Sherehe za uhuru zafana wengi wajitokeza

SHEREHE za kuadhimisha miaka 49 ya uhuru zilizofanyika katkka uwanja wa Uhuru Dar es Salaam zilifana kwa wakazi wengi wa jiji kujitokeza katika sherehe hizo.

Maelfu ya Wakazi hao waliongozwa na Rais Jakaya Kikwete ambapo alikagua magwaride na kusherehesha sherehe hizo.

Sherehe hizo zilishereheshwa na ndege za kijeshi kutoka Ngerengere pamoja magwaaride ya jeshi mbalimbali na vijana wa halaiki kupamba sherehe hizo kwa kuimba wimbo wa taifa.

Katika sherehe hizo Viongozi kutoka kada mbalimbali kutoka serikali na viongozi wa dini walihudhuria sherehe hizo wakiwemo Rais wa Zanzibar, Dk. Ali Mohamed Shein, Makamu wa Rais, Dk. Mohamed Gharib Bilal, Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda, Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Serikali ya Mapinduzi , Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad, wakiwemo na marais wastaafu na wengine wengi .

Rais Jakaya Kikwete mara bada ya kufika uwanjani hapo aliweza kupigiwa mizinga ipatayo 21 na kisha kukagua gwaride na vijana wa halaiki wapatao zaidi ya 1000 kutoka shule za msingi waliweza kuonyehsa ufundi kwa kujipanga na kutoka neno uhuru.

Tanzania imetimiza miaka 49 toka kupata kwa uhuru wake kutoka kwa Muingereza Desemba 9, 1961

ATA PRESIDENTIAL FORUM

SUMMARY

NYU’s Africa House & NYU’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies

Together with

The Africa Travel Association

Cordially invite you to attend

ATA’s First Annual Presidential Forum
Promoting Positive News on Africa


Building Links between Africa,
the U.S. and the Global Community


Featuring

His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete
President of the United Republic of Tanzania

With presentations by

Honorable Chief
Olufemi Fani-Kayode
Minister of Culture and Tourism
On behalf of
His Excellency President Olusegun Obasanjo
The Federal Republic of Nigeria


His Excellency
Nana Akufo-Addo*
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Cooperation & NEPAD
The Republic of Ghana

Moderated by
Vice Provost Yaw Nyarko

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Public Panel & Reception
Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center
New York University
100 Washington Square East




PRESS

From the Tanzania Daily News:

US university hails Kikwete

MUHIDIN MICHUZI
Daily News; Thursday,September 21, 2006 @00:02
President Kikwete

THE New York University has described President Jakaya Kikwete as a remarkable man and a great leader.
It also described him as somebody who is very forward looking, articulate and one who really cares about his country.
"President Kikwete and Mwalimu Nyerere are both great people", Professor Yaw Nyarko, Vice-Provost of the NYU said here yesterday.

He was speaking to the Daily News after President Kikwete had addressed a presidential forum on tourism and investment organised by the Africa Travel Association at the university.
"They were operating at different times; they had different issues and are all great leaders for their time", said the NYU don.

President Kikwete had spoken about Tanzania's vast and rich travel and investment opportunities and invited American investors to invest in the country.

Msamaha wa Rais wawapita kando mafisadi, ‘mafataki’

Exuper Kachenje
RAIS Jakaya Kikwete amewatosa mafisadi na waliowakatisha masomo wanafunzi kwa kuwapa mimba kwenye msamaha alioutoa jana kwa wafungwa 3,563 kusherekea miaka 49 ya Uhuru wa Tanzania Bara.

Taarifa iliyotolewa jana na Waziri wa Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi, Shamsi Vuai Nahodha imeeleza msamaha wa wafungwa 3,563 uliotolewa na Rasi Jakaya Kikwete wakati wa sherehe za Uhuru mwaka huu hawahusu wafungwa wa makosa ya rushwa na matumizi mabaya ya madaraka, hawahusiki na msamaha huo.

Taarifa hiyo imetaja wafungwa wengine wasiohusika na msamaha huo kuwa ni wafungwa waliowapa mimba wanafunzi na kuwakatisha masomo, waliohukumiwa kunyongwa na waliojihusisha na biashara ya dawa za kulevya.

