CoW yazidi kusambaratika

[Ngongo]

Konda wa bodaboda Asante kwa kuniita huku japo naona kama ni mipasho tu na hamna chochote humu mnachojadili kinachohitaji matumizi ya akili. Kuna mambo kadhaa nafaa kuyaweka bayana hapa.
- Mgogoro baina ya Kenya na Uganda kuhusu hilo eneo la Migingo haujaanza jana, ni jambo ambalo huwa linaendelea kutatuliwa, uhusiano wetu na Uganda upo thabiti haswa kibiashara.

- Hilo la bomba, Waganda wana haki ya kuchagua eneo ambalo halitawapa wasiwasi kwenye gharama na usalama. Hivyo tunahitaji kuwahakikishia hayo au waende kwingine. Hii ni biashara na kama nisemavyo kila siku humu, hamna cha undugu kwenye biashara ila maslahi. Ujio wa Waganda huko Tanzania ni kwa sababu ya mahesabu yao na ikitokea sisi Wakenya tumeshindwa kuwadhihirishia matakwa yao, basi wapo radhi kuchagua wanakotaka.
Kuna kikao kitafanyika ndani ya siku kumi baina ya Waganda na Wakenya kujaribu kuona kama tunaweza afikiana kwenye hili, sasa hivi tayari tuna bomba kuanzia Eldoret hadi Mombasa, hivyo tunaweza waambia Waganda kwamba tutengeneze bomba la kuunga hili ambalo lipo tayari, kimsingi tutajaribu kuwahakikishia na kurekebisha kilicho wafanya watelekeze mkataba wa hapo awali baina yetu. Lakini ikishindikana basi tunaachia bila majungu, nothing personal, hii ni biashara tu.

- Muungano wa CoW upo kwa ajili ya maslahi, hamna cha undugu wala nini, dunia ya sasa haitaki maisha ya kusuasua na uwoga uwoga, maamuzi lazima ufanye kwa haraka maana hamna muda tena. Miaka ya hapo awali ilikua rahisi kuwa wavivu na kulalia maskio, lakini huo muda haupo tena.

Na ndio unaona hata rais wenu Magufuli hilo ameshalijua na hazubai tena, uchaguzi uliofanyika huko kwenu uliwadhihirishia viongozi wa CCM kwamba wananchi wamechoka na maisha ya umaskini wakati wana raslimali za kila aina. Kila siku wimbo ni ule ule, Tanzania ina ardhi nyingi zaidi ya mataifa yote EAC, ina madini, ina vivutio bora, ina bandari kubwa, maziwa na bahari n.k lakini bado inatajwa kwenye orodha ya nchi maskini wa kutupwa, huku ikihangaika kushindana na nchi ndogo ndogo kama Kenya.

CCM waliponea kwenye tundu la sindano maana walitumia nguvu nyingi sana kurejea kwenye madaraka. Hata kule Zanzibar bado wanayumba tu, wamelazimika kuwajaza wanajeshi kila kona.

Cha msingi, ifahamike muungano wa CoW upo kwa ajili ya kuharakisha yale tunayoyaweza na kuachia yale magumu hadi baadaye. Na sio lazima kila tutakachoanzisha kifaulu kwa mpigo mmoja tu, patakua na changamoto kadhaa mwanzoni, lakini taratibu tutazirekebisha tu. Hivi sasa DRC na Ethiopia tayari wameanza mikakati ya kujiunga na huu muungano, maana kila yeyote amekaribishwa na kujiunga na chochote humo atakacho ona kinamfaa, sio lazima uratibishe kila kitu, tunakuachia ujiunge na kitakachokufaidi, humu hatuna mambo ya undugu, hata Magufuli mwenyewe alishasema yupo tayari kuihusisha nchi yake kwenye hii miradi ya CoW.

Sasa hivi tupo mbioni kumfikishia Kagame reli ya SGR itakayowezesha mizigo kufika Kigali ndani ya masaa 24. ujenzi tayari unafanywa kwa spidi ya kufa mtu. Hiyo reli hatimaye itaunga hadi kule Burundi na DRC, na pia itakua ya msaada sana kwa wajasiria wa Tanzania Kaskazini. Hatuna muda wa kupoteza.

Mkuu MK254 Mgogoro wa kisiwa kidogo cha Migingo haujalishi kama umeanza leo au jana jambo lilo wazi ni kwamba mgogoro huu unaibuka mara kwa mara kwa mameno rahisi bado haujapatiwa ufumbuzi wa kudumu.Kenya wanadai ni kisiwa chao Uganda nao vile vile wanadai ni kisiwa chao ndio maana wamezuia maafisa uchaguzi kuacha kuendesha zoezi la kuandikisha wapiga kura.

Mheshimiwa hakuna kikao kitakachofanyika baina ya Kenya na Uganda kuhusiana na ujenzi wa bomba la mafuta kama kikao kitakuwepo basi watazungumza juu ya Kisiwa cha Migingo.Kuna uzi ulianzisha kuhusiana na kikao hicho lakini baada ya kupekenyua tukagundua ni kikao kilichotarajiwa kufanyika mwaka 2015 wakati kikao cha Dr Magufuli na M7 kilifanyika mwaka huu 2016.

Nakubaliana na wewe muungano wa CoW upo kwaajili ya maslahi lakini maslahi hao mengi ni kwaajili ya kuiumiza Tanzania jambo ambalo limeshindwa na linaendelea kushindwa.

