Loliondo to be split into two

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[TD="class: createdate"] Tuesday, 26 March 2013 21:13 [/TD]
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By Fariji Msonsa
and Musa Juma
The Citizen Reporters
Dar es Salaam/Arusha.

The government has decided to split the disputed Loliondo Game Controlled Area into two parts--one belonging to villagers and the other in government hands. The minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Mr Khamis Kagasheki, told reporters yesterday that the division offers the best prospects for a lasting solution to the 20-year-old conflict.

Local civic leaders are threatening to resign if the government goes ahead with the plan. Ngorongoro MP Saning’o ole Telele told The Citizen yesterday that they resolved at a meeting on Monday to resign en masse should the government go ahead with the plan to partition the area.

The dispute is complex and involves various interested parties, including some from neighbouring Kenya. The dispute revolves over the ownership of the Loliondo Game Controlled Area and the rights of villagers to graze their cattle, access water sources and move freely between villages. The investor in question is the United Arab Emirates-based Ortello Business Corporation, which has operated in the area since 1992.

According to Mr Telele, villagers claim the area rightly belongs to them and they have a right to conduct their business freely. “We are just awaiting the government’s official communication and then we will act,” he said. “We also plan to mobilise the people for a return to the Serengeti plains, where our fathers resided before being relocated to Loliondo by the British.”

The government plans to retain 1,500 square kilometres that borders the Serengeti national park, according to Mr Kagasheki. It is a water catchment area and a drinking place of wild animals--and also part of the migration route for animals moving to and from the Maasai Mara national park in Kenya. Wildebeest also go to the area to give birth.

But Mr Kagasheki is clearly in combat mode. He told The Citizen in an exclusive interview yesterday: “If the civic leaders want to resign, they can go ahead. But there is no government in the world that can just let an area so important to conservation to be wasted away by overgrazing.”

Some 2,500 square kilometres will still be in the hands of villagers. They consist of dry plains but the government intends to build dams and boreholes so pastoralists can access water for their animals.
There are also plans to nurture green pasture for the animals and laws will be enacted to officially divide the area. Mr Telele says the villagers will cut ties with the investor.

In the meantime, Mr Kagasheki has warned politicians and neighbouring countries who are supposedly supporting the conflict to declare their interest. He accused neighbouring countries, particularly Kenya, of inciting the villagers but said Tanzania would not be intimidated by pressure from non-governmental organisations. Many of the NGOs operating in the area are not local, he claimed, and are only pushing their interests.

“It is amazing for a small area like Loliondo controlled area to have more than 30 non-governmental organisations if they are not after their own benefit,” the minister added. “But now the end has come and the nation cannot be driven by the pressure of individuals or NGOs.”

The government cannot let go of the land, he said, just because of the invaders due to the potential it holds,including water sources and animal hatcheries. Misuse of land is one of the causes of conflicts in the country.

“Poor usage of land has led to disputes sometimes engineered by our own people and politicians but even neighbouring countries have interfered in their own interests,” Mr Kagasheki said. “But seeing the potential Loliondo carries for water sources, animal breeding and migration routes, we need to protect it.”
(Additional reporting by Mkinga Mkinga)
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[Jasusi]

The problem of Loliondo is not overgrazing. The Maasais have lived in harmony with the wildlife for centuries. Actually I once talked to a conservationist who worked in Loliondo for many years and he told me that the grazing done by the Maasai livestock does not hurt the environment. I do not know the benefit for having this Arab company as an investor in such an environmentally sensitive area.

 

[COPPER]

Tatizo letu tunaendekeza mno wageni bila kuwajali watu wetu.

 

[Nduka Original]

Something bigger behind the scene

 

[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

Lets wait and See!

 

[Ng'wamapalala]

Mr. Waziri, this is overstepping the mark.

It's true, the land legally belong to government but you can't chuck masai away for the sake of conservation and investors. It doesn't matter how many NGO's fighting for The Masai. If your little bit intelligent, you could have asked simple question. Why so much resistance behind?. Masai wants fair deal.

LOLIONDO WILL NEVER GO CHEAPLY.

"It is amazing for a small area like Loliondo controlled area to have more than 30 non-governmental organisations if they are not after their own benefit," the minister added. "But now the end has come and the nation cannot be driven by the pressure of individuals or NGOs."

 

[iseesa]

Tatizo letu tunaendekeza mno wageni bila kuwajali watu wetu.

Tukumbuke yaliyompata Dr Ngasongwa huko kale ALIPOMKIRIMU mwana wa Mfalme kutoka UAE kwa kumpa hilo eneo. Hadi leo hajanyanyuka Kisiasa. Laana ya WAZAWA ni mbaya.

 

[Bwaga ya moyoni]

I do concur. There is more to Liliondo than meets the eye. Historically, people residing in that area were shifted from somewhere close to Serengeti in 1980s. Should we say the governemnt of that time was not aware that those people would multiply and pose a threat to the conservation area? Should we say the government of that time was not aware that Maasais live by grazing? I'm getting an impression that what we see and what our newsmen report is just a tip of the ice berg. There is more to this subect than meets the eye.

Something bigger behind the scene

 

[Mangaline]

"Mkuki mtamu kwa nguruwe" vipi akienda kuhifadhi yale maeneo ya Bukoba, akamega eneo la wahaya????????????

