni ujenzi wa mahekalu hewani Huyu ashukuru ufanisi wa polisi wa doria wanaosaidiwa na CCTV.Ukaaji huo mitaa ya uswahilini ingeweza kumfanya huyo jamaa kwa siku kadhaa asitoke nyumbani kutokana na aibu.Ni mkao hatari sana!Hoi! Ah,nani kasema kitanda lazima kiwe chumbani.Hapa napata 'nepu' ya bure buleshi." Hee hawa vipi tena?",dada wa kushoto haamini anachokiona."Ahaaa,ndio mana wanaume wa kiskotishi wanapenda hizo kilt zao wanapokwenda out..." Anazidi kutafakari mdada wa watu. "Kuanzia leo mto wangu utakuwa tairi..."Chapombe afanya uvumbuzi usiku wa manane. Huy kibonge sijui anatoa nasaha gani kwa wenzake.Pombe huleta "busara" za ajabu kabisa. Oh dear dear....Picha hizi zimepigwa na mwanafunzi wa KiPolish jijini Cardiff,Wales.Habari zaidi kuhusu picha hizo na utamaduni wa chapombe (binge culture) BONYEZA HAPA.