 

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Mkuu MK254 Mgogoro wa kisiwa kidogo cha Migingo haujalishi kama umeanza leo au jana jambo lilo wazi ni kwamba mgogoro huu unaibuka mara kwa mara kwa mameno rahisi bado haujapatiwa ufumbuzi wa kudumu.Kenya wanadai ni kisiwa chao Uganda nao vile vile wanadai ni kisiwa chao ndio maana wamezuia maafisa uchaguzi kuacha kuendesha zoezi la kuandikisha wapiga kura.

Mheshimiwa hakuna kikao kitakachofanyika baina ya Kenya na Uganda kuhusiana na ujenzi wa bomba la mafuta kama kikao kitakuwepo basi watazungumza juu ya Kisiwa cha Migingo.Kuna uzi ulianzisha kuhusiana na kikao hicho lakini baada ya kupekenyua tukagundua ni kikao kilichotarajiwa kufanyika mwaka 2015 wakati kikao cha Dr Magufuli na M7 kilifanyika mwaka huu 2016.

Nakubaliana na wewe muungano wa CoW upo kwaajili ya maslahi lakini maslahi hao mengi ni kwaajili ya kuiumiza Tanzania jambo ambalo limeshindwa na linaendelea kushindwa.

Ngongo Mara nyingi huwa nakuona kama una elimu, hivyo huwa nategemea utaitumia kujadili kwa manufaa ya wanaJF wanaopitia hizi mada na kusoma kimya. Huu uzi unaweza kuwa muhimu katika kuelimisha jamii, lakini tatizo unaugeuza kuwa mipasho.

Mgogoro wa kisiwa cha Migingo unaendelea kujadiliwa kidiplomasia, wataalam wameteuliwa toka pande zote mbili ili kupitia pitia ramani na kufikia hatima ya kuelewana. Hao wasajili wa kura waliachiwa hiyo siku na wakaendelea na shughuli zao, sielewi kwanini bado unaendelea kupotosha wanaJF kana kwamba bado wamekamatwa. Sasa hivi wanaendelea na kushuguli za usajili.

Tatizo lilikua pale walipoingia na kuanza usajili bila kutaarifu Waganda, ilhali kisiwa chenyewe kipo kwenye mgogoro. Ni kama jinsi Malawi walidai kuwaachia mvue samaki kwenye lile ziwa ambao husema lao, halafu ghafla muanze shughuli zingine tofauti na uvuaji wa samaki bila kuwataarifu. Lazima patakua na mgogoro.

Vikao kwa ajili ya bomba vimefanyika vingi, na kuna kile cha mwaka jana baina ya marais wetu na wakasaini mkataba wa MOU. Baadaye, Total PLC ambao wanalenga kupata miradi mingine Tanzania wakaibuka na mahesabu yanayo onyesha unafuu wa kupitisha bomba Tanzania. Kweli ukiangalia hayo mahesabu yana mantiki, hivyo Uganda kama mteja akawa na uwezo wa kuhoji na kuibua maswali kadhaa dhidi ya Kenya.

kinachofanyika sasa hivi ni maandalizi ya Wakenya kukutana na Waganda ili kujaribu kuyajibu hayo maswali. Ikishindikana basi tutaachia na kufanya mengine, lakini kabla ya hapo lazima tujaribu kuona kama patakua na suluhu kwa maswali ambayo mteja Uganda aliibua. Pitia hapa usome zaidi Kenya, Uganda meet over crude oil pipeline | KBC TV

Hayo ya CoW sina haja ya kuelezea zaidi maana naona kama hukusoma maelezo yangu ya hapo mwanzo, na zaidi pia rais wenu Magufuli ameahidi kuhusisha Tanzania kwenye miradi ya CoW, haswa Kaskazini mwa Tanzania.
DRC na Ethiopia pia wapo kwenye mikakati ya kujiunga.

 

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Kenya to go it alone in oil pipeline project

PRINTRATING

An oil pipeline extension project in Eldoret, in Kenya’s Rift Valley, where Kenya Pipeline has a depot. PHOTO | FILE

By KENNEDY SENELWA

Posted Saturday, March 5 2016 at 19:00
IN SUMMARY

• Kenya faces the onerous task of constructing a crude oil pipeline to the Coast alone after Uganda and Tanzania agreed to build a similar facility at Tanga port.
• South Sudan is also contemplating an alternative route via Ethiopia to Djibouti instead of South Lokichar in northern Kenya through Isiolo to Lamu on the Indian Ocean.
• Uganda’s latest decision to build with Tanzania a 1,120 kilometre pipeline from Hoima will take the sheen off constructing the Northern Corridor facility — a key facet of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) project.

Kenya faces the onerous task of constructing a crude oil pipeline to the Coast alone after Uganda and Tanzania agreed to build a similar facility at Tanga port.

South Sudan is also contemplating an alternative route via Ethiopia to Djibouti instead of South Lokichar in northern Kenya through Isiolo to Lamu on the Indian Ocean.

The rival projects have raised fears of over-investment in oil transport infrastructure given the finite nature of the resource, despite hopes that ongoing explorations will yield more.

Kenya has discovered 600 million barrels of crude oil in South Lokichar and 6.5 billion barrels of oil have been found in western Uganda. A joint pipeline was to be built from Hoima in western Uganda through Lokichar to Kenya’s Coast to enable the two countries to start exporting their discoveries.

This would also have fed on the vast resource from Jonglei state in South Sudan — industry analysts place it at double the combined offtake from Kenya and Uganda — increasing its viability.

“The Lokichar-Lamu pipeline would still be viable with South Sudan on board or if more exploitable reservoirs were discovered in Northern Kenya,” said Patrick Obath, the managing consultant of Eduardo Associates, a sector analyst.

Uganda’s latest decision to build with Tanzania a 1,120 kilometre pipeline from Hoima will take the sheen off constructing the Northern Corridor facility — a key facet of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) project.

