Press Release: Ukweli Kuhusu Loliondo

[Muke Ya Muzungu]

THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA
MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND TOURISM


PRESS RELEASE
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Government clarifies on decision to provide huge tracks of land to Loliondo residents Thirty nine (39) years ago in 1974, the Government of Tanzania, through its Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and through Government Notice No. 269 and in line with its now world-renowned and acclaimed Conservation Policy and in accordance with the historical Policy position that all Land is a National Resource, declared through Government Gazette that 4,000 square kilometers in the Loliondo Area in Arusha Region would be re-classified as Loliondo Game Controlled Area for purely wildlife protection.

Effectively, this made Loliondo Game Controlled Area part of the Tanzania’s Protected Area (PA) Network which covers 24 percent of the country’s total land surface. This is one of the highest commitments to wildlife protection anywhere in the world and as mentioned above was made consciously for protection of wildlife and for the benefit of all human kind.

Tanzania’s Protected Area Network includes all the 15 National Parks (NP) and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), both of which are set aside specifically for non-consumptive use of wildlife resources, 28 Game Reserves (GRs) and 44 Game Controlled Areas (GCAs) of which Loliondo GCA is one of them. Game Reserves and Game Controlled Areas are for consumptive utilization of wildlife such as sport hunting. However, Section 17 of the Wildlife Conservation Act No. 5 of 2009 restricts human activities such as settlements and livestock grazing in these areas.

However, as population has increased and pressures on land have grown greater in recent years in the surrounding areas, the Government has felt it necessary and recognized its primary responsibility of providing land for people in this area, most of whom are landless and whose lives are therefore highly vulnerable.

It was in recognition of this situation and in meeting its primary responsibilities that the Government of Tanzania recently made a decision to de-gazette 2,500 square kilometers of land, out of the gazetted 4,000 square kilometers, to allow local inhabitants of Loliondo area to freely utilize that land for their own community development.
It was also decided that the remaining 1,500 square kilometers of land be retained as Game Controlled Area for continued protection of the wildlife and the environment for the benefit of the present and future generations of humankind.

The Government took this decision with the understanding that environment conservation is as important for eco-system protection as it is for community livelihood and community development. On 26th of March, this year, therefore, Hon. Khamis Sued Kagasheki, Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, using powers invested into him under Wildlife Conservation Act No. 5 of 2009, Section 16 (4) announced this Government position partly also as effort by Government to resolve a land use conflict that has existed in Loliondo Game Controlled Area for the past 20 years.

In his announcement, the Minister made it clear that the Government took that decision to provide land to the growing landless population in the area. In announcing the Government decision, Minister Kagasheki emphasized powers given to him by law to review Game Controlled Areas for the purpose of ascertaining continuation of control of such areas bearing in mind that the1,500 square kilometres retained by Government are significantly important to the entire Serengeti and Ngorongoro ecosystem.

Among other reasons, these 1,500 square kilometers are a crucial breeding area for wildlife, a corridor for iconic great migration of wildlife in particular for millions of wildebeest and a critical water catchment area.
It is therefore a gross and indeed a malicious misrepresentation of facts for a section of people both in and outside of Loliondo Game Controlled Area to claim that the Government of Tanzania was grabbing land from the Loliondo local communities. Who is grabbing land from whom?

First, these people have been living in the area illegally for many years because this land was never allocated to them under any Government arrangement. However, for very compassionate reasons the Government has allowed them to continue living there for all these years. Second, this land has always remained Government land throughout all those years.

The conceivable logic here is that the Government of Tanzania has made unique history of land-grabbing from itself to provide for its citizens in this case. This is a very laudable action and not something for which the Government of Tanzania should take all the bashing which has gone viral on social networks.

What the Government of Tanzania has now done is in fact to provide 62.7 percent of this land of the Loliondo Game Controlled Area to local communities for present and future use and out of Government realization of its responsibilities to provide for its citizens. Surely, no Government in world, can be blamed for meeting its responsibilities to such high levels.

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Hon. Khamis Kagasheki

MINISTER
MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND TOURISM
7th April 2013

Email: minister@mnrt.go.tz
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[Kanundu]

Hii ngoma imeishtua dunia. Kama walisha-Chukua Chao Mapema zitawatokea puani.

 

[Petro E. Mselewa]

Kwanini hakikutumika Kiswahili kuwawezesha wahusika kupata maana ya ufafanuzi huu? Waandishi wa habari wakichakachua kwa tafsiri yao watalaumiwa?

 

[Kichakoro]

Hivi hilitangazo ni kwa ajili ya watanzania ama la wazungu?

Sijaona kipya kwenye hilo tangazo lao.

 

[bushman]

Yale yale tu nimesoma naona ni muendelezo wa blah.blah. Walivyowajeuri hawasemi kama wamekula hela kutoka kwa mwarabu.

 

[UFUNUO WA TANZANIA]

huu sio uhuni? Wamasai wangapi wanajua kiingereza? Au hii ni kwa sababu ya matumizi ya huyo muwindaji?
Shame upon them who degrade our Kiswahili Language.

 

[BONGOLALA]

Wanaloliondo watalielewa tangazo?eti kiswahili lugha ya taifa nani kakuambia

 

[Mkatavimeo]

Asilimia ngapi ya wana loliondo wanajua kiingereza?

 

[Muke Ya Muzungu]

Mh. Kagasheki ndio moja ya viongozi imara kwenye serikali goi goi ya Kikwete. Tatizo ni kwamba kapewa mbuzi ndani ya gunia. Huyu mzee anachojaribu ni kuikoa serikali ya Mr. Dhaifu.

