IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM DeFunKadelic ON MISS EA SCHENGEN

I would like to understand a few things about this Miss EA Schengen competition (as there seems to be a lot of Miss competitions popping up with the notion of empowering young women). For anyone who can help, please do share your knowledge. Earlier attempts to speak to Mr. Charles Gadi were futile, as he hung up on me, upon me saying I did not recognise what the company was. Most importantly, we would like to know who is behind the organisation. What is their background? Who is training the girls? What do these individuals do for life? The girls competiting are required not to have "poor behaviour or they will be disqualified". Are the organisers, trainers etc squeaky clean? Will their background impart "beauty, culture and purity" to the girls? Do you really, really know who is working with your daughters and sisters? DO YOU??

So my questions;

1. What kind of organisation is this? Is it an individuals company or an NGO? What is the registration number if anyone knows, and when was it registered. Who is on the board?

2. On the website, the contact is not clear, there is only an e-mail and phone number but no physical address.

3. What kind of health (or any other) insurances are in place for young girls participating in this event?

4. The organisation aims to encourage people to visit East African countries etc. Is this encouraging East Africans in the diaspora to go back to their own countries, or they are targeting Europeans? If so, how is this being marketed to them?

5. One of the entry requirements is; girls must be single and have no children. Why specifically single? Is this a discrimination on young girls who might have boyfriends? Does it make them improper to serve the community?

6. I see there are only 2 sponsors, one travel company and a restaurant. Are they the main sponsors of the event? Do they provide the presents for these young girls? I believe, it is important to have transparency, and it would be encouraging to see the companies put forward what they are actually sponsoring, so that come the time their word will be legally binding (mainly to the participating girls). I would hate to see naive young girls being exploited.

7. Does the company provide psychological support to young girls who might be vulnerable to insults that will no doubt pop in different blogs whereby the individual has decided to market. It is one thing to claim to build confidence in young girls, it is another when individuals elsewhere try and knock young girls' confidence. A proper organisation should have these things in place.

8. On that note, a concerned parent has recently called the organiser, Mr. Gadi in relation to the pictures and more importantly to a "bongoflava" cheap $2 video (NOTE: $2 is a compliment), which consists of lyrics that arent pleasant to a parent, with videos of the young girls pictures flashing. He has been asked to remove them, the singer has been requested to remove them. In reply Mr. Gadi said "Maybe I will do", "I will see what I can do" or "They are 18 years, they can decide what they want". I believe on this note, an organiser creating a reputable organisation, promoting positivity for the girls, shows a lack of understanding and respect to a concerned parent and our beautiful african culture. I believe the organiser has a family, and needs to think like a family man. So if anyone else knows who is running this organisation, it will be wise to share it, so they can be contacted, perhaps they might show sense and discuss as grow ups.

9. It may be neccessary to contact the different ambassadors to understand their involvement in this event, and whether they endorse the carefree nature of dealing with parents as shown by this particular organiser.

10. For parents who have young girls competiting for these events, it is important you ask questions and make sure your children's interests are best served. Where will your girls be staying? How are they funding their travelling costs? Will these costs be recouped regardless of whether they win or lose?

Food For Thought for parents: What do you want your young girls to achieve from this? Is it attention? Fame? Material things? If helping the community, is parading on stage and being viewed as an object what your daughter is about? In terms of modelling, in Europe there are a lot of very genuine modelling companies with clear procedures on how they are run. My word is, ask questions, talk to your friends, advise them and do the right and sensible things for your young daughters and sisters.

Best of Regards,

Denis

Defunkadelic

(Please feel free to contact me in private and in confidence. I am accessible on the e-mail (and my mobile no. is available on request via e-mail), I will be happy to speak out when you do not dare, where neccessary, you can always rely on the rule of law).

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HIV VACCINE RESULTS ARE QUESTIONED

By GAUTAM NAIK and MARK SCHOOFS

Researchers from the U.S. Army and Thailand announced last month they had found the first vaccine that provided some protection against HIV. But a second analysis of the $105 million study, not disclosed publicly, suggests the results may have been a fluke, according to AIDS scientists who have seen it.

The second analysis, which is considered a vital component of any vaccine study, shows the results weren't statistically significant, these scientists said. In other words, it indicates that the results could have been due to chance and that the vaccine may not be effective.