READ: Kenya undeterred by new Tanga pipeline deal

ALSO READ Regional power play in tussle over new route of Uganda oil pipeline

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni’s announcement of the agreement to build the southern route pipeline from Hoima in the Albertine basin through northern Tanzania to Tanga port, caught the Kenyan government by surprise. The decision was made public during the East African Community Heads of States Summit held in Arusha last week.

READ: Uganda dumps Kenya for Tanzania in oil pipeline deal

“We did not receive any communiqué. Kenya and Uganda have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to construct the Northern Corridor route pipeline after the central crude oil pipeline from Hoima through Kampala to Mombasa port was dropped,” said senior government officials from Kenya’s Energy Ministry, on condition of anonymity.

Tullow Oil Plc, which has interests in discoveries made in northwestern Kenya and Uganda with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), which has a stake in the Albertine basin were not kept abreast of the pipeline to Tanga.

Mr Obath said host governments in East Africa ought to continue making regulatory and legislative reforms to maintain the interest of investors and entice new players to the nascent oil sector.

“Investment is driven by reforms including regulators giving timely approvals for the industry to take bankable projects to the final investment decision stage,” said Mr Obath.
Nairobi based Hydrocarbons Management Consultants said Tullow, Africa Oil Corporation and Maersk Oil as partners in South Lokichar with Kenya’s government need a new strategy to fasttrack building of a crude oil pipeline.

ALSO READ: Kenya's early oil production awaits road upgrade

“The partners and the government now have to look at pipeline logistics for Kenya to start exporting commercially viable crude oil from 2020,” said the firm.

It is tied to South Sudan deciding to build a 1,469 kilometres pipeline to Ethiopia and Douraleh port in Djibouti after ILF Consulting Engineers of Germany was contracted in 2013 to carry out a feasibility study.

South Sudan in 2012 signed an MoU with Kenya for feasibility studies on a facility through northwestern Turkana County to Lamu as an alternative to the pipeline to Port Sudan on the Red Sea due to a tariffs dispute.

Hydrocarbons lead consultant Robert Shisoka said Uganda favours the pipeline to Tanga port as one on the northern route could be a soft target for attacks from Al Shabaab-affiliated extremists.

Preliminary data shows production from Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan when combined will lead to a total of 430,000 barrels of crude oil being pumped per day through the joint northern facility.

“Safety of workers and equipment on the northern route led to Uganda favouring of Hoima-Tanga pipeline,” said Mr Shisoka.

He said reliable supply of electricity will be a key feature of any route selected because the pipeline has to be heated to ensure the oil flows. The oil in Uganda and Kenya is waxy in nature and solidifies easily.

Kenya’s first discovery of oil in South Lokichar basin in exploration blocks 10 BB and 13T was made in 2012. The Lapsset Corridor Development Authority (LCDA) estimates the cost of building an 868-kilometre pipeline from Lokichar to Lamu at $3 billion.

Data from the Energy Ministry and LCDA shows that Hoima was to have crude oil storage tanks of 127,200 cubic metres (m³) and a 24-inch, 583 kilometres pipeline to Lokichar with a peak elevation of 1,430 metres above sea level.

Lokichar was to have crude oil storage tanks of 63,600 m³ and 30 inch, 868 kilometres to Lamu, where the raw fossil fuel is to be stored in 190,785 m³ terminal with a heating station before the commodity is loaded to sea tankers.

Landlocked Uganda’s first oil was discovered in 2006 but the plan for Tullow, CNOOC and Total to start commercial crude production by 2018 is unlikely to materialise due to delays in building an export pipeline to the Indian Ocean.
Kenya to go it alone in oil pipeline project

Karibu MK254

 

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Kenya to go it alone in oil pipeline project

PRINTRATING

An oil pipeline extension project in Eldoret, in Kenya’s Rift Valley, where Kenya Pipeline has a depot. PHOTO | FILE

By KENNEDY SENELWA

Posted Saturday, March 5 2016 at 19:00
IN SUMMARY

• Kenya faces the onerous task of constructing a crude oil pipeline to the Coast alone after Uganda and Tanzania agreed to build a similar facility at Tanga port.
• South Sudan is also contemplating an alternative route via Ethiopia to Djibouti instead of South Lokichar in northern Kenya through Isiolo to Lamu on the Indian Ocean.
• Uganda’s latest decision to build with Tanzania a 1,120 kilometre pipeline from Hoima will take the sheen off constructing the Northern Corridor facility — a key facet of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) project.

Kenya faces the onerous task of constructing a crude oil pipeline to the Coast alone after Uganda and Tanzania agreed to build a similar facility at Tanga port.

South Sudan is also contemplating an alternative route via Ethiopia to Djibouti instead of South Lokichar in northern Kenya through Isiolo to Lamu on the Indian Ocean.

The rival projects have raised fears of over-investment in oil transport infrastructure given the finite nature of the resource, despite hopes that ongoing explorations will yield more.

Kenya has discovered 600 million barrels of crude oil in South Lokichar and 6.5 billion barrels of oil have been found in western Uganda. A joint pipeline was to be built from Hoima in western Uganda through Lokichar to Kenya’s Coast to enable the two countries to start exporting their discoveries.

This would also have fed on the vast resource from Jonglei state in South Sudan — industry analysts place it at double the combined offtake from Kenya and Uganda — increasing its viability.

“The Lokichar-Lamu pipeline would still be viable with South Sudan on board or if more exploitable reservoirs were discovered in Northern Kenya,” said Patrick Obath, the managing consultant of Eduardo Associates, a sector analyst.

