We have a situation where armed people went into Tanzanian villages, threw the people off their land, and started digging for gold. That was done with the full support of the CCM government. In fact, the government supplied the said armed thugs. According to Lisu, Mrema and a few others, some of the villagers resisted and were simply shot dead.
So, they started this gold mining thing. Currently, they annually remove, from the same villages, gold that is worth about $1.0 billion. You would think that they would be reasonable enough to give at least half that amount to Tanzania, but they do not. Last year, they simply gave $27 million to the government an some unspecified amount as kickbacks to CCM officials.
No matter how you look at it, it is armed robbery! Why is JK unwilling to suspend the armed robbery operations while his officials negotiate some less offensive arrangement? Is it the armed robbers that he fears, or are his colleagues in the ruling party putting pressure on him? Does he have vested interests in maintaining the statusquo?
Be that as it may, but I feel that it is time the people treated these armed robbers as they would any others.