The additional data were available to the researchers on Sept. 24 when they announced the trial results, but they chose not to disclose them, said Jerome Kim, a scientist with the U.S. Army who was involved in the study. News of the second analysis was first reported on the Web site of Science magazine, but the story didn't provide specific data. Full details of the trial are to be aired at an AIDS meeting in Paris that starts Oct. 19.

The incomplete disclosure raises the question of whether the Army, the Thai government and the U.S. National Institutes of Health -- which helped fund the study -- rushed to give a positive spin to what may turn out to be another inconclusive AIDS-vaccine effort.

"We thought very hard about how to provide the clearest, most honest message," Dr. Kim said. "We stand by the fact that this is a vaccine with a modest protective effect." He called the trial results "complex."

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the part of the NIH that oversees AIDS research, declined to comment.

The study was criticized as pointless by some AIDS scientists when it was launched three years ago because it combined a failed vaccine with one widely thought to have little chance of success. It was the largest HIV vaccine trial ever conducted, with more than 16,000 participants in Thailand.

Some AIDS researchers and activists who have learned of the additional data still think the vaccine shows promise and should be investigated further. But they worry that not disclosing the study transparently will cause people to conclude the vaccine trial was a failure and undermine support for more research.

"I would have preferred to have seen both results straight up. It might spring back on them, and that would be unfortunate," said Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition in New York.

About 33 million people were living with HIV world-wide in 2007, according to the latest United Nations statistics. About two million people died from AIDS that year. There have been more than 100 HIV vaccine trials since 1987. None had succeeded until the latest Thai trial.

The results announced last month were based on a "modified intent to treat analysis," which includes virtually everyone who enrolled in the study, regardless of whether they ended up getting the full course of the vaccine. It is a good stand-in for the real world, where people don't always follow instructions properly. By this measure, the vaccine tested in Thailand reduced by 31% the chance of infection with HIV, the AIDS-causing immunodeficiency virus.

But the result was derived from a small number of actual HIV cases: New infections occurred in 51 of the 8,197 people who got the vaccine, compared with 74 of the 8,198 volunteers who got placebo shots. Statistical calculations showed there was a 3.9% probability that chance accounted for the difference. In drug and vaccine trials, anything above a 5% probability of a chance result is deemed statistically insignificant.

The second analysis is called "per protocol" and adheres strictly to how the trial was designed by only including the study participants who got the full regimen of vaccine shots at the right time. Because it excludes study participants who didn't get the full vaccine regimen, it usually provides corroboration to the looser "intent to treat" findings.

Two AIDS scientists, who have seen the "per protocol" analysis, said it indicates there is a 16% chance the study results were a fluke -- a far greater probability than is considered statistically acceptable. This analysis included 86 people who received either the vaccine or a placebo and were infected. The "per protocol" analysis also showed that the supposed effectiveness was lower, at 26.2%. Dr. Kim, of the U.S. Army, declined to comment on the data. It isn't clear why the vaccine was seemingly ineffective among participants who followed the guidelines to the letter.

These anomalous results sparked discussion last week at a meeting of the Center for HIV-AIDS Vaccine Immunology in Durham, N.C. The group is made up of a team of universities and academic medical centers established by the NIH to help vaccine design and development.

"I think in general it's best to lay out as much data as possible," said Barton Haynes, director of the center and an HIV vaccine expert at Duke University, who was at the meeting. "This is a very difficult situation for everyone, and we'll have to wait until all the data are released so we can drill down into it."

When drug or vaccine trials results are disclosed, it is common for investigators to simultaneously provide "per protocol" and "intent to treat" data. For example, when Merck & Co. announced the details of its failed HIV vaccine trial in 2007, the Whitehouse Station, N.J., company provided both sets of statistics at the same time.

In September, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition published a report in anticipation of the Thai results that noted: "The safest route is to report both PP [per protocol] and ITT [intent to treat] and to analyze the difference."

In January 2004, a group of 22 scientists in article in the journal Science noted that one component of the Thai vaccine, a primer dose made by Sanofi Pasteur, a division of Sanofi-Aventis SA of France, was poor at triggering an immune response. They also pointed out that trials of the second component of the Thai vaccine, a booster component now licensed to Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases, of South San Francisco, Calif., had been proven "to be completely incapable of preventing or ameliorating HIV-1 infection."

