JK names 70 new DCs, drops 51

President Jakaya Kikwete has named 70 new district commissioners, among them six media practitioners, in a major shake-up that saw 51 former ones dropped and 63 re-appointed.

The PM gave the factors behind the dropping of the 51 as including having reached retirement age, poor health and “administrative reasons”.

“The screening process was very tough … Many factors were considered, among them gender, age and experience. It was not a joke,” he said, adding: “Owing to these factors and other considerations, you will find that youths constitute 40 per cent and women 30 per cent of the new line-up.

”Pinda said five of the new DCs were picked by virtue of their being Special Seats Members of Parliament, elaborating: “This is a new criterion we decided to use in the vetting process this time around.”

The six journalists in the new line-up – their duty stations in brackets – are Novatus Makunga (Hai), Jacqueline Liana (Magu), Ahmed Kipozi (Bagamoyo), Selemani Mzee Selemani (Kwimba), Muhingo Rweyemamu (Handeni) and Lucy Mayenga (Uyui).

The other new DCs include Mboni M. Mgaza (Mkinga), Hanifa M. Selungu (Sikonge), Christine S. Mndeme (Hanang), Shaibu I. Ndemanga (Mwanga), Chrispin T. Meela (Rungwe), Dr Nasoro Ali Hamidi (Lindi), Farida S. Mgomi (Masasi), Jeremia D. Munasa (Arumeru), Majid Hemed Mwanga (Lushoto), Mrisho Gambo (Korogwe), Elias J. Tarimo (Kilosa), Alfred E. Msovella (Kiteto), Dr Leticia M. Warioba (Iringa), Dr Michael Yunia Kadeghe (Mbozi), Karen Yusus (Sengerema), Hassan E. Masala (Kilombero), Bituni A. Msangi (Mzega), Ephraem Mfingi Mmbaga (Liwale), Antony J. Mtaka (Mvomero), Herman Clement Kapufi (Same), Magareth Esther Malenga (Kyela), Chande Bakari Nalicho (Tunduru), Fatuma H. Toufiq (Manyoni), Seleman Liwowa (Kilindi), Josephine R. Matiro (Makete), Gerald J. Guninita (Kilolo), Senyi S. Ngaga (Mbinga), Mary Tesha (Ukerewe), Rodrick Mpogolo (Chato), Christopher Magala (Newala), Paza T. Mwamlima (Mpanda), Richard Mbeho (Biharamulo), Joshua Mirumbe (Bunda), Constantine J. Kanyasu (Ngara), Yahya E. Nawanda (Iramba), Ulega H. Abdallah (Kilwa), Paul Mzindakaya (Busega), Festo Kiswaga (Nanyumbu), Wilman Kapenjama Ndile (Mtwara), Joseph Joseph Mkirikiti (Songea), Ponsiano Nyami (Tandahimba), Elibariki Immanuel Kingu (Kisarawe), Suleiman O. Kumchaya (Tabora), Dr Charles F. Mlingwa (Siha), Manju Msambya (Ikungi) and Omar Kwaangw’ (Kondoa).

Others are Venance M. Mwamoto (Kibondo), Benson Mpesya (Kahama), Daudi Felix Ntibenda (Karatu), Ramadhani A. Maneno (Kigoma), Sauda S. Mtondoo (Rufiji), Gulamhusein Kifu (Mbarali), Esterina Kilasi (Wanging’ombe), Subira Mgalu (Kongwa), Rosemary Kirigini (Meatu), Agnes Hokororo (Ruangwa), Regina Chonjo (Nachingwea), Wilson Elisha Nkhambaku (Kishapu), Amani K. Mwenegoha (Bukombe), Hafsa M. Mtasiwa (Pangani), Rosemary Staki Senyamule (Ileje), Lt Col Ngemela E. Lubinga (Mlele) and Iddi Kimanta (Nkasi).

Those re-appointed include James K. O. Millya (Longido), Mathew S. Sedoyeka (Sumbawanga), Fatuma L. Kimario (Igunga), Capt (rtd) James C. Yamungu (Serengeti), Lt (rtd) Abdallah A. Kihato (Maswa), Sarah Dumba (Njombe), Jowika W. Kasunga (Monduli), Elizabeth C. Mkwasa (Bahi), Col Issa E. Njiku (Misenyi), John B. Henjewele (Tarime), Elias W. Lali (Ngorongoro), Raymond H. Mushi (Ilala), Francis Miti (Ulanga), Evarista N. Kalalu (Mufindi), Mariam S. Lugaila (Misungwi), Anna J. Magowa (Urambo), Anatory K. Choya (Mbulu), Fatma Salum Ally (Chamwino), Deodatus L. Kinawiro (Chunya), Ibrahim W. Marwa (Ngang’hwale), Dr Norman A. Sigalla (Mbeya), Moshi M. Chang’a (Mkalama), Jordan Rugimbana (Kinondoni), Georgina E. Bundala (Itilima), Halima M. Kihemba (Kibaha), Manzie O. Mangochie (Geita), Abdula S. Lutavi (Ntamtumbo), Zipporah L. Pangani (Bukoba), Dr Ibrahim H. Msengi (Moshi), Col Cosmas Kayombo (Kakonko), Lembris M. Kipuyo (Muleba), Elinasi A. Pallangyo (Rombo), Queen M. Mlozi (Singida), Juma S. Madaha (Ludewa).

