Loliondo, OBC, Dowans: The disturbing connection and secrets

[Mzee Mwanakijiji]

Connect them if you can: Loliondo Gate => Yaeda Chini => Dowans and CCM!

What is the connection? There is a connection, a troubling one that is.

In 1992 some UAE royalty became interested in having their own private playground in Loliondo and the already then investor friendly government gave them completely above the heads of local people - the Loliondo Game Controlled Area hunting block. This is a kind of hunting permit, but the OBC constructed an airstrip long enough for jets and several permanent structures.

There were allegations of them breaking every hunting law and severe harassment, including murder, of pastoralists. There have been a constant conflict through the years, but in 2007 six of eight villages gave in and signed a development cooperation contract with the OBC facilitated by the government to get peace and stability but of course not justice. Ololosokwan and Maaloni did not sign despite the contract including a fee of 25 million Tsh per year (peanuts for UAE royalty, but not for Loliondo villagers).

The contract did read that OBC together with the villages would be coordinating grazing and hunting patterns so that they wouldnt collide. These kinds of meetings never materialized. Instead, in May this year the government sent a letter to the villages telling them to get their cattle out of the OBC operational area.

As the villages had the contract with the OBC and not with the government, and as the extreme drought required urgent talks, they didnt reply.By July 2009:

• 150 permanent homesteads were burnt
• 4 goats were burnt to death
• Food stores were burned and lost
• 1 young woman was raped
• Un-recorded numbers of cattle were lost and otherwise eaten by lions
• 4 children were lost (3 found, 1 still missing)
• 1 man was knocked over by the OBC vehicle, but luckily survived
• 12 men were beaten by the police and 3 seriously injured
• 54,120 cattle were pushed into extreme drought areas with no water or grass
• 1,753 people lost their home

 

[Ng'wanza Madaso]

What is the connection? There is a connection, a troubling one that is.

Je, mmiliki wa Loliondo ni raia wa nchi gani? Je kuna uhusiano wowote na CCM, NAOMBA JIBU.

 

[Mag3]

Je mmiliki wa Loliondo ni raia wa nchi gani? Je kuna uhusiano wowote na CCM, NAOMBA JIBU.

UAE - the Abu Dhabi Royal family. Uhusiano ? - ndiyo.

 

[Mzee Mwanakijiji]

ni kazi ngumu eh? chora mstari utaona umenyoka...

 

[Selous]

Sina ushahidi lakini it is horizontal straight line. Alipo king maker si rahisi sana kuconnect but jamaa ndo huyu anapepea

 

[Waga]

ni kazi ngumu eh? chora mstari utaona umenyoka...

Hehehehe i like it

 

[Mzee Mwanakijiji]

Hivi mgeni aliyekuja juzi na kupokewa na Membe ana uhusiano gani na Loliondo, Hazabe, Dowans na CCM?

 

[Waga]

Hivi mgeni aliyekuja juzi na kupokewa na Membe ana uhusiano gani na Loliondo, Hazabe, Dowans na CCM?

Kaka tujuze tu kwa uwazi mana wengine tu mbali na taarifa za huko nyumbani

 

[MawazoMatatu]

What is the connection? There is a connection, a troubling one that is.

Mkuu unataka kujua? au unatupima kama tunajua unalojua? mafumbo mafumbo mengi, mwaga unalojua lijadiliwe mkuu..!

 

[Keykey]

What is the connection? There is a connection, a troubling one that is.

Mkuu hako ka-nzi kaende Igunga kwa tahdhari njiani kuna 'miiba'

MMkjj kila nikiunganisha mistari inanijia kumbukumbu ya Hayati Stan Katabalo, mpiganaji alijitolea maisha yake kujaribu kuulinda urithi wetu na waandishi wa historia yetu hawakumpa nafasi yake inayostahiki.