They added: "One price for repetitive failure could be crucial erosion by the public and politicians in our capability of developing an effective AIDS vaccine collectively."

SOURCE: Wall Street Journal

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FAR-RIGHT DUTCH MP JETS INTO BRITAIN,DECLARES ISLAM A BAD RELIGION

Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders sparked angry protests today as he declared that Islamic culture is inferior to Christianity.The MP was met by angry Muslim protesters when he arrived in the UK after winning a court battle to enter the country.Around 40 demonstrators gathered near the Houses of Parliament as Mr Wilders, whose film Fitna criticises the Koran as a 'fascist book', arrived in central London.Brandishing banners saying 'Sharia is the solution, freedom go to hell' and 'Geert Wilders deserves Islamic punishment', the protesters were held back by police...READ MORE

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BLACK POLICE ADVISER STOPPED AND SEARCHED 100 TIMES

A black adviser to police on race issues has accused officers of 'horrendous harassment' as he revealed he has been stopped by officers more than 100 times.Ken Hinds, 50, attacked the Metropolitan police for 'racial profiling' as he revealed he had been repeatedly stopped in the past two decades.And he said other people have suffered similarly disproportionate treatment while driving, on the street and at Tube and railway stations

Mr Hinds of Edmonton, north London, sits on the force's Black Independent Advisory Group and is chairman of a monitoring group for stop and search in Haringey.

Earlier this week he won an apology and £22,000 compensation from British Transport Police (BTP) after he was handcuffed as he watched a black youth being arrested at Seven Sisters Tube station in 2004...READ MORE

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MAISHA BORA KWA KILA MTANZANIA

Picha kwa hisani ya vyanzo mbalimbali mtandaoni.

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MZEE WA VIJISENTI ATOA DARASA KUHUSU MAFISADI

MBUNGE wa Bariadi Magharibi, Andrew Chenge jana alinguruma ndani ya Kamati ya Bunge ya Fedha na Uchumi, alipowataka Watanzania kuacha kutafuta mchawi aliyeua mashirika ya umma, akisema kuwa mengi yalikufa yakiwa mikononi mwao na si mwa wageni.

Chenge, mwanasheria mkuu wa zamani wa serikali, ametoa kauli hiyo wakati wananchi wengi wakilalamikia mikataba mibovu ya uwekezaji na uendeshaji mashirika ya umma kuwa ndiyo iliyochangia baadhi kufa na mengine kuwa katika hali mbaya.

Akizungumza jijini Dar es Salaam jana wakati akichangia Taarifa ya Utekelezaji wa Moboresho ya Shirika la Bima (NIC), Chenge alisema makaburi mengi ya mashirika ya umma yamechimbwa na Watanzania wenyewe.

"Leo (jana) wakati tunamalizia kuadhimisha miaka kumi ya kifo cha Baba wa Taifa Mwalimu Nyerere, shirika hili la Bima lilikuwa moja ya malengo yake," alisema Chenge akirejea NIC ambayo ilikua na kutapakaa nchi nzima kabla ya kuanguka kiuchumi kiasi cha kusababisha serikali kuingilia kati na kuitengenezea muundo mpya.

"Lakini shirika hili leo liko hoi; kwa vyovyote vile serikali haiwezi kusimamia shirika hili kwa asilimia 100, lazima likabidhiwe kwa sekta binafsi, lakini Watanzania tumekuwa ni watu wa kupenda kupiga kelele hasa tunapoamua kubinafsisha. Mashirika haya tumeyaua wenyewe wala si wageni."

Chenge alisema: "Watanzania hatupaswi kutafuta mchawi wa mashirika yetu haya. Sisi wenyewe ndiyo tumeyaua na makaburi mengi leo hii yanaonekana."

Alifafanua kwamba, umefika wakati sasa Watanzania wakaachana na dhana ya kulalamika na badala yake wafanye kazi kwa bidii, huku pia akiitaka serikali iondoe dhana ya kuendesha mashirika kijamaa, akitolea mfano uwekaji wa kiwango cha chini cha bei na kutaka bei ya soko ishike hatamu.