Others are Angelina Mabula (Butiama), Hadija H. Nyembo (Uvinza), Ernest N. Kahindi (Nyasa), Peter T. Kiroya (Simanjiro), John K. Mongella (Arusha), Baraka M. Konisaga (Nyamagana), Husna Mwilima (Mbogwe), Sophia E. Mjema (Temeke), Francis Issac (Chemba), Abihudi M. Saideya (Momba), Khalid J. Mandia (Babati), Anna Rose Nyamubi (Shinyanga), Dani B. Makanga (Kasulu), Amina J. Masenza (Ilemela), Mercy E. Silla (Mkuranga), Christopher R. Kangoye (Mpwapwa), Lt. Edward O. Lenga (Kalambo), Halima O. Dendego (Tanga), Lephy B. Gembe (Dodoma), Saidi A. Amanzi (Morogoro), Jackson W. Msome (Musoma), Elias B. Goroi (Rorya), Lt. Col. Benedict Kitenga (Kyerwa), Erasto Sima (Bariadi), Nurdin H. Babu (Mafia), Khanifa M. Karamagi (Buingwe), Saveli M. Maketta (Kaliua) and Darry Rwegasira (Karagwe).

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

Sanctioned lawlessness in Tanzania!

By Cynthia Stacey
Helloh, jambo, and I ended last week by saying if I’m not on this page today, I might be in an Unguja lock-up after fighting for the right to use the shillingi there, instead of the constantly demanded dollar. The lock-up wasn’t necessary, but the fight still is!..

A medium of major financial transactions, alongside the shilling for small scale local trade, it’s exhausting disputing every price enquiry only given in dollars (one for a postcard for example) especially during visitor high season in the stone town, and beach resorts.

Also irritating, are the larger tourist hotels which imperiously quote their tariffs in this ‘foreign’ money as though a local currency doesn’t exist.

To which the common sense response should be…. “don’t be so damned stupid, we’re in Tanzania”!. Perhaps the hotels’ excuse could partially be that the Zanzibar government demand l0 dollars from them for each guest, and won’t take payment in the currency of the country…… why not?....illegal and doubly stupid!.

One trader told me visitors like to pay in dollars, but does that apply to non Americans?. The reality is, this currency is promoted on the Isles, and guests accept it, with perhaps short term ones even unaware of the rightful alternative.

For many people, the lira, the franc, the drachma, conjure up vivid images of holidays abroad, and they bemoan the deadening effect of the euro, as a little bit of mystique was wiped out along with these colourful currencies, and those of other countries that gave up their fiscal identity when joining the European Union.

Travellers often keep bank notes and coins from their foreign trips as souvenirs……just as my guests did when leaving Tanzania, to value as a memory. And if dollar acceptability and promotion is not curbed by all who collude in this fiscal farce, the central bank, the police, the government, the parliament…..that’s all the

‘shillingi’ could become here also…a memento of former times!.

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I’ve just come across an East Africa Business Week of February this year, where under a heading of “Tanzania warned on dollarisation”, the central bank Governor Prof. Benno Ndullu is quoted as saying “charging in foreign currency was illegal”. I’ve been crusading on this issue for years, but it’s the first time I’ve seen that admittance in print from the governor, past or present. Ballali never committed himself, preferring to talk nonsense, about “allowing the dollar to float….” or whatever.

But what does it tell you about the country…….if every day, the citizens and their governments, mainland and Unguja, openly flout such straightforward legislation.

And if those who make the laws also break them, then why should we respect any at all?. Can we be selective in our choices as to which we’ll abide by, and those we won’t. And is the decision to punish law breakers as seemingly as arbitrary as the decision not too?.

As recompense for over praising the under performing government here, perhaps the donors should fund a law breakers handbook entitled…….”A citizens guide to the Laws of Tanzania, what to ignore and what to honour”!…

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Early last year, the Registrar of Political Parties, Mr. John Tendwa, talked about “....the constitution being the supreme law, in a country that abides by the rule of law”.