 

[LeoKweli]

Hivi mgeni aliyekuja juzi na kupokewa na Membe ana uhusiano gani na Loliondo, Hazabe, Dowans na CCM?

Unataka kuniambia Wembere Hunting Company ndio waliofanya ule umaifya wa miaka ya 90 katika eneo la Loliondo.

 

[LeoKweli]

The owner of Otterlo Business Company (OBC), a Brigadier General Mohammed Abdulrahim Al-Ali from the United Arab Emirates called "the Arab," received a ten-year permit to hunt in Ololosokwan and ten neighbouring villages. In return, according to Government regulations, OBC is required to pay 25% of their revenues to the District Council.

OBC was also contracted to provide an additional $ 85, 000 to support village water projects. Villagers claimed, however, that they were never party to the contract, which was signed by the former MP on their behalf. Moreover, there is no formal mechanism for local participation in decision-making about hunting concession in the Tanzanian Government, which leaves local communities at the mercy of higher authorities and private interests.

Villagers report regular sightings of lorries carrying herds of young wildlife, been transported to airfields for shipment overseas. In at least one case they witnessed an aircraft being filled with young wildlife at the Loliondo airstrip. "…is this conservation according to the Government?" "We were told to allow these companies to enter our land, that they would conserve the wildlife. Look what they are doing!" These were some of the comments made by the local community. The initial shock has been overcome by cynicism given the failure of the Government at all levels to respond effectively to stop the plunder.

At the same time, the entire District Administration and the town along with it depend on OBC for basic infrastructure support. This includes electricity for most of Loliondo; the local airport (rehabilitation and maintenance); road repair and maintenance, as observed and reported to us.

Source: (Adapted and modified from Mbilinyi, 2000

Mwanakijiji kama unataka unganisha dots hapo

 

[Zogwale]

Mwanakijiji kama unataka unganisha dots hapo

Asante sana LeoKweli kwa kipande hiki cha habari.

Dot za huko kwenye mbuga za wanyama or say mali asili ni huzuni kwa watanzania. Huyu Mbilinyi alikuwa anafanya utafiti huko Arusha (wakati huo ikiwa na Manyara) na aligundua mambo mengi sana, though alikuwa anatizama masuala ya Food Security but kuna mambo mengi hindering that security.

Serikalii lipogundua kuwa Mbilinyi amepata taarifa na kuwa wazi kwa Watanzania itakuwa ni tabu, yaani aligundua fisadi wote kama ambavyo kidogo unaeleza hapa!!!

UWT walimvamia ndani ya ofisi yake na kuchukua kila component iliyokuwa inahusiana na mradi/utafiti ule. It was the end of it na ninafikiri atakuwa amepewa onyo kali. Nasema Inaniuma!!!

 

[Teamo]

Quote:

Asante sana LeoKali kwa kipande hiki cha habari.

Dot za huko kwenye mbuga za wanyama or say mali asili ni huzuni kwa watanzania.

Huyu Mbilinyi alikuwa anafanya utafiti huko Arusha (wakati huo ikiwa na Manyara) na aligundua mambo mengi sana, though alikuwa anatizama masuala ya Food Security but kuna mambo mengi hindering that security.

Serikalii lipogundua kuwa Mbilinyi amepata taarifa na kuwa wazi kwa Watanzania itakuwa ni tabu, yaani aligundua fisadi wote kama ambavyo kidogo unaeleza hapa!!!

UWT walimvamia ndani ya ofisi yake na kuchukua kila component iliyokuwa inahusiana na mradi/utafiti ule. It was the end of it na ninafikiri atakuwa amepewa onyo kali.

Nasema Inaniuma!!!

LOL!
ROHO YANGU INA HUZUNI KARIBU YA KUFA!
maane sorry,
UWT walimvamia kwa 'kofia ipi?'

 

[Zogwale]

LOL!
ROHO YANGU INA HUZUNI KARIBU YA KUFA!
maane sorry,
UWT walimvamia kwa 'kofia ipi?'