Uganda’s latest decision to build with Tanzania a 1,120 kilometre pipeline from Hoima will take the sheen off constructing the Northern Corridor facility — a key facet of the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) project.

READ: Kenya undeterred by new Tanga pipeline deal

ALSO READ Regional power play in tussle over new route of Uganda oil pipeline

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni’s announcement of the agreement to build the southern route pipeline from Hoima in the Albertine basin through northern Tanzania to Tanga port, caught the Kenyan government by surprise. The decision was made public during the East African Community Heads of States Summit held in Arusha last week.

READ: Uganda dumps Kenya for Tanzania in oil pipeline deal

“We did not receive any communiqué. Kenya and Uganda have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to construct the Northern Corridor route pipeline after the central crude oil pipeline from Hoima through Kampala to Mombasa port was dropped,” said senior government officials from Kenya’s Energy Ministry, on condition of anonymity.

Tullow Oil Plc, which has interests in discoveries made in northwestern Kenya and Uganda with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), which has a stake in the Albertine basin were not kept abreast of the pipeline to Tanga.

Mr Obath said host governments in East Africa ought to continue making regulatory and legislative reforms to maintain the interest of investors and entice new players to the nascent oil sector.

“Investment is driven by reforms including regulators giving timely approvals for the industry to take bankable projects to the final investment decision stage,” said Mr Obath.
Nairobi based Hydrocarbons Management Consultants said Tullow, Africa Oil Corporation and Maersk Oil as partners in South Lokichar with Kenya’s government need a new strategy to fasttrack building of a crude oil pipeline.

ALSO READ: Kenya's early oil production awaits road upgrade

“The partners and the government now have to look at pipeline logistics for Kenya to start exporting commercially viable crude oil from 2020,” said the firm.

It is tied to South Sudan deciding to build a 1,469 kilometres pipeline to Ethiopia and Douraleh port in Djibouti after ILF Consulting Engineers of Germany was contracted in 2013 to carry out a feasibility study.

South Sudan in 2012 signed an MoU with Kenya for feasibility studies on a facility through northwestern Turkana County to Lamu as an alternative to the pipeline to Port Sudan on the Red Sea due to a tariffs dispute.

Hydrocarbons lead consultant Robert Shisoka said Uganda favours the pipeline to Tanga port as one on the northern route could be a soft target for attacks from Al Shabaab-affiliated extremists.

Preliminary data shows production from Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan when combined will lead to a total of 430,000 barrels of crude oil being pumped per day through the joint northern facility.

“Safety of workers and equipment on the northern route led to Uganda favouring of Hoima-Tanga pipeline,” said Mr Shisoka.

He said reliable supply of electricity will be a key feature of any route selected because the pipeline has to be heated to ensure the oil flows. The oil in Uganda and Kenya is waxy in nature and solidifies easily.

Kenya’s first discovery of oil in South Lokichar basin in exploration blocks 10 BB and 13T was made in 2012. The Lapsset Corridor Development Authority (LCDA) estimates the cost of building an 868-kilometre pipeline from Lokichar to Lamu at $3 billion.

Data from the Energy Ministry and LCDA shows that Hoima was to have crude oil storage tanks of 127,200 cubic metres (m³) and a 24-inch, 583 kilometres pipeline to Lokichar with a peak elevation of 1,430 metres above sea level.

Lokichar was to have crude oil storage tanks of 63,600 m³ and 30 inch, 868 kilometres to Lamu, where the raw fossil fuel is to be stored in 190,785 m³ terminal with a heating station before the commodity is loaded to sea tankers.

Landlocked Uganda’s first oil was discovered in 2006 but the plan for Tullow, CNOOC and Total to start commercial crude production by 2018 is unlikely to materialise due to delays in building an export pipeline to the Indian Ocean.
Kenya to go it alone in oil pipeline project

Karibu MK254

Ngongo itakua labda lugha inakuchanganya lakini nitakuelewa tu, usisome kichwa cha taarifa halafu uishie bila kupitia na taarifa zenyewe. Kuna mambo muhimu unafaa kuzingatia unaposoma taarifa, ambapo ni, tarehe ya taarifa na wasemaji wa kiserikali walionukuliwa kwenye taarifa.

- Hapa umeleta taarifa ya tarehe March 5 2016 ambapo kulikua na kikao cha wanasiasa ambao walitangaza maamuzi ya bomba kupitia Tanga.
- Mimi nimekupa taarifa ya tarehe March 9, 2016 ambapo Waganda na Wakenya wamepanga kukutana kujadili kipi cha kufanyika kuzuia ule mkataba wa awali kuvunjika, ili kuwarejesha Waganda kwenye mpango wa kutumia Kenya.

 

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Tanga-Uganda oil pipeline project to start August - TPDC
BY GETRUDE MBAGO
8th March 2016

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President John Magufuli & Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni
The construction of the $4 billion (8 trillion/-) Tanga-Uganda oil pipeline is scheduled to begin in August this year and be completed within three years, the state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) has announced.


Speaking to reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday, TPDC executive director James Mataragio said the project will be carried out by three international oil firms –Tullow Oil plc (Britain), Total E&P (France), and Cnooc (China).

“We are working round the clock to enable the project to commence and proceed according to schedule,” Mataragio said.

“It is anticipated that thousands of tons of bare pipes, materials and equipment for pipe insulation, pump, bulk heating and trace heating stations will be imported through Tanga port,” he added.

The 1,403-kilometer pipeline will wind its way from Tanga to Uganda through Singida and Kagera regions, and upon completion will be able to transport up to 200,000 barrels of oil per day, according to the project blueprint.

