Wednesday 10 October 2012

RE: [wanabidii] KIKWETE AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN SERENGETI HIGHWAY PLANS


After reading this story, for the first time on yesterday I felt like supporting the Serengeti road 101 percent based on what the author said about Tanzania. I think if this is the thinking, then we have a problem coming in the future with Kenyans and we better be ready now!

Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:14:41 +0300
Subject: Re: [wanabidii] KIKWETE AT A LOSS TO EXPLAIN SERENGETI HIGHWAY PLANS
From: rupia.joseph@gmail.com
To: wanabidii@googlegroups.com

Mkubwa Victor umenifurahisha kwa kauli yako kali kabisa kuhusu yale Watanzania tunayoyaamini against Wakenya na Wazungu wanayoyataka.

Kuna muziki wa Bob Marley unashabihiana na haya yanayoendelea kwa sasa, nimeusahau jina lake, lakini ni wa KIMAPINDUZI na una maneno haya:

'...War in the North! War down South!' Na sasa Tanzania tunapigana KASKAZINI (Serengeti Highway, tena imo ndani ya mipaka ya nchi yetu) na KUSINI (ambako tunataka kuporwa ziwa)!

Kaz ipo, lakini tutashinda.



On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Victor Mwita <victormwita@gmail.com> wrote:
Thus is just another empty minded reporting which is probably written by a rich greedy Kenyan and given to a hungry Tanzanian to present here in the forum. Who wants the southern route anyway? President Kikwete was elected by Tanzanians to lead them and not to follow orders from you people. What he does is for the best interest of Tanzanians and not what the greedy Kenyans and their Western fathers want. We people from Mara and Arusha want the Serengeti hi way. We will not buy your rubbish accusations. Just go on with whatever you are doing but the road is there to be constructed. I am fully supporting my President on this and many of true citizens of the country are with him. Those opposing it we know who is using them 


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Charles Banda <chasbanda@gmail.com> wrote:
While in Canada for an official state visit did President Kikwete find
himself in a tight spot, when challenged by the media over the hugely
controversial Serengeti highway plans, his government had floated in
2010. The road would cut the migration route of the wildebeest towards
the Kenyan Masai Mara, where his government has steadfastly refused to
open the Bologonja border post, ostensibly to 'keep the Kenyans out of
the Serengeti'. Some weeks ago conservationists blamed Tanzanian park
officials to have deliberately created fires in the Serengeti to
prevent the large herds from completing their annual migration to the
Kenyan Masai Mara, a claim swiftly denied by SENAPA and TANAPA
officials, though the fires were in itself not disputed, only the
interpretation. With the case in court at the East African Court of
Justice, where the Tanzanian government has failed to stop the case on
a variety of grounds, the road plans have dented Tanzania's
credibility as a conservation nation, and added equally controversial
projects on Lake Natron, the Coelacanth marine national park near
Tanga and uranium mining and a huge dam project in the Selous are only
increasing the woes.

President Kikwete's explanations sounded as weak as mitigating pleas
normally do, especially as the alternate Southern route would reach 4
times as many people and would be financed by both the World Bank and
the German government, offers however not accepted by the Tanzanian
government up to now.

Critics claim that Kikwete was under pressure by contributors to his
last campaign to deliver on promises allegedly made, connecting the
Lake Natron flats and the mining concessions between the Serengeti and
Lake Victoria to a major paved road, so that new mines could be opened
and a soda ash factory established within the breeding grounds of the
East African lesser flamingos.

To make matters worse, one of his self styled mouth pieces, a Mr.
Edward Porokwa, gave away the game when he openly spoke out against
Kenyan cattle buyers who are allegedly cheating Tanzanian livestock
sellers with artificially low prices for lack of alternate roads. Such
talk is likely to negate President Kikwete's good will visit three
weeks ago to Kenya's capital Nairobi, where he was attempting to court
public opinion and dispel constant murmurs that Tanzania's attitude to
her neighbours was far from friendly – allegations supported by
regular non tariff barriers being slapped on Kenyan traders and
businesses. Comparisons by Porokwa with other highways crossing
national parks too were considered a dismal failure in justifying the
highway across the Serengeti, as in Mikumi National Park the loss of
game through road kills continues to be high and recent experience
with a new road in Kenya between Emali and Kimana too showed a sharp
increase of game being run over by trucks, now that the road is paved.

The objections of the conservation fraternity remain, the Tanzanian
government has done little to absorb the wave of global opposition and
seriously consider the Southern route alternative and President
Kikwete's performance too was all but a failure to convince the world
that this particular route was needed for anything else but to please
powerful economic interest groups at the expense of tourism and
conservation.

Serengeti Highway – No Way … Watch this space.

http://wolfganghthome.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/kikwete-fails-to-convince-canadian-media-on-serengeti-highway-plans/

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