KWA HABARI ZAIDI SOMA HAPA

I’m really happy that Prof. Muhongo has been appointed our new minerals and energy minister. I understand that he has a Herculean task to put things in order in that ministry as well as formulate and chart out a strategy for his institution. He will need to formulate the major tasks before his ministry, workout clear-cut solutions and establish realistic timeframes to fulfill them as well as spell out the sources of both financial as well as expert wherewithal he will need to summon. On top of this, in my view, he will need to see and workout how the potential and contribution of his ministry could and MUST fit in the strategic economic and industrial development of the country and advise accordingly both the government and the President, issues I deliberated at length in my two letters of Feb. 2008 to President Kikwete and Judge Bomani, respectively. There are already problems which I anticipate he will meet in his new job, problems which he will find difficult to understand and solve despite his wide experience and strong academic qualifications I have noted below. May I point out here that these are problems which not only Prof. Muhongo will meet, but ALL ministers of such ministries the world over and depending on how he will tackle one particular problem, that of how to tap into the wealth imbedded, inherent in our minerals (reserves) including those still in the ground, on a continuous and perpetual basis, this will be the most determinant factor to define his success or failure as well as the success or failure of the country as a whole to properly manage its mineral resources as this problem is directly related to the ownership of these deposits and the riches in them. This is a problem all previous minerals and energy ministers in Tanzania (and throughout Africa) have so far failed to solve (by the way, even Russia hasn’t fully grasped this understanding hence underutilizing the country’s huge mineral potential, out of mere ignorance) since knowledge about this conception isn’t found in the classical education in geology which geologists are taught, and this includes the knowledge acquired by Prof. Muhongo, but it is in sophisticated investment finance and banking with application to mineral reserves which I explained in the letter to President Kikwete in 2008 mentioned above. But since Prof. Muhongo is by profession first and foremost a geologist, I hope this may (but not necessarily WILL) simplify his route to understanding the concept I’m talking about here as well as summon the expert knowledge required – so, this gives me some hope.

Best regards,

Shaaban

Moscow, Russia

The beginning

First the Iraqw people came to Ma’angwatay.
There are many stories about Ma’angwatay, that the elders know.
The people lived there under their chief Haymu Tipe.
Haymu Tipe had only one son. He was called Gemakw.

One day the young people of his tribe captured Gemakw and took him to an unknown place. Haymu Tipe got very angry and sent his men to look for his son.
After many days of searching Haymu Tipe got to know that his son was hidden in a secret place in the forest. The young men then told him: – Find some people for us to play and fight with, otherwise your son will die.

Haymu Tipe then called for the Barabaig people who lived in the neighbourhood. The Barabaig agreed to come to fight with the Iraqw.
Haymy Tipe now asked his people to bring back his beloved son, and Gemakw was brought to him.

A few days afterwards the Barabaig warriors arrived in the land of the Iraqw, and the fighting began. Many people, both Barabaig and Iraqw were killed, and Haymu Tipe made up his mind to flee. Early in the morning, before the first cock-crow, Haymu Tipe fled with his wife and his only son Gemakw. Some of his remaining men followed him to a place called Guser-Twalay. But there his son fell ill and died.

Haymu Tipe then set forth to the forest in the North, to a place called Qawirang. Haymu Tipe built his house and stayed there with his wife.

One day Haymu Tipe was grazing his cattle in the forest. He saw the valley that is called Mama Isara. But the valley was covered by a big lake. Hamu Tipe wondered if something could be done. After some days he sent some of his men to find a boy who was the only child in the family. The men walked for many days to the land of the Gorowa people and found a boy. His name was Moya.
They took Moya with them.

Chief Haymu Tipe, who was also a qwaslarmo, a medicine man, then gave Moya a magic stick. Haymu Tipe and some of the elders were standing at a distance from the water. The chief told the boy to go to the water and touch the water with the stick. Moya was worried of what was going to happen, but he did as he was told.

