Geza Ulole
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- Oct 31, 2009
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I should be frank to Madam President on her rushed visit to Kenya to do agreements with unpredicted regime that is full of surprises and about to wind up as early as February 2022.
Though I understand through our constitution every President is allowed to have different approach on regional issues and international policies, I still want my president to avoid the following:
- Allowing tour vans from Kenya to access our national parks that have clear environmental management plans unlike Kenya's Game Reserve as Kenya tourism stakeholders have always had a chance to partner with tourism stakeholders in Tanzania and create more jobs. That win-win arrangement should remain untouched;
- Permitting any sort of cross-border grazing thats to disregard our borders and undermine overall country's, Madam President should not dare to allow any idea of normads of Kenya bringing their herds to our territory on the mere fact of being Masais! As a matter of fact when such an issue arise, she should just ask GoK where did Masailand in Kenya go? A grazing corridor that stretched all the way to Nairobi and Rift Valley;
- Giving more landing permits to Kenya airways or Jambo jet to land at more airports across Tanzania (inside and outside the parks) as matter of fact, I expect her hastened tour of Kenya to be a chance for her to ask for equal frequencies to be accorded to Tanzanian airlines across Kenyan airports be JKIA, Moi airport and Kisumu from Tanzanian airports of JKIA, KIA, AAKIA, Dodoma, Songwe n Mwanza!
- Bowing to any trade agreement outside existing East Africa common market framework that protectionist Kenya deliberately sabotaged;
- Giving in to any sort of arrangement to port (sea and inland) charges/tarrifs be it harmonization or allowing Lamu port to be a transhipment hub for cargo destined to Tanzania as that will jeopardise advantages our ports and SGR have to the regional trade as far as our geographical strategic position Tanzania have or poised to have with current modernization and SGR construction not forgetting n increment of insurance premiums as Lamu port is a high risk zone;
- Agreeing to anything about Kenya-EU EPA negotiations. EPA or any international trade agreements were supposed to be discussed as a block i.e. within EAC protocols but unfortunately greedy Kenya went alone and for that matter Kenya should accomplish them alone. Moreover, I don't expect her to give in to either Kenya-US or Kenya-China or Kenya-UK agreements as doing so will be a lethal balkanizing of regional block, tantamount weakening the agreed existing EA common market structures in place;
- Supporting Kenya in any way on her territorial sea dispute with Somalia currently at ICJ;
To be fair enough I am not pleased with her hasted tour of Kenya! I would have expected her to be conducting meeting with our business communities especially our tourism, horticulture and farmers stakeholders. But instead, she chooses to go and listen to grievances from business community in a neighboring country, did she even have time to have prio consultation with our economists? To me this visit it is a wasted golden opportunity for her to listen to our business community first before an encounter with a neighbor's, I wonder whose interests is she representing in Nairobi?
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MY TAKE
Pleased to see her pushing for Dar-Mombasa pipeline aside energy sharing with Kenya as i am 100% sure our affordable gas and power fromJNHPP will get the market and benefit Tanzania greatly!
Madam Suluhu has done almost everything i begged her to be cautious and therefore i rest my case and i pray to Allah to continue bless her with wisdom to lead the nation.