Kulikoni Ughaibuni

5 May 2009

COMEDIAN AL FRANKEN TO GIVE OBAMA CONTROL OF SENATE

Sarah Baxter

A COMEDIAN who had a walk-on part in the Rutles film spoof of the Beatles is poised to deliver a 60-seat super-majority to the Democrats in the Senate as President Barack Obama consolidates his grip on the levers of power.

Al Franken, 57, a satirist turned Democrat politician, is expected to be proclaimed the winner of the protracted race for the US Senate in Minnesota, in time to give Obama a free hand to appoint a Supreme Court replacement for retiring Justice David Souter without fear of Republican blocking tactics.

If Franken wins, Obama will hold an unassailable majority after Senator Arlen Specter’s sudden defection from the Republicans to the Democrats last week. A 60-seat majority would deprive the Republicans of the ability to scupper appointments and legislation by filibustering...continue

SOURCE: The Times

The government's electronic eavesdropping centre has issued a rare response to accusations that it plans to install thousands of black boxes to monitor all internet and telephone use in Britain.

In a statement, GCHQ denied its £1bn plan – called Mastering the Internet (MTI) – was a "snooping project" and said the technology being developed at its complex in Cheltenham was solely to keep pace with developments in internet technology.

In an unusual move in response to a weekend report, the agency, which does not usually comment on media stories, said in a statement: "GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK. Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all communications data in Britain."

It was suggested that the MTI project would give GCHQ the ability to "spy at will" on all internet traffic in Britain, including emails, website visits, social networking sessions, and telephone calls, 14% of which are made using internet protocol (Voip) systems such as Skype...CONTINUE

SOURCE: The Guardian

Forty-five people were reported to have been killed tonight when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a wedding reception in south-eastern Turkey.

Ahmet Ferhat Ozen, the acting governor of Mardin province, told Reuters that the assailants had stormed a hall in the village of Sultankoy and attacked guests with automatic rifles and hand grenades.

Local media said the families of both the bride and the groom included members of the state-sponsored militia, the Village Guard, which was set up to combat Kurdish separatist guerrillas in the area...CONTINUE

SOURCE: The Guardian

A senior Labour MP has prompted outrage by claiming that the Conservatives had 'prepared the ground' for a surge by the British National Party.

Former Foreign Office minister Denis MacShane said the Tories''xenophobic' attacks on the EU would be to blame if the far-Right party made ground in next month's European elections...continue

SOURCE: The Daily Mail

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By Rodgers Luhwago, Dodoma

Speaker of the National Assembly Samuel Sitta has sturdily defended the proposal by legislators to increase their monthly package to 12m/- ($9,078), adding that the move has been wrongly judged by critics.

Tanzanian MPs, who currently make 7m/- ($5,292) per month - only 1.8m/- of which is their taxable basic salary - want to increase their base salary to 3m/- and additional allowances to 9m/-.

The proposed 12m/- ($9,078) package would put parliamentarians in the range of Kenya`s MPs, who earn a minimum of Ksh851,000 ($11,335) every month, of which only the basic salary of Ksh200,000 ($2,664) is taxed. Some of the allowances making up additional Ksh651,000 ($8,560) include funds for gym memberships and unspecified ‘entertainment` costs.

Ugandan lawmakers pocket the least of MPs in the region, bringing home Ush2.6m ($1,214) in basic monthly salary and Ush7m ($3,271) including night, subsistence and fuel allowances, according to The Monitor newspaper.

This income is still far above average salaries in most other sectors, the newspaper says.

To put things in perspective, with the proposed salary Tanzanian MPs would make $108,936 per year, while Kenyan MPs currently make $136,020 per year.

Members of Congress in the United States make $174,000 a year, which is all taxable income unlike the Tanzanian and Kenyan salaries.

Tanzania`s GDP is $16.18bn and Kenya’s is $29.3bn, while the United States GDP is around $14 trillion, close to 1,000 times the size of Tanzania`s economy.

Should the proposed increase in pay go through for Parliamentarians, Tanzanian MPs will be earning close to $30,000 more than their South African equivalents, who now earn R714,618 ($79,822) a year after giving themselves an 11 percent annual salary increase effective last April.
But reacting to the ongoing debate about the newly proposed package, the Speaker furiously described the reports as total exaggeration aimed at pursuing a malicious agenda against the legislature.

In an exclusive interview with The Guardian on Sunday over the weekend in his Dodoma office, Speaker Sitta said he was surprised at how closely some individuals and members of the press were following legislators` salaries while turning a blind eye to the wages of the other working cadres in the government.

``Is it fair to include a sitting allowance, per diem and other charges into an MP`s monthly pay? Is it also justifiable to include the salary of an assistant to an MP`s monthly pay? By the way, why are MPs the only ones targeted when it comes to emoluments?`` Sitta queried.

He said permanent secretaries, regional and district commissioners, ministers and judges are among the senior working cadres in society but you rarely hear people talking about their earnings.

``Let`s just take a simple example: the fuel charge for the district commission is separately paid, and this applies to the charges for water, electricity and the salary of his aides.

Why don’t you include all this in the DC’s salary? Instead we find it simple to do this to an MP?`` he said.

According to the Speaker, the implementation of the Five-Year Corporate Plan 2009-13 that the Parliament launched mid this week, includes employing research assistants for MPs whose salaries would be paid by the government. ``Is it logical and fair to take the salaries of these research assistants from the legislators’ monthly salaries?`` he asked.

``In the public service sector there is what is described as personal emoluments, which is a salary of the public servant and other charges.

However, due to the absence of MPs` offices in their constituencies, the salaries for their assistants are being included in the legislators` salaries but this does not mean that the whole money belongs to the MP,`` he said.

The Speaker said the allowances paid to the MPs are just the same as the allowances paid to all other public servants of such a rank, adding that all senior officers are paid per diems and sitting allowances.

He said, according to the public service system, per diems and sitting allowances are never taken as an official income of the person.

``In fact the per diem paid to the MPs is sometimes not sufficient when he travels to places like Arusha. We are sometimes forced to pay for hotel accommodation in Arusha.

Now, why make other charges as part of an individual`s income? Very unfortunately this is done to MPs only. No one is saying that permanent secretaries are highly paid,`` Sitta said.

If the same calculations were made for the permanent secretaries, he said, they would be found to be earning between 14m/- and 15m/- per month.

He said people have diverted public attention from deliberating on embezzlement of public funds and corruption to questioning legal expenditures by combining personal income and other charges paid to MPs, describing them as the legislators` monthly salaries.

``Things paid for in the office of the legislator are stationeries, water, power and telecommunication and all this costs 735,000/- per month.

The same items may cost higher in the office of the DC but we don’t include such costs in the DC`s salary,` he said. He said the salary of an MP is 1.8m/-.