Wengine ni wale waliohukumiwa kifungo cha maisha, waliofungwa kwa makosa ya ujambazi, wizi wa magari na waliofungwa kwa kunajisi, kubaka na kulawiti.

Msamaha huo pia hauwahusu watu wanaotumikia kifungo cha pili au zaidi, wanaotumikia kifungo chini ya Sheria ya Bodi za Parole ya mwaka 1994 na Sheria ya huduma kwa jamii ya mwaka 2002.

"Wafungwa wengine ambao hawamo kwenye msamaha huo ni waliozuia watoto kupata masomo, waliowahi kutoroka chini ya ulinzi, waliohukumiwa kwa makosa ya uharibifu wa miundombinu kama wizi wa nyaya za simu, umeme, njia za reli na transfoma na wafungwa waliowahi kupunguziwa kifungo kwa msamaha wa Rais na bado wanaendelea na kifungo kilichobaki," imeeleza taarifa hiyo.

Rais Kikwete ametoa msamaha huo akitumia Ibara ya 45(1)(d) ya Katiba ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania inayompa mamlaka kusamehe wafungwa siku za sherehe za Kitaifa ambazo ni Uhuru na Muungano.

Tanzania Bara ilipata Uhuru wake kutoka kwa Mwingereza Desemba9, 1961.

Kwa mujibu wa taarifa hiyo ya waziri Nahodha, wafungwa wanaonufaika na msamaha huo ni wale wanaotumikia kifungo kisichozidi miaka mitano na ambao hadi jana walishatumia robo ya vifungo vyao na wafungwa ambao ni wagonjwa wa Ukimwi, kifua kikuu, saratani ambao wanaoelekea siku za mwisho wa maisha yao na wazee wa zaidi wenye umri wa zaidi ya miaka 70.

Hata hivyo wafungwa hao watatakiwa kuthibitishwa na jopo la madaktari chini ya mganga mkuu wa mkoa au wilaya.

Taarifa hiyo imetaja wafungwa watakaonufaika na msamaha huo kuwa ni wanawake waliofungwa wakiwa wajawazito, walioingia magerezani wakiwa na watoto wachanga wanaonyonya na wenye ulemavu wa mwili na akili ambao ulemavu wao utathibitishwa na mganga mkuu wa mkoa au wilaya.

“Ni mategemeo yetu kwamba watakaoachiwa huru watarejea tena katika jamii kushirikiana na wenzao katika ujenzi wa Taifa na kwamba watajiepusha kutenda makosa ili wasirejee gerezani,” ilisema sehemu ya taarifa hiyo ya serikali.

Two Kenyan ministers killed in air crash

Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga sign a power-sharing agreement in Nairobi. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP

Two members of the Kenyan government were killed, along with two other people, when a small plane crashed near the Masai Mara game reserve in the south-west of the country, the president, Mwai Kibaki, said today.

The roads minister, Kipkalya Kones, 56, and Lorna Laboso, 47, an assistant home affairs minister, were aboard the plane with a pilot and a security guard, Kibaki said in a statement.

"The wreckage has been found and there are no survivors … Our country has lost leaders of immense potential at their prime age and with a promising future."

The president said flags would fly at half mast until the two lawmakers were buried.

The spokesman for Prime Minister Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party, Salim Lone, described the news as "unbearable".

Patrick Wambani, the police chief of Narok district, told Reuters: "The plane came down on an unoccupied house and disintegrated, killing all four occupants."

There was no immediate confirmation of the cause of the crash.

The plane went down in Narok, about 75 miles from the capital, Nairobi, according to Kenya's Civil Aviation Authority.

Kones is a five-term lawmaker whose appointment to the cabinet was part of the power-sharing deal struck between Kibaki and Odinga when violence broke out after contested elections at the end of last year.

Laboso, a new lawmaker, was one of only a few women elected to Kenya's national assembly.

In 2003, a plane carrying four cabinet ministers crashed in western Kenya, killing one minister and the two pilots.

A public inquiry subsequently recommended that no more than three cabinet ministers or senior government officials should travel on the same flight, for security reasons.

The report also said many airstrips in the country were poorly maintained, and the government had allocated insufficient money for their repair and maintenance.

In 2006, two assistant cabinet ministers and two lawmakers were among more than a dozen people who died when a military plane crashed while trying to land during bad weather