Hata hivyo, alionyesha wasiwasi na Kikosi Kazi kinachofanya marekebisho kutokana na kukosa bodi na kuongeza: "Napata shaka kidogo, chombo ambacho kinaandaa taarifa halafu chenyewe pia ndio kijitathmini, nafikiri inapaswa kuundwa bodi."

Akichangia katika kikao hicho cha Kamati ya Fedha na Uchumi, Mbunge wa Tabora Mjini, Juma Kaboyonga aliitaka serikali kuharakisha ununuzi wa nyumba za NIC ambazo thamani yake ni Sh31.7 bilioni.

Mbunge huyo ambaye kitaaluma ni mchumi alisema serikali haipaswi kucheza na NIC, hivyo ni lazima itafute fedha hizo ili kuliwezesha shirika kwenda kwa kasi zaidi.

Kaboyonga alidai kuwa kumekuwa na hujuma dhidi ya NIC na kuhoji kwamba "kama mashirika binafsi yanaweza, vipi NIC ya serikali ishindwe".

Alisema: "Ipo dhana kwamba mashirika ya serikali hayana wenyewe, lakini mimi nasema yana wenyewe na wenyewe ni wananchi, lazima NIC iangaliwe, iwezeshwe na ipewe mtaji."

Akijibu hoja mbalimbali, Naibu Waziri wa Fedha na Uchumi, Jeremia Sumari alisema serikali imepanga kuendeleza huduma nafuu na zenye ubora kutokana na kuamini NIC inaweza kujiendesha kwa faida zaidi.

Sumari alisema uamuzi huo wa serikali kupanga kutoa huduma bora na za gharama nafuu haumaanishi kuwa nchi inarejea kwenye ujamaa, bali ni kuangalia uwezo wa shirika na mahitaji ya Watanzania.

Kuhusu mtaji na mpango wa kununua nyumba za NIC kwa Sh31.7 bilioni, alisema hilo liko katika hatua nzuri na za mwisho na kuongeza: "Lakini hadi sasa nyumba hizi ni za serikali, kuna mahitaji ya nyumba kwa watumishi wetu kama waheshimiwa majaji n.k."

Dk Abdallah Kigoda, ambaye ni mwenyekiti wa kamati hiyo, alisema katika majumuisho yake kuwa kuna umuhimu wa serikali kulipatia shirika kiasi hicho cha fedha.

Alisema:" Sioni tatizo kwa serikali kutoa au kukopa Sh31.7 bilioni kuokoa shirika kubwa la umma kama hili, nafikiri kuna umuhimu wa kulipatia kiasi cha fedha kwa sasa."

NIC iko katika kipindi cha mageuzi baada ya kuwepo mvutano kati ya serikali na bunge, hasa tathmini ya mali ambayo awali ilikuwa Sh18 bilioni, lakini Kamati ya Fedha ikaikataa na kutaka ifanyike upya.

Tathmini mpya iliyoonyesha kuwa thamani ya mali za NIC ni Sh31.7 bilioni ilikubaliwa na mwezi Februari, Rais Jakaya Kikwete aliunda Kikosi Kazi kilicho chini ya Balozi Charles Mutalemwa kufanya mageuzi ya shirika hilo.

Hadi Februari wafanyakazi waliokuwa nje ya ajira wakati huo walilipwa malimbikizo ya mishahara yao kwa jumla ya Sh1.90 bilioni.

CHANZO: Mwananchi

MBONA MAMBO!?

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MPAYUKAJI: SAMAHANI MWALIMU SINTAKUENZI

NDUGU YANGU Mpayukaji Msemaovyo anasema:

Naitwa Mchumiatumbo mwana wa Tapeli.

Ingawa wakati naandika waraka huu vijana wenzangu wapatao 166 wamo wakimenyeka toka Mwanza hadi Butiama, kama ishara ya kumbukizi ya safari yako adhimu ya ukombozi ukiliungua mkono marehemu azimio la Arusha, mimi sitafanya hivyo.

Nina sababu. Kwanza mimi ni mnafiki wala mjamaa kama wewe. Nina roho nyepesi hasa nionapo vitu kama pesa madaraka na sifa.

