Lawrence Masha na dd Simba kimenuka mazima!

[Mikael Aweda]

Tatizo ni nani wa kumfunga paka kengele?

 

[lukindo]

Mbona jamaa watapeta tu maana wezi ni wale wa mifukoni na waiba simu za mkononi. Wezi wa mali ya umma tunawaita ni waheshimiwa na vigogo. Hawastahili kutajwa majina yao kabisa

Tatizo ni nani wa kumfunga paka kengele?

Ni kweli mkuu.
Lakini kuna kitu kimenipa matumaini makubwa sana juma hili linaloisha, nalo ni case ya Rais Abdlaye Wade wa Senegal!

Hawa watu wenye kuhold hii mitandao ya wizi serikalini na assumptions za tulio wengi ni kuwa haya makundi yanaweza kuanguka japo wengi wetu wameshakata tamaa kuwa hayawezekaniki.

 

[Ralphryder]

Mhhh! Inafaa kuanzisha forum ya kupost kwa kiswahili na kiingereza, maana inabidi kutumia nguvu hadi njaa.... kwa walioelewa eti Fiksiman anasema Lawrence Masha na Iddi Simba wamefanyeje? Eti wameteuliwa kufanya nini?

Kugombea urais kwa tiketi ya jembe na nyundo!

 

[Zanaki]

Written by DAN RATHER

Back in September, "Dan Rather Reports" broadcast a story about Iowa State University's role in a controversial African land deal. An Iowa-based company called AgriSol Energy was planning to grow corn and soybeans on hundreds of thousands of acres in western Tanzania.

ISU claimed that they were working with the company to make sure that the massive for-profit venture was also a socially responsible one. According to an AgriSol news release, ISU's involvement ensured that the project would "effectively and efficiently serve the interests of the local communities and the country."

However, our investigation found that the land AgriSol planned to farm - with ISU's help - is already occupied by more than 100,000 people. They are refugees living in two settlements known as Katumba and Mishamo.

Last summer, we visited Katumba and found a thriving, self-sufficient community. In the almost 40 years since the settlement was established, its people have put down roots and turned what used to be a remote forest into highly productive - and highly desirable - farmland.

But the Tanzanian government had decided to evict the people of Katumba and lease the land to AgriSol for the development of a large-scale farm.

Critics called the deal a "land grab" that would be catastrophic for thousands of small farmers - just the kind of people that AgriSol claimed its project would benefit.

When we raised this issue with Iddi Simba, the chairman of AgriSol Energy Tanzania, he showed no concern for the fate of the refugees. "Whether those people will be moved to here or there is not our business," he said. "That is for the government."

The annual rent the company would pay the Tanzanian government for a 99-year lease? Just 25 cents per acre.

A top administrator at ISU has responded to our report in an interview for the university newspaper. Asked about the refugees, Associate Dean David Acker was emphatic. "That's an awful thing to even consider," he said. "If you did find a set of business people who were willing to have anything to do with kicking refugees off the land, who would want to have anything to do with them? Not me personally, not Iowa State."

Unfortunately, the facts tell a different story.

Acker himself was in charge of ISU's work with AgriSol and, as he is doubtless aware, ISU faculty visited the refugee settlements to do preliminary research for the AgriSol project in March and November 2010. What's more, ISU is mentioned in the memorandum of understanding between AgriSol and the Tanzanian government. The agreement specifies that AgriSol would be "working closely with Iowa State University" and also makes clear that the project would move forward only after the "resettlement and removal of all former refugees."

Our investigation also raised questions about the reasons behind ISU's involvement with AgriSol. AgriSol founder Bruce Rastetter is a major donor to ISU and his multi-million-dollar endowment pays the salary of an ISU faculty member who worked on the project. Rastetter also sits on the Iowa Board of Regents, which oversees ISU. Critics charged that Rastetter was using the university's name and reputation to further his own business interests.

Since our investigation, ISU has scaled back its involvement with AgriSol to an "advisory capacity." Meanwhile, in the face of mounting criticism, AgriSol announced that it was suspending development efforts in the refugee settlements and focusing on land elsewhere in Tanzania. But Acker's claim that ISU "never considered working in those areas [where the refugees live], and would never consider it" is simply untrue.

We've come to expect such evasions of responsibility from private companies, but it's especially disconcerting to see them coming from a publicly funded, land-grant university. Iowa State University is one of America's most respected agricultural schools and, as such, its administrators and faculty should be held to a high standard of transparency and accountability. It's fair for Dean Acker to highlight ISU's change of heart on the AgriSol project, if indeed they have had one. But the people of Iowa - not to mention the refugees of Katumba - deserve an honest explanation for ISU's part in this deal, and not just shameless denials.