Massively incorrect. It’s a nation where the law makers disregard the results of their handiwork. Labour laws are contravened, traffic laws flouted, noise legislation totally disregarded, building laws broken, currency regulations ignored etc…and many more. A litany of law breaking across the land, Mr. Tendwa…….and with land transgressions, being the best example of all.

In February, the Ilala municipality defended its delay in demolishing a building near the Aga Khan hospital. It must be twenty years since I watched in astonishment from my home directly opposite, as an entire corner just off Upanga road, was appropriated to erect it. But at the same time, an attempt to start a little drinks kiosk opposite by a small trader, was brutally demolished by the City Council.

A considerable incentive must have been given to allow for this building, run as a computer school called the English Fountain, and I campaigned for its removal.

Though after the death of the city solicitor, I knew there’d been no intention of implementing the demolition orders he’d cleverly humoured me with by slapping on the building over the years.

So what is Ilala municipality waiting for now….the quarter century celebration of a successful land/road grab?

This brings me to my own case. In l989, I halted construction of a nearly completed house in Jangwani Beach because of conflicting intervention from municipal and land ministry officers.

Beacons were constantly moved and attempts made to re-define boundaries, and over the years, it was like shadow boxing, as authorities constantly misinformed us, various officials came and went, their reports written, then countermanded. In 2001, my palm trees were cut down, and part of our plot number 356, given to claimant Kulthum Abdalah, whose papers were for 355.

Then last May, neighbours informed us our watchman had been paid to leave, and an unknown person taken over the land. Shocked, we spent a horrific week driving between police stations, the Ministry of Lands, the municipal offices etc., Despite being told by police to stop what he was doing, when we next saw the plot, it was unrecognisable, as a concrete wall was constructed around it, with armed guards to protect ‘the owners’ new property.’

Exactly one year later that person is still there, and last week, when police gained entry, we learned this man who specialises in taking land he thinks the owner has lost interest in, has demolished our house.

There are parallels here between these two examples of corruption and government ineptitude, as the conditions existing in Tanzania allowing Ilala Council to get away with NOT demolishing the Upanga building, are the same as those that allow a ‘tapeli’ to invade and illegally demolish my house after one year of ineffective action from police, Ministry of Lands, or the municipality.

Last May I left the country, trusting I’d return to a reclaimed plot. But exactly one year later, and again leaving soon, should I still have faith in the state machinery to help…..or will lawlessness prevail……I’ll know when I return!.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

"new jersey compound Poor"-Kikwete`s new cabinet an improvement over the old

There are various ways of picking a cabinet team, one being a collection of close friends with whom one conducted a campaign and successfully won, which is quite a laughing stock method in the United States.
Another is sharing out positions between party bigwigs as they usually do in Europe, ending terms sweating with infighting – about who next carries the party flag. A third is promoting well known ministerial gurus to setting policy for their competence, and it often turns out politics and PhD aren’t twins.

This third method was usually the case in Tanzania – shelving out the PhD for not having to suffocate about it – under Mwalimu Nyerere, for the reason that little academic skills (of reading reports, statistics and advisories of foreign agencies and making head and tail out of it) among TANU cadres.

This set the pace for top ministerial officials being placed as leading candidates for ministerial positions, for instance Cleopa Msuya was permanent secretary at independence. John Malecela was RC in 1963; politics was then ‘illiterate.’

At the political level there was a very firm hand at the top, that of President Nyerere, who did not make policy from the cabinet but told them what to do, with a bevy of agencies to check on conduct.

Some people think this is not the case now but they are mostly mistaken – the president’s will is usually done as he wants it, the compromises being those of policy, either as personal decisions or reached with the central committee. They arise from how far the work of government is contested, not obedience of a minister, etc.

Nobody will say the personal skills of ministers do not count but the president’s orders or the premier’s timely signals, etc. There are massive countervailing forces in what a minister does from day to day, which President Kikwete told the last major party congress before the polls that a minister called him about something and he replied ‘pima mwenyewe.’ In due and proper form, it was clear something was amiss because the said minister must have failed to figure out which decision on his part would reflect the president’s expectation of his interpretation of policy thrust – and the president failed too!

For once, the reason isn’t what street talk would like it to be, that both the president and his ministers aren’t well schooled or are corrupt. Far from it – the real reason is that each decision a minister makes affects large numbers of people, and the losing side complains to the president, or calls professional meetings to make their voices felt, or it is donors who pick up the phone, etc. In other words through the simple stories of how certain sums were spent, theft isn’t the proper explanation but redistributing resources, silently.

The current cabinet selection has brought up some noticeably competent people in their professional areas, but it is a different matter when it comes to administrative skills – and then back to the beautiful game of politics.

Prof Sospeter Muhongo is among the most sought after geologists in Africa – but he will not have a night’s sleep until he meets all of MP Tundu Lissu’s revolutionary demands on mining companies and lands taken over – and it isn’t his brief to do that.