Mimi ni mbabaishaji na muongo; au msanii kama washikaji wasemavyo. Ni fisadi through and through. Ninanuka kiasi cha kutostahili hata kukaribia kaburi lako achia mbali nyumba yako, wanao, mkeo, watu wako hata taifa lako. Nisingependa walevi na wazinzi kufagia makaburi ya mitume mwalimu. Hivyo, kwanza nakuwa mkweli kwa nafsi yangu na kwako na umma wako.

Tatu, nitaunga mkono azimio lipi iwapo ninaoona wamenizunguka wakiwaibia watu wako ni wale wale walioliua azimio la Arusha? Nitaadhimisha vipi iwapo miiko ya uongozi na usawa wa binadamu vimetoweka na nafasi yake kuchukuliwa na ufisadi, ujambazi wa mchana, ubabaishaji na uongo?

Nne, mwalimu, sitaki kujidanganya na kukudanganya. Kile ulichopigania kwa sasa hakuna. Ulipigania uhuru na maendeleo. Sasa kuna utumwa na kuporomoka. Ulitekeleza ujamaa na kujitegemea. Sasa tuna uhujumaa na kujimegea. Ulipigania mstakabali wa nchi toka kwa wakoloni wawe wavumbuzi, wamisionari na watawala. Sasa mstakabali huo umo mikononi mwa wawekezaji, na wafadhili wa makuadi wao. Ulipigania ardhi ya Tanzania kabla haijaingia mikononi mwa vijifalme vya kifamilia. Nitakuenzi kwa udhu upi iwapo kila nipitapo Loliondo nakaribishwa kwenye falme za kiarabu utadhani hapa ni uarabuni?

Nitapata wapi mshipa wa kukuenzi wakati nakung’ong’a? Je mwalimu una habari? Yale madini uliyosema vizazi vijavyo vingeyaendeleza na kufaidika nayo yaliuzwa na jamaa yako Tunituni uliyempigia debe usijue jizi.

Tano, mwalimu siwezi kukuenzi wakati nakuchukia na kukudharau. Ningekupenda na kukuheshimu ningeshika urithi wako na kuheshimu wosia wako wa kupendana na kutohujumiana. Nakumbuka wakati ukianga dunia ulikuwa ukiwalilia watanzania wako baada ya kugundua makosa uliyofanya kuwaweka mikononi mwa nunda wala watu. Nami ni mmojawapo.

Je una habari mkoani mwako watu wameishamiminiwa risasi za moto kutokana na kukatiza kwenye ardhi ya mwekezaji na si mtanzania? Una habari mkoani mwako uchafuzi wa mazingira unatishia maisha ya ndugu zako? Hapa kweli nina sababu ya kukuenzi? Je kukuenzi ni matendo au maneno mwalimu?

Ingawa ukiwa kuzimu bado unaliletea sifa taifa langu, sifichi wala kuchelea kukwambia kuwa waliohai wanaliletea aibu na fedheha baada ya kulibinafsisha huku wakibinafsisha hata akili na roho zao. Mwalimu nilikufahamu sana . Ulikaa madarakani kwa kitambo kirefu ukiacha nyuma familia isiyo na ukwasi zaidi ya utu. Uliowawezesha wamefikia hata kuchukua ule mgodi wa makaa ya mawe wa Kiwira uliozawadiwa na rafiki yako Mao Tse Tung.

Mwalimu, vinyamna mwitu na mbwa hawa walitutenda kweli. Walitudanganya kuwa uwekezaji ndiyo sera na njia pekee ya kutukomboa tusijue walikuwa wakimaanisha kinyume. Wengine walituahidi maisha bora kwa wote tusijue wote ni wao washirika zao, watoto zao na wake zao hata nyumba ndogo zao. Tupo msambweni mwalimu wakati huu tunapozidi kuuzana na kuhadaana. Je unaweza kuamini kuwa kwa sasa hakuna tofauti ya polisi na kibaka? Nina ushahidi. Juzi polisi aliuawa kama kibaka na wananchi wenye hasira na kukata tamaa huku polisi tena wakubwa wakiwapiga risasi wafanyabiashara wakidai ni vibaka!