The Speaker was reacting to reports that Parliament last year passed the National Assembly Act, 2008 which, among other things, improves legislators` salaries and other charges.

The new Act is expected to be operational after the 2010 general election.

Speaking last Wednesday during the launching of the Five-Year Corperate Plan 2009-2013 Sitta said the Plan aimed at making Parliament an effective institution that is more people-centred.

According to the Speaker, the strategic objectives of the plan include enhancing MPs` overall effectiveness for better service to the general public and enhancing individual effectiveness of MPs by providing them with properly equipped offices at constituencies and Parliament premises.

The plan, which is expected to cost 373.9bn/- during implementation, will involve giving Members of Parliament staff assistants and upgraded data services and constantly reviewing their emoluments and welfare packages to keep MPs and staff appropriately motivated.

Commenting on the for MPs’ per diem and allowances to be taxed, Speaker Sitta said that is subject to the change of the Income Tax Act, 2004.

However, he said if allowances are to be taxed then that has to be applied to all workers in the country and not MPs alone.

``To be frank I don`t agree with people who want allowances to be taxed. You can’t give a person a subsistence allowance and again tax it. It is absolutely meaningless,`` he said.

SOURCE: The Sunday Observer

AT LEAST SOME OF US NOW CAN FINALLY MAKE SENSE WHY HIS HONOURABLE SAMUEL SITTA BRANDED HIMSELF "THE SPEAKER OF STANDARDS AND SPEED."

Ikulu, Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu, Mhasibu Mkuu wa Serikali, Ofisi ya Makamu wa Rais, Polisi, Msajili wa Vyama vya Siasa na Sekretarieti ya Maadili ni kati ya ofisi ambazo, mahesabu yake yalionekana kuwa na mapungufu na kutofuata kanuni za fedha au kufanya malipo yenye nyaraka pungufu.
Mapungufu hayo yamo kwenye ripoti ya Mdhibiti na Mkaguzi Mkuu wa Hesabu Serikali (CAG) kwa mwaka 2007/08 iliyowasilishwa bungeni wiki iliyopita.

Kutokana na mapungufu hayo, ripoti ya CAG inaonyesha kwamba ofisi hizo, licha ya kupewa hati ya ukaguzi inayoridhisha, kila hati imeambatana na mambo ya msisitizo yenye kuzitaka ofisi hizo zisirudie makosa hayo.

Ripoti hiyo inafafanua: ``Kimsingi, aya inayohusu `Mambo ya Msisitizo` ni tahadhari kwa Afisa Masuuli na taarifa muhimu kwa watumiaji wa taarifa za fedha. Vivyo hivyo, kama udhaifu huo haujarekebishwa, unaweza kusababisha hati isiyoridhisha (kutolewa) kwa kaguzi zijazo.``

Ofisi nyingine zilizopewa hati yenye mambo ya msisitizo ni Magereza, Menejimenti ya Utumishi wa Umma, Jeshi la Wananchi Tanzania (JWTZ) (Ngome), Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa (JKT), Mahakama, Wizara ya Katiba na Sheria, Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikino wa Kimataifa, Ofisi ya Rais na Sekretarieti ya Baraza la Mawaziri, Wizara ya Viwanda, Biashara na Masoko na Wizara ya Ardhi na Makazi.

Zingine ni Wizara ya Maji na Umwagiliaji, Wizara ya Fedha na Uchumi, Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii, Tume ya Mipango, Wizara ya Mawasiliano, Sayansi na Teknolojia, Tume ya Kudhibiti Madawa ya Kulevya, Tume ya Utumishi wa Umma na Tume ya Kudhibiti Ukimwi.

Vilevile zipo sekreterieti za mikoa kadhaa kama vile Arusha, Mara, Iringa, Kigoma, Pwani, Kilimanjaro, Mbeya, Singida, Morogoro, Shinyanga, Kagera, Dar es Salaam na Rukwa ambazo zilipata hati inayoridhisha yenye msisitizo.

Kuhusu Ikulu, kwa mfano, ripoti ya CAG inaonyesha katika mwaka wa fedha 2007/08 hakukuwa na mpango wa mwaka wa manunuzi, kinyume na kifungu cha 45 (a) hadi (e) cha Sheria ya Manunuzi ya Umma ya mwaka 2004.

Pia mahesabu ya Ikuku yalikuwa na mambo yasiyosuluhishwa katika taarifa za benki, yanayofikia Sh. 2,710,000.

Kwa mujibu wa ripoti hiyo, Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu ilifanya malipo yenye nyaraka pungufu yanayofikia Sh. milioni 21.8 na malipo yaliyolipwa mara mbili yenye thamani ya sh. milioni 45.

Idara ya Mhasibu Mkuu imeelezwa kufanya malipo yanayofikia sh. milioni 570 kwa M/s Fifth Africa Population bila nyaraka ambatanifu, huku mishahara yenye thamani ya Sh. milioni 8.6 ikilipwa kwa watu walioondoka kwenye utumishi wa umma.

Kwa upande wa ofisi ya Makamu wa Rais, malipo ya madeni ya Sh milioni 89.2 yalifanyika kwenye bajeti ya mwaka huu bila idhini huku stakabadhi za kukiri malipo ya Sh. Milioni 8.9 zikishindwa kuwasilishwa ili kukaguliwa. Pia ofisi inalaumiwa na CAG kwa kufanya manunuzi ya Sh milioni 20.8 kutoka kwa M/s Colour Print (T) Ltd bila kufanya ushindani wa zabuni.

Kuhusu jeshi la polisi, ipo milolongo kadhaa ya makosa ya kihasibu, lakini moja wapo ni malipo ya Sh. milioni 74.1 kufanywa bila nyaraka sahihi na masurufu yasiyorejeshwa kufikia sh. milioni 131.

Ofisi zilizopewa hati yenye shaka ni pamoja na ya Bunge, Wizara za Kilimo, Chakula na Ushirika, Elimu na Mafunzo ya Ufundi, Mambo ya Ndani, Jinsia na Maendeleo ya Watoto, Nishati na Madini, Maliasili na Utalii, Ushirikiano wa Afrika Mashariki na Wizara ya Miundombinu.

Sekretareti za mikoa zilizopewa hati yenye shaka ni Dodoma, Lindi, Mtwara, Mwanza, Ruvuma, Tabora na Tanga. Pia kwenye kundi hilo imo Mahakama ya Ardhi.

Ufafanuzi wa ofisi ya CAG unaonyesha kwamba hati zenye shaka hutolewa pale kunapokuwa na udhaifu wenye uzito na unaoathiri taarifa za fedha lakini hausababishi taarifa hizo kukosa maana kabisa.