Hongera Mh. Kwa kazi nzuri, ila huyu Tahi.ra anayeitwa rais ndo bure kabisa na genge lake la wajambazi na wauza madawa wakina Riz1 ambao walishaiuza Loliondo kwa ndugu zao waarabu wa Dubai......Chondechonde Mheshimiwa Kagasheki. Usikate Tamaa wananchi tunakupenda sana

 

[BAK]

Liar!!!!

The conceivable logic here is that the Government of Tanzania has made unique history of land-grabbing from itself to provide for its citizens in this case. This is a very laudable action and not something for which the Government of Tanzania should take all the bashing which has gone viral on social networks.

[END]
Hon. Khamis Kagasheki

MINISTER
MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND TOURISM
7th April 2013

Email: minister@mnrt.go.tz
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[abdul_eliesikia]

Hao jamaa wametuma email mpaka kwa Obama aisee. wazungu wanaforwadiana email ajabu kabisa. Sasa mTz ukichuna wanakuuliza vip hapo?! naona Kagasheki ndio kawajibu maana wanaweza pigwa Ban kuja U.S kutanuatanua beach

 

[Muke Ya Muzungu]

Liar!!!!

Lakini bwana, msimuhukumu Mh. Kagasheki. amepewa Wizara hivi karibuni, na ameshafanya makubwa kuibadilisha. Ni dhahiri kwamba ile wizara ni ngumu sana, na imejaa majambazi, mafisi na manyang'ahu. Hamuwezi kuifananisha na wizara ya maji. Mh. Kagasheki songa mbele.......Wewe ni jeshi la mtu mmoja!

 

[KIRUMO]

You say that these people have been living there illegally for many years? Why? Is it not that no investor requested that area in those which you call many years? Is not that you want to evict those poor Maasai and lease the same area to those Arabs? But at least we want to know from you Mr. Minister, who sold those animal to be transported to Qatar. Massai have been living in harmony with those animals for centuries without hunting them (because they are not eating wild animal beef) but because when the term investment is mentioned some Gvt people forget even human morals and values...............!

 

[Ukwaju]

Naona Kagasheki hamjui Lissu kuwa alianzia hukohuko kwenye Mazingira na kutetea Ardhi
Sasa kusema Wamaasai wanaishi Illegally eti hawakupangiwa hiyo Ardhi kachemka ndipo watakaposhtakiwa Kimataifa na kupoteza point zote za maisha bora kwa kila mtu

• First, these people have been living in the area illegally for many years because this land was never allocated to them under any Government arrangement. However, for very compassionate reasons the Government has allowed them to continue living there for all these years.
  
• Second, this land has always remained Government land throughout all those years.

Hiyo Ardhi ni ya Wamaasai toka dahari

 

[isotope]

First, these people have been living in the area illegally for many years because this land was never allocated to them under any Government arrangement. However, for very compassionate reasons the Government has allowed them to continue living there for all these years. Second, this land has always remained Government land throughout all those years.

Taraatibu hawa jamaa wanatufanya wakimbizi ndani ya nchi yetu. Katiba mpya njoo ili haki ya mnyonge kumiliki ardhi itambulike.

 

[BAK]

Hana jipya hata yeye. Anasema uongo ambao uko wazi kabisa hakuna mabadiliko yoyote. Hiyo ni wizara nyingine ambayo imejaa uozo wa hali ya juu kama zilivyo wizara nyingine nyingi.

Lakini bwana, msimuhukumu Mh. Kagasheki. amepewa Wizara hivi karibuni, na ameshafanya makubwa kuibadilisha. Ni dhahiri kwamba ile wizara ni ngumu sana, na imejaa majambazi, mafisi na manyang'ahu. Hamuwezi kuifananisha na wizara ya maji. Mh. Kagasheki songa mbele.......Wewe ni jeshi la mtu mmoja!

 

[lane]

sawa ni kweli yoooote uliyosema mh waziri ila nina maswali ya msingi sana, naomba unipatie majibu au ufafanuzi:

1. Kwa kuwa serikali ilikwishatenga eneo hilo la loliondo kupitia tangazo la serikali, je wananchi wa eneo hilo walishirikishwa? Ukizingatia jamii ya kimasai ni wafugaji wa kuhamahama.

2. Je, miaka yote hii serikali ilikuwa wapi wakati watu wanafanya shughuli zao za kiuchumi na kijamii katika ardhi ile? Kwa nini hawakuchukua hatua kwa wakati hadi kusuburi miaka nenda rudi ili ndipo waje wawa-evict wananchi?

3. Pamoja na umuhimu wa kuwa na game reserve kwa ajili ya wanyama wetu, je serikali haioni its equally and more so important kuwajali watu wake zaidi pengine kuliko wanyama?

4. Je, vp kuhusu kampuni ya ortella, and ehy now serikali ndio imeshikia kidedea?

 

[mdunya]

Lakini bwana, msimuhukumu Mh. Kagasheki. amepewa Wizara hivi karibuni, na ameshafanya makubwa kuibadilisha. Ni dhahiri kwamba ile wizara ni ngumu sana, na imejaa majambazi, mafisi na manyang'ahu.

wengine wako Lumumba

 

[Baba V]

akchwal infwakti

ofu kozi yes bai the wey it it iznt it yeah

 

[ZeMarcopolo]

Mtu mmoja anaweza kuishi sehemu illegally. Kijiji hakiwezi kuishi sehemu illegally...