Unaulizia kofia ya UWT au ya Mbilinyi!!!??? Kwanza Mbilinyi huyu ninayemzungumzia mimi unajua ni yupi??? Japo source ya kile kipande cha habari za LeoKali kilisema tu "source Mbilinyi" bila kufafanua mimi nilijua ni Mbilinyi yupi kwa kuwa ninafahamu kilichokuwa kinaendelea kwa kipindi hicho since mid 90s na early 2000s kwenye huo utafiti ambao uliibua a number of controversial issues!!!!!! Sasa hapo unafikiri UWT hawataingia??? Mkuu hapo simaanishi Umoja wa Wanawake wa Chama!!!! Ha haha hahaha mkuu wangu Geoff!!!

 

[Kinyambiss]

Maria Ndossi had something to do with this.

 

[Mag3]

1991 - enters Brigadier Al Ali of Otterlo Business Corporation Ltd (OBC), a game-hunting firm based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Loliondo Gate saga starts. A parliamentary probe team is formed and the dirty agreement entered is revoked.

Strangely, a similar agreement is however established.
1998 - OBC erects a gate on the only access road to the northern part of LGCA

2000 - OBC is granted another 5-year hunting permit in the said area. As usual, without the villagers' consent and OBS constructs an airstrip. Villager's protest is quashed and two villagers are detained.

2008 - Tanzania UAE Hunting Safari Ltd, a company acting on behalf of Abu Dhabi royal family (Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed of the UAE) enters a contract with the Tanzania government to hunt wildlife in 2,267 square kms of remote bush in the Yaeda Chini in Arusha Region. The world protests since the Hadzade existence is put in jeopardy and everything is temporarily hushed up.

LGCA - Loliondo is located in Maasai ancestral lands in the northern part of Tanzania along the common border with Kenya. It borders the Ngorongoro highlands to the south, Serengeti National Park to the west, and the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya to the north.

The Loliondo Game Controlled Area (LGCA) encompasses an estimated 4,000 square kilometers, roughly a third the area of Serengeti National Park. There is no physical barrier separating the LGCA from these other protected areas; it is a continuous ecosystem.

LGCA was initially established in 1959 as a Game Reserve by the British colonial government under the then Fauna Conservation Ordinance, Section 302, a legal instrument the colonial authorities used to set aside portions of land for wildlife conservation.

The legal status of the reserve was later changed to that of a Game Controlled Area to allow for commercial trophy hunting, a status that defines LGCA today and haunts the wildlife of the region.

Still trying to connect the dots........

 

[Mzee Mwanakijiji]

1991 - enters Brigadier Al Ali of Otterlo Business Corporation Ltd (OBC), a game-hunting firm based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Loliondo Gate saga starts. A parliamentary probe team is formed and the dirty agreement entered is revoked.

Strangely, a similar agreement is however established.
1998 - OBC erects a gate on the only access road to the northern part of LGCA

2000 - OBC is granted another 5-year hunting permit in the said area. As usual, without the villagers’ consent and OBS constructs an airstrip. Villager's protest is quashed and two villagers are detained.

2008 - Tanzania UAE Hunting Safari Ltd, a company acting on behalf of Abu Dhabi royal family (Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed of the UAE) enters a contract with the Tanzania government to hunt wildlife in 2,267 square kms of remote bush in the Yaeda Chini in Arusha Region. The world protests since the Hadzade existence is put in jeopardy and everything is temporarily hushed up.

Still trying to connect the dots........

very good.. now go to Dowans and who owns it from where and how he is related to people of Tanzania Hunting Safari Ltd..

