OH DEAR...DEAR...!!!

A woman who twisted her knee while playing the children's game of 'stuck in the mud' has been left in constant pain and paralysed for life. Devastated Hannah Boyle, 20, thought she had suffered only a minor injury when she jarred her knee while 'messing around' with youngsters at a martial arts class...continue

A man who slept with his gun may have to rethink that particular life strategy, after he shot himself while sleeping. The 24-year man, of Northport, Alabama, told police that he must have accidentally let off the .40-caliber pistol by knocking it with his hand.

The gun discharged, hitting the man in the shoulder. (Source)

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BLACKS IN UK 8 TIMES AS LIKELY AS WHITES TO BE STOPPED AND SEARCHED

Richard Ford and Sean O’Neill

Black people are almost eight times as likely as whites to be stopped and searched a decade after the Stephen Lawrence inquiry branded the police “institutionally racist”.

Use of ordinary stop and search tactics in England and Wales rose sharply to more than one million in 2007-08, the highest figure since 1998.

The rise has had a disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities. When Stephen Lawrence was murdered in 1993 black people were six times as likely to be stopped and searched as whites. By 2006/7, that had risen to seven times.

Figures published by the Ministry of Justice yesterday for stops and searches in 2007/08 under Section 44 counter-terror laws were even starker. The number of people stopped and searched tripled in a year to 117,000 but fewer than1 per cent were arrested for alleged terrorism-related offences.

There was a 322 per cent rise in black people stopped and searched, 277 per cent in Asians and 185 per cent in white people under anti-terror laws.

Civil liberty campaigners and politicians accused police of heavy-handedness and said that vastly increased use of their powers threatened to alienate large sections of the community.

Cindy Butts, who is leading the Metropolitan Police Authority’s race and faith inquiry, said that she was concerned about the “huge disproportionality” revealed by the figures.

She said: “One could argue there is a pressure-cooker situation developing. There is a sense of a number of issues that all have the potential to impact on the same groups in our community, young males from black and Asian communities — the very people who we cannot afford to switch off from the police, the very people we need to feel confident in the police.”

Stephen Lawrence’s mother, Doreen, said that she would rate progress since the inquiry report a decade ago as “work in progress, five out of ten”. She told MPs this week: “Officers do not understand the powers they have and misuse them. I don’t feel there is much accountability.”

The report comes as police struggle to retain public confidence after the G20 protests, the Damian Green affair and the resignation of the anti-terror chief Bob Quick. Last night the Independent Police Complaints Commission announced a fourth investigation linked to the G20 protests — a woman alleging that she was assaulted by officers. The commission has received 256 complaints, including 121 about the use of force by officers.

The official figures on race and the criminal justice system revealed increases in police stops and searches in relation to both ordinary and terrorist crimes. Black people were nearly eight times as likely to be stopped and searched per head of population as whites. Asians were twice as likely to be searched.

Nearly 90 per cent of the searches under counter-terror powers were carried out in London by the Metropolitan Police. Vernon Coaker, the Police Minister, said that the increase in anti-terror stops and searches was in part linked to the failed bombings in Haymarket. London, in 2007.

Civil liberties campaigners accused the police of abusing the counter- terror law because they do not need to have “reasonable suspicion” before stopping a person.

Corinna Ferguson, a barrister with the campaign group Liberty, said: “A threefold increase in anti-terror stop and search is the clearest signal that these powers are being misused.”

Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said that the figures accent- uated concerns that the powers disproportionately affect members of the minority ethnic community.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said that the use of Section 44 was under review and stressed that people from ethnic minority groups were not a focus of stop and search operations. “Terrorists can come from all backgrounds,” he said.

SOURCE: The Times

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5 PEOPLE KILLED AS DUTCH QUEEN ESCAPES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

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ELISE,THE "2-YR-OLD EINSTEIN" BECOMES YOUNGEST EVER MENSA MEMBER

The front door has barely opened before she comes running towards me beaming.

'What's this?' she asks, forming fingers and thumbs into a pointy shape and peering through the gap. Before I can answer she declares: 'Equilateral triangle. Three sides the same.'

Of course it is. I should have known. But then I'm not a child genius with a startlingly high IQ.
And Elise Tan-Roberts - aged two years, four months and two weeks - is. She has just become the youngest member of Mensa, with an estimated IQ of 156. That puts her two points higher on the scoreboard than Carol Vorderman, and comfortably in the top 0.2 per cent of children her age.