It will link oil fields in Uganda's Lake Albert, Hoima region to the Tanga port which will serve as an export hub.

So far the investors are working on the best deal to transport to Tanga an estimated 6.5 billion barrels of oil believed to be accessible in Lake Albert. Already 1.4 -1.7 billion barrels have been confirmed as recoverable and available for transportation.

The TPDC boss noted that the pipeline project is also expected to increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Tanzania by more than 50 per cent per annum.

Its presence will pave the way for the installation of an estimated 200 kilometers of permanent new roads and corresponding bridges, and the upgrading of a further 150km of existing roads, while also presenting local companies like Tanzania Railways Limited with “very good business opportunities”, he added.

The pipeline should furthermore speed up regional integration in the energy sub-sector taking into consideration that Uganda is also in need of natural gas from Tanzania to power its iron core processing plants, Mataragio pointed out.

On the issue of compensation payments to the owners and occupiers of land through which the pipeline is set to pass, the TPDC boss said all such payments would be made before the project begins.

The pipeline deal was effectively sealed by presidents John Magufuli of Tanzania and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni on the sidelines of the East Africa Community (EAC) Heads of State summit in Arusha last week.

Museveni applauded Magufuli for his alacrity and zeal in implementing projects, a factor seen by some observers as a major reason why Uganda picked Tanzania as its pipeline project partner ahead of initial frontrunners Kenya.

The proposed Kenyan route for the pipeline had also raised concerns over the fact that it would run through a region where Al-Shabaab Islamist militants from Somalia are known to be regularly active.

Kenya had even expressed plans to build a new port to serve the region alongside the pipeline.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

Shikamoo MK254 wewe bado upo kwenye mazungumzo wenzanko wameshapanga ngoma inaanza August endeleeni kuzungumza sisi tunajenga.Hii ni 8 March kikao chenu mtajadili mgogoro wa Migingo hakuna habari nyingine.

 

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Tanga-Uganda oil pipeline project to start August - TPDC
BY GETRUDE MBAGO
8th March 2016

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President John Magufuli & Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni
The construction of the $4 billion (8 trillion/-) Tanga-Uganda oil pipeline is scheduled to begin in August this year and be completed within three years, the state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) has announced.


Speaking to reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday, TPDC executive director James Mataragio said the project will be carried out by three international oil firms –Tullow Oil plc (Britain), Total E&P (France), and Cnooc (China).

“We are working round the clock to enable the project to commence and proceed according to schedule,” Mataragio said.

“It is anticipated that thousands of tons of bare pipes, materials and equipment for pipe insulation, pump, bulk heating and trace heating stations will be imported through Tanga port,” he added.

The 1,403-kilometer pipeline will wind its way from Tanga to Uganda through Singida and Kagera regions, and upon completion will be able to transport up to 200,000 barrels of oil per day, according to the project blueprint.

It will link oil fields in Uganda's Lake Albert, Hoima region to the Tanga port which will serve as an export hub.

So far the investors are working on the best deal to transport to Tanga an estimated 6.5 billion barrels of oil believed to be accessible in Lake Albert. Already 1.4 -1.7 billion barrels have been confirmed as recoverable and available for transportation.

The TPDC boss noted that the pipeline project is also expected to increase Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Tanzania by more than 50 per cent per annum.

Its presence will pave the way for the installation of an estimated 200 kilometers of permanent new roads and corresponding bridges, and the upgrading of a further 150km of existing roads, while also presenting local companies like Tanzania Railways Limited with “very good business opportunities”, he added.

The pipeline should furthermore speed up regional integration in the energy sub-sector taking into consideration that Uganda is also in need of natural gas from Tanzania to power its iron core processing plants, Mataragio pointed out.

On the issue of compensation payments to the owners and occupiers of land through which the pipeline is set to pass, the TPDC boss said all such payments would be made before the project begins.

The pipeline deal was effectively sealed by presidents John Magufuli of Tanzania and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni on the sidelines of the East Africa Community (EAC) Heads of State summit in Arusha last week.

Museveni applauded Magufuli for his alacrity and zeal in implementing projects, a factor seen by some observers as a major reason why Uganda picked Tanzania as its pipeline project partner ahead of initial frontrunners Kenya.

The proposed Kenyan route for the pipeline had also raised concerns over the fact that it would run through a region where Al-Shabaab Islamist militants from Somalia are known to be regularly active.

Kenya had even expressed plans to build a new port to serve the region alongside the pipeline.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

Shikamoo MK254 wewe bado upo kwenye mazungumzo wenzanko wameshapanga ngoma inaanza August endeleeni kuzungumza sisi tunajenga.Hii ni 8 March kikao chenu mtajadili mgogoro wa Migingo hakuna habari nyingine.

Hehehe!! Ngongo yote haya ni mazungumzo, hata hilo la Agosti bado ni mazungumzo. Mteja wetu ni Mganda na sie sote, Tanzania na Kenya tunajinadi kwake hadi atulie na mmoja wetu au atuoe sote.

Mojawapo wa kile tutakachozungumza na Mganda ni uwezekano wake kutumia bomba letu la Eldoret hadi Mombasa. Nadhani unafahamu tayari tuna bomba lenye urefu wa karibia kilomita 800km ambalo tayari linatumika. Hivyo tutajaribu kumshawishi aunge kwenye hilo ambalo lipo tayari na halipo kule anakoogopa Alshabaab.
Yeye atakua na jukumu la kujenga bomba hadi kwenye mpaka wetu, na sisi tuchukue kuanzia hapo na kuunga kwenye hilo la Eldoret.

