How Chato will look in 2025 like President Mobutu's ruined jungle paradise, Gbadolite

[Geza Ulole]

Pata picha kwa speed hii, try to figure out, how will Chato be in 2035 after this heavy investment starting now if at all he will stay in power for 10 years, i hear a talk about textile factories but i read of gazetted GOT tenders about construction of an international Airport less than 140 km from what is soon to be Mwanza International Airport while Mtwara and Lindi with resources valued at over $400 bln that need over $30 bln worthy of investment; lays idle without the necessary infrastructure to support those massive investment projects i.e. mega LNG plant. A rival Mozambique has already built an international airport at Nacala to make the movement of poeple easier at both the Nacala port and Ruvuma basin where massive gas at over 160 Tcf compared to ours at 57 Tcf has been discovered!

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President Mobutu's ruined jungle paradise, Gbadolite - in pictures
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The president of what was then Zaire lavished millions on a palace complex and international airport in the remote town of Gbadolite. Guardian photographer Sean Smith heads for the jungle to document the pitiful shell that remains

Where Concorde once flew: the story of Mobutu’s ‘African Versailles’

Sean Smith in Gbadolite

Tuesday 10 February 2015 13.04 GMT Last modified on Tuesday 10 February 2015 14.04 GMT

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A mural of former President Mobutu outside the mayor’s office in Gbadolite. When Joseph Desire Mobutu took power he renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Waza Banga (meaning ‘the all-powerful warrior who, because of endurance and an inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake’)
Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

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The air-traffic control tower of Gbadolite’s international airport, whose runway is long enough to accommodate Concorde. Now it welcomes only two or three tiny aircraft a week from the UN and a commercial operator
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Inside the abandoned control tower
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The VIP arrivals terminal: Pope John Paul II, UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros Ghali and American televangelist Pat Robertson may have all passed through here
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Inside the main airport terminal
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The main terminal at Gbadolite airport
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The Water Ministry building was never finished and is now used as a school
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Inside the school
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The Motel Nzekele, built by Mobutu, had five stars when it opened in 1979
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The motel’s empty swimming pool. Guests reportedly included the pope, the Belgian king and French president François Mitterrand
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Ripped cinema seating inside the Motel Nzekele
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An unfinished bridge in Gbadolite
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The main gates to Mobutu’s private palace still stand. Locals charge visitors $20 to access the former president’s estate
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The entrance gate and road to the main palace complex
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Walking among the ruins. Mobutu’s private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, once brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture and marble from Carrara
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Francois Kosia Ngama, whose grandmother was a teacher to Mobutu’s mother, stands in the disused swimming pool
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Mobutu’s palace. In its heyday it employed more than 700 staff - including chauffeurs, chefs and servants - as well as 300 soldiers
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Inside the palace grounds. Slowly but surely, the palace is being reclaimed by the jungle
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Inside Mobutu’s bedroom. The entire roof of the palace has gone, leaving only a skeleton of red steel girders
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A fountain with statues of lions. Only two of the original four remain
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President Mobutu's ruined jungle paradise, Gbadolite - in pictures

 

[Rweye]

Inakuuma nini sasa?

 

[Mudawote]

Yaani Tz kuna machiziii chizi kama wewe, je kuna uhusiano gani na JPM?? Yaani wewe nahisi siyo mtanzania, unatuonea wivu sisi watanzania kwa kupata rais muadilifu.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Inakuuma nini sasa?

Mjenge kwa hela zenu si hela ya kodi yetu! Chato kama ilivyo itakaribisha wakina Raila tu na haina umuhimu wa Uwanja wa Kimataifa ikiwa wa Mwanza upo!

 

[Freeland]

Yaani Tz kuna machiziii chizi kama wewe, je kuna uhusiano gani na JPM?? Yaani wewe nahisi siyo mtanzania, unatuonea wizu sisi watanzania kwa kupata rais muadilifu. Mungu akulaani kwa huu uchochezi shetani wewe

uadilifu upi? unajua uadilifu ww?

 

[eddy]

Haya ni matokeo ya vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe, nasisi tukiwalea akina Lissu tutafika huko, tuwekee na mji wa syria Libya na Iraq,

 

[Geza Ulole]

Haya ni matokeo ya vita vya wenyewe kwa wenyewe, nasisi tukiwalea akina Lissu tutafika huko, tuwekee na mji wa syria Libya na Iraq,

haya ni matokeo ya uwekezaji usio na tija maana Mobutu hakuondolewa kwa vita bali alikimbia na majumba yake yakabaki magofu! haiitaji vita Chato kuwa hivi! Ni michakato tu kama hii tunayoiona isiyo na tija kule Chato!