Here's the best bit, though. She seems to be a sweet little girl with charming parents who simply want her to be happy. Elise was little more than five months when she looked her father Edward in the eyes and called him Dada.

She was walking three months later and running two months after that.

Before her first birthday she could recognise her written name and by 16 months she could count to ten. Yesterday she did it again - in Spanish. 'What's the capital of Russia?' asks her mother Louise, 28. 'Moscow!' comes the instant reply. Indonesia? 'Jakarta!' It is tempting for outsiders to speculate whether this is a well-rehearsed performance instilled by pushy parents to show off their daughter's extraordinary talent.

But it seems to have taken Louise and Edward, from North London, as much by surprise as anyone else. Until she started to communicate, all they noticed was a tendency for her to stare at things and at people, as if soaking up information.

Later, at her playgroup, a mother gave her a toy animal and told her it was a rhinoceros. 'That's not a rhinoceros,' said Elise. It's a triceratops.' Other parents convinced Louise and Edward they should have Elise's intelligence assessed. Inspired by the story of Georgia Brown, who also joined Mensa when she was two, they took her last month to see Professor Joan Freeman, a specialist education psychologist.

After subjecting her to a complex, 45-minute IQ test, she concluded in a written report that Elise was 'more than very bright and capable - she is gifted'. She was recommended for Mensa and accepted. Only those with an IQ of 148 and above - the top two percent - qualify. The average IQ is 100.

Professor Freeman concluded that Elise's 'superb memory' was the source for her 'excellent learning and progress'. Reassuringly for mum and dad, she added that they were doing everything right.

Yesterday as Elise danced happily in the sunshine at her local park, Edward, a 34-year-old motor consultant and car-buyer, told me: 'Our main aim is to make sure she keeps learning at an advanced pace.

'We don't want to make her have to dumb down and stop learning just to fit in. But she's still my baby. I just want her to be happy and enjoy herself.'


So what's next - quantum physics maybe? 'Give her another couple of weeks.'

Elise was born in London in December 2006 and can boast influences from England, Malaysia, China, Nigeria and Sierra Leone in her background. There are doctors and lawyers in the couple's extended family but none was a child genius, as far as anyone knows.

Louise works part time as an account manager for Pickfords removals. Elise's love of music and dance has encouraged the couple to put her name down for education in that area.

They have added her to the long waiting list for the Young Actors' Theatre, formerly the Anna Scher school, which produced a string of celebrated actors; and for Chickenshed, which specialises in music, ballet, mime and dance.

Their major disappointment has been that none of the local state schools they contacted wanted anything to do with Elise until she reaches four and a half.

So what might the future hold? Carol Vorderman told me: 'If she's lucky enough to go to a school where she's encouraged and stretched, she'll continue to enjoy learning and she'll have a fantastic time.

SOURCE: The Daily Mail

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SITTA: SERIKALI ISIJE KUNILAUMU....

Spika wa Bunge, Samuel Sitta amesema kuna maazimio mengi ya Bunge ambayo serikali imekuwa inasuasua kuyatekeleza. Kutokana na hali hiyo, amesema katika mkutano ujao wa Bunge wa bajeti, atatekeleza wajibu wake na serikali isije kumlaumu atakapoanza kutekeleza wajibu huo.

Kauli hiyo ya Spika aliitoa kutokana na majibu yaliyotolewa na serikali kupitia Naibu Waziri wa Miundombinu, Hezekiah Chibulunje, alipokuwa akijibu swali la nyongeza la Mbunge wa Vunjo, Aloyce Kimaro (CCM). Mbunge huyo alitaka serikali kuunda kamati huru ambayo itachunguza na kushughulikia waliohusika kuuza nyumba za serikali na kusababisha hasara. Naibu Waziri huyo alisema serikali inatekeleza maazimio ya Bunge ambayo yalitokana na Mbunge huyo kuwasilisha hoja binafsi bungeni....ENDELEA

HII HAIJATULIA.INA MAANA AWALI SPIKA ALIKUWA HATEKELEZI WAJIBU WAKE IPASAVYO NA NDIO MAANA HALAUMIWI AU...?HALAFU HAYA MAMBO YA LAWAMA YANATOKA WAPI WAKATI SPIKA (NA BUNGE) NA SERIKALI HAWAFANYI MAMBO KWA AJILI YAO BINAFSI BALI UMMA WA WATANZANIA?