Taarifa inasema Bunge lilipewa hati yenye shaka kutokana na mlolongo wa makosa ya kanuni za fedha ikiwa ni pamoja na kulipa matibabu ya Sh. Milioni 102 nje ya nchi bila kuidhinishwa na Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii.

Ofisi zilizopewa hati isiyoridhisha, kwa mujibu wa ufafanuzi, udhaifu unaojitokeza unapotosha kabisa tarifa za hesabu ni pamoja na Wizara ya Kazi, Idara ya Uhamiaji na Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Mifugo na Uvuvi.

Wizara hiyo katika ripoti hiyo inaonyesha kulikuwa na upotevu wa Sh. milioni 90.9 na taarifa za masurufu yasiyorejeshwa ilikuwa inatofutiana.

CHANZO: Nipashe

The International Media Studies Masters Program is a four-semester, full-time program for further education. The program combines topics like media and development, journalism, communication science and media economics, while developing practical skills and competencies that are important for the world of media. It is a joint project from the University of Bonn, the Bonn Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and Deutsche Welle, Germanys international broadcaster with its headquarters in Bonn. The bilingual Masters Program offers a unique course that combines the acquisition and development of practical skills in journalism with theoretical grounding. The program emphasizes on the current development of global media and the connection between media and cooperative development. Students from around the world will benefit from the inclusion of partners and the unparalleled mix of research, lectures and practical experience.

Applicants need a bachelor's degree and more than one year of professional experience in a media-related field. The Master's Program is bilingual. For this reason, applicants must have good verbal and written communication skills in German and English.

Deutsche Welle is going to award full-scholarships to 15 applicants from Africa, Asia, Latin America or Eastern Europe.

For further details please visit our website at http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2692,12276,00.html

If you are interested in the program please send your application until 31st May 2009.

SOURCE: Da Subi

HII IMEKAAJE?

PICHA HII NILOPATA KWA HISANI YA MJENGWA INAMWONYESHA JK AKIONGOZA KIKAO CHA KAMATI KUU YA CCM HAPO IKULU.HIVI KWANINI VIKAO VYA CCM VIFANYIKIE IKULU KATIKA ZAMA HIZI ZA MFUMO WA VYAMA VINGI?KWANINI ISIWE MAKAO MAKUU YA CCM DODOMA AU HATA PALE LUMUMBA DAR?

MWANASIASA MAKINI ANAPASWA KUCHUNGA ULIMI WAKE.ANAPASWA PIA KUELEWA KWAMBA LOLOTE LITOKALO MDOMONI MWAKE LAWEZA KUTAFSIRIWA KUWA NI KAULI YA SERIKALI.

KWA MAANA HIYO,KAULI ZA SOPHIA SIMBA NA GEORGE MKUCHIKA KUMTETEA ROSTAM AZIZ WAZIWAZI ZIMEWAFANYA WANANCHI WENGI KUWAONA MAWAZIRI HAO KAMA VIBARAKA WA ROSTAM,MFANYABIASHARA NA MWANASIASA ANAYEHUSISHWA NA TUHUMA LUKUKI ZA UFISADI.

SOPHIA SIMBA NA MWENZIE MKUCHIKA WALILIPUKA KUMTETEA ROSTAM PASIPO KUELEWA KWAMBA MHINDI HUYO NAE ALIKUWA ANA MPANGO WA KUJIBU SHUTUMA ZA MENGI.NA KATIKA KUJIBU SHUTUMA HIZO,ROSTAM AMEJIGAMBA KUWA MENGI AMEKEMEWA NA WAZIRI SIMBA NA MKUCHIKA.

HIVI WATU WAZIMA HAWA NA AKILI ZAO HAWAONI KUWA WAMEDHALILISHWA?YAANI INA-SOUND AS IF WALITUMWA NA ROSTAM IN THE FIRST PLACE KABLA YA MTUHUMIWA HUYO WA UFISADI KUITISHA PRESS CONFERENCE.MAWAZIRI WAZIMA WANA-ACT AS IF NI SPOKESPERSONS WA,SIO SERIKALI,BALI MHINDI FLANI MWENYE FEDHA?

BAADA YA PRESS CONFERENCE YA ROSTAM HAPO JANA,BAADHI YA WATU WANAULIZA "YUKO WAPI SOPHIA SIMBA?YUKO WAPI MKUCHIKA?" WAKITARAJIA MAWAZIRI HAO WATAMTENDEA HAKI MENGI KWA KUMKEMEA ROSTAM.HAWANA JEURI WALA UBAVU HUO.SIMPLY BECAUSE KAMA KUITWA FISADI PAPA KWA MHINDI HUYU KULIWAKURUPUA KUROPOKA WALIYOSEMA,NI DHAHIRI KUWA ROSTAM AKIKOHOA TU NA WAO WANALIPUKA.UJASIRI HUO WA KUMKEMEA WATOE WAPI.NA KATIKA SIASA HIZI ZA KIMAFIA ZILIZOLETWA NA WANAMTANDAO,MWANASIASA YEYOTE ATAKAYETHUBUTU KUMGUSA THE DON,MR UNTOUCHABLE,BASI NAYE ATACHAFULIWA.

YOTE HIYO NI TAMAA YA MADARAKA.WAKO RADHI KUUZA UTU WAO KWA AJILI YA KUMPIGIA MAGOTI FISADI FLANI AWASDAIDIE KUFIKIA MALENGO YAO.NA SI SOPHIA SIMBA NA MKUCHIKA PEKEE,KUNA WENGI TU WANAOWAOGOPA MAFISADI KWA VILE NDIO WALIOFADHILI HARAKATI ZAO ZA KISIASA.

HALAFU HAWA NDIO WA KUWATEGEMEA KUTULETEA MAISHA BORA KWA KILA MTANZANIA?LABDA MAISHA BORA KWA MAFISADI NA VIBARAKA WAO!

SHAME ON THEM!

WAZIRI wa Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi, Lawrence Masha ameingiza serikali katika mgogoro mkubwa na wafadhili kutokana na madai ya matumizi mabaya ya madaraka, MwanaHALISI limeelezwa.

Masha anatuhumiwa kupendelea raia wa Ubelgiji, Brigitte de Floor, katika mgogoro kati yake na Wiebke Gaetje ambaye anatoka Ujerumani, jambo ambalo limeingiza serikali katika mgogoro wa kidiplomasia.

Brigitte de Floor na Wiebke Gaetje ni wajane wa Klaus Gaetje ambaye anatoka Ujerumani. Klaus Gaetje ambaye alikuwa mfanyabiashara mkoani Mwanza, alifariki dunia katika mazingira ya kutatanisha Julai 2004 huko Port Bell, nchini Uganda.

Waziri Masha anatuhumiwa na Wiebke Gaetje kuwa kikwazo katika upatikanaji wa urithi wa mume wake.