 

[Mwamba Usemao Kweli]

Mheshimiwa waziri tunakuomba sana tena sana mjaribu kuangalia umuhimu wa uhifadhi wa hiyo kampuni ya kiarabu kwani watanzania tumeshindwa kuhifadhi hilo eneo wenyewe mpaka tuwape wageni? Tatizo hili ndilo lipo kule serengeti grumeti la kumpa mzungu eneo kubwa halafu analeta watalii wanatalii anakusanya fedha nyingi na kulipa sawa na hakuna serikalini. Hivi nyinyi viongozi wa awamu hizi mmekuwaje mbona mnakosa sana hekima na busara? Jaribuni kuwa wazalendo na nchi yenu hawa wageni kule kwao mbona hawatupi sisi ardhi ya kufanya haya wanayoyafanya kwetu? Na wakitupa kodi ni kubwa sana kuliko maelezo. tujaribu kujisahihisha kwa manufaa na fadia ya watu wetu.

 

[Salary Slip]

Wanapochagua mbunge na viongozi wa CCM watawale wanatarajia nini?

Watanzania tumekuwa wajinga kupindukia,kila uchaguzi mnachagua chama kile kile kanakwamba wanawaridhisha sana wakati kila wakati ni mnalalamikia watawala hao.Sasa ni nani anawachagua kama sio nyinyi wenyewe?

Hata hao viongozi wa eneo hilo wanaotaka kuihama CCM ni wanafiki wakubwa!Wao ndio hutumika kushawishi watu waichague serikali ya CCM isiyojali raia wake bali inajali wawekezaji katika mazingira ya rushwa!

Msilalamike kwani mnavuna mlichopanda.

 

[Ochu]

mtamkumbuka STANLEY KATABALO

 

[mugayasida]

Kwangu maandamano ya vurugu ikiwa ni pamoja kuchoma na kuwaua wakuu wa wilaya mikoa na kufukuza presider Ikulu kwa gharama yoyote ile ikiwa ni pamoja kufa kwa watanzania kwa namba kubwa ilimradi majambazi serikali hii ya kigeni iondoke ituachie nchi yetu

 

[acacia]

Loliondo Mjiandae: Kuna upande utataliwa na Mfalme wa Dubai in every sense of the word na upande mwingine utabaki Tanzania kutawaliwa na JK. Loliondo will become a small Arab territory ambapo ukoloni utaendelezwa

 

[meba]

Wamasai sasa tunaonewa kama hukubali basi subiri siku ukweli utapatikana.mwaka 1984 mh. Edward Moringe Sokoine aliuawa katika ajali ya kutatanisha huko Morogoro,mwaka 2008 waziri mkuu mh. Edward ngoyai Lowassa aliibuliwa kashifa ya ufisadi na kusababisha kujiuzul, mwezi huu na wiki hii Wananchi wa Ngorongoro waliambiwa kuwa wanahamishwa kisa eti wanataka kupanua hifadhi na kuletawawekezaji, katika hifadhi ambayo wamasai ndio waliolinda toka enzi za ukoloni halafu serikali inataka kudandia sasa hivi, pia huko Mererani miaka ya nyuma iligundulika madini aina ya Tanzanite na kunufahisha Wameru na Wamasai lakini serikali hii ya ccm ilibinafisha kwa wawekezaji wa kigeni, miaka ya nyuma pia serikali hii hii ilitumia polisi kuwanyanyasa wananchi wa Loliondo na kuwahamisha katika eneo lao kisa kumleta mwekezaji, mwaka juzi pia mtoto wa kiongozi mmoja alidiki kusema eti rais wa Tanzaina hawezi kutoka kaskazini mwa Tanzaina, sasa angalia mlolongo huu utagundua kua kuna hujuma kwa wamasai. Mawaziri wote kutoka kabila la wamasai hajamaliza uongozi kwa usalama zaidi ya kuuawa ua kuibuliwa kashfa, mboana richmond baada ya kujiuzulu kwa lowassa wamezima huoni kuwa ilikua ni hujuma kwajili ya kumwondoa madarakani? napia naona watu hao wanataka kunyemelea huko Ngorongoro, na sehemu nyingine kwa wamasai,waziri mkuu Sokoine ajali ilitokea lakini aktika ajali hiyo alikufa mwenyewe na alilengwa yeye pekeyake, kwanini tusiseme aliuliwa? sasa ndugu zangu wamasai tuwe makini tuamuke tukatae utawala huu mpya ya watu weusi la sivyo tutapotezwa, kama tuliweza kukataa utawala wa kikoloni kwanini tushindwa huu wa watu weusi, MORANI TUAMKE SASA, "MORANI ASHINDWI AKISHINDWA UJUE NDIO MWISHO WA DUNIA "

 

[Tuko]

Hilo la kuhamishwa kupisha wawindaji wa kiarabu linatia hasira...

 

[Jasusi]

Hilo la kuhamishwa kupisha wawindaji wa kiarabu linatia hasira...

Tena sana. Hata sisi tusio Wamasai tutavaa lubega tubebe mikuki tumwondoe Mwarabu.

 

[Mangaline]

Hata kama tuna hoja, tusishabikie sana vigezo kwa misingi ya ukabila. Hata hivyo sikatai wamasai kujitetea, ila tu, kitu yenye ncha kali haiogopi maasai.

 

[Sumba-Wanga]

Mbona kinara wenu lowasa yuko kimya anahangaikia ajira za vijana na kumwaga mapesa ya ruchmond makanisani? Jinsi akivyo opportunist huoni ndio ingekuwA kete yake? Kuna jambo hapo

 

[Heavy equipment]

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