Wakati wa uongozi wako matupinkele au zeruzeru kwa lugha rahisi walikuwa salama. Baada ya kuingia pepo la utajiri usioulizwa ulivyopatikana, maskini hawa wanatolewa kafara na wanganga njaa wa kienyeji. Hivyo ndugu zetu hawa wanauawa hata zaidi ya swala mwalimu na hawana mtetezi zaidi ya vijikesi viwili vitatu vya kuondolea lawama. Tembo kwa sasa wana ulinzi madhubuti zaidi ya ndugu hawa.

Zama zako uliongoza. Uongozi ulikuwa utumishi wa umma na si uchumia tumbo na utumikishaji na uhujumu wa umma. Ikulu ilikuwa mahali patakatifu siyo pa deal. Uongozi ulikuwa uongozi na si uongo kama sasa. Siasa ilikuwa baraka si balaa kama sasa.

Wale watoto wa wachunga mbuzi na maskini wa kunuka uliowatoa kwenye umaskini na kuwasomesha sasa ni matajiri wa kutupwa. Yupo mpumbavu mmoja jizi aliyewahi kuita shilingi bilioni moja vijisenti ukiachia mbali wengine uliowaachia laana kuwa walikuwa wamejilimbikizia chumo la wizi. Na kweli maneno yako hayakuanguka. Kwani wezi wenzao waliwabeba na kuwakweza hatimaye tamaa zao na upofu vikawadondosha.

Mwalimu sitakuenzi,. Siwezi kujidanganya na kuidanganya dunia. Nitakuenzije iwapo kipato changu kinatokana na rushwa, uwekezaji, uuzaji mihadarati, uongo, ahadi hewa, uhujumu na mengine mengi yapinganayo na dhamira ya dira yako mwalimu?

Hivi kweli panya anaweza kumuenzi paka zaidi ya kufaidi ‘uhuru’ baada ya paka kuondoka? Je nune aweza kuishi nje ya kinyesi cha ng’ombe zizini? Si haki nune kuwa mwalimu wa usafi wakati mlo wake na makazi yake ni kwenye uchafu hata anenepe na kunawiri vipi.

Mwalimu naogopa kuja Butiama au kusimama mbele ya kadamnasi ya maadhimisho yako na kukupamba wakati nilisha kuvua nguo. Naogopa. Maana mama Maria hata wanao wananijua. Inawezekana nikakulamba uchogo na kukupaka mafuta kwa mgongo wa chupa kiasi cha kumkera mmojawapo akaamua kunizodoa na nikazidi kudhalilika ingawa niliishadhalilika muda mrefu.

Mwalimu ulikuwa na akili inayochemka. Yangu mimi ni bongolala. Ulikuwa msafi na mwadilifu. Mie ni mchafu sina mfano. Mkeo hakuwa akitumia ofisi yako kuubia umma. Mie wangu nami wote tu wezi. Nikiiba huku yeye anaibia kule. Hata watoto nimewaingiza. Nataka hata ikibidi wawe marais kama siyo mawaziri. Je hapa mwalimu nitakuwa na cha kukuenzi?

Mwalimu ulileta elimu bure kwa wote. Mie nashabikia kuchangia gharama ingawa kimsingi hakuna gharama za kuchangia zaidi ya kutunisha mfuko wa walaji wakubwa. Ulipigania ardhi. Mie natamani niwe rais niiuzie mbali nipate changu nifiche ughaibuni. Mwalimu ulichukia wafanya biashara wezi. Mie hawa ndiyo washitili wangu.

Mwalimu ulisisitiza usawa wa binadamu. Mie naamini binadamu si sawa wala si mfano wa Mungu kama wachungaji wasemavyo. Usawa ni mambo ya kizamani. Kwangu, heshima ya binadamu haitokani na ubinadamu wake bali pochi lake. Hukusikia wahenga wakisema mwalimu kuwa aso kitu si mtu bali kinyama mwitu? Mtu chake bwana. Kwa imani yangu mie si mfano wa Mungu bali mfano wa shetani kutokana na uroho na roho mbaya vyangu. Mungu si mwizi wala muongo wala mbabaishaji kama mimi mwalimu.

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MSEKWA:UFISADI UMEIUMBUA CCM.WASOMI: NCHI IMEKOSA MWELEKEO

Na Fredy Azzah

MAKAMU Mwenyekiti wa CCM, Pius Msekwa, amesema kashfa za ufisadi zinazowakabili baadhi ya viongozi wake, zimekiumbua chama hicho pamoja na serikali yake.