Gaetje anadai kuwa kampuni ya uwakili ya Masha, IMMMA Advocates, imehusika katika kushughulikia baadhi ya nyaraka ambazo zimesaidia “kupora mali” ya marehemu mume wake.

Miongoni mwa mali ambazo Masha anatuhumiwa kusaidia Brigitte de Floor kupora ni vivuko vitatu, viwanja vinne na “baadhi ya magari ya kampuni.”

Vivuko vinavyohusika ni Kamanga, mv Uzinza na mv Karumu. Vyote viko katika eneo la Kamanga.

Taarifa kutoka ubalozi wa Ujerumani nchini zinasema tayari serikali ya Ujerumani imelalamikia hatua hiyo ya waziri Masha ikiiita, “Matumizi mabaya ya madaraka.”

Naye Ofisa katika Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa jijini Dar es Salaam, ambaye aliomba jina lake lisiwekwe wazi, alithibitisha kwamba “serikali ina taarifa hizo.”

Klaus Gaetje na Wiebke Gaetje walifunga ndoa tarehe 12 Oktoba 1979 nchini Ujerumani na kuzaa mtoto mmoja wa kiume, Mark Gaetje (28). Mtoto huyo na mama yake wanalalamikia Masha kushirikiana na Brigitte de Floor kutapanya mali yao.

Kwa sasa, Mark Gaetje anaishi Uholanzi na alitarajiwa kuwasili nchini juzi, Jumatatu saa nne usiku kwa ndege ya Shirika la Ndege la Uholanzi (KLM) ili kushughulikia suala hilo. Tayari mama wa Mark amewasili nchini.

Mgogoro huu uliomuingiza Masha katika kashifa nyingine, umetokana na hatua ya Brigitte de Floor, ambaye anajiita mjane wa Klaus Gaetje kudaiwa kugushi baadhi ya nyaraka ikiwamo cheti cha ndoa na wosia kwa lengo la kujimilikisha mali hizo.

Cheti cha ndoa kinachodaiwa kugushiwa ni Na. E 087887 kinachoonyesha kuwa kimetolewa 10 Oktoba 1999 wilayani Magu, mkoani Mwanza. Kimesainiwa na Msajili Msaidizi wa Ndoa, Anthony Jakonyango.

Hata hivyo, katika hati yake ya kiapo ya 5 Julai 2008 mbele ya kamishina wa viapo, Elias Kitwala, ambayo gazeti hili linayo nakala yake, Jakonyango anakana kufungisha ndoa hiyo; anasema cheti hicho ambacho waziri Masha anang’ng’ana nacho kimegushiwa.

Anasema, “Mimi nilihama Magu, 20 Mei 1999 kwenda Bukoba, mkoani Kagera. Hivyo kwa vyovyote vile, nisingeweza kufungisha ndoa Magu 10 Oktoba 1999.” Jakonyango anasema cheti cha ndoa anachodaiwa kusaini siyo halali.

MwanaHALISI limefahamishwa kwamba kwa msaada wa Masha, Brigitte de Floor amefanikiwa kumuondoa Mark na mama yake Wiebke Gaetje katika umiliki wa hisa za kampuni ya Kamanga Ferry Limited (KFL).

Katika nyaraka kadhaa ambazo ziko mikononi mwa MwanaHALISI, Masha amesaini, kama Katibu wa kampuni ya Kamanga Ferry Limited huku kampuni yake ya IMMMA Advocates ikithibitisha baadhi ya nyaraka ukiwamo wosia wa marehemu Klaus Gaetje.

Tayari wosia huo umelalamikiwa na mke wa kwanza wa Klaus Gaetje, Wiebke na mtoto wake Mark kwa hoja kwamba mke wa pili Brigitte de Floor amegushi.

Kwa mujibu wa taarifa kutoka Idara ya Uhamiaji, Brigitte de Floor aliingia nchini kama mtalii na amekuwa akiishi nchini bila kibali cha kufanya kazi, lakini kutokana na mahusiano yake na Masha, serikali imeshindwa kumchukulia hatua.

Taarifa zinasema tayari mipango inasukwa ili kumpatia mama huyo kibali cha kuishi nchini ili kuendeleza kile kinachodaiwa na Wiebke, “urafiki wa damu na waziri Masha.”

Anasema, “Ninajua ukaribu wa familia ya Masha na de Floor. Baba yake Masha amekuwa akipewa misaada na de Floor. Tayari ameipa familia hiyo viwanja vinne ambavyo ni mali ya mwanangu.”

Katika wosia huo, Brigitte de Floor ambaye anatambulishwa kama shahidi amesaini kila karatasi, wakati saini ya marehemu inaonekana katika karatasi moja tena ya mwisho.

Aidha, familia ya Masha inatuhumiwa kumilikishwa viwanja vinne vilivyopo Kamanga, na kwamba suala hilo tayari limewasilishwa Ofisi ya Rais, kwa Waziri Mkuu, Wizara ya Sheria na Katiba, Taasisi ya Kuzuia na Kupamban na Rushwa (TAKUKURU) na Mkurugenzi wa Mashitaka (DPP).

Wiebke Gaetje alitalikiana na mumewe, Klaus Gaetje, mwaka 1996 na baadaye Klaus alimwoa Brigitte de Floor, mtalaka mwenye watoto wa kike wawili ambao si wa Klaus Gaetje.

Hata hivyo, katika hali ambayo haijulikani chanzo chake, Masha ameridhia mali za Klaus Gaetje, zimilikiwe na watoto wa mke wake, jambo ambalo limelalamikiwa na mke wa kwanza Wiebke na mtoto wake Mark.

Brigitte de Floor anadaiwa kuhamisha fedha nyingi na kuzipeleka kwenye akaunti zake zilizoko nje ya nchi, jambo ambalo vyombo vya dola na taasisi nyingine za serikali zimearifiwa, lakini bado kimya kimetanda.

Imefahamika kuwa de Floor alitumia kampuni ya KFL kujipatia mkopo kutoka Benki ya CRDB na fedha hizo alizihamishia kwenye akaunti yake iliyopo Ubeligiji.

Klaus na Wiebke waliishi Kamanga kuanzia mwaka 1974 hadi 1994 na mtoto wao, Mark Gaetje, alilelewa kwenye eneo hilo la Ziwa Viktoria na hivyo kuusiwa na baba yake kuwa mrithi wa mali zote.

Kamanga ndipo makao makuu ya Kamanga Ferry Limited yenye vivuko vitatu vinavyofanya safari zake katika eneo hilo la ziwa Viktoria.

Baada ya kifo cha Klaus Gaetje Julai 2004, Brugitte de Floor aliamuru mwili wake uchomwe moto na kuzikwa Kamanga, tendo lililofanyika haraka na bila kushirikisha familia ya marehemu wala kuufanyia mwili uchunguzi.