Akigoma kabisa, basi tunaachia na kuendelea na mengine bila majungu. Hii ni biashara na hauwezi kumlazimisha mteja anunue bidhaa zako. Kama mjasiria unafaa utumie nguvu zote kumshawishi mteja, lakini akigoma katakata basi unaachia na kujaribu riziki kwingine, japo unakua tayari ikitokea yule mteja akirudi kwako unampokea tu.

Hebu tembelea soko la nguo la Gikomba hapa Nairobi, utajifunza kitu na jinsi Wachagga hufanya biashara. Ukija kwenye kibanda chake halafu ujipime nguo na muanze kujadili, ikitokea hamjaelewana halafu uondoke, utashangaa sana jamaa anakufuata kabla hujaingia kwenye daladala, halafu anakuambia "haya kaka njoo uchukue nguo kwa pesa ulizonazo".

 

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Konda wa bodaboda Asante kwa kuniita huku japo naona kama ni mipasho tu na hamna chochote humu mnachojadili kinachohitaji matumizi ya akili. Kuna mambo kadhaa nafaa kuyaweka bayana hapa.
- Mgogoro baina ya Kenya na Uganda kuhusu hilo eneo la Migingo haujaanza jana, ni jambo ambalo huwa linaendelea kutatuliwa, uhusiano wetu na Uganda upo thabiti haswa kibiashara.

- Hilo la bomba, Waganda wana haki ya kuchagua eneo ambalo halitawapa wasiwasi kwenye gharama na usalama. Hivyo tunahitaji kuwahakikishia hayo au waende kwingine. Hii ni biashara na kama nisemavyo kila siku humu, hamna cha undugu kwenye biashara ila maslahi. Ujio wa Waganda huko Tanzania ni kwa sababu ya mahesabu yao na ikitokea sisi Wakenya tumeshindwa kuwadhihirishia matakwa yao, basi wapo radhi kuchagua wanakotaka.
Kuna kikao kitafanyika ndani ya siku kumi baina ya Waganda na Wakenya kujaribu kuona kama tunaweza afikiana kwenye hili, sasa hivi tayari tuna bomba kuanzia Eldoret hadi Mombasa, hivyo tunaweza waambia Waganda kwamba tutengeneze bomba la kuunga hili ambalo lipo tayari, kimsingi tutajaribu kuwahakikishia na kurekebisha kilicho wafanya watelekeze mkataba wa hapo awali baina yetu. Lakini ikishindikana basi tunaachia bila majungu, nothing personal, hii ni biashara tu.

- Muungano wa CoW upo kwa ajili ya maslahi, hamna cha undugu wala nini, dunia ya sasa haitaki maisha ya kusuasua na uwoga uwoga, maamuzi lazima ufanye kwa haraka maana hamna muda tena. Miaka ya hapo awali ilikua rahisi kuwa wavivu na kulalia maskio, lakini huo muda haupo tena.

Na ndio unaona hata rais wenu Magufuli hilo ameshalijua na hazubai tena, uchaguzi uliofanyika huko kwenu uliwadhihirishia viongozi wa CCM kwamba wananchi wamechoka na maisha ya umaskini wakati wana raslimali za kila aina. Kila siku wimbo ni ule ule, Tanzania ina ardhi nyingi zaidi ya mataifa yote EAC, ina madini, ina vivutio bora, ina bandari kubwa, maziwa na bahari n.k lakini bado inatajwa kwenye orodha ya nchi maskini wa kutupwa, huku ikihangaika kushindana na nchi ndogo ndogo kama Kenya.

CCM waliponea kwenye tundu la sindano maana walitumia nguvu nyingi sana kurejea kwenye madaraka. Hata kule Zanzibar bado wanayumba tu, wamelazimika kuwajaza wanajeshi kila kona.

Cha msingi, ifahamike muungano wa CoW upo kwa ajili ya kuharakisha yale tunayoyaweza na kuachia yale magumu hadi baadaye. Na sio lazima kila tutakachoanzisha kifaulu kwa mpigo mmoja tu, patakua na changamoto kadhaa mwanzoni, lakini taratibu tutazirekebisha tu. Hivi sasa DRC na Ethiopia tayari wameanza mikakati ya kujiunga na huu muungano, maana kila yeyote amekaribishwa na kujiunga na chochote humo atakacho ona kinamfaa, sio lazima uratibishe kila kitu, tunakuachia ujiunge na kitakachokufaidi, humu hatuna mambo ya undugu, hata Magufuli mwenyewe alishasema yupo tayari kuihusisha nchi yake kwenye hii miradi ya CoW.

Sasa hivi tupo mbioni kumfikishia Kagame reli ya SGR itakayowezesha mizigo kufika Kigali ndani ya masaa 24. ujenzi tayari unafanywa kwa spidi ya kufa mtu. Hiyo reli hatimaye itaunga hadi kule Burundi na DRC, na pia itakua ya msaada sana kwa wajasiria wa Tanzania Kaskazini. Hatuna muda wa kupoteza.

Mkuu umefanua vizuri sana nadhani hata nyumbu nao wamekuelawa

 

[Ngongo]

BREAKING: Uganda Army Police ARREST Kenya Migingo Island Assistant chief, SPARKS TENSION

Karibu tena MK254 Hii ni habari ya jana niambie katika hali hii ya mtifuano kuna mazungumzo kweli ya bomba wakati watu wanataka kunyakua kisiwa chao.

 

[Konda wa bodaboda]

Mkuu kwani muungano wa sisi na Zanzibar huko je, mbano wana Serikali yao? Burundi wanaweza kufuata mkondo huo huo, muugano utawapa bonasi ya ziada in terms of usalama, ulinzi, kupunguza msuguano wa kikabila unao chochewa na majirani zao etc.