And there in front of Moya was a big tree called Ti’ita. Haymu Tipe told the boy to take the stick in his left hand and throw it at the tree.
Then suddenly the water flooded over him on all sides and swallowed him. The water rose over the ridge and flooded down in the plain below that is called Mbugwe.

The valley that was covered by the water is known to be first land of the Iraqw people.
This water from Mama Isara formed a big lake known as Lake Manyara. But the Iraqw people call the lake by another name. We call it Moya, for it is not only a lake, it is also the boy Moya.

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Nimebahatika kusikiliza audio ya wimbo wa NGOMA AFRIKA BAND a.k.a FFU HAPA

Wimbo unakwenda kwa jina la ” UHURU WA VYOMBO VYA HABARI” ujumbe, maofisini kunafichwa mambo. FFU, imejitahidi kuwapongeza wanahabari kwa kufichua mambo! lakini walipokosea ni pale walipowachanga wanahabari wasiofungamana na upande wowote au waandishi huru na wale wasio huru.

Yafuatayo ni maoni yangu binafsi kufuatia audio ya wimbo huu:

Wimbo huu siyo realistic kwani baadhi ya wanahabari wanaosikika kwenye wimbo huu si wafichuaji wa mambo kwa jinsi tungo za wimbo zinavyosema, ninachojua mimi ni kwamba wanahabari hao, wapo mstari wa mbele kuitangaza bendi yenu. FFU mlichofanya ni kulipa fadhila kwa njia ya utunzi wa wimbo. Huu ndio ukweli, lakini kusema wanafichua mambo, hapa sikubaliani. Ukitaka kujua ukweli wa ujumbe wangu, jaribu kuandika comment ambayo inajaribu kuikosoa serikali kwenye vyombo hivyo vya habari. Hiyo comment itatiwa kikapuni, au kwenye trush.

Baadhi ya wanahabari watajwa kwenye wimbo ni makada wazuri wa CCM, na kamwe hawawezi kufichua maovu ya serikali ya CCM badala yake huficha maovu yao, hii ni pamoja na nyie FFU, kumbukeni mwaka 2010, wakati wa uchaguzi mkuu, mlitunga wimbo “JAKAYA KIKWETE, MWANA WA AFRIKA” nia yenu ilikuwa kumfagilia ili ashinde.

                                                          VASCO da GAMA

Tunahitaji rais mwenye sifa hizi; mwajibikaji, mwenye nguvu na mamlaka ya kukemea maovu ya watendaji wake wabovu, mzalendo, mcha mungu, mwaminifu, mwenye dhamira ya kweli ya kubadilisha hali za watanzania. Kasi ya kuhudhuria misiba na kukimbilia kwa wazee wa Dar! wazee wa vikofia vyeupe !! mara maji yawapo shingoni ni kujitafutia huruma na unafuu wa kisiasa.

Tukio la hivi majuzi cha  rais kutoka Brazil na kukimbilia Malawi badala ya kwenda nyumbani kuwawajibisha mawaziri waliotuhumiwa kwa ufisadi kinamwanika rais hewani. Tafsiri yake, ni ukosefu wa uzalendo kama siyo  ubinafsi na tamaa ya kupenda safari.

Watanzania tupinge usanii huu uliopitiliza kiasi. Leo hii Tanzania, kiongozi anao uwezo wa kumpiga raia risasi hadi umauti. Kigogo huyo akifikishwa mahakamani, usanii sheria, kulindana na pesa za ufisadi zitamweka huru mtuhumiwa.

Nachukizwa na nadharia ya  maneno matupu, kumbuka kesi kama za akina Ditopile, Mgonja, Mramba na Yona. Kama siyo changa la macho nini. Ndiyo maana kwenye posti yangu ya awali niliandika kuwa Watanzania ni wepesi wa kusahau yaliyopita.

NOTE: Mafisadi, na mnaojiita wana usalama wataifa sibabaishwi na vitisho vyenu! daima nitaandika ukweli bila unafiki, njaa, umamluki wa kuficha maovu ya watawala wasio na uchungu na Watazania.