“Baada ya hapo de Floor alighushi wosia wa pili wa Klaus kwa kusaidiwa na mwanasheria wake,” anasema mmoja wa watu walio karibu na Wiebke.

Tangu hapo de Floor amekuwa anadai kuwa alipewa mamlaka ya kufanya mambo yote ya KFL kwa niaba ya Mark na ametumia fursa hiyo kuwafukuza wafanyakazi wengi wa zamani na kuajiri wageni kutoka nje ya nchi.

Kutokana na hali hiyo, Mark Gaetje alilazimika kuandika barua, Oktoba mwaka jana, kwa Ofisa Uhamiaji wa Mkoa wa Mwanza, kulalamikia hatua ya mama yake huyo wa kambo kughushi cheti cha ndoa ili kufaidi huduma za uhamiaji nchini.

Lakini pia 11 Februari mwaka huu, Mark aliandika barua kwenda kwa Wakala wa Usajili wa Biashara na Leseni (BRELA), akilalamikia mambo manne, likiwamo la kampuni kukosa mkurugenzi baada ya aliyekuwapo kufukuzwa.

“Tangu kifo cha baba yangu sijawahi kuhudhuria kikao chochote cha bodi wala kupewa taarifa yoyote na de Floor…Isitoshe, sijawahi kupewa fedha zozote kama mkurugenzi na wala sijapokea habari kuwa de Floor ametumia kibali changu kufanya mambo kwa niaba yangu. Nakanusha kuwa sijampa ruhusa yoyote,” anasema.

Anaeleza kuwa kama kuna mabadiliko yoyote katika KFL, “Uongozi, anwani au vingine ambavyo vinaathiri kampuni na ambavyo vinadaiwa kufanyika nikiwa mshiriki kati ya mwaka 2004 na sasa, visichukuliwe umuhimu kwa kuwa vitaathiri kampuni ambayo mimi ni mkurugenzi wake,” anasema Mark.

Akizungumza kwa njia ya simu juzi Jumatatu na MwanaHALISI, Wiebke amesema tayari ubalozi wa nchi yake nchini umeomba hati ya kifo cha mumewe Klaus kutoka Uganda, kutokana na utata mkubwa uliogubika kifo chake.

Hii ni mara ya tatu mwaka huu waziri Masha kutuhumiwa kutenda kinyume cha utawala bora.

Januari alituhumiwa kuingilia mchakato wa zabuni ya vitambulisho vya taifa na Februari akatuhumiwa kufanya upendeleo kwa Mwingereza Douglas Hume Claxton kwa kufuta amri ya Mkurugenzi wa Uhamiaji ya kumfukuza nchini.

CHANZO: Mwanahalisi.

NA KUNA BOMU JINGINE LA ASKARI WASTAAFU.KILA NISOMAPO HABARI KUWA WASTAAFU WA JESHI WANAZUNGUSHWA KUHUSU MAFAO YAO,NAPATWA NA UOGA FLANI KWAMBA WASIJE KUAMUA KUTUMIA UJUZI WAO WA KIJESHI KUDAI HAKI ZAO.

NA NIPITAPO PALE MWENGE KWENYE FLATS ZA JESHI NA KUANA NAMNA "ZILIVYOCHOKA" NAPATWA NA HOFU NYINGINE SIKU WAUNGWANA HAWA WATAKAPOAMUA KUDAI KWA NGUVU MAISHA BORA KAMA YALE YA VIGOGO KULE MASAKI,MIKOCHENI,OYSTERBAY,NK.TALKING OF OYSTERBAY,NAPATA KUMBUKUMBU YA YALE MAHEMA WANAYOISHI ASKARI POLISI KATIKA "KAMBI" ILIYO JIRANI NA KITUO CHA POLISI OYSTERBAY.

BOMU JINGINE NI HAO MGAMBO AMBAO KULA NA ANASA ZAO ZINATEGEMEA KUVUNJA HAKI ZA BINADAMU ZA WAMACHINGA,WANAODIWA KODI ZA MANISPAA/HALMASHAURI NA WANYONGE WENGINE.MOST OF MGAMBO HAWA HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER KUHUSU HUMAN RIGHTS.WANACHOJUA WAO NI PIGA,NYANG'ANYA,TAIFISHA!HAWA NI VIUMBE HATARI ZAIDI KWA VILE MAISHA YAO KWA KIASI KIKUBWA YANATEGEMEA UBABE WAO DHIDI YA WANYONGE WAO.KWA MFANO,MARA NYINGI LUNCH ZAO NI VYAKULA WANAVYOWAPORA MAMA NTILIE NA VITOWEO WANAVYORUDI NAVYO BAADA YA KUMALIZA KAZI NI VILEVILE WANAVYOWAPORA WANANCHI WANAOJITAFUTIA RIDHIKI ZAO HALALI.

KUNA MTU AMENINONG'ONEZA SOMETHING HE CALLED FACTS ETI HUO MLIPUKO WA MABOMU NI HUJUMA.I DIDNT TAKE HIM SERIOUS KWA VILE ALIKUWA AMEONJA KILEVI KIDOGO.HE WENT FURTHER TO ARGUE KWAMBA VIRUSI (VIRUS) WA HUJUMA WAMEANZA KUSAMBAA KUTOKA KWA MAFISADI KWENDA KWA PROFESSIONALS WALIOSAHAULIKA AU KUTELEKEZWA.REASONS HE CITED,KAMA MZEE WA VIJISENTI AMEJICHOTEA BILIONI ZAKE KADHAA NA BADO HAJAGUSWA,AU MAJAMBAZI WA RICHMOND BADO WANAPETA LICHA YA KUBAINISHWA NA KAMATI YA MWAKYEMBE,NA DOWANS NAO WANAENDELEA NA JEURI YA KUIPELEKA TANESCO MAHAKAMANI LICHA YA HIZO MILIONI MIA NA USHEE PER DAY WALIZOZAWADIWA,WAMILIKI WA KAGODA WAMEENDELEA KUWA GHOSTS WASIOTAJIKA,THEN MTU YEYOTE ANWEZA KUSHAWISHIKA KUWA FISADI,MHUJUMU WA UCHUMI AU USALAMA,AU MLIPUA MABOMU!DRUNK AS HE WAS BUT THIS KINDA MADE SENSE TO ME!