Source: DesMoines Register

 

[Najuta Kukufahamu]

View attachment 48442oooh Masha siku hizi aonekani ameibukia huku..........Creative Eye Country Manager, Jenny Woodier (3[SUP]rd[/SUP] right) in a group photo with Mr. Lawrence Masha (3[SUP]rd[/SUP] left) and other officials of the advertising agency during the workshop held at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Dar es Salaam yesterday to mark the launch of the firm’s digital services as part of its growth strategy

Source. Corporate-digest.com (www.corporate-digest.com)

 

[Sumba-Wanga]

This country: watu wanaitafuta kama mchwa anavyotafuna mbao........
No wonder serikali haiwezi hata kufanya simple payment....

 

[Ferds]

Lawrence Masha, former Minister of Home Affairs. In recent years, Mr. Masha has been accused on several occasions of conflicts of interest, including in the multi-million dollar national identity cards (IDs) project, which his ministry oversaw. His law firm, IMMA Advocates, has been linked to a controversial gold related project, Deep Green Finance, which is alleged to have siphoned $122 million from the Bank of Tanzania.

Iddi Simba, former Director General of the East African Development Bank and former Tanzanian Minister for Industry and Commerce, a position he had to resign from in 2001. He came under fire as reports surfaced about him having issued sugar import licenses to 44 companies instead of only 10, in an environment surrounded with circumstantial evidence of graft. A more recent scandal, which has tainted the entire government, involves the sale of the city transport firm Usafiri Dar es Salaam (UDA) to a local company Simon Group Ltd for $1 million. Simba is being investigated since the first installment of $200,000 was credited to his own bank account.

What will happen if these two CROOKS:alien: form an allie? It has happened and stay tune more is to come

Update:

Kwa wale wanaomkumbuka vizuri Lawrence Masha, pia watakumbuka jitihada zake za kuhakikisha ifikapo mwaka 2010 Tanzania itakuwa haina tena kambi za wakimbizi kule Kigoma. Na alifanya kila jitihada kuhakikisha kuwa zoezi hilo linafanyika kikamilifu. Kumbe yule bwana hakuwa na malengo hayo tu bali kuna-tetesi alikuwa akitekeleza agizo la Mdhamini wake, Idd Simba ili kupisha Mradi wa Kilimo ambao unatarajia kuwahamisha wakazi zaidi ya 162,000 ambao wengi wao wamekaa kwenye ardhi husika kwa zaidi ya miaka 40. Kikubwa ni kuwa ardhi hii ilikuwa ikikaliwa na wakimbizi na tayari walikuwa wakiitumia kwa shughuli za kilimo. Ni ardhi yenye rutuba ya kutosha. Pamoja na yote, Lawrence na kampuni yake ya IMMA ni washauri wa kisheria katika mradi huu (kama alivyojimegea mradi wa Vitambulisho).

Idd Simba kupitia kampuni yake (serengeti advisers) ambayo inamilikiwa kwa pamoja na familia ya Eyakuze wamepania kutekeleza mradi huo ambao kwa kushirikiana na kampuni ya Kimarekani ya Agrisol Energy utawekeza dola milioni 100 na utaendeshwa kwa kipindi cha miaka 10 ya awali. Yeye binafsi amekana kuwa kampuni yake haihusiki na kuhamishwa kwa wakimbizi hao ila Serikali ya Tanzania. Je swali liko hapa, Masha alikuwa akitekeleza majukumu ya Serikali au ya Kampuni ya Idd Simba?

Kumbuka pia, Serikali ya Tanzania ilianza mchakato wa kuwapatia uraia wakimbizi zaidi ya 162,000 kuanzia mwaka 2008 na mradi huo ulitegemea kumalizika April 2010, maanake ni kuwa watu hawa watakuwa raia ya watanzania baada ya mradi huo na wataendelea kuishi katika ardhi hiyo ambayo Masha ameiuza kinyemela na kulazimisha wakimbizi hao kurejeshwa ili dili lisigonge mwamba. Wakati tangazo la kuwapatia uraia wakimbizi hao linatolewa, mchakato wa tathmini ya eneo la mradi ulishaanza pia, kwa maana hiyo Masha alitoa tamko akijua kiwingu kinacholetwa na kimbizi hao.

Je mradi huu unafaida kwa watanzania?

Wakati kampuni ya Agrisol na mdau wake Serengeti Advisers wamewekeza dola milioni 100, kuna uwezekano wa kupata faida ya juu kuliko pesa walizowekeza. Kama mavuno yataenda sawa, watavuna tani 200,000 katika heka 325,000. Faida watakayopata ni zaidi a dola milioni 272 kwa mwaka, hii sawa na bajeti ya mwaka ya wizara ya kilimo. Lakini jambo jingine ni kuwa kampuni hii inadai ipewe Hadhi ya Uwekezaji yaani Strategic Unvestor Status, hii inamaana kuwa itasamehewa corporate tax ambayo ni asilimia 30 ya faida wakatayopata.

More to come....!

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