HIVI BUNGE LETU LIMEGEUKA KUWA MALI YA SPIKA AU SPIKA NI KIONGOZI TU WA BUNGE?MAANA KAMA KUTAKUWA NA LAWAMA (KAMA ANAVYOTAHADHARISHA SPIKA) BASI ZITAELEKEZWA KWA BUNGE NA SIO SPIKA (AMBAYE PIA NI MBUNGE).

OK,TUWEKE HILO KANDO.JE KUNA HAJA YA KUTAHADHARISHANA KWAMBA MSIPOFANYA HIVI MIE NTAFANYA VILE?KWANI HAKUNA UTARATIBU MAALUM WA KUFUATWA PINDI HALI KAMA HIYO ANAYOZUNGUMZIA SPIKA IKITOKEA?

KUBINAFSISHA-IN THE SENSE KWAMBA NIKISEMA INYESHE ITANYESHA OR VICE VERSA- TAASISI KAMA BUNGE NI HATARI.

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OBAMA'S FIRST 100 DAYS (INTERACTIVE)

CLICK EITHER HERE OR HERE (THEY ARE BOTH INTERACTIVE ANYWAY)

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A PARATROOPER N THE 'HOOD

Ex paratrooper 'waged guerrilla war and spied on neighbours'

A former paratrooper waged a back garden guerrilla war against his neighbours when a petty dispute got out of hand, a court heard yesterday.

Rod Scott, 64, set up a 16ft viewing platform draped in camouflage netting in his garden to observe Tony and Janet Durkin 'morning, noon and night.'

The retired teacher and his wife felt 'under siege' from his never-ending 'surveillance' and became prisoners in their own home.

He kept flood lights trained on their house and they were forced to fit reflective film on their patio windows to stop him peering inside, Sheffield magistrates were told.

Other tactics he was blamed for included poisoning trees, throwing a dead rat into their garden, lighting fires and blasting out opera music.

The eight-year long suburban feud culminated in Scott being taken to court charged with threatening behaviour against Mr Durkin on August 9 last year and harassing the couple between September 8 and 29 at their £300,000 home in Millhouses, Sheffield.

Mr Durkin said the dispute began when Scott cut down brambles in their garden to reveal an 'eyesore' in his garden, which backed on to their property.

Scott refused to paint green an assortment of door frames and old timber panels that he used to screen his garden sheds and this led to relations between them deteriorating rapidly.
Mr Durkin planted a row of trees but Scott poisoned them with diesel, the court heard. Scott left noisy rotivators running for hours to disturb their peace and played Pavarotti opera music so loudly the whole neighbourhood could hear it.

He said Scott's viewing platform was erected on top of a shed. 'He had found a point from which he could look into all our rooms at the back of the house. We are regularly surveyed from that platform.

'At one point he put what looked like a bivouac shelter or a sniper's hide up there. He could see out but we couldn't see in - our privacy was more or less non-existent by that time.'

Asked if he had ever tried to speak to Scott about the problems, Mr Durkin replied:'It's difficult to discuss anything with a psychopath who is intent on this course of action.

'We tried to talk to him at the start of this. All that did was invite a seven year war of attrition - his words - which is still going on. The whole purpose of a war of attrition is to wear people down drip by drip, day by day. I find it difficult to sleep.'

At 1.30am on August 9 Mr Durkin went to investigate after seeing Scott carrying out one of his regular patrols of the area in his car. He said Scott pulled up, wound down the window, and swore at him.

'He issued a torrent of verbal abuse and threats in a high pitched, threatening voice as I was walking along the pavement.'

Mrs Durkin, 68, who has lived there for 35 years, told the court of her fear of the 'trained killer' watching from next door.

She said: 'He is an ex para who has been dehumanised and has no sensitivity to anybody else. He has been taught about surveillance and gadgets and stuff that we have no knowledge of.

'This man has three guns in the house and admits to being a trained killer. How do you think that makes me feel? You can't imagine that fear and distress it has caused me.

'I did try to overcome my fear and distress over this man but I gave up and I don't go in the garden any more. I have developed a heart condition brought on by the stress.

'I just want him to leave us alone. He doesn't seem to care about the damage , he doesn't care. It's like being under siege. I have not been in my garden since November.There's never any peace in the garden.'

Scott was a serviceman for 38 years and told the court he was in 'special forces' before working as a freeelance helicopter pilot. He retired five years ago after suffering serious injuries in a helicopter crash.

Scott said the dispute with his neighbours began after Mr Durkin had killed 10 of his beech trees by tying chicken wire around them.

There had been a disagreement about building a fence between their gardens, he said. He denied threatening the Durkins and described Mr Durkin's behaviour towards him as 'obnoxious.'
The trial continues.

SOURCE: The Daily Mail

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MABOMU DAR: WAZIRI ATANGAZA KUUNDWA TUME (SIO KUJIUZULU)

Wingu la moshi jijini Dar kufuatia mlipuko wa mabomu maeneo ya Mbagala.Picha kwa hisani ya MICHUZI

Na Mussa Juma, Arusha

WIZARA ya Ulinzi na Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa, imeunda Tume ya Wataalam wa Jeshi la Wananchi Tanzania (JWTZ), kuchunguza chanzo cha kulipuka silaha za aina mbali mbali katika ghala la kambi ya jeshi iliyopo eneo la Mbagala, jijini Dar es salaam.

Naibu Waziri wa Ulinzi na Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa, Dk Emanuel Nchimbi alitangaza uamuzi huo jana, wakati akizungumza na waandishi wa habari katika Hoteli ya Ngurdoto, jijini Arusha.

Nchimbi alisema Baraza hilo, litafanya kazi ya kuchunguza chanzo cha ajali hiyo na athari zote ambazo zimetokana na mlipuko huo.

Alisema vilivyokuwepo katika ghala hilo ni mabomu na risasi za aina mbali mbali na silaha nyingine ndogo.

Naibu Waziri huyo, alitoa wito kwa wakazi wote wanaoishi jirani na kambi hiyo kutookota kitu chochote cha chuma na wanapokiona watoe taarifa katika kambi ya JWTZ iliyokaribu nao.

"Endapo wataona au kutilia shaka aina yoyote ya chuma , watoe taarifa haraka katika kambi ya jeshi iliyo karibu nao au katika timu ya wataalam wa jeshi hilo ambayo imeanza uchunguzi," alisema Nchimbi.

Hata hivyo, kwa niaba ya Amiri Jeshi Mkuu, Rais Jakaya Kikwete na Waziri wa Ulinzi na Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa, Dk Hussein Mwinyi, alitoa pole kwa wote walioathirika na tukio hilo.

"Amiri jeshi mkuu anawapa pole wananchi wote wa Dar es Salaam na Pwani kwa usumbufu ambao wameupata kutokana na tukio hilo," alisema Nchimbi.

Alifahamisha bado chanzo cha ajali hakijajulikana na pia kutokana na sababu za kiusalama haitakuwa rahisi kutangaza athari za kijeshi zilizopatikana kutokana na tukio hilo.

CHANZO: Mwananchi

HIZI TUME HADI LINI?ILE YA AJALI YA CHENGE HAIJATOA TAARIFA YAKE JAPO TUKIO LENYEWE LILIHUSISHA WATU WANNE TU!JE TUKIO KUBWA KAMA HILI TAARIFA SI ITAKUWA MWAKA 2050!?

HIYO WIZARA YA NCHIMBI INA REKODI ISIYOPENDEZA KUHUSIANA NA TUME.HIVI IMESHATUAMBIA MATOKEO YA TUME ILIYOUNDWA KUCHUNGUZA AJALI YA HELIKOPTA YA JWTZ?

LAITI TUNGEKUWA NA UTAMADUNI WA KUWAJIBIKA,BASI MUDA HUU NCHIMBI NA WAZIRI WAKE DR MWINYI WANGEKUWA WAMESHAJIUZULU.LAKINI KWA VILE UWAJIBIKAJI NI MSAMIATI UNAOELEKEA KUTOLETA MAAN KWETU,BASI TUTARAJIE TUME MOJA BAADA YA NYINGINE...NA KWA VILE WATANZANIA WANAONGOZA KWA REKODI YA USAHAULIFU,AT THE END OF THE DAY WAHUSIKA WATAISHIA "KUUCHUNA" TU.

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PINDA: MISHAHARA YA WABUNGE (MILIONI 7 KWA MWEZI) HAITOSHI

na Ratifa Baranyikwa, Dodoma

WAKATI Bunge zima likimwandama Mbunge wa Karatu, Dk. Wilibrod Slaa (CHADEMA), kutokana na msimamo wake kuwa posho za wabunge ni kubwa na kutaka zipunguzwe, Waziri Mkuu, Mizengo Pinda ameungana na wabunge wengine kwa kusema kuwa posho hizo ni ndogo na kutaka ziongezwe.

Ingawa hakutaja jina, lakini kauli hiyo ya Waziri Mkuu imeonekana dhahiri kumjibu Dk. Slaa anayetaka mishahara na posho za wabunge zipunguzwe, kwamba ni kubwa mno ukilinganisha na watumishi wengine wa umma.