Mkuu unataka warundi waje kutupora ardhi yetu? Warundi si ni kama nusu ya watanzania hivi, sasa ukisema tuungane nao si wataikimbia nchi yao kabisa na kuja kurundikana bongo. Hao tutashirikiana nao ila huko kwenye muungano hakuna maslahi kwa Tanzania.

 

[Konda wa bodaboda]

Mkuu asigwa ni kweli tukiungana na Burundi zipo athari zake lakini pia zipo faida zake.Yafaa wataalam wa uchumi,jamii na siasa wakafanya uchambuzi wa kina kupima hizo faida na hasara lakini kubwa zaidi ni utayari wa warundi na wataganyika wenyewe kuungana na si kulazimisha kama ilivyo Zanzibar.Mwaka 2011 tulitoa uraia kwa wakimbizi 8000 wa Rwanda na Burundi,Mwaka juzi tulitoa uraia 1,500 wakimbizi wa kisomali wapo kule Handeni Tanga mwaka jana tulitoa uraia kwa warundi 162 na bado zipo dalili ya kuendelea na zoezi la kugawa uraia kila mwaka hasa nchi zenye matatizo ya usalama kama Burundi na Congo DRC.

Hili la kutoa uraia ni jambo nisilolihafiki kabisa.

 

[Ngongo]

Mheshimiwa MK254 hii ni taarifa ya msemaji wa Ikulu ya tarehe 14/03/2016,zingatia wenye kutoa fedha ni Total ambao wamebainisha wazi fedha zipo na mradi utaanza mara moja..

 

[MK254]

BREAKING: Uganda Army Police ARREST Kenya Migingo Island Assistant chief, SPARKS TENSION

Karibu tena MK254 Hii ni habari ya jana niambie katika hali hii ya mtifuano kuna mazungumzo kweli ya bomba wakati watu wanataka kunyakua kisiwa chao.

Ngongo Mtifuano upo na utakuwepo hadi pale suluhu itapatikana, hiki ni kisiwa chenye mgogoro baina ya nchi mbili ambazo pande zote mbili wamekubaliana kutumia diplomasia. Kinachotendeka sasa hivi ni kwamba, Uganda hawataki Kenya kuonyesha kana kwamba suluhu ilishapatikana, kwa kupeleka wasajili wa kura bila kutaarifu Uganda, kwa kifupi hawataki tufanye shughuli zingine za kiserikali zaidi ya uvuvi, hadi pale wataalam watakamilisha kupitia ramani zote na kufikia maamuzi.

Sasa la bomba usichanganye na hilo la kisiwa. Fahamu sasa hivi Uganda ni mteja wetu muhimu na tunaendelea naye kwenye biashara nyingi tu. Haimanishi nchi zikizozana kwenye jambo moja basi mengine yote yanafungwa. Ni bora ukatumia muuda wako kujielimisha kuhusu masuala ya kimataifa kabla hujaja kujadili kwenye hizi mada za kimataifa.

 

[MTK]

Ule muungano haramu baina ya nchi za Uganda,Kenya & Rwanda umezidi kusambaratika baada ya majeshi ya Uganda kuwakamata maafisa wa Kenya waliokuwa wakiandikisha zoezi la wapiga kura nchi Kenya.Majeshi ya Uganda yaliwatia mbaroni maafisa wa Kenya kwa kile wanachodai Kisiwa cha Migingo ni sehemu ya ardhi ya Uganda.

Ikumbukwe muungano wa CoW ulipata kipigo kingine wiki chahche zilizopita baada ya Uganda kuamua kupitisha bomba la kusafirisha mafuta Tanzania badala ya Kenya.Kama hiyo haitoshi Tanzania ilisimamia kikamilifu kuhakikisha raia wa Burundi anachukua wadhifa wa katibu mkuu wa jumuiya kuanzia mwezi April 2016.Rwanda ikitumiwa na Kenya zilifanya kampeni iliyokuwa na lengo la kuongeza muda wa Katibu Mkuu wa sasa raia wa Rwanda au achaguliwe katibu mkuu kutoka Kenya kwa kisingizio eti hali ya machafuko Burundi isingefaa kutoa katibu mkuu wa EAC.Nidhahiri CoW iliyokuwa na nguvu kipindi cha utawala wa Kikwete sasa unaelekea kufa na kuzikwa rasmi.

Voter listing resumes in disputed Migingo Island

COW ulikuwa mkakati wa kumtishia nyau DHAIFU! Mambo yamebadilika kwani kwa kauli na matendo ya JPM wameshaona hawatoboi; Tanganyika ni kiungo muhimu sana kwa ustawi wa EAC na kina M7, PK na UK wanalijua sana hilo; we are not landlocked; tuna population na landmass kubwa na natural resources nyingi kuliko wote combined. Tutaheshimiana tu polepole!

 

[MK254]

Mheshimiwa MK254 hii ni taarifa ya msemaji wa Ikulu ya tarehe 14/03/2016,zingatia wenye kutoa fedha ni Total ambao wamebainisha wazi fedha zipo na mradi utaanza mara moja..

Ngongo Hiyo ni poa, Total siku zote wamesema wapo tayari kujenga hilo bomba na kwamba wana hela za huo mradi. Walianza kusema hicho kitu zamani, tatizo limekua pale mteja ambaye ni Mganda amekua anapiga mahesabu yake. Maana mwisho wa siku issue sio bomba tu, lakini lazima ahakikishe kwamba anapata faida kutokana na hayo mafuta.
Kufikia sasa Total na Tullow bado hawajapewa kibali na Uganda cha uzalishaji "production license", japo wamewasilisha. Kampuni ya Mchina CNOOC pekee ndiyo imepewa hicho kibali. Ni muhimu pia ukafuatilia taarifa hizi kwa karibu kwa kusoma vyombo vya habari vyote, usitegemee chombo kimoja tu.