Akiwahutubia wanafunzi wa matawi ya CCM ya vyuo vikuu vilivyopo jijini Dar es Salaam, wakati wa maadhimisho ya kumbukumbu ya miaka 10 ya kifo cha Baba wa Taifa, hayati Mwalimu Julius Nyerere jana, alisema ufisadi ambao umewakumba wengi umesababishwa na tabia ya viongozi kulindana na kutosimamia kikamilifu maadili ya uongozi yaliyoainishwa ndani ya katiba ya CCM.

Alisisitiza kuwa tabia hiyo ni kinyume na misingi ambayo Baba wa Taifa, aliwaachia Watanzania....ENDELEA

WAKATI HUOHUO

WASOMI na wanazuoni nchini, wamesema nchi haina dira na kwamba kuna mpasuko mkubwa ambao usiposhughulikiwa mapema, nchi inaweza kuingia kwenye machafuko.

Wakizungumza juzi katika baraza lililopewa jina la Mbongi, lililoandaliwa na Kigoda cha Taaluma cha Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, walisema mpasuko hiyo ni pamoja na ya udini, ukabila, ukanda, matatizo ya vitambulisho Zanzibar pamoja na hofu ya kuvunjika muungano...ENDELEA

CHANZO: Mwananchi

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"DOKTA" MPONJOLI AFILISIWA NA POLISI,WAMKOMBA PAUNI LAKI 9

Police recoup £1.4m from criminals in last two weeks as war on crime profits gathers pace

Oct 12 2009 by Rebekah Oruye, Birmingham Mail

WEST Midlands Police is driving home the message that crime does not pay after confiscating £1.4 million from criminals in the past two weeks.

In addition, nearly £100,000 in cash was seized from a car on the M6 in Birmingham, believed to have been intended for criminal use.

Det Chief Insp Simon Wallis, head of the force’s economic crime team, said: “This money has been taken from those who think crime is an easy way to make money.

“It brings West Midlands Police to a total of £15 million seized from criminals in the last 18 months.

“On many of these occasions through financial investigation and the confiscation process we are able to trace monies and give them back to victims. In cases where money is transferred abroad, it still is able to be retrieved. Crime does not pay. We will investigate those involved in criminality to ensure that they do not enjoy their ill gotten gains.”

Among the success stories for the police is the near £900,000 seized from Walsall conman Mponjoli Malakasuka, who had been stealing and exporting high powered luxury cars.

Malakasuka, aged 36, from the Yew Tree estate, was ordered to pay back the money in one month or face an additional four years in jail. He was originally sentenced to three-and-a-half years in July 2008 for conspiracy to steal.

Malakasuka had used a variety of sophisticated methods to steal prestige vehicles which he then exported out of the UK to Tanzania and Kenya. The cars were stolen both through car key burglaries and a variety of identity fraud and fake hire purchase agreements.

The cars included Mercedes Benz S320 CDi and Porsche Cayenne cars. In all over £300,000-worth of vehicles were stolen.

At the time of his arrest police discovered Malakasuka to be living a life of luxury in his four-bed house. At his address were pictures of luxury houses in Tanzania into which officers believed he had invested his fraudulent cash.

The court accepted the houses in Tanzania were proceeds of his criminality. Financial investigators were also able to show thousands of pounds passing through in excess of 70 bank accounts in the UK and Tanzania including one account which alone had £350,000. Det Sgt Jonathan Jones, who led the investigation for the Economic Crime Team, said: “This has been a great investigation, as not only have we stopped fraud and theft, but we have now recovered the profit that this man made from his criminality.”

In a separate case a money launderer from Birmingham was ordered to pay back more than £450,000 of his criminal profit.

Barrington Fulcott, aged 48, from Kingstanding, was told to pay £450,386 at the hearing in Birmingham Crown Court.

He was given six months to return the cash, or face an extra four years in prison. Fulcott was originally sentenced to 42 months in prison in February 2008 in relation to three counts of money laundering.

He had gathered considerable wealth from his criminal activity which had allowed him to purchase five properties in the West Midlands and begin the development of a large home in St Annes, Jamaica.

SOURCE: Birmingham Mail

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