KUNA BOMU JINGINE KUBWA ZAIDI YA HAYO HAPO JUU,AU ZAIDI YA HAYO YALOKWISHALIPUKA.KWA UPANDE MMOJA NI RESERVE ARMY OF LABOUR,INAYOZALISHWA NA UBINAFSISHAJI,KUPUNGUZA MATUMIZI,"KEEP CITY/TOWN CLEAN OPERATIONS" (KAMA HIZO ZA MGAMBO ZINAZOISHIA KUWAFANYA WAMACHINGA WAJIULIZE "TUFANYE NINI ILI TUSIBUGHUDHIWE,AU TUWE WAPORAJI?"),WAKULIMA WALIOFIKIA HATUA YA KUTAFSIRI KUWA KILIMO NI SAWA NA KIFUNGO BCOZ CO-OPS HAZITAKI KULIPA MADENI HUKU WASSIRA NA WIZARA YAKE WAKIWA KWENYE SUINGIZI WA PONO KUHUSU KUTAFUTA MASOKO KWA WAKULIMA,NA MAKUNDI KAMA HAYO.KWA UPANDE MWINGINE NI WANANCHI WALALAHOI WANAOSIKIA NAMNA MAFISADI WANAVYOWADHIHAKI KWA PRESS CONFERENCES HUKU WAKITETEWA NA BAADHI YA VIONGOZI,WANANCHI WALIOCHOSHWA NA DANADANA ZA KUMWEKA WAZI MMILIKI WA KAGODA,WALIOKATISHWA TAMAA NA AHADI BAADA YA AHADI KUWA MAISHA BORA YAKO NJIANI (AS WE APPROACH THE GENERAL ELECTION,THEY WOULD KEEP ON REMINDING US THAT WE ARE NOW APPROACHING THE MAISHA BORA DESTINATION,EVERYBODY SHOULD REMAIN SEATED TILL WE ARRIVE i.e. BAADA YA GENERAL ELECTION,MEANING RETURNING THEM TO POWER AND GOING BACK TO SQUARE ONE.IF THEY BOTHER GIVING EXCUSES AS TO WHY IT'S FEBRUARY 2011 AND WE ARE YET TO ARRIVE AT MAISHA BORA,THEY WOULD PROBABLY SAY "OH,TUMEPOTEA NJIA.MSIHOFU TUTAFIKA MUDA SI MREFU...."

MABOMU HAYA NILIOBAINISHA KWENYE STORI HII NI HATARI ZAIDI KULIKO HAYO YANAYOLIPUKA HUKO MBAGALA.YATAKAPOLIPUKA,SI TUME YA MKUU WA MAJESHI WALA NGONJERA ZA "TUTALIPA FIDIA" ZITAKAZOWEZESHA KUREJESHA HALI KWENYE UTULIVU.THE TIME IN NOW.IT'S NOW OR NEVER!

ANYWAY,HEBU TUSIKIE HADITHI ZA ROSTAM KUHUSU TUHUMA ZILIZOTOLEWA (NA REGINALD MENGI) DHIDI YAKE NA WAHINDI WENZIE KWAMBA WAO NI MAFISADI PAPA.

Rostam amlipua Mengi, amwita nyangumi wa ufisadi

Ramadhan Semtawa na Salim Said

MFANYABIASHARA wa jijini Dar es salaam, Reginald Mengi aliwabatiza wafayabiashara wenzake watano jina la "mapapa wa ufisadi", na sasa mmoja wa waliotuhumiwa amejibu mapigo kwa kumbatiza jina la "nyangumi wa ufisadi".

Rostam Aziz, ambaye ni mmoja wa wafanyabiashara watano waliotuhumiwa na Mengi kuwa mapapa wa ufisadi, jana alitoa mlolongo wa tuhuma za ufisadi dhidi ya mwenyekiti huyo mtendaji wa makampuni ya IPP, na kueleza kuwa atawasilisha vielelezo kwa vyombo husika ndani ya saa 48 ili Mengi aanze kuchunguzwa.

Mapigo ya Rostam, ambayo yanazidi kupandisha joto la vita hiyo ya maneno, yametokana na tuhuma nzito ambazo Mengi alizitoa Aprili 23 wakati alipotaja wafanyabiashara watano akitaka wadhibitiwe mapema, akiwemo mbunge huyo wa
Igunga. Tofauti na Mengi ambaye hakutoa vielelezo na kusema yuko tayari kupandishwa kizimbani ili ukweli udhihirike, Rostam aliorodhesha tuhuma nyingi na kuahidi kuzikabidhi kwenye vyombo vya serikali ili hatua zichukuliwe. Huku akimtaja Mengi kwa majina yote matatu kila wakati, Rostam, aliwaambia waandishi jana akisema: "... nataka niweke wazi kwamba tuhuma zote zilizotolewa na Mengi dhidi yangu ni za uongo na ni upuuzi mtupu. Tuhuma hizo ni mwendelezo wa wimbo ule ule ambao amekuwa akiuimba kwa muda mrefu sasa na tayari nilikwishazitolea kauli huko nyuma.

"... nimeamua kuitisha mkutano huu ili kuwaeleza, na kupitia kwenu kuwaelimisha Watanzania, wamjue Reginald Abraham Mengi katika sura yake halisi na dhamira yake chafu na ovu, na kumtambua kwamba mtu huyu ni nyangumi wa ufisadi katika nchi hii," alisema Rostam katika moja ya aya zake za utangulizi. Nyangumi ni samaki wa baharini aliye mkubwa kuliko papa. Rostam alianza kwa kuorodhesha matukio 10 ya ugomvi ambayo anadai Mengi aliuanzisha dhidi ya watu mbalimbali, kuanzia maaskofu hadi kikundi cha uchekeshaji, wakati kwa mujibu wa Rostam maslahi ya Mengi ya kibiashara yalipoingiliwa na baadaye kuyageuza kuwa ni ugomvi wa nchi nzima.

"Sasa ameanzisha ugomvi na mimi baada ya kuona kwamba mimi nimekuwa mshindani wake mkubwa katika umiliki wa vyombo vya habari hapa nchini, anataka kuufanya ugomvi wa nchi nzima," anaeleza Rostam. Akiorodhesha tuhuma za ufisadi dhidi ya Mengi, Rostam alidai mwenyekiti huyo wa IPP alianza kuifilisi nchi kwa kushiriki kwenye vitendo vilivyochangia kuifilisi Benki ya Taifa ya Biashara (NBC) na kusababishwa iuzwe "kwa bei poa".

Alidai kuwa Mengi, akitumia kampuni yake ya Anche Mwedu Ltd katika miaka ya themanini, alichukua mkopo wa fedha NBC na amegoma kulipa hadi leo, huku akilazimisha suala hilo lifikishwe mahakamani. Rostam alidai kuwa mkopo wa kwanza uliotolewa kupitia hati ya maandishi ya makubaliano, ulifikia jumla ya Sh3.2 bilioni na kwamba hadi Januari mwaka 1996 ulifikia riba ya Sh 1.7 bilioni.

Alidai mkopo wa pili chini ya kampuni hiyo ulikuwa wa mpango wa Loan Agreements na ulihusu jumla ya Sh386,746,631.06 hadi kufikia Januari 1996. Akiongeza kudai kuwa mkopo wa tatu ulikuwa chini ya utaratibu wa udhamini wa serikali (government guarantee) ambao ulikuwa wa jumla ya Sh1,803,137,210 hadi kufikia Januari 1996. Rostam alidai kupitia utaratibu mwingine, Mengi alichukua mkopo mwingine ambao ulihusu jumla ya Sh417.6 milioni hadi kufikia Januari 1996.

"Jumla ya fedha zote za NBC ambazo amekuwa akidaiwa Mengi kupitia kampuni yake ya Anche Mwedu Limited (AML) hadi kufikia Januari 1996 zilikuwa ni Sh 5.8 bilioni, fedha hizi hadi kufikia sasa 2009 pamoja na riba zinafika takriban Sh28 bilioni," alidai Rostam huku akitaka akaunti za benki ambazo mikopo hiyo ilipitia. "Hivi ndivyo Mengi alivyochangia kuifilisi NBC, benki ya wananchi masikini wa Tanzania. Fedha hizi zilizochukuliwa na Mengi Sh28 bilioni zinaweza kujenga shule za sekondari 100 ambazo zingeweza kuwanufaisha watoto wa kimaskini wa Tanzania." Rostam pia alidai kuwa Mengi aliteketeza Sh2.5 bilioni kwa kutumia kampuni ya uwekezaji ya wazalendo ya NICO, kwa kununua hisa za kiwanda cha Interchem Pharma Ltd kinachomilikiwa na familia yake ambacho Rostam alidai kuwa Mengi alijua kuwa kingekufa.

"Huku akijua hali mbaya ya kiwanda hicho alitumia nafasi yake kuziteketeza Sh2.5 bilioni fedha za Watanzania masikini wasiopungua 22,000 wenye hisa NICO kwa kuifanya inunue asilimia 51 ya hisa. Kiwanda hicho sasa kimewekwa kwenye orodha ya kufilisiwa baada ya kushindwa kujiendesha chini ya mwaka mmoja tokea Mengi kuizamisha NICO," alisema. Rostam, ambaye pia ni mjumbe wa Halmashauri Kuu na Kamati Kuu ya CCM, pia alidai Mengi kwa kutumia mpango wa Mfuko wa Kuagiza Bidhaa kutoka Nje (Commodity Import Support-CIS), alichukua fedha nyingi kupitia msaada wa nchi wafadhili, lakini hadi jana alikuwa hajazilipa.

Rostam alikiri kwamba wafanyabiashara wengi akiwemo yeye walikopa, lakini wamelipa na wanaendelea kulipa hadi sasa na kuongeza kwamba Mengi "anayejidai ana uchungu na Watanzania amekuwa akiwaongezea umasikini kwa kuchota fedha hizo baadaye kuruka na kukataa kuzilipa". Rostam pia alitoa mchanganuo huo wa fedha za CIS ambazo alidai Mengi alizipata na kutaja nchi zilizotoa, akianza na Norway ambayo alidai mwaka 1988 hadi 1989 iliisaidia kampuni ya IPP kupitia kampuni ya Anche Mwedu kupata Krona 6milioni, na baadaye kupitia kampuni hiyo hiyo ilipata Krona 4 milioni.

Alidai mwaka 1991/92, Japan ilisaidia Bonite Bottlers kuchukua Yen 160 milioni na baadaye ikasaidia Medicare kupata Yen 115 milioni na Canada mwaka 1988/89 ikasaidia Anche Mwedu dola za nchi hiyo 0.5milioni. Pia alidai mwaka 1988/89 Italia ilisaidia Anche Mwedu kupata Lira 1.7milioni, Japan 1997 ilisaidia Anche Mwedu Yen 20milioni na Japan tena 1994 ilisaidia Bonite Bottlers kupata Yen nyingine 160 milioni.

Pia alidai Tume ya Uchumi ya Ulaya (European Economic Commission-EEC), katika kipindi cha mwaka 1988/89 ilisaidia Bonite Bottlers kupata EEU 0.5199. "Fedha hizi zilizo katika sarafu tofauti za kigeni zikibadilishwa kwa shilingi za Tanzania na riba kwa miaka yote tokea zilipochukuliwa zinafikia mabilioni ya shilingi," alisema Rostam. "... badala ya kurejesha fedha hizi... Mengi alizitumia kujitajirisha."

Pia alidai kuwa Mengi aliingia ubia na serikali katika umiliki wa kiwanda cha Tanpack Industries Ltd, lakini bila ya kumjulisha mbia wake (serikali) alitumia dhamana ya kiwanda kukopa Sh600 (sic) kutoka benki ya NBC na "kuzitumia kwa njia anazozijua yeye". "Benki hiyo ilipochachamaa kutaka ilipwe fedha zake, Mengi alitaka Tanpack ilipe lakini serikali ikakataa kulitambua deni hilo... Matokeo ya ufisadi huo wa Mengi, Tanpack ikafilisiwa na kufa," alidai Rostam. Miongoni mwa matukio ambayo Rostam alidai Mengi alikorofishana na watu mbalimbali ni pamoja na zabuni ya ubinafsishaji hoteli ya Kilimanjaro (sasa Kempiski).

"Alianzisha ugomvi na aliyekuwa Waziri wa Utawala Bora Mheshimiwa Wilson Masilingi baada ya kushindwa zabuni ya ubinafsishaji wa hoteli ya Kilimanjaro, akataka kuufanya kuwa ugomvi wa nchi nzima," alidai Rostam. "Katika kudhihirisha jinsi alivyo na chuki na visasi kutokana na kuikosa tu hoteli hiyo, amekuwa hakanyagi na hata kushiriki shughuli yoyote inayofanyika katika hoteli hiyo." Kuhusu kutajwa kwenye ufisadi katika Akaunti ya Malipo ya Madeni ya Nje (EPA), Dowans na tuhuma nyingine, Rostam alisema "hizo zote nimekwishazitolea maelezo... ni porojo tu hakuna hata moja ninayohusika nayo".

Ni vema Watanzania wakafahamu kwamba kila anapokabiliwa na matatizo au anapotenda maovu, kimbilio lake la haraka la kujifichia limekuwa ni kusaka huruma kwa wananchi kwa kutaka aonekane ni sehemu yao na kwamba anaonewa kwa kuwatetea wao. Ukweli ni kwamba amekuwa akifanya hivyo ili kutafuta hifadhi na kinga akijua ana madhambi mengi."

Akijibu tuhuma chache kati ya hizo huku akikataa kuzungumza kwa kirefu, Mengi alisema "mafisadi papa wana uwezo mkubwa sana siyo tu kwa mali za umma bali hata kutunga uongo kama ilivyofanywa na Rostam Aziz leo (jana)".