 

[Bavaria]

Wakitoka dodoma wataenda chato.

 

[eddy]

haya ni matokeo ya uwekezaji usio na tija maana Mobutu hakuondolewa kwa vita kali alikimbia na majumba yake yakabaki magofu! haiitaji vita Chato kuwa hivi! Ni mipango tu!

wacha kupotosha mabutu alikimbia baada ya uvamizi wa majeshi ya Kabila yakisaidiwa na majeshi ya Rwanda na Uganda, ndio maana ipo haja ya kuweka Air base nzito maeneo ya Geita, kwa sasa tunategemea base ya Ngerengere na Mwanza pekee.

 

[Mvaa Tai]

Mjenge kwa hela zenu si hela ya kodi yetu! Chato kama ilivyo itakaribisha wakina Raila tu na haina umuhimu wa Uwanja wa Kimataifa ikiwa wa Mwanza upo!

Ni watu wachache watakuelewa, hawajui anachokifanya mkuu kujenga ule uwanja ni kama kufanya matumizi binafsi kwa pesa za serikali

 

[Camilo Cienfuegos]

Kufikia 2023 tutakuwa na Rais mwanamke, hizo story za Chattle zitaisha tu

 

[Geza Ulole]

Ni watu wachache watakuelewa, hawajui anachokifanya mkuu kujenga ule uwanja ni kama kufanya matumizi binafsi kwa pesa za serikali

Halafu watu hawajui nilivyompigania kiongozi wetu Mtukufu kwenye forum za Wakenya! Hivi ni huyuhuyu aliyekataa kupanda ndege akasema atasafiri kwa barabara leo hii anajenga uwanja wa kimataifa Chato? Haki uzalendo umenishinda daah hii kali! Hapa Ubadhirifu tuu! Huyu jamaa ana element za nepotism hili lisemwe wazi sasa bila kumuogopa...

 

[Daudi Mchambuzi]

kwa speed hii ya kujipendelea lazima pawe hivi.

 

[Geza Ulole]

wacha kupotosha mabutu alikimbia baada ya uvamizi wa majeshi ya Kabila yakisaidiwa na majeshi ya Rwanda na Uganda, ndio maana ipo haja ya kuweka Air base nzito maeneo ya Geita, kwa sasa tunategemea base ya Ngerengere na Mwanza pekee.

Hiki cha Chato na cha Kigoma na cha Bukoba kipi kipo strategic zaidi? Na isitoshe Tanzania ina uadui upi na nchi za Maziwa Makuu kuhitaji Uwanja ule?

 

[antjpm]

Chatto ipelekwe na reli ya standard gauge na fry over ni pazuri kwa uwekezaji.Sasa hivi airport na traffic light zipo.Pombe tufanyie chatto yetu na liwe jiji la chatto kabla ya 2025

 

[Magonjwa Mtambuka]

Chatto ipelekwe na reli ya standard gauge na fry over ni pazuri kwa uwekezaji...

fry over ndio nini?

 

[JokaKuu]

Geza Ulole,

..LOL.

..huyo jamaa aliyekuita Mkenya ndiyo kanishangaza.

..lakini tayari huyu bwana alilalamikiwa kwa kupendelea jimbo lake ktk mradi wa barabara wakati akiwa waziri wa ujenzi.

..pia alilalamikiwa kwa tabia yake ya kufanya kampeni za kisiasa huku akizutumia lugha za kikabila. This was way back in 2006 or 2007.

..kuna RED FLAGS ambazo tulizipuuzia. Hopefully atadhibitiwa maana anaweza kutufikisha tusipopataka.

NB:

.. MK254 kuja chukua Geza hii ni mtu ya kwenyu.

 

[bongo-live]

Chatto ipelekwe na reli ya standard gauge na fry over ni pazuri kwa uwekezaji.Sasa hivi airport na traffic light zipo.Pombe tufanyie chatto yetu na liwe jiji la chatto kabla ya 2015

hahaaa naskia radar tayar zimeagizwa toka china..

 

[antjpm]

hahaaa naskia radar tayar zimeagizwa toka china..

Chatto inapendeza inawaka waka baada ya international airport tutajenga hoteli ya nyota 5 kwa ajiri ya mpendwa na maraika mkuu mh.raisi

 

[antjpm]

Mabutu hili Nyumba lake cha mtoto tunataka rais wetu ajengewe five star hotel na ikulu,bunge na mahakama ndani mtukufu asiwe anapata shida.Chatto lazima ipendeze 2020 chatto iwake watanzania tumuunge mkono Rais wetu