 

[Ngongo]

Ngongo Hiyo ni poa, Total siku zote wamesema wapo tayari kujenga hilo bomba na kwamba wana hela za huo mradi. Walianza kusema hicho kitu zamani, tatizo limekua pale mteja ambaye ni Mganda amekua anapiga mahesabu yake. Maana mwisho wa siku issue sio bomba tu, lakini lazima ahakikishe kwamba anapata faida kutokana na hayo mafuta.
Kufikia sasa Total na Tullow bado hawajapewa kibali na Uganda cha uzalishaji "production license", japo wamewasilisha. Kampuni ya Mchina CNOOC pekee ndiyo imepewa hicho kibali. Ni muhimu pia ukafuatilia taarifa hizi kwa karibu kwa kusoma vyombo vya habari vyote, usitegemee chombo kimoja tu.

Mkuu MK254 Bila Tanzania M7 asingekuwa Rais wa Uganda analipa fadhila lakini kubwa zaidi wenye kutoa fedha wanaogopa kupitisha bomba la mafuta Kenya kwasababu ya kitisho cha Alshabab wa Somalia watakuwa karibu sana na hilo bomba.South Sudan watajenga bomba la mafuta kuelekea Ethiopia na Djibouti.Wadau wawili wameshatimua mbio wamewaacha kwenye mataa serekali ya JUBILEE.Isitoshe kuna dalili nzuri ya upatikanaji wa mafuta ziwa Tanganyika itakuwa rahisi kuanganisha na bomba linalotokea Uganda hadi Bandari ya Tanga hadi soko la dunia.

 

[Ngongo]

COW ulikuwa mkakati wa kumtishia nyau DHAIFU! Mambo yamebadilika kwani kwa kauli na matendo ya JPM wameshaona hawatoboi; Tanganyika ni kiungo muhimu sana kwa ustawi wa EAC na kina M7, PK na UK wanalijua sana hilo; we are not landlocked; tuna population na landmass kubwa na natural resources nyingi kuliko wote combined. Tutaheshimiana tu polepole!

Mkuu MTK Hili nalo neno.

 

[Ngongo]

Total to Begin Ugandan Pipeline Construction Soon, Tanzania Says | New York News

 

[MK254]

Mkuu MK254 Bila Tanzania M7 asingekuwa Rais wa Uganda analipa fadhila lakini kubwa zaidi wenye kutoa fedha wanaogopa kupitisha bomba la mafuta Kenya kwasababu ya kitisho cha Alshabab wa Somalia watakuwa karibu sana na hilo bomba.South Sudan watajenga bomba la mafuta kuelekea Ethiopia na Djibouti.Wadau wawili wameshatimua mbio wamewaacha kwenye mataa serekali ya JUBILEE.Isitoshe kuna dalili nzuri ya upatikanaji wa mafuta ziwa Tanganyika itakuwa rahisi kuanganisha na bomba linalotokea Uganda hadi Bandari ya Tanga hadi soko la dunia.

Ngongo Kwajili ya adhari za ujamaa, itakuchukua muda sana kuelewa kila ninaposema biashara za kimataifa hazina mambo ya undugu ila maslahi. Mganda anakuja Bongo baada ya kupiga mahesabu zake, hamna cha fadhila wala nini.
Kila mtu anayeangalia hii issue kwa undani, mahesabu ya kupitia Bongo yana mantiki, tatizo ni kwamba hamjui kujipigia debe vizuri, hamuna mikakati zaidi ya kuongea kuhusu jinsi mlimsaidia Museveni kunyakua madaraka.

 

[Bavaria]

Mkuu asigwa ni kweli tukiungana na Burundi zipo athari zake lakini pia zipo faida zake.Yafaa wataalam wa uchumi,jamii na siasa wakafanya uchambuzi wa kina kupima hizo faida na hasara lakini kubwa zaidi ni utayari wa warundi na wataganyika wenyewe kuungana na si kulazimisha kama ilivyo Zanzibar.Mwaka 2011 tulitoa uraia kwa wakimbizi 8000 wa Rwanda na Burundi,Mwaka juzi tulitoa uraia 1,500 wakimbizi wa kisomali wapo kule Handeni Tanga mwaka jana tulitoa uraia kwa warundi 162 na bado zipo dalili ya kuendelea na zoezi la kugawa uraia kila mwaka hasa nchi zenye matatizo ya usalama kama Burundi na Congo DRC.

Sisi na Burundi tungeungana hasa kwenye maswala ya uchumi. Hayo mambo ya social tuachane nayo kwanza.

Mikataba ya kibiashara kati ya Tanzania na Burundi ingekuwa friendly kwa nchi zote.

 

[Bavaria]

Ngongo Kwajili ya adhari za ujamaa, itakuchukua muda sana kuelewa kila ninaposema biashara za kimataifa hazina mambo ya undugu ila maslahi. Mganda anakuja Bongo baada ya kupiga mahesabu zake, hamna cha fadhila wala nini.
Kila mtu anayeangalia hii issue kwa undani, mahesabu ya kupitia Bongo yana mantiki, tatizo ni kwamba hamjui kujipigia debe vizuri, hamuna mikakati zaidi ya kuongea kuhusu jinsi mlimsaidia Museveni kunyakua madaraka.

Huwezi kuweka hoja bila kusema mambo ya ujamaa?

Subiri mjamaa Magufuli atakavyowaonesha.