Pinda aliyasema hayo jana mjini hapa wakati akizindua mpango mkakati wa Bunge wa miaka mitano, wenye nia ya kulifikisha Bunge katika kiwango cha juu cha ufanisi.

Katika uzinduzi huo uliofanyika katika Ukumbi wa Pius Msekwa mjini hapa, Pinda alitumia mwanya huo kuchomeka suala la posho za wabunge, ambalo limekuwa agenda kubwa katika mkutano wa 15 wa Bunge unaomalizika leo.

Akielezea hatua ambazo serikali imekuwa ikizifanya kwa upande wa Bunge, Pinda ambaye aliorodhesha hatua kadhaa za kuboresha maslahi ya Bunge, alisema lengo la serikali ni kuboresha maslahi na posho za wabunge ambazo kwa sasa bado ni ndogo.

“Lengo la serikali kwa Bunge ni kuboresha maslahi na posho za wabunge ambazo kwa kweli kwa sasa hazifikii stahiki, lengo ni kuhakikisha Bunge linaboreshewa maslahi ili liweze kufanya kazi yake stahiki na kwa kiwango cha kuridhisha,” alisema Pinda.

Awali, akizungumzia malengo makubwa saba ya mpango mkakati huo, alisema moja ya malengo hayo ni kuboresha maslahi na stahiki za wabunge ili kuliwezesha Bunge kutekeleza majukumu yake ya kikatiba ipasavyo.

Mbali na malengo hayo, mengine ya mkakati huo ni kuboresha muundo na utendaji wa ofisi za Bunge ili kuongeza ufanisi na uwajibikaji, pia kuboresha mazingira ya utendaji kazi ya sekretarieti ya Bunge.

Limo pia suala la kukuza na kuimarisha ushiriki wa Bunge kuwafikia wadau mbalimbali kupitia mikutano, machapisho, vyombo vya habari na njia nyingine ya mawasiliano, pamoja na kukuza na kuinua vipaji vya wabunge.

Kwa upande wa serikali, mbali na malengo ya kuboresha maslahi na posho za wabunge kwa kuzingatia mazingira ya utendaji wao wa kazi, na hali ya uchumi, Pinda pia aliyataja malengo mengine kuwa ni kuwezesha Bunge kuwa na ukumbi mzuri wa kisasa unaotosheleza mahitaji, lengo ambalo kwa sasa tayari limekwishatekelezwa.

Kwa mujibu wa Pinda, lengo lingine ni kuanzishwa kwa mfuko maalumu wa Bunge ambao ulianza kutumika mwaka 2007/08, kuwashirikisha katika ziara za nje za viongozi wa kitaifa, lakini pia kuharakisha ujenzi wa ofisi za wabunge katika majimbo yao.

Tangu alipotoa kauli hiyo akiwa kwenye moja ya mikutano ya chama chake cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA), Dk. Slaa ambaye pia ni Katibu Mkuu wa chama hicho, amekuwa akiandamwa na wabunge wenzake katika mkutano huu wa 15, wakipinga hoja hiyo kwa madai kuwa inawachonganisha wabunge na jamii.

Hali hiyo ilisababisha Dk. Slaa afikie hatua ya kuzomewa mara kadhaa kila jina lake linapotajwa kwenye vikao vya ndani na nje.

Mbunge huyo, hata hivyo, alisisitiza kwamba anasimama katika hoja zake, ikiwamo ya posho za wabunge kutaka kutazamwa upya.

Alisema ataendelea kuisimamia hoja hiyo kwa sababu anataka kuwapo kwa uwazi katika mishahara wanayolipwa viongozi mbalimbali wakiwamo wabunge.

CHANZO: Tanzania Daima

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NKWAZI: LET THE POWERS THAT BE TAKE A LEAF FROM MENGI'S STANCE

NKWAZI MHANGO
St John’s NL, Canada

AT last names are openly named! When Hon. Harrison Mwakyembe named Rostam Aziz as a suspect behind Kagoda profligacy, many scratched their heads. Some thought it was just politics. Others said: there must be something truly fishy. Others thought the government would wake up and bring him to book. Mwakyembe is a lawyer and an MP who knows what he is doing.

Before long, Reginald Mengi, the Executive Chairman of IPP, massively and openly weighed in with more damning allegations. He minced no words. He averred: Rostam, Yusuf Manji, Jayantkumar Chandubhai Patel (Jeetu Patel) who is facing EPA charges, Tanil Somaiya, and Subash Patel are the most corrupt people in Tanzania.