 

[Mag3]

Emirates royals threaten Tanzanian indigenous people

Hadzabe men:

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© Justin Dodd / ACM.edu / afrol Newsafrol News, 7 June -

The Hadzabe indigenous people of northern Tanzania are facing "a direct and serious threat to the survival" as their hunting and gathering grounds are falling prey to powerful safari organisers. Royals from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and their UAE Safari Ltd count on Tanzanian government support to drive out the Hadzabe, also called "Bushmen".
Last year, the Lower Yaida area in Mbulu District- around 200 kilometres west of Arusha - was ceded to an Abu Dhabi-based hunting company known as Tanzania UAE Safari Ltd. A second application was submitted to attain the remaining part of the Lake Eyasi basin in Karatu District. In end-May this year, the Karatu District Council rejected the deal, citing concerns over the well-being of the Hadzabe people. However, a new round of negotiating appears to have stronger government support.

The application by UAE Safari for a hunting concession encompasses an area of 3,975 square kilometres, including Lake Eyasi. UAE Safari is allegedly acting on behalf of UAE Prince Hamdan bin Zayed and Mohamed bin Zayed, who is chief of staff of UAE Air force. Both Prince Hamdan and Mr bin Zayed have visited the Yaida Valley.

The Hadzabe hunter and gatherer community, whose population ranges between 2,500 and 10,000, has organised its resistance to the concession of their ancestral lands, counting on the support of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) and the Hunter-Gatherer Forum of East Africa (HUGAFO). But this resistance has come at a high price.

On 21 May, Tanzanian police arrested Richard Baalow, a Hadzabe spokesperson and activist who has been trying to help the community express their opposition to the sale and dialogue with local government. Tanzanian human rights organisations see this as a form of intimidation to ensure compliance with the decision to contract with the UAE safari company.

While the Hadzabe still fight for their lands in Karatu District, in neighbouring Mbulu, the battle is already lost. In acrimonious circumstances, the Mbulu District Council last year agreed to sell 4000 square hectares to the UAE company. UAE Safari has already set up a camp on the concession, from which it soon is to start a commercial hunting and sports enterprise. The Hadzabe are asked to vacate the area.

Now, despite the ruling by the Karatu District Council, the Hadzabe are concerned that a decision on the Yaida Valley is going to be made by higher levels of government to alienate their land and resources without free prior and informed consent.

According to the Hadzabe, they are seeking a way to negotiate a sustainable solution between themselves, the District Council and the UAE safari company, which will conserve nature, provide incomes from the sustainable use of natural resources, and nurture their unique cultural and knowledge systems in their aboriginal territory. The Hadzabe are not necessarily disputing the deal with the UAE, but are arguing that the deal should not put the Hadzabe at serious risk of displacement and cultural disintegration.

But the Hadzabe activists and the organisations supporting them increasingly feel they are met with intimidation. Mr Baalow remains in police detention. The Tanzanian press reports that Mbulu district authorities have already issued several ultimatums for the Hadzabe to vacate the area where UAE Safari has set up its camp.

According to IPACC, the pressure against Hadzabe lands "presents a direct and serious threat to the survival" of this indigenous people, which is one of Africa's oldest surviving language and ethnic groups. "Loss of the Yaida Valley would devastate the Hadzabe and lead to their disappearance; a fate already experienced by the Aasax and Akiek peoples," the group adds.

IPACC Director Nigel Crawhall told afrol News that, although the pressure against the Hadzabe is increasing, international protests against the land-grab is also growing. The case has now been presented to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples, Rodolfo Stavenhagen.

Mr Stavenhagen is currently waiting for a green light from the Hadzabe to take their case further, Mr Crawhall said. The UN Special Rapporteur already has much experience with land conflicts concerning East African hunting and gathering societies. On a Kenya visit in December last year, he met with Ogiek, Sengwer, Elmolo leaders, discussing similar problems.

cry, my beloved country !!
CCM yasaka hela kwa udi na uvumba.
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[JokaKuu]

..sasa hawa watu ktk jimbo la Karatu.

..mbona sijamsikia Dr.Slaa, mbunge wa Karatu, akiwatetea hata siku moja?