"Naomba nimpe Rostam Aziz ushauri wa bure kama kweli anataka kujisafisha ama kuondokana na shutuma zinazomkabili za ufisadi aende mahakamani ikiwezekana kesho (leo) asubuhi," alisema Mengi.

"Hata baada ya kukutana na waandishi wa habari leo, hoja ya kushutumiwa kama fisadi papa inabakia pale pale. Watanzania wanasubiri kwa hamu kubwa kusikia kwamba Rostam Aziz ameenda mahakamani kwa sababu Watanzania wengi hasa wanyonge wana hasira nyingi dhidi ya ufisadi."

CHANZO: Mwananchi

LET'S HOPE SOPHIA SIMBA NA KAPTENI MKUCHIKA WATAMKOMALIA ROSTAM AS THEY DID TO MENGI ALIPOTOA TUHUMA DHIDI YA MAFISADI PAPA.I CANT SEE SOPHIA SIMBA SAYING "WATOTO WA MJINI WANASEMA ROSTAM AMECHEMKA" AS SHE DESCRIBED MENGI'S STATEMENT.

SOONER OR LATER HAWA MAFISADI WA KIASIA WATAINGIA IKULU KAMA RAIS KAMA WENYE UCHUNGU WA DHATI NA NCHI YETU HAWATAAMKA SASA.WAMESHAIFANYA NCHI HII KUWA IKO MIFUKONI MWAO,WANATUPUUZA NA KUONGEA CHOCHOTE WANACHOJISKIA KUSE,A,SIMPLY BECAUSE OF JEURI YA FEDHA ZAO ZA KIFISADI.COULD YOU EXPECT MHINDI MWENYE ASILI YA KITANZANIA KUFANYA HIVYO INDIA AU YEMEN,OR WHEREVER THESE FISADIs ORIGINATE FROM?

NGOMA YA UFISADI INOGILE,ROSTAM AITISHA PRESS CONFERENCE KEMPINSKI

WAWEZA KUIFUATILIA KINACHOENDELEA KWA KUTEMBELEA HAPA.

NIMEKUTANA NA BANDIKO HILI MAHALA FLANI.

TABIA SUGU ZA WANACHUO

1.Hupenda kwenda baa na kumbi za starehe kuliko Lecture na Semina.

2.Hushinda room kuliko Library.

3.Hufahamu mitindo ya mavazi kuliko Module.

4.Huogopa CARRY,SUP na DISCO kuliko dhambi.

5.Hufahamu waziri wa mikopo kuliko wahadhiri.

6.Huudhulia birthdays,harusi na starehe weekend kuliko Ibada.

7.Hutoa zawadi kubwa kwa boyfriend au girlfriend kuliko kwa yatima na wajane.

8.Hulinda ATM Cards na PENZI kuliko DESA na VITABU.

9.Wapo makini na ratiba ya BOOM kuliko UE.

10.Wanapenda haki ila wanakosa mbinu sahihi ya kuzipigania.

UNA LA KUONGEZA HAPO?TEH TEH TEH.

Picha kwa hisani ya Dullonet

ALEX Salmond (the Scottish First Minister ) has declared that Scotland is "two-thirds" of the way down the road to independence, hailing the "extraordinary" progress made by the SNP since devolution.

Marking the 10th anniversary of the first Scottish election, the First Minister said the prospect of splitting up the United Kingdom is now closer than at any time since the Act of Union was signed in 1707.

"I think Scotland's closer to independence than it's been for 300 years," Salmond said...continue

SOURCE: The ScotlandOnSunday
RELATED STORY: 10 Years After Scottish Devolution,What is the Verdict?.

The Italian mob has probably never had it so good. Italy's various crime syndicates – lumped together colloquially as Mafia Inc – are gobbling up petrol stations, muscling in on supermarket franchises, making loans to cash-starved businesses, taking over trattorias and acquiring buildings in swanky neighbourhoods in Rome and Milan, investigators say...continue

SOURCE: The Independent

HERE COMES WOLFRAM ALPHA;IT COULD LEAVE GOOGLE IN SHADE

CLICK HERE for more about Darabi's execution.

CLICK HERE to read about the the fight as it happened.

By Citizen correspondents, Nairobi

The divide within the Kenyan coalition government over the control of the National Assembly widened further yesterday when Prime Minister Raila Odinga demanded fresh elections.

Mr Odinga's demand came as President Kibaki's PNU arm of government accused ODM of trying to mount a coup.

Speaking in his Lang'ata constituency, Mr Odinga said ODM will not retreat on its push to take the two positions of Leader of Government Business and chair of the House Business Committee held in the last session of Parliament by Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka.

Mr Odinga led the crowds in his constituency in showing support for fresh elections through a show of hands.

"We shall not relent in our quest. We have had enough. Therefore, if this issue cannot be resolved and our partners see the sense, we should go back to the ballot for an election. That's our message," he declared.

The PM, who was accompanied to the rally by Higher Education minister Dr Sally Kosgei and MPs Yusuf Chanzu (Vihiga) and Rachael Shebesh (Nominated) scoffed at claims that his party was out to wrestle power from President Kibaki.

Mr Odinga spoke just a day after the President wrote to the Speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth Marende, informing him that there was nothing new to consult about since he had appointed Mr Musyoka as the Leader of Government Business and also nominated him to chair the House Business Committee as required by the relevant Standing Orders.

President Kibaki said he had fulfilled his constitutional duty and would not be available for any other consultations.

When the matter came to a deadlock in Parliament last Thursday, the Speaker announced that he would seek the audience of both the President and the Prime Minister in an effort resolve the situation.

Mr Marende is expected to make a ruling in the matter on Tuesday, but has already warned Parliament that the Chair cannot adjudicate on political disputes within the government or between political parties.

Even as Mr Odinga spoke on Sunday at a rally at the Kamukunji grounds in the sprawling Kibera slums, Mr Musyoka led a group of 20 PNU MPs in dismissing his quest for the seat of Leader fof Government Business, saying that it was "illegal, unconstitutional and unacceptable."

And later, while addressing a rally in Lari constituency, Mr Musyoka said the President's word on who should be the Leader of Government Business in Parliament "was final."

His views were shared by Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta who said the PM was greedy for power.

SOURCE: The Citizen

Zaidi kuhusu kioja hiki,BONYEZA HAPA.

A paratrooper who underwent a sex-change operation has been accepted by the police as a trainee woman constable.Jan Hamilton, formerly Captain Ian Hamilton, quit the Army in 2007 after 20 years’ decorated service and embarked on a full gender reassignment programme...continue

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)

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

5 PEOPLE KILLED AS DUTCH QUEEN ESCAPES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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