Today I’ll specifically look at two -Rostam and Manji. They’ve been stealing thunder when it comes to corruption save the government has pretended not to hear or see!
No doubt. The two are CCM bigwigs just like Mengi himself.

What makes things worse is the fact that the duo has been mentioned, though not openly, in almost all multi-million scams. I still remember how Manji was alleged to have swindled wananchi’s money, thanks to his business connections with NSSF. Though this was swept under the carpet, we still have more questions than answers.

Manji also tried hand in politics when he vied for Kigamboni Constituency backed by Yusuf Makamba - CCM’s secretary general who is said to have thick but suspicious bond with the duo.

As for Rostam, it’s an open secret. �He has been cowering before allegations connecting him with EPA theft thanks to being the mind behind Kagoda. Refer to the recent revelations by Bhyidinka Michael Sanze, a lawyer who presided over EPA authorization by Benjamin Mkapa - former president engrossed in many scams.

Also Rostam was linked with Richmond, thanks to his Caspian Company’s address being used by Richmond. He too was named by Ibrahim Msabaha as PM Edward Lowassa’s Arab in Richmond scam.

What damns so as to create doubts is the fact that, the duo, despite being mentioned in many scandals, still has much influence in CCM. They are awarded many lucrative tenders and other projects. They, too, are CCM’s financiers or donors. And this is the reason that forced the Father of the Nation Mwl. Julius Nyerere to sarcastically aver that CCM has been taken by corrupt business people. Who can step in Nyerere’s shoes.

Given that the government has been dragging feet in dealing with the buggers behind Kagoda, now it is aware who those buggers are. Will it go on keeping mum and acting indifferently as it sits on the same.

Silence is gold. But sometimes, it is admission of guilt. When Rostam was confronted by the media to shed light onto Mengi’s allegations, he’s quoted as thus. ’’Mengi is full of jealousy, hatred and what not. There is no way I can help him except to pray God and ignore all, for it is enough a punishment for him. Due to how I was brought up, I cannot quarrel with an old man.’’

Do such gimmicks address the allegations really. Let’s call shorts to white washing and be serious especially when allegations are damningly serious like these.

Though it can be lightly and wrongly perceived as racism and hatred for Mengi to name five Tanzanians of Asian decent as the most corrupt in the country, there is truth in this. Why should it be racism or hatred to aver they are corrupt but not when it comes to owning our economy Why not when they’re given tenders and other preferential treatments.

As Rostam once said that those alleging he is corrupt are labouring under racism, petty jealousy and hatred, but again, is it racism really or corruption.

Suspects should mount reasonable defence in lieu of taking camouflage under the colour of their skin. For example, if someone says Indians own a big chunk of national housing, will this be referred to as racism? If one avers that Indians own over 75% of commerce in the country, will it be branded hatred. If one avers that Indian and Chinese illegal immigrants and hawkers are favoured by authorities, will this be jealousy.

Indians own almost every lucrative business. And now they’ve already penetrated into politics, thanks to rotten takrima law. They live in government houses whilst its workers make do on the outskirts of the city. They’ve remained holier than us since they were brought in by colonialists.

We well know. Indian business moguls are almost behind every stinking lucrative government tender. Refer to the radar, presidential jet purchase, NSSF, Richmond, EPA and what not.

Many will wonder why. It is simple. Corrupt government officials prefer to do dirty business with Indians. They can not divulge their secrets. They’re easy to intimidate and repatriate when things go wrong as it happened in Chavda scam. So indigenous ’fisadis’ are left out of the big picture.

And if you look at whom Tanzania prefers to award citizenship to, you’ll find that Indians outsmart others. They still do the same- being middlemen-the job for which colonialists brought them. When white colonialists left and black ones took over, the role of Indians remained the same almost everywhere in Africa. Go to Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and elsewhere. Indians are still doing the same job-weakening the indigenous for the good of corrupt rulers.

So to avert wasting time, if Kikwete could take a leaf from Mengi, our war on corruption would make more sense than it is today when it is but white washing.

In other words, corruption in Tanzania is like ’mduara’ dance. It’s conspiracy between venal rulers and their corrupt guests. It’s time to rally behind Mengi to see to it that those ’fisadis’ are not harming him. Shall they, Mtikila’s gabacholi era will be latched onto. And the government must stop its indifference. The ’isadis’ it has been asking for are now given pro bono.

FOR MORE,VISIT HIM AT freethinking unabii

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