Dr William Mgimwa made history with his historic clash with ex-central bank governor Dr Daudi Ballali. This story may have had many sides, as chances that Dr Ballali would use 120m dollars of EPA without highest authorisation are nil, and Dr Mgimwa didn’t tell anyone that Dr Ballali was so authorised.

We rejoice the new competences as this improves the public image; the government realises that it does not have the same choices each year. Conduct is like how people repent sin – too slowly!

SOURCE: GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY

We are born to disfavor the world, problem credits

These are women in Babati, Tanzania, makes small businesses in the center of the city buses, their livelihood is no different in their feet and wildlife

Ice-cream followed by scalding coffee - What happens?

The most common natural inciting agents which are responsible for causing pain are hot and cold foods as well as liquids. Consumables with a rich concentration of sugar in it such as toffee and chocolate also can cause pain when munched upon-especially so when teeth are having cavities.

A mechanical stimulus e.g passing a finger nail around the neck of a tooth can induce pain. It is left entirely to the pain threshold of a patient who eventually decides to pay a visit to a dental clinic trying to seek a line of treatment that restores his dental health.

It follows that with intact or undeteriorated enamel tucked around the tooth mostly around its incisal or occlusal surfaces as well as cervical margins the chances of intense pain arising out of what has already been mentioned so far will be minimized if not remote.

It is therefore vital that the entity of the tooth be maintained and preserved. To those who believe that they are performing a great cleansing act by vigorously brushing their teeth in the same way they employ a polishing brush to shine their shoes fail to realize that such an aggressive battering with the bristles applied horizontally to the long axis of teeth erodes the enamel gradually exposing the sensitive portion of the tooth, the dentine. With the thickness of enamel wearing out sensitivity becomes a common complaint of these patients.

In a random survey of 25 patients who visited the Dental clinic, 14 of them used the ‘assault technique’. Hitting the enamel forcefully without even trying to surmise the cause of semi-lunar concavities on the facial surface of their front teeth they had continued in the same vein until the day their dentist educated them about the genesis of their cavities. None of the 14 patients ever bothered to look themselves in the mirror when they brushed their teeth.

Even the remaining 11 patients were not free of blemishes. Only 5 out of these had, after more than three visits to a dental clinic started brushing correctly. While 6 out of this lot used the mixed rotational and horizontal method, suffice to say that unless there is a honest effort made by those committed to safeguarding the integrity of their enamel around their teeth sooner than later, sensitivity is bound to surface.

A question that is often asked by a patient: “What happens if I take very hot coffee and immediately afterwards bite into an ice cream cone?” When one eats ice cream pain and sensitivity occurs in the lower anterior teeth. The crowns of these teeth are comparatively small which would imply that contact with any cold food or drink produces a greater fall in temperature than would occur in larger teeth. The distance from the outer surface of enamel to the pulp is less that in the other teeth.

Hence for a given cold stimulus the thermal gradient is greater in lower teeth. With this the temperature across the tooth structure from outside to inside falls faster. The thermal gradient is the difference between the outside temperature and the inside temperature divided by the distance between.

Pain occurs when the ice cream is bitten and continues for a shorter time afterwards, outlasting the stimulus for a few seconds because the dentine has been cooled and requires this short time to return to its normal temperature. As the person continues to eat ice cream the pain becomes less. This is because temperature of the tooth gradually approaches that of the ice cream, so that the thermal gradient decreases.

In a similar way pain may occur from drinking hot liquids. This is even more likely if a person drinks hot coffee soon after taking a cold dessert. The dentine becomes colder than normal. Application of heat to the outer surface therefore produces a larger temperature gradient through the tooth. The rapid swing in temperature causes pain.

The simple solution of the problem is to avoid such severe temperature changes. This would prevent the occurrence of the shifts of thermal gradient and contribute toward maintaining the health of the pulp, which harbours blood vessels and nerve fibrils.

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A man goes shopping and sees a Thermos flask. He asks a sales assistant what it does. “It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold,” replies the assistant. He buys one and takes it to work the next day. “Look at this,” he says to his workmate. “It’s a Thermos flask. It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold”. “What have you got in it?” asks his friend. “Two cups of coffee and a choc ice,” comes the reply.

The best bet is to enjoy your ice-cream if you have intact enamel. Allow about 15 to 30 minutes to elapse after one has munched an ice-cream. Let the temperature come back to normal before indulging in a drink that is scalding.

One could choose to have either hot or cold item first. What is essential is the definitive time allowance between two food items which are at extreme temperatures. It is for the patient to choose and follow the instruction of his dentist and maintain the intactness of enamel around the surfaces of his teeth.

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SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN