tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3934638742724216872024-03-16T12:37:00.241+01:00View from the Termite MoundA blog about threats against Maasai land in Loliondo - Thomson Safaris, that claim 51 km2 of grazing land as their private nature refuge, OBC, that keep lobbying the Tanzanian government to grab 1,500 km2 from the Maasai (a crime brutally and lawlessly committed in 2022) - and ruthless hypocrisy, lies, intimidation, and violence. Increasingly also about Ngorongoro Conservation Area.Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-70907600095133793102024-01-31T20:46:00.006+01:002024-02-01T00:21:37.022+01:00Brief Background of the Loliondo Hunting Block and Long-Lobbied for Crime<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is a
summary to refer to in an attempt to avoid far too long blog posts and it’s help
for anyone writing about Loliondo. By necessity this means that important
aspects may have been left out. I’ve tried to include what’s most important to understand
the current situation. Please contact me for further details, or if you think
I’ve left out anything essential.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Notice that this
summary is about the illegal and brutal land alienation for a “game reserve” in
Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District. Ngorongoro Division/Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) where the Tanzanian government use cruel
restrictions and illegal defunding of social services to make the Maasai
relocate to other people’s land far away is <b>ANOTHER ISSUE</b>, even if
closely related in many ways. The cruel and stupid Msomera publicity stunt is <b>NOT</b>
about the Maasai of Loliondo. I must soon write another blog post about NCA. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The criminal
is the Tanzanian government that´s aided and abetted by investors, donors, and
conservation organisations. Notably, OBC from Dubai have lobbied for the brutal
and lawless creation of an illegal “game reserve”in Loliondo. The Germans and
Frankfurt Zoological Society have a long history of working against Maasai land
rights and recently very openly and shamelessly funded and facilitated a now rejected
draft district land use plan to legitimize and extend the crime. Though the
brutal land alienation drive is not restricted to Loliondo, or Ngorongoro District,
or to the Maasai, but all rural Tanzanians with land that’s of interest to
tourism are under serious threat, while the Germans boast about being the biggest
bilateral donors to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. The land
alienation drive has been going on for decades, but with the current government
of Samia Suluhu Hassan, that’s running amok with a greedy and violent tourism
cult, it’s worse than ever. Everyone considering spending tourism money in
Tanzania seriously needs to consider what they are encouraging. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve got
almost all information about the early days from Navaya ole Ndaskoi and that
from later years from hundreds of different people, most of whom would sadly not
like to be mentioned at all. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“The
minister” refers to the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Contents:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Mwinyi</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Mkapa</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Kikwete</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Magufuli</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Samia</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBWBni6K8B6uGpqKjleNrfjNhqJm2qm2Dg0Dho2ReeHTPyWdHeq8XUgDyCUICsHsnNuajkNrz8d0OdqOVSuxhVRiG8aBj131i1Jed3phT2BfOz9859OV1lcAo86n7OBZvaucazTqTjn5_ndGSj2CF6a6nxak7ryLZ3IF8vUuME7laPHhzsqgrbYKenOuQr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBWBni6K8B6uGpqKjleNrfjNhqJm2qm2Dg0Dho2ReeHTPyWdHeq8XUgDyCUICsHsnNuajkNrz8d0OdqOVSuxhVRiG8aBj131i1Jed3phT2BfOz9859OV1lcAo86n7OBZvaucazTqTjn5_ndGSj2CF6a6nxak7ryLZ3IF8vUuME7laPHhzsqgrbYKenOuQr" width="320" /></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i><br /></i><p></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mwinyi</span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC),
owned by Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al Ali, that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed
of Dubai, has had the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo hunting block (permit to
hunt) since 1993 (first contract signed in 1992). OBC got the hunting block in
the Loliondogate scandal covered by the reporter Stan Katabalo in the
Mfanyakazi newspaper in 1993, until he passed away under suspect circumstances in
September the same year. Katabalo was tipped off by the legendary Moringe
Parkipuny who, too, suffered an assassination attempt in 1993. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The hunting block includes two
towns – Wasso and Loliondo - district headquarters, agricultural areas, and a terrible
land grab by the American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>. <b>So OBC have lobbied to have it
reduced to their core hunting area bordering Serengeti National Park, and to
make it a protected area (brutally and illegally done in 2022) which signifies
a huge land loss to the local Maasai, with lost lives and livelihoods.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Besides the 10-year frame (unlawful at the time), the block was leased over the heads of the legally
registered villages, there were reports that Al Ali and Sheikh Mohammed had
already breached every hunting regulation before being granted the hunting
block and then a parliamentary committee found more evidence of such
misbehaviour (the Marmo report that I’ve been trying to get someone to send me
for over a decade, but maybe it was only presented to parliament orally), while
the parastatal TAWICO already held the hunting block. Further, there were
allegations that President Mwinyi was close to OBC. Mary Ndosi represented OBC
in Tanzania, signing as Senior State Attorney and using the P.O box address of
the Attorney General. OBC’s first illegal10-year contract was revoked
already in the corruption scandal in the 1990s, in which Minister Abubakar Mgumia was
axed, and since then the hunting block has been renewed like any other hunting
block. The press at the time reported that Abdulraham Kinana was escorting the
hunters at Kilimanjaro Airport already in 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The now stolen 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
was owned and used by the Maasai before and during colonial times under
customary ownership, which was recognized by the Land Act of 1923. After being
evicted from Serengeti in 1959, the affected Maasai moved to both NCA and
Loliondo. In the 1970s the villages in Loliondo and Sale were registered under
the Village and Ujamaa Villages Act, then in 1982 under the Local Government
(District Authorities) Act – and could enter legally binding contracts on their
own behalf - and got further protection as village land belonging to the
village assembly (all adult villagers) managed by the village council under
Village Land Act No.5 of 1999. Eviction from this land is in contravention and
violation of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, Village Land
Act 1999, Wildlife Conservation Act No.5 of 2009, and the Treaty for the Establishment
of the EAC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mkapa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 1995, President Benjamin
William Mkapa appointed a Presidential Commission of Enquiry into Corruption in
Tanzania. Justice Joseph Warioba chaired the Commission. OBC was mentioned as
one of the most corrupt companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Protests by local leaders
against OBC’s construction near water sources, oversized airstrip and hostile
attitudes towards the Maasai and their livestock were in April 2000 taken to
Dar es Salaam by a Maasai delegation led by Sandet ole Reiya in a failed
attempt to meet President Mkapa, but the Maasai got some media coverage. These
protests, but with a focus on new allegations of hunting abuse, led to some
international press coverage in 2001-2002, primarily in Kenya.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxlnx_2xe1t_iobFPvdlKjhXh7O7fGj6wzgDXmVsMjFn8notp-wHsaCAvyJsk0jQ2mBo_MTIgxytBbfgD2SN-HAoBzORSswAjmWZg2vdonvsFonowIcpTFN0YMTDkzr_BvspHDOwK_VvClh6ykxu7v5vWYlUS5aqwjUhi7Svp91qq1HNV_pzHf_fMJ3x9W" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgxlnx_2xe1t_iobFPvdlKjhXh7O7fGj6wzgDXmVsMjFn8notp-wHsaCAvyJsk0jQ2mBo_MTIgxytBbfgD2SN-HAoBzORSswAjmWZg2vdonvsFonowIcpTFN0YMTDkzr_BvspHDOwK_VvClh6ykxu7v5vWYlUS5aqwjUhi7Svp91qq1HNV_pzHf_fMJ3x9W" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandet ole Reiya some 16 years later. Now he's sadly no longer among us. Photo: MRG</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The first years of the new millennium
and a couple of years before that, the Tanzanian government and Frankfurt
Zoological Society were working hard to impose Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) on
the Maasai of Loliondo. A WMA is so-called “community-based natural resource
management” whereby while staying nominally as village land, areas are set
aside for tourism and conservation, and the influence of investors,
conservation organisations, and central government is increased. The Maasai of
Loliondo managed to reject it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kikwete</span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By 2008, relations with OBC
had deteriorated further and the then Ngorongoro DC Jowika Kasunga coerced
local leaders into signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the hunters.
There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing and hunting, but when the
2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the government to complain. As a
result, the village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> was illegally invaded by
the Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson, dispersal of
cattle, and abuse of every kind. 7-year-old Nashipai Gume was lost in the chaos
and never found, ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhjde9TF_7GmCPShhVBhe7RysVkAq0rJA43cDI7aZLtYAFyeCeJ_8KJ6IS_DuerhfM9hB2nlI1R63AODSXEWUOixRf6e65jMjin2vodAhEO_xAioelhYygH8pwNKip7mQGsLQOX44hinPAgqsgSf-lN0rJxi9oxGf7peQnK7C_VJFhPKVdwO29LPghdUvh" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhjde9TF_7GmCPShhVBhe7RysVkAq0rJA43cDI7aZLtYAFyeCeJ_8KJ6IS_DuerhfM9hB2nlI1R63AODSXEWUOixRf6e65jMjin2vodAhEO_xAioelhYygH8pwNKip7mQGsLQOX44hinPAgqsgSf-lN0rJxi9oxGf7peQnK7C_VJFhPKVdwO29LPghdUvh" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The crown prince of Dubai, in Loliondo in 2009. The kori bustard is not in the quotas. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a statement in September
2009 the Minister Shamsa Mwangunga warned that with the new Wildlife
Conservation Act village land and game controlled area would be separated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In November 2009, Isaack
Mollel, director of OBC, was boasting to the press that the company had donated
TSh.156 million to Arusha Region for land use planning in Loliondo Game
Controlled Area. In February 2010, Minister for Lands, Housing and Human
Settlements Developments, John Chiligati, declared that the government had set
aside TShs.157 million for land use planning in Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government stopped a
report (the Ndugai report), answering 14 points raised by Ngorongoro MP Telele,
from being tabled in parliament. In April 2010 there were mass protests by
women in Loliondo turning in or burning their CCM cards. Their demands were to
have the Ndugai report tabled in parliament and for the government to stop any
plans for a “wildlife corridor”. The government continued issuing threats about
a corridor and Chiligati was particularly loud.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidrfYAzKBoODg2rhfI_B2xjBQVKCN-BIK3hkHaS0SVTyhrYNpxuIHPjTtUog03n4E_rHyXXII0LrKi3sXH5cgPlu2RCuyImjCZZK5ZlRXo5YqVqPPhcl2lNrVxOiL5y5iKugGMERukjVjoopfhrbXzXxeA38x6Or-IfRJquh3laTViZIl-y3-Fp5d6CNq0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="320" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidrfYAzKBoODg2rhfI_B2xjBQVKCN-BIK3hkHaS0SVTyhrYNpxuIHPjTtUog03n4E_rHyXXII0LrKi3sXH5cgPlu2RCuyImjCZZK5ZlRXo5YqVqPPhcl2lNrVxOiL5y5iKugGMERukjVjoopfhrbXzXxeA38x6Or-IfRJquh3laTViZIl-y3-Fp5d6CNq0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In December 2010 several CSOs
filed a constitutional suit against the government and OBC to petition the 2009
evictions in the High Court of Tanzania. This case kept being postponed for
years before it was dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In February 2011, the Ngorongoro
District Land Use Framework Plan 2010–2030 that proposed turning the village
land that had been invaded into a protected area, was revealed. The Maasai were
united, and the draft land use plan was rejected by Ngorongoro District
Council. Local leaders thought that the government had been defeated, and they became
passive. Some of them reconciled with OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66HfC1qeBE&feature=share" target="_blank">In November 2012</a>, TANAPA
attempted to place beacons onto Ololosokwan village land, extending the
national park boundary contrary to Government Notice No.235 of 1968. In an
admirable way, the beacons, stored at Klein’s gate, were destroyed by the
villagers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In January 2013, then Minister
of Natural Resources and Tourism Khamis Kagasheki started issuing his threats
about the land and lied to the world saying that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division of
Ngorongoro District, all of it village land) was a protected area and that
alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> meant generously giving the
remaining land to the Maasai. Kagasheki did this in meetings with the press and
with diplomats, and in wildly misleading written statements from his ministry. This
huge lie and ugly trick did not work, since the Maasai were more serious and
united than ever (except for MP Telele who showed signs of having been
compromised), garnered support from both the opposition CHADEMA and from the
ruling CCM. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thousands of people met in
Oloipiri on 25<sup>th</sup> March 2013 and decided to stay united, end any
involvement with OBC and, soon after the government had announced the land to
be taken away from them, initiate a court case with an injunction plus a
reclaim of Serengeti National Park. Also, all political leaders, including the
MP, would resign from their posts. This was the highest point of seriousness by
Loliondo leader, but unfortunately, they didn’t keep it up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh11hrqV7yBQT2rmvOjRl_EQPn_fMbXQIzLdyNbx6FW8OslhWoylJcZD4j-9_Q-AZydEE6ckTfNcK27j8cXTJL8IfZPqKjhnaIxPSO2cYlJpQNQ4N2tOu21aqWrYk-ue8lu0ee3TFcuwmHOKz2x_LH48ONPywM3vxj3p8N-duYfYGMlokxNLSvoR5kPgaeP" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh11hrqV7yBQT2rmvOjRl_EQPn_fMbXQIzLdyNbx6FW8OslhWoylJcZD4j-9_Q-AZydEE6ckTfNcK27j8cXTJL8IfZPqKjhnaIxPSO2cYlJpQNQ4N2tOu21aqWrYk-ue8lu0ee3TFcuwmHOKz2x_LH48ONPywM3vxj3p8N-duYfYGMlokxNLSvoR5kPgaeP" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> April 2013,
a CCM mission led by the deputy secretary general of the party, Mwigulu
Nchemba, met with women who had been camping out for days in protest in Oloirien.
Nchemba’s conclusion was that the government’s decision was contrary to the
laws of the land and would adversely affect the local community, and that he
would refer the issue to the PM. Tundu Lissu and Peter Msigwa of the opposition
party CHADEMA were addressing the public at a meeting in Soitsambu. They told
villagers to support the opposition party in opposing the government decision. The
opposition support for the Maasai has deepened with the crimes of 2022, with
the <b>nasty</b> <b>exception</b> of precisely Msigwa who for some time was
engaging in the most terrible government lies. Lissu, since before 2013,
continues as the strongest ally. Meanwhile, by 2022, the ruling CCM has entered
full genocidal mode and engages in terrible repression of its own party
representatives that speak up for land rights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">PM Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda
stopped Kagasheki’s threats, first vaguely via a letter to the RC in May 2013,
and then loudly and strongly in a speech in Wasso on 23<sup>rd</sup> September
the same year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After Kagasheki’s open threats
and lies, his successor Lazaro Nyalandu focused on closed meetings with local
leaders, in which there reportedly were always offers of money. Some found it
convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and attacking the
defenders of the land, while apparently thinking that there wasn’t any real
risk with benefitting personally from such behaviour, since land alienation was
unlikely. A group of traitors crystallized, led by the then councillor for
Oloipiri, William Alais, and the director of the NGO Kidupo, Gabriel Killel. Though
nobody signed any MoU with OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The global web movement Avaaz that
had been a strong but confusing supporter of the Maasai in
2012-2013, in 2014, with apparently only one source, told British press that
there was an eviction notice for November the same year, which to date nobody
from Loliondo has seen. This led President Kikwete – a terrible
anti-pastoralist, especially during his first term – to have some fun tweeting
a huge lie about the past and about the future: <i>“There has never been, nor
will there ever be any plan by the Government of #Tanzania to evict the #Maasai
people from their ancestral land.”</i> In later years people with short
memories have interpreted this as if Kikwete would be some kind of defender of
land rights. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoK5y8JwAfGQlyh3nMcjQmnRAobT-HxB_2Xq56r_e_CvpHXM1MzaRygamL36gyOgMCIMbE8gg5CvQRbDhGp3UfSt_17mdZWm5tXIfPhGf-SR-XJ3Ud71AZUWNkHlSSLoRwmHvxdApRZXOJfvMpIzPhiuoMhBexFIdAENXPGqzXipbOV7TCUOv5ILVuiPJH" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="320" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoK5y8JwAfGQlyh3nMcjQmnRAobT-HxB_2Xq56r_e_CvpHXM1MzaRygamL36gyOgMCIMbE8gg5CvQRbDhGp3UfSt_17mdZWm5tXIfPhGf-SR-XJ3Ud71AZUWNkHlSSLoRwmHvxdApRZXOJfvMpIzPhiuoMhBexFIdAENXPGqzXipbOV7TCUOv5ILVuiPJH" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nyalandu welcoming Sheikh Mohammed in January 2015.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In March 2015, the EU
parliament adopted a resolution condemning land grabbing in Tanzania.
Unfortunately, the mentions of events in Loliondo were based on articles that
had misreported content, to put it mildly.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In April 2015, security forces
and DC Hashim Mgandilwa joined up with OBC rangers and the “investor-friendly” group
for a violent “anti-Kenyan” operation. Five actual Kenyans (citizens of the
Republic of Kenya) were jailed for six months and fined TShs. 100,000. Even
though almost all victims of the violent “anti-Kenyan” team were Tanzanian,
several meetings were held across the border in Kenya and decisions were made
to close the border in response to the mistreatment. The vicious anti-Loliondo
journalist Manyerere Jackton in the Jamhuri magazine contributed by publishing
a list of 280 private individuals that he – or his sources -considered to be
“Kenyan”, including Kundai Parmwat who was councillor for Soitsambu 2000-2010
(Wakenya wavamia Tanzania, 22.4.2015). After many meetings, the actual cross
border issues cooled down, but not the already established habit of accusing
non-compliant Tanzanians of being “Kenyan”. In May the same year, Mgandilwa used
a conflict between corrupt policemen and villagers to arrest local leaders
suspected of not being friendly to OBC, and have them paraded barefoot form
Wasso to Loliondo. Then this DC went on
to further stir up the conflict between Kirtalo, the village where OBC’s camp
is situated, and Oloipiri where OBC had “befriended” all leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I visited in June 2015, I
was arrested, or more exactly abducted, for three nights, not allowed to
contact anyone, and then declared a prohibited immigrant and dumped in Kenya
where I discovered that the hard drive had been removed from my laptop. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Magufuli</span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and Thomson
Safaris) had for years used the local police state that through the successive
DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will threaten
anyone who could speak up about them and engage in defamation and illegal
arrests. The repression and fear of this police state became worse with
Magufuli in office. There were lengthy illegal arrests, torture, and malicious
prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In July 2016, two secondary school
teachers and two NGO people were arrested, two of them tortured, and then the
four were charged with espionage and sabotage for having communicated with me.
The charges were dismissed after several months of inaction by the prosecution
that obviously only wanted to increase fear and silence. Several other local
leaders were arrested for a day or so and not charged. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFFaN_ny3SlEI1MYPuGK4Lj04JcMQU_4GtCDhzKg-1MWYN8vsp0jbPFC6mmv88RyQcW6Ez9nmYwAXjytUUD6F2v6BbbXlh6n_S1haZGZ7h-gpe_R2f38IEEJ98ExuRK4Na5yOmjB8YffOfnDI9SCH5pJEz9iAQxed1QIdnTyY-BAUfpqBwZdbf9tUMgGWl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="724" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFFaN_ny3SlEI1MYPuGK4Lj04JcMQU_4GtCDhzKg-1MWYN8vsp0jbPFC6mmv88RyQcW6Ez9nmYwAXjytUUD6F2v6BbbXlh6n_S1haZGZ7h-gpe_R2f38IEEJ98ExuRK4Na5yOmjB8YffOfnDI9SCH5pJEz9iAQxed1QIdnTyY-BAUfpqBwZdbf9tUMgGWl" width="170" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL03KhbLCfamkAZvYLSHohI5pCJWAYo-8soPLoKq1I-LQV18Pl264QawyFQz-xWVff_-xkRFhGTMj9a9usI_0QxBKpF4TjV8D-ZGMDYzHX8SsCIMD4JpXUo19X46gGHFLE5Psh6IIoCat9IjNv10g-BFb2DwpbvT9W1IMRSEhiCvOgizT3KJLag_ZW-zJS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="724" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhL03KhbLCfamkAZvYLSHohI5pCJWAYo-8soPLoKq1I-LQV18Pl264QawyFQz-xWVff_-xkRFhGTMj9a9usI_0QxBKpF4TjV8D-ZGMDYzHX8SsCIMD4JpXUo19X46gGHFLE5Psh6IIoCat9IjNv10g-BFb2DwpbvT9W1IMRSEhiCvOgizT3KJLag_ZW-zJS" width="170" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By December 2016 – after OBC
had written a report complaining about the Maasai and engaged the press - it
was so bad that PM Majaliwa could enter the stage with a select
non-participatory committee, set up by then Arusha RC Mrisho Gambo. Some of the
members were local leaders and other representatives, serious NGOs included,
that found themselves at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical
areas” under spontaneous protests in each village. A much-misused photo of a
confrontation between police and Maasai is from these protests and not any
other time. The proposal handed over to the PM in April 2017 was seen as a
victory, even though it was a sad compromise (reportedly a WMA, which would
never have been approved by the village assemblies, and that had earlier been
successfully rejected for many years of better unity and less acute fear).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPwXmkfghOj2ApWb_i0VqKwzBGBNNM_LyZXl_GndCWRksWlt_CGr-IJkgRmhHvnZNzeZlyS5xP9MEPmsKp1YdVcSs0igdjPDTTCJ0qkLlbFUqqjF_Tdsj6IR3UaouIi2XPEGWOdeyy9YU_vatXEGj_iI5E7UdNDj5jrqEcTYB18p9eYhkpJ_PhIniNRTou" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPwXmkfghOj2ApWb_i0VqKwzBGBNNM_LyZXl_GndCWRksWlt_CGr-IJkgRmhHvnZNzeZlyS5xP9MEPmsKp1YdVcSs0igdjPDTTCJ0qkLlbFUqqjF_Tdsj6IR3UaouIi2XPEGWOdeyy9YU_vatXEGj_iI5E7UdNDj5jrqEcTYB18p9eYhkpJ_PhIniNRTou" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This picture is from March 2017 when villagers were protesting marking of "critical areas" that their own weakened leaders were participating in. Do NOT use it for anything else.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A week earlier, 5</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
- 7</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> March 2017, a Standing Parliamentary Committee - co-opted by
Minister Maghembe who in January was making declarations that the 1,500km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
must be alienated - toured Loliondo and the members were told that German funds
would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> into a
protected area. In Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the German
money and the district council decided to follow their advice. Local leaders
saw RC Gambo as their "only friend", or that's the sole and weak
excuse for their behaviour in Gambo’s committee.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXBv-UkVOSkJshCx7YO8Wk6DgPsZn8JfMd_oTxb2VI3dy5LzMxWJzVTdeQPb7buDdJPKxYYesryCqcTD4yT6Wqt_vH4dHzxsEsawVT9A2m7BxAYnGaV2IYeXwL14E4lHfaiDLDHNjlAo2LpiS1Af7xRZTDR84i8St4aWdp73DPnOEYrIHfdQdoWEU69GiI" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXBv-UkVOSkJshCx7YO8Wk6DgPsZn8JfMd_oTxb2VI3dy5LzMxWJzVTdeQPb7buDdJPKxYYesryCqcTD4yT6Wqt_vH4dHzxsEsawVT9A2m7BxAYnGaV2IYeXwL14E4lHfaiDLDHNjlAo2LpiS1Af7xRZTDR84i8St4aWdp73DPnOEYrIHfdQdoWEU69GiI" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maybe since the Maasai showed
such weakness, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone
was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">on 13<sup>th</sup> August
2017 an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. Hundreds of bomas were razed to
the ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCAA rangers and those from OBC,
TAWA, local police, and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally
arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others
protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would
have been implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected
land. Meanwhile the DC and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">not</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
about the 1,500 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about
that, but that village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti
National Park “too easily”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIwm81i_L8M1gxmuxazI-wxxJaIlDusW9t1gEJXKU6kyHpYSJL4tpu-a97GRwWrq5YSrx-D5btDUv0aKF0n86EChN10VPXsVyePAfIu9ogJUu7524lIQ6ePnriZ73yV1HTkP5Y-Ea6LZFUHxrXwEgNu_ZI1zqT6OU50e7jEWGYgSuoxYWnC0D0KpuhHjfw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIwm81i_L8M1gxmuxazI-wxxJaIlDusW9t1gEJXKU6kyHpYSJL4tpu-a97GRwWrq5YSrx-D5btDUv0aKF0n86EChN10VPXsVyePAfIu9ogJUu7524lIQ6ePnriZ73yV1HTkP5Y-Ea6LZFUHxrXwEgNu_ZI1zqT6OU50e7jEWGYgSuoxYWnC0D0KpuhHjfw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oloosek, 13th August 2017.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While Loliondo was burning, implemented
by Serengeti rangers – FZS’s partners - in August 2017, a most revolting
picture was published of the German ambassador at that time, Detlef Wächter.
The picture showed Wächter smilingly handing over buildings for park staff in
Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti National Park, to Minister Maghembe, while commenting
on the long and successful partnership between Germany and Tanzania in
protecting the Serengeti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5LbbUp35qHNXAlOOG1cvK0sflkn0ix_SFWpA4LlqftDwZvfSB51KxYxUneLelgWqzj6oEyQGzcMnki42EnpDnHfMhObz1MM9OuJyDSRVMDqVy5S0snzLb9qFnYN_1y-QED7LIyRzEZXMbx-5p50ol9_f1J2tpfvzKpktz7l4sFHgfq4xDZPegIeGKKcUt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="595" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5LbbUp35qHNXAlOOG1cvK0sflkn0ix_SFWpA4LlqftDwZvfSB51KxYxUneLelgWqzj6oEyQGzcMnki42EnpDnHfMhObz1MM9OuJyDSRVMDqVy5S0snzLb9qFnYN_1y-QED7LIyRzEZXMbx-5p50ol9_f1J2tpfvzKpktz7l4sFHgfq4xDZPegIeGKKcUt" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Hamisi Kigwangalla
came into office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that
OBC would have left Tanzania before 2018, and complained that OBC´s Mollel had
tried to bribe him more cheaply than he bribed his predecessors, but it was
very soon clear that OBC weren’t going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December
2017, Majaliwa delivered his vague but terrifying decision that was about,
through a legal bill, creating a “special authority” to manage the land. He
also said that OBC were staying. The decision was celebrated in the anti-Maasai
press (Manyerere Jackton in the Jamhuri). Implementation was delayed, still no
legal bill has been seen, and it would of course have been contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to a fake account that he
thought was the Twitter account of the Dubai crown prince), then explaining
that only some of OBC’s staff were a problem, and in April the same year, OBC -
once again - gifted the Ministry of Natural Resources of Tourism with 15
vehicles. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3ogGTTn7wiVQu2juGPoIcd-1qkwIh4rB6RESHuG9s2gq0Y1LR1zxF3nPpv9zrvnLsyCDSsaesoOD3WZagd3B67pgDfEmo9caheLVqsLja3L5VTe5n6dQCX4rEp980jeETxKt3JdgMgEHANBE9qOlj67-kBSkarbHL9cKlJx3jWzgFWNa8wm_69kVLlx_f" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="320" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3ogGTTn7wiVQu2juGPoIcd-1qkwIh4rB6RESHuG9s2gq0Y1LR1zxF3nPpv9zrvnLsyCDSsaesoOD3WZagd3B67pgDfEmo9caheLVqsLja3L5VTe5n6dQCX4rEp980jeETxKt3JdgMgEHANBE9qOlj67-kBSkarbHL9cKlJx3jWzgFWNa8wm_69kVLlx_f" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, a military camp
was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually
made permanent with donations from the NCAA, and the soldiers started attacking
and beating apparently random people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and
local police tried to derail the case in the East African Court of Justice
(EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning local
leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for the
applicants' main counsel, Don Deya.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> September
2018 – <b>a year after the illegal operation</b> - the court finally issued an
injunction restraining the government from evictions, destruction, and
harassment of the applicants, but this injunction was soon brutally violated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In November and December 2018,
soldiers from the camp in Lopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and burned
bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan villages. This was the lowest point ever in
the land rights struggle (until the brutal and lawless demarcation of 2022) and
I have still not understood how it could happen without anyone at all speaking
up. Local leaders claimed to fear for their lives and thought that the
brutality was directly ordered by President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January
2019 condemned the crimes in a very vague way, they changed to thinking that
OBC’s director had contracted the soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground. However, the local police state
was not dealt with and following a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was
out, through plea bargaining, and after a while he went back to work. <b>Speculations</b>
about Mollel’s misfortune include his clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and
Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to send a message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman
Kinana (and to Bernard Membe) that nobody is untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) was presented by chief
conservator Freddy Manongi. It included the proposal to annex the 1,500 km<sup>2
</sup>(but in the form of two areas: an elongated area bordering Serengeti in
the entire north to south of Loliondo and Sale divisions, and an area further east
in Malambo, like was done in the illegal demarcation in 2022) and turn it into
a protected area allowing hunting. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal
was met with countless protests from every kind of group of people from NCA,
but near silence from Loliondo where many leaders were pretending that the
threat had been averted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Samia</span></b></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as
new District Executive Director and he started working to kill the court cases
against land grabbing “investors”. Though the village chairmen stood their
ground and Reference No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash
v the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania continued before the
EACJ until it was dismissed in September 2022 (then successfully appealed). The
case against <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> in the Tanzanian court of appeal, however, was in
2022 killed using a law that was introduced after the case was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President Samia Suluhu Hassan
started inciting against the Maasai of Ngorongoro very shortly after being
sworn in, already in a speech on 6<sup>th</sup> April 2021, and has continued
doing so in a way previously not seen in any Tanzanian president, but the focus
of her outburst has been Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Her participation in a travel tv show called “The Royal Tour”, in which heads of state function as
tour guides – described as “authoritarian image management” by the researcher
Alex Dukalskis - and the “5 million tourists by 2025” has almost been turned
into state religion and rural people’s land is under attack all over Tanzania
for “protected areas”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h4 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
the 2022 threats leading up to the brutal illegal demarcation</span></b></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make "a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation". The
leaders, even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people,
refused to accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign
the attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien
there was a public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and
traditional leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxBWneEB_IQ-w-D17Z3HWsL0UFFUpLJMLuxPPGadgdDgyAeDVB4O4OU5Tawbzr4k6rwjpTa0J54xW8pl-BU2w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A contempt of court
application was filed in the East African Court of Justice, since the RC’s
threats were in clear violation of the injunction issued in September 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRR0c7WfwBXeirQWewVQcrWxSWH5KoUpMQsjZEaq82BhVDEyiukiwDHMan-6UHgFldOBu3o4vm8_Qo0Z8SxP6hPNmfrjgqW7F28RL5xIBVQWCMbe_TYhPmnKJbTqO-pl8OKTLfRHufEgNjijm-mZFwpL3lA7BHPKsWwkAadbhzxC5krr0nycxWoFtfSRZO" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="320" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRR0c7WfwBXeirQWewVQcrWxSWH5KoUpMQsjZEaq82BhVDEyiukiwDHMan-6UHgFldOBu3o4vm8_Qo0Z8SxP6hPNmfrjgqW7F28RL5xIBVQWCMbe_TYhPmnKJbTqO-pl8OKTLfRHufEgNjijm-mZFwpL3lA7BHPKsWwkAadbhzxC5krr0nycxWoFtfSRZO" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Village leaders at court.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup> February
2022, in the one-party parliament, parliamentarians competed in being wilfully
or genuinely ignorant, mouth-frothingly hateful, and calling for evictions from
Ngorongoro (Loliondo was mentioned, but mostly NCA). The Mtwara MP screamed
that tanks were needed, there was much laughter and table banging, while only
three MPs (all Maasai) spoke up for the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February
2022, Majaliwa came and was not much better than Mongella, but too
well-received, since something worse was expected, because of a crazy
anti-Maasai hate campaign in parliament and media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February 2022, in NCA, <b>not</b> Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land
to be marked by beacons, “so that we may know the boundaries” – while claiming
that this was NOT a trick! Now we know what the intention was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In late February 2022,
President Samia visited the Expo Dubai 2020 and met with Sheikh Mohammed. <i>“I
would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all to Tanzania, where the
business and investment environment are more than conducive. Come one, come all
to Tanzania.”,</i> the president said, according to the Tanzanian embassy, and
the invitation has been taken up (see DP World, carbon scams etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Minister for Natural
Resources and Tourism Damas Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup> March 2022 re-introduced
Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on the 11th Majaliwa
again mentioned beacons and water projects for Loliondo when informing
parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha, without
people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the
land, among them the Arash ward councillor Mathew Siloma spoke up very clearly
and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa cannot be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz4EcZP-NSUYxcLzQT28FqalAanPfR4kZ-6enfgrmTrSXYbR87UdbJ5XQQt8ot6cfnpPuWLN1euzsWJCsFVjQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March 2022,
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yR13xm_FwlY" width="320" youtube-src-id="yR13xm_FwlY"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Video from 24th March 2018.</div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM councillors that had
spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> were
being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha. The
councillors of Arash and Malambo had to keep reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022, a
committee handed over their reports of “community recommendations” on both NCA
and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo to PM Majaliwa who said that he was
going to work on the recommendations. The Loliondo/Sale report recommended a
stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, investigations into
human rights violations, and the removal of OBC. That was what Majaliwa had to
work with, but instead he stole the land, committed atrocities, and OBC is
still there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwiXhngswGa69BOcBekcliPvlsUr2hIUDVNCwdwMt4pqxQqHS-VUUpFYR-9LEqDSjCXoRO6AJ4Bi8nvQBU-Kc-VOBaF5f7f490mlQrquiL3J_cSk0Rx_XoUO06hCHvCOysnWqaxRK_Osi8phkj7wjmuZnKIiSJpJ9qEc5ivP19Y7P6eEps8Bv0gVIB5zeI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="960" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwiXhngswGa69BOcBekcliPvlsUr2hIUDVNCwdwMt4pqxQqHS-VUUpFYR-9LEqDSjCXoRO6AJ4Bi8nvQBU-Kc-VOBaF5f7f490mlQrquiL3J_cSk0Rx_XoUO06hCHvCOysnWqaxRK_Osi8phkj7wjmuZnKIiSJpJ9qEc5ivP19Y7P6eEps8Bv0gVIB5zeI" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June 2022,
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana in her budget speech
announced that her ministry expected to upgrade Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but
she did this while listing huge areas of Tanzania for the same expectation.
That did not sound believable or realistic in any way, and there was hardly any
reaction, except for an intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai. At
least I could not imagine that anything so brutal and unlawful could happen so
soon, but it did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhccjS874-PFxVvzFkCIN7atSsvyBRe7KDq-oTBcao_eyeLsLoDPWyanuGVF3n-O_ufe5g6F-NPaAE0QZ4Obivllx1tBLaoCqxV-wxpd6rFaH7ACQoi3wfSEhqtRpTRm2nTaE_5mWEdBBwvb-tEkQGMaNqXX8WUaDnyAAt4Ln-QvQdEhuaeuAQRMjL2ODLT" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="1208" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhccjS874-PFxVvzFkCIN7atSsvyBRe7KDq-oTBcao_eyeLsLoDPWyanuGVF3n-O_ufe5g6F-NPaAE0QZ4Obivllx1tBLaoCqxV-wxpd6rFaH7ACQoi3wfSEhqtRpTRm2nTaE_5mWEdBBwvb-tEkQGMaNqXX8WUaDnyAAt4Ln-QvQdEhuaeuAQRMjL2ODLT" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<h4 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
the brutal and illegal demarcation of a fake game reserve</span></b></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
Wasso town was overflowing with security forces that went on to set up camps on
the 90 km stretch from Ololosokwan to Piyaya, and in Malambo. Almost every
Tanzania Regional Police Commissioner vehicle was seen in Loliondo on the day.
The Maasai held prayers and deliberations, and in Kirtalo on the 9<sup>th</sup>
a video clip with the message that they were ready to die for their land was
prepared for Majaliwa. A coordinated threat with vicious propaganda, and the
old lie from 2013, was issued primarily by Arusha RC John Mongella, who had
recorded a message in connection with closed meeting the previous days, and PM
Kassim Majaliwa, assisted by speaker of parliament Tulia Ackson, in parliament.
They were soon joined by many government representatives repeating the same
lie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzD-C835Gx2ItjOnX8J0KiVs2rGPCJhu5maadbhYk_9ayyaIZLq0FE-Lxti9Gdd7NLEqkgRBip7zNsFnzOarg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All councillors from affected
wards – except the Soitsambu councillor who didn’t attend and managed to flee –
two special seats councillors and the CCM district chairman were on 9th June
2022, lured to a meeting by DC Raymond Mwangwala, they were abducted, bundled
in two cars and driven to Arusha overnight. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day illegal land
demarcation – which is what OBC for years has lobbied for - began in a rain of
teargas and bullets. Many Maasai were beaten, slashed by bayonets, hit by
teargas canisters, raped and thousands fled across the border where many of
them continued as refugees for several months, with their cattle. The then
84-years-old Oriais Oleng'iyo was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022 with
bullet wounds and detained by the Field Force Unit few metres away from his
home where security forces were firing fireworks. A police officer was killed
by arrowshot, which the government used to charge – with murder - the
councillors who had been abducted the previous day, obviously without a thought
on investigating the killing. Motorbikes and telephones were destroyed or
stolen by the security forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzeALcw0kpCAe_4RYzOkNXN3t31tGp8EoCjDXpyG3hIk3E20iO-IpQovPjPu7P2dE90qOzr8HIU1D7Zx2ZLaw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDD9YFzl3RIzzic2_e3qmYrHKcK9TLg65AN7ghL2CYb8bJq_hRZ_O2CHQKmqX0agdXhwYx0PQEhJD64gen55Hx6Mfss8HrsN2Y2M-KQ7sqXnEim5T_BR_V0NSy2oARWp0TIgHf8j9QVDljx52JaJPKbFQYCChX718q0cfHnQnoGuZDfffL9VT1MQo6mu7a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjDD9YFzl3RIzzic2_e3qmYrHKcK9TLg65AN7ghL2CYb8bJq_hRZ_O2CHQKmqX0agdXhwYx0PQEhJD64gen55Hx6Mfss8HrsN2Y2M-KQ7sqXnEim5T_BR_V0NSy2oARWp0TIgHf8j9QVDljx52JaJPKbFQYCChX718q0cfHnQnoGuZDfffL9VT1MQo6mu7a" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDEgRvsqh40M3cySxsiL9H9GbjF9PrenQuWmbMjChod-SqoEvKoOnUUh2X4dN-9zLz5NT75VtKpbVKwhkEGlFbC4zh-vYdP1ZJ1D4156mUX_xRXaB8uJn1nFu7nvPsaciTXSkOmixePIjoUMh_sj90uIKhl9I6evR3VqPWtjgjKB6ifP5L0vPk-Rh2RbAZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDEgRvsqh40M3cySxsiL9H9GbjF9PrenQuWmbMjChod-SqoEvKoOnUUh2X4dN-9zLz5NT75VtKpbVKwhkEGlFbC4zh-vYdP1ZJ1D4156mUX_xRXaB8uJn1nFu7nvPsaciTXSkOmixePIjoUMh_sj90uIKhl9I6evR3VqPWtjgjKB6ifP5L0vPk-Rh2RbAZ" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvWBHc6vBI1jKCz4WfmS4i1B_Rx0bs93hsblpcBbUJUyTw24fQ5PIl60hKra6FFrMOcbHLvs2RBT0s7iriswu1_AW4-Qvh2sq-NUtrQ9Ir11WdwFlmpiMTU_JYo0ejGBcGI1ac1GldRZeJ4TK9iuPNG0FuzlcTPYXMhb-1RnXMb441F-RZF-MsMycSKJgl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="749" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvWBHc6vBI1jKCz4WfmS4i1B_Rx0bs93hsblpcBbUJUyTw24fQ5PIl60hKra6FFrMOcbHLvs2RBT0s7iriswu1_AW4-Qvh2sq-NUtrQ9Ir11WdwFlmpiMTU_JYo0ejGBcGI1ac1GldRZeJ4TK9iuPNG0FuzlcTPYXMhb-1RnXMb441F-RZF-MsMycSKJgl" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGtJk4oiB9zVcBi_gJKAX9W1OXqsEITTFL83n07r-I24AphJya0OV9iuNkr0V422kId-H2HPToefyDDF_Yu69UTZlwq6D_5_zFMRXErRFlB0Zfj5MUurECoG-W2ML4fG9z2Xut0-eYK0j0cg84hRUU88quqqvnu_1bwLE3fL3L8gFFPGagGkHHvuwlMWIb" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="720" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGtJk4oiB9zVcBi_gJKAX9W1OXqsEITTFL83n07r-I24AphJya0OV9iuNkr0V422kId-H2HPToefyDDF_Yu69UTZlwq6D_5_zFMRXErRFlB0Zfj5MUurECoG-W2ML4fG9z2Xut0-eYK0j0cg84hRUU88quqqvnu_1bwLE3fL3L8gFFPGagGkHHvuwlMWIb" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loliondo refugees in Kenya.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a hunt for anyone
who could have shared pictures of the crimes (which effectively has been done
by everyone with a smartphone) and ten people, later joined by seven more, were
illegally arrested, eventually, together with the councillors, charged with a
bogus “murder”. The trial kept being postponed for inexistent “investigation”,
there was never any hearing, only postponements, and they continued locked up
in remand prison for well over five months. Three were released for reasons of
health and studies. The flow of information was almost completely cut after the
initial arrests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
Deputy Permanent Representative to the Tanzanian Mission to the UN in Geneva,
Hoyce Temu, in a widely shared clip, denied any state violence, parroting the
malicious and obvious government lie about a “protected area” that had been
“encroached” and about “peaceful talks” with local residents. Meanwhile, the
councillors from affected wards were still abducted at unknown location, and
their whereabouts were only known the following day when they were charged with
“murder”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government representatives
made multiple military style visits landing in helicopter to pose with beacons,
tell lies, and issue threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
then Inspector General of Police Simon Sirro threatened anyone who'd stir things up, and he
particularly mentioned politicians that are using the Maasai for their own
benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgncQyA3F-nRmox0kh03wBXWqKYWCOe4oyZGEOoimUaRKxfZfM6v7oyQm5lPW39-35DbmUUDDeSHRHaV7Ftbeyt58MVdKwEMEYsjToKPxjrxmCCKB8llqkxm19fg_brPto-aC8rKNkCshqGPFXNsRGotBD5eD2Rad9In9ojxdXYyvkf9Vb6APgF3UG30Av7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgncQyA3F-nRmox0kh03wBXWqKYWCOe4oyZGEOoimUaRKxfZfM6v7oyQm5lPW39-35DbmUUDDeSHRHaV7Ftbeyt58MVdKwEMEYsjToKPxjrxmCCKB8llqkxm19fg_brPto-aC8rKNkCshqGPFXNsRGotBD5eD2Rad9In9ojxdXYyvkf9Vb6APgF3UG30Av7" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Minister of Home Affairs,
Hamad Masauni, on 15<sup>th</sup> June 2022, directed Immigration to strengthen
border security and ordered NGOs to be investigated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzN220VkTAG76vE2fAmrGjJrtsOYQTPwQ_aXyy3ieLUSGQUVu6WR7hJIU6nPXdyIRtswDo42lNRe3REk4vKhw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Immigration Commissioner for
Border Control and Administration, Samwel Mahirane on 18<sup>th</sup> June
2022, threatened those that had fled, saying that they are known and will be
dealt with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9Y81sptfPz-h4Qt0R5OibjNu8jYsUND0vIml0Qe_EC3hqy_AqcV4MKAxIO22__PpuaOl9JfyD_zjtj-slR6xpHGa3lE80rwjCa7nIfzfyNjoKFDeFK4HI7vv_Kqn3-0Q6yVfOnS5PaPWju3kAX2sz4MTnDoApYkLMjsw8fiifW5IE_7nIdDMRG-6o0LBz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9Y81sptfPz-h4Qt0R5OibjNu8jYsUND0vIml0Qe_EC3hqy_AqcV4MKAxIO22__PpuaOl9JfyD_zjtj-slR6xpHGa3lE80rwjCa7nIfzfyNjoKFDeFK4HI7vv_Kqn3-0Q6yVfOnS5PaPWju3kAX2sz4MTnDoApYkLMjsw8fiifW5IE_7nIdDMRG-6o0LBz" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Commissioner General of
Immigration, Anna Makakala, on 22nd June announced that there would be 10 days
of flushing out illegal immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgj-HY_eQaj0KSlno-uN_Pnq0f04VTfjFHdQ0Dc0Gqf37_alHIQ3-xLSsUM0GrIanzHUkNOQikzZkyMzwAuolj8yMUR7GWkZd6xK6PxaE7v9lzwqJkSXkEV45GVfrfZptBky9zysuWLr33KTrNqImKNkZCfnUKgDNqYg-qPVEypBkfkQtvBSDmLMzNE_80U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgj-HY_eQaj0KSlno-uN_Pnq0f04VTfjFHdQ0Dc0Gqf37_alHIQ3-xLSsUM0GrIanzHUkNOQikzZkyMzwAuolj8yMUR7GWkZd6xK6PxaE7v9lzwqJkSXkEV45GVfrfZptBky9zysuWLr33KTrNqImKNkZCfnUKgDNqYg-qPVEypBkfkQtvBSDmLMzNE_80U" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minster Pindi Chana without
following any law or procedure declared the illegally demarcated land as
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area” (GN No.421, 2022) on 17<sup>th</sup> June,
which was announced in a zoom meeting on the 22<sup>nd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> June 2022, diplomats (in the best case just unaware) applauded Minister Ndumbaro’s obvious lies about what was
happening. Also present and lying were then Deputy Minister Mary Masanja,
Director of Wildlife Maurus Msuha and Minister of Foreign Affairs Liberata
Mulamula. Though many international organisations condemned the government’s
actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhokkt9DEcIw--SUC5he6xpfiMjMOkaAC7ASVOvj1AZM09YunBxFm-tI7mQfC6dPy4Fn-RbZvHwNdsSEW3kKhed6_KNI1xw2QqSg_5gs8R4baRZT_3cX3JzcY6Y5OcuszwPFHrQS2sXN29kTVMQxox4aiT9a_WGnSevnKTnKc10YTmilhGeYexe_sWEzMEq" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="615" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhokkt9DEcIw--SUC5he6xpfiMjMOkaAC7ASVOvj1AZM09YunBxFm-tI7mQfC6dPy4Fn-RbZvHwNdsSEW3kKhed6_KNI1xw2QqSg_5gs8R4baRZT_3cX3JzcY6Y5OcuszwPFHrQS2sXN29kTVMQxox4aiT9a_WGnSevnKTnKc10YTmilhGeYexe_sWEzMEq" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Mary Masanja greeting the UAE ambassador at the meeting in which diplomats appearesd happy to be told lies.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The much-expected court ruling
in the case filed during the mass arson in 2017, and scheduled for 22</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
June 2022, was the last minute shockingly postponed to September.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also on 22<sup>nd</sup> June, Ngorongoro
MP Emmanuel Oleshangai spoke up telling the national assembly in no uncertain
terms that land in Loliondo is village land, that when we talk about land we
talk about people’s lives, and that what's being done in Loliondo is a land
grab that no person or village government has agreed to. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxH-YUUaWkgKCCkAFfa0kEJ7vhRXxIolII59bAUrEFjZ5lS5s6Tl4cWGj70yaWtjBA9Ytn6vUFwXh_NXQoIaQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> June 2022,
PM Majaliwa led a military celebration of the brutal attack on the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxpSKDomLLFXu0faGQ7Xx18AY7UK50RxjtywkvkxG0TQ8rAcKmb9tB833ossDN_xFCxLkok5k2eSlcUs2T2_Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
people were told to leave within 24 hours or all their livestock would be
confiscated. Houses were demolished or razed. TAWA illegally seized livestock
and demanded extortionate “fines”. The dry season deepened without access to
the most important grazing area. In Ormanie, Arash ward, on 27<sup>th</sup>
June, cows, donkeys, calves, and other livestock were shot by the security
forces. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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thanked Chief of Defence Forces Venance Mabeyo, who was being celebrated on the
day of his retirement, for the help by the army in the Loliondo operation. The
following day, President Sania appointed Mabeyo the board chairperson of
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> July 2022, German
Ambassador Regine Hess met with Arusha RC John Mongella, to talk about the
“cooperation” between the two countries, and the Germans kept showering the
brutal and lawless Tanzanian government with money.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As announced, there were mass
arrests of people accused of being “Kenyan”. Nursing mothers were locked up,
some children had both their parents arrested, but by November every one of the
bogus immigration cases - only meant to terrorize and paralyze - had been
dismissed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 28</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> September
2022, Minister Chana officially announced that the illegally demarcated 1,500
km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> in Loliondo had been placed under the management of the NCAA on 23</span><sup>rd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
August 2022.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> September
the East African Court of Justice dismissed Reference No.10 of 2017 on the
grounds that the Maasai had failed to prove that the mass arson of 2017 was
committed on village land and not in Serengeti National Park. This ruling was
quite inexplicable when even the TANAPA's own map from the illegal operation show that the crime was
committed on village land. Some confused and very unhelpful journalists
confused this with the 2022 operation and reported that the court had “approved
cordoning off” of the land. The ruling was appealed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h4 style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ongoing
crime</span></b></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TAWA, at the height of the dry
season, continued illegal seizures of livestock and extortion of huge fines,
100,000 shillings per cow and 25,000 per sheep or goat. NCAA rangers were
reportedly trained and set up camp. In Malambo, on 8<sup>th</sup> November 2022,
the head of the NCAA camp announced that TAWA had left, and the boundaries were
being guarded by the Field Force Unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> October, or
1st November 2022, it was announced that President Samia had on 14<sup>th</sup>
October declared a Pololeti Game Reserve (GN No.604, 2022). It came as a nasty
surprise for the lawyers that on 1<sup>st</sup> November were in court for the
mention of Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022, even if it seems like it was also
on Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation the previous evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several court cases were filed
to stop the brutal, fake and illegal protected area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 1<sup>st</sup> November, in
an NCA advertorial in the extreme anti-Maasai newspaper the Jamhuri, a
“conservator” for the fake and illegal game reserve – Pius Rwiza - spoke of how
calm and wonderful everything was after the demarcation. He said that the
Maasai understand the demarcation but must keep a further 500 metres away from
it! And he wanted them to create WMAs, outside the illegally demarcated 1,500
km2, which is another kind of land alienation that also was included in the
OBC-funded draft district land use plan that was rejected by Ngorongoro
District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards the end of October
2022, there were reports of a notice issued by the DC about redrawing of
village boundaries with new village land use plans, and some 40 state security
and surveyors on the ground. Through intimidation and government installed traitors,
it was said that the land use plan had been passed, but that would of course
not be legal in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Between 14<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup>
November 2022, nine immigration cases against 62 people who still had such
cases pending after the mass arrests in June and July were discharged for want
of prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> November
2022, it was announced that the Director of Public Prosecution had no intention
to continue with the ridiculous “murder” case against 24 people, including ten
CCM councillors and the CCM district chairman. The leaders were, directly after
being released, whisked off to CCM internal elections to vote for candidates
close to RC Mongella.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> December
2022, in a ceremony with PM Kassim Majaliwa and Minister of Natural Resources
and Tourism Pindi Chana, the German Ambassador to Tanzania Regina Hess handed
over 51 vehicles, part of 20 million euros committed funds by Germany for
emergency funding and recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID19
facilitated by the German development bank, KfW, and Frankfurt Zoological
Society, FZS. The vehicles will be distributed into Serengeti and Nyerere
National Parks and Selous Game Reserve and will have a great impact on
supporting “operations”. In the ceremony Majaliwa mentioned poachers and
“encroaching livestock” as the objectives of those “operations”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_twAvOhjfdFT7v-UlVy1LSkU2avRzSur12rt6yq5xo_y0kd1wIgnL7AuH1rWW2Cx_gNiB7WViQhXgfVvw0PkEH7YXwtFm4535g_D2T2w4k0FSGP8LLjqrm2gaGMO7ghu-O3F5eQbSE2uLmKZFUlizoYSLgSaKTxUVoiH8GHKgUT_tlhHXckrr2Yb4kty1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1600" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_twAvOhjfdFT7v-UlVy1LSkU2avRzSur12rt6yq5xo_y0kd1wIgnL7AuH1rWW2Cx_gNiB7WViQhXgfVvw0PkEH7YXwtFm4535g_D2T2w4k0FSGP8LLjqrm2gaGMO7ghu-O3F5eQbSE2uLmKZFUlizoYSLgSaKTxUVoiH8GHKgUT_tlhHXckrr2Yb4kty1" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanians online – who
since early 2022 had become very sympathetic to the Maasai - toward the end of
2022, unfortunately, again became busy with wildlife trafficking from Loliondo,
without presenting evidence in any form. Even OBC’s Mollel participated in a
zoom seminar organized to deny this – instead of talking about the insanely
brutal and illegal land alienation. However, almost all opposition-minded
Tanzanians continue supportive of the Maasai, which was not the case before
2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Livestock keep being seized,
destroying everyone’s livelihood and mental health. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23<sup>rd</sup> – 28<sup>th</sup>
January 2023, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights visited,
specifically to have a look at Loliondo and Ngorongoro, but the visit was
co-opted by the government and the Commission did not see a single victim from
Loliondo. Salangat Mako from Ololosokwan recorded a message for the Commission
and then had to flee to Kenya for a while after threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyQWN_-VYWJImIUwS1fXUcWMgrYZ8XdrVzLG9VIUcVQsvCWtnP2j2pZsMNY5THMF60qdpq2KEhci2hyLMxEdg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rangers from Bologonja in
Serengeti National Park joined NCAA rangers/FFU in seizing cattle on village
land in Ololosokwan, illegally declared a game reserve, and taking them to
Mugumu for auctioning. They continued with this until they almost lost a court
case and one of them suffered a fatal motorcycle accident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> February
and 30<sup>th</sup> March 2023 meetings meant to legitimize the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
land theft via a Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan for the next 20
years was held at the Ngorongoro District Council Hall in Wasso. This was
openly and shamelessly funded and facilitated by the Germans via FZS. The DC
openly threatened the councillors for being obstacles to the exercise and the
years ago somewhat serious NGO personality Joseph Parsambei openly came out as
a traitor, as did the chairman of Soitsambu Village.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> April 2023,
Tanzanian government lies were presented by Tanzanian UNESCO secretary Prof.
Hamisi Malebo, together with Zuleikha Tambwe of the Tanzania Permanent Mission
to the United Nations. Among other malicious lying there was a demented terra
nullius story that Loliondo had been unoccupied since time immemorial, made a
protected area during colonial times, and “encroached” by the Maasai after
independence. Malebo had already been lying about Loliondo to the African
Commission for Human and People’s Rights and has continued doing so on various occasions,
not least at the UN. Even earlier, he had engaged in stupid/evil lies about
NCA, which he of course also keeps up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> May 2023, a
NCAA ranger was slightly injured by an arrowshot from an unknown hero archer
and there were reports that the rangers stopped patrolling at nighttime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> May 2023
the councillors at Ngorongoro District Council voted in unison to reject in
total the government’s German-facilitated draft 2023-2043 Ngorongoro District
Land Use Framework Plan, even the district council chairman, Marekani Bayo,
who’s a non-pastoralist and for many years has worked as OBC’s community
liaison. However, this individual lied to the press that the reason for the
rejection was that the land use plan wasn’t written in Swahili!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Maasai delegation visited Europe and on 31<sup>st</sup>
May 2023, they attended a public event at the EU Parliament in which they,
there at the same venue, could respond to the usual demented government lies
spewed by Jestas Abouk Nyamanga, Tanzanian ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg,
and European Union Commission and Prof. Hamisi Malebo, Tanzanian UNESCO secretary.
Lawyer Joseph Oleshangay from Endulen, Nengai Kilusu Laizer from Oloirobi, and
Noorkishili Nakero Naing’isa from Ololosokwan were there and spoke the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRbsu3Mg8ApAvfo86ma_kgsTZkUeqSV5NyqjaRtJsjkFgjwhVMF_HzwXppq_AC6CejmjWqf40hplbkRI4hCdAYtSncid7T240lWwcRdSJhOU3e3Y3taNoMLzQYxuFwe-PsK0oplflyM3SPuAs85ygh6ac2zmIF8TeKbn9Fzttx9GRRYk-mhJW3XTUhDZRy" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="936" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRbsu3Mg8ApAvfo86ma_kgsTZkUeqSV5NyqjaRtJsjkFgjwhVMF_HzwXppq_AC6CejmjWqf40hplbkRI4hCdAYtSncid7T240lWwcRdSJhOU3e3Y3taNoMLzQYxuFwe-PsK0oplflyM3SPuAs85ygh6ac2zmIF8TeKbn9Fzttx9GRRYk-mhJW3XTUhDZRy" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noorkishili</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ5IwIBnL9Afy-yiznV0e4XuiFlskNgz4A4zZ3Zh1gSTeksu-RKBgXbk1C1sbt9q5XzfqdhBYCfcfFkES2B48DJiUHNDAryNGB4eFZID9eejfDCpnKtt5ozvaqxsX1yWPu6UN4I7WAyvQ_Jl6kdwGpPwTpzyxBU5JuDh6AAfoKPCTbNGlf-d3-eesZmPTg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ5IwIBnL9Afy-yiznV0e4XuiFlskNgz4A4zZ3Zh1gSTeksu-RKBgXbk1C1sbt9q5XzfqdhBYCfcfFkES2B48DJiUHNDAryNGB4eFZID9eejfDCpnKtt5ozvaqxsX1yWPu6UN4I7WAyvQ_Jl6kdwGpPwTpzyxBU5JuDh6AAfoKPCTbNGlf-d3-eesZmPTg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx0881SmgHwMxpTR5UkEbA92jjQTBFu2sQAhNnFhF19HX23QT9ri01AuJQSQBL0HV0yjhQBt8vSiEAdzg2fOyg0bf6MxtVlLCXvWLzg0NtHv4gnzPhInaI4YdgmyWmywsL5UCboyI956MyPensVMhO-wmiSkrHWEgbm1aSeYvqaHDABZupOaxR0WJD1ILa" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="837" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx0881SmgHwMxpTR5UkEbA92jjQTBFu2sQAhNnFhF19HX23QT9ri01AuJQSQBL0HV0yjhQBt8vSiEAdzg2fOyg0bf6MxtVlLCXvWLzg0NtHv4gnzPhInaI4YdgmyWmywsL5UCboyI956MyPensVMhO-wmiSkrHWEgbm1aSeYvqaHDABZupOaxR0WJD1ILa" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nyamanga and Malebo lying their heads off.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the anniversary of the
brutal and lawless land theft, several local leaders and other victims gave
their testimony of the crimes at a meeting in Mto Wa Mbu, and others had
already been recorded by a fact-finding mission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> August
2023, the high court ruled that Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022, the
case dealing with the president’s GN No.604 of 2022, declaring a “game reserve”
can proceed <b>and prohibited operation of the GN until determination of the case</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EU parliamentarians who were
to visit Ngorongoro and Loliondo were 24 hours before their departure on 4<sup>th</sup>
September 2023, stopped by the Tanzanian government that had invited them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> September
2023, against orders by the Officer Commanding District, Tundu Lissu, held
meetings in Ololosokwan and Wasso, with an overwhelming reception. The
following day he was stopped from accessing NCA where there were ongoing arrests
following peaceful protests and then arrested, later charged with holding
meetings without a permit in Ololosokwan and Wasso.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzmNn3PSt-YxhFpxqtQlcqQQlWRBh7jrSlrDHHM5dy39Q6LI2YPqoYlesOUJ9aAFx8CJhuMvw-ms3v0iBi7MA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Even when under heavy pressure,
the councillors again, on 10<sup>th</sup> September, rejected the draft
2023-2043 Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan. This time they had a
Swahili version. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> September
2023, in the High Court in Arusha, Judge Joachim Tiganga read the ruling in
Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022, the judicial review challenging
former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana's Government
Notice (GN) No.421, of 17<sup>th </sup>June 2022. The ruling is that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the “Pololeti Game Controlled Area” is null
and void for two reasons: mandatory consultation was lacking, and the
president's decision to on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2022 (when court cases
against the minister’s GCA had already been filed) declare a “Pololeti Game
Reserve” on the same land automatically repealed its status. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>The ruling staying the
operation of the game reserve until determination of the case regarding the
president’s GN, together with the ruling declaring minister’s GN null and void
make the seizures of cattle in the illegal “game reserve” also illegal in the
eyes of the High Court, but the Tanzanian government decided to ignore this and
continues with its crimes, and issued its own illogical and very malicious
interpretation of the ruling, saying that the land had reverted back to
Loliondo GCA, which of course never has been a protected area restricting human
activities. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A contempt of court case - Miscellaneous
Civil Application No. 106 of 2023 - was filed against:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Ngorongoro DC Raymond
Mwangwala (since then transferred to Rombo).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-“Pololeti” “conservator” Pius
Rwiza.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Prisca J. Ulomi, Head of the
Government Communication Unit, who signed the letter from the attorney
general’s office with the government’s “interpretation” of the ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Robert Laizer, in charge of
the rangers at Lengijape, Arash.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-David Mkenga, in charge of
the rangers at Klein’s gate, Ololosokwan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Serengeti National Park
rangers again joined the crime, on 26<sup>th</sup> October 2023, seizing cattle
on village land and driving them to Lobo inside Serengeti, rushing to have them
auctioned off as “unclaimed property” while the owners and local leaders were working
hard to have them released. The magistrate court authorized the selling on 31<sup>st</sup>
October, and it went ahead, even after the high court in Musoma issued a stop
order against it on 1<sup>st</sup> November. The auctioning order was reversed
on 10<sup>th</sup> November and Judge Komba ordered the matter to be heard
interparty. There were no receipts from the auctioning that apparently had
started already on 27<sup>th</sup> October. On 7<sup>th</sup> November, MP
Shangai spoke up in parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> November
2023, in just one minute and promising a “reasoned” version for two weeks later,
the judges in the first instance division in the East African Court of Justice
dismissed Application No.2 of 2022, a contempt of court application arising
from Application No. 15 of 2017, filed in September 2017, during the brutal and
illegal mass arson operation on village land that started in August 2017. This inexplicable
ruling was issued even when the applicants’ lawyers were NEVER given a chance
to argue the application in court!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> November,
the Appellate Division of the East African Court of Justice allowed Appeal
No.13 of 2022 and remitted Reference No.10 of 2017 - inexplicably dismissed on 22nd September 2022 -<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">back to the trial court. The
court also awarded costs to the applicants. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the 21<sup>st</sup> – 27<sup>th</sup>
November and 28<sup>th</sup> November – 4<sup>th</sup> December issues of the viciously
anti-Maasai Jamhuri newspaper, the journalist Manyerere Jackton was back
complaining on behalf of OBC, as he had earlier done in over 60 articles. After
every law and every human right was violated to accommodate OBC’s long-term
wish for a 1,500km<sup>2</sup> game reserve, the hunters apparently don’t feel
appreciated enough by NCAA and complain that two other investors are still
allowed in the game reserve, that it’s full of livestock, and basically that
it’s not properly managed by NCAA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Xv5_oJnj6Af_NFHrDcejpJ3U-awWayp6v8dFf8FzrIysR0X6bHqI3IVquo6p4SImHOjG_UxTkupPmjMyiIRctPRyA9BmTp3P-lFCOWP8bgp6qWXcbiXEp-uyu3bbfhedFIPtW5Vu8AFRpLTg53vHP_t5j51FSSm4HLtSsxytkhaf0NFhnVSpNMoDttEm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="708" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Xv5_oJnj6Af_NFHrDcejpJ3U-awWayp6v8dFf8FzrIysR0X6bHqI3IVquo6p4SImHOjG_UxTkupPmjMyiIRctPRyA9BmTp3P-lFCOWP8bgp6qWXcbiXEp-uyu3bbfhedFIPtW5Vu8AFRpLTg53vHP_t5j51FSSm4HLtSsxytkhaf0NFhnVSpNMoDttEm" width="189" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGZrpNL0SbuCV3PpsHgSDpYXFFidTg-a7SxDloyTWPB70zPKtX4YhO2fqcS4xgR6JbZAyZYho1_T185jnCevIIWy8QZMdAvE7-Zh1e0X9z0p2Xt09LNn165jhZlN7cUrnCRRECZkqnUeLOvp42o7xI6PYCJ8lVaMEFCBImsOD8krTo930F7wPidGBrt4h5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1249" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGZrpNL0SbuCV3PpsHgSDpYXFFidTg-a7SxDloyTWPB70zPKtX4YhO2fqcS4xgR6JbZAyZYho1_T185jnCevIIWy8QZMdAvE7-Zh1e0X9z0p2Xt09LNn165jhZlN7cUrnCRRECZkqnUeLOvp42o7xI6PYCJ8lVaMEFCBImsOD8krTo930F7wPidGBrt4h5" width="187" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Already on 28<sup>th</sup>
November NCAA issued a reply to the Jamhuri. Among other issues, NCAA literally
boast about between January and November 2023 having seized 6,165 goats and
sheep, 13,217 heads of cattle, and extorted 785,475,000 TShs in “fines”. <b>An
admission of crime indeed. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 7<sup>th</sup>-11<sup>th</sup>
December, hundreds of women in Ololosokwan held protests about the theft of
land and livestock, and some 1000 cattle that had been detained for over a
week. According to a clip that was later shared, the women had been struggling
for three days to convey their problem to the public. In large number they had
even blocked the road. Though this was during one of many strange silences and infuriatingly
none of the many young men from this village who are active in social media even
shared the video clip. Some tell me that the women themselves could have made sure the video was shared. Someone even added English subtitles, so I don't know what happened. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxRSALpvPAY2Di7jgEJRzef3vKG5297yzRzn7z4J1-QDqcxYSAZ-xFePa3AyCdnkeDHkZpOqMyQ0jkv0YNzAQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14th December 2023, the EU
parliament passed a resolution on the Maasai communities in Tanzania, brought
by six groups of EU parliamentarians. The wording was brief, but very relevant
and factual (unlike a writing almost a decade ago). They urge the Tanzanian
government to halt evictions, allow safe return, respect land right, rule of
law and human rights, allow observation visits etc. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The last days of 2023, Mwanzo TV aired <a href="https://youtu.be/vUfjzY0Jrqg" target="_blank">interviews</a> with former Ngorongoro CCM chairman Ndirango Laizer, Megweri
Mako from Ololosokwan who’s one of the court applicants against the criminal
government, <a href="https://youtu.be/nwlm8E6QEAI" target="_blank">and the activist Norkirropil Moko Kurtut</a>. The wonderful Noorkishili
Naing'isa was also interviewed, but that’s still not online. Everyone else was
silent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The strange Loliondo silence
continues. This is very demoralizing and terribly hurtful when done by some
individuals who’ve kept it up for a long time now. Earlier silences have been
explained by anything between that all was too terrible, and nobody knew what
to say, or that (like sometimes last year) cattle entered the stolen land with
smaller payments to the rangers. In January 2024 there have been undetailed
reports of cattle seizures in Malambo, but I hope that the temporary stay of
operation of the “game reserve” by the High Court has had some effect. Apparently,
meetings about community strategy have been held. Currently the problem is
flooding and not access to dry season grazing. On 22<sup>nd</sup> January, in
the High Court there was the contempt of court case and the Substantive
Application for Judicial Review, but both were rescheduled for April. Whatever is
happening and however demoralizing it may be, I will continue reporting about
the brutal Loliondo crime until the land is returned and after that I will for
the rest of my life keep reminding of what happened so that it’s never
repeated. Now when I have this summary to refer to, I hope I can publish
briefer and more frequent blog posts. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please
contact me with any questions about Loliondo. Never guess and never copy
hurriedly written newspaper articles, or even reports by serious organizations,
without double checking. Also, please contact me with any information you may
have. Don’t assume that I’m getting it automatically. I must chase people 24-7
for information. While anyone with good intentions is allowed to use anything
written in my blog, and I’ve long ago understood that many fear being
associated with me, I appreciate being given credit or at least having my blog
linked to.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-63396270510710881202023-12-20T19:29:00.046+01:002024-03-16T12:36:26.071+01:00Good and Bad Court News, Terrible Silences, Helpful Support and Continuing Injustice and Crime in Loliondo and Ngorongoro<p><br /></p><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who can stop
the cruel and lawless Tanzanian government, each day more determined to finish
off the Maasai of Loliondo and Ngorongoro, and apparently all Tanzanians whose
home, livelihood and culture depend on land that’s of interest to the greedy
and destructive tourism industry?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The nightmare
continues. Decades of land rights struggle in Loliondo could not protect the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> - essential for lives and livelihoods - from a government
high on tourist cult and the blood of pastoralists, lobbied by OBC that
organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai and that for many years have
wanted their favourite hunting area taken from the Maasai and turned into a
protected area, which has led to extrajudicial mass arson in 2009 and 2017, and
a local police state full of fear, before the worst nightmare became real in
2022. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2022,
all councillors from affected wards were abducted right before the brutal and
lawless demarcation started and locked up for over five months, charged with
“murder” – without any attempt at prosecution, only postponements, until the
case was dropped - together with people arrested for sharing pictures of the
violence, but charged with “murder”, they too</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">detained without fair trial
until the charges were dropped over five months later. Beacons were planted in
a rain of teargas and bullets, security forces were beating, slashing with
bayonets, cutting, raping, and arresting people. Thousands fled to Kenya,
hundreds were arrested and 62 were charged with bogus immigration cases that
were dismissed – without any prosecution - months later. The security forces
destroyed houses, stole motorcycles and smartphones, seized and even shot
livestock. Oriais Oleng'iyo who was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
with bullet wounds and held by security forces, has still not been brought back
to his family, and the enforced disappearance case filed by his son was on 17<sup>th</sup>
May 2023 dismissed by the judge, on ground that the police were likely not
responsible for the operation but the Minister of Natural Resource and Tourism
who was not sued in this enforced disappearance case.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To further
finish off the Maasai, driving them into abject poverty, rangers have kept
lawlessly seizing, fining, and even auctioning livestock. Some of the seized
livestock are being slaughtered by the rangers. Though apparently these crimes
have stopped in December. Partly because of fewer livestock in the area due to
good rains, and hopefully because of legal action. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported
in the previous blog post, the government keeps on disrespecting court orders
after the High Court ruled that the “Pololeti Game Controlled Area” is null and
void for two reasons: mandatory consultation was lacking, and the president's
decision to on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2022 (when court cases against the minister’s
GCA had already been filed) declare a “Pololeti Game Reserve” on the same land
automatically repealed its status. And the operation of “Pololeti Game Reserve”
is stopped by the court until determination of the case regarding the president’s
GN, which means the Game Controlled Area is non-existent and operation of the Game
Reserve has been stayed (suspended) by the Court pending determination of Misc
Civil Cause No 18 of 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Women in
Ololosokwan have held a big protest that wasn’t reported about by anyone from this
village!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile, in
the East African Court of Justice, the most demented ruling dismissed the
contempt of court case (the one arising from Application No. 15 of 2017), but
the appellate division allowed the retrial of the almost equally demented ruling
that in September 2022 dismissed the case about the illegal mass arson
operation of 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then OBC’s
“journalist”, after achieving the long-lobbied for, brutal and illegal land
alienation, is back with complaints on behalf of the “investor”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ngorongoro
division (Ngorongoro Conservation Area) – that should <b>NOT</b> be confused
with Loliondo/Sale – insane restrictions, blocking of permits and harassment
continue with the aim of making the Maasai relocate “voluntarily”, while
propaganda about Msomera goes on. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup>
December it was announced that the blood-soaked criminal Raymond Mwangwala has
been transferred to Rombo district in Kilimanjaro region and new Ngorongoro DC
is colonel Wilson Christian Sakullo, previously Missenyi DC. Good riddance!
Only that every time I say this, the new DC is even worse …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also on 14<sup>th</sup>
December, the EU parliament passed a resolution in strong support of the Maasai
of Loliondo and Ngorongoro. As expected, the government responded with more
lies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I will very
soon publish a summary of the history of the Loliondo hunting block, for
reference, since these terribly delayed blog posts are getting too long.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog
post:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cattle
rustling and auctioning scandal in court in Musoma<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Other crime
against livestock since the latest blog post<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153935897"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Women’s
protest and men’s silence in Ololosokwan<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153935897;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC are still
complaining, and their own private “journalist” is back<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA responds
to the Jamhuri and proudly admits its cruellest crimes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hooligan
judges dismiss contempt of court application in the East African Court<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A significant
win in the appellate division of the East African Court of Justice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Other court
cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sportswashing
in the Serengeti<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Denis Moses
speaking at TEC meeting <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The notorious
Germans<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Better German
behaviour awarding Joseph Oleshangay<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
division<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">COP28<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The big green
snake<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Case against
Sifa Bujune dismissed<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EU parliament
passes resolution in support of the Maasai<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The usual
government statement with shameless lies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">RIP Michèle
Rivasi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <span style="color: #800180;">Brief updates added at the end.</span></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: red;">Rest in peace Lemayian ole Taiko</span></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most of these
issues should have their separate blog post. There’s a lot more to say about
all of them, and some are here mentioned far too briefly. Some information is so vague
or difficult to obtain that it is paralysing the blog.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I may/must add some more links and pictures after publishing the blog post.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAte5vezvfG-S2gxQ30AGRn0xaKsJyxojEPhLJ2AaoJJS4uGlDP3JxTrjpcpfhZXLfnd0gb1CTX6xixGGEyXVeSU1pnYyN5hAkvhZbrQFIXxBr8LMMdS1iXW9XYT61iuLeL58YjcHZsJQVSqZOhZ5adGn5EpkFULk25l8zMfYCEQ-5usUTc9YRnCJWHpM1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1581" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAte5vezvfG-S2gxQ30AGRn0xaKsJyxojEPhLJ2AaoJJS4uGlDP3JxTrjpcpfhZXLfnd0gb1CTX6xixGGEyXVeSU1pnYyN5hAkvhZbrQFIXxBr8LMMdS1iXW9XYT61iuLeL58YjcHZsJQVSqZOhZ5adGn5EpkFULk25l8zMfYCEQ-5usUTc9YRnCJWHpM1" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sight that upsets OBC and its "journalist".</td></tr></tbody></table><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cattle rustling
and auctioning scandal in court in Musoma<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/10/partial-victory-for-maasai-of-loliondo.html" target="_blank">previous </a>(old!) blog post, on 26<sup>th</sup> October 2023, TANAPA rangers
from Serengeti National Park (SENAPA) entered village land - illegally turned
into a protected area in 2022, the operation of which is currently stopped by
the High Court - in Kirtalo, Oloipiri and Loosoito/Maaloni to rustle cattle. Later
it was reported that they also attacked Arash. The herders were forced at
gunpoint to drive cattle, sheep and goats to the Lobo ranger post far inside
the park, which took around four hours, and to build fences. When entering
SENAPA, at the same time you leave Arusha region and enter Mara region, which
is why the case is handed to a court at the other side of the national park,
usually in Mugumu, which allegedly is more likely to order auctioning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day, cattle
owners, together with village and ward leaders, were held up at Klein’s gate
until finally allowed to pay for a permit (they have the permit number) to
enter SENAPA. At Lobo they met with a TANAPA/SENAPA representative called Shayo
but were not allowed to count the livestock. Their main concern was about how
to pay fines to have the livestock released. They had obviously not done
anything wrong. The criminals were the TANAPA rangers, but there were calves at
home, left without their mothers, and they needed to suckle. The agreement was that this
Shayo was to check with his superiors, but after the owners and the local
leaders left Lobo, he no longer answered his phone, and neither did any other
TANAPA representatives. They went to the TANAPA offices in Serengeti where
authorities refused to cooperate. Then they contacted the Ngorongoro MP
Emmanuel Oleshangai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shangai on 29<sup>th</sup>
October phoned and sent messages to Serengeti senior park warden Moronda
Moronda and to the acting head of TANAPA Musa Kuji asking them how the
livestock owners should go about paying the fines. He did not get any reply.
The MP also asked if TANAPA had filed any court case, and Moronda replied that
they were thinking about filing and would inform the MP about the court. Then Moronda
stopped replying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shangai got in contact with
Danstan Kitandula, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism who asked
him to send him a Whatsapp message with the details of the case so that he
could follow up, which the MP did. The deputy minister did indeed follow up and
informed Shangai that the SENAPA authorities had opened an investigation file
in Mugumu and were the same day going to court to find out the procedures by
which the livestock owners could pay for their own animals. The MP informed the
livestock owners that they had to attend Mugumu Magistrate’s Court, but when
the TANAPA/SENAPA officials found out that they were in Mugumu, they instead
went to Musoma to file a case asking the court to auction off the livestock as
unclaimed property. The livestock owners and local leaders heard about this at
midnight and in the morning, they went to Musoma to ask if there was an ongoing
livestock case, which court officials denied while preventing them from
entering the courtroom. After five minutes, they saw SENAPA rangers leaving
with a court broker called Maulid who was asked to announce that the livestock
would be auctioned before 10am on 31<sup>st</sup> October. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4tzAIQJWjQ5dQlnnCyFkL0qtl7-ou7vOk5gJ_zjtPJ1BEJeIYwfWpL3FpVmQUERsQJ-LtyvHScng6KVnm1kJY9-8Hchfzl7bAN5YCzp4WK4gW8FmNNDgzSsi5XFWr5AYavJcZKJOm2E2xC6nttC_z7B6nqZTujzg2Qd0rn4Ht9u19o4VDtlNBm-QpTzGG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4tzAIQJWjQ5dQlnnCyFkL0qtl7-ou7vOk5gJ_zjtPJ1BEJeIYwfWpL3FpVmQUERsQJ-LtyvHScng6KVnm1kJY9-8Hchfzl7bAN5YCzp4WK4gW8FmNNDgzSsi5XFWr5AYavJcZKJOm2E2xC6nttC_z7B6nqZTujzg2Qd0rn4Ht9u19o4VDtlNBm-QpTzGG" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MP was communicating with
the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Angellah Kairuki, who sent him a
message that 806 cows, 420 sheep and 100 goats had been seized in Serengeti NP
and there was a case in the High Court. This number did not correspond with
what the livestock owners knew, which was 1033 cattle and 750 sheep and goats.
They had found out that the rangers had been selling livestock since 27<sup>th</sup>
October and that was the reason that they were not allowed to count them at
Lobo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> October,
the Resident Magistrate Court in Musoma, Magistrate Marley (Application Case
No. 10 o 2023) ordered the auctioning of the livestock held at Lobo as
unclaimed property. The livestock owners sought and got a stop order from Judge
Komba at the High Cort in Musoma on 1<sup>st</sup> November. Despite this,
Maulid Court Broker went on to auction off the remaining cattle! As seen by the
communication with Shangai, the Minister and Deputy minister of Natural
Resources and Tourism were being informed of what was taking place. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW46VDYi55h89EceRtbjDJaW_H2vqeOPnpu7sYETzuYmUmWnWr8KHtQ2OBqNfoxAV7Krmb1mduI9oWnn4k-j6ZZBOXmRdChGC6Ofa305wU8klZ0V7dkQifPcNwBwl2bnOLIC5jgt-APscyKuyycM4eIsdeTFXTWlYLyxxtDGIVnJtZuDq7XJTng_QynI_0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1057" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW46VDYi55h89EceRtbjDJaW_H2vqeOPnpu7sYETzuYmUmWnWr8KHtQ2OBqNfoxAV7Krmb1mduI9oWnn4k-j6ZZBOXmRdChGC6Ofa305wU8klZ0V7dkQifPcNwBwl2bnOLIC5jgt-APscyKuyycM4eIsdeTFXTWlYLyxxtDGIVnJtZuDq7XJTng_QynI_0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 7<sup>th</sup> November,Shangai
<a href="https://youtu.be/QGfp-BaHK-c" target="_blank">spoke up</a> in parliament about the ongoing crimes against pastoralists all over
the country and specifically about Loliondo/Sale and NCA. On 8<sup>th</sup>
November several human rights and indigenous rights organizations issued a
statement against the violations of pastoralists' rights and violations of
court orders. On 9<sup>th</sup> November MP Shangai <a href="https://youtu.be/72Jsb8ZU-yU" target="_blank">told the press</a> of his questions
regarding the cattle rustling rangers. His impression was that the rangers
themselves were buying the livestock and sabotaging the president’s effort in
her fight against poverty, precipitating the pastoralists into acute poverty.
Such talk about the president is somewhat embarrassing when it’s crystal clear
that it’s her personal anti-pastoralism and tourism cult that has led to this
situation that’s worse than ever before. Despite being unable to free himself
from the big green snake, CCM, Shangai has repeatedly defended his constituency
in parliament. Though I’ve been told that his behaviour outside parliament is
less impressive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minister Angellah Kairuki (I
have earlier misspelt her name as “Kariuki”) and Speaker Tulia Ackson on 9<sup>th</sup>
November largely acknowledged what the Ngorongoro MP has said, while adding that
it was an ongoing court case and they needed to follow up to be able to say
anything about the allegations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> November
Judge Komba delivered a ruling at the High Court in Musoma (Criminal Revision
No. 8 of 2023). Since there were no receipts, there was no evidence that
auctioning had taken place – I’ve been told that the rangers must now present
the livestock that were indeed sold, but without evidence - and the judge found
that procedures had not been followed since the respondents were in a hurry to auction
off the livestock. He reversed the auctioning order of 31<sup>st</sup> October
and ordered the matter to be heard interparty (instead of exparty when the
livestock owners were not present, or actually avoided). Since that I’ve been
totally unable to obtain any updates about the Musoma case. Someone mentioned
having heard that it was being conducted in writing since 6<sup>th</sup>
December, but otherwise there’s just a terrible silence, and promises of
information that I can’t wait for any longer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 12<sup>th</sup> November, the
press was invited when people of Mondorosi village handed over 95 cows and 339
goats/sheep to villagers whose livestock have been stolen on 26<sup>th</sup>
October and auctioned off. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>260 (210?) cattle
belonging to the boma of Mzee Lengume have been taken, in the Orkimbai area of
Kirtalo, precipitating 17 households into acute poverty. Mondorosi, as a
village, is not one of those that have lost land to the illegal 1,502 km<sup>2</sup>
protected area, but still depend on this stolen land. Mondorosi (and Sukenya)
has a problem with the American company <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> claiming an “Enashiva Nature
Refuge” on its land. The village chairman Joshua Makko spoke up with
seriousness on the 12<sup>th</sup>, like he for years and under threat used to
speak up about Thomson Safaris, until he was compromised in 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0nzqwI_UKf01r1bjmDz93VCkj-bHwOyVeJMpL-JWp-xXF48J-HItInlI8sMTk0EQ_3JL7CX82TpGJbBnVCabpHaiwXikpffLHbdf40DIjD4DGkQoeL_Em9kMIvjk1V1EF5gbkqpWCg0WOSVIOSsECluAZ74UlxFOWpGxcfLh_OoiVxKGWSK5RZ4LEY7ar" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0nzqwI_UKf01r1bjmDz93VCkj-bHwOyVeJMpL-JWp-xXF48J-HItInlI8sMTk0EQ_3JL7CX82TpGJbBnVCabpHaiwXikpffLHbdf40DIjD4DGkQoeL_Em9kMIvjk1V1EF5gbkqpWCg0WOSVIOSsECluAZ74UlxFOWpGxcfLh_OoiVxKGWSK5RZ4LEY7ar" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mondorosi</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Auctioning of cattle is the
worst kind of tragedy. From what I’ve understood, it’s much worse than getting
deep into debt – there are opportunistic lenders specializing in this – by
paying illegal and extortionate “fines”, and maybe even worse than losing the
land, since the land isn’t taken away, but will be returned at the same time as
justice returns, and can be accessed at night, when rangers for any reason are
less aggressive, or when temporary court orders are respected. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is not the first case of
auctioning by rangers. The first time in Loliondo was in September 2017 and
previously unheard of in a district with pastoralist majority. Though that time
many of the victims bought their own cattle. There was a terrible case in December
2022, affecting Arash, failed attempts by rangers from the Bologonja ranger
post earlier this year, and the same ranger crime is committed in other areas
of Tanzania. TANAPA rangers from Ruaha National Park are apparently the worst
and have also a habit of killing herders! On 28<sup>th</sup> October, Zengo
Dotto from Mwanawala in Mbarali district was shot to death when attempting to
stop Ruaha NP rangers from driving cattle into the national park. In 2020,
Zengo’s brother Ulandi was murdered in the same way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153648220"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Other
crime against livestock since the latest blog post<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153648220;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported in the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/10/partial-victory-for-maasai-of-loliondo.html" target="_blank">previous</a> blog post, after the minister’s GN declaring a “Pololeti GCA” was on 19<sup>th</sup>
September found null and void by the High Court, following the president’s GN declaring
a “Pololeti GR” (which must be declared null and void for the same reasons) was
on 18<sup>th</sup> August stayed of operation (suspended) until determination of
the case, the Tanzanian government has been committing blatant contempt of
court also against these orders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The NCAA (Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, that's managing the stolen land in Loliondo/Sale) rangers - assisted by
Serengeti rangers – continued illegally seizing livestock in November, but in
December I haven’t heard of any cases. Judging from previous silences this does
not necessary mean that such crimes are no longer being committed, but now I
have been told that livestock are indeed no longer being seized. Since there
have been good rains and there’s grass elsewhere, not that many are on the
brutally stolen land, so it’s difficult to know if legal action has finally had
an any impact on NCAA, or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The loss of livestock and
impoverishment has been horrible in Loliondo after most of the grazing land,
and particularly dry season grazing land, was stolen by the government right
before the bad dry season of 2022, expecting the Maasai to just squeeze into
remaining areas where there’re two towns with district headquarters,
agricultural areas, forest reserves, and Thomson Safaris’ ugly land grab. Many
have got into terrible debt since first TAWA rangers and then those from NCAA
(after the illegal protected area was placed under their management), assisted
by police and Serengeti rangers, have been extorting from livestock owners a
demented 100,000 TShs per head of cattle and 25,000 per sheep or goat for
grazing on their own land. Grazing has only been possible like thieves at
night, when large predators become a much more acute threat than at daytime.
After the High Court ruling on 19<sup>th</sup> September 2023, daytime grazing
started again. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned (see <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/10/partial-victory-for-maasai-of-loliondo.html" target="_blank">previous</a> blog post,) the government issued its own malicious interpretation of
the court orders. In short, this consisted of claiming that the stay of
operation of the “Pololeti Game Reserve” meant that the land reverted to
Loliondo Game Controlled Area and – to the malicious part – this would
mean that grazing of livestock was not permitted without a special permit from
the director of wildlife. Loliondo GCA has always been village land and never
restricted human activities. The government’s “reasoning” would imply that everyone
in Wasso and Loliondo towns, not least the DC, should be arrested for
trespassing. The statement with this “interpretation” was signed by Prisca J.
Ulomi from the office of the attorney general who was then sued for contempt of
court together with ex-DC Raymond Mwangwala, “Pololeti” “conservator” Pius
Rwiza, Robert Laizer, in charge of the rangers at Lengijape, Arash and David
Mkenga who’s in charge of the rangers at Klein’s gate, Ololosokwan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 27<sup>th</sup> October,
the government tried its malicious interpretation in court. The
Director of Public Prosecutions sought to auction off 48 heads of cattle, 304
sheep and 350 goats that has been seized grazing in Loliondo Game Controlled
Area, village land in Arash. This application was withdrawn on 1<sup>st</sup>
November since it had no legal ground at all. Instead, the hurried auctioning
of livestock in contempt of court went on in Musoma (see above).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> October, high
numbers of cattle were seized in Malambo, Irkarian and Sanjan by the criminal
NCAA rangers, and released after extortionate “fees” were paid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ndutu, Ngorongoro division
(NCA, <b>not</b> Loliondo/Sale), on 1<sup>st</sup> November, rangers attempted
to drive cattle into Serengeti. Herders that first were hiding when they saw
the NCAA vehicle approaching got out to stop the crime and the rangers instead
arrested five warriors that were released after paying 300,000 TShs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> November, the
NCAA cattle rustling rangers again seized cattle in Ololosokwan and Arash. Some
1,000 cows that I think were released after “fines” were paid. On 10<sup>th</sup>
November, the rangers seized some 100 cows in Arash ward, but released them
after being given a bribe of 2 million TShs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> November, I
got a photo of cattle that had been seized in Ololosokwan, but without any information
on exactly where, how, or whose. Then there have been no more reports. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhslW8UzTzbx_qzxhHilwawSpimdDARwpjuXbm3uFuKSUzROAbCFobwJWYVHvxyje0WInA6tky6BtPRV3ya76cRS5OxouDTu08aZRuFwBXXxAPvjHHJl4-qqlxKgDjZ5WrR0vXug5q61XYDaLDhXB_OHqaxOkImaHxoeYgxOfNJHi7EdC26s27rJFpbA1t_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhslW8UzTzbx_qzxhHilwawSpimdDARwpjuXbm3uFuKSUzROAbCFobwJWYVHvxyje0WInA6tky6BtPRV3ya76cRS5OxouDTu08aZRuFwBXXxAPvjHHJl4-qqlxKgDjZ5WrR0vXug5q61XYDaLDhXB_OHqaxOkImaHxoeYgxOfNJHi7EdC26s27rJFpbA1t_" width="180" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a statement regarding an
article in the Jamhuri, on 28<sup>th</sup> November (see below), NCAA was <b>boasting</b>
about between January and November 2023 having seized 6,165 goats and sheep,
13,217 heads of cattle, and extorted 785,475,000 TShs in “fines”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Women’s
protest and men’s silence in Ololosokwan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">7<sup>th</sup>-11<sup>th</sup>
December, hundreds of women in Ololosokwan held protests about the theft of
land and livestock, and some 1000 cattle that had been detained for over a
week. This was after all literate on the ground activists had gone silent in
social media. The latest information I got was vague, so vague that it’s
unusable, and about cattle seized on 29<sup>th</sup> November. According to a
clip that was later shared, the women had been struggling for three days to convey
their problem to the <b>public</b>. In large number they had even blocked the
road. Nobody on the ground in Ololosokwan could have missed their protests –
but still <b>none</b> of the social media dwellers from Ololosokwan reported
anything – and they are many and all male. Only one of the braver kind of NGO
representatives (from Ngorongoro division, not Ololosokwan or even Loliondo)
shared the clip on Twitter on 16<sup>th</sup> December, but without detailing
from when it was. Though it had subtitles in English and was obviously meant to be shared internationally, when it wasn't even shared by anyone from the village ... I tried in vain to get in touch with him, but he was not
online. The mention of Bologonja where cattle were locked up earlier this year,
and the fact that nobody else was sharing the clip, or sharing any information
at all, made me unsure. On the 19<sup>th</sup> a newsletter in English by some
NGO people (I don’t know exactly who) detailed that the protests were held 7<sup>th</sup>
– 11<sup>th</sup> December, which made me madly furious about the silence. Then
I’ve got some “explanations” that are so confused that I can’t even write about
them, or maybe it’s I that don’t understand. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz5TwfPNlp4_1sozNmBTQllq5xPyPGBRYSSjkwYv4U27nnc889_UATIgJgDLD371EhTjRt8d0WoOdVZ2AQf9w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC are still
complaining, and their own private “journalist” is back<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> November,
the “journalist” Manyerere Jackton in the Jamhuri newspaper, as he’s done in
over 60 articles, was again writing about Loliondo on behalf of OBC. Since
around 2010, with increased activity when Kagasheki’s threat was stopped in
2013, and whenever OBC long-time plan to have the Maasai evicted from the
1,500km<sup>2</sup> of grazing land was felt as endangered, and with apparent
contented silence when major human rights crimes were being committed, this
“journalist” has viciously incited against the Maasai as destructive and
non-Tanzanian, and published lists of hundreds of Maasai, private individuals,
that his sources regard as “Kenyan”. Jackton has gone as far as claiming that
70% of the Loliondo Maasai are not Tanzanian. He has in the most deranged way
slandered anyone suspected of being able to speak up for land rights. Besides
running OBC’s errands, he’s filled up his articles with his own fabrications,
sometimes for no apparent reason at all. Around 2016-2018, he was openly
boasting about being directly involved in illegal arrests of innocent people
and used to send me triumphant one-liners when someone had been arrested. After
OBC’s director Isaack Mollel in 2019 was locked up in remand prison and
extorted for plea bargaining, Jackton was much toned down, and after Mollel was
out and back at work, the plan of getting rid of the Maasai had already started
to look more promising, and there were no longer many articles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIJ3iAwT-u_M9w-C3GHg4tp-X9zMYqfVHrZrhoKEbZmlZUADPydQg26h2ETFq0sne45qX0049LhAIE4KMvIJJhOUlx7hh4oGxQe7nMpkDjMRbbUmjDT7TB1D2df8VW0S4alkDFhH_JCrn-vJmk3fGNkpzSlx-mr1InBuci4GOrinuWAqTociSHzs2Wq6Iu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="708" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIJ3iAwT-u_M9w-C3GHg4tp-X9zMYqfVHrZrhoKEbZmlZUADPydQg26h2ETFq0sne45qX0049LhAIE4KMvIJJhOUlx7hh4oGxQe7nMpkDjMRbbUmjDT7TB1D2df8VW0S4alkDFhH_JCrn-vJmk3fGNkpzSlx-mr1InBuci4GOrinuWAqTociSHzs2Wq6Iu" width="189" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC, after having achieved the
brutal and totally lawless eviction of the Maasai from the preferred hunting
area, and the creation of a fake and illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve”, have
again obviously directed themselves with complaints to their own personal
“journalist”. Apparently OBC don’t feel they are being appreciated enough and
the worry is that NCAA, that are managing the illegal protected area since
September 2022, are favouring other investors, namely &Beyond (Klein’s
Camp) and Taasa Lodge. <b>This is all a squabble between spoilt criminals
operating on brutally and illegally stolen land.</b> They must all be chased
away when the land is returned!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The South African &Beyond
used to have a contract with Ololosokwan, that was basically legit, but more
problematic than described by some neoliberal researchers that have since
become even worse. &Beyond (CC Africa) got hold of 25,000 acres (101km<sup>2</sup>)
fraudulently grabbed by another investor in the early 1990s. In 1999 they
handed back the land to the village and instead leased it, which even when the
government and OBC saw the contract as “illegal” went on until the brutal and
illegal demarcation as a protected area in 2022. There have sometimes been
emergencies when &Beyond was perceived to be scheming something, elite
capture, or when they’ve wanted the whole area, and not only around the camp to
be free of livestock. Now Klein’s camp is found in the fake and illegal game
reserve and fees are no longer being paid to the village.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Taasa Lodge (formerly Buffalo
Luxury Camp) were operating in a more illegitimate way. In 1982, a supposed
tourism investor called Jubilate Munis grabbed 60 acres (0.24km<sup>2</sup>) of
Ololosokwan village land and then he disappeared. In 2007, appeared the
presumed brothers Ally Msami and Hussein Ali claiming to be the sons of
Jubilate Munis, which was <b>highly</b> unlikely, but they became friends with
the councillor at the time, stayed despite of protests and built Buffalo Luxury
Camp, managed by Unique Safaris. They entered a partnership with the two
Americans Jim Roane and Peter Taunton. There was a disagreement, including a
court case, and eventually Ally and Hussein left Buffalo Luxury Camp that
changed its name to Taasa Lodge. Taasa started scheming to obtain a lease for a
7,000 acres (28km<sup>2</sup>) private concession from Ololosokwan village,
working with the village government and employing many local people. For some
time in late 2017, they were lying to their clients that they already had such
a concession. However, that kind of lease was already before the massive
illegal land alienation in 2022, simply not compatible with local pastoralists' livelihoods, and Taasa were directed to use the same area as &Beyond. Now,
when writing this blog post, I had a look at their website, and saw that they
are lying that they are operating in a WMA! I also discovered that I’m blocked
from Taasa’s Facebook page. Other problems with this investor are reports of
involvement in the seizing of livestock, which the manager, Melau Laltalia (a
Maasai from Makame in Kiteto) denies in private messages. Like &beyond.
Taasa are now operating in the fake and illegal game reserve. Apparently,
representatives from Ololosokwan have managed to meet the owner Jim Roane and
the Tanzania director Ian le Roux to complain about the manager’s work as a
government informant about livestock and threats against local leaders, and
they are waiting for feedback. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlEecnadWez371ORCitB0n33-GgyUdnSw747yIH73h-YSB3BXQGGvHMh84vrRs9p1Ctj4WOr_ZZMCPCRX1_aGqXq-Bxm9oFG_mqSbFt9vNDhPYaS5-uqcqyraV09v9x-u7fCjZFJR7WxPMMD3PnbWc8gdp-inOzzt0Sghz5b1Cx4Gmqs9jBeNcEgg2Bsn_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="1813" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlEecnadWez371ORCitB0n33-GgyUdnSw747yIH73h-YSB3BXQGGvHMh84vrRs9p1Ctj4WOr_ZZMCPCRX1_aGqXq-Bxm9oFG_mqSbFt9vNDhPYaS5-uqcqyraV09v9x-u7fCjZFJR7WxPMMD3PnbWc8gdp-inOzzt0Sghz5b1Cx4Gmqs9jBeNcEgg2Bsn_" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In short, since it’s not what
I should be losing my time on, OBC’s complaint that’s put forward by Manyerere Jackton
in the article, is that they have the hunting block, that’s now reduced to the
brutally and illegally demarcated game reserve <b>just like they’ve been
lobbying for since at least 2009</b>, and no tourism investors should be
operating there without their permit, but this is something they were
complaining about long before they got their illegal game reserve. Further,
some NCAA people, during the illness of the terribly cruel, anti-Maasai former
chief conservator Freddy Manongi, are supposed to have presented a zoning
proposal that would reduce the area where hunting is allowed to “only” 799 km<sup>2</sup>.
The “journalist” claims to have talked with the new chief conservator Richard Kiiza
and with the Permanent Secretary of Natural Resources and Tourism, Hassan
Abbas, but that those two haven’t heard anything about such a zoning proposal. Further,
Jackton claims that sources from the ministry have told him that OBC’s yearly
fee has been raised from 60,000 US dollars for the 4,000 km2 Loliondo GCA to 500,000
US dollars for the 1,500 km2 “Pololeti GR”, to discourage the investor, who was
not discouraged. That raise seems <b>cheap</b> for the government breaking
every law and violating every human right to accommodate OBC’s long-term wish
for a 1,500km<sup>2</sup> game reserve. OBC’s director Mollel is quoted saying
that the fees have been paid, but that OBC are not being granted their “rights”
via any letter of recognition. Apparently, they have now got a lease of 15
years, starting January 2023. Remember that in 1993, 10 years was a scandal … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most worrying is that Jackton
writes that &Beyond claim the right to use 250 km<sup>2</sup> in the
Klein’s area, leaving 57 km2 to Taasa that will have the right to extend this
when a WMA is started in Ololosokwan! A WMA is the last thing needed. The
stolen land must be returned, not increased with a WMA! Further, he writes that
Taasa are expecting this WMA! And indeed, on their website they already pretend
to be operating in a WMA. Like &Beyond, they also want Klein’s airstrip
reopened and a permit to do night game drives as in the past. The spoilt
criminals according to the “journalist”, even have the audacity to ask about
“their” 60 acres. Judging by this “article”, only OBC seem to have some sense (!),
saying that a WMA will be difficult due to differing attitudes among villagers.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It's telling
that neither & Beyond nor Taasa, while they can complain about Klein’s
airstrip, have one word to say about the brutal land alienation and human
rights violations. Not even in Jackton's imagination have they got any
complaint, or he would otherwise use it against them. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manyerere Jackton obviously
speaks for OBC, but usually adding what he <b>thinks</b> will please this
investor, filling out with details that often are unnecessarily incorrect and even
apparently irrelevant free flowing fabrications. I’m not getting much help with
analysing. I’m just told that OBC want TAWA instead of NCAA, while another
person told me that they (the investors) are fooling us all, and there’s no
real disagreement, if I understood correctly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It could also be a case that
official and unofficial OBC staff, central government representatives in
Loliondo included, want to stir things up, as they used to do, implying that
only OBC care for the environment, but are not being sufficiently appreciated –
to increase the flow of funds from Dubai. Such stirring up has repeatedly led
to a worsened human rights situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153650869"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA
responds to the Jamhuri and proudly admits its cruellest crimes<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153650869;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the 28<sup>th</sup>
November to December 4<sup>th</sup> issue of the Jamhuri, Manyerere Jackton
continued with the same complaints on behalf of his cry-baby billionaire
protégées. The focus was even more on how everything had deteriorated after NCAA
took over management of the brutally and lawlessly created “Pololeti Game
Reserve”, and how OBC isn’t properly appreciated. The journalist goes on about
how NCAA has introduced other investors that aren’t paying fees, how security
against poaching and other crimes has declined after NCAA took over, even when
OBC have continued supporting anti-poaching and gifted NCAA with three
Landcruisers, that tourists are entering illegally from Kenya, that the “game
reserve” is full of livestock, and that OBC aren’t even mentioned on NCAA’s
road signs. He claims that before NCAA took over there was wildlife everywhere,
rhinos included. Obviously, Manyerere Jackton also agrees with the government’s
very malicious and illogical interpretation of the ruling in the High Court and
says that NGO activists and livestock owners are encouraging illegal grazing. While
I could not get hold of the article until it was uploaded by the paper, NCAA issued a reply already the same day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjckYiKN8ErcvpqUOGkQi3rKKCoko0zWvnFxZBRdkh8NkUwiukgFkq86ExFCwloQKNwkVButsLCKfN_NlD1uP6asSRXe8APKBsVw-GNYV_ltIHOjuhJnjH-Pe1mpRe5hT3R3-WWcBTq3EkYfd_gcYZrtydI7sX_1Xpx-lMqwrZaW8qBQefzGlFdeEf8Bzv6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1249" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjckYiKN8ErcvpqUOGkQi3rKKCoko0zWvnFxZBRdkh8NkUwiukgFkq86ExFCwloQKNwkVButsLCKfN_NlD1uP6asSRXe8APKBsVw-GNYV_ltIHOjuhJnjH-Pe1mpRe5hT3R3-WWcBTq3EkYfd_gcYZrtydI7sX_1Xpx-lMqwrZaW8qBQefzGlFdeEf8Bzv6" width="187" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA (correctly) says that the
investors are the three that were there when they were granted the management
on 23<sup>rd</sup> August 2022 and that all of them are paying taxes and fees,
that there isn’t any evidence of Kenyan tourists, since the border crossings
aren’t for tourists, that only those in charge can know how many rangers there
are, but the numbers of seized livestock speak clearly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NCAA deny any poaching and say that the only
“crime” is invading livestock. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>The
vile criminals literally boast about between January and November 2023 having seized
6,165 goats and sheep, 13,217 heads of cattle, and extorted 785,475,000 TShs in
“fines”. </b>I suppose that this does not include livestock released after
lower on-the-spot “fines”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbbQu4M9Ip8hf5P372XTaaOO-tGqOiweWwQkjeKGkz9jJ7r4jeQTL4SVaWziudbY9vY1APtJPJtJSWGv4zlD4vzHbELq-ZkREZoKaZ5_pM0xu_KlMwtUFlLG3v1kE3Lb6YtQkVPMVJlW81FtBVIkk4TpfOZOhJZ6R8_dkBNKz8kbxzUrDAnAcI8zLrnuwr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbbQu4M9Ip8hf5P372XTaaOO-tGqOiweWwQkjeKGkz9jJ7r4jeQTL4SVaWziudbY9vY1APtJPJtJSWGv4zlD4vzHbELq-ZkREZoKaZ5_pM0xu_KlMwtUFlLG3v1kE3Lb6YtQkVPMVJlW81FtBVIkk4TpfOZOhJZ6R8_dkBNKz8kbxzUrDAnAcI8zLrnuwr" width="196" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB8fP5EUxfZKb1eHfwOYlMlp81d_BJVQFPVgG8MXJ3ZVjQX8ME1gx_nflZDPyIQ0j4wsXe6WvmxdfP-H3ps13QstORFOOoP-vK3q2msmiIrSjJbjw3HrH3YJsbu_KyZZhnyoItGEpXX1bP-y69lVy9gb5PrkPvTTWIdGaSGdEndkp0i57Q0SmH8Uygyg2v" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1351" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB8fP5EUxfZKb1eHfwOYlMlp81d_BJVQFPVgG8MXJ3ZVjQX8ME1gx_nflZDPyIQ0j4wsXe6WvmxdfP-H3ps13QstORFOOoP-vK3q2msmiIrSjJbjw3HrH3YJsbu_KyZZhnyoItGEpXX1bP-y69lVy9gb5PrkPvTTWIdGaSGdEndkp0i57Q0SmH8Uygyg2v" width="192" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hooligan
judges dismiss contempt of court application in the East African Court</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> November, <b>in
just one minute</b>, the judges in the first instance division in the East
African Court of Justice dismissed <a name="_Hlk153149790">Application No.2 of
2022</a>, a contempt of court application arising from Application No. 15 of
2017, filed in September 2017, during the brutal and illegal mass arson
operation on village land that started in August 2017. There was no
explanation, but a “reasoned” version of the ruling was promised for 30<sup>th</sup>
November.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25th September 2018 – a
year after the illegal operation that went on from 13<sup>th</sup> August to 26<sup>th</sup>
October 2017 with arson, beatings, rape, arrests, seizure of cattle, and
blocking of grazing areas and water sources in a very bad drought - the court
finally … issued an injunction restraining the government from evictions,
destruction, and harassment of the applicants. Never has contempt of court been
more crystal clear than in the violation of this injunction. The application
was filed in January 2022 when Arusha RC Mongella had issued public and
vociferous threats about the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> of village land and “painful
decisions for the wider interest of the nation”. The attempts by then DED Mhina
of intimidating village chairpersons to withdraw Reference No.10 of 2017, the
main case concerning the mass arson of that year, were included. Then
supplementary affidavits were filed after the threats were implemented in the
worst way imaginable. Though there were very serious violations already in
November and December 2018 when soldiers working for OBC burned bomas in
Kirtalo and Ololosokwan, and the threat in the NCA Multiple Land Use Model
review proposal, presented in September 2019 by chief conservator Manongi, was
very specific indeed about the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo, detailing both a protected area in two parts and an annexation to NCAA, which is how the land theft was brutally committed in 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The “reasoned” version of the
ruling was on the affidavits presented in January 2022, excluding those about
the brutal and lawless land theft, for procedural reasons. Still, the contempt
of court is clear, but the judges, for reasons known to themselves, ruled that
it was not. <b>Even worse, the applicants’ lawyers were NEVER given a chance to
argue the application in court!</b> There was a hearing in Kampala in November
2022, in which the government came up with nonsense preliminary objections that
the court was to rule on. Instead, a year later, the judges ruled on the merits
of the application that had never been argued in court! Why? Are they lazy and
unconcerned and just wanted to get rid of the case, or underfunded and overwhelmed?
The slowness of this regional court makes it seem as if it almost not
operational. One of the judges, as in the demented ruling on Reference No.10 of
2017 was Nyachae who’s the son of an infamous grabber of Maasai land in
Kenya. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This ruling was <b>even
stupider</b> than the one that dismissed Reference No.10 of 2017, and which the
appellate division has now sent back to the trial court. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A significant
win in the appellate division of the East African Court of Justice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> November, the
Appellate Division of the East African Court of Justice allowed Appeal No.13 of
2022 and remitted Reference No.10 of 2017 back to the trial court. The court
also awarded costs to the applicants. The government must pay for it all – both
the appeal and the 2017 case. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Appellate Division found
that the First Instance Division erred in failing to consider most of the appellants’
evidence in the form of applications and oral testimonies, including rejecting
their expert witness. The issues that will be determined are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Whether the eviction was
conducted in Serengeti National Park or their respective villages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Whether the acts, omissions
and conduct of the respondent violated the EAC Treaty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The remedies the parties are
entitled to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I still – while it’s good news
indeed - have some problems with the ruling by the appellate division. It
describes the case as a conflict about the boundary of Serengeti National Park when
that boundary is known by everyone and described in detail in GN No.235 of 1968.
There have been some ugly attempts by TANAPA of moving boundaries, trying to create
illegal buffer zones, but the main conflict is about the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> of
village land that was brutally and lawlessly stolen in 2022 and where over 241
bomas were arsoned in 2017. Not that the national park was correctly or fairly created,
but that’s another issue, for another time. Turning the case into a question about
Serengeti was an <b>afterthought</b> by the government, that was just accepted unquestioningly.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Attorney General’s reply
to the case in November 2017, instead of lies about Serengeti, was based on the
lie that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> had been turned into the kind of protected
area which it was brutally and illegally turned into, several years later, in
2022. This was also the lie that was being told by then Minister of Natural
Resources and Tourism, Jumanne Maghembe, during the illegal 2017 mass arson,
while the DC and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism were not hiding
the fact that the operation was illegally taking place in a boundary area on
village land, but saying that it didn’t have anything to do with the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>,
since PM Majaliwa was to make a decision about that, but that people were
entering Serengeti “too easily”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My guess is that the change of
lie was caused by PM Majaliwa’s announcement in December 2017, not denying the
village land, but setting out a new strategy of taking it from the Maasai via a
“legal bill” and a “special authority”, about which not much more was heard,
and instead in 2022 the land was stolen via a military attack and a concerted, demented
terra nullius lie that it was an uninhabited protected area since colonial
times. Though, as mentioned, there were differing stories within the government
already during the 2017 mass arson, but nobody was then claiming that bomas
were only being razed in the national park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The <b>now overturned</b>
ruling was accompanied by strange and chaotic behaviour by the judges. It was
first scheduled for 22<sup>nd</sup> June 2022, amid government extreme
brutality and lawlessness in violation of the interim orders issued on 25<sup>th</sup>
September 2018, but just the day before there was a last-minute postponement to
September 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the ruling finally was to
be read, the court ordered journalists to be stopped from recording. The
principal judge wasn’t present. Nyachae – whose father is an infamous
grabber of Maasai land in Kenya – read the ruling, that was also presided by
Audace Ngiye, and the judges Richard Muhumuza and Richard Wejuli, who didn’t
mention their particulars, and never presided during the hearing of the case.
Reportedly, there was one more unknown judge. With all this extra time for
writing it, the ruling didn’t mention the court’s own interim orders, only
considered a few Maasai witnesses whose testimonies it found contradicting and
insufficient, but without mentioning the extreme contradiction between the
attorney general in 2017 and the government witnesses in 2018. The ruling
mentions that one of the Maasai witnesses said he was acting chairperson of
“Kilolo” village and was informed that homesteads had been destroyed in
“Olototokum” village. Such villages don’t exist but refer to “Oloirien” and
“Ololosokwan” respectively. Did <b>anyone</b> even understand what the
witnesses were saying?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The judges (in September 2022)
dismissed Reference No.10 of 2017 Ololosokwan Village Council & 3 Others
versus the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania, since they
found that the Maasai had failed to prove that the evictions operation in 2017
took place on village land and not in Serengeti National Park, as claimed by
the government’s witnesses in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Such a ruling should just not
have been possible when even the government’ own, very public, documents so
clearly show that the 2017 illegal mass arson was indeed committed in the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> area of village land:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The DC’s official order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The press statement by the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The 2017 operation map by
TANAPA, <b>very</b> clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The DC quoted in the
anti-Maasai press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-And the attorney general’s
response to Reference No. 10 of 2017 in November the same year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These issues are not mentioned
in the ruling in the appellate division, or by hardly anyone … They are just what’s driving <b>me</b>
mad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5BwhKAOR9EA7FYASEr6-uWhIFjHARB4MQoNhALIVh12alC9wn-72uLN0qW4pbZaVeMiwnxRHCvwxC38c4Imm_ZuNn8VIJWgCs-EFcrrC3l5_01wiEmWHjJZ9--096mC3RA8IESrJgyTUqZjL-dn8iK47E4HmSqTflg-wh4J8M68rtkcXcdj2glfitcpa5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5BwhKAOR9EA7FYASEr6-uWhIFjHARB4MQoNhALIVh12alC9wn-72uLN0qW4pbZaVeMiwnxRHCvwxC38c4Imm_ZuNn8VIJWgCs-EFcrrC3l5_01wiEmWHjJZ9--096mC3RA8IESrJgyTUqZjL-dn8iK47E4HmSqTflg-wh4J8M68rtkcXcdj2glfitcpa5" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Only one ruling has ever been <b>even</b>
<b>stupider</b> and that was the one dismissing Application No.2 of 2022, the
contempt of court case, on 15<sup>th</sup> (and 30<sup>th</sup> …) November
this year (see above). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But now there will be a
re-trial of the 2017 case, when an even worse atrocity was committed in 2022,
and <b>is ongoing</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Other court cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the East African Court of
Justice there are also the cases <b>Reference No. 37 of 2022 </b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Megweri Mako
& 5 Others vs. Attorney General of Tanzania</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> regarding
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area” and <b>Reference No. 29 of 2022 Thadeus Clamian
vs. Attorney General of Tanzania</b> regarding illegal and suffocating
restrictions in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. There is not yet anything
scheduled for these two cases.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, the ruling in <b>Misc.
Civil Cause No. 21 Of 2022 Ndalamia Taiwap & 4 Others vs. Attorney General
& Minister for Natural Resources & Tourism </b>was that “Pololeti GCA”
is null and void, since mandatory consultation was lacking, and the president's
decision to on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2022 (when court cases against the
minister’s GCA had already been filed) declare a “Pololeti Game Reserve” on the
same land automatically repealed its status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Misc. Civil
Cause No. 178 of 2022 Latang’amwaki Ndwati & 7 Others vs. Attorney General<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">regarding the president’s GN No.604
of 2022 declaring a “Pololeti Game Reserve” was on 22<sup>nd</sup> August
allowed to continue and operation of the GN is stopped until the case is
determined (which the government is totally disrespecting). The government has
filed forged documents about “consultation” when establishing the “game reserve”
and several local leaders have filed affidavits rebutting such forgeries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The contempt of court case
against:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Ngorongoro <b>DC Raymond
Mwangwala </b>(now transferred to Rombo).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153411662"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-“Pololeti”
“conservator” <b>Pius Rwiza.</b><o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153411662;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Prisca
J. Ulomi</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153411662;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
Head of the Government Communication Unit, who signed the letter from the
attorney general’s office with the government’s “interpretation” of the ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153411662;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Robert
Laizer</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153411662;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
in charge of the rangers at Lengijape, Arash.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153411662;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-David
Mkenga</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153411662;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
in charge of the rangers at Klein’s gate, Ololosokwan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153411662;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That’s<b> Miscellaneous Civil
Application No. 106 of 2023, </b>which<b> </b>has been postponed to 22<sup>nd</sup>
January 2024. Meanwhile, the Attorney General has filed Misc. Application No
204 of 2023 with intent to be joined in the contempt of court application, to defend those sued.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling in the Oriais Oleng’iyo
enforced disappearance case is being appealed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I keep screaming for updates
about the Musoma case (see above).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sportswashing
in the Serengeti<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> November,
the <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/blog/epic-tanzania-tour-sportswashing-abuses-maasai" target="_blank">Oakland Institute</a> called out a case of “sportswashing” of the Tanzanian government’s
human rights violations against the Maasai of Ngorongoro and Loliondo. A luxury
tour of Serengeti and Ngorongoro 1<sup>st</sup>-8<sup>th</sup> December 2023, for
120 high-paying tourists with the attraction of a tennis match with John and
Patrick McEnroe. Initially a gala dinner with President Samia was supposed to be
included, but she was substituted by Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism
Angellah Kairuki. The president was <b>again</b> in Dubai. This time for COP28.
Already in February, according to PR material, she made some glowing comments
about this tour, but I haven’t found out where and to whom she did this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Carl Shepard, CEO of the
company organizing the “Epic Tanzania Tour”, Insider Expeditions, when
contacted by Oakland talked about having the support of “longstanding elders of
the tribe” but did not respond to Oakland’s follow-up email about these
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My first reaction was that it
is how tourists and tourism companies have behaved since forever and for a
decade and a half only I have been upset about it, or so it feels, but this was
indeed a special case for the quite direct partnership with the brutal
authoritarian government and for the fact that the war against the Maasai is
worse than ever. And the high-level attraction added by John and Patrick McEnroe,
even if I had never heard about Patrick and only knew about John because of
temper tantrums in the 1980s, to people with some interest in tennis they are
legends. In November, Insider Expeditions had a similar tour, with 150 luxury
tourists, but without tennis. This too was covered by the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Tourism social media and the most embarrassing government praise team.
Initially these tourists were described as “investors”, but later changed to
“special tourists”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">McEnroe never replied, but his
manager did, and told the press (<a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2023/12/01/john-mcenroe-controversy-tennis-match-serengeti/71757764007/" target="_blank">USA Today</a>) that John “does not want to get
into politics”. The tour went ahead as planned, except that the president did
not attend the gala dinner. Too much has been happening and I’ve not properly
followed up. At least one Maasai from Ngorongoro participated in the
sportswashing, but sadly we are used to that kind of people. In his speech at
the gala dinner, McEnroe mentioned having received a call from President Biden
who for his 81<sup>st</sup> birthday wanted nothing more than to come to the
Serengeti to watch John and Patrick play. Then he added, <i>“if you believe
that, I’ll tell you another story”</i>, before continuing in a more expected
manner. Maybe that was a way of distancing himself from the political
propaganda he was contracted to exhibit. I don’t know. Minister Kairuki
<a href="https://x.com/babuwambura/status/1731054763712622730?s=20" target="_blank">reposted the clip</a> on Twitter and her ministry posted it on Instagram with
pictures of Biden added. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijsB4I3gGtuRSPLfY0Vm9E9UhFu_2jTZv5uozbMw832ehP6MR_3SaqXi53BwJmSv_YYEyYoVClNauPHlY_cOady-DYASwe_NOfMm61TWyG54fA5hqaTQ04O0L3-16Aiq0evcM3K4nLwzi63cjqCVmwcRuOEJ-YCOCNSFc5W_bsLkeNZtgveS235aZvoFHG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijsB4I3gGtuRSPLfY0Vm9E9UhFu_2jTZv5uozbMw832ehP6MR_3SaqXi53BwJmSv_YYEyYoVClNauPHlY_cOady-DYASwe_NOfMm61TWyG54fA5hqaTQ04O0L3-16Aiq0evcM3K4nLwzi63cjqCVmwcRuOEJ-YCOCNSFc5W_bsLkeNZtgveS235aZvoFHG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzWed4_qMrh_3Id1wJAgeM81TeWeghNXrV9eptu_6OBJ5KWWdmqvjVqKHztzsUMWeO0P6N-gFmhk4Jz5v6GlN3JAdj-ljo4zO8v75DUFnzEIKO807JyqLhY33A7gImGY_DQF75MQn-7yGLfaC0A64Jo3_fPzc-2WvhgC-j57f8k3zJfV0QK5jf3niymANY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzWed4_qMrh_3Id1wJAgeM81TeWeghNXrV9eptu_6OBJ5KWWdmqvjVqKHztzsUMWeO0P6N-gFmhk4Jz5v6GlN3JAdj-ljo4zO8v75DUFnzEIKO807JyqLhY33A7gImGY_DQF75MQn-7yGLfaC0A64Jo3_fPzc-2WvhgC-j57f8k3zJfV0QK5jf3niymANY" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Is Insider Expeditions really the
company organizing these repulsive, government involved, tours, or are they
taking too much credit? The Tanzanian Gosheni Safaris is clearly the ground
handler, their vehicles can be seen in pictures and video clips, but Insider
Expeditions aren’t mentioning them anywhere. Neither are Gosheni mentioning Insider
Expeditions anywhere but describe this luxury tennis safari as powered by
themselves, KLM and Serengeti National Park. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While it didn’t stop anything,
Oakland’s alert will certainly have made some new prospective tourists question
what exactly is going on in Tanzania. Unlike what most may say, and what it
looks like inside our filter bubble, not many people around the world have
heard about the Tanzanian government’s war against the Maasai. Much less is it
understood how absolutely central tourism is to this war. Defenders of land
alienation and human rights violations fervently adhere to “the broader
interest of the nation”, with great hypocrisy linking contrived environmental
concerns to the target of 5 million tourists by 2025, and religiously (this
word is not an exaggeration) referring to The Royal Tour – a cheesy travel
show, described as “authoritarian image management” by the researcher Alex
Dukalskis, and which in its Tanzania episode starred President Samia – as
responsible for any increase in tourists numbers. For such people the “Tanzania
Epic Tour” is an extension of The Royal Tour, which was of course also
mentioned by Minister Kairuki at the two gala dinners. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The case for a total tourism
boycott on Tanzania is very strong, but most potential tourists just don’t know
what’s going on and I’m not so sure that they would care when they don’t even
care about climate change. However informed they may otherwise be, the “because
I’m worth it”-feeling is stronger, and when it comes to Africa they are fed
with how beneficial their entitled, wasteful behaviour is for so-called
“communities” and for conservation. Still, we should call for a boycott to
raise some awareness, and to rattle the blood-soaked Tanzanian government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By the way, a little over a
decade ago an academic asked me about university alumni tours using Thomson
Safaris and I made him a list. I thought he was planning something, but after
thanking me, I never again, to this day, heard from him (which probably had
other reasons than my list).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Denis Moses
speaking at TEC meeting<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From 7<sup>th</sup> to 8<sup>th</sup>
December 2023, Tanzania Episcopal Conference held a <a href="https://youtu.be/2rsj-i_N3H4" target="_blank">human rights conference</a> in
Dar es Salaam and extended invitation to the Maasai community representatives. At
TEC, the lawyer Denis Moses Oleshangay
talked extensively and eloquently about Ngorongoro, Msomera and Loliondo. The Catholic Church is one of the organizations most supportive of the Maasai, with
some exceptions. TEC's Secretary General Dr. Charles Kitima said that the
church will stand by the Maasai until the last one is forced out by the
government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153651160"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
notorious Germans<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As repeatedly reported in this
blog with a bit more of detail than here, Germany has through the decades
supported the worst crimes by the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism, or through Frankfurt Zoological Society, actually instigated crime,
and not less so in the escalation of the war against the Maasai the past years.
In March 2022, the Ministry reported that the then German ambassador Regine
Hess had said that she supported the Tanzanian government’s efforts in
Ngorongoro. Hess never denied this publicly, and then she went on to, during the military attack against
the Maasai of Loliondo, on 6<sup>th</sup> July 2022, meet with one of the main
criminals and implementors, Arusha RC Mongella to talk about “cooperation”
between the two countries. Germany kept showering Tanzania with money and in an
elaborate ceremony in December 2022, with the criminals PM Majaliwa and
Minister Chana, Hess handed over 51 vehicles for the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism. On 3<sup>rd</sup> August 2023, while boasting about
being the biggest bilateral donor in the sector, the Germans showered the Ministry
of Natural Resources and Tourism with 120 million Euros to keep making people
cry in <i>“mainly the regions Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Selous and Nyerere as well
as Katavi Mahale National Parks and Corridor and Ruvuma Region.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixbGHwp1YPnWWZ2U89X7AdS_-vqlTez_kcAP4p3uXLyprbXe7tkWp7nLno2CwjWY4tKP0-MVag-1MpYhzKoiUXEiaA3OdKnmhR_uH_LtERBxHweqpHSu5m8nU9sQ7Q4ofi76fyPQJX_O6aEJ38nkhkpLjFE7uvyYWE5abWhd9ZM14b7Wl0MS88lJEeS57p" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1600" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixbGHwp1YPnWWZ2U89X7AdS_-vqlTez_kcAP4p3uXLyprbXe7tkWp7nLno2CwjWY4tKP0-MVag-1MpYhzKoiUXEiaA3OdKnmhR_uH_LtERBxHweqpHSu5m8nU9sQ7Q4ofi76fyPQJX_O6aEJ38nkhkpLjFE7uvyYWE5abWhd9ZM14b7Wl0MS88lJEeS57p" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the most open aggression against
the Maasai, the Germans, through FZS, funded and facilitated the draft <a name="_Hlk153196071">Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043 </a>to
legitimize and further worsen, the massive, brutal and illegal Loliondo land
alienation of 2022, and to without any details or explanations present a similar
land grab at Lake Natron, while presenting the whole of NCA as a “reserved
area” that should have a 500-metre “buffer zone”. Despite threats, the
Ngorongoro councillors have now twice rejected this plan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In October the German
president Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Tanzania and apologized for colonial
atrocities and mass murder over a century ago, which is good, but exasperating
at the same time as Germany funds and facilitates current colonial-style
atrocities. Though apologizing for old atrocities while enthusiastically
supporting current atrocities seems the be the German modus operandi
everywhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In connection with a field
visit organised by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development (BMZ), Maasai representatives were informed by BMZ, KfW (German
development bank) that they had visited Loliondo and met with government
representatives and community, but it has not been possible to verify it. This
was in late September, but I haven’t written about it, since it wasn't supposed to be written about, which some did anyway. The Maasai were also informed
that the Germans have stopped funding of Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework
Plan 2023-2043. This is a “little” bit late when the councillors have already
rejected it twice despite of openly pronounced threats by the DC. I hope they
won’t fund a new plan but am not too optimistic. The Germans must stop funding <b>any</b>
land use planning in Tanzania, particularly in Loliondo, and FZS must not be
near where land use is being planned, <b>anywhere</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since the 2017 case is
mentioned in this blog post, also remember that in March that year, Minister
Maghembe and Serengeti chief park warden Mwakilema were telling a co-opted
standing parliamentary committee that German funds would only be released on
condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a protected area. In
Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the German money and the
district council decided to follow their advice. Then while Loliondo was
attacked by mass arson implemented by Serengeti rangers – FZS’s partners - in
August 2017, a most revolting picture was published of the German ambassador at
that time, Detlef Wächter. The picture showed Wächter smilingly handing over
buildings for park staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti National Park, to Minister
Maghembe, while commenting on the long and successful partnership between
Germany and Tanzania in protecting the Serengeti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Better German
behaviour awarding Joseph Oleshangay<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> December
2023, the lawyer Joseph Moses Oleshangay from Endulen – one of those more
likely to call a spade a spade about Loliondo and Ngorongoro, and tirelessly dedicating
his time to most of the many court cases, received the Weimar Human Rights
Award in place in the town of the same name in Germany. Joseph was nominated by
Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker for his efforts in advocating for the rights
of the Maasai community in Tanzania. The award ceremony was <a href="https://youtu.be/C-IyKKblcP8" target="_blank">livestreamed</a>,
mostly in German. Joseph certainly spoke of both the dark legacy of Bernhard
Grzimek and of how German taxpayers’ money is being used. I don’t understand
much German, but think I understood that these issues were also mentioned by
speakers at the award ceremony. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwD6tQrr_1Q4wjyuLb0i9EDJ4bnDbnDtVQa_XGAI_A8led6PTIRBI2EsEBJiVEOyIOwSsUDWmDlHzWXKGR6PoxaLRy8Kuqxdoizp8JNXpm1uM6jx0P6D0mZuW1clgRx-C3RJzQZACiHz3lbzpGJBHOgphuHW221ihH81b42_2kHmiWl4yefW_7yr1Atanz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="832" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwD6tQrr_1Q4wjyuLb0i9EDJ4bnDbnDtVQa_XGAI_A8led6PTIRBI2EsEBJiVEOyIOwSsUDWmDlHzWXKGR6PoxaLRy8Kuqxdoizp8JNXpm1uM6jx0P6D0mZuW1clgRx-C3RJzQZACiHz3lbzpGJBHOgphuHW221ihH81b42_2kHmiWl4yefW_7yr1Atanz" width="239" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
division<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned repeatedly in
this blog and elsewhere, but still ignored by far too many Tanzanians, in Ngorongoro
division, which is the same as Ngorongoro Conservation Area the government with
restrictions on every aspect of life, and illegal blocking of social services
is attempting to make the Maasai “voluntarily” relocate to other people’s land,
with heavy media propaganda about Msomera in Handeni – is <b>NOT</b> the same
as Loliondo/ Sale divisions where 1,500km2 have been stolen and people and
livestock are supposed to squeeze into remaining land. Loliondo/Sale have <b>nothing</b>
to do with Msomera.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As detailed in several previous
blog posts, in August there was a manhunt and mass arrests in Endulen ward,
Ngorongoro division, after a week of protests to demand a permit to renovate
the badly cracked Nasipooriong’ Primary School, and by extension the blocking
of all such permits since 2021, and the government provocateur and genocidal
inciter, Habib Mchange, was chased away from Endulen market. Those arrested
were held incommunicado for several days, many were tortured, and all were
questioned about why they were refusing to relocate to Msomera. Even the MP,
Emmanuel Oleshangai, was arrested/abducted and held incommunicado for two
nights. Later, when Tundu Lissu was blocked from visiting Ngorongoro division
on 9<sup>th</sup> September there were huge protests led by women and the
presence of the Field Force Unit was heavily increased. Glory Julius was
arrested and badly beaten. <b>Still</b>, those who were arrested must report at
Karatu Police Station every four days as a means of harassment and sabotage to
make them lose time and money.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">COP28 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Over 700 Tanzanian
“representatives” went to COP28 in Dubai. It’s not my area of expertise, but I
fear many of them are aiming at benefitting from carbon offsets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember how the “member of the Dubai royal
family” Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum in February this year visited Tanzania
and got a highest-level VIP treatment and a MoU for a carbon deal on 8% of
Tanzania's total land mass, after having entered the carbon offset business as
a novice in October 2022. By now his company Blue Carbon has obtained
preliminary agreements for huge areas all over Africa. Further, Carbon
Tanzania, that’s been in this business for a decade or so, and the dubious
celebrity/businessman/billionaire Mohammed Dewji have entered a deal with
TANAPA to somehow make carbon credits out of six national parks, Burigi-Chato,
Katavi Plains, Ugalla River, Mkomazi, Gombe Stream and Mahale Mountains. In the
best-case carbon offsets are just a scam in which polluters are made to pay for
polluting in exchange for hypothetically lowering carbon emissions elsewhere.
In the worst case it’s violence and land alienation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153651348"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
big green snake<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153651348;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We have <b>all</b> already
understood that land defense within the ruling party, CCM, is no longer
possible. This was further shown on 4<sup>th</sup> December when Thomas Loy
Sabaya was elected CCM chairman of Arusha region. As DC for Serengeti District in Mara Region in 2001 Sabaya
Sr. ordered evictions of 135 villagers from Nyamuma and personally set fire to
houses and food supplies. Sabaya is the father of Lengai Sabaya who has been
rehabilitated after as DC of Hai having engaged in extreme violent gangsterism
against opposition politicians and in 2021 was jailed for armed robbery. Unfortunately,
yes, these two criminals are Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the CCM meeting at the Arusha
International Conference Centre, Yonas Masiaya Laiser (don’t know what he’s
doing in CCM…) bravely stood up to ask Sabaya Sr., referring to his time as
Serengeti DC, about the fact that the worst disturbance to Arusha pastoralists
is the alienation of land for protected areas. The question was shut down and
not allowed</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">by
Namelock Sokoine who was the chairperson at this meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153651377"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Case
against Sifa Bujune dismissed<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The case against the artist
Sifa Bujune for the song Mnatuona nyani (You see us as baboons) has been
dismissed. Sifa Bujune was arrested for incitement and then charged with
specifically the lines about Joshua Olepatorro as “false, deceptive,
misleading, or inaccurate”, violating the Cybercrimes Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15-year-old Joshua Olepatorro
whose upper front teeth the NCA ranger Elibariki Israel Namungu on 13<sup>th</sup>
August smashed out beating him with the butt of his gun is having problems obtaining
justice, since a criminal case requires cooperation from the police. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZUfbQdGibLDLZN4s8J2SsWlh7T4RWCYoh3oEaXlXqGDibvx7_CH_KERJAdhM7P6fuxQ0BIgo-Vdx1zLQ3_1sen7qh165NoCu28O4jqfxl-PxC-it6vAlF9ArWNhrXnAfnqEBfo9Yywla8syX4DgPOjXVBIKSmNFPiRgSDSRUzB-V2bExzlBuXBiN4TU83" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZUfbQdGibLDLZN4s8J2SsWlh7T4RWCYoh3oEaXlXqGDibvx7_CH_KERJAdhM7P6fuxQ0BIgo-Vdx1zLQ3_1sen7qh165NoCu28O4jqfxl-PxC-it6vAlF9ArWNhrXnAfnqEBfo9Yywla8syX4DgPOjXVBIKSmNFPiRgSDSRUzB-V2bExzlBuXBiN4TU83" width="180" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EU parliament
passes resolution<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> December, the
EU parliament passed a <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2023-0511_EN.html?fbclid=IwAR0q_kG7ihrWGmmbHqgDWpMFuseOd_FuYlOsTlNUoxNM8MRqg4XFlEOZHPk" target="_blank">resolution</a> on the Maasai communities in Tanzania,
brought by six groups of EU parliamentarians. The wording was brief, but very
relevant and factual (unlike a writing almost a decade ago). They urge the
Tanzanian government to halt evictions, <b>allow safe return,</b> respect land
right, rule of law and human rights, allow observation visits etc. Many thanks,
EU parliamentarians. I hope this rattles the criminal Tanzanian government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq1GwJsI76zn8lDA_7h1w9t1tNskwT-68e47in0PB34BvURdY1m__gehv8P-2CwLUxp3_DSezGiSf-G1zmYEd8g4pbNLCV86tLVfXDRdHysi-W6QXRr1Z0tbybQ9wVMHP9pSUDjLVxX8s7Wo9X5bFUQqtw1tJTPNALzJqBhnkvL3c0o_8tmXVHApNEIFwi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="1851" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq1GwJsI76zn8lDA_7h1w9t1tNskwT-68e47in0PB34BvURdY1m__gehv8P-2CwLUxp3_DSezGiSf-G1zmYEd8g4pbNLCV86tLVfXDRdHysi-W6QXRr1Z0tbybQ9wVMHP9pSUDjLVxX8s7Wo9X5bFUQqtw1tJTPNALzJqBhnkvL3c0o_8tmXVHApNEIFwi" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk153651467"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
usual government statement with shameless lies<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government was
so rattled by the EU resolution that the spokesperson Matinyi already the following
day issued a statement with the usual horrible lies, focusing on the
“voluntary” relocations from Ngorongoro division, and with even bigger lies
about Loliondo. There’s the usual about houses built and other wonders in areas
of relocation, without mentioning that the Msomera villagers weren’t consulted
and only informed at gunpoint when their land was handed over to Ngorongoro
migrants. Arrests in NCA are denied when even the MP was arrested/abducted for
two nights. Ridiculously, it’s claimed that the Maasai are relocated for their
own good since wild animals are a danger to them and because of the “necessary”
constrained development and economic activities in Ngorongoro, when those are
constrained by the government itself. Still, the government claims that it’s
offering all social services, when no renovations permits are granted since
2021, Endulen hospital is threatened with downgrading, clinics defunded, and
funds for schools transferred to Handeni. The spokesperson is also boasting
about that the government/NCAA is sponsoring university fees for students from
Ngorongoro division, when this has been stopped since April.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Much noise has been made about
that UNESCO will make a visit in January. UNESCO is one of the main instigators
of the crimes against the Maasai in NCA! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Resorting to <b>extreme</b>
lies, the statement says that nobody is evicted from Loliondo, since the
government has left 2,500km<sup>5</sup> for the residents! As known, after the
brutal and totally illegal alienation of 1,500km<sup>2</sup> of village land that’s
important grazing land, people and livestock are supposed to squeeze into the
remaining 2,500km2 where there are towns, agricultural areas, forest reserves,
and a very ugly American land grab. In the spoken version, Matinyi also claims
that Loliondo is 200 km away from NCA, when Loliondo/Sale is some 90 km from north to south and actually borders NCA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The statement mentions good
relations with the EU, especially the commissioner Janez Lenarčič who
apparently has praised Tanzania and its president, which is very possible.
There are many ignorant, or worse than ignorant, people like that. Then the
government lies about the planned visit by EU parliamentarians that was stopped
by the government 24 hours before departure, since the parliamentarian did not
accept the government’s plan for a <b>very</b> controlled visit. The claim is
that there was a request for a visit, the government asked for time to prepare,
and then did not hear anything more from the parliamentarians. The statement
ends with again reminding of the upcoming visit by the terrible UNESCO and
denying the existence of indigenous people in Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 304.05pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">RIP
Michèle Rivasi<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> November French
EU parliamentarian <a name="_Hlk153461996">Michèle</a> Rivasi for The Greens
passed away following a heart attack. Michèle had been a strong supporter of
the Maasai and was one of the EU parliamentarians who were to visit Ngorongoro
and Loliondo but 24 hours before their departure on 4th September 2023, were stopped
by the Tanzanian government that had invited them. Michèle passed away the day before she was to return to Tanzania, as a tourist, circumventing the government, which is the only way to get to know the truth. May she rest in peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqiK7BlGMTEj0Iz_l4Jb_QgEFAz6mvDqsJ_Ael18q4FfJoscJgAW6kj3-d_JjMxEyTLG5Uz_orCE-_yZpetdDzpnncqTRudcZpC82HgeP97z0szCKNqlvKSzy38VmmZrTgf3ZBjBiEKByCFe6NuiTctqavUEW6K5UJbSXdCAbzALd6uVmB1Zf12_Esvtk2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="768" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqiK7BlGMTEj0Iz_l4Jb_QgEFAz6mvDqsJ_Ael18q4FfJoscJgAW6kj3-d_JjMxEyTLG5Uz_orCE-_yZpetdDzpnncqTRudcZpC82HgeP97z0szCKNqlvKSzy38VmmZrTgf3ZBjBiEKByCFe6NuiTctqavUEW6K5UJbSXdCAbzALd6uVmB1Zf12_Esvtk2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There's so much more to write about - like the TAWIRI conference for which OBC was a premium sponsor - but I'm too sad and tired. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rest in peace our Kenyan friend and ally Lemayian ole Taiko. Gone far too soon, Nairobi, 19th December 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEtLAoDQYkeOFcdtVH7tEkTEX6_X1Jf0DkqwtwVlpmrWDMi_MCHlUCE58dBuEty8T5Dp5LnIWy7dZJkz6zGyTTJjXUAGowe7ehPE8StY6FinP9I8FzGllRPTG-Lo6eGDfyHTG5fnU5Oy-u8LHh7i31wSzGWUcX0l74GhaNnPVP8v7KrmwNzHAkp431MV7p" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="442" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEtLAoDQYkeOFcdtVH7tEkTEX6_X1Jf0DkqwtwVlpmrWDMi_MCHlUCE58dBuEty8T5Dp5LnIWy7dZJkz6zGyTTJjXUAGowe7ehPE8StY6FinP9I8FzGllRPTG-Lo6eGDfyHTG5fnU5Oy-u8LHh7i31wSzGWUcX0l74GhaNnPVP8v7KrmwNzHAkp431MV7p" width="203" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where is Oriais Oleng’iyo?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please
contact me with any questions about Loliondo. Never guess and never copy
hurriedly written newspaper articles, or even reports by serious organizations,
without double checking. Also, please contact me with any information you may
have. Don’t assume that I’m getting it automatically. I must chase people 24-7
for information. While anyone with good intentions is allowed to use anything
written in my blog, and I’ve long ago understood that many fear being
associated with me, I appreciate being given credit or at least having my blog
linked to.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Updates</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22nd December</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In a press statement, leaders from Ngorongoro division rebutted the lies issued by </span>government<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> spokesperson Matinyi. </span></span>https://youtu.be/k5eZuQ37cW</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Boxing day</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mwanzo TV aired an
interview with former Ngorongoro CCM chairman Ndirango Laizer and Megweri Mako
from Ololosokwan who explained what’s going on in Loliondo. https://youtu.be/vUfjzY0Jrqg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>28th December</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mwanzo TV aired an interview with </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Norkirropil Moko
Kurtut. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">https://youtu.be/nwlm8E6QEAI</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>30th December</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the night of
29/12/2023 to 30/12/2023, cows were arrested in Sanjan, Malambo village,
Malambo ward, in the illegal game reserve. The owners are Sandamu Ndiing'a and Mako
Kariongy who paid a bribe of 2,500,000 and the cattle were released. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>1 January 2024</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">60 cows belonging to Ormoipoi Kariongy were illegally seized in Malambo and taken to the Orng'oswa rangers' camp.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>5th January 2024</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government spokesperson Matinyi issued a new disgusting statement upon the relocation of another 30 Ngorongoro households to Msomera. Then, responding to a question from John Marwa of Jambo tv, he made a confession of crime, saying that the government can't improve social services in Ngorongoro, since it's moving people. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15th January 2024</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A meeting was held in Arusha about Ngorongoro district with most relevant NGOs attending.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>17th January</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At another propaganda spectacle for "journalists" in Msomera, spokesperson Matinyi made a most horrible announcement about changing the NCA act to exclude people from the area. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A young man called Leepalai Ndete Kashiro was caught
by NCAA rangers for refusing to relocate to Msomera and released on bail on
19th January. Leepalai’s paternal uncle, mzee Kashiro, who has been his
guardian since his father passed away a long time ago is an NCAA employee who’s
registered to relocate with his two wives. This mzee Kashiro used to take care
of his brother’s widow and children but took the widow’s (Leepalai’s mother) 15
cows and her sheep and goats (number not yet known) with him in lorries to
Msomera yesterday and her two houses were demolished by NCAA! The widow and her
children are left without a home and without cattle. Leepalai’s brothers who
first refused to relocate, have been forced to do so together with their wives.
Mzee Kashiro took Leepalai’s cattle with him too and now he and his wife are
left without a home and without cattle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leepalai must report to the police on 22<sup>nd</sup>
January. The charges are about obstructing ranger work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">20th January</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> In media Leepalai's uncle said, "</span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Vijana wa siku hizi hawana adabu,yeye ni mwanangu wa kumzaa na hana boma, nyumba ni mali yangu na nimeamua kuhama kwa hiyari hawezi kutaka kunifanyia fujo halafu nikamwacha hivi hivi, lazima vyombo vya dola vichukue mkondo wake’,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; font-size: 14px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: 12pt;">21st January</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Villagers from Endulen repaired the road to Embarway secondary school and protested about the blocking of services by the government.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>22nd January</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the High Court there was the contempt of court case and the Substantive Application for Judicial Review, but both were rescheduled for April. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA made an announcement to all their drivers that all vehicles will be used for a special task 22nd - 27th January.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31st January.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">New blog post (a summary)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally published the summary:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href=" https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2024/01/brief-background-of-loliondo-hunting.html" target="_blank"> https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2024/01/brief-background-of-loliondo-hunting.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I'll publish updates here until next regular blog post.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Terrible UNESCO vist to NCA 3rd-9th February</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZKKgpGn3JL2wEchrv-Je0UJbwjUxaPJq1nVpX58R6zNU-dQvlMJfsqzKh2n7XcW-9U3SDYPRJFt8yPZ0wJ4jIPmJDEqlBW_Z0snxv7IPJLUnAD7nPb_HjjAcSxJ3vrbHqofEVWdhf74__g8VsJEHHbS478_xgBLlm2lg5dyqOVUCKhJ9TMVIH_mABo9RU" style="margin-left: 1em; 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line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>13<sup>th</sup>
February</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Victory in the Resident Magistrates' Court of Musoma
for Loliondo pastoralists against the Serengeti National Park cattle rustlers
and fraudsters (DPP/Republic). The amount in the Forfeited Assets Revenue Collection
account after auctioning must be reimbursed to the cattle owners. This is not
the value of the livestock and sales/theft had started before the auctioning.
Still a partial victory, since the court makes it clear that procedures were
not followed. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #800180;"><b>25th February</b></span></span><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Some 500 cattle belonging to the Potot family were illegally seized in Mbuken village, Arash ward. The family had to pay the usual "fine" of 100,000 per cow. These illegal seizures are still ongoing in Arash, but not in Ololosokwan. </span><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>27<sup>th</sup>
February</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Among other
issues, land rights in Ngorongoro district held a prominent position at Chadema’s
demonstration in Arusha. Peter Msigwa, who has earlier in a terrible way shared
the government’s views and misinformation about Ngorongoro, now walked behind a
banner that said that Ngorongoro is the land of the Maasai and calling for the
president to give them their freedom. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>3rd March, </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">MP Oleshangai was in a traditional ceremony installed as laigwanani, about which there are differing opinions. At the day of the ceremony, many attendents were stopped at Lodoare gate by NCAA. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>6th March</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">It was reported that NCAA chief conservator Richard Kiiza was using students from Tengeru College to move around convincing the Maasai to relocate. There where also reports that beacons were being planted in Ngorongoro division.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>7th March</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">Various leaders from Ngorongoro ward held a press conference to once again denounce ongoing abuse and the Msomera madness. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>The same day Geophrey Pinda, Minister of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development announced 10,000 plots to be set aside for 5000 houses and 5000 farms in Msomera, Kitwai and Saunyi.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>11th March</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwOKw07OSRXTJ5iE-YeimgQoNJFCFIN40H-6sQjSTFrIILzJxMONE_HMOIBw8OkvmMfzDjJW3MkuGGss-kAUCiQ1RLAnw71YK03IknEelFUlZsfXPN33ftY6IYEvztHT2rxoeEWjrxAR3oa2S9ObcLSWgIhc5BHwf3wDvNUGs9nfrmZ4FwBjlOmWkq2clP" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="876" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwOKw07OSRXTJ5iE-YeimgQoNJFCFIN40H-6sQjSTFrIILzJxMONE_HMOIBw8OkvmMfzDjJW3MkuGGss-kAUCiQ1RLAnw71YK03IknEelFUlZsfXPN33ftY6IYEvztHT2rxoeEWjrxAR3oa2S9ObcLSWgIhc5BHwf3wDvNUGs9nfrmZ4FwBjlOmWkq2clP" width="289" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgagERsIYqpk4RFBoHOvqHL6F3hn1r46iUJ-20b3CL3vwTzyKEU4_Z2zeEUeFA9M4JDHv0nJlt3fBXK9b0aLXY7SPwbJ6hjYsR7Li1YOmyIygL4nndb3HqR_Bedf4tL7CAjyX2EIkLPBXCaQnLuRCGUuicS26szkz4donuEdo_vCp3fLFwjGRKGCqFlCRMz" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="864" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgagERsIYqpk4RFBoHOvqHL6F3hn1r46iUJ-20b3CL3vwTzyKEU4_Z2zeEUeFA9M4JDHv0nJlt3fBXK9b0aLXY7SPwbJ6hjYsR7Li1YOmyIygL4nndb3HqR_Bedf4tL7CAjyX2EIkLPBXCaQnLuRCGUuicS26szkz4donuEdo_vCp3fLFwjGRKGCqFlCRMz" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFJmpuygJmrcIwS-cCNK65VAt89AOf9u13fsShcRGgdQB5pVPfX9IQjozJgqiZyFeq6RA3EdJ73-AMp35TyK6rRYeQ97yFOnovcR0dKnF-2mznVRCj4LipIYMk-Yr5HjBbQrW2NY5fNN-Nbb32Go_XG4eQeJHylHHnIueAtsaaGGusmzv88syQ4n_TPL5J" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="886" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFJmpuygJmrcIwS-cCNK65VAt89AOf9u13fsShcRGgdQB5pVPfX9IQjozJgqiZyFeq6RA3EdJ73-AMp35TyK6rRYeQ97yFOnovcR0dKnF-2mznVRCj4LipIYMk-Yr5HjBbQrW2NY5fNN-Nbb32Go_XG4eQeJHylHHnIueAtsaaGGusmzv88syQ4n_TPL5J" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-9BGoP33DVbANp4CPE8RS9jW76e7sLJPf1Tt1K5-t1WAsYE7_0b0YOC_5D_sx0fBmFzgAc1Jm3J-TJZiAfzaFIPukjcGH1uQN5QNcLt00P5MIJpaa4E0jtuQnmlzCBAVFz9d3f7lGX6yktSt4UDXWEUqLZw2ZwxkQjFO47RFOyYqCh0dbHCLFdIEj0oYZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="841" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-9BGoP33DVbANp4CPE8RS9jW76e7sLJPf1Tt1K5-t1WAsYE7_0b0YOC_5D_sx0fBmFzgAc1Jm3J-TJZiAfzaFIPukjcGH1uQN5QNcLt00P5MIJpaa4E0jtuQnmlzCBAVFz9d3f7lGX6yktSt4UDXWEUqLZw2ZwxkQjFO47RFOyYqCh0dbHCLFdIEj0oYZ" width="301" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>15th March</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>At 4am the home of lawyer and activist Jpseph Oleshangay was invaded by the police looking to abduct him, but fortunately he was not in the house. In the afternoon the police were back and stole some items, including tents and chairs for a tradtional ceremony to install Joseph as a laigwanani on the 16th.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>The police had issued an order prohibiting all gathering and specifically Joseph's traditional ceremony.<br /></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB3TFyPKW08FAkTk9ZdO0Z1eHR2XsECjFOFjoAhi16z5MHAXwEIXsKW4gC9B4691-ORU2eU_cFmpBEJjUjBk_GBc938wuWBvcE6h81Jw2akYEH3_rSLNGELJKtT6bHppa2m95qsgo9d1LHew8ul7w5xbTtULg9wpHhHwALWdMj-8yfZ-cXGFb8R91TXNdA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="753" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB3TFyPKW08FAkTk9ZdO0Z1eHR2XsECjFOFjoAhi16z5MHAXwEIXsKW4gC9B4691-ORU2eU_cFmpBEJjUjBk_GBc938wuWBvcE6h81Jw2akYEH3_rSLNGELJKtT6bHppa2m95qsgo9d1LHew8ul7w5xbTtULg9wpHhHwALWdMj-8yfZ-cXGFb8R91TXNdA" width="201" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br />There was a press statement that chief conservator Richard Kiiza had been removed.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUkdkzYEaVGvnBttgrKpkXEpzs0zWoVdMNJjSbHwlFfzqdw1cAOWsHAw2dbejm7N2YL_cny0vpA4yGfxlFo3CDhf52HnvWck05gIowZ4tvciamYaoRu5DLp7Jd9Zzl4suRItYlgUPGuA0xZKjmzrPva42OmYJlkS7xtuek90M0dqXmmxUJ10b6oBY0xoJk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="768" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUkdkzYEaVGvnBttgrKpkXEpzs0zWoVdMNJjSbHwlFfzqdw1cAOWsHAw2dbejm7N2YL_cny0vpA4yGfxlFo3CDhf52HnvWck05gIowZ4tvciamYaoRu5DLp7Jd9Zzl4suRItYlgUPGuA0xZKjmzrPva42OmYJlkS7xtuek90M0dqXmmxUJ10b6oBY0xoJk" width="171" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>16th March</b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>At 1:13am and for several hours, then police were back searching through Joseph's house.'</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>The ceremony went ahead anyway!<br /><br /><br /></o:p></span></p></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-12252928730172560752023-10-26T05:10:00.066+02:002023-12-13T22:54:44.241+01:00Partial Victory for the Maasai of Loliondo in the High Court and the Tanzanian Government Responds with the Most Destructive Contempt of Court, but Now at Least Some Criminals are Sued<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup>
September the High Court in Arusha declared that the 1,502 km<sup>2</sup>
brutal land theft called “Pololeti Game Controlled Area” in Loliondo was null
and void for lack of consultation and for having been replaced by a “Pololeti
Game Reserve” declared by the president. Besides that the same lack of
consultation (including the abduction of all councillors of affected wards on
the eve of the brutal and unlawful military demarcation attack) applies to the
game reserve, it has its own court case with a court order to stop all
operation until determination of the case. The relative independence shown by
the court was a pleasant surprise, but it should not have come as a surprise
that the Tanzanian government is lawless, issued a statement with its own
“interpretation” of the ruling, increased harassment and threats, and after a
brief reprieve, returned to seizing cattle and the situation is dire. <b><span style="color: red;">Now
those most directly involved, with concrete evidence of contempt of court, have
been sued in their personal capacity, including DC Raymond Mwangwala.</span> <o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian
government, funded and facilitated by Germany (the Germans should not be
allowed to get away with this …) continues its efforts to legitimize the
massive, brutal and unlawful land theft.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 77th
Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights is
currently being held in Arusha and the journalist and activist Odero Charles
Odero has there been harassed about his citizenship for speaking up about
Loliondo and Ngorongoro. Then the ACHPR has been questioned for its </span>government<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> commandeered visit early this year and for not finishing its report. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ngorongoro
Conservation Area - <b>not to be mixed up with Loliondo</b> - restrictions and
illegal suffocation of every aspect of life continue at the same time as
incessant government propaganda to make the Maasai relocate. The people that
following protests in Endulen were mass arrested are now harassed by having to
report at Karatu Police Station every four days. The NCAA has again denied
adulterated replacement salt, for which there were laboratory result already almost
two years ago. At least it seems like the horrible chief conservator Freddy
Manongi is finally retiring. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Almost every
issue mentioned in this blog post needs to be written about in its own long
blog post …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;">Where is
Oriais Oleng’iyo?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The criminals just keep </span>escalating<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> their crime. When I had finally posted this blog post I got </span>reports<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> that TANAPA rangers had seized hundreds of cattle in the 1,500km2 area and driven them to Serengeti by force!</span></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Updates at the end of the blog post. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling -
Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
government’s malicious interpretation of the ruling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Grazing and
violence after the High Court ruling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At last sued
for contempt of court!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Odero harassed about citizenship at ACPHR session – with good events and traitors</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Continued pressure
for German-funded crime legitimization<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Germans
MUST be sued for their relentless facilitation of violent dispossession<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We also have
the cases in the East African Court of Justice<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
Loliondo hunting block background</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
the 2022 threats leading up to the brutal and illegal demarcation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
the brutal and illegal demarcation of an illegal "game reserve"<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA, bye bye
Manongi, and the government again denies well-documented adulterated salt, UNESCO
again<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148828000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apologies
and reflexions on very long and horribly delayed blog posts<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148828000"><b><span></span></b></a></p><a name='more'></a><a name="_Hlk148828000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></a><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRf8rOuyLLenaKKXBYaP8Xks9FEXiZrUdqVr77GfzQIx1tMMD5sn2j2Sfm62rso7XfvFVqSuIYYzJZaT1b8laNcQZ9YNTzOvd0HMQb3-XTd1empxqB2n4jYlgfi8IK1i3lScjX2AGUQBUZBOSEpsqlCBwbcpFCWu1cyL0tK2OP9Qsasqvm0d8rhm_EtsQs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="607" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRf8rOuyLLenaKKXBYaP8Xks9FEXiZrUdqVr77GfzQIx1tMMD5sn2j2Sfm62rso7XfvFVqSuIYYzJZaT1b8laNcQZ9YNTzOvd0HMQb3-XTd1empxqB2n4jYlgfi8IK1i3lScjX2AGUQBUZBOSEpsqlCBwbcpFCWu1cyL0tK2OP9Qsasqvm0d8rhm_EtsQs" width="135" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148312773"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
ruling</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148312773;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> - </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148312773;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://youtu.be/GnotjI9MACs" target="_blank">On 19<sup>th</sup> September
2023</a>, in the High Court in Arusha, Judge Joachim Tiganga read the ruling in <a name="_Hlk147462633">Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022</a>, the judicial
review challenging former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi
Chana's Government Notice (GN) No.421, of 17<sup>th</sup> June 2022. This GN
was signed a week after the start of the brutal and lawless military attack on
Loliondo that on legally registered village land demarcated a protected area and
evicted the Maasai from 1,502 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land. Chana,
in GN No.421 declared this land as a “Pololeti Game Controlled Area”. Then the
GN No.421 was publicly announced by the minister in a government propaganda
Zoom seminar on 22<sup>nd</sup> June 2022, the day before she participated in a
military celebration of the violent and illegal demarcation. This ruling very
clearly establishes that the “Pololeti Game Controlled Area” is null and void. The
written version (available on 30<sup>th</sup> September) reduced my positive
impression, since there isn’t any trace of empathy for people who’ve suffered
enormous dispossession, violence, and upheaval of lives and livelihoods. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The main point was that the
court determined that there was no consultation when establishing the “Pololeti
GCA”, when the law requires consultation with relevant authorities, which in
this case are the 14 affected village governments and village assemblies, the
eight wards, and the district council. This can’t have been hard to determine
for any judge who’d like to maintain a minimum of credibility. On 9<sup>th</sup>
June 2022, on the eve of the launch of the illegal military attack on Loliondo,
all councillors of affected wards, except one who fled, were abducted, charged
with murder for a killing that took place the day after their abduction and
locked up in remand prison, without a single court hearing, only postponements,
until the case was dismissed by the Director of Public Prosecution on 22<sup>nd</sup>
November 2022. The latest message for PM Majaliwa before the attack was on 25<sup>th</sup>
May 2022 via “community recommendations” that the PM had requested and that
clearly called for <b>a stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
investigations into human rights violations, and the removal of OBC.</b> Many
Tanzanian government officials and diplomats told the <b>demented</b> <b>lie</b>
about “amicable agreement”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The court also established
that the disputed 1,502 km<sup>2</sup> area is wholly falling within village
land, and that this is unchallenged by the government. This is not difficult to
establish. <b>Besides the obvious customary tenure for centuries, the villages
have certificates of registry to show.</b> The land was owned and used by the
Maasai before and during colonial times under customary ownership, which was
recognized by the Land Ordinance of 1923. In the 1970s the villages in Loliondo and
Sale were registered under the Village and Ujamaa Villages Act, in 1982 under
the Local Government (District Authorities) Act, and then got further
protection as village land belonging to the village assembly (all adult
villagers) managed by the village council under Village Land Act No.5 of 1999. However,
the Tanzanian government has been lying rather wildly about this issue, in
their efforts to accommodate OBC’s (and others more discreetly) lobbying for
turning their core hunting area into a protected area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some, just
some, of the government’s varying lies:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LIE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: In
2013, Minister Kagasheki made a vociferous attempt at lying that the Maasai
were landless, that the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area,
which includes two towns, the district council headquarters and the DC’s
office, would be a protected area, and that evicting them from the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
lobbied for by OBC, and squeezing them into the 2,500km<sup>2</sup> with towns,
district headquarters, agricultural areas, forest reserves and an American land
grab, in reality would signify generously gifting them with this 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>.
This lie was stopped by PM Pinda, who recognized that the land was village land,
and told the Maasai to go on with their lives as before Kagasheki’s threat.
(Unlike what everyone is writing these days, there was NOT any evictions
operation in 2013. Only a nasty attempt.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LIE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: During
the illegal mass arson operation of 2017 Minister Maghembe was pretending that
at some undisclosed point the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> would have been turned into
a protected area and that this area would have been invaded. At the same time
the Ngorongoro DC and a statement from the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism were not denying the village land but said that the aim of the
operation was to remove the Maasai from a border area, since they otherwise
could enter Serengeti National Park “too easily”, and that it didn’t have
anything to do with the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, about which PM Majaliwa was to
make a decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LIE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
(fortunately): In December 2017, PM Majaliwa announced his terrible decision,
not denying that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> was village land, but saying that a
legal bill would be prepared to place the management of the area under a “special
authority”. Fortunately, there never was any legal bill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LIE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: The
government’s first response to the 2017 case in the East African Court of
Justice was the Attorney General lying that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> would at
some unknown point have become some kind of protected area. Then the lie was
changed to pretending that the mass arson had taken place in Serengeti National
Park, when the government’s own documents show that the overwhelming majority
of bomas were burned illegally on village land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LIE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: In
2022, for the military operation with brutal land demarcation, the concerted
lie by all government officials and diplomats, was the most crazy terra nullius
lie, saying that Loliondo had never since time immemorial been inhabited and
that the British in 1951 declared it a protected area, which after independence
was “invaded” by the Maasai – some foreign diplomats, during the brutal
military attack against the Maasai, giggled stupidly when Minister Ndumbaro “reminded”
them of this – and later extended to a lie about the Germans and 1891.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LIE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a name="_Hlk147025153">Miscellaneous Civil
Cause No. 21 of 2022</a>, and its applications, was on 4<sup>th</sup> November
2022, responded to by wildlife conservation officer Emmanuel Daniel Pius, saying
that the demarcation was carved out of the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo GCA that
he claimed had been a “reserved area” since 1951, and that the villagers have
never used the 1,502 km<sup>2</sup> or been harassed by the respondents, <b>but</b>
that the reason for the demarcation was “persistent encroachment” and increase
in human population pressure, grazing, agriculture and settlement. Then he said
that “Pololeti GCA” doesn’t involve the applicants’ villages, since those are
outside the demarcated area, without explaining where the villages are if the
whole 4,000km<sup>2</sup> has been a protected area since 1951. He claims <i>“consultation
and participation leading to consensus”</i> regarding the 1,502 km<sup>2</sup>
reserved area and 2,498km<sup>2</sup> (where the DC’s office – like colonial officers’
for decades before 1951, when the current Maasai sections were already long-established in the area - and the district council headquarters are found) <i>“allocated
to villagers for settlement and other human activities”,</i> <b>while at the
same time</b> saying that leaders (all councillors from affected wards, except
one who fled) were arrested for <i>“perpetuating resistance”</i> against the demarcation
process in Loliondo and instigating violence against government officials
involved in the process (a case dropped by the Director of Public Prosecution
after over five months of postponements). This individual has also replied to
the contempt of court Application No.2 of 2022, in which he uses totally
different lies - about Serengeti, like the later set of lies used in response
to the 2017 case in the East African Court of Justice - even when it is the
2022 demarcation – first as an open threat and then as a crime that was
committed - that is the contempt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Back to the
ruling</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> the judge said that the old
4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area (LGCA) did not cease to
exist with the enactment of Wildlife Conservation Act 2009, but that it
continues to co-exist with village land. GCAs declared under Fauna and Flora
Conservation Ordinance 1951, or Wildlife Conservation Act (<b>WCA</b>) 1974 can
and do totally overlap with village land and don’t restrict human activities,
while GCAs enacted under WCA 2009 restrict all human activities – like national
parks but allowing hunting, exactly like game reserves - and can’t overlap with
village land. As long as it’s not a protected area, which it isn’t, this does
not really matter. Huge areas all over Tanzania are old GCAs that don’t
interfere with local land uses, overlap with village land, and only demarcate
boundaries of hunting blocks. What’s peculiar with Loliondo is that a new GCA
that is the same as a game reserve, was declared on top of the old GCA, and
then changed to a game reserve, which is the same thing, and requires the same
consultation, but is declared by the president.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The “Pololeti Game Controlled
Area” is now, according to the court, dissolved for two reasons: mandatory
consultation was lacking, and the president's decision to on 14<sup>th</sup>
October 2022 (publicly announced on 1<sup>st</sup> November) declare a “Pololeti
Game Reserve” on the same land automatically repealed its status. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">GN No.604 of 14<sup>th</sup>
October 2022, the president’s GN declaring a “Pololeti Game Reserve” -<b>after</b>
the case against the minister’s GN had been filed - is dealt with in its own
separate court case, the judicial review <a name="_Hlk147024891">Miscellaneous
Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022</a>. On 22<sup>nd</sup> August 2023, the court
ruled that this case can proceed, and prohibited operation of the GN until
determination of the case. This means that after the “Pololeti GCA” was
declared null and void, all operation of the “game reserve” is stopped by court
order, which apparently the NCAA - that’s since September 2022 is managing the
stolen village land - first decided not to respect, until the lawyers on 26<sup>th</sup>
September wrote to them that they will file a criminal complaint against anyone
seizing livestock contrary to the court order, and then again stopped
respecting after the attorney general’s office released its peculiar
interpretation (see below) of the ruling. <b>Since the president’s GN just
replaced that by the minister, exactly the same lack of consultation applies to
that GN, and by logic it must also be declared null and void. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then there is a more
questionable part of the ruling that was read on 19<sup>th</sup> September. The
Court found no evidence linking Minister Chana to the decision to deploy
security forces or use military force in the Loliondo operation and found that
the minister was not involved in demarcating village land. Therefore, any
illegalities in this process can’t be attributed to the minister. This sounds
strange when you have seen Chana next to PM Majaliwa in Loliondo on 23<sup>rd</sup>
June 2022, participating in a stomach-turning military celebration of the
extremely brutal and lawless attack on the Maasai. And when announcing the null
and void GN on 22<sup>nd</sup> June 2022, Chana made it clear that the
demarcation was being done in accordance with it (the GN does indeed detail the
beacons) and boasted about how all beacons had already been planted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx7GKgUxjmXrm0AuW8TJ0Qt20LDK4s3VJmwQdBRj8hVUqB8t7QFXiiAKeNDw_1_9iw-dLp7kFx7rxy88yyZXg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4bMfQ3-1UvZbVgfB1lRmiuO05lwqXd_51UIWObHclIj1mgemq7sZGPDhZi4UoAuEpTSdO4wF8CUIlBMcypJLSE4iD7o-MKDZlqLvzwAoKGCAEMalsuk6Lk8ZMnZjFrkX4k9EL-hFtq3My6KAWtWNT-tk8TlwMTiqvHar0m9w85Qpn9sSn3tAZaAiKhm1M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1445" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4bMfQ3-1UvZbVgfB1lRmiuO05lwqXd_51UIWObHclIj1mgemq7sZGPDhZi4UoAuEpTSdO4wF8CUIlBMcypJLSE4iD7o-MKDZlqLvzwAoKGCAEMalsuk6Lk8ZMnZjFrkX4k9EL-hFtq3My6KAWtWNT-tk8TlwMTiqvHar0m9w85Qpn9sSn3tAZaAiKhm1M" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSucp3958tKVuaDbFe7etzLvt4jUXNYGDL0TaSEJYzlLfWsbVpnlaQXTt4aC_kErEuQyuDSx4YsW7XVktAHopTYHJKPzlppVOu4tkJQGY3S-C-qgmwvKVDJbNpGqWP17zl1tiULmLQpHTGSje8nGIZiKKAmDVae9DUnDM3zNnHqKhZKm1p7adr7GoHKxo5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="819" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSucp3958tKVuaDbFe7etzLvt4jUXNYGDL0TaSEJYzlLfWsbVpnlaQXTt4aC_kErEuQyuDSx4YsW7XVktAHopTYHJKPzlppVOu4tkJQGY3S-C-qgmwvKVDJbNpGqWP17zl1tiULmLQpHTGSje8nGIZiKKAmDVae9DUnDM3zNnHqKhZKm1p7adr7GoHKxo5" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pindi Chana table banging in agreement with the PM's threats and lies against the Maasai.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe I shouldn’t be surprised
that a judge will not throw away any kind of credibility by denying such an
obvious crime – even if just described as a failure to comply with the law to
conduct consultation, and not the massively and openly shown brutality and
lawlessness that took place while every government representative was engaging
in horribly obvious lies - but still I’m pleasantly surprised. However, those who
committed this crime must be hunted down using other means. Many people have
been involved in the brutal and lawless theft of grazing land and none of them
must be allowed to get away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nobody can now stop the Maasai
landowners from grazing their animals on their own land. <b>Though it should
not be forgotten that the very violent land theft was committed in flagrant violation
of an injunction against it in the East African Court of Justice that was
issued on 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018</b>. More than court rulings and court
orders are needed to obtain justice – and more is being done, while even more
should be done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148312803"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
government’s malicious interpretation of the ruling<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148312803;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 4<sup>th</sup> October 2023,
the government released its own, rather malicious, “interpretation” of the
ruling in the high court. In a statement, signed by Prisca J. Ulomi - one of those who have been sued for contempt of court - from the
office of the attorney general (one of the two respondents in Miscellaneous
Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022) the government recognises that the “Pololeti Game
Controlled Area” is no more, but without mentioning the lack of consultation
that’s one of the main points in the ruling. The statement also recognizes that
there’s a court order prohibiting operation of the “Pololeti Game Reserve”
until determination of the case concerning the president’s GN No.604 of 2022, Miscellaneous
Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022. The obvious bad intentions of the statement
consist of pretending that the status quo that should continue until determination
is a protected area where grazing without a permit from the director of
wildlife is not allowed. The argument for this wilful and malicious stupidity
is based on saying that the ruling mentions that the 4,000km<sup>2</sup>
Loliondo Game Controlled Area exists since 1951. As said before … this GCA does
not restrict human activities, totally overlaps with the customary land tenure
that was there since before colonialism and has always co-existed with village
land. <b>If the government is to continue pretending that it’s a protected area, the
DC’s office, the district council headquarters, the towns of Wasso and
Loliondo, hospitals and agricultural areas must be chased away for trespassing.
</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148312845"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Grazing
and violence after the high court ruling<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148312845;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The loss of livestock and
impoverishment has been steep in Loliondo after most of the grazing land, and
particularly dry season grazing land, was stolen by the government right before
the bad dry season of 2022, expecting the Maasai to just squeeze into remaining
areas where there’re two towns with district headquarters, agricultural areas,
forest reserves, and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris’ ugly land grab</a>. Many have got into
terrible debt since first TAWA rangers and then those from NCAA (after the
illegal protected area was placed under their management), assisted by police
and Serengeti rangers, have been extorting from livestock owners a demented
100,000 TShs per head of cattle and 25,000 per sheep or goat for grazing on
their own land. Grazing has only been possible like thieves at night, when
large predators become a much more acute threat than at daytime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a NCAA ranger (remember that Pindi Chana in September 2022 announced that the illegal protected area had been placed under the management of NCAA) on 5<sup>th</sup>
May 2023 was lightly injured by arrowshot by an unknown hero archer, some said
that the rangers stopped patrolling at nighttime. By June it became much harder
to get somewhat full information about livestock seizures, or about anything
happening on the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk147715982"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As
mentioned, on 22<sup>nd</sup> August, the high court ruled that Miscellaneous
Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022, the case dealing with the president’s GN No.604 of
2022, declaring a “game reserve” can proceed and prohibited operation of the GN
until determination of the case. </span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When on 19<sup>th</sup>
September Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022, the minister’s GN No.421 of
2022, declaring a “game controlled area” was ruled null and void, this meant
that the <b>always</b> illegal livestock seizures were also illegal to the high
court. Still the NCAA rangers kept on seizing livestock. On 23<sup>rd</sup> September,
352 sheep and goats were seized in the Ngimatuni area of Loosoito, Maaloni ward.
Then 160 goats and 120 cows from Mbuken, Arash were seized in the same area on
the 24<sup>th</sup>. On the 25<sup>th</sup>, 580 sheep and goats were seized in
the Engurashi area of Manang' sub-village of Madukani, Malambo ward. In the
Malambo case, the rangers were demanding “only” 24,000 TShs per sheep or goat,
instead of 25,000. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 26<sup>th</sup> September,
lawyers on behalf of Ndoriany Koros, whose goats and cows were seized on the 24<sup>th</sup>,
wrote a letter to NCA chief conservator Manongi, Pius Rwiza, conservator of
“Pololeti Game Reserve”, Robert Laizer, who is in charge of the rangers in the
fake and illegal protected area at Arash, and the director of wildlife Maurus
Msuaha – telling them that they will file a criminal complaint against anyone
illegally seizing livestock contrary to the court order. The same day all
seized livestock were released without extortion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I shouldn’t give any
importance to such people, but for a picture of how disinformation works in the
local Loliondo police state, a local non-pastoralist opportunistic “friend” of
the government and of “investors” wrote an “article” that he shared in WhatsApp
and on Facebook that 2,005 heads of livestock had been released after the
pastoralists at a meeting at the DC’s office had admitted to breaking the law
and asked for forgiveness, and the DC intervened talking to the conservators
for the sake of strengthening the relation between the protected area and the
community, and making sure that the pastoralists will respect the law and
protect the “game reserve” from unnecessary conflict. To illustrate the
“article” this individual, Paul Dudui, used a picture from a meeting about
trachoma from the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Initially I was told that
people were still afraid of grazing their animals on the stolen land at
daytime, and on the 29<sup>th</sup>, 400 sheep were seized in Malambo, but
directly released for a smaller bribe, without being taken to the camp where
they’re usually held. Then a serious reclaim of the stolen land started, with
reportedly widespread daytime grazing. <b>People were regaining their
confidence and faith in the legal system, which had been very low indeed.</b> Still,
on 1<sup>st</sup> October, 98 cows, belonging to Ntayia, were seized in
Ololosokwan and locked up at Klein’s gate. The rangers were demanding the usual
extortion money of 100,000 Tshs per head of cattle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The DC summoned all
councillors and village chairpersons from 14 villages with land in the
illegally demarcated and alienated land to attend a meeting at his office on 4<sup>th</sup>
October. Remember that being summoned to a meeting with the DC was how the
councillors last year were abducted and locked up for almost six months. Only
two councillors attended this meeting, in which the DC was reportedly very
threatening, saying that livestock entering the 1,502km<sup>2</sup> area would
be seized and auctioned. This was the same day as the attorney general’s office
released the statement with the maliciously stupid interpretation of the court
ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> October, rangers
were starting grass fires in the Klein’s area of Ololosokwan to disturb and
harass herders. NCAA and JWTZ, Tanzanian army, vehicles were circulating Arash
and Ololosokwan and the rangers and soldiers assaulted some young men, beating
them and confiscating their phones, swords and spears. Still, they weren’t
seizing any livestock.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU9OFOlQ9FtKqCj-_hO8A_PCbJZ3yMAvmByxikb9Ff-ZoLzOpTvTc7uWLLwJSTxx-sg1bHdFK_5BLw8NL6Ksxbt5KtHRzXJfm3pJLVOm_VkVLmJhgOHx6GPXQHq9hDUQfiZGTo-zEW_-wmgwmwB7ri_hSyR07xfDfcpTJjCPcfx9_LWP_9Ss6lkAqueq11" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="1008" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjU9OFOlQ9FtKqCj-_hO8A_PCbJZ3yMAvmByxikb9Ff-ZoLzOpTvTc7uWLLwJSTxx-sg1bHdFK_5BLw8NL6Ksxbt5KtHRzXJfm3pJLVOm_VkVLmJhgOHx6GPXQHq9hDUQfiZGTo-zEW_-wmgwmwB7ri_hSyR07xfDfcpTJjCPcfx9_LWP_9Ss6lkAqueq11" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvdJVa5NOWP9tuvoFv2MnezFnrhKnYLQNMZw730UubxhBH6lc8NIXjtD2D6Os4-qnObsQKN355SbRKV9WSPlUKj8_iAlTrwhTjYVhQis5oHZjuXYX9cSxugvobXmzoDmeexQWtSknGsy7vbRbNrOLNm57IPGWauoAwGnl3dL7_MRrhrWlsahn8G4AEyY4X" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvdJVa5NOWP9tuvoFv2MnezFnrhKnYLQNMZw730UubxhBH6lc8NIXjtD2D6Os4-qnObsQKN355SbRKV9WSPlUKj8_iAlTrwhTjYVhQis5oHZjuXYX9cSxugvobXmzoDmeexQWtSknGsy7vbRbNrOLNm57IPGWauoAwGnl3dL7_MRrhrWlsahn8G4AEyY4X" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JWTZ in Ololosokan.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">First, on 6</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
October, there was good news that the livestock seized in Ololosokwan and
locked up for several days, had been released without any extortion of money.
However, in the evening it was reported that at least seven people had been
assaulted by the rangers and soldiers, including Arash ward councillor Mathew
Siloma. Lemao Sharab was cut in the face with a panga and Leteng’ena Lupa was
badly beaten. Councillor Siloma reported in WhatsApp that he was followed to
his boma and taken to the heads of the operation who were accompanied by surprisingly
many soldiers. He recognized the “conservator” of “Pololeti” Pius Rwiza, the
acting commander of the soldiers stationed in Loliondo, and the officer in charge
of border issues. The councillor was told that all livestock must be removed
from the 1,502 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> area. Several youths were badly beaten and the
councillor himself was forced to jump like a frog. Frog jump is common “punishment”
used by Tanzanian security forces and even in schools.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilquY-e4xf7uxTDIqPsmpqqlaI5fkh2Vn23vHZ1mC9WH09yyL_XeNKnzmAcv_vBqUSp_NFvSldM5L8JEHNTyYwdrzGk5iSE-6twpSdFwebfi9-T563JrP2Z4WzNnSaywGUnTcI2d5M5QamQnERukuRDbaxTGJ3MWajixhZn1n6awPAQMWAVrBAAkmGDEhQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="506" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilquY-e4xf7uxTDIqPsmpqqlaI5fkh2Vn23vHZ1mC9WH09yyL_XeNKnzmAcv_vBqUSp_NFvSldM5L8JEHNTyYwdrzGk5iSE-6twpSdFwebfi9-T563JrP2Z4WzNnSaywGUnTcI2d5M5QamQnERukuRDbaxTGJ3MWajixhZn1n6awPAQMWAVrBAAkmGDEhQ" width="119" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 7<sup>th</sup> October,
over 1,000 cows in five herds were seized in the Klein’s area of Ololosokwan.
In Arash, and Maaloni, the following livestock were seized:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kisoombe Ng'atuny, 70 cows -
Arash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nekaya Mutangung, 93 cows -
Arash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Miseyeki Sikoyo, 140 sheep, 120
goats - Arash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lulungen Sikoyo, 92 sheep -
Arash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Barnoti Kukutia, 200 cows – Maaloni<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> October 585
more cows were seized in Ololosokwan, and then some 100 more on the 9<sup>th</sup>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> October
Ngorongoro youths - including several of the applicants - <a href="https://youtu.be/jkvneS6_nMY" target="_blank">held a press conference</a> denouncing the government’s contempt
of court, the whole land alienation, with focus on the recent violence and
seizures of livestock. They said that calves left in the bomas when the cows
were seized could now not suckle, that the livestock seized in Arash were not
fed or watered (in Ololosokwan they were), and that some smaller livestock had
been suffocated. The youths reminded of that applications would be filed
personally suing those involved in these crimes in contempt of court. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The councillors of Ololosokwan,
Arash, Malambo and Engaresero – under pressure by the cattle owners whose
animals were held in bad conditions, particularly in Arash - approached the
regional CCM secretary asking for help to release the livestock, and then the
CCM secretary wrote to Arusha RC Mongella pretending that the councillors were
agreeing with the land theft and grazing prohibition! In a meeting with
the RC, he told the councillors to write a letter committing to keeping
livestock off the stolen land, but they wrote a letter that while weak and
pleading did not include such a commitment. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> October the
livestock seized since the 7<sup>th</sup> were released without extortion
“fines”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 18<sup>th</sup> October,
the rangers were again seizing livestock: some eight herds of cattle in the Oltigomi
area near Klein’s gate in Ololosokwan, and 650 sheep and goats and 48 cows in
the Lengijape area in Arash. Several sources from Ololosokwan reported about
that the manager, Melau Laltalia, of Taasa Lodge on the stolen land was very
much assisting the rangers. It’s not the first time that Taasa Lodge is a
problem. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 21<sup>st</sup> 1,300
sheep and an unknown number of calves were seized in Malambo and taken to the
Orn’goswa camp. More livestock seized in Iloope Ilokony, Arash on the 22<sup>nd</sup>
and in Leken in Kirtalo. In Ololosokwan the criminal rangers seized
332 more cows and there were filming drones everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Potot Lose 134 cows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mzee Rotiken 112 cows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leile boma 69 cows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mzee Ngatuny 17 calves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kambatai Kimeriai from Kirtalo
was on 21<sup>st</sup> October arrested with his motorbike when bringing food
for his children. He was taken to Ololosokwan police station. When leaders tried
to have him released, he was taken to Loliondo town by criminal rangers. This is
part of the intimidation drive. On 23<sup>rd</sup> October, Kambatai was
released on bail and with two others reportedly charged with “trespassing into
protected area”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiylPVEjPUo7UbyZcli71Daiifo8uPX2VztFEKOXwO9-lHt_pUH5-mKJuP3H5SV3ZxjY5uI-dABrHAIDGGOPLZqcljgx_oK-nt1r2wiSI10HuW0s0Qe4TnZ6qvoFYKRqnpjQT7M9lsibbHMksin4XHO8Miyzh5JXq0bi3yOgKDYxATOI48MBYa_v4JCWIP5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiylPVEjPUo7UbyZcli71Daiifo8uPX2VztFEKOXwO9-lHt_pUH5-mKJuP3H5SV3ZxjY5uI-dABrHAIDGGOPLZqcljgx_oK-nt1r2wiSI10HuW0s0Qe4TnZ6qvoFYKRqnpjQT7M9lsibbHMksin4XHO8Miyzh5JXq0bi3yOgKDYxATOI48MBYa_v4JCWIP5" width="180" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The livestock have still not been released and the owners are under heavy pressure to pay the extortion "fines". David Mkenga, head of the rangers at Klein's gate, and one of those sued for contempt of court, is threatening with auctioning off the cattle held there. There are various reports that the councillor of Malambo is much weakened/compromised, urging people to raise money and pay the extortion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now people are saying that the cattle at Klein's gate are not being fed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>When I had finally posted this blog post, I got reports that TANAPA had again seized hundreds of cattle in Oloipiri, Kirtalo and Loosoito/Maaloni, and taken them to Lobo in Serengeti National Park by force! Their way of operating is sadly known. They take cattle into the nation</o:p></span><span style="color: red;">al park so that it will be </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px;">a</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px;">c</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px;">a</span><span style="color: red;">se </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px;">f</span><span style="color: red;">or the </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px;">court</span><span style="color: red;"> in Mugumu, which they hope will auction them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Updates at the end of the blog post.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">Total tourism boycott on Tanzania now!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sued
for contempt of court<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148312880;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally,
on 23<sup>rd</sup> October, the summons are out and I can write about those
involved in the cattle seizures, against whom there is very concrete and
obvious evidence, and who have now been sued in their personal capacity! They are:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148312880;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro DC <b>Raymond
Mwangwala</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Pololeti” “conservator” <b>Pius
Rwiza</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148574879"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Prisca
J. Ulomi</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148574879;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
Head of the Government Communication Unit, who signed the letter from the
attorney general’s office with the government’s “interpretation” of the ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Robert Laizer</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
in charge of the rangers at Lengijape, Arash<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">David Mkenga</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
in charge of the rangers at Klein’s gate, Ololosokwan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglx-2jYNPmvoPqd3ylJHqMoFTalkEuvz_r5j8Asz6T60gdEKkLf_v4NmJIiU6g8lBpolIUxUaGv-TTQ3J99JbQ-EGl1ZAwe4iARjlYVgZXh6PBgJMi6c0oiIChTPbspB6m9K1LvpO7jas-oGn-nxn9zLbsmbtf-JK52gtoMc3FeNB9RNiaYLyo9oykd3-B" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="501" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglx-2jYNPmvoPqd3ylJHqMoFTalkEuvz_r5j8Asz6T60gdEKkLf_v4NmJIiU6g8lBpolIUxUaGv-TTQ3J99JbQ-EGl1ZAwe4iARjlYVgZXh6PBgJMi6c0oiIChTPbspB6m9K1LvpO7jas-oGn-nxn9zLbsmbtf-JK52gtoMc3FeNB9RNiaYLyo9oykd3-B" width="238" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pius Rwiza SUED</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwKT5G_mbdvX9xzRPwYXQ3SmZ_y4mRaJG2cqyUoU4-1PSPDzbZUxWmhFHZQx-xXHqNX8Ri3TU8F_P2j5QaF0y42bls6Do6_EPVQH8aa2U2Ju4qxEA0jYWHw1MYEwbVBuIWkJ-ks5nN5ADHbOHsgolIymY_GMZcnlzcxOwxd4jO-TUFyv8ELeislGTHheIB" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwKT5G_mbdvX9xzRPwYXQ3SmZ_y4mRaJG2cqyUoU4-1PSPDzbZUxWmhFHZQx-xXHqNX8Ri3TU8F_P2j5QaF0y42bls6Do6_EPVQH8aa2U2Ju4qxEA0jYWHw1MYEwbVBuIWkJ-ks5nN5ADHbOHsgolIymY_GMZcnlzcxOwxd4jO-TUFyv8ELeislGTHheIB" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raymond Mwangwala SUED<br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are so many people
involved in these crimes that must be sued. Not least the bosses of the above-mentioned
people, like RC Mongella, now retired chief conservator Manongi, and the director
of wildlife Maurus Msuha. Then there are those, quite a few, even higher up in
the hierarchy who must be seriously dealt with, ministers, PM and president.</span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We should thank the lawyers
Joseph and Denis Oleshangai, Yonas Masiaya Laiser, Melau Alais, Jebra Kambole, Jeremiah
Mtobesya and Mpale Mpoki for this. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The court hearing is scheduled for 31st October.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Odero harassed about citizenship at ACPHR session – with good events and traitors</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">The 77th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights is going on in Arusha of all places. Human rights criminals like the Minister of Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Pindi Chana …, are holding speeches about human rights defenders. The very Tanzanian journalist and Executive Director of Civic and Legal Aid Organization (CILAO) Odero Charles Odero was at one side event on 19<sup>th</sup> October and spoke about human rights violations in Loliondo and Ngorongoro. He was next day, at the inauguration of the 77<sup>th</sup> session, picked up, detained and questioned by five Immigration officials, under the lead of Ali Fikirini, who had orders from above. They wanted to see his passport, for which he could provide a soft copy, and they had all kinds of stupid questions about his grandparents. Questioning Tanzanians' citizenship is one of the most classic tools for the Tanzanian government's stupid-evil harassment. Fortunately, Odero was accompanied by advocate Paul Kisabo who had been at the inauguration with him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzi4eW_Jm5_VFWSAgxr3dMD3GVqBjcaLhBwkhJ3pUe0fbISPGlaAUNBD3HxTTMleHzRA_9h9AnfaO-PnyrFG_9n86AyF98WFWg_4xr6JGTFrKjtqEGOknmDxn4v1Ry5EEwSCpWHGwP93w1HIdvvFXSIvmrq8k3usKYFpQzaiEPmXBb31Mmt91nc5nzn1CX" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzi4eW_Jm5_VFWSAgxr3dMD3GVqBjcaLhBwkhJ3pUe0fbISPGlaAUNBD3HxTTMleHzRA_9h9AnfaO-PnyrFG_9n86AyF98WFWg_4xr6JGTFrKjtqEGOknmDxn4v1Ry5EEwSCpWHGwP93w1HIdvvFXSIvmrq8k3usKYFpQzaiEPmXBb31Mmt91nc5nzn1CX" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Odero</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Odero again spoke up on 24</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> October, in a side event called </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/6BsNI2g1MDQ" target="_blank">The Coercive Conservation Model is broken</a></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, organized by Amnesty International, Minority Rights Group, Human Rights Watch and Protection International Africa. This event had the focus totally on Loliondo and Ngorongoro, with a few voices from other areas. ACHPR Commissioner Litha Musyimi-Ogana who was part of the ridiculously government commandeered promotional visit in late January-early February attended the event. Odero spoke briefly, but strongly, informing the commissioner that at this moment livestock were seized and people were being arrested and harassed, while the commission could still not present their report. It was a good meeting where also Edw</span><a name="_Hlk149104316" style="font-size: 12pt;">a</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">rd Porokwa from PINGO’s, lawyer Joseph Oleshangay, Noorkishili Naing’isa from Ololosokwn and others spoke in an impressive way. The commissioner was aware that the commission had been prevented from visiting directly affected villages in Loliondo, but said that they had understood that thanks to social media, and had “strategies” for understanding what was going on. She also said that preparing a report normally takes two years, but that this one will be done quicker. Then she added some quite stupid defence of President Samia as a woman, saying that women have just arrived in state house and have a lot of injustices, created by men, to undo. Noorkishili had asked her to intervene as a woman and that the president was worse than any male president before her, which is a fact. Noorkishili also wondered how you can tell seized livestock to wait for the report.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX3J6sEEPovQntn5qJ9tBaX836Bkl61Pm8ahUmtOCtrxheqd8qprHV4Uyy847xNatUjnbudKPMOz27vZaArTtjv6zKB3Y1us9I03c3miXgZ4C1ngvjBjqysEGLmtZBVaD7fNPxyXt83sUl0U_U6Cyx_hKEM2KqOhT488FbCy4HBsKg-PjbSYgfkcuRg0Bf" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX3J6sEEPovQntn5qJ9tBaX836Bkl61Pm8ahUmtOCtrxheqd8qprHV4Uyy847xNatUjnbudKPMOz27vZaArTtjv6zKB3Y1us9I03c3miXgZ4C1ngvjBjqysEGLmtZBVaD7fNPxyXt83sUl0U_U6Cyx_hKEM2KqOhT488FbCy4HBsKg-PjbSYgfkcuRg0Bf" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noorkishili</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivBKIP6LEEhs440jzUN4_OnoChjVX9zCs22tae-zaeuQ6GCjJKcOTyv-tQ64Xigfn6lxvH0wsd-pSRs93dSzytmN0HyTRULdgsZ55lqqIvCEsFG45TcXINhCJM6SYvPdoEIytUqNYPMhwK5Z_ckQKcKSOw7CY7DYakVtYy8ujA-D4gAMsyRfhQOMkuyu1M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2624" data-original-width="3936" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivBKIP6LEEhs440jzUN4_OnoChjVX9zCs22tae-zaeuQ6GCjJKcOTyv-tQ64Xigfn6lxvH0wsd-pSRs93dSzytmN0HyTRULdgsZ55lqqIvCEsFG45TcXINhCJM6SYvPdoEIytUqNYPMhwK5Z_ckQKcKSOw7CY7DYakVtYy8ujA-D4gAMsyRfhQOMkuyu1M" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There had initially been some problems for attendants dressed in Maasai attire to pass the gate, but otherwise I haven’t heard of any problems from this meeting.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Present at the meeting, but without saying anything, was one of the currently worst traitors in Loliondo – Rose Njilo of the NGO Mimutie. Already in early 2022 had I been informed that Rose Njilo and Joseph Parsambei (who has been heavily used by the government and the Germans in the legitimization efforts for the brutal and massive land theft) had been seriously compromised. I had also earlier seen some signs of this. While leaders and activists were being badly harassed in 2022, before the military demarcation attack in Loliondo, Rose thought it was a good idea to report Loserian Maoi and Robert Kamakia for cybercrime, since they had called her a “sellout” in a Loita Maasai group on WhatsApp. Fortunately, she did this in Arusha and not Loliondo, so the police officers mostly laughed, even if Loserian and Robert for some time had to attend the police station almost every day. I’ve heard Rose speak up in Clubhouse against the massive land theft in Loliondo, but very clear evidence that she indeed is a traitor of the nastier kind was made public on 22</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> October, somewhat dampening the celebration of the summons presented to the Ngorongoro DC and other criminals. Rose had <a href="https://www.ngilishonews.com/2023/10/mgogoro-ngorongoroshirika-laiangulia.html?m=1" target="_blank">issued</a> a press release agreeing with the government’s “interpretation” of the ruling in the High Court, which means that cattle should still be seized with extortion fines, and people arrested, and saying that there’s only a small group receiving money from abroad that’s opposing this, while everyone else want to work in harmony with the government, respecting boundaries, and that this brings development and work opportunities with the investors. Nobody thinks that Rose herself wrote this, but may she be cursed.</span> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwvH4ku6EAVcmxWN6BsqSuMrV2RrM3ZKqAIKsIfavT10L-wdDpMx2DDM9iL3TGG8LLAkHlQU-RTuND-LAU3LYHVvDFIQFhUXCeL584o6A6PHHSHCSBXytIkLpdWVn3HZmu6jOBuVVy4u6TYBOUmN0RKXxrWSCRlJ2wRkxaLfSGvXN6T2XUypHiXYsBNkNB" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwvH4ku6EAVcmxWN6BsqSuMrV2RrM3ZKqAIKsIfavT10L-wdDpMx2DDM9iL3TGG8LLAkHlQU-RTuND-LAU3LYHVvDFIQFhUXCeL584o6A6PHHSHCSBXytIkLpdWVn3HZmu6jOBuVVy4u6TYBOUmN0RKXxrWSCRlJ2wRkxaLfSGvXN6T2XUypHiXYsBNkNB" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rose Njilo in early 2022 showing off having reported people for cybercrime.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span></p><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdqQvDzYKwcBDMi0wOp5V-PcE17cdg3EOe_IEbq_Roz63HycVUAD20HVgy0w1Fq-72i3C5t-k5R2xgPUHjrGdNL4-sz12YrJzqg7wNMmlIZIPSHjgg0AlrifXbhyzpY8bu58baszQmGAQDNnPsvdv6styFonA4_u4Bed8fVGuuqn6jSU6bH6GzZgQ7OSTk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdqQvDzYKwcBDMi0wOp5V-PcE17cdg3EOe_IEbq_Roz63HycVUAD20HVgy0w1Fq-72i3C5t-k5R2xgPUHjrGdNL4-sz12YrJzqg7wNMmlIZIPSHjgg0AlrifXbhyzpY8bu58baszQmGAQDNnPsvdv6styFonA4_u4Bed8fVGuuqn6jSU6bH6GzZgQ7OSTk" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rose Njilo at the event</td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148312913"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148312913"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Continued
pressure for German-funded crime legitimization<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148312913;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government keep pressuring
the Ngorongoro councillors to pass the German-funded and facilitated crime
legitimization called the Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043.
While they are all members of the ruling CCM party and more or less
compromised, the Maasai councillors can’t agree to such a genocidal plan. The
crime legitimization was initiated by team of 40 state security and surveyors
that in late October/November 2022, while many village chairpersons were still
in exile in Kenya or hiding, and the councillors were locked up in remand prison
- were sent to re-survey the villages in Loliondo and Sale using illegitimate
or compromised village leaders, while the DC talked about Wildlife Management
Areas, which is still more land alienation and the last thing anyone would “need”
… This was done in a very threatening way, and signs were put up, at least in
Ololosokwan, setting aside zones - outside the stolen land – for exclusive
grazing and tourism use. After the legitimate village chairman returned from
exile on Kenya, most of those signs were thrown away. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> February
and 30<sup>th</sup> March 2023 meetings were held at the Ngorongoro District
Council Hall in Wasso to pressure all local leaders to agree with the Ngorongoro
District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043. This was <b>totally</b> openly and
shamelessly funded and facilitated by the Germans via Frankfurt Zoological
Society. The DC openly threatened the councillors for, even as CCM leaders,
being obstacles to the exercise. The councillors stood firm and on 19<sup>th</sup>
May they rejected in unison the genocidal proposal that was not just meant to legitimize
the massive, brutal and lawless land theft, but extending to same kind of
dispossession to an area next to Lake Natron. The only leaders speaking in
support of the government’s plan – pretending that it was only about village
land use plans (also a danger) – was the years ago somewhat serious NGO
personality Joseph Parsambei and the stupid and “investor-friendly” chairman of
Soitsambu village, Marko Lorru. As reported in earlier blog posts, the Germans
of course then used Parsambei as a “human rights expert” to “explain” to
diplomats. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> September
the councillors were to vote again on the same genocidal plan, after having
been given a Swahili version, as if that would change anything. Reportedly, security
forces were seen all around the meeting. The councillors again refused to
approve the proposed Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043.
They also refused the Director of the National Land Use Commission the right to
address the council since they had no prior information about his visit and
that his addressing the full council is against the regulations. 24 councillors
again signed to reject the proposed district land-use plan. I have not been
able to find out if these were all of those present, as was the case in May
when also the most unlikely non-pastoralists councillors, including the
chairman who’s been working as OBC’s community liaison for years, and isn’t an
ally in any way, rejected the plan. Anyway, the Maasai councillors are majority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While local leaders apparently
have behaved in an exemplary way regarding the horrible German-funded district
land use plan, their behaviour trying to stop people from attending the
political rally by opposition politician and long-term Maasai ally Tundu Lissu
was reportedly ugly, and even the somewhat exemplary Ololosokwan village
chairman was involved. Anyway, as reported in the previous blog post, the local
leaders failed in the most spectacular way. Against the orders of the Officer
Commanding District, who said political activities, especially public rallies,
are not permitted in Loliondo, on 8<sup>th</sup> September Lissu arrived in
Ololosokwan and was received by a long caravan of motorcycles while people ran
next to the CHADEMA vehicles for kilometres. Attendance was massive by people
who for so long had been left alone with their tormentors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxJaMts8y29ypX-PG0rfDOruKJObKiuYii3h6TvtVgOD1MoB59F7lJbUuKtUeMPrfxdgYdBdKqt_Qd359b2Ow' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> September
social media accounts of the Ngorongoro DC, and of the district council shared
a most disturbing picture with a text saying that Ololosokwan village council
members, community development experts and conservationists from NCAA and the
district council had done training on development projects and conservation
“benefitting from Pololeti Game Reserve". The councillor Moloimet Saing'eu,
who 2015-2021 worked for OBC, but since 2022 has been on the side of the
people, is in the picture. It’s reported that the village council members
strongly deny having agreed to anything at all, but they haven’t issued any
public statement. I have not been able to find out what the supposed “benefits”
from the crime called “Pololeti game Reserve” were described as. Development
projects are done with German donor funds, so I suppose that’s what’s meant.
The following day, a similar photo appeared from Oloirien. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>I think the councillors by now
must have understood that they should long ago have got rid of <a href="https://youtu.be/l_PxMPezY7M" target="_blank">the big green snake</a>, CCM. As seen again, by the RC’s behaviour when they sought assistance to
release livestock seized in contempt of court, political leverage within the
party to stop land alienation may have worked in the past, but those days are
definitely gone after intra party dissent was crushed under Magufuli, and with
Samia there’s a president with obvious personal hatred against the Maasai, and
who has turned a sick tourism cult into state religion. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Germans
MUST be sued for their relentless facilitation of violent dispossession<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Social media accounts of the
DC’s office, and of the district office, keep reporting about projects by the
German development bank (KfW) and Tanzania National Parks Authority, TANAPA,
and local leaders show nothing but gratitude. However, if ever there was one,
there’s no longer any shadow of a doubt that such German charity is used as a
weapon in the war to finish off pastoralist livelihoods and culture for the
benefit of tourism and conservation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that in March 2017,
then Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe and Serengeti
chief park warden William Mwakilema (later head of Tanzania National Parks
Authority, TANAPA, until he recently was demoted to DC for Korogwe district)
told a parliamentary committee (and very much the press) that German funds
would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a
protected area. In Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the German
money and the district council decided to follow their advice. The conditions
for releasing funds were not denied by the Germans until two years later by
representatives of the development bank in an interview with Chris Lang, and we
didn’t know who was telling the truth. Now we know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While Loliondo was attacked by
mass arson implemented by Serengeti rangers – FZS’s partners - in August 2017, <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/-german-hands-over-buildings-for-serengeti-eco-system-2601252" target="_blank">a most revolting picture</a> was published of the German ambassador at that time,
Detlef Wächter. The picture showed Wächter smilingly handing over buildings for
park staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti National Park, to Minister Maghembe,
while commenting on the long and successful partnership between Germany and
Tanzania in protecting the Serengeti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the 2017 illegal mass
arson operation had been stopped, the then Ngorongoro MP and the District Council
Chairman at the time said that there wasn't any risk with accepting German
funds, since they were meant for the whole of Loliondo and Sale, not excluding
the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However <b>there
haven’t been any projects at all in the now brutally and illegally demarcated
area</b>, while projects outside it are being heavily used in government
rhetoric for land alienation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reporting from a meeting with
diplomats on 25<sup>th</sup> March 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism wrote that the then German ambassador Regine Hess, supported the
government’s “efforts” in Ngorongoro. Publicly, the ambassador never denied it
in any way. The Germans should be judged by what they say, <b>and do</b>, in
public, and they must be sued in any possible court in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUlZEkeHA4wDTXVvAzTbVhO6RPZdDsaXkifB20likJOW7Nqrqdrv7ETKZNJhQP-LmwlIZdeDh8MUonc6T9IDWvE-ACdPags_v22KMNCNbqi842GIOx41wwTmehq4zUkF8yljrjS27PqAvnEbKc2QfwfQe-eoP7D0gt0y0q-3eeFl-_CLEkhKMyjJNyapx-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUlZEkeHA4wDTXVvAzTbVhO6RPZdDsaXkifB20likJOW7Nqrqdrv7ETKZNJhQP-LmwlIZdeDh8MUonc6T9IDWvE-ACdPags_v22KMNCNbqi842GIOx41wwTmehq4zUkF8yljrjS27PqAvnEbKc2QfwfQe-eoP7D0gt0y0q-3eeFl-_CLEkhKMyjJNyapx-" width="240" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2022, FZS, that never
has said anything about violence for conservation in the Serengeti ecosystem, or
elsewhere, seriously rattled by <a href="https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/letter-to-FZS" target="_blank">Survival International</a>, expressed “<a href="https://fzs.org/en/news/appraisal-of-the-situation-of-loliondo/" target="_blank">shock</a>” about
the violence in Loliondo and distanced itself from any involvement in the land
demarcation, but still claiming that the land status would be “uncertain”.
However, in an interview in the hunters’ newsletter African Indaba back in June
2013 the late Markus Borner, FZS’s then recently retired long-term head of
Africa programme and resident of Serengeti NP had declared his support for then
Minister Kagasheki’s vociferous threats and lies about the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>
saying, “the present proposal seems a good way forward”. Besides showing a
surprising ignorance about almost all basic facts, Borner said that the Maasai
should have accepted a WMA – which FZS together with the Tanzanian government for
years had tried to impose on the Loliondo Maasai who wisely rejected it - and
that FZS after the land alienation would act as “mediator between communities
and the central government”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> July 2022, during
the military attack on Loliondo, Ambassador Hess met with Arusha RC John
Mongella, the main implementor of the massive crime, and talked about the
“cooperation” between the two countries, and the Germans kept showering the
brutal and lawless Tanzanian government with money, in August 2022, Bärbel
Kofler, German Deputy Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development visited
Tanzania for more of the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqDK5jMAqCinDKVecKAvAaIJVFFslf1zpaKhzQ4JUAqi4j7TUXAa55KVwKbmsSXmGEHGX7wevJbblpPnELPo3XUaL5WmrsBOZxsZuNOeqkBYrtq7feMf5gaTsaGCOgJRTtkAYxO0GydZCo6S13ncEFmsT8DXeF_EQ4xa58tvb2Hizplb8gh77DrKYmrrsi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="664" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqDK5jMAqCinDKVecKAvAaIJVFFslf1zpaKhzQ4JUAqi4j7TUXAa55KVwKbmsSXmGEHGX7wevJbblpPnELPo3XUaL5WmrsBOZxsZuNOeqkBYrtq7feMf5gaTsaGCOgJRTtkAYxO0GydZCo6S13ncEFmsT8DXeF_EQ4xa58tvb2Hizplb8gh77DrKYmrrsi" width="202" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> December
2022, in a ceremony with the worst perpetrators of the crimes in Loliondo, PM
Kassim Majaliwa and then Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana,
Ambassador Regine Hess handed over 51 vehicles, part of emergency funding and
recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID-19, facilitated by the German
development bank, KfW and FZS. The vehicles were to be distributed into
Serengeti and Nyerere National Parks and Selous Game Reserve and would have a
great impact on supporting “operations”. <a href="https://youtu.be/4CDeucfYMFk" target="_blank">In the ceremony Majaliwa mentionedpoachers and “encroaching livestock” as the objectives of those “operations”.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj10EfI5gQugHKqXObrH0D3y_AtwI4DgnPpmwamX4JUr9qx13B7sGQNQ7I10yhSTaJOGrlLsOx31idcP5FVoZ0RhOqpT7pXT-2fazSX9ycng1j5NIpm7AAyEqvTCCZKpkc1y_kfQs7BpTiqmUw408g1cj3At8ZKgA576KikjnKD8LUX_-9LA-vEix2TalcM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1600" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj10EfI5gQugHKqXObrH0D3y_AtwI4DgnPpmwamX4JUr9qx13B7sGQNQ7I10yhSTaJOGrlLsOx31idcP5FVoZ0RhOqpT7pXT-2fazSX9ycng1j5NIpm7AAyEqvTCCZKpkc1y_kfQs7BpTiqmUw408g1cj3At8ZKgA576KikjnKD8LUX_-9LA-vEix2TalcM" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> August 2023,
Katrin Bornemann the Head of Cooperation at the German Embassy together with
the Permanent Secretary Dr. Hassan Abbas from the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Tourism co-chaired the steering committee. While boasting about being the
biggest bilateral donor in the sector, the Germans showered the criminals with
120 million euros to keep making people cry in <i>“mainly the regions
Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Selous and Nyerere as well as Katavi Mahale National
Parks and Corridor and Ruvuma Region.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as mentioned, the Germans
have openly and shamelessly funded and facilitated the very threatening crime
legitimization that’s known as the draft Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework
Plan 2023-2043, with money from the German development bank KfW via Frankfurt
Zoological Society which implements the <b>Serengeti Ecosystem Development and Conservation
Program (SEDCP)</b>. The plan was rejected by the Ngorongoro councillors in May,
and again in September since:<br /><b>
-It was brought by the central government together with conservation
organizations like NCAA, FZS and KfW (the German development bank) to
legitimize the alienation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>-It isn’t in the interest of
Ngorongoro residents, since its aim is to legitimize the theft of 70% of their
land.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>-Passing the plan is to
legitimize the end of life in Ngorongoro via the loss of housing, cultivation
and grazing areas.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>-It’s contempt of court, since
there are four cases in the High Court and three in the East African Court of
Justice, concerning the land.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>-It violates several laws,
since it didn’t involve the village assemblies.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148313006"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We
also have the cases in the East African Court of Justice<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148313006;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the East African Court of
Justice, the ongoing case against the Tanzanian government’s fake and illegal
“Pololeti Game Reserve” is Reference No.37 of 2022. In late September 2022, the
government side responded with some wildly lying objections, but then I haven’t
seen anything scheduled. I almost wonder if the EACJ is operational. Even the
website is down and I get a virus warning when I try to access it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Appeal No.13 of 2022 East
Africa Court of Justice of the strange ruling in the case about the 2017 mass
arson operation (Reference No.10 of 2017) was heard on 15<sup>th</sup> May and
the date for ruling was to be communicated. I really don’t know what is
happening with this case. The ruling in Reference No.10 of 2017 Ololosokwan
Village Council & 3 Others versus the Attorney General of the United
Republic of Tanzania was to – after five years and a last-minute postponement
right when massive contempt of court, violating an injunction issued in 2018,
was taking place - dismiss the case since the Maasai has failed to prove that
the 2017 operation took place on village land and not in Serengeti National
Park! This when the government’s own documents clearly show that a huge
majority of the bomas were burned on village land. The ruling also shows that
the judges just didn’t understand what the witnesses said. For example, it
mentions that one of the Maasai witnesses said he was acting chairperson of
“Kilolo” village and was informed that homesteads had been destroyed in
“Olototokum” village. Such villages don’t exist but refer to “Oloirien” and
“Ololosokwan” respectively, and those were two of the applicant villages …
After the ruling, Kenyan Maasai shared the information that one of the judges,
Charles Nyachae, was the son of an infamous grabber of Maasai land in Kenya.
Was the ruling a result of sloppiness – maybe on all sides – or were the judges
compromised? At least the ruling established that there’s national park and
then there’s village land, nothing else. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Application No.2 of 2022, a
contempt of court application, filed in January 2022, when RC Mongella started
making threats of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, against which the East
African Court of Justice had issued an injunction in September 2018. An
affidavit was filed after every court order, law, and human right, had been
violated. This important case was heard in November 2022 in Kampala, and I was
told that it was probably scheduled for delivery of ruling on the Preliminary
Objection in June, but still nothing has been heard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference No.29 of 2022 in the
East African Court of Justice is not about the brutal Loliondo land theft but
challenges the coordinated and suffocating policies in the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area. Apparently, there’s still nothing scheduled for this case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148313055"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
Loliondo hunting block background</span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148313055;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Otterlo Business Corporation,
owned by Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al Ali, that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed
of Dubai, has had the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo hunting block (permit to
hunt) since 1993 (contract signed in 1992). They got the hunting block in the
Loliondogate scandal covered by the reporter Stan Katabalo in 1993 until he
passed away under suspect circumstances the same year. This area includes two
towns – Wasso and Loliondo - district headquarters, agricultural areas, and
<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris’ land grab</a>. So OBC have lobbied to have it reduced to their
core hunting area bordering Serengeti National Park, and to make it a protected
area (brutally and illegally done in 2022) which would signify a huge land loss
to the local Maasai, leading to lost lives and livelihoods. OBC’s first
irregular 10-year contract was revoked already in the corruption scandal in the
1990s and since then the hunting blocked has been renewed like any other hunting
block. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Protests by local leaders
against OBC’s construction near water sources, oversized airstrip and bad
attitudes towards the Maasai and their livestock, led to some international
press coverage in 2001-2002. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, the then Ngorongoro
DC Jowika Kasunga coerced local leaders into signing a Memorandum of
Understanding with OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing
and hunting, but when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the
government to complain. As a result, the village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
was illegally invaded by the Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with
mass arson, dispersal of cattle, and abuse of every kind. 7-year-old Nashipai
Gume was lost in the chaos and never found, ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and
some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a Ngorongoro District
Land Use Framework Plan 2010–2030 that proposed turning the village land that
had been invaded into a protected area. The Maasai were united, and the draft
land use plan was rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, then Minister of
Natural Resources and Tourism Khamis Kagasheki lied to the world saying that
the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Loliondo Division
and part of Sale Division of Ngorongoro District) was a protected area and that
alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> meant generously giving the
remaining land to the Maasai. This huge lie and ugly trick did not work, since
the Maasai were more serious and united than ever, garnered support from both
the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda
stopped Kagasheki’s threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the unity, efforts to
buy off local leaders started creating serious divisions and weakening. Some
found it convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and
attacking people who they at the same time expected to take risks to defend the
land. Though nobody signed any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and Thomson
Safaris) had for years used the local police state that through the successive
DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will threaten
anyone who could speak up about them and engage in defamation and illegal
arrests. The repression and fear of this police state became worse with
Magufuli in office. There were lengthy illegal arrests, torture, and malicious
prosecution, by 2016 – after OBC had written a <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Study--Loliondo-game-area-under-threat/1840340-3467368-4m5gk6/index.html" target="_blank">report</a> complaining about the
Maasai and engaged the press - it was so bad that PM Majaliwa could enter the
stage with a select non-participatory committee, set up by then Arusha RC
Mrisho Gambo. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some of the members were local leaders and other representatives,
serious NGOs included, that found themselves at the opposite side of the people
when marking “critical areas” under spontaneous protests in each village. A much </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">misused </b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">photo of a confrontation between police and Maasai is from these protests and not any other time. The proposal
handed over to the PM was seen as a victory, even though it was a sad
compromise (a WMA) that had earlier been successfully rejected for many years
of better unity and less acute fear.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZWoUtrVrJVrv2O-nDmVvNLCy9p3vF2Tnln9xdF35W0AZJG0lwXdtvQZvvCIqW062jXZ6CbIE-g1cLXvKYDiGlauyJMoy3eLTI2-1NUQh_iGKSFnE4lrjMRfNRj_dhp2-PrxrnPaHcDOtEu6of3j5r_BpVesNhoRoSIH33UWc5bodMCNMiLchnuE40YilJ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZWoUtrVrJVrv2O-nDmVvNLCy9p3vF2Tnln9xdF35W0AZJG0lwXdtvQZvvCIqW062jXZ6CbIE-g1cLXvKYDiGlauyJMoy3eLTI2-1NUQh_iGKSFnE4lrjMRfNRj_dhp2-PrxrnPaHcDOtEu6of3j5r_BpVesNhoRoSIH33UWc5bodMCNMiLchnuE40YilJ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture is from 17th-19th March 2017 when villagers were protesting marking of "critical areas" that their own weakened leders were participating in. Do NOT use it for anything else.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A week earlier 5th - 7th March 2017, a Standing Parliamentary Committee - co-opted by Minister Maghembe who in January was making declarations that the 1,500km2 must be alienated - toured Loliondo and the members were told that </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">German funds would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 16px;"> into a protected area. In Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the German money and the district council decided to follow their advice. Local leaders saw RC Gambo as their "only friend", or that's the sole and weak excuse for their behaviour. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAhpFc-qG5eD5UDUy2S1D5VatH2Qawr3LW0ObH_m4d7QHYZI8_q2TRYKr2vu5nQ7kmZ2YcJTvEv3Q8OW9peC0A0rRlD68Q6AQf3v6NkRBp22TccQ10pzztpmUS9HxGWWfTUygXe7WtWb5_begblt_rmIMNKc0eMOsZd1_8eeNQtA0lDPD_EaiJQL2-moi8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAhpFc-qG5eD5UDUy2S1D5VatH2Qawr3LW0ObH_m4d7QHYZI8_q2TRYKr2vu5nQ7kmZ2YcJTvEv3Q8OW9peC0A0rRlD68Q6AQf3v6NkRBp22TccQ10pzztpmUS9HxGWWfTUygXe7WtWb5_begblt_rmIMNKc0eMOsZd1_8eeNQtA0lDPD_EaiJQL2-moi8" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since the Maasai showed
such weakness, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone
was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017
an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the
ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCAA rangers and those from OBC, TAWA,
local police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally arrested, and
cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others protested
loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would have been
implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected land.
Meanwhile the DC and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not about the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about that, but that
village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti National Park
“too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGlqzkVkey9dseAQCb5fk8A7x0F-Gl3iuturhjpeLZSC_21_qmMHcoHDBbKkgd-_MwoeMM3lUA1Oe1PUokJwbujL8IRK7LRcn7jGZrJm14a9HG2O5G1x8vpM52A0OoXacP1GL2k9qThTkrdV0aE2380Egc37fxoiGsocYp7UjTWmf8A5D3cbBHFD-mg01i" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="1032" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGlqzkVkey9dseAQCb5fk8A7x0F-Gl3iuturhjpeLZSC_21_qmMHcoHDBbKkgd-_MwoeMM3lUA1Oe1PUokJwbujL8IRK7LRcn7jGZrJm14a9HG2O5G1x8vpM52A0OoXacP1GL2k9qThTkrdV0aE2380Egc37fxoiGsocYp7UjTWmf8A5D3cbBHFD-mg01i" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oloosek 13th August 2017</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Hamisi Kigwangalla
came into office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that
OBC would have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was very soon clear that OBC
weren’t going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017, Majaliwa delivered his
vague but terrifying decision that was about, through a legal bill, creating a
“special authority” to manage the land. He also said that OBC were staying. The
decision was celebrated in the anti-Maasai press (Manyerere Jackton in the
Jamhuri). Implementation was delayed, still no legal bill has been seen, and it
would of course have been contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to a fake account that he
thought was the Twitter account of the Dubai crown prince), and in April the
same year, OBC - once again - gifted the Ministry of Natural Resources of
Tourism with 15 vehicles. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, a military camp was set up in Lopolun,
near Wasso in Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually made permanent with
donations from the NCAA, and the soldiers started attacking and beating apparently random people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and
local police tried to derail the case in the East African Court of Justice
(EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning local
leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for the
applicants' main counsel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> September
2018 – a year after the illegal operation - the court finally issued an
injunction restraining the government from evictions, destruction and
harassment of the applicants, but this injunction was soon brutally violated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In November and December 2018,
soldiers from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and burned
bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was the lowest point ever in the land
rights struggle (until theland theft of 2022) and I have still not understood how
it could happen without anyone at all speaking up. Local leaders claimed to
fear for their lives and thought that the brutality was directly ordered by
President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January 2019 condemned the crimes in a
very vague way, they changed to thinking that OBC’s director had contracted the
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground. However, the local police state
was not dealt with and following a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was
out, through plea bargaining, and after a while he went back to work.
Speculations about Mollel’s misfortune include his clashes of egos with
Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to send a message to OBC’s old
friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to Bernard Membe) that nobody is untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for NCA was presented by chief conservator Manongi. It included the proposal to annex the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> (but in the form of two areas: a corridor bordering Serengeti and an area in Malambo, like in the illegal demarcation in 2022) and turn it into a protected area allowing hunting. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal was met with countless
protests from every kind of group of people from NCA, but near silence from
Loliondo where leaders were pretending that the threat had been averted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as
new District Executive Director and he started working to kill the court cases
against land grabbing “investors”. Though the village chairmen stood their
ground and Reference No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash
v the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania continued before the
EACJ until it was dismissed in September 2022. The case against Thomson Safaris
in the Tanzanian court of appeal, however, was in 2022 killed using a law that
was introduced after the case was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148313124"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly
about the 2022 threats leading up to the brutal illegal demarcation<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148313124;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make "a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation". The leaders,
even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the
attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien there
was a public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and traditional
leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A contempt of court
application was filed in the East African Court of Justice, since the RC’s
threats were in clear violation of the injunction issued in September 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February
2022, Majaliwa came and was not much better than Mongella, but too
well-received, since something worse was expected, because of the crazy
anti-Maasai hate campaign, and parliamentarians calling for tanks to be sent to
Ngorongoro. It wasn’t very clear what the PM had actually said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February 2022<b>, in NCA, not Loliondo</b>, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land
to be marked by beacons, <i>“so that we may know the boundaries”</i> – while
claiming that this was NOT a trick! Now we know what the intention was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In late February 2022, President Samia visited the Expo Dubai 2020 and met with Sheikh Mohammed.<i> </i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>“I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you
all to Tanzania, where the business and investment environment are more than
conducive. Come one, come all to Tanzania.”</i>, the president said, according to the Tanzanian embassy, and the invitation has been taken up (see DP World, carbon scams etc.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1Bsg8slyEh8EbYZR13nlp7ZYdpNJjwHLCiqFhrn_iw4Adx47EiyvaJRU6xnYdjQFViVuC59lkkAdcML12OGwwcn9BS4-xXv50QCGVXqw3q5S0eqEm2pgcFqvxtg8ThnUSDmfJ7Epv5P9VKRz_Pcm0y8Gq9NXM5qiR1XIBfAho3ZFwtpnqPBxSdAitb2zY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1Bsg8slyEh8EbYZR13nlp7ZYdpNJjwHLCiqFhrn_iw4Adx47EiyvaJRU6xnYdjQFViVuC59lkkAdcML12OGwwcn9BS4-xXv50QCGVXqw3q5S0eqEm2pgcFqvxtg8ThnUSDmfJ7Epv5P9VKRz_Pcm0y8Gq9NXM5qiR1XIBfAho3ZFwtpnqPBxSdAitb2zY" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Damas Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup> March 2022 re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and water projects for Loliondo when informing parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha, without people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the
land, among them the Arash ward councillor Mathew Siloma spoke up very clearly
and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa cannot be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March 2022,
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yR13xm_FwlY" width="320" youtube-src-id="yR13xm_FwlY"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This video is from 24th March 2018, so don't pretend anything else.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM councillors that had
spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> were
being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha. The
councillors of Arash and Malambo had to keep reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022, a
committee handed over their reports of “community recommendations” on both NCA
and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo to PM Majaliwa who said that he was
going to work on the recommendations. <b>The Loliondo/Sale report recommended <a name="_Hlk147960211">a stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
investigations into human rights violations, and the removal of OBC. </a></b><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk147960211;"></span>That was what Majaliwa had to work
with, but instead he stole the land, committed atrocities, and OBC is still
there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June 2022,
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana in her budget speech
announced that her ministry expected to upgrade Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but
she did this while listing huge areas of Tanzania for the same expectation.
That did not sound believable or realistic in any way, and there was hardly any
reaction, except for an intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai. At
least I could not imagine that anything so brutal and unlawful could happen <b>so
soon</b>, but it did. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVZEwC56ez1GgNeqQuXHrBOG9lx7sMIIzyNdoWcUjkMh_zapkcsp50VeIhq7bIeqzpEBWN_mpdB0Ww2wtsksDTxAOe3M0b8OU3YjsouO75ybc1fnIfe0RFtiSAqRD-5CruwnkstJI0PN3uzu0ZLAtiHFIj7uvQlOnQMNUWyKxlK374g5XcWgAVZSQY8hkI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="1208" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVZEwC56ez1GgNeqQuXHrBOG9lx7sMIIzyNdoWcUjkMh_zapkcsp50VeIhq7bIeqzpEBWN_mpdB0Ww2wtsksDTxAOe3M0b8OU3YjsouO75ybc1fnIfe0RFtiSAqRD-5CruwnkstJI0PN3uzu0ZLAtiHFIj7uvQlOnQMNUWyKxlK374g5XcWgAVZSQY8hkI" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148313212"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly
about the brutal and illegal demarcation of a fake game reserve<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148313212;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
Wasso town was overflowing with security forces that went on to set up camps on
the 90 km stretch from Ololosokwan to Piyaya, and in Malambo. Almost every
Tanzania Regional Police Commissioner vehicle was seen in Loliondo on the day.
The Maasai held prayers and deliberations, and in Kirtalo on the 9<sup>th</sup>
a video clip with the message that they were ready to die for their land was
prepared for Majaliwa. A coordinated threat with vicious propaganda, and the
old lie from 2013, was issued primarily by Arusha RC John Mongella, who had
recorded a message in connection with closed meeting the previous days, and PM Kassim
Majaliwa, assisted by speaker of parliament Tulia Ackson, in parliament. They
were soon joined by many government representatives repeating the same lie. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All councillors from affected
wards – except the Soitsambu councillor who managed to flee - were on 9<sup>th</sup>
June 2022, lured to a meeting by DC Raymond Mwangwala, they were abducted,
bundled in two cars and driven to Arusha overnight. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day illegal
land demarcation - which is what Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC), that
organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, for years has lobbied for -
began in a rain of teargas and bullets. Many Maasai were beaten, slashed by
bayonets, hit by teargas canisters, raped and thousands fled across the border
where many of them continued as refugees for several months, with their cattle.
The then 84-years-old Oriais Oleng'iyo was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June
with bullet wounds and detained by the Field Force Unit few metres away from
his home where security forces were firing fireworks. A police officer was
killed by arrowshot, which the government used to charge – with murder - the
councillors who had been abducted the previous day, obviously without a thought
on investigating the killing. Motorbikes and telephones were destroyed or
stolen by the security forces. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwk-iI0nZp6uN3FxAi10fKy5SAhureOaMHVd7CFf06Zd0oDVDs42WkXl75QXFgrN8EqkJhpaw4sQ0bjjTMvxg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a hunt for anyone
who could have shared pictures of the crimes (which effectively has been done
by everyone with a smartphone) and ten people, later joined by seven more, were
illegally arrested, eventually, together with the councillors, charged with a
bogus “murder”. The trial kept being postponed for inexistent “investigation”, there
was never any hearing, only postponements, and they continued locked up in
remand prison for well over five months. Three were released for reasons of
health and studies. The flow of information was almost completely cut after the initial arrests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
Deputy Permanent Representative to the Tanzanian Mission to the UN in Geneva,
Hoyce Temu, in a widely shared clip, denied any state violence, parroting the
malicious and obvious government lie about a “protected area” that had been
“encroached” and about “peaceful talks” with local residents. Meanwhile, the
councillors from affected wards were still abducted at unknown location, and
their whereabouts were only known the following day when they were charged with
“murder”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government representatives
made multiple military style visits landing in helicopter to pose with beacons,
tell lies, and issue threats. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixcRQqNoogN3CjTfqQZkkly6t5sfShpzAJ5iHky_OD0Caq3E4qbK218Bw6I5FuRaRimMxUxD1I5xjXLriyUks5VoEUOr1gQlOxd4QMuGGftcQbG4UrYs6UH9vtg6O1VWZjoF0qP111tFIsQ04z9GE9wLI3OWvFNxz5fYwPirpXzpzGFxKqUByFb1K-XWBg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixcRQqNoogN3CjTfqQZkkly6t5sfShpzAJ5iHky_OD0Caq3E4qbK218Bw6I5FuRaRimMxUxD1I5xjXLriyUks5VoEUOr1gQlOxd4QMuGGftcQbG4UrYs6UH9vtg6O1VWZjoF0qP111tFIsQ04z9GE9wLI3OWvFNxz5fYwPirpXzpzGFxKqUByFb1K-XWBg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On 13th June 2022, then Inspector General of Police threatened anyone who'd stir things up, and he particularly mentioned politicians that are using the Maasai for their own benefit.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxV6yrYcWlAIQDobJ7iez-7LWWaIgcQn_M1WcJau7qs1vJpUmGyjHnpZ1MMQYLQm4DR2rcUSvwTT_5-RaVAjA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Minister of Home Affairs, Hamad Masauni, on 15th June 2022, directed Immigration to strengthen
border security and ordered NGOs to be investigated. </span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-8bs3g1IV5pBvxnnknwwHsMJsVTao7O4do4sHKPvlCnrCLz6Gels_qQKhZXnqKYRQxMIeDTrh8jtBjCqsYxBpUn-Nbqnrn0FAWSVsDGPFWXgJWhPsw9XG-SCj4DkExKOH_J7ZsLtM4_QftJsKIrf6M1CO7XFJDbtLZqUU4DhFQ6aZ8_y1foOewOL4fz_a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-8bs3g1IV5pBvxnnknwwHsMJsVTao7O4do4sHKPvlCnrCLz6Gels_qQKhZXnqKYRQxMIeDTrh8jtBjCqsYxBpUn-Nbqnrn0FAWSVsDGPFWXgJWhPsw9XG-SCj4DkExKOH_J7ZsLtM4_QftJsKIrf6M1CO7XFJDbtLZqUU4DhFQ6aZ8_y1foOewOL4fz_a" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Immigration
Commissioner for Border Control and Administration, Samwel Mahirane on 18</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">th
</sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">June 2022, threatened those that had fled, saying that they are known and will be
dealt with. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4iRfLaiIqRVSbN9gfpmp1erVBIANAX9rnsqjquG_Yj9DnhD6yqveFg9URka6qwOVCnHC1lc1kZDqOoQ2T8EksYz-RhvbpS8LvAv_TqzB1qtsB6TACOQLzJcK_YZUSY7-48YJ22sR_rSfcxj_CHwcGBq0_IUWRI_wytpTzmfav0D5dsSZRRvfDFcN3ybEZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4iRfLaiIqRVSbN9gfpmp1erVBIANAX9rnsqjquG_Yj9DnhD6yqveFg9URka6qwOVCnHC1lc1kZDqOoQ2T8EksYz-RhvbpS8LvAv_TqzB1qtsB6TACOQLzJcK_YZUSY7-48YJ22sR_rSfcxj_CHwcGBq0_IUWRI_wytpTzmfav0D5dsSZRRvfDFcN3ybEZ" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Commissioner General of Immigration, Anna Makakala, on
22<sup>nd</sup> June announced that there would be 10 days of flushing out
illegal immigrants.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minster Pindi Chana without
following any law or procedure declared the illegally demarcated land as
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area” (GN No.421, 2022) on 17<sup>th</sup> June,
which was announced in a zoom meeting on the 22<sup>nd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21st June 2022, spineless diplomats applauded
Minister Ndumbaro’s obvious lies about what was happening. Also present and lying were then Deputy Minister Mary Masanja, Director of Wildlife Maurus Msuha and Minister of Foreign Affairs Liberata Mulamula. Though many
international organisations condemned the government’s actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid-XYkLnj3KVw8kmONHmQaOHNjbRfM6YHk6Pnx02UgVNDzlQoRcGw2SuOT7amaoDTHTgrWndsbeR4FLyNFthQzIdtgozzQwqcbkp0xVa-j6tUJKqsBvoT2eIgeZxaZmECCoT0U9qELXNgWPL7DsPLIUMLNKkY0WiDEF721Vbc0BRTO4LSxIuh55Rf3AEeK" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="615" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid-XYkLnj3KVw8kmONHmQaOHNjbRfM6YHk6Pnx02UgVNDzlQoRcGw2SuOT7amaoDTHTgrWndsbeR4FLyNFthQzIdtgozzQwqcbkp0xVa-j6tUJKqsBvoT2eIgeZxaZmECCoT0U9qELXNgWPL7DsPLIUMLNKkY0WiDEF721Vbc0BRTO4LSxIuh55Rf3AEeK" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Masanja greeting the UAE ambassador at the meeting in which diplomats were happy to be told lies. </td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The much-expected court ruling
in the case filed during the mass arson in 2017, and scheduled for 22<sup>nd</sup>
June 2022, was the last minute shockingly postponed to September.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23rd June 2022, PM Majaliwa led a military celebration of the brutal attack on the Maasai.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24th June 2022, people were told to leave within 24 hours or all their livestock would be confiscated. Houses were demolished or
razed. TAWA illegally seized livestock and demanded extortionate “fines”. The
dry season deepened without access to the most important grazing area. In
Ormanie, Arash ward, on 27<sup>th</sup> June, cows, donkeys, calves, and other
livestock were shot by the security forces. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkTxB1nwOx2bUREz_5bOtKxVOOsZXl23MTwzk91taA2DvInqyzX10JSUTIXTCw-6cwgAXemo1I3oCb4H0geilOitZwc5hvMgkszWs-EpBPpSuVKbNXBBrvpOM6nmzVqG9-tH-W7PLncpTeibd03076Tv_DLDW9SfWgPCUfdSvHkDmRfqCJx04gDfC5Vwsi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="320" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkTxB1nwOx2bUREz_5bOtKxVOOsZXl23MTwzk91taA2DvInqyzX10JSUTIXTCw-6cwgAXemo1I3oCb4H0geilOitZwc5hvMgkszWs-EpBPpSuVKbNXBBrvpOM6nmzVqG9-tH-W7PLncpTeibd03076Tv_DLDW9SfWgPCUfdSvHkDmRfqCJx04gDfC5Vwsi" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvKtWdr4cWUmfqJ38JJq3WaMH3hIC7iFCXj0tsHAYJfcghxVqu6bcQJnuMwSkeGji3YoZCsmjYV8yHOR9RCOj9nUTCSHKf6WpsJkBGZbAtIFKLxjL5Mj7vSobGcqb5Mov-6IrJ25ArDgBm9a0WRuExald0mToO0HQ9krc7wjntWp0In30Z1dCGNTklUi6j" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1040" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvKtWdr4cWUmfqJ38JJq3WaMH3hIC7iFCXj0tsHAYJfcghxVqu6bcQJnuMwSkeGji3YoZCsmjYV8yHOR9RCOj9nUTCSHKf6WpsJkBGZbAtIFKLxjL5Mj7vSobGcqb5Mov-6IrJ25ArDgBm9a0WRuExald0mToO0HQ9krc7wjntWp0In30Z1dCGNTklUi6j" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT5zTMZzt1lFGqc3wHbSvyoqGnjY5F_l_YnT8DmYNzG25CI6Y50RG299ig0SMkiwnFplJf4-OvEgrroxHEkTU6kUF9oRgPJ1hNwUAhHzDkbPu6rIJ--4TWuo1iJkyeVKQ2VIFSDbxfa6i91vl0Dcv9BxHzNaazfbDFbjzsHlYWeLWBdUcLe6J839wqjins" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgT5zTMZzt1lFGqc3wHbSvyoqGnjY5F_l_YnT8DmYNzG25CI6Y50RG299ig0SMkiwnFplJf4-OvEgrroxHEkTU6kUF9oRgPJ1hNwUAhHzDkbPu6rIJ--4TWuo1iJkyeVKQ2VIFSDbxfa6i91vl0Dcv9BxHzNaazfbDFbjzsHlYWeLWBdUcLe6J839wqjins" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As announced, there were mass arrests of people
accused of being “Kenyan”. Nursing mothers were locked up, some children had both their parents arrested, and by November every one of the bogus immigration cases - only meant to terrorize and paralyze - had been dismissed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqMn28O7YIyk0gv71PxfcFSMyVvcnmKxV_geBt87sVKx4Aw2dcrZRWPvnBCJkSCgc8tVj5Zwvt40CaEg3ro53I8yL4C06iRjkcVrlAjKeLf8vHCmSV6JCfBhDDmgfzfHSIRsLrZAzuJTZRq7wZ4msnt70eYI4zrRF56OeRbyVsjQBklyWt_0GdYUXabNP6" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="720" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqMn28O7YIyk0gv71PxfcFSMyVvcnmKxV_geBt87sVKx4Aw2dcrZRWPvnBCJkSCgc8tVj5Zwvt40CaEg3ro53I8yL4C06iRjkcVrlAjKeLf8vHCmSV6JCfBhDDmgfzfHSIRsLrZAzuJTZRq7wZ4msnt70eYI4zrRF56OeRbyVsjQBklyWt_0GdYUXabNP6" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loliondo refugees in Kenya</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 28</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> September
2022, Minister Chana announced that the illegally demarcated 1,500 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
in Loliondo had been placed under the management of the NCAA.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> September
the East African Court of Justice dismissed Reference No.10 of 2017 on the
grounds that the Maasai had failed to prove that the mass arson of 2017 was
committed on village land and not in Serengeti National Park. This ruling was
quite inexplicable when even the government’s own map show that the crime was
committed on village land. Some confused and very unhelpful journalists
confused this with the 2022 operation and reported that the court had approved “cordoning
off” of the land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TAWA, at the height of the dry
season, continued illegal seizures of livestock and extortion of huge fines,
100,000 shillings per cow and 25,000 per sheep or goat. NCAA rangers were
reportedly trained and set up camp. In Malambo, on 8<sup>th</sup> November, the
head of the NCAA camp announced that TAWA had left, and the boundaries were
being guarded by the Field Force Unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> October, or
1<sup>st</sup> November 2022, it was announced that President Samia had on 14<sup>th</sup>
October declared a Pololeti Game Reserve (GN No.604, 2022). It came as a nasty
surprise for the lawyers that on 1<sup>st</sup> November were in court for the
mention of Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022, even if it seems like it was also
on Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation the previous evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several court cases were filed
to stop the brutal, fake and illegal protected area: two in the High Court and one<span style="color: red;"> </span>in the East African Court of Justice, the ruling in
the case filed in 2017 has been appealed, and there’s a contempt of court
application. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 1<sup>st</sup> November, in
an NCA advertorial in the extreme anti-Maasai newspaper the Jamhuri, a
“conservator” for the fake and illegal game reserve – Pius Rwiza - spoke of how
calm and wonderful everything is after the demarcation. He says that the Maasai
understand the demarcation but must keep a further 500 metres away from it! And
he wanted them to create WMAs, outside the illegally demarcated 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
which is another kind of land alienation that also was included in the
OBC-funded draft district land use plan that was rejected by Ngorongoro
District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards the end of October
2022, there were reports of a notice issued by the DC about redrawing of
village boundaries with new village land use plans, and some 40 state security
and surveyors on the ground. Through intimidation and government installed
traitors, it was said that the land use plan had been passed, but that would of
course not be legal in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Between 14<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup>
November 2022, nine immigration cases against 62 people who still had such
cases pending after the mass arrests in June and July were discharged for want
of prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> November
2022, it was announced that the Director of Public Prosecution had no intention
to continue with the ridiculous “murder” case against 24 people, including ten
CCM councillors and the CCM district chairman. The leaders were, directly after
being released, whisked off to CCM internal elections to vote for candidates
close to RC Mongella. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> December
2022, in a ceremony with PM Kassim Majaliwa and Minister of Natural Resources
and Tourism Pindi Chana, the German Ambassador to Tanzania Regina Hess handed
over 51 vehicles, part of 20 million euros committed funds by Germany for
emergency funding and recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID19
facilitated by the German development bank, KfW, and Frankfurt Zoological
Society, FZS. The vehicles will be distributed into Serengeti and Nyerere
National Parks and Selous Game Reserve and will have a great impact on
supporting “operations”. In the ceremony Majaliwa mentioned poachers and
“encroaching livestock” as the objectives of those “operations”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanians online – who
since early 2022 had become very sympathetic to the Maasai - toward the end of
2022, unfortunately, again became busy with wildlife trafficking from Loliondo,
without presenting evidence in any form. Even OBC’s Mollel participated in a
zoom seminar organized to deny this – instead of talking about the insanely
brutal and illegal land alienation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Livestock keep being seized,
destroying everyone’s livelihood and mental health. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">23<sup>rd</sup> – 28<sup>th</sup>
January, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights visited,
specifically to have a look at Loliondo and Ngorongoro, but the visit was
co-opted by the government and the Commission did not see a single victim from
Loliondo. Salangat Mako from Ololosokwan recorded a message for the Commission
and then had to flee to Kenya for a while after threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzI9qhpeqkKABG79Xk2tHXrCvZTVJkhto15Ee9CPip3jFVHdNdAXo2cKPDg7l4fr-G3771gygZ8t5CqdhFi3w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rangers from Bologonja in Serengeti
National Park joined NCAA rangers/FFU in seizing cattle on village land in
Ololosokwan, illegally declared a game reserve, and taking them to Mugumu for
auctioning. They continued with this until they almost lost a court case and
one of them suffered a fatal motorcycle accident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
29<sup>th</sup> February and 30<sup>th</sup> March 2023 meetings meant to
legitimize the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> land theft via a Ngorongoro District Land
Use Framework Plan for the next 20 years was held at the Ngorongoro District
Council Hall in Wasso. This was openly and shamelessly funded and facilitated
by the Germans via FZS. The DC openly threatened the councillors for being
obstacles to the exercise and the years ago somewhat serious NGO personality
Joseph Parsambei openly came out as a traitor, as did the chairman of Soitsambu village. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk147115028;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
5<sup>th</sup> May 2023, a NCAA ranger was lightly injured by an arrowshot from
an unknown hero archer and there were reports that the rangers stopped
patrolling at nighttime. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> May 2023
the councillors at Ngorongoro District Council voted in unison to reject in
total the government’s German-facilitated draft 2023-2043 <a name="_Hlk148976408">Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan. <o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Maasai delegation visited
Europe and on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2023, they attended a public event at the EU
Parliament in which they, there at the same venue, could respond to the usual
demented government lies spewed by Jestas Abouk Nyamanga, Tanzanian ambassador
to Belgium, Luxembourg, and European Union Commission and Prof. Malebo,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Tanzanian UNESCO secretary.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
Lawyer Joseph Oleshangay from Endulen, Nengai Kilusu Laizer from Oloirobi, and Noorkishili
Nakero Naing’isa from Ololosokwan were there and spoke the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the anniversary of the
brutal and lawless land theft, several local leaders and other victims gave
their testimony of the crimes at a meeting in Mto Wa Mbu, and others had
already been recorded by a fact-finding mission. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> August 2023,
the high court ruled that Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022, the case
dealing with the president’s GN No.604 of 2022, declaring a “game reserve” can
proceed and prohibited operation of the GN until determination of the case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EU parliamentarians who were
to visit Ngorongoro and Loliondo were 24 hours before their departure on 4<sup>th</sup>
September 2023, <a href="https://www.celep.info/tanzanian-government-cancels-mep-visit-to-maasai-in-tanzania/" target="_blank">stopped by the Tanzanian government</a> that had invited them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> September
2023, against orders by the Officer Commanding District, Tundu Lissu, held
meetings in Ololosokwan and Wasso, with an overwhelming reception. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk148313293"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA,
bye bye Manongi, and the government again denies well-documented adulterated
salt<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This blog post is getting far
too long, but for some quick updates about Ngorongoro Conservation Area where
the government with restrictions on every aspect of life, and illegal blocking
of social services is attempting to make the Maasai “voluntarily” relocate to
other people’s land, with heavy media propaganda about Msomera in Handeni.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As detailed in previous blog
posts, there was a manhunt and mass arrests in Endulen ward after a week of
protests to demand a permit to renovate the badly cracked Nasipooriong’ Primary
School, and by extension the blocking of all such permits since 2021, and the
government provocateur and genocidal inciter, Habib Mchange, was chased away
from Endulen market. Those arrested were held incommunicado for several days,
many were tortured, and all were questioned about why they were refusing to
relocate to Msomera. Even the MP, Emmanuel Oleshangai, was arrested/abducted
and held incommunicado for two nights. Later, when Tundu Lissu was blocked from
visiting Ngorongoro division on 9<sup>th</sup> September there were huge
protests led by women and the presence of the Field Force Unit was heavily
increased. Glory Julius was arrested and badly beaten. Currently, those who were
arrested must report at Karatu Police Station every four days as a means of
harassment and sabotage to make them lose time and money.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also mentioned in the previous
blog post, Flying Medical Service, after 16 months of being grounded for
reasons not made known to them, got a temporary clearance to fly again.
Infuriatingly, in NCA they are only allowed to attend to urgencies, but not
provide vaccines or maternal and child care. Their long grounding added to the
life-threatening situation with defunded dispensaries and the downgraded
Endulen Hospital. <i>“During those 16 empty months, we had to totally
unnecessarily refuse to fly 146 emergency flight requests, not treat more than
9,294 patients, not vaccinate more than 31,628 children, not examine 7,192
pregnant women, not treat 231 TB patients, and not treat 102 HIV patients.”</i>
tweeted FMS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The heavy propaganda for
“voluntary” relocation to Msomera in Handeni continues, ignoring protests by
displaced Msomera villagers and complaints about unfulfilled promises and the
unsuitability for pastoralism by some Ngorongoro migrants, including the government’s
poster boy, former MP Telele. On 18<sup>th</sup> September the deputy minister
of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development, Geophrey Pinda, declared
that the Ngorongoro immigrants do not have the right to sell their land and
houses in Msomera, while landownership has been a main argument in the
government propaganda. Otherwise, a very often heard government “argument” is
that nobody owns land in Tanzania … On 25<sup>th</sup> September, Manongi
signed a MoU with the army, or more exactly the national service, Jeshi la
Kujenga Taifa (JKT), about building 5,000 houses in Msomera, Kitwai and Saunyi
villages, half of them in Msomera. The construction was initiated in a very
militaristic way on 6<sup>th</sup> October by what is supposed to be a 6,000-man
JKT workforce. If 2,500 households can be made to relocate to Msomera, the village
will be crowded indeed. On 15<sup>th</sup> October Minister of Defence and
National Service Stergomena Tax visited Msomera to keep on praising President Samia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 7<sup>th</sup> October, the
NCAA issued a statement again denying the already in December 2021 laboratory
tested adulterated and hazardous replacement salt that the authority offered to
the villages of Misigiyo, Kayapus, Mokilal, Oloirobi, and Irkeepus after they
lost all saltlicks when access to Ngorongoro Crater was restricted in 2017.
This was because the issue had again surfaced in social media when an article
was published. On 15<sup>th</sup> October a <a href="https://youtu.be/57NQANiPV0M" target="_blank">press conference </a>was held by
Ngorongoro people setting the record straight. Only many months after his
release did I understand that the reason that the councillor of Ngorongoro
ward, Simon Saitoti, was arrested on 1<sup>st</sup> July 2022 and joined to the
murder charges against the Loliondo councillors that were abducted on 9<sup>th</sup>
June 2022 (for a killing that took place on the 10<sup>th</sup>) was that he
has been speaking up about this dangerous salt that killed many cows. At least
it was what he was interrogated about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> October it
was announced that the NCAA assistant conservator Elibariki Bajuta was being
transferred to become DC of Urambo. Bajuta has in different capacities, I first
heard about him as district tourism officer, exercised his personal hatred
against the Maasai. The same announcement said that the head of TANAPA, William
Mwakilema, was transferred to become DC for Korogwe. In Mwakilema’s case this
was definitely a demotion, and I’m told this is obvious in Bajuta’s case too.
Mwakilema is another criminal who was Serengeti chief park warden when the park
management was the main implementor of the mass arson operation 2017. Nobody
seems to know the reason why Bajuta and Mwakilema were transferred. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 12<sup>th</sup> October, quite
surprising, it was announced that the horrible NCA Chief Conservator Freddy
Manongi has been replaced. It was indeed two years since President Samia
renewed his appointment for two more years, when he was about to retire, but
finally this very dangerous enemy of the Ngorongoro Maasai, who’s been chief
conservator since 2013, will retire. The new chief conservator is Richard
Rwanyakatoo Kiiza who comes from TANAPA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHm-xZSb29oL47CZJPfjlsJm7Ot_CXh6fIuVvqXNCMpGxrjOCUPsuvsYvXUSBFyumfZKV7tlI677tOthoCptKbku2uN-8kjq4EVuW6jiYeUnqnXhNLWja7qXDq7jLquuCJu6HUJNMpz6VrI9yaLnuO34vEk-vb2tngDAleWBUTMxSHaMVaq3KFjNE5rJYw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="549" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHm-xZSb29oL47CZJPfjlsJm7Ot_CXh6fIuVvqXNCMpGxrjOCUPsuvsYvXUSBFyumfZKV7tlI677tOthoCptKbku2uN-8kjq4EVuW6jiYeUnqnXhNLWja7qXDq7jLquuCJu6HUJNMpz6VrI9yaLnuO34vEk-vb2tngDAleWBUTMxSHaMVaq3KFjNE5rJYw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good riddance! </td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">15-year-old Joshua Olepatorro
whose upper front teeth the NCA ranger Elibariki Israel Namungu on 13<sup>th</sup>
August smashed out beating him with the butt of his gun is having some problems
getting justice, since a criminal case requires cooperation from the police.
His case was one mentioned in the song “<a href="https://youtu.be/nKrdDxIZ_hw" target="_blank">Mnatuona nyani</a>” (You see us as baboons)
by the artist Sifa Bujune who was arrested for incitement and then charged with
specifically the lines about Joshua as “false, deceptive, misleading, or
inaccurate”, violating the Cybercrimes Act. Those lines of the song about the
Tanzanian government’s attitude are <b>very well</b> documented though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As been detailed in several blog
posts, UNESCO World Heritage Centre – with its many reports with “grave concerns”
about “increase in the number of people residing in the property” is the main
instigator of the Tanzanian government’s human rights violations in NCA. I must
write more about this in a blog post about NCA, but for the first time in its <i>State
of conservation of properties inscribed on the of World Heritage List</i> (<a href="https://whc.unesco.org/archive/2023/whc23-45com-7B.Add2-en.pdf" target="_blank">Extended forty-fifth session Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 10-25 September 2023</a>) UNESCO
is addressing these “alleged” violations – that it claims to have received numerous
letters about in 2021 and 2022 - urging the State Party to demonstrate, ensure
and rebut, while stubbornly denying any own responsibility and putting a lot of
faith in a not yet released report by the ACPHR that in January 2023 made government
commandeered visit to NCA, Msomera and Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> October in
social media the Tanzanian government’s favourite liar and inciter against the
Maasai of Loliondo, UNESCO’s general secretary in Tanzania Hamisi Malebo again
boasted of his spewing of disinformation at the UN. According to the Tanzanian government’s
own “information”, which Malebo linked to, the occasion was a letter by Special
Rapporteur Francisco Calí Tzay about <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>, a tourism investor involved
in a very ugly land grab in Loliondo, about which all information has been
almost totally suppressed for years, even by those who should know better.
However, Malebo did not seem to understand this, but parroted the government’s usual
very deranged lies (see above) about Loliondo and NCA. Malebo is appointed by
Tanzania and not UNESCO, but the organization has never distanced itself from
this individual in any way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the World Travel Awards on
16<sup>th</sup> October at the Atlantis Royal Hotel in Dubai, Ngorongoro Conservation
Area received the award as Best Tourism Attraction in Africa. Please boycott Tanzania! Total tourism boycott!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apologies and
reflexions on very long and horribly delayed blog posts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reason for the length and
delay of this blog post is that too much is happening and I’m having problem
keeping up and keeping focus. As soon as I’m about to publish there’s new
important information that’s unconfirmed, or not yet suitable for the public
(this can cause very long delays). I’m trying to keep the writing brief, so
that at least someone will read it, but fear misunderstandings if I don’t
provide enough context, and this fear is well-founded through experience. I
feel a terrible unease about missing some important aspect, or that some information
could be withheld from me. Reporting about Loliondo has become better since the
days when it was just atrociously misleading, and I don’t mean the obvious government/investor
disinformation, but well-meaning reporters and researchers that didn’t seem to
care about facts. Still, almost every article gets something significant very wrong.
So, please get in touch with me if you’re writing about Loliondo. I’m one of
very few people who remembers what has happened the past decade, and I want you
to get everything right. Follow me on Twitter for speedier, but maybe
unconfirmed information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Where is Oriais Oleng’iyo?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Updates</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">27th October</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cattle owners were not allowed to pass Klein's Gate to got to their cattle held by the TANAPA cattle rustlers at Lobo in Serengeti.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>The 48 cows belonging to Mzee Siloma and illegally held by NCAA rangers at Lengijape in Arash were released for a "reduced "extortion of fee of 1,300,000. The other livestock are still being held and many sheep have "disappeared".</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>28th</b> </o:p></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">October</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">At dawn very high numbers of cattle have been seized
in Malambo, Irkarian and Sanjan by the criminal NCAA rangers, some taken to
their camp and some released after the rangers have been paid big bribes.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">30th October</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">The
criminals are testing a lie that would mean that the district court, the DC,
the district council, and everyone else in the old Loliondo GCA (all village
land) are trespassing. Application by the DPP for auctioning seized cattle.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkapFevcqP0g7AbdkqqdPajhggUM0FYxKF8-1qirVfc-yfafqAkHOB8NCbfGT21QKj-MB6FYcnP2OmLhOVUBatPYd6VrT_O7vGCa3pSSfPzhzWSxcoeRoAlyzwYj_usSRAcRBzJ75JAMv28vjtNi5MEGruQUhADbfKIgRaTX7_5SSBancqS21w07JdcgLf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="788" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkapFevcqP0g7AbdkqqdPajhggUM0FYxKF8-1qirVfc-yfafqAkHOB8NCbfGT21QKj-MB6FYcnP2OmLhOVUBatPYd6VrT_O7vGCa3pSSfPzhzWSxcoeRoAlyzwYj_usSRAcRBzJ75JAMv28vjtNi5MEGruQUhADbfKIgRaTX7_5SSBancqS21w07JdcgLf" width="158" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>31st October</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The court in Musoma (Mara region) ordered the auctioning of the livestock held at Lobo, with the pretext of non-appearance - when the owners have been stopped from entering Serengeti. The owners got a stop order, but the auctioning has not been stopped!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>1st November</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The Arash auctioning case was withdrawn.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The councillor of Ololosokwan was arrested for some hours, apparently because of an interference by Taasa Lodge. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">In Ndutu, NCA, rangers attempted to drive cattle into Serengeti. Herders that first were hiding when they saw the NCAA vehicle approaching got out to stop the crime and the rangers instead arrested five warriors that were released after paying 300,000.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">The 806 cows, 420 sheep and 100 sheep illegally seized on stolen village land and driven into Lobo in Serengeti NP were auctioned off as "unclaimed property" - leaving families destitute - despite of that the owners sought and GOT a stop order from the high court in Musoma. </span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">6th November</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">The NCAA cattle rustling rangers have again seized cattle in Ololosokwan and
Arash. Some 1000 cows that are being illegally held at Klein's and Lengijape.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>7th November</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">MP Emmanuel Oleshangay spoke up in parliament about the ongoing crimes against pastoralists in Loliondo/Sale and NCA.</span></span></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>8th November</b></span></span><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Several human rights and indigenous rights organizations issued a statement against the violations of pastoralists' rights and violations of court orders. </span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>9th November</b></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MP Olehangai told the press about his questions to the </span>government<span style="font-size: 12pt;">. </span><br /></span><br /><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>10th November</b></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Rangers seized some 100 cows in Arash ward, but released them after being given a bribe of 2 million TShs.<br /></span></span></div></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>11th November</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tundu Lissu reported at Arusha Police Station for questioning about having held "illegal meetings" in Ololosokwan and Wasso in September.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">People of Mondorosi village donated 95 cows and 339
goats/sheep to villagers whose livestock have been stolen. 26/10, 260 cattle
belonging to Mondorosi families were seized in Kirtalo and driven to Lobo
(Serengeti) by TANAPA criminals, then they were illegally auctioned.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>13th November</b></span></span></p></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the case regarding the president's GN 604, the respondents had failed to make submissions in 14 days and asked for 7 more days.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The case about the contempt of court committed by the DC and four others was postponed to next day.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>14th November</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The contempt of court case, High Court, was postponed to 24th November.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>15th November</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Never has contempt of court been more obvious than
when the interim orders issued by the East African Court of Justice on 25th
September 2018 were violated. Still, today the judges – in one minute –
dismissed the application. The “reasoning” will be delivered in two weeks, but
there isn’t any kind of possible “reason”. One of the judges was again the son
of a land grabber Nyachae. Were the judges compromised or just too lazy and
stupid to care? The contempt is even documented in two lawless GNs and 424 illegal
beacons …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>19th November</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MP held a meeting in Oloipiri.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>21st November</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since OBC still has complaints, their own private journalist is back with an "article". </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>22nd November</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Postponement to 22nd January.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>28th November</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">New article by Manyerere Jackton and terrible and swift reply bt NCAA.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>29th November </b> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reports of seizures of cattle in Ololosokwan, but without any details. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKUOnM1jnV6JQDFB_1JhYohPIEjjtJlD8obtO1D9pjm5XIX2s7YH6-UCCUcBVw8rUxvt3UGdmNCoaNv9G-2ZuJRKzD44VuUpL0mK-3K5KifybEYrpXG5HyUFDIBasMRnrkAH8VU003r3ao4uOCKMSdXF99E7b1A727UxZ8Na3sCJ2g10a1zOCJmXN3oHOI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKUOnM1jnV6JQDFB_1JhYohPIEjjtJlD8obtO1D9pjm5XIX2s7YH6-UCCUcBVw8rUxvt3UGdmNCoaNv9G-2ZuJRKzD44VuUpL0mK-3K5KifybEYrpXG5HyUFDIBasMRnrkAH8VU003r3ao4uOCKMSdXF99E7b1A727UxZ8Na3sCJ2g10a1zOCJmXN3oHOI" width="180" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Good news from the East African Court of Justice!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Appellate Division has ruled against Tanzania
government in Appeal Case No 12 of 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It has ordered that, Reference No 10 of 2017 was badly
tried in first instance division. And this is the biggest understatement ever. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court ordered retrial of the case with cost against
government.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>30th November</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The "reasoned" version of the demented dismissal of the contempt of court case in the EACJ was delivered, but I can't get hold of it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(I eventually did).</span></p></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>8th December</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the Tanzania Episcopal Conference, TEC, meeting on human rights, Denis Moses Oleshangay talked about Ngorongoro, Msomera and Loliondo. </span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>10th December</b></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
lawyer Joseph Moses Oleshangay from Endulen – one of those more likely to call
a spade a spade about Loliondo and Ngorongoro received the Weimar Human Rights
Award on place in the town of the same name in Germany. </span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-52280878804500954152023-09-18T22:06:00.062+02:002023-10-27T22:43:51.002+02:00Manhunt in Endulen, Abducted MP, Tundu Lissu Blocked from Visiting Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and Maasai Protesting the Tanzanian Government’s War Against Them<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tundu Lissu made a glorious
visit, against police orders, to Ololosokwan and Wasso, and was then illegally
stopped from visiting Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Before that I had spent too
long writing about other issues, mostly about how the Tanzanian government/Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) responded to over a weeklong peaceful
protests demanding a permit to renovate Ndian Primary School in Nasipooriong’,
Endulen ward in Ngorongoro division/NCA some of which was also covered in the
previous blog post. The response is increased disinformation propaganda in
media (from an already high level), sending to Endulen market government
provocateurs that since early 2022 have engaged in an ethnic hatred campaign
against the Maasai, and then mass abduction of any man found in Endulen ward,
the elderly, the sick, the very young, with the “excuse” that they would have
participated when Maasai warriors chased away the
government provocateurs. 31 of those first abducted were for over a week held
incommunicado and not taken to court. Even Emmanuel Oleshangai, MP for
Ngorongoro, was arrested/abducted for almost three days. Then followed several
other arrests/abductions, including that of village leaders. Violence, destruction,
and theft by the rangers and police is an integral part of the operation. The
denial of renovation permits is a tool in the government’s concerted efforts to
by suffocation via restrictions and blocking of social services make life
unbearable so that the Maasai “voluntarily” move out of Ngorongoro. Another
round of threats and arrests followed massive protests, mostly by women,
against the government’s blocking of Tundu Lissu from visiting NCA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is not to be confused
with Loliondo/Sale divisions where the government is using other strategies in
its war against the Maasai, with a brutal military attack to demarcate a 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> “game reserve” in 2022, after many years of lobbying by OBC that
organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, a local police state, several
mass arson operations, “arrests” for the sake of intimidation, and on the eve
of the illegal demarcation, abduction for over five months of councillors from
the affected wards. Now the government and its German donors and facilitators
are working hard to make local leaders accept fake and forced legitimation of
this crime, which the councillors rejected, for the second time, on 9th September. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Though it seems like the government is moving towards
Loliondo-style tactics also in the NCA case.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There
are several ongoing court cases against the brutal and lawless Loliondo land
theft. The ruling in the judicial review challenging former Minister of Natural
Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana's cruel and unlawful GN No.421 is scheduled for
tomorrow 19<sup>th</sup> September. Unless it’s again postponed, I must very
soon write a new blog post about Loliondo. This one is mostly about NCA (Ngorongoro division). <span style="color: #800180;"><b><u>Update</u>: Good news! The "Pololeti GCA" does not exist, which must meant that the "Pololeti GR" also does not exist!</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">EU parliamentarians who were
to visit Ngorongoro and Loliondo were 24 hours before their departure, stopped
by the Tanzanian government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I fear there are important
aspects that I’ve missed, but this blog post is already too delayed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reminder of
the protests at Nian Primary School<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA’s
journalists kept “reporting”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Genocidal
inciter chased form Endulen market<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manhunt in
Endulen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Abduction of
the MP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More
government disinformation and propaganda<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Visit by EU
parliamentarians blocked by the government<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Magic visit
by Tundu Lissu cut short by the police<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manongi lying
about ranger violence against Joshua Olepatorro<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Flying
Medical Service are back, at least temporarily<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cabinet
reshuffle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Very brief
background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo in
next blog post<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <span style="color: #800180;">Updates at the end.</span></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjh7Kxsmq4oLLcjTtys5Z93-Hliiro6hKYZhoEMZ2rwWC2UmNjAPiWqr6-dZBMEOvNhCAx_FEdJXhrp0oVQfu3smNDAH3kGzvND-GkZvhHIa7Dhr0u5FbJtlmUc6lYCru858-_CQpvF59C6sxapi0uQiNY-mxWAWCNTAYpdjPmmUb5Ob-zLNbxz9oMaIUNZ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="510" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjh7Kxsmq4oLLcjTtys5Z93-Hliiro6hKYZhoEMZ2rwWC2UmNjAPiWqr6-dZBMEOvNhCAx_FEdJXhrp0oVQfu3smNDAH3kGzvND-GkZvhHIa7Dhr0u5FbJtlmUc6lYCru858-_CQpvF59C6sxapi0uQiNY-mxWAWCNTAYpdjPmmUb5Ob-zLNbxz9oMaIUNZ" width="180" /></a></b></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><b><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reminder of
the protests at Ndian Primary School<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported in the<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/08/peaceful-protests-at-ndian-primary.html" target="_blank"> previous blog post,</a> from 31<sup>st</sup> July to 8<sup>th</sup> August people gathered
to hold protests at Ndian Primary School in Nasipooriong’ village, Endulen
ward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Villagers said they would not
leave until they’d got a permit to repair the school with walls so cracked that
it’s unsafe for schoolchildren to stay there during heavy rains. As known, the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA), in its cruel UNESCO-instigated,
and tourism-cult fuelled efforts to make the Maasai “relocate”, since 2021 is refusing
to grant any permits for building or renovation. There were protest placards,
chants, songs of prayer, and marches to block the Endulen-Ndutu road. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLilvDuzVNHIt0wB47kABUz4fT-idu5ks2Hd6avHYkvNPyZp536FYA0WAVMxciLUXJFFKd44TvymSVqraYK_lfT9ak6e8HPp_Mfl-bU7gco10B9YlbTLBilZKSynx4bq5g0V6isMpfOyaeizk6QfjOevS6tv-_t7083bxTLiIFk0jvlN3TFlpgSbP9HR7p" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="900" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLilvDuzVNHIt0wB47kABUz4fT-idu5ks2Hd6avHYkvNPyZp536FYA0WAVMxciLUXJFFKd44TvymSVqraYK_lfT9ak6e8HPp_Mfl-bU7gco10B9YlbTLBilZKSynx4bq5g0V6isMpfOyaeizk6QfjOevS6tv-_t7083bxTLiIFk0jvlN3TFlpgSbP9HR7p" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Ndian headteacher, Ibrahim
Mtunguja, received threats while the Nasipooriong’ village chairman, Kunaay
Nakuta, and Endulen laigwanani of the Nyangulo age set (current warriors),
Koising'et Olekoika, got calls summoning them to Endulen police station. At
Endulen market on 2<sup>nd</sup> August the police attempted to capture the
chairman, which led to a people’s march to the police station to free him,
which was successful, and the police ran away. Otherwise, the police were
present at the protests, but without intimidating anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 5<sup>th</sup> the
Maasai protestors started building a tented classroom for class seven, while
waiting for the permit. However, the following day NCA rangers demolished the
tented classroom and were by force taking young men’s phones in Endulen ward to
find out who was sharing photos and clips from the protests. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 3<sup>rd</sup> there
was a meeting with people – not sure exactly who - sent from the district
council who were informed that the protests would continue until there was a
permit. The protestors wanted high government officials to listen, which did of
course not happen. The human rights criminals, Ngorongoro DC Raymond Mwangwala
and Arusha RC John Mongella refused to in any way acknowledge that the protests
were going on. Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai attended and promised to
provide feedback about the permit on 18<sup>th</sup> August, and the protesters
decided to wait for that, but were overtaken by events, terrible events. On 11<sup>th</sup>
August there were reports of a mason, sent by unknown people, doing renovation
evaluation at Ndian Primary School.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630320"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA’s
journalists kept “reporting”<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk145630320;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As usual, the NCAA brought
journalists to report that the Maasai wanted relocations to Msomera speeded up,
and as usual, this is the material that the regular press published. Since
early 2022 this kind of reporting, which isn’t new, is sped up into a frenzy of
ethnic hatred, led by the editor/owner of the Jamvi la Habari newspaper, Habib
Mchange, that used to focus on fabrications and slander about opposition
politicians, and reporting about Mchange himself as the coordinator or director
of different organizations that he apparently hoped for the government to
contract. In early 2022, he hit jackpot with the organization MECIRA, an
environmental organization for journalists with its sole focus on evicting the
Maasai from Ngorongoro (later it was also contracted by the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism against pastoralists in Mbarali). Mchange was joined by
the stupidly screaming sports presenter turned frontpage reviewer turned
inciter of ethnic hatred, Maulid Kitenge, and the old anti-Maasai Jamhuri paper
with Manyerere Jackton and Deusdatus Balile. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manyerere Jackton has since
around 2010, in over 60 articles, incited against the Maasai of Loliondo and
for having them evicted from OBC’s core hunting area, which was brutally and
illegally done in 2022. This “journalist” besides painting the Loliondo Maasai
as non-Tanzanian and destructive, in the craziest way slandered everyone he
remotely suspected of being able to speak up (this blogger very much included),
openly boasted about being directly involved in illegal arrests of innocent people
and sent strange one-liner emails when such arrests took place, while also
fabricating stories for apparently no reason at all. Jackton’s colleague at the
Jamhuri, editor Deusdatus Balile also joined MECIRA. Balile is chairperson of
the Tanzania Editors Forum. On 13<sup>th</sup> February 2022, the new
anti-Maasai organisation held a press conference, in which Balile announced
that there were no graves in Ngorongoro and that the Maasai feed their sick and
dying relatives to predators, among other insane hate propaganda, that was
repeated in a three-hour parliamentary debate in which parliamentarians
competed at who could make up the sickest stories about the Maasai, and literally
call for sending tanks to Ngorongoro. The Darmpya online news<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(now Jambo tv), asked questions, like how
come the “allowances” for attending the press conference were so extraordinary
heavy, who funded it, and for what purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maulid Kitenge, with his
colleague Oscar Oscar, arrived in Ngorongoro, apparently for the first time, in
early February 2022, screaming like a pig in heat, as a dear friend of mine has
described it, about everything he saw, basically including his own shadow, as
something terrible and that the Maasai must be evicted – and so he has kept on.
Like all enemies of the Ngorongoro Maasai, these “journalists”, from areas
immensely more populated, engage in a population panic and painting the Maasai
as destructive, primitive and backwards, at the same time as screaming about
modern houses (never about the obscene luxury lodges) and pretending that the
livestock belong to rich people from elsewhere. Then they cry crocodile tears
about the lack of social services, when those are since 2021, when President
Samia came into office, being very purposefully blocked by the cruel and
criminal government that want to get rid of the Maasai. Attacks by wildlife
make Kitenge (and the rest of the lying criminals, not least the Tanzanian
UNESCO secretary Malebo) get into an ecstatic, screaming frenzy. They love such
news and will pick up cases from years back, while ignoring that it’s a bigger problem
in many areas of Tanzania, not least Handeni district to where they want the
Maasai to relocate. As the relocations to Msomera began, the “journalists”
report about everything that the Maasai get in the new location that they can’t
have in Ngorongoro, ignoring who’s restricting them in Ngorongoro and why, that
Msomera is other people’s land, and that not only the Msomera villagers, but
also some of the government’s favourite migrants have started complaining,
including the poster boy, former MP Telele.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s a lot more to say about
such “journalists”, but they are clearly a creation of the NCAA and its chief
conservator Manongi. To return to the protests at Ndian Primary School, the “journalists”
were again sent to Ngorongoro – to report about three individuals who wanted
relocations speeded up … not to report on several days of protest against the
suffocations to make life unbearable for the Maasai with the aim to make them
relocate. According to the Controller and Auditor General 2.5% of NCA
households have been relocated. There are also some who have registered for
relocation, maybe sold their belonging, but their relocation keeps getting
delayed. Then NCAA/government uses this creation of their own to broadcast the
message that “the Maasai want to be relocated”. The Jamvi la Habari used old
pictures from Loliondo on their frontpage, to fake that there would have been a
big manifestation in favour of relocations, and even a close-up of Kijoolu
Kakiya, special seats councillor from Piyaya in Sale – <b>not</b>
NCA/Ngorongoro division – who was abducted for over five months when massive
land was brutally and illegally stolen in Loliondo. Kijoolu usually speaks up
for land rights and has also spoken up against the restrictions in NCA,
particularly about life-threatening effects on women and children who are
missing vaccines and die when not able to reach hospital for childbirth. Then
the journalists were off to Kapenjiro village where some placards-carrying
people had been arranged. These people were thankful to the government for the
opportunity of moving to Msomera, where there’s agriculture and social
services, unlike in the terrible Ngorongoro, at the same time as angry with
those speaking up against the suffocating restrictions and illegal blocking of
social services … The message was that those were “NGOs” and people from other
places (this blogger included, even if I doubt that any of the placard bearers
know who I am). That’s the message that the government/NCAA want to drive
through. That there are Maasai who want to relocate, and selfish people who
want to stop them. In Kapenjiro, NCAA have teamed up with a most horrible
traitors called <a name="_Hlk144929382">Ndwala Ngoishiye</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Genocidal
inciter chased from Endulen market<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> August, Habib
Mchange appeared unannounced at the busy Endulen market, in a NCAA vehicle,
carrying loudspeakers, with other “journalists” and “government employees”. In
front of gathered children he started haranguing people about relocating out of
NCA. Speaking on behalf of the government, he screamed that “we” now allow you
relocate to Kitwai or wherever you want. Reportedly, Mchange’s gang were then
chased away by some 200 Maasai warriors. Mchange himself, Ferdinand Shayo from
ITV, the freelancer Denis Msacky, and the traitor Ndwala Ngoishiye who was
there as a translator were taken to hospital in Karatu, not
Endulen hospital that the government is doing its best to strangle and
downgrade. Not even the NCAA statement the same evening pretended that Mchange
had been doing journalistic work, but “providing education to those who have
registered to relocate”. Still, much of the press pretended that it was a case
of journalism, as did the NCAA in a later statement. The NCAA statement also
said that “in collaboration with the police, the Ngorongoro Conservation
Authority is looking for all those involved in this incident and legal action
will be taken against them”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwnXw_EIoSPI3v0e4yeT0SS3sdLC88abqUxuIrGZBUXpZ-96ILMDQu5LcL-JRX4HrdZxgXW4XPzK5dq_ZA01g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPQunalvh-7AHTEW7_JPmm_QAkDFWxLWzjspqGP55qoZKpcbv1zEvpdhczaMzhZolc3ebWPqF3vOBegnLSmANFh2cDCM_HcuWBBGqUAktiyIHxrJMZgQ5bxx3I7YuDPjrISbgUmP4fkumwng0yWMOfxattO0p9IjlfrMOGJrflZGavRtoY0v8_RbVOHc4c" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="721" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPQunalvh-7AHTEW7_JPmm_QAkDFWxLWzjspqGP55qoZKpcbv1zEvpdhczaMzhZolc3ebWPqF3vOBegnLSmANFh2cDCM_HcuWBBGqUAktiyIHxrJMZgQ5bxx3I7YuDPjrISbgUmP4fkumwng0yWMOfxattO0p9IjlfrMOGJrflZGavRtoY0v8_RbVOHc4c" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To Mchange’s colleague in
genocidal incitement, Maulid Kitenge of Wasafi tv, the Ngorongoro DC, human
rights criminal (see earlier posts about Loliondo) Raymond Mwangwala, kept to
the message of the NCAA statement and added that everything was peaceful, with
no disturbance to tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government's main enforcer
of the war against the Maasai of Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, Arusha RC John
Mongella, made a hospital visit to check on his genocidal inciters. At the same
time, he ordered the Arusha Regional Police to hunt down and arrest everyone
involved in the incident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 16<sup>th</sup> August the
frontpage of the Jamvi la Habari said, <i>“The Ngorongoro MP plans murder
strategies”.</i> To other media MP Shangai patiently explained that he had left
the market before the disturbances started and does not support taking the law
into your own hands. It is indeed unlikely that he would have been involved,
but if he had, he’d deserve a medal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoHOF2W9o8J0esFKVELiHQptu6aQjyQPc9EkCjFCaekoyrqRuf9zyKfb1aP4lzN0-YebXF5YcNglC1z1jvouVHDec5eLcpQtymCPLqP1nWc39Q7EfCoxIZCLZE4D29oS6rJSrZAYK7T4FZvamiFfypdIn5WMcT-aEI83Ci5PdEu1vU6tjCWcZ3wdMZFBVP" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="686" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoHOF2W9o8J0esFKVELiHQptu6aQjyQPc9EkCjFCaekoyrqRuf9zyKfb1aP4lzN0-YebXF5YcNglC1z1jvouVHDec5eLcpQtymCPLqP1nWc39Q7EfCoxIZCLZE4D29oS6rJSrZAYK7T4FZvamiFfypdIn5WMcT-aEI83Ci5PdEu1vU6tjCWcZ3wdMZFBVP" width="183" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most Tanzanians in social
media supported the action taken by the warriors - as it was described by Habib Mchange's dramatization - and regretted that Maulid
Kitenge had not been present. This is how low “journalism” in Tanzania has
sunk. I suppose Kitenge was mentioned since he’s the loudest and most visible of
the instigators of ethnic hatred, and because he has also used his pig-in-heat
style to defend the very dodgy deal with the Dubai state-owned company DP World
to control Tanzanian mainland ports, while critics of this deal are being
threatened, harassed and arrested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630401"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manhunt
in Endulen<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 16<sup>th</sup> August,
some 30 vehicles were seen at the Endulen NCAA zonal office, including FFU
anti-riot police. The police searched the homes of the Endulen village
chairman, Thomas Oltwati, and CCM ward chairman, Moses Oleseki, but could not
find them. They arrested a young man named Larasha Olenginina in his shop and first
took him to the Endulen NCAA office, instead of taking him to Endulen police
station. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA rangers and police started
searching every single boma in Endulen ward, arresting every man that they
could find. Most were already hiding and sleeping in the bush, so among those
arrested were Daniel Olewanga who has just been released from hospital with TB,
a man born with mental illness, old men and young boys, and even a non-Maasai shopkeeper
who was accused of assisting the Maasai to stay in NCA. Daniel Olewanga was not
allowed to take his medicine with him, he had tried to keep away from people to avoid transmitting TB to them, but was locked up in a cell with over 30 others. NCA
rangers were firing bullets aimlessly, and towards specific people while
chasing them, and NCA vehicles hidden in the bush along the road to ambush any
man they could find. Reports about sexual assault against women during the
manhunt – publicly denounced by women in Endulen on 24<sup>th</sup> August - are
being investigated. It was first unclear to where those abducted had been
taken, then it was found that some were at Manyara Kibaoni and some at Karatu
police station. Some were also held at Ngorongoro Police Station. Most were
badly beaten and the NCA rangers had special “greeting” that they used on those
arrested, and which consists if slapping both ears at the same time, leading to
temporary loss of hearing. Some of those arrested fainted because of this “greeting”.
Some were tortured with cold water, and several, most it seems, were ordered to kiss the police
cell wall and tell it, “I love you”. All
were questioned about why they are resisting relocation out of Ngorongoro, and
about who is organizing this resistance. Most were asked about who was
organizing the protests at Ndian Primary School.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy3YWl-Oca_GUEhaFc2FFXFOA71Cthe6N-vBUy5dFd1AOBHkPHluKdoqL9_pV5MeuQfPDFIv8LR_nhac5PYtw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Women's protest on 24th August. They are NOT relocating and President Samia got cursed.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> August Odero
Odero of Civil and Legal Aid issued a press statement and several Ngorongoro
youths, Kisota Mollel, Melobo Ndara Poshe and Ezekiel Olemangi, held a press
conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A habeas corpus was filed on
the 21<sup>st</sup> and the following day lawyers could see the abducted men
who had been terribly beaten and interrogated about why they were refusing to
relocate to Msomera. On 24<sup>th</sup> August, they were released on bail -
after over a week of illegal detention and maltreatment - the day after the
Ngorongoro MP was released after almost three days (see below). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP3nX0-RxAmTicdy3J5kyuWzbN1Crb-QsdEkA9N0mpPbI0VoMGh0jOnatdle_hEoVA8v7pBSeQVSBD87ZQg_FM1jZHUznqZ_AxQDuwo4c0wETnEjMkJ493AvdGUFZEeB94Cw7uym3T9Rd8EEick2dOO44tHK29BO_tHGqvl5HMQT8x0ZW2NOYvzGYzOTAa" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="468" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP3nX0-RxAmTicdy3J5kyuWzbN1Crb-QsdEkA9N0mpPbI0VoMGh0jOnatdle_hEoVA8v7pBSeQVSBD87ZQg_FM1jZHUznqZ_AxQDuwo4c0wETnEjMkJ493AvdGUFZEeB94Cw7uym3T9Rd8EEick2dOO44tHK29BO_tHGqvl5HMQT8x0ZW2NOYvzGYzOTAa" width="108" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally released on bail.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a slightly separate and
confusing (nobody has explained it properly) abduction, Mzee Peter Parsais, CCM chairman of Naiyobi ward – home of
the traitor Ndwala Ngoishiye - was taken by NCA rangers on 19<sup>th</sup>
August. Two NCAA vehicles were searching for Peter, the rangers arrived at his
house and told his wife that they wanted to personally deliver a letter from
CCM Arusha Region, so they wife told them where he was. The rangers took Peter’s
stick and sword and took him away without telling to where. Later it was found
that Peter was being held at a “safe house” with Tanzania Intelligence
Services, and he was released on 24<sup>th</sup> August. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile, Minister Mchengerwa
inaugurated the second phase of relocation to Msomera and warned anyone “sabotaging”
the exercise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Denis Peshut from Endulen was
in the morning of 29<sup>th</sup> August abducted and at noon found at Karatu Police
Station to where everyone is currently being taken instead of Loliondo Police Station
that’s the police headquarters in Ngorongoro district. He was denied bail since
the Officer Commanding Station claimed that the police can't interfere with the
NCAA intelligence unit. Denis was interrogated
about the protests at Ndian Primary School, the chasing of government
provocateurs at Endulen market, and the women's protest during the paramilitary
hunt of any man in Endulen not fast enough. On 31<sup>st</sup> August he was
finally granted bail. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The night leading to 1<sup>st</sup>
September, NCA rangers and police arrived in Ormekeke sub-village in a vehicle from
the NCA Endulen zone, driven by Emmanuel Telele who’s employed by the NCA
Alaitole zone. The security forces invaded the homes of the Nasipooriong’
village chairman, Kunaay Nakuta, and the Ormekeke sub-village chairman and
traditional leader, Oreteti Olenjorio (not to be confused with his brother
Ngakenya) by breaking the doors and destroying property. They slapped and
insulted the village chairman’s wife. They also broke the doors of several
relatives to those leaders, including the mother of the village chairman. After
not being able to find the village chairman, the rangers stole ten buckets of honey<span style="color: red;"> </span>that belonged to him. Women were
shocked and children ran away. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUoTIxLXeWOutLYBTbRaORPcXc3IgQNkoqlo-zYdRIZ-920EbCrMeq_WYAWZT2TPDiHE2tMQM6ZIz--2OJNEP-yKVNB5b9tZi5NO5rhjaAF-eXKvWbMurU0PEzvsA7tj3i4NqotvUdybUMEhhzdI-wSh43wMsmh1o1GszlEWZ8aBM733UIB3s7LsqI8lwf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="468" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUoTIxLXeWOutLYBTbRaORPcXc3IgQNkoqlo-zYdRIZ-920EbCrMeq_WYAWZT2TPDiHE2tMQM6ZIz--2OJNEP-yKVNB5b9tZi5NO5rhjaAF-eXKvWbMurU0PEzvsA7tj3i4NqotvUdybUMEhhzdI-wSh43wMsmh1o1GszlEWZ8aBM733UIB3s7LsqI8lwf" width="108" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The rangers and police
continued to Alaitole where t</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">he same night they arrested the ward councillor,
James Moringe who had attended the protests at Ndian Primary School. Also
arrested was the traditional leader Petei Ketaika. Both are of the Landiss
age-set that are very middle-aged. The rangers and police could not find the
Endulen village chairman. These two were taken to Karatu and in the afternoon
they were released on bail. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The arrests of men from
Endulen ward continued on 4<sup>th</sup> September when Nyangulo traditional
leader Zakayo Ponja was abducted from his place of work at a tourist camp in
Serengeti and taken to Karatu Police Station. Zakayo can still not hear well
after being tortured and he has pain and swelling in his chest. Ngakenya
Olenjorio, CCM Secretary Endulen Ward, Moses Oleseki, CCM Ward Chairman, and Thomas
Oltwati, Endulen Village Chairman were summoned by the Ngorongoro officer
commanding station to report at Karatu Police Station and when they arrived,
they were arrested. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Why Karatu and not Ngorongoro
or district police headquarters in Loliondo town? Not only the police district headquarters,
but the district council, the DC’s office, everything, is found in
Loliondo/Wasso towns. The only thing that since May 2021 is located in the
neighbouring Karatu district, is the NCAA headquarters, and the NCAA is clearly
leading and directing the police work. So far 46 people have been interrogated
without legal representation, forced to sign statements that that have not been
read to them, and held for longer than stipulated by the law, in some cases
more than a week incommunicado. Many of them have been severely beaten. Today,
18<sup>th</sup> September, they had to report at the police stations again, most
of them at Karatu Police Station, to where all are supposed to return on the 21<sup>st</sup>
for a “final decision”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630430"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Abduction
of the MP<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> August, the
MP for Ngorongoro, Emmanuel Oleshangai, posted a letter in social media saying
that his life and his family were in danger. The previous night, rangers had
invaded his home, disturbed his family and issued threats to his life. The
leader of the patrol, who was wearing a red t-shirt, said that if the MP was
found, they should shoot him in the leg, or wherever, so that the job would be
finished. His mother had fainted and still not recovered. After this, Shangai
phoned the Ngorongoro district investigation officer Kwakaya to tell him that
if they needed him, they should stop disturbing his family. Kwakaya told him to
come to Karatu for questioning, which surprised the MP, since the district
headquarters in Loliondo would have been expected. However, in the afternoon
police in three vehicles again arrived at his home with the aim of arresting
his wife, who’s innocent. So, he wanted to inform Ngorongoro resident and
Tanzanians in general that is life is in trouble and security is not good. He
explained that the problem stemmed from the accusations in the Jamvi la Habari
that he’d been involved in violence at Endulen market, which he has already
explained to media, and if the police wanted his statement, they should summon
him for that and not come to his home with guns. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyscT6h5ZN2AA_5Z4j7xHiBbD1q1yuRU2kt0g9brjEeX_OdCs1HrjUIsXjWFp_Abphc8BS5SrVtn3IqUlkNuTSDH7mnnp1gIkBzLz-TrTUThfGtMa7wE2namYXi_RCWtWLuBNS0Cby6kwgF4YeBajNMc6SlywoF3lgM7enrCLQ4uuAjwPx8Q7KGJ9PIqGf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1336" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyscT6h5ZN2AA_5Z4j7xHiBbD1q1yuRU2kt0g9brjEeX_OdCs1HrjUIsXjWFp_Abphc8BS5SrVtn3IqUlkNuTSDH7mnnp1gIkBzLz-TrTUThfGtMa7wE2namYXi_RCWtWLuBNS0Cby6kwgF4YeBajNMc6SlywoF3lgM7enrCLQ4uuAjwPx8Q7KGJ9PIqGf" width="244" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shangai said
that, if anything happens to him, we should know that it is at the instructions
of the DC of Ngorongoro, Raymond Mwangwala and the RC of Arusha, John Mongella.
I’d say, we should keep that (and who is the boss of those two) in mind
regarding everything that happens in Ngorongoro. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> August MP
Shangai was on his way, together with several lawyers, to the Regional Crime
Officer (RCO) in Arusha but was told that the RCO was busy and that he should
instead report at the District Police Station in Karatu. They turned back, but
at Rhotia (Marera), near Karatu, the road was blocked by a NCA vehicle and another
vehicle with police officers. The MP was arrested and taken to Karatu Police Station
to where he was already on his way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At Karatu police station the
MP was interrogated until past midnight. Among many other people, the Officers
Commanding District of Ngorongoro and Karatu were present at the station. The
accusation was about injuring the inciter of ethnic hatred at Endulen market. Then
the MP’s lawyers were asked to leave and come back the following morning when he
would be granted bail. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the lawyers returned with
tea for the MP in the morning, he was no longer at Karatu police station. The
police officers said that he had been transferred in the middle of the night,
on order by higher authorities, but they didn’t know where. The lawyers went to
court to enquire but was told that the MP had not been brought. Then they went
to Chekereni and Tengeru police stations without finding him. At Arusha Tourism and Diplomatic Police Station they were told to direct their questions to the RCO,
but he was not available. The lawyers held a <a href="https://youtu.be/KFIxuzhGmco" target="_blank">press conference</a> about the MP and
about the 31 men who had been locked up for a week and who had been tortured. Another
night passed with MP Shangai’s whereabouts unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day a habeas
corpus was filed and in the evening MP Emmanuel Oleshangai was released on
bail. Unlike the other arrested people from Endulen, he had been treated well,
but had refused food during the whole abduction. I suppose this was because he
feared for his life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> August
there was a <a href="https://youtu.be/lqNOl1obQIg" target="_blank">multitudinous </a>reception of MP Olehsangai upon his return home to
Endulen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630462"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More
government disinformation and propaganda<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk145630462;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> August,
while the Ngorongoro MP and over 31 abducted men from Endulen were being held
incommunicado, NCA Chief Conservator Manongi, his deputy Bajuta, Minister
Mchengerwa, Arusha RC Mongella, the Tanzanian UNESCO secretary, the horrible Dr
Malebo, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deputy Permanent Representative
to the Tanzania Mission to the UN in Geneva, Hoyce Temu, the shameless Chairperson
of the National Council of NGOs, Lilian Badi, the government’s favourite
traitor from Kapenjiro, Ndwala Ngoishiye, and other criminals held yet another
disinformation conference for media. I haven’t listened attentively to it all,
but judging from what was reported by such outlets as the Daily News, East
Africa tv and others, they went on with the same old propaganda, without
touching on the ongoing manhunt, including abduction of the MP, in Endulen.
There was population panic and insulting ethnic profiling of the Maasai, but
mostly crocodile tears over how terrible everything is in Ngorongoro and how
generous the government is helping the Maasai to relocate “voluntary”, which so
many are registered for, and as perverse as usual was the silence about
suffocating restrictions and blocking of social services as a strategy to very
purposefully get rid of the Maasai. As usual, Dr. Malebo went on and on about
wild predators eating the Maasai, and he listed every disease found in
Ngorongoro (and of course elsewhere …) Still, UNESCO have not distanced
themselves in any way from this individual. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtw0ouT5euZQUtZtJA-EeMvjnY5yOJCGOe1hgyx9XFwTq6fjuNTvDFaXDyXgpT_l3rCPLZYPmf8EDuEOHnN2rGTZyWTFiRDbaPuEAqpKxoGOVFw59nTpj3Ghn2Y3EdnRJo-nGyxZ9SVmBjyPD5X3jI4zpCDokKBj52PqFXcEexq2bWPUIQ00sA0-GbjEmW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1191" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtw0ouT5euZQUtZtJA-EeMvjnY5yOJCGOe1hgyx9XFwTq6fjuNTvDFaXDyXgpT_l3rCPLZYPmf8EDuEOHnN2rGTZyWTFiRDbaPuEAqpKxoGOVFw59nTpj3Ghn2Y3EdnRJo-nGyxZ9SVmBjyPD5X3jI4zpCDokKBj52PqFXcEexq2bWPUIQ00sA0-GbjEmW" width="179" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every day there are articles
about how the Maasai in Ngorongoro want the relocation process speeded up,
about how wonderful Msomera is, or how terrible Ngorongoro is. Sometimes the
latter could be written by serious people instead of government campaigners,
but then as a description of government policy and not about something the government
is saving the Maasai from by relocating them. Regularly, lately several time a
week, it seems, NCAA are bringing so-called “journalists” to Ngorongoro and
Msomera. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> August there was a particularly <a href="https://dailynews.co.tz/residents-condemn-attack-on-journalists/" target="_blank">bizarre </a>case of
reporting. The Maasai, besides the usual government message, were supposedly
asking for forgiveness for “attacking journalists”. The statement was read by Ndwala
Ngoishiye who technically is a “victim” of said attacks, since he was taken to
hospital in Karatu, after acting as translator of the incitement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Social media trolls calling
for the relocation of the Ngorongoro Maasai have increased their presence in
September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630527"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Visit
by EU parliamentarians blocked by the government<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three Green European Union
parliamentarians - Michèle Rivasi, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Claude Gruffat -
were on 4<sup>th</sup> September due to travel to Ngorongoro and Loliondo as
part of an independent observation mission, but 24 hours before departure, the
Tanzanian government, through its ambassador to the EU, said it had decided to
“defer this visit to a later date”. The EU parliamentarians were by ambassador
Jestas Abouk Nyamanga promised that they’d be allowed to carry out this
independent mission during an event at the EU parliament in May, in which the
ambassador and the horrible Dr. Malebo were lying their heads off as usual, but
at <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tanzanian-governments-brutal-land.html" target="_blank">this same event</a>, uniquely and in the most wonderful way, the Maasai
representatives, Joseph Oleshangay, Nengai Kilusu Laizer, Noorkishili Nakero
Naing’isa were able to set the record straight, right there at the same venue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apparently, the Tanzanian
government had proposed a totally government commandeered visit, which was
rejected by the EU parliamentarians, who were then no longer welcome, 24 hours
before departure. The same happened to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights
of Indigenous People, Francisco Calí Tzay, in December 2022. Unlike the EU
parliamentarians, the rapporteur unfortunately did not issue a press statement,
so Ambassador Nyamanga lied (one of his milder lies …) about him, saying that
he had not come to Tanzania since allegations were unsubstantiated, as had been
seen by the African Commission of Human and People’s Rights commissioners. That
disgraceful ACHPR commission did indeed accept being commandeered by the
Tanzanian government (described in several blog posts) and did not meet one
single victim, or even an independent voice in Loliondo, and in Msomera the
commissioners, some of whom were Swahili-speakers, passively sat next to the
Tanga RC when he talked in a threatening way to the Msomera villagers. ACHPR
have not released a report but a brief final communiqué recognises some
problems, while praising the Tanzanian government … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMb648LLMlTXb_VeSrtmJvMgddBTq8j1kVNnjktHFW7SqNMvLiSZUM3Z2YyBmU55T3jIHU2q_sI8_X25_KOCjdjYih2rQ5RSHQO-x9C1wcD1HtUr7YZPAmtQ4LsZHgEhZ1RB7wayRn7iCeA4WfhREdfAIAzIKrSZJO9uVlASW3Jh3cFhYG3L6rMu-Yb-2H" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1131" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMb648LLMlTXb_VeSrtmJvMgddBTq8j1kVNnjktHFW7SqNMvLiSZUM3Z2YyBmU55T3jIHU2q_sI8_X25_KOCjdjYih2rQ5RSHQO-x9C1wcD1HtUr7YZPAmtQ4LsZHgEhZ1RB7wayRn7iCeA4WfhREdfAIAzIKrSZJO9uVlASW3Jh3cFhYG3L6rMu-Yb-2H" width="170" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgURoBwmaWbHyce5mosJWSWB8ldggBMEqW47edvX2dC0648qSFzSvFZHlF2K2N1kyKMDiV49_z9c4JsJs89RaEVdrRC3pb--67DKD0SmlW3erOxguqA8DCPxmrI9iS3p8GjsWdmuW76ht_xbRSsyDjW7BPv8fhpqMowghGZiOCJscKrDd1JtB_gJ71PK0Zx" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1131" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgURoBwmaWbHyce5mosJWSWB8ldggBMEqW47edvX2dC0648qSFzSvFZHlF2K2N1kyKMDiV49_z9c4JsJs89RaEVdrRC3pb--67DKD0SmlW3erOxguqA8DCPxmrI9iS3p8GjsWdmuW76ht_xbRSsyDjW7BPv8fhpqMowghGZiOCJscKrDd1JtB_gJ71PK0Zx" width="170" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For a quick reminder of the
quite insane lies told by Tanzanian diplomats, who have apparently all been
instructed to make fools of themselves: they claim terra nullius, that Loliondo
has never been inhabited and is a protected area since German colonial times,
that the demarcation was done in friendly agreement with the Maasai (so
friendly that all councillors of affected wards were abducted on the eve of the
demarcation, and kept abducted for over five months …), that the Ngorongoro
Maasai are relocated so that they won’t keep getting eaten by wild animals, and
that social services have been cut after relocation, since the population has
diminished! And the Maasai are of course Kenyans, and so on. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630566"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Magic
visit by Tundu Lissu cut short by the police<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk145630566;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The deputy chairman of the opposition
party CHADEMA, Tundu Lissu, peppered with 16 bullets in 2017 – which has still
not been investigated - with over 20 surgeries, and a long-time ally of the
Maasai, was to hold rallies in Loliondo and Ngorongoro on 8<sup>th</sup>
(Ololosokwan, Wasso, Loosoito) and 9<sup>th</sup> (Mokilal, Endulen, Alailelai)
September. CHADEMA sent a letter to inform the Officer Commanding District
(OCD) Ngorongoro of these rallies but got the reply that in Ngorongoro Conservation
Area a permit from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority is needed and that
in Loliondo division, according to information, political activities,
especially public rallies, are not permitted. Lissu declared that Ngorongoro
was not a prison and the Maasai not its inmates, so he was going anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKYcbD9AOg7sp9dNC7bgTvffZq03xIrYUs6wqWCGXGcMdLKgux2io_F7nbzbfoK9-9E9P12xMhNWmG8gYyWANs53Ms3GbeWN2ZV9cKr4ge5Qc68BPd7nWDZp86sVz04cl_XI_Oczrq6ldTGuuXdyjtL7GmiCO5udKkJ5LCtTifyYsV0rEz8GnXXlDCwYzS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="510" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKYcbD9AOg7sp9dNC7bgTvffZq03xIrYUs6wqWCGXGcMdLKgux2io_F7nbzbfoK9-9E9P12xMhNWmG8gYyWANs53Ms3GbeWN2ZV9cKr4ge5Qc68BPd7nWDZp86sVz04cl_XI_Oczrq6ldTGuuXdyjtL7GmiCO5udKkJ5LCtTifyYsV0rEz8GnXXlDCwYzS" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lissu’s entourage had been
holding several rallies in Mara region, and for some reason that only seemed to
bother me, and nobody else, they set out late from Mugumu, later than the
announced arrival time in Ololosokwan, and it’s a 3-hour drive through
Serengeti National Park. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reception in Ololosokwan
was overwhelming. People had been urged and threatened not to turn up, and there
had been some sabotage to preparations, but despite of fuel prices, there was a
long caravan of motorcycles receiving Lissu and people ran next to the CHADEMA
vehicles for kilometres. They had been left alone with their tormentors for
very long, and those in contact with people on the ground know the damage that this
has done. Lissu did not show a detailed knowledge about the brutal and illegal
demarcation of a “Pololeti Game Reserve” but enquired with young attendants and
admonished them to have detailed statistics at hand. Though I’ve only seen
short clips with bad sound from Ololosokwan. Lissu was presented a gift by the
disappeared Orias Oleng’iyo daughter. A young man, one of many who were was
illegally locked up in remand prison for almost six months at the start of the
military attack on Loliondo, has gone through a radical personality change to
the better after meeting Lissu. The police did not disturb this meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy9jzcWz-Da5NrbHQgpki7a1Eq81oRjfKiAkTE_I1sIfGiftm1ztGN66vK7DE2z7TAoyP8DyPGZ4EyGKPw8sA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwpQauxiN9PsXqZ-x7tAGQV_6Dx4Ok3YCh7lzLCwuN5b6WJwoyODY3mQPaxsskIHB32holrshyI4fxy4F4ZOw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Unsurprisingly, Maulid Kitenge
shared a video clip of an almost deserted market area in Ololosokwan, lying
that this was what Lissu had encountered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the entourage was off to
Wasso where another very well-attended rally was held, but maybe not with the
same emotional significance in this town further from the stolen land and with
many non-pastoralist inhabitants. The Maasai presence was however overwhelming
in Wasso as well. The speech from Wasso is better documented, among other
issues, Lissu mentioned that he had been speaking up for Ngorongoro when the
two Ngorongoro MPs that he coincided with in parliament decided to stay silent.
The message was that many people around the world care about what’s happening,
the people of Ngorongoro are not alone. The police stayed passive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy_X5-VYldUTFeliT32kESl3VnVrdTDBunUHpVCtQ-DrR-rCnH48OxHCw3I4Lu-IUja72gLQYmTK5kJBIVK9w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another meeting, in Loosoito
(some mention Arash), was on the timetable, but it was already too late, and
upon leaving Wasso, one of the CHADEMA vehicles hit a cow that instantly died,
and the car was destroyed. The CHADEMA leaders drove to Karatu instead where
they must have arrived very late at night, or early morning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 9<sup>th,</sup> three
meetings in NCA were scheduled. The CHADEMA leaders went to the NCAA
headquarters in Karatu where they were told to obtain permits at Lodoare gate
but were then stopped by the police some 12 kilometres before reaching the gate. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At the same time, at the gate, Ngorongoro residents were blocked from returning home, even after paying entrance fees, as Joseph Oleshangay has <a href="https://www.theleftberlin.com/stop-the-repression-in-tanzania/" target="_blank">reported </a>about. Lissu’s entourage
decided to sit down to block the Karatu road until they’d be allowed access to
NCA. The huge waiting crowds in Mokilal, Endulen and Alailelai organized
prayers and protests. After a standoff Lissu’s blockade of the Karatu road was
broken off with teargas. Ng’atait ole Babu from Endulen who was travelling with
the CHADEMA leaders was arrested. Lissu made a call with a message to the waiting
Maasai that he’ll be back, that they aren’t alone, that Ngorongoro isn’t a prison
and they aren’t its inmates, that they have the same rights as any Tanzanian,
that those abusing them are violating the law, that they should stay strong and
not be silenced, that “that mama” will be defeated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5fFksxyN-ldue8V_KEzSPirqRzMmv5_CaYl3QFpn_z-S5mRjkSkmbLi4aRy0b5TBfg7OPnYQTXbf_KnEdoIhS_dqt6GO-0i_j3a1hTUL3mNwnLBp--hpRbRHceieUZplbUfJKTdry-o3gFgII6RCP5coqcPQdHwxeV9NWFSTUKMHaBmQDAev3LtbFrWmu/s720/WhatsApp%20Bild%202023-09-09%20kl.%2011.31.45.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="720" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5fFksxyN-ldue8V_KEzSPirqRzMmv5_CaYl3QFpn_z-S5mRjkSkmbLi4aRy0b5TBfg7OPnYQTXbf_KnEdoIhS_dqt6GO-0i_j3a1hTUL3mNwnLBp--hpRbRHceieUZplbUfJKTdry-o3gFgII6RCP5coqcPQdHwxeV9NWFSTUKMHaBmQDAev3LtbFrWmu/s320/WhatsApp%20Bild%202023-09-09%20kl.%2011.31.45.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Early next morning, Lissu, and
those travelling with him, CHADEMA leaders, guards, and a journalist, were
arrested, and so were the Karatu CHADEMA leadership. The location where Lissu
was being held was not known until the evening when he was presented at Arusha
police station. He had first been taken to Monduli. The accusations against
Lissu are about illegal assembly and obstructing police work. He will be back
to Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maasai women continued
protests and a heavy presence of the anti-riot Field Force Unit descended upon
them with threats. A police commander – some say he’s the Arusha RPC, but
I haven’t been able to confirm – is seen in a clip threatening the Maasai not to
make him hurt them. Two women, suspected by the NCAA of having organized the
protests were arrested: Glory Julius and Noonguta Peshut. First they were
driven to Karatu and then back to Ngorongoro where they were granted bail in
the evening. Glory was during the arrest kicked, beaten with a stick, slapped
and insulted, and for 12 hours she was not allowed to breastfeed her
one-year-old child. Glory was on 24<sup>th</sup> August seen in social media
clips of the women’s protests refusing to relocate to Msomera, and in which
President Samia was cursed. Noonguta, who’s 66 years old, was pushed around
badly, and hurt her back. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> September social
media accounts of the Ngorongoro DC, and of the district council shared a most
disturbing picture with a text saying that Ololosokwan village council members,
community development experts and conservationists from NCAA and the district
council had done training on development projects and conservation “benefitting
from Pololeti Game Reserve". The councillor Moloimet Saing'eu is in the
picture. Some say that the village council members strongly deny having agreed to
anything at all. Anyway, such government moves aren't damage control for CCM, but the contrary, escalating party desertion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were reports on 12<sup>th</sup>
September that police and rangers were seen approaching the Maasai elderly
women asking them to bless them after the highest level of curse they were
given on 10<sup>th</sup> September which can't be taken away by any means when
given out. They got this curse when beating and insulting the women. The
results are supposed to be turning crazy or dying a natural death. The curse on
President Samia on 24<sup>th</sup> August was of similar strength. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Esupat Moses, born and bred in
Endulen, as were her grandparents, was on 14<sup>th</sup> September arrested
and locked up for 9 hours, accused of not being a resident of Ngorongoro. This is
intimidation, and intimidation only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I remember that on Election Day, 28<sup>th </sup>October
2020, non-party affiliated 23-year Salula Ngorisiolo was shot to death when
NCAA rangers and police opened fire at unarmed voters who were protesting open
and shameless election fraud at Oloirobi polling station in Ngorongoro ward. No
Ngorongoro leaders at all have denounced this murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630619"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manongi
lying about ranger violence against Joshua Olepatorro<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> August, in
a NCAA statement and in a video clip of chief conservator Manongi it was
claimed that NCAA had met with the Nainokanoka village leadership and with the
police, and that there were no testimonies at all saying that a ranger would
have smashed out 15-year-old Joshua Olepatorro’s upper front teeth. Manongi
went as far as saying that his rangers can’t do such a thing and have never
done such a thing. This contrasts sharply with decades of testimonies of ranger
violence in NCA, and elsewhere, everywere actually, in Tanzania. The following day there was a reply
by Nainokanoka councillor Edward Maura and the village government <a href="https://youtu.be/0IeCazkJDNo" target="_blank">setting the record straight</a> regarding Manongi’s disinformation propaganda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported earlier in this
blog, on 13<sup>th</sup> July, Joshua Olepatorro – described as 15-year old,
but looks younger - from Nainokanoka was attacked by NCAA rangers when
returning from having grazed cows in Olmoti crater together with other young
herders who all ran upon the sight of rangers. The rangers got hold of Joshua and
one of them - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">identified by Joshua as Elibariki Israel Namungu - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">beat him with the butt of his gun, so that three of his upper front
teeth were smashed out, and then they left him there in the bush, until he was
picked up by his friends. Unlike other cases of ranger violence, this case
received some limited media attention. The Nainokanoka councillor and the
village chairman have already spoken to the press, and so has Joshua’s mother,
and Joshua himself. The brutal assault has been reported to the police
(NGO/RB/125/2023), but nobody has been arrested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Oakland Institute have
also uploaded a video clip of Joshua and his mother. Joshua says that that the
attack is common behaviour of rangers towards young herders. It’s what rangers
do. His mother adds, “they hate us, they don’t want us here.” She’s determined
to stand firm and get justice for her son, and she asks the president who’s a
mother like her if she can feel the pain of her son. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VFF2f-ZlZUs" width="320" youtube-src-id="VFF2f-ZlZUs"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Flying
Medical Service are back, at least temporarily<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In late August 2023, Flying
Medical service got a temporary clearance to fly again. In social media, they
reported that for reasons not made known to them, Flying Medical Service the
only non-profit Air Ambulance Service in Tanzania, was grounded for the last 16
months by the ministry of health and the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“During those
16 empty months, we had to totally unnecessarily refuse to fly 146 emergency
flight requests, not treat more than 9,294 patients, not vaccinate more than
31,628 children, not examine 7,192 pregnant women, not treat 231 TB patients,
and not treat 102 HIV patients.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>As late as 27th August a pregnant woman died at the hospital gates in Arusha, over a day after having requested and been denied an ambulance flight. </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630730"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630730"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cabinet
reshuffle<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In yet another one of her
frequent cabinet reshuffles, the president transferred her son in law Mohammed Mchengerwa
to become Minister of State in the President's Office in charge of Local
Governments. This is allegedly in “preparation” for the 2025 elections. His
time as Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism was brief, but nasty. New
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism is Angellah Kariuki. Mary Masanja was
removed as deputy minister. Masanja has in a most rude and vulgar way for a
couple of years represented the government’s anti-pastoralism and tourism cult.
Apparently Masanja has not been transferred anywhere. Dunstan Luka Kitandula is
new deputy minister. Damas Ndumbaro who first as Minister of Natural Resources
and Tourism and then as minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs has been
very active in the war against the Maasai, particularly in lying to foreign
diplomats about Loliondo and Ngorongoro, is now Minister of Culture, Arts and
Sport.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk145630765"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk145630765;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Very
brief background<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">See the previous blog post for
a more detailed background.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All permits for construction
or renovation of schools or health facilities in the 25 villages of NCA, even
those already with government funds in their accounts, or third-party
donations, have since 2021 been denied by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Authority and since 2022 there’s a drive to manipulate the in every way
suffocated Maasai to relocate to other people’s land, that in no way can
accommodate pastoralism, 600 kilometres away. These are not the first
restrictions or eviction efforts, but the worst. There’s a population panic –
used as an excuse for any human rights violations - on part of the
government and some international organizations, notably UNESCO (see earlier
blog posts) even when Ngorongoro is less densely populated than most areas of
Tanzania and has become a huge tourism money-maker for government coffers and
deep pockets, with the Maasai living there, in their land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai already lost access
to over 14,000 km2 when evicted from Serengeti in 1959 by the colonial
government – accompanied by Bernhard Grzimek’s rallying cry, “Serengeti Shall
Not Die” (this Nazi-party member also wanted the Maasai out of Ngorongoro and
is still revered by the German embassy in Tanzania) -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and as a compromise deal, they were
guaranteed the right to continue occupying the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro
Conservation Area as a multiple land-use area administered by the government,
in which natural resources would be conserved primarily for their interest, but
with due regard for wildlife, and in case of conflict the interest of the
Maasai would take precedence. This promise was not kept, and tourism revenue,
as seen again and again, has turned into the paramount interest, with
restrictions for the Ngorongoro Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 1975, after a change in the
NCA Act in 1974, the Maasai were brutally evicted from residing in Ngorongoro
Crater and all cultivation was prohibited. The cultivation ban was lifted in
1992, but brought back in 2009 (or 2008), to the whole of NCA, after many
“grave concerns” in the recommendations by UNESCO and IUCN. Now not even the
smallest kitchen garden is allowed, which together with loss of access to
grazing areas has led to malnutrition. The Maasai are not allowed to build
permanent houses and suffer all kinds of harassment by NCA rangers, that want
to restrict motorbikes, building materials, and demanding permits for just
anything, including demanding ID for the Maasai to pass Lodoare gate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a visit by PM Majaliwa
in December 2016, the Maasai lost access to the three craters Ngorongoro,
Olmoti, and Empakaai, which has led the loss of 90% of grazing and water for
Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks
for livestock in these wards. This was done through order and not any change in
the law. Replacement salt donated by the NCAA was found to be substandard,
adulterated, and lead to the death of many cows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, the
notorious chief conservator Freddy Manongi made public a Multiple Land Use
Model review proposal, which was so destructive that it would lead to the end
of Maasai livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. The proposal included
the Loliondo 1,500 km2 land theft with annexation to NCA, which was committed
in 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after having come into
office in 2021, Samia Suluhu Hassan started bringing up the need to “save”
Ngorongoro from the Maasai, in an explicit and repeated way not used by any
previous president. A week after her first of many speeches of this kind there
was on 12<sup>th</sup> April 2021 demolition orders for private houses, primary
schools, dispensaries, Endulen police station, churches, and a mosque, which
after protests was stopped until further notice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also in 2021, in May, the NCAA
headquarters were hastily relocated to Karatu, promotional spectacles headed by
the infamous chief conservator Freddy Manongi were held on parliamentary
grounds, and in September 2021 a clip was <a href="https://youtu.be/OQIhJCNDEWA" target="_blank">uploaded</a> in which Deputy Minister
Mary Masanja complains about having seen cattle on a trip with MPs and Manongi
talks about a war, that pastoralists have many conspiracies and that conservationists
must start cooking their own conspiracies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2022 started with a leaked
fast-tracked plan for “voluntary” relocations of Ngorongoro Maasai. In the plan
the Kitwai and Handeni GCAs are named as the areas for relocation and
misleadingly described as protected areas that will be declassified. On the ground
in Msomera, Handeni, there was of course a registered village with its land use
plan and bewildered villagers looking on as houses were speedily being built
for Ngorongoro Maasai. Eventually Msomera villagers started speaking up about
dispossession and abuse. Arusha RC John Mongella was the recommended overseer
of the project, and that’s what he become for the whole of the war against the
Maasai in both NCA and Loliondo/Sale. The plan recommended seeking permission
to use COVID-19 money allocated for the development projects to fund the
eviction of Ngorongoro Maasai - and then on 31<sup>st</sup> March 2022 then DED
Mhina sent letters to Ngorongoro headteachers ordering them to transfer
COVID-19 funds for Ngorongoro schools to Handeni District council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A hate campaign against the
Ngorongoro Maasai was sharply escalated in media and in the one-party
parliament. Then meetings about Ngorongoro were held with Maasai imposters from
other parts of Tanzania. Minister Ndumbaro held lying sessions with diplomats
to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and Loliondo. Then some in-authentic,
compromised, or naïve Maasai registered to be relocated to Msomera and much
paraded in media, with former MP Kaika Saning’o Telele (who in 2023 started
complaining) as the worst example.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A meeting was held on 12<sup>th</sup>
October 2022 between government representatives and Endulen Hospital. The
government plan was announced as to further suffocate key life serving services
downgrading the hospital to a clinic. This was adding to the harsh defunding of
clinics and dispensaries and the unexplained grounding of Flying Medical
Service for 16 months. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> March 2023,
the Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Charles Kichere, announced that 2.5%
of Ngorongoro households had been “relocated” at a cost of TShs 24.7 billion.
In a threatening way, he said that the cost for “relocating” the remaining
22,000 households would be TShs 988 billion. The CAG did not disclose where the
money is coming from.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In his budget speech of early
June 2023, the new Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Mohamed
Mchengerwa, in a militaristic way promised that there will be no turning back,
no surrender, in completing the relocation exercise to Msomera. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo in
next blog post<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo and NCA are two
separate, but closely related issues …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Loliondo Game Controlled
Area, which is the same as the Loliondo hunting blocks, covers the whole of
Loliondo division and part of Sale division of Ngorongoro district. The Maasai
in Loliondo are not at all subjected to the suffocating restrictions of NCA –
the NCA example has made them understand the dangers of having their land
managed as anything other than regular village land - but have for decades been
under threat of having 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of village land that’s important
grazing land turned into a protected area. This land alienation has been
lobbied for by OBC that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai and that
has had the hunting block (permit to hunt) since 1992/1993. For many years, a
land rights struggle, has fought off this land alienation, despite of a local
police state in which anyone that could criticize certain “investors” has been
harassed, threatened, defamed and arrested, and despite of illegal mass arson
operations in 2009 and 2017. Though under the most anti-Maasai president ever,
in June 2022, through a brutal military operation, the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> was
demarcated and the Maasai evicted. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All councillors from affected wards were abducted and
locked up for almost 6 months, there were shootings, beatings, slashings with
bayonets, rape, theft of motorbikes and telephones, destruction of houses,
illegal arrests and trumped up charges, even shooting of cows, thousands fled
to Kenya, everyone was supposed to squeeze into residential and agricultural
areas with very insufficient grazing areas left, having to enter their own land
as thieves at night for grazing, seizing and huge “fines” (extortion) on
livestock that continue. Then 84-year-old Oriais Oleng’iyo was last seen
injured and detained my security forces on 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Following this massive, illegal land theft, there was
German-funded and facilitated, fake and forced land use planning drive, leading
to a draft Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043. The
Ngorongoro councillors – under heavy pressure to accept it, including public
threats by the DC – have now twice rejected this crime legitimization, even
when they all are members of the very problematic CCM ruling party, and all
compromised to some extent. The German-funded government will keep pressuring them.
On village level there are some worrying signs of leaders going along with FZS
ideas, particularly when they can use such to get rid of their least favourite
neighbours. At least their efforts to make villagers abstain from attending the
meeting with Tundu Lissu were an enormous failure. These are issues that I most
very soon deal with in next blog post. I’m trying to keep this one focused on
Ngorongoro Conservation Area. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are several ongoing
court cases against this massive land theft. In the midst of extreme government
lawlessness in Endulen, NCA, the high court has ruled that the case challenging
the president’s cruel and illegal GN (Government Notice) No.604 of 14<sup>th</sup>
October 2022, turning 1,500km2 of important village land in Loliondo, since
June 2022 invaded by security forces, into a “Pololeti Game Reserve” can
proceed, and prohibits operation of the GN until determination of the case
(substantial application). </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">This is Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have not understood what the practical on the
ground implications of this ruling are, but it seems like, if the ruling in the other judicial review, concerning Pindi Chana's GN No.421, is favourable to the Maasai, all operation of the fake game reserve will be stopped by court order. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling keeps getting
postponed in Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022, the judicial review
challenging former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana's GN
No.421, of 17<sup>th</sup> June 2022, a week after the start of the military
attack demarcating village land in Loliondo, declaring a fake and illegal
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area”, that was in October the same year followed by
the president’s equally illegal game reserve. <b>Now the ruling is scheduled for tomorrow 19<sup>th</sup> September!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I still can’t think of any
better international action against the President Samia’s war on the Maasai
than a total tourism boycott.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>Updates:</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Already on 18th September the deputy minister of Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development, Geophrey Pinda, in Msomera declared that the Ngorongoro immigrants do not have the right to sell their land and houses. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>19th September</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>Good news in the high court!</b> The ruling in </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022, the judicial
review challenging former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi
Chana's GN No.421 make it null and void!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>The charges against singer Sifa Bujune, arrested on 13th September because a song, were read and is based on mentioning that a ranger smashed out Joshua Olepatorro's teeth.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>20th September</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">Flying Medical Service air ambulance was on regular
schedule to Naiyobi ward in Ngorongoro Conservation Area for treatment of
patients, but was not allowed to treat children and pregnant women for lack of
permit from the Ngorongoro District Medical Officer. Or such a prohibition by
the DMO was alleged by "relocation" instigators.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>22nd September</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Four helicopters were seen circling over the null and void protected area. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>23rd September</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Government organized "traditional" spectacle in Msomera. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>23th September</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Reports that 352 sheep and goats were seized in Loosoito on the 23rd and still not released. Then 160 goats and 120 cows from Mbuken, Arash were seized in the same area.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>25th September</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>600 sheep and goats were seized in the Engurashi area Manang' sub-village of Madukani village, Malambo ward.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Manongi signed a MoU with JWTZ, or more exactly JKT, about building 5000 houses in Msomera. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>26th September</b><br />The livestock seized in Loosoito, Mbuken and Malambo Madukani were released without the usual extortionate "fine, after the lawyer Joseph Oleshangay wrote a letter informing Manongi, Pius Onesmo Rwiza, Robert Laizer and Maurus Msuha that a criminal complaint would be filed against anyone seizing livestock contrary to the court order.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>27th September</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>An "article" was shared on WhatApp by the infamous local wannabe corruptee Paul Dudui. His claim was that 2005 livestock was released without fines the previous day, after the owners in a meeting with the DC had admitted trespass and apologizing. The DC asked for them to be forgiven for the sake of community based conservation. Blah, blah, blah. The picture used was from a meeting about trachoma.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;">1st October</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Some 100 cows, belonging to Ntayia, were seized in Ololosokwan in violation of court orders. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>3rd October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Announcement that Assistant NCA conservator Elibariki Bajuta is to be transferred to become DC of Urambo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Ward councillors and the village chairpersons of 14 villages affected by the 1,502 km2 land grab were summoned to attend a meeting at the DC's office in the morning of the 4th. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">A 6000 man JKT workforce in the most militaristic way initiated the construction of 5,000 houses in Msomera.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>4th October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The maliciously lying government has released its own
version of the High Court ruling on the minister’s GN declaring a “Pololeti
Game Controlled Area”, claiming that the status quo would be a protected area, pretending
that the old Loliondo GCA would have been such. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">Only the councillors of Malambo and Piyaya attended the DC's meeting in which he said that livestock entering the stolen land will be seized and auctioned!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>5th October</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Reports that rangers are starting grass fires as a means of harassment of herders. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWitLkowLARbHF5pSwpPO-nZrCRhm-NKIzrgzlU72kzcA8M5vJi3wdng3YzDP39deCswW2RIjIitb261lSfYHHZCSLpU6gIbbQdgdypvGdNzf4PUHKaTaV9tj6WmwsPbbqCW0_n_xb7h3hxlV3ULPF4BoRUXEe2oGH8_JA33RnbC6oYbKU5Zu1jrBmlKdC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="1008" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWitLkowLARbHF5pSwpPO-nZrCRhm-NKIzrgzlU72kzcA8M5vJi3wdng3YzDP39deCswW2RIjIitb261lSfYHHZCSLpU6gIbbQdgdypvGdNzf4PUHKaTaV9tj6WmwsPbbqCW0_n_xb7h3hxlV3ULPF4BoRUXEe2oGH8_JA33RnbC6oYbKU5Zu1jrBmlKdC" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Ntayia's cows are still locked up. <br /><br /><br />NCAA and JWTZ vehicles have been circulating from Arash to Ololosokwan and the rangers have beaten young men and taken their phones, swords and spears. No livestock have been seized but the rangers threaten with starting tomorrow. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFPLtmui1pOe6Bn1WISpu-RAqViF4FtNsBi3IGZZZUv781FEvj4P2Gt9m30y3jJ9cySmPvVMjS4uiMbkhLkx-Cdpyy72l3oI2MS3hRHt6IKvL-I9L779c0NL07HvhTwEt32sFQXyXvzxlOfP4dguV739hY1YfSrQyeIEMNG0uWfXJzJXMWbv1XIBR6ALzi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFPLtmui1pOe6Bn1WISpu-RAqViF4FtNsBi3IGZZZUv781FEvj4P2Gt9m30y3jJ9cySmPvVMjS4uiMbkhLkx-Cdpyy72l3oI2MS3hRHt6IKvL-I9L779c0NL07HvhTwEt32sFQXyXvzxlOfP4dguV739hY1YfSrQyeIEMNG0uWfXJzJXMWbv1XIBR6ALzi" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ9QPM62DwWj4wLgC4UddA1wMMxiP6RGfzWBM0LnD6H9_Lwv0gM4XZcsxlxBrOk__qmSYVCYN6_EBcXGjeA_4dfm9qJszMkjymqoNuMlETNCTg4ZQsFnNphAlW-yaHB-ajNzrTxQ_tDLbs4jGq_glAKu5KrivayVU4DG11B7qZIasQrp3ABBmLCvCIE0KG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="545" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJ9QPM62DwWj4wLgC4UddA1wMMxiP6RGfzWBM0LnD6H9_Lwv0gM4XZcsxlxBrOk__qmSYVCYN6_EBcXGjeA_4dfm9qJszMkjymqoNuMlETNCTg4ZQsFnNphAlW-yaHB-ajNzrTxQ_tDLbs4jGq_glAKu5KrivayVU4DG11B7qZIasQrp3ABBmLCvCIE0KG" width="262" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>6th October </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The cows seized in Ololosokwan on 1st October, have now been released without any extortion fee. This is particularly good news, since juzi the DC was threatening with seizures and auctioning, and yesterday rangers and soldiers were driving around threatening people.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgIyzCdm3MPgM2erHFqO4mgK3Sp6R-HTs7dkNsgIOgx0EvtF2bpkBp7WDUnKNip2Qlpwn90GeilqMkEFbEbxkuYpt9MAneH4USUGDWQCWntUKrZXrQeWrM5MxnPe_yKOBxaKxxnED0PZNwXxTmCvfeNJ0j9x46bGhQ7TB5-TTTZfbsaYLAgMcIhCMNfy5f" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="607" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgIyzCdm3MPgM2erHFqO4mgK3Sp6R-HTs7dkNsgIOgx0EvtF2bpkBp7WDUnKNip2Qlpwn90GeilqMkEFbEbxkuYpt9MAneH4USUGDWQCWntUKrZXrQeWrM5MxnPe_yKOBxaKxxnED0PZNwXxTmCvfeNJ0j9x46bGhQ7TB5-TTTZfbsaYLAgMcIhCMNfy5f" width="135" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In Arash JWTZ military and NCAA rangers violently attacked at least seven people, including the councillor SIloma. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOECGfoi02rhuUF2OCBqaRinYlhKyoA_GmPYXIGGvHw1bHyG8g92Zfn1F1DV9JNfNYttcZFeufiK_eCB1Fo-bgwbhCglrXcLRTl_NnGfCsmaJ7lGhtlbyxRI0rrZWMSBXgAl718IaKFTyoB3tKoDVaBMzinPBBxpEprSqkDZNP7tMQaS1VzeTPJjWTBZyM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="506" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOECGfoi02rhuUF2OCBqaRinYlhKyoA_GmPYXIGGvHw1bHyG8g92Zfn1F1DV9JNfNYttcZFeufiK_eCB1Fo-bgwbhCglrXcLRTl_NnGfCsmaJ7lGhtlbyxRI0rrZWMSBXgAl718IaKFTyoB3tKoDVaBMzinPBBxpEprSqkDZNP7tMQaS1VzeTPJjWTBZyM" width="119" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>7th October</b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Massive livestock seizures in Ololosokwan and Arash. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The NCAA issued a statement denying the well-documented adulterated replacement salt that had again been mentioned in social media after and article was published. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">8th October</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">582 heads of cattle were seized in Ololosokwan.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">9th October</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some 100 heads of cattle were seized in the Oloosek area.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">10th October</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">Press statement by Ngorongoro youths about the government's contempt of court. </span><a href="https://youtu.be/jkvneS6_nMY">https://youtu.be/jkvneS6_nMY</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Some councillors wrote a weak pleading letter to the
regional CCM secretary asking for help to release the livestock, and then the
CCM secretary wrote to RC Mongella pretending that the councillors were
agreeing with the land theft and grazing prohibition.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">11th October</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">The livestock were released without extortion fines.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">12th October</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">Announcement that the horrible Manongi was finally retiring and one Richard Rwanyakatoo Kiiza is the new NCA chief conservator.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>13th October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">The horrible Prof Malebo was again lying his head off at the UN.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>14th October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">Prayer meetings in several villages in NCA. Irkeepus, Mishili, Alchaniomelock.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>15th October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">A press conference was held putting the record straight about the government's new denial of the hazardous replacement salt. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>18th October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">519 heads of cattle and 136 sheep, belonging to ole Shukur, ole Tompoi and others, were seized in the Klein's area in Ololosokwan. In Arash 45 cows belonging the Mzee Siloma and William Siloma were seized, and 620 sheep and goats belonging to Kidemi Sharab, Risie Lilash, and Sipironi Potot.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>2<span style="color: #800180;">0th October</span></b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">After speaking up about human rights violations in Loliondo and Ngorongoro at the 77th Session of the the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arusha (of all HR crime sites ...,) Tanzanian journalist and activist Odero Odero was arrested and questioned by Immigration officials who had orders from above.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The illegally seized livestock in Arash were allowed to graze.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>21st October</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Kambatai Kimeriai from Kirtalo was arrested with his motorbike when bringing food for
his children. He was taken to Ololosokwan police station. When leaders tried to
have him released, he was taken to Loliondo town by criminal rangers.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>21st October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Criminal
rangers seized 1,300 sheep and an unknown number of calves in Malambo and took
them to the Orn’goswa camp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>22nd October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">More livestock seized in Iloope
Ilokony, Arash on the 22<sup>nd</sup> and in Leken in Kirtalo. In
Ololosokwan the criminal rangers seized 332 more cows and there were filming
drones everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Potot Lose 134 cows<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Mzee Rotiken 112 cows<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Leile boma 69 cows<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Mzee Ngatuny 17 calves</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>23rd October</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">These people were provided with court summons since
they have been sued for contempt of court. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">DC Raymond Mwangwala<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Conservator of illegal "game reserve" Pius
Rwiza<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Prisca J. Ulomi, Head of the Government Communication
Unit<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Robert Laizer, in charge of criminal rangers, Arash<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">David Mkenga, in charge of criminal rangers,
Ololosokwan</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">Kambatai</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"> Kimeriai was released on bail and now together with two other people has a case of "trespassing onto protected area". </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">24th October</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">https://youtu.be/6BsNI2g1MDQ</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">26th October</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">NEW BLOG POST</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/10/partial-victory-for-maasai-of-loliondo.html</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-9283143802164180182023-08-16T23:55:00.072+02:002023-09-19T22:53:45.213+02:00Peaceful Protests at Ndian Primary School in Nasipooriong’ Demanding a Renovation Permit that’s Blocked in the Tanzanian Government’s War Against the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Government Responds with Extreme Provocation<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Peaceful
protests erupted and continued for over a week in Nasipooriong’ village in Endulen
ward to demand a permit to repair Ndian Primary School. This is not about seeking
funds but just to obtain a permit. No such permits have been granted since 2021
and this is a very calculated strategy in the Tanzanian government’s war
against the Maasai. I’ve tried to provide a brief background to what’s going in
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which is not to be confused with Loliondo where
the government uses <b>other</b> war strategies. As this blog post kept getting
delayed, Maasai warriors in Endulen provided some justice to “journalists” who
have been employed in a campaign of ethnic hatred since early 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup>
July it was ten years since Moringe Parkipuny passed away to soon, and I forgot
… I’m glad that he did not have to see this decade of escalating horror, but
maybe he could now be proud of some people in Endulen. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;">See the end of the blog post for updates. NCA rangers are arresting/abducting any man they can find in Endulen. Even the MP has been abducted!</span></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;">The MP was released on bail after almost three days, and the others after over a week. </span></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog
post:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Protests at Ndian Primary
School<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government press<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Action taken at Endulen market<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Joshua Olepatorro <a name="_Hlk143100928">whose teeth were smashed out by NCAA rangers<o:p></o:p></a></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143100928;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Germans again boasting of
their support for human rights criminals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Background to the government’s
cruel relocation drive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO and the horrible Dr
Malebo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t mix up Loliondo and NCA!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Royal Tour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported in the previous blog
post, on 31<sup>st</sup> July people had gathered at the Ndian Primary School,
in the sub-village of the same name in Nasipooriong’ village, Endulen Ward in
Ngorongoro Division (not to be confused with Loliondo/Sale Divisions), which is
the same as Ngorongoro Conservation Area of Ngorongoro District. They were
there to demand permits to repair the school with walls so heavily cracked that
it’s unsafe for schoolchildren to stay there during heavy rains. The Maasai
were demanding this even at their own cost, since their problem is that the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA), in its cruel UNESCO-instigated,
and tourism-cult fuelled efforts to make them “relocate”, since 2021 is refusing
to grant any permits for building or renovation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheXx-7jqL3xwRtt-cu2FzDDQ0iSHK8gKE5xE_i_QSkXnP8zjkeuEUmNo7wL_7ta-98ms_-QAGjX8A8xYz_5ha8D5rTTtuSPd8AFIBHH4iUkZZ8ZRlei1I4_JH6k_mcgxeBnkxpZ-orwMUGMSlk0TJtP8ZpwoYvg478PxDA4Ef5Swu9D2oOxeC-JGrpWzFJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheXx-7jqL3xwRtt-cu2FzDDQ0iSHK8gKE5xE_i_QSkXnP8zjkeuEUmNo7wL_7ta-98ms_-QAGjX8A8xYz_5ha8D5rTTtuSPd8AFIBHH4iUkZZ8ZRlei1I4_JH6k_mcgxeBnkxpZ-orwMUGMSlk0TJtP8ZpwoYvg478PxDA4Ef5Swu9D2oOxeC-JGrpWzFJ" width="135" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitX6VUBKtXT6bJoy_nLOnFx3HB7akqU8jgRkn85Z86YxJ7zch2By53J76tZHYKb17aBr3IF_tnmOBuTneCJ67JofaTYHmogAog3ksE4vhINVFH4JZi316QlDBgZPuJP-r0Iylqg2SEa9vxgJ3gal92cVvapREciw_VmHhBe-c0njADnZhiT062wvToAM7v" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitX6VUBKtXT6bJoy_nLOnFx3HB7akqU8jgRkn85Z86YxJ7zch2By53J76tZHYKb17aBr3IF_tnmOBuTneCJ67JofaTYHmogAog3ksE4vhINVFH4JZi316QlDBgZPuJP-r0Iylqg2SEa9vxgJ3gal92cVvapREciw_VmHhBe-c0njADnZhiT062wvToAM7v" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_y-p5KKcCrpP0KmeqWfliX6DD4VxaIl42Cz6EJjLCQLrDlKDFXZfCHUP94C-PIX6xQDb8IsnxzsaHL3rnuYtP7BpNsIG2uXT2TL5pu8ISGrWLjgk86_wg8CpkzlDkEFdGqDpE0PPZwuU7ebkxW6K3hcAEDTrty9pVbCQCCk3vl47O0IFLOVYaxWyFmWMl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_y-p5KKcCrpP0KmeqWfliX6DD4VxaIl42Cz6EJjLCQLrDlKDFXZfCHUP94C-PIX6xQDb8IsnxzsaHL3rnuYtP7BpNsIG2uXT2TL5pu8ISGrWLjgk86_wg8CpkzlDkEFdGqDpE0PPZwuU7ebkxW6K3hcAEDTrty9pVbCQCCk3vl47O0IFLOVYaxWyFmWMl" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day, 1<sup>st</sup>
August, the headteacher, Ibrahim Mtunguja, received threats while the
Nasipooriong’ village chairman, Kunaay Nakuta, and Endulen laigwanani of the
Nyangulo age set (current warriors), Koising'et Olekoika, got calls summoning
them to Endulen police station. At Endulen market on 2<sup>nd</sup> August the
police attempted to capture the chairman, which led to a people’s march to the
police station to free him, which was successful, and the police ran away! On
the 3<sup>rd</sup> there was a meeting with people sent from the district
council who were informed that the protests would continue until there was a
permit, so protests continued at Nasipooriong’ Primary School with the message,
<i>“We aren’t moving, without a permit”</i> and video clips and photos were
being widely shared in social media, which had been done every day since the
protests started on 31<sup>st</sup> July. The police were there, but without
acting violent or intimidating anyone. On the 4<sup>th</sup> the protests continued,
people marched to block the Endulen-Ndutu road and there were songs of prayer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi37rcJ2cc1cCzXD1yglaoY9BkVHjPETd-aWLqBqL3g4GVxbDc4-7ovj64vUuUUtDnRCINzUUr_nV8rHJ70dtN7_zcVsbuCCwGI_8Pm2eA2yKWevLz3T5UnRwM3miQlWZAZQW33LAtiEGxzglPFjfXNgkDJGGq86sw7sV1QsZ89QWCRcB3lIVeiZxgIwOoO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1020" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi37rcJ2cc1cCzXD1yglaoY9BkVHjPETd-aWLqBqL3g4GVxbDc4-7ovj64vUuUUtDnRCINzUUr_nV8rHJ70dtN7_zcVsbuCCwGI_8Pm2eA2yKWevLz3T5UnRwM3miQlWZAZQW33LAtiEGxzglPFjfXNgkDJGGq86sw7sV1QsZ89QWCRcB3lIVeiZxgIwOoO" width="319" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwE8XRnZwtuo_9XLmWTA5qkNbVGFc4ees0g_IzxQPqIjymdrfy1FuoLtjFC8QXAwK_fZVT7R4U-cxtU-XWinA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzlk-IqQ2KmEEGq5wKTsPBVCZ0OpaVOtlucw_2oFJvGfgOI0zvBhgobWyv0pLmVeQBau8DsJg9-cadYJ9qBag' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The placards held at the protests
clearly show that the issue is not only the permit for the Ndian Primary School
but the government’s planned suffocation for “voluntarily” relocation that
targets the whole of Ngorongoro division, all schools and all health centres.
There are messages such as, <i>“DC, DED Ngorongoro and Arusha RC stop your evil
plans over the people of Ngorongoro Division.”, “We are waiting for mass
burial for our Ndian Primary School pupils if we don't take action as
soon as possible.”, “NCAA why are you denying us building permits
while government VIPs are building 5-star hotels at the Crater Rim?”,
“CCM, you have betrayed people of Ngorongoro for such a long time that you have
no space here”, “If you grant permits for development projects, how many
animals will get killed?”, “There is no voluntary relocation from Ngorongoro,” “Hotel
owners, tour guides, and company owners can’t decide anything about us in
Ngorongoro.”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeNCndH8ksBUozd77YRc9RjzCtcJV3MMc1nA6hylTynCcqY52uiN-RuVspv1v09rnIFNltI_FnDvChw9GIdnoEfMhqeGzwv2JpbFT1HyFc3ehDKZ0EdfhTvu8aRMFWWn_gXx1ta2NlchsuKS0xUHp94gFS3FicA7ASizeJXjB9qv-1vwbO2N2A3AWU2QW/s526/WhatsApp%20Bild%202023-08-09%20kl.%2013.56.51.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="526" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeNCndH8ksBUozd77YRc9RjzCtcJV3MMc1nA6hylTynCcqY52uiN-RuVspv1v09rnIFNltI_FnDvChw9GIdnoEfMhqeGzwv2JpbFT1HyFc3ehDKZ0EdfhTvu8aRMFWWn_gXx1ta2NlchsuKS0xUHp94gFS3FicA7ASizeJXjB9qv-1vwbO2N2A3AWU2QW/s320/WhatsApp%20Bild%202023-08-09%20kl.%2013.56.51.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkIIXxL7W-ieRnFaNkmQU3NwYwsB-id65o1uN5sN-440Qyzaqbjo7NXqxZAP8Orh_lgkB8Gwyrw1-2MZioLX8tzgCtwKbcn30sSDtRMvUOJoyQOfIg5AQhL22SNyTtIgznNALTNqD0-K3D_eUQn4pWWEst_KBiX5ffM6mlWelEpIvYTr7v96xdcQho78kT/s900/F2rytyBWQAAERVS.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="900" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkIIXxL7W-ieRnFaNkmQU3NwYwsB-id65o1uN5sN-440Qyzaqbjo7NXqxZAP8Orh_lgkB8Gwyrw1-2MZioLX8tzgCtwKbcn30sSDtRMvUOJoyQOfIg5AQhL22SNyTtIgznNALTNqD0-K3D_eUQn4pWWEst_KBiX5ffM6mlWelEpIvYTr7v96xdcQho78kT/s320/F2rytyBWQAAERVS.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">James Moringe, councillor of Alaitolei,
attended the protests on 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> August. Endulen is
without a ward councillor since Emmanuel Oleshangai became Ngorongoro MP in
February 2022, after William Olenasha’s untimely death in September 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 5<sup>th</sup> the
Maasai protestors started building a tented classroom for class seven, while
waiting for the permit. However, the following day criminal NCA rangers
demolished the tented classroom and were by force taking young men’s phones in
Endulen ward. Their intention was to identify who had been sharing photos and
clips from the protests demanding a permit to repair the primary school. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA9cRoCuefsRiwr3nfLD51vLjYBpbQ4W7Sji5oD5SfJgFpFO4fJQRo4TnnSgNMbnSGVomPARJL5aftNLwNS9_w2OOF-57rqP5iX8Uwca4vTTvfBBPOp9aVT9wVEeJfoWIuKeGx3126A5La68TcvTO3B6fQZeo9qm5E-Eu3ebf1qDKV7jbEs0HwIHvTzwd/s984/WhatsApp%20Bild%202023-08-05%20kl.%2020.07.07.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="984" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA9cRoCuefsRiwr3nfLD51vLjYBpbQ4W7Sji5oD5SfJgFpFO4fJQRo4TnnSgNMbnSGVomPARJL5aftNLwNS9_w2OOF-57rqP5iX8Uwca4vTTvfBBPOp9aVT9wVEeJfoWIuKeGx3126A5La68TcvTO3B6fQZeo9qm5E-Eu3ebf1qDKV7jbEs0HwIHvTzwd/s320/WhatsApp%20Bild%202023-08-05%20kl.%2020.07.07.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Monday 7<sup>th</sup> August,
the protests resumed and the following day Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai made
a visit. Though people were sad and disappointed, since they had been promised
that high government representatives would come. The Arusha RC and Ngorongoro DC
– human rights criminals Mongella and Mwangwala - are reportedly refusing to listen
to the protestors’ complaints. The MP promised to provide feedback about the
permit on 18<sup>th</sup> August, and the protesters decided to wait for that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> August
there were reports of a mason, sent by unknown people, doing renovation
evaluation at Ndian Primary School. This mason didn’t talk to anyone but was
checking the whole school building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Examples from other schools:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Endulen Primary School toilet
for 1,926 pupils. NCAA refuse to grant a permit for building new toilets. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDAZ9Zz3DPa_ngxHwy0QMjYhKz2kILfEnuFpCAnLR0AfcalOyNNpyHn8GWS4DGRlHb2FlBZkoce-dLOMB7LTTocIxeXahdKYBLLQALYPV2KNRjnhy-K1TxAnsG8pfa1UiuPWS9cvBCx0PI4gfL9jrGkbGUlAY2R1Ov-ue-Y8ADHk1BiHsagkfUtEqFK2LG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="1068" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDAZ9Zz3DPa_ngxHwy0QMjYhKz2kILfEnuFpCAnLR0AfcalOyNNpyHn8GWS4DGRlHb2FlBZkoce-dLOMB7LTTocIxeXahdKYBLLQALYPV2KNRjnhy-K1TxAnsG8pfa1UiuPWS9cvBCx0PI4gfL9jrGkbGUlAY2R1Ov-ue-Y8ADHk1BiHsagkfUtEqFK2LG" width="318" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Misigiyo Primary School – the
roof of class one blew off in heavy wind in 2021. NCAA provided TShs 2,780,000
for rebuilding and deposited money in the school account but later refused to
grant a building permit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCxeU0WyY7QxK7J-cNSgdob2ReY3Q391V0O88ESJ16x2WCIBtupUxHblX8nC3wAJzyKssIwgafzXGAsrbXYCBFrXjtWrfvGhm7Ha10Yb5ox5AvKs2Waoz9ReNsi5kV6XCDLRS05CJdpdEwICiNjQxKN5eVqQ9XJifnzSTxBDW7LJJZscGp7Wau5bp-BPr1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1020" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCxeU0WyY7QxK7J-cNSgdob2ReY3Q391V0O88ESJ16x2WCIBtupUxHblX8nC3wAJzyKssIwgafzXGAsrbXYCBFrXjtWrfvGhm7Ha10Yb5ox5AvKs2Waoz9ReNsi5kV6XCDLRS05CJdpdEwICiNjQxKN5eVqQ9XJifnzSTxBDW7LJJZscGp7Wau5bp-BPr1" width="319" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tundu Lissu, survivor of a many-bullets
assassination attempt, CHADEMA presidential candidate in the 2020 “elections”, and
ally of the Ngorongoro Maasai since long before that, on 4<sup>th</sup> August <a href="https://twitter.com/TunduALissu/status/1687520849299935232?s=20" target="_blank">tweeted</a>,
“<i>The Ngorongoro Maasai in open protests to demand restoration of their
ancestral lands & residency rights; & restoration of the social service
programs illegally diverted as part of the starve-them-out-of-Ngorongoro
strategy of the Samia regime. I STAND WITH THE NGORONGORO MAASAI!” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most Tanzanians on social
media were in support of the Maasai, with the usual exceptions.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government
press<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Tanzania there are “journalists”
that are directly contracted to produce ethnic hatred propaganda against the Maasai.
It’s obvious and everyone knows it, but still other media, very knowingly, use
their material as if it were normal reporting. Following the authoritarian turn
of recent years, with sharply increased repression, all regular Tanzanian media
can be labelled as government press. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> August,
instead of reporting about the protest in Nasipooriong’, the rotten Tanzanian
media reported about three individuals who wanted the government to speed up
relocations out of Ngorongoro (“journalists” had obviously, as so many times
before, been sent to Ngorongoro with NCAA instructions). The three are among
some people who have registered to relocate and sold all their belongings, but
then the government does not have the promised houses for them in Msomera,
which perhaps is a calculated strategy. Such people are then being used against
the efforts to stop suffocating restrictions and illegal blocking of social
services in Ngorongoro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Online media like <a href="https://youtu.be/Ri8VhH9uxs8" target="_blank">Mwanzo </a>tv
and <a href="<iframe width="1404" height="492" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0wB_jeQWv6Q" title="Wanafunzi Ngorongoro hatarini kudondokewa na Madarasa." frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>" target="_blank">Watetezi </a>tv did report on the Ndian protests, and on 9<sup>th</sup> August
there was a brief, but good, radio piece on DW Kiswahili. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the front page of the fabrications
and slander paper Jamvi la Habari on 10<sup>th</sup> August it was reported that
the Ngorongoro Maasai wanted the relocation speeded up, but to be able to move
to a place of their choice. This was accompanied by old pictures of protests in
Loliondo, making it seem like there would be big gatherings of people wanting
to be relocated, including a headshot of Kijoolu Kakiya, special seats
councillor from Piyaya in Sale – not even NCA/Ngorongoro division – who was
abducted for over five months when massive land was brutally and illegally stolen
in Loliondo. Kijoolu usually speaks up for land rights and has also spoken up
against the restrictions in NCA, particularly about life-threatening effects on
women and children who are missing vaccines and die when not able to reach
hospital for childbirth. I hope she’ll sue the paper. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitGTWEuUfKgv5HDFCHlmTr3ZhLJYIdURaKQW2Dbq4tqbit5Y2Gsa_TGGOGx0RUaOkYrjaPDAglj4edTQdPkmKU6omVv4FNXxheGQDsljPA59U0yCDwdglFmCGmzaJ7f3r7l3k9CrMj0eCmt9thbB52sFdlXjXTSNXPYFt2qivxaX_9fCln0ZFC64lzEy7n" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitGTWEuUfKgv5HDFCHlmTr3ZhLJYIdURaKQW2Dbq4tqbit5Y2Gsa_TGGOGx0RUaOkYrjaPDAglj4edTQdPkmKU6omVv4FNXxheGQDsljPA59U0yCDwdglFmCGmzaJ7f3r7l3k9CrMj0eCmt9thbB52sFdlXjXTSNXPYFt2qivxaX_9fCln0ZFC64lzEy7n" width="204" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> August, the
rotten Tanzanian press was again engaging in the message of Ngorongoro Maasai
who thank the government for the opportunity to move to Msomera where there,
unlike Ngorongoro, are social services and agriculture. This is so <b>perverse</b>
when it is the government that very purposefully is maintaining restrictions
and accelerating illegal blocking of services to make the Maasai leave. On the
14<sup>th</sup>, the Habari Leo, the Daily News and many others were reporting about
placard carrying people from Kapenjiro, of those who have registered to move, but
are stuck because of the government’s unfulfilled promises. Though these people
were of course not against the government, but against those speaking up for a
stop to the suffocating restrictions and illegal blocking of social services,
and who aren’t stopping anyone from moving anywhere ... My name was on at least
one placard, which is strange. I’m a world authority on Loliondo, where I’ve
met many people and have friends and enemies, and even that is now long ago,
but I am just one of many people writing about NCA. I got a greeting in
Messenger from one of the nastier friends of the Loliondo investors in the
middle of the night of the 13<sup>th</sup>. Then Tanzanian media reported about
a woman who was attacked by a hyena in 2018 and wanted to relocate. Quick
googling will find news about people being attacked by hyenas in Handeni. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjO1qgG0XehLNoK1KZdw43J1KJIwiCjneldKBOl4sCMHE5EfyMGGlxZ3T09ZBgEx3QcFlas94h6m4fQ6ZjoZkO9dwtQUFnRk6JnKz_fBz0vy5mH_rCozH38K7lsjUGIyP4Qz3qSwIxbRhf1--aDRG23bAFqZctepgDxvg-ni99bM8QNPBWrSr13bSIHA_rY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjO1qgG0XehLNoK1KZdw43J1KJIwiCjneldKBOl4sCMHE5EfyMGGlxZ3T09ZBgEx3QcFlas94h6m4fQ6ZjoZkO9dwtQUFnRk6JnKz_fBz0vy5mH_rCozH38K7lsjUGIyP4Qz3qSwIxbRhf1--aDRG23bAFqZctepgDxvg-ni99bM8QNPBWrSr13bSIHA_rY" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Action taken against
extreme provocation at Endulen market<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Without having announced
anything to village authorities, in the afternoon of 15<sup>th</sup> August,
the anti-Maasai campaigner Habib Mchange was at Endulen market, in front of
children, using a government vehicle and loudspeakers, in the company of “government
employees” and other “journalists” haranguing people about moving out of
Ngorongoro. In a beautiful act of justice, the criminals were chased away and
injured by Maasai warriors. Maybe the worm has finally turned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxiO9sR1x2giBbQpeevAI_N6nnWiiL54svEmoRrDdV2mXe5ypa9IGqxKjpPzyrTPBC_bU4icI2xgMTrhD4hIw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Habib Mchange of the fabrications
and defamation newspaper Jamvi la Habari is since early 2022 engaged in a
campaign of extreme ethnic hatred against the Ngorongoro Maasai, and for relocation.
He has together with other likeminded “journalists” formed an organization
called MECIRA that lends its services to the government’s war against
pastoralists. According to a statement issued by the NCAA the same evening as
he was chased away by Maasai warriors, Mchange was at Endulen market <i>“providing
education to those who have registered to relocate”</i> (he was advocating for
everyone to leave) when he and his colleagues – together with <i>“government
employees”</i> - were attacked and injured by some 200 Maasai warriors with
traditional weapons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some have wondered from
where the inciters of ethnic hatred and relentless advocates for relocation are
getting their apparently substantial funding, and few have doubted the
involvement of NCAA. The NCAA statement about “providing education” is a
confession that this is in no way a case of journalistic work. The NCAA
statement said that “in collaboration with the police, the Ngorongoro
Conservation Authority is looking for all those involved in this incident and
legal action will be taken against them”. Even when the NCAA openly say that
Mchange was there to advocate for relocation, other media, always incapable of calling
a spade a spade, still pretend that the criminals were doing journalistic work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFJtNMQFoUDz_ldExEwIRL3kJPpjCuocm3SH6z3rb456cnrtk1paJvpFYVsaIi75TfxpKfH5QcoBN2F9J7Lt48NtzXY6a6DowEmrrDZ6uixSfMWmBl_OP8VUhTsjgQNfuk-BBZJkCnbJAW9ezw-gqLjNyN4HQO0FKTgJ0gqaxIM639aZE9u496QjamStC3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="721" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFJtNMQFoUDz_ldExEwIRL3kJPpjCuocm3SH6z3rb456cnrtk1paJvpFYVsaIi75TfxpKfH5QcoBN2F9J7Lt48NtzXY6a6DowEmrrDZ6uixSfMWmBl_OP8VUhTsjgQNfuk-BBZJkCnbJAW9ezw-gqLjNyN4HQO0FKTgJ0gqaxIM639aZE9u496QjamStC3" width="192" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The injured criminals are reportedly
Habib Mchange himself, Ferdinand Shayo from ITV, the freelancer Denis Msacky,
and a translator. The other “journalists” involved in the anti-Maasai campaign were
unfortunately not at Endulen market, particularly Manyerere Jackton, Deusdatus Balile
and Maulid Kitenge (see below, and previous blog posts, for more about these criminals).
The injured were taken to Karatu, not Endulen hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 16<sup>th</sup> August the
frontpage of the Jamvi la Habari said, “The Ngorongoro MP plans murder strategies”.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQYkxr1VViPvk_zFaxPCz1NsqYuM64DLqhViBN7ZTqq3l9kokRpuZt8YOHy62w7K4oUg4-mJTk8aWQXWLQhZiOV5nG4iHsS0YOe2wDU4oUefV3S882illvhuEKNdhwz7TbRmcp4R0yYDTVJoN4XB8Qa-jMdvJ24nPbFg9iVWuw8rawfmZM4DIf-UnOSWY-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="686" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQYkxr1VViPvk_zFaxPCz1NsqYuM64DLqhViBN7ZTqq3l9kokRpuZt8YOHy62w7K4oUg4-mJTk8aWQXWLQhZiOV5nG4iHsS0YOe2wDU4oUefV3S882illvhuEKNdhwz7TbRmcp4R0yYDTVJoN4XB8Qa-jMdvJ24nPbFg9iVWuw8rawfmZM4DIf-UnOSWY-" width="183" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To the sports presenter-cum-genocidal
inciter Maulid Kitenge of <a href="https://youtu.be/blfWxHtyq2o" target="_blank">Wasafi tv</a>, the Ngorongoro DC, human rights criminal
Raymond Mwangwala, kept to the message of the NCAA statement and added that
everything was peaceful, with no disturbance to tourism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government's main enforcer
of the war against the Maasai of Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, Arusha RC John Mongella,
made a <a href="https://arusha.go.tz/new/rc-mongella-wajulia-hali-waandishi-wa-habari-waliovamiwa-na-wananchi" target="_blank">hospital visit</a> to check on his genocidal inciters. At the same time, he
ordered the Arusha Regional Police to hunt down and arrest everyone involved in
the incident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now the government target is
to arrest local leaders. There are some 30 vehicles at the Endulen NCAA zonal
office, including FFU anti-riot police. The police have today, 16<sup>th</sup>
August, searched the homes of the Endulen village chairman, Thomas Oltwati, and
CCM ward chairman, Moses Oleseki, but they could not find these leaders. At 4:30pm
Endulen police officers arrested a young man named Larasha Olenginina in his
shop and took him to the Endulen NCAA office, instead of taking him to Endulen
police station. Alaitole ward councillor, James Moring, has been summoned to
report at Ngorongoro police station tomorrow at 8:00am, but the
reason for this is unclear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This – like all of Mchange’s
Ngorongoro activity - is the work of a government sponsored fascist campaigner,
and not a “journalist”. He got away far too lightly. Still, the action taken in
Endulen is admirable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Update: on 17th August there are reports that almost 30 people have been arrested in Endulen.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;">I will post further updates at the <b>end of the blog post</b>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">In short: <br />The government/NCAA
responded to protests over the blocking of renovation permits by escalating
disinformation in media, and sending a provocateur, since early 2022 contracted
to incite ethnic hatred, right into the market of the least timid village.
Those who reacted are now being hunted.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Joshua
Olepatorro whose teeth were smashed out by NCAA rangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reportedly, Joshua Olepatorro
is doing well. He got help with his hospital stay but will need help to fix his
teeth (any readers who can help with this?) and the ranger who smashed them out
has been identified as Elibariki Israel Namungu. A court case has been filed
and hopefully for the first time a criminal NCAA ranger will be prosecuted. On
13th July, 15-year old (he looks younger) Joshua from Nainokanoka was attacked
by NCAA rangers when returning from having grazed cows in Olmoti crater. The
rangers beat Joshua with the butts of their guns, so that three of his upper
front teeth were smashed out, and then they left him there in the bush. Unlike
other cases of violent assault and torture by rangers at Olmoti, this case has
received some limited media attention. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_p4EpsKejUkOMC1ST0vxNHUBrcZW8UOgSoWoGr2Fu9CfU1gOwSSs0u5X2bHm1gLIEwjtwsffxq5Ws8Q2iT4a3vNTvuJuJa_y2WMi3MDWwLoLqSJi1Q13DQfTdLCK7YsHZNF9gAaSv0yiMlHyyPmLkAJui5sSbhbBqlTUGE0VZIJo2nQ5gl990auRz5X-M" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="468" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_p4EpsKejUkOMC1ST0vxNHUBrcZW8UOgSoWoGr2Fu9CfU1gOwSSs0u5X2bHm1gLIEwjtwsffxq5Ws8Q2iT4a3vNTvuJuJa_y2WMi3MDWwLoLqSJi1Q13DQfTdLCK7YsHZNF9gAaSv0yiMlHyyPmLkAJui5sSbhbBqlTUGE0VZIJo2nQ5gl990auRz5X-M" width="108" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSPHkgFxlFnrzI4CYHkBCxc-nIv3QIrXu6gZpN6pigfjpeHGpW7b5FagfweJiVDs534KymQf5tbW5q44JirLHK7kkZKaYjtWRp_iGZL8PSwpwIAYOqG6JB8wHRTG64ma6m38k77JKYadf2KY_Fduc7h5oExTAnIE3uAMyfHLG_w_-jB3xGqrRp2bW4ODdG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="768" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSPHkgFxlFnrzI4CYHkBCxc-nIv3QIrXu6gZpN6pigfjpeHGpW7b5FagfweJiVDs534KymQf5tbW5q44JirLHK7kkZKaYjtWRp_iGZL8PSwpwIAYOqG6JB8wHRTG64ma6m38k77JKYadf2KY_Fduc7h5oExTAnIE3uAMyfHLG_w_-jB3xGqrRp2bW4ODdG" width="181" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year there has been
several cases of ranger violence in NCA reported, unreported, or silenced. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk142515525"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
Germans again boasting of their support for human rights criminals<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk142515525;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> August,
during the protests in Nasipooriong’, the clueless, or probably very evil
Embassy of Germany in Tanzania, on Twitter continued the habit of boasting
about funding human rights criminals. Dr. Katrin Bornemann the Head of
Cooperation at the German Embassy together with the Permanent Secretary Dr.
Hassan Abbas from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism (MNRT) co-chaired
the steering committee. As the biggest bilateral donor in the sector, showering
the criminals with 120 million euros to keep making people cry in “<i>mainly the
regions Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Selous and Nyerere as well as Katavi Mahale
National Parks and Corridor and Ruvuma Region.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSW2ie7hoIX6_y21_xZxvjtLdAeC6z6HUZtmZUU4dqB9ikAyLb2RateZnZWQaxsQFZQ4GtpJbMSKoBndtKZ1MeyEtOtJqJivIfAtf0sif_hEyRYSdgOJ-UvLjia0-uL7axinOdE4vZnYaKo39cnGy1hvUgUwl7oludTxUJwHe1kF0XJoCV4o0b3muob0OQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="876" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSW2ie7hoIX6_y21_xZxvjtLdAeC6z6HUZtmZUU4dqB9ikAyLb2RateZnZWQaxsQFZQ4GtpJbMSKoBndtKZ1MeyEtOtJqJivIfAtf0sif_hEyRYSdgOJ-UvLjia0-uL7axinOdE4vZnYaKo39cnGy1hvUgUwl7oludTxUJwHe1kF0XJoCV4o0b3muob0OQ" width="310" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYJ5kDjRTHD2okjRxvCfTaJZ-MwykJSz8XDvqOWUYPmHXn3G9Gv-OZ16UhUAR040MBdO82S_7WMx0k6SOBlKId1Wcn91vtGtNZxKGMP6HeYIXJjb3nJD5LS1K-eCpKKgg43lVaVWFU_5E2vCeRK8Zth2RdOzIXFWfjB9Fh9Dp_No-DNM3pQnkyiFNbkJ6d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="904" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYJ5kDjRTHD2okjRxvCfTaJZ-MwykJSz8XDvqOWUYPmHXn3G9Gv-OZ16UhUAR040MBdO82S_7WMx0k6SOBlKId1Wcn91vtGtNZxKGMP6HeYIXJjb3nJD5LS1K-eCpKKgg43lVaVWFU_5E2vCeRK8Zth2RdOzIXFWfjB9Fh9Dp_No-DNM3pQnkyiFNbkJ6d" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMHnfA1ra1TNR1NgsWrF85-rHbkGkj5tVlwzFj4xSwX8cVz-hNs7KVkCWLAgcxugcmMVSqK6OxXvnG2dx2S0O7sWw4DYU3R0cLrEuNov707BHMjBrz-7d7wJEiD-ttkdTawezsWmLpIDUY78T7PpDpfleluUjnOsOBUWukJYAV0HongCRMu-kuVLLf0HoV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="883" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMHnfA1ra1TNR1NgsWrF85-rHbkGkj5tVlwzFj4xSwX8cVz-hNs7KVkCWLAgcxugcmMVSqK6OxXvnG2dx2S0O7sWw4DYU3R0cLrEuNov707BHMjBrz-7d7wJEiD-ttkdTawezsWmLpIDUY78T7PpDpfleluUjnOsOBUWukJYAV0HongCRMu-kuVLLf0HoV" width="288" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiM3rvLqXs91XgjEKRq_uXSK01fF4azYGmC4nMZhi4HxhGL5blh3QrYicRFapEveDVUA_dl3rxBDM31q5x6UGQ0MXqsk1HVn7q7VlVpOBWZ6sPgh3ekK0zgH6Cx9ZvssR4Y9aiNiHLvkeVFxESfLJ24NpOzVCUJb65TFOw6swJypiWmknNxKtrKFEr_xTA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="907" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiM3rvLqXs91XgjEKRq_uXSK01fF4azYGmC4nMZhi4HxhGL5blh3QrYicRFapEveDVUA_dl3rxBDM31q5x6UGQ0MXqsk1HVn7q7VlVpOBWZ6sPgh3ekK0zgH6Cx9ZvssR4Y9aiNiHLvkeVFxESfLJ24NpOzVCUJb65TFOw6swJypiWmknNxKtrKFEr_xTA" width="311" /></a></div><br /><br /></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As far as I know, they (Frankfurt
Zoological Society) have only a rhino project in NCA but have shamelessly
funded the – rejected by all Ngorongoro councillors - draft Ngorongoro District
Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043, the main object of which was to legitimize
the massive brutal illegal demarcation, lobbied for by OBC that organizes hunting
for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, of a “Pololeti Game Reserve” in Loliondo and
Malambo/Piyaya in Sale. With great brutality, abducting councillors from all
affected wards for over five months, other illegal arrests and malicious charges
without prosecution, shooting, beating, slashing, raping, destroying, stealing,
disappearing Orias Oleng’iyo who has not been seen since 10<sup>th</sup> June
2022, to take away most grazing land and squeeze the Maasai into residential
and agricultural areas, leaving them to grazing at night as thieves on their
own land exposed to large predators that are much more difficult to handle at nighttime,
extorting them with huge fines on their livestock, leading to terrible debt. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The rejected plan does not say
much about NCA, but shows the whole area in the same colour, calling it a “reserved
area”, and only once mentioning that there are human livelihood activities. (<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/07/continued-violence-and-mostly-silence.html" target="_blank">More about this in the previous blog post</a>, and those before that one.) A decades long
land rights struggle in Loliondo – even with a local police state where anyone criticising
certain “investors” gets into trouble, and mass arson operations in 2009 and
2017 - has had the aim of avoiding something like the restricted (already
before the current extreme measures) life under the yoke of NCAA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Background to
the government’s cruel relocation drive<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All permits for construction
or renovation of schools or health facilities in the 25 villages of NCA, even
those already with government funds in their accounts, or third-party
donations, have since 2021 been denied by Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Authority and since 2022 there’s a drive to manipulate the in every way
suffocated Maasai to relocate to other people’s land, that in no way can
accommodate pastoralism, 600 kilometres away. Though these are not the first
restrictions or eviction efforts. There’s a population panic – used as an
excuse for any human rights violations - on the part of the government and some
international organizations, even when Ngorongoro is less densely populated than
most areas of Tanzania and has become a huge tourism money-maker for government
coffers and deep pockets, with the Maasai living there, in their land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai already lost access
to over 14,000 km<sup>2</sup> when evicted from Serengeti in 1959 by the
colonial government – accompanied by Bernhard Grzimek’s rallying cry, “Serengeti
Shall Not Die” (this Nazi-party member also wanted the Maasai out of Ngorongoro
and is still revered by the German embassy in Tanzania) - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and as a compromise deal, they were guaranteed
the right to continue occupying the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a
multiple land-use area administered by the government, in which natural
resources would be conserved primarily for their interest, but with due regard
for wildlife, and in case of conflict the interest of the Maasai would take
precedence. This promise was not kept, and tourism revenue, as seen again and
again, has turned into the paramount interest, with restrictions for the
Ngorongoro Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 1975, after a change in the
NCA Act in 1974, the Maasai were brutally evicted from residing in Ngorongoro Crater
and all cultivation was prohibited. The cultivation ban was lifted in 1992, but
brought back in 2009 (or 2008), to the whole of NCA, after many “grave concerns” in the
recommendations by UNESCO and IUCN. Now not even the smallest kitchen garden is
allowed, which together with loss of access to grazing areas has led to
malnutrition. The Maaai are not allowed to build permanent houses and suffer
all kinds of harassment by NCA rangers, that want to restrict motorbikes,
building materials, and demanding permits for just anything, including
demanding ID for the Maasai to pass Loduare gate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2006, there were
relocations to Jema in Oldonyosambu ward of Maasai deemed not to be original inhabitants
of NCA. It’s said that most of these people have returned - and in April 2021
they were threatened with eviction. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a visit by PM Majaliwa
in December 2016, the Maasai lost access to the three craters Ngorongoro,
Olmoti, and Empakaai, which has led the loss of 90% of grazing and water for
Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks
for livestock in these wards. This was done through order and not any change in
the law. Replacement salt donated by the NCAA was found to be substandard, adulterated,
and lead to the death of many cows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, the notorious
chief conservator Freddy Manongi made public a Multiple Land Use Model review
proposal, which was so destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai
livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. Only 18% of the expanded NCA
would remain for people and livestock. This genocidal zoning proposal included
the annexation of the now brutally and illegally demarcated areas in Loliondo and
Sale divisions that then Minister Pindi Chana indeed illegally declared annexed
to NCA on 28<sup>th</sup> September 2022. The 2019 announcement was followed by
so many protest statements – by NCA Maasai - that I lost count, while those in
Loliondo almost pretended that nothing was happening, until the threats against
Loliondo were issued on the ground by Arusha RC Mongella in early 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Election Day, 28<sup>th</sup>
October 2020, non-party affiliated 23-year Salula Ngorisiolo was shot to death
when NCAA rangers and police opened fire at unarmed voters who were protesting
open and shameless election fraud at Oloirobi polling station in Ngorongoro
ward. No Ngorongoro leaders at all have denounced this murder. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ogress
enters<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after having come into
office in 2021, Samia Suluhu Hassan started bringing up the need to “save”
Ngorongoro from the Maasai, in an explicit way not used by any previous
president. A week after her first of many speeches of this kind there was on 12<sup>th</sup>
April 2021 demolition orders for private houses, primary schools, dispensaries,
Endulen police station, churches, and a mosque, which after protests was
stopped until further notice. This was accompanied with eviction orders against
hundreds of individuals seen as “illegal immigrants” or having returned from
Jema. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also in 2021, in May, the NCAA
headquarters were hastily relocated to Karatu, promotional spectacles headed by
the infamous chief conservator Freddy Manongi were held on parliamentary
grounds, and in September 2021 a clip was <a href="https://youtu.be/OQIhJCNDEWA" target="_blank">uploaded </a>in which Deputy Minister Mary
Masanja complains about having seen cattle on a trip with MPs and Manongi talks
about a war, that pastoralists have many conspiracies and that conservationists
must start cooking their own conspiracies. NCAA rangers assaulted several
herders in August and September 2021. Protests were brewing but were cut short
when MP Olenasha passed away on 27<sup>th</sup> September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR1i5ul0Eyb_x-xyx4-n5fx1muhW43c6TY-uN7bNdWoti46AWSBrxdYLOIZ2x1YYDyMPg1lztGAeynwWOPf-4BKxeeMVjt3UdupfyoijacEdR3-t5T5XGPvsel-hta3Asy0m8VSJ8gjj8jNRYjwGGYOYlsvvu_TDpz8GXGwNSwfBV2_wUT8732jbYgd4Rn" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiR1i5ul0Eyb_x-xyx4-n5fx1muhW43c6TY-uN7bNdWoti46AWSBrxdYLOIZ2x1YYDyMPg1lztGAeynwWOPf-4BKxeeMVjt3UdupfyoijacEdR3-t5T5XGPvsel-hta3Asy0m8VSJ8gjj8jNRYjwGGYOYlsvvu_TDpz8GXGwNSwfBV2_wUT8732jbYgd4Rn" width="240" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> October
2021, Samia held a speech in Arusha talking about how important Ngorongoro is
for tourism and that “we” can’t continue considering people’s interests while
destroying it. She was accompanied and supported by the imposter Lekisongo from
Monduli, who pretended to represent the Ngorongoro Maasai while supporting
relocations. Several protest statements were issued by Ngorongoro Maasai
against this individual, which didn’t deter him from later showing up acting as
an imposter at spectacles together with PM Majaliwa and RC Mongella. In March
2022, Lekisongo was cursed by the Maasai of Ngorongoro, Loliondo and Sale. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzs65qWjJJS4bjGKfZL_sUKB9G_OMQ6HueRQhkxEz-4iZphrq3MFlmDVFlfFNfoK2g1V_xdxjx4GEQnWHv01w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Chief Conservator Freddy Manongi
was supposed to retire in November 2021, but President Samia renewed his
appointment for two more years. In multiple statements the Maasai have been
calling for the removal of Manongi who apparently has deep personal anti-Maasai
sentiments that he’s acting on all the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The year of
horror 2022, a year that wont end<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2022 started with a leaked fast-tracked
plan for “voluntary” relocations of Ngorongoro Maasai. In the plan the Kitwai
and Handeni GCAs are named as the areas for relocation and misleadingly
described as protected areas that will be declassified. On the ground in
Msomera, Handeni, there was of course a registered village with its land use plan
and bewildered villagers looking on as houses were speedily being built for
Ngorongoro Maasai. Arusha RC John Mongella was the recommended overseer of the
project, and that’s what he become for the whole of the war against the Maasai in
both NCA and Loliondo/Sale. The plan recommended seeking permission to use
COVID-19 money allocated for the development projects to fund the eviction of
Ngorongoro Maasai - and then on 31<sup>st</sup> March then DED Mhina sent
letters to Ngorongoro headteachers ordering them to transfer COVID-19 funds for
Ngorongoro schools to Handeni District council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtceUC0YmoQ12_8RWp0Ufchs02ay7pELFSjCYsgsOoBkoyt4nv3XwtSaN0RZWP1JZFidIWAMPiLSTH7lmALYv1adqrvgvepeklUWyqHtEc4iqHHbhXnhxjHpSh8t0LQ4z5V7H3yn5KFQYrzVx2hxiG0Z09TdX9ziWXWylwR64mk4fZmMqSJ4PnbSsCIuf2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1519" data-original-width="1125" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtceUC0YmoQ12_8RWp0Ufchs02ay7pELFSjCYsgsOoBkoyt4nv3XwtSaN0RZWP1JZFidIWAMPiLSTH7lmALYv1adqrvgvepeklUWyqHtEc4iqHHbhXnhxjHpSh8t0LQ4z5V7H3yn5KFQYrzVx2hxiG0Z09TdX9ziWXWylwR64mk4fZmMqSJ4PnbSsCIuf2" width="178" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards late January 2022,
Habib Mchange’s Jamvi la Habari newspaper, that focuses on fabrications and
slander of opposition politicians, jumped into and accelerated a hate campaign
against the Maasai of NCA that spread all over regular and social media, was
joined by crazed sports presenters Maulid Kitenge and his friends. The old
anti-Maasai Jamhuri paper with Deusdatus Balile and Manyerere Jackton who in
over 60 articles has incited against the Maasai of Loliondo, soon joined in,
and the “journalists” started an organization, MECIRA, with its sole focus on
evicting the Maasai from Ngorongoro (have since moved on to also inciting against
pastoralists elsewhere) - and were treated as serious actors by other media.
Though many Tanzanians in social media who had earlier not paid much attention
to Ngorongoro saw what was going on, were appalled, and started speaking up. On
13<sup>th</sup> February 2022, the new anti-Maasai organisation held a press
conference sharing dehumanizing theories about the Ngorongoro Maasai. The
Darmpya online news, asked questions, like how come the “allowances” for
attending the press conference were so extraordinary heavy, who funded it, and
for what purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg4BFf6ciDcmfFDVbt6aLBIwhGsHaKQuM_VTj7_-7TD7QZ4jGSWQvx2YiZUc9UriBaAuSZe2JVkMsEyx5Hu6wlPe_IGoqMOwUUq8zlehvtCGBmRnKDNzPzhqUIGSwreag8eLPdU1Q0GF2hKlMkXuANaF4z36nyOw6BvEFX9PUqCG-IoFgedSyH2CFGDftA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="937" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg4BFf6ciDcmfFDVbt6aLBIwhGsHaKQuM_VTj7_-7TD7QZ4jGSWQvx2YiZUc9UriBaAuSZe2JVkMsEyx5Hu6wlPe_IGoqMOwUUq8zlehvtCGBmRnKDNzPzhqUIGSwreag8eLPdU1Q0GF2hKlMkXuANaF4z36nyOw6BvEFX9PUqCG-IoFgedSyH2CFGDftA" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> February
2022, journalists who had covered a community rally in Nainokanoka were detained
by NCAA rangers and local police, released, and then detained again and
searched without warrant, then interrogated, harassed and verbally insulted at
Lodoare access gate to NCAA. They were finally released on condition that they
see Elibariki Bajuta, then head of NCAA’s protection division in Karatu, now
deputy conservator. The journalists met Bajuta at midnight when he intimidated
them and warned them about ever again entering NCA without accreditation from
the authority (Manongi).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup> February
2022, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=549692425992173" target="_blank">parliamentarians competed in being wilfully or genuinely ignorant, hateful,and calling for evictions from Ngorongoro</a> (Loliondo was mentioned, but mostly
NCA). The Mtwara MP screamed that tanks were needed, there was much laughter
and table banging, while only three MPs (all Maasai) spoke up for the Maasai.
The arguments, besides the old population panic, ranged from dehumanizing
colonial fantasies to crocodile tears about poverty and backwardness, to lies
that rich people not from Ngorongoro, but from town or the neighbouring
country, would own the livestock in NCA, to blaming Kenya for being behind the
anti-eviction resistance with the aim of sabotaging tourism in Tanzania.
Majaliwa said that the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act would be reviewed, but
first there was to be a seminar for the MPs and he would meet with people in
Ngorongoro and Loliondo. On 12<sup>th</sup> February 2022, a one-sided
“seminar” about Ngorongoro was held for the MPs who continued their hateful and
defamatory incitement against the Maasai. At this seminar, one non-Maasai MP
supported the Ngorongoro Maasai: Professor Kitila Mkumbo, MP for Ubungo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA many people stopped
sleeping and started praying incessantly at combined prayer and protest
meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> February
2022, Majaliwa held a brief agenda-driven meeting at the NCA hall, for leaders
and closed to the public. There was confusion and thorough registering of the
attendants. Two journalists were arrested and released later the same day. The
local people who were locked out stayed outside the hall singing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> March 2022,
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja brought a caravan of 600 women in diesel guzzling
vehicles to Ngorongoro, squirting champagne, to celebrate tourism, CCM, or
supposedly International Women’s Day. Meanwhile Maasai women climbed Mount
Makarot to pray for their land. In early June, a similar tasteless, wasteful,
and reckless spectacle was held by the CCM youth wing, UVCCM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzkzejGQrLGDIUbKDnxV_f89hdStefDw13oYI4Q3LS9WOITlHz9tKX1Cw4DEHi_Y9E_gXywKoC6WYAErAELmxPdzNxGVYpV0p7i54RS2igoSXkCa3n4ypbAauhPaiaxgcBVKs1G_zeF8W6iMMShUSuZ339uS9Xd0iLfFT7B-Txc0Maj_kzS9EPZwBOmgG8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzkzejGQrLGDIUbKDnxV_f89hdStefDw13oYI4Q3LS9WOITlHz9tKX1Cw4DEHi_Y9E_gXywKoC6WYAErAELmxPdzNxGVYpV0p7i54RS2igoSXkCa3n4ypbAauhPaiaxgcBVKs1G_zeF8W6iMMShUSuZ339uS9Xd0iLfFT7B-Txc0Maj_kzS9EPZwBOmgG8" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> March 2022 in
Arusha, Majaliwa held a fake meeting about Ngorongoro with Maasai from other
areas, without any connection to Ngorongoro, led by the fraudster Lekisongo. At
a huge protest meeting in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, about both Loliondo
and NCA, Lekisongo was officially cursed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> March 2022,
Majaliwa made a much-publicised visit to Msomera Village in Handeni where
houses were hurriedly being built to relocate Maasai from Ngorongoro, without
consulting them, and without consulting residents of Msomera that’s a legally
registered village.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> March 2022,
Damas Ndumbaro, a horrible liar, then still Minister for Natural Resources and
Tourism, met with ambassadors to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and
Loliondo, and his ministry reported that the German ambassador supported the
government’s efforts in Ngorongoro, which has still not been publicly denied by
any German representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2T9LcDFPBJ36ZsT8Nw8tAkaWBoSHj4GbkpQfjbZo54f81LbcQWyIUYuSWxODkrH6jSEaO_--TW3Iv382MU2tMG8D3jHBGd8n94d7Mub1SbILZuiDsAGkXuNvN3E504AoTU4zFMOz5pGIh_U5BCKDc_EGKudjkLD1rjnq4CE3qqem5YyqObZGSQrKXoP1b" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2T9LcDFPBJ36ZsT8Nw8tAkaWBoSHj4GbkpQfjbZo54f81LbcQWyIUYuSWxODkrH6jSEaO_--TW3Iv382MU2tMG8D3jHBGd8n94d7Mub1SbILZuiDsAGkXuNvN3E504AoTU4zFMOz5pGIh_U5BCKDc_EGKudjkLD1rjnq4CE3qqem5YyqObZGSQrKXoP1b" width="240" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> April 2022,
the NCAA had found some real traitors to show off, unlike the previous
imposters from other places than Ngorongoro, but mostly those who had already
left long ago, like those that had worked in Ngorongoro for a while and were
looking for a compensation deal. There were also some traitors, not for wanting
to relocate, but for lending themselves to the dirty war against their own
people. Then several groups – but still a very tiny minority - of in-authentic,
compromised, or naïve Maasai registered to be relocated to Msomera and much
paraded in media, with former MP Kaika Saning’o Telele (who in 2023 started complaining)
as the worst example. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> May 2022,
the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues called on the
government of Tanzania to immediately cease efforts to evict the Maasai people
from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the president, at
Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition’s own 10-year anniversary, expressed
her displeasure with human rights defenders defending Ngorongoro Maasai and not
her genocidal plans. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022, a
60-member committee handed over reports on community recommendations to PM Kassim
Majaliwa, which is what he had asked for. There was one report on NCA and one
on Loliondo/Sale. The report writers weren’t shy to tell the truth and Majaliwa
said that he would work on the recommendations. Majaliwa was known as a truly dangerous
liar, to the extent of informing the public that the dying, or already dead,
president Magufuli was hard at work with stacks on folders on his desk, and the
PM would very soon get even worse, but dancing to his tune was seen as
preferably anyway, when it included the opportunity to hand over reports telling
the truth. Not sure what the PM had expected, or if he ever read the reports. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqZOTZLk0_GnKPbhtaD0nD3KLyxymlw519klBDODCWUuQD38u_sl-nPaLcYfVVySkWvndrKn5gYybqW8CIt5x4qKyF5hwbKF33Qrp7eBYxs_h-hvqc2-rUAI_xmGTNEi0huGX8uiIgCHNncUAlehkj9y-odSD1B9SDq69fjGX1UQVDtr1jBXVNJymSSUEi" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="839" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqZOTZLk0_GnKPbhtaD0nD3KLyxymlw519klBDODCWUuQD38u_sl-nPaLcYfVVySkWvndrKn5gYybqW8CIt5x4qKyF5hwbKF33Qrp7eBYxs_h-hvqc2-rUAI_xmGTNEi0huGX8uiIgCHNncUAlehkj9y-odSD1B9SDq69fjGX1UQVDtr1jBXVNJymSSUEi" width="168" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2022 and ongoing, Loliondo
was brutally and lawlessly attacked by security forces, demarcating and then evicting
everyone from a fake and illegal “game reserve” (that was illegally gazetted months
later). All councillors from affected wards were abducted and locked up for
over 5 months, there were shootings, beatings, slashings with bayonets, rape, theft
of motorbikes and telephones, destruction of houses, illegal arrests and trumped
up charges, even shooting of cows, thousands fled to Kenya, everyone was
supposed to squeeze into residential and agricultural areas with very insufficient
grazing areas left, having to enter their own land as thieves at night for
grazing, seizing and huge “fines” (extortion) on livestock that continue.
Besides that this increased fear in NCA, some Maasai from Alailelai and Naiyobi
wards in NCA share the Nadengare grazing area, now patrolled as a “game reserve”,
with Malambo (area B of the fake GR) and have been extorted 100,000 TSh per
head of cattle or 25,000 per sheep or goat. Two of them - Baraka Moson Kesoi
and Raphael Oleruye Oloishiro, from Bulati – filed a criminal appeal to contest
this abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As the worst-case scenario
became the reality in Loliondo I did not keep up with the “voluntary”
relocations from NCA to other people’s land in Msomera that started in June 2022,
with much celebratory Tanzanian media coverage. Hard enough was to tell people that
it didn’t have anything to do with Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 1<sup>st</sup> July 2022,
the councillor of Ngorongoro ward, Simon Saitoti, was arrested and joined to
the murder charges against the Loliondo councillors that were abducted on 9<sup>th</sup>
June, the eve of the brutal and illegal demarcation of a “game reserve”. They
were charged, but never prosecuted, only locked up for over five months, for a killing
that took place the day after they were abducted. First it was thought that Simon
was arrested for being supportive of the Loliondo councillors, but then it has
been revealed that he was only interrogated about investigations into hazardous
replacement salt provided by NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2022, NCA rangers
attacked and tortured several people, among them Letee Ormunderei who was
seriously injured and needed surgery for which there was fundraising. There were
plans to prosecute the ranger Abraham Akyoo who brutalized Letee, but this didn’t
materialize. Some say that he has been transferred to Eyasi. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A meeting was held on 12<sup>th</sup>
October 2022 between government representatives and Endulen Hospital. The government
plan was announced as to further suffocate key life serving services
downgrading the hospital to a clinic, removing Xray and radiation services,
relocating government employees and all employees above the grade of nurse
assistant, removing ambulance service, delivery and mother and childcare and
emergency facilities, while medical attendants should not exceed two people.
Reportedly, the plan is to eventually demolish the whole hospital. Besides
this, Flying Medical Service are grounded since March 2022, officially due to
technical reasons, which they dispute. The numbers of unvaccinated children are
growing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> January
2023, NCAA rangers assaulted several young herders at Olmoti crater. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the rangers were identified as Alais,
Baby and Simony, but as far as I know, no legal action has been taken against
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In late January 2023, the
African Commission on Human and People’s Rights made a visit to Ngorongoro,
Loliondo and Msomera, and it was totally, ridiculously commandeered by the Tanzanian
government, that controlled every move, and only by accident did some victims of
restrictions and blocked services in Ngorongoro, and some of the Msomera
villagers that had been informed at gunpoint that they had to give way to the Ngorongoro
migrants, get some access to the Commission <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Tanga RC could – standing right next to
the passive commissioners - threaten the Msomera villagers as invaders with
less rights than the Ngorongoro migrants. In Loliondo the Commission was
prevented from meeting <b>any victims at all</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> March 2023,
the Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Charles Kichere, announced that 2.5%
of Ngorongoro households had been “relocated” at a cost of TShs 24.7 billion.
In a threatening way, he said that the cost for “relocating” the remaining
22,000 households would be TShs 988 billion. The CAG did not disclose where the
money is coming from. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2023 I got reports about
terrible violent abuse, including rape, by rangers in collusion with owners of
so-called cultural bomas in Endulen and Olbalbal, against women who
independently sell cultural ornaments in the Golini area. This had been going
on since September 2022, and the women had also been locked up at Ngorongoro
Police Station and fines had been extorted from them. Then local leaders decided
to block any investigations into these crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 18<sup>th</sup> April, at a
side event to the 22<sup>nd</sup> session of the UN Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues, Tanzanian activists informed the attendants of the current
state of the Loliondo evictions and the so-called “voluntary” relocations from
Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The Tanzanian government was represented by
Zuleikha Tambwe of the Tanzania Permanent Mission to the United Nations who would
have been a better liar if she’d understood what she was supposed to lie about …
On 21<sup>st</sup> April, the Tanzanian government issued “A rebuttal of claims
about the so-called indigenous peoples in Tanzania”, and this was presented by
UNESCO’s general secretary in Tanzania the horrible mega liar Dr. Malebo,
together with Zuleikha Tambwe. The lies regarding NCA ranged from the usual
population panic to using the government-created poverty against the Maasai
themselves, to lying that the Msomera scam was designed in consultation with
local community when the truth is that neither the Maasai in Ngorongoro not the
Msomera villagers were even informed before hearing about it in anti-Maasai
media, or in the Msomera case being overrun by government delegations
demarcating their land for Ngorongoro migrants. The lies about Loliondo were
even more insane …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In April and May 2023, the
Msomera villagers started to increasingly speak up in the press about being
invaded and having their land at gunpoint demarcated for Ngorongoro migrant. One
of those speaking up is <a href="https://youtu.be/LpAWHS2Ms_s" target="_blank">Sauda Kimweri </a>who was arrested with a three-month old
child for trying to prevent a Ngorongoro migrant from planting on her farm. The
retired Msomera village chairman, William Kanyinge, has explained how
Msomera, after having been a sub-village where people had lived since before
colonial days, was registered as a full village in 1992, and how villagers had
got title deeds to their own plots. In January 2022, a long caravan of
vehicles, with armed escort and high government representatives, including
Arusha RC, John Mongella, set up camp and started demarcation on people’s land
in a very threatening way and in February 2022 Prison Services moved in to
build houses for migrants from Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Complaints from Ngorongoro
migrants started being voiced, concerning unfulfilled promises about houses,
and Msomera’s unsuitability for pastoralism. One of those who has voiced complaints
is the government’s poster boy, <a href="https://youtu.be/UjEt9Hm_ynk" target="_blank">former MP Telele</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> May 2023,
Vice President Philip Mpango visit Ngorongoro District to inaugurate various
projects (in Loliondo and Sale divisions), mostly the Wasso-Sale road. Several
youths from NCA handed over protest placards against the suffocation of social
services in Ngorongoro division to the VP who picked them up and
read some of them. There were reports that these youths were receiving threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> May 2023,
the Ngorongoro councillors voted in unison to reject Ngorongoro District Land
Use Framework Plan 2023-2043 (prepared, with staunch German support, to justify
the massive, brutal and illegal land grab in Loliondo) and in support of a
motion against the suffocation of social services in NCA, presented by Shutuk
Kitamwas, councillor of Alailelai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">31<sup>st</sup> May 2023
turned into a magic evening when Noorkishili Nakero Naing’isa from Ololosokwan
(Loliondo), Nengai Kilusu Laizer from Oloirobi, and advocate Joseph Oleshangai
from Endulen for once could respond, there at the same venue, to the very, very
malicious government lies spewed by Jestas Abouk Nyamanga, Tanzanian ambassador
to Belgium, Luxembourg, and European Union Commission, and the horrible Dr. Malebo,
UNESCO’s general secretary in Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In his <a href="https://www.maliasili.go.tz/assets/pdfs/HOTUBABAJET2023-2024MNRT30MAY2023PRINTEDVB.pdf" target="_blank">budget speech</a> of early
June 2023, the new Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Mohamed
Mchengerwa, President Samia’s son in law, boasted about that 3,010 people from
Ngorongoro had been voluntarily relocated to Msomera, to give way for “conservation”,
with 15,321 heads of livestock and of how the government is showering them with
houses, land and social services, including degazetting Handeni GCA so that they
can take possession of the land. When the truth is that Msomera has been a
registered village for decades, a sub-village before that, and its villagers informed
at gunpoint that they must give way to the Ngorongoro migrants. Mchengerwa
promised that there will be no turning back, no surrender, in completing this
exercise which will continue to be done with “professionalism and speed”. “Let’s
meet in Msomera”, he concluded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk142515598"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO
and the horrible Dr Malebo<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk142515598;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in several blog
posts, on 21<sup>st</sup> March 2022, UNESCO issued a <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2419" target="_blank">statement </a>regarding
Ngorongoro saying, <i>“UNESCO has never at any time asked for the displacement
of the Maasai people.”</i> This was not and is not true. The Tanzanian
government has through the years used UNESCO’s threats of delisting Ngorongoro
Conservation Area as a World Heritage Site, its repeated population panic, and
distaste for agriculture of any kind, or “modern” buildings, as an excuse to
worsen the human rights situation. The most rabidly anti-Maasai press enjoy
reporting about UNESCO’s support for eviction plans. UNESCO’s general secretary
in Tanzania, Hamisi M. Malebo, not only supports relocation of the Maasai out
of Ngorongoro Conservation Area but has in a shameless and loud way voiced
support for the extremely violent and illegal demarcation of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of essential grazing land in Loliondo and Sale for a “game reserve”. He is repeatedly
used as the Tanzanian government’s “expert” in front of international
organizations, and I have not seen any kind of indication that UNESCO would
distance themselves from this individual. I’ve been informed that, while UNESCO
is obviously a criminal organisation it has no legal relationship with the
national UNESCO commission of Tanzania. Malebo though is having a great time
using the name UNESCO and the organization has never objected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the genocidal Multiple
Land Use Model review proposal was presented in September 2019, the UNESCO
World Heritage Centre, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) and International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) had once again
visited Ngorongoro in March the same year and in <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/documents/174817" target="_blank">their report </a>repeated that
they wanted the MLUM review completed to see the results and offer advice,
while again complaining about the visual impact of settlements with “modern”
houses, and so on. They also recommended the State Party to continue to, <i>“promote
and encourage voluntary resettlement by communities, consistent with the
policies of the Convention and relevant international norms, from within the
property to outside by 2028”</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
known, unlike recommendations about too many vehicles (the presence of which
instead is loudly celebrated), the MNRT loves this kind of recommendation, and
the resulting MLUM review proposal was so destructive that it would lead to the
end of Maasai livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District, and as seen, the
genocidal plan for Loliondo, including the annexation to NCA of the illegally
demarcated land, has been brutally and lawlessly implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, the MLUM review
report proposed to divide Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core
conservation zone” that is to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA
this includes the Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters
Ngorongoro, Olmoti and Empakaai where grazing these past few years has been
banned through order by PM Kassim Majaliwa, not law. This has led to losing 90%
of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100%
loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these wards. The proposal is to do
the same with Oldupai Gorge, Laitoli footprints, and the Lake Ndutu and Lake
Masek basins. In the rest of Ngorongoro District, the proposal was for NCAA to
annex the Lake Natron basin (including areas of Longido and Monduli districts,
like Selela forest and Engaruka historical site) and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
in Loliondo and Sale Divisions and designate most of these areas to be no-go
zones for pastoralists and livestock. These huge areas include many villages
and are important grazing areas, the loss of which will have disastrous
knock-on effects on lives and livelihoods elsewhere. The in June 2022 implemented
alienation and annexation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo caters almost
perfectly to the wishes of OBC. Only 18% of NCA would remain for people and
livestock. Is there any sincere person who would dare to say that this can be
achieved through “voluntary” relocations? In Loliondo extreme violence was used
and in NCA the brutality of restrictions keeps worsening to make the Maasai
leave “voluntarily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another example of the
instigation by UNESCO is the decision about Ngorongoro in the 4 session of the
“Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural
Heritage World Heritage Committee” from July 2021, UNESCO is still requesting
the State Party to provide information about <i>“the status of agricultural
activities in the property”</i> when even the smallest kitchen garden had been
banned since 2009, because of UNESCO’s repeated “deep concern” which has led to
malnourishment. They continued being concerned with, <i>“challenges resulting
from the significant increase in the number of people residing in the property
since its inscription”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO has <b>never</b>
expressed any concern, deep or otherwise, about that the MLUM review proposes a
cultural genocide. Their partner in incitement, the IUCN, did issue a statement
against the violent land alienation in Loliondo – maybe as damage control for
the trophy hunting industry that the IUCN appears to be close to – but not one
word from UNESCO. When you keep inciting an authoritarian government that
values tourism revenue above human rights, is prone to violence and
lawlessness, and full of pathological liars, to do something about too many
people, you’re complicit to crime, however much you keep mentioning
consultations with stakeholders and rightsholders, and international norms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk142516648"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO’s
general secretary in Tanzania, </span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dr Hamisi M. Malebo, on 28<sup>th</sup>
February 2022, in a zoom meeting about developments in the tourism sector with
one year of Samia Suluhu Hassan as president, explained that children in
Ngorongoro can’t go to school and mothers can’t fetch firewood safely for the
risk of being snatched by wild animals like lions, leopards and hyenas (in the
spoken Zoom seminar he mentioned cheetahs as well!), so UNESCO’s recommendation
to the government is to find the Maasai other places to live to avoid these
challenges. Malebo did of course not say anything about that NCAA should stop
blocking social services. This stupid crocodile-tears exaggeration has later
been picked up by several government representatives and anti-Maasai journalists
(again now in August 2023) while lying and inciting against Ngorongoro. So
called human-wildlife conflict is not unique to Ngorongoro, which is not even
the worst place, but occurs in many areas of Tanzania, not least Handeni district,
besides that Ngorongoro is less deadly in many other regards, like traffic. At
a public event in the European parliament on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2023, Noorkishili
Nakero Naing’isa asked if people were killed by vehicles in Brussels, should
everyone be relocated somewhere else?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> January
this year 2023, <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/government-defends-itself-in-the-ngorongoro-saga-4103892" target="_blank">in front of the shamefully government commanded AfricanCommission for Human and People’s Rights </a>Malebo continued in this vein
defending the relocations of the Maasai to areas where they will be able to
pursue economic activities “which are not permitted in the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area due to its reserve status.” While at the same time denying
any kind of unequal treatment of the Maasai in NCA who are obviously strangled
by restrictions. Regarding Loliondo, not only did Malebo pretend that the land
was not legally registered village land but lied that that it “had never been
inhabited” and claimed that the government reached an “amicable decision” to
leave the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> as a wildlife corridor. So “amicable” that all
councillors from affected wards were abducted the eve of the brutal and illegal
demarcation!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> April 2023,
the Tanzanian government again used Malebo as their main liar and inciter when
presenting the rather crazed “<i>A rebuttal of claims about the so-called
indigenous peoples in Tanzania”</i>, to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues. Then again, on 31<sup>st</sup> May 2023, Malebo lied on behalf of the government
at a public event in the European parliament. Though this was a magic event in
which Maasai representatives got to respond to the lies. In May, <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tanzanian-governments-brutal-land.html" target="_blank">I wrote about these two events.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUJ7lsfcjuJp1kr8vjcdPyxIdg20FEhPcq5LeAimiA0a_aBceVO9Ow_bTtZAnSDkIY7bl-ywkyR2QY6BxwMn471JzNCy5ci9eWU3md_GaDS2AL245q6VlD6DmdRjlREqvvf_vf-OZMPtZfySaByExNyzItDwwgD07L2WeFvT7nF3eHx2qb-aLzBL_hcSe1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="320" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUJ7lsfcjuJp1kr8vjcdPyxIdg20FEhPcq5LeAimiA0a_aBceVO9Ow_bTtZAnSDkIY7bl-ywkyR2QY6BxwMn471JzNCy5ci9eWU3md_GaDS2AL245q6VlD6DmdRjlREqvvf_vf-OZMPtZfySaByExNyzItDwwgD07L2WeFvT7nF3eHx2qb-aLzBL_hcSe1" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ambassador Nyamanga and the horrible Dr. Malebo.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t mix up
Loliondo and NCA!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo hunting
block</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: Loliondo division plus Malambo and Piyaya wards in Sale
division of Ngorongoro District. A local police state at the service of OBC –
that has had the hunting block (4,000 km<sup>2</sup>) covering the whole of
Loliondo and part of Sale, since 1993 - and the American Thomson Safaris that
claim a private nature refuge. For many years a constant threat of robbing the
Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of vitally important grazing land, expecting
them and their livestock to squeeze into the remaining land. Major illegal and
extremely violent operations in 2009, 2017, and then the worst (and ongoing) in
2022 when the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> were brutally and lawlessly demarcated as protected
area, evicting the Maasai. Vicious hate campaign by the reporter Manyerere
Jackton since around 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area (NCA)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: Ngorongoro division of Ngorongoro
District. Harsh restrictions on every aspect of life under the rule of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and its chief conservator Freddy
Manongi, instigated by UNESCO and IUCN. Blocking of funds for social services
since 2021. Illegal transfer of COVID-19 funds to Msomera in Handeni to where
the Maasai are supposed to relocate “voluntarily”, displacing the Msomera
villagers. In 2022, a vicious hate campaign in media and in parliament. In
September 2022, the management of the stolen 1,500 km2 in Loliondo was placed
under the NCAA, which had been an open threat since 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Royal
Tour<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Tanzania it’s still a
required act of faith to attribute tourism arrivals to a <a href="https://youtu.be/7aiV04nzaV4" target="_blank">cheesy travel documentary</a>
in which President Samia starred, and which can hardly have been seen by many
people outside Tanzania at all. I still haven’t found anyone. This tourism cult
illustrates the ideology behind sharply increased anti-Maasai violence since
Samia Suluhu Hassan came into office. On 5<sup>th</sup> August, at the Africa
tourism conference held in Mauritius, the Permanent Secretary to the MNRT,
Hassan Abbas, was again engaging in this cult. A day later the president said
that a sports bag from the Simba football club, placed on Kilimanjaro, was
advertising Tanzania and joining hands with her documentary The Royal Tour. Still,
several times a week Tanzanian media, full of praise, refers to The Royal Tour.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the president in
September 2021 was to film the part showing Ngorongoro, there was heavy police
deployment, and nobody was allowed near, while in other areas, like Moshi and
Karatu, Samia addressed the public from atop her vehicle. Three staff members
of the NGO Pastoral Women’s Council, together with the ward councillor and
special sets councillor of Piyaya, and two people who were being given a lift,
were detained until the evening, suspected of having planned to make protest
signs out of a flip chart, and then they had present themselves to the police
for further investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President Samia travelled to
the USA for 10 days for the premier of The Royal Tour, a “documentary” in which
reporter Peter Greenberg travels a country with the head of state as his tour
guide, often an authoritarian leader with no regard for human rights. The
researcher Alex Dukalskis in his book <i>Making the World Safe for Dictatorship</i>
describes President Kagame of Rwanda’s use of The Royal Tour as “authoritarian
image management”, recommended by consultants who specialize in this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai are shown off in
The Royal Tour as a tourist attraction for four minutes. No other tribe or
group of people are shown this interest. Greenberg mentions being fascinated by
how “many villages” there are, which is a strange thing to say. Compared to
where? Then it’s mentioned that, “it is not uncommon for a Maasai man to have
18-20 children”, obviously to further drive home the population panic. The
Maasai are described as stubbornly clinging on to their ancient ways, but that
they will be forced to change. The president calls the Maasai “newest
arrivals”. Greenberg uses the word “primitive” about the Maasai. Similarly out
of touch is a kind of joke about Maasai women being impressed by Greenberg
jumping. President Samia uses the word “genocide” earlier in the film, but then
she’s referring to elephants …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyNxkd0yRhIXcitIHYo__D7gZ-d2_ixV_PngTHMpWyeg1U08xeDR3lFCxCTZOOAzPJ6yxHSJDf10ma24QmeOA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t forget to read Denis
Oleshangay’s article <a href="https://mwanzotv.com/2023/08/14/conservation-racism-in-ngorongoro-a-tragic-loss-of-common-sense-and-leadership/" target="_blank">CONSERVATION RACISM IN NGORONGORO: A TRAGIC LOSS OF COMMONSENSE AND LEADERSHIP</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Meanwhile, there’s a terrible
silence in Loliondo. Judging by earlier silences, this does not mean that
nothing is happening, and much less that everything is good. </b></span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can’t think of any better international
action against the President Samia’s war on the Maasai than a total tourism boycott.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>Updates:</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>NCAA rangers and police are "arresting everyone", people are hiding in the bush, some of those arrested are sick people who couldn't hide.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>As of 17th August, the arrested were:</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">1. Daniel Olewanga,
was just released from hospital with TB.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">2. Sadira Taretoi.
Has a mental health issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">3. Ng'oisa Kuya
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">4. Napajara
Mondo<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">5. Lenanu Kerika
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">7. Kisheyan
Kerika<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">8. Mbekure Nagol<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">9. Mebeli Longwari<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">10. Poopei
Sumulek<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">11. Rocky
Kuchuru<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">12. Denis<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">13. Kipuyo
Simion<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">14. Goddy
Polla<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;">15. Augustino
Hayuma<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;">16. Mbalelo
Mungaya<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;">17. Larasha
Olenginina<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">18.Benjamin
Philimon<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Those "arrested" are NOT taken to the police.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Terrible silence continue in Loliondo, but Tanzania
Episcopal Conference (TEC) in their statement on the dodgy DP World deal
mentioned Loliondo.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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abducted while herding cattle and taken to unknown location.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>20th August</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Some boys were rounded-up while tending their livestock,
some were on the way from Oldupai to buy basic necessities in Endulen and were
arrested and donkey with basic need has been lost. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">Emmanuel Oleshangai, MP for Ngorongoro, posted a letter saying that his life and the life of his family were in danger, and those to be held accountable are the Ngorongoro DC and Arusha RC. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtDrtcZIsdoyzmd7hw3a8uX4b8pORGfC7uvePosjBPrbcq7PmNBj9NlbIvdwEP0pcUeK8U0GU4kzEuCnUJ54rcS_KXGn0UhHQPu9CrrBAgtHDvC-3JCDOtbNwQqJla60JnSYf2VKN3sWqqaZIDvVgDXIbKzMRYI7m0jhhioh8blCVsxVDSJn3JzqFcF7gJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="636" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtDrtcZIsdoyzmd7hw3a8uX4b8pORGfC7uvePosjBPrbcq7PmNBj9NlbIvdwEP0pcUeK8U0GU4kzEuCnUJ54rcS_KXGn0UhHQPu9CrrBAgtHDvC-3JCDOtbNwQqJla60JnSYf2VKN3sWqqaZIDvVgDXIbKzMRYI7m0jhhioh8blCVsxVDSJn3JzqFcF7gJ" width="170" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd5TcG7FcINnPDaYgkZoAbyMRmiMWFX7Zgl4Ql2gKCU8eoyTMcww04LMt6dKo0oHus7fYJ4O-4m2pseVyvSJAfyRcUm9XBP8hijKATpYmUxINldhWZQgSZTJglj_q21pUCoIGfl190zfCKcRftNIJZ-gm6Ktncm06uWyTI2jnwdfuCqAsXUG4MlGXk0VjL" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1336" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd5TcG7FcINnPDaYgkZoAbyMRmiMWFX7Zgl4Ql2gKCU8eoyTMcww04LMt6dKo0oHus7fYJ4O-4m2pseVyvSJAfyRcUm9XBP8hijKATpYmUxINldhWZQgSZTJglj_q21pUCoIGfl190zfCKcRftNIJZ-gm6Ktncm06uWyTI2jnwdfuCqAsXUG4MlGXk0VjL" width="244" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>21st August</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">A habeas corpus was filed for 35 people, but those are not all who have been abducted.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">Odero Odero of Civil and Legal Aid issued a press
statement.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Several Ngorongoro youths, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Kisota Mollel, Melobo Ndara Poshe and Ezekiel Olemangi, held a press conference. </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">https://youtu.be/Die4v8_5YLA</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">MP Emmanuel Oleshangai was arrested when on his way to the police in Karatu.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">NCAA blocked the road to Endulen hospital and forces some women to jump like frogs. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">In a meeting in Msomera, apparently about regular law enforcement, like cattle rustling, Minister of Home Affairs Masauni suddenly started threating NGOs</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>22nd August</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">After interrogation, the MP was the night to the 22nd taken to an unknown location and his lawyers don't know where he is.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">All abducted men continue incommunicado as well. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Manongi, Bajuta, Mchengerwa, Mongella and other criminals held another disinformation conference for media. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZpxbbDjpSyLywSne87XFYjJAS75YNyiffmCXY7Lk1S5k6-tUXIMfcdS405KyR8NsYf5mgp3H3miC-c4f6d-3PmPP-9EDEIeYEmZTX5NUvKbqgSwcy5hnpmqajQlD3jx-58dnPbHsl-f52VicBqgrZ_hK-hN6LUlgRXFPiraieBr3epg0ohKdL7hHnByYd" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="670" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZpxbbDjpSyLywSne87XFYjJAS75YNyiffmCXY7Lk1S5k6-tUXIMfcdS405KyR8NsYf5mgp3H3miC-c4f6d-3PmPP-9EDEIeYEmZTX5NUvKbqgSwcy5hnpmqajQlD3jx-58dnPbHsl-f52VicBqgrZ_hK-hN6LUlgRXFPiraieBr3epg0ohKdL7hHnByYd" width="179" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">In the midst of extreme government lawlessness, the high court
has ruled that the case challenging the president’s cruel and illegal GN No.604
of October 2022, turning 1,500km2 of important village land, since June 2022
invaded by security forces into a “Pololeti Game Reserve” can proceed, and
prohibits operation of the GN until determination of the case (substantial application)!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">I need more details.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>23rd August</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">A habeas corpus was filed in the High Court. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZwtJi8-IyrIv0eAiAA5GgXiAVpx-in1z17BAPtDliY8AxNfX09BukA0wpcNy8lVIwFIsLaHxwRpeVID4stzBStOQxDH884Y0PryM_OIoICRNkbQvy07mqeHYgReL8C2tP9WUDuXR3bmVqW0S0RgATGvJPJN2PCZQGx2JK-bL7zLDdS1APJuDxjjFYdvbu" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="626" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZwtJi8-IyrIv0eAiAA5GgXiAVpx-in1z17BAPtDliY8AxNfX09BukA0wpcNy8lVIwFIsLaHxwRpeVID4stzBStOQxDH884Y0PryM_OIoICRNkbQvy07mqeHYgReL8C2tP9WUDuXR3bmVqW0S0RgATGvJPJN2PCZQGx2JK-bL7zLDdS1APJuDxjjFYdvbu" width="147" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">Ngorongoro residents held a press conference. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lawyers </span>explained<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> what was going on.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><span style="color: #800180;">In the evening the MP was released on bail.</span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">https://youtu.be/Z9Q3VJKXUeI</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>24th August</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">31 were released on bail after a week of illegal arrest. 3 in Ngorongoro and 4 boys and a man with mental illness had been released earlier. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">10 had been held in Manyara Kibaoni.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">25 in Karatu (among them the 4 boys and the mentally ill man).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">3 were held at Ngorongoro Police Station.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjghm3oTRwBsZssbrGniQixMc39oSff2xtI3ynosznGkUOVMGXBtQjLf_-xro0JeY_6zCznZtehzKvZHNXrlXJ-cOH6a5P1P6TPIFuovHlKytPCZR2346VGNGXSP7DMeMElVQdKfj5z9Vj43DFy3TcD1CvG_agmN3LmGhMOUXFhUOQao3OSFhFEp9BIQZXl" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="468" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjghm3oTRwBsZssbrGniQixMc39oSff2xtI3ynosznGkUOVMGXBtQjLf_-xro0JeY_6zCznZtehzKvZHNXrlXJ-cOH6a5P1P6TPIFuovHlKytPCZR2346VGNGXSP7DMeMElVQdKfj5z9Vj43DFy3TcD1CvG_agmN3LmGhMOUXFhUOQao3OSFhFEp9BIQZXl" width="108" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Mzee Peter Parsais, CCM chairman of Naiyobi ward who was abducted by NCA rangers on 19th August was first said not to have been released, but then he was. Information is confusing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">A group of women in Endulen held a manifestation against the so-called "voluntary" relocation and cursed President Samia. </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">https://youtu.be/E4CyHTG6mYA </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">There women denounced sexual violence during the manhunt.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Minister Mchengerwa inaugurated the second phase of relocation and warned anyone sabotaging the exercise. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>25th August</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">NCAA issued a statement lying about the ranger attack smashing out Joshua Olepatorro's teeth and lying that the operation arresting every random man in Endulen was done by the police and not NCAA, when every knows otherwise, including NCAA in earlier statements.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivKvfDl2NgsxZJgV7Gy2Q0gge1A5IACNUh5SxjJFzoUIjOYUEJOXHNM_R-c36MCzTwBYwA7gT3p-WRvLa7GOeWS0u89s_p7vC1FTOr8QnJz7h9DM5hwTNnBUhFlBKCvAhgDQWDkC_2tbdg4mwUypN8iaWenj4Vhf4luLEhg3UsKaKcTHiNg5Ot22cTUU1_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="713" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivKvfDl2NgsxZJgV7Gy2Q0gge1A5IACNUh5SxjJFzoUIjOYUEJOXHNM_R-c36MCzTwBYwA7gT3p-WRvLa7GOeWS0u89s_p7vC1FTOr8QnJz7h9DM5hwTNnBUhFlBKCvAhgDQWDkC_2tbdg4mwUypN8iaWenj4Vhf4luLEhg3UsKaKcTHiNg5Ot22cTUU1_" width="190" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>There was a big reception for the MP upon his return home, documented by Kusaga tv, and with obvious messages to all Tanzanians.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">https://youtu.be/lqNOl1obQIg</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">26th August</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">A clip was shared of Manongi lying about Joshua Olepatorro.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">27th August</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Edward Maura replied to Manongi's lying clip.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">29th August</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">Denis Peshut was abducted in the morning and found at
Karatu police station at noon, then denied bail since police can't interfere
with NCAA intelligence unit! Interrogated about protests at Ndian Primary
School, chasing of government provocateurs, and women's protest during the
paramilitary hunt of any man in Endulen not fast enough.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">Some people from Kapenjiro or Msomera, led by Ndwala
Ngoishiye, who had acted as Mchange’s translator, ask for forgivness on the
part of Maasai from Endulen, without disclosing who they were! And were again
so thankful for relocation to Msomera.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">In Engusersambu, a stupid spectacle with the councillor and the Naan village chairman thanking KwF and Mama Samia for projects part of the Serengeti Ecosystem Development and Conservation Program. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><b>30th August</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">NCAA bought a high number of journalists to Ngorongoro.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">Some of the NCA vehicles involved were:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">01 JU 0121<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">01 JU 0122<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">01 JU 0112<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">01 JU 0097</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgilwqUT1M8er73UwVvHUYH957dZGMC9ibeTTEzLWapPK5bFOefEBTmdHJeO08G5VGEQzrF7THQqHM-OshjuIYzAxRx6a4M8zMHoheP_VZFedNeqFGW9GGEisdEOqVCkN-pifxdlFJOGNp7wOfXd5FmrNsMymy70PtZ-xCKpdfeLj6ro_P29t22vwse_H5a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="621" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgilwqUT1M8er73UwVvHUYH957dZGMC9ibeTTEzLWapPK5bFOefEBTmdHJeO08G5VGEQzrF7THQqHM-OshjuIYzAxRx6a4M8zMHoheP_VZFedNeqFGW9GGEisdEOqVCkN-pifxdlFJOGNp7wOfXd5FmrNsMymy70PtZ-xCKpdfeLj6ro_P29t22vwse_H5a" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;">In yet another one of her frequent cabinet reshuffles, the president transferred her son in law Mchengerwa to become Minister of State in the President's Office in charge of Local Governments. New Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism is Angellah Kariuki. Mary Masanja was removed as deputy minister. It's not yet known if she's transferred anywhere. Dunstan Luka Kitandula is new deputy minister. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><b>1st September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The night leading to 1st September, r<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">angers and police went to Nasipooriong’ village,
Endulen, broke the doors of several houses, beating women and stole 400 Kg of honey.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then they wanted to arrest Ormekeke sub-village chairman/alaigwanani whose house they also invaded, but did not find.<br /><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They arrested Alaitole Ward Councilor (James Moringe), and Petei Olekitaika
(Alaigwanani).</span><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="SW" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: SW;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">They were taken to Karatu and released on bail in the afternoon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>4th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Traditional leader Zakayo Ponja was arrested/abducted from his work at a tourist camp in Serenget NP, but people in a white Landcruiser 383DPG.</span></p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Three others were summoned by the Ngorongoro officer commanding station to present themselves ar Karatu police station where they were arrested.<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Arrested:<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. Ngakenya Olenjorio, CCM Secretary Endulen Ward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Moses Oleseki CCM Ward Chairman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. Thomas Oltwati Endulen Village Chairman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">4. Zakayo Ponja Nyangulo alaigwanani<o:p></o:p></span></p></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government denies entry to EU
parliamentarians 24 hours before departure to visit Ngorongoro and Loliondo.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">5th September</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoYP_5ynxVdbgiJdSiwGBN96vLDgaEWxgT865_Xb7MALyl2flBfwa0l5KgLJDfMsFBEYJKG048JBumGygMi4qIKGXBp1PPzCZP_W5-Ru8MsGGKI4G9ovm-Owl3UJNpKlsTbb4JkOFPh5rL3cKdwa2XVy4JIRZqaJlwuwbNV8guxQYvUVtYdGu5qBt2iwf7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1131" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoYP_5ynxVdbgiJdSiwGBN96vLDgaEWxgT865_Xb7MALyl2flBfwa0l5KgLJDfMsFBEYJKG048JBumGygMi4qIKGXBp1PPzCZP_W5-Ru8MsGGKI4G9ovm-Owl3UJNpKlsTbb4JkOFPh5rL3cKdwa2XVy4JIRZqaJlwuwbNV8guxQYvUVtYdGu5qBt2iwf7" width="170" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3WD637iU638iDadr1XzEvj3icFDPoWdUw1Q4vQDibM2yNvqcKZLDax5hXjzD-4DgilD8iBYFn0RuPgArAdRGBLWasH-pRPCU4Sk9fvhfKqOw_YNGYmNU09UfSInQiddjCb7r2VNPyFFE2CltM8XwebKBHJ8CDy7unVdhu57jDKxsSK6x8AoJ3L3v4w5pM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1131" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3WD637iU638iDadr1XzEvj3icFDPoWdUw1Q4vQDibM2yNvqcKZLDax5hXjzD-4DgilD8iBYFn0RuPgArAdRGBLWasH-pRPCU4Sk9fvhfKqOw_YNGYmNU09UfSInQiddjCb7r2VNPyFFE2CltM8XwebKBHJ8CDy7unVdhu57jDKxsSK6x8AoJ3L3v4w5pM" width="170" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">7th September</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho5rD_Nc--znCQO4SCT_tUJmax7sMkUlcbGR3itrzc46yKVrAOKwnzajDDQLkRSJUT0d-r84TX6ROguA6uvLuAbM4LMmaz0yuDcB6cpU-Ov3Z8nvvjeXUViN2tvlPOYirfsS4IS8VtgdwH6jPVv-ZctcWsB_bJuB3cth-OObOH4BD1PNv1EA_Q-RAphHTj" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="510" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEho5rD_Nc--znCQO4SCT_tUJmax7sMkUlcbGR3itrzc46yKVrAOKwnzajDDQLkRSJUT0d-r84TX6ROguA6uvLuAbM4LMmaz0yuDcB6cpU-Ov3Z8nvvjeXUViN2tvlPOYirfsS4IS8VtgdwH6jPVv-ZctcWsB_bJuB3cth-OObOH4BD1PNv1EA_Q-RAphHTj" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><br />The four who were arrested on 4th September were released on bail. </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <span style="color: #800180;">8th September</span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Lissu defied the OCD's order and arrived to hold a rally in Ololosokwan and then another one in Wasso. The reception was overwhelming, particularly in Ololosokwan. </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;">9th September</span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Tundu Lissu was to visit Mokilal, Endulen and Alailelai, but was stopped near Lodoare gate. Then blocked the Karatu road, was teargassed and Ng'atait ole Babu was arrested. Big gathering of waiting Maasai protested. <br /><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;">10th September</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;">Lissu and large part of the Chadema leadership were arrested in Karatu.<br /><br />Heavy police presence with FFU in Endulen. Glory Julius and Noonguta Peshut were arrested.<br /><br />The Ngorongoro councillors again rejected the German funded and facilitated draft district land use plan to legitimize the massive land theft in Loliondo. This time the Swahili version.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">In the evening those arrested were released on bail.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">11th September</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">A terrible picture was shared by the accounts of the DC and the district council, saying that Ololosokwan village council members, community development experts and conservationists from NCAA and the district council had done training on development projects and conservation benefitting from "Pololeti Game Reserve". The councillor Moloimet Saing'eu is in the picture. Some say that the village council members deny having agreed to anything at all. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">The same day information reached me that Moloimet and the Ololosokwan sub-village chairman, Cosmas Olderika Leitura were again working to impose the fake and forced land use plan on the village and to force Salangat Mako away from his farm. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>12th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">People summoned to Karatu police station just get a new sate in an obvious effort to make them lose time and money.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #800180;">Today police and rangers were seen approaching the Maasai elderly women asking them to bless them after the curse they were given on 10th September (beating them with irkilani), the highest level of curse, which can't be taken away by any means when given out. They got this curse when beating and insulting the women. The results are supposed to be: turning crazy or dying a natural death.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #800180;">14th September</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Esupat
Moses, born and bred in Endulen, was on arrested and
locked up for 9 hours, accused of not being a resident of Ngorongoro.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">New blog post: https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/09/manhunt-in-endulen-abducted-mp-tundu.html </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-55177148161404897622023-07-31T23:45:00.017+02:002023-08-18T23:21:39.035+02:00Continued Violence and Mostly Silence in Loliondo and NCA, with Some Voices Raised on the Anniversary of the Brutal and Lawless Land Grabbing Attack on Loliondo<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Good news has not been as
plentiful as I hoped when Maasai representatives (the wonderful Noorkishili
Nakero Naing’isa from Ololosokwan, Nengai Kilusu Laizer from Oloirobi, and advocate
Joseph Oleshangai from Endulen) spoke truth to power in the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tanzanian-governments-brutal-land.html" target="_blank">EU parliament on 31</a></span><sup><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tanzanian-governments-brutal-land.html" target="_blank">st</a></sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tanzanian-governments-brutal-land.html" target="_blank">
May</a> and the councillors rejected the draft district land use plan for crime
legitimation. Though on the anniversary of the military attack on Loliondo,
several people spoke to media and the seizing of livestock seems to have
stopped for a while (and then resumed …), at least in Ololosokwan, even if the stolen
land, which is the biggest part of grazing land in Loliondo can only be
accessed by its legitimate owners as thieves at night. The Germans are digging
in their heels in their defence of their funding and facilitating of crime
legitimation and in Joseph Parsambei the Loliondo land rights struggle has got
its worst traitor </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">ever</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For several weeks now Tanzanian
online discussions have been totally consumed with a Tanzania-Dubai Inter-Governmental
Agreement that has recently been ratified by parliament. The bone of contention
in the heated discussions is a deal with the Dubai state-owned company DP World
to control Dar es Salaam port, other mainland ports, inland container depots
ports, and related logistical corridor. The contract is indefinite, or
unspecified, and Tanzania shall not, without prior consent of DP World,
undertake any development project upon any of the said ports. Critics of this
deal are being threatened, harassed and arrested, and everyone is talking about
it. There is a connection to Loliondo, but sadly it seems like it has been
reduced to saying that Loliondo was sold to Dubai, as if we were again in 1992.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that in February a
person who by Ikulu, State House, was referred to as "member of the Dubai
royal family" Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum got a VIP treatment and a
MoU from President Samia, VP Mpango and Minister Chana. Chris Lang of
REDD-Monitor has <a href="https://reddmonitor.substack.com/p/blue-carbon-llc-a-united-arab-emirate?fbclid=IwAR2w61Va7VJWoueQPIeJmoxOstmW3FzJEX-IVMIa0KVoFbrbx41KDYq6G0M" target="_blank">written </a>about the sheikh’s dubious company that aims to
greenwash the UAE’s massive carbon footprint. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It still feels like a nightmare
that the brutally and illegally demarcated “game reserve”, which the “investor”
OBC for years was lobbying for, does not go away and nobody is punished for abducting
all councillors from affected wards the night before the brutal and lawless
demarcation started and keeping them locked up for over five months, planting beacons
in a rain of teargas and bullets, with beatings, slashings, cuttings, rapes and
arrests. Thousands having to flee to Kenya, hundreds arrested and over sixty charged
with bogus immigration cases that were dismissed – without any attempt at
prosecution - months later, and nobody is held answerable. Destroyed houses,
stolen motorcycles and smartphones, seized and even shot livestock and nobody
is dealt with. Instead, it is celebrated in parliament.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Many people are terrifyingly deep in
debt after being illegally fined when their cattle have been seized on the
stolen land for over a year now. Oriais Oleng'iyo – 84-years old at the time - who
was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022, with bullet wounds and held by
security forces, has still not been brought back to his family, and the
enforced disappearance case filed by his son was, as mentioned in last blog
post, dismissed by the judge. There are several ongoing court cases, so many
that it’s hard for me to keep up, but I’m not getting much detail about them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ngorongoro Conservation
Area (Ngorongoro division of Ngorongoro district), that is still mixed up with
Loliondo by too many people, suffocating restrictions and denial of social services
is still the government’s strategy to “convince” the Maasai to relocate to
other people’s land 600 kilometres away in Msomera, Handeni. Though both the
Msomera villagers and the Ngorongoro migrants are increasingly speaking up
about the unsuitability of this relocation. Dehumanizing ranger violence
continues and is sometimes reported. In July, the rangers smashed the teeth of the
child Joshua Olepatorro. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Today, 31</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> July,
protestors at Nasipooriong primary school in Endulen demanded permits to
renovate the school even at their own cost.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also areas next to Lake Natron
are under threat, as many times before, and sometimes I’ve written about it,
but now I feel a terrible unease about not keeping up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This blog post is unacceptably
delayed because of too much and too little information, my lack of focus, and
sadness over the silence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog
post:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Stolen grazing land and
criminal rangers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Violence in Ngorongoro
Conservation Area (NOT to be mixed up with Loliondo)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The rejected, German
facilitated, fake, and forced land use planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For a brief reminder of what
the Germans do,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The maliciously misleading and
rejected NDLUFP document, including another Lake Natron threat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anniversary of the biggest
crime and various people speaking up on the record<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A most disgusting budget
speech by Mchengerwa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Amnesty report<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court cases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As always, updates will be
added at the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7lD4O_PWJsHZgrRC4zpq-8OG5sZTxVpVJbIdk947MmpGanFlkAPbvVZddX6q1t1hIXd7HqiIh29tR91cXjAkRFBZhnc99CB395GhqfLrXliEJWJUPe5Q3uWtiM7B5VdQaBL0CTdg9GPnH3V8T5PlPaN6PNV_MJ6OLnIKfjXRR16a03GtJxlqCCrli-ih4" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="599" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7lD4O_PWJsHZgrRC4zpq-8OG5sZTxVpVJbIdk947MmpGanFlkAPbvVZddX6q1t1hIXd7HqiIh29tR91cXjAkRFBZhnc99CB395GhqfLrXliEJWJUPe5Q3uWtiM7B5VdQaBL0CTdg9GPnH3V8T5PlPaN6PNV_MJ6OLnIKfjXRR16a03GtJxlqCCrli-ih4" width="166" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This rubbish has been rejected.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk141547869"><b><span></span></b></a></p><a name='more'></a><a name="_Hlk141547869"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk141547869"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Stolen
grazing land and criminal rangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The loss of livestock and impoverishment
has been steep in Loliondo after most of the grazing land, and particularly dry
season grazing land, was stolen by the government right before the bad dry
season of 2022, expecting the Maasai to just squeeze into remaining areas where
there’re two towns with district headquarters, agricultural areas, forest
reserves, and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris’ ugly land grab</a>. Many people, I don’t think it’s
known exactly how many, have got into terrible debt since first TAWA rangers
and then those from NCAA (after the illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve” was placed
under their management) have been fining livestock owners a demented 100,000 TShs
per head of cattle and 25,000 per sheep or goat for grazing on their own land.
Since June it has become very difficult to get any details at all about what’s
going on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It seemed like Serengeti
National Park rangers from Bologonja had stopped their nasty and illegal habit (detailed
in previous blog posts) of seizing livestock in Ololosokwan and taking the
owners to court in Mugumu. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apparently, the case against
six people from Ololosokwan is still ongoing: Turanda Kedoki, Sanaet Ngirashai,
Odinga Tome, Repes Lukeine, Moseka Ndoinyo, and Ndaskoi Siololo, about an
arrow shot at a criminal ranger of those who were seizing cattle on village
land in the evening of 5<sup>th</sup> May, but information is not being shared,
and for some reason, those charged are even refusing legal representation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several people from
Ololosokwan had said that rangers were no longer seizing cattle, since they
stopped patrolling at night when herders are accessing the illegal game reserve,
like thieves on their own land and with significantly increased risk of problems
with large predators, the owners of the night. Some say that the reason for
this stop was rangers’ fear of the unknown hero with the arrow from 5<sup>th</sup>
May. That was only one arrow and a light injury. Just let thousands more rain over
the criminal rangers … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">However, sadly, the night between
26<sup>th</sup> and 27<sup>th</sup> July cattle, belonging to Moniko, Kairrung,
Olepanga and Olereiya were again illegally seized near OBC’s camp in Kirtalo
but taken to Lobo in Serengeti National Park. The rangers were a mix of NCAA
rangers, Serengeti rangers and maybe other security forces. The same night
cattle were seized in Ololosokwan but released after the owners paid the insane
fines of 100,000 TShs per cow. On the 28<sup>th</sup> I was told that the
cattle owners had gone to Lobo, there was again total silence, but apparently
the cows were released after the owner paid the 100,000 per head of
cattle “fines”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Earlier (since the latest blog
post) I had only heard that on 3<sup>rd</sup> June, 87 cattle belonging to
Kerika Tiiye were seized in the Orng'oswa area of Malambo. The cows had strayed
to their former home, from where they were evicted. Since then, there has only
been silence from Malambo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> June, there
were reports from Kirtalo about seized cattle belonging to Loita Maasai, but details
were impossible to come by.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another most disturbing development
is that a gate for the fake and illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve” is being built
in the Oloosek area of Ololosokwan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk141547890"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Violence
in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NOT to be mixed up with Loliondo)<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> July, the young
boy (first reported as 15-year-old, but other ages have been mentioned and he
looks younger) Joshua Olepatorro from Nainokanoka was attacked by NCAA rangers
when returning from having grazed cows in Oltomi crater. The rangers beat Joshua
with the butts of their guns, so that three of his upper front teeth were smashed
out, and then they left him there in the bush. Unlike other cases of violent
assault and torture by rangers at Olmoti, this case has received some limited
media attention. The rangers are saying that Joshua was running and fell by
himself, smashing his teeth on a stone, while they were removing a big herd of
cattle from Olmoti crater. They say that proof of this is that villagers did
not report to the police, but instead shared images online. The officer sharing
this message claims to having held a meeting with village leaders that wanted
access to grazing in Olmoti crater and forest. Grazing in Olmoti is in no way
against the law. Nainokanoka councillor Edward Maura, the village chairman and several
other leaders have spoken to the press, and so has Joshua’s <a href="https://youtu.be/BignHlTdas8" target="_blank">mother</a>. The brutal assault
has been reported to the police (NGO/RB/125/2023), but nobody has been
arrested. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in an earlier post,
in Olmoti crater, on 22<sup>nd</sup> January this year, the NCAA rangers known
as Alais, Baby and Simony, and others that could not be seen (it was
night-time, and they were shooting bullets) assaulted several young herders,
including Daudi Sayanga, Oloturiaki Pello, and others. The rangers broke the
pots the youths were cooking in, burned their food and their clothes, and then
the youths had to sleep in the wild.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In mid-June there were bad
cases of beatings by rangers in Ndutu in which one victim was locked up in
prison, but it was quieted down after out of court arrangements. Though ranger
violence in NCA isn’t new but has been going on for decades. In September 2021
protests, fuelled by two cases of assault and torture by rangers against in
total nine herders in Endulen, were gathering strength when the death of MP
Olenasha cut them short. Those rangers were arrested, but never taken to court.
Legal action has never been taken against any ranger. In September 2022 Letee
Ormunderei’s leg was broken by rangers that assaulted him and three others.
This case was widely reported in social media and there was fundraising for his
surgery. A case that I’d missed was Kiti Lengeju from Alaitole, who has not
received any medical treatment after being deliberately knocked down by a
vehicle on 1<sup>st</sup> November 2022. His leg was broken as a result.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Investigations, by local researchers,
into terrible violent abuse, including rape, by rangers in collusion with
owners of so-called cultural bomas in Endulen and Olbalbal, against women who
independently sell cultural ornaments in the Golini area have been stopped. Apparently,
leaders decided that silence was preferable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then we have the ever-ongoing
violence against Ngorongoro Maasai, inherent in the restrictions against any
kind of cultivation in NCA and they are not allowed to build permanent houses
and suffer all kinds of harassment by NCA rangers that want to restrict
motorbikes, building materials, or demanding permits for just anything,
including demanding ID for the Maasai to pass Loduare gate. This has worsened considerably
since 2021 when permits for already funded social services are being denied. Samia
Suluhu Hassan basically started her presidency by inciting against the Maasai
in April 2021, shortly followed by widespread demolition orders that were withdrawn
after protests. In September the same year, NCAA Chief Conservator Freddy Manongi,
with Deputy Minister Mary Masanja in a <a href="https://youtu.be/OQIhJCNDEWA" target="_blank">video clip</a> that’s still online, said there
was a war between pastoralists and conservationists and that the latter needed
to start cooking conspiracies, like he claimed that the former were doing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that after the
evictions from Ngorongoro Crater in 1975 and the re-introduction – following
“grave concerns” by UNESCO - of a total cultivation ban in 2009 (lifted in 1992
after first being introduced in 1975), there was a very big blow against the
Ngorongoro Maasai in 2017 when PM Kassim Majaliwa, through order and <b>not</b>
law removed access for the Maasai to the three craters Ngorongoro, Olmoti, and
Empakaai, which has led the loss of 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka,
Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock
in these wards. Replacement salt provided by NCAA has in laboratories shown to
be adulterated and has reportedly led to widespread cattle death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Further, as mentioned in earlier
blog posts, Endulen hospital has been downgraded with the aim of closing it
down completely. Before that, Ngorongoro headteachers were, by former DED
Mhina, instructed to transfer funds already in school accounts to Handeni
district. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In January 2022, plans for
fast-tracked “voluntary” relocations to Handeni and Kitwai “Game Controlled
Areas” (this always means village land) were revealed. Ethnic hatred and defamation
against the Maasai reached insane levels in the press and in a whole
parliamentary debate on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=549692425992173" target="_blank">9<sup>th</sup> February 2022</a>. The journalists most dedicated
to the hate campaign were/are Habib Mchange, Maulid Kitenge, Deodatus Balile,
and OBC’s own Manyerere Jackton. These went on to form their own “environmental
organization” MECIRA. Ngorongoro Maasai were organizing protests and prayer
meeting. Then the neighbouring Loliondo Maasai were evicted from most of their
grazing land via a brutal military operation, which increased the fear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A small percentage of inauthentic,
compromised or naïve among the Ngorongoro Maasai relocated to Msomera village
in Handeni, which received enormous media coverage. Eventually, around January
2023, the Msomera (a registered village with its land use plan) villagers
became organized and started speaking up about being informed at gunpoint and
displaced to give room to the Ngorongoro migrants. The government is resorting
to the usual lie that Msomera would have been a “protected area”. The
Ngorongoro migrants, including the government’s poster boy, former MP<a href="https://youtu.be/FFURH2vnPsI" target="_blank"> Kaika Saning’oTelele</a> are increasingly complaining about Msomera’s unsuitability for
pastoralism and unfulfilled promises. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8th July, there was a
Ngorongoro division community meeting held at Endulen ward. The main agenda was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. Feedback from MP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Resuming all socio-economic
development project with budget allocated but without building permit from NCA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. Resuming prayers and
protest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">4. Taking action over
restricted pasture areas like Ormoti, Empakaai and Ndutu.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">5. Building toilets in the
schools where the pupils are defecating in the bushes. (Permits are being
denied for the construction of school toilets and everything else.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2h-Sa58Tb8sFIIEj6cC9RLGCDqQYpJUhfKj7YlW4JP_TRfp0id191W-IQwFFp46cH5lAr5QEOPmZ7nDNdGLUh19J-51BuX4emAJMra_8Urx1smwgmL8dJNY6BY0eTCz0o0xs4vfwr5oOZ5Y2BVOHas3bflGp_54NImC85ZQUg7KaGuWYbvivipiwWQ770" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1020" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2h-Sa58Tb8sFIIEj6cC9RLGCDqQYpJUhfKj7YlW4JP_TRfp0id191W-IQwFFp46cH5lAr5QEOPmZ7nDNdGLUh19J-51BuX4emAJMra_8Urx1smwgmL8dJNY6BY0eTCz0o0xs4vfwr5oOZ5Y2BVOHas3bflGp_54NImC85ZQUg7KaGuWYbvivipiwWQ770" width="319" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> July there are
protests at Ndian Primary School in Nasipooriong', Endulen. The protestors are
demanding permits to renovate, at their own cost, the school that has multiple cracks in the walls from class 2-6,. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Update 1st August: The headteacher has received threats and the Nasipooriong' village chairman and the leader of the Nyangulo age set have been called to report at Endulen police station.<br />See updates at the end of the blog post!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk141547923"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
rejected, German facilitated, fake, and forced land use planning<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Regarding the draft Ngorongoro
District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043, since last, now old, blog post I
have got hold of the actual document. It makes me angry that sharing something
that basic is so difficult for some people, but such anger is not what this
blog is supposed to deal with. Already on 1<sup>st</sup> June, the German Embassy
made a post in social media showing that they were digging their heels in defending
their indefensible facilitation of the crime legitimation. Later there was a
rumour that FZS would have done “something”, sacrificing a scapegoat of the
nastier sort, but this was never confirmed in any way and is looking
increasingly unlikely. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It may seem extreme that the Germans
so shamelessly support this crime legitimation, but it’s totally in line with
what they’ve been doing in Tanzania for decades and their partners are always
FZS (this organization is one and the same as “the Germans”) TANAPA and other parts
of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, against people living next to
protected areas, or have had their land turned into a protected area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This crime legitimation called
<a name="_Hlk139843880">Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043 </a>was
initiated by team of 40 state security and surveyors that in late
October/November 2022 were sent to re-survey the villages in Loliondo and Sale
using illegitimate or compromised village leaders, while the DC talked about
Wildlife Management Areas! This was done in a very threatening way, and signs
were put up, at least in Ololosokwan, setting aside zones - outside the stolen
land – for exclusive grazing and tourism use. After the legitimate village
chairman has returned from exile on Kenya, most of those signs have been thrown
away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> February
and 30<sup>th</sup> March meetings were held at Ngorongoro District Council
Hall in Wasso to legitimize the brutal theft of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> and
the fake and forced land use planning. The legitimation efforts were led by DC
Raymond Mwangwala, district officials, principally Ngorongoro Land officer and
chairman of the land planning committee, Kelvin Aligaweza, the National Land
Use Commission, and Frankfurt Zoological Society, with its partners TANAPA and
the German Development Bank, KfW. The councillors of wards affected by the
so-called “Pololeti Game Reserve” did not attend the meetings, and on 30<sup>th</sup>
March the DC publicly threatened them for, as members of the ruling party,
obstructing the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx5mvsGj2nSujZrwUSDd0wyKgJ0jXuaz2MKpzxiN3vTsTPYeNL_A62WsVLMxcvmwVwjnIGFAQ_JXNzKNn5BBw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> May, all Ngorongoro
councillors who were present - those from NCA who had relocated to Msomera (Kakesio
and Eyasi councillors) were not - in unison rejected the draft <a name="_Hlk141485478">Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043 </a>and
issued a statement detailing the reason. In short:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-It was brought by the central
government together with conservation organizations like NCAA, FZS and KfW (the
German development bank) to legitimize the alienation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-It isn’t in the interest of
Ngorongoro residents, since its aim is to legitimize the theft of 70% of their
land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Passing the plan is to
legitimize the end of life in Ngorongoro via the loss of housing, cultivation
and grazing areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-It’s contempt of court, since
there are four cases in the High Court and three in the East African Court of
Justice, concerning the land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-It violates several laws,
since it didn’t involve the village assemblies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While these days the worst
could be feared, it was quite expected for the Maasai councillors (the majority)
to reject the genocidal draft district land use plan, anything else would have
been the deepest treason, but I don’t know why some usually non-supportive
non-pastoralist councillors joined them, and even the hostile district chairman
who’s employed as OBC’s community liaison since many years, and who has written
(or at least put his name to) a foreword to the rejected draft district land
use plan. Though the chairman needs legitimacy after being elected while ten
councillors were illegally locked up in remand prison. However, this chairman,
Mohammed “Marekani” Bayo quickly lost any momentary credibility when he lied to
the press that the plan had been rejected because it was written in English! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in earlier posts,
the two local Maasai used by the government at the crime legitimation meetings
were the always questionable Soitsambu village chairman, Marko Lorru, whose nasty
defence of OBC and Thomson Safaris in social media in recent years, but before 2022,
had already been revealing to me, and Joseph Parsambei of the NGO TPCF, who I
years ago thought of as somewhat serious, but about whom I in more recent years
have kept getting more worrying reports. By letting themselves be used in the propaganda
for the fake and forced land use planning to legitimatize the worst crime in
the history of Loliondo, these two have surpassed every boundary of the deepest
treason.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 1<sup>st</sup> June, the
day after the magic intervention by Maasai representatives at a public event at
the EU parliament, the German Embassy tweeted, <i>“Yesterday we continued our
open and fruitful #discussions with #HumanRights experts on Massai culture and
living conditions in Loliondo and Ngorongoro.” </i>The photo showed that their human
rights expert was none other than the traitor Parsambei! The following tweet,
showing Parsambei presenting a Power Point said, <i>“Together with @EUinTZ and member
states we discussed the importance of social infrastructure and how WMAs and
Maasai can better benefit from tourism. Conservation shall never outplay human
rights.”</i> Do they still, after the massive, brutal and illegal alienation of
grazing land which they are working hard to legitimize, want to impose WMAs? The
malicious cluelessness of these people has no boundaries, and they are getting
away far, far too lightly …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> July Parsambei
took his stinking treason some steps or leaps further, holding a talk, together
with district land officer Kelvin Aligaweza about "certificates of customary
rights of occupancy" (CCRO) for some elders, some Maasai and some Batemi
(Sonjo) who aren’t affected by the massive land alienation other than as
knock-on effects - and sending <a href="https://youtu.be/hNY5d1YcW3Y" target="_blank">a clip</a> all over media to show that there isn't
any conflict in Loliondo and people want to work with the government on land
use planning, which was exactly how it was presented. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-CCROs are a silly concept.
Why would a government that doesn’t respect its own laws or basic human rights,
respect an abbreviation made up by NGOs?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-When talking about such
things while over 70% of the grazing land has been brutally and lawlessly
stolen the stupidity gets truly malicious undertones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-And when such talks are
presented as that there isn’t any conflict and the Maasai want to work with the
government on land use planning, it all reaches the most stinking levels of
treason.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sometimes there a slight
tendency among some human rights activists to find excuses for the Germans and
this is based on what they promise in private meetings. Though if keeping to
what they say publicly and what they actually do, nobody can argue for anything
other than having them chased out of the Serengeti ecosystem. Around 19<sup>th</sup>
June I heard a rumour that FZS would have fired Masegeri Tumbuya Rurai, their
most <b>visible</b> representative during the fake and forced land use planning
to legitimate massive crime. Though I have been totally unable to confirm this information.
Some have mentioned that Masegeri hangs on and some have mentioned that his
sacking could just have been something deputy district council chairman
Emmanuel Tonge said to sound nice (which he needed). Anyway, scapegoating Masegeri
would be unfair since he’s one and the same as FZS and was so even before being
employed by the Germans a decade ago. This individual was District Natural
Resources Officer during the mass arson in 2009. In social media in 2012,
before blocking me, he described the 2009 operation as a consequence of the
Maasai rejecting a WMA, which the government and FZS wanted to impose on them.
Before that he had been giving me somewhat sincere information about how to
visit Loliondo safely (to be accompanied by someone from the district council
and prevented from getting to know anything at all). In 2013 Tumbuya Rurai was
described as the most dangerous person in the district who spent 70 % of his
time working for OBC as their official informer and contact person, who had
allegedly been rewarded with a Nissan Xtrail from their director Mollel.
Tumbuya Rurai was reportedly very helpful preparing the map for the OBC-funded,
rejected in 2011, Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2010-2030.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk141547972"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For
a brief reminder of what the Germans do, <o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2017, then Minister
for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe and Serengeti chief park
warden William Mwakilema (current head of Tanzania National Parks Authority,
TANAPA) told a parliamentary committee (and very much the press) that German
funds would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
into a protected area. In Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the
German money. These conditions for releasing funds were not denied by the
Germans until two years later by representatives of the development bank in an
<a href="https://medium.com/conservationwatch/kfw-comments-on-its-support-to-the-serengeti-ecosystem-development-and-conservation-project-4c67b01b51bd" target="_blank">interview with Chris Lang</a>, and we didn’t know who was telling the truth, but
maybe by now we have more of an idea. While Loliondo was attacked by mass arson
implemented by Serengeti rangers – FZS’s partners - in August 2017, a most
revolting picture was published of ambassador Hess’s predecessor Detlef
Wächter. The picture showed Wächter smilingly handing over buildings for park
staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti National Park, to an equally smiling Minister
Maghembe, while <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/-german-hands-over-buildings-for-serengeti-eco-system-2601252" target="_blank">commenting </a>on the long and successful partnership between
Germany and Tanzania in protecting the Serengeti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsaCaoATqIet_o55opphZ-PL7x9ekb5hnm7CTu-POLuxXPZX4avFUzICa7uPJCCXqGco1OtV3L5HnaOjJ_syg_1JunqyydfTFVp4YfjgA_SzPEG9zyGylXEWmvDRqNQ4PKaSMgwRP5gKrfU5upeesPY1nN0FHEFXtOGAPBdskp2xgG-4IlDp9Ovkk3_QrG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsaCaoATqIet_o55opphZ-PL7x9ekb5hnm7CTu-POLuxXPZX4avFUzICa7uPJCCXqGco1OtV3L5HnaOjJ_syg_1JunqyydfTFVp4YfjgA_SzPEG9zyGylXEWmvDRqNQ4PKaSMgwRP5gKrfU5upeesPY1nN0FHEFXtOGAPBdskp2xgG-4IlDp9Ovkk3_QrG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">March 2017 protest against both Germans and OBC.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the 2017 illegal mass
arson operation, the then Ngorongoro MP and the District Council Chairman said
that there wasn't any risk at all with accepting German funds, since they were
meant for the whole of Loliondo and Sale, not excluding the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>. However there haven’t been any projects at
all in the now brutally and illegally demarcated area, while water projects
outside it have been heavily used in government rhetoric for land alienation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reporting from a meeting with
diplomats on 25<sup>th</sup> March 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism wrote that the German ambassador Regine Hess, supported the
government’s “efforts” in Ngorongoro. In closed meetings with human rights
defenders, the ambassador’s message was “that’s not what I said”, but publicly
she never denied it in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2022, FZS, that never
has said anything about violence for conservation in the Serengeti ecosystem,
seriously rattled by Survival International, expressed “shock” about the
violence in Loliondo and distanced itself from any involvement in the land
demarcation, but still claiming that the land status would be “uncertain”. However,
in an interview in a hunters’ newsletter African Indaba back in June 2013 the
late Markus Borner, FZS’s then recently retired long-term head of Africa
programme and resident of Serengeti NP had declared his support for then Minister
Kagasheki’s vociferous threats and lies about the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> saying,
“the present proposal seems a good way forward”. Besides showing a surprising ignorance
about almost all basic facts, Borner said that the Maasai should have accepted
a WMA, and that FZS after the land alienation would act as “mediator between
communities and the central government”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> July 2022, Ambassador
Hess met with Arusha RC John Mongella, one of the main implementors of the
massive crime in Loliondo, and talked about the “cooperation” between the two
countries, and the Germans kept showering the brutal and lawless Tanzanian
government with money, in August 2022, Bärbel Kofler, German Deputy Minister of
Economic Cooperation and Development visited Tanzania for more of the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk27Ieo26I35Dtu0sU9LCtPI0-P5P9Jr-sDeASzMa3elg6AL4lczw4P0vSuzNdWjlPCMRYYrTChbprX9tABPdhMkI7UnD2Ur5hM5jBGBkP8apsTCXJAy2VU7PUFZlL33xTNWk_KPolmWlyfR-KIOXIDItAWM2PDsNMAQ1l-DjWlP7Af4QUkwauRuhPfpKA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="664" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk27Ieo26I35Dtu0sU9LCtPI0-P5P9Jr-sDeASzMa3elg6AL4lczw4P0vSuzNdWjlPCMRYYrTChbprX9tABPdhMkI7UnD2Ur5hM5jBGBkP8apsTCXJAy2VU7PUFZlL33xTNWk_KPolmWlyfR-KIOXIDItAWM2PDsNMAQ1l-DjWlP7Af4QUkwauRuhPfpKA" width="202" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> December
2022, in a ceremony with the worst perpetrators of the crimes in Loliondo, PM
Kassim Majaliwa and then Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi
Chana, Ambassador Regine Hess handed over 51 vehicles that – as
reported by the embassy – “<i>are part of the 20 million euros (approx. 49.4
billion shillings) committed funds by Germany for emergency funding and
recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID-19 facilitated by the German
development bank, KfW and Frankfurt Zoological Society, FZS”.</i> The vehicles
were to be distributed into Serengeti and Nyerere National Parks and Selous
Game Reserve and would have a great impact on supporting “operations”. In the
ceremony Majaliwa mentioned poachers and “<a href="https://youtu.be/4CDeucfYMFk" target="_blank">encroaching livestock</a>” as the
objectives of those “operations”. The following day, in a creepily gleeful way,
the German Embassy tweeted that during the vehicle handover ceremony Chana
announced that one rhino calf had been named Majaliwa after the PM and a second
female calf Regine after Ambassador Hess, <i>“in appreciation of their efforts
in supporting conservation in Tanzania”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as mentioned, the Germans
have shamelessly facilitated the very threatening crime legitimation that’s known
as the draft Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043, which was
rejected by all Ngorongoro councillors in May. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The maliciously
misleading NDLUFP document, including another Lake Natron threat<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The rejected draft Ngorongoro
District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043 document, which was inexplicably
hard to get hold of, describes the in 2011 rejected Ngorongoro District Land
Use Framework Plan 2010-2030 as <i>“neither approved nor implemented”</i> –
without telling why it was rejected. (It was because it proposed the massive
land alienation for a protected area which was brutally and lawlessly committed
in 2022, in case anyone missed it).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve”
is presented as a done deal. Only in one place is it mentioned as something
that came about as recently as 2022, but not one word about that it was done
through a brutal and lawless military operation for demarcation and eviction, <b>followed</b>
by illegal gazettement by government notice first by Minister Chana and then
President Samia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The draft only covers the wards
in Loliondo and Sale affected by fake and forced surveying in October-November
2022, leaving out the whole of Ngorongoro division (NCA) and the wards of
Engaresero (or Ngaresero), Pinyinyi and Oldonyosambu in Sale division. Still,
some villages in the wards left out appear in the text, apparently due to copy
and paste from elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s an extremely malicious
pretence that only the areas affected by the fake and forced 2022 surveying,
but excluding the huge areas alienated for the illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve”,
are governed by the Village Land Act. This is denying the existence of villages
that have been registered, with their land use plans, for decades. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Pololeti Game Reserve”,
Ngorongoro Conservation Area and some “Lake Natron Game Controlled Area” are
described as reserved areas with 500-metre buffer zones in which no human
activities, except “conservation”, are permitted. In one place is it mentioned that
even when they are reserved areas, are there human livelihood activities in NCA
and Lake Natron GCA. It does of course not detail how human activities (except
as thieves on their own land) were stopped in the illegal “Pololeti Game
Reserve”. Nowhere is it mentioned that NCA is a multiple land use area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The document does not show the
wards of Engaresero, Pinyinyi and Oldonyosambu in its maps. Instead, they are
divided into an “unsurveyed” area and a larger area called “Lake Natron GCA”,
in the same green colour as the illegal “Pololeti GR” and described as a
reserved area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The only Lake Natron GCA that
exists covers the whole of Sale division, except for Piyaya and Malambo that
are in Loliondo GCA, and extends into most of the neighbouring vast Longido district
(there’s also a smaller Longido GCA). This is the old Lake Natron GCA that totally
overlaps with village land, not a protected area, but there are several hunting
blocks that operators aggressively compete for. There have through the years
been threats of a protected Lake Natron area. Some 15 years ago there were
talks of an annexation to NCA, which was repeated in the 2019 genocidal MLUM review
proposal for NCA, and in June 2020 there were vociferous threats of a game reserve,
which were met by protests. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgU6RtGOBdW61HV5eYNQZiEZ7cURdhiwfW6Nvp5pAqod6Dh11bQh0tYpcJMJBfVwnp2BrD4zvP67PnqGTjQH-VmjclVReH4KndZomNBwHb8fCDiJRaJdtAHKUjy14XMNtZgcNoXLUMx3GgHkoMj_UDBB_Iebef0wb-Kuq8TgR6rv9ayc3vHxvKQsyPakLdg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="717" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgU6RtGOBdW61HV5eYNQZiEZ7cURdhiwfW6Nvp5pAqod6Dh11bQh0tYpcJMJBfVwnp2BrD4zvP67PnqGTjQH-VmjclVReH4KndZomNBwHb8fCDiJRaJdtAHKUjy14XMNtZgcNoXLUMx3GgHkoMj_UDBB_Iebef0wb-Kuq8TgR6rv9ayc3vHxvKQsyPakLdg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Existing GCAs that are village land, not protected areas. 27/28 are Loliondo GCA and 29 is Lake Natron GCA.</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAKMAQwxCHu3opYsuplAN1lXrCoHRupznsznzsnLAkJiJhsBEwvi_Cjvd8udA4hEHUN3nHfGVI-Wj7YcZ9oc09TPs8fGbeE4IIV0s05AAAX7YToJY9-nZ_PfPCGwl3EMOLiqNCcrNCJ28lX91lqWnhykgKcZHNCTSyB2X2DRmNhTItqBeiBsYaDeZWDJ0n" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="556" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAKMAQwxCHu3opYsuplAN1lXrCoHRupznsznzsnLAkJiJhsBEwvi_Cjvd8udA4hEHUN3nHfGVI-Wj7YcZ9oc09TPs8fGbeE4IIV0s05AAAX7YToJY9-nZ_PfPCGwl3EMOLiqNCcrNCJ28lX91lqWnhykgKcZHNCTSyB2X2DRmNhTItqBeiBsYaDeZWDJ0n" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The disgusting attempt at legitimation of the massive Loliondo land theft and of committing the same crime at Lake Natron, Ngorongoro side. There are also criminal plans for the Longido side. Unclear what the green colour on NCA means.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During the budget presentation
in parliament, the horrible Deputy Minister Mary Masanja, made a most confusing
and threatening <a href="https://youtu.be/e1KXCUWdWNs" target="_blank">intervention</a> about Lake Natron in response to a question by
Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai who had asked about why the demarcation of
area B, in Malambo, of the illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve” includes areas of
Engaresero, which is something mentioned by several people. Instead, Masanja
lectured the Ngorongoro MP about the geography of Engaresero, lied that Lake
Natron would have become a protected area with Wildlife Conservation Act 2009,
and said that it was one of the areas that the government had decided to “upgrade”,
but that there would be “participatory” talks about excluding Engaresero
village from the protected area. Then I saw some confused comments that it
would be a good thing, and now feel very, very bad about not having intervened.
There’s nothing more dangerous than a minister talking about “reducing” a GCA. This
is how they are bluffing all the time, and it means violence and massive land alienation.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I fear that Masanja could have
been referring to Pindi Chana’s budget speech from 3<sup>rd</sup> June 2022 in
which she besides Loliondo mentioned so many planned protected areas that I
thought, or hoped, that it was just exaggerated empty talk. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6VaQlpjNQnGya0TXsfusM0WKdiQQBX7VOKdsllp87mNo57EqYCIoONQZu4i3ieAg5KKBpSiQdFayKdIxno2Q2I8HQbs_r75GXzntwgD5SGnqWWS4_bif41pgxlUk7QtAT_WmvYH1UP3kywq-y1t_dz9V20YSHwIkKTxRsljckPWinsN62heY4otmEsIK5" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="1208" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6VaQlpjNQnGya0TXsfusM0WKdiQQBX7VOKdsllp87mNo57EqYCIoONQZu4i3ieAg5KKBpSiQdFayKdIxno2Q2I8HQbs_r75GXzntwgD5SGnqWWS4_bif41pgxlUk7QtAT_WmvYH1UP3kywq-y1t_dz9V20YSHwIkKTxRsljckPWinsN62heY4otmEsIK5" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3rd June 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anyway, this draft District
Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043 has been rejected and belongs in the <b>rubbish
bin</b> where it must be joined by the two illegal GNs. As the document also
mentions, it was made with funding support from the German development bank KfW
via Frankfurt Zoological Society which implements the Serengeti Ecosystem Development
and Conservation Program (SEDCP). Don’t let the Germans get away with it! Drive
them out of the Serengeti ecosystem!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anniversary of
the biggest crime and various people speaking up on the record<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> June, the, Civil
and Legal Aid organization, CILAO, led by the always helpful Odero Charles
Odero held a press conference in Arusha, marking one year since the start of
the brutal and illegal demarcation. The statement was based on a fact-finding
mission by human rights defenders, that was made at the end of May 2023 to
Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division (Piyaya and Malambo Wards). They
also visited NCA and Msomera, but the statement was about the so-called “Pololeti
Game Reserve”. This statement called for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. The government should
cancel its June 2022 notice that turned the area belonging to 14 villages into
Pololeti Game Controlled Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. The government should
cancel its notice of October 2022 that turned the Village Land into the
Pololeti Game Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. The Government should
consider the Law and Good Governance in fulfilling its responsibilities to
protect and defend Human Rights as the Constitution states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same day, 10<sup>th</sup>
June, a <a href="https://youtu.be/EpJYsGet3Dc" target="_blank">Zoom </a>press conference was held in Mto Wa Mbu with 40 victims from
Loliondo/Sale and from Ngorongoro division, and ten NGO representatives. Several
of the councillors who were abducted and locked up for almost six months
attended, as did a couple of councillors from Ngorongoro Division. This
conference dealt with both the brutal and illegal demarcation of a “game
reserve” in Loliondo/Sale and of the restrictions and suffocation to make the
Maasai relocate from Ngorongoro division (NCA) to other people’s land 600
kilometres away in Msomera.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oriais Oleng’iyo’s son and his
youngest wife spoke at the press conference in Mto Wa Mbu. The same day that
others lost so much and were injured, their father and husband was taken away
and they have kept searching for him, always in vain. Oriais had six wives and
his family has lost livestock, their houses and belongings. They are very
bitter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Joel Clemence Reson,
councillor of Malambo, spoke of how the councillors were summoned to the DC’s
office on 9<sup>th</sup> June 2022, taken to Chekereni police station in Arusha
(a drive of many hours) at midnight, and held incommunicado there for seven
days, sleeping on cement and buying their own food, since they fortunately had
money in their pockets. Then charged with murder without legal representation
and without being allowed to defend themselves. After many months in remand
prison, they found their people tortured and their cattle confiscated. <b>It
would have been better to stay in prison than seeing the people without land,
cows or peace, </b>the councillor said. Some villagers were unrecognisable.
Parents have had to take their children out of school and even mothers have had
to go to town to search for work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kijoolu Kakiya, special seats
councillor from Piyaya, spoke of being arrested on 9<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
and then shockingly charged with murder, followed by suffering from ill health
in remand prison. She does not understand the government’s motive for treating
CCM leaders as gangsters or terrorists, and to this day it has not been
explained to her who was ”murdered”. As a widow with eight children, she had
192 cows when she was abducted and when the bogus case was finally dismissed
only seven remained. The remaining seven cows were seized, she was fined and is
now in debt and destitute. Kijoolu has no way of making a living and feeding
her children. Kijoolu also spoke up to the press after the Zoom conference in Mto
Wa Mbu, about how restrictions are seriously affecting women and children in
Ngorongoro division (NCA, not Loliondo), who are missing vaccine and die when
not able to reach hospital for childbirth, and she was earlier interviewed by
the fact-finding mission in late May.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Daniel Ngoitiko, councillor of
Soitsambu ward, the only councillor who wasn’t abducted of those from wards
affected by the brutal and illegal demarcation, explained what happened to him.
Soitsambu is the ward in which OBC’s camp is found. Daniel did not attend the party meeting or
the DC’s meeting on 9<sup>th</sup> June 2022, since a child in his family (his
child?) had died. As soon as he heard of the abduction of all the other
councillors, he got on a motorbike and drove straight to Kenya where he stayed
until the fabricated case against his colleagues was dismissed almost six
months later and they were released. When he fled, he had 230 cows and 40
remained when he returned. Of 400 sheep 125 remained. Further, Daniel’s partner
in livestock business had disappeared to DRC with his money. Almost all grazing
land was gone and people in his ward had become poor. He called on all Maasai
to come together, since the suffering is everywhere and not only in Loliondo,
for allies everywhere to think of how to support them in this terrible
struggle, and for God to help, since it seems like too much for earthly beings.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When Daniel was <a href="https://youtu.be/RQATfTtpcZw" target="_blank">interviewed </a>by
the fact-finding mission in late May, he made it clear that sending in security
forces and taking the land by force was against the law and not following
procedures. In his ward where 99% depend on livestock for everything, almost
all grazing land was gone after the illegal operation and only small
residential and farming areas were left. Some 30,000 head of livestock have
been lost in the ward and some people died of hunger in 2022. In case she has
been badly advised, Daniel tells the president that she’s been fed poison about
the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Robert Kamakia, of the NGO
PALISEP, from Orkiu, spoke of levels of poverty and suffering never seen before
and was sure that the government and OBC were celebrating their success. He
said that it’s important to put on record that absolutely no Maasai has agreed
to give away the land and called on everyone to come together to fight for its
return. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The retired teacher, Ephrahim
(or Ephrem) Kaura, from Mairowa, Ololosokwan, again spoke to the fact-finding
mission in late May. On 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022, he was badly beaten by
soldiers using sticks, mostly on his knees, one of them stabbed his right leg
with a bayonet, and he was brought to Kenya unconscious, where he spent many
months getting treatment. Now Eprahim is back home. He says that the grazing
land has been taken and now the night, that’s for dangerous wild animals and
thieves, is used for grazing. He used to be able to do farmwork, herding and to
give advice, but now he’s disabled while his children are still young. While in
Kenya, he said that he still had his mind, but now he says it’s gone too. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lenoi Leitura, member of
Kirtalo village government, when interviewed by the fact-finding mission in
late May spoke of how, because of loss of cattle, women are preparing a wild
herb called mnafu (available after it rained) to eat, without any flour, oil or
salt. She asked the government to return the land if it in any way cares for
the people. During the operation last year, many women from Kirtalo slept in
the bush with their children. Three women who were selling tea were arrested,
including one who had a three-months old child and who was locked up for three
nights. Others were raped and miscarried.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yohana Toroge, Kirtalo village
chairman, spoke about serious poverty after cattle death and asked the
government to allow grazing in the alienated area. He made it clear that it was
village land and that absolutely nobody had in any way participated or agreed
to the protected area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yohana Masiaya, chairman of
the CCM youth wing of Malambo Ward spoke of having been left with very small
and insufficient grazing land after the operation of last year, and that the
inflicted suffering continues to this day with cattle seizures, giving examples
of one old man who had six hundred cows, and had been left with one hundred and
a debt of 20 million shillings that he was forced to get into when fined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Daniel Rago, councillor of
Maaloni, one of those locked up on bogus charges for almost six months, spoke
about cattle that return to the demarcated area when lost, and about an added
500-metre “buffer zone”. Somewhat weakly, he said that we must sit at one table
with the government that defend “conservation” and us who defend livestock, to
create a safe environment for both sides. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kerry Purengey, chairman Sero
sub-village of Ololosokwan, spoke of depending on water from Kenya after the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> area was alienated. Mairowa Chini sub-village chairman Mayorr
Saingeu, said that half of Ololosokwan had been cut and now only remained
residential and cultivation land, with almost no land for grazing. Leitura (first
name?), chairman of Empopong sub-village of Kirtalo, too spoke of the cattle
death and poverty caused by the government taking the land, and asked the same
government to see the affected people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ndirango Laizer, former CCM
chairman of Ngorongoro District, who was one of those locked up for almost six
months charged with a “murder” committed the day after they were detained,
<a href="https://youtu.be/sAPwHP-Ayz4" target="_blank">addressed the press</a> in connection with he Zoom conference in Mto Wa Mbu. He
said that the situation for the Maasai of Loliondo and Ngorongoro is very difficult
indeed. He himself lost 290 cows last year. He made it clear that it’s an
absolute lie that anyone would have agreed to the massive Loliondo land
alienation, or the relocation from NCA, sought by the government via
strangulation of social services, while NCA is earning large sums for national
coffers. They have never sat down at one table with the government, on the
contrary, the PM received their recommendations (on 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022),
but didn’t act. He finds very hurtful the talk about that the Ngorongoro Maasai
would not be Tanzanians. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Traditional leader Metui Oleshaudo,
Edward Maura, councillor for Nainokanoka, and James Moringe, councillor for
Alaitolei are leaders from Ngorongoro division (NCA) who have lately been
speaking up, about Loliondo, about the suffocating restrictions in NCA, about
the Msomera scam, and about the government’s lies. Maura has stressed that it’s
not only the Maasai of Ngorongoro, but pastoralists all over the country who
are being tortured, like those who were evicted from Mkomazi in the 1980s and
are now being chased away from Morogoro. While being a member of the ruling CCM
party, he thinks that a new constitution is acutely needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Later, in a clip published by
<a href="https://youtu.be/p9CfJc7aMrM" target="_blank">Watetezi tv</a> on 27<sup>th</sup> June, from the fact-finding of late May, the
councillor of Arash, Metthew Siloma, also features, speaking about the very
serious loss of livestock in his ward caused by the massive land theft, and of how
impoverished parents must take their children out of school. Arash village
chairman Mepuki Lemberwa added that the rangers are seizing donkeys used to
collect water from wells dug by the villagers themselves. Ololosokwan councillor,
Moloimet Saing’eu, who 2015-2021 was working for OBC and against the people, spoke
of the loss of livestock for lack of grazing, water and capture by rangers, and
of the astronomical fines. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve missed many who have
spoken up, since they are too many, I’ve not been able to identify some of
them, and have not understood what some were saying. Then, voices that are not
being heard at all are, among others, those that were locked up on bogus murder
charges for almost six months, but who aren’t leaders. I’ve only heard from one
of them. They were badly beaten, tortured, both at Loliondo police station and
in Kisongo remand prison. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk141548083"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A
most disgusting budget speech by Mchengerwa<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 2<sup>nd</sup> June
Minister Mohamed Mchengerwa, President Samia's son in law, held the <a href="https://www.parliament.go.tz/uploads/budgetspeeches/1685721618-document%20(11).pdf" target="_blank">2023-2024 budget speech</a> for the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism. Loliondo isn’t mentioned at all by name. Instead, the
speech celebrates having upgraded "Pololeti” (and Kilombero) to Game Reserves.
The brutal and lawless demarcation of the illegal protected area that OBC have
been lobbying for since many years is described as strengthening protection and
sustainable use of natural resources, stimulating conservation and protection
of water sources, and investment in photographic and hunting tourism.
Mchengerwa said that after having placed “Pololeti GR” under the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority, this authority has sent 43 rangers to increase security.
Further, NCAA together with the National Land Use Commission (the Germans aren’t
mentioned) has surveyed 14 villages “bordering” the so-called game reserve, “solved”
land conflicts in seven villages and facilitated land use plans for 36 villages
(the fake and forced exercise that was rejected by all ward councillors) and
built 112.63 kilometres of road that will be used for the security and development
of the “game reserve”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the 2023-2024 budget year,
NCAA will do 38,640 patrol days in the so-called “Pololeti Game Reserve” and
carry out six special operations jointly with other security forces. This is obviously
a violent threat. Further, NCAA will maintain and plant boundary beacons
bordering the “game reserve” and install systems for tracking endangered
animals. NCAA will hold 30 meetings and eight assemblies to “educate” people
about methods of coping with fierce and destructive wildlife. As if there were
any animals more dangerous than the two-legged ones working for the extremely
predatory and destructive government … The NCAA will also plant 460,000 tree
seedlings and provide beekeeping training in 20 villages. Are there really any
villages that haven’t received beekeeping training? It’s a good thing, but it’s
being done everywhere, all the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA will employ 80 people to strengthen
the protection of “Pololeti Game Reserve” and buy vehicles for the authority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The construction of NCAA headquarters
will be completed in the Kemyn area of Karatu district. Regarding <b>Ngorongoro
Conservation Area</b> (not Loliondo where people have already been violently
evicted from the illegally demarcated “game reserve”), NCAA will continue “motivating”
residents of 25 villages to “voluntarily” relocate out of the conservation
area. We already know how that is being done: via restrictions on all normal human
activities and criminal suffocation of social services. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Ngorongoro member of
parliament, Emmanuel Oleshangai, who sometimes has had good interventions, this
time spoke up in what I found to be a not strong enough way. He put the record straight
that the PM’s claims that the demarcation of the game reserve had been “participatory”
was just very incorrect. We all know that. Then he pleaded for the Loliondo
pastoralists that have lost almost all grazing land and whose livestock keep
getting seized. There isn’t a ministry that makes people cry as much as the
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, he said. He asked for whom “conservation”
is being done. Then Shangai mentioned that the “Pololeti” boundary beacons even
enter Engaresero and that livestock have been seized there too, which he had
earlier asked about and which was “misunderstood” by deputy minister Masanja (see
above). He spoke about elephants that destroy crops. He said there was an
imminent threat of further protected areas at Lake Natron. He wanted the government
to come clean about what the plans for NCA are. The MP wanted participatory
talks, but the message should have been that the stolen land must be returned immediately,
and social services returned to NCA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Amnesty
report<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> June, a
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr56/6841/2023/en/" target="_blank">report by Amnesty International </a>was released. <i>“The report reveals that
brutal force was used against the Maasai to acquire the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> of
village land in Loliondo and highlights grievous defects in the decision-making
process used to justify the forced evictions. It also exposes how the state
continues to exclude, from its conservation plans, community members who have
the right to and are custodians of the land, and instead displaces them from
their traditional grazing lands, restricting their access to resources within
their grazing land and providing no compensation.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The focus of this report is on
Ololosokwan and on the first days of the brutal and lawless demarcation
exercise of 2022. Other villages are hardly even mentioned, Malambo (Area B of
the illegal game reserve) is not even on the map, which shows the importance of
on the ground reporting. Make video clips with your smartphone, or you don’t
exist! Though someone did record people from Sanjan in Malambo leaving their
homes following the eviction orders on 24<sup>th</sup> June 2022 … After
widespread arrests, theft of smartphones, and general terror the reporting was
radically reduced, while the victims from Ololosokwan have been much more
accessible than others, since many fled to Kenya where journalism is easier and
less risky than in Tanzania, especially Loliondo. Besides the violence of the
first days in Ololosokwan, the arrests and very lengthy lock-up on bogus
charges that were never investigated until the “murder” case was dismissed
after almost six months, and the almost equally bogus arrests on “illegal
immigration” charges are detailed in Amnesty’s report and put within the
national and international legal framework.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The writing is to some extent
uneven. First it seems like the report is getting into a complete mess of misunderstanding
about Wildlife Conservation Act of 2009, but then this is salvaged as the
report goes on. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What disappoints me is that
it’s in the report repeatedly claimed that there were evictions in Loliondo in
2013. That’s simply not true and it’s an easily avoidable mistake. It seems
like there can’t be a single article or report about Loliondo without this kind
of mistake though, even if the claimed year varies … There were illegal mass
arson evictions in the drought year 2009 when OBC were complaining about “too
many” livestock. In 2013, there were serious threats and lies from Minister
Kagasheki who was defeated when PM Pinda recognized the obvious, that the land
was village land, and told the Maasai – who had garnered support from both
opposition and ruling party - to go on with their lives as before Kagasheki’s
threats. There were certainly <b>no</b> evictions in 2013. Confusion about 2015
is more understandable (but avoided by Amnesty), since there were brutal
evictions, but from an area mostly inside Serengeti National Park where the
Maasai had been living for years with an unofficial agreement. Since there had
to be zero tolerance with the government invading village land, local leaders
said that we could not react to this case in the same way, but still the story
got its own life in international media. This was nowhere near Ololosokwan, but
next to Arash and Maaloni. In 2017, as known, there was a terrible illegal mass
arson operation on village land, which should not have been possible after all
work to prevent that anything like 2009 would ever be repeated. The “reason”
claimed by the DC and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism was that
herders were entering Serengeti National Park “too easily”, while Minister
Maghembe was lying Kagasheki-style, pretending that there was no village land. Then,
bomas were in the terrible year of terror 2018 again arsoned, but only in
Kirtalo and Ololosokwan, and in their dozens instead of hundreds like in 2009
and 2017. This crime was committed in November and December by soldiers from
the Tanzania People’s Defence Force that in March the same year had set up camp
in Lopolun, which was later made permanent with funds from NCAA. The crime of
2022 is the worst of all, since it’s still ongoing over a year later. Here I’ve
<b>very</b> briefly mentioned the illegal operations that I’ve written more
extensively about in other posts. Please, contact me with any questions. Don’t
guess and don’t copy from newspaper articles, or even reports by serious
organisations, or researchers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Unfortunately, the recent
mention by a journalist that the district council would have leased the hunting
block to OBC is copied, when it of course was the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Tourism, Minister Abubakar Mgumia in this case, allegedly quite directly on
behalf of President Mwinyi. The first irregular contract (which soon
was revoked) was in 1992 signed by Ahmed Saeed Abulrahman Alkhateeb on behalf
of Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al Ali, the owner of OBC. The Ngorongoro DC, Col. Leban
Makunenge, signed for the central government while the District Executive
Director signed for of the Ngorongoro District Council. Richard Koillah, then
MP for Ngorongoro, signed the contract on behalf of six villages (Ololosokwan,
Soitsambu, Oloipiri, Olorien-Magaiduru, Loosoito-Maaloni and Arash) without any
involvement or consent by villagers or village leaders. This does not mean that
OBC leased the hunting block from the district council. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Amnesty report is
important. Even when Loliondo was for some time almost getting spoiled with
support from important international organizations, compared to other areas under attack in Tanzania, more are needed, and
especially those that like Amnesty talk directly to victims. On the other hand,
after over a year, we know what happened, and while every kernel of truth is
needed, the time for putting real pressure on the criminal Tanzanian is long
past. We should not only be making demands for the land back without adding,
“or else”, but who can enforce sanctions? I’ll keep recommending a full tourism
boycott.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Amnesty ends the report by
making a number of relevant detailed recommendations to a long list of authorities,
and including the investigation of the killing (obvious self-defence)of the
police officer Garlus Mwita, which I would not have included, but which
highlights the fact that instead of making any kind of effort to investigate,
this killing was used for locking up innocent people, including those already
detained before the killing, for almost six months using repeated postponements
without prosecution. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Miscellaneous
Criminal Application No. 68 of 2022 </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">was dismissed
on 17<sup>th</sup> May by judge Gwae and the Notice of Appeal has been filed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then 84-years old Orias
Oleng'iyo from Ololosokwan has not been seen since 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
at his home in the Engong'u area of Ololosokwan, with bullet wounds and held by
security forces that had been sent in their hundreds to brutally and lawlessly
demarcate 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of village land and very important grazing land,
as the protected area that the “investor” OBC for years has been lobbying for.
Unlike other abducted people from Loliondo, Oriais never appeared on lists of
those who had been detained and was not among those charged with bogus charges
that were dismissed after months of illegal detention and torture. His son
Ndoloi, who last saw his father being taken away by security forces, filed an
habeas corpus case in court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The plaintiff was applying
for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. The Court to order the
defendants to bring before the Court Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo who has been taken
to an unknown location since he was arrested at his home in Engong'u Nairowa,
Ololosokwan Ward, Loliondo, Ngorongoro District.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Court to order the
respondents to set at liberty Oriais Oleng'iyo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. The Court to order the
respondents to attend Court to explain the reasons for holding Orias Pasilange
Ng'iyo against the Law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> 4. The Court to order the respondents to bring
back the body of Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo dead or alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The "reasons" found
by the judge for dismissing the case were: Oriais Oleng'iyo's son failed to
prove that the respondents arrested his father, they weren't those responsible
for the demarcation exercise (meaning Inspector General of Police, and others,
but not the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism), and there were no other
witnesses. As said, this is being appealed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where is Orias Oleng'iyo???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Miscellaneous
Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, the judicial review challenging
former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana's Government
Notice No.421, of 17<sup>th</sup> June 2022, declaring the fake and illegal
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area” had the government’s preliminary objections dismissed
was heard on 29<sup>th</sup> May when it was agreed that it should proceed by
way of written submission. On 31<sup>st</sup> July there has been a day of “clarifications”
in court and the ruling has been scheduled for 1<sup>st</sup> September. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The case challenging President
Samia’s Government Notice No.604, gazetting the fake and illegal “Pololeti Game
Reserve” on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2022 - <b>Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178
of 2022</b> was scheduled for hearing 30<sup>th</sup> May 2023, but postponed
since the judge was sick.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a court hearing of
the leave for judicial review on 23<sup>rd</sup> June and the ruling will be on
1<sup>st</sup> August.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the East African Court of
Justice, the ongoing case against the Tanzanian government’s fake and illegal
“Pololeti Game Reserve” is <b>Reference No.37 of 2022</b>. In late September
2022, the government side responded with some wildly lying objections, but then
I haven’t seen anything scheduled. As mentioned before, the EACJ is not very
speedy …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Appeal No.13
of 2022</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> East Africa Court of Justice of the strange ruling in
the case about the 2017 mass arson operation (Reference No.10 of 2017) was
heard on 15<sup>th</sup> May and the date for ruling will be communicated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Application
No.2 of 2022</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, a contempt of court application, filed in
January 2022, when RC Mongella started making threats of alienating the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup>, against which the East African Court of Justice had issued an
injunction in September 2018. An affidavit was filed after every court order,
and everything else, had been violated. This important case was heard in
November in Kampala, and I was told that it was probably scheduled for delivery
of ruling on the Preliminary Objection in June, but still nothing has been
heard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference
No.29 of 2022</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> in the East African Court of Justice is not
about the brutal Loliondo land theft but challenges the coordinated and
suffocating policies in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Apparently, there’s
still nothing scheduled for this case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> July there
was a ruling in <b>Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023</b> filed by two cattle
owners, Baraka Moson Kesoi and Raphael Oleruye Oloishiro, from Bulati in
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, who in January were fined the usual extortion of
TShs 100,000 per head of cattle and 25,000 per sheep or goat for grazing in the
Nadengare area that’s shared between Malambo in Sale and some areas in NCA.
This case is challenging:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> 1. Imposition of TShs 100,000 fines as unfounded
in the law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Jurisdictions of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area in imposing compounding fees in “Pololeti Game
Reserve”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling was to be on 28<sup>th</sup>
June, but postponed to 28<sup>th</sup> July, since the judge did not attend. On
28<sup>th</sup> July the ruling had a good part, that the 100,000 TShs fines
are not lawful, and a very bad part, that NCA rangers seizing cattle outside
NCA is indeed lawful. Then I’ve been told that even the first part wasn’t that
good. Tanzanian courts aren’t independent at all and in this case the judge is believed
to have been influenced by the president’s ranting about judges that rule in
favour of pastoralists. I'll return to this ruling when I've understood it better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Samia Suluhu Hassan government’s
war against all rural Tanzanian, and particularly the Maasai, continues. This
is being done because of anti-pastoralism and an obsessive tourism cult. <b>A total
tourism boycott would hit this brutal government where it hurts the most. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Though everyone is under
threat. Kalilani fishing village that’s under threat from Mahale Mountains
National Park and is hardly mentioned in any media at all – even when TANAPA rangers
last year opened fire from a boat on the lake, killing one villager - has filed
a court case. After the filing, the Police, the Army, TANAPA and Immigration
were removed from the village. They were there to evict the villagers to
confiscate their land. People had already had to flee to sleep in the forest. Today
31<sup>st</sup> July the villagers have arrived in Kigoma Town for the case.
FZS are involved in village land use planning in that area as well …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidzziTVZYCo9EqCb1HI-tHhtMpndqrOLrHg9Bt6mOXixNwHR6L0bU_9U2fVXH5yF2fnDir3FE6J3_kLNKsjDdX-5hpnteueu3smQDqSTLxkDCyXNxWMwTiqzn0iBsYZ608T4T-q9sT4V3ZNzIPd7ZaHaeXci-KwujTIakNoiIhdUqGsNm8eK5fVCyoQkhI" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="984" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidzziTVZYCo9EqCb1HI-tHhtMpndqrOLrHg9Bt6mOXixNwHR6L0bU_9U2fVXH5yF2fnDir3FE6J3_kLNKsjDdX-5hpnteueu3smQDqSTLxkDCyXNxWMwTiqzn0iBsYZ608T4T-q9sT4V3ZNzIPd7ZaHaeXci-KwujTIakNoiIhdUqGsNm8eK5fVCyoQkhI" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kalilani villagers in Kigoma Town.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I feel bad about not having
published a blog post in two months, even when there is so much to write about,
with incomplete and confused information. I will try never to repeat this
silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Susanna Nordlund is a working-class person based
in Sweden who since 2010 has been blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also
about NCA) and has her fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so
that she will not be able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever
again. She has never worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t
earned a shilling from her Loliondo work. She can be reached at
sannasus@hotmail.com</span></b><div><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Updates</span></b></div><div><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1st August</span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #800180;">The headteacher has received threats and the Nasipooriong' village chairman and the leader of the Nyangulo age set have been called to report at Endulen police station.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div><b style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The ruling on </span><b style="font-size: 16px;">Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022</b><span style="font-size: 16px;"> was rescheduled to 22nd August. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>2nd August</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
police tried to capture the Nasipooriong’ village chairman at Endulen market.
People marched to the police station, freed the chairman, and the police ran
away!</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>3rd August</b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Protests continue at Ndian primary school in Nasipooriong'. The protesters aren't leaving without a renovation permit. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxEQybKQmqB8SxApWjlQoEKqTcDSTtgwXjuIrq3FvaH3wtgTTXEWEYHHOOru_q4RHqYS4jEsV7EY1kcbmHQkD7kXcLcUAYSjvg68Z77acks0Ts2d4mkb6gpTBq5JtvyIwfc4nIn63v29V0lroLAwXAdG-fFudYnZBykdrApNakoODFLU9C6KZWSqzFpdCa" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1020" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxEQybKQmqB8SxApWjlQoEKqTcDSTtgwXjuIrq3FvaH3wtgTTXEWEYHHOOru_q4RHqYS4jEsV7EY1kcbmHQkD7kXcLcUAYSjvg68Z77acks0Ts2d4mkb6gpTBq5JtvyIwfc4nIn63v29V0lroLAwXAdG-fFudYnZBykdrApNakoODFLU9C6KZWSqzFpdCa" width="319" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The horrible Germans continued boasting about funding human rights criminals. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM6B9WAGzfq2Xby4bskZOUXI-K3JZm0IZjeG166ZUXMotSvT_6JN4EV3tk9-W2DIgpXRmVtWjDTqFRHH1v48pmSTKNBlWAnDnPnJwHSxXi1Xh5rHaA5CnppUzlLBbHdZUaaOxNchAjncW8mbnQImbJBOIEj7CjQLKlSiyuKiZFIl-0Dd4uv-c7TsHXTit7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="904" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgM6B9WAGzfq2Xby4bskZOUXI-K3JZm0IZjeG166ZUXMotSvT_6JN4EV3tk9-W2DIgpXRmVtWjDTqFRHH1v48pmSTKNBlWAnDnPnJwHSxXi1Xh5rHaA5CnppUzlLBbHdZUaaOxNchAjncW8mbnQImbJBOIEj7CjQLKlSiyuKiZFIl-0Dd4uv-c7TsHXTit7" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>4th August</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Protests continue in Nasipooriong'.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>5th August</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">People starting building a tented classroom for class seven while waiting for the permit. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>6th August</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rangers </span>demolished<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> the tented class room.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br />Today the NCA rangers have by force been taking young
men’s phones in Endulen ward. Their intention is to identify who have been
sharing photos and clips from the protests demanding a permit to repair Ndian
Primary School in Nasipooriong’.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">7th August</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Protests continue in Nasipooriong'.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">9th August</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The protests in Nasipooriong' were covered in a bried radio piece by DW Kiswahili</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">10th August</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The Jamvi la Habari, on its frontpage had news about that Ngorongoro people want the relocation speeded up and to be able to move where they want. It was accompanied by old picture from Loliondo, not NCA, including a close up of Kijoolu Kakiya ...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">MP Emmanuel Oleshangai visited the protestors. People were sad and disappointed since they'd been told that high government representatives would come.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">On 16th August I published next blog post, mostly about NCA, and particularly Endulen. https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/08/peaceful-protests-at-ndian-primary.html</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p></div><br /><br /></span></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-27728689988192828032023-05-31T23:19:00.043+02:002023-07-28T17:57:00.436+02:00The Tanzanian Government’s Brutal Land Theft and Cattle Theft Continue in Loliondo, Supported by German Funds, Suffocating Restrictions and Blocked Social Services in NCA, but the Maasai are Fighting Back, at Home and in Europe<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> May 2023 the
councillors at Ngorongoro District Council voted in unison to reject in total
the utter madness of the government’s German-facilitated draft 2023-2043 Ngorongoro
District Land Use Framework Plan that’s fabricated to legitimize the brutal
land grab in Loliondo, and a private motion on suffocation of social services
in NCA was supported by all councillors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Currently a Maasai delegation
is in Europe and will hopefully severely deal with those who are facilitating
and encouraging the crimes by the Tanzanian government against the Maasai. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This evening, 31</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> May, they
attended a public event at the EU Parliament: Forced Evictions in the Name of
Conservation: the Role of the EU. I've never written as quickly as a wrote about this event ... (see below, under </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maasai delegation to Europe) </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The evil, lying Tanzanian government representatives fuelled me. Otherwise, this blog post is terribly delayed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlFtbRfKPIbqOHYa1fEkGz-8WEY93ADM7FAxfaabLIryBorvz7gFH77FiWU8j0ZSOcxeyNdfh2tapNjEFaQslZ-Mbu2QJ6sYA9Kh9eOr9rfvRJNt7zEfKW6EvqBZJ9VYTq93Qo3Bz75B-Jc2HyHse87tKzMl2HV1kgb9Z0ZGy-f0mYa81M-2oTjJC-8g/s936/Noorkishili.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="936" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlFtbRfKPIbqOHYa1fEkGz-8WEY93ADM7FAxfaabLIryBorvz7gFH77FiWU8j0ZSOcxeyNdfh2tapNjEFaQslZ-Mbu2QJ6sYA9Kh9eOr9rfvRJNt7zEfKW6EvqBZJ9VYTq93Qo3Bz75B-Jc2HyHse87tKzMl2HV1kgb9Z0ZGy-f0mYa81M-2oTjJC-8g/s320/Noorkishili.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">More worrying is that the CCM Political Committee Arusha Region, with the implementor of the war against the Maasai, RC John Mongella, are currently touring the district, inspecting projects in Loliondo and Sale, and have already been seen in company of councillors. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The land has not been returned
and the Tanzanian government keep taking the livestock. Decades of land rights
struggle in Loliondo could not protect the 1,500 km<sup>2 </sup>- essential for
lives and livelihoods - from a government high on tourist cult and the blood of
pastoralists. Almost a year ago, all councillors from affected wards were
abducted right before the brutal and lawless demarcation started. Beacons were
planted in a rain of teargas and bullets, security forces were beating,
slashing, cutting, raping and arresting people. Thousands fled to Kenya,
hundreds were arrested and over sixty were charged with bogus immigration cases
that were dismissed – without any attempt at prosecution - months later. The
security forces destroyed houses, stole motorcycles and smartphones, seized and
even shot livestock. Oriais Oleng'iyo who was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June
2022, with bullet wounds and held by security forces, has still not been
brought back to his family, and the enforced disappearance case filed by his
son was on 17<sup>th</sup> May dismissed by the judge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The war against the Maasai
continue with the government’s different shades of rangers going after
livestock lawlessly seizing, fining, and even auctioning. Livestock will always
have to enter the land, until the Maasai are no more, but that’s exactly what
the evil Tanzanian government is working on. The other front is to make all
local leaders useless by terrorizing, threatening, and compromising them. The
fake and forced land grab legitimization goes on, facilitated by the Germans.
This must have consequences for the amoral Bundesrepublik. At least
local leaders seem to still be resisting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this blog post:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cattle
rustling Serengeti rangers getting away with disobeying court orders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Other cattle
rustling by rangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
anti-pastoralist president ranting again<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">German-facilitated fake and forced land use planning terror rejected by all
councillors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maasai
delegation to Europe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Human Rights
Watch investigating and speaking up, and some press<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UN Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues where the Tanzanian government kept lying<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Letter from
the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The very many
court cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Msomera
villagers speaking up and a reminder of the NCAA threats that keep intensifying<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA protest
banners at visit by the VP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t mix up
Loliondo and NCA!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefest
mention of colonial conservation elsewhere in Tanzania<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Updates at the end of this blog post. </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><b> </b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cattle
rustling Serengeti rangers getting away with disobeying court orders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Already in the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-war-against-maasai-of-loliondo-and.html" target="_blank">previous </a>(now
quite old) blog post, I mentioned the drawn-out crime committed by Serengeti
rangers of 21<sup>st</sup> March on illegally demarcated village land in the
Osero Sopia area of Ololosokwan village. 440 cows belonging to people from
Mairowa, Njoroi, Olekenta, and Osero Sopia (Ntasikoy Pere, Leshoko Tanin,
Toroge Oriais, Kumoi Naing'isa, Orantai Nampaso) were seized and taken to
Bologonja in the national park. On Friday 24<sup>th</sup> March, one of the
cattle owners, Oriais Toroge, who had come to claim the cows, was arrested and
taken to Mugumu. He was released on bail, and there was an “illegal grazing”
case. No herders had been arrested when the cows were seized, as there were
heavy rains, the young herders sought shelter, and the cattle strayed. The magistrate
in Mugumu, not living up to SENAPA’s expectations, ruled that the cows had been
lost, and ordered their release, but <b>Davis Mushi</b>, Serengeti senior
conservator and head of security department, and <b>Kasekwa Maisha</b>, who’s
in charge of the rangers at Bologonja refused to release the cattle, and then
on 6<sup>th</sup> April, ignored court summons for disobeying court orders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reason that the Serengeti
rangers take cattle from Ololosokwan to Bologonja is that it’s then a case for
the Mugumu court that has often ordered the auctioning of livestock. This time
this evil scheme did not work out for them, and it looked very promising
indeed, until everything went downhill again. The advocate for the Maasai,
Yonas Masiaya Laizer, had sought an Ex parte hearing or arrest warrant, but the
court decided to instead wait for the appeal by the Serengeti National Park
criminals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTFky-ICXJ4vnXL_UpZC2fzzYBiIOBbv2tn56EQlH8tnOkW5VztJq0ZAjUnT5gvQQadDa20VekX-7FQ3FH2k8VbTAZOZKt6G0XzLRgYMlBIroOc_T2x9dJh17W5SLDJtSqqolMbeC4vUtyCbGUk3mU3YMg-7zhGz2ahS1U6fQD2KmdaP1f7LeGZDzzng" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTFky-ICXJ4vnXL_UpZC2fzzYBiIOBbv2tn56EQlH8tnOkW5VztJq0ZAjUnT5gvQQadDa20VekX-7FQ3FH2k8VbTAZOZKt6G0XzLRgYMlBIroOc_T2x9dJh17W5SLDJtSqqolMbeC4vUtyCbGUk3mU3YMg-7zhGz2ahS1U6fQD2KmdaP1f7LeGZDzzng" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Davis Mushi</b></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For some reason, the
respondent in the illegal grazing case was Solio Toroge who’s the brother of
Oriais who was arrested. The other cattle owners weren’t mentioned. It’s been
explained to me that this is just how confused things are. The rangers claimed
that the cows were seized in the national park at Kuka Hills. However, Kuka Hills
is in Ololosokwan, in the area illegally demarcated as a “game reserve”, just
like Osero Sopia were the herders say that the cows were seized. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> April, the
judge at the high court in Musoma ruled that Solio Toroge should pay one fine
of TShs 100,000, plus a payment of 5,000 per cow per day and 2,500 per calf per
day. This was a disappointment when the magistrate had ordered unconditional
release, which was disobeyed by the national park people, but better than the
usual 100,000 per head of cattle and much better than auctioning. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Around early April it was
observed that the Bologonja rangers had been given new motorcycles with minimal
sound (probably electric). I have not been able to find out who the sponsor is.
One ranger had an accident in Ololosokwan and cracked his skull. He did not
survive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In May I haven’t got any
reports at all about the Bologonja rangers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk134823443"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Other
cattle rustling by rangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134823443;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s almost impossible to
obtain information from other villages than Ololosokwan and Malambo, not least
Oloipiri has always been difficult, but there were reports that on 12<sup>th</sup>
April 200 cows were seized in this village. The cows were released the
following day after the owners paid the 20 million "fine".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several people have expressed
an interest in compiling all cases of cattle seizures. Very laudable, but then
they better start working 24-7 on it. Or maybe they would be given information
with less effort than I. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> April, 304
sheep belonging to Mbaoi Pusindawa from Lemetema were captured by rangers when
taken to water in the fake and illegal game reserve in the Nadengare area,
Sanjan, Malambo. The sheep were taken to the Orng'oswa camp and the owner had
to pay an illegal 7.6 million “fine”, 25.000 per sheep.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 2<sup>nd</sup> May, 268
cows belonging to three members of the Tiiye family were illegally seized in
the Orng'oswa area of Sanjan sub-village of Malambo, on land brutally and
lawlessly demarcated as “game reserve”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>250 cows belonging to mzee Sarkay Tiiye, 12 belonging to mzee Olodupa
Tiiye, and 6 belonging to Kimani Tiiye. The owners paid the extortion money of TShs
26.8 million the following day and the cows were released. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> May, 120
cows were seized by 12 rangers from Serengeti, NCAA and the Field Force Unit,
in the Empiripiri area of Ololosokwan, just outside the illegally demarcated
game reserve. The owner, Kutiti Ketuta, was severely beaten, his testicles
crushed. The extortion money of TShs 100,000 per head of cattle was paid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There has also been widespread
cattle seizure from Irkereyani in Iltulele in Naiyobi ward, NCA, that’s in the
same Nadengare area with water as is found in the illegally demarcated game
reserve in Malambo. I have not been able to obtain exact information, but it’s
been reported that 600 cows were seized on 28<sup>th</sup> April and not
released until 5<sup>th</sup> May when the usual extortion “fines” had been
paid. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk134309210"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
the evening of 5<sup>th</sup> May, NCAA rangers and FFU Kilimanjaro (teams of
anti-riot police from different areas still come to Loliondo) tried to capture
some 400-500 cows, belonging to several owners, in the Oloosek area of
Ololosokwan, next to beacon 57 at Enalubo. The security forces fired bullets
into the air and the cattle dispersed, but they took 68 cows (number not
confirmed). An unknown hero shot an arrow at one of the criminal rangers, but
the ranger only got a light hand injury. The only detail about the injured
ranger is that he was a Pasiansi Wildlife Training Institute scout, hired by
NCAA (“against protocol”, I’m told) to seize cattle in the illegally demarcated
and annexed area. In the evening of Sunday 6<sup>th</sup> May village leaders
were summoned to a meeting with the OCD. They were ordered to search for the
cattle owners who had been mentioned in social media (by me before being told
about the arrow hero incident, the information about which, <i>for some reason</i>
… wasn’t shared until mid-morning). On 7<sup>th</sup> May Sanaet Ngirashai,
Turanda Kedoki na Odinga Ngirashai were arrested and taken to Loliondo police
station. They were released om bail the following day but had to return to the
OCD who was demanding that they hand over the hero with the arrow before
discussing the impounded cattle on Tuesday, 18<sup>th</sup> May. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134309210;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134309210;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As
of 25<sup>th</sup> May, the cattle were still being held, according to several sources,
and on the 31<sup>th</sup> there did not appear to be any change. Authorities
are demanding the name of the hero with the arrow, which may not be known by
anyone, and if it’s known I expect it not to be told. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134309210;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134309210;"><a name="_Hlk136083291"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The anti-pastoralist president ranting again<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk136083291;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134309210;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
23<sup>rd</sup> May, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, again showed off her vicious
anti-pastoralism and her lack of respect for the independence of the judiciary.
Addressing newly appointed judges, she ranted about bribes in lower-level
courts, using the example of pastoralists in Lindi who were caught committing a
crime (alleged grazing in Nyerere National Park), but then found innocent by
the magistrate, so that the RC had to intervene. The president said that this
way “normal” people – obviously, to her, pastoralists are something else – cannot
obtain justice. <sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134309210;"></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">German facilitated
fake and forced land use planning terror<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported earlier in this
blog, on 28<sup>th</sup> February and 30<sup>th</sup> March meetings were held
at Ngorongoro District Council Hall in Wasso to legitimize fake and forced land
use planning, primarily the brutal and lawless demarcation of a “game reserve”
on village land in 2022. Another meeting was expected for early May but kept
being delayed. These terrible efforts go under the name of <a name="_Hlk135418847">Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan </a>2023-2043
and were initiated by team of 40 state security and surveyors that in late
October/November were sent to re-survey the villages in Loliondo and Sale using
illegitimate or compromised village leaders, while the DC talked about Wildlife
Management Areas, which surely is the last thing needed … The crime
legitimation is led by DC Raymond Mwangwala, district officials, principally Ngorongoro
Land officer and chairman of the land planning committee, Kelvin Aligaweza, the
National Land Use Commission, and Frankfurt Zoological Society, with its
partners TANAPA and the German Development Bank, KfW.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTxsoiU5oODDit1H1cUxDqJ0hBqKW3CM-Z9u7asYe8BE4vruzV0ZvaZh1PsHiL0RFK-Fnv72jGepJ36_RSPS0ptQMBQRyWdnpP_X4--_YhYF1cExdLn_S7QjwtzditEt5K-T02nRzUegbb6Ai3XyDTj7IXj6Y-k01TRouHduvHUKaFA1mYKeoqsiRAfQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1080" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTxsoiU5oODDit1H1cUxDqJ0hBqKW3CM-Z9u7asYe8BE4vruzV0ZvaZh1PsHiL0RFK-Fnv72jGepJ36_RSPS0ptQMBQRyWdnpP_X4--_YhYF1cExdLn_S7QjwtzditEt5K-T02nRzUegbb6Ai3XyDTj7IXj6Y-k01TRouHduvHUKaFA1mYKeoqsiRAfQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fortunately, the councillors
of the wards affected by the brutal and lawless demarcation of the so-called
“Pololeti Game Reserve” have not attended the meetings and were on 30<sup>th</sup>
March publicly threatened by the DC for, as members of the ruling party,
obstructing the project. On 19<sup>th</sup> May they, and the rest of the
Ngorongoro councillors, unanimously refused to sign the genocidal draft
district land use plan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai traitors that have
been shown off at both meetings are the often and increasingly dubious and
“investor-friendly” chairman of Soitsambu village, Marko Lorru, and Joseph
Parsambei of the NGO TPCF, who in the past at least I thought was serious. The other
traitors (much mentioned in this blog) that were very active and causing great
damage from around 2014 have not been seen or heard during the crimes of 2022, and
some of them have, as councillors, been speaking up against the current crimes.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maps photographed during the
meetings – I have still not got hold of the document itself (which is
unreasonable!) – besides the brutally and lawlessly demarcated “Pololeti Game
Reserve” show zoning in Loliondo and Sale. It was feared that the plan for
Ngorongoro division is to keep to the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model
proposal, which is what is being done with the Loliondo and Sale zoning where
the Ngorongoro part of Lake Natron GCA appear as a “reserved” area as well. In
fact, somewhat blurry maps show the whole of NCA as a reserved area, and a
ridiculous 12.5% of the whole district is supposed to be for grazing. This is
totally deranged and must be stopped at any cost. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbzPNQZN_3urX5l7N9ziI-8h1Y8iyrTKLq-FuqAmh8Riy1PH3Uz07Jn4UgNnSG6g40halsPafGcs9V9cPXxvqi5YbIdd1aAnN4_1gSN4-o2Y5sLgSy7VF74kOOOvQJtKbYbZ2LeReYRAJz7WBpOgP6bwOL5ujhSRJfAiInuE-y8wEVHz12xKYVXdEVKg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1040" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgbzPNQZN_3urX5l7N9ziI-8h1Y8iyrTKLq-FuqAmh8Riy1PH3Uz07Jn4UgNnSG6g40halsPafGcs9V9cPXxvqi5YbIdd1aAnN4_1gSN4-o2Y5sLgSy7VF74kOOOvQJtKbYbZ2LeReYRAJz7WBpOgP6bwOL5ujhSRJfAiInuE-y8wEVHz12xKYVXdEVKg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> May, the
Ngorongoro councillors voted in unison to reject Ngorongoro District Land Use
Framework Plan 2023-2043 and in support of a motion against the suffocation of
social services in NCA, presented by Shutuk Kitamwas. Those who have moved to
Msomera – Tiamasi from Kakesio and Rumai from Eyasi – were not present, but it
seems like the rejection and the motion were even supported by the most
compromised and by unlikely non-pastoralist councillors, including the council
chairman, Mohammed Marekani Bayo, who not only is a non-pastoralist, but OBC’s
community liaison since many years. However, <a href="https://youtu.be/gn7xzl7yMec" target="_blank">to the press</a>, Marekani’s message
was more problematic, or more exactly infuriating, since he was pretending that
the main problem would be that the plan is written in English, saying that he’s
in agreement with the government that would never do anything to hurt its
citizens (sic!), but that the plan needs some amendments. This individual was
elected as council chairman while ten councillors were illegally locked up in
remand prison. Marekani must obviously be removed as council chairman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With all the support from
media, international organizations and individuals, it’s strange that the
Germans are not held more to account for their support for the ongoing crime,
but that may be changing right now. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maasai
delegation to Europe<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Maasai delegation is
currently in Europe to visit Germany, Austria, and the EU headquarters in
Brussels. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/speakers-tour-maasai-shall-not-die/" target="_blank">Key Messages:</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The current conservation
model, promoted in Tanzania (and around the world) destroys the lives of the
Maasai. As pastoralists, the Maasai do not destroy nature but conserve land,
wildlife and protected biodiversity as it is their living ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Funding for conservation
projects that violated human rights must stop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Conservation must go hand in
hand with land rights and human rights<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There will be a roundtable
event around “Forced evictions of the Maasai in the Name of Conservation>”:
the Role of the EU and its Member States. Co-organized by the European Green
Party, S&D, Renew and The Left with Maasai and European support
organisations. And today 31<sup>st</sup> May there was a public event at the
European parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai delegates are
Edward Porokwa from PINGOs Forum, the lawyer Joseph Oleshangay from Endulen, Nengai
Kilusu Laizer from Oloirobi, Noorkishili Nakero Naing’isa from Ololosokwan
and Kiaro Orminis from Arash. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Early on, the 23<sup>rd</sup>
I think, there was a meeting with FZS connected via Zoom to Ngorongoro where
placards with a very exact message were shown. It seems like FZS have gone into
panic denial mode about their decades working against Maasai land rights and
their current deep involvement with the crimes committed by the Tanzanian
government. They describe their work like this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCaRDJzvE_G5O7RWYDNCSODPmnEdPeCy_YW5-drMHKL053ZMTrqsOcIhbGmmEvgavqTT4fAl16N9aLNlUA7I95tYJ48twi-5DNVKrHu0AWkgHxn6roT8cuAsqMqTiEYvuh5EKgq61nWQBXR6x56a0bkuIguRgObbbTAnD7oQPJpfFSlRwgfAPXw20MHw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="757" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCaRDJzvE_G5O7RWYDNCSODPmnEdPeCy_YW5-drMHKL053ZMTrqsOcIhbGmmEvgavqTT4fAl16N9aLNlUA7I95tYJ48twi-5DNVKrHu0AWkgHxn6roT8cuAsqMqTiEYvuh5EKgq61nWQBXR6x56a0bkuIguRgObbbTAnD7oQPJpfFSlRwgfAPXw20MHw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEic49I08UDlBrJ7Fh_o_vnz6EHcwQun-ruSOlQC23kR02EWePZsNt0S_2YsdT32sUug54X2xRWQ8mJ34YulkdWA9hnpwbgCmxcqHiD1WjJwdgVS_Y1czRsj-jHVj4Oxg9VCgylNoL0yrqqE3vKi1RGN-mR6HmfdJB1AuMl_wqNoXL4o1-KTdz2KMIEOWA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1434" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEic49I08UDlBrJ7Fh_o_vnz6EHcwQun-ruSOlQC23kR02EWePZsNt0S_2YsdT32sUug54X2xRWQ8mJ34YulkdWA9hnpwbgCmxcqHiD1WjJwdgVS_Y1czRsj-jHVj4Oxg9VCgylNoL0yrqqE3vKi1RGN-mR6HmfdJB1AuMl_wqNoXL4o1-KTdz2KMIEOWA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apparently, the evil
hypocrites FZS are trying to justify their facilitation of the 2023-2043
Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan, that’s legitimizing the crimes of
2022, with that they are trying to help “communities” “acquire rights” to the remaining
2,500 km<sup>2</sup> through some abbreviation (CCRO)! No thanks! The land
rights were already thoroughly protected through Tanzanian law, but the brutal
and lawless government, supported by German funds, don’t care. The 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
are essential for Maasai culture and livelihood in Loliondo and must be returned!
Customary rights to Wasso and Loliondo towns won’t help. Not that anyone
believes it to be FZS’s aim. Though if they are eager to prove some kind of
seriousness, FZS can start by calling for the removal of <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>
“private nature refuge”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 26<sup>th</sup> May, the
delegation visited Frankfurt Zoo with their demand of a stop to colonial
conservation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdY1ZHsMJ025fYNVFAm0tINg4Usk7jyUC8AblWg8MWbxciDi8hxW14HUAqlKdDlKqErjpukEjsQI0D07bTWnu6O4wsFpes4_Qp40MEHy4f0y4u3x17y8o0NxJsFOZtu5shR-a-xpS5f_8A4njaNXmGROeyz3zg6yxhExirYATodo9bTna1fbRbZrspbQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdY1ZHsMJ025fYNVFAm0tINg4Usk7jyUC8AblWg8MWbxciDi8hxW14HUAqlKdDlKqErjpukEjsQI0D07bTWnu6O4wsFpes4_Qp40MEHy4f0y4u3x17y8o0NxJsFOZtu5shR-a-xpS5f_8A4njaNXmGROeyz3zg6yxhExirYATodo9bTna1fbRbZrspbQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On <a href="https://youtu.be/dNZjbH_0qIo" target="_blank">27<sup>th</sup> May, DW</a>
aired a brief but good interview with Joseph and Noorkishili. Then an
informative piece about Maasai from NCA (remember, NOT Loliondo) that had been
relocated to other people’s land in Msomera and the problems that this is
causing. Unfortunately, this piece ended with the lies by the Handeni DC,
Albert Msando, who could claim that the Msomera villagers had settled there
illegally, without anyone setting the record straight that Msomera is a legally
registered village. Then the last part was a terrible interview with the
Tanzanian ambassador to Germany, Abdallah Possi, who could go on and on lying
to a painfully unprepared reporter who was not even able to question him about denied
social services in NCA, or the brutal and illegal eviction and demarcation
operation in Loliondo, with massive cattle theft and extortion after the brutal
theft of land. Loliondo isn’t even mentioned, only some vague “there’s another
place”. I wish there would instead have been a debate between Joseph and the
ambassador. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>There was an emotional roller-coaster tonight watching the brave and eloquent Maasai at the public event in the European
parliament at the same time as the maliciously lying Tanzanian government
representatives, and the – apparently – frivolous parliamentarians. Any
Tanzanian can tell you about the risks of speaking truth to power, for
which there isn’t even any avenue in Tanzania. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EU Parliamentarian Michèle Rivasi chaired the event and Josianne Gauthier, Secretary General of
the CIDSE, network of Catholic social and environmental justice organisations, had some words that first seemed so general and non-specific that I wanted
to scream, but then I realized that she made good points. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nengai sang a song about the repression
and deadly restrictions in her home in NCA, and the naked brutality in Loliondo.
Noorkishili most eloquently in Maa, with pauses for translation and not simultaneous
as for the other languages used, described the attack on Loliondo, especially
her home village Ololosokwan. Though much of her intervention was in defence
against the government’s accusations of environmental destructiveness, which
she did convincingly, but she would have the same human rights even if not
being so much more non-damaging than the government goons, or the EU Parliamentarians, for that matter. She explained that the Maasai of
Loliondo must have their land back, or it’s the end of their existence. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While respecting the time given, Joseph effectively explained Loliondo and NCA, so that everyone present <b>must</b>
understand the two <b>separate</b>, but closely related issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Olivier De Schutter, UN Special
Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, explained that the Maasai,
under international law, have an absolute right to free, prior informed consent,
however nice houses are prepared for them elsewhere. He said that to several
letters sent to the Tanzanian government the reply had always been about
establishing the Ngorongoro Pastoral Council, and about population growth. It
did not seem like Schutter had heard about Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Jestas Abouk Nyamanga,
Tanzanian ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg, and European Union Commission
mostly followed the script from the Tanzanian lies at the UN (see below), going
on about how there aren’t any indigenous people in Tanzania. Then he engaged in
the rather extreme terra nullius lie about Loliondo, claiming that it had
always been a protected area through German and British colonialism, since it’s
an important corridor for wildebeest and (baselessly) more and less the only
water source for the Serengeti ecosystem … How come then that the DC and the district
headquarters are in Loliondo? He claimed that there had been consultations since
2017, and agreement by the Maasai, for demarcating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>. Then
why were all councillors from affected wards abducted on the eve of the demarcation
and locked up for over five months? The hypocrite pretended that people being
eaten by wild animals was a big issue for the government and a reason to move
the NCA Maasai to Handeni. He said that the Special Rapporteur had not come to
Tanzania since allegations were unsubstantiated, as had been seen by the
African Commission of Human and People’s Rights commissioners. That ACHPR
commission was ridiculously commandeered by the Tanzanian government (described
in several blog posts) and did not meet one single victim, or independent voice
in Loliondo. As far as I know, they have not yet released a report. The
ambassador said that if the Maasai present would call themselves “indigenous”
in Tanzania, they’d get killed by other Maasai. Really?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Added 1st June: I forgot to mention that the ambassador lied that social services in NCA had been cut due a diminished population following relocations to Msomera! Not only is it a tiny percentage that has relocated, but already funded projects are blocked since 2021, before the Msomera scam was even a leaked plan. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All non-Tanzanians present
stressed the importance of visiting Tanzania independently, not
guided by the government, to talk freely to the Maasai, without
fears. I just wish that Special Rapporteur Calí Tzay could come clean on why he
suspended his visit in December … Though calling a spade a spade is maybe against
protocol, or something. There will never be an independent visit. Why can’t
they just go anonymously as tourists? They won’t be arrested as I was, I
think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EU Parliamentarian Pierrette
Herzberger-Fofana was non-specific but made good points about an independent
visit, and EU parliamentarian Malté Gallée was asking for the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Joseph responded to Ambassador
Nyamanga most brilliantly. I hope there is a recording. He made it
clear that the ambassador was not only lying about the brutal demarcation and
evictions in Loliondo and criminal threats and restrictions in NCA, but was
also talking rubbish about wildebeest and everything else. Noorkishili asked if
people were killed by vehicles in Brussels, should everyone be relocated somewhere
else? <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Noorkishili went on to define
and describe the Maasai names of the places like Serengeti (Sirenget), Mt
Lengai, and Korongoro (Ngorongoro) would not have gotten these names if the
Maasai were a recent tribe in these areas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rivasi asked about OBC, as if she
didn’t know anything and about an independent visit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ambassador Nyamanga again
complained about how non-Tanzanian it was to talk about tribes and handed over
to the maliciously stupid Professor Malebo (se below and more in previous blog
posts). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Malebo said that Loliondo had
been a hunting block since German times and that OBC got the license in an open
process. Everyone still remembers the Loliondogate scandal, but that’s a minor issue compared to the human rights crimes of later years. Then he went into the
classic anti-Loliondo insinuations, saying that there are three other investors
in the area. Just name them and we’ll respond, as I’ve done so many times in
this blog … He went a step further than the classic Manyerere Jackton-style propaganda claiming that the
Purko, Loita and Laitayok sections are “Kenyan”. Usually, the government's (and other friends of OBC) lie is
that only the Laitayok are Tanzanian. As a “forensic expert” he said that no
guns were used during the demarcation and that the police were there to protect
those demarcating the land. And of course, people are being eaten by wild animals
every day. That’s his favourite. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbp8v8pG4cMlEg4YnY5nYE-d0-NAnRz2bCiFsoXYABFgYf3xMcvtPk0ie1HXJgwxE7TyvNzf2eT8T3Wq2Io1iXOnMKluJ51GMiEC-nZeNSVxngDyXNXvlwJwErnbyNZPKJuEUNrJzrVKbUFBGHJ-8rIdqA0NfMerBgGd9b4VyXd4NBlyOts2KZzVd1lw/s837/Mhuni%20with%20Malebo.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="837" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbp8v8pG4cMlEg4YnY5nYE-d0-NAnRz2bCiFsoXYABFgYf3xMcvtPk0ie1HXJgwxE7TyvNzf2eT8T3Wq2Io1iXOnMKluJ51GMiEC-nZeNSVxngDyXNXvlwJwErnbyNZPKJuEUNrJzrVKbUFBGHJ-8rIdqA0NfMerBgGd9b4VyXd4NBlyOts2KZzVd1lw/s320/Mhuni%20with%20Malebo.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nyamanga and Malebo lying their heads off.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another Tanzanian government
representative (I’ll get his name before next blog post) talked about how
democratic Tanzania is. How else could the African Court on Human and Poeples' Rights be
found in the country?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ambassador added that the
Maasai are a domestic issue and Tanzania takes care of them very well. Then he
insulted the Maasai present, quite openly saying that they will be paid, that
the EU parliamentarians could pay them already, and that genuine Maasai are of an entirely different opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Noorkishili wondered about personal
security upon her return home and said that they aren’t enemies of the
government.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I hope to dedicate next blog
post entirely to FZS, Germany and the Maasai tour and I hope to be able to
watch a recording of the public EU event.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Added 1st June: I was in a hurry to write and publish while the public EU event was still fresh in my mind, but it was also shown, and recorded, on <a href="https://youtu.be/6ryrvQWKjF4" target="_blank">Mwanzo TV</a> and I will watch it again before writing next blog post. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk134823495"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Human
Rights Watch investigating and speaking up</span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 27<sup>th</sup> April,
Human Rights Watch released a <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/27/tanzania-maasai-forcibly-displaced-game-reserve" target="_blank">report </a>saying that <i>the Tanzanian government’s
forced eviction of Maasai communities from areas in northern Tanzania they have
long inhabited violates their rights to land, livelihood, and culture.</i> The
organization has interviewed 45 victims of the violence of the brutal and lawless Loliondo land theft, and its effect on lives and livelihoods. HRW have attentively
listened to the victims and explained the continuing terror of 2022. However,
they have not got the background from the previous fifteen or so years that
well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The issue that HRW are bringing
most light to, one about which the voices of witnesses have earlier not quite
been heard, is rape and sexual assault in 2022. The accounts by witnesses are
horrifying, even if unsurprising in the general dehumanization of the illegal
evictions and demarcation exercise. It has been mentioned, but long after other
violence was reported, and without any details. There were widespread reports
of rape in the 2009 illegal mass arson operation (before I started blogging),
but since no victims came forward, I was told that it was better to leave it
out. In the mass arson operation of 2017, which should have been impossible
after all efforts to stop a repeat of the horrors of 2009 … some victims did
come forward, with their faces and names, defying what I’ve been told is a big taboo
to talk about, but it didn’t change anything at all. There was limited
reporting, they didn’t even get medical help, nobody seems to remember, and
then it was repeated in 2022.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another issue HRW adds weight
to is their analysis of detailed satellite imagery of de demarcated area (area
A, not area B in Malambo, it seems), which found that in July 2022 some 90
bomas were burned. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTZ5yT0AEBsJkDHqpihy1X9JxWIKkEL8ynzbGv0waKPYyDruX6hnQkm9mny1Jm0NWgShX3ByWwHABEKnofRjtN1rVL7OXF_uzU8-FzunaAerfdodGgJNag8WWl9XbtaFcH2W5gOZOATonCKO4UInegLU01AQ6uXELXh-2Jah3PkHD0IZqeozqhxkmhOQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="850" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTZ5yT0AEBsJkDHqpihy1X9JxWIKkEL8ynzbGv0waKPYyDruX6hnQkm9mny1Jm0NWgShX3ByWwHABEKnofRjtN1rVL7OXF_uzU8-FzunaAerfdodGgJNag8WWl9XbtaFcH2W5gOZOATonCKO4UInegLU01AQ6uXELXh-2Jah3PkHD0IZqeozqhxkmhOQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arash 12th March 2023</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjszo-9BlpQr-1GrLlTZo3QspclPaa51LGz5mgXyEcMNqbZwHd5GXaB0NFsBmGcFkOP8ptqh8twTeEgyLdwrBaWs2Ssw7T1STAJAVS9feOt3IeHSYv2I6s1319c0meo7rqwcYB0-0Bu6knCZev8FqN2mAEEw6-6cDajcrjhX9SccDi_pOalXdtyY9pfFA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="1430" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjszo-9BlpQr-1GrLlTZo3QspclPaa51LGz5mgXyEcMNqbZwHd5GXaB0NFsBmGcFkOP8ptqh8twTeEgyLdwrBaWs2Ssw7T1STAJAVS9feOt3IeHSYv2I6s1319c0meo7rqwcYB0-0Bu6knCZev8FqN2mAEEw6-6cDajcrjhX9SccDi_pOalXdtyY9pfFA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burning bomas in Maaloni, 20th July 2022<br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">However, HRW, like almost
everyone writing about Loliondo, just couldn’t get the years that there have
been mass arson operations right. The correct years are 2009 and 2017, and
those evictions differ from 2022 in that the land wasn’t demarcated or
reclassified, and the Maasai could return after the violence. HRW were also
confused about Wildlife Conservation Act 2009 (it came into operation in 2010,
not 2022) and did not turn LGCA into a protected area. It may not be important,
but I don’t like it that LGCA is described as a “multi-use area”, which sounds
like NCA, when it’s 100% village land, and an old GCA that demarcates the
hunting block. There’s more to comment on, but HRW’s work with the victims of
the 2022 violence is really, really valuable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk134555249"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cédric
Gouverneur </span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">published an <a href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/04/08masai" target="_blank">article</a> in Le Monde Diplomatique,
even before my latest blog post, but it was hidden behind a paywall until early
May. Cédric too has met and talked to affected people in Loliondo, to those in Ngorongoro
Conservation Area, and not least to the Msomera villagers, and reports their
words in very authentic way (unlike some actors in the past). He describes the
ideology leading to these crimes, some of the dangerous German influence in the
past, but nothing about how the Germans are supporting and facilitating
current, ongoing crimes. Why are /were they allowed to get away with everything?
(Everyone’s fault, not Gouverneur’s). Then Gouverneur too includes a year when
there certainly were not evictions in Loliondo (2013). Why must all journalists
and organisations do that, even if they don’t mention the same incorrect year? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I notice some tendency to
Magufuli myth in the article (and elsewhere). Yes, Samia Suluhu Hassan is the worst president
ever for the Maasai of Loliondo and Ngorongoro, but before her, that space was
held by Magufuli. The terror of 2016 silenced almost all local activists in
Loliondo, leaders in a "select committee" agreed to a previously unacceptably sad compromise proposal,
and in 2017 what should just not have been possible after all work to never
again see a mass arson eviction operation like the one of 2009, and at a time
when everyone was waiting to hear from PM Majaliwa, happened anyway. After stopping the illegal operation, Kigwangalla’s decision to chase OBC out of Tanzania was reversed in less
than a month and in 2018 the terror was worse than ever. Only in 2019 were
there some months of calm after OBC’s Tanzanian director was locked up for a
long stay in remand prison, but he was extorted, freed and back to work before
Magufuli’s death. In September 2019 was the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model
review proposal presented, and it included a proposal for the Loliondo land
theft that was committed in 2022, but local leaders in Loliondo almost
pretended that it was an NCA problem that didn’t concern them. Then I wonder
where the evidence is that Kinana had to resign for being corrupted by OBC,
which he’s been since the early 1990s. I haven’t seen any such evidence. Isn’t it
more likely that OBC’s director got into trouble for being close to Kinana whom
Magufuli felt threatened by?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I may seem too critical, but
both HRW and Cédric Gouverneur have done a mostly excellent and very important
job. The East African, on the other hand, on 7<sup>th</sup> May, published an
article that I fear will lead to confusion for many years, like has happened
before. This time the journalist had no idea that Loliondo and NCA are two
different areas and different issues. The mix-up is complete. I’ve been told
that we should appreciate that they write about Ngorongoro, but to me this is
bitter and frustrating. I’ve spent thousands and thousands of hours, and almost
as many tears, on straightening out the facts so that journalists won’t have to
make unnecessary mistakes, but it’s ignored. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> May another
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-23/uae-royalty-are-pushing-maasai-off-their-land-to-hunt-lions " target="_blank">article</a>, by Paul Tullis in Bloomberg, was published. Tullis too has done a most
excellent job talking to victims of the violent land theft, but unnecessarily
quoting some incorrect information.<a name="_Hlk134823586"> The stories of
several people from Ololosokwan are told in this article.<o:p></o:p></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The past year there have been so many articles that I'm having a hard time keeping up. In the past I'd have analyzed every word, maybe not always in this blog, but certainly with my contacts. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134823586;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134823586;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Tanzanian government keeps lying<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134823586;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 18<sup>th</sup> April, at a
side event to the twenty-second session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues, Tanzanian activists informed the attendants of the current state of the
Loliondo evictions and the so-called “voluntary” relocations from Ngorongoro
Conservation Area. Edward Porokwa of PINGOs Forum, who’s one of the best,
explained. Still, there was limited time, some dates were mixed up, and I think
interested attendants need something more detailed and exact, and in writing,
which I hope they got. Most of all, I hope that they find my blog, and contact
me with their questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government was
represented by <a name="_Hlk133959072">Zuleikha Tambwe </a>of the Tanzania
Permanent Mission to the United Nations. Tambwe used the question space to
maliciously and ignorantly claim that allegations of evictions from “Ngorongoro
Conservation Area” had been found false and unfounded by the East African Court
of Justice in September. She must have meant “Loliondo” and had got everything else
wrong as well, both willingly and apparently due to confusion. Porokwa
explained that the case had been about the 2017 operation in Loliondo (not the
illegal demarcation of 2022) that the court was to establish if it took place
in Serengeti National Park or village land, that the ruling was postponed the
last minute, the first geospatial expert was threatened and the report by the
second one was dismissed since the judges found that he didn’t have the correct
work permit. Porokwa also mentioned that there had been a constitutional case
about the 2009 mass arson, but since another attendant had asked about whether
legal action had been taken, I wish that he had mentioned that there are
several ongoing cases about the 2022 brutal and lawless demarcation of a
protected area (see below). At least seven cases, and one about NCA (Ngorongoro
division).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The recording of the side event is for some reason no longer online.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve earlier written with some
detail about the 2017 case, Reference No.10 of 2017, that was dismissed in September 2022, but the main
issues are the frankly weird postponement the day before the ruling was
scheduled on 22<sup>nd</sup> June 2022, during the illegal demarcation exercise
(in brutal violation of the orders by the same court), another last-minute
postponement in September, but then just to the following day when an unusually
brief ruling was delivered. Then not only were there witnesses whose basic
words the judges, judging by the ruling, had just not understood, but the
government’s own documents and statements from the time clearly show that the
2017 mass arson was committed on village land, and even so the ruling was that
the Maasai had failed to prove that it didn't take place in Serengeti National Park. Still,
the ruling establishes that there is national park and then there is village
land, which the government lie of 2022 consists of denying while making up an
inexistent protected area. This is the same lie as was used by Kagasheki in
2013, while in between other lies have been used by the Tanzanian government. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> April, the
Tanzanian government issued “<i>A rebuttal of claims about the so-called
indigenous peoples in Tanzania”</i>, and this was presented by UNESCO’s general
secretary in Tanzania, the terrible liar and defender of every government
crime, Prof. Hamisi M. Malebo, together with Zuleikha Tambwe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5rrC1AdorJiEHcBpNRE9s8YBQxbalMR-OpJMWQmOdf3Wm_JBI7XTsvoE4PEa0hIwHkqLi4cdckoLzx-KuxRbSUZ8j3mwE-HbVGp2BomZNX0kTLy4mI8CV7V8NlXAqjzEptlVjIUJmxDDU4o5eCaEo4ZlDl2RZ1qXBkwoBt6P9H_KU9B7_M1UVSrEXYQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5rrC1AdorJiEHcBpNRE9s8YBQxbalMR-OpJMWQmOdf3Wm_JBI7XTsvoE4PEa0hIwHkqLi4cdckoLzx-KuxRbSUZ8j3mwE-HbVGp2BomZNX0kTLy4mI8CV7V8NlXAqjzEptlVjIUJmxDDU4o5eCaEo4ZlDl2RZ1qXBkwoBt6P9H_KU9B7_M1UVSrEXYQ" width="180" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The monsters of malicious lying, Tambwe and Malebo, flanking José Francisco Calí Tzay. <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The main part of the
government’s rebuttal (before it gets even worse) is dedicated to, as usual,
denying the existence of indigenous people in Tanzania, with the argument that
all 120 ethnic groups identify first and foremost as Tanzanians, enjoying the
same guaranteed rights, that Nilotic groups, like the Maasai, arrived late, and
that the indigenous concept is “colonial” and belittle local communities as
inferior. The indigenous argument can indeed be a diversion leading to loss of
focus on the fact that the Tanzanian government is brutal and lawless, breaking
all its own laws, regardless of recognizing the Maasai as indigenous, or not.
The “colonial” argument is not so little dishonest when the government uses
both colonial myths to dehumanize the Maasai, in parliament and in media, and
engages in colonial-style land alienation invoking terra nullius, with punitive
expeditions led by very colonial regional- and district commissioners. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">According to the United
Nations, indigenous peoples are "<i>inheritors and practitioners of unique
cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. It refers to the
people who have retained social, cultural, economic and political
characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which
they live. They have sought to maintain their ways of life despite external
pressures for centuries, and today, their uniqueness and diversity continue to
be threatened." </i>This definition is included in the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was adopted by the UN
General Assembly in 2007. I’d say that most Tanzanians, both friends and
enemies of the Maasai, would agree that the Maasai are indigenous, if using
this definition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Talking about terra nullius<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… in its rebuttal the government claims that
the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area has stood unoccupied
since time immemorial, was turned into a protected area by the Germans in 1891,
and was only “encroached” by the Maasai after independence in 1961. Earlier
this government lie – picked up by minister Damas Ndumbaro in 2022 and lectured
to giggling, spineless diplomats - has been about the British and 1951, but
deputy minister of legal and constitutional affairs, Geophrey Pinda, in Banjul in
October 2022, used the Germans for his lie, which was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>particularly sad to see, since it was his
father, then PM Mizengo Pinda, who on 23<sup>rd</sup> September 2013 in Wasso
declared that the land belonged to the Maasai who should go on with their lives
as usual, and that then Minister Kagasheki would not be allowed to bother them
anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
terra nullius<b> lie</b> not only defies common sense, but there are still
elderly Maasai who lived in Loliondo before independence and whose parents and
grandparents were born and died in Loliondo. There are also colonial memories (like
David Read’s) of how the same three Maasai sections found there today were in
the 1920s well-established in Loliondo, there was a district officer, prison, shops
in Loliondo and Soitsambu, a cattle market in Malambo and more, with the
difference that Seronera, now in Serengeti National Park, was much inhabited by
the Maasai. Though brutal and lawless evictions would of course not even be
justifiable against people who had only lived in an area for half a century. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The land was owned and used by
the Maasai before and during colonial times under customary ownership, which
was recognized by the Land Act of 1923. In the 1970s the villages in Loliondo
and Sale were registered under the Village and Ujamaa Villages Act, in 1982
under the Local Government (District Authorities) Act, and then got further
protection as village land belonging to the village assembly (all adult
villagers) managed by the village council under Village Land Act No.5 of 1999.
Eviction from this land is in contravention and violation of the Constitution
of the United Republic of Tanzania, Village Land Act 1999, Wildlife
Conservation Act, 2009, and the Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC. The
government does of course know all this, but counts on getting away with any
shameless lie, perhaps emboldened by many diplomats, and certainly emboldened
by Germans. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government’s
most favourite shameless lie was unsurprisingly included, <i>“The challenges
caused by the encroachment into the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game
Controlled Area has been addressed by leaving 2,500 km2 of the lawfully
reserved land to the people who encroached the area in consideration of their
livelihoods and right to life.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This lie is so disgusting and
so deeply insulting. Claiming that the brutal and lawless theft of land would
signify generous gifting of land. The government “logic” implies that even the
district headquarters and the DC’s office have “encroached” a supposed protected
area. As the government very well knows, the entire 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> is
legally registered village land and the home of the Maasai for centuries. The
game controlled area delimits the hunting block and could before Wildlife
Conservation Act 2009 came into operation totally overlap with village land.
With the new Act, game controlled areas are protected areas, not allowed to
overlap with village land, and were supposed to be revised within one year of
the Act coming into operation (2010) – which did not happen. There was a proposal –
funded by the hunting investor OBC – to turn 1,500 km2 into the new kind of
game controlled area, but this was strongly rejected by Ngorongoro District
Council in 2011, for its incompatibility with Maasai livelihoods and right to
life. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For decades, a land rights
struggle has stopped the government’s efforts to alienate the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of important village land, even when harassment, amounting to a local police
state in Loliondo, has been intense, and when the government has conducted
illegal mass arson operations in 2009 and 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> that
the Tanzanian government, lobbied by OBC, and no doubt feeling the support of
FZS, illegally demarcated as a protected area, includes most grazing land in Loliondo, while the 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>
that the government maliciously pretends to have given the Maasai, out of the
goodness of its heart, contains two towns, agricultural areas, an ugly land
grab by the American Thomson Safaris, and forest reserves. The Maasai are
supposed to squeeze into this land, losing some 75% of their grazing land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The last communication between
the government and the Loliondo Maasai before the government’s brutal attack, was
on 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022 when Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa by a large
committee of Maasai representatives was handed reports of community
recommendations on both <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ngorongoro-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">NCA</a> and the threatened 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
<a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">Loliondo/Sale</a>. Majaliwa said that he was going to work on the recommendations but
then nothing was ever heard from him regarding this. The Loliondo/Sale report
recommended a stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
investigations into human rights violations, and the removal of the investor
OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1shF3Lh7oBrNOMl7df8lwyPjFlCJgz1JetesRpnEM3mRRe9w9gxFB-9ZiYC9JPqVt79f-ZsZGvB7NuM-WP-5H33ve-yyFmwWoxP4xknzs5XkERlqfHw6Cjvdo1tCqDLjuy2bhfKZu7JbLqMUtVjzYwc2eW0sDmrqsRXJa9TF-JJzolN05_hMl8TMyEg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="960" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1shF3Lh7oBrNOMl7df8lwyPjFlCJgz1JetesRpnEM3mRRe9w9gxFB-9ZiYC9JPqVt79f-ZsZGvB7NuM-WP-5H33ve-yyFmwWoxP4xknzs5XkERlqfHw6Cjvdo1tCqDLjuy2bhfKZu7JbLqMUtVjzYwc2eW0sDmrqsRXJa9TF-JJzolN05_hMl8TMyEg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">25th May 2022, very soon several attendants would be locked up in remand prison on bogus murder charges. </td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then, in June 2022, security
forces invaded Loliondo. All councillors (except one who fled) from wards that
were to be affected by land alienation were abducted, then charged with murder
for a killing that took place the day <b>after </b>the abduction and locked up in
remand prison for over five months, together with people initially arrested
under suspicion of having shared information about the brutality. In a rain of
teargas and bullets, the security forces started planting beacons to demarcate
1,500 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> as a protected area. There were beatings and slashing,
people were arrested on false charges that were later dropped. Some were raped.
There was seizing and even shooting of livestock. Houses were destroyed while
motorcycles and smartphones were stolen. Thousands of people fled to Kenya and
some of them while seriously injured. All this was done in violation of court
orders that were already in force, and several new cases have been filed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">85-year old Oriais Oleng'iyo
was last seen on 10th June 2022, with bullet wounds and held by security
forces, and his whereabouts are still unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government officials, the
Prime Minister included, appeared in Loliondo for military celebrations and
threats, and in international environments with concerted lies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> June 2022
then Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Pindi Chana, unlawfully
converted the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into the new kind of game controlled area,
on 28<sup>th</sup> September 2022 this land was placed under the management of
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2022, President
Samia Suluhu Hassan unlawfully gazetted the same land as a game reserve. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The land alienation was
committed during a drought, which led to increased loss of livestock. Rangers
keep seizing livestock, demanding extortionate fines of TShs 100,000 per head
of cattle and TShs 25,000 per sheep or goat for any animals found inside the
illegally demarcated area. Hundreds of livestock have even been auctioned by
the rangers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The land has been taken, the
livestock keep being taken, lives are stolen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The lies about Ngorongoro
Conservation Area in this government rebuttal were no less extreme, ranging
from the usual population panic to using the government-created poverty against
the Maasai themselves, to lying that the Msomera scam was designed in
consultation with local community when neither the Maasai in Ngorongoro not the
Msomera villagers were even informed before hearing about it in anti-Maasai
media, or in the Msomera case being overrun by government delegations demarcating
their land for Ngorongoro migrants. See more about this below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk134823620"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Letter
from the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134823620;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> April, the
UN <a href="https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT/CERD/ALE/TZA/9756&Lang=en" target="_blank">Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination</a> (CERD) called on the
Tanzanian Government to immediately halt plans for relocation and forcible
evictions of Maasai communities from their ancestral land in Loliondo and
Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This was far from the first letter from CERD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The very many
court cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The ruling in the case of
enforced disappearance of 85-year-old Oriais Oleng'iyo of Ololosokwan, Loliondo
division, in Ngorongoro District, <b><u>Miscellaneous Criminal Application No.
68 of 2022</u></b> was set for 10<sup>th</sup> May but postponed till the 17<sup>th</sup>
when it was dismissed by judge Gwae.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">85-years old <a name="_Hlk135879823">Orias Oleng'iyo </a>from Ololosokwan has not been seen
since 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022, at his home in the Engong'u area of
Ololosokwan, with bullet wounds and held by security forces that had been sent
in their hundreds to brutally and lawlessly demarcate 1,500 km2 of village land
and very important grazing land, as the protected area that the “investor” OBC
for years has been lobbying for. Unlike other abducted people from Loliondo,
Oriais never appeared on lists of those who had been detained and was not among
those charged with bogus charges that were dismissed after months of illegal
detention and torture. His son Ndoloi, who last saw his father being taken away
by security forces, filed an habeas corpus case in court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What the plaintiff was applying
for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. The Court to order the
defendants to bring before the Court Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo who has been taken
to an unknown location since he was arrested at his home in Engong'u Nairowa,
Ololosokwan Ward, Loliondo, Ngorongoro District.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Court to order the
respondents to set at liberty Oriais Oleng'iyo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. The Court to order the
respondents to attend Court to explain the reasons for holding Orias Pasilange
Ng'iyo against the Law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">4. The Court to order the
respondents to bring back the body of Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo dead or alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Miscellaneous Criminal
Application No. 68 of 2022 was on 17<sup>th</sup> May dismissed by judge Gwae.
The "reasons" were: Oriais Oleng'iyo's son failed to prove that the
respondents arrested his father, they weren't those responsible for the
demarcation exercise (meaning Inspector General of Police, and others, but not
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism), and there were no other
witnesses. This ruling must be appealed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where is Orias Oleng'iyo?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqvGJX_M5hYqVIq2Iohdc4fSTKZqa4MbcXAvNYGRPuAP-2v8koGOxR7FbSc7hIgj709ETgj1wxy1axNDZNvgbGHrGdtsbTaw_JMJQRbYLXxTNb4nbU-ts5f3jGDuhYc1iFbz-cnycE0zRM-3cetWep0KxrUWzAywxDbqUWBx7PSv3eyit8glML7Qp4XQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqvGJX_M5hYqVIq2Iohdc4fSTKZqa4MbcXAvNYGRPuAP-2v8koGOxR7FbSc7hIgj709ETgj1wxy1axNDZNvgbGHrGdtsbTaw_JMJQRbYLXxTNb4nbU-ts5f3jGDuhYc1iFbz-cnycE0zRM-3cetWep0KxrUWzAywxDbqUWBx7PSv3eyit8glML7Qp4XQ" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture of Oriais' voter ID. Regularly tweeted by Maria Sarungi Tsehai (here 30th May).</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the hearing of <b><u>Miscellaneous
Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022</u></b>, the judicial review challenging former
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana's Government Notice
No.421, of 17<sup>th</sup> June 2022, declaring the fake and illegal “Poloteti
Game Controlled Area” the government lawyer raised a preliminary objection
about being served late with the application. The case was postponed to 15<sup>th</sup>
May when the preliminary objections were dismissed, and the case was heard on
29<sup>th</sup> May when it was agreed that it should proceed by way of written
submission. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The case challenging President
Samia’s Government Notice No.604, gazetting the fake and illegal “Pololeti Game
Reserve” on 14<sup>th</sup> October 2022 - <b><u>Miscellaneous Civil Cause No.
178 of 2022</u></b> was scheduled for hearing yesterday 30<sup>th</sup> May 2023,
but postponed since the judge was sick.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the <b>East African Court
of Justice</b>, the ongoing case against the Tanzanian government’s fake and
illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve” is <b><u>Reference No.37 of 2022</u></b>. In
late September 2022, the government side responded with some wildly lying
objections, but then I haven’t seen anything scheduled. The EACJ is not very speedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Appeal No.13
of 2022</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> East Africa Court of Justice</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> of
the strange ruling in the case about the 2017 mass arson operation (Reference No.10 of 2017) was heard on
15<sup>th</sup> May and the date for ruling will be communicated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Application
No.2 of 2022</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, a contempt of court application, filed in
January 2022, when RC Mongella started making threats of alienating the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup>, against which the <b>East African Court of Justice</b> had
issued an injunction in September 2018. An affidavit was filed after every
court order, and everything else, had been violated. This important case was
heard in November in Kampala, and it seems like the court have scheduled it for
delivery of ruling on the Preliminary Objection in June (I’m looking to
confirm this).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference
No.29 of 2022</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> in the East African Court of Justice
is not about the brutal Loliondo land theft but challenges the coordinated and
suffocating policies in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Apparently, there’s
still nothing scheduled for this case. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> May there
was a hearing in <b><u>Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023</u> </b>filed by two
cattle owners, Baraka Moson Kesoi and Raphael Oleruye Oloishiro, from Bulati in
Ngorongoro Conservation Area, who in January were fined the usual extortion of
TShs 100,000 per head of cattle and 25,000 per sheep or goat for grazing in the
Nadengare area that’s shared between Malambo in Sale and some areas in NCA.
This case is challenging:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. Imposition of TShs 100,000 fines as unfounded
in the law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Jurisdictions of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area in imposing compounding fees in “Pololeti Game
Reserve”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling will be on 28<sup>th</sup>
June.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk134823727"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Msomera
villagers speaking up and a reminder of the NCAA threats that keep intensifying<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134823727;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several villagers of Msomera
village, Handeni district, Tanga region met with the press and on 4<sup>th</sup>
April and following this, their testimonies have been in online media, to some
extent regular media (<a href="https://youtu.be/mW28wFM-6sE" target="_blank">Mwananchi</a>), and even foreign media (Le Monde and DW).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The plan for a fast-tracked
“voluntary” relocation of Ngorongoro Maasai to Handeni and Kitwai Game
Controlled Areas was leaked the first days of 2022 (remember that this is about
NCA and NOT Loliondo). It was so stupidly written that it looked fake, and
people were initially told not to report on it, so that the leak would not be
put in danger. Since GCAs are village land, it was from the start clear that
the plan was to relocate Ngorongoro Maasai to other people’s land. Then it took
several months for there to be reports, including one by the Oakland Institute,
about the confused Msomera villagers who had been “informed”, or hardly even
that, but threatened, at gunpoint when they were living in a registered village
with a detailed land use plan. Not until the government-commandeered visit by
the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights in late January 2023 were
Msomera villagers speaking up directly to the press, in between the Tanga RC’s
rather insane threats and lies that were taking most space, right next to the
commissioners that didn’t do anything to stop it, accusing the Msomera
villagers of being invaders with less rights to the land than the migrants from
Ngorongoro. One of those speaking up was <a href="https://youtu.be/LpAWHS2Ms_s" target="_blank">Sauda Kimweri</a> who was arrested with a
three-month old child for trying to prevent a Ngorongoro migrant from planting
on her farm. Sauda has continued speaking up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I don’t know if, even in the
case of Loliondo that I know very, very well, I am able to convey the level of
lawlessness and lying shown by the Tanzanian government. The retired Msomera
village chairman has explained how Msomera, after having been a sub-village
where people had lived since before colonial days, was registered as a full
village in 1992, and how villagers had got title deeds to their own plots. In
January 2022, a long caravan of vehicles, with armed escort and high government
representatives, including Arusha RC, John Mongella, set up camp and started
demarcation on people’s land in a very threatening way and in February 2022
Prison Services moved in to build 103 houses for migrants from Ngorongoro.
Several villagers, title deed in hand, have now spoken up, but the government
just goes on with, and increasing, its propaganda. When Msomera villagers had
met the press in April, the organization of anti-Maasai journalists, MECIRA,
formed in early 2022, went to Ngorongoro to prepare more propaganda. The
government’s own criminal restrictions are used as an argument against the
Ngorongoro Maasai. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also complaints by those "voluntarily" relocated are increasingly being heard, about unfulfilled promises and other people's land. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after the relocation
plan was leaked the first days of 2022, RC Mongella went to Loliondo to issue
terrible threats, and then the anti-Maasai propaganda went crazy in the press and
in a whole <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=549692425992173" target="_blank">parliamentary debate on 9<sup>th</sup> February 2022</a>. The incitement
against the Maasai of Ngorongoro was so aggressive that it seemed like the
armed government attack would erupt there and not in Loliondo. However, it was
Loliondo that was brutally attacked by security forces lawlessly demarcating a
protected area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Restrictions strangling the
Ngorongoro Maasai in every way to make them leave their home have been imposed
for decades and there were earlier relocation efforts in 2006, to the less
remote (compared to Handeni) Jema, from where many Maasai have returned to
Ngorongoro. These people were threatened in April 2021, shortly after Samia
Suluhu Hassan came into office and started incitement in a more specific way
than any earlier president. Widespread demolition orders were issued and
removed after protests, fake Maasai representatives, not from Ngorongoro, were
used in government spectacles, and ranger violence increased, leading to
protests that were cut short when MP Olenasha unexpectedly, and too early,
passed away. In September 2021, a <a href="https://youtu.be/OQIhJCNDEWA" target="_blank">video </a>was purposefully uploaded in which NCAA
Chief Conservator Freddy Manongi tells the notorious deputy minister Mary
Masanja that there’s a war, that the pastoralists have many “conspiracies”, and
the conservationists must “start” developing their own conspiracies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, as mentioned, in early
2022, the fast-track relocation plan was revealed. Already in this plan was the
idea of using COVID-19 money mentioned, and such funds for Ngorongoro schools
were then – though orders to headteachers in official letters from DED Mhina -
transferred to Handeni. Already funded social service projects are blocked for
lack of permits since 2021, and since October 2022 there are efforts to
downgrade and eventually close down Endulen Hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The focus on the anti-Maasai
reporting by MECIRA “journalists” has recently been, more than the earlier
crazy slander and dehumanization, to show desperate people whose relatives have
died for not being able to access health emergencies. This terrible situation
is being very, very purposefully created by the government to force to Maasai
out of NCA, and then the government’s own journalists use the resulting terror
as crocodile tear propaganda for relocation. The level of evil is staggering. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the evictions from
Ngorongoro Crater in 1975 and the re-introduction – following “grave concerns”
by UNESCO - of a total cultivation ban in 2009 (lifted in 1992 after first
being introduced in 1975), there was a very big blow against the Ngorongoro
Maasai in 2017 when PM Kassim Majaliwa, through order and not law, removed
access for the Maasai to the three craters Ngorongoro, Olmoti, and Empakaai,
which has led the loss of 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro,
Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these
wards. Replacement salt provided by NCAA has in laboratories shown to be
adulterated and has reportedly led to widespread cattle death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t forget that in September
2019, chief conservator Freddy Manongi made public a Multiple Land Use Model
review proposal – called for by UNESCO, IUCN and ICOMOS - which was so
destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai livelihoods and culture in
Ngorongoro District. Only 18% of the expanded NCA would remain for people and
livestock. This genocidal zoning proposal included the annexation of the now
illegally demarcated areas in Loliondo that the horrible Pindi Chana indeed
illegally declared annexed to NCAA on 28<sup>th</sup> September 2022. The 2019
announcement was followed by so many protest statements – by NCA Maasai - that
I lost count, while those in Loliondo, for inexplicable reasons, almost
pretended that nothing was happening. The current fake and illegal “Pololeti
Game Reserve” that’s killing the Loliondo Maasai - who didn’t wake up until the
RC’s aggressive threats in early 2022, even if the government’s intentions have
never been hidden - looks exactly as proposed in the genocidal proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that the Maasai
already lost access to over 14,000 km2 when evicted from Serengeti in 1959 by
the colonial government, and as a compromise deal, they were guaranteed the
right to continue occupying the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a
multiple land-use area administered by the government, in which natural
resources would be conserved primarily for their interest, but with due regard
for wildlife, and in case of conflict the interest of the Maasai would take
precedence. This promise was obviously not kept at all and the government’s story
is based on population panic and tourism cult, with the most unfortunate
constant added pressure from UNESCO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apparently, much ranger
violence in NCA goes unreported. In the previous blog post I wrote about
terrible violent abuse, including rape, by rangers in collusion with owners of
so-called cultural bomas in Endulen and Olbalbal, against women who independently
sell cultural ornaments in the Golini area. I’ve been further informed that the
women have repeatedly since September 2022, been locked up at Ngorongoro Police
Station and fines have been extorted from them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> May, there
was a traditional ceremony at Ndonyo Sub-village in Nasipooriong' village, NCA.
Peace, blessings and reconciliation among Nyangulo agemates were among the issues
raised during the ceremony. One attendant explained to me that keeping such
valuable traditional events is of great importance in the community, and when
all Maasai are displaced to different parts of the country, as advocated by the
government in the eviction efforts, the Maasai community will lose these important
cultural aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwmDPtEn_gyyCVJ8zkwJ6yGDLvAk_E-KcdKVUtaRF4jFDjEwCdE8j5cChTjEml8JrYcAiQZOV8H_YM_7V_vLg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile, another luxury
hotel is being renovated, or is already finished, at the site of the old
Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge, right at the rim of Ngorongoro crater, Meliá
Ngorongoro Lodge with 28 rooms and 24 spacious suites with views of the crater,
accompanied by two restaurants, a barbecue area, a pool and a spa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk135913095"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA
protest banners at visit by the VP<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk135913095;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> May, Vice
President Philip Mpango visit Ngorongoro District to inaugurate various
projects (in Loliondo and Sale divisions), mostly the the Wasso-Sale road, and
not address the land issue in any way. However, at an open meeting in Wasso,
several youths from NCA handed over protest placards against the suffocation of
social services in Ngorongoro division to the vice president who picked them up
and read some of them. Now there are reports that these youths are receiving
threats. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There have been rumours for
almost a month now that the CCM general secretary, Daniel Chongolo, would visit the district
immediately after the VP, but he has not. Instead, these are currently visiting, CCM Political Committee Arusha Region, with the implementor of the war against the Maasai, RC John Mongella:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBMPTm2djcTJqWPGBNCmwYJSrJ5XOJgG4rccvBgRD-AYRHcBpK80CxLPdjwTH9BrrRInEKr8f7_w5mFU8_YHpboy1oqYyvDNFNhKdZh5HNq24HZeOyjS4utpVsUflG2SDMwxtFUHTTICqnECpGaK1M9_dlLcGVrHJKgXXyn_6qp2K482JEJWCVTPSF1g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBMPTm2djcTJqWPGBNCmwYJSrJ5XOJgG4rccvBgRD-AYRHcBpK80CxLPdjwTH9BrrRInEKr8f7_w5mFU8_YHpboy1oqYyvDNFNhKdZh5HNq24HZeOyjS4utpVsUflG2SDMwxtFUHTTICqnECpGaK1M9_dlLcGVrHJKgXXyn_6qp2K482JEJWCVTPSF1g" width="231" /></a></div><br />They have sadly already been seen with certain councillors.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t mix up
Loliondo and NCA!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">:
Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District. A local police state at the
service of OBC – that has had the hunting block (4,000 km<sup>2</sup>) covering
the whole of Loliondo and part of Sale, since 1993 - and the American Thomson
Safaris that claim a private nature refuge. For many years a constant threat of
robbing the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of vitally important grazing land,
expecting them and their livestock to squeeze into the remaining land. Major
illegal and extremely violent operations in 2009, 2017, and then the worst (and
ongoing) in 2022 when the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> were brutally and lawlessly
demarcated as protected area, evicting the Maasai. Vicious hate campaign by the
reporter Manyerere Jackton since around 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Ngorongoro division of Ngorongoro
District. Harsh restrictions on every aspect of life under the rule of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and its chief conservator Freddy
Manongi, instigated by UNESCO and IUCN. Blocking of funds for social services
since 2021. Illegal transfer of COVID-19 funds to Msomera in Handeni to where
the Maasai are supposed to relocate “voluntarily”, displacing the Msomera
villagers. In 2022, a vicious hate campaign in media and in parliament. In
September 2022, the management of the stolen 1,500 km2 in Loliondo was placed
under the NCAA, which had been an open threat since 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief mention
of colonial conservation elsewhere in Tanzania<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This blog is about Loliondo
and Ngorongoro, but remember that the Tanzanian government is at war against
pastoralists and other rural people all over Tanzania, since their land is
wanted for the deranged tourism cult. Some recent examples from areas where I
don’t have contacts:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> May, TANAPA
rangers landed in helicopters to beat up villagers in Mbarali who’re resisting
the expansion of Ruaha National Park, known as GN No.28, against which there’s
an ongoing court case and an injunction that was violated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the village of Mwanawala an unknown woman
pilot saved women from being raped by the TANAPA rangers. But they were beaten
and undressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup> May in
Tarime all fifteen village and sub-village chairpersons, from the CCM ruling
party, in the Nyanunugu and Gorong’a wards resigned in protest of the expansion
of Serengeti National Park to the west. This was the day after ministers landed
to scold villagers opposing the forceful planting of beacons. Deputy Minister
of Natural Resources and Tourism, Mary Masanja, true to character, spoke in a
particularly aggressive and deranged way. In parliament on the 11<sup>th</sup>
PM Majaliwa said that the chairpersons retained their positions after assurance
that the government will address the conflict, but he’s such a liar that it can
mean anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Mto Wa Mbu, on 22<sup>nd</sup>
May, a young man, Hassan Said, was shot to death by rangers from Manyara
National Park during a confrontation, after fishermen had their boats knocked
over by the TANAPA rangers who wanted to arrest “trespassers”. There’s a
boundary conflict between the village of Jangwani and the national park
management. Rangers have a habit of knocking and sinking boats, and several
fishermen have “disappeared” in the past. Minister Mchengerwa intervened
insulting the fishermen, calling them poachers, while lauding the rangers’
bravery.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Simanjiro the old threat
against the village of Kimotorok by expansion of Mkungunero Game Reserve has
been revived, villagers have again been told to leave their homes, and on 22<sup>nd</sup>
May there were protests. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These are just some cases seen
in media. Other cases go unreported, like the warlike attack by rangers from
Mahale Mountain National Park on the village of Kalilani in June 2022, that
wasn’t reported in any visible media. Sanctions are needed. All tourism to Tanzania
must be boycotted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Stop suffocating the Maasai of
Ngorongoro Conservation Area with restrictions and blocking of social services!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bring back mzee Oleng'iyo!
Return the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to the Maasai! Uproot the illegal beacons!
Shred President Samia’s lawless GN No.64 to pieces! Punish everyone involved in
the brutal Loliondo land theft! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Stop the crime legitimizing draft
2023-2043 Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan and punish everyone facilitating
it! Don’t let anyone get away!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b><u>Updates</u></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b><br /></b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>1st June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">The German Embassy in Tanzania tweeted:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEKwHxIwyDfMDzMNVygBkE-VsdXaKHg_jVcWLdZSI9OzNH1Mb_LEk_wMu0qn8Ayc6GMOwDVf1dfXF_BQkqCW2e-aDBSVGJxBgBAFdIz4MyawSKWRFNqfDr6K2329Bxjg3yYHRXZKzd9LSTns4DeRhSMwymgoHdrvhCduQ2dXYZb-7P-hAzHbCbDDfa_g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="702" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEKwHxIwyDfMDzMNVygBkE-VsdXaKHg_jVcWLdZSI9OzNH1Mb_LEk_wMu0qn8Ayc6GMOwDVf1dfXF_BQkqCW2e-aDBSVGJxBgBAFdIz4MyawSKWRFNqfDr6K2329Bxjg3yYHRXZKzd9LSTns4DeRhSMwymgoHdrvhCduQ2dXYZb-7P-hAzHbCbDDfa_g" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUrfyw8u-qAUMFZBja5GR-Melgo7cLrwATx_A0grSad7IMhEe6WKLrUe7Q2cRwv1eOUIl0jLmBUFASvXTMsRuJ_d98cGkLrMrabO0D1d6duQXMXaSI_gZa3MNPc__Brih9M2tO2e8Pswo8-iGLqSZ7zqk57ZUDyihJ5iSXjswnW5dMypxTydgHCTYdEQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUrfyw8u-qAUMFZBja5GR-Melgo7cLrwATx_A0grSad7IMhEe6WKLrUe7Q2cRwv1eOUIl0jLmBUFASvXTMsRuJ_d98cGkLrMrabO0D1d6duQXMXaSI_gZa3MNPc__Brih9M2tO2e8Pswo8-iGLqSZ7zqk57ZUDyihJ5iSXjswnW5dMypxTydgHCTYdEQ" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">They had met with the current worst traitor, the government's poster boy for brutal and illegal land alienation legitimation, Joseph Parsambei. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>1st June</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Former MP Telele, the government's poster boy for relocation to Msomera, complained about lack of grazing and other problems at his new "home". </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">https://youtu.be/UjEt9Hm_ynk </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">2nd June</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Mchengerwa read his budget speech in parliament.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>3rd June</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">87 cattle belonging to Kerika Tiiye were seized in the Orng'oswa area of Malambo. The cows had strayed to their former home, from where they were evicted.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>4th June</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">I was informed that the cattle held at Klein's gate since 5th May had been released after payment of the usual extortion money. I'm not sure exactly what date. Authorities have not got hold of the arrow hero.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>5th June</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">MP Shangai spoke in parliament about the tears cause by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, in Loliondo, NCA, and everywhere. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>6th June</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">A very helpful report by Amnesty International, but with some unnecessary mistakes in the background information and a narrow view on only Ololosokwan and the first days of the ongoing 2022 crime, also on the illegal arrests, and delayed, non-existent prosecution.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Ndumbaro repeated the demented government lies.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>10th June</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">The organization CILAO with Odero Charles Odero held a press conference in Arusha, marking one year since the start of the brutal and illegal demarcation.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">In Mtu Wa Mbu, there was a meeting with several victims and witnesses speaking up, and several organisations attending and organizing. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">On <b>6/6/2023</b>, two young men who were herding livestock were
beaten in the Moram Ndutu area by NCA Ndutu rangers and robbed of their swords
and spears.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>13/06/2023</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">The rangers arrested 27-year-old
Paresoi Kiboko and beat him badly. That day they took him to the Ngorongoro
Police Station where he was brought before the judge of the Ngorongoro Court of
First Instance and charged with two offences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> 1. Grazing in a part of Marsh that is not
allowed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">2. Threatening the rangers with
a spear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">He was imprisoned for 9
months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">A local researcher arrived at
the scene and the animals were not found in the restricted area of the Marsh
and the young man did not have a spear that day because they confiscated it on
6/6/2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">On <b>18/6/2023</b> the spear was
returned to village chairmen of Endulen ward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">Paresoi's case was resolved via negotiations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #800180; text-align: center;">22 June</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Reports about seized cattle belonging to Loita Maasai, but without details. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>23rd June</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;">Court hearing of the leave for judicial review (second one, the president's GN). The ruling will be on 1st August.<br /><br />Hearing in the case against six people from Ololosokwan. For some reason, they are refusing advocates.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>28th June</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The ruling in Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023 was postponed
to 28<sup>th</sup> July, since the judge did not attend.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>8<sup>th</sup> July</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">There was a Ngorongoro division Community meeting held
at Endulen ward. The main agenda were: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">1. Feedback from MP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">2. Resuming all socio-economic development project with
budget allocated but without building permit from NCA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">3. Resuming prayers and protest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">4. Taking action over restricted pasture areas like
Ormoti, Empakaai and Ndutu.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">5. Building toilets in the schools where the pupils
are defecating in the bushes.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>13th July</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #800180;">15-year-old
Joshua Olepatorro was brutally beaten, his teeth smashed out by NCA rangers who caught him after grazing cattle in Ormoti crater. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>19th July</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Joseph Parsambei took his stinking treason some steps further down the drain, holding a talk about silly "customary rights of occupancy" for some elders, and sending this all over media to show that there isn't any conflict in Loliondo and people want to work with the </span>government<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> on land use planning. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>27<sup>th</sup> July </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Reports without details that in Kirtalo livestock
belonging to Moniko, Kairrung, Olepanga and Olereiya had been seized by
rangers.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>28th July</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Ruling in Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023</span></span></p><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-7909664479778979032023-04-01T20:45:00.034+02:002023-05-31T17:50:22.566+02:00The War Against the Maasai of Loliondo and NCAA Continues, there was a German-Facilitated Meeting to Legitimize it, Commission on Human Rights and Good Governance Visited, the Case of the Enforced Disappearance of Oriais Oleng'iyo has Begun, UNESCO, and More<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is not a nightmare that you
can wake up from. The horror is real. The threat, lobbied for by OBC, that
organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, of taking 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of grazing land from the Maasai of Loliondo - squeezing them into land with
towns, agricultural areas, forest reserves, and a nasty <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">American land grab</a> –
was last year implemented with brutality and lawlessness by the Tanzanian
government. The ugly boundary beacons still stand there and the Maasai can only
access their own land as thieves, risking terrible extortion by rangers, which
is a risk that must be taken, since cows need grass. Oriais Oleng'iyo who was
last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022, with bullet wounds and held by security
forces, has still not been brought back to his family. After the over
five-month abduction on bogus charges of all councillors, except one who fled,
together with people suspected of sharing information, there aren’t any local leaders
who are speaking up against the crimes. Only the court cases resemble anything
like hope. There is now further evidence (in case anyone had doubted it) that the
Germans support the horror.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro Conservation Area with
its NCAA rule and restrictions was something to avoid at all costs and a reason
for resistance in Loliondo, but now most of Loliondo’s grazing land has been
stolen from the villages and placed under the NCAA, with much worse
restrictions, total restrictions. In NCA itself, with the specific and
outspokenly hostile president, and the relocation drive to other people’s land
600 km away, everything has worsened, but "recently" there have been some visits
by allies, which could maybe lead to something worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA rangers and leaders of so-called cultural bomas in Olbalbal and Endulen are involved in violent assault, including rape, against women who sell cultural ornaments independently, and I only got details about this last evening. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The war against pastoralists,
and other rural people, continues almost all over Tanzania. In Mbarali, Chunya,
and maybe Iringa and Chamwino districts, some 48 villages (could be more) are
threatened by the old extension decision (GN No.28) for Ruaha National Park. In
Kilombero a massive game reserve was declared on 17</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> February. In
Tarime there’s been lethal ranger violence for decades and on 28</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
March a demarcation operation on village land begun. In Nyatwali ward in Bunda
there are eviction threats for extending Serengeti National Park all the way to
Lake Victoria. Last year the government in the most lawless and irrational way planted
beacons in several villages to expand to Kilimanjaro International Airport
(there’s an ongoing court case). There’s extreme police brutality in Isela
sub-village in Ndolezi village, Mbozi district from where people are being
evicted for investment around a meteorite museum managed by the NCAA! This is
far from Ngorongoro, in Songwe region, at the other end of the country. In
Kalilani village in Uvinza district Mahale Mountains National Park is being
extended into the village, and last year, at almost the exact time as
Ololosokwan was attacked, rangers attacked this village with live bullets,
which I didn’t get to know until 24</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> March this year. And so many
other underreported, and unreported, horrors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Still, the crimes in Loliondo
should suffice for a <b>total</b> tourism boycott of Tanzania. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President’s
son in law as new Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Extortion of
herders continues<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where is
Oriais <a name="_Hlk130767277">Oleng'iyo</a>?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Demoralizing
tour by the MP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Land grab
legitimation meeting facilitated by Germans<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Crime legitimation meeting number two</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reminder
about the Germans and why they must be chased out of the Serengeti ecosystem<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reminder of
the government commandeered visit by the African Commission of Human and
People’s Rights<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Visit by the Commission
for Human Rights and Good Governance<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support and
harassment in Ngorongoro Conservation Area<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Beatings, rape, threats and silence in Olbalbal and Endulen, women terrorized by rangers and cultural boma leaders</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO and
the terrible Dr Malebo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Updates added at the end of the blog post.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Sorry for the delay in publishing this post. There's too much happening and it's too </b></span><b>difficult</b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> to confirm much of the </b><b>information</b><b style="font-size: 12pt;">. I may also be too slow and unfocused. </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6DNdPfJDfrLUaOhIDzegKfpOPu8gFIP43XZcNLXK61CEEGOqFsNJt5DxIZOX_HWrJGO3AN3J7Vc8537XDPKB-zNANXBKbiQSTYL0b2OaRGf2sG74KvP7DLaZUh9pCSCRZuPbT8zWsvMbx7LBO-1qruSFDt40hN6HB6T8rVP3hzp1b70q8dD0h05AQGA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1280" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6DNdPfJDfrLUaOhIDzegKfpOPu8gFIP43XZcNLXK61CEEGOqFsNJt5DxIZOX_HWrJGO3AN3J7Vc8537XDPKB-zNANXBKbiQSTYL0b2OaRGf2sG74KvP7DLaZUh9pCSCRZuPbT8zWsvMbx7LBO-1qruSFDt40hN6HB6T8rVP3hzp1b70q8dD0h05AQGA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ololosokwan (cows released after extortion paid).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog
post both Loliondo and NCA will be mentioned, so please try not to mix them up.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">:
Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District. A local police state at the
service of OBC – that has had the hunting block (4,000 km<sup>2</sup>) covering
the whole of Loliondo and part of Sale, since 1993 - and the American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> that claim a private nature refuge. For many years a constant threat of
robbing the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2 </sup>of vitally important grazing land,
expecting them and their livestock to squeeze into the remaining land. Major
illegal and extremely violent operations in 2009, 2017, and then the worst (and
ongoing) in 2022 when the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> were brutally and lawlessly
demarcated as protected area, evicting the Maasai. Vicious hate campaign by the
reporter Manyerere Jackton since around 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: Ngorongoro division of Ngorongoro
District. Harsh restrictions on every aspect of life under the rule of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and its chief conservator Freddy
Manongi, instigated by UNESCO and IUCN. Blocking of funds for social services
since 2021. Illegal transfer of COVID-19 funds to Msomera in Handeni to where
the Maasai are supposed to relocate “voluntarily”, displacing the Msomera
villagers. In 2022, a vicious hate campaign in media and in parliament. In
September 2022, the management of the stolen 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo
was placed under the NCAA, which had been an open threat since 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160550"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President’s
son in law as new Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Valentine’s Day, President Samia Suluhu Hassan removed Pindi
Chana from the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and
replaced her with her son in law, Mohamed Mchengerwa, Minister of Culture, Arts
and Sports. Chana was shifted to Mchengerwa's former ministry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqancN0_2XKGNw6ushNfnFxayKHP_Gk_TsQw2yFByZ2qH-2OTa2TzufiojawrMkXjiDZ-hb2sXvf6OzMuGt5KfQOPjIWRivabgwvzehoyohT3A7WEVMoLsks3LW-r-mYZ40O2s-lEtAVNOqIaoFnT9b4n_aW8A4LskJif0ta0ItmvIwSE6_J_ndVPHtA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="800" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqancN0_2XKGNw6ushNfnFxayKHP_Gk_TsQw2yFByZ2qH-2OTa2TzufiojawrMkXjiDZ-hb2sXvf6OzMuGt5KfQOPjIWRivabgwvzehoyohT3A7WEVMoLsks3LW-r-mYZ40O2s-lEtAVNOqIaoFnT9b4n_aW8A4LskJif0ta0ItmvIwSE6_J_ndVPHtA" width="320" /></a></div><br />As known ... Chana's time as Minister of Natural Resources of Tourism has been the worst time ever for the Maasai of Loliondo and Ngorongoro.<div><br /></div><div>How I will remember Pindi Chana:<br /><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifPE39pxc38su5Cip0n2gxlgX_ipUhc1j_02Z9XxpRnSCJYhKmgLRlRI3xRDK3378eFmLgDNs9Pi-n-Ms37wlN9mKLImextuhItT4IQe5mAkFUJie9K-FF_fCHgqR63QwiAqm32NEZ-JV3zX5NWAHYz9slPEmxXr9umozKixO85KPo9dqb8AqRNuc4RQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="819" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifPE39pxc38su5Cip0n2gxlgX_ipUhc1j_02Z9XxpRnSCJYhKmgLRlRI3xRDK3378eFmLgDNs9Pi-n-Ms37wlN9mKLImextuhItT4IQe5mAkFUJie9K-FF_fCHgqR63QwiAqm32NEZ-JV3zX5NWAHYz9slPEmxXr9umozKixO85KPo9dqb8AqRNuc4RQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Table banging in agreement with PM Majaliwa's malicious lies about Loliondo.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhc61y-C17Seqalv9GAX3a63n_Gjk1DkWQx-orKoBdwcnqlz2eUHqpbqdyHO80B0pDTtjwAPg3F08GvNv-JLvons_5Ya0SSuB4gabZ9Rmv6swoNgAhBJQUrfefzCTLxVPRS7xJZrgyznMA-75UnubKX3gsmfrLiukKr4Npt2q7jC32GdPG2kbArlabPGQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1445" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhc61y-C17Seqalv9GAX3a63n_Gjk1DkWQx-orKoBdwcnqlz2eUHqpbqdyHO80B0pDTtjwAPg3F08GvNv-JLvons_5Ya0SSuB4gabZ9Rmv6swoNgAhBJQUrfefzCTLxVPRS7xJZrgyznMA-75UnubKX3gsmfrLiukKr4Npt2q7jC32GdPG2kbArlabPGQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Loliondo with Majaliwa, celebrating the war against the Maasai.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The horrible, anti-pastoralist deputy minister Mary
Masanja has not been moved anywhere.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On 31st March, Mchengerwa appointed Elibariki Bajuta as Deputy Chief Conservator of Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Bajuta has as Head of Protection been Chief Conservator Freddy Manongi's close assistant in the efforts of emptying Ngorongoro of the Maasai. Earlier, Bajuta was District Tourism Officer at the service of "investors".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160570"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPrbZo53VJaRZXBqOAID7a9eqHgD1pidaZCPBsvz44xZMhESgqDrDLJ6eulakEg2FtAt07BCPrJkVPD4cnie7-0aIu3Ie54b9Mp2xdVIwJbkXuBuJJXuLeORhr7sSYch_EQSnkKgsvmYAamYGWTTQYQ8mWsxu7WXR_vrLNFYPh7hHFQwa2lJ7C89udiQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="788" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPrbZo53VJaRZXBqOAID7a9eqHgD1pidaZCPBsvz44xZMhESgqDrDLJ6eulakEg2FtAt07BCPrJkVPD4cnie7-0aIu3Ie54b9Mp2xdVIwJbkXuBuJJXuLeORhr7sSYch_EQSnkKgsvmYAamYGWTTQYQ8mWsxu7WXR_vrLNFYPh7hHFQwa2lJ7C89udiQ" width="175" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160570"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Extortion
of herders continues<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brutally robbed of their own
grazing land, the Maasai of Loliondo are directed to use remaining land that to
a large extent is occupied by towns, forest reserves, agriculture and an the
ugly American land grabber, Thomson Safaris (claiming a private “Enashiva Nature
Refuge”) and that <b>everyone knows</b> can’t sustain their livestock, they
must graze like thieves at night and risk both large nocturnal predators on
four legs and the two-legged version impounding livestock at huge “fines” of
TShs 100,000 per cow and TShs 25,000 per sheep or goat. Though after the
rangers of Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) took over after
Tanzania Wildlife Authority (TAWA) there has been a possibility of negotiating
to pay lower and more direct cash extortion. Reports from Ololosokwan are that since
security forces in June last year moved in to finish off the Maasai, liquor
business is thriving, and new prostitutes move in daily. On 19<sup>th</sup>
February, 700 cows belonging to six different owners were seized in
Ololosokwan, even outside the fake and illegal “game reserve”, and TShs 6
million were extorted from the owners. Lately, the rangers’ way of operating
has turned even more terrifying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> March, 62
cows from Sedui village in Alailelai ward (<b>NCA, not Loliondo/Sale</b>) were caught
in this ward that somehow (apparently since it’s the same early rainy season
grazing area as in Malambo) according to the rangers is part of the fake and
illegal “game reserve” in the Loliondo hunting block. The owners paid 6.2
million in “fines”, and the cows were released on 6<sup>th</sup> March. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> 11<sup>th</sup> March, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">47
cows belonging to Simat Rotiken were seized by rangers in Ololosokwan, on land
illegally called a "game reserve". The extortion was the regular TShs
4,700,000 (100,000 per head of cattle).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 12<sup>th</sup> March it
was reported that 600 sheep belonging to the Karinya family from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Serng'etuny, Piyaya had one week earlier been
seized in the Imbarbali area of Serengeti National Park, and taken to Naabi
gate. <b>This is technically more legal than the lawless extortion of herders
on village land declared a fake and illegal “game reserve”, but cruel and
totally disproportionate. </b>The owners attempted to pay the extortionate TShs
12,000,000 fine, but this was refused by TANAPA/SENAPA that work for the end of the Maasai. On 15<sup>th</sup> March a vehicle with loudspeakers
was announcing the auctioning of the sheep in Mugumu and other places west of
the national park. The sheep were sold on the 15<sup>th</sup>. <b>This is the
worst that can happen, and in the past, it used to be stopped by any means. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGLbpyZo6kzB04i9HciHpV30RvkkBHpcwOvSOpjuets7h63cE5SUQ8g6IqF2w6UU5M-XHS80rzjk7sboGfg7v3Bq-DaBRNhnAcnP6cDElxz53HqxIzmKeeR8QJ4n8yHwc5ykGxkFCyR1Y_Ho4-FGshBy5QAzFb-BQZyqtQvkIcR96_8UgrXiXskY9FBw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGLbpyZo6kzB04i9HciHpV30RvkkBHpcwOvSOpjuets7h63cE5SUQ8g6IqF2w6UU5M-XHS80rzjk7sboGfg7v3Bq-DaBRNhnAcnP6cDElxz53HqxIzmKeeR8QJ4n8yHwc5ykGxkFCyR1Y_Ho4-FGshBy5QAzFb-BQZyqtQvkIcR96_8UgrXiXskY9FBw" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sheep.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At night-time on 16<sup>th</sup>
March, 55 cows belonging to Mure Olempoe were seized in Ololosokwan, in the
Kuka Hill area, on <b>village land illegally called a “game reserve</b>”. The
rangers attempted to seize more cows, but those ran away. It was first said
that the cattle had been taken to Klein’s gate and that the owner would have to
pay the insane TShs 100,000 per head of cattle extortion “fine”. On the 18<sup>th</sup>,
it was revealed that the situation was even worse. The cows had been taken to
Bologonja on the north-eastern corner of Serengeti National Park, on the border
with Kenya, and Serengeti rangers, claiming to have seized the cows in the
national park, were saying that they would be auctioned off. The cattle were auctioned on 31st March, and Olempoe bought 20 of his own cows. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same evil method was
repeated at night-time on 21<sup>st</sup> March on illegally demarcated village
land in the Osero Sopia area of Ololosokwan village. 440 cows belonging to
people from Mairowa, Njoroi, Olekenta, and Osero Sopia (Ntasikoy Pere, Leshoko
Tanin, Toroge Oriais, Kumoi Naing'isa, Orantai Nampaso) were seized and taken
to Bologonja. On Friday 24<sup>th</sup> March, one of the cattle owners. Oriais
Toroge, was arrested and taken to Mugumu. He was released on bail, and there was an
“illegal grazing” case. The court ruled that the cows had been
lost and strayed, and they were supposed to be released, but as of today, 1st April, they are still being held at Bologonja!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Karipoy Ngaiseri's 103 cows
were seized in the Oldoinyo Keri area of Ololosokwan on 29<sup>th</sup> March,
in the fake and illegal "game reserve", near Taasa Camp, and taken to
Klein's gate. After the owner was extorted TShs 100,000 per head, the cattle were released on the 30th. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyQcLXMVxMmIuXGHfNRGvBkgYA3YikatLm5M1niE2L3zs4xRJ1vReVU3v9oLJiwC-f7bg0TGyLOBh90U8whndbgyuFMCPsoxod5Hb2yofMfy6bLyLCKsoU3JRRlqsA29lYRIeU9dzpVXAKwCsPLu0bURLohvDrfjkvkoMj4kf2TbPjpxlzQtLkCEUsVw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="720" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyQcLXMVxMmIuXGHfNRGvBkgYA3YikatLm5M1niE2L3zs4xRJ1vReVU3v9oLJiwC-f7bg0TGyLOBh90U8whndbgyuFMCPsoxod5Hb2yofMfy6bLyLCKsoU3JRRlqsA29lYRIeU9dzpVXAKwCsPLu0bURLohvDrfjkvkoMj4kf2TbPjpxlzQtLkCEUsVw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ololosokwan.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023 is challenging: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Imposition of TShs 100,000 ransom compounding fees as unfounded in the law.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Jurisdictions of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in imposing compounding fees.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130434647"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where
is Oriais Oleng'iyo?<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">85-years old Orias Oleng'iyo from
Ololosokwan has not been seen since 10<sup>th</sup> June 2022, at his home in the Engong'u area of Ololosokwan</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, with
bullet wounds and held by security forces that had been sent in their
hundreds to brutally and lawlessly demarcate 1,500 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> of village
land and very important grazing land, as the protected area that the “investor”
OBC for years has been lobbying for. Unlike other abducted people from
Loliondo, Oriais never appeared on lists of those who had been detained, and
was not among those charged with bogus charges that were dismissed after months
of illegal detention and torture. His son filed an habeas corpus case in court.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> March, the
case of enforced disappearance of Oriais <a name="_Hlk130384349">Oleng'iyo</a>
of Ololosokwan, Loliondo division, in Ngorongoro District, Miscellaneous
Criminal Application No. 68 of 2022 came up for hearing before Judge Gwae, in
the High Court of Tanzania, Arusha Registry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz5V8hlqRcl2sj5r9xDOb79ycW8f2dxaHTROZnxrkSnkw6LS_RbLfH4U6wsB4tJDRmcVfb6Ooqjur-URtTdPdbMA8ASFVM1VNtbEYmH1uofmmKu6V6SJfUs7W-aQSqFqZs7i5dixJ0snBUSJk5ZJ5NQBtfbX_YeLxtyd6nRnqdh5UcBEF9HpbihdxEuA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1280" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjz5V8hlqRcl2sj5r9xDOb79ycW8f2dxaHTROZnxrkSnkw6LS_RbLfH4U6wsB4tJDRmcVfb6Ooqjur-URtTdPdbMA8ASFVM1VNtbEYmH1uofmmKu6V6SJfUs7W-aQSqFqZs7i5dixJ0snBUSJk5ZJ5NQBtfbX_YeLxtyd6nRnqdh5UcBEF9HpbihdxEuA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since the respondents’ lawyers
did not show up, the case was postponed to 30<sup>th</sup> March. The plaintiff,
Oriais’ son Ndoloi Oleng’iyo, who saw his father being taken away by security forces, was also requested to appear on the 30<sup>th</sup>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What the plaintiff is applying
for:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. The Court to order the
defendants to bring before the Court Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo who has been taken
to an unknown location since he was arrested at his home in Engong'u Nairowa,
Ololosokwan Ward, Loliondo, Ngorongoro District.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. Court to order the
respondents to set at liberty Oriais Oleng'iyo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. The Court to order the
respondents to attend Court to explain the reasons for holding Orias Pasilange
Ng'iyo against the Law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">4. The Court to order the respondents
to bring back the body of Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo dead or alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Respondents:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1) Officer Commanding District
– Ngorongoro <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2) Regional Police Commander –
Arusha <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3) Arusha Regional
Commissioner <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">4) Ngorongoro District
Commissioner <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">5) Inspector General of Police
in Tanzania <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">6) Attorney General<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The above are not only
responsible as holders of their respective offices, but Arusha RC John Mongella
was the official enforcer of the brutal and lawless demarcation, directly
representing President Samia. The Ngorongoro DC Raymond Mwangwala accompanied
every government official who arrived to issue threats, make military style
exhibitions, and pose with the illegal beacons, as then IGP Sirro (now
ambassador to Zimbabwe) and many others did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYhJ1-qODrtMDQ1vbauAOpgMUUL1sbjR2iIpLry_LEfFvYRLr_WOqOV3GP1syREBy-xUoaXAXfFNGn7XGQYV91xfPnMFDw13gSo88-htZpeRTR-SDhdHCkA1ZUThGLh4iImFl7certf_uLM4FlI6IOJCLlNiy3jCoEZimi9664_ChuOsmMDnZ0uR7RJg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="660" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYhJ1-qODrtMDQ1vbauAOpgMUUL1sbjR2iIpLry_LEfFvYRLr_WOqOV3GP1syREBy-xUoaXAXfFNGn7XGQYV91xfPnMFDw13gSo88-htZpeRTR-SDhdHCkA1ZUThGLh4iImFl7certf_uLM4FlI6IOJCLlNiy3jCoEZimi9664_ChuOsmMDnZ0uR7RJg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mongella and Mwangwala lying and issuing threats in Loliondo.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNvNYtKRGd_MOI8uWsp9FxyaKoxHpi31gqDponwT_E-bSXVqUcslhLpCbpmIStsmR_uOp7nexYbgxAgDMrNk1hdVOWWZZ77Njafk54RLnRv_JZKmBUGyxU2LSU96r_ng3PL2R-m0mdpuabYmfAqPjLsNcMid1l-Nm4thVkSA4xXBRJ1jdP_hlrIo9WeA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNvNYtKRGd_MOI8uWsp9FxyaKoxHpi31gqDponwT_E-bSXVqUcslhLpCbpmIStsmR_uOp7nexYbgxAgDMrNk1hdVOWWZZ77Njafk54RLnRv_JZKmBUGyxU2LSU96r_ng3PL2R-m0mdpuabYmfAqPjLsNcMid1l-Nm4thVkSA4xXBRJ1jdP_hlrIo9WeA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former IGP Sirro in Loliondo posing for the war against the Maasai.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> March there
was a hearing. Unsurprisingly, the government side is denying everything,
saying that they never arrested Oriais, that he isn’t on any lists of detained
people, that nobody has any names or numbers of police officers, or vehicles. The
ruling is set for 10<sup>th</sup> May.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy8T5zHcrQuwescQ8gncnSi1CrFhhalGfsDLkmBWIUoqEb76rQs1xT1cpiVjtoq2eLww6VSpTIgxglmMavKT8NXH6mK7DV85ViajU1B0gBpaLwsN8TeXqRtzKTe-ATr7pNahfXL5LE2GBXQZA4Dxj2CkpUN-zJlloL_kt_qAdwvOR8CyyC27wcprIHWw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="805" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhy8T5zHcrQuwescQ8gncnSi1CrFhhalGfsDLkmBWIUoqEb76rQs1xT1cpiVjtoq2eLww6VSpTIgxglmMavKT8NXH6mK7DV85ViajU1B0gBpaLwsN8TeXqRtzKTe-ATr7pNahfXL5LE2GBXQZA4Dxj2CkpUN-zJlloL_kt_qAdwvOR8CyyC27wcprIHWw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ndoloi</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where is Oriais Oleng’iyo???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">See below for more about ongoing
court cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160596"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Demoralizing
tour by the MP<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since mid-February until
mid-March, Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Olehangai has been on a tour of villages in
Loliondo, Sale and Ngorongoro. The MP who has several times spoken up in
parliament with great seriousness about the Loliondo land threat, was
apparently seen by many as their only hope, and emotionally received. Sadly,
however, Oleshangai seems to in the most demoralizing way not to have spoken up
strongly about the land theft and human rights crimes. Reports from Ololosokwan
are that he called for rangers to stop seizing cattle in the 500-metre area
outside the illegal demarcation, which authorities want to be a no-go zone.
Though seizing livestock in the illegally demarcated area isn’t any less
criminal, which makes talk about the 500-metre not that helpful. Oleshangai has
also engaged in the most disgusting praise of president Samia, and sadly
there’s video evidence of this. The ruling party, CCM, truly is the most
destructive sect, destroying everything in its way. There’s so much more to say
about this, but it’s just too painful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160623"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Land
grab legitimation meeting facilitated by Germans<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> February, a
disgusting meeting about the <a name="_Hlk129169688">Ngorongoro District Land
Use Framework Plan</a> for the next 20 years was held at the Ngorongoro District
Council Hall in Wasso. Sadly, those responsible for the horror have been much
more generous with information about this meeting than have serious people,
maybe because the latter weren’t there. The meeting was led by DC Raymond
Mwangwala, the National Land Use Commission represented by Discory Kanuth
(spelling?), and Frankfurt Zoological Society were thanked for facilitating it. Ngorongoro Land officer and chairman of the land planning committee, Kelvin Aligaweza, described it as a stakeholders meeting following up
on the team of 40 state security and surveyors that in late October were sent
to re-survey the villages and used illegitimate village leaders to impose fake
and forced land use plans. At that time the DC was appearing in media talking
about further land alienation via Wildlife Management Areas as an aim of those
land use plans. Fortunately, none of the councillors from the wards affected by
the brutally and lawlessly demarcated “game reserve” attended this meeting. An overwhelming majority of the attendants were non-Maasai, but there were some traitors as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQvp4OAgghZq617z7K-CeOQcfx9Vbvr0nSh7ugtZf0AXN5Feam1v4p50j8GRv2zkbzU6r1OWnPT6FFkHpQjqoHOizFD5BynAHgxqfxZoZ-lql0LgWUrm2R6SLxoK1amidwfH1C0B8EGYkBAcaCwAdDkUrorxC6b4tk-MKm5zlfO8wzJXwNHFrdV5vEag" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQvp4OAgghZq617z7K-CeOQcfx9Vbvr0nSh7ugtZf0AXN5Feam1v4p50j8GRv2zkbzU6r1OWnPT6FFkHpQjqoHOizFD5BynAHgxqfxZoZ-lql0LgWUrm2R6SLxoK1amidwfH1C0B8EGYkBAcaCwAdDkUrorxC6b4tk-MKm5zlfO8wzJXwNHFrdV5vEag" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The chairman of Soitsambu
village, Marko Lorru, who for years has been known as an undependable figure, a
friend of the worst “investors”, and I’ve had some nasty encounters with him in
social media, <a href="https://youtu.be/jCJz-S6QDnw" target="_blank">appeared in media</a> in support of this legitimation meeting. Doing such
a thing after the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero has been brutally demarcated and
alienated is going very, very far into treason indeed. Lorru praised the
usefulness of the “participatory” land use planning. Two NGO people had been
invited to the meeting, Joseph Parsambei of TPCF and Rose Njilo of Mimutie.
Both have for some time been known as very compromised and the government’s
favourites. There’s an audio clip of Parsambei speaking in agreement with the
government’s land use planning, blaming the councillors for not attending,
saying that everyone should participate, and heaping some praise on FZS. It’s
terrible to hear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNAGCjNCK2_8rHsIYJSOXL59A-erhugp8U5UiDnmnKiGTATOUKM3WHwGsYbGifa3yBB2B6x0XJeHkVDuoWoTVH3NEizzUUk1mNteyDeTu6pEguCsnee-BWPZmESKNuenhPQPr6IIq-_8DAXJuNta9rzxF18lF_zs4L2KPANtqb9J2RvwkBkc78LfjQwA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNAGCjNCK2_8rHsIYJSOXL59A-erhugp8U5UiDnmnKiGTATOUKM3WHwGsYbGifa3yBB2B6x0XJeHkVDuoWoTVH3NEizzUUk1mNteyDeTu6pEguCsnee-BWPZmESKNuenhPQPr6IIq-_8DAXJuNta9rzxF18lF_zs4L2KPANtqb9J2RvwkBkc78LfjQwA" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Masegeri Tumbuya Rurai
represented Frankfurt Zoological Society. This individual was District Natural
Resources Officer during the mass arson in 2009. In social media in 2012,
before blocking me, he described the 2009 operation as a consequence of the
Maasai rejecting a WMA. Before that he had been giving me somewhat sincere
information about how to visit Loliondo safely (to be accompanied by someone
from the district council and prevented from getting to know anything at all).
In 2013 Tumbuya Rurai was described as the most dangerous person in the
district who spent 70 % of his time working for OBC as their official informer
and contact person, who had allegedly been rewarded with a Nissan Xtrail from their
director Mollel. Tumbuya Rurai was reportedly very helpful preparing the map
for OBC’s rejected district land use plan. By now, Tumbuya Rurai has been
working for FSZ for many years as their Serengeti Project Manager.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlB6lE-WcxDn8nkaph3wZ-1TWqk_oJRwAEbeG_koXAF5-ArU4xzg26o0mCeQWEdSk8MhtpU4bMez2LR6jpqNGNpXu26CNRdQ9rAoU1FDQGcMA-UE-JLENtWGJhof13TpjznClDTn6bsvgDTV2R-MGY1izV9h4FjNJ5yhiN2sJ_VG5w3pWIM2Eu9r7I8w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlB6lE-WcxDn8nkaph3wZ-1TWqk_oJRwAEbeG_koXAF5-ArU4xzg26o0mCeQWEdSk8MhtpU4bMez2LR6jpqNGNpXu26CNRdQ9rAoU1FDQGcMA-UE-JLENtWGJhof13TpjznClDTn6bsvgDTV2R-MGY1izV9h4FjNJ5yhiN2sJ_VG5w3pWIM2Eu9r7I8w" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ololosokwan, most of the
zoning sign boards from the October-November fake and forced land use planning,
using an acting chairman under the influence of OBC, have after the return of
village chairman John Pyando been taken down and hidden. Ololosokwan, like
other villages, already has a land use plan. <b>The problem is that the main
part of the grazing land has been brutally stolen and must be returned!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Crime
legitimation meeting number two</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the evening of 30</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
March, I was informed that meeting number two in the German-facilitated land
theft legitimation efforts would be held the following day. Even worse, there
were fears and rumours that the councillors would attend, and I wasn’t the only
one who felt sick because of this, but fortunately those from the wards
affected by the brutally and illegally imposed game reserve did </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">not</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
attend. Though, s</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">adly, the two women’s special
seats councillors who were locked up on frivolous and malicious “murder”
charges did attend. I don’t know why.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reportedly, the District
Council Hall was full of people looking for the generous German allowances. DC
Mwangwala in his opening remarks said that MP Oleshangai had called him to excuse
for not attending but gave his blessing for the meeting.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I hope the DC was
lying. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
been reported that the DC gave directions to the CCM district secretary that he
should deal with the members of his party who are sabotaging the government
efforts and CCM manifesto of planning the nation. It’s believed that he meant
the councillors that didn’t attend the meeting. It’s been explained to me that
the CCM secretary isn’t accountable to the DC, but systems are broken
down.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Added 3<sup>rd</sup> April:
here’s the threat in a clip by Chanel 10, shared by the DC’s office on
Facebook. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxC7tx_OupA06L2RHy2iRdUPZXY6nlOpw5b6-i9-oRBdg_JOPgEhXJc5iQ4WDmLP5tnLylCGCCmnR9z2ds96Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCaNiO9xUWYLzhrT-nYGlz7NYEdSAhBTZp-Wfn4lhHtlcoCk_9RxPJ2hicG0zt15lFPz6PWErWpSm6CyYXVXGNEF_qkYfHa5pgZk2AmCeH3Fez5QGm3IbDjON1VUdmpAE5vYNfA-eJzoJx45uRov3vFyYfkHcm8EYEPzanYXqymBJQbCsWhVREdDJoQw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="865" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCaNiO9xUWYLzhrT-nYGlz7NYEdSAhBTZp-Wfn4lhHtlcoCk_9RxPJ2hicG0zt15lFPz6PWErWpSm6CyYXVXGNEF_qkYfHa5pgZk2AmCeH3Fez5QGm3IbDjON1VUdmpAE5vYNfA-eJzoJx45uRov3vFyYfkHcm8EYEPzanYXqymBJQbCsWhVREdDJoQw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FZS’s Masegeri Tumbuya Rurai
was again speaking, and so was the chairman of the land planning committee, Kelvin
Aligaweza. According to one account, FZS were also represented by their land use planning technical advisor, Christopher Cuthbert Christopher.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same traitors as last time
have been mentioned by a reporting government supporter against land rights (Dudui).
Soitsambu chairman Marko Lorru and NGO director Joseph Parsambei again praised
the government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For some reason, the Deputy
Minister of Minerals, Steven Kiruswa, was on an incognito visit to the district,
apparently not even known by the DC. He addressed the meeting and the following day (today) he visited a gemstone mine in Ololosokwan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">May they all be cursed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYDE6-juyBWkWa_O5CfEaeem3IjzJMabicMQoxk60gTdR7YhYH2lu071KJmmVU_jbszUi-YiNeTrTX5S1GBttzYaiqMzyR7SkOUd22Av1Evemlp0GpwH0CL4YoC1-2WOlnVaCrLXDkzFexmFZuC_FWE4-Rc23T2x091rGIAdj2t16ZTIPVgzm34Z9zfg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYDE6-juyBWkWa_O5CfEaeem3IjzJMabicMQoxk60gTdR7YhYH2lu071KJmmVU_jbszUi-YiNeTrTX5S1GBttzYaiqMzyR7SkOUd22Av1Evemlp0GpwH0CL4YoC1-2WOlnVaCrLXDkzFexmFZuC_FWE4-Rc23T2x091rGIAdj2t16ZTIPVgzm34Z9zfg" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160651"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reminder
about the Germans and why they must be chased out of the Serengeti ecosystem<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130160651;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If anyone had believed
otherwise, it should now be clear that FZS and the Germans support the
Tanzanian government’s crime in Loliondo. In June 2022, FZS, that never has
said anything about violence for conservation in the Serengeti ecosystem,
seriously rattled by <a href="https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/letter-to-FZS" target="_blank">Survival International</a>, expressed “<a href="https://fzs.org/en/news/appraisal-of-the-situation-of-loliondo/" target="_blank">shock</a>” about the
violence in Loliondo and distanced itself from any involvement in the land
demarcation, but still claiming that the land status would be “uncertain”. German-funded
development projects in the Serengeti ecosystem are implemented by Frankfurt
Zoological Society (FZS) and TANAPA through the Serengeti Ecosystem Development
and Conservation Project (SEDCP) and for years land use planning has been an
important part of this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Through the decades, FZS, the
Tanzanian government, and OBC share the same narrative about the Maasai, and
German funds keep being showered to prop of the crimes against pastoralists
committed by the Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism and its parastatals
in close cooperation with Frankfurt Zoological Society. In the early 2000s, FZS
and the government were working hard to make the Maasai accept a Wildlife
Management Area (a recipe to turn land into protected areas while still
nominally village land, increasing the influence of investors, conservation
organisations and central government, practically always imposed under threat
of land alienation) which was rejected. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2017, then Minister
for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe and Serengeti chief park
warden William Mwakilema (current head of Tanzania National Parks Authority,
TANAPA) told a parliamentary committee (and very much the press) that German
funds would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
into a protected area. In Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the
German money. These conditions for releasing funds were not denied by the
Germans until two years later by representatives of the development bank in an <a href="https://medium.com/conservationwatch/kfw-comments-on-its-support-to-the-serengeti-ecosystem-development-and-conservation-project-4c67b01b51bd" target="_blank">interview</a> with Chris Lang, and we don’t know who was telling the truth. Then,
while Loliondo was attacked by mass arson implemented by Serengeti rangers in
August 2017, a most revolting picture was published of ambassador Hess’s
predecessor Detlef Wächter. The picture showed Wächter smilingly handing over
buildings for park staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti National Park, to an
equally smiling Minister Maghembe, while <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/-german-hands-over-buildings-for-serengeti-eco-system-2601252" target="_blank">commenting </a>on the long and successful
partnership between Germany and Tanzania in protecting the Serengeti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQezllDKNVffJEDL-SExTL7FAAn3C9D40BjbRvIt-eS0czqlFKe2a4B4CmompNvD1p6IrFUJC0uzZOw0ri_tbbf2t8RLTbcUsNvUKZIxw-9Rc11qSsLGwAKpYVS6hp9UbWOPRece7WLjOTx26ej7dZAhrIT-aAa_Xr6vLjeo6zRUb-XDP7RzGimmwanA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQezllDKNVffJEDL-SExTL7FAAn3C9D40BjbRvIt-eS0czqlFKe2a4B4CmompNvD1p6IrFUJC0uzZOw0ri_tbbf2t8RLTbcUsNvUKZIxw-9Rc11qSsLGwAKpYVS6hp9UbWOPRece7WLjOTx26ej7dZAhrIT-aAa_Xr6vLjeo6zRUb-XDP7RzGimmwanA" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpbMPDrftVuFhFaX74t6N_W7rrgc1__5DhbnWuvWysdCxx4OrZ_ONX8PU_l67kgQr-VsA8CXSrqXtsJMCqkx1snITwTG7LbmNpgTZ9K1ZKlLYv2GWSLGdRdAJOBvF1bLEUniWueJYqTXckOZk-NK9fpMyw0d6LjJrScdlHEkYg9z6ExSJinhkv96nG2g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="595" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpbMPDrftVuFhFaX74t6N_W7rrgc1__5DhbnWuvWysdCxx4OrZ_ONX8PU_l67kgQr-VsA8CXSrqXtsJMCqkx1snITwTG7LbmNpgTZ9K1ZKlLYv2GWSLGdRdAJOBvF1bLEUniWueJYqTXckOZk-NK9fpMyw0d6LjJrScdlHEkYg9z6ExSJinhkv96nG2g" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the 2017 illegal mass
arson operation, the MP and the District Council Chairman said that there wasn't any risk at all with accepting German funds, since they were meant for the
whole of Loliondo and Sale, not excluding the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However there haven’t been any projects at
all in the now brutally and illegally demarcated area, while water projects
outside it have been heavily used in government rhetoric for land alienation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reporting from a meeting with
diplomats on 25<sup>th</sup> March 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism wrote that the German ambassador Regine Hess, supported the
government’s “efforts” in Ngorongoro, while the Maasai in NCA (not Loliondo) were
being deprived of social services to enforce “voluntary” relocation to Handeni.
This support has not been publicly denied in any way by the ambassador who –
after the brutal and illegal demarcation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> was
launched – went on meeting and smiling with some of the main responsible for
the crimes in Loliondo, like RC Mongella on 6<sup>th</sup> July 2022, and talk about
the “cooperation” between the two countries, and the Germans keep showering the
brutal and lawless Tanzanian government with money. In August 2022, Bärbel
Kofler, German Deputy Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development visited
Tanzania for more of the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxXY33-cEBNcFZGTz6mjZR1mHUtkLRw9GUHcifUnSzHZkWmFu5KKWWa50eRdyVFr5k3Rq6m4G-Qdei9bQh23utrYs4tYybZxtuWnzKEVORFDyolMK83wNP5jOYUediWZGHmc3ZPy5k93mSSn_c81dH19K40Wn2YuIssqzcZZE794NjkAm3reMsT7i8UA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxXY33-cEBNcFZGTz6mjZR1mHUtkLRw9GUHcifUnSzHZkWmFu5KKWWa50eRdyVFr5k3Rq6m4G-Qdei9bQh23utrYs4tYybZxtuWnzKEVORFDyolMK83wNP5jOYUediWZGHmc3ZPy5k93mSSn_c81dH19K40Wn2YuIssqzcZZE794NjkAm3reMsT7i8UA" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1cJZkUOUhmm4XQ3KGHdA_ICDbfGVA69hRg6UO5GMMp491yQivcUiXKDwwYQGb9FwXmb7reRJK6MhNluObW6Z_ZLmR7VLXOJau2uNwOGxzIQzkPtVn5hHvATRmg3yAiysePtEwDIEeoLwOrb-kMD04zeROUxBiskYA_TX3vstANHnqOfiaicHiLRdktQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="664" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1cJZkUOUhmm4XQ3KGHdA_ICDbfGVA69hRg6UO5GMMp491yQivcUiXKDwwYQGb9FwXmb7reRJK6MhNluObW6Z_ZLmR7VLXOJau2uNwOGxzIQzkPtVn5hHvATRmg3yAiysePtEwDIEeoLwOrb-kMD04zeROUxBiskYA_TX3vstANHnqOfiaicHiLRdktQ" width="202" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> December
2022, in a ceremony with the worst perpetrators of the crimes in Loliondo, PM
Kassim Majaliwa and then Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana, Ambassador Regine Hess handed over 51 vehicles that – as
reported by the embassy - are part of the 20 million euros (approx. 49.4
billion shillings) committed funds by Germany for emergency funding and
recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID-19 facilitated by the German
development bank, KfW and Frankfurt Zoological Society, FZS. The vehicles were
to be distributed into Serengeti and Nyerere National Parks and Selous Game
Reserve and would have a great impact on supporting “operations”. In the
ceremony Majaliwa mentioned <a href="https://youtu.be/4CDeucfYMFk" target="_blank">poachers and “encroaching” livestock as the objectives of those “operations”</a>. The following day, in a creepily gleeful way,
the German Embassy tweeted that during the vehicle handover ceremony Chana
announced that one rhino calf had been named Majaliwa after the PM and a second
female calf Regine after Ambassador Hess, “in appreciation of their efforts in
supporting conservation in Tanzania”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPloqgKsHdlGA7mT4121JM0Nd_gBGDYjIpFvM3RWDa1m0CszLpahjhtsWDa5cLE_XHmaogpQXW2x7z1vnEb_XILj5AZwKDm6l953vEFi_sUEj6pUKEEC3JtyAYH9uwu8NUXQYRlp0i5LtQ_VuyNP5QQd6qoze_E9DO-QgqjcIiUkScXXt2_Wg1E6t-wg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1600" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPloqgKsHdlGA7mT4121JM0Nd_gBGDYjIpFvM3RWDa1m0CszLpahjhtsWDa5cLE_XHmaogpQXW2x7z1vnEb_XILj5AZwKDm6l953vEFi_sUEj6pUKEEC3JtyAYH9uwu8NUXQYRlp0i5LtQ_VuyNP5QQd6qoze_E9DO-QgqjcIiUkScXXt2_Wg1E6t-wg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikMh99fZhHjpPvaBggxBkUAWUgUD0EJ4WTAcFYVVJIzeN_ZedMPfD2jL9K9Mh76Qi2o05kEBblipyJ6vl7JtcUzSpRrbURzxWFiRPoTKhs43PF3sGsX-AWExmedkOkzaEQnpxwjqns--yYvPa4a6mFHd6U1O-8ceN4hSzriNXfJx__Jx2CLZ6nme3AZQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikMh99fZhHjpPvaBggxBkUAWUgUD0EJ4WTAcFYVVJIzeN_ZedMPfD2jL9K9Mh76Qi2o05kEBblipyJ6vl7JtcUzSpRrbURzxWFiRPoTKhs43PF3sGsX-AWExmedkOkzaEQnpxwjqns--yYvPa4a6mFHd6U1O-8ceN4hSzriNXfJx__Jx2CLZ6nme3AZQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as seen, on 28<sup>th</sup>
February 2023, and 31st March, FZS facilitated most disgusting land use planning meetings to
legitimize the massive land theft and human rights violations of 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This kind of German behaviour must
have consequences! They Germans must be chased out of the Serengeti ecosystem!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> March there
was a hearing in Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022, the judicial review
challenging the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism’s GN No.421 of 17<sup>th</sup>
June 2022 as <i>“illegal, unreasonably made, irrationally influenced, with
procedural impropriety, in breach of both the rules of natural justice and the
doctrine of legitimate expectation to the communities who have been living in
the place for centuries”.</i> The respondents (government side) had not filed
any response. The court allowed them seven days to this. Next hearing is scheduled for 4th May for oral highlights of written submissions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As known, on 1<sup>st</sup>
November 2022 it was disclosed in Court that President Samia had on 14<sup>th</sup>
October declared a Pololeti Game Reserve (GN No.604, 2022) on the same brutally
and lawlessly demarcated village land. On 23<sup>rd</sup> March, there was
another application in Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022 challenging
the presidential declaration. The case has been scheduled for hearing on 30<sup>th</sup>
May 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the East African Court of
Justice, the ongoing case against the Tanzanian government’s fake and illegal
“Pololeti Game Reserve” is Reference No.37 of 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, the ruling in
Reference No.10 of 2017 was appealed (Appeal No.13 of 2022 East Africa Court
of Justice), and on 6<sup>th</sup> February there was a scheduling conference.
Both sides will file submissions and the hearing will hopefully be in May. As
detailed in several earlier blog posts, the ruling was strangely, the last
second, postponed from 22<sup>nd</sup> June, during the extremely brutal
violation of court orders, to September. In the most shambolic way, the ruling showed that the court had not even understood what the witnesses were saying. This
ruling was that the Maasai had failed to prove that the mass arson operation in
2017 was committed on village land and not in Serengeti National Park, when the
government’s own documents very clearly show that the crimes took place on
village land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then there is Application No.2
of 2022 that is a contempt of court application, filed in January 2022, when RC
Mongella started making threats of alienating the 1,500 km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, against
which the East African Court of Justice had issued an injunction in September
2018. An affidavit was filed after every court order, and everything else, had
been violated.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference No.29 of 2022 in the
East African Court of Justice is not about the brutal Loliondo land theft but
challenges the coordinated and suffocating policies in the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160746"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reminder
of the government commandeered visit by the African Commission of Human and
People’s Rights<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130160746;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I still haven’t seen any final
report from the late-January promotion visit by the African Commission on Human
and People’s Right, <i>“Specifically, to seek information on and assess the
situation of human rights of Indigenous Populations/Communities in Tanzania,
including particularly to review the situation in Loliondo Area and Ngorongoro
Park.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I wrote about this ridiculously
government commandeered ACHPR visit in the previous blog post but will briefly
repeat it here. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Not until the last minute was
anyone able or willing to put the commission in contact with affected people
informed about this visit, which throughout was directed and facilitated by the
Tanzanian government using premises and vehicle form the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism and accompanied by the DC and his team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> January,
the Commission visited Ngorongoro Conservation Area (don’t mix this up with
Loliondo) where they the previous day had agreed to meeting affected community
members in Mokilal village where people had gathered. Arriving in NCA vehicles,
accompanied by the DC and his team, and with heavy security, the Commission was
instead diverted to Nainokanoka where the DC had prepared people that would say
that they were willing to relocate to Msomera. Still, other villagers wondered
why the Commission was in Nainokanoka when people from all wards had gone all
the way to Mokilal to meet them, and they got some limited space to express
their views. Then the Commission made a touristic visit to Ngorongoro crater
and arrived late at Mokilal. The DC on the spot made up a new law that since
flags must be hauled at 6 pm, there could be no international meetings after
that. Even so, people in Nainokanoka and Mokilal managed to tell the Commission
about the many violations committed by the Tanzanian government, the
transferral of COVID-19 funds for Ngorongoro schools to Handeni, the underhanded,
non-participatory way of the Msomera relocation plans, and the increasing
restrictions on life in Ngorongoro, to push people to relocate. Adulterated,
hazardous compensatory salt from NCAA since access to Ngorongoro crater was
banned in 2017 was presented to the Commission. There were horrific details
about the catastrophic effects of lack of access to water in two wards since
September 2022, through government decision, and not suffered by tourists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> January,
the Commission flew to Loliondo on planes belonging to the Tanzania National
Parks Authority, TANAPA, to again meet with the DC and his handpicked people and
compromised NGOs. Nobody from the worst affected villages was invited, not a
single village leader or ward councillor. Victims of the government’s land
theft and violence were waiting in Wasso, but first the Commission was to take
a tour, in a convoy of over thirty vehicles, mostly police and other security,
of the land that brutally and lawlessly had been turned into a “game reserve”.
Somehow “security concerns” arose, Wasso had become “too dangerous”, and the
delegation was diverted to Ololosokwan, 45 kilometres away. Victims gathered in
Ololosokwan to give testimony, thinking that their prayers had been answered
and that the international body would come to rescue them, but waited in vain
for hours, then it was too late, and the Commission had to leave Loliondo. A
clip in which Salangat Mako, one of those waiting in vain, in English delivers
his message to the Commission was shared online, and then he received threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxli8D3jOW1GMtdj8TRRlEL2N75-1G5-qLtPxDzjrEEQwk28IDHwNgRMhTC0nB5Lu58EM8tfRd6NGETgWsiHA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 26<sup>th</sup> January,
the Commission visited Msomera to where the Tanzanian government wants to
relocate the Maasai of NCA (this does not concern Loliondo). In between the
government show the villagers got some limited space to explain that Msomera is
a registered village with its land use plan and the villagers were informed by
surprise and at gunpoint that Maasai from Ngorongoro would be accommodated on their
land, and that they had suffered illegal land alienation and arrests. Most of
the space in Msomera was taken by the Tanga RC who – standing next to the
Commission in the most threatening way claimed that Msomera would have been a
protected area and that no certificates issued after the declaration of Handeni
GCA would be valid. The government’s <b>favourite</b> <b>lie</b> about old Game
Controlled Areas, that totally overlapped with village land, was used to say
that the Msomera villagers were invaders and that the Ngorongoro immigrants had
more rights to the land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyDEvQgujlOH-G8_1hIjfc3ExJouEZ8qfX79J36IgSPVKLksWOaxBuhFpYI-STwbuyxN5RjI4tB379p-nZAgA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> January
some people from Loliondo were taken to Arusha to give their testimony in the
premises of the African court. Those who had waited in vain in Ololosokwan had
lost all faith in the Commission and didn’t attend. Reportedly, everything said
was astonishing news to the commissioners that had let themselves be shepherded
by the government.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Commission and the
Tanzanian government held a press conference, in which then minister Pindi
Chana and the executive secretary of the Tanzania National Commission for
UNESCO, Hamisi Malebo (<b>see below</b>) told the usual wild lies. A final
communiqué by the Commission mostly consisted of stupid praise for the
Tanzanian government but included some ridiculously timid “concerns”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In December 2022, the UN
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí
Tzay, was to visit Tanzania, but he simply called off the visit when the
Tanzanian government insisted on managing him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160784"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Visit
by the government’s Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130160784;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Commission for Human
Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) which is a government organ, suddenly
appeared unannounced in Ngorongoro on 15<sup>th</sup> March. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s a clip from 16<sup>th</sup>
March, in which the councillor of Nainokanoka, Edward Maura welcomes the
commission, and asks first how a government commission can hold those
responsible for human rights violation accountable, when it’s the government
itself that’s violating every right in Ngorongoro. Then he asks, when
“Pololeti” in Loliondo and the Ngorongoro relocation has been all over social
media for many months, and even the African Commission has visited, how come
the Tanzania Commission doesn’t appear until now. Thirdly, he asked where they
have been all this time. In Endulen, those invited who could come at a very short
notice refused a closed meeting, so it was held outside at night. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwPjege2HMK5xy3iYcCK3V9TiCZZElw-_OLJBf4HPhaN64ZDEsepICA42TqRvv9MWwVM9L8v0BgvE1est2L4w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 17<sup>th</sup> CHRAGG
visited Ololosokwan and on the 18<sup>th</sup> Malambo. Reportedly, people
asked the same questions as those asked by Maura, but nobody was brave enough
to get video clips to upload. Though invitations there, and in all villages, were
for CCM leaders, and a few traditional leaders, more than victims, even if the
two categories overlap. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Malambo, the leaders presented
in writing the brutal effects of the illegal game reserve on their ward that
had 464 km<sup>2</sup> stolen in the sub-villages of Sanjan and Ndinyika.
Besides massive loss of grazing land, terror and violence, death of thousands
of livestock, hunger, poor communications and extortionate “fines” this stolen area
had:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Two nursery schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Two churches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Four water tanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Four mobile clinic stations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nine livestock watering dams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And 3,450 people lost their
homes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a pleading tone that
upset me more than others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then CHRAGG met with NGOs,
both the compromised ones and those somewhat more serious. Their explanation
for being so late was that the commission expired and was appointed in January.
They did not give much hope about the current regime, to which they can only
offer advice, but said that the record would be kept for the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> March, in
Arusha, <a href="https://maipactz.blogspot.com/2023/03/tume-ya-haki-za-binadamu-nchini.html" target="_blank">CHRAGG met with journalists</a> whose human rights have been violated when
trying to report about Loliondo and Ngorongoro. So, it seems like this
commission is at least to some point serious. The journalists spoke about
arrests and about threats not to report, while some “special” journalists were
tasked with reporting in a one-sided way, denying Tanzanians the right to know
the truth. As noticed, the past year, Tanzanian reporting has indeed been even
more atrocious than usual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2009, CHRAGG was
responsible for the most appalling whitewash report on the mass arson evictions
operation that year. Though, during the mass arson in 2017, CHRAGG actually
issued an interim order to stop the evictions and demanded that the government
explain the operation - but the crimes just continued unabated despite this
order. Reportedly, the reason for this unexpected seriousness was that CHRAGG
had a new chairperson.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160910"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support
and harassment in Ngorongoro Conservation Area<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130160910;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation
Area (not to be confused with Loliondo) recently (or not so recently since I’m
unacceptably slow) have received some external support. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> February the <a href="https://www.aciafrica.org/news/7692/maasai-one-of-the-endangered-tribes-in-africa-religious-missionaries-in-africa-europe?fbclid=IwAR1lf-ni-n0DiymTsdubNYJ0Vy7LROijZiUDapCeJ-IRJlSWEEH1sUUhCp0" target="_blank">Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network</a> issued a statement saying, “<i>In this
region, the Catholic Church has been very active for a long time, providing
health and education services and thus substantially supporting the people. For
its part, the Tanzanian government is now withdrawing financial support for
these facilities in order to cripple them and forcefully evict the Massai
community. As central as the preservation of creation is, it is essential not
to use it as camouflage for the primary intention of the Tanzanian Government
at the detriment of the marginalised Massai community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conversely, it is imperative to recognise and
honour their contribution to the preservation of biodiversity.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> February, there
was a public Zoom meeting in Endulen about the downgrading of the hospital,
part of the restrictions to make to Maasai leave NCA. The meeting was attended
by catholic bishops from around the world and a UN representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Around the same time the
German parliamentarian Cornelia Möhring visited Ngorongoro her tweets indicated
that she had understood the situation. Hopefully she will in the Bundestag
raise the issue about the German involvement in the crimes against the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, the early rainy
season Nadeng'are area for Alailelai and Naiyobi wards overlaps and is shared
with Sanjan in Malambo that’s been declared a fake and illegal “Pololeti Game
Reserve”. Herders from Alailelai have been extorted by NCAA rangers both in the
stolen area and outside, and both ways are totally illegal. Also young people
from Sendui crossing the area on foot, without livestock, have been arrested,
beaten and robbed by rangers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in the previous
blog post, young herders were in January assaulted and tortured by rangers in
Ormoti crater. In December 2016, PM Kassim Majaliwa, without following any law,
ordered livestock not to be permitted in the craters of Ngorongoro, Ormoti and
Empakaai. There have been mentions without details, but I have not been able to
confirm further harassment in Ormoti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 26<sup>th</sup> February, two
people from Alaitole ward were arrested for non-violently chasing wildebeest from
their bomas, which is done to prevent them reaching the bomas since they carry malignant
catarrhal fever. Old clothes are usually used as barriers and the direction of
grazing livestock is changed to avoid the disease. The case was to be mentioned
on 24<sup>th</sup> March but postponed until 4<sup>th</sup> April. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I was to
publish this blog post, I finally got details about the most terrible violent
crime that’s being committed by NCAA rangers in collusion with leaders of so-called cultural
bomas. <b>See below</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Besides the decades long
restrictions to make the Maasai relocate, and the downgrading threat against
Endulen hospital, the illegal blocking of permits for already funded social
services for schools, dispensaries and village offices, continues since 2021, the
year that President Samia came into office and started inciting against the
Ngorongoro Maasai in several speeches. Primary schools are without functioning
toilets, third party donations have been denied by the NCAA, and as reported
COVID19 funds for Ngorongoro schools have been transferred to Handeni. At the
same time Flying Medical Service are grounded since March 2022, officially due
to technical reasons, which they dispute. The numbers of unvaccinated children
are growing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> March, the
Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Charles Kichere, announced that 2,5% of
Ngorongoro households had been “relocated” at a cost of TShs 24.7 billion. In a
horribly threatening way, he said that the cost for “relocating” the remaining
22,000 households would be TShs 988 billion. The CAG did not disclose where the
money is coming from. Oddly, the CAG report that is currently subject to
scrutiny (2021/22) ended on 30<sup>th</sup> June 2022, before anyone was
relocated to Handeni.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Beatings,
rape, threats and silence in Olbalbal and Endulen, women terrorized
by rangers and cultural boma leaders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 18th March I was told about
terrible abuse of women and children at Golini gate, in Ngorongoro Conservation
Area involving beatings and even rape by rangers. It would have happened the
previous day, but that was not the first time, but a recurrent crime. Then the
person who shared the information didn’t reply to further questions, and I
couldn’t find anyone else who had heard about it until 31st March.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The extreme abuse has been
committed by NCAA rangers in collusion with the leaders of the so-called
cultural bomas of Olbalbal and Endulen where handicraft is sold, and tourists
are entertained. My informant got confirmed information about two incidents.
One deadly accident and one terribly violent crime.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14th March a girl died
after being hit by a tourist vehicle. She died on the spot after being dropped
off in the Kanjiro area by a truck that gave her a lift from the Golini area.
She was a daughter of the Oloodoemunge family. I have not got her name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Extreme ranger crime was
committed in January when women were beaten with sticks and the wife of a young
man from the Olemusha Leparukei boma (homestead, not cultural boma) was raped. The attackers were the leaders of the cultural bomas and
rangers who arrived in a vehicle from the Olbalbal area driven by Leng'iria /
Luka Oleyapa who is an NCAA ranger. The woman who was raped was pregnant and
miscarried that night. Then the rangers and the cultural boma leaders handed the husband of the raped woman TShs 50,000 for him to keep quiet. The following
day a vehicle full of rangers went to the boma and threatened the owner with
that he is an immigrant from Sale, so he should keep quiet, or they will sue
him. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The two victims are from the
same boma, the girl who was killed in a vehicle accident and the woman who was
raped.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Violence by rangers who
dehumanize the Maasai and other rural people in their work to protect tourism
and conservation is well-known in many areas of Tanzania. These terrible
cultural boma leaders collude with the rangers to protect their business
interests. They don’t want women to sell cultural ornaments along the road.
They want tourists to come to their cultural bomas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I do hope that legal action
can be taken and that Ngorongoro people can get involved in stopping this
horror. Another horror upon all the horror.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>I've written about earlier cases of ranger violence in NCAA, against which there were protests, in 2021 and 2022. To date no action has been taken against the rangers. </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk130160830"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO
and the terrible Dr Malebo<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk130160830;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As I wrote about a year ago, on
21<sup>st</sup> March 2022, UNESCO issued a <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2419" target="_blank">statement </a>regarding Ngorongoro
saying, <i>“UNESCO has never at any time asked for the displacement of the
Maasai people.”</i> This was said by the main instigator for evictions and
worsened living conditions. The Tanzanian government has through the years used
UNESCO’s threats of delisting Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a World Heritage
Site, its repeated population panic, and distaste for agriculture of any kind,
or “modern” buildings, as an excuse to worsen the human rights situation. The
most <a href="https://www.jamhurimedia.co.tz/unesco-nayo-yatia-mkono-ngorongoro/" target="_blank">rabidly anti-Maasai press</a> enjoy reporting about UNESCO’s support for
eviction plans. UNESCO’s general secretary in Tanzania, Hamisi M. Malebo, not
only supports relocation of the Maasai out of Ngorongoro Conservation Area but
has in a shameless and loud way voiced support for the extremely violent and
illegal demarcation of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of essential grazing land in
Loliondo and Sale for a “game reserve”. He does this openly and loudly, in
front of international organizations, and <b>I have not seen any kind of
indication that UNESCO would distance themselves from this individual</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the genocidal Multiple
Land Use Model review proposal was presented in September 2019, the UNESCO
World Heritage Centre, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) and International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) had once again
visited Ngorongoro in March the same year and in their <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/documents/174817" target="_blank">report</a> repeated that
they wanted the MLUM review completed to see the results and offer advice,
while again complaining about the visual impact of settlements with “modern”
houses, and so on. They also recommended the State Party to continue to, “<i>promote
and encourage voluntary resettlement by communities, consistent with the
policies of the Convention and relevant international norms, from within the
property to outside by 2028”.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
known, unlike recommendations about too many vehicles (the presence of which
instead is loudly celebrated, not least by deputy minister Mary Masanja), the
MNRT loves this kind of recommendation, and the resulting MLUM review proposal
was so destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai livelihoods and
culture in Ngorongoro District, and as seen, the genocidal plan for Loliondo,
including the annexation to NCA of the illegally demarcated land, has been
brutally and lawlessly implemented. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MLUM review report proposed
to divide Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core conservation
zone” that is to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA this
includes the Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters Ngorongoro,
Olmoti and Empakaai where grazing these past few years has been banned through
order by PM Kassim Majaliwa, not law (residents in Ngorongoro Crater were
violently evicted in 1975 after a change in the Act in 1974). This has led to
losing 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards,
and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these wards. The proposal
is to do the same with Oldupai Gorge, Laitoli footprints, and the Lake Ndutu
and Lake Masek basins. In the rest of Ngorongoro District, the proposal was for
NCAA to annex the Lake Natron basin (including areas of Longido and Monduli
districts, like Selela forest and Engaruka historical site) and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
in Loliondo and Sale Divisions and designate most of these areas to be no-go
zones for pastoralists and livestock. These huge areas include many villages
and are important grazing areas, the loss of which will have disastrous
knock-on effects on lives and livelihoods elsewhere. The in June 2022
implemented alienation and annexation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo
caters almost perfectly to the wishes of OBC. Only 18% of NCA would remain for
people and livestock. Is there any sincere person who would dare to say that
this can be achieved through “voluntary” relocations? In Loliondo extreme
violence was used and in NCA the brutality of restrictions keeps worsening to
make the Maasai leave “voluntarily”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another example of the instigation by UNESCO is the decision about Ngorongoro in the 44<sup>th
</sup>session of the “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World
Cultural and Natural Heritage World Heritage Committee” from July 2021, UNESCO is
still requesting the State Party to provide information about <i>“the status of
agricultural activities in the property”</i> when even the smallest kitchen
garden had been banned since 2009, because of UNESCO’s repeated “deep concern”
which has led to malnourishment. They continued being concerned with, <i>“challenges
resulting from the significant increase in the number of people residing in the
property since its inscription”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO has never expressed any
concern, deep or otherwise, about that the MLUM review proposes a cultural
genocide. Their partner in incitement, the IUCN, did issue a statement against
the violent land alienation in Loliondo – maybe as damage control for the
trophy hunting industry that the IUCN appears to be close to – but not one word
from UNESCO. When you keep inciting an authoritarian government that values
tourism revenue above human rights, is prone to violence and lawlessness, and
full of pathological liars, to do something about too many people, you’re
complicit to crime, however much you keep mentioning consultations with
stakeholders and rightsholders, and international norms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO’s general secretary in
Tanzania, Dr Hamisi M. Malebo, on 28<sup>th</sup> February 2022, in a zoom
meeting about developments in the tourism sector with one year of Samia Suluhu
Hassan as president, explained that children in Ngorongoro can’t go to school
and mothers can’t fetch firewood safely for the risk of being snatched by wild
animals like lions, leopards and hyenas (in the spoken Zoom seminar he
mentioned cheetahs as well …), so UNESCO’s recommendation to the government is
to find the Maasai other places to live to avoid these challenges. He didn’t
say anything about that NCAA should stop blocking social services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve been informed that, while
UNESCO is obviously a criminal organisation it has no legal relationship with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the national UNESCO commission of Tanzania. Malebo
though is having a great time using the name UNESCO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> January this
year 2023, in front of the shamefully government commanded African Commission
for Human and People’s Rights Malebo continued in this vein defending the relocations
of the Maasai to areas where they will be able to pursue economic activities “<i>which
are not permitted in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area due to its reserve
status.” </i>While at the same time denying any kind of unequal treatment of
the Maasai in NCA who are obviously strangled by restrictions. Regarding
Loliondo, not only did Malebo pretend that the land was not legally registered
village land but lied that that it “<a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/government-defends-itself-in-the-ngorongoro-saga-4103892" target="_blank"><i>had never been inhabited</i></a>” (!) and claimed
that the government reached an “amicable decision” to leave the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>
as a wildlife corridor. What the cruel, immoral and deeply stupid Malebo find
“amicable” is that:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022, with great
ceremony, PM Majaliwa was handed “community recommendations” that he had
requested, and those were to stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
investigate human rights violations, and remove OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Instead of following the
recommendations, the government abducted ALL councillors from affected wards,
except one who fled, on 9<sup>th</sup> June 2022, the day before the illegal
demarcation began, later charging them with “murder” for a death that took
place on the 10<sup>th</sup> and locking them up for over five months, without
any kind of serious attempt at prosecution, together with random people
suspected of sharing information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Teargassing, shooting,
beating, slashing, disappearing, arresting, charging with nonsense, innocent
Maasai while security forces planted illegal boundary beacons. Seizing and
shooting livestock, destroying houses, stealing motorbikes and smartphones.
Evicting from very importing grazing land, legally registered village land, and
then extorting illegal “fines”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Government official after
government official appearing in Loliondo for military-style celebrations and
threats, or in international environments with concerted, demented lies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So amicable …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I maintain my recommendation
to UNESCO that is to delist Ngorongoro as soon as possible and then shut
forever up about Maasai land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For context, I should add
brief background summaries at the end of this post, but I’ll try to abstain,
since the length makes it less likely that many people will read the post. It’s
a dilemma. Please contact me if anything is unclear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Updates:</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>4<sup>th</sup> April</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Msomera villagers have got organized to protest being illegally
displaced by the “relocation” of Maasai from Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and
their testimonies were all over online media, also to some extent regular
media. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>5<sup>th</sup> April</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023 was mentioned in court
and there will be a hearing on 10<sup>th</sup> May. To people from Ngorongoro
division who in January had to pay the usual extortion fines when their
livestock were seized in the illegal game reserve in Malambo, are challenging the
imposition of TShs 100,000per head of cattle as unfounded in the law, and the jurisdiction
of of NCAA in imposing such fees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>https://youtu.be/Qi8wdTeJ5BU</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #800180;">6th April</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Davis Mushi, Serengeti senior conservator and head of security department, ignored court summons for disobeying Mugumu court orders to release 440 cows illegally held at Bologonja since 21st March.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvUbXxqsG41prVXy_PMZPtbUo-V_-EfgQ236uKtqWF6O7KU9HjzPLTBtYZwu1i4YWPcgSxvxOqy5Our_KGVBcf_hFtjjEYu9OxFt2hly3vaLeRhl8nwMyn_xfX5HlA_dKYYN-jR4kddNTMJynj_mVBFRP0vFUvcERM9maZSqRkqMJkf_s1_0zMYcEzZA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="540" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvUbXxqsG41prVXy_PMZPtbUo-V_-EfgQ236uKtqWF6O7KU9HjzPLTBtYZwu1i4YWPcgSxvxOqy5Our_KGVBcf_hFtjjEYu9OxFt2hly3vaLeRhl8nwMyn_xfX5HlA_dKYYN-jR4kddNTMJynj_mVBFRP0vFUvcERM9maZSqRkqMJkf_s1_0zMYcEzZA" width="127" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p></div></div><span></span><span style="color: #800180;"><b>11th April</b></span><div><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmkrL2uY-9CSx1JQQYpOsJ5SDPF5lmt0jwv6ctlpiF42Np-iMBgS0V5pwH6tm_TXzaeWZHKcUvpWFd2F5CW3nFGQfuoWNOruwQsztBz_9Jmj8m8hfXj_gXBp2TLbXnCrTk-R_6DQr4BmyHf3xHIztORqD4miA9Kr9nJM6LLmBBdhcQoiMlPOQCdpbCOg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmkrL2uY-9CSx1JQQYpOsJ5SDPF5lmt0jwv6ctlpiF42Np-iMBgS0V5pwH6tm_TXzaeWZHKcUvpWFd2F5CW3nFGQfuoWNOruwQsztBz_9Jmj8m8hfXj_gXBp2TLbXnCrTk-R_6DQr4BmyHf3xHIztORqD4miA9Kr9nJM6LLmBBdhcQoiMlPOQCdpbCOg" width="135" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>12th April</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Reports of 200 cows seized in Oloipiri.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">The cows were released the following day after the owners paid the 20 million "fine".</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>14th April</b></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">The lawyers
for the owners of the cows held at Bologonja managed to address the court on
the following: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">1. An order
for Ex parte hearing on the application <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">2. If the
above fails, to issue arrest warrant for them to come show cause why they
should not be punished for disobeying valid order of the court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;">Ruling on 18th
April 2023</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>16th April</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;">The anti-Maasai group of "journalists" called Mecira were again reporting from Ngorongoro Conservation Area.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>17th April</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">304 sheep belonging to Mbaoi Pusindawa from Lemetema were seized by rangers when taken to water in the fake and illegal game
reserve in the Nadengare area, Sanjan, Malambo. The sheep were taken to the Orng'oswa camp and the
owner had to pay an illegal 7.6 million “fine”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>18<sup>th</sup> April</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At a side event to twenty-second session of the UN
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Tanzanian activists informed the
attendant of the current state of the Loliondo evictions and the so-called “voluntary”
relocations from Ngorongoro Conservation Area.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: 12pt;">2</b><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;"><b>5<sup>th</sup> April</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The judge ruled that Solio Toroge must pay 5,000 per
cow per day since 21st March and 2,500 per calf per day. Also one payment of
100,000. This is so confusing that my head hurts, and it’s not
fair. I will straighten it out for next blog post. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>29th April</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">I was informed that the 440 cows had been released after the illegal fine and payments. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;"><b>2nd May</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;">268 cows belonging to three members of the
Tiiye family were illegally seized in the Orng'oswa area of Sanjan sub-village
of Malambo, on land brutally and lawlessly demarcated as “game reserve”. </span><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;">250 cows belonging to mzee Sarkay Tiiye, 12 belonging
to mzee Olodupa Tiiye, and 6 belonging to Kimani Tiiye. The owners paid
the extortion money of 26.8 million TShs the following day and the cows were released.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>3<sup>rd</sup> May</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">120 cows were seized by 12 rangers, including SENAPA,
NCAA and FFU, in the Empiriripiri area of Ololosokwan, just outside the
illegally demarcated game reserve. The owner, Kutiti Ketuta, was severely
beaten, his testicles crushed. The extortion money of 100,000 per head of
cattle was paid.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>4<sup>th</sup> May</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">At the hearing of Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of
2022, the judicial review challenging Pindi Chana's illegal GN No.421, the
government lawyer raised a preliminary objection about being served late with
the application, if I've understood it correctly. The case is postponed to 15th
May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I<span style="color: #800180;">n the evening of <b>5th May</b>, NCAA rangers and FFU
Kilimanjaro tried to capture some 400-500 cows, belonging to several owners, in
the Oloosek area of Ololosokwan, next to beacon 57 at Enalubo. The security
forces fired bullets into the air and the cattle dispersed, but they took
50-60. An unknown hero shot an arrow at one of the criminal rangers, but the
ranger only got a light hand injury. In the evening of Sunday <b>6th May </b>village
leaders were summoned to a meeting with the OCD. They were ordered to search for
the cattle owners who had been mentioned in social media (by me before being
told by about the arrow). On <b>7th May</b> Sanaet Ngirashai, Turanda Kedoki na Odinga
Ngirashai were arrested and taken to Loliondo police station. They were
released om bail the following day.</span></span></p></div><div><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>10 May</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The ruling in the case of
enforced disappearance of 85-year-old Oriais Oleng'iyo of Ololosokwan, Loliondo
division, in Ngorongoro District, Miscellaneous Criminal Application No. 68
of 2022 was set for <b>10<sup>th</sup> May,</b> but postponed till the 17<sup>th</sup>.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>15 May</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The preliminary objections in </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022 were overruled. The case will be heard on merits 29th May.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">There was a hearing in Appeal No.13 of 2022 East
Africa Court of Justice. The date for the ruling will be communicated. <br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>17th May</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Vice president Philip Mpango visited Ngorongoro district and inaugurated several projects, while the land theft and human rights violation in Loliondo weren't addressed in any way. Some people handed over protest placards about the blocking of social services and other restrictions imposed to make the Maasai leave Ngorongoro "voluntarily". Mpango read some of the placards. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Judge Gwae dismissed </span></span><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 16px;">Miscellaneous Criminal Application No. 68 of 2022. The reason were that Oriais Oleng'iyo's son had failed to prove that the respondents arrested his father. that the respondents weren't those responsible for the demarcation exercise, and that there was no other witnesses. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>20th May</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">The Ngorongoro councillors voted in unison to reject <a name="_Hlk135418847"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan </span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2023-2043</span> and in support of a motion against the suffocation of social services in NCA. Those who have moved to Msomera weren't there.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Maasai delegation have gone to Europe and will hopefully severely deal with those who are facilitating and encouraging the crimes by the Tanzanian government against the Maasai. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On, 31</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> May, they attend a public event at the EU Parliament: Forced Evictions in the Name of Conservation: the Role of the EU.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>31st May</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">CCM Political Committee Arusha Region, with the implementor of the war against the Maasai RC John Mongella are touring the district, inspecting projects in Loliondo and Sale, and have already been seen in company of councillors. </span></p><div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-28760170288601259632023-02-13T17:03:00.022+01:002023-12-13T19:46:48.960+01:00The Tanzanian Government Commandeers the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights, Letting Maasai in Loliondo Wait in Vain - and Other Sad and Delayed News and Unanswered Questions<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The brutal
and lawless occupation of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of legally registered village
land in Loliondo and Sale Divisions of Ngorongoro District for an illegal
“Pololeti Game Reserve” just goes on. The massive loss of grazing land and
illegal seizure of livestock with extortionate “fines” keep deepening poverty. Oriais
Oleng'iyo who was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June, wounded by bullets and
held by security forces, has not been brought back to his family. Leaders keep
hiding in fear after the over five-month abduction on bogus charges of all
councillors, except one who fled, together with people suspected of sharing
information. Nobody has been allowed to rebuild their houses in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>.
Stolen motorbikes and smartphones have not been returned. The illegally planted
beacons have not been uprooted. President Samia’s lawless Government Notice
No.604 has not been shredded to pieces. The demented tourism cult and
anti-pastoralism still holds the government in thrall. Stop this crime! Punish
everyone involved and all those silently supporting it!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To rub salt
into the wounds, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has made a
visit to Ngorongoro, Loliondo and Msomera, totally co-opted by the government.
The Tanzanian government controlled every move, only by accident did some
victims of land theft and human rights violations get a space to tell their
woes. In Loliondo the Commission was prevented from meeting <b>any victims</b> <b>at
all, </b>and those were victims who thought that their prayers had been heard
and that finally someone would come to their rescue. We are waiting for the Commission’s
final report.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the NCAA
board of directors descended salivating over the stolen “goldmine”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A tourist
boycott is necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">January news (plus
early February due to delays)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The war against livestock
continues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More harmfully mixed-up
articles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support by Human Rights Watch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA board descending like
vultures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember the difference between
Loliondo and NCA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Taasa, The Royal Tour and the
DC/human rights criminal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Carbon offsets MoU with Dubai<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cargo plane from Dubai again<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Added: mobile OBC camps</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government
commandeered visit by the African Commission for Human and People’s Rights<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The giraffes on
planes that I don’t want to write about (only for Tanzanians)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fake giraffes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My guess<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Zero investigation after the
1990s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Actual giraffes on planes in
2010, but NOT involving OBC, Dubai or Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ban on wildlife exports<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Green Mile Safari<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The weird trophy hunting
debate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Zoom seminar with the worst of
the worst, <b>OBC’s Mollel included</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
Loliondo hunting block background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
2022 threats leading up to the brutal illegal demarcation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
the brutal and illegal demarcation of a fake game reserve<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <span></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>Updates added at the end of the blog post.</o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFNY_JPmPrHPgVdVP2y7wrj7Ds4u8GXlRlRprErlXZ4wUDERMEmp3ry2pWcn4weEUWvdlLFfZt9Djf-9sN-kaDRBdhrhU-ef1bhrhM94mgJ5inz8C1wtRC0nEDBHIHhqyivssVHY4OmLhXZMNhlknIFQf3o7g7RDktkeJ3ZDvQw7FL0KNf23i406FUxw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFNY_JPmPrHPgVdVP2y7wrj7Ds4u8GXlRlRprErlXZ4wUDERMEmp3ry2pWcn4weEUWvdlLFfZt9Djf-9sN-kaDRBdhrhU-ef1bhrhM94mgJ5inz8C1wtRC0nEDBHIHhqyivssVHY4OmLhXZMNhlknIFQf3o7g7RDktkeJ3ZDvQw7FL0KNf23i406FUxw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plane that for some reason landed in Wasso and not at OBC's airstrip on 10th February.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This blog post
has become too long and delayed, since there is so much information at the same
time as it is impossible to obtain full information and almost impossible to
confirm information. Though nearly every detail mentioned briefly could, and should, have its own 10,000-word post, or more (which some
parts already have since earlier). <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">January news<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Before the visit by the African
Commission on Human and People’s Rights (see below), Tanzanians in social media,
that in 2022 had reached unprecedented understanding and support for the
Maasai, regressed to posing questions about giraffes on planes. It was as if
planted by the government to divert attention and I wrote some points that only
concern Tanzanians, so international readers may, after reading about the
Commission, jump that part <i>(The giraffes and planes that I don’t want to
write about)</i> and go directly to the three summaries at the end of the blog
post. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126677678"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
war against livestock continues<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk126677678;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I do not know how many cows
have died of the combination of a bad dry season and brutal theft of most of
the grazing land. I am unsure if anyone even knows how much has been paid by
livestock owners in extortionate illegal “fines” to rescue their animals,
seized on stolen village land. Though when I was about to publish this post, I
got the estimates 2,500 auctioned cows and sheep and some 6,000 seized and “fines”
extorted from the owners. The “fine” for a cow is a deranged TShs. 100,000 and
25,000 for a sheep or goat. There is deficient coordination and information
sharing, and due to fear, reporting is not working properly. I get sporadic
reports from Ololosokwan and Malambo, but almost nothing is heard from Arash
that seems to be worse hit and where cattle have been auctioned in the most
terrible way (see post from <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-worst-year-ever-in-loliondo-is.html" target="_blank">New Year’s Eve</a>). Salangat Mako has, in the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/01/guest-blogger-words-of-salangat-ole.html" target="_blank">previous blog post</a>, described how grazing on the stolen land is done at night, sharply
increasing the risk of so-called “human-wildlife conflict”. He is still on the
run from authorities that do not want the truth to be told, away from his
family. “Human-wildlife conflict” is, by the way, one of the government
officials’ favourite expressions in their maliciously false rhetoric for land
alienation. It is their crimes that are causing it. But it has rained, and some
say that there is grass. Unfortunately, others now say that the rainy season has
been interrupted, not sure if in all areas. Though, as known … most of the
grazing land has been brutally stolen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since the latest regular blog
post (<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-worst-year-ever-in-loliondo-is.html" target="_blank">New Year’s Eve</a>), in the evening of 6<sup>th</sup> January in Ololosokwan,
cattle belonging to Marco Parmwat (28 cows) and the ole Nkinyoti family (don’t
know how many) were seized on village land illegally declared a game reserve
and held at Klein’s gate. The extortionate “fines” were paid the following day
and the cows were released on the 8<sup>th</sup>. When told about this illegal
seizure of cattle, I was also told that at night and in the morning of the 7<sup>th</sup>,
Joel Jackson and Leyian Rotiken were brutalized by JWTZ soldiers (national army
that have a camp in Lopolun). Though that was hardly news, since such brutality
has been committed constantly since June, I was informed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 18<sup>th</sup> January, 123
goats, 44 calves and one cow belonging to members of the Tiiyee family were
illegally seized by NCAA rangers in Malambo. The calves were seized at Sanjan
River and the goats when on their way back to their old home in Orng'oswa, now
on stolen land. Extortion money was paid, which is the same as buying back one’s
own livestock from the criminals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A case about 100 sheep seized in
Ololosokwan on 20<sup>th</sup> January was reported to me, but I have been unable
to confirm. Other cases will not even mention time and place. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TAWA (Tanzania Wildlife Authority)
have been replaced by NCAA (Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority) rangers. The anti-riot Field Force Unit squads from different
parts of the country are reportedly still around. Regularly, someone says that
the seizures of cattle have calmed down - and then a new case is reported. Some
rangers extort money from herders directly when caught, without taking the cattle to the
gate (I got this information from Ololosokwan where seized cattle are taken to
Klein’s gate). Then the fines are more manageable – but still totally illegal -
and the cattle are immediately returned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> January, in
the Nadengare area of Malambo 130 cows belonging to Baraka Moson Kesoi and 75
sheep and 15 goats belonging to Raphael Oleruye Oloishiro were illegally seized
by rangers. The owners paid the extortion “fines” and the livestock were
released. There was first some confusion, since nobody in Malambo knew
anything, but that was because the livestock were from Bulati in Ngorongoro
Conservation Area, NCA (<b>not</b> to be confused with the hunting block in Loliondo
and Sale, even when it is where the livestock were seized). Nadengare is the
early rainy season grazing area for some livestock from NCA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihxqwruCeLnqNn8nkFWOGLalCkfyeS_oX3b-TKwtCZNkHhByz6CN9u_P_IjM0YRf7QUL0fVgqIva-ALgVj8Ki5UtoU_sDFrwnKuzxWUnKkpLpAdU9hhw1dNm110AObm7D81WnFJXC7wZ-PxRb7vQFvGALC5w7rEn6cFnXnKS2Nnj9RYxzXE9znzT2P_A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihxqwruCeLnqNn8nkFWOGLalCkfyeS_oX3b-TKwtCZNkHhByz6CN9u_P_IjM0YRf7QUL0fVgqIva-ALgVj8Ki5UtoU_sDFrwnKuzxWUnKkpLpAdU9hhw1dNm110AObm7D81WnFJXC7wZ-PxRb7vQFvGALC5w7rEn6cFnXnKS2Nnj9RYxzXE9znzT2P_A" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeVck_0Ek_LCJMev502BEb75EAb4-fR08CIDKmOalY_RTrqz2vxj7EjZ92gCXsZr_06HsbDehfX3HarpQGf31oFBAktABEWxVS3zb_2xBg9Xr4m51yjFTz7nBurx2Uvt-BHKK3vKS2aHUfdQre-f_7C_V3stQBXVchUGVOaIpHbb7kR6IBO8VJVi3wtg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeVck_0Ek_LCJMev502BEb75EAb4-fR08CIDKmOalY_RTrqz2vxj7EjZ92gCXsZr_06HsbDehfX3HarpQGf31oFBAktABEWxVS3zb_2xBg9Xr4m51yjFTz7nBurx2Uvt-BHKK3vKS2aHUfdQre-f_7C_V3stQBXVchUGVOaIpHbb7kR6IBO8VJVi3wtg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extortion money paid in Karatu, not Loliondo, since the livestock owners were from NCA.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ormoti/Olmoti crater in NCA
(<b>not</b> Loliondo), on 22<sup>nd</sup> January, the NCAA rangers known as
Alais, Baby and Simony, and others that could not be seen (it was night-time,
and they were shooting bullets) assaulted several young herders, including Daudi
Sayanga, Oloturiaki Pello, and others. The rangers broke the pots the youths
were cooking in, burned their food and their clothes, and then the youths had
to sleep in the wild. In December 2016, PM Kassim Majaliwa, without following
any law, ordered livestock not to be permitted in the craters of Ngorongoro,
Ormoti and Empakaai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiLB7FPe-k_JP9AeniketYW_wRPnTXYqad75-4k5F1HoFUd2oEIdf94ZaoEOaOQT2zbGl2BMILHGDXVq_OBibyTWuu6-cGc-IhF1LlDpqicS7MZISQ3imTKnBD16PDWQyHbNENyFbNYHBxB9XNhaKvIe5-xmbtX3dv8c65f5-uZ8t6hAb3hK14ur4Z5A" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiLB7FPe-k_JP9AeniketYW_wRPnTXYqad75-4k5F1HoFUd2oEIdf94ZaoEOaOQT2zbGl2BMILHGDXVq_OBibyTWuu6-cGc-IhF1LlDpqicS7MZISQ3imTKnBD16PDWQyHbNENyFbNYHBxB9XNhaKvIe5-xmbtX3dv8c65f5-uZ8t6hAb3hK14ur4Z5A" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elephants in NCA, February 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126677701"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More
harmfully mixed up articles<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk126677701;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There have again been articles
that totally mix up Loliondo and NCA, including one by Associated Press that
was published in the Washington Post. Other even more harmful misinformation
that keeps being spread was created by Agence France-Presse in September last
year – apparently just out of the blue – saying that the East African Court of
Justice would have ruled in favour of cordoning off land. The strangely delayed
ruling, after the date had been set for 22<sup>nd</sup> June (when court orders
were being violated in the most brutal way) was inexplicable. <b>The judges
dismissed the case since they thought that the Maasai had failed to prove that
the mass arson in 2017 was committed on village land and not in Serengeti
National Park. However, the ruling at least establishes that there is village land
and then there is Serengeti National Park.</b> <b>Even the government’s own documents
and statements from the time clearly show that the mass arson was committed on
village land. The terrible ruling was not as terrible as the one invented by
journalists.</b> It seems like this harmful misinformation will be repeated for
many years, just like the misinformation that the government would have
cancelled OBC’s licence in 2017. Then an article in the Citizen on 7<sup>th</sup>
February – about the scheduling of the appeal – repeated the same misinformation.
Setting the record straight about this misinformation is necessary but could
lead to it being shared even more, and to unpopularity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court cases<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling in Reference No. 10
of 2017 was appealed (Appeal No. 12 of 2022 East Africa Court of Justice), and
on 6th February there was a <a href="https://youtu.be/4wbnkOo0uVI" target="_blank">scheduling conference</a>. Both sides will file
submissions and the hearing will hopefully be in May.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ongoing court cases against
the fake and illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve” are Reference No.37 of 2022 in the
East African Court of Justice, and two Applications for Judicial Review against
the Minister’s declaration and the President’s declaration of “Pololeti Game
Controlled Area” and “Game Reserve” respectively, which has been scheduled on 14<sup>th</sup>
and 23<sup>rd</sup> March.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The court has already granted
leave in Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022 (Application for Judicial Review) in
the High Court of Tanzania to challenge the ministerial declaration whereas the
president’s declaration is pending in court for leave stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Both applications are
challenging the Minister and President’s Government Notices (GN), as <b>illegal,
unreasonably made, irrationally influenced, with procedural impropriety, in
breach of both the rules of natural justice and the doctrine of legitimate
expectation to the communities who have been living in the place for centuries.
</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then there is Application No.2
of 2022 that is a contempt of court application. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference No.29 of 2022 in the
East African Court of Justice is not about the brutal Loliondo land theft, but challenges the
coordinated and suffocating policies in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126677729"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support
by Human Rights Watch</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Human Rights Watch on 1</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
February published <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/02/02/tanzanias-eviction-maasai-pastoralists-continues" target="_blank">an article</a>, </span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Oryem
Nyeko and Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> with the request that, </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">“The government should
halt the violence, intimidation, and forced evictions. It should work with
these pastoralist communities on a plan that respects their right to the land,
heeds their traditional practices in preserving the natural ecosystem, and
establishes how to work together to protect the area”.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA board
descending like vultures<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The board of directors of
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (under which the illegally and brutally alienated
1,500km<sup>2</sup> were placed in September) <a href="https://youtu.be/ler-8uPu-_I" target="_blank">descended like vultures</a> over
Loliondo on a visit on 1<sup>st</sup> February. The members were delighted with
the amount of wildlife and attributed this to the brutally and lawlessly
created “game reserve”. They spoke about how it would lead to more revenue through
photographic and hunting tourism and mentioned the challenges with staff housing
and infrastructure. Board member Benson Kibonde described the area as a
sleeping goldmine. A brutally stolen goldmine in that case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">:
Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District. A local police state at the
service of OBC – that has had the hunting block covering the whole of Loliondo
and part of Sale, since 1993 - and the American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> that claim a
private nature refuge. For many years a constant threat of robbing the Maasai
of 1,500km</span><sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2</span></sup><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> of vitally important grazing
land, expecting them and their livestock to squeeze into the remaining land.
Major illegal and extremely violent operations in 2009, 2017, and then the
worst (and ongoing) in 2022 when the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> were brutally and
lawlessly demarcated as protected area, evicting the Maasai. Vicious hate
campaign by the reporter Manyerere Jackton since around 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">: Ngorongoro division of Ngorongoro
District. Harsh restrictions on every aspect of life under the rule of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and its chief conservator Freddy Manongi,
instigated by UNESCO and IUCN. Blocking of funds for social services since
2021. Illegal transfer of COVID-19 funds to Msomera in Handeni to where the
Maasai are supposed to relocate “voluntarily”, displacing the Msomera
villagers. In 2022, a vicious hate campaign in media and in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=549692425992173" target="_blank">parliament</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126677812"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Taasa,
The Royal Tour and the DC/human rights criminal<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 2<sup>nd</sup> February in
Ololosokwan there was yet another <a href="https://youtu.be/vZIK0ZlniPA" target="_blank">exhibition</a> of charity as a weapon of war (there
have been many through the years since I was first acquainted with Loliondo).
Former guests of Taasa Lodge had donated TShs. 149 million for a dormitory and
classrooms at the primary school. Taasa (formerly known as Buffalo) is quite
unethical indeed. Through corrupt means the lodge occupies 60 acres in
Ololosokwan, and used to be scheming to get a private concession of 7,000
acres, which the village never agreed to, since Taasa can use Klein’s concession
that while more legal, already occupied too much land. Taasa continued
scheming, corrupting/employing many people, chasing cattle and even falsely to
tourists online claimed that they already had a “private reserve”. Now they are
in the brutally and illegally demarcated game reserve, and are said to love it.
Klein’s are in the fake and illegal game reserve as well, and reportedly the
government has announced that the last payments to the village will be by
March.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">DC Raymond Mwangwala, used the
occasion to shout “hoyee Samia” to the schoolchildren and claiming that the
projects were the fruits of The Royal Tour … This is a travel show with the
president as tour guide and it premiered in April last year, in which further
insults were thrown at the Maasai. The researcher Alex Dukalskis calls the show
“authoritarian image management”. Government supporters as an act of faith must
describe this travel show as the reason for recovered tourism arrivals after
the pandemic. I am yet to find any non-Tanzanian online who has heard about The
Royal Tour. The DC, a human rights criminal standing at the side of every
government official who came to participate in the brutal war against the
Maasai, managed to get his name on the inauguration plaque on the wall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG7pa8169sIfvElQS1C43vRDemqaeB1ItYiZBNz_0RpCWWWdA1LWKQtibeVogKlP5nSzeimsUWqdm6n5RA82oaBfQZC2S9NLsqMFXiWw9iwm_-KbV3FnQmKhX8ZkuaMuYpUruJeVqqtY5WETsy4VZzYrVEKE8vC323z5Sff8Fqqso7WQLXpqb3wjsWTQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG7pa8169sIfvElQS1C43vRDemqaeB1ItYiZBNz_0RpCWWWdA1LWKQtibeVogKlP5nSzeimsUWqdm6n5RA82oaBfQZC2S9NLsqMFXiWw9iwm_-KbV3FnQmKhX8ZkuaMuYpUruJeVqqtY5WETsy4VZzYrVEKE8vC323z5Sff8Fqqso7WQLXpqb3wjsWTQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126712873"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Carbon
offsets MoU with Dubai company<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> February
2023 in Dodoma the "member of the Dubai royal family" (it is how he was described, without name, on the Ikulu, State House, social media). Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al
Maktoum met with President Samia Suluhu Hassan, Vice President Philip Mpango,
Minister Pindi Chana, and other leaders. A MoU on carbon offsets was <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/business/-dubai-firm-inks-conservation-mou-4114550" target="_blank">signed</a> between the royal family member’s company, Blue Carbon, and Tanzania Forest
Service Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cargo plane
again<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> February it
was reported, and photos shared, that a UAE military cargo plane had landed in
Wasso. Now Sheikh
Mohammed is expected to arrive, but that is always the case when cargo planes
are landing, while most times it does not happen. There is no explanation to why
the plane landed in Wasso and not on OBC’s airstrip. In the past heavy rains
have been mentioned as an explanation, but it is not raining now. Is it to get
an audience that is no longer available at the stolen land? It was market day. A bait to divert
attention, since Tanzanians lately show
such strong reactions to planes? No idea. I am speculating loosely and am
currently without guidance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLrjHNGPmGak0kVCFLisNybrQtyytb09gQpT8fUNTQ_4Dcd028f1TYFukqQlEJo08niEv4P1101ndjDufZ33Dx-YCDkt8tcPGBNAwa3sSC9MZbhn6ZWpit3DM8Z-wsGnoUXDQodf2F-T_fqWOIS8O9EtNqoBD8Zgf7TSkfcjwZ5pcwuXyhok6YPrBVDA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLrjHNGPmGak0kVCFLisNybrQtyytb09gQpT8fUNTQ_4Dcd028f1TYFukqQlEJo08niEv4P1101ndjDufZ33Dx-YCDkt8tcPGBNAwa3sSC9MZbhn6ZWpit3DM8Z-wsGnoUXDQodf2F-T_fqWOIS8O9EtNqoBD8Zgf7TSkfcjwZ5pcwuXyhok6YPrBVDA" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBaay-VurZEji_HsbcS30jYyRsHi8TQUi0ndeOpOSmjoqFr5L7sCX3FxP04sp0d3gyrVb45bT-HGMbowyaYM79As9952jjyfMQqRXqE6HNH2hHDcWWzEsfCJOpbXBhFZidpWTc_fpusuCcd7hVg-ERv9kWqdHzxkaldSBbtohikHEdglfuh1UUH1fL6g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBaay-VurZEji_HsbcS30jYyRsHi8TQUi0ndeOpOSmjoqFr5L7sCX3FxP04sp0d3gyrVb45bT-HGMbowyaYM79As9952jjyfMQqRXqE6HNH2hHDcWWzEsfCJOpbXBhFZidpWTc_fpusuCcd7hVg-ERv9kWqdHzxkaldSBbtohikHEdglfuh1UUH1fL6g" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Added: mobile
OBC camps<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minutes after I had published
this blog post, blurry pictures of what seemed to be mobile camps were shared in WhatsApp and Twitter.
Apparently, OBC have set up several camps in Oloipiri, Soitsambu, Arash, and
elsewhere, for some reason reportedly outside the illegally demarcated area. It
is said that it is the “member of the Dubai royal family”, Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook
Al Maktoum, with the dubious carbon offsets, who is visiting. Though exact information
is never obtained this fast, or my blog posts would not always be delayed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p>
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commandeered visit by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in an earlier
blog post, on 23<sup>rd</sup> October 2022, at the 73<sup>rd </sup>session of
the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in Banjul, the Tanzanian
representative, Deputy Minister of Constitutional and Legal Affairs Geophrey
Mizengo Pinda in a speech repeated the Tanzanian government’s brutal and
shameless lies about Loliondo – that it would be a “protected area” that had
been “invaded” and that no human rights had been violated. This was
particularly painful to see, since it was the deputy minister’s own father, PM
Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda who in a speech on 23<sup>rd</sup> September 2013 in Wasso stopped
the threats by then Minister Khamis Kagasheki to commit the current lawless
brutality already that year. Pinda Senior declared that the land belonged to
the Maasai who should go on with their lives as before, and that Kagasheki
would not be allowed to bother them anymore. The Commission was invited to
Tanzania by one of the main responsible for the land theft and brutality in
Loliondo, Minister Damas Ndumbaro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Not until 18<sup>th</sup>
January did Tanzanian indigenous people’s CSOs, notably PINGOs Forum, that
engage with the Commission in several working groups on indigenous peoples get <b>informal
and unofficial</b> information about the visit. Several organizations wrote a
letter of concern and got a reply that <i>“The Commission has duly noted your observations
as it engages with government with good people of Tanzania”.</i> On 19<sup>th</sup>
January the Commission uploaded a press release to their website, which came to
the CSOs attention on the 23<sup>rd </sup>when the Commission, led by
commissioner Ourveena Geereesha Topsy-Sonoo, was already in Tanzania. The ACHPR
called the visit a Promotion Visit, <i>“Specifically, to seek information on and
assess the situation of human rights of Indigenous Populations/Communities in
Tanzania, including particularly to review the situation in Loliondo Area and
Ngorongoro Park.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> January,
the CSOs were in an ad hoc manner added to a meeting with the Commission at the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (one of the main perpetrators) building
in Arusha. Initially, only Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition and Legal
and Human Rights Centre had been invited as non-state actors, besides Tanganyika
Law Society that nowadays is a de-facto state actor, and the anti-pastoralist
WWF and AWF. CHRAGG and TACAIDS were listed by the Commission as non-state
actors, but are government organs, also formally. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> January,
the Commission visited Ngorongoro Conservation Area, NCA (<b>not</b> to be
confused with Loliondo). The previous day, the Commission had accepted meeting
affected community members in Mokilal village where they had gathered. However,
arriving in NCA vehicles, accompanied by the Ngorongoro DC and his team, and
with heavy security, the Commission was instead diverted to Nainokanoka where
the DC had prepared people that would say that they were willing to relocate to
Msomera. Still, other villagers wondered why the Commission was in Nainokanoka
when people from all wards had gone all the way to Mokilal to meet them, and
they got some limited space to express their views. Then the Commission made a
touristic visit to Ngorongoro crater and arrived late at Mokilal. The DC on the
spot made up a new law that since flags must be hauled at 6 pm, there could be
no international meetings after that. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Despite of the DC’s presence,
conspicuously taking notes, and the very limited time given to them, people in
Nainokanoka and Mokilal managed to tell the Commission about the many
violations committed by the Tanzanian government. The chairman of Nainokanoka,
Daniel Kois, with confidence in front of the DC, explained that the relocation
plans to Msomera had been done in an underhanded, non-participatory way. A
woman explained that families with several wives were given one house. Others
mentioned that those relocating were given other people’s land. The increasing
restrictions on life in Ngorongoro, to push people to relocate, were described.
Some had brought sacks of adulterated salt (confirmed by laboratories), given
by NCAA to compensate for the loss of salt licks since access to Ngorongoro
crater was banned in 2017. This substandard salt has reportedly caused the
death of many cows. Funds for new toilets for Msomera school, a few metres
away, had been diverted to Handeni (official documents ordering the transfer of
COVID19 funds for schools have been shared, also in this blog). There were horrific
details about the catastrophic effects of lack of access to water in two wards
since September 2022, through government decision, and not suffered by
tourists. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The CSO’s – some of which,
while working hard behind the scenes, have the past years practised the most
painful public silence, sometimes coupled with questionable praise of
government, sent a letter of alert to the ACHPR, which was publicly shared.
Their obvious concern was, <i>“As CSO’s we strongly believe, that using the
state party machinery to organize community meetings, it’s not likely to get
right respondents, if so, compromise freedom of expression, poses security
issue and intimidate indigenous people to provide information and evidence.
Ultimately it will be difficult to have an objective and independent report of
the Commission.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This should have been
particularly obvious in the case of Loliondo that’s basically under military
occupation, and where <b>all</b> councillors from affected wards were
preventively, the day before the illegal demarcation started, locked up on
bogus charges, carrying capital punishment, for over five months, together with
people suspected of sharing information about the violence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> January, the
Commission flew to Loliondo on planes belonging to the Tanzania National Parks
Authority, TANAPA, to again meet with the DC and whoever he had brought. It
seems like nobody from the worst affected villages was invited, not a single
village leader or ward councillor, and that some compromised and opportunistic
CSOs were there instead of those slightly more credible that have actually
worked to defend land rights. Victims of the government’s land theft and
violence were waiting in Wasso, but first the Commission was to take a tour, in
a convoy of over thirty vehicles, mostly police and other security, of the land
that brutally and lawlessly had been turned into a “game reserve”. Somehow
“security concerns” arose, Wasso had become “too dangerous”, and the delegation
was diverted to Ololosokwan, 45 kilometres away. Victims gathered in
Ololosokwan to give testimony, thinking that their prayers had been answered
and that the international body would come to rescue them, but waited in vain
for hours, then it was too late, and the Commission had to leave Loliondo. A
clip in which Salangat Mako, one of those waiting in vain, in English delivers
his message to the Commission was shared online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx3I2sfNhDeeJRKic_G9f_mGYQYNJVLwe28j0wU37ZsAOZtXuufsBTNETqv7pSNNjqrcxwelRQTVsYPyHd3oA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day, the Officer
Commanding District came to Ololosokwan to say that the gathering waiting for
the Commission had not had a permit, and that Salangat, who was not present,
had used a graduate’s English to talk trash. Salangat received threats and fled
to Kenya. It has later been reported that the District Assistant Investigation
Officer is searching for him, and the Officer Commanding District has called a
relative to say that Salangat should report to his office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 26<sup>th</sup> January,
the Commission visited Msomera to where the Tanzanian government wants to
relocate the Maasai of NCA (note that this <b>does not concern Loliondo</b>). In
between the government horror show there was some limited space for Msomera
villagers to voice their grievances. Msomera is a registered village with its
land use plan and the villagers were informed by surprise and at gunpoint that
Maasai from Ngorongoro would be accommodated on their land. One woman said that
she was held in a police cell with a three-month old child for preventing a
Ngorongoro migrant from planting in her farm. A former CCM ward chairman had
been dispossessed of his 50 acres of land to be given to the Maasai from Ngorongoro.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxRT70eUcl5166bFLsz-yjTUupjxMhswdTrGGVY5mTQhM8umcExlawxIbnSugRoWtztCypX3CaxF5gPE7iQlw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most of the space in Msomera was
taken by the Tanga Regional Commissioner who engaged in the government’s
favourite malicious lie. The RC in the most threatening way claimed that
Msomera would have been a protected area and that no certificates issued after
the declaration of Handeni GCA would be valid! As everyone should have
understood by now, game controlled areas before Wildlife Conservation Act 2009
did not restrict human activities and totally overlapped with registered
village land. In WCA 2009 GCAs are the same as game reserves – with almost
total restrictions – but all GCAs were supposed to be revised within one year
of the act coming into operation. Not a single GCA as in WCA 2009 was declared
until Minister Pindi Chana illegally declared a new GCA upon the old extinct
(since GCA and village land are no longer allowed to overlap) one in Loliondo,
which four months later – equally illegally – was changed to a “game reserve”
by President Samia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz7vyCcFxEDeYyXWLKdSSHMCX2_bAyRpzUBWYTaMK1TUHDIN7IY0W-hcZYfw_4eEeQmOEdaAnr548zJokvIcg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 28<sup>th</sup> some
people from Loliondo were taken to Arusha to give their testimony in the
premises of the African court. I was informed that nobody at all from
Ololosokwan came. They had lost all faith in the Commission. Later I have been
told that one person from Ololosokwan was there. Methew
Siloma, councillor of Arash, broke the mortal silence that has been kept by the
victims of over five months in remand prison on bogus murder charges, to say
that those claiming that leaders were not arrested during the attack on
Loliondo were wrong. The Malambo councillor was also there, but I do not know
who was saying what. Thomson Safaris were mentioned, and it is good that those
violent land grabbers and ruthless hypocrites were exposed, even if it may
further confuse the Commission. I hope (and expect) there were testimonies
about the illegal alienation of around 75% of the grazing land belonging to
pastoralists affected by the hunting block in Loliondo and Sale Divisions. The
remaining land contains two towns, the district headquarters, the private
nature refuge occupied by Thomson Safaris, agricultural land, and forest
reserves. I also hope victims of illegal cattle seizure, illegal arrests, malicious
prosecution, gunshots and beatings, destruction of houses, thefts of motorbikes
and smartphones, had their say. Reportedly, everything said at this meeting, of
which I have seen very limited video clips, was astonishing news to the commissioners
that had let themselves be shepherded by the government. Though judging by the
final communiqué, they did not even hear what councillor Siloma had to say …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also on the 28<sup>th</sup>,
the Commission and the Tanzanian government held a press conference. I have
seen some clips and they are not pretty at all. In the longest one Minister
Pindi Chana goes on and on about that the Maasai of NCA are being relocated for
“human rights”, particularly mentioning various small businesses that are not
allowed in NCA. It is as if Chana has not noticed that it is her own government
and her own ministry that is restricting human rights in NCA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Commissioner Litha
Musyimi-Ogana, Chairperson of the Working Group on Indigenous
Populations/Communities and Minorities in Africa is seen in a <a href="https://youtu.be/9HxE-Ecfot4" target="_blank">brief clip</a> saying
that the government, with other partners, like <b>UNESCO</b>, thought it
important to leave a 1,500km<sup>2</sup> corridor for wildebeest. She concludes
that the Commission saw the beacons, but did not see the villages in the
1,500km<sup>2</sup>, so they can not talk authoritatively, but think that the
reports by both the government and the affected communities have “enough truth”
to help them come up with the right recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO’s role as an instigator
of the restrictions and threats against the Maasai of NCA is widely documented,
even if the international body will still deny it. To the Commission it was
made more than clear, by the executive secretary of the Tanzania National
Commission for UNESCO, Hamisi Malebo, that UNESCO <b>also</b> supports the
brutal and lawless demarcation of an illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve” in
Loliondo. This liar claimed that it was done “<a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/government-defends-itself-in-the-ngorongoro-saga-4103892" target="_blank">amicably</a>”
and that the 1,500 km2 has “never<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been inhabited”.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism started making social media posts saying that the
Commission had confirmed that the government adhered to human rights when
relocating Ngorongoro Maasai to Msomera. Not sure what the ministry based this
on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As said, I have only heard
pieces of what the Commission said at the press conference, but it I have been
told that it was the same as a disappointing final communiqué that has been
shared by some people. This communique, as mentioned, misidentifies
state-actors as non-state actors, incorrectly claims that the Commission <i>“Visited
various local pastoral communities in Loliondo who are not willing to relocate
in order to hear directly from them”</i>, and gets into some surreal praise of
the Tanzanian government. Then it very briefly and timidly mentions some
“concerns”. Worst is that the Commission does not seem to have understood what
has happened in Loliondo and Sale. It is even unclear if the Commission has
understood that Msomera does <b>not</b> concern Loliondo and Sale. The core
issue of illegal land alienation is not mentioned, and neither is the continued
illegal seizure of livestock with extortionate illegal “fines”. No mention of
the abduction of all councillors, except one who fled, at the eve of the
illegal demarcation and their very lengthy malicious detention. No mention of
opening fire at protesters, abducting Orias Oleng'iyo who has still not been
returned, beatings, illegal mass arrests with the aim of silencing everyone,
destruction of houses, theft, and massive malicious national and international lying
by a long line of government figures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Further, the question of the
legality of removing people from NCA is not raised, or if the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority’s rule over the Maasai is legally acceptable at
all. The communiqué does not even mention that the Tanga RC, standing closely
at the side of the of the Commission, vociferously kept accusing Msomera
villagers of being invaders with fewer rights than the Ngorongoro migrants (remember
that the Msomera set-up is <b>not</b> about Loliondo).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> January,
the chairperson of the African Commission on Human and People’s Right, Rémy Ngoy
Lumbu, and some people who really should know better, visited President Samia
and then it was announced that Tanzania will be hosting the 77<sup>th</sup>
Session of the Commission! The hyena hosting the commission on the right of
goats …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A disaster, but <b>we will see
what the Commission’s final report says.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In December 2022, the UN
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco Calí
Tzay, was to visit Tanzania, but he simply called off the visit when the
Tanzanian government insisted on managing him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126365370"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
giraffes on planes that I don’t want to write about (only for Tanzanians)<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk126365370;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am unfortunately again
forced to write about “giraffes on planes”. In 2022, when the government
totally exploded in violence and lawlessness, Tanzanians in social media at
last started to understand and care about what is happening in Loliondo, some
speaking up very loudly. Some still do. During the years of land threats, an increasingly
repressive local police state, and mass arson operations, periodic rumours
about wildlife being flown out of Loliondo always raised more interest and
concern (but never any investigation) than the abuse against the Maasai. In
January, or starting late December, the momentum again seemed to have derailed
completely. Despite the brutal and lawless theft of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
Osero and the still ongoing massive human rights violations, “Loliondo” was
again an issue about planes and giraffes, and this was not only based on
relevant and irrelevant assumptions, but also on strawman arguments and the
most embarrassing fake pictures from 2015 that was once again dug up. Most
painful of all is to see the name “Pololeti” used uncritically as some kind of
protected area. <b>Just do not do that, unless you support the Tanzanian
government’s crimes! </b>With the shambolic and co-opted visit by the ACHPR,
the discussion again gained some focus, but the giraffes are hard for most to
leave …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It should be said that I am alone
in this concern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone else, also serious
people, think it is good that people who may not have heard about OBC’s
involvement in wildlife crime, now get a chance. Some of them are themselves
also discovering it for the first time. The problem is that, after the early
1990s, there is not anything to hear, except that planes from Dubai have been
landing in Loliondo since “forever” and nobody has made any effort to find out
what they are carrying. I have only superficial knowledge about “giraffes on
planes”, and some other issues worth having a look at, which I will list here, but
at least I am not making things up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This time it all started with
a huge Antonov 124 plane that landed at Kilimanjaro International Airport from
Abu Dhabi (not Dubai) on 22<sup>nd</sup> December 2022 and returned to Abu
Dhabi the same day. This plane is said to have secretly flown to Loliondo and
picked up live animals, but I have not seen any evidence at all of this.
Something was carried or picked up, and airport workers must know, but nothing
at all has been revealed. Then old pictures of planes landing in Loliondo,
recent pictures of the same, and old fake pictures of giraffes were shared. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government spokesperson Gerson
Msigwa issued a stupid statement denying that any wildlife was being trafficked
out of the country, adding the obligatory “state religion” comment that
President Samia’s participation in the outside Tanzania almost unknown cheesy
travel show, The Royal Tour, has led to increased tourism arrivals. He also
mentioned that a plane like the Antonov cannot land in “Pololeti” and hearing
that name, that used to just refer to a river, hursts like a thousand knife
stabs. I should not get into technical details about planes, since I have no
competence at all for that, but some quick googling and Google Earth indicate
that OBC’s runway may indeed be insufficient for the Antonov. Then some online
commentators thought that the spokesperson was proven wrong, since there is
some evidence, also recent evidence, that military cargo planes and private
jets from Dubai land in Loliondo, which is not that surprising when it has been
done quite openly for decades. Gerson Msigwa does of course not have any
personal knowledge at all about the issue but is tasked with denying anything
that could put the government in bad light. For some reason, a picture I took
in 2011 was in social media used by the spokesperson as a background to the audio
with the denial. This is not important, but very strange.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126365447"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fake
giraffes<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most annoyingly, fake pictures
of giraffes from September 2015 have once more been circulated. Pictures of two
planes on OBC’s airstrip (Sheikh Mohammed was visiting with a big entourage, including
many European looking young women, according to a journalist who was present at
KIA) were widely shared, but then someone, still unknown,
decided to edit one photo adding a vehicle with a captured giraffe. This was
obvious, not only because the original picture was available, but the giraffe
was not a Maasai giraffe, which is the only subspecies found in Tanzania. It
did not stop some opposition supporters from making the picture go viral
together with all kinds of random photos of people capturing giraffes, without
any connection at all to Loliondo, or Tanzania, and there was no way of
stopping them. This was during the election campaign 2015 and while some were
just confused, others were clearly doing it in bad faith. I will not share the giraffe picture again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEio95hvBu0EtOKyNiL_38BsMq55cLAaGwuuPeImFRaBu2FKb6D0iEaN8r46crr-7NWyTCUN5vv3_LC6fqKwvYA31BnXw_dBvzHplPjpt6p-0YgxlCCTjUwCKFafNoIXhJkF7TUVYaId3X-MxVVhzxiAZo08t6XizoMxlfN8NxpG8xu5wdg39N41XATlGw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="680" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEio95hvBu0EtOKyNiL_38BsMq55cLAaGwuuPeImFRaBu2FKb6D0iEaN8r46crr-7NWyTCUN5vv3_LC6fqKwvYA31BnXw_dBvzHplPjpt6p-0YgxlCCTjUwCKFafNoIXhJkF7TUVYaId3X-MxVVhzxiAZo08t6XizoMxlfN8NxpG8xu5wdg39N41XATlGw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2015</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Worst of all, in 2015, there
had already been an illegal evictions operation with mass arson in 2009, a
serious threat of the crime later committed in 2022 had been stopped in 2013,
the local police state kept worsening with heavy harassment of anyone who could
speak up against the investors, but all this was ignored as not as interesting
to use against the government as some fake giraffe pictures. Loliondo activists
at that time did not participate in this nonsense, which even so was quite
damaging. There has regularly been some limited sharing of those terribly fake
pictures, but now, when the Maasai of Loliondo suffer under a brutal and
illegal occupation by security forces, they were brought back in full swing. It
is incomprehensible and it feels like it all would be planted by the government
in some way …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126365526"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My
guess<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk126365526;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am <b>not</b> saying that
there is not any wildlife trafficking from Loliondo. If I am to <b>guess</b>,
like everyone else is doing, I would even say that it is <b>very probable</b>,
since:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
there is a demand in Dubai, and the rest of the UAE. There are many public
zoos, usually called safari parks, and it is not uncommon for private
individuals to keep African wildlife as pets, particularly the royal family,
even if there was a ban on big cats in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">B</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
OBC’s activities are not being monitored at all (the same applies to other
hunting operators) and brutal lawlessness reigns in every other area of the
local Loliondo police state at the service of “investors”, so why not in
wildlife trafficking?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126365573"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Zero
investigation after the 1990s<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In articles from 1993 by Stan
Katabalo (not online, but accessed by my friend, and remembered by Tanzanians
who were around at that time), among other hunting abuse, did report about
wildlife trafficking by OBC. The trafficking seems to at that time have been
done in a chaotic way, already before the starting date of OBC’s first contract
for the hunting block, with one gazelle dropping dead at Kilimanjaro
International Airport. Abdulrahman Kinana, representing the Tanzanian
government, was already escorting the current ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed
bin Rashid Al Maktoum and OBC’s owner Mohammed Abdulrahim Al-Ali. The abuse is
reportedly further detailed in the Marmo report that resulted from the
investigation by a Parliamentary Select Committee. I have <b>never</b> been
able to get hold of this report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Kenyan organization started investigating
together with Moringe Parkipuny (first MP for Ngorongoro and first in joining
the Maasai struggle to the international indigenous people’s struggle) in the
early 2000s, but the director stopped communication when he moved to the USA. A
decade later, Parkipuny was not pleased when informed that the unfinished and
outdated report was still online. The director has now been back in Kenya for
years and is a politician who assisted with humanitarian aid for the Tanzanian
refugees in June 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, OBC’s rangers
have worked with “anti-poaching” so tightly with TAWA rangers, their
predecessors, and probably those who have taken over after TAWA, that the
different rangers have been indistinguishable. There has not been any
monitoring done by Tanzanian authorities at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tanzanian journalists, after
the 1990s, have never gone further than quoting some random documents in
possession by local activists. Through all these years, nobody has made any
effort to properly investigate neither the much gossiped about hunting abuse,
nor the much more openly committed massive crimes against land rights and human
rights, that for most of the time has been found less interesting and even less
upsetting by the Tanzanian commentariat. OBC staff, when asked if they have got
any pictures, will just say that it is “not allowed”. All hunting pictures
available have been shared by the crown prince of Dubai, who has not posted any
of dead mammals since 2009. Though it should also be remembered that at the
same time as smartphones have become available, repression has worsened both in
the local Loliondo police state and in Tanzania as a whole. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126365609"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Actual
giraffes on planes in 2010, but NOT involving OBC, Dubai or Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk126365609;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2010 there was a case of
wildlife trafficking that led to trial, but it did <b>not</b> involve OBC or
Loliondo. The Pakistani wildlife smuggler Ahmed Kamran coordinated the transport
on a Qatari military plane from Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) to
Qatar illegally carrying 136 live animals, including four giraffes. This must
be where all the giraffe “theories” come from, while nobody remembers the
details. Most Tanzanian articles are no longer online, but some remain. The smuggling involved government officials and airport
staff and led to the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tanzania-wildlife-idINBRE87D0QS20120814" target="_blank">sacking</a> of the director of wildlife, and a one-year ban on
exports of live wildlife. Apparently, when the case was finalized in 2014, only
Kamran got a prison sentence, while cases against everyone else involved had
been dropped. Kamran had however disappeared during the trial and an <a href="https://www.arabianbusiness.com/gcc/interpol-ups-search-for-pakistani-who-trafficked-giraffes-qatar-572726" target="_blank">Interpol search</a> was launched. Later the <a href="http://www.muungwana.co.tz/2016/02/mtuhumiwa-wa-kutorosha-wanyamapori.html" target="_blank">Raia Mwema</a> reported that Kamran had been granted all necessary permits by Tanzanian authorities</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It is not known where the animals ended up after landing
in Qatar.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126365649"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
ban on wildlife exports<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2016, the Tanzanian
government imposed a ban on exports of live wildlife due to irregularities. In
November 2021, Deputy Minister Mary <a href="https://www.matukiodaimamedia.co.tz/2021/11/serikali-kuondoa-zuio-la-biashara-ya_9.html" target="_blank">Masanja</a> announced a three-month grace
period for exporters that had animals with export licenses in their custody
when the ban was imposed. Then on 4<sup>th</sup> June 2022, <a href="https://www.mwananchi.co.tz/mw/habari/kitaifa/tanzania-yaruhusu-usafirishaji-wa-wanyamapori-nje-ya-nchi-3838774" target="_blank">TAWA</a> in an official
notice, announced another grace period, this time of six months. After protests
online, already the <a href="https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/tanzanias-ban-on-live-animal-exports-is-back-after-one-day-of-outrage/" target="_blank">following day</a>, Minister Pindi Chana <a href="https://thechanzo.com/2022/06/13/sakata-la-wanyamapori-hai-na-ugeugeu-wa-sera-za-kibiashara-tanzania/" target="_blank">reversed this decision</a>,
stopping any exports until the government receives “official information from
relevant institutions”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing of
this apparent sensitivity to public opinion was shown when Tanzanians online
and international organizations - even some of those otherwise involved up to
their necks in the war against Maasai land rights (FZS and IUCN) protested the
lawless brutality and illegal land alienation in Loliondo. It just goes on with
herders cut off from important grazing on village land unlawfully declared a
“game reserve” and extreme pauperization through illegal seizure of livestock.
The councillors of the affected wards could stay illegally locked up on obvious
bogus charges and nothing happened until the government had achieved its evil
purpose. This indicates that the government has the support of important
organizations and state actors. The Germans are doing it quite openly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126365687"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Green
Mile Safari<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Not a case of illegal exports,
but of terrible hunting abuse, was exposed in 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Green Mile Safari, <b>another</b>
UAE hunting company, became internationally infamous after a video of horrible
hunting <a href="https://africageographic.com/stories/video-footage-emerges-showing-why-tanzanian-hunting-company-was-banned/" target="_blank">abuse</a>, uploaded by an indiscreet client, and probably thanks to Green
Mile’s business rival, Wengert Windrose, part of the Friedkin group of
companies, became internationally viral and was shown in the Tanzanian
parliament in 2014. Minister Nyalandu shortly thereafter revoked Green Mile’s
hunting blocks for violating Wildlife Conservation Act 2009. Since then,
ministers have been taking turns either chasing away or bringing back Green
Mile. In 2016 Jumanne <a href="https://qz.com/africa/707120/whats-going-on-in-tanzania" target="_blank">Maghembe brought Green Mile back</a>, since there was not any
court conviction, and there was a negative international reaction to this. In
2019 Hamisi <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/tanzania-green-mile-safari-told-to-stop-marketing-revoked-hunting-block-to-tourists--2689424" target="_blank">Kigwangalla revoked </a>Green Mile’s license for breaching hunting
regulations. Then again, in April 2021, Damas <a href="https://mtanzania.co.tz/dk-ndumbaro-atengua-zuio-la-kigwangalla-green-mile/" target="_blank">Ndumbaro </a>brought Green Mile back
to Lake Natron GCA East hunting block (in Longido, not to be confused with
Loliondo) against <a href="https://www.ippmedia.com/sw/habari/wananchi%20wamkataa-mwekezaji-mbele-ya-waziri-dk-ndumbaro" target="_blank">protests </a>by local villagers that claimed that the company
owed them money and was responsible for turning a blind eye to, or being
directly involved in, the poaching of 36 giraffes. In February 2022, Green Mile
were given a 30-year Special Wildlife Investment Concession Areas (SWICA)
license. This time, the return of Green Mile has been met with a strange
silence. Not even <a href="https://www.wildleaks.org/victory-wildleaks-green-mile-safari-accused-poaching-tanzania/" target="_blank">Wildleaks</a>, that earlier saw this misbehaving company as
“their issue” has reacted. Just lately when the giraffes and plane nonsense was
brought up again, has Green Mile been mentioned by Tanzanians online, but not
much. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiggWbzW2LL2hOKKqivSvDSFL5XCa2AcRbAAKzV3winAhV8QELppmBy2Ru5sHBmrCh0Ud7BxzDf9_A_fboA6CMV_SDnG5L74qIk_iChccxSdgPIl4IrTzVgiW5svpgP9jcp_34ByPvCFr8OpJqtgw9QK2Uf1F0VGhaTYSiWhANVrI_WkNh-Fg30DnDurw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="778" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiggWbzW2LL2hOKKqivSvDSFL5XCa2AcRbAAKzV3winAhV8QELppmBy2Ru5sHBmrCh0Ud7BxzDf9_A_fboA6CMV_SDnG5L74qIk_iChccxSdgPIl4IrTzVgiW5svpgP9jcp_34ByPvCFr8OpJqtgw9QK2Uf1F0VGhaTYSiWhANVrI_WkNh-Fg30DnDurw" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While Wengert Windrose seems
to be much preferred by local Maasai affected by Green Mile, other companies in
the Friedkin group have been deeply involved in human rights <a href="https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/lies-conservation-truth-about-big-game-hunting-and-african-nature-reserves" target="_blank">violations</a>, notably
Mwiba Holdings in the brutal <a href="https://app.box.com/s/rdmctoggk3s7xbavq92f8tk96jezt7mw" target="_blank">evictions </a>from Makao WMA in Meatu in 2011, with scarcely reported <a href="https://newdaytaarifa.blogspot.com/2015/06/akina-mama-waandamana-kudai-miili-ya.html" target="_blank">violent crimes</a> during following years. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126368572"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
weird trophy hunting debate<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk126368572;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, OBC are not
monitored at all, since their rangers do “anti-poaching” totally embedded with
government rangers. This case is the same with other hunting operators and is
used as an argument <b>for</b> trophy hunting in the international debate. The
argument is that the operators fund anti-poaching. I will not write
about every strange twist and turn in this loud debate – there is a lot to say
though … - except that Tanzanians are not participating in it at all, which
would be logical, since they have bigger problems, except that in that case
they would also not waste their time on giraffes and planes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On both sides (the “antis” of course
are more numerous and more varied) it is not uncommon to be <b>against</b> land
rights and human rights (with some nasty examples of tour operators active in
Tanzania) while both sides also compete in who better represents so-called “African
communities”. At the same time, and by the same people, both sides argue that
they are the best at “setting aside” land for conservation, and they do this at
the <b>same time</b> as arguing that <b>the other</b> side is more
“neo-colonial”. <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/reframing-trophy-huntings-socio-economic-benefits-in-namibia-commentary/" target="_blank">Namibia</a> is the star example of the pro-trophy hunting side, with
a few representatives that do not look so <a href="https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/sites/default/files/Hunting%20Africa%20-%20Sullivan%202022%20-%20Land%2031%20pp22-27+58+links%20-%20190822.pdf" target="_blank">authentic</a>, but which is impossible to
know when not familiar with the situation on the ground. They look like what in
Tanzania would be WMA fat cats, and do not hesitate to represent the issue alongside
the absolute worst enemies of rural Tanzanians, like the director of wildlife,
<a href="https://youtu.be/6M3u0C5orLs" target="_blank">Maurus Msuha</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The trophy hunting supporters
argue that Loliondo is a “political” and non-representative case (except for a
South African reporter who repeats the Tanzanian government’s lies, without
understanding them, and adding his own) when OBC has achieved exactly what is
seen as most desirable – “setting aside” land. They keep showing maps of game
reserves in Tanzania (with some non-hunting areas included) as an argument.
Exactly how do they think game reserves are created?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Game ranching<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The presence of African
wildlife at Sharjah Safari Park in Dubai is <b>not</b> evidence that the
animals are from Loliondo. There are other countries with African wildlife and
there are legal exports from places like South African “game ranches”. Game
ranching is currently being heavily <a href="https://www.tawa.go.tz/storage/app/media/uploaded-files/UTARATIBU%20WA%20KUANZISHA%20MAENEO%20YA%20UFUGAJI.pdf" target="_blank">promoted by TAWA</a> and will undoubtedly -
judging from the debate in South Africa - open a whole store of new cans of
worms. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126368642"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Zoom
seminar with the worst of the worst, <b>OBC’s Mollel included</b><o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A <a href="https://youtu.be/8zlT8aQM5w4" target="_blank">zoom seminar</a> was held on 14<sup>th</sup>
January with some of the worst enemies of the Maasai, including Minister Pindi
Chana, Ngorongoro Chief Conservator Freddy Manongi, Eblate Mjingo of TAWIRI,
Mabula Nyanda of TAWA, Christine Mwakatobe of KADCO (managing KIA, Kilimanjaro
International Airport), the Tanzanian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Ali Jabir
Mwadini and OBC’s managing director Isaack (Isaya Lesion) Mollel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reason for this seminary
was obviously the rumour of wildlife trafficking, but most of it consisted of
self-congratulation for Tanzania’s tourism product and increased tourist
arrivals. The mentions, resembling the Emperor’s New Clothes, of President
Samia and The Royal Tour were of course included. Any exports of live animals
were denied. Planes are bringing tourists and their luggage, and there are rich
tourists with private planes who bring containers with equipment, was the
explanation. Mwakatobe did not mention the recent illegal demarcation of Maasai
land, affecting eight villages, for Kilimanjaro International Airport. Mwadini
said that there were many Arab tourists and that they enjoy hunting,
particularly for the pot and using falcons (the latter in their home
countries). Mjingo and Manongi incorrectly, and with great hyperbole, mentioned
the necessity of setting aside “Pololeti Game Reserve” to save the wildebeest
migration and water sources for Serengeti, but they <b>did not even bother</b>
to lie about, justify, or in any way mention the illegality and massive human
rights violations. They seemed sure that Tanzanians no longer care. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC’s managing director Isaack
(Isaya Lesion) Mollel, Isaya Lesion is his official name, but he has always
been known in Loliondo, and in media, as Isaack Mollel, explained that OBC’s
owners are from the UAE, that the company drills wells, helps the hospital and
schools, and regularly donates vehicles to the Ministry of Natural Resources
and Tourism. They do not come to trophy hunt, but to relax, sometimes leaving
without hunting and other times shoot some animal to have for dinner. This is
maybe true, but hunting, however badly done, is far, far from OBC’s worst crime
and I wish Tanzanians of good faith could take this seriously every day of the
year ... Mollel also outrageously claimed that the game reserve will benefit
surrounding communities since it will bring more photographic and hunting
tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mollel become OBC’s managing
director in 2007, and has seen (or with all probability funded) how the local
police state reached insane levels of repression, illegal mass arson operations
in 2009 and 2017 in OBC’s preferred hunting area, the still not denounced
violence by soldiers in 2018, and in 2022 the lawless alienation of this area
with an explosion of violence, and ongoing. In November 2009 Mollel was all
over Tanzanian media boasting about how OBC had given the Office of the Arusha
Regional Commissioner TShs. 156 million for surveying the land. The resulting
draft district land use plan proposed turning OBC’s preferred 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
into a protected area, and the Maasai mobilized against this atrocity, which
was rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011. Then, as we have seen, the
dangerous proposal has kept creeping up, vociferously with then Minister Kagasheki’s
threats in in 2013, that thanks to Maasai unity and seriousness, were stopped
by PM Pinda, until brutally and lawlessly implemented in 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The divide and rule increased
after the defeat of Kagasheki, and it was handled by Mollel, and by <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>’ manager Yamat. An investor-friendly group of traitors crystallized,
led by then Oloipiri councillor William Alais, and Gabriel Killel of the NGO
Kidupo. With the increased repression in 2016, and multiple illegal arrests and
malicious prosecution of some people accused of having communicated with me,
OBC (reportedly Mollel and the assistant director) wrote a report, sent to the
<a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/study-loliondo-game-area-under-threat-2574300" target="_blank">press</a>, accusing the Maasai of being environmentally destructive, complaining
about reduced trophies, about a “loophole” that made GCA 2009 impossible to
implement, and about the “unrealistic size” of the hunting block. Then, PM
Majaliwa tasked Arusha RC Gambo with setting up a select committee to solve the
conflict. This committee reached a sad compromise proposal and while waiting to
hear from the PM, unexpectedly, what everyone had fought to stop from being
repeated after 2009 happened again and the Maasai suffered the terror of the
2017 operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The new minister, Kigwangalla,
stopped the illegal 2017 operation and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtZMkGcf0hk&t=14s" target="_blank">accused Mollel</a> of having tried to bribe
him more cheaply than he bribed his predecessors. He said that his ministry was
infested by a whole corruption syndicate, and that OBC would have to leave
Tanzania before January 2018. However, nothing happened, and Majaliwa, a month
later, at the same time as announcing a vague, but terrifying decision about
the land, said that OBC was staying. Kigwangalla changed to saying that OBC was
not a problem, only Mollel. In 2018, repression deepened further, OBC again
<a href="https://lukwangule.blogspot.com/2018/04/obc-tatoa-magari-15-kwa-wizara-ya.html" target="_blank">donated vehicles</a> to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, and in
November and December soldiers from a military camp set up the same year,
started chasing people and livestock away from areas around OBC’s camp, even
burning bomas in Ololosokwan and Kirtalo. The King of Morocco was expected, but
his visit was postponed. Nobody dared to speak up, since everyone thought that
Magufuli had ordered the abuse, and <b>nobody </b>showed any interest in Royal
Moroccan Air Force cargo planes that landed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2019, Mollel’s fortunes changed.
I do not know why, but he had clashes of egos with both Kigwangalla and RC
Gambo. Magufuli could have wanted to send a message to Abdulrahim Kinana (close
to OBC since the early 1990s), and Bernard Membe (whom he perceived as a threat)
that nobody is untouchable. There was also the opportunity to extort money via
plea bargaining. OBC workers from Pakistan were arrested for lack of permits,
and then Mollel himself was arrested and investigated by the Prevention and
Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB). He was charged on ten counts of economic
sabotage, forging documents and evading tax in relation to the import of
vehicles from Dubai. Initially, and quite sensationally, someone at PCCB
decided to deal with the Loliondo police state, the District Security Officer
(spy chief), Issa Ng’itu, was arrested, found with money from Mollel on his SIM
card, and involved in the vehicle dealings with Mollel. Though this case was
quickly dismissed and silenced, and Ng’itu promoted to RSO in Rukwa. <b>The
local police state stayed intact</b>. Mollel was locked up in Kisongo remand
prison and his case kept being delayed. He stayed locked up even after writing
to the Director of Public Prosecution seeking plea bargaining, without any
serious prosecution, and not released until 2<sup>nd</sup> October 2020 (when
Magufuli was still alive, unlike the stories that some are fabricating). After
a trip to Dubai, Mollel eventually returned to work. During his absence, OBC’s
activities were sharply reduced, and herders were no longer being harassed.
Though in September 2019, a genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review for NCA (<b>not</b>
Loliondo) proposed annexing 1,500km<sup>2</sup> of the hunting block in
Loliondo and Sale, and to turn this into a protected area with hunting, as OBC
had always wanted, and as was brutally and lawlessly done in 2022, including
the annexation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now Mollel is included in Zoom
seminars with the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism. Though he did not
look quite comfortable. Maybe he knows that his place is in front of human
rights courts, now more than ever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-Qjr8rBWXG90Y8nVbK1LVWFovnFDsycEubVC88tRBZQVBWbcYL19zDkHHBKhSTAK_zuNeHiKmYc6HPQNxOcelYVdSjadaZQNt5NJm_BkOfcURuipqosWmOh9BknWreCzcuBw0Fyti1B4HrHuvCaQ9gEEu5nLd_YsG3wTl8ONatikSGK65N_CQJUYESQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="883" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-Qjr8rBWXG90Y8nVbK1LVWFovnFDsycEubVC88tRBZQVBWbcYL19zDkHHBKhSTAK_zuNeHiKmYc6HPQNxOcelYVdSjadaZQNt5NJm_BkOfcURuipqosWmOh9BknWreCzcuBw0Fyti1B4HrHuvCaQ9gEEu5nLd_YsG3wTl8ONatikSGK65N_CQJUYESQ" width="196" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126404033"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
Loliondo hunting block background<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Otterlo Business Corporation,
owned by Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al Ali, that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed
of Dubai, has the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo hunting block (permit to hunt)
since 1993 (first contract signed in 1992). They got the hunting block in the
Loliondogate scandal covered by the reporter Stan Katabalo in 1993. This area
includes two towns – Wasso and Loliondo - district headquarters, agricultural
areas, and Thomson Safaris’ land grab. So OBC have lobbied to have it reduced
to their core hunting area bordering Serengeti National Park, and to make it a
protected area (sadly, brutally and illegally gazetted in 2022 …) which would
signify a huge land loss to the local Maasai, leading to lost lives and
livelihoods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, the then Ngorongoro
DC Jowika Kasunga coerced local leaders into signing a Memorandum of
Understanding with OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing
and hunting, but when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the
government to complain. As a result, the village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
Osero – now fake and illegal “game reserve” - was illegally invaded by the
Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson, dispersal of
cattle, and abuse of every kind. 7-year old Nashipai Gume was lost in the chaos
and never found, ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and
some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a draft district land
use plan that proposed turning the village land that had been invaded into a
protected area. The Maasai were united, and the draft land use plan was
rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, then Minister of
Natural Resources and Tourism Khamis Kagasheki lied to the world saying that
the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Loliondo Division
and part of Sale Division of Ngorongoro District) was a protected area and that
alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> meant generously giving the
remaining land to the Maasai. This huge lie and ugly trick did not work, since
the Maasai were more serious and united than ever, garnered support from both
the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda
stopped Kagasheki’s threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the unity, efforts to
buy off local leaders started creating serious divisions and weakening. Some
found it convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and
attacking the people who they at the same time expected to take risks to defend
the land. Though nobody signed any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and Thomson
Safaris) had for years used the local police state that through the successive
DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will threaten
anyone who could speak up about them and engage in defamation and illegal
arrests. The repression and fear of this police state became worse with
Magufuli in office. There were lengthy illegal arrests, torture, and malicious
prosecution, by 2016 – after OBC had written a report complaining about the
Maasai and engaged the press - it was so bad that PM Majaliwa could enter the
stage with a select non-participatory committee, set up by then Arusha RC
Mrisho Gambo. Some of the members were local leaders and other representatives
that found themselves at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical
areas” under protests in each village. The proposal handed over to Majaliwa was
seen as a victory, even though it was a sad compromise (a WMA) that had earlier
been rejected for many years of better unity and less fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since the Maasai showed
such weakness, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone
was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017
an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the
ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCAA rangers and those from OBC,
TAWA/KDU, local police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally
arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others
protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would
have been implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected
land. Meanwhile the DC and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not about the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about that, but
that village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti National
Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhifYaQo7b_Xby-BICzJCw8msGswPDpyOJEAJGsrKopswtiFzvW8HnfQFCzNy4-uLRthgf8RXFvUec0y7X2hrbES1WiQcro7IuGcB2k9CGbrifHjSXW8Mt5sY0zKTv5dMwH4OXKtN6C_2es2zzrWvY7nX7oruzcAVO9mtJl9t9CWd44Fmtt6aaNoZ0ZsQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhifYaQo7b_Xby-BICzJCw8msGswPDpyOJEAJGsrKopswtiFzvW8HnfQFCzNy4-uLRthgf8RXFvUec0y7X2hrbES1WiQcro7IuGcB2k9CGbrifHjSXW8Mt5sY0zKTv5dMwH4OXKtN6C_2es2zzrWvY7nX7oruzcAVO9mtJl9t9CWd44Fmtt6aaNoZ0ZsQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Hamisi Kigwangalla
came into office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that
OBC would have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was very soon clear that OBC
weren’t going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017, Majaliwa delivered his
vague but terrifying decision that was about, through a legal bill, creating a
“special authority” to manage the land. He also said that OBC were staying. The
decision was celebrated in the anti-Maasai press (Manyerere Jackton in the
Jamhuri). Implementation was delayed, still no legal bill has been seen, and it
would of course have been contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to what he thought was
the Twitter account of the Dubai crown prince), and in April the same year, OBC
- once again - gifted the Ministry of Natural Resources of Tourism with 15
vehicles. In March 2018, a military camp was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in
Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually made permanent with donations from
the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and local
police tried to derail the case in the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) –
filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning local leaders and
villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for the applicants' main
counsel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> September
2018 – a year after the illegal operation - the court finally issued an
injunction restraining the government from evictions, destruction and
harassment of the applicants, but this injunction was soon brutally violated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In November and December 2018,
soldiers from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and burned
bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was the lowest point ever in the land
rights struggle (until the current horror) and I have still not understood how
it could happen without anyone at all speaking up. Local leaders claimed to
fear for their lives and thought that the brutality was directly ordered by
President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January 2019 condemned the crimes in a
very vague way, they changed to thinking that OBC’s director had contracted the
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground. However, the local police state
was not dealt with and following a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was
out, and after a while he went back to work. Speculations about Mollel’s
misfortune include his clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli
wanting to send a message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to
Bernard Membe) that nobody is untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for NCA, which included the proposal to annex most of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a protected area allowing hunting was
presented. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal was met with countless
protests from every kind of group of people from NCA, but near silence from
Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as
new District Executive Director and he started working to kill the court cases
against land grabbing “investors”. Though the village chairmen stood their
ground and Reference No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash
v the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania continued before the
EACJ until it was dismissed in September 2022. The case against Thomson Safaris
in the Tanzanian court of appeal, however, was in 2022 killed using a law that
was introduced after the case was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126404293"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly
about 2022 threats leading up to the brutal illegal demarcation<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk126404293;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders,
even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the
attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien there
was a public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and traditional
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzjP2rXqj-wMYfOYYw9fh_NP5kZSgSUvEqQP70LbR5Jwny5d_o7GzDWZZsH1Vm_tHIivgNVmsaczdACk3rnhQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February
2022, Majaliwa came and was not much better than Mongella, but too
well-received, since something worse was expected, because of the crazy
anti-Maasai hate campaign, and parliamentarians calling for tanks to be sent to
Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February 2022, in NCA, <b>not</b> Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land
to be marked by beacons, “so that we may know the boundaries” – while claiming
that this was NOT a trick! Now we know what the intention was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Minister for Natural
Resources and Tourism Damas Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup> March 2022 re-introduced
Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on the 11<sup>th</sup>
Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and water projects when informing
parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha, without
people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the
land, among them the Arash ward councillor Methew Siloma spoke up very clearly
and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa cannot be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyNvB_pWAxnC6uxeubA5EUz-tfXlGOcgcD5i3EJLJ-jN-4SZwBcocR0oRLqDKi1EYZL3yffdNhhx7-sxSJykw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March 2022,
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yR13xm_FwlY" width="320" youtube-src-id="yR13xm_FwlY"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM councillors that had
spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero
were being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha.
The councillors of Arash and Malambo had to keep reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022, a
committee handed over their reports of “community recommendations” on both <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ngorongoro-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">NCA</a> and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero in <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">Loliondo</a> to PM Majaliwa who said that he
was going to work on the recommendations. <b>The Loliondo/Sale report recommended
a stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, investigations into
human rights violations, and the removal of OBC. </b>That was what Majaliwa had to
work with, but instead he stole the land, committed atrocities, and OBC is
still there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June 2022,
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana in her <a href="https://www.tfs.go.tz/uploads/HOTUBA_YA_WIZARA_YA_MALIASILI_NA_UTALII_2022-23_(original).pdf" target="_blank">budget speech</a>
announced that her ministry expected to upgrade Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but
she did this while listing huge areas of Tanzania for the same expectation.
That did not sound believable or realistic in any way, and there was hardly any
reaction, except for an intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk126404326"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly
about the brutal and illegal demarcation of a fake game reserve<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
Wasso town was overflowing with security forces that went on to set up camps on
the 90 km stretch from Ololosokwan to Piyaya, and in Malambo. Almost every
Tanzania Regional Police Commissioner vehicle was seen in Loliondo on the day.
The Maasai held prayers and deliberations, and in Kirtalo on the 9<sup>th</sup>
a video clip with the message that they were ready to die for their land was
prepared for Majaliwa. A coordinated threat with vicious propaganda, and the
old lie from 2013, was issued primarily by Arusha <a href="https://youtu.be/7zMzpEzmAoU" target="_blank">RC John Mongella</a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/ShaL-GnvT1E" target="_blank">PMKassim Majaliwa</a>, assisted by speaker of parliament Tulia Ackson, and soon
joined by too many government representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijrDOP7wBN-nSt7KH7kYIJK_A83l9gtVmJ_6HQy6jtHQQMljXz6z8Q9VURB9if0vaIQD8YcgC9BijKOR4U1qa0vYiJQowDoS41QrybaGS_I5LDe7gQcpDfBju22MroRSKbCKVf6yRKjw0W-V50hJxcgT5JXqLbE6C45JeSyzF88O5y106_MdKc5h0ZJA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="718" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijrDOP7wBN-nSt7KH7kYIJK_A83l9gtVmJ_6HQy6jtHQQMljXz6z8Q9VURB9if0vaIQD8YcgC9BijKOR4U1qa0vYiJQowDoS41QrybaGS_I5LDe7gQcpDfBju22MroRSKbCKVf6yRKjw0W-V50hJxcgT5JXqLbE6C45JeSyzF88O5y106_MdKc5h0ZJA" width="188" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All councillors from affected
wards – except the Soitsambu councillor who managed to flee - were on 9<sup>th</sup>
June 2022, lured to a meeting by DC Raymond Mwangwala, they were abducted,
bundled in two cars and driven to Arusha overnight. The following day illegal
land demarcation - which is what Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC), that
organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, for years has lobbied for -
began in a rain of teargas and live bullets. Many Maasai were injured, and
thousands fled across the border where many of them continued as refugees for
many months, some still, with their cattle. The approximately 80 years old Oriais
Oleng'iyo was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June with bullet wounds and detained
by the Field Force Unit few metres away from his home where security forces
were firing fireworks. According to the RC, a police officer was killed by
arrowshot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzcf17nQPFqh4JckgpMIU9Q_BhSiZO2nPrEuhW3kn5fIcVsBOB1IBYavHp8_LpEOeu96EYFPAPPGofV0O2IaQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4FlsEiAs9VNo7CU-jf5_KGpomoNrMNWchGWP4FngFo59tMDf2xbC-YneYKwEldpzEOgTuJQHVM8LwxPCWD5ueG7umg1bE_2psFjwjkQxxpSn0owDl3kxum1YK6JMPt-ttwIlKJDzYyGkGhZumHOXktH6VOKCeqfLnkZmBzXbuZ4aXvBHVuFiayBER-Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4FlsEiAs9VNo7CU-jf5_KGpomoNrMNWchGWP4FngFo59tMDf2xbC-YneYKwEldpzEOgTuJQHVM8LwxPCWD5ueG7umg1bE_2psFjwjkQxxpSn0owDl3kxum1YK6JMPt-ttwIlKJDzYyGkGhZumHOXktH6VOKCeqfLnkZmBzXbuZ4aXvBHVuFiayBER-Q" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7Nru3O2n2WBNFMUdZP-Cy9woDnmHDG-0RpXNYHKHLfkBOJ9sMdh7Gt2hI2wo1XGbOGQf7eOYiok8HWeCNEQ2W8jPAFZqcH5qv892-h-Wxqe9alqpL7L1_k7PLTdj-lBZwX02e4CNx2Q-X_Ia2NtCmHH-uEHXJahLlAJMbIoHcyH3-vt19X1fBsmI34Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7Nru3O2n2WBNFMUdZP-Cy9woDnmHDG-0RpXNYHKHLfkBOJ9sMdh7Gt2hI2wo1XGbOGQf7eOYiok8HWeCNEQ2W8jPAFZqcH5qv892-h-Wxqe9alqpL7L1_k7PLTdj-lBZwX02e4CNx2Q-X_Ia2NtCmHH-uEHXJahLlAJMbIoHcyH3-vt19X1fBsmI34Q" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7uFnYMNBdsb0OarZP2v1UkJHOddxI287UXe8uv-VA6-AXEHlFwSPS8iYqku2tDVQenEnZEty_j8tiPLe2EOUrONu05WJce6Ce4OZqcXetgNoPTIkZTjPuOPlUaO8rbUsrzI6pTs7D8q0bZdrXIhDirTTxIqofe6H472cWp-GYeaT00PJy6K7yrxO93A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="749" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7uFnYMNBdsb0OarZP2v1UkJHOddxI287UXe8uv-VA6-AXEHlFwSPS8iYqku2tDVQenEnZEty_j8tiPLe2EOUrONu05WJce6Ce4OZqcXetgNoPTIkZTjPuOPlUaO8rbUsrzI6pTs7D8q0bZdrXIhDirTTxIqofe6H472cWp-GYeaT00PJy6K7yrxO93A" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFiN7NttKJD7xeW7X0ww0SSJWAW_rlJKwKbsWyC1cFPhuqh5v3ziz0O_pWnKpu6hDSTSmvojyUS6GE_hOiQajnitSuFhdEAZq_Dr_UOIotSouSeJ1BDY7GNmsmE-_xOB9q24uwSW41joSG9Rnfa-y3PukS1-fdnIdZVc5_gdOeqJctUK8vzHjI42NrPA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="749" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFiN7NttKJD7xeW7X0ww0SSJWAW_rlJKwKbsWyC1cFPhuqh5v3ziz0O_pWnKpu6hDSTSmvojyUS6GE_hOiQajnitSuFhdEAZq_Dr_UOIotSouSeJ1BDY7GNmsmE-_xOB9q24uwSW41joSG9Rnfa-y3PukS1-fdnIdZVc5_gdOeqJctUK8vzHjI42NrPA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE-DC6q7w2M-dYvoCmOW8nBdFrRcuLUG0EqwkLWJxiOt-Vxnop1eSssn2Ycp2ftM45Bp-vg7VzO6eK4j8ElXO2sH77SNxsuTJzDUVhxffY4K5GQUsdoCP3KDMVUz-QsGPV4E3V2p359gmklH6Q2N6kLpLNJnuKIyfINKUCkLodqUWVpCK30-u4I0ggiQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="720" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE-DC6q7w2M-dYvoCmOW8nBdFrRcuLUG0EqwkLWJxiOt-Vxnop1eSssn2Ycp2ftM45Bp-vg7VzO6eK4j8ElXO2sH77SNxsuTJzDUVhxffY4K5GQUsdoCP3KDMVUz-QsGPV4E3V2p359gmklH6Q2N6kLpLNJnuKIyfINKUCkLodqUWVpCK30-u4I0ggiQ" width="320" /></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a hunt for anyone
who could have shared pictures of the crimes (which effectively has been done
by everyone with a smartphone) and ten people, later joined by seven more, were
illegally arrested, eventually, together with the councillors, charged with a
bogus “murder”. The trial kept being postponed for inexistent “investigation”,
and they continued locked up in remand prison for well over five months. Three
were released for reasons of health and studies. The flow of information was
almost completely cut after the in initial arrests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
Deputy Permanent Representative to the Tanzanian Mission to the UN in Geneva,
Hoyce Temu, in a widely shared clip, denied any state violence, parroting the
malicious and obvious government lie about a “protected area” that had been
“encroached” and about “peaceful talks” with local residents. The councillors
from affected wards were still abducted at unknown location, and their
whereabouts were only known the following day when they were charged with
“murder”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government representatives
made multiple military style visits landing in helicopter to pose with beacons,
tell lies, and issue threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijjx1CFJrxGOK4TwpKmUdaJRS8mNBcdmvKnE_YtPZsJeTIt-0d3vnnXMU-Li7gWgFBcNZR6erdq64HXnScr2acyoNz6_ZGYt7vD58fVLXJRTM_PR_1FgFGrNH_soSIpWOum5RNjzQIzhS68tTB__V9Uj3cK6E0LnsdTGSdWf_4BQEiRGTnl_HLXsQOvg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="660" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijjx1CFJrxGOK4TwpKmUdaJRS8mNBcdmvKnE_YtPZsJeTIt-0d3vnnXMU-Li7gWgFBcNZR6erdq64HXnScr2acyoNz6_ZGYt7vD58fVLXJRTM_PR_1FgFGrNH_soSIpWOum5RNjzQIzhS68tTB__V9Uj3cK6E0LnsdTGSdWf_4BQEiRGTnl_HLXsQOvg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoJDSl4vDepWf4Nrm7G2d-dj4TdJay2XL9lj2d1CiPopwY_tIdSROogJRlx32LAx594R9MZMizKMNUxQ-vfRf2pcGqcJruIRaZyZikeBxfa3OSfTk73LVKOSHaOZ5P-zgVROR2hMj0vwJXGKWeafJrq6QanDPT9u4ClC9iEBX8oS_5lXaQbxSmQ_ZP7w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoJDSl4vDepWf4Nrm7G2d-dj4TdJay2XL9lj2d1CiPopwY_tIdSROogJRlx32LAx594R9MZMizKMNUxQ-vfRf2pcGqcJruIRaZyZikeBxfa3OSfTk73LVKOSHaOZ5P-zgVROR2hMj0vwJXGKWeafJrq6QanDPT9u4ClC9iEBX8oS_5lXaQbxSmQ_ZP7w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyibJWiIbrLqORscIyhHJa-6kjVKy3vbveoiDkgAfu6dwMf7gqkn1MffyK_Ea-blB6CzJ8rg0P_4ANpT3OLzw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTkp-gfjDFxel8ROlxarjqw-KDK1ZtMt-hrkeIEBx3RTwi6cCCNXlb3iDaPdRvWtckX-A-AiVCBnjzcHS14q40XBhH-Vbx2d6oWdqOw4DxwCeI_lzqbj3jk_hfZUJTe8vPW18oNsjSmfeO75g2YR6a_FqTAQZVhWmpJ259t-Effv-ECYAUsKYc7IbUvg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1445" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTkp-gfjDFxel8ROlxarjqw-KDK1ZtMt-hrkeIEBx3RTwi6cCCNXlb3iDaPdRvWtckX-A-AiVCBnjzcHS14q40XBhH-Vbx2d6oWdqOw4DxwCeI_lzqbj3jk_hfZUJTe8vPW18oNsjSmfeO75g2YR6a_FqTAQZVhWmpJ259t-Effv-ECYAUsKYc7IbUvg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx1gRXEj0ffwT_8EBEzECaePtwNJ88ZYvlRLVpeP0csZbENdL-ob8YYTdOqITZ7MltLwRQ3Q90Qs9y32mOsKA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minster Pindi Chana without
following any law or procedure declared the illegally demarcated land as
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area” (GN No.421, 2022), which was announced in a
zoom meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://youtu.be/GMGMoQXWl6w" target="_blank">Spineless diplomats</a> applauded
Minister Ndumbaro’s obvious lies about what was happening. Though many
international organisations condemned the government’s actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEHiuIulFrpV1CUS13HgLjS-CtC3Xk_VLR6sJNvTiOMSc4AgBPiqq6dR-qfRDxKcs-xkdFQUUQm537jbOgNe_c8qAxWclLkOmW3hjpZwYfYvZXaZl41Q1g4KRcErg2pjUGszLl8t1V2KWHtU0wzx5WAWA2rYJ6YTUuTU5v3Y0ZTmbq3WJaPhPuVDkKhQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="615" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEHiuIulFrpV1CUS13HgLjS-CtC3Xk_VLR6sJNvTiOMSc4AgBPiqq6dR-qfRDxKcs-xkdFQUUQm537jbOgNe_c8qAxWclLkOmW3hjpZwYfYvZXaZl41Q1g4KRcErg2pjUGszLl8t1V2KWHtU0wzx5WAWA2rYJ6YTUuTU5v3Y0ZTmbq3WJaPhPuVDkKhQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Masanja, Damas Ndumbaro, and UAE ambassador Khalifa Abdul Rahman Al Marzouqi</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiGe4FNgqMpkbEixAUyJ0qz9FRnv_89b2RcweeMqRtQeHQJ9hemSGl_-CNba8aHfXxtrjdD2dRTY8kO7LTgbILLvo2hsLcH0FH1b_cKPJM9rZ3aujJOSvOCi9PwKhcFgyR0cC09kbOc1GzMvRsZA3B_jMOEYyk9T2-8NRxvdgFhRLKnEH6VOQvn7U7OA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="680" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiGe4FNgqMpkbEixAUyJ0qz9FRnv_89b2RcweeMqRtQeHQJ9hemSGl_-CNba8aHfXxtrjdD2dRTY8kO7LTgbILLvo2hsLcH0FH1b_cKPJM9rZ3aujJOSvOCi9PwKhcFgyR0cC09kbOc1GzMvRsZA3B_jMOEYyk9T2-8NRxvdgFhRLKnEH6VOQvn7U7OA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maurus Msuha maliciously lying.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The much-expected court ruling
in the case filed during the mass arson in 2017, and scheduled for 22<sup>nd</sup>
June, was the last minute shockingly postponed to September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Houses were demolished or
razed. TAWA illegally seized livestock and demanded extortionate “fines”. The
dry season deepened without access to the most important grazing area. In
Ormanie, Arash ward, on 27<sup>th</sup> June, cows, donkeys, calves, and other
livestock were shot by the security forces. There were mass arrests of people
accused of being “Kenyan”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgemJv7WZgkb2HuSDH1RU-1zT6MrTRAjKfi-S12GFkFJda3QE2XStruxPCGPga02Y99JYVv_gEdBdY1kg8fczVVulw4J5FESCulVoYqr00lpQ2Xcj6-inNQ40Wb7WxL6rb4ioYm5PMF_HFaF9sYAQDZoIckhWB2YeabDQgPce0JdKji3oVilhGz0VZXjA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgemJv7WZgkb2HuSDH1RU-1zT6MrTRAjKfi-S12GFkFJda3QE2XStruxPCGPga02Y99JYVv_gEdBdY1kg8fczVVulw4J5FESCulVoYqr00lpQ2Xcj6-inNQ40Wb7WxL6rb4ioYm5PMF_HFaF9sYAQDZoIckhWB2YeabDQgPce0JdKji3oVilhGz0VZXjA" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shot by security forces.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuhkSUzVXy5ls2XzbOfUYIfRqhDd1cNgW3pMFvXBfCuPf7Zc0SCEQVHV577Z9IJTobcqRMC_Yj1O2PXvJUa76spnz4pz2LACxi-fd5-aMBt9CDGFJCRkggE3O_RoojxFSYGb9q__dW8UUQwspfWauxu5aYnSgJ33_u31QIe5jSGIea-Uw9TA2ddnp43w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1040" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuhkSUzVXy5ls2XzbOfUYIfRqhDd1cNgW3pMFvXBfCuPf7Zc0SCEQVHV577Z9IJTobcqRMC_Yj1O2PXvJUa76spnz4pz2LACxi-fd5-aMBt9CDGFJCRkggE3O_RoojxFSYGb9q__dW8UUQwspfWauxu5aYnSgJ33_u31QIe5jSGIea-Uw9TA2ddnp43w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFl61sGrrf4fmR6DpxhbFmiRV74FuxXvXVhZCLHBBcfxn6-d3ZscNBK75UwyJmELbR8lWJbdXOQTWjCsloysIJI06y94djXLF8RAM3PJVPqkvTTjKHSWYI-1b7mOQR16GLMqog1Qkon3yIWz9p2Nj_vwi9mb_0zBP9JVCqiDA-cMF4ot5jaCJM8TJMlA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFl61sGrrf4fmR6DpxhbFmiRV74FuxXvXVhZCLHBBcfxn6-d3ZscNBK75UwyJmELbR8lWJbdXOQTWjCsloysIJI06y94djXLF8RAM3PJVPqkvTTjKHSWYI-1b7mOQR16GLMqog1Qkon3yIWz9p2Nj_vwi9mb_0zBP9JVCqiDA-cMF4ot5jaCJM8TJMlA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> September 2022,
Minister Chana announced that the illegally demarcated 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo had been placed under the management of the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> September
the East African Court of Justice <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/10/amidst-government-terror-and.html" target="_blank">dismissed</a> Reference No.10 of 2017 on the
grounds that the Maasai had failed to prove that the mass arson of 2017 was
committed on village land and not in Serengeti National Park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TAWA, at the height of the dry
season, continued illegal seizures of livestock and extortion of huge fines,
100,000 shillings per cow and 25,000 per sheep or goat. NCAA rangers were
reportedly trained and set up camp. In Malambo, on 8<sup>th</sup> November, the
head of the NCAA camp announced that TAWA had left, and the boundaries were
being guarded by the Field Force Unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> October, or
1<sup>st</sup> November, it was announced that President Samia had on 14<sup>th</sup>
October declared a Pololeti Game Reserve (GN No.604, 2022). It came as a nasty
surprise for the lawyers that on 1<sup>st</sup> November were in court for the
mention of Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022, even if it seems like it was also
on Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation the previous evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPWUfRCaTwwAR9i6diNKWiwOhQdAkzYjKX2NbT9HZnCq3VAMAPUK430pxdGmhMPP4RuNng7SsilygDlZHf7IZSIOKaYRERq3wSrDURAlQpwk2oVFBCECodej9wbz07C7DA2Gztt_f_gcgX98itSa2B9uwy0P_TyOkjXDS1t9xzm3M3NfYpINAwbxALxg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPWUfRCaTwwAR9i6diNKWiwOhQdAkzYjKX2NbT9HZnCq3VAMAPUK430pxdGmhMPP4RuNng7SsilygDlZHf7IZSIOKaYRERq3wSrDURAlQpwk2oVFBCECodej9wbz07C7DA2Gztt_f_gcgX98itSa2B9uwy0P_TyOkjXDS1t9xzm3M3NfYpINAwbxALxg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three court cases have been
filed to stop the brutal, fake and illegal protected area: one in the High
Court and two in the East African Court of Justice, the ruling in the case
filed in 2017 has been appealed, and there’s a contempt of court application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 1<sup>st</sup> November, in
an NCA advertorial in the extreme anti-Maasai newspaper the Jamhuri, a
“conservator” for the fake and illegal game reserve – Pius Rwiza - spoke of how
calm and wonderful everything is after the demarcation. He says that the Maasai
understand the demarcation but must keep a further 500 metres away from it! And
he wanted them to create WMAs, outside the illegally demarcated 1,500 km2,
which is another kind of land alienation that also was included in the
OBC-funded draft district land use plan that was rejected by Ngorongoro
District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFWQq_jmTnjBG9-EaENbuAoL3j-Xu6pw6x7iN63xV2A5wCYFjuNPKStMat17KR7ZK6P7Jc84GBFPOfWJEKDFlRCT6PmpqyBu2KHB6Dg9xhXkokFQv9aWYrTV9pNPtvKHXL_Tt0VRZtcIEj13mARSMgM-msME2d9vwjqvlxP_9_LgiqKRC2vG1GqpLH9w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="787" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFWQq_jmTnjBG9-EaENbuAoL3j-Xu6pw6x7iN63xV2A5wCYFjuNPKStMat17KR7ZK6P7Jc84GBFPOfWJEKDFlRCT6PmpqyBu2KHB6Dg9xhXkokFQv9aWYrTV9pNPtvKHXL_Tt0VRZtcIEj13mARSMgM-msME2d9vwjqvlxP_9_LgiqKRC2vG1GqpLH9w" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards the end of October
2022, there were reports of a notice issued by the DC about redrawing of
village boundaries with new village land use plans, and some 40 state security
and surveyors on the ground. Through intimidation and government installed
traitors, it was said that the land use plan had been passed, but that would of
course not be legal in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Between 14<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup>
November 2022, nine immigration cases against 62 people who still had such
cases pending after the mass arrests in June and July were discharged for want
of prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> November
2022, it was announced that the Director of Public Prosecution had no intention
to continue with the ridiculous “murder” case against 24 people, including ten
CCM political leaders. The leaders were whisked off to CCM internal elections
to vote for candidates close to RC Mongella. They still – except for the
councillor of Arash who testified in front of the ACHPR (but I’m not sure how
much he said) and the Malambo councillor was also there - haven’t said one word
about the atrocities committed during their over five months in remand prison.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> December
2022, in a ceremony with PM Kassim
Majaliwa and Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana, the German
Ambassador to Tanzania Regina Hess handed over 51 vehicles, part of 20
million euros committed funds by Germany for emergency funding and recovery for
biodiversity in response of COVID19 facilitated by the German development bank,
KfW and Frankfurt Zoological Society, FZS. The vehicles will be distributed
into Serengeti and Nyerere National Parks and Selous Game Reserve and will have
a great impact on supporting “operations”. In the ceremony Majaliwa <a href="https://youtu.be/4CDeucfYMFk" target="_blank">mentioned poachers and “encroaching livestock”</a> as the objectives of those “operations”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTyoWzca53alSHktp8RmgQuHjmHKVXTZMWAQfHASlNSOdghr1Z-QAAn8qOeQZue4hiPBPx_2kuBBNQO8Ru4eVqe8PQBaD8KH0rTqUIDGQKOFHZpTTn7x2vrtB5pES0mULlMcR8QE9SXbIorcQ8Up7xj9D07A-IKJ6leWoQrt-Xk12L8odgKIj-GO4-6A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="1600" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTyoWzca53alSHktp8RmgQuHjmHKVXTZMWAQfHASlNSOdghr1Z-QAAn8qOeQZue4hiPBPx_2kuBBNQO8Ru4eVqe8PQBaD8KH0rTqUIDGQKOFHZpTTn7x2vrtB5pES0mULlMcR8QE9SXbIorcQ8Up7xj9D07A-IKJ6leWoQrt-Xk12L8odgKIj-GO4-6A" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian commentariat
toward the end of 2022, unfortunately, again became busy with wildlife
trafficking from Loliondo, without presenting evidence. Even OBC’s Mollel
participated in a zoom seminar organized to deny this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Livestock keep being seized
destroying everyone’s livelihood and mental health. 23<sup>rd</sup> – 28<sup>th</sup>
January, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights visited,
specifically to have a look at Loliondo and Ngorongoro, but the visit was co-opted
by the government and the Commission did not see a single victim from Loliondo.
Salangat Mako from Ololosokwan recorded a message for the Commission and then had to flee to Kenya after threats. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzfHSHMOK6a2ScMBGr5IwbGYBEo4fomQXukxcNY69D7GKbE2Mre1eqeZfcJ3MEl2LiOAEXQgxrwK6jAvXG5mg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Uproot the brutally and
illegally planted beacons, shred the GNs to pieces, and punish every person
involved in violence and land theft in Loliondo, Sale and Ngorongoro! Boycott
Tanzania until the war against pastoralists and other rural people for “conservation”
is stopped and the land returned!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKjRfdo__ao_SnHEEDSw-KAJKSEVjNpO0fCk3wHDPJNleWPr_kLwobuWZtQwzPE6-8Bx95aS_bdilU4EzQHOdhbosxZEA2O2fv7VdEpaLMrIHUEmuiVSyS2l54LzD8ZMiRqB4nzxVeW_LEmTPeh2Gv8jqA1SQYGuLtXbgHRpVyRu5TeCRBswgmX_0vyg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKjRfdo__ao_SnHEEDSw-KAJKSEVjNpO0fCk3wHDPJNleWPr_kLwobuWZtQwzPE6-8Bx95aS_bdilU4EzQHOdhbosxZEA2O2fv7VdEpaLMrIHUEmuiVSyS2l54LzD8ZMiRqB4nzxVeW_LEmTPeh2Gv8jqA1SQYGuLtXbgHRpVyRu5TeCRBswgmX_0vyg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“A word to
you wicked and witchy king, watch your six, the curse of our suffering is on
its way, an African version and recipe this time to fly you back to your
desert, you are not the green type.”,</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/01/guest-blogger-words-of-salangat-ole.html" target="_blank">Salangat ole Mako</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <b><span style="color: #800180;">Updates</span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b><span style="color: #800180;">14th February</span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;">President Samia removed Pindi Chana from the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and replaced her with Mohamed Mchengerwa, Minister of Culture, Arts and Sports. Chana was shifted to Mchengerwa's former ministry.</span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;"><b>15th February</b></span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;">The police came to Salangat Mako's home searching for him. </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>16th February</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">The District Investigation Officer came to inspect Salangat's farm claiming to check on complaints. In the evening police from Ololosokwan and Loliondo came to his home.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>19<sup>th</sup> February</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">700 cows belonging to six different owners were seized
in Ololosokwan, outside the fake and illegal “game reserve”, and 6 million (lower
than the usual extortion rate) were extorted from the owners, without receipt. The
cattle belong to Mogia Ndoinyo, Momon Koipa, Oloshuro Keshine, Kangai Tome,
Kulana Koipa, Pardi Lemeria. I didn’t hear one word about this case until the
21<sup>st</sup> when Maria Saraungi Tsehai tweeted about it</span>!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>20<sup>th</sup> February</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">There was a public Zoom meeting in Endulen about the
downgrading of the hospital, part of the restrictions to make to Maasai leave NCA.
The meeting was attended by catholic bishops from around the world and a UN
representative.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>28th February</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Crimson Text, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">A most terrible meeting about the Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan was held at the District Council. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>3<sup>rd</sup> March</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">62 cows from Sedui village in Alailelai ward (NCA)
were caught in Sanjan, Ikariani in the fake and illegal “game reserve”. At the
same time this area is in Alailelai (I don’t understand this part). The owners
are searching for 6.2 million for the “fines”. Update: the "fines" were paid and the cows were released on 6th March.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>11th March</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">47 cows belonging to Simat Rotiken were seized by rangers in Ololosokwan, on land illegally called a "game reserve". Since he didn't carry cash, the extortion "fine" was the regular TShs 4,700,000 (100,000 per cow). </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>12th March</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It
was reported that 600 sheep belonging to the Karinya family from Serng'etuny, Piyaya had one week earlier been seized
in the Imbarbali area of Serengeti National Park, and taken to Naabi gate. This
is technically more legal than the lawless extortion of herders on village land
declared a fake and illegal “game reserve”, but cruel and totally disproportionate.
The owners attempted to pay the extortionate
TShs 12,000,000 fine, but this was refused by TANAPA/SENAPA that’s intent on
finishing off the Maasai. On 15<sup>th</sup> March a vehicle with loudspeakers was
announcing the auctioning of the sheep in Mugumu and other places west of the
national park. The sheep were sold on the 15<sup>th</sup>. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>15th March</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There were reports that CHRAGG, Commission on Human Rights and Good Governance, a government organ, were in Ngorongoro, without any previous announcement. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>16th March</b> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;">At night 52 cows belonging to Mure Olemboye were seized in Ololosokwan on land illegally called a “game reserve”. The cows were taken to Klein’s gate and now the owner has to pay the extortion “fine” of 100.000 per head of cattle.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">Later it was reported that the cattle had been taken to Bologonja, not Klein's, and that the Serengeti rangers want to auction them on 28th March.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>21st March</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">On
illegally demarcated village land in the Osero Sopia area of Ololosokwan
village 400 cows belonging to people from Mairowa, Njoroi, Olekenta, and
Osero Sopia (Ntasikoy Pere, Leshoko Tanin, Toroge Oriais, Kumoi Naing'isa, Orantai
Nampaso) were seized and taken to Bologonja. On Friday 24th March, one of the
cattle owners. Oriais Toroge, was arrested and taken to Mugumu. It’s not known
what he’s accused of. The owners of the 400 cows will have to pay the usual
extortion “fine” of TShs 100,000 per head of cattle.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>22nd March</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
case of enforced disappearance of Oriais </span><a name="_Hlk130384349" style="font-size: 12pt;">Oleng'iyo</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
of Ololosokwan, Loliondo division, in Ngorongoro District, Miscellaneous
Criminal Application No. 68 of 2022 came up for hearing before Judge Gwae, in
the High Court of Tanzania, Arusha Registry.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>29th March</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Karipoy Ngaiserry's cows were seized in the Oldoinyo Keri area of Ololosokwan, in the fake and illegal "game reserve", and taken to Klein's gate.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-17232012111620833032023-01-28T13:41:00.004+01:002023-01-28T15:56:28.025+01:00Guest Blogger: The Words of Salangat ole Mako on the Run for In Vain Trying to Tell the Truth to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights that Never Came<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Salangat ole
Mako has in his own words become a – nightly - grass thief in his own land. He is
a Maasai pastoralist and a small-scale commercial cultivator of vegetables and
fruits in Ololosokwan village in Loliondo. As lobbied for by OBC, that
organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, 75% of his, and everyone’s, grazing
land has brutally and lawlessly been taken by the Tanzanian government for a “protected
area”, and then there have been threats of taking his farm. On 25<sup>th</sup>
January, Salangat was waiting in vain for a much shambolic and government co-opted
visit by the African Commission of Human and People’s Rights (I hope to <b>very
</b>soon post a blog post about this). A brief clip of what he would have wanted to
tell the Commission was shared online. The following day the Officer Commanding
Ngorongoro District came to Ololosokwan to say that the gathering waiting for
the international organization had not had a permit and that Salangat had been
talking thrash. Then Salangat received more threats and fled to Kenya. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These are his spoken and written words:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span></span></i></p><a name='more'></a><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyd0CbxLuO5iZ2zqgQxA8LeJ8Z3iufTwLpxoE6kagB9pewvjroE1funjF6shPqWLwVqBH1Z8yOpr8x8TI0JFg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The pain and suffering in
Ololosokwan and all villages adjacent to the hunting block is beyond expression
by words. The peace and harmony of Tanzania as perceived by those who visit
have drifted to marginalization, oppression, threats, hate and all nasty acts
by the ruling class to those who elected them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dr. President (acquired
through power bestowed on her) portrays her ignorance through misinterpretation
of our national constitution and land laws. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><i>" Land belongs to the
Government." </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A question asked by a layman
or woman:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>" Who is the government in real sense
between the elected and those who actually elect (citizens)? "</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The sequence of events after
the 2016 OBC report, MLUM rectification and propositions 2019 and the forced Land
Use Plan propels the economic drain and extermination of our culture and
pastoral economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Only a
fool can perceive progress and prosperity of a pastoralist economy without
pasture." <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Since
our development isn't much of their concern, their ego, prioritised greed and
corrupt approach to each and every undertaking are all geared to draining our
wealth forcing us to extreme poverty."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As we can't sit back and watch
our livestock die, we battle the fear of wild animals, beatings, intimidations
and harassments by FFU, TAWA and NCAA soldiers whenever they capture you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As per the newly established
GCA laws grazing may be considered by the Director of Wildlife. 2022 was a year
with a serious and prolonged drought, that claimed the lives of thousands of
cows, goats and sheep forcing a majority of Tanzanians seeking refuge for their
livestock in nearby Kenya to reduce calamities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Didn't the
Director of wildlife see the need of granting us grazing permits to rescue our
communities economic base?"</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> It is even made worse by the
fact that they even forcefully seized and captured livestock out of the hunting
block and from homes too as in the case of Olesimanga from Ololosokwan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"I may
say our neighbors Kenya felt our pain and extended their hand to help, while
our lovely country intensified captures, reinforced patrol teams and increased
the number of newly acquired vehicles that would ensure our cows die of
hunger."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"What is
it of us to deserve the hate?" <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Maybe it is the beauty of the
land we have, or we may be lesser humans than other citizens. It is a common
trend to see fellow tribesmen shifting to towns after being snatched ancestral
land for petty jobs like guarding gates, selling traditional herbs, plaiting
women hair and so on. </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">It may be a deliberate effort of a few who feel more
human than we ignorant Maasai to violate rights and dignity of the rightful landowners
in favour of a single rich individual to feed their </b><b>never-ending</b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> greed.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Our days are bitter while our
nights are sour, we see our end as nearer than we perceived earlier. How long
will a hungry cow stand its hunger? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Will we be left with anything?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As pastoralism concludes its
end, what is our alternative? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the nature's law survival
for the fittest, will we survive this, or will we give room to those who
dictate it to us? To me and many like me we see better death than the pain and
suffering of being helpless when your child cries of hunger and you have
nothing to offer. Our Maasai culture and economy are no more, will we survive
this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A serious question I had for
myself and for you:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"What if we the actual
landowners in this situation transformed or were Muslims, would our land be
returned? Would this be the case?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A cry from an
oppressed herder and a hungry cow<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can't get sleep,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Away from my family,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My farmwork frozen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Uncertain food and roof,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where am I safe,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What do I do,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How do I earn,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They may go hungry with a
starving father on the run, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Will I even manage their
school fees with no harvest?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ohh God give us strength to
push on, console us during times like this and open the eyes and hearts of the gods
strangling us. Show them mercy and pity, reduce the hate they have for us. Let
them not be swayed and blinded by the temporary wealth and authority we grant
them. Show them our equality in your eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Herder’s
Shoes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Day time sleep being a new
habit to many it is as hard as not dozing off at night while stealing grass.
Many go for days without sleep conscious or not of the health risks at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As we can't watch our cows
die, we risk carnivores and the oppressive fines that we clearly know will
claim them all. It is more rational to us that way than to watch them starve to
death, our attachment to and cultural importance of a cow would incline us to
be with them till their last breath. It is the hardest test you can give a
traditional Maasai, it is easier to take your own life than helplessly just
watch. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Evenings to an ordinary herder
whether on hired terms or being the owner come quicker than normal, your
heartbeat increases as dark approaches. You have no other choice than fight
fear the entire night, if not from a lion or buffalo attack, getting into a
warthog hole, getting beaten, harassed or intimidated by rangers, a snake bite,
or any risks a hunting area may have at its disposal. The worst of all, an
encounter with an injured lion or buffalo who sees a man as first-hand enemy to
be attacked on sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Each day having a different
experience, better or worse all ours with high hopes of a better haven where we
will have good night sleep, where we can sit at one table as equal beings as
the oppressive park rangers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">If it is what God meant for us
then be it, be it not in the wishes and demands of gluttony and egoistic
citizens granted the mandate to command. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In whose interest is the
command to arrest an opinion holder, a complainer of oppression? It is a pity
that a temporary mandate and dirty wealth blinds someone this quick, opting
ruthlessness to your voter forgetting that tomorrow is a day to beg for
acceptance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It is sad, having years of
motherhood, still holding a ruthless heart that feels no pain nor pity, no
consideration to a suffering community instead increasing the weight of the
pain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The beauty of our land, the
backbone to our daily bread, leaves the king of crude and refined oils, the conqueror
of brutal capitalism salivating. And since he is used to getting whatever his
heart pleases, and basically has it all, ruler of the Arab world is satisfied
taking what to us is everything; just to kill for leisure and pleasure in the
expense of our daily bread. Ohh God come down, please just make it once we your
lesser children can't bear it anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As cows die, our herds reduce
in number shrinking our pride, the dreams of a better tomorrow fading away
slowly. Poverty is forcefully embracing us, and no human law condemns it, we
live in a wicked world where we pay dearly for an essential right, cost
depending on the rights importance at that particular time. We wonder in fear
and despair what can we pay for the right in decision in the use of our own
land. Why should his wants always come first, and in real sense we wouldn't
give him in exchange for the blood oily emirate desert that is inclined to
pleasing him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A word to you wicked and
witchy king, watch your six, the curse of our suffering is on its way, an
African version and recipe this time to fly you back to your desert, you are
not the green type.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqffb0x9y-qnGK6EYN1tebJvwz5BWqjiQGZ_iFZLEAnljdzIkNY0o9f5gCcm4BgWJ5tsyxDMBFdDlbDgskV-mOVLXHMd70Mp0jmH9P4csmmJkicov8lHDq7xAIfUnUio1JZRMnJVWkQwVTbPy1kH5nZPzn-sAfx0OOqcICKdOpOkqYEjPC8wEmpU700Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqffb0x9y-qnGK6EYN1tebJvwz5BWqjiQGZ_iFZLEAnljdzIkNY0o9f5gCcm4BgWJ5tsyxDMBFdDlbDgskV-mOVLXHMd70Mp0jmH9P4csmmJkicov8lHDq7xAIfUnUio1JZRMnJVWkQwVTbPy1kH5nZPzn-sAfx0OOqcICKdOpOkqYEjPC8wEmpU700Q" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-40615860150348532042022-12-31T18:54:00.010+01:002023-01-30T03:22:46.616+01:00The Worst Year Ever in Loliondo is Ending Without any Hope on the Horizon<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year has been the worst
year ever. With extreme brutality, breaking every law, the Tanzanian government
has turned 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land, legally registered
village land in Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro district, into a fake
and illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is not just a violent
operation that took place in June – when mzee Oriais Oleng'iyo was last seen
wounded by bullets and held by security forces. It is an ongoing brutal crime
that continues, in a most deadly way, until the illegal boundary beacons are
uprooted and the lawless Government Notice No.604, issued by the president,
thrown into the waste bin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The land has been stolen, the
grass has been stolen, livestock keep being stolen and ransom fees demanded,
everybody’s mental health is stolen, all leaders – they had some moments of
usefulness early this year - have become useless cowards through terror. This
terror has been caused by the locking up of all councillors from affected wards
on bogus murder charges for over five months, reporting has almost stopped
through confiscation of smartphones, arrests, and additions to the murder
charges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This crime is significantly
worse than the illegal evictions with mass arson in 2009 and 2017. Those
attacks had a start and an end when the Maasai could rebuild, while the current
brutality goes on and on. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ngorongoro Conservation
Area, not to be confused with Loliondo, restrictions have worsened and hate
propaganda in the press and in parliament have gone mouth-frothingly insane in
this year. It looked like it was there that the government’s violence would
explode, but instead, it did in Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">However, it is not only
Ngorongoro district. Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government is waging a war against
pastoralists all over Tanzania. The repression and lawlessness of the Magufuli
era have been kept while a crazy tourist cult has become state religion. A
cheesy travel show is the gospel and there is a promise of 5 million tourists
by 2025. <b>Tanzania is a perfect candidate for a total tourism boycott.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsdqitdUpQHoB4gdNvhqqmwj8G4D3mWS3hLcImMOqXSwVqzUgK5yhzFBZJ74uiGrLYMO3lqjwctrkB7Q2RfQqqrUgAQSkOvr21llx7uw7OawWbrxebZJ_MQ8CKTaei7rL5XhcfJjLMh3CF1J_ht1XzUgr1sk9asgRwWL8zV5QWLMYiGudp2FJNJ3xgNw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsdqitdUpQHoB4gdNvhqqmwj8G4D3mWS3hLcImMOqXSwVqzUgK5yhzFBZJ74uiGrLYMO3lqjwctrkB7Q2RfQqqrUgAQSkOvr21llx7uw7OawWbrxebZJ_MQ8CKTaei7rL5XhcfJjLMh3CF1J_ht1XzUgr1sk9asgRwWL8zV5QWLMYiGudp2FJNJ3xgNw" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2Qh51Y_MRxIgLzi7YfiQAvJQcRJzuMM7oJ3GgcSgUQmqkMDVzOxMK1yYdSW87r7c_UOqJNK0GJ_RnTgnz21kn-LryXQwO7bjXvm__ngH4KvFNSIoNhM9m-KU7a7jYFYFE1zQOlOt3_wOBOqPNQPw0R95gqHOQ-ihYAXdgu4k5GiBxuBYoK2_GrFQd-g" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2Qh51Y_MRxIgLzi7YfiQAvJQcRJzuMM7oJ3GgcSgUQmqkMDVzOxMK1yYdSW87r7c_UOqJNK0GJ_RnTgnz21kn-LryXQwO7bjXvm__ngH4KvFNSIoNhM9m-KU7a7jYFYFE1zQOlOt3_wOBOqPNQPw0R95gqHOQ-ihYAXdgu4k5GiBxuBYoK2_GrFQd-g" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Let's hope that we will meet 2024 without these two, at least not in their capacity as head of state/emirate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government’s
continued war against land and livestock<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The dropped bogus murder case<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fake and forced land use plans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The war against livestock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The chief criminal Samia and
her German donors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thomson Safaris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro Conservation Area<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court cases<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
Loliondo hunting block background</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
2022 threats leading up to the brutal illegal demarcation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly about
the brutal and illegal demarcation of a fake game reserve<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government’s
continued war against land and livestock<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The dropped
bogus murder case<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/11/loliondo-bogus-murder-case-dropped.html" target="_blank">previous (now old) blog post</a>, on 22<sup>nd</sup> November seven councillors of wards
affected by the brutal and illegal land theft, two special seat councillors and
the CCM district chairman, were released from over five months in remand prison
on “murder” charges. They were then driven directly to an internal CCM ruling
party election to vote for confidantes of the appointed main enforcer of the massive
human rights crimes, who with all probability ordered their illegal arrests, Arusha
Regional Commissioner (RC) John Mongella. Since, none of the councillors, who
early this year vocally opposed the increased land alienation threat, have said
one word about the unbelievably cruel crimes that have been committed during
their imprisonment, and <b>continue being committed</b>. This very much adds to
the sense of hopelessness. In the past I avoided party politics in this blog,
but the CCM ruling party is like a terrible sect destroying everything, not
least everyone’s mental health. In Tanzania, the death penalty is the mandatory
sentence for murder. People keep being sentenced and put on death row, but no
executions have been carried out since 1995. Still “murder” charges were found
to be a suitable “joke”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I have heard from one of the apparently
very random people who were arrested for spreading information and then added to
the councillors’ bogus murder charges and locked up for over five months. I had
earlier not had any communication at all with this person who says that those
charged, while tortured were questioned about how I was helping them. His impression
seemed to be that I’m hardly helping anything at all. The torture was not only
committed at Loliondo police station, which isn’t surprising to anyone, but
also at Kisongo remand prison. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This malicious imprisonment
was solely committed to kill all the spirit of resistance. It’s more than obvious
that nobody made any kind of attempt at prosecuting those charged. The
councillors were charged with the “murder” of a policeman who was killed the day <b>after</b> they were abducted when lured to a meeting by District
Commissioner (DC) Raymond Mwangwala. At each court mention, the prosecution asked
for and was given more time for “investigation”, until the Director of Public
Prosecution decided to drop the charges, supposedly after the evil mission had
been accomplished. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now, there are not any
alternative suspects for the supposed murder of Cpl. Garlus Mwita. He was
buried, but we only have RC Mongella’s word for what happened. Before the
casket was transported home, there was a <a href="https://youtu.be/YxaAS_lv1Xg" target="_blank">requiem mass in Loliondo</a>, which
Mongella used to stir up more support for the brutal land theft. He did that
while swearing that those who killed the policeman with poison-arrowshot (as if
that could be done by more than one person) would be hunted down, and Mwangwala
with much emotion threatened anyone sharing information online. If the cause
indeed was arrowshot, it was obviously self-defence and not murder. Anyway,
Garlus Mwita’s life was not important enough for authorities to engage in any
kind of real investigation, and if you are 36 years old, your profession is
anti-riot, and you are sent with hundreds of colleagues to Loliondo for land
demarcation, you know that you are sent to commit a crime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The day that the charges were
dropped, in the courtroom there were all kinds of leaders who<span style="color: red;"> </span>had earlier not shown any support. There was a deal,
and it keeps looking more and more horrible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaI7qrHDzTAUMgntR81-k6J5h1D3HWqmzIbfy9KAdtf3su-y6pd4pyWREwc5w8J66ukFd33n20En4gteu9NU4QjhhTJ7Bq9Rqx-rNqYvXNwgOzM87fMrmRBZkHGgOzL20rija63suRFVoeH2fbGAxbkM28MdFU3qln9B1IE0H7_E3L25EbZDcN6QXTBQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaI7qrHDzTAUMgntR81-k6J5h1D3HWqmzIbfy9KAdtf3su-y6pd4pyWREwc5w8J66ukFd33n20En4gteu9NU4QjhhTJ7Bq9Rqx-rNqYvXNwgOzM87fMrmRBZkHGgOzL20rija63suRFVoeH2fbGAxbkM28MdFU3qln9B1IE0H7_E3L25EbZDcN6QXTBQ" width="265" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fake and
forced land use plans<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported in the previous
blog post, when everyone has been beaten into silence, the government moved
forward to impose fake land use plans on the villages, often using imposed and
compromised acting chairmen, but it is very difficult to ascertain if there is
any kind of meaningful resistance at all. There is a mix-up between “solving”
land conflict between villages in Ngorongoro district (one may wonder why it
has not been done long ago if it is so easy) and the most dangerous threat of
further land alienations via the imposition of Wildlife Management Areas (WMA).
Any kind of new land use plans in the villages that have lost massive land to
the illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve”, a crime contested by several court cases,
is of course not legal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One example is Ololosokwan where
signs have been put up re-zone areas, outside the brutal and illegal demarcation,
for tourism and grazing only. Altough “grazing” seems to have been added to the
signs a later point and is a trick used against pastoralists. Once the land is
for tourism and grazing only, authorities will say that it is “empty” and steal
it for a protected area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcHeeYWMDMMekHKecw8Q2V62d7k95K7ix4MnG5bx-OB8pPC-yImXNfo78sEdAtqR6nw4K2ujnrbqiL__YgGLaDnCpgSKCgVpeNgchAKzXUyeyiSmgh8LCk2kaadM33StdZr3IuOjlQ24_sE-X8VR5VGH0Sajc8VxgrH0W6SG3ELOGpT-duQuwr_TlR5Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="1080" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcHeeYWMDMMekHKecw8Q2V62d7k95K7ix4MnG5bx-OB8pPC-yImXNfo78sEdAtqR6nw4K2ujnrbqiL__YgGLaDnCpgSKCgVpeNgchAKzXUyeyiSmgh8LCk2kaadM33StdZr3IuOjlQ24_sE-X8VR5VGH0Sajc8VxgrH0W6SG3ELOGpT-duQuwr_TlR5Q" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Salangat Mako is a small-scale
commercial cultivator of vegetables and fruits for years, appreciated by almost
everyone, and a “hustler” in the East African meaning of the word. He was summoned
to the Ngorongoro Officer Commanding District (OCD) in Loliondo town where he
was arrested and charged with:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Agitating against the land
use plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Agitating people not to move
from the area set aside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Cultivating near a water
source.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sadly, it was Ololoskwan
village under the leadership of acting chairman Cosmas Olderika Leitura that
had sued Salangat. His farm is one kilometre away from the river source and
110 metres from the riverbed. He never received any notice and had not had any
complaints in the past. Salangat was released on bail after a one-night arrest
at Loliondo police station, and then had to return to the OCD the following
week when the harassment was delayed for yet one week. Charges against Salangat
were dropped on 16<sup>th</sup> December following the legitimate village
chairman, John Kambaley Pyando’s return from exile after the bogus murder case
had been dropped. This is the only indication of any beneficial activity at all
by any leader of affected wards and villages, and sadly it seems like nothing
more of that has later been seen.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reportedly, it is the OBC camp
supervisor William Parmwat who is lobbying for zoning to prepare for a Wildlife
Management Area (WMA). Both the “conservator” for the fake and illegal “Pololeti
Game Reserve”, one Pius Rwiza, and DC Raymond Mwangala have been seen in media
talking about WMA, and such areas were, besides the alienation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
Osero, also in the OBC-funded draft district land use plan that was successfully
rejected in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The war
against livestock<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The relentless and purposefully
poverty creating seizure of cattle this year, together with the massive land
theft, and not least the created cowardice, forms the darkest chapter of the
history of the Loliondo Maasai, and similar attacks are being committed against
pastoralists all over Tanzania. It is now raining, but in nearby areas, like Longido,
the drought has been catastrophic. I do not know if anyone in Loliondo is
counting the losses of a bad dry season combined with security forces keeping
cattle out of a huge and important dry season area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some pastoralist and human rights
organizations on 20<sup>th</sup> December made a <a href="https://youtu.be/rwckctZ2KXo" target="_blank">press statement</a> denouncing the
attacks against pastoralists all over the country, and on the 21st there
was <a href="https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/pastoralists-want%20court-judgements-carried-out" target="_blank">another press conference</a> in which the need for relief food for Loliondo and
Sale was brought up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the most lawless way, cattle
are still being seized on village land that illegally has been demarcated as a “game
reserve”, but also technically legally in Serengeti National Park, that was not
appropriated with free, informed and prior consent, but over 60 years ago and
not contested in court (not yet). <b>It is important to keep those two issues
separated</b> – so that allies may properly understand the court cases - even
if the national park seizures are being done in a cruel way and not following
procedures. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I fear I have only been informed
about a fraction of cattle seizures since the latest blog post that was posted on 24th November. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am having some problems finding
out exactly who the rangers are, after the fake and illegal “Pololeti Game
Reserve” was placed under Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, NCAA. Some say
that they are all the same, so it doesn’t matter, but apparently Tanzania
Wildlife Authority, TAWA, left, and some security personnel trained for NCAA
are committing the crimes. They are assisted by anti-riot Field Force Unit, FFU,
teams from different parts of Tanzania. In Ololosokwan a team from Tanga was seen
but has left. Then came teams from Shinyanga and from Njombe, that is in the
far south of the country. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKt3lJy0lPqFHpRYbg1W13ADmmNdkh4jJSsm-1MwMM_D_FL89CjULu19jCyc3tQglAxY6s1t7w_ZPPBukSC5kuv5e5aF-xTeko-_rLFiVyApB5ZJ9rBgw3VTkmVtHzUniHthF7exzyjpKaRy9fmxOKO3RGMOsd12KZVf60v46kS01Er5HlTxDJJilDOQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKt3lJy0lPqFHpRYbg1W13ADmmNdkh4jJSsm-1MwMM_D_FL89CjULu19jCyc3tQglAxY6s1t7w_ZPPBukSC5kuv5e5aF-xTeko-_rLFiVyApB5ZJ9rBgw3VTkmVtHzUniHthF7exzyjpKaRy9fmxOKO3RGMOsd12KZVf60v46kS01Er5HlTxDJJilDOQ" width="249" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 26<sup>th</sup> November
the 60 cows of Sarkay Tiiyee from Malambo were seized at a water point,
outside the illegally demarcated area. He had 100 cows, but 40 had already died
due to drought and theft of grazing land. It is the rangers stationed at the
Orng'oswa area that used to be part of Sanjan village in Malambo who are
committing the crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 27<sup>th</sup> November,
also in Malambo, 167 goats belonging to Kimani Taretoy Tiiyee were seized. The
rangers demanded 60,000 per goat and slaughtered 27 of them. They can do
absolutely anything since there is no one to hold them accountable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 2<sup>nd</sup> December
there was a terrible hunt for cattle from the villages of Ormanie, Mbuken and
Arash. Cattle found in Serengeti National Park were impounded at Eng’oswa (inside
the park, not to be confused with Orng’oswa in Sanjan, Malambo) and it was reported
that authorities wanted to auction them off. There were mentions that cattle
had also been seized in Ingarroi (Arash) on village land, but I have not been
able to confirm this. When there were auctions of cattle seized in Serengeti in
2017, it was talked about as something previously unthinkable in a district
with pastoralist majority. Everything has deteriorated very much and on 14<sup>th</sup>
December the lowest point ever was reached. The cattle were sold as unclaimed
property, since the owners were too afraid to present themselves in court, even
when there were lawyers supporting them. In 2018, when 163 heads of livestock
belonging to Neromboi ole Lindi were auctioned by Serengeti National Park, Arash
people got together</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">and
managed to raise money among themselves that was submitted to the CCM chair and
the Council Chairperson/Arash ward councillor, to go to Serengeti to buy the
cows. The reason for this was the fact that it was a disgrace to let the family
lose their cattle and it could damage the image of the Loita for other
subtribes, it would be seen as weakness, the family would live in abject
poverty. Now disgrace is everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIhybYWD1H3BW7bKbozuVdd_v9wnWKvHDG3ixGV5CYI4l8mehIkc9qiRgM4Bt_Kbhk1-2raySmFTob0sAvNle2LNZ9SbRN_3_aU2k_aqWCjjRxOdUMbclFabZMknf7kBLJM6wWr1pzhl_OI7Wtz6iitkQNMamLydEmLQ4HYMG48EoaKfzQlG0Uk5IdMw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="680" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIhybYWD1H3BW7bKbozuVdd_v9wnWKvHDG3ixGV5CYI4l8mehIkc9qiRgM4Bt_Kbhk1-2raySmFTob0sAvNle2LNZ9SbRN_3_aU2k_aqWCjjRxOdUMbclFabZMknf7kBLJM6wWr1pzhl_OI7Wtz6iitkQNMamLydEmLQ4HYMG48EoaKfzQlG0Uk5IdMw" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Livestock were lost in the
evening of 14<sup>th</sup> December in the Endepesi area of the Ndutu seasonal
pastures at Nasipooriong' village in Endulen ward (Ngorongoro Conservation Area).
On 15<sup>th</sup> December, the owners reported the cows as missing and found
that they had been taken into the park and held at Naabi Gate of Serengeti National
Park. Park authorities told them to go to the court to claim their cows because
they would not accept fines. The owners did not file a court claim, and the
cattle were sold. One lost 212 cows and the other lost 83 cows and 14 donkeys. There
are further heart-breaking details to this case that I may write about in the
future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> December some
1,500 (number not confirmed) cattle were unlawfully seized in the Orkimbai area
of Kirtalo, which is village land with the illegal “game reserve” on it. The cattle
were released after extortion fees were paid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuB_BZ29I9VNN1CGy6iMZPKPpqZgt09znQ4qPA1KAz1tPVYtRPm65f23jGU-WFiCZv-4Ff2fvs-Dj9mgJhtjDVug0B426lKsltQbCKD2SqlLhGua_fevewaqZAZv9bn1E5_4ncuTLQ0hdm3KTD5vlP0gWQiVnGv5nb4z10PXV-_DlvgyauB88Lgipwuw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="720" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuB_BZ29I9VNN1CGy6iMZPKPpqZgt09znQ4qPA1KAz1tPVYtRPm65f23jGU-WFiCZv-4Ff2fvs-Dj9mgJhtjDVug0B426lKsltQbCKD2SqlLhGua_fevewaqZAZv9bn1E5_4ncuTLQ0hdm3KTD5vlP0gWQiVnGv5nb4z10PXV-_DlvgyauB88Lgipwuw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> December, 600
sheep belonging to Malee Risando Lekitony, brother of the Malambo village
chairman, were seized almost inside his boma, not even in the illegally
demarcated area. Since the lawlessness is complete, the owner made sure to pay
2 million Tanzanian shillings to get his sheep back. Local leaders neither held
any meeting about this shameless crime nor did they mention it anywhere in social
media. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> December
over 300 cows belonging to four families: Parmwat, Parmware Reyia, Odinga Tome,
and Maambuya Rotiken were seized at Oloosek, Ololosokwan - in the fake and
illegal game reserve brutally created in OBC's preferred area of the Loliondo
hunting block - and taken to Klein’s gate. The extortion fee of 100,000 shillings
per head was paid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> December 400
cows from Arash, belonging to youths from the bomas of Sangok and Losekenja,
were seized on village land that has been illegally declared a game reserve. On
Christmas Eve, the livestock owners tried to inquire about the procedure to get
the cattle back and found that all the cows had been sold and were being loaded
onto trucks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 27<sup>th</sup> December, 4
cows belonging to Tumate Parmwat were illegally seized in Ololosokwan and the
owner was looking for money for the extortion fees. I have not yet found out if he succeeded. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">100,000 shillings per head of
livestock has been the going rate for fines in Serengeti National Park for years
but has no support in the law that fines people grazing livestock in the park,
not cows. Imposing a fine of even one shilling on herders on legally registered
village land that illegally has been gazetted as a “game reserve” is a very
cruel crime, but rangers are lawlessly copying the 100,000 per head of
livestock fine from national parks. In a legal game reserve, the fine would be
no less than 100,000, but not exceeding 500,000 for a person grazing livestock,
not for cows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgodzGR3PZ0Rz44HHM0bv23q2i1GmnUE_ezSYKfsi4E3mv_La-_hpyYvS1EpDwD8p-DZst_-Uj72Xch-bQEndC6_KvSk-0BHvWo8zyPbY-AySdH9jPe4-K6NM-EOzi2HZDEBTOdUfn5pC3A38utaJzbCLa3x8l04F5WSal4lCHjOuY0d-PEWg--3uml3w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgodzGR3PZ0Rz44HHM0bv23q2i1GmnUE_ezSYKfsi4E3mv_La-_hpyYvS1EpDwD8p-DZst_-Uj72Xch-bQEndC6_KvSk-0BHvWo8zyPbY-AySdH9jPe4-K6NM-EOzi2HZDEBTOdUfn5pC3A38utaJzbCLa3x8l04F5WSal4lCHjOuY0d-PEWg--3uml3w" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Chief
criminal Samia and her German donors<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As known, and many times
reported with more detail in this blog, shortly after coming into office, Samia
Suluhu Hassan held a speech complaining about the Maasai of Ngorongoro. Such
complaints have become her trademark together with her participation in the
Royal Tour – a travel show described as “authoritarian image management” by the
researcher Alex Dukalskis and in which further insults were thrown at the Maasai.
Government supporters as an act of faith must describe this travel show as the
reason for recovered tourism arrivals after the pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVGw695w1z7D1OHZe-IT2Tv2ibKDE5QFSTtR-gaNOSLOuh4-b0Y4t2AIyu5WEm4A2X9d1yx7nDp5L03E-9n829hhYZVyX1GtfQSsTG5AT1hiGGPr-RB52y7Sj1NrSxZffiMH-Vx-QhykkA21niedaw6BIdCEWioHl3je6HeOY4-YUWftp8vlmw1VjgIg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="510" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVGw695w1z7D1OHZe-IT2Tv2ibKDE5QFSTtR-gaNOSLOuh4-b0Y4t2AIyu5WEm4A2X9d1yx7nDp5L03E-9n829hhYZVyX1GtfQSsTG5AT1hiGGPr-RB52y7Sj1NrSxZffiMH-Vx-QhykkA21niedaw6BIdCEWioHl3je6HeOY4-YUWftp8vlmw1VjgIg" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCVYj2t5jUsDDXRHBBQMigIYVGP2PZBNIdRkK9gUXQ-o1rVLBIxqnDPd0P_cVg2_arSxKTmUFwqTe_mvt83cROxzBNXAbQonHyjDzwlkyrX4J3oMWxTzF1y0n4gygVe_a8RVK8eVZDLG_D3AVtNsdggZcKHWw3Rsqf--8jiE_H-7lruJMxXLwm4ISUew" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCVYj2t5jUsDDXRHBBQMigIYVGP2PZBNIdRkK9gUXQ-o1rVLBIxqnDPd0P_cVg2_arSxKTmUFwqTe_mvt83cROxzBNXAbQonHyjDzwlkyrX4J3oMWxTzF1y0n4gygVe_a8RVK8eVZDLG_D3AVtNsdggZcKHWw3Rsqf--8jiE_H-7lruJMxXLwm4ISUew" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Under Samia’s rule, the land
rights and human rights situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, not
only in Loliondo and Ngorongoro, but for pastoralists all over Tanzania. This
Christmas over <a href="https://www.mwananchi.co.tz/mw/habari/kitaifa/tarangire-yataifisha-ng-ombe-3-083-waliokutwa-hifadhini-4067324" target="_blank">3,000 cattle</a> have been seized and will be auctioned in Tarangire
National Park. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The coalition of “journalists”
– Habib Mchange, Maulid Kitenge, Deodatus Balile, and OBC’s own Manyerere
Jackton – that was formed early this year to literally engage in hate speech
against the Ngorongoro Maasai, has been organizing spectacles with Vice
President Philip Mpango to incite against the always threatened pastoralists of
Mbarali. Eight Maasai villages around Kilimanjaro International Airport have had
their land brutally and illegally demarcated for this airport. In Morogoro on
Christmas Eve the horrible PM Majaliwa was threatening pastoralists in the Kilombero
valley. And so on, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The crimes by the Tanzanian government
are, and have always been, supported by Germany. I wonder how many Germans have
a clue about this and if anything can be done to sue the Bundesrepublik for facilitating
human rights violations. In a ceremony with the worst perpetrators of the crimes
in Loliondo, PM Kassim Majaliwa and Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi
Chana, the German Ambassador to Tanzania Regina Hess handed over 51 vehicles
that – as reported by the embassy - are part of the 20 million euros (approx.
49.4 billion shillings) committed funds by Germany for emergency funding and
recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID19 facilitated by the German development
bank, KfW and Frankfurt Zoological Society, FZS. The vehicles will be
distributed into Serengeti and Nyerere National Parks and Selous Game Reserve
and will have a great impact on supporting “operations”. In the ceremony
Majaliwa mentioned <a href="https://youtu.be/4CDeucfYMFk" target="_blank">poachers and encroaching livestock as the objectives of those “operations”</a>. The following day, in a creepily gleeful way, the German
Embassy tweeted that during the vehicle handover ceremony Chana announced that
one rhino calf had been named Majaliwa after the PM and a second female calf
Regine after Ambassador Hess, “in appreciation of their efforts in supporting
conservation in Tanzania”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3YG03ZvdxGeJsF7DKvP7CUL4qRbOS31VfMYoeBfEwwJRZYlIbzF0PyIaqMDx2PkFd1ib6QM4N2GzFGahnOy4BiVmaojC3HstjpaOVhiVw23HxSKnJEuaJ_RCOQ14K_PO1pF1NhjGVLsfhNA0XHqYvGUlN2GF0XNYf5JBlBek1NW1pxFGh1Z0-wvtGAg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="3530" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3YG03ZvdxGeJsF7DKvP7CUL4qRbOS31VfMYoeBfEwwJRZYlIbzF0PyIaqMDx2PkFd1ib6QM4N2GzFGahnOy4BiVmaojC3HstjpaOVhiVw23HxSKnJEuaJ_RCOQ14K_PO1pF1NhjGVLsfhNA0XHqYvGUlN2GF0XNYf5JBlBek1NW1pxFGh1Z0-wvtGAg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguDKBovtabJryyMZDxgmuLydbj4G9UbNbhEK2hu2mBWdaGouEFzhz6eJCJsvCb-s6cJKc8XXjmdYVIuD2_wpPtc-brmpDPG2wmaprGKrmIpj8APoH8hsWsTVpxm1Gk_VwN-ZMkMG1Do_synW2yhluGIWz_1u612mdHmfhj38xWqZcKCnNv3LaRS-jlHg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEguDKBovtabJryyMZDxgmuLydbj4G9UbNbhEK2hu2mBWdaGouEFzhz6eJCJsvCb-s6cJKc8XXjmdYVIuD2_wpPtc-brmpDPG2wmaprGKrmIpj8APoH8hsWsTVpxm1Gk_VwN-ZMkMG1Do_synW2yhluGIWz_1u612mdHmfhj38xWqZcKCnNv3LaRS-jlHg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Germany has for decades been lending
support for the Tanzanian government’s efforts to deprive the Maasai of the
Serengeti ecosystem of their land, and as seen – <b>again and again</b> - the
Germans are not taking any step back, regardless of information they receive about
the crimes. Reporting from a meeting with diplomats on 25<sup>th</sup> March,
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism wrote that the German ambassador
Regina Hess, supported the government’s “efforts” in Ngorongoro. Meanwhile in Ngorongoro
Conservation Area this involves a well-orchestrated scheme to strangle the
Maasai in every aspect to enforce a relocation agenda. This support has not
been publicly denied in any way by the ambassador who – after the brutal and illegal
demarcation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> was launched – went on meeting and
smiling with some of the main responsible for the crimes in Loliondo, like RC
Mongella on 6th July, and talk about the “cooperation” between the two
countries, and the Germans keep showering the brutal and lawless Tanzanian
government with money. In August 2022, Bärbel Kofler, German Deputy Minister of
Economic Cooperation and Development visited Tanzania for more of the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe and Serengeti chief park
warden William Mwakilema (current head of Tanzania National Parks Authority, TANAPA)
told a parliamentary committee (and very much the press) that German funds
would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a
protected area. In Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the German
money. These conditions for releasing funds were not denied by the Germans
until two years later by representatives of the development bank in an
<a href="https://medium.com/conservationwatch/kfw-comments-on-its-support-to-the-serengeti-ecosystem-development-and-conservation-project-4c67b01b51bd" target="_blank">interview with Chris Lang</a>. Then, while Loliondo was attacked by mass arson
implemented by Serengeti rangers in August 2017, a most revolting picture was
published of Hess’s predecessor Detlef Wächter. The picture showed Wächter
smilingly handing over buildings for park staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti
National Park, to an equally smiling Minister Maghembe, while <a href="https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/news/national/-german-hands-over-buildings-for-serengeti-eco-system-2601252" target="_blank">commenting </a>on the
long and successful partnership between Germany and Tanzania in protecting the
Serengeti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC43mkqJAic1c1r3TG58KBtVdgMm9OHAqR-deSbyEdQpbEyGbRmRmm3Ezm5YKsoIAqOKumrbpZYR7cy-Klei56i0lh49BuEnjMFA0oK2kb6g2XrhT8ZhnDWKBrYN1LrFhILKBpaS-IV3dmHZwqcWzhs9KCXYJdckZStA8U5Rr6ACjHBwxomgYEkMcL8Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhC43mkqJAic1c1r3TG58KBtVdgMm9OHAqR-deSbyEdQpbEyGbRmRmm3Ezm5YKsoIAqOKumrbpZYR7cy-Klei56i0lh49BuEnjMFA0oK2kb6g2XrhT8ZhnDWKBrYN1LrFhILKBpaS-IV3dmHZwqcWzhs9KCXYJdckZStA8U5Rr6ACjHBwxomgYEkMcL8Q" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6h8Jr4CXC2Wx5yv_t0Hdsvgtu-ZD4Ca0FJ2bTDiIxPQI7FBKVKbryponcl9fbQ9gBIUGXy0hhFcyGV3SjlScOf2bK9F7Dqkysgue2ICMByJWDQvXEMH6YnXBulWz-b7nw89m1hteibV1OC-awM1Fsi2qQ0I_EyTQhu6SaueVk3wh0MtDIpI8DYdBoHw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="595" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6h8Jr4CXC2Wx5yv_t0Hdsvgtu-ZD4Ca0FJ2bTDiIxPQI7FBKVKbryponcl9fbQ9gBIUGXy0hhFcyGV3SjlScOf2bK9F7Dqkysgue2ICMByJWDQvXEMH6YnXBulWz-b7nw89m1hteibV1OC-awM1Fsi2qQ0I_EyTQhu6SaueVk3wh0MtDIpI8DYdBoHw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the 2017 illegal mass
arson operation, the MP and the District Council Chairman said that there was
not any risk at all with accepting German funds, since they were meant for the
whole of Loliondo and Sale, not excluding the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However there haven’t been any projects at all
in the now brutally and illegally demarcated area, while water projects outside
it have been heavily used in government rhetoric for land alienation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">German-funded development
projects in the Serengeti ecosystem are implemented by Frankfurt Zoological
Society (FZS) and TANAPA through the Serengeti Ecosystem Development and
Conservation Project (SEDCP). TAWA is supported by German funds and advice.
However, this time even FZS, that never has said anything about violence for
conservation in the Serengeti ecosystem, seriously rattled by <a href="https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/letter-to-FZS" target="_blank">Survival International</a>,
in June expressed shock about the violence in Loliondo and distanced itself
from any involvement in the land demarcation, but still claiming that the land
status would be “uncertain”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Through the decades, FZS, the
Tanzanian government, and OBC share the same narrative about the Maasai, and
German funds keep being showered to prop of the crimes against pastoralists
committed Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism and its parastatals in close
cooperation with Frankfurt Zoological Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEja2bKKEh0r63ktk9oZfdg9_hndaBDbINvLT75mV-6vagb3zG3_YQDLn0JeW_VtBASOgFHxA_PrEot2eFpJXf_tq_EL9UzrIvQ1LlAsqbcOGWw4ZAGTjoWKSVTfMTN0NJbbvoOxd1Mn4Te5kqyNJnpvveKa7LsbA-ujxbktM6-rt-xgeLTby7-xTr0QXA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="745" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEja2bKKEh0r63ktk9oZfdg9_hndaBDbINvLT75mV-6vagb3zG3_YQDLn0JeW_VtBASOgFHxA_PrEot2eFpJXf_tq_EL9UzrIvQ1LlAsqbcOGWw4ZAGTjoWKSVTfMTN0NJbbvoOxd1Mn4Te5kqyNJnpvveKa7LsbA-ujxbktM6-rt-xgeLTby7-xTr0QXA" width="286" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Germans
are well-aware about the human rights violations, but gleefully and defiantly
show that they do not give a damn. Please, can anyone help finding out how to stop
them and punish them?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thomson
Safaris<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported in many <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">blog posts</a>
before almost total silence started to reign, this safari company claim their
own private Enashiva Nature Refuge in the villages of Sukenya and Mondorosi, or
Soitsambu before the sub-division of villages. They base this claim on having
bought the right of occupancy from Tanzania Breweries that cultivated a small
part of it in the 1980s and then, using forged documents, got a 99-year right
of occupancy in 2003, selling it to Thomson in 2006. The right of occupancy was
for 10,000 acres that somehow was turned into 12,617 acres (51 km2) before
selling it to Thomson. However, most of all this land grab is based on the
Loliondo police state and Thomson’s way of learning and perfecting OBC’s
strategies of how to use it for divide and rule, violence, threats and
defamation via the DC, security committee, and government officials. Besides
the local Maasai, several journalists have experienced first-hand how this
local police state works for Thomson, and so have I. Maybe OBC have been
learning from Thomson as well. As reported earlier, inspired by the general
brutality and lawlessness, Thomson planted beacons demarcating their
fraudulently and violently claimed very private nature refuge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In early October there were
reports that they were invading people’s farms and lokeri with road
construction. In Sukenya ole Musa was being invaded by this ugly land grabber,
and in Mondorosi, ole Nanyoi (Irmasiling) and ole Orgeso (Enadooshoke) were
under attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported in the previous
blog post, on 23<sup>rd</sup> October there was another exhibition of charity
as a weapon of war at Sukenya dispensary with Judi Wineland and DC Raymond
Mwangwala.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Saturday 3<sup>rd</sup>
December Thomson Safaris staff were chasing away cows with the excuse that they
were having tourists in camp. One cow belonging to mzee ole Orgeso was killed
when hit by a vehicle and Thomson’s guards were beating children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When will a new court case be
filed against these ruthless hypocrites, after the court of appeal killed the
old one using Magufuli era legislation that was younger than the case itself?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaI_9dzK2czpWvMGGOR_o6m024CIgfQCGt5JLwY8GjXHq4zHKHAlN_g1wGJJkWld3ye2EG9W9rNBIV1KMl4H_xu4bSZ3f5GplmNK-Z8_i3c5eDPg6ywEN7280In_nipiMsImMKFrRAGFXiaIYF_iwHJiPdVVWGN-NrWtYd-j7Uz-lcQQuTQ7ZE_MPUjA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaI_9dzK2czpWvMGGOR_o6m024CIgfQCGt5JLwY8GjXHq4zHKHAlN_g1wGJJkWld3ye2EG9W9rNBIV1KMl4H_xu4bSZ3f5GplmNK-Z8_i3c5eDPg6ywEN7280In_nipiMsImMKFrRAGFXiaIYF_iwHJiPdVVWGN-NrWtYd-j7Uz-lcQQuTQ7ZE_MPUjA" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqCYVk9tkGW3C_-elGOLNSgFZ8QdnuWbP8FXToa-gDBTYqlpWsRvmiXbfoNBHpzzwSuFbrhePYnkRrT5D_5SK_m22npsxhMo3DvaXSahWHjO3glxNjCfHkyqU_l4X_1lLWNSOlYa0f6VZgRdUkjtue8uXU0DV44UcyWXcWhuFTMyiSidydC4XBbgJVJg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="553" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqCYVk9tkGW3C_-elGOLNSgFZ8QdnuWbP8FXToa-gDBTYqlpWsRvmiXbfoNBHpzzwSuFbrhePYnkRrT5D_5SK_m22npsxhMo3DvaXSahWHjO3glxNjCfHkyqU_l4X_1lLWNSOlYa0f6VZgRdUkjtue8uXU0DV44UcyWXcWhuFTMyiSidydC4XBbgJVJg" width="157" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk123255696"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t mix up with Loliondo!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2022 started with leaked “voluntary”
relocations plans for NCA and the most demented hate propaganda in the press
and in parliament. The always present restrictions have worsened, and already
granted COVID-19 funds for Ngorongoro have been transferred to Handeni. Some of
the inauthentic, the compromised and the naïve have relocated to Msomera. What
the NCAA in its plans had missed was a village with its land use plan and
villagers that weren’t consulted. Msomera villagers keep reaching out for
support to sue the people who invaded their land.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3FeqUtRLPJOUASeQN_3dSEaV9NK4dMI7qsRh9sxugy0T_kLZeTK7vrpeIiVgc7EJPMmMncF9dM5S0uScxLmreK-j-azGmAa2I7zq0hPE2Wx37MR22ZV7NGalrC0S5icLUftxdj4IldCfPk7HRRKNSjrJ78X2UitrcXF-DvIJzMpL0iVg_EDXbkaMG3A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="718" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3FeqUtRLPJOUASeQN_3dSEaV9NK4dMI7qsRh9sxugy0T_kLZeTK7vrpeIiVgc7EJPMmMncF9dM5S0uScxLmreK-j-azGmAa2I7zq0hPE2Wx37MR22ZV7NGalrC0S5icLUftxdj4IldCfPk7HRRKNSjrJ78X2UitrcXF-DvIJzMpL0iVg_EDXbkaMG3A" width="185" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk123255713"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court
cases<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ongoing court cases
against the fake and illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve” are Reference No.37 of
2022 in the East African Court of Justice and Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022
(Application for Judicial Review) in the High Court of Tanzania. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the applicants were
granted leave by the court on 16<sup>th</sup> November, the very substantial
Judicial Review Application was filed on 29<sup>th</sup> November. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-6_y8U2nFCjq-ObQglgn38hUrU1LgUyvPQsnN25qXhQha71YLi4Za8hkGajJ6SL7XiOa17qrSe1773Rhdj5aY2P2nIVj4hq2kOoZYgGwMzSNW0kOlmW0P74ltWRVB1ofHFVXtqMNozfJ8iIB6032JF2Gh5Y_JVhciDUe3s_umhE1EiGvX9hJ9edkQrg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-6_y8U2nFCjq-ObQglgn38hUrU1LgUyvPQsnN25qXhQha71YLi4Za8hkGajJ6SL7XiOa17qrSe1773Rhdj5aY2P2nIVj4hq2kOoZYgGwMzSNW0kOlmW0P74ltWRVB1ofHFVXtqMNozfJ8iIB6032JF2Gh5Y_JVhciDUe3s_umhE1EiGvX9hJ9edkQrg" width="285" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another Application for leave
to file Judicial Review against the president’s declaration of “Pololeti Game
Reserve” was filed in the High Court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, since Reference No.10 of
2017 was inexplicably dismissed in the East African Court of Justice, there is
now Appeal No.12 of 2022 East Africa Court of Justice. <b>Remember that, unlike
what some media, notably Agence France-Presse, have misreported, the ruling did
not uphold any decision to cordon off land.</b> The ruling was that the Maasai
had failed to prove that the mass arson operation in 2017 took place on village
land and not in Serengeti National Park. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Application No.2 of 2022 is a
contempt of court application filed in January this year against RC Mongella’s
threats to invade and partition the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>. An affidavit was
added after the criminal threat was implemented.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then we have Reference No.29
of 2022 in the East African Court of Justice. This case is not about Loliondo,
but to challenge the coordinated and suffocating policies in the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk123255740"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
Loliondo hunting block background</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123255740;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Otterlo Business
Corporation, owned by Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al Ali, that organize hunting for
Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, has the 4,000 km2 Loliondo hunting block (permit to
hunt) since 1993 (first contract signed in 1992). They got the hunting block in
the Loliondo gate scandal covered by the reporter Stan Katabalo in 1993. This
area includes two towns – Wasso and Loliondo - district headquarters,
agricultural areas, and Thomson Safaris’ land grab. So OBC have lobbied to have
it reduced to their core hunting area bordering Serengeti National Park, and to
make it a protected area (sadly illegally gazetted this year 2022 …) which
would signify a huge land loss to the local Maasai, leading to lost lives and
livelihoods. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, the then Ngorongoro
DC Jowika Kasunga coerced local leaders into signing a Memorandum of
Understanding with OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing
and hunting, but when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the
government to complain. As a result, the village land in the 1,500 km2 Osero –
now fake and illegal “game reserve” - was illegally invaded by the Field Force
Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson, dispersal of cattle, and
abuse of every kind. 7-year old Nashipai Gume was lost in the chaos and never
found, ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and
some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a draft district land
use plan that proposed turning the village land that had been invaded into a
protected area. The Maasai were united, and the draft land use plan was
rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, then Minister of
Natural Resources and Tourism Khamis Kagasheki lied to the world saying that
the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Loliondo Division
and part of Sale Division of Ngorongoro District) was a protected area and that
alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> meant generously giving the
remaining land to the Maasai. This huge lie and ugly trick did not work, since
the Maasai were more serious and united than ever, garnered support from both
the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Mizengo Kayanza Peter Pinda
stopped Kagasheki’s threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the unity, efforts to
buy off local leaders started creating serious divisions and weakening. Some
found it convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and
attacking the people who they at the same time expected to take risks to defend
the land. Though nobody signed any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and Thomson
Safaris) had for years used the local police state that through the successive
DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will threaten
anyone who could speak up about them and engage in defamation and illegal
arrests. The repression and fear of this police state became worse with
Magufuli in office. There were lengthy illegal arrests, torture, and malicious
prosecution, by 2016 – after OBC had written a report complaining about the
Maasai and engaged the press - it was so bad that PM Majaliwa could enter the
stage with a select non-participatory committee, set up by then Arusha RC Mrisho
Gambo. Some of the members were local leaders and other representatives that
found themselves at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical
areas” under protests in each village. The proposal handed over to Majaliwa was
seen as a victory, even though it was a sad compromise (a WMA) that had earlier
been rejected for many years of better unity and less fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since the Maasai showed
such weakness, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone
was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017
an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the
ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCAA rangers and those from OBC, TAWA/KDU,
local police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally arrested, and
cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others protested
loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would have been
implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected land. Meanwhile
the DC and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about that, but that village land was
invaded because people were entering Serengeti National Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKvbKKXuDBNeP0stzzfykqLmDIHd6Wjyz-t1xqX7tONEW0KIgpflSt90lqzC4LTSkA1eiZsHboD5LpuClzwfef6xCRnEd01knRYdU2vGn-x7RKBKqfyHLlOGN09f7U1maLSMth_BWYgIWstvjvGxiB9_j_7z6LF5JaIcIzkmdwKU8f1vtOiBm_pclMNw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKvbKKXuDBNeP0stzzfykqLmDIHd6Wjyz-t1xqX7tONEW0KIgpflSt90lqzC4LTSkA1eiZsHboD5LpuClzwfef6xCRnEd01knRYdU2vGn-x7RKBKqfyHLlOGN09f7U1maLSMth_BWYgIWstvjvGxiB9_j_7z6LF5JaIcIzkmdwKU8f1vtOiBm_pclMNw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Hamisi Kigwangalla
came into office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that
OBC would have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was very soon clear that OBC
weren’t going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017, Majaliwa delivered his
vague but terrifying decision that was about, through a legal bill, creating a
“special authority” to manage the land. He also said that OBC were staying. The
decision was celebrated in the anti-Maasai press (Manyerere Jackton in the
Jamhuri). Implementation was delayed, still no legal bill has been seen, and it
would of course have been contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to what he thought was
the account of the Dubai crown prince), and in April the same year, OBC - once
again - gifted the Ministry of Natural Resources of Tourism with 15 vehicles.
In March 2018, a military camp was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in Loliondo,
first temporary, but eventually made permanent with donations from the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and
local police tried to derail the case in the East African Court of Justice
(EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning local
leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for the
applicants' main counsel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> September
2018 – a year after the illegal operation - the court finally issued an
injunction restraining the government from evictions, destruction and
harassment of the applicants, but this injunction was soon brutally violated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In November and December 2018,
soldiers from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and burned
bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was the lowest point ever in the land
rights struggle (until the current horror) and I have still not understood how
it could happen without anyone at all speaking up. Local leaders claimed to
fear for their lives and thought that the brutality was directly ordered by
President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January 2019 condemned the crimes in a very
vague way, they changed to thinking that OBC’s director had contracted the
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground. However, the local police state was
not dealt with and following a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was out,
and after a while he went back to work. Speculations about Mollel’s misfortune
include his clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to
send a message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to Bernard Membe)
that nobody is untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for NCA, which included the proposal to annex most of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a protected area allowing hunting was
presented. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal was met with countless
protests from every kind of group of people from NCA, but near silence from
Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as
new District Executive and he started working to kill the court cases against
land grabbing “investors”. Though the village chairmen stood their ground and
Reference No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash v the Attorney
General of the United Republic of Tanzania continued before the EACJ until it
was dismissed in September 2022. The case against Thomson Safaris in the
Tanzanian court of appeal, however, was in 2022 killed using a law that was
introduced after the case was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk123255785"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly
about 2022 threats leading up to the brutal illegal demarcation<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders,
even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km2, or to sign the attendance list.
On 13th-14th January in Oloirien there was a public protest meeting and a
statement by village, ward, and traditional leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzS6nwo7-fDMoewfP-hLmsqd-N0sVSioiij9C2DL4WW8q5ksIpxzPB5elyQfCzZcqwctwoS44_dKmTP5_shLw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February,
Majaliwa came and was not much better than Mongella, but too well-received,
since something worse was expected, because of the crazy anti-Maasai hate
campaign, and parliamentarians calling for tanks to be sent to Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in NCA, <b>not Loliondo</b>, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be
marked by beacons, “so that we may know the boundaries” – while claiming that
this was NOT a trick! Now we know what the intention was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Minister for Natural
Resources and Tourism Damas Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th </sup>March re-introduced
Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on the 11<sup>th</sup>
Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and water projects when informing
parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha, without
people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the
land, among them the Arash ward councillor Methew Siloma spoke up very clearly
and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa cannot be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz3NvOgO0dG3AlXL5p3UoKYr5NuBZiV3DG5FL0pBFW2N5Bxs4DOL7m_o8ydiwseU64yLJvX0w7nqqWmVpRBtg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March,
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest <a href="https://youtu.be/yR13xm_FwlY" target="_blank">friends</a> since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM councillors that had
spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero
were being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha.
The councillors of Arash and Malambo had to keep reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May a
committee handed over their reports of “community recommendations” on both <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Ngorongoro-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">NCA</a> and the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero in <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">Loliondo</a> to PM Majaliwa who said that he was
going to work on the recommendations. <b>The Loliondo/Sale report recommended a
stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, investigations into
human rights violations, and the removal of OBC.</b> <b>That</b> was what
Majaliwa had to work with, but instead he stole the land, committed atrocities,
and OBC is still there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June,
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana in her budget speech
announced that her ministry expected to upgrade Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but
she did this while listing huge areas of Tanzania for the same expectation. That
did not sound believable or realistic in any way, and there was hardly any
reaction, except for an intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk123255807"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Briefly
about the brutal and illegal demarcation of a fake game reserve<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> June 2022,
Wasso town was overflowing with security forces that went on to set up camps on
the 90 km stretch from Ololosokwan to Piyaya, and in Malambo. Almost every
Tanzania Regional Police Commissioner vehicle was seen in Loliondo on the day.
The Maasai held prayers and deliberations, and in Kirtalo on the 9<sup>th</sup>
a video clip with the message that they were ready to die for their land was
prepared for Majaliwa. A coordinated threat with vicious propaganda, and the
old lie from 2013, was issued primarily by Arusha RC <a href="https://youtu.be/7zMzpEzmAoU" target="_blank">John Mongella</a> and PM
<a href="https://youtu.be/ShaL-GnvT1E" target="_blank">Kassim Majaliwa</a>, assisted by speaker of parliament Tulia Ackson, and soon
joined by too many government representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjW9J6JRIJlGwY8aUVOyqbhuZpkJD-66Jd8_dX44DokDOCm_xVGLwCVydtvslXJnQ3_E4kji4YsNnat84_RC_IftBSHlDReqrCVM7gYvnUM5s4OpdkkGZSa4auO3eIm1nitW2lWJcIYMKjELuAJFq6zfbu6TjQrItBypz_XvB3ygMlivmw4UxDMNu3u0g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="718" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjW9J6JRIJlGwY8aUVOyqbhuZpkJD-66Jd8_dX44DokDOCm_xVGLwCVydtvslXJnQ3_E4kji4YsNnat84_RC_IftBSHlDReqrCVM7gYvnUM5s4OpdkkGZSa4auO3eIm1nitW2lWJcIYMKjELuAJFq6zfbu6TjQrItBypz_XvB3ygMlivmw4UxDMNu3u0g" width="188" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All councillors from affected
wards – except the Soitsambu councillor who managed to flee - were on 9<sup>th</sup>
June lured to a meeting by DC Raymond Mwangwala, they were abducted, bundled in
two cars and driven to Arusha overnight. The following day illegal land
demarcation - which is what Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC), that organizes
hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, for years has lobbied for - began in a
rain of teargas and live bullets. Many Maasai were injured, and thousands fled
across the border where many of them continue as refugees, with their cattle.
The approximately 80 years old Oriais Oleng'iyo was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup>
June with bullet wounds and detained by the Field Force Unit few metres away
from his home where security forces were firing fireworks. According to the RC,
a police officer was killed by arrowshot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a hunt for anyone
who could have shared pictures of the crimes (which effectively has been done
by everyone with a smartphone) and ten people, later joined by seven more, were
illegally arrested, eventually, together with the councillors, charged with a
bogus “murder”. The trial kept being postponed for inexistent “investigation”,
and they continued locked up in remand prison for well over five months. Three
were released for reasons of health and studies. The flow of information was
almost completely cut after the in initial arrests.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in several
earlier blog posts, on 15<sup>th</sup> June, Deputy Permanent Representative to
the Tanzanian Mission to the UN in Geneva, Hoyce Temu, in a widely shared clip,
denied any state violence, parroting the malicious and obvious government lie
about a “protected area” that had been “encroached” and about “peaceful talks”
with local residents. The councillors from affected wards were still abducted
at unknown location, and their whereabouts were only known the following day
when they were charged with “murder”. (Added 3<sup>rd</sup> January since Temu
is in the news for other reasons.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government representatives
made multiple military style visits landing in helicopter to pose with beacons,
tell lies, and issue threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minster Pindi Chana without
following any law or procedure declared the illegally demarcated land as
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area” (GN No.421, 2022), which was announced in a
zoom meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://youtu.be/GMGMoQXWl6w" target="_blank">Spineless diplomats</a> applauded
Minister Ndumbaro’s obvious lies about what was happening. Though many
international organisations condemned the government’s actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMJ_V4QMJe8Afmx4jQcYsCQR15P6vAJjfuIrsaBmJOokaLT3NuKTKm0PDAw1KrTzyVTzChpjbakrAeSiYtN4WiYpL8_lJwOigpPqlrH8O0TfWWTbiE92qPrL_otWL1XtNJXHTeEAtb1_i7Fg_3A8I0XWyWCINrCe5HfiuPNctfseMVO3zxo0cPvZHN4A"><img alt="" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="615" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMJ_V4QMJe8Afmx4jQcYsCQR15P6vAJjfuIrsaBmJOokaLT3NuKTKm0PDAw1KrTzyVTzChpjbakrAeSiYtN4WiYpL8_lJwOigpPqlrH8O0TfWWTbiE92qPrL_otWL1XtNJXHTeEAtb1_i7Fg_3A8I0XWyWCINrCe5HfiuPNctfseMVO3zxo0cPvZHN4A" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Mary Masanja, Damas Ndumbaro UAE
ambassador Khalifa Abdul Rahman Al Marzouqi.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil0mHOZSroy5JKxQQsP7pLhRpSpl_IujGh8ue2AJaRU8AziFvkkREwMG41sZSmGF5oAi-xFqdyQFTH05VanGJUCGkvvDzw6JemGz9WUvKL0ZyAtEnIPfGE9S4A8E8Lhc9jLgwz2CpnH3SXqVBhRi4Z-q_rhnRrxHMHKKGrfSG-nz8V71yHaoad0sR_RQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="680" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil0mHOZSroy5JKxQQsP7pLhRpSpl_IujGh8ue2AJaRU8AziFvkkREwMG41sZSmGF5oAi-xFqdyQFTH05VanGJUCGkvvDzw6JemGz9WUvKL0ZyAtEnIPfGE9S4A8E8Lhc9jLgwz2CpnH3SXqVBhRi4Z-q_rhnRrxHMHKKGrfSG-nz8V71yHaoad0sR_RQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Director of Wildlife Maurus Msuha busy lying</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The much-expected court ruling
in the case filed during the mass arson in 2017, and scheduled for 22<sup>nd</sup>
June, was the last minute shockingly postponed to September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Houses were demolished or
razed. TAWA illegally seized livestock and demanded extortionate “fines”. The
dry season deepened without access to the most important grazing area. In
Ormanie, Arash ward, on 27<sup>th</sup> June, cows, donkeys, calves, and other
livestock were shot by the security forces. There were mass arrests of people
accused of being “Kenyan”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTJHc8ayvt4SyilxFKB-UmUmzTXG5bmQvj_e6J7GGWHZyLYPOQGS9_L5ZRWW1uAF9OMLOLvXh88PEHR2eBsi5On5uTvtmlGTHnkHJAtqC6Z5fVgn3gpVg7heXiVp5zbUbWD-JvDDjCcbiHt48A72dvYI5ZS4zbeb-WLNXyKr8uYrfENL-2a2BqMeiCCw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTJHc8ayvt4SyilxFKB-UmUmzTXG5bmQvj_e6J7GGWHZyLYPOQGS9_L5ZRWW1uAF9OMLOLvXh88PEHR2eBsi5On5uTvtmlGTHnkHJAtqC6Z5fVgn3gpVg7heXiVp5zbUbWD-JvDDjCcbiHt48A72dvYI5ZS4zbeb-WLNXyKr8uYrfENL-2a2BqMeiCCw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaMODYPk63EpXjbmI_osziMQzDpGDB-oYkUMNRk8-poqDZt3LR5Se1Sgh8WogEsX5GFCFb96ImATDMo4aYWaRY68g2ROf03d_GIIsQ4KhIStQU0xaS7AxNsx8clfdg7ragkLxK4NNJ92NztrCeWEke9J3iDy6pn82pQSopOgJMw8OHHgBxEUdVgnigaw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1040" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaMODYPk63EpXjbmI_osziMQzDpGDB-oYkUMNRk8-poqDZt3LR5Se1Sgh8WogEsX5GFCFb96ImATDMo4aYWaRY68g2ROf03d_GIIsQ4KhIStQU0xaS7AxNsx8clfdg7ragkLxK4NNJ92NztrCeWEke9J3iDy6pn82pQSopOgJMw8OHHgBxEUdVgnigaw" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNUTGZAj8ngSEhyK3oxRMvf0CO5QzVXEqVQgGWeeNTKLvtAjwegmEpn21K59_AgUEYg4ZcR8PNGYZJiJ4csbpsFihf8nIM_kg5BkR1sIiIaPgkNWgy8jZU0xKAnXb0eKY81WbGKdSnIce6zMAVzRxlGEp5qDCK3dDyNSKlg5MW_UJOx8H5bdK5IqT5lw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="780" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNUTGZAj8ngSEhyK3oxRMvf0CO5QzVXEqVQgGWeeNTKLvtAjwegmEpn21K59_AgUEYg4ZcR8PNGYZJiJ4csbpsFihf8nIM_kg5BkR1sIiIaPgkNWgy8jZU0xKAnXb0eKY81WbGKdSnIce6zMAVzRxlGEp5qDCK3dDyNSKlg5MW_UJOx8H5bdK5IqT5lw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> September
Minister Chana announced that the illegally demarcated 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo had been placed under the management of the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> September
the East African Court of Justice <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/10/amidst-government-terror-and.html" target="_blank">dismissed </a>Reference No.10 of 2017 on the
grounds that the Maasai had failed to prove that the mass arson of 2017 was
committed on village land and not in Serengeti National Park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TAWA, at the height of the dry
season, continued illegal seizures of livestock and extortion of huge fines,
100,000 shillings per cow and 25,000 per sheep or goat. NCAA rangers were
reportedly trained and set up camp. In Malambo, on 8<sup>th</sup> November, the
head of the NCAA camp announced that TAWA had left, and the boundaries were
being guarded by the Field Force Unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> October, or
1<sup>st</sup> November, it was announced that President Samia had on 14<sup>th</sup>
October declared a Pololeti Game Reserve (GN No.604, 2022). It came as a nasty
surprise for the lawyers that on 1<sup>st</sup> November were in court for the
mention of Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022, even if it seems like it was also
on Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation the previous evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three court cases have been
filed to stop the brutal, fake and illegal protected area: one in the High
Court and two in the East African Court of Justice, the ruling in the case
filed in 2017 has been appealed, and there’s a contempt of court application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 1<sup>st</sup> November, in
an NCA advertorial in the extreme anti-Maasai newspaper the Jamhuri, a
“conservator” for the fake and illegal game reserve – Pius Rwiza - spoke of how
calm and wonderful everything is after the demarcation. He says that the Maasai
understand the demarcation but must keep a further 500 metres away from it! And
he wanted them to create WMAs, outside the illegally demarcated 1,500 km2,
which is another kind of land alienation that also was included in the
OBC-funded draft district land use plan that was rejected by Ngorongoro
District Council in 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvRK5AHAJ3yK7QnQYJ9qJ-Ekpp-JZToltguHnUKxDHKfgggdviCQH-iRNqJF0b4EDUs6rLlv7fxxYwGPYBKKWjY1yuDgn2ogBZOHPLQLGfWoic0wOxlk0mjKl_L_YigUu1OYYACDzy3QpZ7VhufWcSwnRcMvBGeU6C8qcrfLcwvA-7r2bxeOz8awgtfQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="787" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvRK5AHAJ3yK7QnQYJ9qJ-Ekpp-JZToltguHnUKxDHKfgggdviCQH-iRNqJF0b4EDUs6rLlv7fxxYwGPYBKKWjY1yuDgn2ogBZOHPLQLGfWoic0wOxlk0mjKl_L_YigUu1OYYACDzy3QpZ7VhufWcSwnRcMvBGeU6C8qcrfLcwvA-7r2bxeOz8awgtfQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards the end of October,
there were reports of a notice issued by the DC about redrawing of village
boundaries with new village land use plans, and some 40 state security and
surveyors on the ground. Through intimidation and government installed traitors,
it was said that the land use plan had been passed, but that would of course
not be legal in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Between 14<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup>
November, nine immigration cases against 62 people who still had such cases
pending after the mass arrests in June and July were discharged for want of
prosecution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> November,
it was announced that the Director of Public Prosecution had no intention to
continue with the ridiculous “murder” case against 24 people, including ten CCM
political leaders. The leaders were whisked off to CCM internal elections to
vote for candidates close to RC Mongella. They still haven’t said one word
about the atrocities committed during their over five months in remand prison. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Livestock keep being seized destroying
everyone’s livelihood and mental health.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s time for radical
measures! I don’t know how, but the Tanzanian government must be stopped, and
the land returned to the villages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna Nordlund is a working-class person based
in Sweden who since 2010 has been blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also
about NCA) and has her fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so
that she will not be able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever
again. She has never worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t
earned a shilling from her Loliondo work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Updates:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>6<sup>th</sup> January</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the evening cattle
belonging to Marco Parmwat (28 cows) and the ole Nkinyoti family (don’t know
how many) were seized on village land illegally declared a game reserve and held
at Klein’s gate. The extortionate “fines” were paid the <b>following day</b> and the
livestock will be released on the <b>8</b></span><b><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">At night and in the morning of
the 7<sup>th</sup>, Noel Jackson and Leyian Rotiken were brutalized by JWTZ soldiers
in Ololosokwan. Such brutality has been committed constantly since June.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>14th January</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">A zoom seminar was held with
some of the worst of the worst, including Pindi Chana, Freddy Manongi, Eblate
Mjingo of TAWIRI, Christine Mwakatobe of KADCO (KIA), Mabula Nyanda of TAWA,
the Tanzanian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Ali Jabir Mwadini and OBC’s managing
director Isaack (Isaya Lesion) Mollel.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>19th January</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Yesterday
123 goats, 44 calves and 1 cow belonging to members of the Tiiyee family were
illegally seized by NCAA rangers in Malambo. The calves were seized at Sanjan
river and the goats when on their way back tp Orng'oswa that’s their old home. Extortion
money has been paid, which is the same as buying back their own livestock from
the criminals (government). </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>20th January</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Reports that over 100 sheep belonging to the Ngoya family were seized in Ololosokwan. The extortion fees were paid and the sheep released. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> – 27<sup>th</sup>
January a mission of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, visits
Tanzania to, among other issues, probe evictions of citizens from the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Loliondo. There are widespread fears of co-option
by the government.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The fears were confirmed on the 24th in Ngorongoro, 25th in Loliondo, and 26th in Msomera. In Loliondo the commission was prevented from seeing any victims at all. They were waiting in vain.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">A clip of Salangat Mako who had waited in vain and had a message for the Commission was widely shared. On <b>27th January</b> he received threats and had to flee to Kenya. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">On 28th January Salangat's words were published in this blog. <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/01/guest-blogger-words-of-salangat-ole.html">https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2023/01/guest-blogger-words-of-salangat-ole.html</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>I must publish a new blog post very soon!</b></span></span></p><b></b><p></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-59416802841703005412022-11-24T17:14:00.039+01:002022-12-25T20:06:05.594+01:00Loliondo Bogus Murder Case Dropped after Over Five Months, While the Horror Worsens with Fake and Forced Land Use Plans<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I needed to
write a briefer, clearer blog post about the brutal and lawless land
demarcation – robbing the Maasai of Loliondo of vitally important grazing land
- committed by the <b>entire</b> blood-soaked and illegitimate Tanzanian government,
and about the terrible (but <b>not</b> as terrible as reported in parts of the
press) and partly inexplicable ruling by the EACJ on the 2017 mass arson. But the
horrors just keep accumulating and I’m overwhelmed. State security and
surveyors have been to Loliondo to redraw village boundaries and impose land
use plans with heavy intimidation, and reportedly corrupted some people. On 1<sup>st</sup>
November it was announced that President Samia Suluhu Hassan on 14<sup>th</sup> October
had declared the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> a fake and illegal “Pololeti Game Reserve”.
Then the DC and an individual calling himself conservator of the illegal
protected area have been threatening with further land theft, outside the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup>, via WMAs.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile, in
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCAA, <b>NOT</b> to be mixed up with Loliondo), the
restrictions to squeeze out the Maasai keep tightening. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I miss the
days when I was told that they Maasai of today aren’t the Maasai of 1958,
meaning that they are educated, organized, and there’s no need to worry since
they will stop evil government plans. It’s such a long time ago. Help is
needed. People who can target President Samia in ways that will be <b>very acutely
felt</b>, must help stopping the cruel crimes against the Maasai. Open letters
are much appreciated (see below for new ones) but words are just not enough. “Words
are not enough” applies to me as a blogger as well, but I don’t know what to
do. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When I was
about to publish this blog post there was good news that the Director of Public
Prosecution has dropped the obviously bogus “murder case” against 24 people –
including all councillors from affected wards, except one who fled - who have
been locked up in remand prison for over five months. I hope there isn’t a price
for the release, but that hope is getting fainter by the hour.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile, pastoralists
all over Tanzania are under attack. Seven villages around Kilimanjaro International
Airport have suffered illegal planting of beacons, in Mbarali there are evictions
and terrible seizure of cattle, evictions and killed pastoralists in Kilombero,
and violence ordered by an anti-pastoralist councillor in Morogoro has led to
one death and several injuries.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ll soon
write a briefer blog, hopefully with answers to some of the questions
that remain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where is mzee
Oriais Oleng'iyo?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The horror<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fake and
forced land use plans<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dismissed
immigration cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bogus murder
case dropped<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The old lie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court cases
and the government’s brutal and wildly shifting lies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ruthless
hypocrites Thomson Safaris<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The not at
all less threatened Ngorongoro Conservation Area<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Updates at the end of the blog post.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbR1gAs0L7A0FGfxcksuK7KDiIe6UkvAZNVwZ5dKr4-8esfeZKH1RE3UtobggtZvLwLqjeZkLYAcrDf-T8O5iIMaoJkiay0YpF_2I36NlFr2KT43sFxQamFdd_kCmVY-EPaayv_aeToycCJCr6Ol7ncYg6eIcGZjz8ypPSeD-w95qKf0sEtKLYmte3Ow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1000" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbR1gAs0L7A0FGfxcksuK7KDiIe6UkvAZNVwZ5dKr4-8esfeZKH1RE3UtobggtZvLwLqjeZkLYAcrDf-T8O5iIMaoJkiay0YpF_2I36NlFr2KT43sFxQamFdd_kCmVY-EPaayv_aeToycCJCr6Ol7ncYg6eIcGZjz8ypPSeD-w95qKf0sEtKLYmte3Ow" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6oBJoAzRVG-JMyJ3JRCN9zPSyeg-ps_JNN0qcYvz9mIDyNLuAxGqyr8xcQ_W4XQGFi2Z5-BTPTBl0_EDwEYFq02rhY7UXaE7ZUmBDh1gFXjk6dmj3-E6wXZvvxV8CcM8vLRwEMgbOzMaopUlaOlyFZGUkjmqwbDe0TvD46pswGhgA5jKgKQvOJKTogA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6oBJoAzRVG-JMyJ3JRCN9zPSyeg-ps_JNN0qcYvz9mIDyNLuAxGqyr8xcQ_W4XQGFi2Z5-BTPTBl0_EDwEYFq02rhY7UXaE7ZUmBDh1gFXjk6dmj3-E6wXZvvxV8CcM8vLRwEMgbOzMaopUlaOlyFZGUkjmqwbDe0TvD46pswGhgA5jKgKQvOJKTogA" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The horror</span></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In brief, this is what has
happened:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> June 2022, Wasso
town was overflowing with security forces that went on to set up camps on the
90 km stretch from Ololosokwan to Piyaya, and in Malambo. Almost every Tanzania
Regional Police Commissioner vehicle was seen in Loliondo on the day. The
Maasai held prayers and deliberations. A coordinated threat with vicious
propaganda, and an old lie from 2013, was issued primarily by <a href="https://youtu.be/7zMzpEzmAoU" target="_blank">Arusha RC John Mongella</a>
and <a href="https://youtu.be/ShaL-GnvT1E" target="_blank">PM Kassim Majaliwa</a>, assisted by speaker of parliament Tulia Ackson, and soon
joined by too many government representatives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyA_JP-MmUUVxukzFGRNtKnrD-rUgwVtzlWmrlGgd3b-fbq2v6uY3_-nKJopM1uc_zC9Xsxa_ROJv3kIdaUqTFAKSOXFrg8kTZau5Sx7ICJwvdlKtKqbuPMYLcBrcs__y7IFESeFDEqJ5-L0QnS6KAHITTO4qGLm95qFLnwaUZ1oIphIvDx1YXDPH4AQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="718" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyA_JP-MmUUVxukzFGRNtKnrD-rUgwVtzlWmrlGgd3b-fbq2v6uY3_-nKJopM1uc_zC9Xsxa_ROJv3kIdaUqTFAKSOXFrg8kTZau5Sx7ICJwvdlKtKqbuPMYLcBrcs__y7IFESeFDEqJ5-L0QnS6KAHITTO4qGLm95qFLnwaUZ1oIphIvDx1YXDPH4AQ" width="188" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">councillors
from affected wards – except the Soitsambu councillor who managed to flee - were
on 9<sup>th</sup> June lured to a meeting by DC Raymond Mwangwala, they were abducted,
bundled in two cars and driven to Arusha overnight. The following day illegal
land demarcation - which is what Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC), that
organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, for years has lobbied for - began
in a rain of teargas and live bullets. Many Maasai were injured and thousands
fled across the border where many of them continue as refugees, also cattle. <b>The
approximately 80 years old <a name="_Hlk120031865">Oriais Oleng'iyo </a>was
last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June with bullet wounds and detained by the Field
Force Unit</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">few
metres away from his home where security forces were firing fireworks.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> According to the RC, a police officer was killed by arrowshot. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dylCCykMpNmvgLff-N5Is-bbYqavZZFwbO7rKksqUb3J--EQVgI5nHylRA2Gr4hSS8AT6eDcr64FYvcLiOK7Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZRb1Se_XlBBNu7Q5APIgH4YjtaZp-ByTlsqqZQslLOkxyMGD6tn11cxMry1OA0ug7cct594TEinvXKQElJx85Tpsc0U0o7UCX-czIPsiKcFo1Hcpu-0ARvLg5BGnD33wNhAGF0pYBrzeDB6rQaSsvYi-95llcpawlBMyv7tYL_N20WYQKuNs5LtcYzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZRb1Se_XlBBNu7Q5APIgH4YjtaZp-ByTlsqqZQslLOkxyMGD6tn11cxMry1OA0ug7cct594TEinvXKQElJx85Tpsc0U0o7UCX-czIPsiKcFo1Hcpu-0ARvLg5BGnD33wNhAGF0pYBrzeDB6rQaSsvYi-95llcpawlBMyv7tYL_N20WYQKuNs5LtcYzw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a hunt for anyone
who could have shared pictures of the crimes (which effectively has been done
by <b>everyone</b> with a smartphone) and ten people, later joined by seven
more, were illegally arrested, eventually, together with the councillors,
charged with a bogus “murder”. The trial kept being postponed for inexistent “investigation”,
and they continued locked up in remand prison for well over five months. Three
were released for reasons of health and studies. The flow of information was
almost completely cut after the in initial arrests. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government representatives
made multiple military style visits landing in helicopter to pose with beacons,
tell lies, and issue threats. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8egW6AZS_GZ1o-6ybRCragwqTmwHfF_BwuddpxMCqF2tZdwfYIQ8DxfXTNnAcSmzLnAlYrhJEza-MS3qCwmr6E9bOKc-kbk3Q5hYkeq7OkM2v8CnB3mdgbKynC_jwkAQvjp8ZmY3TM6GdS_oHy9hnw6FeSfMVZe1lxS8Wbdct-reTBYZl8HnG4wVAhw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="660" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8egW6AZS_GZ1o-6ybRCragwqTmwHfF_BwuddpxMCqF2tZdwfYIQ8DxfXTNnAcSmzLnAlYrhJEza-MS3qCwmr6E9bOKc-kbk3Q5hYkeq7OkM2v8CnB3mdgbKynC_jwkAQvjp8ZmY3TM6GdS_oHy9hnw6FeSfMVZe1lxS8Wbdct-reTBYZl8HnG4wVAhw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RC Mongella and DC Mwangwala.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL4jMbE_QwyYM-MtQpSTs4G5YWI0V_n5YYmw4m4rWTYyKb4HrtU686ONebUReuB-ea4lppHajRsSbtCvY9Oallm_mn_gdbim33JwIRHpx2f2RTO_7C3_C4nBIQwSzNVRBlpkTElHtF3BD515Lmxb4I97nAINAl6onJrVjsoK3MLJ9npu6U65z-MJf_nQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjL4jMbE_QwyYM-MtQpSTs4G5YWI0V_n5YYmw4m4rWTYyKb4HrtU686ONebUReuB-ea4lppHajRsSbtCvY9Oallm_mn_gdbim33JwIRHpx2f2RTO_7C3_C4nBIQwSzNVRBlpkTElHtF3BD515Lmxb4I97nAINAl6onJrVjsoK3MLJ9npu6U65z-MJf_nQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then Inspector General of Police Simon Sirro and demarcation workers.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiOE9k8wjhJgBWa2vCXeV1Td0tk1YuDIrHCA3fLiGBZapuViwi1Saq_53k94boiyG4As1FvtXUidA59EVIy3dwkl6vKinJAK5UENR9M7xVUDw5Mi7JHwvsI7VEBl-o8zeAZ40glWk0nnkP0faN72UQm0WiXi0trTLoOxqGHqMpPbeTsDV_Mm2fXJr5lw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1445" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiOE9k8wjhJgBWa2vCXeV1Td0tk1YuDIrHCA3fLiGBZapuViwi1Saq_53k94boiyG4As1FvtXUidA59EVIy3dwkl6vKinJAK5UENR9M7xVUDw5Mi7JHwvsI7VEBl-o8zeAZ40glWk0nnkP0faN72UQm0WiXi0trTLoOxqGHqMpPbeTsDV_Mm2fXJr5lw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minister Pindi Chana and PM Kassim Majaliwa.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyDu3YWxUA1SMMmF-pmdu0tSrhApomIAOJgCmx8uko6Q99rJRpVcz1Z54smb9Jz_dvBq4afFpOKdG003n9f5Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minster Pindi Chana without
following any law or procedure declared the illegally demarcated land as
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area” (GN No.421, 2022), which was announced in a
zoom meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidxYkxqlkqbYjQVzTNaNKMJDLqm7S76NgsQDBCCTRO6uSGQlAI6aBsedWwbvfRswprvNghfI2nVT9r_VdykRCMXWvJsozeAJL0sNAi4juf-EVAda1LpBL5PBxXGuXsGYRrzn7bpM5dazEnHbrtzBImAZtqZX8i8s-3b1nQnQI8MihV_0PZcPkdJJq58w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1172" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidxYkxqlkqbYjQVzTNaNKMJDLqm7S76NgsQDBCCTRO6uSGQlAI6aBsedWwbvfRswprvNghfI2nVT9r_VdykRCMXWvJsozeAJL0sNAi4juf-EVAda1LpBL5PBxXGuXsGYRrzn7bpM5dazEnHbrtzBImAZtqZX8i8s-3b1nQnQI8MihV_0PZcPkdJJq58w" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://youtu.be/GMGMoQXWl6w" target="_blank">Spineless diplomats</a> applauded
Minister Ndumbaro’s obvious lies about what was happening. Though many
international organisations condemned the government’s actions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHZeVbcqtkxl3DmbqVVwKMc6Yi-YK6s-S78NVeI7BGKpY6SsnukBwkXD0QlYJUzbGrkhgZH3IeQLHpBtrUiFw9qCDm6e8dhF3q7CkW_yaRv-521CJD27C3Vd_JdH9MByR-Oap_HDRGOwNv-aY8dEGqFhSU0_Tm9GDqcFegEdjsWdmCxI0LwfVL82xwAg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="615" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjHZeVbcqtkxl3DmbqVVwKMc6Yi-YK6s-S78NVeI7BGKpY6SsnukBwkXD0QlYJUzbGrkhgZH3IeQLHpBtrUiFw9qCDm6e8dhF3q7CkW_yaRv-521CJD27C3Vd_JdH9MByR-Oap_HDRGOwNv-aY8dEGqFhSU0_Tm9GDqcFegEdjsWdmCxI0LwfVL82xwAg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Masanja, Damas Ndumbaro UAE ambassador Khalifa Abdul Rahman Al Marzouqi.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The much-expected court ruling
in the case filed during the mass arson in 2017, and scheduled for 22<sup>nd</sup>
June, was the last minute shockingly postponed to September. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Houses were demolished or
razed. TAWA illegally seized livestock and demanded extortionate “fines”. The
dry season deepened without access to the most important grazing area. In
Ormanie, Arash ward, on 27<sup>th</sup> June, cows, donkeys, calves, and other
livestock were shot by the security forces. There were mass arrests of people
accused of being “Kenyan”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD-SDVDaUCvJHqmAqtr37U0o6uzcEvK03cZoAMLDIsAJQqmbP6siE3C-tInVWsHV2pna24pWCAaPDjrFo4eaWr0co-Ljcqm63Pvx1bBS_B_cO7ur7jdX38tPt8HX3eYBNMKTbLTwkjBESlsCBJ38uwl418uwwPc1D-uoyp2qcPj_IgiNW4x17QAd51Yw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD-SDVDaUCvJHqmAqtr37U0o6uzcEvK03cZoAMLDIsAJQqmbP6siE3C-tInVWsHV2pna24pWCAaPDjrFo4eaWr0co-Ljcqm63Pvx1bBS_B_cO7ur7jdX38tPt8HX3eYBNMKTbLTwkjBESlsCBJ38uwl418uwwPc1D-uoyp2qcPj_IgiNW4x17QAd51Yw" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ormanie 27th June.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPlHq-j8tr2KnOrVXmKQ7chFE1Gg3Eeh87Y5Jmg2dimtKWSVFvFvi6jQLbskchGe0vuV5jjuhcF_VFCxevOzqGaTAj84rvGCiYnqE-AJJycSZ-BKRS93cm3AvOPwfhyG99wnZ4ZK16RhrET3xGr7pxz5Tb2jHN2wBX1TelxosftLRyFPub2KmdwtIOXw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1040" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPlHq-j8tr2KnOrVXmKQ7chFE1Gg3Eeh87Y5Jmg2dimtKWSVFvFvi6jQLbskchGe0vuV5jjuhcF_VFCxevOzqGaTAj84rvGCiYnqE-AJJycSZ-BKRS93cm3AvOPwfhyG99wnZ4ZK16RhrET3xGr7pxz5Tb2jHN2wBX1TelxosftLRyFPub2KmdwtIOXw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fleeing from Malambo</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> September Minister
Chana announced that the illegally demarcated 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo
had been placed under the management of the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> September
the East African Court of Justice <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/10/amidst-government-terror-and.html" target="_blank">dismissed </a>Reference No.10 of 2017 on the
grounds that the Maasai had failed to prove that the mass arson of 2017 was
committed on village land and not in Serengeti National Park. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TAWA, at the height of the dry
season, continued illegal seizures of livestock and extortion of huge fines,
100,000 TShs per cow and 25,000 per sheep or goat. NCAA rangers have reportedly
been trained and set up camp. In Malambo, on 8<sup>th</sup> November, the head
of the NCAA camp announced that TAWA had left, and the boundaries were being
guarded by the Field Force Unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHyqOwD4mUW_bLdSPIBy71N106h5kSJAfcqI4CqxV9edgy0S7MY_VNS006x_Ys1_Zo-tZcXrZ4L-s2uWyt5nzrTJ1jPRwhLOLk1l1oBqLwk115H7Kui9G1_UFc1DxpT7TReogbXeCfpanA3-FF7GE7fPU_6efHBZ6PSGR02STBy5nK9Ui-NZCvb_T-UA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHyqOwD4mUW_bLdSPIBy71N106h5kSJAfcqI4CqxV9edgy0S7MY_VNS006x_Ys1_Zo-tZcXrZ4L-s2uWyt5nzrTJ1jPRwhLOLk1l1oBqLwk115H7Kui9G1_UFc1DxpT7TReogbXeCfpanA3-FF7GE7fPU_6efHBZ6PSGR02STBy5nK9Ui-NZCvb_T-UA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> October, or
1<sup>st</sup> November, it was announced that President Samia had on 14<sup>th</sup>
October declared a Pololeti Game Reserve (GN No.604, 2022). It came as a nasty
surprise for the lawyers that on 1<sup>st</sup> November were in court for the
mention of Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022, even if it seems like it was also
on Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation the previous evening. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVNz-29dtQp0i8TFEYYiinkgFNqB2kS9bZpkk4_yh7P5ADd11bHpbtEQdUdKsNptvEn6UwCWBeJvd9tPN6T5poAUvsa6y84DpJnrWNlYSj59PhrA5LYFzMK4gAtAXjojiSlWtkGRimwko_60YUEtlyUoHVOH1ymZEAXOZ8Vf3WKSXX7hTpAxkC55Jm3Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="1080" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVNz-29dtQp0i8TFEYYiinkgFNqB2kS9bZpkk4_yh7P5ADd11bHpbtEQdUdKsNptvEn6UwCWBeJvd9tPN6T5poAUvsa6y84DpJnrWNlYSj59PhrA5LYFzMK4gAtAXjojiSlWtkGRimwko_60YUEtlyUoHVOH1ymZEAXOZ8Vf3WKSXX7hTpAxkC55Jm3Q" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three court cases have been
filed to stop the brutal, fake and illegal protected area: one in the High
Court and two in the East African Court of Justice, the ruling in the case filed
in 2017 has been appealed, and there’s a contempt of court application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 1<sup>st</sup> November, in
an NCA advertorial in the extreme anti-Maasai newspaper the Jamhuri, a “conservator”
for the fake and illegal game reserve – Pius Rwiza - spoke of how calm and
wonderful everything is after the demarcation, with the big five everywhere and
rain. Maybe he’d missed that it’s dry season grazing land and that all ward
councillors were locked up in remand prison. He says that the Maasai understand
the demarcation but must keep a further 500 metres away from it! And he wants
them to create WMAs, outside the illegally demarcated 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, which
is another kind of land alienation that also was included in the OBC-funded
draft district land use plan that was rejected by Ngorongoro District Council
in 2011. Though most of the article is about all wonderful development projects in the 2,500 km2, which we must than the president for. It’s important that this individual, and everyone else involved in
this crime, are held <b>personally accountable</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivzD_aXnxhqXgDe00TvO0KpCKJRV1kHf8TeTCRLSbp8SqvTjGeyyvQyPkvH-4IlAuPk7SNiCrvq7rF8B7nZPofDEhNx5MgNXMALx_65b9WZDRnbdaAamEfk7wdRSLVmgAHt5NfcfJNSmrVlRIMndwJbb8LEpJumWufsIh4dzaA3zlxNhcX1Tp285CxdQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="787" height="98" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivzD_aXnxhqXgDe00TvO0KpCKJRV1kHf8TeTCRLSbp8SqvTjGeyyvQyPkvH-4IlAuPk7SNiCrvq7rF8B7nZPofDEhNx5MgNXMALx_65b9WZDRnbdaAamEfk7wdRSLVmgAHt5NfcfJNSmrVlRIMndwJbb8LEpJumWufsIh4dzaA3zlxNhcX1Tp285CxdQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk119976811"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fake
and forced land use plans<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards the end of October,
there were reports of a notice issued by the DC about redrawing of village
boundaries with new village land use plans, and some 40 state security and
surveyors on the ground. On 13<sup>th</sup> November, the chairman of Malambo
village, Moitiko Risando, who had been hiding, was lured to a meeting by
someone from the DC’s office, supposedly about allowing a return to some of the
illegally demarcated land and then arrested, falsely accused of being in
possession of arms without a permit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
known, the Malambo ward councillor had been abducted for over five months. The
government has installed the CCM ward chairman, Mapema Koima, and secretary,
Thobico John Kulinja, as some kind of leaders above councillor to impose a land
use plan on terrified villagers. The Malambo chairman was released after some
days. I have not understood clearly if the police were paid, or if the chairman
was compromised. Similarly has happened in other villages, with varying amounts
of traitors. The Esero sub-village chairman of Oloipiri has praised the
government in national media. In Ololosokwan the acting chairman appointed by
the government is Cosmas Leitura who is <b>not</b> whom John Pyando had
appointed as acting chairman in his absence (exile), according to the law. Some
say that Cosmas is a traitor, others that he’s “cornered”, while yet others say
that “everyone is a traitor”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve heard that the terrified
and the corrupted have passed the fake and forced land use plans, but I’ve also
heard that they have been stopped. This is one reason for the delay of this
blog post. Too many questions remain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The criminal DC has in
national media said that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> is now set aside and WMAs
should be added when villages have been surveyed, while for a local audience he
talks about that it’s good to re-survey to stop conflicts between villages and
have helpful land use plans. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Those
are two unrelated issues that are being mixed up very purposefully – the government’s
violent grabbing of land for “conservation” and investors and the solving of local
conflicts. It isn’t hard to see that the former will not be helpful to the latter. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Any kind of land use plan imposed in such a time
of violence, threats and illegal land alienation is of course completely illegitimate.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after the good news
that the bogus murder case was finally dismissed, I got a message from
Ololosokwan:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Demarcation starts
today, there is a police car written FFU TANGA overseeing the process<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Being done as we speak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Cosmas is the
perpetrator."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk119976851"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dismissed
immigration cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Between 14<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup>
November, nine immigration cases against 62 people who still had such cases
pending after the mass arrests in June and July were discharged for want of
prosecution. Among them were Rebeca Koriata from Ololosokwan, arrested and charged
with not having the right documents for working in Tanzania, and her husband
Jacob, basically for having been married to her since 2006. If I’ve understood
correctly, Rebeca was locked up for over two weeks at Loliondo police station. This
is how the Tanzanian government works with malicious prosecution for the sake
of intimidation. Too lazy to even make any effort to fabricate false evidence
and then when everyone is properly terrified and silenced, the case is
dismissed for inaction. The same happened in 2016 when some people were charged
with “espionage and sabotage” for allegedly communicating with me. And then the bogus murder case is the worst case of all. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I hope damages will be paid
for long stays at the cold and unhealthy Loliondo police station, children
without both parents, uncertainty and fear, but somehow doubt it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was Minister of Home
Affairs, Hamad Masauni, who landing in Loliondo on 15<sup>th</sup> June in military
helicopter made a statement directing Immigration to strengthen border security
to prevent illegal entry by foreigners and so avoid incitement activities. He
also ordered NGOs to be investigated to make sure they operate within the law
and don’t engage in breach of peace. Then Immigration Commissioner for Border
Control and Administration, Samwel Mahirane arrived in Loliondo on 18<sup>th</sup>
June to threaten people who were sabotaging the exercise and have fled. He said
they are known and will all be dealt with. He threw in some threats against
NGOs. These two were on 21<sup>st</sup> June followed by Commissioner General
of Immigration, Anna Makakala, who arrived in Loliondo to add her statement
from the warfront against the Maasai, announcing that there would be 10 days of
flushing out illegal immigrants. This led to so much suffering for so many
families, and almost five months later the cases were dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzaRSwz6KPncb8pMmL_47uxnLjH0_Ki8Zso4_w09qdjOlJpumV9uFjobaNCqGjzVa2-2tTuoIHipsRYlgTjVw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFm-Kbfvuf1wg9U-sJzCNNE_-cW865y88VBdyxus_Roi5j9KCMmyIN4Z4cjtk05CxUBn8qM_4paHQuDR8D2gedvWLpOWsT0wLhFe_IEF9kIdPpw6C-sD2w8wvGg5LELCXJUwfFEFQVlyxj59eaCq5a4RUZCJJV_eNm-Hh-O22sRSvzrBqnKxclAZSy7Q" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFm-Kbfvuf1wg9U-sJzCNNE_-cW865y88VBdyxus_Roi5j9KCMmyIN4Z4cjtk05CxUBn8qM_4paHQuDR8D2gedvWLpOWsT0wLhFe_IEF9kIdPpw6C-sD2w8wvGg5LELCXJUwfFEFQVlyxj59eaCq5a4RUZCJJV_eNm-Hh-O22sRSvzrBqnKxclAZSy7Q" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mahirane</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgELVKXzfxsTyiGtNC7MejYIQTda4IEBAXqRA46X7otdzCSWoCO7VLKDemSysDkPmfgUX-X55-5N6SqRjbVjZ2xLxotIoXPHz2JTrO4xyUZnicVfpPtCJ7onbd6-SODBqjHwiWmVfD5e40HXQ_2iMMU5g2jK0DTktLadIjQVasLftVjudTN904dBobq1g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgELVKXzfxsTyiGtNC7MejYIQTda4IEBAXqRA46X7otdzCSWoCO7VLKDemSysDkPmfgUX-X55-5N6SqRjbVjZ2xLxotIoXPHz2JTrO4xyUZnicVfpPtCJ7onbd6-SODBqjHwiWmVfD5e40HXQ_2iMMU5g2jK0DTktLadIjQVasLftVjudTN904dBobq1g" width="320" /></a></div><br />Makakala and DC Mwangwala</div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bogus murder
case dropped<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Arusha Resident Magistrate
Court on 22<sup>nd</sup> November, it was announced that the Director of Public
Prosecution had no intention to continue with the case against 24 people charged
with the “murder” of CPL Garlus Mwita on 10<sup>th</sup> June (the day <b>after</b>
ten accused were arrested). This came after they have been illegally locked up
for over five months under much uncertainty and away from their families, while
heinous crimes have been committed, and continue being committed, by the
government in Loliondo. I’ve lost count of how many times this case has been
postponed to give the prosecution more time for “investigation”, when everyone
knows that nobody has wasted even one second on anything resembling “investigation”.
This case has been pure intimidation from start to finish. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">22<sup>nd</sup> November was
also set for CCM elections and just after the release, the 24 met with a convoy
of CCM candidates who are said to be responsible for their release. Just after
one hour following the release, it turned out to be a campaign rally and the
ten political leaders who were released were required to vote in the same
afternoon for the RC Mongella affiliated Zelothe Stephen to be CCM Arusha
chairman and vote for a businessperson called Bajuta, also Mongella’s close
confidant, as Arusha representative for the CCM national elective council. As
we’ve seen, RC Mongella is the appointed enforcer of the destruction of the
Maasai of Ngorongoro district. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The logical continuation now
would be for the released abductees to all publicly burn their CCM member cards,
but so far, they seem to be doing quite the contrary. There are fears about what
price could have been paid for the release. I hope they are unfounded. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup> June, the
day before the illegal demarcation started, the councillors of Ololosokwan,
Oloipiri, Oloirien, Maaloni, Arash, Piyaya, Malambo, and two women’s special
seats councillors, Kijoolu Kakiya and Taleng’o Leshoko were abducted, as was
the district CCM chairman, Ndirango Laizer. DC Raymond Mwangwala lured them to
a CCM meeting, they were interrogated by the District Security Committee, and
then a special task force arrived to interrogate them individually. The
Soitsambu councillor escaped the DC’s trap. He avoided attending the meeting
and went into hiding. At midnight the leaders were put in two vehicles and
driven to an unknown destination that upon arrival was identified as a smaller
police station in Arusha town, Chekereni, where they were interrogated
regarding “sedition” - and <b>not</b> murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing was known of the
whereabouts of those illegally arrested/abducted until 16<sup>th</sup> June
when they were sneaked to court without any legal representation and then
locked up in Kisongo remand prison. The following day it was revealed that they,
and ten other arrested people from Loliondo, had been charged with murder
contrary to Section 196 of the Penal Code [Cap 16 R:E 2019] in the Preliminary Inquiry
case No. 11 of 2022. The murder concerned a FFU officer who was allegedly killed
the day <b>after</b> the local leaders were arrested. Later seventeen more
people were added to the charges. The second group of ten were arrested on 10<sup>th </sup>June, not allowed to contact anyone and held for four days without
being fed. They were tortured and accused of reporting about violence in
Loliondo, sharing photos and video clips, interrogated on suspicion of
spreading false information, but later they were told a murder charge had been
found and they were re-interrogated for murder. The case was up for mention in
court on 30<sup>th</sup> June, but then it was postponed to 14<sup>th</sup>
July for further “investigation”. One new charge was added: “conspiracy to
murder”. Hearings were postponed to the 28<sup>th</sup> when charges against
three of the 27 accused of murder and conspiracy to murder were dropped.
Lekerenga Koyee, who's elderly and sick, Simel Parmwat who's a young student,
and Fred Ledidi who's district natural resources officer and a PhD student. On
5<sup>th</sup> August, the court overruled a submission by the defence of
separating murder and conspiracy charges, and the hearings were postponed to 17<sup>th</sup>
August, when MP Oleshangai attended court, and there was a postponement to 30<sup>th</sup>
August, when it was postponed to 13th September ... and postponed and postponed
and postponed, not sure how many times. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Those arrested have obviously been
political prisoners, totally innocent of “murder”, but it’s possible to keep
two (or even more) thoughts at the same time, and this doesn’t mean that the
political leaders among them would be angels. They all belong to the ruling CCM
party and came into power through the shambolic, blood-soaked 2020 “elections”.
None of them have spoken up about the killing of Salula Ngorisiolo. Even worse,
at least two of them were for years on the side of OBC against the people. This
year though, most of them have clearly spoken up against any land grabbing
plans by the government, in protest meetings and handing over <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">“community recommendations”</a> to Majaliwa. Those accused who aren’t political leaders seem
to have been unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and to have
smartphones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Outside court there were tears
of joy. Advocate Ally Mhyellah <a href="https://youtu.be/Uet-xmYPwek" target="_blank">said </a>that the those released can sue for reparation
and mentioned judicial hooliganism and shamelessness. Others outrageously thanked
the perpetrators of this prolonged torture disguised as a court case … I’ll
return to exactly who has said what. MP Oleshangay cried and embraced everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk119976881"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
old lie<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For this brutal and illegal
land demarcation, the Tanzanian government has picked up <b>an old lie</b>,
used by Minister Kagasheki in 2013, and which consists of claiming that the
whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> hunting block would be a protected area that has
been encroached, and that out of love for the people, the government is “keeping”
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> while “giving” the Maasai 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>, which is
where you find the district headquarters with the DC’s office, the towns of
Wasso and Loliondo, hospitals, forests, agricultural areas, and the horrible
Thomson Safaris occupying a private nature refuge. This is where people and
cattle are supposed to squeeze in. Everyone of course knows that the whole
4,000 km<sup>2</sup> is legally registered village land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJk2wWoFxzMiaX_n3InnGkAPdcSs4-J_L_2TPo8G7wbYDaBdttgWWR0KAmXxRwMhbEjCOc6n7A29bTffz1YzeridNt8BkwDz6BtI-1UlDEbXMBJ3J_ZW_93j044JLNbmXGYin_XFCuvK0rjGGQGfaDk-wlbbFckO0_kLQASPayjRSqyQfeAlZc5CkGMQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="639" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJk2wWoFxzMiaX_n3InnGkAPdcSs4-J_L_2TPo8G7wbYDaBdttgWWR0KAmXxRwMhbEjCOc6n7A29bTffz1YzeridNt8BkwDz6BtI-1UlDEbXMBJ3J_ZW_93j044JLNbmXGYin_XFCuvK0rjGGQGfaDk-wlbbFckO0_kLQASPayjRSqyQfeAlZc5CkGMQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaGohKq0J7Q6ZHM-AgyWludR9aKes3MoaPKLc7rJ5Z3yQsoc-G6bVaO4YjkeK-VptMIkYpSvoDZe-06N5w_ScAjuDv5gg4FPcVt0u7ZT2kyBo9RM31iRXhPWMGxc5CKV5yKtPjgK-lqzYs-zBW7F7QvwjkxHi1DHj0lphXGFiW0JhgqXuSTYWutg-Xzg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="685" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaGohKq0J7Q6ZHM-AgyWludR9aKes3MoaPKLc7rJ5Z3yQsoc-G6bVaO4YjkeK-VptMIkYpSvoDZe-06N5w_ScAjuDv5gg4FPcVt0u7ZT2kyBo9RM31iRXhPWMGxc5CKV5yKtPjgK-lqzYs-zBW7F7QvwjkxHi1DHj0lphXGFiW0JhgqXuSTYWutg-Xzg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This <b>lie</b> was brought
back by Damas Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup> March this year in an interview on Deutsche
Welle, and before that it’s been used by Maghembe during the mass arson in 2017
when his Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and the DC were telling <b>another</b>
story, and it was also used in November 2017 in the Attorney General’s response
to Reference No.10 of 2017, but then the government’s witnesses switched to a <b>completely
different lie</b> in 2018. After the DW interview, Ndumbaro has held several
meetings with diplomats to tell them lies about Loliondo and NCA. He’s done
this before and after the brutal attack on Loliondo, and both while he was
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, and as Minister of Constitutional
and Legal Affairs. Ndumbaro has held these disinformation meetings together
with Deputy Minister Mary Masanja, Director of Wildlife, Maurus Msuha, and (now
former) Minister of Foreign Affairs Liberata Mulamula. Remember their names.
Their day of reckoning must come. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> June,
Deputy Permanent Representative to the Tanzania Mission to the UN in Geneva,
Hoyce Temu, in a widely shared clip, denied any state violence, repeating the
government lie about a “protected area” that had been “encroached” and about
“peaceful talks” with local residents that agreed with the government
“keeping”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,500 km<sup>2</sup> as a
protected area, that a minority against the exercise made recordings while
posing threateningly and combined this with unrelated pictures, that the
government has called on anyone alleging to have been attacked to come forward
for the law to take its course and for treatment, but that nobody has come
forward. <b>This was while all councillors from affected wards were still
abducted at unknown location and before they were charged with a demented
murder case. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx6WwPRxVAWffotcq9mgP0Dm1LWaecrQ-pUEcMI83LfWikmlJyF3pDQKy3Rtu79o4FefoGqkXInmswyUTlb8A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The latest public and publicised
international <a href="https://youtu.be/w10E7u2fJis" target="_blank">disinformation session</a> by the Tanzanian government was held on 23rd October at the 73<sup>rd</sup> session of the African Commission on Human and
Peoples' Rights in Banjul, by the Tanzanian representative, Deputy Minister of Constitutional
and Legal Affairs Geophrey Mizengo Pinda. Besides repeating the current lies that
were brought back by Ndumbaro in March, Pinda Jr’s said that the Germans would
have found Loliondo empty in 1891 and made it a protected area. This differs
from what Ndumbaro has been telling diplomats, which has been the same lie but
mentioning the British in 1951. Perhaps there’s too much evidence and too many
people alive from the 1950s … It’s particularly sad to see Geophrey Pinda repeating
the lie, since it was his father, PM Mizengo Pinda, who on 23<sup>rd</sup> September
2013 in Wasso declared that the land belonged to the Maasai who should go on
with their lives as usual, and that Kagasheki would not be allowed to bother
them anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What happened
between the speech in Wasso by the father and the one in Banjul by the son</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
was that in 2013 the Loliondo Maasai were at their highest point of unity and
seriousness. OBC had held the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> hunting block, covering the
whole of Loliondo division and parts of Sale since 1993, but always wanted to
reduce it to their core hunting area next to Serengeti National Park and to
make this into a protected area. A local police state had developed, in which government
employees and an assortment of traitors were working for OBC, which was copied
and perfected by Thomson Safaris. Anyone speaking up was called to the district
security committee and threatened. There was a frustratingly fearful environment
since I first got to know about Loliondo, but it has kept getting so much
worse.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the drought year 2009, the
Maasai were attacked in OBC’s preferred area, the Field Force Unit and OBC
rangers razed hundreds of bomas, livestock were scattered into extreme drought
areas, and 7-year old Nashipai Gume was lost in the chaos. There was hard work
to get organized so that the illegal 2009 operation would never be repeated,
and in 2011 a draft district land use plan – funded by OBC and proposing the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> protected area - was defeated by the Maasai, some of whom
then thought it safe to reconcile with OBC. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government and the
investors countered by increasing divide and rule, which made some traitors
hurt the land struggle very much by praising investors while insulting and
threatening activists, thinking that such behaviour would benefit them personally,
and that the land couldn’t be taken anyway. <b>Some of those traitors have now been
political prisoners themselves for over five months.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then came John Pombe Magufuli
who didn’t have any personal anti-Maasai feelings, but wanted to crush anyone
speaking up about anything, with zero tolerance for political opposition,
including inside his own party. Repression and fear increased – with longer and
crazier arrests of perceived Loliondo activists. By 2016 local leaders were so weakened
by terror that PM Majaliwa could enter the stage with a select committee, set
up by then Arusha RC Gambo. The committee handed over a sad compromise proposal
to Majaliwa and were waiting for his decision, which is why it was seen as most
“unexpected” when on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017 an illegal mass arson
operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and continued, on and off, well
into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the ground by Serengeti rangers,
assisted by NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA, TAWA/KDU, local police and
others. People were beaten and raped, illegally arrested, and cattle seized.
The illegal operation was in late October stopped by the new minister Hamis
Kigwangalla who also made splendid promises that OBC would have to leave Tanzania
before 2018. This is seen as a good time, even when already in December 2017,
Majaliwa announced that OBC would stay, and that his terrible and disappointing
decision was to via a legal bill set up a special authority to manage the land.
OBC’s own journalist Manyerere Jackton celebrated in the Jamhuri newspaper, but
the implementation was delayed, and no legal bill has been seen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2018 was a year of extreme
terror and violence, almost complete silence and <b>many unanswered questions. </b>A
military camp was set up in Olopolun near Wasso, and eventually made permanent
with funds from NCAA. The government tried to derail Reference No.10 of 2017 in
the East African Court of Justice via police harassment of local leaders and
villagers. Then the soldiers started attacking and torturing groups of people,
while all leaders stayed silent. The interim orders granted by the court on 25<sup>th</sup>
September were brutally violated already in early November when the soldiers
started beating people and chasing them and their livestock away from wide areas
around OBC camp, including razing bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. Then they
set fire to more bomas in the Leken area of Kirtalo on 22<sup>nd</sup>
December. Local leaders were shockingly silent, with the excuse of fear for
their lives, since they thought that the brutality was directly ordered by Magufuli.
When RC Gambo in January 2019 condemned the crimes in a very vague way, they
changed to thinking that OBC’s director had contracted the soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After more illegal arrests at
the start of 2019, there were “good” times again when OBC’s director Isaack
Mollel was charged with economic sabotage and locked up for a lengthy stay in
remand prison until he got out using plea bargaining. For some time, OBC
sharply toned down their presence on the ground. Though already in September 2019
a genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review proposal for NCA included turning
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo into a protected area and annexing it to
NCA. While there were many protests by the Maasai of NCA, local Loliondo
leaders almost pretended not to have noticed and the threat kept simmering low,
until it was brutally and lawlessly implemented in 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2021, the death of Magufuli
was a relief until it was clear that Samia Suluhu Hassan not only continued
with her predecessor’s terror but adding a personal hatred against the Maasai
while elevating tourism to state religion with a cheesy tv travel show as her
gospel. The new DED Jumaa Mhina started working to kill the court cases against
land grabbing “investors”. Though the village chairmen stood their ground. The
case against Thomson Safaris in the Tanzanian court of appeal, however, was in
2022 killed using a law that was introduced after the case was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The worst year ever started
already on 11<sup>th</sup> January 2022, when Arusha RC John Mongella summoned
village and ward leaders from villages with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to
inform them that the government would make a painful decision for the broader
interest of the nation. The leaders, even those who for years had worked for
OBC and against the people, refused to accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup>
January in Oloirien there was a public protest meeting and a statement by
village, ward, and traditional leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzWzP3IIwB2g9JgzTRSE2d71hFzaVywVw7Iz37qx86PweyXMYqw1TuPnzCMBga1xYtGs0NaXQ-IYQkWA0kI0g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February,
Majaliwa came and wasn’t much better than Mongella, but too well-received,
since something worse was expected, because of the crazy anti-Maasai hate
campaign in media, and parliamentarians calling for tanks to be sent to
Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in NCA, <b>not</b> Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be
marked by beacons, “so that we may know the boundaries” – while claiming that
this is NOT a trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup>
March re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on
the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and water projects for
Loliondo when informing parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he had set
up in Arusha, without people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several recently reawakened leaders spoke up in
defence of the land, among them the Arash ward councillor Methew Siloma spoke
up very clearly and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa can’t be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy28UJIQvBdoKIGgN7xKmSLCtSA64PxlNVhUYmIkLmzkwh3h9gUdcI-rVrq70C2Z0n-L7O8eyNfBSF7gUpLrQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM councillors that had
spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero
were being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha.
The councillors of Arash and Malambo had to keep reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May a
committee handed over their reports of “<a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">community views</a>” on both NCA and the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero in Loliondo to PM Majaliwa who said that he’d work
on the recommendations. <b>The Loliondo and Sale report recommended a stop to
any plans of alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, investigations into human rights
violations, and the removal of OBC.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June,
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana in her budget speech
announced that her ministry expected to upgrade Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but
she did this while listing huge areas of Tanzania for the same expectation,
which didn’t make it sound believable or realistic in any way, and there was
hardly any reaction, except for an intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel
Oleshangai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the government exploded
in violence and lawlessness and robbed the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk119976937"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Court
cases and the government’s brutal and wildly shifting lies<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119976937;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk119155410"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference
No. 10 of 2017<o:p></o:p></span></u></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119155410;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the blog post from 2<sup>nd</sup>
October, I wrote about the terrible and partly inexplicable ruling on <a name="_Hlk118761994">Reference No. 10 of 2017 </a>Ololosokwan Village Council
& 3 Others versus the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania
in the East African Court of Justice. Since there’s so much misinformation –
created by Agence France-Presse, saying that the court upheld the government’s
decision to cordon off the land, and spread by people who really should know
better - I’ll briefly repeat what happened.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The judges dismissed the case,
since they found that the Maasai had failed to prove that the evictions
operation in 2017 took place on village land and not in Serengeti National
Park, as claimed by the government’s witnesses in 2018. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Such a ruling should just <b>not
have been possible</b> when even the government’ own, very public, documents so
clearly show that the 2017 illegal mass arson was indeed committed in the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> area of village land:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The DC’s
official order.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The press statement
by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The 2017 operation
map by TANAPA.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The DC quoted
in the anti-Maasai press.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-And the
attorney general’s response to Reference No. 10 of 2017 in November the same
year. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/10/amidst-government-terror-and.html" target="_blank">(See previous blog post).</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This ruling is exactly what
the government wanted in 2018, but not what it wanted in November 2017 when the
attorney general’s response was to lie that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> was
already the kind of protected area that’s been <b>brutally and</b> <b>illegally</b>
declared <b>this year</b>, first by Minister Chana in June and then by
President Samia in October. And it’s not exactly what the government wants now,
since the ruling also <b>establishes that it’s common ground between the
parties that the applicants are registered and certified villages with titles
to land adjoining Serengeti National Park.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling was accompanied by
strange and chaotic behaviour by the judges. It was first scheduled for 22<sup>nd</sup>
June, amid government extreme brutality and lawlessness in violation of the
interim orders issued on 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018, but just the day
before there was a last-minute postponement to September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Eventually, the date was set
for 29<sup>th</sup> September, but on the 28<sup>th</sup>, there was yet
another last-minute postponement, this time to the 30<sup>th</sup>. 28<sup>th</sup>
September was also the day that Chana announced that the illegally demarcated
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> had been placed under NCAA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the ruling finally was to
be read, the court ordered journalists to be stopped from recording. The
principal judge wasn’t present. Charles Nyachae – whose father is an infamous grabber
of Maasai land in Kenya – read the ruling, that was also presided by Audace Ngiye,
and the judges Richard Muhumuza and Richard Wejuli, who didn’t mention their
particulars, and never presided during the hearing of the case. Reportedly,
there was one more unknown judge. With all this extra time for writing it, the
ruling doesn’t mention the court’s own interim orders, only considers a few
Maasai witnesses whose testimonies it finds contradicting and insufficient, but
without mentioning the <b>extreme contradiction</b> between the attorney
general in 2017 and the government witnesses in 2018. The ruling mentions that
one of the Maasai witnesses said he was acting chairperson of “Kilolo” village and
was informed that homesteads had been destroyed in “Olototokum” village. Such
villages don’t exist but refer to “Oloirien” and “Ololosokwan” respectively. Did
<b>anyone</b> even understand what the witnesses were saying? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were the judges compromised?
Were they too lazy or busy to process how demented the government lies were? Were
the villagers’ representatives too disorganized to properly explain?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVbn1Dju-CkstX5EfYmS6kpjbWGP0n_BmXLSxm6-Ev4OdFek2josuhA4OHRv-rY86QKXKlspsKpqImBS-a5R02vAdNMlfwE9Rb8rqncuGQ6K5S5-XYebB1XBqvoCC-14CJ8lDkerogj5yK5BCDynhsU8XQt4j63sZcVpI_I9FJFoK4QXMSBfgCK817cg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1080" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVbn1Dju-CkstX5EfYmS6kpjbWGP0n_BmXLSxm6-Ev4OdFek2josuhA4OHRv-rY86QKXKlspsKpqImBS-a5R02vAdNMlfwE9Rb8rqncuGQ6K5S5-XYebB1XBqvoCC-14CJ8lDkerogj5yK5BCDynhsU8XQt4j63sZcVpI_I9FJFoK4QXMSBfgCK817cg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Notice of Appeal was filed
on 5<sup>th</sup> October and a comprehensive Memorandum of Appeal was filed on
4<sup>th</sup> November and is now referred to as <a name="_Hlk119886846"><u>Appeal
No. 12 of 2022 East Africa Court of Justice.<o:p></o:p></u></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119886846;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119886846;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Application
No.2 of 2022<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> January 2022,
the village chairmen filed an extremely urgent contempt of court application
against DED Jumaa Mhina’s intimidation to make them withdraw Reference No.10 of
2017, RC John Mongellas’s threats to invade and partition the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
and against then still Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Damas Ndumbaro.
These threats were all in contempt of the interim orders issued on 25<sup>th</sup>
September 2018 that was meant to restrain the government from any evictions,
burning of homesteads, or confiscating of cattle, and from harassing or
intimidating the applicants. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLPFhksayTT0SXqBRAm98LRmC6G3dSV7a_mJc9P3wx2dNA_Owc0dKYc8pNPirC1gp2eT18RJxouoY_tbXJZH1AI0zAfFePs4orbyUCpc9CTelGIdu6JXxZk-NbFheSL21Xzbw_FZzeJBVu9FNc7JX_zYpfpC1tJ7dX3n6GJ-fV-3gIWtuyhszFtv9-6w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="320" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLPFhksayTT0SXqBRAm98LRmC6G3dSV7a_mJc9P3wx2dNA_Owc0dKYc8pNPirC1gp2eT18RJxouoY_tbXJZH1AI0zAfFePs4orbyUCpc9CTelGIdu6JXxZk-NbFheSL21Xzbw_FZzeJBVu9FNc7JX_zYpfpC1tJ7dX3n6GJ-fV-3gIWtuyhszFtv9-6w" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">21st January 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This first Application No.17
of 2017 had been sought at the same time as the main reference was filed,
during the mass arson and other human rights crimes of 2017 that had been
stopped <b>almost a year</b> before the very important orders were granted, so “extremely
urgent” can sadly never stop ongoing human rights crimes. Another affidavit was
filed after every court order, and everything else … had been violated in this
year’s brutal and illegal demarcation exercise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This contempt of court
application was heard in Kampala on 11<sup>th</sup> November. Main counsel Don
Deya and Praisegod Joseph was present physically, others digitally. The government
(respondent) presented preliminary objections in a reportedly incoherent manner
saying that Application No.2 of 2022, and the interim orders from September 2018
had been overtaken by events and nullified with the ruling on 30<sup>th</sup>
September, that besides not even mentioning the application or the interim
orders, ruled that the crimes that the 2018 orders were supposed to prevent a repeat
of, in spite of overwhelming evidence, could not be proven to have taken place
in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We now have 424
illegally and brutally planted beacons standing there on the ground, and no
less than two government notices proving the crimes of 2022. Will that be
enough for the court?</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgs9LS01zeR3ccxk1DGIVgKc7iVoGaJqtms4lH66pMirnbcdp3VnRMTH1lRusCi7hoFzYuggxv4_nFA7cQiXpI0Ps9xsUEJKqx-Ynno-zDMOxtGtwPfcvlnrr7goaZK0uZEp96PgzX7LIkhAThCGoweVgCIkMu5Zc5FD1-_fw1K6O7AX_ltVM-0y064aA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgs9LS01zeR3ccxk1DGIVgKc7iVoGaJqtms4lH66pMirnbcdp3VnRMTH1lRusCi7hoFzYuggxv4_nFA7cQiXpI0Ps9xsUEJKqx-Ynno-zDMOxtGtwPfcvlnrr7goaZK0uZEp96PgzX7LIkhAThCGoweVgCIkMu5Zc5FD1-_fw1K6O7AX_ltVM-0y064aA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> November,
the government – via Wildlife Conservation Officer Emmanuel Daniel Pius from
TAWA - also (finally) filed an affidavit responding the Application No.2 of
2022. In true Tanzanian government style, this individual lies that the
government has always complied with the interim orders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Further,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> this </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Emmanuel
Daniel Pius denies the meeting convened by the DED on 9<sup>th</sup> September
2021 to intimidate the village chairmen to withdraw Reference No.10 of 2017
(and the case against Thomson Safaris) and the meeting in January 2022 in which
the Arusha RC issued threats about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>. He states that the
disputed land does not belong to the villages, but to Serengeti National Park,
as if he would have missed the long and loud and lying row of government representatives
saying that the demarcation is resizing the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo GCA
to 1,502km<sup>2</sup>, even when he himself in another response repeats those
lies. He even denies TAWA’s main activity saying that its officials have never “approached”
villagers telling them not to graze their livestock in the disputed area! When
they have seized thousands of cattle and demanded extortionate “fines”, with official
invoices …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiRo-It2FVLHSEQ3o_YEm09NiPVWJbo8Va9Hwbr7LkiLKROMyTvlUkqtgm7RnrwBt2ms76vQgv9y2AKUvZWZkJ3-tRZeoUe0vRZJ736Q1yx4GasLw1Y5DdkqVA4T7wV9tt4cNK16pcZJ5ybw1tgXny5dTchVj43Af6hDHRP-NkMXbTpkOI8QkshVEoeA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiiRo-It2FVLHSEQ3o_YEm09NiPVWJbo8Va9Hwbr7LkiLKROMyTvlUkqtgm7RnrwBt2ms76vQgv9y2AKUvZWZkJ3-tRZeoUe0vRZJ736Q1yx4GasLw1Y5DdkqVA4T7wV9tt4cNK16pcZJ5ybw1tgXny5dTchVj43Af6hDHRP-NkMXbTpkOI8QkshVEoeA" width="228" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DED Mhina's anti-court case meeting.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now Application No.2 of 2022
will be heard at some future point when the court disposes of the preliminary
objections. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Pololeti”
cases<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 16<sup>th</sup> August, <u>Reference
No.37 of 2022</u> was filed in the East African Court of Justice by six
Loliondo residents. The village chairman of Ololosokwan, John Pyando, is one of
them. The long and well-written (so it seems to me as a non-expert) reference
establishes that Pindi Chana’s declaration of the “protected area” is an illegal,
unreasonable, irrational, procedural impropriety, in breach of both the rules
of natural justice and the doctrine of legitimate expectation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government response to the
reference and to the affidavits was filed already on 28<sup>th</sup> September,
but to my frustration not shared with me until 8<sup>th</sup> November*. Anyway,
as expected, the lies are crazy and shameless. The response is written by <a name="_Hlk119284191">one Fidelis Kapalata</a>, described as principal officer
of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, and involved in the brutal demarcation
exercise. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wants the reference struck
out for being incurably defective. Then, as is the current so very obvious government
lie, Kapalata claims that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> area has been reserved
land since 1951 and has now been resized to 1,502 km<sup>2</sup> while 2,458km<sup>2</sup>
has been allocated to villagers. They are referred to as villagers when the existence
of village land in Loliondo is denied. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">*I include complaints line this to remind my friends of always sharing everything with me. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">According to Kapalata the
demarcation exercise was peacefully conducted. He lies that the 1,502 km<sup>2</sup>
were never inhabited or used for cultural, ceremonial or spiritual purposes,
and that the demarcation was done to ensure the sustainability of the ecosystem
against persistent encroachment by surrounding communities, that it was
necessary because of increase in human population pressure. Kapalata further
claims that the land subject to the case from 2017 is not the same as “Pololeti
GCA”, without explaining what the difference would be. He outrageously claims
that throughout the process the government ensured public consultation and
participation resulting in consensus – when all councillors of affected wards
were abducted the day before the demarcation started! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Those abducted for over five
months are called “village leaders” and “civilians” and are described as perpetuating
resistance to the demarcation and instigating violence, and in the response to
the affidavits it’s also mentioned that this caused the death of <a name="_Hlk120019300">CPL Garlus Mwita</a>. How does this square up with a
peaceful exercise, consultation and participation? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government doesn’t care.
Do the judges care? Are they able to understand?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Besides this case in the East
African Court of Justice, there’s another one in the same court against the brutally
and illegally declared “Pololeti GCA” that after (or at the same time as) the
government response was filed, was declared a “Pololeti GR” by the anti-Maasai president.
I don’t have any details about this case, but we really need to become more coordinated
and organized in this fight against such a brutal, but utterly stupid enemy. Maybe
the cases will be consolidated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Miscellaneous
Cause No.09 of 2022</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (judicial review) is a case in the
Tanzanian High Court against the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism and
the Attorney General. When even the judges in the regional court appear compromised,
I’d ask what can be gained in a Tanzanian court, but apparently, it’s
necessary. There was a hearing on 8<sup>th</sup> November and on the 15<sup>th</sup>
the court was scheduled to rule if the judicial review can go on. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this case, five petitioners
from the affected villages are asking the Court to give them leave to request:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1) The court to order the government
to remove the restrictions against the villagers entering the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
area which they have been using for grazing their livestock and for carrying
out faith activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2) The court should declare that
the Government Notice (GN421) dated 17 June 2022 is invalid and should not be
used, as it is against the law and did not involve the citizens as required by
the law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3) The court should declare to
prevent the government and its agents from carrying out operations in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This case too was responded to
by Emmanuel Daniel Pius, on 4<sup>th</sup> November, this time with lies like
those by Fidelis Kapalata responding to the Pololeti case in the East African
Court of Justice, that the demarcation was carved out of the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
Loliondo GCA that’s claimed to have been a “reserved area” since 1951, and that
the villagers have never used the 1,502 km<sup>2</sup>. Then he says that “Pololeti
GCA” doesn’t involve the applicants’ villages, since those are outside the
demarcated area. Where is that if the whole area has been a reserved area since
1951 and is larger than the whole of Loliondo division? Are the villages hanging
in the air? He repeats the claim of peaceful and participatory demarcation combined
with resisting and violent leaders (all ward councillors) that were arrested. In
this response he says that “only” livestock that graze inside the GCA are
impounded, while in the response to Application No2 of 2022, he says that the
herders have not even been approached by TAWA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 16<sup>th</sup> November,
not the scheduled 15<sup>th</sup>, there was a hearing. The director of the
Civic and Legal Aid Organization, the unusual, in the best way, Tanzanian journalist
Odero Charles, had written a letter to the High Court Judge, Mohammed Gawe
appealing for the case to be broadcast live, which was sadly <a href="https://tanzaniatimes.net/fingers-crossed-as-loliondo-case-comes-up-at-high-court-in-arusha/" target="_blank">denied</a>. Otherwise,
everything went well and the applicants were granted leave to continue with the
judicial review. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyn-MVTmBSqPjiZocqnE7vwqsnbc8jJW6Ug4jkr9mq5p1N89zyS3pv0dytVEikUAgqOPW_n7LCWeXsptosJRc02TedUuWngf4SPlV0sBHinpKbQMij6ZOoU812jMSVyCeA4eg0yWORE5jud2Qo-dtM8XNjmlrUpMwyYe1_4ZkFfRHUDZ_soxUd8l33Fg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="279" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjyn-MVTmBSqPjiZocqnE7vwqsnbc8jJW6Ug4jkr9mq5p1N89zyS3pv0dytVEikUAgqOPW_n7LCWeXsptosJRc02TedUuWngf4SPlV0sBHinpKbQMij6ZOoU812jMSVyCeA4eg0yWORE5jud2Qo-dtM8XNjmlrUpMwyYe1_4ZkFfRHUDZ_soxUd8l33Fg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Latang'amwaki Ndwati</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference
No.29 of 2022<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Over 1,620 Maasai decided to
file a case to challenge the coordinated and suffocating policies in the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (see below, this is NOT Loliondo) in June 2022 in
the East Africa Court of Justice. Both parties have filed their respective
documents (I was trying to get hold of the government’ response that reportedly
says that it’s acting on advice by UNESCO, which I could confirm the same day
as I was to publish this blog post) and the Court is expected to fix a date for
hearing of the case, which is yet to be communicated. The Maasai are
challenging the withdrawal of government money throughout NCA to induce
relocation to Handeni.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ruthless
hypocrites Thomson Safaris<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As reported in August, the American
Thomson Safaris, inspired by the general brutality and lawlessness, have
planted beacons demarcating their fraudulently and violently claimed "Enashiva
Nature Refuge" in the villages of Sukenya and Mondorosi, outside the illegally
demarcated 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>. In early October there were reports that they
were invading people’s farms and lokeri with road construction. In Sukenya ole
Musa was being invaded by this ugly land grabber, and in Mondorosi, ole Nanyoi
(Irmasiling) and ole Orgeso (Enadooshoke) were under attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> there was
another exhibition of charity as a weapon of war when the criminal DC Raymond
Mwangwala praised Thomson Safaris and their propaganda branch Focus on
Tanzanian Communities, for which former guests fundraise, for funding
extensions to Sukenya dispensary with 331 million TShs. Co-owner (together with
Rick Thomson) Judi Wineland and representatives of FOTZC were present. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZfqWPgvpYThnZhtVAe6jdNRa7rNwMH6J7Q1sGqgRTO_1xPob1o3ZUBahNhqFgXZ90KLs6U6dAYGbi6XGzkCNvWG6fyjhzimiljV46e1ezsVRDekTmfnkM2dCIxJ-0h0hp1n3qIn8YSxP9vAERS4Ljh3K4KzYmTpyfkIjjnCiaiUBwUhwG_spKGTUbJg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZfqWPgvpYThnZhtVAe6jdNRa7rNwMH6J7Q1sGqgRTO_1xPob1o3ZUBahNhqFgXZ90KLs6U6dAYGbi6XGzkCNvWG6fyjhzimiljV46e1ezsVRDekTmfnkM2dCIxJ-0h0hp1n3qIn8YSxP9vAERS4Ljh3K4KzYmTpyfkIjjnCiaiUBwUhwG_spKGTUbJg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thomson Safaris' copycat beacon.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">For more about Thomson Safaris,read this blog post from 2018.</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk119977053"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk119977053"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
not at all less threatened Ngorongoro Conservation Area <o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119977053;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It doesn’t seem like there’s
anything that can be done to stop too many people – both good and bad - from
mixing up Loliondo and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This confusion is
sometimes <b>really damaging</b>. We must try to keep allies strong, with
correct understanding and arguments! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai already lost access
to over 14,000 km<sup>2</sup> when evicted from Serengeti in 1959 by the
colonial government, and as a compromise deal, they were guaranteed the right
to continue occupying the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a multiple
land-use area administered by the government, in which natural resources would
be conserved primarily for their interest, but with due regard for wildlife,
and in case of conflict the interest of the Maasai would take precedence. This
promise was not kept, and tourism revenue has turned into the paramount
interest, with restrictions for the Ngorongoro Maasai, which those in Loliondo
have not had to endure. The government’s aim is to via these restrictions make
them relocate “voluntarily”. Ngorongoro has become Tanzania top source of
tourism revenue and many wildlife numbers have increased, with the Maasai
living there, in their home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhk4tjWlm_MV65Jig1uqKXtzBCPLOzMPlR4b6_ZcqmD_n13sgEifv1NqlNNBxulaNpatuQZrWJXJeq05rHWP7AR1Oe0mZQm9zjvwb0C9fvsSt36r6CeqvX7QbNV8n3fU0nZMTiovk8nzzA5dCtXxbNFc2StA5esLEvaaCZ0SatyHyD3a4YjU0oegtUHbg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhk4tjWlm_MV65Jig1uqKXtzBCPLOzMPlR4b6_ZcqmD_n13sgEifv1NqlNNBxulaNpatuQZrWJXJeq05rHWP7AR1Oe0mZQm9zjvwb0C9fvsSt36r6CeqvX7QbNV8n3fU0nZMTiovk8nzzA5dCtXxbNFc2StA5esLEvaaCZ0SatyHyD3a4YjU0oegtUHbg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indepes sub-village, Ngorongoro Ward.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in the previous
blog post, in September, NCA rangers attacked and tortured several people,
among them Letee Ormunderei who was seriously injured and needed surgery for
which there was fundraising. Letee is doing well,<span style="color: red;"> </span>and
there are still plans to prosecute the ranger Abraham Akyoo who brutalized him.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A meeting was held on 12<sup>th</sup>
October between the government and Endulen Hospital in Ngorongoro Conservation
Area (owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Arusha). A representative of the
Diocese, Government representatives and Endulen hospital staff attended.
Reportedly, the church representative was invited to attend the meeting in
Endulen without having been told the agenda. The St. Luke parish father asked
the District Medical Officer to arrange another meeting which will involve the
hospital board and the government to discuss the matter<i>. </i>The church
ignored their wish the first time. The big issue is that 85% of the current
medical professionals are paid by the government after the hospital no longer
get aids from donors to run the hospital<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government’s plan to further
suffocate key life serving services downgrading the hospital to a clinic,
removing Xray and radiation services, relocating government employees and all
employees above the grade of nurse assistant, removing ambulance service,
delivery and mother and childcare and emergency facilities, while medical attendants
should not exceed two people. Reportedly, the plan is to demolish the whole
hospital in January 2023. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For decades the Maasai have
suffered restrictions, more and more purposefully designed to impoverish them
and force them out of Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In 1975, after a change in
the NCA Act in 1974, they were brutally evicted from residing in Ngorongoro
crater and all cultivation was prohibited. The cultivation ban was lifted in
1992, but brought back in 2009, after many <b>“grave concerns” by UNESCO and
IUCN</b>. Now not even the smallest kitchen garden is allowed, which together
with loss of access to grazing areas has led to malnutrition. They are not allowed
to build permanent houses and suffer all kinds of harassment by NCA rangers,
that want to restrict motorbikes, building materials, or demanding permits for
just anything, including demanding ID for the Maasai to pass Loduare gate, with
targeted harassment of perceived activists at the gate. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In recent years the threats
have accelerated, and 2022 has been worse than ever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a visit by PM Majaliwa
in December 2016 - the Maasai lost access to the three craters Ngorongoro,
Olmoti, and Empakaai, which has led the loss of 90% of grazing and water for
Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks
for livestock in these wards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, chief
conservator Freddy Manongi made public a Multiple Land Use Model review proposal,
which is so destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai livelihoods and
culture in Ngorongoro District. Only 18% of the expanded NCA would remain for
people and livestock. This genocidal zoning proposal included the annexation of
the now illegally demarcated areas in Loliondo that the horrible Pindi Chana
indeed illegally declared annexed on 28<sup>th</sup> September. The 2019 announcement
was followed by so many protest statements – by NCA Maasai - that I lost count,
while those in Loliondo almost pretended that nothing was happening. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjV7A1MA5XBXtOy6IJe8pGS9Lh6is3RDOrJ-VLYu3MVMb_4-x_x2GEqszv0a1_CdonmUM-d0fy3Ds2i7PTyDubbCs0uXhH7xhGCXWIHNIJNSk0t1J6lljTO9X0CmVuwu8gjWa4FT6zy0oDbzsIZzH1wSpURnTsLkaOOSZvTXh0BaA6j7Ltq3ACm5GNOdA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="320" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjV7A1MA5XBXtOy6IJe8pGS9Lh6is3RDOrJ-VLYu3MVMb_4-x_x2GEqszv0a1_CdonmUM-d0fy3Ds2i7PTyDubbCs0uXhH7xhGCXWIHNIJNSk0t1J6lljTO9X0CmVuwu8gjWa4FT6zy0oDbzsIZzH1wSpURnTsLkaOOSZvTXh0BaA6j7Ltq3ACm5GNOdA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after having come into
office in 2021, Samia Suluhu Hassan started bringing up the need to “save”
Ngorongoro from the Maasai, in an explicit way not used by any previous president.
A week after her first speech of this kind there was on 12<sup>th</sup> April 2021
a demolition orders for private houses, primary schools, dispensaries, a police
station, churches, and a mosque, which after protests was stopped until further
notice. Also in 2021, the NCAA headquarters were hastily relocated to Karatu, promotional
spectacles headed by the infamous chief conservator Manongi were held on parliamentary
grounds, and a clip was uploaded in which Manongi talks about a war that
pastoralists have many conspiracies and that conservationists must start cooking
their own conspiracies. NCAA rangers assaulted several herders in August and September
2021. Protests were brewing but were cut short when MP Olenasha passed away on
27<sup>th</sup> September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2022, the hate campaign
against the Maasai of Ngorongoro spiralled out of all control. I’ve covered it
with some detail in blog posts up until the brutal and illegal land demarcation
in Loliondo erupted and I was unable to keep up with everything. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2022 started with a leaked
plan for “voluntary” relocations of Ngorongoro Maasai to be finalized very
hurriedly before the end of February. In the plan the Kitwai and Handeni GCAs
are named as the areas for relocation and misleadingly described as protected
areas that will be declassified. Did the NCAA really believe this and were then
when on the ground in Msomera, Handeni, surprised to find a registered village
with its land use plan and bewildered villagers looking on as houses were
speedily being built for Ngorongoro Maasai? Arusha RC John Mongella was the
recommended overseer of the project. The plan recommended seeking permission to
use COVID-19 money allocated for the development projects to fund the eviction
of Ngorongoro Maasai - and then on 31<sup>st</sup> March DED Mhina sent letters
to Ngorongoro headteachers ordering them to transfer COVID-19 funds for
Ngorongoro schools to Handeni District council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyq0kIuZqWZ6wZCHkNbqPFa3bHnUDCNb80E5dIcbHoPOEJmsGxzPtfcOxPVDAuOn_lDFoQGxOTZ6OUwdNvQXrZ3fGC3qH7AwyhTXnTJEqrriMPHrB2PXQGsRk6RAdB1SJGvrSmKO5D-iQ67ZzooWm6wxWXItTZJqXiNnyB9NznphZ9QWQkj114iqJEMA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="718" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyq0kIuZqWZ6wZCHkNbqPFa3bHnUDCNb80E5dIcbHoPOEJmsGxzPtfcOxPVDAuOn_lDFoQGxOTZ6OUwdNvQXrZ3fGC3qH7AwyhTXnTJEqrriMPHrB2PXQGsRk6RAdB1SJGvrSmKO5D-iQ67ZzooWm6wxWXItTZJqXiNnyB9NznphZ9QWQkj114iqJEMA" width="185" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards late January 2022,
Habib Mchange’s Jamvi la Habari newspaper, that focuses on fabrications and
slander of opposition politicians, initiated a hate campaign against the Maasai
of NCA that spread all over regular and social media, was joined by crazed
sports presenters, Maulid Kitenge and friends. The old anti-Maasai Jamhuri
paper with Deusdatus Balile and Manyerere Jackton who in over 60 articles has
incited against the Maasai of Loliondo, soon joined in, and the “journalists”
started an organization with its sole focus on evicting the Maasai from
Ngorongoro - and were treated as serious actors by other media. Though many
Tanzanians in social media who had earlier not paid much attention to
Ngorongoro saw what was going on, were appalled, and started speaking up. On 13<sup>th</sup>
February, the new anti-Maasai organisation held a press conference sharing
crazed and dehumanizing theories about the Ngorongoro Maasai. The Darmpya
online news, asked questions, like how come the “allowances” for attending the
press conference were so extraordinary heavy, who funded it, and for what
purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD2bT9VfUwsCyqgIIcHZjAbU-wuZuWNtruTVLAQ-isDym7-Dp3qiA85XE-sjjPC_7oJ_4NYUW0pdlL17tYrpmPnQ5YPRuP0Yv71mmCYcQB5yu0CQrFlJ0kBKzIwOnpx0ORLyrfoHf6Ak-yO9xwtZSVyzwLG_TqLXf0KOCdvDYAbFpQTVM7UxpkUMm0gA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="937" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiD2bT9VfUwsCyqgIIcHZjAbU-wuZuWNtruTVLAQ-isDym7-Dp3qiA85XE-sjjPC_7oJ_4NYUW0pdlL17tYrpmPnQ5YPRuP0Yv71mmCYcQB5yu0CQrFlJ0kBKzIwOnpx0ORLyrfoHf6Ak-yO9xwtZSVyzwLG_TqLXf0KOCdvDYAbFpQTVM7UxpkUMm0gA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bungetz1/videos/549692425992173">9<sup>th</sup> February</a>,
MPs competed in being wilfully ignorant, hateful, and calling for evictions
from Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, the Mtwara MP screamed that tanks were needed,
there was much laughter and table banging, while only three MPs (all Maasai)
spoke up for the Maasai. The arguments, besides the old population panic,
ranged from dehumanizing colonial fantasies to crocodile tears about poverty
and backwardness, to lies that rich people not from Ngorongoro, but from town
or the neighbouring country, would own the livestock in NCA, to blaming Kenya
for being behind the anti-eviction resistance with the aim of sabotaging
tourism in Tanzania. Majaliwa said that the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act
would be reviewed, but first there was to be a seminar for the MPs and he would
meet with people in Ngorongoro and Loliondo. On 12<sup>th</sup> February a
one-sided “seminar” about Ngorongoro was held for the MPs who continued their
hateful and defamatory incitement against the Maasai. At this seminar, one
non-Maasai MP supported the Ngorongoro Maasai: Professor Kitila Mkumbo, MP for
Ubungo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA many people stopped
sleeping and started praying incessantly at combined prayer and protest
meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> February
Majaliwa held a brief agenda-driven meeting at the NCA hall, for leaders and
closed to the public. There was confusion and thorough registering of the
attendants. Two journalists were arrested and released later the same day. The
local people who were locked out stayed outside the hall singing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> March,
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja brought a caravan of 600 women in diesel guzzling
vehicles to Ngorongoro, to celebrate tourism, CCM, or supposedly International
Women’s Day. Meanwhile Maasai women climbed Mount Makarot to pray for their
land. In early June, a similar tasteless and reckless spectacle was held by the
CCM youth wing, UVCCM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> March in
Arusha, Majaliwa held a meeting with Maasai from other areas, without any
connection to Ngorongoro, led by the denounced fraudster Lekisongo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> March,
Majaliwa made a much-publicised visit to Msomera Village in Handeni where
houses were hurriedly being built to relocate Maasai from Ngorongoro, without
consulting them, and without consulting people from Msomera that’s a legally
registered village. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> March Damas
Ndumbaro, then still Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, met with
ambassadors to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and Loliondo, and his
ministry reported that the German ambassador supported the government’s efforts
in Ngorongoro, which has <b>still</b> not been publicly denied by any German
representative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2bXb6kh_HGV3jeU5DISO5dMS--BrUxX-0phPNMWvwgR-A7PAibPE6IVd5Fa7AvD7AfDrXqsObBi9jlcqcV5uTv60AOOO3mj1f4SfrB5nuraQc3DCU28o5EZ7dHyEv-Poem1QIM6IYXAGl0RcPa63KztywvDkO2Qs-70fArdMLu_OpKlZ0wwJB0qEwyQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2bXb6kh_HGV3jeU5DISO5dMS--BrUxX-0phPNMWvwgR-A7PAibPE6IVd5Fa7AvD7AfDrXqsObBi9jlcqcV5uTv60AOOO3mj1f4SfrB5nuraQc3DCU28o5EZ7dHyEv-Poem1QIM6IYXAGl0RcPa63KztywvDkO2Qs-70fArdMLu_OpKlZ0wwJB0qEwyQ" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> April, the
NCAA had found some real traitors to show off, unlike the previous imposters
from other places than Ngorongoro, even if long-gone people were still looking
for a compensation deal. And they are of course not traitors for wanting to
relocate, but for lending themselves to the dirty war against their own people.
Then several groups of in-authentic, compromised, or naïve Maasai have been
relocated to Msomera and much paraded in media. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> May, the
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues called on the government of
Tanzania to immediately cease efforts to evict the Maasai people from the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the president, at
Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition’s own 10-year anniversary, expressed
her displeasure with human rights defenders defending Ngorongoro Maasai and not
her genocidal plans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May 2022, a
60-member committee, handed over reports on community recommendations to PM
Majaliwa. There was one report on NCA and one on Loliondo and Sale. The report
writers weren’t shy to tell the truth and Majaliwa, who hardly have read the
reports, said that he would work on the recommendations. Majaliwa is known as a
dangerous liar, but dancing to his tune was seen as preferably anyway, when it
included the opportunity to report the truth. In Loliondo extreme violence and
land alienation followed, while restrictions and “voluntary” relocation to
Handeni continue in Ngorongoro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> October it
was two years since Salula Ngorisiolo was killed at Oloirobi polling station on
election day when NCA rangers and police opened fire at voters who were
protesting openly committed election fraud. No Ngorongoro leaders at all have
spoken up about this murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 12<sup>th</sup> October an
<a href="https://iprights.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/call-for-signatures-open-letter-to-the-president-of-tanzania-stop-human-rights-violations-against-maasai-land-defenders-2?catid=11&Itemid=102" target="_blank">open letter</a> about Loliondo signed by more than 76 organizations called on President
Samia to stop the unjust, illegitimate and discriminatory actions and to ensure
that Tanzania complies with its international human rights obligations
pertaining to the Maasai’s individual and collective right, and on 2<sup>nd</sup>
November, the Saami Councils <a href="https://www.saamicouncil.net/news-archive/saami-council-supports-maasai" target="_blank">demanded </a>that confiscated land is returned to the
Maasai and that detained Maasai leaders are released. But words are not enough.
Something tangible must be done to stop the blood-soaked Tanzanian government. How?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Uproot the brutally and
illegally planted beacons, shred the GNs to pieces, and punish every person
involved in violence and land theft in Loliondo, Sale and Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Updates:</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>24th November</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;">A clip of the emotional reception upon Metthew Siloma, councillor of Arash's return home was shared. Reportedly Siloma has said "something" about his sadness over the land, but I haven't seen any evidence. I've been told that all the other former abductee leaders are totally silent. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>25th November</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #800180;">After the government coming with fake and forced LUPs, signs for different land use areas are put up in a village - Ololosokwan - where the chairman is still in exile, Oriais Oleng'iyo still disappeared by security forces, and beacons marking massive illegal land alienation still standing. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;">Both the fake conservator for the fake and illegal protected area and the criminal DC have been talking about a WMA. I'd like to know exactly who has been corrupted. What I'm hearing is terrifying.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Plenty of untold abuse is going on, since there aren’t ANY leaders to speak up about anything at all and no journalists. <b>On 26<sup>th </sup>November</b> the 60 cows of mzee Sarkay Tiiyee were seized at the water point, outside the illegally demarcated area. He had 100 cows, but 40 had already died due to drought and theft of grazing land. It’s the rangers stationed at the Orng'oswa area that used to be part of Sanjan village in Malambo who are committing the crimes. I haven’t understood if they are FFU or NCA. <b>On 27<sup>th </sup>November </b>167 goats belonging to Kimani Taretoy Tiiye were seized. The criminals are demanding 60,000 TShs per goat when the current price for a goat is 30,000 TShs. The rangers had slaughtered 27 goats. They can do absolutely anything since there isn’t anyone to hold them accountable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(These crimes are committed by the new rangers.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">29<sup>th</sup> November</b>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">I was told by one of the 24, not a leader, but one of </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">those arrested to stop the flow of information, and then charged with murder, </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">that when tortured they were asked in what way I am helping.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">The very substantial Judicial Review Application was filed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2nd December</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Salangat Mako was summoned to the Officer Commanding </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">District suspected of obstructing the fake and forced land use plan for </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Ololosokwan, a plan that would mean accepting the brutally and illegally </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">demarcated fake “game reserve”. He’s locked up at Loliondo police station accused </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">of:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Cultivating near a water source.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Agitating people to stop the LUP.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Cultivating in an area where cultivation is forbidden</span>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">He’s been growing vegetables for years and it has been </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">appreciated by everyone. This is obviously more intimidation to stop anyone </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">from speaking up against the lawless and brutal land theft.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">#FreeSalangat #FreeSalangat #FreeSalangat</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">3rd December</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Salangat was released on bail "already" (by Loliondo standards these days) the following day and must present himself at the police again on 9th December. There's a terrible element of treason in this harassment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Saturday 3rd December Thomson Safaris staff were chasing away cows with the excuse that they were having tourists in camp. One cow belonging to mzee Olorgeso was killed when hit by a vehicle and they were beating children.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Terrible joint hunt for cattle from Arash ward, Ormanie and Mbuken villages. Serengeti rangers have 870 cows impounded in Eng’oswa in Serengeti National Park since 2<sup>nd</sup> December (!) and reportedly want to auction them off. In Ingarroi, in the fake and illegal “Pololeti game reserve”, 370 cattle are seized. I didn’t hear about this until 7<sup>th </sup>December.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Further reports mention 1694 cattle seized illegally in three villages in Arash ward and 870 in Serengeti National Park. The 870 cows have reportedly been taken to Mugumu for auctioning.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>14th December</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The worst day ever. The cattle at Eng'oswa - 1772 heads of cattle - were auctioned off. The owners had the previous day been threatened by the court that they'd get six different charges, like carrying arms in the national park ... Most were to intimidated to even claim their cattle! This could never have happened before the terror of this year. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">Livestock were lost 6 pm at Endepesi area in Ndutu seasonal pastures at Nasipoong' </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">village in Endulen ward. </span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">On December 15</b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">, the owners reported them missing and </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">found that their cows were seized into the park and held in Naabi Gate in Serengeti national park.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">SENAPA told them to go to the court to claim for their cows because they won't accept </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">fines. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">212 cows belonging to Ndulet Suyaan</span>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">83 cows and 14 donkeys belonging to Orkwary Nduitia</span>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt;">15th December</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reports of 1,500 cattle illegally seized in the Orkimbai area of Kirtalo. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These cattle were released after extortion "fines" were paid on <b>the 16th</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Charges against Salangat were dropped on <b>16th December</b> after the legitimate village chairman had returned. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b>17th December</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;">600 sheep belonging to Malee Risando Lekitony, brother of the Malambo village chairman, were seized almost inside his boma, not even in the illegally demarcated area. Since the lawlessness is complete, the owner made sure to pay 2 million TShs to get his sheep back.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>19th December</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">300+ cows belonging to four families, Parmwat, Parmware Reyia, Odinga Tome, and Maambuya Rotiken were seized today at Oloosek, Ololosokwan - in the fake and illegal game reserve brutally created in OBC's preferred area of the Loliondo hunting block - and taken to Klein’s gate. The demand to release the cattle is 100,000 TShs per head.</span>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The extortionate and illegal "fines" were paid on the 20th. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>20th December</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a ceremony with </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the human rights criminals Kassim Majaliwa and Pindi Chana German </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ambassador to Tanzania Hess handed over 51 vehicles that are part of € 20 </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Million (Approx.TZS 49.4 billion) committed funds by Germany for emergency </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">funding and recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID19 facilitated by KfW </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; white-space: pre-wrap;">and FZS. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; white-space: pre-wrap;">The vehicles will be distributed into Serengeti and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nyerere National Park and Selous Game Reserve and will have a great impact on </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">supporting “operations”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The following day, in a creepily gleeful way, the German Embassy tweeted that during the vehicle handover ceremony Chana announced that one rhino calf was named Majaliwa after Prime Minister Majaliwa and a second female calf Regine after Ambassador Hess, in appreciation of their efforts
in supporting conservation in Tanzania.</span>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">22nd December</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">400 cows from Arash, belonging to youths from the bomas of Sangok and Losekenja, were seized in village land that has been illegally declared a game reserve. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Christmas</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Eve</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The livestock owners wanted to inquire about the
procedure to get the cattle back and found that all the cows had been sold and
were being loaded onto trucks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></p></span></div></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-64991284392319164832022-10-02T17:58:00.039+02:002022-11-25T17:15:28.457+01:00Amidst Government Terror and Lawlessness, the East African Court Fails to Deliver Justice to the Maasai of Loliondo<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Update: On 1st November, </span><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 16px;">Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022 – a parallel case to the one filed in the EACJ to stop the fake and illegal Pololeti GCA - was mentioned in the high court and met with the information that the evil Samia Suluhu Hassan had on 14</span><sup style="color: #800180;">th</sup><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 16px;"> October declared the land as a “Pololeti Game Reserve”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">On 22nd November the DPP dropped the bogus murder case, and the new blog post is basically finished, except for some terrible uncertainties. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More updates at the end of this blog post, and a new post will be ready as soon as possible. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/11/loliondo-bogus-murder-case-dropped.html" target="_blank">NEW BLOG POST</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> September
2022 in Arusha, the East African Court of Justice delivered its ruling in
Reference No. 10 of 2017 Ololosokwan Village Council & 3 Others versus the
Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania. The case was so very clear
that it seemed impossible that the Maasai would not win, and the judges seemed
to have understood. Still, the ruling was <i>“dismissed for lack of merits”</i>. The
court argued that the applicant villages failed to prove that the mass arson
operation in 2017 was carried out on village land and not in Serengeti National
Park, as was the lie by the government (respondent) witnesses in 2018, after
the attorney general in the initial response from November 2017 had lied that the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> would have been declared a protected area, which is what
Minister Pindi Chana – <b>illegally</b> – did on 17<sup>th</sup> June <b>this
year</b>. The court seems not to have noticed this glaring discrepancy between
the attorney general (respondent) and the respondent’s witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1BxwdXvig5kxr2XXd6_AnuxRMn1na7EuebPrgpjRzAxZ7J_P1OMkXlH5dYriiI3Ai7y8YKQVwK67ku17j7B9X4Tjeaj8VCnAgkmK-d_HqFAw5HyXZ2YhbNU_wuEmeDT-fI-ZxTbwtZ-gEZHih2x4ojbQ2pRf9HvIUw1tuVaPKo5KP7kc_MzfpGVDQw/s960/map%20burned%20bomas.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1BxwdXvig5kxr2XXd6_AnuxRMn1na7EuebPrgpjRzAxZ7J_P1OMkXlH5dYriiI3Ai7y8YKQVwK67ku17j7B9X4Tjeaj8VCnAgkmK-d_HqFAw5HyXZ2YhbNU_wuEmeDT-fI-ZxTbwtZ-gEZHih2x4ojbQ2pRf9HvIUw1tuVaPKo5KP7kc_MzfpGVDQw/s320/map%20burned%20bomas.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TANAPA's map from the 2017 operation clearly shows that an overwhelming majority of bomas were illegally burned on village land.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The lawyer Joseph Moses
Oleshangay tweeted, <i>“The case has been dismissed. I believe the three
months’ time delay was meant to rewrite the decision. No other means can
explain more than 90 days delay.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference No.
10 of 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Illegal
annexation to Ngorongoro Conservation Area and recent violence there<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <span></span></o:p></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The date was first scheduled
for 22<sup>nd</sup> June 2022, but twelve days before that, the Tanzanian
government, in brutal contempt of court, violated interim orders (issued by the
court on 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018), after - except for one who fled - abducting
<b>all</b> councillors from affected wards (they are still locked up on bogus
“murder” charges), sent in heavily armed security forces that in clouds of
teargas and shooting live bullets started to demarcate as a protected area the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> of vitally important grazing land, which is what Otterlo
Business Corporation (OBC), that organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai,
for years has lobbied for. Then followed a violent hunt and arrests of those
suspected of sharing pictures of the attack. Thousands fled, many seeking
treatment for injuries, and many are still refugees across the border in Kenya.
Ministers and government officials kept landing in Loliondo, military style, to
pose with boundary beacons, tell lies, and issue threats. Mass arrests of
people deemed to be Kenyan followed. Houses were destroyed. Tanzania Wildlife
Authority (TAWA) rangers, while the dry season was deepening, started seizing
cattle on the illegally demarcated land, demanding extortionate “fines” from
the Maasai. In Ormanie on 27<sup>th</sup> June, TAWA rangers shot livestock to
death. The approximately 80 years old Oriais Oleng'iyo was last seen on 10<sup>th</sup>
June with bullet wounds and detained by the Field Force Unit. (See previous blog posts for more details about the current crime).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile, as they had already
been doing for months, government representatives, notably Minister Damas
Ndumbaro, were <a href="https://youtu.be/GMGMoQXWl6w" target="_blank">lying</a> to foreign diplomats that the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> hunting
block, the whole of Loliondo division and parts of Sale division of Ngorongoro
District, that’s legally registered village land and contains the district
headquarters, would somehow have been a protected area since the 1950s. They
lied that they are generously gifting the encroaching Maasai with 2,500km<sup>2</sup>,
and that the demarcation was “participatory”, which spineless diplomats
applauded, knowing that all ward councillors were illegally locked up in remand
prison. This violent and illegal demarcation is an even worse threat than the
mass arson of 2017, and the Tanzanian press is now more useless than ever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> September, the
day before the ruling was scheduled for the second time, at the inauguration of
the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) Board, Minister Pindi Chana
took her crime a step further and announced that the illegally demarcated
1,500km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo had been placed under the management of the NCAA. She also
stressed how important it is to boost tourism traffic to 5 million by 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> June, the
day before the ruling was first scheduled, the court shockingly announced that
due to “unavoidable circumstances” it had been postponed to September.
Eventually, the new date was set for 29<sup>th</sup> September, but on the 28<sup>th</sup>,
there was yet another last-minute postponement, this time to the 30<sup>th</sup>.
The postponements created suspicions that something wasn’t right at all and
when the ruling finally was to be read, the court ordered journalists to be
stopped from recording. The recording of an immediately preceding Burundian case
had been permitted, so it very much looked like the court was to do something
shameful with the Loliondo case. The journalist Odero Odoro spoke up against
the order by the court, which was surprisingly brave for a Tanzanian journalist
in this year 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reading of the ruling had
a good start asserting that the court has jurisdiction over the matter and that
it wasn’t necessary to first exhaust Tanzanian courts. Even better is that the
ruling establishes that it’s common ground between the parties that the
applicants are registered and certified villages with titles to land adjoining
Serengeti National Park. This is what a cavalcade of government
representatives, during the current brutal and illegal demarcation, madly
lying, are denying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The failure to deliver justice
is all based on that the court determines that the Maasai applicants failed to
prove that the 2017 evictions were carried out on village land and not in
Serengeti National Park, as testified by the respondent’s witnesses. The
testimonies are considered contradicting and insufficient – but nowhere does
the ruling mention that the attorney general in the response from November 2017
is, albeit in the misleading lingo of the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism, quite clearly saying that the evictions took place outside the
boundaries of the national park. Even the court’s own interim orders aren’t
referred to in any way. Injuries and losses are not addressed in the ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The court only considers the
testimonies of the Maasai witnesses that were cross-examined, while disregarding
several other witnesses who filed affidavits in court. The only thing the court
has to say about the Kenyan geospatial expert witness, Dr. Cesare Mbaria, is
that – without stating what law requires it – he did not possess a Tanzanian
work permit. This seems more like the style of a petty DC than of judges in the
EACJ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For five years now I’ve been
screaming that the perpetrators’ own documents show that the mass arson was
committed on village land. The court mentions that some witnesses say one thing
or other about the then DC Rashid Mfaume Taka’s notice, without referring
directly to this very official document. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The notice dated 5<sup>th</sup>
August 2017 orders livestock and housing to be removed from <i>“ndani na
mpakani mwa Hifadhi ya Taifa Serengeti”</i> (inside and bordering Serengeti
National Park) or they will be removed by force by the Ngorongoro and Serengeti
district security committees, and a special force from the national park and
NCA. There is only national park and then there is village land, so this is
very clearly an illegal order. </span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> August
2017, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism issued a <a href="https://www.mnrt.go.tz/index.php/highlights/view/zoezi-la-kuondoa-mifugo-na-makazi-ndani-ya-hifadhi-ya-serengeti-na-mpaka-wa" target="_blank">press statement</a>.
Quoting the DC, the statement says that the operation in Loliondo Game
Controlled Area is to take place on a 90 km stretch from north to south and
with a width of 5 km (obviously village land), <i>“kwa upande wa mpaka wa Pori
Tengefu Loliondo zoezi litaanzia kaskazini hadi kusini urefu wa kilometa 90, na
upana wake utakuwa kilometa 5”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the viciously anti-Loliondo Jamhuri
newspaper on 12<sup>th</sup> September 2017, the DC is quoted as saying that 89
bomas had been burned inside Serengeti National Park and 241 in the 5 km
“border area” (village land) and that GPS coordinates have been taken for all
of them.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlUjdG5NZRachn5321sydJYAcf20VIelT4hfvTAkFEEu2VZxOGdy_rkEyjHzy1tERbNbNbZw04oaHEqzIKPWmhAKxzmQtuqv2pQHOIQ4zlJ-WqFQsOxmtcnUZ9hMnFuWzV0dRw34zT2a0YTUKma39yx_Qsq5YzbbWDJ_B4qnZzG5AbDVlxg4hKlwjGmw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="943" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlUjdG5NZRachn5321sydJYAcf20VIelT4hfvTAkFEEu2VZxOGdy_rkEyjHzy1tERbNbNbZw04oaHEqzIKPWmhAKxzmQtuqv2pQHOIQ4zlJ-WqFQsOxmtcnUZ9hMnFuWzV0dRw34zT2a0YTUKma39yx_Qsq5YzbbWDJ_B4qnZzG5AbDVlxg4hKlwjGmw" width="291" /></a></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TANAPA’s map “Livestock and
Bomas Evacuation Exercise August 2017” very clearly shows that an overwhelming
majority of bomas were burned on village land. The minority inside the park
were in a somewhat disputed area where some Maasai had been living for years
under a special non-official arrangement with rangers. (See above).</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During the illegal mass arson
operation in 2017, then Minister Maghembe was <a href="https://youtu.be/uiNmoe1dn3w" target="_blank">all over media</a> with the map from OBC’s
rejected draft district land use plan from 2010, lying that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
had already been turned into a protected area – which is what was <b>illegally</b>
demarcated and gazetted on <b>17th June 2022</b>. Meanwhile, the DC was saying that PM
Majaliwa was still to decide on the area, while in no way trying to hide the
fact that the operation was taking place on village land. His version was to
claim that people were entering the national park “too easily” and apparently
this was seen as a valid reason for the invasion of village land and massive
human rights crimes.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Further, why would the
Ngorongoro DC order evictions from Serengeti National Park? The boundary
between the national park and village land is at the same time the boundary
between the Arusha and Mara regions, so why wasn’t it ordered by the DC of
Serengeti District or the RC of Mara Region?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The judges were Monica K.
Mugenyi (principal judge), Audace Ngiye, and Charles Nyachae. Kenyan Maasai
have alerted me that Nyachae's father <a href="https://maasaierc.org/the-mau-narok-case/" target="_blank">grabbed 10,000 acres</a> of strategic dry
season grazing land from Maasai in Kenya and was sued by a Maasai NGO. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The feeling of the Kenyan Maasai is that
Nyachae was the wrong person to adjudicate the case because he has had a legal
battled with Maasai over land that was illegally acquired and must have used
the case to get even with the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Justice Mugenyi was not present
at the reading of the ruling. It was presided by Nyachae, Ngiye, and the judges
Richard Muhumuza and Richard Wejuli, who didn’t mention their particulars. Wejuli
and Muhumuza never presided during the hearing of the case. Reportedly, there
was one more unknown judge. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCzDHJ9_MMyKWv1TctEeaPO4EszGhkqh9O6hQVCCDKBTFhcCZalV9Vgw9i4wcDrIi0Aynyus5dHIA287oEV27Q7dpzj3T01_okMEoEWLu87SCpEapLW-ZqRoocNZyb1SR4I6gdEwFXeOdIILFbLpx-z5jSt0ikf5yUW10zcCTM--I2qEKA4mLnjq6wRQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1080" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCzDHJ9_MMyKWv1TctEeaPO4EszGhkqh9O6hQVCCDKBTFhcCZalV9Vgw9i4wcDrIi0Aynyus5dHIA287oEV27Q7dpzj3T01_okMEoEWLu87SCpEapLW-ZqRoocNZyb1SR4I6gdEwFXeOdIILFbLpx-z5jSt0ikf5yUW10zcCTM--I2qEKA4mLnjq6wRQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The judges. Nyachae 2nd left.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since they could not risk being arrested, none of the village chairmen were present in court.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anyway, the ruling can only be
described as stupid and cruel, and the strange postponements stink terribly. The
most lenient interpretation is that a second chance has been served on a
platter for making a better job and win the appeal. Though this is a quite
callous treatment indeed of the traumatized and terrified Maasai. Still, I haven’t
heard one word opposing the appeal that is certain to be filed - as Advocate Esther Mnaro explained outside the court after the ruling. A new case
against the Tanzanian government for the current brutal crime with lawless
demarcation was also filed on 16<sup>th</sup> August.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">France 24, DW, BBC, The East
African, The Citizen, L’Osservatore Romano
and others quickly published news articles, obviously without reading the
ruling, painting an incorrect picture of that the court would have upheld the
land alienation, when the ruling was that the Maasai have not provided evidence
that it took place. Apparently, the misinformation comes from Agence
France-Presse. A <a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/east-african-court-justice-tanzanian-maasai-trample-human-rights?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=maasai&utm_id=maasai&utm_content=PR" target="_blank">statement</a> by the Oakland Institute concluded that, <i>“The court’s
failure to provide justice makes it imperative that the international community
exhausts every possible avenue to hold the Tanzanian government accountable.” </i><a href="https://www.lawyersofafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/20220930_PALU-Press-Release-on-Judgment-in-the-Loliondo-Case-1.pdf" target="_blank">Pan African Lawyers Union issued a press release</a> and tomorrow a press conference by the Kenya Human Rights
Commission and the Loliondo community will be held in Nairobi. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk115569985"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference
No. 10 of 2017<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk115569985;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk115432902"></a><a name="_Hlk115471663"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk115432902;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reference No.
10 of 2017 </span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk115432902;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ololosokwan
Village Council & 3 Others (Kirtalo, Oloirien and Arash Village Councils)
vs the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
was filed on 21<sup>st</sup> September 2017, during the illegal mass arson
operation on village land in Loliondo, officially ordered by then DC Rashid
Mfaume Taka. The applicants have been represented by a team of lawyers from Pan
African Lawyers Union (PALU), led by Don Deya and the human rights lawyers
Jebra Kambole and Yonas Masiaya Laiser.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A similar mass arson crime, in
which 7-year-old Nashipai Gume was lost and not found ever since, hundreds of
bomas burned, and livestock dispersed in a terrible drought, had been committed
in 2009, and for years it was thought that such an atrocity could never be repeated.
In 2011 the Maasai defeated a draft district land use plan, funded by OBC –
when it was strongly rejected by the Ngorongoro District Council since it had
proposed OBC’s wished for alienation for a protected area of their preferred
1,500 km2 hunting area that is vitally important grazing land to the Maasai. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The threat against the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> was in 2013 brought back by then Minister of Natural Resources
and Tourism Khamis Kagasheki via vociferous lies that the whole 4,000km<sup>2</sup>
hunting block (that includes two towns, district headquarters, hospitals,
forests, a private nature refuge fraudulently and violently claimed by <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>, and agricultural areas) was a protected area that had been encroached,
but that the government out of love would give the Maasai 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>.
This threat was stopped when the Maasai protests were joined by both opposition
and ruling party, and then PM Pinda declared the obvious, that the land was
undoubtedly village land and Kagasheki should stop his threats. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Divide and rule increased and
then repression in the ever-present local police state worsened. By 2016 local
leaders were so weakened through intimidation, including lengthy illegal
arrests, and malicious prosecution, that they sat in a select committee ordered
by PM Kassim Majaliwa via Arusha RC Mrisho Gambo, which agreed to a sad
compromise proposal that the Maasai had earlier been able to resist. While
waiting to hear from Majaliwa, the Maasai were attacked by the unexpected and
brutal illegal operation of 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> August
2017, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area rangers, assisted by OBC
rangers, TAWA/KDU anti-poaching squads, local police, and others set fire to
five bomas in Oloosek, on village land and far from the national park. The
illegal operation would go on for over two months and hundreds of bomas were
razed from Ololosokwan to Piyaya 90 km further south – most intensely between
13<sup>th</sup> and 26<sup>th</sup> August, but with scattered arson attacks
well into October - there were beatings, rape, illegal seizing of cattle, and
herders were illegally arrested. Village centres became congested with people
and animals. Those returning after the arson were brutally beaten by the
rangers who also destroyed makeshift shelters and blocked access to water
sources. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhV2LLVY27PlIKJ5VCkJ94Xy6QkOTC77fWklXimWJ61nTKXJcLE2wzWTYmZX_6m1f5tyW_0qe671NRQ0jxZj-XRYy_yEkZsgHmaNn7S2I8l_-Q4ZkY2LC8m741mf1E65Z3bUE2DFqG0yfpYgzz3LzEllg2mnWxKM418FIjZjaFeYzcTJasklFYXc8r8w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhV2LLVY27PlIKJ5VCkJ94Xy6QkOTC77fWklXimWJ61nTKXJcLE2wzWTYmZX_6m1f5tyW_0qe671NRQ0jxZj-XRYy_yEkZsgHmaNn7S2I8l_-Q4ZkY2LC8m741mf1E65Z3bUE2DFqG0yfpYgzz3LzEllg2mnWxKM418FIjZjaFeYzcTJasklFYXc8r8w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation of 2017
was stopped on 26<sup>th</sup> October, a few weeks after Maghembe, in a
cabinet reshuffle, was replaced by Kigwangalla who became an instant hero when
he not only stopped the crime but said that OBC would have to leave the country
before January 2018. However, OBC never showed any sign of leaving and on 6<sup>th</sup>
December 2017, PM Majaliwa declared that they were staying. He also announced
his decision which was terrifying, but so vague that nobody understood exactly
what it meant. The OBC-friendly press (the Jamhuri) was celebrating. A legal
bill was to be introduced to create a special authority to manage the land,
which was delayed, and a legal bill has still not been seen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government side
(Attorney General) had initially tried to stop the case in the East African
Court of Justice via a preliminary objection that the villages could not sue
the government, since they were part of this same government. <b>This objection
was dismissed by the court on 25<sup>th</sup> January 2018.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup> November
2017, the government side responded by lying that the area affected by the 2017
operation would already be the kind of protected area that was proposed in the
rejected 2010-2030 land use plan, and that OBC (and others) have continued
lobbying for, but this didn’t prevent them from at the hearing on 7<sup>th</sup>
June 2018 change their lie to claiming that the 2017 operation would only have
taken place inside Serengeti National Park. Not even the fact that the DC’s
order, the statement from the ministry, and TANAPA’s map all clearly showed
that village land was invaded could stop them from making up this lie. The
court requested applicants and respondent to produce expert witnesses that
could testify about the boundary of the national park.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The last week of May 2018,
efforts to derail the case moved on to an intimidation campaign against leaders
and common villagers in the villages that had sued the government. There were
multiple arrests and summons to the police station, and these illegal efforts
terrified and silenced everyone. Nobody dared to speak up about this abuse,
except Don Deya, the lead counsel of the applicant villages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The village chairmen were
summoned to the police station and questioned on why they sued the government,
on who gave them the authority to do so, and on whether they had the
unequivocal support of the villagers to sue. When they presented evidence in
the form of meeting minutes from the respective villages, they were accused of
having forged these. The chairmen of the villages of Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, and
Arash were arrested and released on the condition that they present themselves
at Loliondo police station every Friday, which effectively prevented them from
attending a hearing in Arusha on 7<sup>th</sup> June 2018. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>On 25<sup>th</sup> September
2018</b>, there was finally some good news when the court delivered its ruling on
Application No.15 of 2017, and issued interim orders restraining the respondent
from any evictions, burning of homesteads, or confiscating of cattle, and from
harassing or intimidating the applicants. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
injunction was soon brutally violated.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> In November
and December 2018 soldiers from a military camp that had been set up in
Olopolun in March the same year (and that was eventually made permanent) tortured
people, seized cattle and burned bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was, at
that time, the lowest point ever in the land rights struggle and I have still
not understood how it could happen without anyone at all speaking up. Local
leaders claimed to fear for their lives and thought that the brutality was
directly ordered by President Magufuli. <b>The applicants applied for a site
visit, which was dismissed by the court</b>. When RC Gambo in January 2019
condemned the crimes in a very vague way, the leaders changed to thinking that OBC’s
director had directly contracted the soldiers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In December 2018, the
witnesses from the government side – DC (at the time) Rashid Mfaume Taka, DED
Raphael Siumbu, park warden Julius Francis Musei, geographical information
system officer Alli Kassim Shakha, and sadly even wildlife officer Nganana
Mothi – swore affidavits claiming that the 2017 mass arson operation would only
have taken place in Serengeti National Park. This was quite outrageous perjury
when it was the DC himself who on 5<sup>th</sup> August 2017 issued the order
for the illegal invasion of village land and had been quoted about it both in a
statement from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and in the
OBC-loyal press. As said, a map from TANAPA, used by the attackers during the
operation, also clearly shows that most bomas were burned on village land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the EACJ on 5<sup>th</sup>
March 2019, the applicants had to ask for an adjournment, since they hadn’t
been able to find an expert witness in time. There was a postponement until 5<sup>th</sup>
November the same year when two villagers from Oloirien were cross-examined by
the state attorney and then the hearing was again postponed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2019 had started with more
illegal arrests for the sake of intimidation, but there were finally some
promising developments when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested on
economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was never
fired) their activities on the ground, but the local police state wasn’t dealt
with and after a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was out, and after a
while back to work. Speculations about Mollel’s misfortune include his clashes
of egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to send a message to
OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to Bernard Membe) that nobody is
untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which included the proposal
to annex most of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo and turn it into a
protected area allowing hunting was presented. This Multiple Land Use Model
review proposal was met with countless protests from every kind of group of
people from NCA, but near silence from Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> January 2020
the case was up again for hearing. This time the court granted the applicants
an adjournment, since they had to find a new geo-spatial expert after the expert
they had earlier found, a Tanzanian from Ngorongoro, was no longer able to
continue as expert witness, due to safety issues for himself and his family. A
Kenyan was found.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> July 2020, there
was a hearing for further cross examination via video conference, but it was
quickly adjourned, since the respondent’s counsel complained that they had not
been served the affidavit with annexures from the applicants’ geospatial
expert witness until the day before the hearing, and therefore wanted the court
to disregard this evidence. After much pleading by the applicants’ counsel the
court ruled that it would adjourn the matter to allow the respondent's counsel
time to go through the evidence and prepare for cross-examination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In August 2020, the new
geospatial expert from Kenya was cross-examined by the attorney general’s
lawyers that only had stupid questions about permits and how he had entered
Tanzania. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In November 2020, cross-examination
of the DC, and the perjuring park warden and geographic systems officer went
well – for the applicant Maasai – since their counsel was reportedly able to
poke some serious holes in them, which on the other hand can’t have been
difficult with such huge liars. After this, applicants and respondent were to
file written submissions, which was delayed in the most terrible way until July
2021. There have been several near-death moments when I’ve feared that the case
would be dismissed, which didn’t happen until this stupid ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> January
2022, the chairmen of Ololosokwan, John Pyando, Kirtalo, Yohana Toroge,
Oloirien, Parmaari Merika, and Arash, Mepuki Lemberwa, filed an urgent
application requesting the court to intervene issuing a stop order against the
Arusha RC John Mongella’s contempt of court shown on 11<sup>th</sup> January
when he, alleging the broader interest of the nation, threatened that the
government would alienate the contested 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of village land
bordering Serengeti National Park. Local leaders, even those who for years had
worked for OBC and against the people, refused to accompany the RC for a tour
of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup>
January in Oloirien there was a public protest meeting and a statement by
village, ward, and traditional leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxMs_JKLPMdyJHwFz_k4-baxafg1KQT9IEF_TiW1a7LOjWrGm6zxVYE-_exGi6bIEQWydHHadGgSpza1RSalA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also mentioned in the
application was the new DED Jumaa Mhina who in since September 2021 had been
threatening and intimidating the village chairmen into withdrawing the case
from the East African Court of Justice, and Damas Ndumbaro who then still was Minister
of Natural Resources and Tourism (now Minister of Constitutional and Legal
Affairs).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw-nC_sv8s9mxzmVURChCvM_SmNE2BlS0spulZrwfjdbSSAYPiqpfRerjKEhNJybDsCh-x7WNVDcXCFaIgTT49KoXqJZ4EY05PMLZm-hxlkabCRRyzACc7RA_fLQSkloVYUj6mm_Tc2nKfmOmrof40F8d0X387ZC5VVPMRxjJ7RYLi5ldw77_aiEcB4Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1054" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw-nC_sv8s9mxzmVURChCvM_SmNE2BlS0spulZrwfjdbSSAYPiqpfRerjKEhNJybDsCh-x7WNVDcXCFaIgTT49KoXqJZ4EY05PMLZm-hxlkabCRRyzACc7RA_fLQSkloVYUj6mm_Tc2nKfmOmrof40F8d0X387ZC5VVPMRxjJ7RYLi5ldw77_aiEcB4Q" width="228" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February, PM
Majaliwa visited Loliondo and wasn’t much better than Mongella, but too
well-received, since something worse was expected, because of an intense anti-Maasai
hate campaign in media, and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=549692425992173" target="_blank">parliamentarians</a> calling for tanks to be sent to
Ngorongoro. This campaign was mostly directed Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation
Area, which overshadowed the growing threat against Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in NCA, <b>not Loliondo</b>, Majaliwa ordered the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>
to be marked by beacons, “so that we may know the boundaries” – while claiming
that this was NOT a trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Minister Ndumbaro and PM
Majaliwa continued issuing threats. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the
land, among them the Arash ward councillor Methew Siloma spoke up very clearly
and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">PM Majaliwa is a liar.</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa can’t be trusted.</span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyx0SwHZFiKsjxMpN8tsFImM7ADUPe6BjwZ721CnOqXnFZvvBxB20jruh3iEw_xmMZIBxiSwmaVzrKuDC5z-A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31st March Abdulrahman
Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with Magufuli, and
is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and Sheikh
Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yR13xm_FwlY" width="320" youtube-src-id="yR13xm_FwlY"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM ruling party councillors
that had spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
were being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha.
The councillors of Arash and Malambo had to keep reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May a
committee handed over their reports of “community views” on both NCA and the
1,500 km2 in <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">Loliondo</a> to PM Majaliwa who said that he’s work on the
recommendations. Majaliwa wasn’t trusted at all, but at least this would give
the local leaders the opportunity to in print make clear that the land is
village land and under no circumstances will the Maasai participate in
demarcating any “protected area”. Further recommendations concerned the removal
of OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June,
Minister Pindi Chana in her <a href="https://www.maliasili.go.tz/uploads/HOTUBA_YA_WIZARA_YA_MALIASILI_NA_UTALII_2022-23_.pdf" target="_blank">budget speech</a> announced that her ministry expected
to upgrade Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but she did this while listing huge
areas of Tanzania for the same expectation, which didn’t make it sound
believable or realistic in any way, and there was hardly any reaction, except
for an intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then on 8<sup>th</sup> June
Wasso town was overflowing with security forces that went on to set up camps on
the 90km stretch from Ololosokwan to Piyaya, and in Malambo. The Maasai held
prayers and deliberations, and a coordinated threat with vicious propaganda was
communicated primarily by RC Mongella and PM Majaliwa. All councillors from
affected wards were abducted and illegal land demarcation began in a rain of
teargas and live bullets. Many were injured and thousands fled across the
border where many continue as refugees, also cattle, while the Kenyan spirit of
solidarity is diminishing. There was a hunt for anyone who could have shared
pictures of the crimes, and many were illegally arrested, eventually, together
with the councillors, charged with a bogus “murder”, and hearings keep being
postponed. The flow of information was almost completely cut. Government
representatives made military style visits. Minster Pindi Chana without
following any law or procedure gazetted the illegally demarcated land as
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area”. Diplomats applauded Minister Ndumbaro’s lies
about what was happening. Many international organisations condemned the government’s
actions. The much-expected court ruling was the last minute shockingly
postponed to September. Houses were demolished or razed. TAWA illegally seized
livestock and demanded extortionate “fines”. The dry season deepened without
access to the most important grazing area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> August an
affidavit was added to the contempt of court application from January, and on
16<sup>th</sup> August a new case in the East African Court of Justice was filed. The ruling in Reference No. 10 of 2017 will be appealed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Illegal
annexation to Ngorongoro Conservation Area and recent violence there<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> September,
at the inauguration of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) board,
Minister Pindi Chana <a href="https://youtu.be/Y9Ks06hbCMU" target="_blank">announced</a> that the illegally demarcated 1,500km<sup>2</sup>
had been placed under the management of the NCAA. Chana tasked the board to
come up with new tourism products for the area and stressed how important it is
to boost tourism traffic to 5 million by 2025. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There have been rumours about
this kind of annexation since at least January 2018, and in September 2019
there was a concrete threat in the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review
proposal. There were reports that on 6<sup>th</sup> August, a convoy of the
Arusha RC, TAWA, NCAA and deputy minister Mary Masanja were in Loliondo to hand
over the management of the fake and illegal protected area to the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority. Though nothing at all was publicly mentioned by
the MNRT or NCAA. The reason for the relative silence has been explained with
that not everyone in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism is pleased
with the annexation. Information is so scarce that it’s hard to say what’s
going on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To my frustration, it’s
basically impossible to stop people from mixing up Loliondo and NCA. It’s
particularly popular to claim that Maasai from Loliondo are being relocated to
Handeni. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">:
a local police state at the service of OBC and the American Thomson Safaris. A
constant threat – since June this year worse than ever – of robbing the Maasai
of 1,500km<sup>2</sup> of vitally important grazing land, expecting them and
their livestock to squeeze into the remaining land. Major illegal and extremely
violent eviction operations in 2009, 2017 and 2022. Vicious hate campaign by
the reporter Manyerere Jackton since around 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">:
harsh restrictions on every aspect of life under the rule of the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority and its chief conservator Freddy Manongi. Blocking
of funds for social services since 2021. Illegal transfer of COVID-19 funds to
Msomera in Handeni to where the Maasai are supposed to relocate “voluntarily”.
This year a vicious hate campaign in media and in parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since the atrocities in
Loliondo began in June, I’ve haven’t been able to keep up well with
developments in NCA. Several groups of not really local Maasai, traitors and
naïve people have been relocated to Handeni and there have been reports of
ranger violence in NCA:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the evening of 18<sup>th</sup>
September in Irbalbal, Letee Ormunderei was tortured by NCAA rangers who broke
his leg. The rangers dropped Letee at the Lutheran Hospital in Karatu, and he
was then referred to Mt. Meru, to where he didn’t have to means to go. There was
fundraising for him and Letee is now receiving treatment at Selian Hospital in
Arusha, has undergone one operation and is doing well. Next in the process is
to prosecute the criminal ranger Abraham Akyoo who brutalized Letee. The Maasai
demand his arrest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> September
in the Alayenai area, NCAA rangers attacked Nakedo Simango, Laambaashini
Orkitok, Lebatiri Kimaay, two Barabaig from Nainokanoka who had bought
livestock and one other person. Laambaashini Orkitok was injured by the
rangers. It’s reported that the rangers asked their victims if they had
registered to relocate to Handeni. Lebatiri Kimaay was ordered to crawl on his
stomach and jump like a frog. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are also reports that in
mid-September seasonal homes were arsoned in the Orbo area. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> June,
Reference No 29 of 2022 was filed in the East African Court of Justice suing
the government for all the abuse and eviction threats. The government responded
claiming to be acting on the wishes by UNESCO, but I have not yet got hold of
this response. It’s a well-documented fact that UNESCO for decades has
instigated the Tanzanian government to move the Maasai out of NCA and to worsen
living conditions, but this was denied by the organisation on 21<sup>st</sup>
March this year. In a blog post from <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/04/illegal-arrests-again-in-loliondo.html" target="_blank">7<sup>th</sup> April</a>, my recommendation to
UNESCO was: delist Ngorongoro as a World Heritage Site as soon as possible and
then shut forever up about Maasai land. Nothing has been heard from UNESCO
about Loliondo, but with this illegal annexation, they are very much involved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTLqB5YPjkesK4o7jjAANmDBU0VaSaSLNGVcaltpuPJHixVGaD7XCBEIv6Z5H-csijNrMtKEPSffrhhVNXlBENpec0oTrbyAyeLmYkAWtArzqvPJ5hOpDY-Ud27fPITl1KVjjgJMyV6tq05s5PxixckTg13tBpXipRLGK22VzpYHvAEJORj6TsdGR3uw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="796" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTLqB5YPjkesK4o7jjAANmDBU0VaSaSLNGVcaltpuPJHixVGaD7XCBEIv6Z5H-csijNrMtKEPSffrhhVNXlBENpec0oTrbyAyeLmYkAWtArzqvPJ5hOpDY-Ud27fPITl1KVjjgJMyV6tq05s5PxixckTg13tBpXipRLGK22VzpYHvAEJORj6TsdGR3uw" width="301" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I hope the hurry, limited
processing skills, sadness, and wish to keep this post about the frankly stupid
and stinking ruling in the EACJ as brief as clear as possible, hasn’t made me
omit any of the most important aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u-_ZtPh60so" width="320" youtube-src-id="u-_ZtPh60so"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mapambano yanaendelea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>Update 3rd October</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>NCAA have placed 120 security guards, trained by a company owned by Pasiansi Wildlife Training Institute in 6 camps on the invaded and illegally demarcated land. 40 more are being trained.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b><br /></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>5th October</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">25 calves were illegally seized in Malambo and 2.500.000 TShs were extorted, reportedly still by TAWA that will soon move to be replaced by NCAA.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>The Notice to Appeal was filed by Pan African Lawyers Union.</b></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>11th October</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>The bogus "murder" case was postponed again, now to 25th October.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">With the general cruelty and lawlessness, Thomson
Safaris (as I wrote about in the blog post from 31st August) are joining the
crimes. They have planted beacons demarcating their fraudulently and violently
claimed "nature refuge" and are now invading people’s farms and
lokeri with road construction. In Sukenya ole Musa is being invaded by this
ugly land grabber, and in Mondorosi, ole Nanyoi (Irmasiling) and ole Orgeso
(Enadooshoke) are under attack.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>12th October</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">A genocidal meeting was held between the government
and Endulen Hospital in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Arusha). <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">1 Suspending important health services from the
hospital and downgrading the hospital to a a simple clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">2 The downgraded Clinic should not be allowed to
provide services related to Xray radiation and ultrasound services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"> 3 Government
employees previously attached to Endulen Hospital by agreement should be
relocated to other health outside NCA include nurses, doctors, therapists and Xray radiation personnel <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">4 The downgraded Endulen Clinic is not allowed to have employees with
above nurse assistant and medical attendant qualifications. All other employees
to be relocated out of NCA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">5. Ambulance services should suspended. This should go
along suspended delivery services that include Mother and child care in
the downgraded Clinic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">6. Medical attendant should not exceed two persons. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">7. Emergency facilities should be suspended.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>13th October</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Some 200 cattle (probably 230) were seized on
illegally demarcated land in Malambo by TAWA rangers that demanded 23 million TShs as
their extortionate ransom fee. The money was found, but it's a bank holiday.
When will TAWA leave? </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>22nd October</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span>At the 73rd session of the </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in Banjul, the Tanzanian representative, deputy minister of constitutional and legal affairs Geophrey Mizengo Pinda, lied about Loliondo and Ngorongoro. Besides repeating the current lies, instead of the British and the 1950s, the government is now justifying its crime with that the Germans would have found Loliondo empty in 1891. The Maasai were also described as newcomers in NCA. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>23rd October</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">DC/criminal Raymond Mwangwala praised Thomson Safaris and their charitable/propaganda branch Focus on Tanzanian Communities for funding extensions to Sukenya dispensary with 331 million TZShs. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>25th October</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">Hearings in the bogus murder case were AGAIN postponed. Now to 8th November. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>28th October</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Various reports of a notice issued by the DC about
redrawing of village boundaries, and some 40 state security and surveyors on
the ground. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt;">1st November</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022 – a parallel case to
the one filed in the EACJ to stop the fake and illegal Pololeti GCA - was
mentioned in the high court and met with the information that the evil, evil
Samia Suluhu Hassan had on 14<sup>th</sup> October declared the land as a “Pololeti
Game Reserve”.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">In the extreme anti-Maasai newspaper the Jamhuri, a conservator for the fake and illegal game reserve – Pius Rwiza - spoke of how calm and wonderful everything is after the demarcation, with the big five and rain. This individual also announced further land alienation threats - via WMAs. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>4th November</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The Memorandum of Appeal was filed in the East African Court of Justice. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>8th November</b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The bogus murder case was postponed to 22nd November. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There was a hearing in Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of
2022. Apparently, Chana and the attorney general have responded, and I need to
get hold of their responses. The ruling on </span>whether<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> the applicants will be granted leave to go on with he judicial review is to be issued on the 15th. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">I finally got hold of the government response to Reference No.37 of 2022, filed by Fidelis Kapalata from the MNRT on 28<sup>th</sup>
September. I’m not so happy about this delay. As expected, Kapalata is lying
from start to finish. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">In Malambo the head of the NCAA camp announced that TAWA had left and the boundaries were being guarded by the Field Force Unit. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>11th November</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;">There was a hearing in Kampala on the contempt of court Application No.2 of 2022. The government has some stupid preliminary objections. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>12th November </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">The chairman of Malambo village, Moitiko Risando was
lured to a meeting, by someone from the DC's office. and arrested, falsely
accused of being in possession of arms without a permit.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The councillor is abducted since 5 months and the
chairman has been hiding in the bush. The government has installed the CCM ward
chairman, Mapema Koima, and secretary, Thobico John Kulinja, as some kind of
leaders above councillor to impose a criminal LUP on terrified villagers. The chairman was released a few dys later. Unclear why,</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Between 14th - 17th November the immigration cases, malicious prosecution, against 62 people were dismissed for lack of prosecution. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>22nd November</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The Director of Public Prosecution dropped the bogus murder case and the falsely accused are freed after over five months. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Then I got a message
from Ololosokwan:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">"Demarcation
starts today, there is a police car written FFU TANGA overseeing the process<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Being done as we
speak<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Cosmas is the
perpetrator."</span><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/11/loliondo-bogus-murder-case-dropped.html" target="_blank">NEW BLOG POST</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-27470695462859979752022-08-31T00:23:00.032+02:002022-10-06T20:14:41.458+02:00The Horror Continues in Loliondo and the Tanzanian Government Must be Stopped<p><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Update 30</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> September: I will as soon as
possible finish a blog post about today’s terrible ruling in the East African
Court of Justice. The court ruled that the applicants had failed to prove that
the mass arson operation in 2017 was carried out on village land and not in
Serengeti National Park as claimed by the government witnesses. This ruling,
besides a terrible blow, is stupid in many ways.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/10/amidst-government-terror-and.html" style="font-size: medium;" target="_blank"><b>NEW BLOG POST on 2nd October</b></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian
government’s dirty war against the Maasai in Loliondo, despite of significant support
from international organisations for the Maasai, goes on and on, and <b>sanctions</b>,
instead of just words, are needed. The brutal and lawless government – while violating
all laws and human rights, and hardly even pretending to follow any procedure –
is robbing the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of mostly less densely populated
grazing land - all of it legally registered village land - expecting them to
squeeze into the remaining 2,500 km<sup>2</sup> of the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo
hunting block where there are towns, agricultural areas, forests, a grabbed
“private nature refuge”, and other land occupation, while shamelessly lying
that this means that out of love they are “giving” the Maasai the 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>.
Government representatives even lie that this operation would be
“participatory” - when <b>ALL</b> councillors (except one who fled) from
affected wards were arrested the day before the illegal demarcation started and
continue locked up on trumped up charges. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Local leaders
that for the past years have shown weakness, and worse than weakness, have with
the new version of the threat against the 1,500km<sup>2</sup> this year made it
very publicly clear that giving away this land for a protected area in any form
is not an option. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For years,
this land alienation has been lobbied for by Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC)
that organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai. Now, after dissenting
views inside the government were killed, and the always present repression of
activism worsened during the Magufuli regime, the government of Samia Suluhu
Hassan has made tourism into state religion, while anti-Maasai hate speech in
the one-party parliament flouting on blood has reached <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bungetz1/videos/549692425992173" target="_blank">insane levels</a>. Unlike in
the past, the Maasai don’t have any allies at all in the government and less
than a handful in parliament, and there isn’t anyone around to stop a cultural
genocide, other than independent or opposition voices, when voices are not
enough. Flagrantly violating the injunction in the ongoing case in the East African
Court of Justice apparently doesn’t carry any consequences for the Tanzanian government.
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai
have been shot at, teargassed and beaten. Thousands have become refugees across
the border in Kenya and illegal arrests and malicious prosecution are used for
further intimidation. Houses have been demolished or razed. Tanzania Wildlife
Authority (TAWA) rangers keep seizing livestock on village land illegally
demarcated as a protected area and demanding extortionate fines for their
release. The threat is much worse than during the major illegal mass arson
operations in 2009 and 2017. And there are illegal beacons that must be
uprooted.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Where is
Oriais Oleng'iyo? Last seen injured and “accompanied” by security forces on 10<sup>th</sup>
June. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My delay in publishing
this blog post is unacceptable. So many crimes are being committed, but due to
a worse than ever coordination and lack of leadership getting confirmed information
is very hard. I fear there are many, many horrors that aren’t being reported in
any way. Like to blog post since the illegal demarcation started, updates will be added at the end. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal,
brutal and lawless land demarcation, and the government’s lies about it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Crimes
committed to uphold and benefit from the illegal protected area<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The bogus
murder case<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When will the
Germans be driven out of the Serengeti ecosystem?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thomson
Safaris – as always, OBC’s copycats in using the Loliondo police state<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Summary of
previous efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km2 in Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZMxduNh4Vn7cMdbVmQOw_uhD9IfbY4acbT2B8igYuoapcuxpgGrjET8KznteTGvf9KfaQqv9FRuLyBMC8-Sej21WnqPCqqMx8zpFOeYSWrmcbh9pPpL2GOawJupaAHUFRrNxc1FOXIw2BPWI3PrLIX_NLF0_XiH2Z-jRLy78InNgoYpIu22r_D77pg/s1172/illegal%20map.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1172" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZMxduNh4Vn7cMdbVmQOw_uhD9IfbY4acbT2B8igYuoapcuxpgGrjET8KznteTGvf9KfaQqv9FRuLyBMC8-Sej21WnqPCqqMx8zpFOeYSWrmcbh9pPpL2GOawJupaAHUFRrNxc1FOXIw2BPWI3PrLIX_NLF0_XiH2Z-jRLy78InNgoYpIu22r_D77pg/s320/illegal%20map.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NEVER share this without making clear how illegal it is!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Observe!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112412564"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This
blog post is about Loliondo and Sale Divisions, <b>not</b> to be mixed up with
Ngorongoro Division (NCA), even if the issues are closely related. Nobody from
Loliondo is moving to Handeni. Those so-called “voluntary” relocations are
about Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) where the Maasai are victims of
unreasonable restrictions, since last year blocking of funds for social
services, and illegal transfer of COVID-19 funds for Ngorongoro schools to Handeni.
I must soon get back to reporting about NCA, but currently I can’t even keep up
with the massive human rights crimes in Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></i></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112412564;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112412564;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
illegal, brutal and lawless land demarcation, and the government’s lies about
it<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112412564;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that on 8<sup>th</sup>
June 2022, vehicles from the anti-riot Field Force Unit (FFU) had gathered in
Wasso town in Loliondo and set out to set up camp along the 90-kilometre
stretch from north to south in western Loliondo and Sale divisions and in an
area somewhat more to the east, in the extreme south in Malambo ward. They were
accompanied by Tanzania Wildlife Authority (TAWA) rangers, soldiers from the
national army (JWTZ) that since 2018 have been stationed near Wasso, local
police, rangers from Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area,
OBC rangers, and non-identified vehicles. The main implementors of the brutal
and lawless operation that would unfold are the FFU and TAWA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai gathered in several
places to pray and to determine what action to take. Information surfaced that
on 2<sup>nd</sup> and 6<sup>th</sup> June, the Regional and District Security
Committees held closed-door meetings in Arusha and Karatu. In connection with
this, Arusha RC John Mongella filmed a <a href="https://youtu.be/_HQmCTLDgn4" target="_blank">clip</a> “explaining” the operation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mongella’s clip was shared all
over regular and social media on the 8<sup>th</sup>. The message was a rehash
of Khamis Kagasheki’s old lie from 2013 that the whole 4,000km<sup>2</sup>
hunting block (<b>all of it legally registered village land</b>) was a
“protected area” that had been “encroached” and that the government out of love
for its people was giving the Maasai 2,500km<sup>2</sup>, when the actual plan is
to fulfil what OBC had been lobbying for – <b>to rob the Maasai of the 1,500km<sup>2</sup>
of vitally important grazing land</b>. This deeply malicious and shameless lie
was stopped by PM Mizengo Pinda in 2013, when he confessed that the land
without any doubt was village land. Since then, the lie has been repeated by
some individuals, like Jumanne Maghembe in 2017, and Damas Ndumbaro earlier
this year, but on 8<sup>th</sup> June, the whole government had decided on
using it again to “explain” the massive crimes that were to take place. To pile
one monumental lie upon another, Mongella added that the decision had been
“participatory”! Since he first appeared in Loliondo in January to announce
hard decisions for “the wider interest of the nation” it had been made clear to
him that nobody would participate in such self-annihilation. And the latest
“participatory” interaction was when PM Kassim Majaliwa on 25<sup>th</sup> May,
was handed <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">“community recommendations”</a> that he had asked for and said that he
would “work on the recommendations”. These recommendations made it very clear
that the land is village land and under no circumstances will the local Maasai
participate in demarcating any “protected area”. Further recommendations
concerned the removal of OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai continued holding
meetings and prayers on 9<sup>th</sup> June, and their worst fears were confirmed
when heavily armed FFU officers interrupted the meetings to inform them that
they had come to demarcate a “game reserve” on 1,500km<sup>2</sup> of village
land. Pictures and video clips from these meetings, taken from grass level of
the interrupting FFU officers, were shared in social media, and in Kirtalo
women with pangas and men with bows and arrows made a video clip as a message
to show that they were ready to die for their land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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June, </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">all councillors</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> from wards affected by the planned illegal
demarcation – except the Soitsambu councillor who fled the DC’s trap instead of
attending - were after a CCM meeting and then interrogation, first by the
District Security Committee and then a special task force that had arrived,
arrested or more exactly abducted, and held incommunicado until the 16</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
when they were charged with “murder”. This says </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">a lot</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> about how
“participatory” the operation is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At night the illegal planting
of concrete boundary beacons began. In Ololosokwan, the beacons were uprooted by
the Maasai who stayed around until the morning of the 10<sup>th</sup> when the
FFU attacked with teargas and live bullets, seriously injuring at least 31
people. They crossed the border into Kenya for treatment and so did many who
were fleeing the violence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzVioe_JLl8On0YwwtgWxC_ptRg9vee1br0Q0-hD6jVm6QKNBvv_sS7z8N0CtdwxlpniDkCTNCiq4IpNIsScQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The attacks were unusually
well-documented with many pictures of the injuries, and a clip showing how
teargas was used and bullets fired. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjbSTOdC4OH4PVI5Bc81BrBPMOyap76Uc9-PMmc_mfrFvz5h0dSQjkN0DA_QIhAjycZswNJa9cq6mL4D6bviT1jUUWazpfyF6dtcE1dhk2e-yJgMOXvkeZQ8d3jzXvVZrKm-QHDW8YwTswFz-16vOf9aS58GjzfXpoyXab-8NNrJA_AhzTbAeM9KLHAA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjbSTOdC4OH4PVI5Bc81BrBPMOyap76Uc9-PMmc_mfrFvz5h0dSQjkN0DA_QIhAjycZswNJa9cq6mL4D6bviT1jUUWazpfyF6dtcE1dhk2e-yJgMOXvkeZQ8d3jzXvVZrKm-QHDW8YwTswFz-16vOf9aS58GjzfXpoyXab-8NNrJA_AhzTbAeM9KLHAA" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRQs4FOEKKYtMcw6dvkbUVTDpq6ln0Vo6ARF7d2Y126TO5kcfA0yt-T8xt-clD1-kMcPUikIrlVdbhXsI-XRRwsUb50TeDxxXh7mPLVb4VQm-R2Mm6HBnZbRAIW3ruE_R43NyBhX_CDQ04cKoGRl9SCTtmiPJR1BLkvJ1M5J77gJc-6VF9UrAW3HBWRw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRQs4FOEKKYtMcw6dvkbUVTDpq6ln0Vo6ARF7d2Y126TO5kcfA0yt-T8xt-clD1-kMcPUikIrlVdbhXsI-XRRwsUb50TeDxxXh7mPLVb4VQm-R2Mm6HBnZbRAIW3ruE_R43NyBhX_CDQ04cKoGRl9SCTtmiPJR1BLkvJ1M5J77gJc-6VF9UrAW3HBWRw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCjaVdKezSE0aFaDC3YPtP-xSmaQ2gWApbeyOl133u6q0gQ_eL9tE9OxsTsoD2A3Vvwb85yXdh6wKXsybtATVAMleLJ5m3tiATJxK9b-73HNmqlfTmayONn97u0byxYqdCV8RTNzlbpfXZqCOVmJ3zHPm1Zsa1TYoqPuRH9HUP6T6fKw1vpT30YYkeLw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCjaVdKezSE0aFaDC3YPtP-xSmaQ2gWApbeyOl133u6q0gQ_eL9tE9OxsTsoD2A3Vvwb85yXdh6wKXsybtATVAMleLJ5m3tiATJxK9b-73HNmqlfTmayONn97u0byxYqdCV8RTNzlbpfXZqCOVmJ3zHPm1Zsa1TYoqPuRH9HUP6T6fKw1vpT30YYkeLw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
approximately 80 years old <a name="_Hlk111736135">Oriais Oleng'iyo </a>was
last seen on 10<sup>th</sup> June with bullet wounds and detained by the FFU. Where
is he? A habeas corpus was filed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were reports that a FFU
officer had been killed in the confrontations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same day, 10<sup>th</sup>
June, <a href="https://youtu.be/ShaL-GnvT1E" target="_blank">PM Kassim Majaliwa</a> (known for his glowing reports on Magufuli’s health
when the late president was probably already dead, and for otherwise <b>lying
all the time</b>) claimed that beacons were being placed to protect the
environment and that the local Maasai would “not be affected”. He warned people
of ill will who are spreading a video with false information, referring to the
clip from Kirtalo, saying that the Maasai weren’t pointing their arrows at any
police, that there wasn’t any confrontation, while missing the point that it
was a message sent to himself. Majaliwa further lied that the land that was to
be demarcated was “far from the villages”. Since he was speaking in Swahili,
I’m not sure who he was trying to mislead. The parliamentarians could hardly
have been unfamiliar with the definition of a Tanzanian village, especially a
village in a pastoralist area. I suppose he was planting the lie for everyone
to tell when addressing foreigners concerned about the human rights crime –
lying that the Maasai are just fine squeezed into village centres with their
cattle. Sadly, some outsiders, <b>not least diplomats</b>, seem to enjoy being
told this kind of lie. Speaker Tulia Ackson, said that the government had
explained the operation, that those spreading false information would be dealt with,
and that Tanzania is in an economic war with other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> June, RC
Mongella arrived in Loliondo with the regional security committee to repeat the
shameless <b>lie</b> that stealing 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> is giving away 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>.
He said that the illegal operation was going just fine, while confirming that
one FFU officer was the previous day killed by arrowshot. There has of course
not been any independent investigation, but if that’s how this policeman died,
the unknown archer was defending his home and his land against very dangerous
invaders. Then Mongella posed in photos planting illegal beacons. He was
followed by a row of government officials making <b>statements from the warfront
against the Maasai</b>, repeating the same lies, issuing threats and posing
with illegal beacons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkFcHVHc9eRYCToTvRKcKClJEBIkOqXEfj3nQT9rRxDf7ncQUs51E4LXb_F4YtfUTOX4AN5RcSwkZSuWSGJEnuVo7GsjxXDbTVxsdIqmKmxDe0OEOElpP9dxE5Th_LUs1xBAGvXmmVYqfBBuXND2k02On0IaoHgFlYMA3jGNzPTW4WxbMWcuZ6E6-92g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkFcHVHc9eRYCToTvRKcKClJEBIkOqXEfj3nQT9rRxDf7ncQUs51E4LXb_F4YtfUTOX4AN5RcSwkZSuWSGJEnuVo7GsjxXDbTVxsdIqmKmxDe0OEOElpP9dxE5Th_LUs1xBAGvXmmVYqfBBuXND2k02On0IaoHgFlYMA3jGNzPTW4WxbMWcuZ6E6-92g" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> June, at
night the FFU fired shots in all directions in Mairowa in Ololosokwan, outside
the area that was being illegally demarcated. Houses were searched and people
were beaten. The hunt was for those who had participated in protests and those
who had shared photos of the government’s violent crimes. Many ran away into
the bush to hide, and many children were lost in the chaos (and later found).
More people fled to Kenya. Some were arrested, accused of having reported and
shared pictures. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reporting
and sharing of pictures became much scarcer, maybe because of the general
terror, that the hunt was specifically for those sharing pictures, and because
so many people had become refugees in Narok.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> The illegal
planting of beacons, in clouds of teargas accompanied by live bullets continued
on the 12<sup>th</sup> , in Ololosokwan and elsewhere. In Malambo Parit Nchorro
Makesen (I’ve only got his name now, after spending over two months asking for
it) was killed when hit by a FFU vehicle. In the Oltulelei area of Maaloni,
people were arrested and beaten, and the FFU set fire to motorbikes. The destruction
of motorbikes has been a constant in earlier illegal operations and has
continued in several locations during this brutal and illegal demarcation. The
FFU opened fire at the market in Oltulelei on 15<sup>th</sup> June, causing
fear and panic. In Malambo as well were they firing shots into the air, and
they beat up a motorbike rider whom they thought was following them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 12<sup>th</sup> June, at
the funeral of the FFU officer, Ngorongoro DC, Raymond Mwangwala, <a href="https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/swoop-nets-ten-suspects-after-police-officer-dies" target="_blank">told media</a>
that those talking online, instigating things that aren't true, will be found
wherever they are. Head of police operations, Liberatus Sabas, declared that
anyone involved in the killing of the police who died from arrowshot will be
hunted down day and night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> June, MP
Emmanuel Oleshangai confirmed that at least 31 people had been seriously injured
in the demarcation exercise on village land, and that they are being treated in
Kenya after being denied treatment in Tanzania for lacking the required PF3
form. He explained that the injured were his voters and not Kenyans. Further,
the MP demanded the release of the detained leaders, and made it clear that the
operation is most definitely not "participatory" since <b>even he had
not been informed, despite sitting in the same parliament as the Minister of
Natural Resources and Tourism</b>. The following day, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">he was summoned to the police,
questioned and released.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo on 13<sup>th</sup>
June, Inspector General of Police, Simon Sirro (now ambassador to Zimbabwe) made his contribution to the
illegal demarcation, accompanied by RC Mongella. Sirro too said that the
demarcation operation was going just fine, but there are some people,
politicians included, who are stirring things up, using the Maasai for their
own benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpHljkwry4zwUVe8Go07230cbGTpgoLFLKCO2UHDVgjZojP7bEvgwHOKVZlOTFuVZIQOKZpFJMwnrzrtcD6HRyoTveOd5v74LQQgyDu6CyTQP2IAsnkvCF9TctjjNIoVPVm_VXqI450kcoCQSGQMa5iyxxhu3rmWNBdXitjl_ZoryLKkb0sNemckZ_uw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpHljkwry4zwUVe8Go07230cbGTpgoLFLKCO2UHDVgjZojP7bEvgwHOKVZlOTFuVZIQOKZpFJMwnrzrtcD6HRyoTveOd5v74LQQgyDu6CyTQP2IAsnkvCF9TctjjNIoVPVm_VXqI450kcoCQSGQMa5iyxxhu3rmWNBdXitjl_ZoryLKkb0sNemckZ_uw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sirro with illegal beacon.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgM78kikrZUYr37rzXRNQxGkb8gYCTpZqhy_amV-hstVVLBx2lKRVLAImyA7FPheqV3PAfOYLbVnCsKtN8OldJs1HNJ5KDmEaSjR865F2nt37OSQMRvMwkG9HctTZHc9-FsI5r-cOtumg-aGnA2oqNM4q4-hTPKPT_ZCgfoRcXio147p272nK1qobglQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgM78kikrZUYr37rzXRNQxGkb8gYCTpZqhy_amV-hstVVLBx2lKRVLAImyA7FPheqV3PAfOYLbVnCsKtN8OldJs1HNJ5KDmEaSjR865F2nt37OSQMRvMwkG9HctTZHc9-FsI5r-cOtumg-aGnA2oqNM4q4-hTPKPT_ZCgfoRcXio147p272nK1qobglQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sirro with land demarcation workers.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> June, the
Minister of Home Affairs, Hamad Masauni, arrived in military helicopter to make
a statement directing Immigration to strengthen border security to prevent
illegal entry by foreigners and so avoid incitement activities. He also ordered
NGOs to be investigated to make sure they operate within the law and don’t
engage in breach of peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Immigration Commissioner for
Border Control and Administration,<a href="https://youtu.be/IBskVe03x1A" target="_blank"> Samwel Mahirane</a>, arrived in Loliondo on 18<sup>th</sup>
June to, like all government officials, pose with beacons, and threaten people
who are sabotaging the exercise and have fled. He said they are known and will
all be dealt with. Then he threw in some threats against NGOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also on 15<sup>th</sup> June,
Deputy Permanent Representative to the Tanzania Mission to the UN in Geneva,
Hoyce Temu, in a widely shared clip, denied any state violence, repeating the
government lie about a “protected area” that had been “encroached” and about “peaceful
talks” with local residents that agreed with the government “keeping” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1,500 km<sup>2</sup> as a protected area, that
a minority against the exercise made recordings while posing threateningly and
combined this with unrelated pictures, that the government has called on anyone
alleging to have been attacked to come forward for the law to take its course
and for treatment, but that nobody has come forward. <b>The ambassador will
block absolutely everyone who in social media confronts her about her hideous
lies and involvement in this crime. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzqa-Zd69Z_AMHUXR1Db0Xxbp3CfTCr77eby8uDTR7mEGHPb6u0YkrXdaKDBvXRwYbfblDnCBJhIwJgdjdXJg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Never forgive, never forget. </span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kenyan Maasai held solidarity
demonstrations in Nairobi and Namanga. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixkibiw-q1vFVanGwidtotco9G6EjLk97eWYCITBxzjZqd5moXRJaymiaDipgMMrz1S3AfTT6uKSUK03cHoDq6kJyuwy5CCjB82Gdg59lacJmmUHW8NAPqJp7TWfSrlRrlu4DsUNw33aqp5bZM7oCZnenysZqkT23U7EJuxhKcjonoZl4ma1dGFdIW_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixkibiw-q1vFVanGwidtotco9G6EjLk97eWYCITBxzjZqd5moXRJaymiaDipgMMrz1S3AfTT6uKSUK03cHoDq6kJyuwy5CCjB82Gdg59lacJmmUHW8NAPqJp7TWfSrlRrlu4DsUNw33aqp5bZM7oCZnenysZqkT23U7EJuxhKcjonoZl4ma1dGFdIW_w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> June, the
Tanzanian government organized its own demonstration using supposed Maasai
without any relation to Loliondo, or Ngorongoro, to demonstrate outside the
Kenyan high commission <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Dar es Salaam
thanking the government for dividing Loliondo so that the Maasai have a place
to live(!), and accusing Kenyans and NGOs of inciting conflict. Later it was
found that people had been told that 150 Maasai were needed to go and sing for
some white people at Dar Free Market Mall and would get 20,000 shillings each.
Some Parakuyo Maasai gathered, but most fled when they saw what was being
cooked. Authentic Maasai youths in Dar es Salaam issued a <a href="https://youtu.be/oAK2mo5_beM" target="_blank">statement </a>to denounce
the fake demonstration, which was not covered by any of the regular press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipteBrpuopOj2g_H__pnJAZLWWSHDSMy1Ojg-n8JyYPJpdy25mw0AZpMpdXI5a1Bke1EgYJenNDMP1a_NPq-7uwLiAJOkZbgc67eMf0QkeU5YiNXWKszRKtaTiNjx9J0QmtGGpxTESIvEdWOQtnDOnOps3SFZuXL4s-B7WIVNm_tJbs4CDz8it3gMb6g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="565" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipteBrpuopOj2g_H__pnJAZLWWSHDSMy1Ojg-n8JyYPJpdy25mw0AZpMpdXI5a1Bke1EgYJenNDMP1a_NPq-7uwLiAJOkZbgc67eMf0QkeU5YiNXWKszRKtaTiNjx9J0QmtGGpxTESIvEdWOQtnDOnOps3SFZuXL4s-B7WIVNm_tJbs4CDz8it3gMb6g" width="297" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOlOqtE11zd7_qm8HwlnfvC9amdERgj-6KLzmlHtktcvDsfiicOrU7DWAJgrWIbgxNbS8pidaVCbaqb9fE1C7rkMxlYVqsKNIphW7sVVV85C7f8cml_6tdz6wLTYiYZTED9THu_Axm3GYgb6FZ_6eczkLyURb6ZC9n1l1hnUDRhLKmtMa8KnfjzFXfsQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="720" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOlOqtE11zd7_qm8HwlnfvC9amdERgj-6KLzmlHtktcvDsfiicOrU7DWAJgrWIbgxNbS8pidaVCbaqb9fE1C7rkMxlYVqsKNIphW7sVVV85C7f8cml_6tdz6wLTYiYZTED9THu_Axm3GYgb6FZ_6eczkLyURb6ZC9n1l1hnUDRhLKmtMa8KnfjzFXfsQ" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned before, Deputy
Minister Mary Masanja, Minister of Constitution and Legal Affairs Damas Ndumbaro,
Director of Wildlife, Maurus Msuha, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Liberata Mulamula
on 21<sup>st</sup> June, stood in front of spineless diplomats telling their
blood-soaked, easy to debunk, lies about Loliondo, and about Ngorongoro
Conservation Area. In a <a href="https://youtu.be/GMGMoQXWl6w" target="_blank">clip </a>shared by the Tanzanian government, Ndumbaro
totally manipulates the diplomats (not shown but heard) making them stand up in
silence for the slain FFU officer, clap, and giggle. He lectures them that
there aren’t any indigenous people in Tanzania, that nobody owns land, and that
human rights aren’t the same in Africa as in Europe, since there are “human and
people’s rights”, which would logically mean more rights, but to Ndumbaro it
justifies human rights crimes. He talks about a conflict between environmental
interests and grazing, when it’s obvious that if had the Maasai used their land
in some other way, less compatible with wildlife, they would not now be
suffering all this abuse. Ndumbaro shamelessly directs himself to the British
high commissioner, thanking the British for having made Loliondo into a
protected area that lasts until today – which is <b>the big lie</b> – and the
diplomats just laugh and clap. Though maybe this time they had asked not to
feature in photos, to avoid situations like in March, when the Ministry of
Natural Resources and Tourism declared that the German ambassador supported
their “efforts” in Ngorongoro (still not publicly denied by the ambassador).
The ministry did however show off the UAE ambassador, and the following day the
French ambassador lent himself to a most deplorable spectacle (see below).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGXHSklLOQdwSRFTdHR01MEHgXQ-iise0oYIo03COJoSG1GFN3Y8cdjKtyd_XatqdYkdtx8WTmBVSHfQx3pdr3ba4g0p7PNN6DKdqDP8W0vLrh26Q4NyFuOpqNOeIZRpHIPy6aIwySvVVc8bszSCkzBY0uPUj2WG0XgnS-w6ki_OqV1FI39j07yLQW5A" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="615" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGXHSklLOQdwSRFTdHR01MEHgXQ-iise0oYIo03COJoSG1GFN3Y8cdjKtyd_XatqdYkdtx8WTmBVSHfQx3pdr3ba4g0p7PNN6DKdqDP8W0vLrh26Q4NyFuOpqNOeIZRpHIPy6aIwySvVVc8bszSCkzBY0uPUj2WG0XgnS-w6ki_OqV1FI39j07yLQW5A" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Mary Masanja, Minister of Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Damas Ndumbaro and UAE ambassador Khalifa Abdul Rahman
Al Marzouqi</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-8YfIOt30f5iTdpP-qjhxKQvo8r4hKbHWowzQp1P1Xgx-Uf8ist1mKer3k6sbO3JYGjqJdf3-ChhENbodVGqaf-nCXkQmhV9Ij1_VZy9DHrKPgS1Qjhpkirg36rKNSzljgYRpx3U5JogMhstvvnBn5SMXm3YDctXCrRxZaGgb8ifTLjlnoZIV9AnBXA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1375" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-8YfIOt30f5iTdpP-qjhxKQvo8r4hKbHWowzQp1P1Xgx-Uf8ist1mKer3k6sbO3JYGjqJdf3-ChhENbodVGqaf-nCXkQmhV9Ij1_VZy9DHrKPgS1Qjhpkirg36rKNSzljgYRpx3U5JogMhstvvnBn5SMXm3YDctXCrRxZaGgb8ifTLjlnoZIV9AnBXA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Masanja explained how OBC win the auction for the hunting block every year.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 21</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> June there
were shocking news from the East African Court of Justice. The ruling in the
case filed by four villages during the illegal mass arson in 2017 that was set
for the following day, 22</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> June, had due to “unavoidable
circumstances” been postponed to September. On 25</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> September 2018, the
court had issued an injunction restraining the government from evictions,
destruction and harassment of the applicants, while the case continues – and
this injunction is being violated to some extreme extent.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a <a href="https://youtu.be/EMFlYbmaVfg" target="_blank">Zoom meeting</a> on 22<sup>nd</sup>
June, in which government representatives kept repeating the same lies,
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Pindi Chana, claimed to on 17<sup>th</sup>
June having gazetted the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a “Pololeti Game Controlled
Area” – after a week of war against the Maasai, with local leaders illegally
arrested, charged with murder for a death the day <b>after</b> they were
arrested, and others in hiding. Until then, the government had been talking
about a Game Reserve, but finally decided to create a GCA on another GCA, since
their <b>lie</b> is that Loliondo Game Controlled Area still exists and is a
protected area. The French ambassador participated making some pointless
comments about France. Not sure what he thought he was doing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In parliament, MP Emmanuel
Oleshangai made it clear that land in Loliondo is village land, that when we
talk about land we talk about people’s lives, and that what's being done in
Loliondo is a land grab that no person or village government has agreed to. He
rejected several interventions by maliciously ignorant parliamentarians. I
don’t know how the MP can keep calm and smiling in a house so full of <b>evil</b>.
<i>"I know there are people laughing here, but I am talking about the
lives of my people, my grandparents, my fathers, my brothers and my younger
siblings. It is their land”</i>, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AZoaCqcuRNw" width="320" youtube-src-id="AZoaCqcuRNw"></iframe></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Commissioner General of
Immigration, <a href="https://youtu.be/vl6_bWbTNZQ" target="_blank">Anna Makakala</a>, arrived in Loliondo to add her statement from the
warfront against the Maasai, announcing that there would be 10 days of flushing
out illegal immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Malambo the invading
security forces were counting the bomas found inside their illegal demarcation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> June, PM
Majaliwa arrived in Loliondo in military helicopter to celebrate the success in
the dirty war against the Maasai, with a big delegation including the Arusha RC,
Ngorongoro DC and DED, Minister Chana, Immigration Commissioner Makakala,
Awesso, Minister of Waters, and other criminals. It was a <b>military</b> celebration,
with the attendants clapping to the songs of stupidly crawling soldiers.
Majaliwa and the other attendants continued telling their lies and the PM
thanked the useless Tanzanian press for their assistance. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stressed that the protection of the illegally
demarcated protected area would continue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyZzBslVmJ7wCQegp-dDffqjJAxb9gOqcXOm2xZDGer-LWsa-PGZ-q43M6aTZ1Z80r390IoVPdb8jhYAYCJFg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEge5G-eJmI-wN0MSxL-dA9X7l-OD6BGmMTqaI3WG6r742-zRXiwipFtluIVkOrTIRbpx6IZpml6DJpkyAF6_K9JpDZQQio5P_hM4eufBCqnr0y-aZVDPyfGm2nmqpZNiQqR9nMnDqqVKyayXuYr1XbVqaTnk9l3w-EFaMkSBb5a8FyvNy_DKCTVUz9P2Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1445" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEge5G-eJmI-wN0MSxL-dA9X7l-OD6BGmMTqaI3WG6r742-zRXiwipFtluIVkOrTIRbpx6IZpml6DJpkyAF6_K9JpDZQQio5P_hM4eufBCqnr0y-aZVDPyfGm2nmqpZNiQqR9nMnDqqVKyayXuYr1XbVqaTnk9l3w-EFaMkSBb5a8FyvNy_DKCTVUz9P2Q" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112412612"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Crimes
committed to uphold and benefit from the illegal protected area</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112412612;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112412612;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then followed displacement,
illegal demolishment of houses, illegal seizure of cattle with heavy extortion,
further mass arrests, a road was cleared along the illegal demarcation, and there
was sickening violence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Around 24<sup>th</sup> June, a
<a href="https://youtu.be/PsQoc2oG3W8" target="_blank">video </a>called <i>“Serengeti and Ngorongoro shall never die: the truth about the
Loliondo situation”</i> (paraphrasing Bernhard Grzimek) was shared, with a
plead to international conservation organisations to support the Tanzanian
government’s war against the Maasai. It claims that the survival of the
Serengeti ecosystem is at stake, describes any talk about forced evictions as
lies, repeats the monumental lie about the status of the land, and boasts about
that Tanzania has allocated 32% of its area for conservation. It must feel
unfair to the government that the organisations and conservation researchers that
have created the ideology and the promises of tourism revenue that inevitably
lead to violence then refuse to express any public support for this violence.
They haven’t got any public support at all from outside Tanzania, not even from
their most natural allies, except for from an insignificant South African
reporter working for the trophy hunting industry, and less publicly, but very
dangerously, from Germany. Inside Tanzania, on the other hand, government
supporters apparently love this dirty war. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> July an
<a href="http://www.agrariansouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/OPEN-LETTER-TO-THE-PRESIDENT-BY-PROF-SHIVJI.pdf" target="_blank">open letter</a> from law professor Issa Shivji to Samia Suluhu Hassan was
published, setting the record straight about the frequent claim – in parliament
and elsewhere – that all land in Tanzania would belong to the public, to the
government, or even to the president (as once claimed by Ndumbaro – Minister of
Constitutional and Legal Affairs … - in parliament). Further, Shivji explained
that, <i>“the inhabitants of Ngorongoro and Loliondo, especially pastoral
communities, cannot be evicted from their land without adhering to legal
procedures and for a specific reason which ought to be publicly known and
discussed”</i>. There are no signs at all that the president was listening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> June,
reportedly (I haven’t heard from anyone who was there, and the criminals
haven’t written anything) village and ward executive officers were instructed
to tell people to leave the illegally demarcated area within 24 hours, or their
livestock would be confiscated. In the evening, there were pictures, video
clips, and reports from Sanjan in <b>Malambo</b> ward of how the Maasai, under
fear and panic, were loading their belongings on donkeys. Then came reports
that the same was happening in Arash, Oltulelei in Oloirien, and everywhere.
Shots were being fired and people were being beaten, reportedly by both the FFU
and soldiers from the national army. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOcEiFhdnQpgxH5GBTpshfa3Mk_fHn0Gg5oc87mYX-9f64HNTkW3IOAetjDFgX5WS0lRFmI7uzfo3IkHq6n3l-ThHKyUqLpF9CWmUN7Hyo3sqYT6g-tgxkQjvYSPVGzda9M0Od-yIy60C2MHs6UZTRNA_wr_GuFfS2Zovrtf0B9TmlxNPgW6EOvT08UA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="675" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOcEiFhdnQpgxH5GBTpshfa3Mk_fHn0Gg5oc87mYX-9f64HNTkW3IOAetjDFgX5WS0lRFmI7uzfo3IkHq6n3l-ThHKyUqLpF9CWmUN7Hyo3sqYT6g-tgxkQjvYSPVGzda9M0Od-yIy60C2MHs6UZTRNA_wr_GuFfS2Zovrtf0B9TmlxNPgW6EOvT08UA" width="180" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For days, refugees from Sanjan
were moving to an area called Olepombo, and to Musurmuny, that's supposed to be
for young and sick livestock. They put up makeshift shelters and were in need
of everything, including food and water, even if good Samaritans offered some
assistance. Some people have continued on the move, with their donkeys, looking
for somewhere to live.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Besides the two areas mentioned,
cattle from <b>Malambo</b> have been moved to Olbalbal in NCA. Many have been
illegally seized on village land that’s been “declared” a fake and illegal protected
area and the owners have been forced to pay the same extortionate “fines” as
for cattle seized in Serengeti National Park to TAWA, that’s working as a mafia.
The ransom fee is 100,000 TShs per cow and 25,000 TShs per sheep or goat.
Hungry cows have returned to known areas on what’s to everyone, except the
brutal and lawless government, legal village land. TAWA have been particularly
active in cattle extortion in the Ndinyika sub-village. Some TAWA invoices for
the extortion of cattle owners from Malambo have been publicly shared.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There has been widespread
illegal demolishment of houses – both traditional and modern (that need more
machinery) - in Malambo, by local police and TAWA, which has only been
partially reported.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixNrsOdgcPgGc5lg9KoOyqjISWGsHJ8FJl9p7I6rFh7dqwyccmyTs7qxZIC9SWjUWQqLRJkSXUSosudtc7pHAZrfMmS07ufAhCMTqamy7180_Ibi3bigGQp31h2Kys5b_vkZE9of4P4C_CfQSUPk0Wa8MiMfhRRq8g0jGEuGB2q7f-xpZB48CsK3YAjA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1040" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixNrsOdgcPgGc5lg9KoOyqjISWGsHJ8FJl9p7I6rFh7dqwyccmyTs7qxZIC9SWjUWQqLRJkSXUSosudtc7pHAZrfMmS07ufAhCMTqamy7180_Ibi3bigGQp31h2Kys5b_vkZE9of4P4C_CfQSUPk0Wa8MiMfhRRq8g0jGEuGB2q7f-xpZB48CsK3YAjA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">On Tuesday 5</span><sup style="text-align: left;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> July, the home of 71-year-old pastor and nursery school teacher William Risando, was demolished in Sanjan, Malambo.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At least seven people from
Serng'etuny sub-village in Piyaya and ten from Ndinyika, Malambo were on 29</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
June, arrested and taken to Loliondo police station. Those in Piyaya were
reportedly arrested in connection with uprooting beacons</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thousands of Maasai from
Loliondo live as refugees in Narok County in Kenya, assisted by private
Kenyans, churches and organisations, but not so much Kenyan authorities. UNHCR
from Geneva on 27<sup>th</sup> June visited the refugees from Loliondo who have
fled to Kenya in Olpusimoru, Naikarra and other areas where the families are
hosted. They stayed for three days and saw the wounded and the County
Commissioner in Narok. Reportedly, the UNHCR handed over a report to the Kenyan
government, which was forgotten in the election frenzy, but the work from the
Kenyan side will now be taken up again, I hope. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi292LKxxDr4BsVf27gEDlFBLsXbWIU4oBdFcE4S7AltXwAF5TpVdaoGolt-4pQu4jRMxV6lMUdOoXn8zotoN6sQNZngZkNV3xTxMU1PnIkYGHjuMYrNYW9wVK_NpwIAfvQfHv1hMcUr9S10ScS5og5pGlS69Xn78Wjq5Sov8tvpYWMhed_5kNiscMGbg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="720" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi292LKxxDr4BsVf27gEDlFBLsXbWIU4oBdFcE4S7AltXwAF5TpVdaoGolt-4pQu4jRMxV6lMUdOoXn8zotoN6sQNZngZkNV3xTxMU1PnIkYGHjuMYrNYW9wVK_NpwIAfvQfHv1hMcUr9S10ScS5og5pGlS69Xn78Wjq5Sov8tvpYWMhed_5kNiscMGbg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In <b>Ololosokwan</b> the
security forces were saying that they would never leave and threatening to
revenge the death of the FFU officer by killing 15 people. Many livestock have
been moved across the border to Kenya and others are held in village centre
areas. Hundreds of livestock have been illegally seized by TAWA with their
extortion that’s the same as demanding ransom fees. The night to 2<sup>nd</sup>
July, 30 people were arrested in Njoroi and 11 in Oloika sub-village, in
Ololosokwan ward. They were accused of being "Kenyan”. Houses have been
demolished by the security forces in Engong'u in Ololosokwan. On 6<sup>th</sup>
August, 130 cows belonging to the Oloinyo family were seized by TAWA at
Eng'ongu and held at Klein's gate. The extortionate and illegal fines were paid
on the 9<sup>th</sup> and the cows released. On 26<sup>th</sup> August, cattle belonging
to Cosmas Leitura and Elisha Sananka were seized in Ololosokwan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd_5PH3XUSfkehfh_z8KC-Cx1qF2igmZkbSq0Y56RSXH8PJ8RnKL9a3FnA6U-9uxeCk50a8OD05yJ3O0DQPYZDnDkLicoTpoxkM6tHkNRynGApykuiHBg5aLn2oVTII5Gxr-zp9ubXSaFB1pL4sydDAb3IYRd4fh90AiZ_rQZCvO8jov3QuOO2zYLpRQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhd_5PH3XUSfkehfh_z8KC-Cx1qF2igmZkbSq0Y56RSXH8PJ8RnKL9a3FnA6U-9uxeCk50a8OD05yJ3O0DQPYZDnDkLicoTpoxkM6tHkNRynGApykuiHBg5aLn2oVTII5Gxr-zp9ubXSaFB1pL4sydDAb3IYRd4fh90AiZ_rQZCvO8jov3QuOO2zYLpRQ" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Early on, ten people were
apparently randomly arrested, then seven more from different areas, and after
having been interrogated, tortured, and starved about spreading pictures, they
were added to the bogus murder charges. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Olosirwa sub-village of <b>Kirtalo</b>
six people were arrested on 6<sup>th</sup> July, including a primary school
teacher when police in four vehicles invaded the school. On 25<sup>th</sup> July
over 700 cattle were illegally seized by TAWA on village land in the Leken area
of Kirtalo, and the owners had to pay the very heavy ransom fees to get them
back. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I got a compilation of those arrested
– and charged - by Immigration: 40 people from Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Mondorosi
and Njoroi and 21 people from Enguserosambu, Naan, Ilutulele, Ng’arwa and
Orkiu, with different charges. All of them are Tanzanian. This doesn’t include
those arrested in Arash, Malambo, and Piyaya. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most shockingly, in Ormanie, <b>Arash</b>
ward, on 27<sup>th</sup> June, donkeys, calves, and other livestock belonging
to Parkimalo Lupa were <b>shot</b> by the security forces when on the way to
the river. Children accompanying the livestock were severely beaten by the
security forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the afternoon of 2<sup>nd</sup>
July, the security forces started burning seasonal bomas (ronjos) in the
Oldoinyo Orok area of Arash. They had caught and tortured a young herder,
forcing him to show them the location. Six ronjos were burned to the ground. At
least four more ronjos were burned in the nearby Sindin area. Then an unknown
number of permanent bomas have been burned in Ormanie, among them the boma of mzee
Oltinayio that was first immortalized in a picture with an illegal beacon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 4<sup>th</sup> July, the
security forces seized cows and sheep from over five bomas in Ildupa
sub-village of Ormanie, and drove them to Engutoto sub-village in Arash. They
went on to extort 100,000 TShs per cow and 25,000 per sheep from the owners. On
7<sup>th</sup> July, according to an eyewitness, in the evening, four vehicles
arrived in Arash and took two youths who were wearing clothes with the Kenyan
flag. The youths were all from Arash. Reportedly people were detained in Piyaya
as well. On 15<sup>th</sup> August several herds of livestock were illegally
seized by TAWA in Olembuya, Arash, and kept at Eng'oswa. I suppose the
extortion fees were paid, but I still haven’t got proper updates. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 18<sup>th</sup> August,
there were reports that almost 3,000 sheep and 200 cows had been seized by TAWA
in Piyaya.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While all councillors from
affected wards, except one who’s gone into hiding, in Loliondo and Sale, two
special seats councillors, and the district CCM chairman were locked up on
bogus murder charges, <b>Mohammed “Marekani” Bayo</b>, OBC’s community liaison officer
for many years, was on 5<sup>th</sup> July - as the sole candidate, instead of
the usual three - <b>“unanimously elected”</b> as district council chairman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLIfVZ0RDkaiyFQ1K8rBn6UG4uR5c4LovnQ3YoCdW1xTBeX0fBIFzoXkV6haqHmfNJoXKcGdqfR6vUPBOsUrd4s8EdW34qbggSEppiJxErB_XUxb-2jJkvBfmBw8CModeGJpljTwBkIWFW03WXLkhYz63x4_W6fSpsaQnmmXFjVlUgEZdBEkV3mC3Tzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1600" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLIfVZ0RDkaiyFQ1K8rBn6UG4uR5c4LovnQ3YoCdW1xTBeX0fBIFzoXkV6haqHmfNJoXKcGdqfR6vUPBOsUrd4s8EdW34qbggSEppiJxErB_XUxb-2jJkvBfmBw8CModeGJpljTwBkIWFW03WXLkhYz63x4_W6fSpsaQnmmXFjVlUgEZdBEkV3mC3Tzw" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government again
brought an <b>imposter</b>, as they like to do even when traitors can sadly be
found, or bought, in Loliondo. In the press on the 12<sup>th</sup> and on 13<sup>th</sup>
July in a <a href="https://youtu.be/UqcoaW5WGXs" target="_blank">video clip</a> Amani ole Silonga Torongei was posing as a traditional
leader from Ololosokwan saying that the leaders were agreeing with the illegal
demarcation process. This individual is from Monduli and has no connection to
Ololoskwan, or Loliondo at all. He’s even a somewhat well-known character who
was Monduli chairman of CHADEMA, but defected to CCM. He’s also a preacher.
Sadly, two real traitors were standing next to the imposter – Boni Masago and
Mungasio Ketuta. Masago is known as unethical, but Ketuta is reportedly a
mystery. The chairman of Ololosokwan, John Pyando, on 15<sup>th</sup> July,
read a statement setting the record straight and giving the imposter, Amani ole
Silonga Torongei, five days to apologize. Though this shameless individual
treats it all as big joke, doesn’t mind being a known imposter, and keeps
parroting government lies, while sharing bible citations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xrsb1nSJYHE" width="320" youtube-src-id="Xrsb1nSJYHE"></iframe></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was announced everywhere in social media that on 15<sup>th</sup> July in Geneva, Ndumbaro – who as Minister of
Constitutional and Legal Affairs has been just as involved in this crime as
when he was Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism - held <a href="https://www.ch.tzembassy.go.tz/resources/view/mhe-dkt-damas-ndumbaro-mb-waziri-wa-katiba-na-sheria-afanya-mazungumzo-na-bi-michelle-bachelet-kamishna-mkuu-wa-haki-za-binadamu" target="_blank">talks with Michelle Bachelet</a>, outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, <i>“to
exchange ideas on human rights issues, including clarifying allegations about
the Loliondo GCA and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.” </i>Further, the
message from the Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs was that
Bachelet, <i>"thanked and congratulated the way in which the United
Republic of Tanzania implements human rights issues under the Government of
Samia Suluhu Hassan." <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEWx3mjLNdGQLzw2ur38aq8MIIlMKEo-zm6UKmzW4OoKeC1-n4Qcr_eoTV20O1vSn5_4suTXkjv6t0ZFxdSk59e5OiGjHWgrqfgvI22Nxbt0UdnSQpy05WvhNpAR7kbMUa-S0KJsHM0qyC-rMWiZcR1Bm4tCMASIEiJtCerl8qCx5DYp0cfvMpc4ZuAw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEWx3mjLNdGQLzw2ur38aq8MIIlMKEo-zm6UKmzW4OoKeC1-n4Qcr_eoTV20O1vSn5_4suTXkjv6t0ZFxdSk59e5OiGjHWgrqfgvI22Nxbt0UdnSQpy05WvhNpAR7kbMUa-S0KJsHM0qyC-rMWiZcR1Bm4tCMASIEiJtCerl8qCx5DYp0cfvMpc4ZuAw" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Kenyan pastor and radio
presenter Julius Kuyioni was detained on 7<sup>th</sup> July when entering
Loliondo for a "crusade" and on a missionary visa, was taken to
Arusha and illegally detained without charges until 5<sup>th</sup> August when
the police apparently had got tired of this bogus case and handed it over to
Immigration. Reportedly, Kuyioni was for almost a month accused – without any
evidence or charges – of “espionage”. Finally, Kuyioni paid a fine for having
entered on the wrong kind of visa – even when he had exactly the right kind,
like on many previous occasions when preaching in Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were reports that on 6<sup>th</sup> August, a
convoy of the Arusha RC, TAWA, NCAA and deputy minister Mary Masanja were in
Loliondo to hand over the management of the fake and illegal protected area to the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority. <span>Though I
haven’t heard from any eyewitness and nothing at all has been mentioned online
by the MNRT or NCAA, so it <b>just can’t be verified</b>. </span>This plan for
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero was part of the genocidal Multiple Land Use
Model review report that was presented by NCA chief conservator Manongi in
September 2019. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> August, at
a <a href="https://youtu.be/YbwCNm0nKi8" target="_blank">function </a>sending off “voluntary” families from NCA to Msomera in Handeni
(another huge and terrifying issue that I must get back to writing about) Majaliwa
spoke mockingly about Loliondo saying that the 2,500km<sup>2</sup> (with towns,
agricultural areas, and an American land grabber) are enough for the Maasai,
but not for livestock from other areas. <b>As he was saying this, Tanzanian
Maasai and Tanzanian livestock are in exile in Kenya, depending on the
solidarity of Kenyans, while TAWA keep illegally seizing Tanzanian livestock on
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of legally registered village land.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC’s camp has been set up for
guests, and planes from the UAE Air Force have landed in Loliondo, but Sheikh
Mohammed, or his crown prince, have reportedly not been sighted. Instead, they
have gone hunting grouse in Yorkshire in England. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112412694"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
bogus murder case<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, on 9<sup>th</sup>
June, the day before the illegal demarcation started, the councillors of
Ololosokwan, Oloipiri, Oloirien, Maaloni, Arash, Piyaya, Malambo, and two
women’s special seats councillors, Kijoolu Kakiya and Taleng’o Leshoko were
arrested, as was the district CCM chairman, Ndirango Laizer. After a CCM
meeting they were interrogated by the District Security Committee, and then a
special task force arrived to interrogate them individually. The Soitsambu
councillor escaped the DC’s trap, avoided attending the meeting, and is now
hiding somewhere. At midnight the leaders were put in a vehicle and driven to
an unknown destination that upon arrival was identified as a smaller police
station in Arusha town, Chekereni, where they were interrogated regarding
sedition - and not murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing was known of the
whereabouts of those illegally arrested/abducted until 16<sup>th</sup> June
when they were sneaked to court without any legal representation and then
locked up in Kisongo remand prison. The following day it was revealed that they,
and ten other arrested people from Loliondo, had been charged with murder
contrary to Section 196 of the Penal Code [Cap 16 R:E 2019] in the preliminary
inquiry case No 11 of 2022. The murder concerned a FFU officer who was killed
the day <b>after</b> the local leaders were arrested. Later seventeen more
people were added to the charges. The second group of ten were arrested on the
10<sup>th</sup>, not allowed to contact anyone and held for four days without
being fed. They were tortured and accused of reporting about violence in
Loliondo, interrogated on suspicion of spreading false information, but later
they were told a murder charge had been found and they were re-interrogated for
murder. The case was up for mention in court on 30<sup>th</sup> June, but then
it was postponed to 14<sup>th</sup> July for further “investigation”. One new
charge was added: “conspiracy to murder”. Hearings were postponed to the 28<sup>th</sup>
when charges against three of the 27 accused of murder and conspiracy to murder
were dropped. Lekerenga Koyee, who's elderly and sick, Simel Parmwat who's a
young student, and Fred Ledidi who's district natural resources officer and a
PhD student. On 5<sup>th</sup> August, the court overruled a submission by the
defence of separating murder and conspiracy charges, and the hearings were
postponed to 17<sup>th</sup> August, when MP Oleshangai attended court, and
there was a postponement to 30<sup>th</sup> August, when it was <a href="https://youtu.be/u98aHh1bR20" target="_blank">postponed</a> to 13<sup>th</sup>
September ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s obvious that nobody
believes that those accused have been involved in any murder. Dropping charges
for sick people or students clearly show that it’s all about negotiations
around political prisoners. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Those arrested are obviously political
prisoners, but it’s possible to keep two (or more) thoughts at the same time,
and this doesn’t mean that the political leaders among them would be angels. They
all belong to the ruling CCM party and came into power through the shambolic,
blood soaked 2020 “elections”. None of them have spoken up about the killing of
Salula Ngorisiolo. Even worse, at least two of them were for years on the side
of OBC against the people. Still, they have certainly not been involved in any
murder, and nobody, not even those claiming to be investigating it, believe it.
This year, most of them have clearly spoken up against any land grabbing plans
by the government. Those accused who aren’t political leaders seem to have been
unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This bogus case serves to
increase terror, silencing activists, and divert attention from illegal
demarcation, extortion and violence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Next hearing is on 13<sup>th</sup>
September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112412753"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When
will the Germans be driven out of the Serengeti ecosystem?<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Germany has for many decades
been offering steady support for the Tanzanian government’s efforts to deprive
the Maasai of the Serengeti ecosystem of their land, and the Germans are not
taking any step back now when the threat has worsened considerably. Reporting
from a meeting with diplomats on 25<sup>th</sup> March, the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism, wrote that the German ambassador Regina Hess, supported
the government’s “efforts” in Ngorongoro – while in NCA this involves a
well-orchestrated scheme to strangle the Maasai in every aspect to enforce a relocation
agenda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Still, this support has not
been publicly denied in any way by the ambassador who – after the illegal demarcation
of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> was launched - has gone on meeting and smiling with
some of the main responsible for the crimes in Loliondo, like RC Mongella, to
talk about the “cooperation” between the two countries, and the Germans keep
showering the brutal and lawless Tanzanian government with money. Now in August
2022, Bärbel Kofler German Deputy Minister of Economic Cooperation and
Development visited Tanzania for more of the same. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ07MenCRYhB_fZzLB7GlpCgagINdWK-nPrl-JanGIZ6CnXgHfmGOpWJewiXhsmJPoVheLzgGahSr0MEC_LqZWo8cJPB6lgbheXgBZ9bodFNJV_Q1JJt0_D1zBIly-fDHnivPHgSM9CNeVYiUSKvSDiUXWPc10xd7PMbEuOf3kBTnIakYE8hAF9i9AnA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="664" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJ07MenCRYhB_fZzLB7GlpCgagINdWK-nPrl-JanGIZ6CnXgHfmGOpWJewiXhsmJPoVheLzgGahSr0MEC_LqZWo8cJPB6lgbheXgBZ9bodFNJV_Q1JJt0_D1zBIly-fDHnivPHgSM9CNeVYiUSKvSDiUXWPc10xd7PMbEuOf3kBTnIakYE8hAF9i9AnA" width="202" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2017, former minister
Maghembe and Serengeti chief park warden Mwakilema (current head of TANAPA)
told a parliamentary committee (and very much the press) that German funds would
only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2 </sup>into a
protected area, which wasn’t denied by the Germans until two years later by representatives
of the development bank in an interview with <a href="https://medium.com/conservationwatch/kfw-comments-on-its-support-to-the-serengeti-ecosystem-development-and-conservation-project-4c67b01b51bd" target="_blank">Chris Lang</a>. Then, while Loliondo
was attacked by mass arson implemented by Serengeti rangers in August 2017, a
most revolting picture was published of Hess’s predecessor Detlef Wächter
smilingly handing over buildings for park staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti
National Park, to an equally smiling Minister Maghembe, while commenting on the
long and successful partnership between Germany and Tanzania in protecting the
Serengeti. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcf4iAyHMUu5PJC2-g3eDnrBKy7tnZcFTR12HaF7rZFdoj2rt5QFYBvy5il9n8DMDxYKSzU1ujZUIITa3ZvUgJ5_d8q7SA2YzshT1jtaumJlmtam0RSwp-2Ucr1gId0cJjLZjGcqYnZBeSULPWlGTzHQIJYVvz-S0DWjokm81izCRQJzWtIi7mYHyj4g" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="1297" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcf4iAyHMUu5PJC2-g3eDnrBKy7tnZcFTR12HaF7rZFdoj2rt5QFYBvy5il9n8DMDxYKSzU1ujZUIITa3ZvUgJ5_d8q7SA2YzshT1jtaumJlmtam0RSwp-2Ucr1gId0cJjLZjGcqYnZBeSULPWlGTzHQIJYVvz-S0DWjokm81izCRQJzWtIi7mYHyj4g" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the article that was published in the Daily News on 9th March 2017 and in the Dunia Leo (and other articles in Swahili). No longer online, but fortunately I had saved one. </td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQ5b6IaImBpE3nJ2ko6BFaj3WeG83Ux3FPMn1hVIyGhmITVI1dKrByLiT22ZhI4BvZis-D69V0MQCLbSKvNCVC4-FMooTQpqu0NXVVW-0wVESGLh7jX5ggdZNt6KqPhUcLm2vXmkIKOp7zxhgmzLkaQK2Iqv76eFPq1lnrt9XV-M0GXsG6qKNHyfC9_A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="595" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQ5b6IaImBpE3nJ2ko6BFaj3WeG83Ux3FPMn1hVIyGhmITVI1dKrByLiT22ZhI4BvZis-D69V0MQCLbSKvNCVC4-FMooTQpqu0NXVVW-0wVESGLh7jX5ggdZNt6KqPhUcLm2vXmkIKOp7zxhgmzLkaQK2Iqv76eFPq1lnrt9XV-M0GXsG6qKNHyfC9_A" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the 2017 illegal mass
arson operation, the MP and the district council chairman were saying that
there wasn’t any risk at all with accepting German funds, since they were meant
for the whole of Loliondo and Sale, not excluding the 1,500km2, but there
haven’t been any projects at all in the now illegally demarcated area, while
water projects outside it have been heavily used in government rhetoric for
land alienation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">German funded development
projects in the Serengeti ecosystem are implemented by Frankfurt Zoological
Society (FZS) and TANAPA through the Serengeti Ecosystem Development and
Conservation Project (SEDCP). <a href="https://www.tawa.go.tz/" target="_blank">TAWA </a>is supported by German <a href="https://www.giz.de/en/worldwide/28017.html" target="_blank">funds and advice</a>. However,
this time even FZS, that never has said anything about violence for
conservation in the Serengeti ecosystem, seriously rattled by Survival
International, has expressed shock about the violence in Loliondo and distanced
itself from any involvement in the land demarcation, but still claiming that
the land status would be “uncertain”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Through the decades, FZS, the
Tanzanian government, and OBC share the same narrative about the Maasai. In
October 2021, the two countries signed agreements that include 20 million Euros
to help Tanzania’s protected areas keep threats at bay and build back better
and more resilient following the COVID-19 pandemic. <i>“After that, the
Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA), the Tanzania Wildlife Management
Authority (TAWA) and the Frankfurt Zoological Society can begin implementing
the funds, for the benefit of people and protected areas.”</i>, <a href="https://fzs.org/en/news/a-20-million-euro-rescue-package-for-the-serengeti/" target="_blank">FZS reported</a>. <b>TAWA
is very much involved in the brutal land demarcation and is, now like a mafia, extorting
herders in the illegally demarcated area.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKxxsHwMcESenQjSPoGPurLAjMCBLlxDxXWXi4eKoiCVaVfid69k7hzjTJgSkS24EMgrCQpxLlSly5Q9rX4M1Dwg6AT_3aFPNMMDdT-ZmWJE6COvrtxrJyfTM-wsVdnPd65xPB9WVK9tObadLjKy8RRI4jB-RK5QflD4Uu3OX6QBpv87Qt8olHQCMPXA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="563" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKxxsHwMcESenQjSPoGPurLAjMCBLlxDxXWXi4eKoiCVaVfid69k7hzjTJgSkS24EMgrCQpxLlSly5Q9rX4M1Dwg6AT_3aFPNMMDdT-ZmWJE6COvrtxrJyfTM-wsVdnPd65xPB9WVK9tObadLjKy8RRI4jB-RK5QflD4Uu3OX6QBpv87Qt8olHQCMPXA" width="135" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Stefan
Oswald, Head of the Africa Department at Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development, and notorious Deputy Minister Mary Masanja, Serengeti,
September 2021.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Do the Germans really
accompany their government in its support for the Tanzanian government’s war
against the Maasai?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thomson
Safaris – as always, OBC’s copycats in using the Loliondo police state<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>,
owned by Rick Thomson and Judi Wineland, have again copied OBC’s use of the
Loliondo police state - now planting their own beacons. This safari company claim
their own private Enashiva Nature Refuge in the villages of Sukenya and
Mondorosi, or Soitsambu before the sub-division of villages. They base this
claim on having bought the right of occupancy from Tanzania Breweries that
cultivated a small part of it in the 1980s and then, using forged documents,
got a 99-year right of occupancy in 2003, selling it to Thomson in 2006. The
right of occupancy was for 10,000 acres that somehow was turned into 12,617
acres (51 km2) before selling it to Thomson. Though most of all this land grab
is based on the Loliondo police state and Thomson’s way of learning and
perfecting OBC’s strategies of how to use it for divide and rule, violence,
threats and defamation via the DC, security committee, and government
officials. Besides the local Maasai, several journalists have experienced first-hand
how this local police state work for Thomson, and so have I. Maybe OBC have been learning from Thomson as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, at the height of
unity and seriousness in Loliondo, Land Case 26 of 2013 was filed: Mondorosi
Village Council, Sukenya Village Council and Soitsambu Village Council versus
Tanzania Breweries Ltd, Tanzania Conservation Ltd (Thomson Safaris), Ngorongoro
District Council, the Commissioner for Lands, and the Attorney General. An
earlier case had been dismissed on a technicality. In 2015 the High Court in
Arusha, ruled against the Maasai on all points except a minor one concerning
TBL adding 2,617 acres. Then this case has continued in the court of appeal. Since
around 2016 it has been basically impossible to get any updates from the
ground. The local police state worsened considerably, and even more so to
silence those speaking up about Thomson Safaris that also affect a smaller area
than OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in earlier posts,
in 2021 the new DED Jumaa Mhina started working hard to make the village
chairmen withdraw the cases against OBC and against Thomson Safaris. He almost
succeeded with the heavily compromised chairmen of the villages that have sued
Thomson Safaris who declared that they would sign the DED’s letter of
withdrawal, but then they changed their mind, and such a letter never reached
the court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year, late-January, out
of court negotiations failed. Thomson Safaris and the government only wanted to
discuss the 2,617 acres, and then only pointing out borderline areas, so the
case continued until 18<sup>th</sup> February when the solicitor representing
the Attorney General, who was one of the respondents, stood before the court
and claimed to have been representing both parties (the appellants and the
respondents) and as such, the government (the respondent) has no interest in
the Appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same prayer was brought to
the East Africa Court of Justice in Application no 15 of 2017 (arising from
Reference No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash versus the
Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania) and was overruled. Unlike
the East African Court, the Court of Appeal of Tanzania without affording the
appellants the right to be heard, dismissed the appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This was based on legislation
introduced under Magufuli to do away with all separation of power, so that
local governments can’t sue the central government, but it should not be possible
to use this on a case filed before the law came into operation. Still, the
court ruled that there wasn’t a case, and the lawyers to the villages weren’t
even added to the records. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> July there
were reports that Thomson and the Loliondo police (working for them as usual)
were chasing away livestock, seven vehicles were going from boma to boma and a
church service was invaded. Five people, a pastor included, were arrested and
later released.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 27<sup>th</sup> July, Thomson
Safaris had started planting their own beacon, working with DED Mhina,
reportedly with strong support from the Arusha RC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRk6ZJiFbHAWnpvLgAsv193A04qe2HwN8uBJjf0Vh3AK-lW9bqoi-Yq1gR6SbIrOZ-Q8z9eQHf9vlzzFvS5m4ocVpJWxCpGJQN99pnIx2r1VqnnfbNrXbw910PAQbxFONZ2eDTAuns2PzZRzFzvUMFjHlR0KfOoRxhcBN44AoWTT2L8vR-mA00DQkAAw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="810" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRk6ZJiFbHAWnpvLgAsv193A04qe2HwN8uBJjf0Vh3AK-lW9bqoi-Yq1gR6SbIrOZ-Q8z9eQHf9vlzzFvS5m4ocVpJWxCpGJQN99pnIx2r1VqnnfbNrXbw910PAQbxFONZ2eDTAuns2PzZRzFzvUMFjHlR0KfOoRxhcBN44AoWTT2L8vR-mA00DQkAAw" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJrCCNEzax7ZvvrB1Tc2IawCCSz8sXUdqPu0uEblwH72YjXx-dgO9lCNcbNPIsf7we4h6RRIdK_kl_oM3bHSM0WRbWjxRGaF-WPWRB45KqU5yNnBPn5xUKx1RM2XygvCMWoHynerrCkv-Sp-nDiUPo3RopTA0Fwf_LH1ufvVLPkL8BnIdz-Mf0u7fEXA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="553" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJrCCNEzax7ZvvrB1Tc2IawCCSz8sXUdqPu0uEblwH72YjXx-dgO9lCNcbNPIsf7we4h6RRIdK_kl_oM3bHSM0WRbWjxRGaF-WPWRB45KqU5yNnBPn5xUKx1RM2XygvCMWoHynerrCkv-Sp-nDiUPo3RopTA0Fwf_LH1ufvVLPkL8BnIdz-Mf0u7fEXA" width="157" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112412905"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Summary
of previous efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo <o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since 1993 (first contract
signed in 1992) Otterlo Business Corporation, owned by Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al
Ali, that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, has the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
Loliondo hunting block (permit to hunt), which they got in the Loliondogate
scandal covered by the reporter Stan Katabalo in 1993. This area includes two
towns, district headquarters, agricultural areas, and Thomson Safaris’ land
grab, so OBC have lobbied to have it reduced to their core hunting area
bordering Serengeti National Park, and to make it a protected area, which would
signify a huge land loss to the local Maasai, leading to lost lives and
livelihoods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, then Ngorongoro DC
Jowika Kasunga coerced local leaders into signing a Memorandum of Understanding
with OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing and hunting,
but when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the government to
complain, and village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero was illegally
invaded by the Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson,
dispersal of cattle, and abuse of every kind. 7-year old Nashipai Gume was lost in the chaos and never found, ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and
some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a draft district land
use plan that proposed turning the village land that had been invaded into a
protected area. The Maasai were united, and the draft land use plan was
rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112450049"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
2013, Minister Kagasheki lied to the world saying that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division of
Ngorongoro District) was a protected area and that alienating the important
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> meant generously giving the remaining land to the Maasai.
This ugly trick did not work, since the Maasai were more serious and united
than ever, garnered support from both the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and
then PM Pinda stopped Kagasheki’s threats.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112450238"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After
the unity, efforts to buy off local leaders started creating serious divisions
and weakening. Some found it convenient to benefit from openly praising the
“investors” and attacking the people who they at the same time expected to take
risks to defend the land. Though nobody signed any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450238;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112450170"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
investors (OBC and Thomson Safaris) had for years used the local police state
that through the successive DCs, security committee, and most every government
employee will threaten anyone who could speak up about them and engage in
defamation and illegal arrests. The repression and fear of this police state
became worse with Magufuli in office, and there were lengthy illegal arrests,
torture, and malicious prosecution, by 2016 it was so bad that PM Majaliwa
could enter the stage with a select non-participatory committee, set up by RC
Gambo. Some of the members were local leaders and other representatives that
found themselves at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical
areas” under protests in each village. The proposal handed over to Majaliwa was
seen as a victory, even though it was a sad compromise (a WMA) that had earlier
been rejected for many years of better unity and less fear.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450170;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW8_6YCuLce8mp_9W42VnE1aiPXZuAmoBdGy3S0u629t8U752qFl1SRmh6mlWf9xwjwbkHJ-h7h0cvTckkmL09MwvNSYfdRhgHIoCWBr1o24nOSkjQ0W6dVOOBPImZy1yyctXE1ynosNRB0DDHYNCmSLWCtnWJY___NIBn0WTi1QsYIgfRqJ78UvcLHw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhW8_6YCuLce8mp_9W42VnE1aiPXZuAmoBdGy3S0u629t8U752qFl1SRmh6mlWf9xwjwbkHJ-h7h0cvTckkmL09MwvNSYfdRhgHIoCWBr1o24nOSkjQ0W6dVOOBPImZy1yyctXE1ynosNRB0DDHYNCmSLWCtnWJY___NIBn0WTi1QsYIgfRqJ78UvcLHw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture is from the protests against Gambo's committee in March 2017. It <b>NOT</b> from now and it wouldn't be possible to take this kind of picture during an illegal operation. </td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112450404"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe
since the Maasai showed such weakness, the government went on with the
unthinkable and while everyone was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision,
on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017 an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in
2009, was initiated and continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of
bomas were razed to the ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCA rangers
and those from OBC, NCA, TAWA/KDU, local police and others. People were beaten
and raped, illegally arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully
silent while others protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s
land use plan would have been implemented and the operation was taking place on
some protected land, while the DC, and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not
about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about
that, but that village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti
National Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450404;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7ed91JFCI2i2qNQa-yNb5IGuSTsbLl3RU99QCqKMdEprkITS0W8WbusKaqli3446wbPq00i0ju50E36zy4-GLv9qW-kJg7T_Q6-uoBL2CzKXdMKxMwD3lF7IcBl4RLbvMiO5IgPcrorPyvg6uLzdwfPZC7BDNCg4DGnaR2TkqiIDG7__gLmdJqA1Khg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7ed91JFCI2i2qNQa-yNb5IGuSTsbLl3RU99QCqKMdEprkITS0W8WbusKaqli3446wbPq00i0ju50E36zy4-GLv9qW-kJg7T_Q6-uoBL2CzKXdMKxMwD3lF7IcBl4RLbvMiO5IgPcrorPyvg6uLzdwfPZC7BDNCg4DGnaR2TkqiIDG7__gLmdJqA1Khg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk112450549"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
illegal operation wasn’t stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks
after Kigwangalla came into office. The new minister also made grand promises,
like saying that OBC would have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was very soon
clear that OBC weren’t going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017,
Majaliwa delivered his vague but terrifying decision that was about, through a
legal bill, creating a “special authority” to manage the land. He also said
that OBC were staying. The decision was celebrated in the anti-Maasai press
(the Jamhuri). Fortunately, implementation has been delayed, no legal bill has
been seen, and would of course be contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
March 2018, Kigwangalla welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself
to a fake account of the Dubai crown prince), and in April the same year, OBC -
once again - gifted the Ministry of Natural Resources of Tourism with 15
vehicles. In March 2018, a military camp was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in
Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually made permanent with donations from
the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
June 2018, the OCCID and local police tried to derail the case in the East
African Court of Justice (EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 -
by summoning local leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this,
except for the applicants' main counsel. On 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018 – a
year after the illegal operation - the court finally issued an injunction
restraining the government from evictions, destruction and harassment of the
applicants, but this injunction was soon brutally violated. In November and
December soldiers from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and
burned bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was the lowest point ever in the
land rights struggle and I have still not understood how it could happen
without anyone at all speaking up. Local leaders claimed to fear for their
lives and thought that the brutality was directly ordered by President
Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January 2019 condemned the crimes in a very vague
way, they changed to thinking that OBC’s director had contracted the soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There
were finally some promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack
Mollel was arrested on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never
left and Mollel was never fired) their activities on the ground, but the local
police state wasn’t dealt with and after a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel
was out, and after a while back to work. Speculations about Mollel’s misfortune
include his clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to
send a message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to Bernard Membe)
that nobody is untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
September 2019, a genocidal zoning proposal for NCA, which included the
proposal to annex most of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a protected
area allowing hunting was presented. This Multiple Land Use Model review
proposal was met with countless protests from every kind of group of people
from NCA, but near silence from Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuBkFn4yV2nq1wU4zLvICbazUO8B92vMOp2CMIVFsNdJitZhoe4D1li-1bw7F5rI5eaxiLzRgyVOH_5cjFRI4e5YbPh_OPNXi_-UEQ8l73mNBPOxEcICWmEjWwiKqBOJc5uj4ZNJoxseed9RMUdRruoQGEELvWIcTsGDi75QHTCvP9LPrzeFX-OY46fg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuBkFn4yV2nq1wU4zLvICbazUO8B92vMOp2CMIVFsNdJitZhoe4D1li-1bw7F5rI5eaxiLzRgyVOH_5cjFRI4e5YbPh_OPNXi_-UEQ8l73mNBPOxEcICWmEjWwiKqBOJc5uj4ZNJoxseed9RMUdRruoQGEELvWIcTsGDi75QHTCvP9LPrzeFX-OY46fg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021
brought Jumaa Mhina as new DED and he started working to kill the court cases
against land grabbing “investors”. Though the village chairmen have stood their
ground and Reference No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash
versus the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania continues in the
EACJ. The case against Thomson Safaris in the Tanzanian court of appeal,
however, was in 2022 killed using a law that was introduced after the case was
filed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
11<sup>th</sup> January 2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward
leaders from villages with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that
the government would make a painful decision for the broader interest of the
nation. The leaders, even those who for years had worked for OBC and against
the people, refused to accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
or to sign the attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in
Oloirien there was a public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward,
and traditional leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxLfNRJOXoQBUw-0rw-rvvDhg60KVbt6WwtJrY0Q8fvAZtghKOqcM5JNQzjL3B_hZy000sfBIG4Yv_n2dIOcQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
14<sup>th</sup> February, Majaliwa came and wasn’t much better than Mongella,
but too well-received, since something worse was expected, because of the crazy
anti-Maasai hate campaign, and parliamentarians calling for tanks to be sent to
Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three
days later, on 17<sup>th</sup> February in NCA, not Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered
the disputed land to be marked by beacons, “so that we may know the boundaries”
– while claiming that this is NOT a trick!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then
Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup> March re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in an interview
with DW Kiswahili, and on the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again mentioned beacons
and water projects when informing parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that
he had set up in Arusha, without people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup>
March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the land, among them the Arash
ward councillor Methew Siloma spoke up very clearly and strongly. The message
from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM
Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The
Maasai are not renouncing one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They
request to meet with the president, since Majaliwa can’t be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyAX77kmUR4nHU0Ne6KzBqlGPRAtOT0CC07MtGgIgzRVQ56lQjLsSnbXE6hBgDrqN3S2Nz2Mp-Ziv-nC6rKmQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
31st March Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen
out with Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of
OBC’s and Sheikh Mohammed’s <a href="https://youtu.be/yR13xm_FwlY" target="_blank">best and oldest friends</a> since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM
councillors that had spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> osero were being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be
“interrogated” in Arusha. The councillors of Arash and Malambo had to keep
reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
25<sup>th</sup> May a committee handed over their reports of “community views”
on both NCA and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero in <a href="https://pingosforum.or.tz/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Loliondo-Community-Report.pdf" target="_blank">Loliondo </a>to PM Majaliwa who
said that he’s work on the recommendations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On
3<sup>rd</sup> June, Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana in
her budget speech announced that her ministry expected to upgrade Loliondo to a
Game Reserve, but she did this while listing huge areas of Tanzania for the
same expectation, which didn’t make it sound believable or realistic in any
way, and there was hardly any reaction, except for an intervention by Ngorongoro
MP Emmanuel Oleshangai.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk112450549;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now the illegal beacons must
be uprooted, houses rebuilt, extortion money for illegally seized livestock
returned, political prisoners released, refugees guaranteed safety to return, Oriais
Oleng'iyo brought back to his family, and every single person involved in the
illegal demarcation and massive human rights crimes must be punished! This may require several legal battles and heavy sanctions against the Tanzanian government. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP5QcDkXUr8OenkttYLQOVB2P3NWKqp8xmYJS-S0zlVNSoBGu-q4wd1iXLPYNeoFnE9F9PzM_kVXkAETXjMWbC-c9rOV9FdYGDTq0QhHpnzXV04towe5-lb2hNhbT7MC38QSfUcu_w5TQJnUN-aaYm4iMPBwKMp_wtlx8HYggx4q3bYms6uhpjey7m5w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiP5QcDkXUr8OenkttYLQOVB2P3NWKqp8xmYJS-S0zlVNSoBGu-q4wd1iXLPYNeoFnE9F9PzM_kVXkAETXjMWbC-c9rOV9FdYGDTq0QhHpnzXV04towe5-lb2hNhbT7MC38QSfUcu_w5TQJnUN-aaYm4iMPBwKMp_wtlx8HYggx4q3bYms6uhpjey7m5w" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Updates:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are reports that in Ololosokwan the criminals have extended the illegal demarcation by digging a road 500 metres further into village land. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>6th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Jestas Nyamanga, Ambassador of Tanzania to
Belgium, Luxembourg and the European
Union parroted the Tanzanian government’s terrible lies about Loliondo and
Ngorongoro to EU parliamentarians. Fortunately, Joseph Oleshangay and representatives
from Survival International attended digitally. The ambassador was stupid
enough to claim that nobody had liv in Loliondo since before colonialism … </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVruYHEbV4lfOzrxHqrbso7wf8QQg-1i6EG3NMjLoKjF4ME4iAUq0GOCrjySYvEVWMFuLiNp6B-fZU4w9WwTgWHdt0DcCr47mHJD91cmtHJG6eJZ9wPEofp5lyiGI0VALEBl0LvFBVuEWVdDj6Na1vc2LxMFtHRNWzKmWB9iwYlANf6yysPExO_DOwXA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="781" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVruYHEbV4lfOzrxHqrbso7wf8QQg-1i6EG3NMjLoKjF4ME4iAUq0GOCrjySYvEVWMFuLiNp6B-fZU4w9WwTgWHdt0DcCr47mHJD91cmtHJG6eJZ9wPEofp5lyiGI0VALEBl0LvFBVuEWVdDj6Na1vc2LxMFtHRNWzKmWB9iwYlANf6yysPExO_DOwXA" width="226" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Watetezi tv uploaded a video clip of retired nursery teacher Ephraim Kaura from Mairowa, Ololosokwan, who spoke about how he was badly tortured by the invading security forces and had to seek treatment in Kenya. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u-_ZtPh60so" width="320" youtube-src-id="u-_ZtPh60so"></iframe></div><br /></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><b>9th September</b></span><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some 1,500 sheep and goats that should have been in the illegally demarcated area were seized in Serengeti National Park.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>13th September</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The bogus murder case was again postponed for further "investigation". Next date: 27th September. </span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reports of illegally seized livestock in Ormanie. I'm searching for more details. <b>Silence is worse than ever.</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>20th September</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Chadema Central Committee through the party's deputy secretary general of Zanzibar Salumu Mwalimu condemned the government's actions in Ngorongoro and Loliondo, but got it quite mixed up. </span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was reported that Kenyans were chasing Tanzanian refugees and their cattle out of Maasai Mara National Reserve, since a Tanzanian had reportedly 3 weeks earlier killed a lion.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>23rd September</b></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are terrible reports from <b>Ngorongoro Conservation Area</b> - <b>not to be confused with Loliondo</b>.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the evening of 18th September in Irbalbali, Letee Olembor was tortured by NCAA rangers who broke his leg. The rangers dropped Letee at the Lutheran Hospital in Karatu, and he was then referred to Mt. Meru, but doesn't have the means to go there.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> September in the Alayenai area,
NCAA rangers attacked Nakedo Simango, Laambaashini Orkitok, Lebatiri Kimaay, two
Barabaig who were going to buy livestock in Nainokanoka and one other person. Laambaashini
Orkitok was injured by the rangers. It’s reported that the rangers asked their
victims if they had registered to relocate to Handeni. Lebatiri Kimaay was
ordered to crawl on his stomach and jump like a frog. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are also reports that last week seasonal homes (ironjooi) were arsoned in the Orbo area. </span></p></span></div><div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>25th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mwanzo TV aired the first of a series of documentaries. The first one covering the violence in Loliondo on 10th June. https://youtu.be/UMM2cGvPWHQ</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>26th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Further reports that TAWA are leaving and that the illegally demarcated land will be placed under NCAA. Though there isn't any official information about this at all. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>27th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">The bogus murder case was again postponed ... Now to 11th October.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><b>28th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">At the inauguration of the NCAA board, Pindi Chana announced that the illegally demarcated 1,500km2 had been placed under the management of the NCAA. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She also stressed how important it is to boost tourism traffic to 5 million by 2025.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>30th September</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;">After two inexplicable postponements, the East African Court of Justice delivered its ruling.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I will as soon as
possible finish a blog post about this terrible ruling. The court ruled that the applicants had failed to prove that
the mass arson operation in 2017 was carried out on village land and not in
Serengeti National Park as claimed by the government witnesses. Besides a terrible blow, the ruling is stupid in many ways.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/10/amidst-government-terror-and.html" target="_blank"><b>NEW BLOG POST on 2nd October</b></a></span></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-37839711465058615242022-07-07T02:52:00.075+02:002022-09-06T15:59:07.037+02:00The Tanzanian Government Keeps Escalating its War Against the Maasai in Loliondo<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk107867659"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-After decades of land rights
struggle in Loliondo in defence of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of vitally important
grazing land that’s legally registered village land, the Tanzanian government
has with demented brutality and lawlessness, in violation of court orders, less
than two weeks before expected ruling (which was postponed), illegally planted
beacons to demarcate the land. <o:p></o:p></span></i></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Minister Pindi Chana has, against
every law and procedure, a week after the illegal and very violent operation
started, “gazetted” a fake and illegal “Pololeti Game Controlled Area”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Government officials have kept
landing in helicopter to, as from the warfront, say that the exercise is going
just fine and is participatory, at the same time as issuing threats and clapping
to war songs performed by massive security forces. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai landowners and their
livestock are suffering mostly untold abuse. Independent press is blocked from
the area and does not exist in Tanzania anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Nine councillors and the CCM
District Chairman were arrested the day before the illegal demarcation started
and have together with 15 (or now 17) other people been charged with the murder
of a FFU officer who was killed after the local leaders were locked up. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Hundreds of Maasai have been injured,
at least 31 seriously, and thousands have fled to Kenya. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-In areas of Malambo, and elsewhere,
the Maasai are being chased away from their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The this time without any exception anti-Maasai
expressions among government supporters make this the most dangerous attack so
far, but also more Tanzanians than ever before are aware of what’s happening and
expressing their support for the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Then started mass arrests of Maasai
accused of being so-called “Kenyans”, arson of seasonal bomas, and illegal mass
seizing of livestock. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The government, that already has
the huge Serengeti National Park, is lawless, boundaryless and brutal in
satisfying the thirst for Maasai land by the conservation-tourism industrial
complex, in this case OBC that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <i>Where is over 70-years old Oriais Oleng'iyo who was last seen
injured and detained by security forces on 10<sup>th</sup> June?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107867659;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9MHF94gh9yJzoayyJ17645ylm6-O7Tx3kNWvpKio6U9d1MzwN9AOtHEsRDB_oZnsRD4vhmst9nFIo6dc_orrCN4x8wUCL4Pjc_ai93C_L4x9uJSXiEcGVQjBvcWtzvuz8p7uI8tWCphuULWG2qPNFXzfljC4BlX2YVtDEnh3bm0-ycTx5BF4cIu9yQ/s1040/Arash%20beacon..jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9MHF94gh9yJzoayyJ17645ylm6-O7Tx3kNWvpKio6U9d1MzwN9AOtHEsRDB_oZnsRD4vhmst9nFIo6dc_orrCN4x8wUCL4Pjc_ai93C_L4x9uJSXiEcGVQjBvcWtzvuz8p7uI8tWCphuULWG2qPNFXzfljC4BlX2YVtDEnh3bm0-ycTx5BF4cIu9yQ/s320/Arash%20beacon..jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illegal beacon in Arash.</td></tr></tbody></table><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> <span></span></span></i><p></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Updates at the end of the blog post.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government in its effort to alienate Maasai land in
Loliondo has committed illegal mass arson operations in 2009 and 2017, and a
local police state has for many years now been in force to silence anyone who
could speak up about investors that don’t respect land rights (OBC and the
American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>) but the current illegal demarcation operation is the worst
threat so far and I’ve written about it in two blog posts that have then been updated. <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/06/urgent-alert-massive-police-invasion.html">8th June</a> and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-brutal-and-illegal-land-demarcation.html" target="_blank">19th June</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Currently it’s hard to keep up with all violence and lies, and I may
have missed something significant.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government’s huge and shameless lie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Pre-emptive illegal arrests and trumped-up
charges<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The violence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government showing off its own crime<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government not getting support from its
international allies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t confuse Loliondo with NCA, just don't<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Traitors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tourism as state religion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Summary of previous efforts to rob the Maasai
of 1,500 km2 in Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government’s huge and shameless lie<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the morning of 8<sup>th</sup> June, massive joint security forces,
most visibly the anti-riot Field Force Unit, had gathered in Wasso town and set
off to set up camp in Oloosek area of Ololosokwan, in Sanjan sub-village of
Malambo, Soit Orgoss in Oloipiri, and Olchoroibor in Loosoito, while some forces
camped at the DC's office. On 14<sup>th</sup> June, another camp was set up in
the Emoyokwa area of Arash. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Information surfaced that on 2<sup>nd</sup> and 6<sup>th</sup> June, the
Arusha Regional and Ngorongoro District Security Committees had held
closed-door meetings in Arusha and Karatu. In connection with this RC Mongella
had recorded a <a href="https://youtu.be/_HQmCTLDgn4" target="_blank">clip</a> “explaining” the exercise with some absurd lies that were unquestioningly
shared all over regular Tanzanian media. The government had picked up the old
lie, used by Kagasheki in 2013, until even then PM Pinda had to recognise that
it just didn’t correspond with reality. This lie is to claim that the whole
4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo hunting block (the whole of Loliondo division and
Malambo and Piyaya wards in Sale division) is a “protected area” that has been “encroached”
and that the government out of the kindness of its heart is “giving” the Maasai
2,500 km<sup>2</sup> while only “keeping” 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>. The whole 4,000
km<sup>2</sup> has been customary owned land since before colonial times and was
further protected through Local Government (District Authorities) Act, 1982 and
Village Land Act No. 5 of 1999, and is without any kind of doubt legally registered
village land. The lie is based on that the land was since the 1950s also a
so-called Game Controlled Area that regulated hunting but didn’t interfere with
local land use in any way and until Wildlife Conservation Act 2009, that came
into operation in 2010, could totally overlap with village land. The Loliondo
GCA is now defunct, but there have been attempts, funded by OBC, to convert
their 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> favourite hunting area into a new kind of GCA that’s
the same as a Game Reserve, and does not allow any Maasai land use. All such
attempts have been strongly rejected by local Maasai and relevant authorities. Believing
such a lie is the same as believing that the district headquarters and the DC office
have “encroached” on a protected area. Anyone who takes it seriously either supports
the demented violence or is a coward who wants to use “it’s complex”
as an excuse not to speak up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh04N4HTeTh7V637sHiKu9HvRnfd7X6oircc07NmL_2_RVZ9LY0B1VN91fPOPZBb5fp5XEt1ujSUMjSDTFzCExRv0JhbzxKHFAkrP2JlEYuDWzFQHizG9ZHv9kvNbMVaPqkK7cHu9QkHZNEraEUSPjuiFcX0FBCvnLknhYmJvvFoTIEgPA8pYeIeH7e7w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="639" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh04N4HTeTh7V637sHiKu9HvRnfd7X6oircc07NmL_2_RVZ9LY0B1VN91fPOPZBb5fp5XEt1ujSUMjSDTFzCExRv0JhbzxKHFAkrP2JlEYuDWzFQHizG9ZHv9kvNbMVaPqkK7cHu9QkHZNEraEUSPjuiFcX0FBCvnLknhYmJvvFoTIEgPA8pYeIeH7e7w" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVsop-JogwuwHmbrYor8S9XlOcA97sZk5eREzL9hU7X69ke2cxLcEo3KvPv5hNq7u5aCzuIVj2d-K0Fg0IjzmUkcT4IwVFc1LMFZV1-Rnc70s_TRZ8KCWTmzCmTgw3gxfmMiPLxafjIPFRpomqAHkSWnXfVoYQnQwS0zOeiTtv-w4-2tOUVbPYvjJygg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="685" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVsop-JogwuwHmbrYor8S9XlOcA97sZk5eREzL9hU7X69ke2cxLcEo3KvPv5hNq7u5aCzuIVj2d-K0Fg0IjzmUkcT4IwVFc1LMFZV1-Rnc70s_TRZ8KCWTmzCmTgw3gxfmMiPLxafjIPFRpomqAHkSWnXfVoYQnQwS0zOeiTtv-w4-2tOUVbPYvjJygg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Not only did Mongella stand there in his clip repeating the shameless lie,
but he also claimed that the demarcation exercise was “participatory”. He of course knew that the response from the Maasai since when he first started announcing
the threat in January this year could not have been clearer, that nobody has ever
agreed to hand over the land to the government, and illegal mass arrests of
local leaders (see below) the following day further showed how very well Mongella
knew that he was lying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ololosokwan, and elsewhere, people gathered to pray, protest, and deliberate
what action to take. These meetings continued the following day, 9<sup>th</sup>
June, and were gate-crashed by armed FFU officers “explaining” that they would
demarcate the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to turn it into a game reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIUohTi4i-YPaxJGFQLb89fynh8t5vkUzM8zgNryOoDsy4lHB7qoB88lUahrWH70_il6t1lNss7PpCx977NKQx696Fe0-jmf_VMAwAPltipAWOjnyYSVKFsduOaKzhzz_WzVJigDUgV0AmNVvPnpDuw_W_A_FPISUpNi8ngQMMrwlYPyBPK2z6MWoxWQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1000" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiIUohTi4i-YPaxJGFQLb89fynh8t5vkUzM8zgNryOoDsy4lHB7qoB88lUahrWH70_il6t1lNss7PpCx977NKQx696Fe0-jmf_VMAwAPltipAWOjnyYSVKFsduOaKzhzz_WzVJigDUgV0AmNVvPnpDuw_W_A_FPISUpNi8ngQMMrwlYPyBPK2z6MWoxWQ" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTXV6WSuA70jKY9baSLv7nNZL63A2JhN_ZsteqnF-fKEit4tlbMXn6fb9N9Z_o2niPoIkZV6L3jabbaMEbL-Ymgyl15L6sG7vrvtfw5pFpeAawgQhraRcw2xUlOw9QwQhcCG4WL40ALfRFt7tNsugLzYhV83eAaF1W5HAJgrPzKGye674YCMu4TkOKhw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="718" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTXV6WSuA70jKY9baSLv7nNZL63A2JhN_ZsteqnF-fKEit4tlbMXn6fb9N9Z_o2niPoIkZV6L3jabbaMEbL-Ymgyl15L6sG7vrvtfw5pFpeAawgQhraRcw2xUlOw9QwQhcCG4WL40ALfRFt7tNsugLzYhV83eAaF1W5HAJgrPzKGye674YCMu4TkOKhw" width="188" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Kirtalo women with pangas and men with bows and arrows made a video
clip as a message to show that they were ready to die for their land. A very clear
message for PM Majaliwa, which he chose to ignore. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyXMUmndO6YZo7HpeRvvX4wbQj2MD-qQbnNpf4gDAeDyfHx3jcdrK1aol2TnyAowgDYqjnUaZOARpKiKepiyQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In <a href="https://youtu.be/ShaL-GnvT1E" target="_blank">parliament on 10<sup>th</sup> June</a> when violence was exploding, PM
Majaliwa (known for his glowing reports on Magufuli’s health when the president
was probably already dead) claimed that beacons were being placed to protect
the environment and that the local Maasai would “not be affected”. He warned
people of ill will who are spreading a video with false information, referring
to the clip from Kirtalo, saying that the Maasai weren’t pointing their arrows
at any police, while missing the point that it was a message sent to himself.
Speaker Tulia Ackson, said that the government had explained the operation,
that those spreading false information would be dealt with, and that Tanzania
is in an economic war with other countries. Another liar, Arusha RC Mongella,
later (see below) tried to justify the PM’s behaviour with that he made the
announcements before the FFU officer had been killed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> June, five days after the violent attack on the
Maasai had started, Deputy Permanent Representative to the Tanzania Mission to
the UN in Geneva, Hoyce Temu, lied in the most malicious way from start to
finish denying any state violence, claiming that a 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
reserved area had been encroached and that the government in peaceful talks with
local residents had agreed to divide the area and keep 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> as
a protected area, that a minority against the exercise made recordings while
posing threateningly and combined this with unrelated pictures, that the
government has called on anyone alleging to have been attacked to come forward
for the law to take its course and for treatment, but that nobody has come
forward. This ambassador later continued lying in a Zoom meeting, and probably
in many other places that I haven’t kept up with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyRjVVv2tEocFZtmmVZX59sAquSNsxdwcxV00cL-Dle3HjUy2x2Hr7kkNr2SkDc0PsyLkVoq3DTVPzcIxQ6YA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB">On 17<sup>th</sup> June, the Tanzanian government organized its own
demonstration using supposed Maasai without any relation to Loliondo, or
Ngorongoro, to demonstrate outside the Kenyan embassy in Dar es Salaam thanking
the government for dividing Loliondo so that the Maasai have a place to
live(!), and accusing Kenyans and NGOs of inciting conflict. Later it was found
that people had been told that 150 Maasai were needed to go and sing for some
white people at Dar Free Market Mall and would get 20,000 shillings each. Some
Parakuyo Maasai gathered, but most fled when they saw what was being cooked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmGYOqjL6iFQzsKK5zY30k2R8ysR3mODFyQYZYyUHP_MoHWuiNkpdP26J4Md7v-5Fvej-dXoXsM7TFOFOkf-vc2gCZ5tRjpWKSFewvb2tfZq37XFZ-tG8hfJij5AwBIMM0zrv3iI8kZ3Qj5SFyagA-l4w2aS8XNYD5ptX_aklmLnK10q1GTXcnBNJ_Uw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="565" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgmGYOqjL6iFQzsKK5zY30k2R8ysR3mODFyQYZYyUHP_MoHWuiNkpdP26J4Md7v-5Fvej-dXoXsM7TFOFOkf-vc2gCZ5tRjpWKSFewvb2tfZq37XFZ-tG8hfJij5AwBIMM0zrv3iI8kZ3Qj5SFyagA-l4w2aS8XNYD5ptX_aklmLnK10q1GTXcnBNJ_Uw" width="297" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkvasQCnkZC7t_qNmIFdqx6ZXQ97mNK6_uCTtyZbREP0BrTFyVInKGWg2DtZQbefM3kqsxKpCfQH3dNECXQtdxlPVg7B9vRio7fPd9G0f9yPFnZJL7-wVvbgmelVckWRApVQwf2nVutC-xqaxXj0BlZleo3DJ2lzbIs9zdrCuT0vZQn09rRXADr2HVAQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="720" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkvasQCnkZC7t_qNmIFdqx6ZXQ97mNK6_uCTtyZbREP0BrTFyVInKGWg2DtZQbefM3kqsxKpCfQH3dNECXQtdxlPVg7B9vRio7fPd9G0f9yPFnZJL7-wVvbgmelVckWRApVQwf2nVutC-xqaxXj0BlZleo3DJ2lzbIs9zdrCuT0vZQn09rRXADr2HVAQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB">Authentic Maasai youths in Dar es Salaam issued a <a href="On 17th June, the Tanzanian government organized its own demonstration using supposed Maasai without any relation to Loliondo, or Ngorongoro, to demonstrate outside the Kenyan embassy in Dar es Salaam thanking the government for dividing Loliondo so that the Maasai have a place to live(!), and accusing Kenyans and NGOs of inciting conflict. Later it was found that people had been told that 150 Maasai were needed to go and sing for some white people at Dar Free Market Mall and would get 20,000 shillings each. Some Parakuyo Maasai gathered, but most fled when they saw what was being cooked. Authentic Maasai youths in Dar es Salaam made a statement to denounce the fake demonstration, but were of course not covered by any of the regular press. " target="_blank">statement </a>to denounce
the fake demonstration, but were of course not covered by any of the regular press. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzKsNG9zodcYGvFKi0L4AsmXs4esfMuRgmlHl-cNQ-YfRZ_3obw4E2y2Wwxdg1II32QP5TWVGW16RRuWltl3Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Tanzanian press kept quoting the rector for College of African Wildlife
Management Mweka, Prof. Jafari <a href="https://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/2022/06/wildlife-experts-commended-decision-to.html" target="_blank">Kideghesho’s </a>lies about the “downsizing” of a
protected area in Loliondo. This liar also participated in making the genocidal
MLUM review proposal for NCA, as did the Director of Wildlife, Maurus Msuha,
who also has been very active lying about Loliondo.</p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Deputy Minister Masanja, Minister of Constitution and Legal Affairs
Ndumbaro, Director of Wildlife, Msuha, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mulamula
on 21<sup>st</sup> June, stood in front of spineless diplomats telling their
blood-soaked, easy to debunk, lies about Loliondo, and about Ngorongoro
Conservation Area. In a <a href="https://youtu.be/GMGMoQXWl6w" target="_blank">clip</a> shared by the Tanzanian government, Ndumbaro
totally manipulates the diplomats (not shown but heard) making them stand up in
silence for the slain FFU officer, clap, and giggle. He lectures them that
there aren’t any indigenous people in Tanzania, that nobody owns land, and that
human rights aren’t the same in Africa as in Europe, since there are “human and
people’s rights”, which I think would mean more rights, but to Ndumbaro it
justifies human rights crimes. He talks about a conflict between environmental
interests and grazing, but it’s obvious that if had the Maasai used their land
in some other way, less compatible with wildlife, they would not now be
suffering all this abuse. Ndumbaro shamelessly directs himself to the British
high commissioner, thanking the British for having made Loliondo into a
protected area that lasts until today – which is <b>the</b> big lie – and the
diplomats just laugh and clap. Though maybe this time they had asked not to
feature in photos, to avoid situations like in March, when the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism declared that the German ambassador supported their “efforts” in
Ngorongoro (still not publicly denied by the ambassador). The ministry did
however show off the UAE ambassador, and the following day the French
ambassador lent himself to a most deplorable spectacle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhpAynjrER34nZBWV0Xon1p3Amx3L0MBuRxhc04TGLoZGUfG8tOlHaQe34vwQ8eb3lTKWRiT2WcscJ6SI2-UDy93UuNfyH5VPXhoO_Bp_Ky1GL9ICNO3ruCg96oCROdbnZVT-ZZdX7OwjvwnoF2Qoex9PSYVlUiiiV8-G1M58nUGEYQuBgDYY_i4hww/s1375/FVz9um7WAAUPRYs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1375" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguhpAynjrER34nZBWV0Xon1p3Amx3L0MBuRxhc04TGLoZGUfG8tOlHaQe34vwQ8eb3lTKWRiT2WcscJ6SI2-UDy93UuNfyH5VPXhoO_Bp_Ky1GL9ICNO3ruCg96oCROdbnZVT-ZZdX7OwjvwnoF2Qoex9PSYVlUiiiV8-G1M58nUGEYQuBgDYY_i4hww/s320/FVz9um7WAAUPRYs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQt19I47OIG4ln06mnF_IP9gyNz6VSdHepDTOWHHlSUUIb5ukpuczrERHmSL_vx7k28JXR8hdoos5W8vz8448bzE2KCu7LU6072XuqLH0leMXnrpsEvtEhgqSpgvPSLiHdk4PGB_mTVSTvXjPO0hROQh-sNhwHhEpOMpJ-cz4iIvofKSOQOgZTOOaskQ/s615/IMG-20220621-WA0252_615_340_c1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="615" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQt19I47OIG4ln06mnF_IP9gyNz6VSdHepDTOWHHlSUUIb5ukpuczrERHmSL_vx7k28JXR8hdoos5W8vz8448bzE2KCu7LU6072XuqLH0leMXnrpsEvtEhgqSpgvPSLiHdk4PGB_mTVSTvXjPO0hROQh-sNhwHhEpOMpJ-cz4iIvofKSOQOgZTOOaskQ/s320/IMG-20220621-WA0252_615_340_c1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Masanja, Ndumbaro and UAE ambassador Khalifa Abdul Rahman Al Marzouqi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a government propaganda meeting on Zoom on 22<sup>nd</sup> June, in
which they kept repeating the same lies, Minister of Natural Resources and
Tourism, Pindi Chana, went as far as claiming to on 17<sup>th</sup> June having
gazetted the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a “Pololeti GCA”– after a week of war
against the Maasai, with local leaders illegally arrested, charged with murder
for a death the day after they were arrested, and others in hiding. Until then,
the government had been talking about a Game Reserve, but finally decided to
create a GCA on another GCA, since their lie is that Loliondo Game Controlled
Area still exists and is a protected area. The French ambassador participated
making some pointless comments about France. He could have been uninformed and
not understanding the language, if it weren’t because just the day before
diplomats were told the government’s lies in English. On 29<sup>th</sup> June,
the director of wildlife, Maurus Msuha, held another press conference insisting
on the same lies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4RyQuy6tpDUKA9U88r59rrQzeBOFKyAu13HMDFdQdNAS0_GttIcm9sfvUuFK_Zp_0jC44vUHJAZW4T8XxJ2W52GLmyRORpzFffjqgXxMy-M9iefV0iJC9pTMgMm0c7hwsAgst_7gDxAEu_7714sdUx8a4BhSN27tIQWYFLVws7NqlDjQKyEl6xAZwGA/s1172/illegal%20map.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1172" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4RyQuy6tpDUKA9U88r59rrQzeBOFKyAu13HMDFdQdNAS0_GttIcm9sfvUuFK_Zp_0jC44vUHJAZW4T8XxJ2W52GLmyRORpzFffjqgXxMy-M9iefV0iJC9pTMgMm0c7hwsAgst_7gDxAEu_7714sdUx8a4BhSN27tIQWYFLVws7NqlDjQKyEl6xAZwGA/s320/illegal%20map.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two areas, as in the genocidal MLUM review proposal.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> June, a group of anti-Maasai religious leaders was
announced, led by businessman Azim Dewji (who also made an appearance in the Zoom meeting, sounding
authentically stupid, trying to repeat government lies about Loliondo) and
including the government favourite imposter, traditional leader Lekisongo. Not
much was then heard about this group, except that it wasn’t welcomed in
Ngorongoro ward, but Dewji reappeared on 5<sup>th</sup> July talking about
peace and voluntary relocations from NCA. I may have to return to this
individual. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1lILIN-zCyyhChIzLqPkJX8UrGXxZCVR5FmQNaVlDE8uVyH3aBrKQJBxuGuaHJdv13_q8EyxwpRkMLubmsIrlrXvdxCMXyKH5qruIX-n6cCUyx5OvbFmdoVhXVp5auVJoQcuMWj1_IHKIzIr5luq7ZBC_eL1UcPkGeKf7Yvbh3wXVXsNk85WgS6LnMA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="526" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1lILIN-zCyyhChIzLqPkJX8UrGXxZCVR5FmQNaVlDE8uVyH3aBrKQJBxuGuaHJdv13_q8EyxwpRkMLubmsIrlrXvdxCMXyKH5qruIX-n6cCUyx5OvbFmdoVhXVp5auVJoQcuMWj1_IHKIzIr5luq7ZBC_eL1UcPkGeKf7Yvbh3wXVXsNk85WgS6LnMA" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Azim Dewji</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A special mention among liars in the war against the Maasai of Loliondo
goes to OBC’s journalist Manyerere Jackton. This year has seen his return to
incitement against the Loliondo Maasai. The past years he’s parroted chief
conservator Manongi’s rhetoric about NCA, but he lied low about Loliondo
following the arrest of OBC’s director Mollel in 2019, after in over 60
articles having spewed out unhinged hate rhetoric against the Maasai of
Loliondo and campaigned for taking the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> away from them. He
has claimed that 70 percent of the Loliondo Maasai would not be Tanzanian, and
published lists of hundreds of private persons that his “sources” consider to
be “Kenyan” – which he returned to boasting about in his latest article on 28<sup>th</sup>
June. His slandering of those speaking up for land rights, or those he thinks
could speak up for land rights, has been vicious and insane. Besides this, he’s
capable of fabricating any story for apparently no reason at all. This year,
the Jamhuri joined Habib Mchange and Maulid Kitenge in their more recent media hate
campaign against the Ngorongoro Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Even worse is that I’ve in the past experienced first-hand how Jackton
likes to boast about being directly involved in arrests of innocent people.
He’s been boasting quite publicly, published photos of the phones of those
illegally arrested, and used to email me rude one-liners when someone was about
to be arrested. This year I have however not been contacted by this “journalist”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also, OBC’s director Isaack Mollel himself has, after a couple of years
of lying low, returned to sharing his views in the press, in at least two
international articles. His message is that the president can change the land
use anywhere in Tanzania to benefit the nation, naming a couple of brutal
evictions operations to exemplify, adding that urban NGOs use the Maasai as
milking cows (<a href="https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/africa-archives/maasai-in-tanzania-face-eviction-as-government-makes-room-for-trophy-hunting/" target="_blank">Toward Freedom</a>), and (after the illegal operation had started) repeating the government’s lie about
dividing the land while claiming that there’s no land scarcity in Tanzania
(<a href="https://www.businesslend.com/news/tanzanian-maasai-battle-eviction-from-ancestral-land/" target="_blank">Financial Times</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> July, when I finally was to publish this blog post, the
same lies about Loliondo and NCA were parroted by the Minister of Lands,
Housing and Human Settlements Developments, Angeline Mabula, Kennedy Gastorn, Tanzanian
representative to the UN, Adelardus Kilangi, Tanzanian ambassador to Brazil, who
thought Tanzania could learn from Brazil (!) opening a whole new <a href="https://www.iwgia.org/en/brazil/4838-bolsonaro-s-strategy-to-make-indigenous-peoples-disappear-in-brazil.html" target="_blank">chamber of horrors</a>, solicitor general, Gabriel Malata, and others. They must all be
documented and taken to court. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoCoJVsyBhGWBHuy46uhKgoG2AuHayY9jrl-vX6NSFRu2sbPMheQ6sqKBUNtEfMZ5gEX_d5_P86z-U4VqX3EYPygBLK4ZrRFl7bFJuCPrJPAXrAWV55zh3JxZlOM2izDSKuBFmIVcYirI61iL6lKzIcY5WIKBMe1O0dtUMM-C14FvZDFOu-SpFtPdJTg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoCoJVsyBhGWBHuy46uhKgoG2AuHayY9jrl-vX6NSFRu2sbPMheQ6sqKBUNtEfMZ5gEX_d5_P86z-U4VqX3EYPygBLK4ZrRFl7bFJuCPrJPAXrAWV55zh3JxZlOM2izDSKuBFmIVcYirI61iL6lKzIcY5WIKBMe1O0dtUMM-C14FvZDFOu-SpFtPdJTg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">See below for lies and threats by government officials while documenting
their own crime, on the ground in Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Two parliamentarians, both Maasai, have spoken
up against the land grab operation. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 20<sup>th</sup> June, Olesendeka, MP for Simanjiro, spoke up in
parliament against the illegal operation in Loliondo and against Chana's talk
about GCAs and game reserves on the 3<sup>rd</sup> when the minister had
engaged in confused talk that would imply turning very extensive areas of the
country into game reserves. He was viciously bullied by the speaker, Tulia
Ackson, about law paragraphs. Deputy Minister Masanja lied that there aren't
any people living in “those areas”, apparently meaning the old defunct game
controlled areas, denying the existence of hundreds of thousands of Tanzanians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> June, MP Emmanuel Oleshangai spoke up telling the
national assembly in no uncertain terms that land in Loliondo is village land,
that when we talk about land we talk about people’s lives, and that what's
being done in Loliondo is a land grab that no person or village government has
agreed to. He rejected several interventions by ignorant, or worse than
ignorant, parliamentarians, one of them Ridhiwani Kikwete. I don’t know how the
MP can keep calm and smiling in a house so full of evil. <i>"I know there
are people laughing here, but I am talking about the lives of my people, my
grandparents, my fathers, my brothers and my younger siblings. It is their
land”</i>, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: large;">In short</span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, the government is robbing the Maasai of 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> of mostly less densely populated grazing land, expecting them to
squeeze into the remaining 2,500 km<sup>2</sup> of the Loliondo hunting block where
there are towns, agricultural areas, forests, a “private nature refuge”, and
other land occupation, while shamelessly <b>lying</b> that this means that out
of love they are “giving” the Maasai the 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>. Further, the
government claims that the exercise is “participatory”, while arresting
everyone who could speak up against it, which means basically every single
Maasai in Loliondo, and this is what’s being done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Pre-emptive illegal arrests and trumped-up
charges<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup> June, the day before the illegal demarcation started, the
councillors of Ololosokwan, Oloipiri, Oloirien, Maaloni, Arash, Piyaya,
Malambo, and two women’s special seats councillors, Kijoolu Kakiya and Taleng’o
Leshoko were arrested. At least two of these councillors have until quite
recently been working for OBC, against the people. After a CCM meeting they
were interrogated by the District Security Committee, and then a special task
force arrived to interrogate them individually. The Soitsambu councillor avoided attending the meeting. At midnight they were put in a
vehicle and driven to an unknown destination that upon arrival was identified
as a smaller police station in Arusha town, Chekereni, where they were
interrogated regarding sedition - and not murder. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing was known of the whereabouts of those illegally
arrested/abducted until 16<sup>th</sup> June when they were sneaked to court
without any legal representation and then locked up in Kisongo remand prison.
The following day it was revealed that they, and ten other arrested people from
Loliondo, had been charged with murder contrary to Section 196 of the Penal
Code [Cap 16 R:E 2019] in the preliminary inquiry case No 11 of 2022. The
murder concerned a FFU officer who was killed the day <b>after </b>the local leaders
were arrested. Later three more people were added to the charges. The other
group of ten were arrested on the 10<sup>th</sup>, not allowed to contact
anyone and held for four days without being fed. They were tortured and accused
of reporting about violence in Loliondo, interrogated on suspicion of spreading
false information, but later they were told a murder charge had been found and
they were re-interrogated for murder. One of those illegally arrested is a
student, The case was up for mention in court <a href="https://youtu.be/p4jyUHwmf8c" target="_blank">on 30<sup>th</sup> June</a>, but then
it was postponed to 14<sup>th</sup> July for further “investigation”. Wilsong
Kilong and Memusi Taki (Njoroi chairman) had been added to the charges, so now
25 people are victims of this idiocy. One new charge was added: “conspiracy to
murder”. Then, on 5<sup>th</sup> July, Simon Saitoti, councillor of Ngorongoro
ward in NCA, not Loliondo or Sale, was reportedly added to the charges, as was
one older, injured man, but this requires confirmation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The violence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The night before 10<sup>th</sup> June, the land grabbing forces started
planting illegal beacons on village land in Ololosokwan. They Maasai uprooted
the beacons and in the morning the FFU attacked them with teargas and live
bullets. People were arrested and the FFU destroyed several motorbikes. The
injured were taken across the border to Kenya for treatment, some needed
surgery. The Ngorongoro MP later mentioned 31 serious injuries, and Kenyan
doctors listed 128. The security forces inflicted bullet wounds, beatings, cuttings and stabbings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One of the attackers, a FFU officer, died (according to RC Mongella of
arrowshot).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The over 70 years old Oriais Oleng'iyo who was
last seen with bullet wounds and detained by the FFU was not on the list of
those charged with murder and not found anywhere else. Where is he?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgChNHL8KNasHhcvhmXT9SEfwXW7qXJuCmuB5ozYjddZDOCHQ461CwILV23K3qGFTUfClu5zoPEp4eu7mWnvOE0-tzaOUIWNvkEWgBi1FnB1_VWkCJoa6bPIQIcbDIvo5iWhpPv0nGPZpE1mcVs_dKxUV8f5QO9USFJIRz6KFLnA1ze9-Dt7igD03BV5g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgChNHL8KNasHhcvhmXT9SEfwXW7qXJuCmuB5ozYjddZDOCHQ461CwILV23K3qGFTUfClu5zoPEp4eu7mWnvOE0-tzaOUIWNvkEWgBi1FnB1_VWkCJoa6bPIQIcbDIvo5iWhpPv0nGPZpE1mcVs_dKxUV8f5QO9USFJIRz6KFLnA1ze9-Dt7igD03BV5g" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhADlHd9AHhrAjj7SkNhWAzoahE5fTo-PUbSkvwUacRvP05MUxpXOUkP1wh00DixgiTOan4UUJtopidPBQU-Faz-DxtCyfQOiICR4PGIoYv1-Z-g2JnA8Fgi4Y92kvFgr4H9gnC2LP0XUFNyE4y136w5aKd3EuRv0nIb_JZM4QG7PNegG1_sqwbAl7XvA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhADlHd9AHhrAjj7SkNhWAzoahE5fTo-PUbSkvwUacRvP05MUxpXOUkP1wh00DixgiTOan4UUJtopidPBQU-Faz-DxtCyfQOiICR4PGIoYv1-Z-g2JnA8Fgi4Y92kvFgr4H9gnC2LP0XUFNyE4y136w5aKd3EuRv0nIb_JZM4QG7PNegG1_sqwbAl7XvA" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVRDw4PHfs2snhx7MilYZWrljlFUbbGLPaJxDAxCvtbwg21jLiBIS7GzMzl07wdG2nkHxaTiDF7KQ9RhiljDGgV762lwiemgc2_wruRHAaSY_0-mHww9-CleP4pyzocXKapTsC82i9BpqDuzJsPABFAHQZtTp9IlRmO3Gt28rD5YJXr1ji-TJSajcelw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVRDw4PHfs2snhx7MilYZWrljlFUbbGLPaJxDAxCvtbwg21jLiBIS7GzMzl07wdG2nkHxaTiDF7KQ9RhiljDGgV762lwiemgc2_wruRHAaSY_0-mHww9-CleP4pyzocXKapTsC82i9BpqDuzJsPABFAHQZtTp9IlRmO3Gt28rD5YJXr1ji-TJSajcelw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal planting of beacons, shooting and tear gas continued the
following day, in Ololosokwan and elsewhere. In Malambo and elderly man died
when hit by a FFU vehicle. In the Oltulelei area of Maaloni, people were
arrested and beaten, and the FFU set fire to three motorbikes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 11<sup>th</sup>, at night the FFU fired shots in all directions
in Mairowa in Ololosokwan, not in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> area targeted by
illegal demarcation. Houses were searched and people were beaten. The hunt was
for those who had participated in protests and those who had shared photos of
the government’s violent crimes. Many ran away into the bush to hide. <a href="https://youtu.be/t-nSk7iIp1E" target="_blank">More people fled to Kenya.</a> Thousands of Tanzanians are currently refugees in Kenya. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kenyan Maasai have shown great solidary helping with hospital treatment
and medicine, feeding and accommodating refugees, and organized protests. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmOwxDSOc8TcheUNGo-dyOvk7KpX26Dx1GhsDl7ZacXVKwIgTHGJeJC6loZEQAfDt6b-ehbwk9Ckdo1h0JO1GIkGFWxccS9yMSX7493-W-JSVWJaaTOlCUo2eho118xVMJKCF4qQ7VX44MJ4wgb9DrN05_yBvAlq6HRCiHqPpy4xU1wklheQhtX9-WUw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmOwxDSOc8TcheUNGo-dyOvk7KpX26Dx1GhsDl7ZacXVKwIgTHGJeJC6loZEQAfDt6b-ehbwk9Ckdo1h0JO1GIkGFWxccS9yMSX7493-W-JSVWJaaTOlCUo2eho118xVMJKCF4qQ7VX44MJ4wgb9DrN05_yBvAlq6HRCiHqPpy4xU1wklheQhtX9-WUw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhprp8GpcM-rYw4oIKYHXVB4jirTk80IgbtUy4OyaUE6D4h-um6p0gUPBKEb8TQ9y_9OpLFOqsm4oDyS2r59LwCLecig_hKSik9blH33Gs4IAWXAfL5lQPFiA29LB_5KNlBkb7VqB6s4SQzrRaEtuejCHKX19nOc3gYemh6MKji22aSnXxhQ02C3q4txA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="720" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhprp8GpcM-rYw4oIKYHXVB4jirTk80IgbtUy4OyaUE6D4h-um6p0gUPBKEb8TQ9y_9OpLFOqsm4oDyS2r59LwCLecig_hKSik9blH33Gs4IAWXAfL5lQPFiA29LB_5KNlBkb7VqB6s4SQzrRaEtuejCHKX19nOc3gYemh6MKji22aSnXxhQ02C3q4txA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />On the 13<sup>th</sup>, MP Emmanuel Oleshangai confirmed that at least
31 people had been seriously injured in the demarcation exercise on village
land, and that they are being treated in Kenya after being denied treatment at
the Osero clinic in Ololosokwan for lacking the required PF3 form that the
police are supposed to provide. He explained that the injured were his voters
and not Kenyans. Further, the MP demanded the release of the detained leaders,
and made clear that the operation is most definitely not
"participatory" since <b>even he had not been informed, despite
sitting in the same parliament as the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism</b>.<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day, the Ngorongoro MP was summoned to the police, and so were
Olesendeka, MP of Simanjiro and Kitila Mkumbo, MP of Ubungo. The accusations
were of incitement and what the three have in common is that they spoke up
during the vicious anti-Maasai hatred in parliament in February. The MPs were
questioned and released.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The FFU opened fire at the market in Oltulelei on 15<sup>th</sup> June, causing
fear and panic. In Malambo as well were they firing shots into the air, and
they beat up a motorbike rider whom they thought was following them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The very illegal demarcation exercise in clouds of teargas continued. Besides
the FFU, </span>those participating in the crime are Tanzania Wildlife Authority (TAWA),
Serengeti and Tanzania National Parks Authority (SENAPA/TANAPA), soldiers from
Tanzania People’s Defence Force (JWTZ) that have a camp in Olopolun near Wasso
since 2018, OBC’s anti-poaching, local police, and others. Eventually it became
confused and hard to determine who was doing what.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With all this terrifying violence and lawlessness, there were big
expectations for the ruling of the East African Court of Justice on 22<sup>nd</sup>
June. Shockingly, just one day before the expected ruling, the court communicated
that due to unavoidable circumstances the ruling had been postponed to
September. This could just be another case of an overwhelming workload. The
years of this court case have been filled of frustration of how everyone involved
is too busy to give it the required dedication, but there’s a lingering unease
that something more sinister could be at work. Remember that the court on 25<sup>th</sup>
September 2018, issued an injunction restraining the government from evictions,
destruction and harassment of the applicants, while the case continues. Obviously,
this order has been violated to some extreme extent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were reports from Malambo that the invading security forces were
counting the bomas found inside their illegal demarcation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> June, at Ngorongoro District Council – the day after
Majaliwa had clapped to soldier songs - village and ward executive officers were
instructed to tell people to leave the illegally demarcated area within 24
hours, or their livestock would be confiscated. In the evening, there were
pictures and reports from Sanjan in Malambo ward of how the Maasai, under fear
and panic, were loading their belongings on donkeys. Then came reports that the
same was happening in Arash, Oltulelei in Oloirien, and everywhere. Shots were
being fired and people were being beaten, reportedly by both the FFU and
soldiers from the national army.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOfmxFH81QZI_u13Kc02fxBsk18_-cwj-Th1vRl9zuIhpuLeganpn_1UakxWpO2maVTxW75X1zWLEIdAZv2yYuwVCNU65txEtJ0dqMZkDClv43AyxwfhPi2fI8SAuRhZgQiStMPsdlPvtP-DhYIrxIpiUpROZ0nRAJPf3vFskPXCPgFmOSwDiuj3noBA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="675" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOfmxFH81QZI_u13Kc02fxBsk18_-cwj-Th1vRl9zuIhpuLeganpn_1UakxWpO2maVTxW75X1zWLEIdAZv2yYuwVCNU65txEtJ0dqMZkDClv43AyxwfhPi2fI8SAuRhZgQiStMPsdlPvtP-DhYIrxIpiUpROZ0nRAJPf3vFskPXCPgFmOSwDiuj3noBA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following days, families, women, children and livestock continued
leaving Sanjan with their belongings packed on donkeys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYinPnOokG4-Z7jeqEU5uI41aPeSotlXwJcp1jE7-S36gXzsw70uS5oZKrOx3gLBKcGzKlIJiz3x9q1n45eSUd9aNtpcV3vq_Z0ZokyoyXUBrhTc8mx7X4R_Sk5Paltqu8BQl6Y-RNCERwy_P-qSdpXi24TU0eT-wfTisKDA1LSHosfqyJEH1kVeqs4w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1040" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYinPnOokG4-Z7jeqEU5uI41aPeSotlXwJcp1jE7-S36gXzsw70uS5oZKrOx3gLBKcGzKlIJiz3x9q1n45eSUd9aNtpcV3vq_Z0ZokyoyXUBrhTc8mx7X4R_Sk5Paltqu8BQl6Y-RNCERwy_P-qSdpXi24TU0eT-wfTisKDA1LSHosfqyJEH1kVeqs4w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ololosokwan the security forces said that they would never leave and
will revenge the death of the FFU officer by killing 15 people. Reportedly a
road is being cleared along the illegal demarcation. There were unconfirmed
reports of widespread theft committed the security forces. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ormanie, Arash ward, on 27<sup>th</sup> June, donkeys, calves, and
other livestock belonging to Parkimalo Lupa were shot when on the way to the
river. Children accompanying the livestock were severely beaten by the security
forces. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJSJaSMs2FaIRrKXw2bzynwMFnd3hJZeQzujl-JGT4F6CiBcOBSHp2eRrKsr_VWSRFqtvDWjOvtQQlaxiRzK4zrsmImxa2m660GOCpmzDNySxxeSudXYA-7vQ-cpr1Q8H_fvKSzEkJkmL5uwYtuWxZ_xHiK_OPihHDw2C5gUKyMzX1ylLHTaSqaOpVjw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJSJaSMs2FaIRrKXw2bzynwMFnd3hJZeQzujl-JGT4F6CiBcOBSHp2eRrKsr_VWSRFqtvDWjOvtQQlaxiRzK4zrsmImxa2m660GOCpmzDNySxxeSudXYA-7vQ-cpr1Q8H_fvKSzEkJkmL5uwYtuWxZ_xHiK_OPihHDw2C5gUKyMzX1ylLHTaSqaOpVjw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At least seven people from Serng'etuny sub-village in Piyaya and ten
from Ndinyika, Malambo were on 29<sup>th</sup> June, arrested and taken to
Loliondo police station. Those in Piyaya were reportedly arrested in connection
with uprooting beacons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mass arrests are spreading to areas in Loliondo far from the illegal
demarcation attack. At least 21 people were arrested in Naan, their houses
invaded at night, and Ng'arwa in Enguserosambu, several village or sub-village
chairmen among them. Also, pregnant women and those with small children. They
are "suspected of being immigrants".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Simon Saitoti, councillor of Ngorongoro ward in NCA, was arrested on 1<sup>st</sup>
July. The councillor had two days earlier visited those ridiculously charged
with murder and when he returned to Oloirobi he himself was arrested. Reportedly, people
in his ward have refused to meet with a religious imposter group. Other councillors
from NCA have been remarkably silent during this brutal and illegal operation,
while activists from NCA have spoken up more than the terrified ones from Loliondo.
Simon was sent to Loliondo and then Arusha, but then his location became unknown,
and the police denied having him, until he on 5<sup>th</sup> July was reportedly
added to the ridiculous murder charges, according to some because he refused to
relocate to Msomera. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The night to 2<sup>nd</sup> July, 30 people were arrested in Njoroi and
11 in Oloika sub-village, in Ololosokwan ward. They are accused of being
"Kenyan”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the afternoon of 2<sup>nd</sup> July, the security forces started
burning seasonal bomas (ronjos) in the Oldoinyorok area of Arash. They had
caught and tortured a young herder, forcing him to show them the location. Six
ronjos were burned to the ground. At least four more ronjos were burned in the
nearby Sindin area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Malambo, the security forces are demolishing houses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some 477 cows and 650 sheep were illegally seized in Ololosokwan, and the
livestock held at Klein’s gate. The owners are being told to pay an
extortionate 100,000 TShs fine per head of cattle, and 25,000 per sheep. Though
other reports mention 1,130 cows that five families have been charged for. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reportedly, on 3<sup>rd</sup> July, Thomson Safaris joined the abuse,
and I’m trying to obtain exact information. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 4<sup>th</sup> July, the security forces seized cows and sheep from
over five bomas in Ildupa sub-village of Ormanie, and drove them to Engutoto
sub-village in Arash. Then they went on to extort 100,000 TShs per cow and
25,000 per sheep from the owners. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif">The
police on 4</span><sup style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">th</sup><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> July announced having detained 72 people, from Loliondo
and Sale divisions, suspected of being “illegal immigrants”, 30 will be taken to
court, 13 released, and investigation of 29 others continue.</span> Accusing people of being “Kenyan” and going
after NGOs, while at any cost protecting the interests of “investors” that don’t
respect land right, is the basics of the Loliondo police state. This time, Immigration is looking for the location of vaccine marks, which reportedly isn't the same in Kenya as in Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB">In Olosirwa sub-village of Kirtalo six people were arrested on 6<sup>th</sup>
July, including a primary school teacher when police in four vehicles invaded
the school.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This section of the blog post is impossible to keep exact, and sadly it
never ends. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government showing off its own crime</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> June, RC Mongella arrived in Loliondo with the
regional security committee to repeat the shameless lie that stealing 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
is giving away 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>. He said that the illegal operation was
going just fine, while confirming that one FFU officer was the previous day
killed by arrowshot. There has of course not been any independent
investigation, but if that’s how he died, the archer was defending his home and
his land against very dangerous invaders. Then Mongella posed in photos
planting illegal beacons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRteymnjR6Hvkv8o5SPu3n08TfmMFelaSZS1ll2bRhSgfTWLp6NriULx4BgGvAd_F8tLnwQ_cBxzE_HhKks0a-cDlU5oJ10hrHUwAJ-dU6XVVYQGLBhOaGfX2dpSfG0HQqhyZmIbc7QijjCX__dKGJ3Ws_vj44XYdUXX7SfSuUXgQZOQuDJyElA4BVSA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRteymnjR6Hvkv8o5SPu3n08TfmMFelaSZS1ll2bRhSgfTWLp6NriULx4BgGvAd_F8tLnwQ_cBxzE_HhKks0a-cDlU5oJ10hrHUwAJ-dU6XVVYQGLBhOaGfX2dpSfG0HQqhyZmIbc7QijjCX__dKGJ3Ws_vj44XYdUXX7SfSuUXgQZOQuDJyElA4BVSA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Many government officials have followed Mongella and they must all be
held <b>personally accountable</b> for this crime. I wish I could keep up with everything
that has happened. All these criminals must be punished!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 12<sup>th</sup> June, at the funeral of the FFU officer, Ngorongoro
DC, Raymond Mwangwala, <a href="https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/swoop-nets-ten-suspects-after-police-officer-dies" target="_blank">told media</a> that those talking online, instigating things
that aren't true, will be found wherever they are, in classic Loliondo police
state style, which he earlier has mostly left to the DED. Then he has stood at
the side of most every government official who has come to defend the crime and
threaten anyone who could speak up. Head of police operations, Liberatus Sabas,
declared that anyone involved in the killing of the police who died from
arrowshot will be hunted down day and night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> June, Inspector General of Police, Simon Sirro,
arrived in to Loliondo to make his contribution to the illegal demarcation,
accompanied by RC Mongella. Sirro too said that the demarcation operation is
going just fine, but there are some people, politicians included, who are
stirring things up, using the Maasai for their own benefit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhp5jJvYvtIEAFlhJRYqlHprRKu1-xunvPmFfGw7wyW4wt_hFxw1yHdnWJ_N_Vg1bbOlSIg7okMNn46du47_3f8I5fj7NhTPEtci_CaDXqPOncs2nKVtiQuOSqtvmNeJuboT1QhDTxQfy6jpZQEtGqv9tS_CeGqo3vnvomzzdBLw7cXxQ_pqSgVxJnDhw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhp5jJvYvtIEAFlhJRYqlHprRKu1-xunvPmFfGw7wyW4wt_hFxw1yHdnWJ_N_Vg1bbOlSIg7okMNn46du47_3f8I5fj7NhTPEtci_CaDXqPOncs2nKVtiQuOSqtvmNeJuboT1QhDTxQfy6jpZQEtGqv9tS_CeGqo3vnvomzzdBLw7cXxQ_pqSgVxJnDhw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_QplH8qXEvNpR1BOx29cuTdGvLZ8KnsY58w8BnO6Na3s8bnqzholo06QrQLgpb1teo32vu2N0ThaR2GvT3qYNEkzYklFBygtx2E9GhwzMj2g_CmaVKDDdrIKObVagXIxtg0f5lPWVyURdz4hTNciVOYDcV2waoWAxO3lm-saWmYbvmNFmQcVwf-Gnyw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_QplH8qXEvNpR1BOx29cuTdGvLZ8KnsY58w8BnO6Na3s8bnqzholo06QrQLgpb1teo32vu2N0ThaR2GvT3qYNEkzYklFBygtx2E9GhwzMj2g_CmaVKDDdrIKObVagXIxtg0f5lPWVyURdz4hTNciVOYDcV2waoWAxO3lm-saWmYbvmNFmQcVwf-Gnyw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sirro in Loliondo</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Minister of Home Affairs, Hamad Masauni, arrived in Loliondo in
helicopter to make a statement directing Immigration to strengthen border
security to prevent illegal entry by foreigners and so avoid incitement
activities. He also ordered NGOs to be investigated to make sure they operate
within the law and don’t engage in breach of peace. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzbuqJNElOme3CsHQw5XChULPBvNKng3ZTEvXGBZg4YpWEneY8fwoOJODRzWgRQSElOrIZhAPMBIC1Sgfd57g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Immigration Commissioner for Border Control and Administration, <a href="https://youtu.be/IBskVe03x1A" target="_blank">Samwel Mahirane</a> arrived in Loliondo on 18<sup>th</sup> June to stand next to an
illegal beacon (he too) and posing with a legal Kenya border beacon,
threatening people who are sabotaging the exercise and have fled. He said they
are known and will all be dealt with. Then he threw in some threats against
NGOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbeBVWwoVdkFxEqbRC8W9pwLhatWXlr9L1XEsgWrbGqNYFl3Hgb5lZdF-WwzG8sX3DE14Iv5RzZSKCXcEkOUHuOqvLhfweNnhd9znGtkzmgCzkwbE78YZ3j4RTMj_nzpIYJ0AKjkYYRPWJ1qUvm65PLBDdUeQAYa_0xJC6DnlnCkpeIOfZrDMNrdOWdA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbeBVWwoVdkFxEqbRC8W9pwLhatWXlr9L1XEsgWrbGqNYFl3Hgb5lZdF-WwzG8sX3DE14Iv5RzZSKCXcEkOUHuOqvLhfweNnhd9znGtkzmgCzkwbE78YZ3j4RTMj_nzpIYJ0AKjkYYRPWJ1qUvm65PLBDdUeQAYa_0xJC6DnlnCkpeIOfZrDMNrdOWdA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Commissioner General of Immigration,<a href="https://youtu.be/vl6_bWbTNZQ" target="_blank"> Anna Makakala</a>, arrived in Loliondo
to add her statement from the warfront against the Maasai, announcing that
there would be 10 days of flushing out illegal immigrants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjb0fM-1om1tumarb4_LkqvDS5rbBPk7_iLcyCFhpc5LX1U0CIxLWl3kr9_8KEHnfJK_nFNoI0_cgRooOhcKISOzXT_8BNVz0cndqSSMVLqgn65AXymuEqxkbHa_mqpJZmFr8-D63gHx9hl2LwCB4bzRY83xVHTCWZEU_HeUyK8Yj-OCzo9XjDSiV7Vug" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="320" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjb0fM-1om1tumarb4_LkqvDS5rbBPk7_iLcyCFhpc5LX1U0CIxLWl3kr9_8KEHnfJK_nFNoI0_cgRooOhcKISOzXT_8BNVz0cndqSSMVLqgn65AXymuEqxkbHa_mqpJZmFr8-D63gHx9hl2LwCB4bzRY83xVHTCWZEU_HeUyK8Yj-OCzo9XjDSiV7Vug" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A letter was shared with the information that CCM's National Executive
Committee had met on the 21<sup>st</sup> under the chairperson Samia Suluhu
Hassan, and among other issues nominated a contestant for Ngorongoro District
Council chairperson. Normally there would be three contestants, but now there
was only Mohammed "Marekani" Bayo, current deputy chairman and OBC's
community liaison for many years. The letter was signed by Shaka Hamdu Shaka.
On 5<sup>th</sup> July, Marekani was “unanimously elected” as district council
chairman – with ten of the councillors illegally arrested! It should however not be forgotten that opposition councillors were cleansed out of Ngorongoro district, via threats and bribes, and all returned to CCM well in advance of the bloody 2020 elections. Now there's ethnic cleansing to get rid of the Maasai (by far majority in the district) for the love of the tourist dollar. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOvIR9TFiURqB7Y-jzzHzuoktzMknFKDuG1CvJqg-qGBNDYaSebIA9774ArB-NsGkbQ3W-NXzXCKin7yX4gb3U4jr1jRjFDF5kzQDusCbndpIvvC7WBKZgvQlZJjr8AetcEV7RAfTqOXZnXUJb3Ma0BUP5g58KlT6CXunhSDBjBQ9gQ8aVnH-WE3U0ug" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOvIR9TFiURqB7Y-jzzHzuoktzMknFKDuG1CvJqg-qGBNDYaSebIA9774ArB-NsGkbQ3W-NXzXCKin7yX4gb3U4jr1jRjFDF5kzQDusCbndpIvvC7WBKZgvQlZJjr8AetcEV7RAfTqOXZnXUJb3Ma0BUP5g58KlT6CXunhSDBjBQ9gQ8aVnH-WE3U0ug" width="244" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkdDAio4mpl4so9nQACJiemehIKQ-vqNO3TS5poJLrHzk3aGY6pYyJtQfUpAce0Cx-gA_7RhzABsCzWs_Mlyf7bU-FzjEG2FhJ0EbMBrScE0I5a-jJ6uO7NOCQ-groSsvmdKkTerp5qds-TSILLO_ZWWGdgJo9_rSOIKI6wFc8qNgyNC2Qodx5cxcYkQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="2048" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkdDAio4mpl4so9nQACJiemehIKQ-vqNO3TS5poJLrHzk3aGY6pYyJtQfUpAce0Cx-gA_7RhzABsCzWs_Mlyf7bU-FzjEG2FhJ0EbMBrScE0I5a-jJ6uO7NOCQ-groSsvmdKkTerp5qds-TSILLO_ZWWGdgJo9_rSOIKI6wFc8qNgyNC2Qodx5cxcYkQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> June, PM Majaliwa arrived in Loliondo together with the
RC, DC, DED, Minister Chana, Immigration Commissioner Makakala, Awesso, Minister of Waters who’s very much
involved in this crime, and other criminals. One of his lies was that the beacons had been planted
many kilometres from where people are living, which everyone participating in
the crime have with their own eyes seen is not true. The following day a creepy
clip was shared in which soldiers from the national army were singing a war
song to Majaliwa and the other dignitaries upon landing in Loliondo. I’ve been
told that such tropes aren’t deployed without the direct involvement of the
commander in chief, President Samia.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxFaBrQBtp7hRZ-HZMrp29fkZT5rnWuOgbr4KDSVX-lbg80JPFgTSrvkfbuUJcw8u5JV6pMwNwOy-3lJm46pQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYxBWKgRRYNv3Wz0OongC1aBqvJx3ch2Obum2KSIf8mVClbbk7alRXktnJ3f5-0q7oTv61QmTNpBRVDbG9pyp6DjkSKUFGq3a6yK7UBjozmvAtt97opjQ0M2sDvJe2OFtt7ufc6otZKEYhFosQU16T9SVBimbtLkAeppYWTdrm182ILu8XfGqONSKlTQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="1445" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYxBWKgRRYNv3Wz0OongC1aBqvJx3ch2Obum2KSIf8mVClbbk7alRXktnJ3f5-0q7oTv61QmTNpBRVDbG9pyp6DjkSKUFGq3a6yK7UBjozmvAtt97opjQ0M2sDvJe2OFtt7ufc6otZKEYhFosQU16T9SVBimbtLkAeppYWTdrm182ILu8XfGqONSKlTQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> June, at Ngorongoro District Council, village and
ward executive officers were instructed to tell people to leave the illegally
demarcated area within 24 hours, or their livestock would be confiscated. In
the evening, there were pictures and reports from Sanjan in Malambo ward of how
the Maasai, under fear and panic, were loading their belongings on donkeys.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every single government official who has been telling lies and issuing
threats, from the ground, or elsewhere, must be held personally accountable!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I will probably forget many, but the Loliondo Maasai have received statements
of support, of varying strength, from the African Commission on Human and
Peoples’ Rights, a group of nine UN human rights experts, Amnesty International,
the Oakland Institute, Survival International, the International Work Group for
Indigenous Affairs, Indigenous People’s Rights International, Cultural Survival,
a group of more than 250 scientists, Forest People’s Programme, ICCA
Consortium, International Land Coalition, the Sami Parliamentary Council, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Tanzania the political parties CHADEMA and ACT Wazalendo have made statements.
So has Legal and Human Rights Centre, and illustrious individuals have spoken
up, such as Tundu Lissu, Issa Shivji (in a <a href="https://www.mwananchi.co.tz/mw/habari/kitaifa/barua-ya-profesa-shivji-kwa-rais-samia-3859808" target="_blank">letter</a> speaking up about the
ownership of the land), and Maria Sarungi Tsehai tirelessly in social media. Kenyan
politicians like Ledama Olekina and Moitalel Ole Kenta, and others, keep
speaking up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Govt not getting support from its international
allies<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A <a href="https://youtu.be/PsQoc2oG3W8" target="_blank">video </a>called “Serengeti and Ngorongoro shall never die: the truth about
the Loliondo situation” (paraphrasing <a href="https://www.theelephant.info/features/2022/04/18/ngorongoro-nazi/" target="_blank">Bernhard Grzimek</a>) was shared, with a plead
to international conservation organisations to support the Tanzanian government’s
war against the Maasai. It claims that the survival of the Serengeti ecosystem
is at stake, describes any talk about forced evictions as lies, repeats the monumental
lie about the status of the land, and boasts about that Tanzanian has allocated
32% of its area for conservation. It must feel unfair to the government that
the organisations and conservation researchers that have created the ideology and
the promises of tourism revenue that inevitably lead to violence then refuse to
express any public support for this violence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2019/04/science-magazine-article-with-huge.html" target="_blank">not just a few</a> international researchers that have a manic focus on
– while deeply embedded with the parastatals of the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism and with human rights criminals as co-authors – finding any
faults with pastoralists at the outskirts of protected areas. </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://teklehaymanotblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/is-population-growth-really-squeezing-wildlife-in-the-serengeti-mara-ecosystem/" target="_blank">“Sucha simplistic view will only lead to solutions that promote violence as in the evictions of the Maasai pastoral households in Loliondo in the last few years”</a>. </span>This time even
Frankfurt Zoological Society, that <b>never</b> has said anything about
violence for conservation in the Serengeti ecosystem, seriously <a href="https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/letter-to-FZS" target="_blank">rattled by Survival International</a>, has expressed shock about the violence in Loliondo and
distanced itself from any involvement in the land demarcation, but still claiming
that the land status would be “uncertain”. It’s not a secret that FZS has since
its foundation, in close cooperation with Tanzanian authorities, been involved in
and promoting land alienation and violent conservation. Another unlikely
organisation that has expressed concern about the violence in Loliondo and even
called on the government to respect the 2018 injunction in the EACJ is the IUCN
that has never had any involvement in Loliondo (as far as I know) but together
with UNESCO has been a <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/04/illegal-arrests-again-in-loliondo.html" target="_blank">main instigator</a> of the government’s threats against the
Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The reactions by organisations like this
must be seen as a victory for the - mostly silenced through terror - local
Loliondo activists and their work through international organisation for land
rights and indigenous rights.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">However, we don’t know what they conversations behind the scenes look
like, and the government is getting plenty of laughs and applause from foreign
diplomats. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It’s important that leaders, naively or tempted by big money, when we’ve
stopped this land grab, don’t let non-friendly organisations act as any kind of
mediators to alienate the land in some less violent and obvious way, the land
must be managed by the villages, without any kind of “WMA”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Don’t confuse Loliondo with NCA, just don’t<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While even lying government officials keep asking people not to confuse
Loliondo and NCA, the supporters of injustice themselves do so all the time (enjoying
it) as do those who support the Maasai, and many journalists. <b>No</b>, <b>nobody</b>
from Loliondo will get any alternative land in Handeni. That’s for those
relocating from NCA. What the government is trying to do is to steal 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of less densely populated mostly grazing land while expecting the Maasai to
squeeze into the remaining 2,500 km<sup>2</sup> of the Loliondo hunting block,
where there are two towns, including district headquarters, agricultural areas,
forests and a private nature refuge claimed by the horrible American “investor”
Thomson Safaris. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the other hand, the government is also lying wildly about NCA, which I’ve
written about in previous blog posts, and will hopefully return to once the
illegal beacons in Loliondo are uprooted. Relocations to Msomera in Handeni are
hardly “voluntary” when the Maasai in NCA live under intolerable restrictions,
permits for already funded public services have the past year been blocked, and
COVID-19 funds for schools have illegally been transferred to Handeni. Much of
the government’s spectacles showing off those who are relocating don’t involve
people with a real relation to NCA. One recent spectacle is the family of
former MP Telele who have homes in several cities and agricultural business in Simanjiro.
Telele will hardly have to fight with mosquitoes and agriculturalists in the more
densely populated Handeni. Many people have through the years tried to explain
Telele’s previous treasonous behaviour with that he’s good, but not so bright
and aware. I’ve wanted to believe them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> June, President Samia appointed the retired chief of
Tanzania People’s Defence Forces, General Venance Mabeyo, as chairman of the
board of directors of the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Traitors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Talking about traitors, such people have sadly often been found in Loliondo.
In the previous blog post, I mentioned a young man, confirmed by relatives, who
was driving around trying to, in exchange of money, find youths and women to
speak up in support of the government. He seems to ha failed in his mission,
but others have emerged. An old traitor from the days when the “investor-friendly”
group – led by Alais and Killel - in 2014 seriously damaged the land rights struggle
seeking personal benefits by praising the aggressors and attacking the activists
to whom they left the defence of the land, is the former councillor Raphael
Long’oi. He has now emerged in a <a href="https://youtu.be/UPDE7Nx7Mq4" target="_blank">clip </a>filmed at the start of the illegal
demarcation operation, in which he lies that there isn’t any violence and that
nobody will be evicted. The most benevolent interpretation is that he was trying
to assuage the government, in which he failed, but considering his history, I’d
guess that it’s worse than that. Long’oi was joined by the traditional leader
Lekakui Kanduli and by Freddy Lindi, chairman of Oloswashi village without land
in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> under attack. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I don’t know what the old traitors William Alias and Gabriel Killel are
currently doing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk107756304"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tourism as state religion<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk107756304;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The current state of terror would not be possible without the Magufuli
era’s compulsory stupidity and repression of any kind of dissent within the
ruling CCM party that in the past used to be divided about pastoralist land
rights. This has now worsened considerably with President Samia’s open hostility
towards the Maasai of NCA, and less outspokenly also <a href="https://petergreenberg.com/2022/04/30/eye-on-travel-tanzania-april-30-2022/" target="_blank">Loliondo</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz5SbJj-owLlJpOhuLgRv-G6bsfXh_E-bE1vJzdY-V3c-rTWTdWdyyevM8jhL9_PxfgDVc5XCJp8VP2cyuwbg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The president’s
views and the NCAA’s tireless parliamentary lobbying has made it possible that
in the national assembly less than a handful of parliamentarians will object to
lies, the wildest colonial fantasies, and extreme ethnic hatred against the
Maasai. The president’s participation in a cheesy travel tv show that nobody in
the USA or Europe has heard about, but that the researcher Alex Dukalskis has described
as “authoritarian image management”, has turned into a cult that can’t be
questioned and that is said to be attracting tourists, who will be 5 million by
2025. The reporter Peter Greenberg has done the same show with such criminals
as Netanyahu and Kagame as his hosts and guides. In the Tanzanian version of The
Royal Tour, the only ethnic group that features as a tourist attraction are the
Maasai, who at the same time are insulted by Greenberg and Samia as “too many”,
“primitive”, “will be forced to change”, with some added sexism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx93S_LtDT42DvkfV_PWGZpPKmLs-kpBudMXDGzXdlsIDq-KbpWTLVjkvf-6p7MySx5w-AQfL3iehLJOfqjnA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most clear is the message of tourism as state religion, and
environmental concerns as pure theatre, when for international women’s day, the
notorious deputy minister Mary Masanja’s caravan of hundreds of vehicles in the
Ngorongoro crater is celebrated as the highest form of patriotism and when the
same is repeated in June by the CCM youth wing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1YsEDwDVKlCw_E_60RkgcFaf0dCjxGErvfYAOG8Liq1B0wWR2E9asYAPgHpDuqBewr5TDWY7_qIrcHsbtZtkirxD7ZDf2NT_3bpCkZQcUY6mP3Cm5oGQ6Na4Qlg_jLSfLxAMptwgCKIdJyAMynDsVlncc8AU77SnICZw_1BQkS0Tu3EUX2mhuShD-mQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1YsEDwDVKlCw_E_60RkgcFaf0dCjxGErvfYAOG8Liq1B0wWR2E9asYAPgHpDuqBewr5TDWY7_qIrcHsbtZtkirxD7ZDf2NT_3bpCkZQcUY6mP3Cm5oGQ6Na4Qlg_jLSfLxAMptwgCKIdJyAMynDsVlncc8AU77SnICZw_1BQkS0Tu3EUX2mhuShD-mQ" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb8sqta5HkyyqHraZ_JgG_AXVw14NoxAxSTrmCG1JNYvIxl4wMGGwGKhAxvGO9T3pHXaNKIRnTDVZWX8G83PZT2GuwdOGnCCLIY-aNFH5UZR4Wmq85IyZln-CFEYPY-X4AWpX95EDmoy_T4TGwv3EyYY0MmJ_Fmz18fRvVUBQHnhkWMk3Z2evzBvFM5g" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhb8sqta5HkyyqHraZ_JgG_AXVw14NoxAxSTrmCG1JNYvIxl4wMGGwGKhAxvGO9T3pHXaNKIRnTDVZWX8G83PZT2GuwdOGnCCLIY-aNFH5UZR4Wmq85IyZln-CFEYPY-X4AWpX95EDmoy_T4TGwv3EyYY0MmJ_Fmz18fRvVUBQHnhkWMk3Z2evzBvFM5g" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">President Samia and Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief summary of previous efforts to rob the
Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since 1993 (first contract signed in 1992) Otterlo Business Corporation, owned by Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al Ali, that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, has the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
Loliondo hunting blocks (permit to hunt), which they got in the Loliondogate
scandal covered by the reporter Stan Katabalo in 1993. This area includes two
towns, district headquarters, and agricultural areas, so OBC have lobbied to
have it reduced to their core hunting area bordering Serengeti National Park,
and to make it a protected area, which would signify a huge land loss to the
local Maasai, leading to lost lives and livelihoods. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuTAu_MH82aFQ6K8uehk3e7svgqp93dCoXcfUh27AEqRHVTeTjvclQ300nQUJv58baqxmaBI6wUYMpZkg7BpCdx-NACnQyiQwDTnBETYrpGAPhtlz7J3xD7N1PfLOovWCm3COeSgPWXSc0rT1iCVBz18_VtSO5Mwzmgud-xb33Y6V8G5dj4m646l8tcg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="485" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuTAu_MH82aFQ6K8uehk3e7svgqp93dCoXcfUh27AEqRHVTeTjvclQ300nQUJv58baqxmaBI6wUYMpZkg7BpCdx-NACnQyiQwDTnBETYrpGAPhtlz7J3xD7N1PfLOovWCm3COeSgPWXSc0rT1iCVBz18_VtSO5Mwzmgud-xb33Y6V8G5dj4m646l8tcg" width="238" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Al Ali</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiedqA4ZZPfpNRZYSDhOtIUgupw8N54XESPD1tCj1w8qPsFEZZISW6s5HidBk2-cv9fxlvROWQ1kdoncmLZcZnFxNilAAs5IK5QZsnWI27wWXmqA1lK2n9OoNtq0Uc1Q--4cQ6rTTjo1J5WONPWXIX7xzWOJ5MBnBCNS6raEHSdwQ5oEfuprWdNSJoHg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiedqA4ZZPfpNRZYSDhOtIUgupw8N54XESPD1tCj1w8qPsFEZZISW6s5HidBk2-cv9fxlvROWQ1kdoncmLZcZnFxNilAAs5IK5QZsnWI27wWXmqA1lK2n9OoNtq0Uc1Q--4cQ6rTTjo1J5WONPWXIX7xzWOJ5MBnBCNS6raEHSdwQ5oEfuprWdNSJoHg" width="192" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sheikh Mohammed at Oloipiri Primary, March 2018</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, then Ngorongoro DC Jowika Kasunga coerced local leaders into
signing a Memorandum of Understanding with OBC. There were supposed to be talks
to coordinate grazing and hunting, but when the 2009 drought turned
catastrophic, OBC went to the government to complain, and village land in the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero was illegally invaded by the Field Force Unit
working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson, dispersal of cattle, and abuse of
every kind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on
to funding a draft district land use plan that proposed turning the village
land that had been invaded into a protected area. The Maasai were united, and
the draft land use plan was rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, Minister Kagasheki lied to the world saying that the whole
4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area (Loliondo Division and part
of Sale Division of Ngorongoro District) was a protected area and that
alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> meant generously giving the
remaining land to the Maasai. This ugly trick did not work, since the Maasai
were more serious and united than ever, garnered support from both the
opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Pinda stopped Kagasheki’s threats.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the unity, efforts to buy off local leaders started creating
serious divisions and weakening. Some found it convenient to benefit from openly
praising the “investors” and attacking the people who they at the same time
expected to take risks to defend the land. Though nobody signed any MoU. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and Thomson Safaris) had for years used the local
police state that through the successive DCs, security committee, and most
every government employee will threaten anyone who could speak up about them
and engage in defamation and illegal arrests. The repression and fear of this
police state became worse with Magufuli in office, and there were lengthy
illegal arrests, torture, and malicious prosecution, by 2016 it was so bad that
Majaliwa could enter the stage with a select non-participatory committee, set
up by RC Gambo. Some of the members were local leaders and other representatives
that found themselves at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical
areas” under protests in each village. The proposal handed over to Majaliwa was
seen as a victory, even though it was a sad compromise (a WMA) that had earlier
been rejected for many years of better unity and less fear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihfKx4hdIPDl_LCeFhU-rHTbC5L5cWCqL3p2dlFQabCPEdWK_6z9H2UgCBlaR3kYJ9gGeVuwIT8PugJmsdpCEtMuIiHjYNbTb14xInG9MyiqCGQ8Xc23tRMuRmGX3JP0eNf4WVo8PReJXNOR8cRLgpgPvMVU0s7ZmHIbtD0__A4CYtJY_IjQv0UGUWMw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihfKx4hdIPDl_LCeFhU-rHTbC5L5cWCqL3p2dlFQabCPEdWK_6z9H2UgCBlaR3kYJ9gGeVuwIT8PugJmsdpCEtMuIiHjYNbTb14xInG9MyiqCGQ8Xc23tRMuRmGX3JP0eNf4WVo8PReJXNOR8cRLgpgPvMVU0s7ZmHIbtD0__A4CYtJY_IjQv0UGUWMw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This picture is from March 2017. DON'T use it to illustrate what's happening now. </td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since the Maasai showed such weakness, the government went on with
the unthinkable and while everyone was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s
decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017 an illegal mass arson operation, like the
one in 2009, was initiated and continued, on and off, well into October.
Hundreds of bomas were razed to the ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by
NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA, TAWA/KDU, local police and others. People
were beaten and raped, illegally arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were
frightfully silent while others protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended
that OBC’s land use plan would have been implemented and the operation was
taking place on some protected land, while the DC, and Maghembe’s own ministry,
said it was not about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce
a decision about that, but that village land was invaded because people were
entering Serengeti National Park “too easily”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaavTqqJWqwfrcQh7TK7NDIqgbzR4Qj-pbsxfoO3XAHwnU3K8BYJqf-RJjdWKSJ_5BxdpwmQM9yn2FUBiyIj-UA5Xtoa84Hozft4O8jGBIoehO5Qp1ylQTmZ3_98XHh9brShzY44YXARWrd1ZKKcWPSWkMEPpzee80SCM0ccxOn_liQafDbeWf49igEw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhaavTqqJWqwfrcQh7TK7NDIqgbzR4Qj-pbsxfoO3XAHwnU3K8BYJqf-RJjdWKSJ_5BxdpwmQM9yn2FUBiyIj-UA5Xtoa84Hozft4O8jGBIoehO5Qp1ylQTmZ3_98XHh9brShzY44YXARWrd1ZKKcWPSWkMEPpzee80SCM0ccxOn_liQafDbeWf49igEw" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t stopped until late October 2017, a couple
of weeks after Kigwangalla came into office. The new minister also made grand
promises, like saying that OBC would have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was
very soon clear that OBC weren’t going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December
2017, Majaliwa delivered his vague but terrifying decision that was about,
through a legal bill, creating a “special authority” to manage the land. He
also said that OBC were staying. The decision was celebrated in the anti-Maasai
press (the Jamhuri). Fortunately, implementation has been delayed, no legal
bill has been seen, and would of course be contempt of court. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing
himself to a fake account of the Dubai crown prince), and in April the same
year, OBC - once again - gifted the Ministry of Natural Resources of Tourism
with 15 vehicles. In March 2018, a military camp was set up in Lopolun, near
Wasso in Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually made permanent with
donations from the NCAA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yR13xm_FwlY" width="320" youtube-src-id="yR13xm_FwlY"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and local police tried to derail the case in the
East African Court of Justice (EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in
2017 - by summoning local leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about
this, except for the applicants' main counsel. On 25<sup>th</sup> September
2018 – a year after the illegal operation - <a name="_Hlk107929967">the court
finally issued an injunction restraining the government from evictions,
destruction and harassment of the applicants</a>, but this injunction was soon
brutally violated. In November and December soldiers from the camp in Olopolun
tortured people, seized cattle, and burned bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan.
This was the lowest point ever in the land rights struggle and I have still not
understood how it could happen without anyone at all speaking up. Local leaders
claimed to fear for their lives and thought that the brutality was directly
ordered by President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January 2019 condemned the
crimes in a very vague way, they changed to thinking that OBC’s director had
contracted the soldiers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s
director Isaack Mollel was arrested on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned
down (they never left and Mollel was never fired) their activities on the
ground, but the local police state wasn’t dealt with and after a lengthy stay
in remand prison Mollel was out, and after a while back to work. Speculations
about Mollel’s misfortune include his clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and
Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to send a message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman
Kinana (and to Bernard Membe) that nobody is untouchable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal zoning proposal for NCA, which included
the proposal to annex most of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a
protected area allowing hunting was presented. This Multiple Land Use Model
review proposal was met with countless protests from every kind of group of
people from NCA, but near silence from Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGi88KNQn05L1LX2CuDKtixJDs6Qg31aTWfcr0DvueZJmdca1G4cpOQ4lalzNm007ZO9874i-bPwuL6bB3dI3yozCtK_aanH7MFNp_z_hraLQ5yQqZ3543RG_A9EiQ1nSn5-QPwn6ZvL1xDvKNENgj_ZQoUKdATBXlokik7j1Ieeu5RpqixmIuLwe55A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGi88KNQn05L1LX2CuDKtixJDs6Qg31aTWfcr0DvueZJmdca1G4cpOQ4lalzNm007ZO9874i-bPwuL6bB3dI3yozCtK_aanH7MFNp_z_hraLQ5yQqZ3543RG_A9EiQ1nSn5-QPwn6ZvL1xDvKNENgj_ZQoUKdATBXlokik7j1Ieeu5RpqixmIuLwe55A" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as new DED and he started working to kill the
court cases against land grabbing “investors”. Though the village chairmen have
stood their ground and Reference No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo,
Oloirien, and Arash versus the Attorney General of the United Republic of
Tanzania continues in the EACJ. The case against Thomson Safaris in the
Tanzanian court of appeal, however, was in 2022 killed using a law that was
introduced after the case was filed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January 2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned
village and ward leaders from villages with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to
inform them that the government would make a painful decision for the broader
interest of the nation. The leaders, even those who for years had worked for
OBC and against the people, refused to accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14th January
in Oloirien there was a public protest meeting and a statement by village,
ward, and traditional leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwo-CsZS4bccz1WZkpAJI8ekUfAegJYi2iS3jK5TTuq5uel6YBnE1q0hh1BO2KVUyWyBZH7xFLFgnhdePAbTQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February, Majaliwa came and wasn’t much better than
Mongella, but too well-received, since something worse was expected, because of
the crazy anti-Maasai hate campaign, and parliamentarians calling for tanks to
be sent to Ngorongoro. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup> February in NCA, <b>not</b>
Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be marked by beacons, so that
we may know the boundaries – while claiming that this is NOT a trick! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup> March re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in
an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again
mentioned beacons and water projects when informing parliamentarians about a
fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha, without people from Ngorongoro,
the previous day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders
spoke up in defence of the land, among them the Arash ward councillor Methew
Siloma spoke up very clearly and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the president, since Majaliwa can’t be
trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the
cold, after having fallen out with Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM
mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends
since at least 1993. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CCM councillors that had spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai
of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero were being intimidated, arrested, and
summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha. The councillors of Arash and Malambo had
to keep reporting to the police. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May a committee handed over their report of
“community views” on both NCA and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero in Loliondo to
PM Majaliwa who said that he’s <b>work on the recommendations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June, Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi
Chana in her budget speech announced that her ministry expected to upgrade
Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but she did this while listing huge areas of
Tanzania for the same expectation, which didn’t make it sound believable or
realistic in any way, and there was hardly any reaction, except for an
intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the brutal, lawless land grab operation erupted, and now there are
some 424 beacons to uproot, illegally arrested people that must be freed, and
so many criminals that must be punished. And where is Oriais Oleng'iyo?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna Nordlund is a working-class person
based in Sweden who since 2010 has been blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly
also about NCA) and has her fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration
so that she will not be able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing,
ever again. She has never worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t
earned a shilling from her Loliondo work. She can be reached at
sannasus@hotmail.com</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Updates:</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">7<sup>th</sup>
July<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Cows from five bomas and sheep from one boma were seized in Sanjan, Malambo. There was incorrect information on the 6th saying that livestock were seized in Sanjan, which then was denied by people from the area, but on the 7th they were seized, to demand hefty fines, but reportedly the owners have not yet dared to start negotiating. They would get help from the councillor who's arrested, or the village and sub-village chairmen who have fled. (It's as if some people are actively trying to create confusion). The cattle is being held at Orng'oswa.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">According to an eyewitness, in the evening, four vehicles
arrived in Arash and took two youths who were wearing clothes with the Kenyan
flag. The youths are from Arash. Reportedly people were detained in Piyaya as well.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">On <b>6th July</b> the German ambassador schmoozed with one of the main criminals, RC Mongella.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWltFW5Let3QpzGVy0N299uG2_V_uzpssrSFEqPerH9ahcg10sJNlESajjg3-HCMsSwKYk74_y35s4NfBEKYs12crdqtOohVYSYXb5xBZNiGkWTqNtEqqTUe-qZkFaSx6Jerd1CZ_q7raIrl8A-fmuP50viMDMuZ718X4zo24P_uSiSWL3i_4Hfq2DVg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="664" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWltFW5Let3QpzGVy0N299uG2_V_uzpssrSFEqPerH9ahcg10sJNlESajjg3-HCMsSwKYk74_y35s4NfBEKYs12crdqtOohVYSYXb5xBZNiGkWTqNtEqqTUe-qZkFaSx6Jerd1CZ_q7raIrl8A-fmuP50viMDMuZ718X4zo24P_uSiSWL3i_4Hfq2DVg" width="202" /></a></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">8th July</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The criminals, TAWA and police, are demanding 100,000 per cow and 25,000 per sheep for the livestock seized in Malambo on the 7th. They were seized in Ndinyika sub-village and not Sanjan as mentioned earlier, but are being held in Orng'oswa and another area in Sanjan sub-village. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">The livestock in Malambo were released after the owners paid the extortionate ransom fee of 54,000,000 TShs.</span></span></span></span></p><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Kenyan peacher Julius ole Kuyioni - a real Kenyan this time ... - was arrested in Loliondo and taken to Arusha. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Correction: Kuyioni was arrested on the 7th.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>9th July</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was informed that on Tuesday 5th July, the home of 71-year old pastor and nursery school teacher William Risando, was demolished in Sanjan, Malambo. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Refugees from Sanjan have gone to an area called Olepombo, and to Musurmuny, that's supposed to be for young and sick livestock. The refugees are in need of everything, including food and water, and their cattle are dying. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div><span>Houses have been demolished in Engong'u. in Ololosokwan.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Kenyan Red Cross distributed food to refugees in Olpusimoru. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>11th July</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">THRDC announced that Rebeka and Jacob Koriata from Ololosokwan had been arrested on 29th June regarding Rebeka's nationality. Some administrative issue leading to extreme harrassment. Jacob is accused of having aided an illegal immigrant since he's been married to her since 2016.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>12 July</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In Ndinyika, Malambo 147 hungry cows are seized after having returned tom illegally demarcated grazing areas and the owners are looking for money for the extortionate fines. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The fines were paid the following day.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Daily News, Habari Leo, and maybe others,
published the news that traditional leaders from Loliondo would agree with the illegal
demarcation process, quoting one Amani ole Silonga Torongei, supposedly from
Ololosokwan. It was soon found that Silonga is a politician and pastor from
Monduli, without any connection to Loliondo, another one of the government’s
imposters, or fake traitors. On the 13<sup>th</sup> a <a href="https://youtu.be/UqcoaW5WGXs" target="_blank">video clip</a> was available
online, in which two real traitors were standing next to the imposter – Boni Masago
and Mungasio Ketuta. Masago is known, but Ketuta still a mystery. <o:p></o:p></span></p></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>14th July</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hearings in the ridiculous murder case were postponed to the 28th. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rebecca and Jacob Koriata were released, but must attend the police station again. </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>15th July</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I finally got some clarity regarding who has been
arrested – and <b>charged </b>- by Immigration: 40
people from Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Mondorosi and Njoroi and 21 people from Enguserosambu,
Naan, Ilutulele, Ng’arwa and Orkiu, with differnt charges. All of them are
Tanzanian.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I also got to know that UNHCR from Geneva on 27th June
visited the refugees from Loliondo who have fled to Kenya in Olpusimoru,
Naikarra and other areas where the families are hosted. They stayed for three
days and saw the wounded and the County Commissioner in Narok. The UNHCR have
now written a report and will put pressure on Kenya to recognise the Tanzanian refugees.
The UNHCR Kenyan office and the UNHCR regional office have been unwilling to do
anything, supposedly since they are overstretched.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The chairman of Ololosokwan read a statement giving the imposter </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Amani ole Silonga Torongei five days to apologize. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xrsb1nSJYHE" width="320" youtube-src-id="Xrsb1nSJYHE"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>16th July</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>It was announced everywhere that on 15th July in Geneva, </b>Ndumbaro held talks with Michelle Bachelet, UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, “to exchange ideas on human rights issues,
including clarifying allegations about the Loliondo GCA and the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area.” Further, the message from the Ministry of Constitutional and Legal Affairs was that,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> "</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">thanked
and congratulated the way in which the United Republic of Tanzania implements
human rights issues under the Government." Ndumbaro also claimed to have invited UN Special Rapporteurs to Tanzania. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>17th July</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since yesterday the police have been using tractors to demolish houses in Malambo. People have been told to remove all their belongings before Friday. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>18th July</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kigwangalla spoke on Clubhouse in a far more measured way than anyone in the government, recognizing that you can't legally declare a GCA on village land. I missed that, but Watetezi news reported.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>19th July</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">There were reports about ongoing roadworks along the illegal demarcation by rangers in Arash. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">In Ormanie village one boma was burned and people in other bomas were told to leave. This crime was committed by TAWA rangers, police and NCAA rangers. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>21st July</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">TAWA again illegally seized 70 cows and demanded 7 million from the owners, who paid the following day.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>22nd July</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">246 cows were illegally seized by TAWA in Malambo and 24.6 million extorted. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>25th July</b><br />Over 700 cows were illegally sezed by TAWA on village land in Leken, Kirtalo. Reportedly, they demanded more than the ging extortion rate. The cows were released on the <b>27th</b>. I haven't found out exactly how much the owners paid. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>26<sup>th</sup> July</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Seven youths from Malambo got caught by rangers in
Olbalbal in NCA when on their way to Serengeti. The rangers asked them where
they came from and after saying Malambo they were detained and taken to
Ngorongoro police station. Relatives had to pay 125,000 Tshs and 200,000 for
the police vehicle for their release. Their livestock weren’t seized, but kept
with some women in Olbalbal. I am not sure if I have understood this correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>27th July</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The nasty copycats Thomson Safaris, that claim their own private nature refuge in the villages of Sukenya and Mondorosi, started planting their own beacons. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>28th July</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Charges against three of the 27 accused of murder and conpiracy to murder were dropped. Lekerenga Koyee, who's elderly and sick, Simel Parmwat who's a young student, and Fred Ledidi who's district natural resources officer and a PhD student. The hearings were postponed to 5th August. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>29th July</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The DC met with WEO, VEO, and some village leaders warning them that if villagers take livestock into the illegally demarcated area, they will be auctioned by TAWA. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Flying Medical Service have been banned from landing in Loliondo. They have for several decades been providing a mobile clinic and ambulance for remote areas. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Correction: they have been grounded since March, officially for technical reasons, but they fully disagree and are trying to find a solution. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Watetezi tv uploaded a 22-minute video - Loliondo is crying.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o2Jh9OvyNn8" width="320" youtube-src-id="o2Jh9OvyNn8"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>31 July</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">More livestock were seized in Malambo. The illegal fines for 36 cows and 90 goats were paid by the owner an they were released. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>4th August</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Kenyan pastor Julius Kuyioni who was detained when entering Loliondo for a "crusade" and on a missionary visa, has been illegally arrested since 7th July without charges and was now supposed to be arraigned in court, which didn't happen A charge sheet had still not been prepared. Reportedly, the police no longer suspect him of anything and have handed over the case to Immigration. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>5th August</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">The court overruled the submission by the defence of separating murder and conspiracy charges. Then the hearings in this bogus case were postponed to 17th August. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the evening Julius Kuyioni was released.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>6th August</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">130 cows belonging to the Oloinyo family were seized by TAWA at Eng'ongu Nairowa in Ololosokwan and are being held at Klein's gate. The extortionate and illegal fines were paid on the 9th and the cows released.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were reports that a convoy of the Arusha RC,
TAWA, NCAA and deputy minister Masanja were in Loliondo to hand over the
management of the fake and illegal protected area to NCAA. Though nothing at
all of this has been mentioned online by the MNRT or NCAA, so it just can’t be
verified.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>15th August</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several herds of livestock were seized in Olembuya in Arash. I'm having problems getting exact information.</span></p></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>17th August</b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">MP Emmanuel Oleshangai attended court and hearings in the bogus murder case were postponed to 30th August.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>18th August</b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">Almost 3000 sheep and 200 cows were seized by TAWA in Piyaya. </div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>19th August</b></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;">Majaliwa was again lying about Loliondo. </div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>26<sup>th</sup> August</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cattle belonging to Cosmas Leitura and Elisha Sananka
were seized in Ololosokwan.</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b>31st August</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">NEW BLOG POST https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-horror-continues-in-loliondo-and.html</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-34055175360747247002022-06-19T18:19:00.076+02:002022-07-07T11:43:22.965+02:00The Brutal and Illegal Land Demarcation Operation in Contempt of Court Continues in Loliondo. It Must be Stopped and the Beacons Uprooted!<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With total
lawlessness, massive deployment of security forces, senseless violence and shameless
lies, the Tanzanian government continues planting beacons* in contempt of court
to demarcate and alienate from the Maasai the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of vitally
important grazing land that it – lobbied by OBC that organizes hunting for
Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai - has attempted to steal so many times. This operation
started less than two weeks before the East African Court of Justice is
expected to deliver its ruling on 22<sup>nd</sup> June. Many people have been
injured, are missing or arrested, including local leaders who were lured by the
DC and arrested the first day, kept incommunicado, and now charged with "murder" (for self defence exercised while they were locked up) together with ten others. <b>This crime must be stopped,
and the illegal beacons must be uprooted!<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>The ruling was the day before the scheduled date postponed to September!</b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><br /></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>In the evening of Friday, 24th June people are being told to leave the illegally demarcated area or livestock will be seized tomorrow! Please help!</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="color: #800180;"> Updates at the end of the blog post.</span> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-tanzanian-government-keeps.html" target="_blank">NEW BLOG POST</a> on 7th July.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">*Not sure if the word “beacon”
is used this way everywhere, but they are concrete boundary posts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Following the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/06/urgent-alert-massive-police-invasion.html" target="_blank">blog post that I’ve kept updating</a>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">in this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The crime<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Very brief and
simplified background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NEVER</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">,
through decades of land rights struggle and an increasingly threatening
government side, has any village council or village assembly agreed to a Game
Reserve under any kind of name. Not even the most corrupt and “investor
friendly” groupings (not that they’d have any such authority) have ever signed
away the land for a Game Reserve. Losing 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of vitally
important grazing land would lead to such destruction that it just isn’t
anything anyone can contemplate. The community reports handed over to PM
Majaliwa on 25<sup>th</sup> May, though over-ambitious considering the time
frame, did certainly not agree to any Game Reserve. The PM was going to “work
on the recommendations”, but instead the government went to war against the Maasai.
A pattern can be seen in the PM’s behaviour. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmb2Svo3lySCAGM-3HlJD9N9MZP0XamQzKMbBWXJy8WdkZbjnWO0peZ9OTm09art5PYsHz37ChUjp8hFYtCQccbzSlsy9FeJEehSNZcePy2TfroQFVFToF-oAfYBty-BTuT1CJ1DK-aKV9OTHZUmpUZLKkkRN1NzH8PCPGPg8cg98WR0RGgO2BLt8Jg/s918/FUzjjeqX0AEKnMR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="718" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBmb2Svo3lySCAGM-3HlJD9N9MZP0XamQzKMbBWXJy8WdkZbjnWO0peZ9OTm09art5PYsHz37ChUjp8hFYtCQccbzSlsy9FeJEehSNZcePy2TfroQFVFToF-oAfYBty-BTuT1CJ1DK-aKV9OTHZUmpUZLKkkRN1NzH8PCPGPg8cg98WR0RGgO2BLt8Jg/s320/FUzjjeqX0AEKnMR.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What makes this attack worse
than any other is that beacons are being planted, and that local leaders,
unlike in the past, don’t get any support from the ruling CCM party, which has
turned into an anti-Maasai monolith. Opposition parties support the Maasai, but there's a one-party parliament. The whole country has copied the Loliondo
Police State, every government supporter has – to some extent – learnt the old narrative
about “Kenyans” and NGOs, breeding grounds and water sources. On the other hand,
most thinking Tanzanians now understand what’s going on. Some have been very
supportive since early this year, with Maria Sarungi Tsehai at the forefront.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Protest statements from international
organisations are so many that I can’t keep up and haven’t had the time to analyse
the level of support (“form a commission and sit down at the same table”, isn’t
that supportive), but the Oakland Institute and Survival International have distinguished
themselves for their speed and Survival for going to the roots by rattling <a href="https://www.survivalinternational.org/articles/letter-to-FZS" target="_blank">Frankfurt Zoological Society</a>. The much-maligned Kenyan Maasai have shown solidarity by
treating wounds and feeding those who are fleeing across the border (they are many). They
organize protests in different ways, showing love while bickering with each
other. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The crime<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In her <a href="https://www.tfs.go.tz/uploads/HOTUBA_YA_WIZARA_YA_MALIASILI_NA_UTALII_2022-23_(original).pdf" target="_blank">budget speech</a> on 3<sup>rd</sup>
June, Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Pindi Chana, announced that
her ministry expects to “upgrade” Loliondo Game Controlled Areas to a Game
Reserve. She never mentioned the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> area (at least not in the
written version), and the only Loliondo GCA that has ever existed is the 4,000
km<sup>2</sup> - the whole of Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division
(Piyaya and Malambo wards) - since Wildlife Conservation Act 2009 defunct,
Loliondo GCA that in its totality overlapped with village land and didn’t restrict
local people’s land use in any way. It delineated the hunting block, and that’s
the only thing it continues to do. Further, Chana didn’t put any stress on
Loliondo, but mentioned it in a long list of other (defunct) GCAs to be turned
into Game Reserves, which would mean that the whole northern zone from
Serengeti to Kilimanjaro, and many other areas. The whole of Longido District
would become a Game Reserve. This just couldn’t be taken seriously. Except for
the <a href="https://youtu.be/fuKdirOxCkI" target="_blank">Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai</a>, this <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/06/pindi-chana-in-her-budget-speech.html" target="_blank">blogger</a>, and some people in social
media, there wasn’t any reaction at all. The other MPs from areas mentioned in
her speech didn’t utter a word<span style="color: #800180;">*</span>, and nothing was reported in the press. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">*Olesendeka from Simanjiro spoke up on 20th June.</span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in my latest blog
post written the same day (with updates since then), on 8<sup>th</sup> June, in
the morning (but abnormal activities had been noticed already the previous day)
there was an alarm about heavy presence of vehicles from the anti-riot Field
Force Unit (FFU) in Wasso town. The FFU went on to set up camp in the Oloosek
area of Ololosokwan, in Sanjan sub-village of Malambo, Soit Orgoss in Oloipiri,
and Olchoroibor in Loosoito (later Arash was added). Another camp was set up at the DC's office. Other forces confirmed as participating
are Tanzania Wildlife Authority (TAWA), Serengeti and Tanzania National Parks
Authority (SENAPA/TANAPA), soldiers from Tanzania People’s Defence Force (JWTZ)
that have a camp in Olopolun near Wasso since 2018, OBC’s anti-poaching, and
local police. Other on the ground participants in this crime are not yet
confirmed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It surfaced that on 2<sup>nd</sup>
and 6<sup>th</sup> June, the Arusha Regional and Ngorongoro District Security
Committees had held closed-door meetings in Arusha and Karatu. It was in
connection with these meetings that Arusha RC Mongella made a video clip explaining
what he termed as the 'exercise'. A letter from the DED summoning all ward and
village executive officers (WEOs and VEOs) to Karatu on the 7<sup>th</sup> had
already been leaked. They were asked to come with the stamps of the ward and
village offices. WEOs and VEOs are government employees working under the DC,
and not representing local people in any way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The <a href="https://youtu.be/_HQmCTLDgn4" target="_blank">video clip featuring RC JohnMongella </a>was uploaded and unquestioningly reported in regular Tanzanian media,
and in this clip the RC repeats Kagasheki’s old – since long stopped and
disproven - lie that the old 4,000 km2 Loliondo GCA would be a protected area
since 1951, but that the government out of love for its people decided to give those
who had moved in 2,500 km2, while 1,500 km2 are being “kept” for critical conservation.
To make matters worse, he pretends that the exercise is “participatory” through
many visits by government officials. He seemed to have forgotten what he was
told when he issued his threat in January! This:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Further, in a press release
dated 7</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> June, Pascal Shelutete, Tanzania National Parks
Authority´s public relation’s manager, writes that RC Mongella at a meeting in
Karatu called on the people of Arusha Region to support the Government's
efforts in conserving Loliondo GCA, and anticipating protests called on those
spreading false information to stop doing so, since the government's goal is to
preserve the area for the benefit of Tanzanians and the economy of the country.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ololosokwan, people
gathered to pray in protest of the unexpected police invasion. Meetings to
deliberate what action to take were reportedly held in several villages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup>
June</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, the Maasai gathered for more protests and were approached
by armed FFU that wanted to “explain” the operation to them. The FFU also gate-crashed
social gatherings to do the same. The FFU’s explanation – repeating the RC’s
words - was that they were there to demarcate 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> as a Game Reserve
- <b>the vital threat that decades of land rights struggle had managed to
avert.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Significantly more pictures
than during other illegal operations started circulating, taken by people sitting
in the grass at a distance. However, a picture taken from a vehicle behind FFUs
confronting Maasai, is obviously not from now, but taken by a journalist when a
committee was unexpectedly met by protests in March 2017 (<b>so stop using that
one</b>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Kirtalo women with pangas and
men with bows and arrows made a video clip as a message to show that they were
ready to die for their land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The councillors of Ololosokwan
(worked as OBC’s assistant director for years), Oloipiri (big friend of OBC when
he was village chairperson), Oloirien, Maaloni, Arash, Piyaya, Malambo, and two
women’s special seats councillors, Kijoolu Kakiya and Taleng’o Leshoko were
arrested after being lured to a meeting by the DC. Nothing was known of their
whereabouts until the 16<sup>th </sup>(<b>see below</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reportedly, Parmwaari Merika,
Oloirien village chairman, had been arrested already on 7<sup>th</sup> June, but
there are such differing views on where he is now that I just don’t know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The night before
10<sup>th</sup> June</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, the land grabbing forces started planting
illegal beacons on village land in Ololosokwan. They Maasai uprooted the
beacons and in the morning the FFU attacked them with teargas and live bullets.
People were arrested and the FFU destroyed several motorbikes. The injured were
taken across the border to Kenya for treatment, some needing surgery. Pictures
of injuries were shared, some may not find it ethical, but they made an impact
on Tanzanians online. The latest number of injuries I’ve heard, compiled by
Kenyan doctors, was 128, but many people are missing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The over 70 years old Oriais
Oleng'iyo who was last seen with bullet wounds and detained by the FFU is not
seen on the list of those charged with murder and not found anywhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One FFU officer was killed by
arrowshot (or arrowshot is what RC Mongella said). While human life is always irreplaceable, this is a clear case of self-defence.
He was 36, not 18, aware of what his profession entailed, and that when sent
with hundreds of colleagues to plant boundary beacons on Maasai land, he knew
that he was sent to commit a crime.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In parliament, PM Majaliwa’s
<a href="https://youtu.be/ShaL-GnvT1E" target="_blank">“explanation”</a> was expected from someone who when Magufuli was dying or already
dead declared that the president was working hard with loads of files on his
desk. He claimed that beacons are being placed to protect the environment and
that the local Maasai will not be affected. He warned people of ill will who are
spreading a video with false information, referring to the clip from Kirtalo,
saying that the Maasai weren’t pointing their arrows at any police, while
missing the point that it was a message sent to himself. Speaker Tulia Ackson,
said that the government has explained the operation, that those spreading
false information will be dealt with, and that Tanzania is in an economic war
with other countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup>
June</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, RC Mongella arrived in Loliondo with the regional
security committee to repeat Kagasheki’s old lie about the land status in
Loliondo, a lie that was put stop to already in 2013, but that the government now
is set to keep repeating again and again. He <a href="https://youtu.be/KR5kHWPJhhY" target="_blank">said </a>that the illegal operation was
going just fine, while confirming that one police was the previous day killed
by arrowshot and putting emphasis on that it happened after PM Majaliwa’s statement.
Then he posed in photos planting illegal beacons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9OyoQoVaKS80PwvNgSbd3LzLTXKRUVeV9jKxcF8BLKjdj-RuYyg7rtQ1lqofz2HD6Lx1ftxjyglfeSWfCkfGx7APGXf6m-2a70khKg_TvgkBuHooyphgIkJFhYXfq8mUNKkP6GBer6Np-kPLf5DQf8bwjoGLyefScVeIFsqW2o3ZJeFWZVzX8K_dQlg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1066" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9OyoQoVaKS80PwvNgSbd3LzLTXKRUVeV9jKxcF8BLKjdj-RuYyg7rtQ1lqofz2HD6Lx1ftxjyglfeSWfCkfGx7APGXf6m-2a70khKg_TvgkBuHooyphgIkJFhYXfq8mUNKkP6GBer6Np-kPLf5DQf8bwjoGLyefScVeIFsqW2o3ZJeFWZVzX8K_dQlg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ_jsj9D-nHtW4k0mnu-t--NpQlhEL_bCsF6dwGerD2TmwzL9GT29b73O4dx6f8B0P9wP9S2otblph9d8zmoiGOO4oKPHrlyAA-1fp2sP2Z7HfRZZ4lstIxecVegHOgb7E5ePCdzKO1KCBGBv39kFot7ge9_8OX9Z4s5xxe-954ff8Eo2wcGplOpj68g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="660" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ_jsj9D-nHtW4k0mnu-t--NpQlhEL_bCsF6dwGerD2TmwzL9GT29b73O4dx6f8B0P9wP9S2otblph9d8zmoiGOO4oKPHrlyAA-1fp2sP2Z7HfRZZ4lstIxecVegHOgb7E5ePCdzKO1KCBGBv39kFot7ge9_8OX9Z4s5xxe-954ff8Eo2wcGplOpj68g" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On ITV and Channel 10 doctors
from Wasso stood saying that they didn't have any injured people, and Tanzanian
media has since continued showing an appalling lack of professionalism,
sticking tightly to the government disinformation narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The stream of pictures stopped,
and reporting became sporadic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Violence continued in
Ololosokwan and more people were injured.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One elderly man in Malambo died
when hit by a FFU vehicle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the evening there was
teargas and illegal planting of beacons in Oltulelei area of Maaloni. People
were arrested and beaten, and the FFU set fire to three motorbikes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At night the FFU fired shots
in all directions in Mairowa in Ololosokwan, not in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
area that’s being targeted by illegal demarcation. Houses were searched and
people were beaten. Many ran away into the bush to hide. More people fled to Kenya.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Albert Selembo, legal officer
at the organization IDINGO was arrested and then kept being held at Loliondo
police station, on unknown charges, until appearing on the murder charge sheet together
with the councillors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">International media started reporting
to an extent that was hard to keep up with. Some had problems not mixing up
this illegal operation with the speeded spin, deprivations and restrictions
taking place in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Some repeated the incorrect information
that OBC’s licence would have been cancelled in 2017, and other confusion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the WhatsApp group CCM Yetu,
and maybe elsewhere, an “article” about me was being shared, in which I was
accused of being an international spy, working with a Kenyan senator, and the
councillor of Ololosokwan (unlikely) providing young people with smartphones.
Further, I had earlier bought arms for the Maasai in the conflict with the
Sonjo, created an elephant poaching network, and whatever. Later, I was informed
that similar accusations had been entertained in a Clubhouse room with government
spokesperson Gerson Msigwa. I haven’t even listened to the recordings. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On 12<sup>th</sup>
June</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, at the funeral of the FFU officer, Ngorongoro DC, Raymond Mwangwal – who unlike
previous DCs seemed to earlier have left much repression work to the DED - told
<a href="https://www.ippmedia.com/en/news/swoop-nets-ten-suspects-after-police-officer-dies" target="_blank">media </a>that those talking online, instigating things that aren't true, will be
found wherever they are, in classic Loliondo police state style. Head of police
operations, Liberatus Sabas, declared that anyone involved in the killing of
the police who died from arrowshot will be hunted down day and night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> June, Inspector
General of Police, Simon Sirro, arrived in to Loliondo to make his contribution
to the illegal demarcation, accompanied by RC Mongella. Sirro said that the
demarcation operation is going just fine, but there are some people,
politicians included, who are stirring things up, using the Maasai for their
own benefit. Sirro too posed with illegal beacons, and with some clueless
mostly non-Maasai young men at the area with shops in Soitsambu. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government spokesperson,
Gerson Msigwa, repeated the same old Kagasheki-style lie – that 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
are “protected”, but that the benevolent government is just keeping 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
while generously giving the Maasai 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>, when the whole 4,000
km<sup>2</sup> is legally registered village land and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
vitally important grazing land - and the same threats against instigators. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The African Commission of
Human and People's Rights <a href="https://www.achpr.org/pressrelease/detail?id=639" target="_blank">called for cessation</a> of the eviction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">MP Emmanuel Oleshangai
confirmed that at least 31 people (the numbers have since risen) had been
seriously injured in the demarcation exercise on village land, and that they
are being treated in Kenya after being denied treatment at the Osero clinic in
Ololosokwan for lacking the required PF3 form that the police are supposed to
provide. He explained that the injured were his voters and not Kenyans.
Further, the MP demanded the release of the detained leaders, and made clear
that the operation is most definitely not "participatory" since even
he had not been informed, despite sitting in the same parliament as the
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> June, 30
FFU vehicles arrived in Arash and set up camp in the Emoyokwa area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Ngorongoro MP was summoned
to the police, and so were Olesendeka, MP of Simanjiro and Kitila Mkumbo, MP of
Ubungo. The accusations were of incitement and what the three have in common is
that they spoke up during the vicious anti-Maasai hatred in parliament in
February. The MPs were questioned and released.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> June, Edward
Hoseah president of Tanganyika Law Society has made a useless, spineless, and
shameless <a href="https://youtu.be/p-Rtj_C3qQ8" target="_blank">statement</a> advising the Ngorongoro MP to report injuries to the
police! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Six UN experts warned about
escalating violence amidst plan to forcefully evict Maasai from ancestral lands
and urged to immediately halt plans for relocation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Amnesty International called
on the Tanzanian government to <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/06/tanzania-un-experts-warn-escalating-violence-amidst-plans-forcibly-evict" target="_blank">halt the brutal security operation</a> in Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The FFU opened fire at the
market in Oltulelei causing fear and panic. In Malambo as well were they firing
shots into the air, and they beat up a motorbike rider whom they thought was
following them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Arrests continued in an
apparently aimless way. Freddy Ledidi from Oloirien who's District Natural
Resources Officer (which may make some suspect he’s a double dealer) was
arrested and so was the elder Koyie, brother of who used to be ward councillor
for Orgosorok years ago, which led people to first think that the other brother
had been arrested. Ledidi and Koyie were locked up at Loliondo Police Station
and nobody has been allowed to see them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Deputy Permanent
Representative to the Tanzania Mission to the UN in Geneva, Hoyce Temu, lied in
the most malicious way from start to finish denying any state violence,
claiming that a 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> reserved area had been encroached and that
the government in peaceful talks with local residents had agreed to divide the
area and keep 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> as a protected area, that a minority against
the exercise made recordings while posing threateningly and combined this with
unrelated pictures, that the government has called on anyone alleging to have
been attacked to come forward for the law to take its course and for treatment,
but that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nobody has come forward. The
ambassador did literally not say one word of truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxpnm27oUAi9mIV2thhrdUKvzdO8Jmi32WzxWvFHn7iA90MsMWzT3N23WyCpPxEpIXfmFzQoTUz73U4FeVWCg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
in Endulen - <b>in NCA, not Loliondo</b> - there was a big spectacle with 20
vehicles carrying RC Mongella and other dignitaries, and the useless press, to
witness 6 families who have fallen for the Msomera scam and were demolishing
their houses. One of the vehicles hit and injured 14-year old Nemburis
Oletombo. For some reason, the government figures seem eager for people not to
mix this up with Loliondo, but their supporters do this gladly in social media anyway,
and all the time. So do many allies of the Maasai. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Minister of Home Affairs, Hamad
Masauni, arrived in Loliondo in helicopter to make a statement – as if from the
warfront - directing Immigration to strengthen border security to prevent
illegal entry by foreigners and so avoid incitement activities. He also ordered
NGOs to be investigated to make sure they operate within the law and don’t
engage in breach of peace. As known to anyone familiar with Loliondo or with
this blog, threatening “Kenyans” (anyone who could speak up) and NGOs is the most
classic rhetoric of the Loliondo police state. A clip of this was widely shared
the following day and the Tanzanian press, that by now has lost all credibility,
reported uncritically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzn86bZ_hjl1kJirqMVbe0GZoGDF-4vMogEeZAQPat99lZG5HqWibbz-XXQAyAJsDVYRmLW5gjRPf-SmCMEpg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> June, a
solidarity demonstration in Nairobi by Kenyan Maasai was broken up by the
Kenyan police and demonstrators taken to the Central Police Station. After a few
hours they were freed unconditionally. Another demonstration, in Namanga, went
on without incidence. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYgP8aKEWG6VNc7A4hSN9BMI-prRxXONijFvSy4qLIRBUCCgTrgHhZ-ucfcVG6yC5mmi1v7o80Z5xSmbX_IAudMBA1b4Yd9gLdtCoWsDMTwLaHwFNCQP29o5aIzYFTYhe6flsqxEEIFEjONKKZwWOvfDgQutnso-nvR3mWL26Jd5Jn-M7VISojcLuuzA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYgP8aKEWG6VNc7A4hSN9BMI-prRxXONijFvSy4qLIRBUCCgTrgHhZ-ucfcVG6yC5mmi1v7o80Z5xSmbX_IAudMBA1b4Yd9gLdtCoWsDMTwLaHwFNCQP29o5aIzYFTYhe6flsqxEEIFEjONKKZwWOvfDgQutnso-nvR3mWL26Jd5Jn-M7VISojcLuuzA" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Tanzanian government organized
its own demonstration using supposed Maasai without
any relation to Loliondo, or Ngorongoro, to demonstrate outside the Kenyan
embassy in Dar es Salaam thanking the government for dividing Loliondo so that
the Maasai have a place to live(!), and accusing Kenyans and NGOs of inciting conflict. Later it was found that people had been told that 150 Maasai were needed to go and sing for some white people at Dar Free Market Mall and would get 20,000 shillings each. Some Parakuyo Maasai gathered, but most fled when they saw what was being cooked. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The whereabouts of the nine
councillors and the CCM district chairman were not known until 16</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
June when they were sneaked to court without any legal representation and then
locked up in Kisongo remand prison. The following day it was revealed that they,
and ten other arrested people from Loliondo had been charged with murder
contrary to Section 196 of the Penal Code [Cap 16 R:E 2019] in the preliminary
inquiry case No 11 of 2022. </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Remember that the councillors were locked up the
day before the FFU officer was killed by an arrowshot.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reportedly, after a CCM
meeting the DC summoned them to the District Security Committee and there was
an agreement that they would keep people calm during the demarcation operation.
Then the DC announced that a special task force had arrived and that the
councillors were needed for individual interrogations. At midnight they were
put in a vehicle and driven to an unknown destination that upon arrival was
identified as a smaller police station in Arusha town, Chekereni, where they
were interrogated regarding sedition and not murder. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The councillors weren’t
allowed to contact family or lawyers, until being joined by ten others and secretly
taken to court to be read murder charges. The other group had been arrested in
their homes, along the road, or in Wasso town. They had been tortured and
accused of reporting about violence in Loliondo, interrogated on suspicion of spreading
false information, but later they were told a murder charge had been found and
they were re-interrogated for murder. While held at Loliondo police station they
weren’t allowed to contact relatives, and not fed for four days, until they
were taken to Arusha and charged with murder. Not feeding those detained is
common practise at Loliondo police station, as I could see from the writings on
the wall when I spent 2 nights there in 2015 (I was fed though). Further problems
are very low temperatures, no blankets, and plentiful mosquitoes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The case will be heard on 30<sup>th</sup>
June. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ever patient and negotiating
Onesmo Olengurumwa of Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition, that had the president
as guest of honour at their 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary a month ago, tweeted, <i>“It
is now officially, our relatives and our leaders in Loliondo have been
maliciously charged with murder case. These include those who were illegally
detained one day before the killing of the Police officer. This marks the end
of any negotiations <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">@SuluhuSamia”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> (Update: it didn't las long).</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Memusi Taki, Njoroi village chairman
was arrested on 17<sup>th</sup> June. (Edit: I may have to correct this, since there are differing views on when he was arrested)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sadly, since this is Loliondo,
even during the most heinous crime, opportunistic traitors will emerge. I
wouldn’t mention it without confirmation from sources close to the individual. One
Matiko Maoi has been contracted and is driving around on his motorbike looking
for women and youths to pay to get involved in a pro-government demonstration. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Immigration Commissioner for
Border Control and Administration, <a href="https://youtu.be/IBskVe03x1A" target="_blank">Samwel Mahirane</a> came to Loliondo on the 18<sup>th</sup>
to stand next to an illegal beacon (he too), threatening people who are
sabotaging the exercise and have fled. He said they are known and will all be dealt
with. He also threatened NGOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Arash, and probably elsewhere,
the FFU continue using tear gas and planting illegal beacons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Very brief
and simplified background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo (and parts of
Sale) Division of Ngorongoro District the Tanzanian government has for many
years wanted to alienate 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of legally registered village
land that’s vitally important grazing land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The other division of
Ngorongoro District is Ngorongoro Division or Ngorongoro Conservation Area
where Maasai land rights also are seriously threatened and where they live
under restrictions not found in Loliondo. This is a closely related, but <b>separate</b>
issue (see many previous blog posts). The government lie about NCA is, “The
Maasai are relocating “voluntary” to Handeni” while the government lie about
Loliondo is, “The Maasai have been “given” 2,500 km2.” <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Otterlo Business Corporation,
that organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, has had the 4,000 km2
hunting block (permit to hunt on legally registered village land) since 1993 (first
contract signed in 1992) and kept lobbying the government to turn their 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> of preferred hunting area into a protected area, including
funding a draft district land use plan in 2010-2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUK4ta4WLjBY4tjIrD-bK1xVJjnEUmzI6hu5EeQljwveC56bUBkDSrYxSLz5mHdsW40BUCqlXi4CYs4-LWN98C8tGMC5SYJl9kv6hlp5OhwZQWwNH5QFUzS3RGF3tHme5VVOF2hVt_DmOu3h6qgxz3I3x-_ziXvvTYL6j-f4WN4ftoQlDVoKzZnTXuQ/s1083/2010%20-%202030.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="1083" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzUK4ta4WLjBY4tjIrD-bK1xVJjnEUmzI6hu5EeQljwveC56bUBkDSrYxSLz5mHdsW40BUCqlXi4CYs4-LWN98C8tGMC5SYJl9kv6hlp5OhwZQWwNH5QFUzS3RGF3tHme5VVOF2hVt_DmOu3h6qgxz3I3x-_ziXvvTYL6j-f4WN4ftoQlDVoKzZnTXuQ/s320/2010%20-%202030.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC’s lobbying has led to illegal
mass arson operations in 2009 and 2017, ordered by the DC, and to a local
police state in which anyone who dares to criticize the hunters (and an
American ecotourism company called Thomson Safaris) is severely harassed and
slandered, illegal arrests included, often accused of not really being
Tanzanian, but from the neighbouring country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh14I2UPGv8lRey7jbF5cP9W2NZiQdBDcmVYmNictneaufrwouqkA4fsZI8t1dbd-kJiJIqZ4QGnZWjWEfFPYRu8uHZY_KzsBapOGyQBzQlEJsGJNn9574m6SIURr7X13UQFK4_cwn4f_GLEixdbelggnaM_q9IyXJuetn5LmEimDIcv6CnD5MP0PUxvg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh14I2UPGv8lRey7jbF5cP9W2NZiQdBDcmVYmNictneaufrwouqkA4fsZI8t1dbd-kJiJIqZ4QGnZWjWEfFPYRu8uHZY_KzsBapOGyQBzQlEJsGJNn9574m6SIURr7X13UQFK4_cwn4f_GLEixdbelggnaM_q9IyXJuetn5LmEimDIcv6CnD5MP0PUxvg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oloosek 13th August 2017</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It should be noted that OBC
licence has never been cancelled (except for the first 10-year contract in the
mid-1990s that was replaced with regular 5-year hunting block licenses). After
having stopped the illegal operation in 2017, for a few days, Minister Kigwangalla
was saying that OBC would have to leave before January 2018, but they never
left and on 6<sup>th</sup> December PM Majaliwa declared that they were
staying. In April 2018 OBC again gifted the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism with <a href="https://lukwangule.blogspot.com/2018/04/obc-tatoa-magari-15-kwa-wizara-ya.html" target="_blank">15 vehicles</a>. I’ve lost all patience with people who claim otherwise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai have celebrated
some victories, like in 2011 when the Ngorongoro District Council strongly
rejected OBC’s land use plan, and in 2013 when Minister Kagasheki tried to
alienate the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> via vociferous lies that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
was a protected area and the Maasai would be gifted with 2,500 km<sup>2 </sup>(the
lie that the government has now picked up again), and he was resoundingly
stopped by PM Pinda when both opposition and ruling party supported the
protests by the Maasai. On 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018 there was another victory
when the East African Court of Justice issued an injunction restraining the
government from evictions, destruction and harassment of the applicants, but
that happened at the point of most panicked fear and could not be that much
celebrated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There have been many low
points, like in 2016-2017 when a select committee after sharply increased
repression reached a sad compromise proposal (a WMA), that had earlier been
rejected by the Maasai, to hand over to PM Majaliwa, which was followed by
unexpected illegal mass arson (there may be a pattern here). Or in 2018 when
nobody dared to speak up against police efforts to derail the case in the East
African Court of Justice filed during the illegal 2017 operation, and then the
silence continued when soldiers from a military camp set up in Loliondo the same
year tortured people and razed bomas in Ololosokwan and Kirtalo, violating the recently
issued court orders. At that time all local leaders thought that the attack had
been ordered by the president, but when the RC denounced it in a vague way,
they changed to thinking that it was OBC’s director contracting the soldiers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2019, a most terrible
zoning proposal for Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) included turning the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into the protected area preferred by OBC and annexing it
to NCA, was presented by NCA chief conservator Manongi. There have been many protests
from every group in NCA against this proposal, but not so many protests from
Loliondo, where people had been intimidated into silence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRzBX6GyvjsXAoVbgWF7A9Hnzuv0_Z9HVb-2kgSFhbVvM1E3TXwaCpa5xF9Kq5xtQBbP1ou2PRZ6jG3wOgurqfUzCilLQWMH4PRsvJoN3TGCeR_D-pL5oaPcNlTgO8TgOgaMFaYarv165s151Sgm1YHUSzbaF70QKdjRIS8v3USSElGQjTIuiKFuf5Xg/s843/insane%20mlum%20report%20map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRzBX6GyvjsXAoVbgWF7A9Hnzuv0_Z9HVb-2kgSFhbVvM1E3TXwaCpa5xF9Kq5xtQBbP1ou2PRZ6jG3wOgurqfUzCilLQWMH4PRsvJoN3TGCeR_D-pL5oaPcNlTgO8TgOgaMFaYarv165s151Sgm1YHUSzbaF70QKdjRIS8v3USSElGQjTIuiKFuf5Xg/s320/insane%20mlum%20report%20map.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In
January 2022, Arusha RC Mongella came to Loliondo to announce that the
government would make a painful decision about the land, for the wider interest
of the nation, and this broke the silence and led to protest meetings. This was
taking place at the same time as a demented anti-Maasai hate campaign in media
and parliament, primarily directed at the Maasai of NCA, but also affecting
those from Loliondo who for many years have already been targeted by a hate
campaign conducted by Manyerere Jackton in the Jamhuri newspaper. As has
happened before, this “journalist”, who this year renewed his incitement after
lying low following that OBC’s director in 2019 was kept in remand prison on
economic sabotage charges, is now quiet and enjoying the terror that’s
unfolding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> February,
PM Majaliwa, known as a psychopathic liar by virtually all Tanzanians, when in
NCA, <b>not</b> Loliondo, ordered beacons to be erected “so that we may know
the boundaries” of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, which nobody needs to know unless there
are bad intentions. The PM repeated the same in parliament on 11<sup>th</sup>
March. He kept talking about water – and then a spectacle was made about water
projects outside the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> - when the area’s importance for
grazing had been explained to him in Loliondo on 14<sup>th</sup> February. Protests
followed. At a huge protest meeting in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several
leaders spoke up in defence of the land, among them the Arash ward councillor
Methew Siloma spoke up very clearly and strongly. The message from this meeting
was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa can’t be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxRPC4TuMiKoLQrrQBplaeeExqcgiMYxd-g6vVBZw2he4WV3HvwTNQHsxhz_nhI5ojV7W2o2YGu_DhmsQTLSQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Several local leaders in
Loliondo were arrested. The councillors of Arash and Malambo were taken to
Arusha and interrogated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March
<a href="https://youtu.be/yR13xm_FwlY" target="_blank">Abdulrahman Kinana</a> was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then a committee agreed to
hand over community recommendations to the PM, which was done on 25<sup>th</sup>
May, and Majaliwa said that he’d <b>work on the recommendations</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> June,
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana in her budget speech
announced that her ministry expected to upgrade Loliondo to a Game Reserve, but
she did this while listing huge area of Tanzania for the same expectation, which
didn’t make it sound believable or realistic in any way, and there was hardly any
reaction, except for an intervention by Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Shangai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 9<sup>th</sup> June the
heavily armed Field Force Unit set up camps in Loliondo, after closed-door
meetings by the regional and district security committees and no information <b>at
all</b> to local leaders, not even the MP, many of whom were arrested the same
day, and have now been charged with murder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The demarcation started on 10<sup>th</sup>
June. Protesting Maasai were teargassed and shot at with live bullets by the
FFU, many were injured, arrested, fled to Kenya, or are missing. One FFU was
killed by arrowshot. RC Mongella and PM Majaliwa say that the operation is
going on just fine, that instigators will be seriously dealt with, and their
explanation is a repetition of Kagasheki’s old and disproven lies. The
Tanzanian press almost exclusively keep to the government narrative. Ministers
and police authorities appear in Loliondo to make statements as from the
warfront, threaten “Kenyans” and NGOs, and take photos with the illegal
beacons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There has been substantial,
sometimes confused, international media coverage, and a stream of protest
statements by international organisations. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The ruling in the East African
Court of Justice is expected on 22<sup>nd</sup> June.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The constant attacks, the government’s
insatiable appetite to - for the <a href="https://africasacountry.com/2022/04/people-live-here" target="_blank">conservation-tourism industrial complex</a> - deprive
the people who already lost vast areas with the creation of Serengeti National
Park, require a new approach. Is it time to reclaim Serengeti? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal
beacons planted in blood, and contempt of court, must be immediately uprooted!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6SoDdMEBDLbabn1_qStiOulR2kzGsPCLv-R5K1_JHRJmEU4jgjJr8xKvBl8nSB40Xq_w8qJ1ADDSSlK51FJOTn19fSJP3GxsCzKpdl1qSDM9UGTOgLtaDaMrQ0v4C6U5ct_RQX49llp4Za5-Oqp-fxa2RV72uQmHzyzTrHAQERsED8FhYzOg5GTVUjQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6SoDdMEBDLbabn1_qStiOulR2kzGsPCLv-R5K1_JHRJmEU4jgjJr8xKvBl8nSB40Xq_w8qJ1ADDSSlK51FJOTn19fSJP3GxsCzKpdl1qSDM9UGTOgLtaDaMrQ0v4C6U5ct_RQX49llp4Za5-Oqp-fxa2RV72uQmHzyzTrHAQERsED8FhYzOg5GTVUjQ" width="320" /></a></b></div><b> </b><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Updates:</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p>20th June</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Olesendeka, MP for Simanjiro, spoke up in parliament against the illegal operation in Loliondo and against Chana's talk about GCAs and game reserves. He was viciously bullied by the speaker, Tulia Ackson. Deputy Minister Masanja lied that there aren't any people living in those areas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Tanzanian press continued quoting Rector for College
of African Wildlife Management Mweka, Prof. Jafari Kideghesho’s lies about the “downsizing”
of a protected area in Loliondo. This liar also participated in making the genocidal
MLUM review proposal for NCA.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">21st June</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Just one day before the expected ruling in the East African Court of Justice it was postponed to September!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Deputy Minister Masanja, Minister of Constitution and Legal Affairs Ndumbaro, Director of Wildlife, Msuha, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mulamula stood in front of spineless diplomats telling their blood soaked lies about Loliondo, and about Ngorongoro Conservation Area. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEGk9d3yPwTcrHS5NeMs8WodKQcGAppojjGQM4nLbK4zRFwnzJJ3VO4Tj3F_TrKCPaCkadfCw6uOp6yoIniUwY4a11Pvf3gjpMmsJqRLXA4eoFfuHIL2YsDdvCGEA75qCF1kZZn9pP0Gl2QblSXbF68hwZSFuS_DM2KavEjdK1J8qnjo7TeOEfbgioMg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="1375" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEGk9d3yPwTcrHS5NeMs8WodKQcGAppojjGQM4nLbK4zRFwnzJJ3VO4Tj3F_TrKCPaCkadfCw6uOp6yoIniUwY4a11Pvf3gjpMmsJqRLXA4eoFfuHIL2YsDdvCGEA75qCF1kZZn9pP0Gl2QblSXbF68hwZSFuS_DM2KavEjdK1J8qnjo7TeOEfbgioMg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Wilson Kilong and Patita Maya were arrested at their place of work at a tourist camp. I need more exact information about this. Later it seems like only Wilson was arrested. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>22nd June, a lot has happened</b>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">In Malambo, the invading security forces were counting the bomas found inside their illegal demarcation. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">On <a href="https://youtu.be/EMFlYbmaVfg" target="_blank">Zoom</a>, a
most terrible propaganda spectacle for the Tanzanian government’s war against the
Maasai in Loliondo and NCA was held, in which government officials had
coordinated their lies, strictly keeping to the old Kagasheki-style lie. Pindi
Chana went as far as claiming to on 17<sup>th</sup> June having gazetted the
1,500 km2 into a “Pololeti GCA”– after a week of war against the Maasai, with
local leaders illegally arrested, charged with murder for a death the day after
they were arrested, and others in hiding. The French ambassador participated
making some pointless comments, supposedly lending legitimacy. He could have
been uninformed and not understanding the language, but just the day before diplomats
were told the government’s lies in English.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">MP Emmanuel
Shangai <a href="https://youtu.be/BU0T_L_GKjU" target="_blank">spoke up</a> telling the national assembly in no uncertain terms that land
in Loliondo is village land, that when we talk about land we talk about people’s
lives, and that what's being done in Loliondo is a land grab that no person or village
government has agreed to. He rejected intervention by ignorant, or worse,
parliamentarians. It was the best thing that has happened this year. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Kigwangalla
wrote a comment differing with the government when recognising that the 1,500
km2 undoubtedly is village land, but otherwise the message was not particularly
impressive. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Commissioner
General of Immigration, Anna Makakala, <a href="https://youtu.be/vl6_bWbTNZQ" target="_blank">arrived</a> in Loliondo to add her statement
from the warfront against he Maasai, announcing that there would be 10 days of flushing
out illegal immigrants. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #800180;">Then, or I
don’t know in what order everything happened, there was a negotiation meeting
between Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition and Ndumbaro who the same day
in the zoom meeting was very much lying and threatening indeed. A strange and worrying thing to do. Reportedly, the
government was ashamed, but didn’t know how to get out of it. Ministers were
quite ignorant and had been brainwashed. It would be the quickest way to get
those arrested out of prison and Ndumbaro pledged that amnesty would be given
to those who fled the country. The government, particularly the MNRT was
however not willing to remove the beacons, which must be an absolute
precondition to any negotiations. I'm getting more and more annoyed with these talks with not particularly repentful criminals. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">23rd June</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">More people were added to the ridiculous murder case: Freddy Ledidi, Lekerenga Koyia who's over 75 years old and with kidney problems and Kelvin Nairoti who has injuries from police violence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">There was a letter with the information that CCM's National Executive Committee has met on the 21st under the chairperson Samia Suluhu Hassan, and among other issues nominated a contestant for Ngorongoro District Council chairperson. Normally there would be three contestants, but now there was only Mohammed "Marekani" Bayo, current deputy chairman and OBC's community liasion for many years. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;">Majaliwa arrived in Loliondo together with the RC, DC, DED, and Minister Chana. to continue lying. One of his lies was that the the beacons had been planted many kilometres from where people are living, which everyone participating in the crime have with their own eyes seen is not true.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTE0KN8LBgWBmm6yEFd95nyXwNnH8GmXLpjUCGaH8D5AzE5w077YdVlkvIGrvuXzyuXISLdan5gvhpr5MO66zxNchdUG2PaBgAcY1xBwZUn5VIXe9yWTVnOgTkRK81F3eh3X7woteu5vxUHU4Ys1o5sAl8FTvs5tc7LZHHjTuh-B3jz7IFmkNe19aMUA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="861" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTE0KN8LBgWBmm6yEFd95nyXwNnH8GmXLpjUCGaH8D5AzE5w077YdVlkvIGrvuXzyuXISLdan5gvhpr5MO66zxNchdUG2PaBgAcY1xBwZUn5VIXe9yWTVnOgTkRK81F3eh3X7woteu5vxUHU4Ys1o5sAl8FTvs5tc7LZHHjTuh-B3jz7IFmkNe19aMUA" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">The following day a creepy clip was shared in which soldiers form the national army were singing to Majaliwa in Loliondo</span><span style="color: #800180;">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><b>24th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;">At Ngorongoro District Council,
Majaliwa instructed village and ward executive officers to tell people to leave
the illegally demarcated area within 24 hours, or their livestock would be confiscated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;">In the evening, there were pictures
and reports from Sanjan in Malambo ward of how the Maasai, under fear and
panic, were loading their belongings on donkeys. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEc7WRwukaZj1z6mWh0Z09cGZsfC5XTlYajkpddGhCOJabdY9yh0JtUA5R3Tflvn0d3PQPBmXyRy-KjUg1ULxqjJX77FKdiRwIHuINClBGVSVe3L_-WVrA4ILMVoGgIKkw7hK9tS78rHjblAWNkF0b1KTFn6iTf3dV-hjOB8e4Uyn1lPeKmb8ZzgjWBg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="675" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEc7WRwukaZj1z6mWh0Z09cGZsfC5XTlYajkpddGhCOJabdY9yh0JtUA5R3Tflvn0d3PQPBmXyRy-KjUg1ULxqjJX77FKdiRwIHuINClBGVSVe3L_-WVrA4ILMVoGgIKkw7hK9tS78rHjblAWNkF0b1KTFn6iTf3dV-hjOB8e4Uyn1lPeKmb8ZzgjWBg" width="180" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red;"><br /><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;">Then came reports that the
same was happening in Arash, Oltulelei in Oloirien, and everywhere. Shots were being fired
and people were being beaten, reportedly by both the FFU and soldiers from the
national army.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tanzanian online news media uploaded
the government’s war film in which it calls for all conservation organisations
to support the war against the Maasai.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">25th June</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">In Karkamoru, Kirtalo, Girrima Yaile was severely beaten and arrested by soldiers. Taken to unknown location.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">Later it's unclear if he ever was arrested. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">As is usual when it comes to Loliondo, a clip featuring some traitors, filmed during early days of the illegal operation was released. Featured was former councillor, now traditional leader, Long'oi, who when they started to become really aggressive in 2014, was part of the "investor friendly" group led by William Alais and Gabriel Killel. The message was that there wasn't any violence at all and nobody was being evicted from the illegally demarcated area. The other two were traditionl leader Lekakui Kanduli and Freddy Lindi who's chairman of Oloswashi in Maaloni ward.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><b>26th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">Families, women, children and livestock continue leaving Sanjan with their belongings packed on donkeys.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">In Ololosokwan the security forces are saying that they will never leave and will revenge the death of the police by killing 15 people.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><b>27th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">In Ormanie, Arash, donkeys and other livestock belonging to Parkimalo Lupa were shot when on the way to the river. Parkimalo was beaten by the criminal security forces.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">In the evening morans went to slaughter the dead cattle but were chased way by security forces.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><b>28th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">There were reports of security forces firing bullets over cattle in the area of Taasa Lodge Ololosokwan.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">2<b>9th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">The director of wildlife, Maurus Msuha, held a press conference insisting on the government's lies. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">A group of anti-Maasai religious leaders, led by Azim Dewji, and including the government favourite imposter, traditional leader Lekisongo, was announced. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">I wasn't told until Friday 1st July, but it seems confirmed that 16 people from Serng'etuny sub-village in Piyaya and 9 from Malambo were arrested and taken to Loliondo police station. Further, security forces took adults and children from their bomas in vehicles to dump them at Malambo market leaving their cattle and properties behind. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">OR, confirmed 10 arrested from Ndinyika, Malambo and 7 from Serng'etuny, Piyaya.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><b>30th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">The ridiculous murder case came up for mention in court, but was postponed to 14th July for further "investigation". Memusi Taki and Wilson Kilong had been added, so now 25 people have been charged.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red;">President Samia appointed the retired chief of Tanzania People’s Defence
Forces, General Venance Mabeyo, as chairman of the board of directors of the NCAA.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red;">Mass arrests are spreading to areas in Loliondo far from the illegal
demarcation attack. At least 21 people arrested in Naan, their houses invaded
at night, and Ng'arwa in Enguserosambu, several village or sub-village chairmen
among them. Also pregnant women and those with small children. They are
"suspected of being immigrants".</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><b>1st July</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">Simon Saitoti, councillor of Ngorongoro ward in NCA, was arrested and will be sent to Loliondo. The councillor had visited those ridiculously charged with murder on Wednesday and when he returned to Oloirobi he was arrested. Reportedly, he had also been in Loliondo at the start of the illegal attack on the Maasai, and people in his ward have refused to meet with an religious imposter group.</span> <span style="color: red;">2nd July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><b>2nd July</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">The night to 2nd July, 30 people were arrested in Njoroi and 11 arrested in Oloika sub-village. They are accused of being "Kenyan. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">In the afternoon, the security forces started burning seasonal bomas in the Oldoinyorok area of Arash. Six ronjos were burned to the ground. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">350 cows and many sheep were seized in Ololosokwan, belonging to Parmuat in Mairowa and Lukeine in Oloika. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">3rd July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">The repression copycat, Thomson Safaris, engaged the police in harassment and arrests in Sukenya. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">4th July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">The security forces seized cows and sheep from over five bomas in Ildupa sub-village of Ormanie, and drove them to Engutoto sub-village in Arash. Now they are trying to extort 100,000 TShs per cow and 25,000 per sheep from the owners. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">5th July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">Mohammed Marekani Bayo was "unanimously elected" as district council chairman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">Reportedly, Simon Saitoti was addded to the ridiculous murder charges, and so was an elderly injured man. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">6th July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">Unconfirmed reports of more seized cattle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">In Olosirwa sub-village of Kirtalo six people were arrested, including a primary school teacher when police in four vehicles invaded the school.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;">7th July</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-tanzanian-government-keeps.html" target="_blank">NEW BLOG POST</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-91208838659522330442022-06-09T00:22:00.088+02:002022-06-19T23:56:08.293+02:00Urgent alert: Massive Police Invasion and Imminent Threat of Illegal Beacons for a Protected Area in Contempt of Court in Loliondo<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Never ever
again dance to Majaliwa’s tune! It ends in tears however much he smiles and
however clearly you explain everything to him!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Updates at the end, until I write a new blog post. The violence is horrifying.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-brutal-and-illegal-land-demarcation.html" target="_blank">New blog post</a> 19th June.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today, 8<sup>th</sup> June
2022 (now it's so late that it was yesterday), high numbers of police vehicles from the anti-riot Field Force Unit, were
in the morning sighted in Wasso town in Loliondo division of Ngorongoro
district. The FFU, and others, have now set up camp in the Oloosek area of Ololosokwan
and in Sanjan sub-village of Malambo. Unconfirmed reports also mention camps in
Oloipiri and Arash<span style="color: #800180;">*</span>. Fears were (now confirmed) that the plan is to erect
beacons to demarcate 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of vitally important, legally registered, village land
that the “investor” OBC, and others, want turned into a “protected area”. FFU were
saying that they are sent to erect beacons for a TAWA area (Game Reserve), which
confirmed the fears, later further confirmed in a nauseating clip by RC John Mongella.
Such an exercise is a heinous crime and contempt of court. Reports say that in
Oloosek there are 18 vehicles from the FFU, two from the Tanzania People’s
Defence Force (that has a camp in Olopolun near Wasso), some from the Tanzania Wildlife
Authority (TAWA)/Jeshi Uhifadhi, and others. In Sanjan there are 11 FFU vehicles, 3 from TAWA
and 2 unknown. Numbers may not be exact and others may arrive. Reportedly, the
FFU are also saying that they will extend OBC’s hunting area, also known as the Osero, into Serengeti
National Park, which seems unlikely, and they may not have been properly briefed.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">*Soit Orgoss in Oloipiri confirmed </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">and Olchoroibor in Loosoito.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today in Ololosokwan, people
gathered to pray in protest of the unexpected police invasion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Otterlo Business Corporation
(OBC), that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, have for years
lobbied to have 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land, village land
belonging to the local Maasai, turned into a protected area. This caused <b>illegal</b>
mass arson operations in 2009 and 2017. A local police state had, until
recently, silenced all local leaders and activists, and still people from
Loliondo are much more silent in the debate than those from Ngorongoro
Conservation Area (NCA), even if protests erupted when threats were renewed
this year, and then community recommendations were handed over to PM Majaliwa (who
had asked for them) on 25<sup>th</sup> May. There’s an ongoing case, in its
final stages, in the East African Court of Justice, filed during the brutal illegal
operation of 2017. The land under threat is in Loliondo Division and Piyaya (or
Piaya) and Malambo wards of Sale Division of Ngorongoro District. While not
unrelated, this is <b>NOT THE SAME</b> issue as the threat of “voluntary”
relocation to Handeni from NCA (Ngorongoro Division).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2010/2011 draft district
land use plan funded by OBC proposed the alienation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of village land. This was strongly rejected by Ngorongoro District Council. In
2013 Minister Kagasheki brought it back via vociferous and shameless lies but
was stopped by PM Pinda thanks to the then exemplary unity and seriousness
shown by the Maasai. Divide and rule and attempts at buying off local leaders
worsened. Some were gravely corrupted but none to the extent of signing off the
land in any way at all. Repression worsened with Magufuli as president. PM Majaliwa
attempted to “solve the conflict” via a select committee set up by Arusha RC
Gambo. This was in 2017 followed by an unexpected, extremely brutal and illegal
invasion of village land like the one in 2009, ordered by the DC. The crime continued,
on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the ground by
Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA, TAWA/KDU,
local police and others (in 2009 the FFU and OBC rangers had been the main implementors).
People were beaten and raped, illegally arrested, and cattle seized. Some
leaders were frightfully silent while many others protested loudly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvoKTJnKEAgntBObowlF1lHdp4iDATs_Qc5xOzY1tHQW9Ejx7-vVmgMT86-ucA4XvZqqOHLOV-js2alkSQjLTWzxcuJtuOUhsjcrnFWn3O41wRt2HqaTzIk_utkZHFC0zho5_BHJymCk6Fmy-OLjR648gK8Y0ncnKIndleb-NeS_WtgJbKxdOdFKRRWw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgvoKTJnKEAgntBObowlF1lHdp4iDATs_Qc5xOzY1tHQW9Ejx7-vVmgMT86-ucA4XvZqqOHLOV-js2alkSQjLTWzxcuJtuOUhsjcrnFWn3O41wRt2HqaTzIk_utkZHFC0zho5_BHJymCk6Fmy-OLjR648gK8Y0ncnKIndleb-NeS_WtgJbKxdOdFKRRWw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oloosek 13th August 2017</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In December the same year,
Majaliwa announced a terrifying but vague decision that fortunately was delayed
and forgotten until the MLUM review proposal for NCA in 2019 was announced and catered to OBC’s
wishes for Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By 2018, local leaders were
silenced to the extent that they didn’t speak up when soldiers, without any official
order, tortured people and set fire to bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. In
2019 some thought the hostility by the government had lessened when OBC’s director
was locked up in remand prison for economic sabotage. Though in September the
same year a Multiple Land Use Model (MLUM) review proposal for NCA included OBC’s
wish for a protected area allowing hunting, and in this case also annexing the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to NCA. Compared to leaders and activists from NCA, those
from Loliondo have been remarkably quiet about this MLUM threat, except for two
joint statements by the councillors in 2019 and 2021 and a press statement by
village chairmen in September 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Current reports seem to keep
to the map from the MLUM threat that proposed alienating a 1,038 km<sup>2</sup>
area along the boundary to Serengeti National Park, and a 462 km<sup>2</sup>
area in the southeast end of the old Loliondo GCA (therefore the FFU camp in
Sanjan) bordering NCA. Though this time the NCA annexation isn’t mentioned but
the aim seems to be to create an equally illegal TAWA area (Game Reserve).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The confused build-up
to this this year’s Osero grab attempt<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In January 2022 there were
fears about leaked documents with plans (later confirmed) for NCA, but instead
Arusha RC Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages with land in
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would make a
painful decision for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders, even
those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero, or to sign the
attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien there
was a public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and traditional
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyI47yZxpNNC-bdGeKuOUf0rBY1ViWFpENBGSkH_O-2ff8y9n79Pon8t5SsPwB9jzM5KhQMICWtrIKOljN1BQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Already in January, TAWA set
up camp in Sanjan, which led to fears that they were planning to erect beacons,
and people protested until the TAWA rangers left. Since then, several other
meetings have been held and local leaders have suffered harassment from authorities.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February,
Majaliwa came and wasn’t much better than Mongella, but with a “friendlier”
tone, and the attendants were far too soft on him. Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in NCA, <b>not Loliondo</b>, Majaliwa lied that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
is “empty” (there are both permanent and seasonal bomas). The PM said that, if
the problem is water, we have the minister here, and boreholes can be drilled
elsewhere (unsurprisingly, on 1<sup>st</sup>-2<sup>nd</sup> March, the Minister
for Water and Irrigation, Jumaa Aweso, visited Loliondo to announce water
projects), Just three days earlier, the Ngorongoro MP had very clearly
explained the area’s importance for <b>grazing</b>. Excising the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
from the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> old Loliondo GCA (Loliondo division and parts of
Sale) signifies destruction of lives and livelihoods. The remaining area has
two towns, with district headquarters and hospitals, agricultural areas, forest
reserves, and the horrible American company <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> claiming their own
private nature refuge. Majaliwa ordered a demarcation exercise of the disputed
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to be initiated to “know the boundaries”! There aren’t
“boundaries”, since the area is part of the village land and has not been
grabbed! No boundaries are needed, unless there are bad intentions. And bad
intentions are now certainly being shown!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> March. Majaliwa
again mentioned beacons and water projects (outside the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>)
pretending that the land was only needed for water, when informing parliamentarians
about a fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha regarding “voluntary”
relocations from Ngorongoro Conservation Area, without people from Ngorongoro,
the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the
land, among them the Arash ward councillor Methew Siloma spoke up very clearly
and strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa can’t be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxH7s0ebesunAnHol3mTCmCMufYBeuSaQP4VTd68487oJnqxnyxlRdl5vziTubgi-PrJ1Y9M-gGwZyu0Tq6JA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Following the protest meeting
19<sup>th</sup> March, on the 23<sup>rd</sup> councillor Siloma and the
councillor of Malambo, Joel Clement Reson, were summoned to the CCM ethics
committee at the party’s office in Loliondo, after which the police entered and
Siloma was arrested – or abducted – and taken to Arusha accompanied by Security
Officer Hassan. In Arusha family and lawyers weren’t allowed to see Siloma. The
Regional Commanding Officer said that it was a political case, and the
councillor was being interrogated outside the police by TISS (Tanzania
Intelligence and Security Service), which TISS do not have a mandate to do. On
25<sup>th</sup> March, Siloma was released on bail, without charges, but he
must continue reporting to the police, which has reportedly lately calmed down.
Later Siloma has in social media said that he was locked up, interrogated and
threatened in an unknown building, not at the police station.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Easter Eve, 16<sup>th</sup>
April, the councillor of Malambo was arrested and so were the councillors of
Piyaya and Maaloni. They were released the following day, but Joel Reson from
Malambo was told to report to the police in Arusha, which he did on 22<sup>nd</sup>
April and then he was locked up at Arusha central police station, interrogated,
released on bail the following day, and told to continue reporting to the
police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Though the illegal arrests of
this year of been “mild” compared to those of 2016 (or 2015) to 2019 that were lengthier
and included torture. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned by Siloma and
Reson themselves in Clubhouse, all focus of the “interrogations” was laid on
making them stop defending the land, “confess” to having received millions from
the Kenyan Senator for Narok County, Ledama Olekina and that this would be the
reason that they were speaking up against any plans of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of vitally important grazing land into a “protected area”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dysBIgIW6JjT0VterYWNg6kSfoktpIx0k3EKqfsApJ1CR8bnVKXQoDryWtYVtx_B-5WJ8Ucktzwk1sbcGHfmg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">From March 2018.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> April, the
new Minister Pindi Chana visited Loliondo, but nothing has transpired of what
she said or did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year has seen the return
of OBC’s journalist, Manyerere Jackton, to incitement against the Loliondo
Maasai. The past years he’s parroted chief conservator Manongi’s rhetoric about
NCA, but he’s lied low about Loliondo following the arrest of OBC’s director
Mollel, after previously in over 60 articles having engaged in extreme
incitement, slander and fabrications. Also, Mollel himself has returned to
sharing his views in the press, even if only in one international article. His
message is that the president can change the land use anywhere in Tanzania to
benefit the nation, naming a couple of brutal evictions operations to
exemplify, and adding that urban NGOs use the Maasai as milking cows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President Samia has repeatedly
threatened the Maasai of NCA, but she has also mentioned Loliondo. On 30<sup>th</sup>
April, in connection to the premier of The Royal Tour, Peter Greenberg
published a radio <a href="https://petergreenberg.com/2022/04/30/eye-on-travel-tanzania-april-30-2022/" target="_blank">interview </a>with her in which she includes a threat against
Loliondo when being asked a somewhat unrelated question. Peter Greenberg
mentions “overtourism” and asks the president for her definition of
“sustainable tourism”. Then Samia uses the occasion to respond that we must
come up with strategies to protect the whole ecosystem, so that tourist attractions
last for a longer time, and gives the example of Loliondo that’s bordering
Serengeti, claiming that Loliondo is close to the Mara River (it’s not) and
that we can’t allow the river to dry up, since there will not be the migration
and Serengeti will not be the same …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Contrary to what had been
announced at the meeting in Arash, on 25<sup>th</sup> May the committee handed
over their report of “community views” on both NCA and the 1,500 km2 Osero in
Loliondo and Sale to PM Majaliwa. The 60 members of the two parts of the
committee weren’t allowed to make any presentation. Instead, as usual, there
was one-way communication from Majaliwa who, as far as I’ve found out, didn’t
say anything at all about Loliondo, and went on about houses that are being
built in Handeni for “voluntary” (see many blog posts from this year)
relocation from NCA to Handeni. The PM said that he will work on the
recommendations. <b>He told the committee members to keep believing in the
government, and ignore nonsense by irrelevant people, since it can’t have bad
plans for its citizens!</b> The following day the committee members held their
own press conference. While speaking up strongly and making it clear that they
aren’t going anywhere, they were also grateful for the opportunity to hand over
community views to Majaliwa. <b>IF</b> Majaliwa has had a look at the community
recommendations (which he of course hasn’t), he will see that <b>the land belongs
to the Maasai, that they need it, that they care for it, and that they aren’t
going anywhere</b>. Though this is something that has been <b>explained to him
many, many times for years! <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, in her budget speech on
3<sup>rd</sup> June, Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Pindi Chana,
announces that her ministry expects to “upgrade” Loliondo Game Controlled Areas
to a Game Reserve! Not only this, but the plan is to do the same with a long
list of other old Game Controlled Areas, which are huge areas of village land.
Her words were so ignorant and demented that nobody could take them seriously.
They would mean that the whole northern zone from Serengeti to Kilimanjaro
would become a Game Reserve, and many other areas below. Still, except for the
Ngorongoro <a href="https://youtu.be/fuKdirOxCkI" target="_blank">MP Emmanuel Oleshangai</a>, this <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/06/pindi-chana-in-her-budget-speech.html" target="_blank">blogger</a>, and some people in social media,
there wasn’t any reaction at all! The other MPs from areas mentioned in her
speech didn’t utter a word, and nothing at all was written in the press. Is
this the reason that it was seen as safe to send the FFU to invade Loliondo?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Messages from
the perpetrators of crime<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A </span><a href="https://youtu.be/RvCpqtP5yx8" target="_blank">video clip</a> of RC Mongella is
being circulated in which he repeats Kagasheki’s old – since long stopped and
disproven - lie that the old 4,000 km2 Loliondo GCA would be a protected area,
but that the government out of the kindness of its heart would have decided to
give people living there 2,500 km2! And that 1,500 km2 are being “kept” for
conservation! To make matters worse, he pretends that the exercise is
“participatory” through many visits by government officials. He seems to have
forgotten what he was told when he issued his threat in January! And it wasn’t exactly
subtle.</p><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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dated 7<sup>th</sup> June, Pascal Shelutete, Tanzania National Parks
Authority´s public relation’s manager,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">writes that RC Mongella at a meeting in Karatu called
on the people of Arusha Region to support the Government's efforts in conserving
Loliondo GCA, and called on those spreading false information to stop doing so,
since the government's goal is to preserve the area for the benefit of
Tanzanians and the economy of the country as a whole.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This must<span style="color: #800180;">*</span> be the same meeting
in Karatu yesterday, to which the Ngorongoro District Executive Director (DED) summoned
all ward and village executive directors via a letter dated 6<sup>th</sup> June.
Just one day’s notice. This DED Jumaa Mhina, who arrived in in Ngorongoro in 2021, has been a destructive
force indeed trying to make village chairs abandon the ongoing case in the East
African Court of Justice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> *Or not, but it was definitely related.</o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY4yk_VcSikmvSSRmubmGmTus0mYYWpSflqKeii3htKfj0Ng94cXoU1MOpT9TVZ6u_ilGAE90teMP9TScNaNjh0j9OwvtBqJzQ08gC0PCfxJLyt33iA6fTq109FCqEzafRxE2ycyBvkRpaSfN654_50N5xM8HqtckcSV6rdvjqDczzXGa7F-688aK4lg/s1009/DED%20meeting%20Karatu%207%20June%202022.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY4yk_VcSikmvSSRmubmGmTus0mYYWpSflqKeii3htKfj0Ng94cXoU1MOpT9TVZ6u_ilGAE90teMP9TScNaNjh0j9OwvtBqJzQ08gC0PCfxJLyt33iA6fTq109FCqEzafRxE2ycyBvkRpaSfN654_50N5xM8HqtckcSV6rdvjqDczzXGa7F-688aK4lg/s320/DED%20meeting%20Karatu%207%20June%202022.jpeg" width="228" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I certainly
didn’t expect this invasion! Not now!</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <b>But now
all local leaders and activists, together with national and international
allies, must speak up in unison, while trying to keep to facts</b> (I will help
with that if anyone listens). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Never ever
again dance to Majaliwa’s tune! It ends in tears however much he smiles and
however clearly you explain everything to him!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Please alert everyone and share
all information that you have!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><b>Updates (more details in next blog post):</b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">9</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> June</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">There are protests in
Ololosokwan.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Protests in Kirtalo after all these years of torture and silence.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyu_9xwHq-jT4VIbteKvt6pKMiTXs5pAldE9hwcSxWKeZ8IiMoh6ASJCQVK79obPq-TtRh7lIKodzsLil_UgQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Pindi Chana has landed in
Karatu to inspect the illegal exercise in Loliondo, or at least that's what the ministry announced in social media.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdq4WsGYH_6Y1u_wguyd9z7HB8mX_8N5NxZ0xPQ2AbkVWGAuKs2-uwDK6Bjh6TuSJi52gw_oeTm9TNJanjYzL9I5957n_fOr8ZTVMa3zJkhx0GqXEWvtnUqd_LN6MIVHjQDCfyvAWoioe0wGxlSOUpxZxibU9re-eR5fzYp6njE_BXG920CzJpTAhn3Q/s670/FUzc5IdXEAA86Ac.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="521" data-original-width="670" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdq4WsGYH_6Y1u_wguyd9z7HB8mX_8N5NxZ0xPQ2AbkVWGAuKs2-uwDK6Bjh6TuSJi52gw_oeTm9TNJanjYzL9I5957n_fOr8ZTVMa3zJkhx0GqXEWvtnUqd_LN6MIVHjQDCfyvAWoioe0wGxlSOUpxZxibU9re-eR5fzYp6njE_BXG920CzJpTAhn3Q/s320/FUzc5IdXEAA86Ac.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;">And there are so many unconfirmed worrying
rumours.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">The councillors of Ololosokwan (worked as OBC’s assistant director for
years), Oloipiri (big friend of OBC), Oloirien, Maaloni, Arash, Piyaya,
Malambo, and two special seats councillors, Kijoolu Kakiya and </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Taleng’o Leshoko</span> </span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">were arrested on 9</span><sup style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">th</sup><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> June when summoned to the DC. Nobody seemed to have exact information about which councillors until Saturday evening, 11th, (so I edited this). The CCM district chairman, Ndirango Senge Laizer, is also arrested. It's not known where these local leaders are being held.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">Not until the 9<sup>th</sup> (confirmed the following morning) was I informed that Parmwaari Merika, Oloirien
village chairman, had been arrested since 7<sup>th</sup> June.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">At night, the Oakland Institute issued a </span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/393463874272421687/9120883865952233044" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">press
release</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">. In Tanzanian regular media
online, only Mongella's "message" is found. The Mwananchi has an
article (not online) with a few words from MP Oleshangai as well, and Onesmo Olengurumwa of
Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition, but nobody is reporting from the
ground. EATV's reporter stands on the ground in Loliondo, but keeps strictly to
Mongella's lies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>10th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Some beacons were erected in Ololosokwan at night and uprooted in Ololosokwan. In the morning the FFU used teargas and live bullets. At least 31 people were injured and some taken to hospital across the border in Kenya. As is usual in violent illegal operations, the FFU destroyed motorbikes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">Sangau Nkiminis and Inkoi Kanjwel were arrested.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dytm3cHrkgNqd2RX_Dcw0qvdt5HOqduYsvlWYMYUvT48wvDomrsKeN0dZ7NwRV_C7qdabBTK-I32cd8GLPymA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ4mLxPmHnSiCxTUy46-h3X9Et9GwGosX9UFbwH1JDXqDzATpm1pKmc-_-vHigvfOi3owMb8_W8A00YkXtuvzyDSqYVy0veja6FhitcnovOObAau6oi0WslvxIPSt1m4u6nNaIUQkjOMOv9Qv10RjYghcpxCTaNWR-LjEVgKgx6IMXEa2Vt72TgFNOag" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ4mLxPmHnSiCxTUy46-h3X9Et9GwGosX9UFbwH1JDXqDzATpm1pKmc-_-vHigvfOi3owMb8_W8A00YkXtuvzyDSqYVy0veja6FhitcnovOObAau6oi0WslvxIPSt1m4u6nNaIUQkjOMOv9Qv10RjYghcpxCTaNWR-LjEVgKgx6IMXEa2Vt72TgFNOag" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlW5-ZgyTjH4LsS2WEXCAZZXFB0xgPCdZfOJfW9EsrBFRwlNvKKuxCR5fFU5XFuIDKJi8rfx5dy1YV8i_4Qmr9lZNmAxRAAVbcPTF4RQ-sPL4oKJHk3P0TSJTAkvsbXLtkfDibzwS5gYg6fWVF63lR0WHeWTNuUYI_W_M_AFTzcgmIfB2s9PP6WgZnnw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="810" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlW5-ZgyTjH4LsS2WEXCAZZXFB0xgPCdZfOJfW9EsrBFRwlNvKKuxCR5fFU5XFuIDKJi8rfx5dy1YV8i_4Qmr9lZNmAxRAAVbcPTF4RQ-sPL4oKJHk3P0TSJTAkvsbXLtkfDibzwS5gYg6fWVF63lR0WHeWTNuUYI_W_M_AFTzcgmIfB2s9PP6WgZnnw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBfmfCKceO053L7rJx_az9vuEf29ZZk_Uyuc5wmwd-kipoBMgj0VDlRR_x62GyjS6HLgqJbqAFjX6v9R4pwR2N25jvE3oOEgGvHHmYRowQuJOmcQfWAf75HHEEaOhvXrNLHX2U9W4Wc80TDJBHDwSDyPu6F0W0c2IaGgpLCIRlDbqXuZuSZvOrQ7eIjw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBfmfCKceO053L7rJx_az9vuEf29ZZk_Uyuc5wmwd-kipoBMgj0VDlRR_x62GyjS6HLgqJbqAFjX6v9R4pwR2N25jvE3oOEgGvHHmYRowQuJOmcQfWAf75HHEEaOhvXrNLHX2U9W4Wc80TDJBHDwSDyPu6F0W0c2IaGgpLCIRlDbqXuZuSZvOrQ7eIjw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">In parliament, the speaker Tulia Ackson, said that the government has
explained the operation, that those spreading false information will be
dealt with, and that Tanzania is in an economic war with other countries.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">PM Majaliwa’s “explanation” was surreal, even coming from such a monumental
liar. He claimed that beacons are being placed to protect the environment and
that the local Maasai will not be affected. He said that people of ill will are
spreading a video with false information.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg11N9vbkjWbnAlEYCmLIOofYPGuK4hS2hewBCDxudlAws2xm_zf6oAhHZRtBrbnBN8xZyGu9xmEwsqyRHWCoYks1UNJ4cQfI4b2WEZV4tymEO5EpGFyDfpAHxWW3J0VD4CnokUrJe2ag8KwO97A3_Hiz0BMaeV8Xm_RceEOSor4pzTY1qE4Yd7cecLPg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg11N9vbkjWbnAlEYCmLIOofYPGuK4hS2hewBCDxudlAws2xm_zf6oAhHZRtBrbnBN8xZyGu9xmEwsqyRHWCoYks1UNJ4cQfI4b2WEZV4tymEO5EpGFyDfpAHxWW3J0VD4CnokUrJe2ag8KwO97A3_Hiz0BMaeV8Xm_RceEOSor4pzTY1qE4Yd7cecLPg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><br /></span><div><span style="color: #800180;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;">Isaya Olepose Laizer from Endulen in NCA was arrested in Arusha after
having talked about Majaliwa on Clubhouse. Hardly anyone from Loliondo is
active on such apps. Olepose was released the following day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KCtD0dmtDNQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="KCtD0dmtDNQ"></iframe></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">11</span><sup style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">th</sup><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> June</span></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">RC Mongella is in Loliondo and keeps repeating Kagasheki’s old lie about the land status in
Loliondo, a lie that was put stop to already in 2013. He says that the illegal
operation is developing just fine, while confirming that one police was yesterday
killed by arrowshot. Mongella is seen in photos planting illegal beacons. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggt5PhvH4tCqDSXQBy3rDdFZjmLbkA1G8IxzTjdHUAsChCJBV274EptWxovEqPzcYo1r5MATJ75r1aex7EiNWAOqVHceACYxA4YB6P464lciuNBiWjEV28rkcD17k1H-KCrvb04OY3F3GNw5ztdezv_nFDV4OQtgyr39BM0zdN2Lf7rCK9FulEmB219w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggt5PhvH4tCqDSXQBy3rDdFZjmLbkA1G8IxzTjdHUAsChCJBV274EptWxovEqPzcYo1r5MATJ75r1aex7EiNWAOqVHceACYxA4YB6P464lciuNBiWjEV28rkcD17k1H-KCrvb04OY3F3GNw5ztdezv_nFDV4OQtgyr39BM0zdN2Lf7rCK9FulEmB219w" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">On ITV and Channel 10 doctors from Wasso stood saying that they didn't have any injured people.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">Violence continued in Ololosokwan with at least one person, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Katinge Saing'eu, s</span></span><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">eriously injured.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">In the evening there was teargas and illegal beacons in Oltulelei area of Maaloni. People were arrested and beaten, and the FFU set fire to three motorbikes. </span></p><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">At night shots are being fired in Mairowa in Ololosokwan. Everywhere and in all directions and people have run to the forest to hide. Houses were searched and people were beaten.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">There are too many international articles to keep up with them. Even Aljazeera ran a news piece.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Sunday, 12th June</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Burial of one man who was hit by a police vehicle in Malambo on the 11th. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">More motorbikes have been destroyed by the FFU. Many people continue hiding and I haven't been able to get an exact list of how many are arrested. One of them is </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #800180;">Albert Selembo, legal officer at the organization IDINGO who was arrested
yesterday and is being held at Loliondo police station, on unknown charges.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Ngorongoro DC, Raymond Mwangwala, told media that those talking online instigating things that aren't true, will be found wherever they are, and so on, in classic Loliondo police state style. Head of police operations, Liberatus Sabas, said that anyone involved in the killing of the police who died from arrowshot will be hunted day and night. Though that's exactly what must be done to anyone involved in this brutal and illegal demarcation operation in contempt of court! Your day will come to all of you.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Monday, 13th June</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Inspector General of Police, Simon Sirro, came to Loliondo to make his contribution to the illegal demarcation, accompanied by RC Mongella. Sirro said that the demarcation operation is going just fine, but there are some people, politicians included, who are stirring things up, using the Maasai for their own benefit. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijMtnotZmq-sBdDBGGVRgNi1SkoZmC7SyAtJOHafKBGXcbH5g4MG7GJLhqoY3b5nPXU4kyeYlVK5iWddIr-QX_OA_NJEJOP1riVwu1q26AN1myr7YyIZGag7vFfkTPvW14u5cpn_c7p7tW3sejNl83Ya5qWAw4h9HidEG5ELULRetJNQ_32gAGIR1nDg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1021" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijMtnotZmq-sBdDBGGVRgNi1SkoZmC7SyAtJOHafKBGXcbH5g4MG7GJLhqoY3b5nPXU4kyeYlVK5iWddIr-QX_OA_NJEJOP1riVwu1q26AN1myr7YyIZGag7vFfkTPvW14u5cpn_c7p7tW3sejNl83Ya5qWAw4h9HidEG5ELULRetJNQ_32gAGIR1nDg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The government spokesperson, Gerson Msigwa, repeated the same old Kagasheki-style lie, and the same threats against instigators. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">The African Commission of Human and People's Rights <a href="https://www.achpr.org/pressrelease/detail?id=639" target="_blank">called for</a> cessation of the eviction. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">There have been statements from many organisations and I can't keep up. The most helpful ones will make clear that the illegal beacons must be removed.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">MP Emmanuel Oleshangai confirmed that at least 31 citizens had been seriously injured in the demarcation exercise on village land, and that they are being treated in Kenya after being denied treatment at the Osero clinic in Ololosokwan for lacking the required PF3 form that the police is supposed to provide. He explained that the injured were his voters and not Kenyans. Further, the MP demanded the release of the detained leaders, and made clear that the operation is most definitely not "participatory" since even he had not been informed, despite sitting in the same parliament as the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Tuesday, 14th June</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">30 FFU vehicles arrived in Arash and set up camp in the Emoyokwa area</span><span style="color: #800180;">.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">The Ngorongoro MP was summoned to the police, and so were Olesendeka, MP of Simanjiro and Kitila Mkumbo, MP of Ubungo. The accusations were of incitement and what the three have in common is that the spoke up during the vicious anti-Maasai hatred in parliament in February. They were questioned and released. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">The numbers of missing people, not least children keep increasing.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Wednesday, 15th June</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Edward Hoseah of Tanganyika Law Society has made a useless, spineless, and shameless <a href="https://youtu.be/p-Rtj_C3qQ8" target="_blank">statement </a>advising the Ngorongoro MP to report injuries to the police! He calls on people not to take the law into their own hands and mentions human rights, but mostly goes on and on about that Tanzania is a peaceful country. Not a word about that beacons are being illegally planted on registered village land, with massive deployment of security forces, in contempt of law and while local leaders are detained at unknown location. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Six UN experts <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/06/tanzania-un-experts-warn-escalating-violence-amidst-plans-forcibly-evict" target="_blank">warned </a>about escalating violence amidst plan to forcefully evict Maasai from ancestral lands and urged to immediately halt plans for relocation. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">The FFU opened fire at the market in Oltulelei causing fear and panic. No reports of deaths or injuries so far. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">In Malambo the FFU were firing shots into the air, and they beat up a motorbike rider whom they thought was following them.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Arrests continue in an apparently aimless way. Today Freddy Ledidi from Oloirien who's District Natural Resources Officer was arrested and so was the retired Thadei Koyie* who used to be ward councillor for Orgosorok years ago. I don't think anyone knows how many people are arrested, injured or missing. It's almost impossible compile and verify what's going on. What's clear is that those illegal beacons must be uprooted! </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">*Correction: it's the brother of the former councillor who's arrested.</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">Meanwhile in Endulen - in NCA, not Loliondo - there was a big spectacle
with 20 vehicles carrying Mongella and other dignitaries, and the useless
press, to witness 6 families who have fallen for the Msomera scam and were
demolishing their houses. One of the vehicles hit and injured 14-year old
Nemburis Oletombo.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><span style="color: #800180;">Deputy Permanent Representative to the Tanzania Mission to the UN in Geneva,
Hoyce Temu, lied in the most malicious way from start to finish denying any
state violence, claiming that a 4,000 km2 reserved area had been encroached and
that the government in peaceful talks with local residents had agreed to divide
the area and keep 1,500 km2 as a protected area, that minority against the
exercise made recordings while posing threateningly and combined this with
unrelated pictures, that the government has called on anyone alleging to have
been attacked to come forward for the law to take its course and for treatment.
The ambassador did literally not say one word of truth. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Thursday 16th June</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">A clip was shared of the Minister of Home Affairs, Hamad Masauni, arriving
in Loliondo in helicopter yesterday (15</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> June) to make a statement directing
Immigration to strengthen border security to prevent illegal entry by foreigners
and so avoid incitement activities. He also ordered NGOs to be investigated to
make sure they operate within the law and don’t engage in the breach of peace.
To threaten “Kenyans” (anyone who could speak up) and NGOs is the most classic
rhetoric of the Loliondo police state. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #800180;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyuJVpDXoi3Yy7tcB-8bxLB-nu2rcrdjuRFcDcha1J_D_1vEJruduLw-CAl_LwYjHx7hKSvtII1_IAOZTIybg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span><p></p></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">In the afternoon the nine detained councillors from Loliondo and Sale and the CCM district chairman were silently sneaked to court and then taken to Kisongo remand prison. So now it's at least known where they are.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Friday, 17th June</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Twenty people, including the 10 leaders arrested before the tragic killing in self defence, have been charged with murder. The over 70 years old Oriais Oleng'iyo who was last seen with bullet wounds and detained by the FFU is not seen on the list and not found anywhere else.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">There has been a reshuffle of
permanent secretaries in which Francis Michael, permanent secretary to the Ministry
of Natural Resources and Tourism since January this year, is moved to the Ministry
of Education, Science and Technology replacing Eliamani Sedoyeka who’s moved to
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism.</span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">A solidarity demonstration in Nairobi by Kenyan Maasai was broken up by the Kenyan police and demonstrators taken to the Central Police Station. After a few hours they were freed unconditionally. A demonstration in Namanga went on without incidence.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;">Memusi Taki, village chairman of Njoroi, has been arrested.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Saturday, 18th June</b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Today I must publish a new blog post. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800180;">Immigration Commissioner for Border Control and Administration, Samwel Mahirane came to Loliondo to stand next to a beacon threatening NGOs and people who hav sabotaged the exercise and have fled. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">Nobody knows how many are injured, missing, or how many have been arrested.</span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">The Tanzanian government must pay for this crime. </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #800180;">New blog post. https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-brutal-and-illegal-land-demarcation.html </span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna Nordlund is a working-class person based
in Sweden who since 2010 has been blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly
also about NCA) and has her fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration
so that she will not be able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing,
ever again. She has never worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t
earned a shilling from her Loliondo work. She can be reached at
sannasus@hotmail.com</span></b></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-50599458849659193542022-06-06T21:26:00.001+02:002022-06-06T21:27:10.877+02:00Pindi Chana in Her Budget Speech Announces Planned Contempt of Court in the Loliondo Case and Threatens Maasai Land All Over Tanzania<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup>
June, in her <a href="https://www.tfs.go.tz/uploads/HOTUBA_YA_WIZARA_YA_MALIASILI_NA_UTALII_2022-23_(original).pdf" target="_blank">budget speech for 2022-2023</a>, Minister of Natural Resources and
Tourism Pindi Chana said that her Ministry expects to upgrade Loliondo Game
Controlled Area to a Game Reserve. This is not only a criminal threat of
violence and destruction of thousands of lives and livelihoods, but if in any
way implemented, contempt of court in the case, in its final stages, in the
East African Court of Justice. This comes only days after local leaders, on 25<sup>th</sup>
May, in their futile dance to PM Majaliwa’s tune - at the same time as those from
NCA – handed in explanations that the land is theirs, that they need it, that
they care for it, and that they aren’t going anywhere. As if Majaliwa, or anyone
in the government would listen … There must be loud protests, more court cases,
perhaps even a reclaim of Serengeti if the government continues like this.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This blog
post is about Loliondo and Sale Divisions, not to be mixed up with Ngorongoro
Division (NCA), even if the issues are closely related. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Chana’s land
grab attempt via budget speech<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Earlier
criminal attempts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Escalation in
2022</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How?</span></b></p>
<span><a name='more'></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Chana’s land
grab attempt via budget speech<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, Pindi Chana in
her <a href="https://www.tfs.go.tz/uploads/HOTUBA_YA_WIZARA_YA_MALIASILI_NA_UTALII_2022-23_(original).pdf" target="_blank">budget speech</a> indicated that the Ministry expects to upgrade the status of
several Game Controlled Areas including Loliondo and Lake Natron into Game Reserves.
I assume (it wasn’t specified) Chana was referring to the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of the old 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled Area, which is the
core hunting area of Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC), that organises hunting
for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, and that for years have been lobbying the
Tanzanian government to have their hunting block since 1993 (the whole of
Loliondo GCA, first contract signed in 1992 without involving local people)
reduced to these 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> and turned into a “protected area” to
evict the Maasai and their livestock. This lobbying has led to two major
illegal mass arson invasions of village land, ordered by the DC’s office in
2009 and 2017, and a local police state in which anyone who criticises the
“investors” (OBC and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>) will be severely harassed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5NUu77u_NK8_fy2XOqP-pOeUPj6KrRt0EYKkhmVdRIae2uVwp-edXAm59deJcTGb2WRx00manwz9000WI_LCW9oXfRppdFhBIxNuFezOXjhXnfJfKNKN_panEkhnZgBXci0EstCsKmqil6UKvUsdjxqRGffw57WfyCLU_D8SRjE3t5yg2cCkPZRbGbA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="1080" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5NUu77u_NK8_fy2XOqP-pOeUPj6KrRt0EYKkhmVdRIae2uVwp-edXAm59deJcTGb2WRx00manwz9000WI_LCW9oXfRppdFhBIxNuFezOXjhXnfJfKNKN_panEkhnZgBXci0EstCsKmqil6UKvUsdjxqRGffw57WfyCLU_D8SRjE3t5yg2cCkPZRbGbA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> old/former Loliondo
GCA consists of the entire Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District, and Piyaya
and Malambo wards of Sale Division. This area includes two towns, district
headquarters, agricultural areas, forest reserves, hospitals, a teachers’
collage, a military camp, and a “private nature refuge” claimed by the deeply
unethical American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>. The 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> that OBC uses as
their core hunting area is essential dry season grazing land, the home of many
people, and legally registered village land, on which the new Wildlife Conservation
Act No 5 of 2009 prohibits the establishment of Game Controlled Areas. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Each Minister of Natural Resources
and Tourism has tried to assist OBC in their own way, but still the Maasai keep
their land. Pindi Chana’s strategy is apparently to issue a demented massive
attack against almost all Maasai grazing land in Tanzania’s northern zone and
beyond, all at the same time. In one sentence she announced not only that Loliondo
GCA is to be upgraded to a Game Reserve, but that her ministry expects to do
the same with the GCAs of Lake Natron – part of it is in Ngorongoro district
and there’s also a threat of annexation to NCA.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Other Game Controlled Areas to be
upgraded are Kilombero, Lolkisale, Longido, Muhuwesi, Umba River, Mto wa Mbu,
Simanjiro, Ruvu Masai, Ruvu Same and Kalimawe; and the Forest Reserves of Litumbandyosi
and Gesimazoa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwZBQ0saHGE18dOB8B6PaDT34uTs3e74hBIhd0Q3BPoNsEXZD3zEX9MkVUimjWfbKEIMvvIVtjPZ7s-ZzoCp5ygtFFzv-d2bbMOWDRyEiyZUBgVjUxM2KTwAYjbimcAhQbjPc4iOMai3m855n9aNiIZ-M9zhgY3a4Nvf6E8vAN-Di2lX6MagemJyjxDA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="1208" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwZBQ0saHGE18dOB8B6PaDT34uTs3e74hBIhd0Q3BPoNsEXZD3zEX9MkVUimjWfbKEIMvvIVtjPZ7s-ZzoCp5ygtFFzv-d2bbMOWDRyEiyZUBgVjUxM2KTwAYjbimcAhQbjPc4iOMai3m855n9aNiIZ-M9zhgY3a4Nvf6E8vAN-Di2lX6MagemJyjxDA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Game Reserve, like a
National Park, has a strict ban on all activities by local people, while
tourism is strongly encouraged, but with the difference that unlike in a
National Park hunting by tourists is allowed, or not only allowed, but it’s the
purpose of a Game Reserve.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia1bxjNZG91BV90qWzaGXMo3zLbO2mVTbSsSlV-Sji5bHqd0y0mc1TCoA-K-8yYx_Ve4EJnFp8npjalwc-c9JPvQB5KruLKxD7NBxAjRH3dCIM6XF0gRa34WB0W8F2VHvRwu_TvQznJJbSlztCN1btb5YknBv6bmFuH533Npfat49iOrhYqr5YAT8Ktw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia1bxjNZG91BV90qWzaGXMo3zLbO2mVTbSsSlV-Sji5bHqd0y0mc1TCoA-K-8yYx_Ve4EJnFp8npjalwc-c9JPvQB5KruLKxD7NBxAjRH3dCIM6XF0gRa34WB0W8F2VHvRwu_TvQznJJbSlztCN1btb5YknBv6bmFuH533Npfat49iOrhYqr5YAT8Ktw" width="258" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Somewhat outdated map of hunting areas, but the old Game Controlled Areas are the same, and even if not all of them are included, it gives an image of the insanity. Loliondo (27 and 28), Lake Natron (29), Longido (30), Mto wa Mbu (31), Lolkisale (38), Simanjiro (39-42), Ruvu Same (44), Ruvu Masai (45), Kilombero (55,56). Does anyone have a better map?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>The announcement would require
evictions from such huge areas of Tanzania that it just can’t be seriously
meant but could be a strategy to make old mass eviction plans seem measured.</b> There’s
been some reactions in social media, but in regular media it isn't mentioned
at all. This contrasts with the attention given to a statement issued by the Tanzania
Wildlife Authority (TAWA) on 5</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> June temporarily lifting a ban on
exports of live wild animals. Just one day later Pindi Chana <a href="https://www.habarileo.co.tz/habari/2022-06-06629db3ed88765.aspx" target="_blank">reinstated </a>the ban
to allow further consultations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Fortunately, Ngorongoro has an
MP, Emmanuel Oleshangai, and in parliament he reminded the Minister and indeed
the government that Loliondo representatives have handed over their report of
recommendations to the PM as he asked them to do, and the MP asked the Ministry
to go through them and those from Ngorongoro division. He wondered why the
Ministry didn’t want people in any part of Ngorongoro - Loliondo, Lake Natron
or NCA - to be able to exist. Then they go to Mto wa Mbu GCA, wherever that is
(it’s a town). Everywhere people will cry because of the Ministry, from Monduli
to Longido to Lolkisale to Simanjiro to Kilombero. For whose benefit are such
protected areas? Protected areas that make Tanzanians cry every day have no
benefit. The conflict in Loliondo has lasted for 30 years. About 307,800 km2 of
Tanzania are already protected areas. Let people continue their lives in the
rest of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fuKdirOxCkI" width="320" youtube-src-id="fuKdirOxCkI"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Old Game Controlled Areas do
not restrict local human activities and can, and do, overlap with village land.
Though in Wildlife Conservation Act 2009, that came into effect in 2010, GCAs
are defined as the same as Game Reserve. Per the 2009 Act they are no longer
allowed to overlap with village land, and they were to be reviewed within one
year of the Act coming into operation, which didn’t happen anywhere, so all
GCAs are now to be considered defunct. Though after the illegal mass arson
operation in 2009, OBC tried the “legal” (not really) way and funded the
surveying of a new draft district land use plan, which unsurprisingly proposed
turning their 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> core hunting area into the new kind of GCA
that would not allow local Maasai and livestock. This proposal was strongly
rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011, but then several attempts to
impose it anyway have followed:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Previous criminal
attempts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013 Kagasheki attempted
the strategy of shameless lying, saying that the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> were a
protected area, that the Maasai were landless, and that the government was generously
gifting them with 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>, when the actual plan was to steal 1,500
km<sup>2</sup>. At this time the Maasai were united in an exemplary way, raised
support from both ruling party and opposition, and PM Pinda stopped the
Kagasheki-style land grab attempt. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With Nyalandu followed the
strategy (already widely practised but intensified) of divide and rule and
buying off local leaders. This was frightfully successful in some cases, but
not to the extent that anyone signed anything about the land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Next came increased repression
with lengthy illegal arrests, which continued between <a href="https://app.box.com/s/sad16izambdamv0kx6sguirhw9di80vv" target="_blank">2016</a> (or 2015) and 2019, and
this is where Majaliwa entered the Loliondo land grabbing circus. In 2016 he
tasked then Arusha RC Gambo with setting up a select committee to solve the conflict.
Local leaders were weakened to the extent that when the committee reached the
compromise proposal of a Wildlife Management Area, that in Loliondo had been
successfully rejected when the government and FZS tried to impose it in the 2000s,
and even when there were spontaneous protests in village after village against Gambo’s
committee, they regarded it as a victory. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While everyone was still
waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017 an “unexpected”
illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the
ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA,
TAWA/KDU, local police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally
arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others
protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would
have been implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected
land, while the DC, and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not about the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about that, but
that village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti National
Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A few weeks after Kigwangalla
had been appointed as minister, he stopped the illegal operation, and for at
least a couple of days, he appeared to be a completely new kind of minister. He
<a href="https://youtu.be/EtZMkGcf0hk" target="_blank">complained </a>that OBC’s director Isaack Mollel had tried to bribe him more
cheaply than he had bribed his predecessors and said that OBC would have left
Tanzania before January 2018. Though OBC didn’t show any signs of packing, and
on 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017 Majaliwa announced that they were staying. The
PM also announced his decision that was something terrifying, but vague, about
a legal bill and forming a special authority to manage the land. This decision
was celebrated by OBC’s journalist Manyerere Jackton, but then it fortunately kept
being delayed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2018, OBC reaffirmed their
love relation with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism with yet
another gift of 15 vehicles. In Loliondo a military camp was set up and later
made permanent in Lopolun near Wasso with donations from the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority. Then followed the most inexplicable silence during
an attempt by the OCCID and local police to derail the case in the East African
Court of Justice, filed during the illegal operation of 2017, when only the
main counsel, and not any local leaders spoke up. The silence continued during
strange and brutal attacks by the soldiers stationed at Lopolun against several
groups of local people. On 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018 – a year after being
filed - the court finally granted the injunction restraining the government
from evictions, destruction and harassment of the applicants while the main
case continues, but this injunction was soon brutally violated when in November
and December soldiers from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle,
and burned bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan, while nobody <b>at all</b> dared
to speak up. Local leaders claimed to fear for their lives and thought that the
brutality was directly ordered by President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January
2019 condemned the crimes in a very vague way, they changed to thinking that
OBC’s director had contracted the soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiphgqz4720xa1LTdmqOA8lNHkYOdgWRZRoGdqGwV94qpmxgT4klTLo_OJu5oooDp05OWLN_Q0dfIuoV_ONz9yGKxsey08pKZNKKskTs-skTWfyrvVnb9j49zb9OtnMJGmmUG9SphWPOmpSvp08FH91LYgzxb9MgNQwXfiveiKbtZIBOl3OiQYEOjy70g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiphgqz4720xa1LTdmqOA8lNHkYOdgWRZRoGdqGwV94qpmxgT4klTLo_OJu5oooDp05OWLN_Q0dfIuoV_ONz9yGKxsey08pKZNKKskTs-skTWfyrvVnb9j49zb9OtnMJGmmUG9SphWPOmpSvp08FH91LYgzxb9MgNQwXfiveiKbtZIBOl3OiQYEOjy70g" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground, but the local police state wasn’t
dealt with and after a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was out, and soon
back to work. Speculations about Mollel’s misfortune include his clashes of
egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to send a message to
OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to Bernard Membe) that nobody is
untouchable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now some local leaders claim that
after the arrest of Mollel everything was calm until 2022, which isn’t true at
all. It was they who had been silenced. In September 2019, the genocidal zoning
proposal for NCA, which included the proposal to annex most of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
Osero from Loliondo and Sale divisions and turn it into a protected area, while
allowing hunting, was presented. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal
has since been met with countless protests from every kind of group of people
from NCA, but near silence from Loliondo. Then 2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as new
DED and he started working hard to make the village chairmen of Ololosokwan,
Kirtalo, Oloirien and Arash withdraw the case in the East African Court of
Justice, but they stood their ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBJtjN9nvjwUMMmlz1Bahkntw8vDdCyAlKKEuoPdl-5DHxwYPk9p4ZVKaISAM1Tax13Jq90JZOaW5067q6hAv-5DLX3VtcdnHmCQ0L5ws0coakrfr7MBpiR8IDjy8CMVzlvL3BITtMdahZlzAoddcmSHyGORut7AEqxm4aj5FMXm0WGvzdvVCoPjUX3Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBJtjN9nvjwUMMmlz1Bahkntw8vDdCyAlKKEuoPdl-5DHxwYPk9p4ZVKaISAM1Tax13Jq90JZOaW5067q6hAv-5DLX3VtcdnHmCQ0L5ws0coakrfr7MBpiR8IDjy8CMVzlvL3BITtMdahZlzAoddcmSHyGORut7AEqxm4aj5FMXm0WGvzdvVCoPjUX3Q" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Escalation in
2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders,
even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero, or to sign the
attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien there
was a public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and traditional
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyLrrOqIZOhxDLW4NqP2L88oyym_gdBdbMwyzDVuEyTv3galY03GsKXyZyKG4HwmPqg4uuHzFmA9iy4QZjBEg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February,
Majaliwa came and wasn’t much better than Mongella, but with a friendlier tone,
and not being too specific. Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup> February in
NCA, <b>not Loliondo</b>, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be marked by
beacons, so that we may know the boundaries – while claiming that this is NOT a
trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then former Minister Ndumbaro
on 8<sup>th</sup> March re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW
Kiswahili, and on the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and
water projects (outside the 1,500 km2, pretending that the land was only needed
for water) in Loliondo when informing parliamentarians about a fake spectacle
that he had set up in Arusha regarding “voluntary” relocations from Ngorongoro
Conservation Area, without people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a huge protest meeting in
Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March, several leaders spoke up in defence of the
land, among them the Arash ward councillor Methew Siloma, who as district
chairman 2015-2020 had been a disappointment, spoke up very clearly and
strongly. The message from this meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa can’t be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw3xyjo2x-sKh2Ph6Y8uNLVrHvKJCIXIxUuQBVMsQnAYkj7n2FgHFSCMKJZi4xhLgSHNGiFrGJI9lJ-drq0vw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Following the protest meeting
19<sup>th</sup> March, on the 23<sup>rd</sup> councillor Siloma and the
councillor of Malambo, Joel Clement Reson, were summoned to the CCM ethics
committee at the party’s office in Loliondo, after which the police entered and
Siloma was arrested – or abducted – and taken to Arusha accompanied by Security
Officer Hassan. In Arusha family and lawyers weren’t allowed to see Siloma. The
Regional Commanding Officer said that it was a political case, and the
councillor was being interrogated outside the police by TISS (Tanzania
Intelligence and Security Service), which TISS do not have a mandate to do. On
25<sup>th</sup> March, Siloma was released on bail, without charges, but he
must continue reporting to the police, which has reportedly lately calmed down.
Later Siloma has in social media said that he was locked up, interrogated and
threatened in an unknown building, not at the police station.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Easter Eve, 16<sup>th</sup>
April, the councillor of Malambo was arrested and so were the councillors of
Piyaya and Maaloni. They were released the following day, but Joel Reson from Malambo
was told to report to the police in Arusha, which he did on 22<sup>nd</sup>
April and then he was locked up at Arusha central police station, interrogated,
released on bail the following day, and told to continue reporting to the
police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned by Siloma and
Reson themselves in Clubhouse, all focus of the “interrogations” was laid on
making them stop defending the land, “confess” to having received millions from
the Kenyan Senator for Narok County, Ledama Olekina and that this would be the
reason that they were speaking up against any plans of turning the 1,500 km2 of
vitally important grazing land into a “protected area”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> April, the
new Minister Pindi Chana visited Loliondo, but nothing has transpired of what
she said or did.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year has seen the return
of OBC’s journalist, Manyerere Jackton, to incitement against the Loliondo
Maasai. The past years he’s parroted chief conservator Manongi’s rhetoric about
NCA, but he’s lied low about Loliondo following the arrest of OBC’s director
Mollel, after previously in over 60 articles having engaged in extreme
incitement, slander and fabrications. Also, Mollel himself has returned to
sharing his views in the press, even if only in one international article. His
message is that the president can change the land use anywhere in Tanzania to
benefit the nation, naming a couple of brutal evictions operations to
exemplify, and adding that urban NGOs use the Maasai as milking cows. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President Samia has repeatedly
threatened the Maasai of NCA, but she has also mentioned Loliondo. On 30<sup>th</sup>
April, in connection to the premier of The Royal Tour, Peter Greenberg
published a radio <a href="https://petergreenberg.com/2022/04/30/eye-on-travel-tanzania-april-30-2022/" target="_blank">interview </a>with her in which she includes a threat against
Loliondo when being asked a somewhat unrelated question. Peter Greenberg
mentions “overtourism” and asks the president for her definition of
“sustainable tourism”. Then Samia uses the occasion to respond that we must
come up with strategies to protect the whole ecosystem, so that tourist
attractions last for a longer time, and gives the example of Loliondo that’s
bordering Serengeti, claiming that Loliondo is close to the Mara River (it’s
not) and that we can’t allow the river to dry up, since there will not be the
migration and Serengeti will not be the same … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Contrary to what had been
announced at the meeting in Arash, on 25<sup>th</sup> May the committee handed
over their report of “community views” on both NCA and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
Osero in Loliondo to PM Majaliwa. The 60 members of the two parts of the
committee weren’t allowed to make any presentation. Instead, as usual, there
was one-way communication from Majaliwa who, as far as I’ve found out, didn’t
say anything at all about Loliondo, and went on about houses that are being
built in Handeni for “voluntary” (see previous and coming blog posts)
relocation from NCA to Handeni. The PM said that he will work on the recommendations.
He told the committee members to keep believing in the government, and ignore
nonsense by irrelevant people, since it can’t have bad plans for its citizens, The
following day the committee members held their own press conference. While
speaking up strongly and making it clear that they aren’t going anywhere, they
were also grateful for the opportunity to hand over community views to
Majaliwa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, in her
budget speech on 3<sup>rd</sup> June, Pindi Chana, announces that her ministry
expects to “upgrade” Loliondo GCA to a Game Reserve!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How can local leaders again
and again fall into the trap of dancing to Majaliwa’s tune? He’s such a
monumental liar, known by almost all Tanzanians as having said that Magufuli was
working hard with heaps of folders on his desk, when the late president had
been gone for weeks and was dying or already dead. In 2016-2017 dancing to his
tune in Loliondo was followed by unexpected extreme brutality and then a dangerous
and disappointing decision, and in NCA his visit in December 2016 led to loss
of access to the craters of Ngorongoro, Olmoti and Empakaai. One explanation is
of course that all local leaders are CCM members, but some professionals in the
committee preparing community reports are opposition supporters. One CCM member
explains it as, <i>“The Maasai want peace, and they think negotiations will
bear fruit. Just because he is in the government, they have no alternative. The
only good thing is Malijwa lies all the time (he gets trapped in his own lies)”.</i>
A non-CCM-member, from NCA, not Loliondo says (regarding the latest committee),
<i>“Their intention was not only to hand these reports to Majaliwa. It was
beyond it. They made an advocacy tool for life and forever.” </i>This was
referring to the NCA report. The Loliondo/Sale report is partly impressive as
well, but some grave and unnecessary mistakes made me angry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile in Ngorongoro
Conservation Area on 4<sup>th</sup> June, the CCM youth wing UVCCM, has made a
1,000-headed fossil fuel guzzling tourist visit using 140 vehicles, celebrating
their Mama Samia, The Royal Tour (see previous blog post) and this unbelievably
destructive industry. The same was already done by Deputy Minister Masanja and
her caravan of women, and it couldn’t be made clearer that the eviction threats
against the Maasai have absolutely nothing to do with environmental concerns. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdcAV5EyQDFmtwCmaSpWd6OFJpXlHKR5pyGBUiGZDK7QaXvGx-IluKElQ9LFAimoNM6pvPKMgDnierLyDsBSIHnx_BPQA6O0aN_Eu7EygpNtniPMqI_jlLF5TvjZVcoKh6i1cZxzMvTIvi4XNEA3U0MjNW9MkeGSOz_wDdC0d6OaYDCYdEnzezdEKmtA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdcAV5EyQDFmtwCmaSpWd6OFJpXlHKR5pyGBUiGZDK7QaXvGx-IluKElQ9LFAimoNM6pvPKMgDnierLyDsBSIHnx_BPQA6O0aN_Eu7EygpNtniPMqI_jlLF5TvjZVcoKh6i1cZxzMvTIvi4XNEA3U0MjNW9MkeGSOz_wDdC0d6OaYDCYdEnzezdEKmtA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKdoyRKlkDkHUrUhwoDCAGW3k54VPkzoeDAXpPKP-kjVxtZ3mg4kcdzVsU4qba53pG0phmq6PxxOkvpH9MECRAkDBnBVWkk6luBVI2XTxb-_og2w1l4CtaHMoBZ2sWhOCsS21-rL0Mdy0iL04ZGbHA_AAbLIy5Kmhhuykh6NBkakTO8L8xKr64CPe_7w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKdoyRKlkDkHUrUhwoDCAGW3k54VPkzoeDAXpPKP-kjVxtZ3mg4kcdzVsU4qba53pG0phmq6PxxOkvpH9MECRAkDBnBVWkk6luBVI2XTxb-_og2w1l4CtaHMoBZ2sWhOCsS21-rL0Mdy0iL04ZGbHA_AAbLIy5Kmhhuykh6NBkakTO8L8xKr64CPe_7w" width="320" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In February 2022, President Samia attended the Dubai Expo 2020 and signed a US$7.49 billion business partnership deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Here’s photo of her and OBC’s hunter, the UAE Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: 16px;">Pindi Chana has earned her place in the vast, vast Loliondo hall of shame. Her attempt at imposing OBC wishes, stealing the 1,500 km2 Osero from the Maasai, will be stopped!</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at </span></b><a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">sannasus@hotmail.com</span></b></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-12653872776858368232022-05-29T22:08:00.001+02:002022-05-30T20:36:36.029+02:00President Samia Keeps Threatening the Maasai of Ngorongoro, PM Majaliwa has Received Community Recommendations, and OBC’s Director is Back to Sharing His Views in Media<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another
delayed blog post that’s too long, since too much is happening when I am about
to publish, some information is impossible to obtain, I can’t keep up, and it
must be put in context to avoid the confusion that will happen anyway. The
president continues as a most significant threat to the Ngorongoro Maasai, OBC’s
director has broken his media silence, harassment goes on, and then the Oakland
Institute published a report about the anomalous relocation plans. “Community recommendations”
on NCA and Loliondo/Sale have been handed over to PM Majaliwa to whose tune it’s
not advisable to dance, which everyone has understood long ago, I hope. The NCA
report is available and impressive. I must write more about it in another post.
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The president
insulting the Maasai and her hosts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
president’s Ngorongoro fixation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A reminder of
the efforts for “voluntary” evictions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dangerous
dance with Majaliwa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oakland
report on resettlement plans<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some of
NCAA’s “preparations” the past year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Transfer of
local NCAA workers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
youths arrested by SENAPA rangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area brief background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC’s
director Mollel breaks his long media silence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The confusion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC’s
“journalist” again<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year’s Loliondo
arrests<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
reminder about the efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km2 in Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><b> </b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since the
mix-up continues, I must still repeat:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA, an
8,292 km² multiple land use area, the Maasai live under the purposeful
poverty-inducing rule and restrictions of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Authority, and since 2019 there’s a genocidal eviction plan, that extends to
annexing some surrounding areas, the area under threat in Loliondo included.
Current government efforts focus on “voluntary” relocation and disinformation,
while an ethnic hate campaign has raged in media and in parliament. This is
about Ngorongoro Division of Ngorongoro District and the government’s aim is to
get rid of as many Maasai as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo
OBC, that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, have for years
lobbied to have 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land, village land
belonging to the local Maasai, turned into a protected area. This caused
illegal mass arson operations in 2009 and 2017. A local police state had, until
recently, silenced all local leaders and activists, and still people from
Loliondo are much more silent in the debate than those from NCA, even if
protests erupted when threats were renewed this year. This concerns Loliondo
and parts of Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District and the government’s aim is to
rob the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPOOFVBKbWdb1f5_bSKChn91xpCPQhErICjHmboDz4UnPvxFARx9TxC2ajvzb3DmLE1ys9buhtQi2vAQFJ7trVWJREQCLlMqSkOd4AX4DV2p3YltZh_jffU9n4XZ21nUhioq9hcLnwJhzhANJzJrdqsJjKjmXEYi1RjEarRl2KaJJutdAwVu8QKxIG-w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="1080" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPOOFVBKbWdb1f5_bSKChn91xpCPQhErICjHmboDz4UnPvxFARx9TxC2ajvzb3DmLE1ys9buhtQi2vAQFJ7trVWJREQCLlMqSkOd4AX4DV2p3YltZh_jffU9n4XZ21nUhioq9hcLnwJhzhANJzJrdqsJjKjmXEYi1RjEarRl2KaJJutdAwVu8QKxIG-w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104323817"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
president insulting the Maasai and her hosts<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> May, President
Samia Suluhu Hassan continued her habit of publicly attacking the Maasai of
Ngorongoro. She did this as guest of honour at the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary
of Tanzania Human Rights Defenders’ Coalition (THRDC). This invitation may seem
like inviting the hyena to the biannual goat convention, and to me it’s terribly
unsettling. THRDC’s subsequent reporting from this anniversary was far from
reassuring. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">THRDC have always stood firmly
on the side of the Maasai, and at times served as the only outlet covering
local protests. I was personally helped in 2015, when I was illegally arrested,
or kidnapped, and THRDC’s director sent lawyers. There could of course be some
strategic reason that I don’t understand (I tried to ask). THRDC’s bank
accounts were frozen by the government leading up to the 2020 “elections” and
not unfrozen until seven months later when Samia had come into office. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The president mentioned the
government’s efforts to protect the World Heritage Site while expressing her displeasure
with the human rights defenders’ insistence on instead defending the human
rights of those who (according to her rhetoric) are putting it in danger. <i>“What
is most important between letting people continue endangering our world
heritage or supporting the preservation of the heritage and relocating those
people to a better place?”, </i>Samia asked. She added that she left it to the human
rights defenders to sit down and discuss this, which sounds like a threat when
coming from the head of an authoritarian government. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 16</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> May a group
of Ngorongoro youths spoke with great seriousness on <a href="https://youtu.be/Q7tM-tRDaHs" target="_blank">Sessan online media</a>. No
other outlets were interested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finally, on 27<sup>th</sup>
May, in connection with the handing over of community views to PM Majaliwa, THRDC’s
director Onesmo Olengurumwa <a href="https://youtu.be/bTQEBPg_b80" target="_blank">described</a> the president’s stance as if she had
recognised that human rights defenders defend the human rights of people, and that
she has given the organisations the opportunity to offer advice to the
government. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104459672"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104459672;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
president’s Ngorongoro fixation<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It shouldn’t be forgotten that
violence and repression were worse under Magufuli, and even Kikwete (against
pastoralists, particularly during his first term), but those presidents didn’t
personally engage in the rhetoric of the enemies of the Ngorongoro Maasai like
Samia does in an obsessive way. The terrible statements have been accompanied by
hurried “voluntary” relocation plans, blocking of new, already funded, public
services and illegal transfer of funds from NCA to Handeni, a feverish ethnic hate
campaign in the press and in parliament, staged spectacles featuring imposters
not from Ngorongoro, and repression of reporting (resembling that in Loliondo).
All this added to the continued restrictions that worsen each time that UNESCO and
IUCN express their “grave concerns”, openly wanting the Tanzanian government to
do something about the population figures (actually low even in the most inflated
versions) and the more discreet pressure from the tourist industry and some
diplomatic missions, with Germany as the most notable suspect. Samia’s fear is
that the value of the prime tourism real estate would decrease if deregistered
as a World Heritage Site. UNESCO should just remove this status from Ngorongoro
(as I said in the blog post from 7<sup>th</sup> April, under the heading, <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/04/illegal-arrests-again-in-loliondo.html" target="_blank"><b>“UNESCO
denying responsibility for the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review
proposal and everything else”</b>)</a>. The genocidal proposal of the Multiple Land
Use Model review report, presented in September 2019, after UNESCO’s insistence
that it should be finalized, has still not been thrown into the rubbish bin
where it belongs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after taking office in
March 2021,<a href="https://youtu.be/zDjXd--xI9w" target="_blank"> in a speech</a> at the swearing in of newly appointed Permanent
Secretaries and heads of public institutions at State House in Dar es Salaam, Samia
said that the Maasai of Ngorongoro and their livestock had become too many, that
she didn’t know how or if people should be evicted, but concluded that
something had to be done, or it was “bye, bye Ngorongoro”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Little more than a week later,
demolition notices were made public, ordering the demolition within 30 days of
over a hundred buildings, private houses, but also those built by the
government, like schools, dispensaries, and the Endulen police station. Two
churches and a mosque were included. Further, 45 people accused of having
returned from Jema to where they were relocated in 2006,
were ordered to leave, also within 30 days, and 174 households were listed as
“illegal immigrants”. After big <a href="https://youtu.be/kRHWIoEqyTc" target="_blank">protests </a>these demolition and eviction notices
were withdrawn until further notice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> September,
under heavy police deployment and with several arrests to prevent any kind of
protest, President Samia came to Ngorongoro to film the documentary The Royal
Tour with the presenter and producer Peter Greenberg. In December she came unofficially
to complete the filming but has still never met with local leaders or addressed
people in Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> October 2021,
Samia held a speech in Arusha talking about how important Ngorongoro is for
tourism and that “we” can’t continue considering people’s interests while
destroying it. She was accompanied and supported by the imposter Lekisongo from
Monduli, who pretended to represent the Ngorongoro Maasai while supporting
relocations. Several protest statements were issued by Ngorongoro Maasai against
this individual, which didn’t deter him from later showing up acting as an imposter
at spectacles together with PM Majaliwa and RC Mongella.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When The Royal Tour finally
premiered in April 2022, the Maasai featured prominently as a tourist
attraction, but almost every word seemed geared towards Samia’s bad wishes for
Ngorongoro. Greenberg mentions being fascinated by how “many villages” there
are, which is a strange thing to say. Compared to where? Then it’s mentioned
that, “it is not uncommon for a Maasai man to have 18-20 children”, obviously
to further drive home the population panic. The Maasai are described as
stubbornly clinging on to their ancient ways, but that they will be forced to
change. The president further calls the Maasai “newest arrivals”. Though Greenberg
isn’t as smooth delivering this product as would be expected, since he uses the
word “primitive” about the Maasai, which even anyone not at all familiar with
the threats against the Maasai will find racist and out of touch in 2022. Similarly
out of touch is a kind of joke about Maasai women being impressed by Greenberg
jumping. I have written about The Royal Tour in several blog posts but will
have to dedicate something exclusively to this authoritarian image management. In
a radio interview in connection with the premiere, Samia also made a confused,
but not so innocent comment about Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyv4uM64X1kPHU6YlilJzE419y_qY8NgWBo6UXPvpEbU49709Npca7xIKpOWKn17bKS5nTkXd80dJhBSeG8KA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as mentioned, on 13<sup>th</sup>
May Samia had complaints about human rights defenders that defend the human
rights of those she wants out of Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104324189"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A
reminder of the efforts for “voluntary” evictions<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2022 started with a leaked
plan for “voluntary” relocations of Ngorongoro Maasai to be finalized very
hurriedly before the end of February. Even if the documents aren’t signed, they
seem directed from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) to Damas
Ndumbaro, then still Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, on how to
implement President Samia’s instructions on evicting the Ngorongoro Maasai. In
the plan the Kitwai and Handeni Game Controlled Areas are named as the areas
for relocation and misleadingly described as protected areas that will be
declassified. Did the NCAA really believe this and were then when on the ground
in Msomera, Handeni, surprised to find a registered village with its land use
plan and bewildered villagers looking on as houses were speedily being built for
Ngorongoro Maasai? Allan Kijazi, (then) Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of
Natural Resources and Tourism (and head of TANAPA) was described as lacking the
right vision to oversee the project, and was shortly after transferred to the
ministry of lands. Arusha RC John Mongella was mentioned as the recommended
overseer. The plan recommends seeking permission to use COVID-19 money allocated
for the development projects to fund the eviction of Ngorongoro Maasai (and
then on 31<sup>st</sup> March the DED sent letters to Ngorongoro headteachers
ordering them to transfer COVID-19 funds to Handeni), and warns about “Kenyan” NGOs,
particularly PWC, in the style of the old Loliondo police state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When Mongella visited Loliondo
on 10<sup>th</sup> January 2022, there was fear of what he would announce about
NCA, but instead he issued a threat against the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo that led to protest by local people who had been silenced by intimidation
for years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A crazed anti-Maasai hate campaign
had raged in media for over a month when in parliament on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bungetz1/videos/549692425992173" target="_blank">9<sup>th</sup> February</a>
MPs competed in being wilfully ignorant, hateful, and calling for evictions
from Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, the Mtwara MP screamed that tanks were needed, there
was much laughter and table banging, while only three MPs (all Maasai) spoke up
for the Maasai. The arguments, besides the old population panic, ranged from
dehumanizing colonial fantasies to crocodile tears about poverty and backwardness,
to lies that rich people not from Ngorongoro, but from town or the neighbouring
country, would own the livestock in NCA, to blaming Kenya for being behind the anti-eviction
resistance with the aim of sabotaging tourism in Tanzania. Majaliwa said that
the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act would be reviewed, but first there was to
be a seminar for the MPs and he would meet with people in Ngorongoro and
Loliondo. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism uploaded to its Instagram
account some of the worst clips of MPs, not with any comment of distancing or warning,
but obviously to show off the support from parliamentarians in the war against the
Maasai. On 12<sup>th</sup> February a one-sided “seminar” about Ngorongoro was
held for the MPs who continued their hateful and defamatory incitement against
the Maasai. At this seminar, one non-Maasai MP supported the Ngorongoro Maasai:
Professor Kitila Mkumbo, MP for Ubungo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA many people stopped
sleeping and started praying incessantly at combined prayer and protest
meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> February
Majaliwa held a brief agenda-driven meeting at the NCA hall, for leaders and
closed to the public. There was confusion and thorough registering of the
attendants. Two journalists were arrested and released later the same day. The
local people who were locked out stayed outside the hall singing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> March,
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja brought a caravan of 600 women in diesel guzzling
vehicles to Ngorongoro, to celebrate tourism, CCM, or supposedly International
Women’s Day. Meanwhile Maasai women climbed Mount Makarot to pray for their
land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnHDnDn_nKfqe5X0m2D76xXXVZNLlr5KatAWimdViNATIed8lhRtmxosO1Z1PS72e7YMDFEBbkF2gaOu4tWfPCf9zBs4sT83GPK5ff7L2YwHZKL9nNMmzomZC-qpwIAjXfESB0uDbVlgMuIQ1q0vCTrJnJ9brv63WxqWw6fYgh3mJFh3bnMQLPnV18Dg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnHDnDn_nKfqe5X0m2D76xXXVZNLlr5KatAWimdViNATIed8lhRtmxosO1Z1PS72e7YMDFEBbkF2gaOu4tWfPCf9zBs4sT83GPK5ff7L2YwHZKL9nNMmzomZC-qpwIAjXfESB0uDbVlgMuIQ1q0vCTrJnJ9brv63WxqWw6fYgh3mJFh3bnMQLPnV18Dg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> March in
Arusha, Majaliwa held a meeting with Maasai from other areas, without any
connection to Ngorongoro, led by the denounced fraudster Lekisongo. The PM was
handed a list of 86 households or 453 persons “willing” to relocate from
Ngorongoro. All had already left the district years ago and were apparently now
looking for compensation money. The following day the PM boasted about this
meeting in parliament, and on the 12<sup>th</sup> real traditional leaders from
Ngorongoro held a press conference to denounce the fraud, but journalists
didn’t want to cover it after having been advised otherwise by Majaliwa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg-WMEryLZeSH-Z0c__8ZReRQoVOre_w7uxk6GY4GZsbC6BYQ_qrCwH4l0pb1m7tBW-WBOKiStgXDBLPGCLuwljrjt1xP-d24qD5opiv3JyfnSWf-yKlxfWxfLrFAK4SkKW8zbFklCaVz8k8nL7xrNQG2SM1807_oPvnajy09XJfZSGEYtx6K3vBQ3OA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="666" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgg-WMEryLZeSH-Z0c__8ZReRQoVOre_w7uxk6GY4GZsbC6BYQ_qrCwH4l0pb1m7tBW-WBOKiStgXDBLPGCLuwljrjt1xP-d24qD5opiv3JyfnSWf-yKlxfWxfLrFAK4SkKW8zbFklCaVz8k8nL7xrNQG2SM1807_oPvnajy09XJfZSGEYtx6K3vBQ3OA" width="178" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Imposters</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> March,
Majaliwa made a much-publicised visit to Msomera Village in Handeni where
houses were hurriedly being built to relocate Maasai from Ngorongoro, without
consulting them, and without consulting people from Msomera that’s a legally
registered village. Majaliwa was to visit Ngorongoro on the 15<sup>th</sup>,
but it was postponed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdb5pXYlxspTySgnOi0JFwvf0QzbZxCrFbulbDV6hLAmj9J07QF6qUe60x4DiA0sVZ_ECD-EYMhgubQ3F-JQAAYDIpkkbCl3nxJGuWG5H_P8dSysZSu4q6Lp_EUmsSzJMAm8aN6vNg7tkx7gVzlreF-I6H4DKiqSeYKKOKmNQn1ERDFOGmh1z9Pcf_GQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="640" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdb5pXYlxspTySgnOi0JFwvf0QzbZxCrFbulbDV6hLAmj9J07QF6qUe60x4DiA0sVZ_ECD-EYMhgubQ3F-JQAAYDIpkkbCl3nxJGuWG5H_P8dSysZSu4q6Lp_EUmsSzJMAm8aN6vNg7tkx7gVzlreF-I6H4DKiqSeYKKOKmNQn1ERDFOGmh1z9Pcf_GQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does not look empty. </td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> March Damas
Ndumbaro, then still Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, met with
ambassadors to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and Loliondo, and his
ministry reported that the German ambassador supported the government’s efforts
in Ngorongoro, which has still not been publicly denied by any German
representative. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9HHRu5fWznAaO-rs8b8CPh9rGpnDhmOoeZBdaMjyvwy89EE3q_jOpck0fJlhFSrziD5ZxYtFJ0e-VtjcgiIvxcJ2ZcqJ3X-LZXrAegN448S3HxtOjPB5AuctUVI24N0C2VYBXtaajTXTlqHzLwLfm-UZ9ZcCyT-oGsD1-RuNQJp21Z36U4iS288l5BA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9HHRu5fWznAaO-rs8b8CPh9rGpnDhmOoeZBdaMjyvwy89EE3q_jOpck0fJlhFSrziD5ZxYtFJ0e-VtjcgiIvxcJ2ZcqJ3X-LZXrAegN448S3HxtOjPB5AuctUVI24N0C2VYBXtaajTXTlqHzLwLfm-UZ9ZcCyT-oGsD1-RuNQJp21Z36U4iS288l5BA" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March, President
Samia replaced Ndumbaro with Pindi Chana who within a few days was off to visit
Ngorongoro and Loliondo, without meeting with residents. This was quickly
followed by a visit to Msomera where Chana heaped praise on the relocation project.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> April, the
NCAA had found some real traitors to show off, unlike the previous imposters
from other places than Ngorongoro, even if long-gone people were still looking
for a compensation deal. And they are of course not traitors for wanting to
relocate, but for lending themselves to the dirty war against their own people.
These few, and very dubious, people keep being paraded in media, and the star
is a special seats councillor, <a href="https://www.ippmedia.com/sw/habari/aliyejenga%20nyumba-ya-milioni-300-ngorongoro-akubali-kuhama" target="_blank">Foibe Lukumay</a>, whose by Ngorongoro standards
luxurious house was up for demolition without compensation and at her own cost
in the halted orders from April 2021. Now she’ll get compensation and could get
a house in Handeni, where she will hardly live, since her family reportedly owns real
estate in Arusha. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Evidence emerged about how
blocked funds for social services in Ngorongoro division are being transferred
to Handeni and on 13<sup>th</sup> April the Ngorongoro MP denounced this in
parliament. Then letters were made public in which schools in NCA were being
ordered to send Covid-19 funds already in their accounts to the account of
Handeni District Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4NJmKnDkrpLgpm0CNtYHBLrr49ah698AweD3gO4TLLbYMzr7ZzxizKrCuYSRs1UkXIigLAyPldmG8HXshCxBEDhfTiqu0WlVFyZA0pg_Q_6Y8HZBJd6_Otm81ho4XKZOpeH9qVynhH-8vQiLZs_tOTHAzpQqaHFjhVV21MoO5v_LmctHSBCVdKCr0-g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1519" data-original-width="1125" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg4NJmKnDkrpLgpm0CNtYHBLrr49ah698AweD3gO4TLLbYMzr7ZzxizKrCuYSRs1UkXIigLAyPldmG8HXshCxBEDhfTiqu0WlVFyZA0pg_Q_6Y8HZBJd6_Otm81ho4XKZOpeH9qVynhH-8vQiLZs_tOTHAzpQqaHFjhVV21MoO5v_LmctHSBCVdKCr0-g" width="178" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> April, PM
Majaliwa was again visiting the hurried construction of houses in Msomera
Village in Handeni. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Deputy Minister <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CcxEw1TIZgW/" target="_blank">MaryMasanja </a>talked about how dangerous it is to live with wild animals, which has
become quite popular in the anti-Maasai rhetoric that earlier used to bring up
clashes between pastoralists and cultivators in Handeni, of all places … Masanja
also said that the president has provided funds for 400 more houses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> May, the
<a href="https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2022/05/L.6_oral-amendments-5d-TC.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1oTRfJLwpFWy4YdeU9Spljsv4HGJgnqSlUJYlZEEWAtzlOi6DTZ6Lrapw" target="_blank">United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues</a> called on the government of
Tanzania to immediately cease efforts to evict the Maasai people from the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the president, at Tanzania
Human Rights Defenders Coalition’s own 10-year anniversary, expressed her
displeasure with human rights defenders defending Ngorongoro Maasai and not her
genocidal plans, and was covered with praise …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104553005"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dangerous
dance with Majaliwa<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104553005;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, a 60-member
committee, dressed in matching clothes, on 25<sup>th</sup> May finally (the PM
kept postponing this meeting) handed over a report on community recommendations
to PM Majaliwa, who perhaps is the most dangerous person in Tanzania. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knowing Majaliwa, he won’t read the report,
but use it to further pretend to be working with the Maasai and even if the
main recommendation would be to roll him in tar and feather, Majaliwa will interpret
it as support. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO6vXcGDV5fqzwcd_lrESN0V4WELzzfLQt5hTzxPf4ZDalU7oeCLGpSXk4793ugoLULQ97mbtbZgWZWci2ZdWtRUkpT1b8ctdFYkU8tbq720lNRY98nm_oAW1vpSuOZepp6iVSHmUaWtvXirkNIIaSOdKviHDS2SUNYq1OBTnWI6tV_tlQS3HnRWEKNg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="960" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiO6vXcGDV5fqzwcd_lrESN0V4WELzzfLQt5hTzxPf4ZDalU7oeCLGpSXk4793ugoLULQ97mbtbZgWZWci2ZdWtRUkpT1b8ctdFYkU8tbq720lNRY98nm_oAW1vpSuOZepp6iVSHmUaWtvXirkNIIaSOdKviHDS2SUNYq1OBTnWI6tV_tlQS3HnRWEKNg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjl_LEpYNGHNlFlhkO4SEvkCw0V_MTKBUwicLrCUSXc_rtqarGlTL4Y01gIPEoDPHExKHAdpiwszrfEsNYetwqbR_7REvzYGJpuItXT_lV5zRUKnzK68TnGvV40BsiGW8QLOOv_DK6rcVrxMFiJ4j1YgXVpk8V86_tQPlPKIdAmo3p1BZHOrtwuU8slgQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="2560" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjl_LEpYNGHNlFlhkO4SEvkCw0V_MTKBUwicLrCUSXc_rtqarGlTL4Y01gIPEoDPHExKHAdpiwszrfEsNYetwqbR_7REvzYGJpuItXT_lV5zRUKnzK68TnGvV40BsiGW8QLOOv_DK6rcVrxMFiJ4j1YgXVpk8V86_tQPlPKIdAmo3p1BZHOrtwuU8slgQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The NCA part of the report isn’t
shy to tell the truth and over-ambitious considering the time restraint. Its
dedication says, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY9UylY4tg04CJcg_nCGBu4P98LPvLtkgXgryIv4BMtY2tLErBfAKQ54eNWhK-Cx8DKD9k1wte-bH1TpIsa95dBXE0CCqJPHx2i4w6mj2R-v2EOsyIyOGQVwCNSfQ0FC0Yy9wPAp6nZqGkCQdbNB0YA3P8jhRxTMrR4bCNT_vLXolqozKGLCgi9CGBww" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="974" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiY9UylY4tg04CJcg_nCGBu4P98LPvLtkgXgryIv4BMtY2tLErBfAKQ54eNWhK-Cx8DKD9k1wte-bH1TpIsa95dBXE0CCqJPHx2i4w6mj2R-v2EOsyIyOGQVwCNSfQ0FC0Yy9wPAp6nZqGkCQdbNB0YA3P8jhRxTMrR4bCNT_vLXolqozKGLCgi9CGBww" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Further, the report identifies
the main environmental threats as being caused by tourism investment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZkdenUdWKI7BWjDTnGo-hscgr-clJAbY3im-FNQk4HO0vUMlmKpJ7AVRcDZmdNhAqATY8HcyjTWokHLStX-M2dI8fEdAnp1Vf_aS5Vt9x_FvEMzX7ppGufdMZIOsXr-436YL_PRtH_Hc-Q9I08g2WDvvrvWJukIiboMfrg2No5Z6NN7gOw2ge_MNmRg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="890" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZkdenUdWKI7BWjDTnGo-hscgr-clJAbY3im-FNQk4HO0vUMlmKpJ7AVRcDZmdNhAqATY8HcyjTWokHLStX-M2dI8fEdAnp1Vf_aS5Vt9x_FvEMzX7ppGufdMZIOsXr-436YL_PRtH_Hc-Q9I08g2WDvvrvWJukIiboMfrg2No5Z6NN7gOw2ge_MNmRg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Though I have big worries,
hopefully totally unfounded, about the Loliondo/Sale part. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve been told that Majaliwa just
spoke “as usual” (and that isn’t good) but said he will work on recommendations.
According to the press, the <a href="https://fullshangweblog.co.tz/2022/05/26/waziri-mkuu-apokea-maoni-ya-wakazi-wa-ngorongoro/" target="_blank">PM told the committee members</a> to keep believing in
the government, and ignore nonsense by irrelevant people, since it can’t have
bad plans for its citizens, as if those present didn’t have first-hand
knowledge of both the government’s bad plans and its bad actions. Unsurprisingly,
Majaliwa spoke about Msomera where 103 houses are being built and 400 more are
on the way, and he mentioned how the government is strengthening the livestock
sector. Apparently, Majaliwa didn’t say anything about Loliondo where he
earlier that year (when in NCA) ordered beacons to be erected to demarcate the
1,500 km2 that the government want to alienate from the Maasai. Though it seems
like he didn’t really say anything about what’s happening in NCA either.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A press conference by the
committee members the following day, confirmed that there hadn’t been any time to
present their findings in a power point, so as suspected, there was one-way
communication from Majaliwa. They were however very thankful that he received the
report, and brought up some problems, like the transferral of local Maasai NCAA
staff (see below)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I don’t think anyone has
forgotten Majaliwa’s glowing reports on Magufuli’s health when the president
hadn’t been seen for weeks and was dying, or already dead. Even more
unforgettable are his catastrophic interventions in both NCA and Loliondo in
2016-2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in the previous
blog post, one of the committee members, Lendukai Kimaay, was arrested on 6<sup>th</sup>
May, taken to Arusha for interrogation, and is supposed to continue reporting
to the police. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZcKX0mtzcvjYi8tW47-unmYBoZrcCMD8B3pR9lFI2XzyW4BBFGTHrN8zt-HE3RGOkEJEdgXTDPrl9gFiDw7X83o3out6FVnuIU6fwDpcoNkIDZoGsF1qInTfFFm7vh8zUNVESUBlssGNIEi3B-76WHwVWlpTPF-ErZ4nCm6cfTnrUGVea12czET9dFA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="839" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZcKX0mtzcvjYi8tW47-unmYBoZrcCMD8B3pR9lFI2XzyW4BBFGTHrN8zt-HE3RGOkEJEdgXTDPrl9gFiDw7X83o3out6FVnuIU6fwDpcoNkIDZoGsF1qInTfFFm7vh8zUNVESUBlssGNIEi3B-76WHwVWlpTPF-ErZ4nCm6cfTnrUGVea12czET9dFA" width="168" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The NCA report</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104324711"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oakland
report on resettlement plans<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104324711;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> May a report
by the Oakland Institute was released. It,<a href="https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/flawed-plans-maasai-ngorongoro.pdf" target="_blank"> “<i>examines resettlement plans for
Maasai from NCA and identifies serious flaws with the resettlement process,
feasibility of selection sites, and major discrepancies between government
promises and the actual situation on the ground.”</i> </a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anonymous people have conducted
a fact-finding mission to Msomera village where – as reported frantically, and unquestioning,
for months now – houses for relocation are being built, and Kitwai A and B that’s
the other hurriedly planned for areas, but where construction has not yet begun.
The researchers were told that only after construction had already commenced,
the government allegedly informed the Handeni District Council that the houses would
be for NCA residents who have “volunteered” for resettlement. In Kitwai B, the
village, ward and district leaders had no knowledge that their village had been
chosen as a resettlement site. No social or environmental impact assessments
appear to have been conducted prior to choosing the relocation areas – but how
would anyone even have had the time for that? As late as in December, NCAA didn’t
know that there were villages in Handeni and Kitwai GCAs, at least judging from
their leaked documents. One traditional leader is quoted, <i>“We didn’t agree
with the government plan to give our land to Ngorongoro people but we have no
objection on that, as the government authority is too big, we can’t fight</i>
[against them].”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The anonymous researchers also
found serious problems with access to water and grazing in Msomera and Kitwai,
and requests for information about a dam project (much celebrated in the press)
in Msomera from Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA) have not received
a reply. Further, promises for social services in Msomera do not seem to have
materialized on time. The risk for conflict is obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104324768"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some
of NCAA’s “preparations” the past year<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104324768;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The NCAA chief conservator,
Fredy Manongi, has for years organized fancy <a href="https://dailynews.co.tz/news/2020-12-285fe9d69b473e0.aspx" target="_blank">workshops</a> for editors and senior
journalists, domestic tourism included in the package, and they have uncritically
reported his views that the Maasai and their livestock are “too many” and
something must be done. This is just an incomplete listing of the increased
effort this past year:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In May 2021, the NCAA
headquarters were abruptly relocated to Karatu. Then, the first days of June, Manongi
and other NCAA representatives held a promotional event on parliament grounds
in Dodoma, handing out goodie bags with t-shirts, leaflets, and whatever. On 30<sup>th</sup>
June, deputy minister Mary Masanja flew to Ngorongoro with 35 MPs for domestic
tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> September
2021, the Ministry of Natural Resources and tourism <a href="https://youtu.be/OQIhJCNDEWA" target="_blank">uploaded a video</a> in which Masanja
complains about having seen livestock on the way to Oldupai together with parliamentarians
– as if it would have been something terrible and unexpected … - and Manongi
says that conservation is a war, that the pastoralists have many “conspiracies”
and sadly are winning, adding that now conservationists must “start” (when did
they stop?) developing conspiracies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In August and September 2021,
NCAA rangers assaulted several young herders and killed four sheep with a
vehicle, which led to protests on 23<sup>rd</sup> September, which lasted for
several days. An uprising seemed to be on the way, but then everything was put
on hold when MP Olenasha sadly passed away on 27<sup>th</sup> September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Towards late January 2022, Habib
Mchange’s Jamvi la Habari newspaper, that focuses on fabrications and slander
of opposition politicians, initiated a hate campaign against the Maasai of NCA
that spread all over regular and social media, was joined by crazed sports
presenters, Maulid Kitenge and friends – who soon appeared in Ngorongoro, in a
NCAA vehicle, with Kitenge screaming in horror about everything he saw, basically
including his own shadow. The old anti-Maasai Jamhuri paper with Deusdatus
Balile and Manyerere Jackton who in over 60 articles has incited against the
Maasai of Loliondo, soon joined in, and the “journalists” started an
organization with its sole focus on evicting the Maasai from Ngorongoro - and
were treated as serious actors by other media. Though many Tanzanians in social
media who had earlier not paid much attention to Ngorongoro saw what was going
on, were appalled, and started speaking up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpQMAiYGL_USikgbWB2eMI8TEB2YQCvzW1Gj5KFaTzIlGJHMUrimP_p72JO3Bmcu2b-6oE0ILFikSWomHOdO2YREMTWLbLb8vKqEXb-JLdRCpOLmVtaHl8ZbeXBUUFdIPJUeXypg128HdUGBWkfeWZIuzOvMr2kOlxUsZgVV82xk_8fqvKpq0LrAk2bA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpQMAiYGL_USikgbWB2eMI8TEB2YQCvzW1Gj5KFaTzIlGJHMUrimP_p72JO3Bmcu2b-6oE0ILFikSWomHOdO2YREMTWLbLb8vKqEXb-JLdRCpOLmVtaHl8ZbeXBUUFdIPJUeXypg128HdUGBWkfeWZIuzOvMr2kOlxUsZgVV82xk_8fqvKpq0LrAk2bA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> February,
six journalists (obviously not from the anti-Maasai group) were <a href="https://youtu.be/1xiqLwF0DIU" target="_blank">detained and harassed</a> after having attended a community rally in Nainokanoka.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, on 9<sup>th</sup>
February, the anti-Maasai hate feast spread to parliament, and following days
to a seminar for MPs, in some extreme way, and mostly hidden from a world that
doesn’t speak Swahili. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> February,
the new anti-Maasai organisation, formed by “journalists”, held a loathsome
press conference, adding to their many crazed and dehumanizing “theories” one
saying that there were no graves in Ngorongoro, which had earlier been heard in
parliament. The Darmpya online news, asked questions, like how come the
“allowances” for attending the press conference were so extraordinary heavy,
who funded it, and for what purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, as mentioned, PM
Majaliwa made his non-listening visit to Ngorongoro, organised non-Ngorongoro imposters
in Arusha to show off support for planned relocations to Handeni, to where he
also made a much-publicised visit, and boasted about it all in parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> March 2022,
Damas Ndumbaro, then Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, met with
ambassadors to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and Loliondo, and his
ministry reported that the German ambassador supported the government’s efforts
in Ngorongoro, <b>which has still not been publicly denied by any German
representative.</b> In September 2021, the Germans had – once again – showered Tanzania
with money for “sustainable natural resource and ecological sustainability
development in the Serengeti ecosystem”, and Stefan Oswald, Head of the Africa
Department at Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of
Germany had a nice time in Serengeti with the notorious deputy minister Mary
Masanja.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March,
President Samia replaced Ndumbaro with Pindi Chana who within a few days was
off to visit Ngorongoro and Loliondo, without meeting with residents, followed
by a visit to Msomera.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA had since 2021, by not
issuing permits, been blocking already funded new social services in Ngorongoro
division. On 31<sup>st</sup> March headteachers received letter from DED Mhina instructing
them to send COVID-19 funds already in the school accounts to the bank accounts
of Handeni District Council. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I’ve mentioned how the NCAA
have impacted on President Samia, and it can’t be overstated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The genocidal MLUM review proposal
has still not been scrapped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104324827"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Transfer
of local NCAA workers<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104324827;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The latest NCAA activity that
has been reported is that at least ten local Maasai NCAA employees in early May
have received letters of transferral to other parastatals within the Ministry
of Natural Resources and Tourism, like TTB, TAWA, BASATA, TARURA, and TANAPA. I
would have thought that they’d like to use these employees for divide and rule,
but it’s been explained to me that the NCAA leadership just hates the Maasai
and wants to get rid of them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104324939"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
youths arrested by SENAPA rangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104324939;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Saturday evening 21<sup>st</sup>
May, five young men were arrested by TANAPA/SENAPA rangers in the Imbarbali or Lemuta
area in NCA when they were looking for lost sheep and had entered Serengeti National
Park. The following day they were taken to Mugumu in Serengeti District at the
other (west) side of the national park, while 62 sheep were seized and kept at
the site. The youths were fined 200,000 TShs each (the police first accepted
100,000, but senior officers insisted on 200,000), the sheep 20,000 TShs each, and
100,000 TShs for the person holding the sheep during the arrest, and they were not
released until 25<sup>th</sup> May (some say 26<sup>th</sup> or 27<sup>th</sup>),
and then returned home on the 27<sup>th</sup>, since they were looking for
fares.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The rangers could have issued
tickets without taking the youths all the way to Mugumu, or better, not issued
any fines at all. This is part of the general pattern of harassment and disrespect,
and in Loliondo many people have suffered the same, often illegally without
even having entered the National Park, and not only during the brutal and
illegal operation in 2017 of which SENAPA was the main implementor. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area brief background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that the Maasai
already lost access to over 14,000 km<sup>2</sup> when evicted from Serengeti
in 1959 by the colonial government, and as a compromise deal, they were
guaranteed the right to continue occupying the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro
Conservation Area as a multiple land-use area administered by the government,
in which natural resources would be conserved primarily for their interest, but
with due regard for wildlife, and in case of conflict the interest of the
Maasai would take precedence. This promise was not kept, and tourism revenue
has turned into the paramount interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro has become Tanzania
top source of tourism revenue and many wildlife numbers have increased, with the
Maasai living there, in their home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For decades the Maasai have
suffered restrictions, more and more purposefully designed to impoverish them
and force them out of Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In 1975, after a change in
the NCA Act in 1974, they were brutally evicted from residing in Ngorongoro
crater and all cultivation was prohibited. The cultivation ban was lifted in
1992, but brought back in 2009, after many “grave concerns” by UNESCO and IUCN.
Now not even the smallest kitchen garden is allowed, which together with loss
of access to grazing areas has led to malnutrition. They are not allowed to
build permanent houses and suffer all kinds of harassment by NCA rangers, that
want to restrict motorbikes, building materials, or demanding permits for just
anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2017 – by order (not a
change in the NCA Act) and after a visit by PM Majaliwa in December 2016 - the
Maasai lost access to the three craters Ngorongoro, Olmoti, and Empakaai, which
has led the loss of 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro,
Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these
wards. Supplementary artificial saltlicks were provided by the NCAA, but these
were found to be adulterated, and reportedly causing cattle deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">pic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The UNESCO World Heritage
Centre, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) once again visited
Ngorongoro in March 2019 and in their report repeated that they wanted the
Multiple Land Use Model review completed to see the results and offer advice,
while again complaining about the visual impact of settlements with “modern”
houses, and so on. They did also recommend the State Party to continue to, <i>“promote
and encourage voluntary resettlement by communities, consistent with the
policies of the Convention and relevant international norms, from within the
property to outside by 2028”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, chief
conservator Freddy Manongi made public a Multiple Land Use Model review report
proposal, which is so destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai
livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. The MLUM review report proposes
to divide Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core conservation
zone” that is to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA this
includes the Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters, Oldupai Gorge,
Laitoli footprints, and the Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek basins. In the rest of
Ngorongoro District, the proposal is for NCAA to annex the Lake Natron basin
(including areas of Longido and Monduli districts, like Selela forest and
Engaruka historical site) and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo and Sale
Divisions and designate most of these areas to be no-go zones for pastoralists
and livestock. These huge areas include many villages and are important grazing
areas, the loss of which would have disastrous knock-on effects on lives and
livelihoods elsewhere. The annexation of the Osero in Loliondo caters almost
perfectly to the wishes of OBC. Only 18% of the expanded NCA would remain for
people and livestock.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOA0UN-3GHuWicB8bdvT4AR_aDmWM8r3uSSa7bjCtn8hDQoN65s_KO3fnJoT3S-LGBs60nnVlT5x4N-e3V_3Hdyf21xJQ7BxoCghd-SSPPr7UO-xLBfNcGjbXTpkJflBv0VkP1ktdo-_nteUle4RgDHHbz8weWDf6l-qqqgDjYS91r8c47OyFp6VUyIw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOA0UN-3GHuWicB8bdvT4AR_aDmWM8r3uSSa7bjCtn8hDQoN65s_KO3fnJoT3S-LGBs60nnVlT5x4N-e3V_3Hdyf21xJQ7BxoCghd-SSPPr7UO-xLBfNcGjbXTpkJflBv0VkP1ktdo-_nteUle4RgDHHbz8weWDf6l-qqqgDjYS91r8c47OyFp6VUyIw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Uncountable protest meetings
and statements against the MLUM review proposal followed in 2019 and 2020.
Several promises were issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism
to do the exercise afresh in a “participatory” manner, but then the same
genocidal proposal kept being brought back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC’s
director Mollel breaks his long media silence <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> May, the
website Toward Freedom published an <a href="https://towardfreedom.org/story/archives/africa-archives/maasai-in-tanzania-face-eviction-as-government-makes-room-for-trophy-hunting/" target="_blank">article</a> about Loliondo by the Kenyan reporter
Charles Wachira. This article contains some confusion that I’ll have to straighten
out - since I’m writing about it - but most interesting, the reporter had got
some words from OBC’s director Isaack Mollel, which if I remember correctly,
hasn’t happened since 2017, but somewhat regularly before that, including starring
in two “documentaries” by then reporter, later DC (Arumeru and then Ikungi) Jerry
Muro. In 2017 Mollel apparently sat back to watch the horror unfold, in 2018 OBC’s
love relation with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism was publicly reaffirmed
after the fallout with Minister Kigwangalla in October/November 2017, but with
Mollel keeping a low profile, and in 2019/2020 Mollel had a very long stay in
remand prison for economic sabotage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the article, Mollel is
presented and OBC’s “spokesperson” and under his other names, “Isaya Lesion”.
He keeps to his old rhetoric that the government, not the Maasai, owns the land,
and has placed OBC there, but now he’s gained some sophistication telling the
reporter that, <i>“all the land in Tanzania belong to the public and the
president holds the land in trust of the citizens and may intermittently change
its usage for the benefit of the country”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To further drive home his
point, and perhaps to be more threatening, he reminds of some evictions known
for their massive human rights crimes, <i>“It has happened before in Ihefu
Basin, Mtwara and Kilombero, just to name a few places where evictions by the
government have happened to pave the way for development on behalf of the
nation.” “</i>The wider interest of the nation” was indeed what RC Mongella claimed
to be defending when he in January this year renewed the threat against the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land that OBC lobby the government to have
converted into a protected area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Mollel lashes out against
CSOs that are opposed to the eviction plans saying that they, <i>“turned the
Maasais into their milking cows, using them to secure funding from external
donors. It’s a lucrative business and the key players, who disproportionately
live in urban centers, live large as the Maasais continue languishing in
poverty.” </i>This time he doesn’t call these NGOs (that in Loliondo were
silenced through intimidation years ago) “Kenyan”. Maybe because he was talking
to a Kenyan reporter. Such is the talk of the Loliondo police state, and it’s
been copied in NCA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mollel is OBC’s director since
2007 and has through the years been a driving force behind the land threats, extreme
violence, divide and rule, and the local police state that for some time silenced
absolutely everyone. Though he hasn’t succeeded in having OBC’s 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
core hunting area turned into a “protected area” and in 2019 he ran into
serious misfortune when he was arrested for economic sabotage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One theory about why Mollel in
2019 was no longer untouchable says that he was used to send a message from
Magufuli to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana and by extension to Bernard
Membe. Though Mollel also had serious clashes of egos with RC Gambo and with
Kigwangalla. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Initially, the Prevention and
Combatting of Corruption Bureau seemed intent on dealing with the Loliondo
police state at the service of investors and its enormous corruption, but were
soon stopped and Mollel, while truly evil and far from innocent, became a
scapegoat. PCCB arrested District Security Officer Issa Ng’itu to whose SIM
card Mollel ha sent money, but Ng’itu was quickly released and promoted to RSO
in Rukwa. Some Pakistani OBC workers after losing a lot of time waiting for
court hearings were finally fined for having worked without permits and
deported. Then Mollel’s case, mostly related to the importation of vehicles, was
just drawn out while he languished in remand prison and sought plea bargaining.
Mollel was released on 2<sup>nd</sup> October 2020 and, reportedly after some
time in Dubai, he was back to work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the arrest, OBC’s
activities on the ground were for some time down to a minimum, while their
staff and supporters kept saying that the case was about Mollel personally, not
OBC, and that Sheikh Mohammed would soon visit. In 2021, OBC laid off a lot of
staff and new people were hired. Among those laid off was the local traitor who
since 2015 had been OBC’s assistant director, and since 2020 councillor for
Ololosokwan. Some say he was let go because OBC didn’t trust him, and others
say that he left on his own accord since being employed by OBC hindered his
political ambitions. Anyway, it seems like his enormous treason during the
years of worst repression hasn’t cost him anything at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I hope the reason that Mollel
is now talking to media again is <b>not</b> that he’s feeling more confident about
his lobbying for land alienation from the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104325152"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
confusion<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As said, the article in Toward
Freedom contain some confusion, which is something it has in common with almost
all articles about Loliondo. This is a failure for this blog that exists to
combat such confusion, misinformation and not least disinformation, but there
isn’t any way that I can force people to read. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Part of the confusion is
mixing up Loliondo with NCA, which is something that this year has spiralled
out of all control, and is found in many articles. The article is about
Loliondo, but suddenly, out of nowhere, the reporter starts writing about NCA (and
UNESCO etc.) as if it were the same thing. In this case it seems like those
interviewed have been talking about both issues and the reporter has mixed it
up. He writes, <i>“The government plans to lease to OBC the NCA, which encompasses
the Loliondo division, among others.”</i> <b>No</b>, OBC has since 1993 had the
hunting block (permit to hunt) that encompasses Loliondo and part of Sale division
of Ngorongoro district. NCA is the same as Ngorongoro Division of Ngorongoro District,
and hunting is not allowed there. The threat is about reducing the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
hunting block to OBC’s 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> core hunting area and making this
into a protected area. Confusion is also caused by the fact that the MLUM
review proposal for NCA includes the proposal to annex the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
in Loliondo to NCA which would require a change in the NCA Act, and that
without Maasai, NCA could be turned into a National Park or a Game Reserve, and
the latter alternative allows, or almost requires, hunting. Reportedly, there
is also hunting in Kakesio where NCA is being encroached by Mwiba Holding that
has hunting block in the neighbouring Meatu district. I wrote about this a decade
ago, and apparently it continues. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some misinformation that’s
very unnecessary is writing that there were evictions in Loliondo in “2009, <b>2013</b>,
and 2017”. <b>No</b>, there were most definitely <b>not</b> any evictions in
Loliondo in <b>2013</b>. This is something that an otherwise most serious
international organisation started writing this year, and other are copying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The article claims that OBC is
owned by “a group of Dubai royal families” and attributes this information to
those behind a petition earlier this year. Since 1992, the named owner has been
the businessman Major General (or Lt. General) Mohammed Abdul Rahim Al Ali (he
used to be called “brigadier”), and Dubai has only one royal family, the Maktoums.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reporter quotes the
article from 2017 that has misled so many people into believing that the government
ended a deal with OBC in November 2017 and was then never followed up. As known,
it was Kigwangalla who said that OBC would leave before January 2018, but <b>they
didn’t go</b> <b>anywhere</b> (Mollel’s brother and the assistant director were
quite rude about this) and on 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017 PM Majaliwa declared
that OBC would stay. This is salvaged by further down quoting an article by
Chris Lang of Redd Monitor who quite uniquely made corrections. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s a mention of a hunting
ban that was lifted in November 2018, but that ban restricted resident hunters,
and not trophy hunting tourists. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I really should write like
this about all articles, this one was far from the worst, but I neither have
the time, especially now when there are so many articles, nor can I afford the unpopularity
that it sometimes leads to.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104325259"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104325259;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC’s
“journalist” again<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> May the
Jamhuri newspaper published yet another article in which Manyerere Jackton calls
for evicting the Maasai from OBC’s 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> core hunting area in
Loliondo, “<i>Kwa nini kigugumizi Ngorongoro, Loliondo?”</i> He’s been
conducting his dirty campaign in over 60 articles, but laid low when Mollel was
arrested in 2019 and until this year 2022. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Except for a worry that The
Royal Tour missed the wildebeest migration, which could lead to the neighbouring
country appropriating it in their own Royal Tour, and a confused wish for more
patriotism in palaeoanthropology, Jackton was full of praise for President Samia’s
noble intention for reaching five million tourists by 2025, and her understanding
that the way is through “conservation” (eviction of Maasai). The journalist
wanted it speeded up in Ngorongoro, and of course in Loliondo. He mentioned
that for Ngorongoro this needed time and money for efforts like that in Handeni,
but he couldn’t understand why beacons hadn’t been erected in Loliondo already.
The cost of complaints by some people was well worth it for the wider interest
of the nation, he wrote. The message from this “journalist” is that beacons
must immediately be erected to “save” what’s OBC’s core hunting area and to
attract guests. Otherwise, it will serve as an example for any Tanzanian to oppose
anything beneficial for the nation … He’s seen those opposing the plan in
social media saying that they have support inside the government. I hope that’s
true … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This article was restrained by
Jackton’s standards. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In over 60 articles
he has been spewing out unhinged hate rhetoric against the Maasai of Loliondo
and campaigned for taking the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> away from them. He has
claimed that 70 percent of the Loliondo Maasai would not be Tanzanian, and
published lists of hundreds of private persons that his “sources” consider to
be “Kenyan”. His slandering of those speaking up for land rights, or those he
thinks could speak up for land rights, has been vicious and insane. Besides
this, he’s capable of fabricating any story for apparently no reason at all. This
year, the Jamhuri joined Habib Mchange and Maulid Kitenge in their hate
campaign against the Ngorongoro Maasai. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Even worse is that I’ve
experienced first-hand how Jackton likes to boast about being directly involved
in arrests of innocent people. He’s been boasting quite publicly, published
photos of the phones of those illegally arrested, and used to email me rude
one-liners when someone was about to be arrested. This appeared to be
continuing when Manyerere Jackton’s article from mid-March engaged in the same wild
“theories”, as the arrested councillors had been interrogated about. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104325292"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This
year’s Loliondo arrests<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in earlier blog
posts, following a protest meeting 19<sup>th</sup> March, on the 23<sup>rd</sup>
Methew Siloma councillor of Arash and the councillor of Malambo, Joel Clement
Reson, were summoned to the CCM ethics committee at the party’s office in
Loliondo, after which the police entered and Siloma was arrested – or abducted
– and taken to Arusha accompanied by Security Officer Hassan. In Arusha family
and lawyers weren’t allowed to see Siloma. The Regional Commanding Officer said
that it was a political case, and the councillor was being interrogated outside
the police by TISS (Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service), which TISS do
not have a mandate to do. On 25<sup>th</sup> March, Siloma was released on
bail, without charges, but he must continue reporting to the police, which has reportedly
lately calmed down. Later Siloma has in social media said that he was locked
up, interrogated and threatened in an unknown building, not at the police
station.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzRaubxOEDbzIVyd_0XCU_Ikh2O9KRZzZIWhTwdKcY6lM6BzYIhcj6SYQi5gsKLRIMZUluBrCdD3QXM52CZxw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The meeting on 19th March</span></div> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Easter Eve, 16<sup>th</sup>
April, the councillor of Malambo was arrested and so were the councillors of
Piyaya and Maaloni. They were released the following day, but Joel Reson from
Malambo was told to report to the police in Arusha, which he did on 22<sup>nd</sup>
April and then he was locked up at Arusha central police station, interrogated,
released on bail the following day, and told to continue reporting to the
police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned by Siloma and Reson
themselves in social media, all focus of the “interrogations” was laid on
making them stop defending the land and “confess” to having received millions
from the Kenyan Senator for Narok County, Ledama Olekina and that this would be
the reason that they were speaking up against any plans of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
of vitally important grazing land into a “protected area”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While these arrests have been “mild”
compared to what was happening in 2016 (or even 2015) to 2019, I worry that the
affected councillors then didn’t speak up about anything in media, which could
be because the focus was on delivering a report to PM Majaliwa, which was done
on 25<sup>th</sup> May, even though Siloma at the protest meeting said that nothing
would be handed to the liar Majaliwa, but to the president directly. On the
other hand, reporters have allegedly also been receiving “instructions” from the
PM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At a p<a href="https://arushapressclub.blogspot.com/2022/05/wafugaji-ngorongoro-wasema-hawako.html?fbclid=IwAR1ixC7iIRYKmfjvRJf7ze5rMZ7WQKoiOWiQcze0zyQBoiiyMNWctlsYdVA" target="_blank">ress conference</a> the day
after handing over community recommendations from NCA and Loliondo/Sale to Majaliwa,
Joel Clement Reson said that the conflict in Loliondo was caused by OBC, and
that the company had insisted on placing beacons on people’s land. He reminded
the government of that the Maasai don’t eat wildlife and said that if the
government love OBC they can come to do business, but not force people to
relocate. The councillor also engaged in some praise of Majaliwa …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk104325333"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
reminder about the efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km2 in Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk104325333;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since 1993 (first contract
signed in 1992) Otterlo Business Corporation, that organize hunting for Sheikh
Mohammed of Dubai, has the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo hunting blocks (permit
to hunt), which they got in the Loliondogate scandal covered by the reporter Stan
Katabalo in 1993. This area includes two towns, district headquarters, and
agricultural areas, so OBC have lobbied to have it reduced to their core
hunting area bordering Serengeti National Park, and to make it a protected
area, which would signify a huge land loss to the local Maasai, leading to lost
lives and livelihoods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, then Ngorongoro DC
Jowika Kasunga coerced local leaders into signing a Memorandum of Understanding
with OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing and hunting,
but when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the government to
complain, and village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero was illegally
invaded by the Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson,
dispersal of cattle, and abuse of every kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and
some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a draft district land
use plan that proposed turning the village land that had been invaded into a
protected area. The Maasai were united, and the draft land use plan was
rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, Minister Kagasheki
lied to the world saying that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game
Controlled Area (Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division of Ngorongoro
District) was a protected area and that alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
meant generously giving the remaining land to the Maasai. This ugly trick did
not work, since the Maasai were more serious and united than ever, garnered
support from both the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Pinda
stopped Kagasheki’s threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the unity, efforts to
buy off local leaders started creating serious divisions and weakening. Some
found it convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and
attacking the people who they at the same time expected to take risks to defend
the land. Though nobody signed any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>) had for years used the local police state that through the successive
DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will threaten
anyone who could speak up about them and engage in defamation and illegal
arrests. The repression and fear of this police state became worse with
Magufuli in office, and there were lengthy illegal arrests, torture, and
malicious prosecution, by 2016 it was so bad that Majaliwa could enter the
stage with a select non-participatory committee, set up by RC Gambo. Some of
the members were local leaders and other representatives that found themselves
at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical areas” under protests
in each village. The proposal handed over to Majaliwa was seen as a victory,
even though it was a sad compromise that had earlier been rejected for many
years of better unity and less fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since the Maasai showed
such weakness, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone
was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017
an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the
ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA,
TAWA/KDU, local police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally
arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others
protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would
have been implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected
land, while the DC, and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not about the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about that, but
that village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti National
Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDMRX2UX-taA1mHdRF5EzoSWnZDmnNklhWDGNRDZ01bZNWCinIxttzbZFRn4Xzm2ID5BiG0yfz29Qrx7RSWVIdcGjK_hXd6jSr6V2PhiKx6y5gxfeVsuAhEj8nfpvahOISL_W6qp35kYr290sUKrmUfGnk_KIFR1sY3P1NiSmX4OqFC4mWUM8if97hLg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDMRX2UX-taA1mHdRF5EzoSWnZDmnNklhWDGNRDZ01bZNWCinIxttzbZFRn4Xzm2ID5BiG0yfz29Qrx7RSWVIdcGjK_hXd6jSr6V2PhiKx6y5gxfeVsuAhEj8nfpvahOISL_W6qp35kYr290sUKrmUfGnk_KIFR1sY3P1NiSmX4OqFC4mWUM8if97hLg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Kigwangalla came into
office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that OBC would
have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was very soon clear that OBC weren’t
going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017, Majaliwa delivered his vague
but terrifying decision that was about creating a “special authority” to manage
the land. He also said that OBC were staying. The decision was celebrated in
the anti-Maasai press (the Jamhuri). Fortunately, implementation has been
delayed, and would of course be contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to a fake account of the
Dubai crown prince), and in April OBC - once again - gifted the Ministry of
Natural Resources of Tourism with 15 vehicles. In March 2018, a military camp
was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually
made permanent with donations from the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and
local police tried to derail the case in the East African Court of Justice
(EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning local
leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for the
applicants' main counsel. On 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018 – a year after the
illegal operation - the court finally issued an injunction restraining the
government from evictions, destruction and harassment of the applicants, but
this injunction was soon brutally violated. In November and December soldiers
from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and burned bomas in
Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was the lowest point ever in the land rights
struggle and I have still not understood how it could happen without anyone at
all speaking up. Local leaders claimed to fear for their lives and thought that
the brutality was directly ordered by President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in
January 2019 condemned the crimes in a very vague way, they changed to thinking
that OBC’s director had contracted the soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground, but the local police state wasn’t
dealt with and after a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was out, and after
a while back to work. Speculations about Mollel’s misfortune include his
clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to send a
message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to Bernard Membe) that
nobody is untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for NCA, which included the proposal to annex most of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a protected area allowing hunting was
presented. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal has since been met with
countless protests from every kind of group of people from NCA, but near
silence from Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as
new DED and he started working to kill the court cases against land grabbing
“investors”. Though the village chairmen have stood their ground and Reference
No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash versus the Attorney
General of the United Republic of Tanzania continues in the EACJ. The case
against Thomson Safaris in the Tanzanian court of appeal, however, was in 2022
killed using a law that was introduced after the case was filed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders,
even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the
attendance list. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien there
was a public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and traditional
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy8L9dAAqIPrL8-GKWjuBGPwCaIlxjkkzFJ7oVB6aac4hDhub5Ect2sR0f-77L059_xX6oGbv5Nb9_iUZ-AqQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February,
Majaliwa came and wasn’t much better than Mongella, but too well-received, since
something worse was expected, because of the crazy anti-Maasai hate campaign,
and parliamentarians calling for tanks to be sent to Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in NCA, not Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be marked by
beacons, so that we may know the boundaries – while claiming that this is NOT a
trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup>
March re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on
the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and water projects when
informing parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha,
without people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Placing beacons to mark the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero would be a serious invasion of village land,
contempt of court, and only serves the interests of those who want to rob the
Maasai of this land. Any attempt must be dealt with without delay!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> April, the
new minister Pindi Chana visited Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then as mentioned, CCM
councillors that have spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero are, after a protest meeting in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup>
March being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha.
Currently the councillors of Arash and Malambo must keep reporting to the
police, even if this seems to have calmed down, and a laigwanani together with
the village chairman of Malambo have been summoned to the Loliondo police and
are to return when the OCD is there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> May a committee
handed over their report of “community views” on both NCA and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
osero in Loliondo to PM Majaliwa, which Siloma had said they would not do. I
hope the Loliondo/Sale part is as good as that for NCA, but I’ve had some
worries. In 2017, the results of dancing to Majaliwa’s tune were catastrophic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The case in the East African
Court of Justice is in its very final stages. A win should be certain, but I have
some hopefully unfounded worries.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-90940805804805087282022-05-05T22:33:00.007+02:002022-05-30T20:34:42.808+02:00The Ngorongoro MP Spoke Up in Parliament About the Shocking Transfer to Handeni of Funds for Public Services, in Loliondo the Intimidation of Local Leaders Continues, and The Royal Tour is Used as Expected<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rest in peace Anny Daniel
Laizer. My condolences to family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/04/illegal-arrests-again-in-loliondo.html" target="_blank">latest blog post</a>, among several other issues, I mentioned that in addition to decades
of other restrictions and harassment, obviously meant to drive
the Maasai out of Ngorongoro Conservation Area, since 2021 the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) has been blocking all new, already funded, public
service projects. While writing (now long ago), I was asking for more details
about what projects were being blocked, and since then such a list has been shared,
and later letters were made public in which schools in Ngorongoro Conservation
Area were being ordered to send Covid-19 funds already in their accounts to the
account of Handeni District Council. On 13<sup>th</sup> April, the Ngorongoro MP
Emmanuel Oleshangai, spoke up in the national assembly, and in a confident way
fought off several intervening ministers. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180;"><br /></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #800180; font-style: italic;"><b>Update</b></span><i><b>:</b> </i>on 6th May,</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span>Lendukai Kimaay, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">who was one of those writing the report on community views to be handed to PM Majaliwa, was arrested in Karatu and then taken to Arusha for interrogation. He was released on the 7th.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #800180;"><b>Update:</b></span> </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 6</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> May. the United Nations Permanent
Forum on Indigenous Issues called on the government of Tanzania to immediately
cease efforts to evict the Maasai people from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Meanwhile,
I’m worried that not enough attention is given to protect the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
in Loliondo that this year has been seriously threatened by both the Arusha RC,
the PM and the former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, and as
reported in the latest blog post, in a new turn of the Loliondo police state
the councillor of Arash was arrested, or abducted, by his own CCM party for
speaking up. On Easter Eve the illegal arrests of councillors continued with
those from Malambo, Piyaya, and Maaloni. The councillors of Arash and Malambo
must keep reporting to the police. The latest I heard is that the Malambo
village chairman and a traditional leader are summoned to the Loliondo police tomorrow, 6th May.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In President
Samia’s own “documentary” The Royal Tour, the words about the Maasai were as if
preparing for evictions from Ngorongoro, and in a related interview she now
also mentioned Loliondo, trying to engage in the usual anti-Loliondo rhetoric by</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> the </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">MNRT and
investors, without getting even that right. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blocked
public services in Ngorongoro Division<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area brief background<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA
developments since 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Public
services as weapon of war<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Intimidation
continues, but Loliondo is not back to silence, I hope<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
reminder about the efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Royal
Tour<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">First
remember that:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA, an
8,292 km² multiple land use area, the Maasai live under the purposeful
poverty-inducing rule and restrictions of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Authority, and since 2019 there’s a genocidal eviction plan, that extends to
annexing some surrounding areas, the area under threat in Loliondo included.
Current government efforts focus on “voluntary” relocation and disinformation,
while an ethnic hate campaign rages in media and in parliament. This is about
Ngorongoro Division of Ngorongoro District.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo
OBC, that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, have for years
lobbied to have 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land, village land
belonging to the local Maasai, turned into a protected area. This caused
illegal mass arson operations in 2009 and 2017. A local police state had, until
recently, silenced all local leaders and activists, and still people from
Loliondo are much more silent in the debate than those from NCA. This concerns
Loliondo and parts of Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The interest
in Ngorongoro has reached unprecedented levels nationally and internationally, which
is good indeed. Though most articles get at least something wrong, while some
old misleading articles are circulating again. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk102314643"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Blocked
public services in Ngorongoro Division<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102314643;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During the one-party
parliamentary debate on the budget estimates of the Prime Minister’s office, on
13<sup>th</sup> April, the <a href="https://youtu.be/kHB__M7SbKo" target="_blank">MP for Ngorongoro</a> brought up the issue of new, already
funded public service projects - all of them - being blocked in Ngorongoro
division and the money sent to Handeni to where the government want the Maasai
to relocate “voluntarily”. One after one, several ministers intervened to say
that there are indeed new public service projects in Ngorongoro District (or similar
interventions) and Shangai responded with confidence and great patience to
their not so innocent ignorance. Those intervening were Innocent Bachungwa, Minister
of State in the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government
(TAMISEMI), Juma Aweso, Minister of Water and Irrigation, Godwin Mollel, Deputy
Minister of Health, and Kundo Methew, Deputy Minister for Communication and Information
Technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There is a long list of public
services in water, education and health for which there are funds, but which
since last year are being blocked (not given permits) by NCAA. I was mostly in
vain asking for examples for my latest blog post, but now there is a list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">photo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Easter Sunday, two frankly
disgusting letters were revealed, one from DED Jumaa Mhina to the headteachers
of Endulen, Misigyo, and Essere primary schools, and another one from the same
to the Embarway, Nainokanoka, and Ngorongoro Girls secondary schools. These
letters, dated 31</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> March, refer to a letter from the TAMISEMI permanent
secretary, Riziki S Shemdoe, ordering Covid-19 funds already in the accounts of
the Ngorongoro schools for the construction of classrooms and dormitories to
instead be transferred to Handeni District Council! There were instructions
with the account number of the Handeni District Council for transferring the money
before 5</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> April.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The lawlessness of the
Tanzanian government is apparently without boundaries. Though the good thing with
these letters is that it’s unusually strong evidence, unlike when crimes are being
committed while the rhetoric is saying the opposite.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> April, MP Shangai
shared a picture together with the TAMISEMI permanent secretary, as “photo of
the day”. Though nothing transpired of what had been said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The dirty war against the
Maasai is being fought at all levels. The Controller and Auditor General, Charles
Kichere, again, when presenting his report on 19<sup>th</sup> April, parroted
chief conservator Manongi’s anti-Maasai rhetoric about too many people and
livestock, permanent infrastructures and motorcycles – yes, motorcycles and not
the traffic jams formed by tourist vehicles – while throwing in claims about
violation of sections of the NCA Act, totally ignoring the blatant and brutal violation
of NCAA’s function, <i>“to safeguard and promote the interests of Masai
citizens of the United Republic engaged in cattle ranching and dairy industry
within the Conservation Area;”</i> These are issues about which the CAG can’t
possible have much knowledge or understanding, and the one-sided copying of the
anti-Maasai campaigners is more than obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup> April, PM
Majaliwa was again visiting the hurried construction of houses in Msomera Village
in Handeni, while local villagers looked on agape, and nobody knows where the
money is coming from, except for what’s <b>openly</b> stolen from Ngorongoro.
Deputy Minister <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CcxEw1TIZgW/" target="_blank">Mary Masanja</a> was of course there talking about how dangerous it
is to live with wild animals, as if moving to an overpopulated district,
infamous for its clashes between pastoralists and cultivators, would be safer. Anti-Maasai
people online used to very frequently bring up such clashes, but I haven’t
heard them since the Handeni scam was made public, maybe since they’re so
enamoured with the idea of moving the Maasai. Masanja also said that the president
has provided funds for 400 more houses. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There has been some
international news coverage of Ngorongoro, often mixing things up with Loliondo,
and other misunderstandings. These articles make it sound like evictions are
imminent. I hope they are very wrong, even if the government seems determined
and united. Perhaps most important is that <a href="https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=26938" target="_blank">eight UN Special Rapporteurs wrote</a>
to the Tanzanian government, and to the UNESCO World Heritage, IUCN, and
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) already in February,
about their concern about the threats of evictions and further restrictions against
the Maasai of NCA. I didn’t see these letters until the Oakland Institute wrote
about them on 11<sup>th</sup> April. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While the anti-Maasai hate rhetoric
has this year been more virulent than ever, the solidarity expressed by
Tanzanians from all walks of life, at least online, has also reached levels
never previously seen, not even during the most brutal and illegal mass arson
operations. <b>Thank you and please keep it up.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 24<sup>th</sup>-25<sup>th</sup>
April the committee that’s collecting community views about the conflict
concerning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo and the Ngorongoro Conservation
Area (to hand over to PM Majaliwa) held a press conference to say that they’re
finalizing this task. This committee of representatives from Ngorongoro and Loliondo
has by some been seen as dancing to the extremely dangerous and manipulative PM’s
tune. At the protest meeting in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March it was declared
that the report would instead be handed to the president, but in parliament on
13<sup>th</sup> April the Ngorongoro MP was again mentioning the PM, and so did
the committee members at their press conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The committee’s advice to the
government were the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1. "We
urge the government, through the Prime Minister, to condemn the arbitrary
arrests of leaders, including councillors, community members, leaders and human
rights defenders who stand up for human rights, as well as to prevent threats
against journalists who report information and community views concerning this
conflict.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2. "We
urge the government to stop any propaganda against the people of Ngorongoro,
especially the Maasai community, and to suspend all ongoing processes to allow
for listening to the views of the community in order to provide a peaceful
solution to this conflict."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">3. "The
government should return all development projects and social services that have
been blocked in Ngorongoro Division."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> April, in
the social media app Clubhouse the government spokesperson <a href="https://youtu.be/ZHqsXXAaBHk" target="_blank">Gerson Msigwa</a> cried
crocodile tears about the Ngorongoro Maasai and wildlife, “crocodile” because
all problems are caused by the government itself. Then he said that
stakeholders had recommended blocking social services in NCA so that “the
problem isn’t increased”. He also said that the removal of the Maasai would be
done slowly and educating them about the necessity of doing this. He made it
clear that the interest of tourism is to be given precedence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Minister of Information,
Communication and Information Technology, Nape Nnauye, on 30<sup>th</sup> April,
in the same social media app, defended the refusal to deliver postcode services
to Ngorongoro Division with that it’s for where the government has agreed that
there are formal residences, and not where there is conflict. Then he went on
to complain about false propaganda about Ngorongoro and blocking of services, asking
Tanzanians not to let neighbouring countries stir things up … Nape continued
saying that nobody is being prevented from talking to journalists, that there
are rules and regulations in Ngorongoro that journalists must follow, and then
they will be allowed to do their job, but what’s not acceptable is to engage in
activism. He claimed that the government is treating Ngorongoro issues very
well, assisting those who want to relocate. Then he said that under the
presidency of Samia there is press freedom, but your freedom ends where another
person freedom begins. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Unfortunately, any Tanzanian
minister will say stupid things like this, or worse. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 2<sup>nd</sup> May, the eve
of World Press Freedom Day, <a href="https://thechanzo.com/2022/05/02/minister-summons-online-tv-following-report-on-the-increased-cost-of-cell-phone-plans/" target="_blank">Nape </a>forced the Darmpya online news outlet to
apologise for not getting the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority’s view
before accurately reporting sudden rises in mobile data prices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Royal Tour film premiered
and among the words about the Maasai by President Samia and the reporter Peter
Greenberg “primitive tribes” wasn’t the worst (see below for more about The
Royal Tour). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">N<b>gorongoro Conservation
Area brief background<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that the Maasai already
lost access to over 14,000 km<sup>2</sup> when evicted from Serengeti in 1959
by the colonial government, and as a compromise deal, they were guaranteed the
right to continue occupying the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a
multiple land-use area administered by the government, in which natural
resources would be conserved primarily for their interest, but with due regard
for wildlife, and in case of conflict the interest of the Maasai would take
precedence. This promise was not kept, and tourism revenue has turned into the
paramount interest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro has become Tanzania
top source of tourism revenue and many wildlife numbers have increased, with he
Maasai living there, in their home. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For decades the Maasai have
suffered restrictions, more and more purposefully designed to impoverish them
and force them out of Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In 1975, after a change in
the NCA Act in 1974, they were brutally evicted from residing in Ngorongoro
crater and all cultivation was prohibited. The cultivation ban was lifted in
1992, but brought back in 2009, after many “grave concerns” by UNESCO and IUCN.
Now not even the smallest kitchen garden is allowed, which together with loss
of access to grazing areas has led to malnutrition. They are not allowed to
build permanent houses and suffer all kinds of harassment by NCA rangers, that
want to restrict motorbikes, building materials, or demanding permits for just
anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2017 – by order (not a
change in the NCA Act) and after a visit by PM Majaliwa in December 2016 - the
Maasai lost access to the three craters Ngorongoro, Olmoti, and Empakaai,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">which has led
the loss of 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo
wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these wards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The UNESCO World Heritage
Centre, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) once again visited
Ngorongoro in March 2019 and in their report repeated that they wanted the Multiple
Land Use Model review completed to see the results and offer advice, while
again complaining about the visual impact of settlements with “modern” houses,
and so on. They did also recommend the State Party to continue to, <i>“promote
and encourage voluntary resettlement by communities, consistent with the
policies of the Convention and relevant international norms, from within the
property to outside by 2028”</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the previous blog post I
wrote my <b><a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/04/illegal-arrests-again-in-loliondo.html" target="_blank">reply to UNESCO’s claim</a></b> that they have never at any time asked
for the displacement of the Maasai. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, chief
conservator Freddy Manongi made public a Multiple Land Use Model review report
proposal, which is so destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai
livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. The MLUM review report proposes
to divide Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core conservation
zone” that is to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA this
includes the Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters, Oldupai Gorge,
Laitoli footprints, and the Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek basins. In the rest of
Ngorongoro District, the proposal is for NCAA to annex the Lake Natron basin
(including areas of Longido and Monduli districts, like Selela forest and
Engaruka historical site) and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo and Sale
Divisions and designate most of these areas to be no-go zones for pastoralists
and livestock. These huge areas include many villages and are important grazing
areas, the loss of which would have disastrous knock-on effects on lives and
livelihoods elsewhere. The annexation of the Osero in Loliondo caters almost
perfectly to the wishes of OBC. Only 18% of the expanded NCA would remain for
people and livestock. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm2EFGhA3Dy2hhzqYQ4xSElt7MUPhLTGK52yHTHrf0pWPTVB-eYCTkT4fiuRt_Upq_AokRHNqI1oeBYKLL0jmGkMRD74AEY_2sTnK95gximCd3Bypono9EijyQjQdgz6mUAAqAp82gamyvLcxdaY7yT8OLetF9DF91i6JS5qYA1uaTAPapHgF45jXJKA/s843/insane%20mlum%20report%20map.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm2EFGhA3Dy2hhzqYQ4xSElt7MUPhLTGK52yHTHrf0pWPTVB-eYCTkT4fiuRt_Upq_AokRHNqI1oeBYKLL0jmGkMRD74AEY_2sTnK95gximCd3Bypono9EijyQjQdgz6mUAAqAp82gamyvLcxdaY7yT8OLetF9DF91i6JS5qYA1uaTAPapHgF45jXJKA/s320/insane%20mlum%20report%20map.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Uncountable protest meetings
and statements against the MLUM review proposal followed in 2019 and 2020.
Several promises were issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism
to do the exercise afresh in a “participatory” manner, but then the same genocidal
proposal kept being brought back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk102314745"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCA
developments since 2021 <o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after taking office in
March 2021, in a speech on 6<sup>th</sup> April President Samia said that
something had to be done about too many people and livestock, or it was <i>“bye,
bye Ngorongoro”</i>. Little more than a week later, demolition notices were
made public, ordering the demolition within 30 days of over a hundred
buildings, private houses, but also those built by the government, like
schools, dispensaries, and the Endulen police station. Two churches and a
mosque were included. Further, 45 people accused of having returned from Jema
to where they were relocated in 2006, were ordered to leave, also within 30
days, and 174 families were listed as “illegal immigrants”. After big protests
these demolition and eviction notices were withdrawn until further notice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In May 2021, the NCAA
headquarters were abruptly relocated to Karatu. Then, the first days of June, Chief
Conservator Manongi and other NCAA representatives held a promotional event on
parliament grounds in Dodoma, handing out goodie bags with t-shirts, leaflets,
and whatever. On 30<sup>th</sup> June, deputy minister Mary Masanja flew to
Ngorongoro with 35 MPs for domestic tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> September
2021, the Ministry of Natural Resources and tourism uploaded a video in which
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja complains about having seen livestock, and chief
conservator Manongi says that conservation is a war, that the pastoralists have
many “conspiracies” and sadly are winning, adding that now conservationists
must “start” developing conspiracies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> September,
under heavy police deployment and with several arrests to prevent any kind of
protest, President Samia came to Ngorongoro to film the documentary The Royal
Tour. She has still not met with Ngorongoro people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In August and September 2021,
NCAA rangers assaulted several young herders and killed four sheep with a
vehicle, which led to protests on 23<sup>rd</sup> September, which lasted for
several days. An uprising seemed to be on the way, but then everything was put
on hold when MP Olenasha sadly passed away on 27<sup>th</sup> September.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also in September 2021, the Stefan
Oswald, Head of the Africa Department at Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development of Germany was having a nice time in Serengeti with
deputy minister Mary Masanja and the Germans were – again - giving away
millions for sustainable natural resource and ecological sustainability
development in the Serengeti ecosystem. Grzimek and Nyerere were “present” in
spirit and as cut out figures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuc9xt0kxsZbpQcmvkaU5Uj0wEqnTmhP7ls-o8jk7BdGVR-7zMPkki2uky7t8Jbdd9pmOAztHypt6cKrUSaIBmJanOlS5JofwHFzD6C9B9YI3t5lPZmWJipo6O3-MoB6SSh9DFoh7B8tOE4l4BGmfAf8yAu7b__flspbdNvn2Q_xlye0HNgT_LMKicRg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="563" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuc9xt0kxsZbpQcmvkaU5Uj0wEqnTmhP7ls-o8jk7BdGVR-7zMPkki2uky7t8Jbdd9pmOAztHypt6cKrUSaIBmJanOlS5JofwHFzD6C9B9YI3t5lPZmWJipo6O3-MoB6SSh9DFoh7B8tOE4l4BGmfAf8yAu7b__flspbdNvn2Q_xlye0HNgT_LMKicRg" width="135" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> October
President Samia held a speech in Arusha talking about how important Ngorongoro
is for tourism and that “we” can’t continue considering people’s interests
while destroying it. She was accompanied and supported by the imposter
Lekisongo from Monduli, who pretended to represent the Ngorongoro Maasai while
supporting relocations. Several protest statements were issued by Ngorongoro
Maasai against this individual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzBgA2O7vyUs37lWFZW0GT4cFBVMUITIP1X4dlwugMWvDsRAntg_Xj0bFoBPEydGtAnLDiljM47NWGXSjr82A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2022 started with a leaked
plan – apparently written on New Year’s Eve - for “voluntary” evictions from
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) to be fully prepared to begin in February.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, as mentioned above, on
11<sup>th</sup> January RC Mongella visited Loliondo and issued a land
alienation threat that made even the biggest traitors speak up, but contrary
what had been feared, he didn’t make any announcement about NCA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Habib Mchange’s Jamvi la
Habari paper, that focuses on fabrications and slander of opposition politicians,
initiated a hate campaign against the Maasai of NCA that spread all over
regular and social media, was joined by crazed sports presenters, Maulid
Kitenge and friends, and then the old anti-Maasai Jamhuri paper with Deusdatus
Balile and Manyerere Jackton. These “journalists” started an organization with
its sole focus on evicting the Maasai from Ngorongoro and were treated as
serious actors by other media. Though Tanzanians in social media who had
earlier not paid much attention to Ngorongoro saw what was going on, were
appalled, and started speaking up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> February,
six journalists were detained and harassed after having attended a community
rally in Nainokanoka.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In parliament on 9<sup>th</sup>
February MPs competed in being wilfully ignorant, hateful, and calling for
evictions from Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, there was much laughter and table banging,
while only three MPs (all Maasai) spoke up for the Maasai. Majaliwa said that
the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act would be reviewed, but first there was to
be a seminar for the MPs and he would meet with people in Ngorongoro and
Loliondo. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism uploaded to its Instagram
account some of the worst clips of MPs. On 12<sup>th</sup> February a one-sided
“seminar” about Ngorongoro was held for the MPs who continued their hateful and
defamatory incitement against the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> February, the
new anti-Maasai organisation, formed by “journalists”, held a loathsome press
conference, adding to their many crazed and dehumanizing “theories” one saying
that there were no graves in Ngorongoro, which had earlier been heard in parliament.
The Darmpya online news, asked questions, like how come the “allowances” for
attending the press conference were so extraordinary heavy, who funded it, and
for what purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ3x7OmDRcSC-X0MBxzc_379PIS-LOihei8DhzOcBtviNPJ3vpr7tjPplwC_vRAuG-cLqmpujZ5oBeJdXgpM5rb1Bp0A2J4SmJEj3cKRW5WgBWUuhtJw0tp9u5W8nMmTm2nadjkxlimUaAl66ABM-66DSOi6QjCqnP62WTD7HiIqaf8pMtzyZ8ZeiPFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="937" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ3x7OmDRcSC-X0MBxzc_379PIS-LOihei8DhzOcBtviNPJ3vpr7tjPplwC_vRAuG-cLqmpujZ5oBeJdXgpM5rb1Bp0A2J4SmJEj3cKRW5WgBWUuhtJw0tp9u5W8nMmTm2nadjkxlimUaAl66ABM-66DSOi6QjCqnP62WTD7HiIqaf8pMtzyZ8ZeiPFQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA many people stopped
sleeping and started praying incessantly at combined prayer and protest
meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> February
Majaliwa held a brief agenda-driven meeting at the NCA hall, for leaders and closed
to the public. There was confusion and thorough registering of the attendants.
Two journalists were arrested and released later the same day. The local people
who were locked out stayed outside the hall singing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> March,
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja brought a caravan of 600 women in diesel guzzling
vehicles to Ngorongoro, to celebrate tourism, CCM, or supposedly International
Women’s Day. Meanwhile Maasai women climbed Mount Makarot to pray for their
land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitlNZ9_F5so_FlJzoo8MZRj7MX-VEsbnqgHpVPMn9JPi3Iw9tYgdGuYgLtsEdREpRE7SyryIp8ynNTm2YItufSo1ORC_CH37mMJE0JNGj10_nZrnwY7fDR1-6l-wRtKXEYjK0frqdo_tQRyTnS4Yszn_mLgefKhhEPywYx2Jir4H9XRpCEJimjgPxVxw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitlNZ9_F5so_FlJzoo8MZRj7MX-VEsbnqgHpVPMn9JPi3Iw9tYgdGuYgLtsEdREpRE7SyryIp8ynNTm2YItufSo1ORC_CH37mMJE0JNGj10_nZrnwY7fDR1-6l-wRtKXEYjK0frqdo_tQRyTnS4Yszn_mLgefKhhEPywYx2Jir4H9XRpCEJimjgPxVxw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> March in
Arusha, Majaliwa held a meeting with Maasai from other areas, without any
connection to Ngorongoro, led by the denounced fraudster Lekisongo. The PM was
handed a list of 86 households or 453 persons “willing” to relocate from
Ngorongoro. All had already left the district years ago and are apparently now
looking for compensation money. The following day the PM boasted about this
meeting in parliament, and on the 12<sup>th</sup> real traditional leaders from
Ngorongoro held a press conference to denounce the fraud, but journalist didn’t
want to cover it after having been advised otherwise by Majaliwa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> March,
Majaliwa made a much-publicised visit to Msomera Village in Handeni where
houses are hurriedly being built to relocate Maasai from Ngorongoro, without
consulting them, and apparently without consulting people from Msomera that’s a
legally registered village, with its land use plan (I hope to soon have more information
about Msomera, which some people are working at). Majaliwa was to visit
Ngorongoro on the 15<sup>th</sup>, but it was postponed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA informers are reportedly
moving around trying to convince people to register to be relocated. Most (all
in the first list that was made public) who are doing so have already left and
are now looking for compensation money.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> March Damas
Ndumbaro, then Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, met with ambassadors
to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and Loliondo, and his ministry
reported that the German ambassador supported the government’s efforts in
Ngorongoro, which has still not been publicly denied by any German
representative. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 31<sup>st</sup>
President Samia replaced Ndumbaro with Pindi Chana who within a few days was
off to visit Ngorongoro and Loliondo, without meeting with residents. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> April, the
NCAA had found some real traitors to show off, unlike the previous imposters
from other places than Ngorongoro, even if long-gone people are still looking
for a compensation deal. And they are of course not traitors for wanting to
relocate, but for lending themselves to the dirty war against their own people.
These few, and very dubious, people keep being paraded in media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some evidence emerged about
how blocked funds for social services in Ngorongoro division are being transferred
to Handeni and on 13<sup>th</sup> April the Ngorongoro MP denounced this in
parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as mentioned, a committee
will hand over community views to PM Majaliwa, as if he would care.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY8albcrkXEI8enu4GjLpbTzKVYIFtRrl3nV7bRJg0JxUt2ITEudU5-VA832AzgsP3OZT08YzOzNJQcsUuylRHY5ny1r3KfGOWmnnlToaRS0bBr0LC2D6pH-r-iMXXameaEIybLbCY4zDqGgEUdbQd4xkxgzGaNGkD__0kFCHM0q_3XrRI63lA5eP6XQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjY8albcrkXEI8enu4GjLpbTzKVYIFtRrl3nV7bRJg0JxUt2ITEudU5-VA832AzgsP3OZT08YzOzNJQcsUuylRHY5ny1r3KfGOWmnnlToaRS0bBr0LC2D6pH-r-iMXXameaEIybLbCY4zDqGgEUdbQd4xkxgzGaNGkD__0kFCHM0q_3XrRI63lA5eP6XQ" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Public services
as weapon of war<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the previous blog post I
wrote about how development projects, often basic social services have always
been used as a weapon, but I forgot one way in which it has been done.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The projects are always used as
a CCM party event, and the president is personally thanked in the most
embarrassing way. In Loliondo people have been humiliated and forced to receive
social services as charity from the violent anti-land rights investors – OBC and
<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> – who use it in their propaganda. Because of this, Mondorosi Village
was refusing charity from Thomson for years, and the chairman was severely
harassed, arrest included, until he “changed”. Similar used to happen earlier in
NCA where chief conservator Manongi could compromise anyone with development
money. In 2017, Minister Jumanne Maghembe said that German development funds
would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a
protected area, which led to protests against receiving this money, but then it
was revealed that the district council chairman had done so anyway. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After two years of German silence,
representatives of the development bank denied any such conditions. The funds,
or any other, have still not been used in the 1,500 km<sup>2 </sup>though. Lately
PM Majaliwa has used water projects in other areas of Loliondo as an argument
for alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, while pretending not to know that
people live there or that it’s essential grazing land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Social services were one of
the weapons strategically used to – with 100 % success - bring back opposition
councillors to CCM in 2017-2018, including removing planned for projects in
opposition wards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now, as seen, social services 600
kilometres away in Handeni are much trumpeted as a benefit for Ngorongoro
Maasai, while the same in Ngorongoro Division is not only being blocked, but
the funds are, in some cases openly, redirected to Handeni. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Intimidation
continues, but Loliondo is not back to silence, I hope<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Even if in large part caused
by outspoken threats by national leaders – the Arusha RC, PM Majaliwa, and
former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Ndumbaro - against the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> that the government so many times have tried to rob the Maasai
of, this year has in many ways seen a remarkable change for the better with big
protests in January and then again in March. As reported in the previous blog
post, on 19<sup>th</sup> March, the since 2017 painfully disappointing councillor
of Arash, who was district council chair 2015-2020, spoke up with great
seriousness describing PM Majaliwa as a liar (which is well-known by most
Tanzanians) and declaring that the Maasai would never cooperate with anyone who
wants to demarcate the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> with beacons, which is what the PM
had ordered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 23<sup>rd</sup> March Methew
Siloma and the councillor of Malambo, Joel Clement Reson, were summoned to the CCM
ethics committee at the party’s office in Loliondo, after which the police
entered and Siloma was arrested – or abducted – and taken to Arusha accompanied
by Security Officer Hassan. In Arusha family and lawyers weren’t allowed to see
Siloma. The Regional Commanding Officer said that it was a political case, and
the councillor was being interrogated outside the police by TISS (Tanzania
Intelligence and Security Service), which TISS do not have a mandate to do. On
25<sup>th</sup> March, Siloma was released on bail, without charges, but he
must continue reporting to the police. Later Siloma has in social media said
that he was locked up, interrogated and threatened in an unknown building, not
at the police station. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Easter Eve, 16<sup>th</sup>
April, the councillor of Malambo was arrested and so were the councillors of
Piyaya and Maaloni. They were released the following day, but Joel Reson from
Malambo was told to report to the police in Arusha, which he did on 22<sup>nd</sup>
April and then he was locked up at Arusha central police station, interrogated,
released on bail the following day, and told to continue reporting to the
police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The silence achieved by the
Loliondo police state continues and there’s a very noticeable difference between
how Maasai from Loliondo and NCA are speaking up in social media, but I’m happy
to say that the councillors from Arash and Malambo reportedly appear to be in
high spirits and even participated online with NCA people, sharing what they
were interrogated about (somewhat old school Loliondo police state, but now done
in Arusha). All focus was apparently laid on making them stop defending the land
and “confess” to having received millions from the Kenyan Senator for Narok
County, Ledama Olekina and that this would be the reason that they were speaking
up against any plans of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of vitally important grazing
land into a “protected area”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I doubt it’s by chance that the
latest article by OBC’s “journalist” Manyerere Jackton had a focus on “Kenyans”,
in a re-hash of some of his over 60 articles viciously inciting against the Loliondo
Maasai, and that he’s active again with his anti-Loliondo hate campaign after
lying low since OBC’s director had a long stay in remand prison accused of “economic
sabotage” in 2019. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxnkJLjG1Bmt1wcISYVaBHK_9zGmwbP3JjPeeK1uJRIbKZvFyBRIaDDjegqXXcD0iQKxoALZlK1FDTbFAvl8vpumaOwZkQpLtGHwmv7mvxVxNzh8R3Eeo1Ma0jNEfNE4JqYfl05TCGRkLHihY0BKynHpCHVgT8ylOav6TXqweyjB17V385zPSKVa6XNA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="836" data-original-width="646" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxnkJLjG1Bmt1wcISYVaBHK_9zGmwbP3JjPeeK1uJRIbKZvFyBRIaDDjegqXXcD0iQKxoALZlK1FDTbFAvl8vpumaOwZkQpLtGHwmv7mvxVxNzh8R3Eeo1Ma0jNEfNE4JqYfl05TCGRkLHihY0BKynHpCHVgT8ylOav6TXqweyjB17V385zPSKVa6XNA" width="185" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These recent arrests differ
from the illegal arrests of 2015-2019 in that CCM councillors are targeted and
not so much NGO staff (now silenced, but still two of them have been arrested
this year and must keep reporting to the police) or real or assumed activists (they
now apparently only exist in NCA). Councillors and village chairs have been targeted
before, but not as those worst hit, and have been somewhat protected by the
party. Siloma and Reson were lured to the CCM ethical committee. It’s suspected
that the recent arrests have been ordered by the Arusha RC, John Mongella, and
another change is that those arrested are taken to Arusha for interrogation
instead of being held in Loliondo. The recent illegal arrests are not as prolonged
as the earlier ones that used to last for over a week. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Loliondo local police
state never ends, and after years of almost complete silence following the
terror of 2018 when extreme abuse was taking place and not one single leader
spoke up, I fear silence and can never assume that it means that nothing is
happening. It’s painful to know that anyone can be silenced, and that too many
can be compromised. That’s why just a few confident words by those harassed
mean so much.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then in an <a href="https://petergreenberg.com/2022/04/30/eye-on-travel-tanzania-april-30-2022/" target="_blank">interview</a> with
Peter Greenberg of The Royal Tour (see below), published on 30<sup>th</sup>
April, President Samia when asked to define “sustainable tourism” tried to repeat
the anti-Loliondo rhetoric, but mixing it up with the Mara River. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Malambo
village chairman Moitiko Risanda and the traditional leader Simon Ndare are summoned
to Loliondo police station on 6<sup>th</sup> May.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk102314902"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
reminder about the efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102314902;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since 1993 (first contract
signed in 1992) Otterlo Business Corporation, that organize hunting for Sheikh
Mohammed of Dubai, has the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo hunting blocks (permit
to hunt), which they got in the Loliondogate scandal covered by Stan Katabalo
in 1993. This area includes two towns, district headquarters, and agricultural
areas, so OBC have lobbied to have it reduced to their core hunting area
bordering Serengeti National Park, and to make it a protected area, which would
signify a huge land loss to the local Maasai, leading to lost lives and
livelihoods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, then Ngorongoro DC
Jowika Kasunga coerced local leaders into signing a Memorandum of Understanding
with OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing and hunting,
but when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the government to
complain, and village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero was illegally
invaded by the Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson,
dispersal of cattle, and abuse of every kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and
some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a draft district land
use plan that proposed turning the village land that had been invaded into a
protected area. The Maasai were united, and the draft land use plan was
rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, Minister Kagasheki
lied to the world saying that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game
Controlled Area (Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division of Ngorongoro
District) was a protected area and that alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
meant generously giving the remaining land to the Maasai. This ugly trick did
not work, since the Maasai were more serious and united than ever, garnered
support from both the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Pinda
stopped Kagasheki’s threats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the unity, efforts to
buy off local leaders started creating serious divisions and weakening. Some
found it convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and
attacking the people who they at the same time expected to take risks to defend
the land. Though nobody signed any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>) had for years used the local police state that through the successive
DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will threaten
anyone who could speak up about them and engage in defamation and illegal
arrests. The repression and fear of this police state became worse with
Magufuli in office, and there were lengthy illegal arrests, torture, and
malicious prosecution, by 2016 it was so bad that Majaliwa could enter the
stage with a select non-participatory committee, set up by RC Gambo. Some of
the members were local leaders and other representatives that found themselves
at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical areas” under protests
in each village. The proposal handed over to Majaliwa was seen as a victory,
even though it was a sad compromise that had earlier been rejected for many
years of better unity and less fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since the Maasai showed
such weakness, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone
was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017
an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the
ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA,
TAWA/KDU, local police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally
arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others
protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would
have been implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected
land, while the DC, and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not about the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about that, but
that village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti National
Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Kigwangalla came into
office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that OBC would
have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was very soon clear that OBC weren’t
going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017, Majaliwa delivered his vague
but terrifying decision that was about creating a “special authority” to manage
the land. He also said that OBC were staying. The decision was celebrated in
the anti-Maasai press (the Jamhuri). Fortunately, implementation has been
delayed, and would of course be contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to a fake account of the
Dubai crown prince), and in April OBC - once again - gifted the Ministry of
Natural Resources of Tourism with 15 vehicles. In March 2018, a military camp
was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually
made permanent with donations from the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and
local police tried to derail the case in the East African Court of Justice
(EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning local
leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for the
applicants' main counsel. On 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018 – a year after the
illegal operation - the court finally issued an injunction restraining the
government from evictions, destruction and harassment of the applicants, but
this injunction was soon brutally violated. In November and December soldiers
from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and burned bomas in
Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was the lowest point ever in the land rights
struggle and I have still not understood how it could happen without anyone at
all speaking up. Local leaders claimed to fear for their lives and thought that
the brutality was directly ordered by President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in
January 2019 condemned the crimes in a very vague way, they changed to thinking
that OBC’s director had contracted the soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground, but the local police state wasn’t
dealt with and after a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was out, and after a
while back to work, reportedly due to plea bargaining. Speculations about
Mollel’s misfortune include his clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and
Magufuli wanting to send a message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and
to Bernard Membe) that nobody is untouchable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for NCA, which included the proposal to annex most of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a protected area allowing hunting was
presented. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal has since been met with
countless protests from every kind of group of people from NCA, but near
silence from Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as
new DED and he started working to kill the court cases against land grabbing
“investors”. Though the village chairmen have stood their ground and Reference
No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash versus the Attorney
General of the United Republic of Tanzania continues in the EACJ. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders,
even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the
attendance list, which could have been used to claim that they’d agreed to
something. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien there was a
public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and traditional
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February,
Majaliwa came and wasn’t much better than Mongella, but too well-received,
since something worse was expected, because of the crazy anti-Maasai hate
campaign, and parliamentarians calling for tanks to be sent to Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in NCA, <b>not</b> Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be
marked by beacons, so that we may know the boundaries – while claiming that this
is NOT a trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup>
March re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with DW Kiswahili, and on
the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and water projects when
informing parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha,
without people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Placing beacons to mark the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero would be a serious invasion of village land,
contempt of court, and only serves the interests of those who want to rob the
Maasai of this land. Any attempt must be dealt with without delay!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one of OBC’s and
Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993. On 27<sup>th</sup>
April when visiting Arusha, Kinana was dress up in a kind of Maasai outfit. This
is something that the enemies of the Maasai have been doing since forever, but
it appears to have become a trend that’s irresistible to all the worst of the
worst. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> April, the
new minister Pindi Chana visited Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then as mentioned, CCM
councillors that have spoken up against plans of robbing the Maasai of the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero are, after a protest meeting in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup>
March being intimidated, arrested, and summoned to be “interrogated” in Arusha.
Currently the councillors of Arash and Malambo must keep reporting to the
police, and a laigwanani together with the village chairman of Malambo have been summoned to the Loliondo police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The committee has maybe already
handed over their compilation of “community views” on both NCA and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
osero in Loliondo to PM Majaliwa. I do hope - and expect - that they’ve learnt not to dance to
Majaliwa’s tune. In 2017, the results of doing so were catastrophic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk102314965"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
Royal Tour<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President Samia travelled to
the USA for 10 days for the premier of <a href="https://youtu.be/oJWun0gZR4s" target="_blank">The Royal Tour</a>, the “documentary” in
which reporter Peter Greenberg travels a country with the head of state as his
tour guide, and even better -it seems - if this is an authoritarian leader with
no regard for human rights. The researcher Alex Dukalskis in his book <i>Making
the World Safe for Dictatorship</i> describes President Kagame of Rwanda’s use
of The Royal Tour as “authoritarian image management”, recommended by
consultants who specialize in this. Who recommended Samia to do the same? How
was it funded? Who are the Tanzania Forward Foundation? What has been
established is that Tanzania paid for it, allegedly via the private sector, and
that Peter Greenberg has the copyright (since he’s used it against at least one
Youtube account that uploaded it), but that’s not what this blog is about. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 28<sup>th</sup> April, The
Royal Tour was shown in Arusha in an exaggeratedly spruced up venue. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the president in September
2021 was to film the part showing Ngorongoro, there was heavy police
deployment, and nobody was allowed near, while in other areas, like Moshi and
Karatu, Samia addressed the public from atop her vehicle. Three staff members of
the NGO Pastoral Women’s Council, together with the ward councillor and special
sets councillor of Piyaya, and two people who were being given a lift, were
detained until the evening, <b>suspected</b> of having planned to make protest signs
out of a flip chart, and then they had present themselves to the police for further
investigation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During the president’s US
visit some members of the Tanzanian diaspora held a manifestation outside the
Tanzanian embassy to demand constitutional reform. This is safe to do in the
USA, but still they were very few. One of them was the woman who for years, together
with her American husband, was employed by Thomson Safaris as their very
aggressive PR person for their neo-colonial land grab, a participant in the
local police state, in charge of Thomson’s charitable branch and of compromising
councillors. Years after having left Thomson, she appeared in social media as a
moderate fence sitter and friend of the most crazed Magufuli supporters. Then
she got another account and reinvented herself as a freedom fighter, which is a
commendable thing to do. However, she and other participants in the manifestation
were wearing t-shirt against Maasai eviction from Ngorongoro, which is taking hypocrisy
too far, when she’s still excusing Thomson with that there was conflict since Tanzania
Breweries used the land (and then almost two decades later fraudulently got a
right of occupancy that they sold to Thomson), and that they would have wanted
to switch it for another area, as if there were empty land lying around for a “private
nature refuge”. Thomson Safaris worsened the situation a thousand times or
more, and copied OBC’s use of the local police state, with even worse
repression of their critics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai, who in Ngorongoro
are threatened by cultural genocide by Samia´s government, are shown off in The
Royal Tour as a tourist attraction for four minutes. No other tribe or group of
people are shown this interest. The president says that the Maasai are the “newest
arrivals” in Tanzania, migrating from the “Nile valley” in the 1700s. Greenberg
says, “<i>At lower attitude it was fascinating to see this primitive tribes
still holding on to their traditional values. But at higher attitude, a
different perspective, it was fascinating to see how many villages they were”.</i>
“Many” compared to where? Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, or any rural area? The first
sentence is to attract tourists, even if most will cringe at exactly that racist
sounding choice of word, and the second one to attract support for evictions. The
use of the word “primitive” has led to somewhat widespread negative reactions online.
Later Greenberg mentions that “<i>it is not uncommon for a Maasai man to have
18-20 children”</i>. Anyone who’s spent some time online encountering
discussions about any kind of African issue will have encountered non-Africans
whose final argument or response to everything is that “they” have too many children,
so we’re doomed. Greenberg says that the government has tried to turn the
Maasai into farmers or ranchers, but that they have clinged on to their “ancient
ways”. Now they may be forced to change, he adds, without explaining that he’s
making a propaganda film about the person who wants to force them, not to
change, which they have always done, but to extinguish their culture via mass
evictions. President Samia uses the word “genocide” earlier in the film, but then
she’s referring to elephants … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx5-yvKgDS4jCjf4YdVdGkXh6Z_bwFuUg4TX2D7ThhjOFODVLjB1dHMHZBvD53WWHXrNqRra11ZuZWQyf4kDA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 30<sup>th</sup> April,
Greenberg published a <a href="https://petergreenberg.com/2022/04/30/eye-on-travel-tanzania-april-30-2022/" target="_blank">radio interview</a> with President Samia. Greenberg mentions “overtourism”
and asks the president for her definition of “sustainable tourism”. The only
thing she can think of is to <b>try</b> to repeat the anti-Loliondo rhetoric of
the worst of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and investors. Samia
says that we must come up with strategies to protect the whole ecosystem, so
that tourist attractions last for a longer time, and gives the example of
Loliondo that’s bordering Serengeti, claiming that Loliondo is close to the
Mara River (it’s not) and that we can’t allow the river to dry up, since there
will not be the migration and Serengeti will not be the same. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The claim by the Ministry of
Natural Resources and Tourism, that the German ambassador supports the government’s
efforts in Ngorongoro, has still not been publicly denied by any German
representative. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A brightly shining rising defender
of Ngorongoro is lost forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-26093814331135905992022-04-07T20:58:00.004+02:002022-04-08T12:19:58.164+02:00Illegal Arrests Again in Loliondo, German Ambassador Supports the Government’s Efforts, UNESCO Denies Responsibility, Ndumbaro is Removed from the MNRT and His Successor Makes Sure to Look as Bad as Possible in the Shortest Time<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After years
of – like many others - painting a disappointing figure, Methew Siloma,
councillor of Arash (Loliondo division) spoke up, with unexpected bravery,
calling a spade a spade in a way I thought could no longer happen in Loliondo,
and subsequently he was arrested by his own CCM party. Several other local
leaders and NGO people suffer from increased police harassment.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s no
end to the ethnic hate campaign (allegedly funded by the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority) against the Maasai in parts of media (and most of parliament).
PM Majaliwa and – now former - Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism
Ndumbaro have kept appearing in fake spectacles and telling outrageous lies
about NCA and Loliondo in a tempo that’s hard to keep up with. Before being
moved to the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional Affairs - Ndumbaro announced
that he would hold regular meetings with diplomatic missions to “inform” them
about NCA and Loliondo. It looks like the government has full support from the
German ambassador. Meanwhile, UNESCO say that they have never asked for the displacement of the Maasai of Ngorongoro. And it seems like the NCAA has finally
found some real traitors instead of only using actors. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The new minister,
Pindi Chana, was installed on 2<sup>nd</sup> April, met with the German
ambassador on the 5<sup>th</sup>, and made a militaristic visit to Ngorongoro
on the 6<sup>th</sup>. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Again, this
blog post is too long and delayed, since too much is happening, while some
important information is hard to obtain. It should be even longer, with more
detail to avoid misunderstandings, but then nobody would read it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The meeting
in Arash and the CCM arrest/abduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
reminder about the efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">New “article”
by OBC’s “journalist”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The old trick
of public services as a weapon of war in Loliondo and NCA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief summary
of NCA, including latest news<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO
denying responsibility for the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review
proposal and everything else<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ndumbaro
meeting ambassadors and Germany is discreetly anti-Maasai as usual<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support by
Kenyan senator<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bye, bye
Ndumbaro<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNMcAHQmL2fd1-ZAEOlxLqc0049gQhutwzxfIXezRW2NDW7c4pvP5_l-5e1KdpWpF0g-FcIg2MGSGgMTCHvEX0TrPBYbrfS4V7EvwlbH_GI8g9oFpMTNc_MEQJsf7GJxmtZ3_gVACeAHdHeSjxT4LOe25cOVQ_pBjLvboZ-L5rOOht9NELzMFabP9fFQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1440" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNMcAHQmL2fd1-ZAEOlxLqc0049gQhutwzxfIXezRW2NDW7c4pvP5_l-5e1KdpWpF0g-FcIg2MGSGgMTCHvEX0TrPBYbrfS4V7EvwlbH_GI8g9oFpMTNc_MEQJsf7GJxmtZ3_gVACeAHdHeSjxT4LOe25cOVQ_pBjLvboZ-L5rOOht9NELzMFabP9fFQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pindi Chana in Ngorongoro on 6th April</td></tr></tbody></table><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span></span></i></p><a name='more'></a><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo
OBC, that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, have for years
lobbied to have 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land, village land
belonging to the local Maasai, turned into a protected area. A local police
state had, until recently, silenced all local leaders and activists, and still
people from Loliondo are much more silent in the debate than those from NCA.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA, an
8,292 km² multiple land use area, the Maasai live under the purposeful
poverty-inducing rule and restrictions of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Authority, and since 2019 there’s a genocidal eviction plan, that extends to
annexing some surrounding areas, the area under threat in Loliondo included.
Current government efforts focus on “voluntary” relocation and disinformation,
while an ethnic hate campaign rages in media and in parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A question: How
can allies of the Maasai be stopped from mixing up NCA and Loliondo, from
claiming that OBC would have left in 2017, from saying that there were
evictions in Loliondo in 2013, and other misinformation that keep being repeated,
again and again? <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99816849"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
meeting in Arash and the CCM arrest/abduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/03/ndumbaro-tells-dangerous-lies-about.html" target="_blank">previous</a> blog post I
mentioned that despite the protests in January, after the years of panicked
silence and abysmal treason, Loliondo Maasai are still so much more silent than
those in Ngorongoro division, even when both Ndumbaro and Majaliwa have lied in
threatening ways about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land
bordering Serengeti National Park, which OBC that organize hunting for Sheikh
Mohammed of Dubai, for years have lobbied the government to convert into a protected
area. Though on 19<sup>th</sup> March this silence was broken in an impressive
way, which lead to more repression.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 19<sup>th</sup> March, a
huge gathering – some mention 3,000 attendants from 8 wards in Loliondo and
Sale divisions, and others from Ngorongoro divisions – was held in Arash in
Loliondo. The press was conspicuously absent, but some local youths had
prepared themselves to film the event<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The message sent from this
meeting was:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-PM Majaliwa is a liar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Maasai are not renouncing
one square inch of land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-They request to meet with the
president, since Majaliwa can’t be trusted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The fraudster and imposter Isaack
Lekisongo Meijo, an individual from Monduli district, near Arusha town, who
repeatedly and fraudulently has misrepresented the Ngorongoro Maasai was
finally condemned in a traditional way. In October 2021, Lekisongo at President
Samia’s meeting with the public at Sheikh Amri Abeid Memorial Stadium was
presented as the leader of the Tanzanian Maasai, while defending evictions from
Ngorongoro. A <a href="https://youtu.be/uWayMltskJs" target="_blank">press conference</a> was held by traditional leaders from Ngorongoro
to denounce this imposter, and then they held a meeting with him to sort things
out, but after the meeting Lekisongo told the press that the Ngorongoro
laigwanak had come to apologize to him! On 10<sup>th</sup> March 2022,
Lekisongo at a spectacle in Arusha repeated his misrepresentation of Ngorongoro
when PM Majaliwa announced a list of Ngorongoro people, none of whom were still
living in Ngorongoro, that were “volunteering” to relocate to Handeni. Only one
of the attendants to this fake spectacle, which Majaliwa then boasted about in
parliament, was originally from Ngorongoro. The Ngorongoro laigwanak once again
had to hold a press conference to denounce Lekisongo. On 18<sup>th</sup> March,
while celebrating one year of Samia Suluhu Hassan’s presidency and its many
successes, RC Mongella – whose threatening visit in January finally brought
Loliondo people out from where they were hiding, in a delusional style brought
up how he’s working with local people to strengthen conservation in Ngorongoro
and Loliondo. The indispensable imposter Lekisongo was of course present and
dressed up Mongella in a kind of Maasai outfit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVcFpRnE4bg_haVStVX93Iutwt1FUzw3HFs1qP1qDu1Z9CltQtleK6Fbge-ub5Fs1k64Dnn3Z8A137rrC-hw3f6n58jT_0e-9xnGI1QWdirOnYIOjqNTY21d5P_gvaSFNG3fmxrSk8TnDiXdMubG86d-_GLPZ9CbBQQ7QPw7clCMfXuYRRB8xeqp-5QA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="774" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVcFpRnE4bg_haVStVX93Iutwt1FUzw3HFs1qP1qDu1Z9CltQtleK6Fbge-ub5Fs1k64Dnn3Z8A137rrC-hw3f6n58jT_0e-9xnGI1QWdirOnYIOjqNTY21d5P_gvaSFNG3fmxrSk8TnDiXdMubG86d-_GLPZ9CbBQQ7QPw7clCMfXuYRRB8xeqp-5QA" width="248" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This is how a curse was placed
on Lekisongo in Arash on 19<sup>th</sup> March. I’ve asked why this treatment
hasn’t been given to so many other people who have been threatening the land through
the years. Apparently, it has, but without broadcasting. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The councillor of Arash, Methew
Siloma, refreshingly explained that the Maasai were not asking anyone for any
permit to hold this meeting. He said that (regarding both NCA and Loliondo) it had
been decided to form a committee of 25 representatives (the number has grown
since then) to collect the views of the public and take them to the president,
not any minister. He said they didn’t have any faith at all in PM Majaliwa,
since he’s a liar who claims that the Maasai would agree to the alienation of
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero in Loliondo. Further, Siloma made it clear that
the Maasai would not cooperate with any person our authority trying to
demarcate the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> with beacons. Compared to Siloma’s
disappointing time as district chairman when he not only was a coward at a time
when everyone was a coward but set the discouraging mark already in 2017 accepting
German funds that the councillors, after Minister Maghembe had announced that
these funds carried the condition of implementing OBC’s land use plan (which
led to a manifestation by 600 women), had decided not to accept, this was a
very serious and impressive statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Siloma could of course not be
allowed to speak the truth. On 23<sup>rd</sup> March he and the councillor for
Malambo, Joel Clement Reson, who also has been speaking up in an admirable way,
were summoned to the ethics committee at the CCM office in Loliondo. Siloma was
summoned via a letter from CCM signed by the party secretary of Ngorongoro
District, Abubakar Chati. After the interrogation, police entered the CCM
office and arrested Siloma who was abducted and driven all the way to Arusha
accompanied by Security Officer Hassan. In Arusha family and lawyers weren’t
allowed to see Siloma. The Regional Commanding Officer said that it was a
political case, and the councillor was being interrogated outside the police by
TISS (<a name="_Hlk99379926">Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service</a>).
On 25<sup>th</sup> March, Siloma was finally released on bail, without charges,
but he must continue reporting to the police.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTeAy6LC8thb9TGfsS32XGvF6nthS2w2NWIxZ-LeTckzWp7a3HntkYssVgm8qkKvVKp-JFD4BixaEUk2BOUg7FadUjrZQdGNxlNUFOT1pzPj-F8R89f8Fv0qFY3BJrddQRTeKZ25ckZHxSe3F0cynDONczCiQVWRgLLKbYBDvYcDDUJsqjElyvWmGlzQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1179" data-original-width="991" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTeAy6LC8thb9TGfsS32XGvF6nthS2w2NWIxZ-LeTckzWp7a3HntkYssVgm8qkKvVKp-JFD4BixaEUk2BOUg7FadUjrZQdGNxlNUFOT1pzPj-F8R89f8Fv0qFY3BJrddQRTeKZ25ckZHxSe3F0cynDONczCiQVWRgLLKbYBDvYcDDUJsqjElyvWmGlzQ" width="202" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The trap.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Ngorongoro CCM chairman,
Ndirango Laizer, spoke up for Siloma and is now having his citizenship
questioned by Immigration. This is the most classic abuse by the Loliondo
police state. I encountered it before I had even heard about this local police
state (and before becoming a blogger) in 2008 when a friend of Thomson Safaris told
me that their problem was a “Kenyan” Maasai woman (later I got to know that this
referred to a very Tanzanian woman who has been very much harassed). Now even
the very Tanzanian CCM district chairman since 2018 is being harassed, accused
of being “Kenyan”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The victims of this repression
(the CCM leaders) aren’t exactly innocent, but enablers of the system who were
targeted when they finally decided that enough was enough. In the past, the
party has often saved Loliondo leaders, and the land, from the government, but
now they are being arrested by CCM. It may be time to say goodbye to this party
once and for all (but it will hardly happen).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since some time, there are two
local Loliondo NGO representatives, Robert Kamakia and Loserian Maoi, who are
being harassed about a “cybercrime” and are now being summoned to the Arusha
central police station almost daily. In a Loita group they called someone a “sell-out”
and this person confirmed it by running to the police. Maybe I should write a blog
post about all the things I’ve been called.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More disconcerting in Arash on
the 19<sup>th</sup> was the talk by the councillor of Ololosokwan, Moloimet
Saing’eu, who spoke up for the land as if he were an activist since forever.
This individual used to occasionally act as an activist until he in 2015 joined
OBC as their assistant director with the explanation, <i>“If you can’t beat
them, join them</i>”! So, he just spent the years of most silence, and abuse,
comfortably working for the enemy, fully aware of OBC’s long-time lobbying for
land alienation, which had led to so much fear and violence. He just continued
through the illegal mass arson invasion of village land in 2017, and in 2018 –
the year of worst terror, and after the anti-OBC talk by Minister Kigwangalla
was forgotten (at least by the minister himself), he reinforced OBC’s love
relation with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism handing over 15
vehicles on the company’s behalf in April 2018. This blogger was basically the
only person calling a spade a spade when speaking up about the unbelievable
treason, which made me unpopular among Moloimet’s fans, to put it mildly. After
the 2020 “elections” Moloimet became the councillor for Ololosokwan. In 2021 he
left OBC. Some say he was laid off, since they didn’t “trust” him, while others
(closer to him) say that he had to distance himself from OBC to fulfil his
political ambitions. And indeed, also at this meeting Moloimet complained about
how CCM are blocking the election (by councillors) of new district chairperson after
Oleshangay became MP for Ngorongoro. Apparently, being a traitor hasn’t cost Moloimet
anything at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99833187"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
reminder about the efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99833187;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since 1993 (first contract
signed in 1992) Otterlo Business Corporation, that organize hunting for Sheikh
Mohammed of Dubai, has the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo hunting blocks (permit
to hunt), which they got in the Loliondogate scandal covered by Stan Katabalo
in 1993. This area includes two towns, district headquarters, and agricultural
areas, so OBC have lobbied to have it reduced to their core hunting area
bordering Serengeti National Park, and to make it a protected area, which would
signify a huge land loss to the local Maasai, leading to lost lives and
livelihoods. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008, then DC Jowika
Kasunga coerced local leaders into signing a Memorandum of Understanding with
OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing and hunting, but
when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the government to complain,
and village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero was illegally invaded by the
Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass arson, dispersal of
cattle, and abuse of every kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and
some leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a draft district land
use plan that proposed turning the village land that had been invaded into a
protected area. The Maasai were united, and the draft land use plan was
rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, Minister Kagasheki
lied to the world saying that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game
Controlled Area (Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division of Ngorongoro
District) was a protected area and that alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
meant generously giving the remaining land to the Maasai. This ugly trick did
not work, since the Maasai were more serious and united than ever, garnered
support from both the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Pinda
stopped Kagasheki (not that anyone thought that Kagasheki was doing this on his
own, but he did show enthusiasm).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the efforts to buy off
local leaders started creating serious divisions and weakening. Some found it
convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and attacking the
people who they at the same time expected to take risks to defend the land.
Though nobody signed any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors (OBC and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">ThomsonSafaris</a>) had for years used the local police state that through the successive
DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will threaten anyone
who could speak up about them, and engage in defamation and illegal arrests.
The repression and fear of this police state became worse with Magufuli in
office, and there were lengthy illegal arrests, torture, and malicious
prosecution, by 2016 it was so bad that Majaliwa could enter the stage with a
select non-participatory committee, set up by RC Gambo. Some of the members
were local leaders and other representatives that found themselves at the
opposite side of the people when marking “critical areas” under protests in each
village. The proposal handed over to Majaliwa was seen as a victory, even
though it was a sad compromise that had earlier been rejected for many years of
better unity and less fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since the Maasai showed
such weakness, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone
was still waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision, on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017
an illegal mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and
continued, on and off, well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the
ground by Serengeti rangers, assisted by NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA,
TAWA/KDU, local police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally
arrested, and cattle seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others
protested loudly. Minister Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would
have been implemented and the operation was taking place on some protected
land, while the DC, and Maghembe’s own ministry, said it was not about the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa was to announce a decision about that, but
that village land was invaded because people were entering Serengeti National
Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsy6h4ikQxfXqdJa5L4KuNp1HhMbvY-5LFTgwIsfrbYZwDDVEv38UvxOuzhCuB5ZwrgRM2HgcKBlBoCdboB8TgeepA2TTti1SUpavA_cYZU8WikiC2x5HnXTLXKhxI-paWi6B6_rfNAVyKmVIm3Qhz53b8ISa0uk4DKlYtOKSBbi24RBrzwxpPQMPBwg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhsy6h4ikQxfXqdJa5L4KuNp1HhMbvY-5LFTgwIsfrbYZwDDVEv38UvxOuzhCuB5ZwrgRM2HgcKBlBoCdboB8TgeepA2TTti1SUpavA_cYZU8WikiC2x5HnXTLXKhxI-paWi6B6_rfNAVyKmVIm3Qhz53b8ISa0uk4DKlYtOKSBbi24RBrzwxpPQMPBwg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Kigwangalla came into
office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that OBC would
have left Tanzania before 2018, but it was very soon clear that OBC weren’t
going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December 2017, Majaliwa delivered his vague
but terrifying decision that was about creating a “special authority” to manage
the land. He also said that OBC were staying. The decision was celebrated in
the anti-Maasai press (the Jamhuri). Fortunately, implementation has been
delayed, and would of course be contempt of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to a fake account of the
Dubai crown prince), and in April OBC - once again - gifted the Ministry of
Natural Resources of Tourism with 15 vehicles. In March 2018, a military camp
was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually
made permanent with donations from the NCAA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In June 2018, the OCCID and
local police tried to derail the case in the East African Court of Justice
(EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning local
leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for the
applicants' main counsel. On 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018 – a year after the
illegal operation - the court finally issued an injunction restraining the
government from evictions, destruction and harassment of the applicants, but
this injunction was soon brutally violated. In November and December soldiers
from the camp in Olopolun tortured people, seized cattle, and burned bomas in
Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was the lowest point ever in the land rights
struggle and I have still not understood how it could happen without anyone at
all speaking up. Local leaders claimed to fear for their lives and thought that
the brutality was directly ordered by President Magufuli. When RC Gambo in
January 2019 condemned the crimes in a very vague way, they changed to thinking
that OBC’s director had contracted the soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC toned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground, but the local police state wasn’t
dealt with and after a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was out and back to
work, reportedly after plea bargaining. Speculations about Mollel’s misfortune
include his clashes of egos with Kigwangalla and Gambo, and Magufuli wanting to
send a message to OBC’s old friend Abdulrahman Kinana (and to Membe) that
nobody is untouchable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In September 2019, a genocidal
zoning proposal for NCA, which included the proposal to annex most of the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a protected area allowing hunting was
presented. This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal has since been met with
countless protests from every kind of group of people from NCA, but near
silence from Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRy5Gc7lgYRSByoSEAy-EOIJbzqjFn0PXPcFVWjqwUjvpDkyikUg29fTGHA1_a3eEVrVqHIlkO74QjgLvC8LylYTYCraL6KFfd_AJNBM-Z3tHBVG6XAsFU_HK80hLXEnhNFW2D0AZrq8RbdA2vFjsrc_g2D_RxEHfqkxn3MWrrgaGxAOjz6IkD0cP-5g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRy5Gc7lgYRSByoSEAy-EOIJbzqjFn0PXPcFVWjqwUjvpDkyikUg29fTGHA1_a3eEVrVqHIlkO74QjgLvC8LylYTYCraL6KFfd_AJNBM-Z3tHBVG6XAsFU_HK80hLXEnhNFW2D0AZrq8RbdA2vFjsrc_g2D_RxEHfqkxn3MWrrgaGxAOjz6IkD0cP-5g" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021 brought Jumaa Mhina as
new DED and he started working to kill the court cases against land grabbing
“investors”. Though the village chairmen have stood their ground and Reference
No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash versus the Attorney
General of the United Republic of Tanzania continues in the EACJ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages
with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would
make a painful decision for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders,
even those who for years had worked for OBC and against the people, refused to
accompany the RC for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the
attendance list, which could have been used to claim that they’d agreed to
something. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup> January in Oloirien there was a
public protest meeting and a statement by village, ward, and traditional
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxV_iRREOoM63dUyBKTNlpxeMdb8MVRUR1Fb2NgJIhjOAfuloNFFpFfrGH90vofLMu2supbYjSvo8c6VAveSw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 14<sup>th</sup> February, Majaliwa
came and wasn’t much better than Mongella, but too well-received, since
something worse was expected, because of the crazy anti-Maasai hate campaign, and parliamentarians
calling for tanks to be sent to Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in NCA, <b>not</b> Loliondo, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be
marked by beacons, so that we may know the boundaries – while claiming that
this is NOT a trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2qm8BOAmsQomFHfTf9Re2rz6zLcIrOTXJpSRdVKeyGBCngRnkanpENOoCLEtau6znGazZ-dGByZm9ZOODPVpF5OQIke0GBAXsc0aV3xLNWpK4m0892wYFCc984udA7blBllIape505FHLvB3VNy0koM7TP8mz5PsJqpTeuARfZWlxy4GLk_5Tim-fzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="600" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2qm8BOAmsQomFHfTf9Re2rz6zLcIrOTXJpSRdVKeyGBCngRnkanpENOoCLEtau6znGazZ-dGByZm9ZOODPVpF5OQIke0GBAXsc0aV3xLNWpK4m0892wYFCc984udA7blBllIape505FHLvB3VNy0koM7TP8mz5PsJqpTeuARfZWlxy4GLk_5Tim-fzw" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th</sup>
March re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies in an interview with Deutsche Welle
Kiswahili, and on the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again mentioned beacons and
water projects when informing parliamentarians about a fake spectacle that he
had set up in Arusha, without people from Ngorongoro, the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Placing beacons to mark the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero would be a serious invasion of village land, contempt
of court, and only serves the interests of those who want to rob the Maasai of
this land. Any attempt must be dealt with without delay!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 31<sup>st</sup> March
Abdulrahman Kinana was brought in from the cold, after having fallen out with
Magufuli, and is now set to be the Vice-Chairman of CCM mainland. Kinana is one
of OBC’s and Sheikh Mohammed’s best and oldest friends since at least 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yR13xm_FwlY" width="320" youtube-src-id="yR13xm_FwlY"></iframe></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB">Abdulrahman
Kinana and Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai on 24<sup>th</sup> March 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yesterday, 6<sup>th</sup> April
the new minister Pindi Chana visited Loliondo, but I haven’t got any details about this part of the visit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">New “article”
by OBC’s “journalist”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5th April, the frontpage of
the Jamhuri weekly “newspaper” carried the images of several ministers for
natural resources and tourism and poses misleadingly the question about what
had them removed from that Ministry. Tanzanians like to comment on why no minister
lasts long at the head of this ministry, it’s an issue that raises some
interest. Though reading the article, it’s obvious that Manyerere is just urging
the new minister Pindi Chana to destroy the Maasai of Ngorongoro district,
particularly (and unsurprisingly) those in Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgntloJ98VJvMh75hPMFMgbqouwf7yNVHhllk6FOnDQD0A0K1nbHw5OXcpZH4ELCbwF43hmeNgjRc7LTFcIhFlnJ7NMsXBZVNkZdobit4bd0nj0LC4vHlnWkSxOQqUIMK0IgVeLpfgKLmi0DV32ENH_N86FPi3ciD_4LkOl75m3bYO33X-MzCm4AunfFA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="717" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgntloJ98VJvMh75hPMFMgbqouwf7yNVHhllk6FOnDQD0A0K1nbHw5OXcpZH4ELCbwF43hmeNgjRc7LTFcIhFlnJ7NMsXBZVNkZdobit4bd0nj0LC4vHlnWkSxOQqUIMK0IgVeLpfgKLmi0DV32ENH_N86FPi3ciD_4LkOl75m3bYO33X-MzCm4AunfFA" width="191" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The “journalist” is once again
singling out the ministers that came after those most aggressive and
anti-Maasai, as if those would have been more corrupt than others: Maige who
replaced Mwangunga under whom the illegal mass arson operation of 2009 was
committed, Nyalandu who replaced Kagasheki who in an aggressive way was trying
to via vociferous lies have the 1,500 km2 osero, according to OBC’s wishes,
stolen from the Loliondo Maasai, and Kigwangalla who replaced Maghembe under
whom the illegal mass arson operation of 2017 was committed, and who even spoke
up against OBC for a few days until he U-turned. Kigwangalla openly complained
that OBC’s director had tried to bribe him more cheaply than he bribed is
predecessors. Further, Manyerere paints <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c50d8c42-b8e3-11d9-bfeb-00000e2511c8" target="_blank">Khamis Suedi Kagasheki</a> as an
anti-corruption example … innocent of Operation Tokomeza (he even became
internationally popular for calling for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/08/shoot-elephant-poachers-tanzania-ivory" target="_blank">extrajudicial executions</a> before this
blood-soaked operation) and claims that unnamed MPs with cattle in Serengeti
National Park wanted him removed. OBC’s “journalist” complains that PM Pinda
putting stop to Kagasheki’s terrible threats against the Maasai made the
conflict last … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manyerere has told every lie
imaginable, and unimaginable, about Loliondo, and in this “article” he repeats
Kagasheki’s lie that the Loliondo Maasai are landless and that robbing them of
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> means giving them 2,500 km<sup>2</sup>. Besides
reaching the target of 5 million tourists by 2025, the “journalist”, says that
Pindi Chana must deal with “saving” NCA and Loliondo, for which she has the
blessing of President Samia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Manyerere Jackton, in well
over 50 articles has been spewing out unhinged hate rhetoric against the Maasai
of Loliondo, and campaigned for taking the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> away from them.
He has claimed that 70 percent of the Loliondo Maasai would not be Tanzanian,
and published lists of hundreds of private persons that his “sources” consider
to be “Kenyan”. His slandering of those speaking up for land rights, or those
he thinks could speak up for land rights, has been vicious and insane. This
year, the Jamhuri joined Habib Mchange and Maulid Kitenge is their hate
campaign against the Maasai, and Manyerere’s colleague, Balile, introduced
lurid colonial fantasies about Maasai burial practises. Even worse is that I’ve
experienced first-hand how Manyerere likes to boast about being directly
involved in arrests of innocent people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99833240"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
old trick of public services as a weapon of war in Loliondo and NCA</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99833240;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Public services such as water
projects, classrooms, and dispensaries have been used <b>against</b> the land
rights of the Loliondo Maasai. In the form of charitable projects by the
investors that want to alienate and manage land, notably OBC and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>, such projects have always been used as a dirty weapon of war, to be
able to say, “look they accept us and our plans, since they accept our
projects”. It would have been a relief, that as it should be, the government is
doing something, if it weren’t because now the government is using the same
ugly weapon. For non-Tanzanians, I may need to clarify that the word “government”,
and not “state”, is always used, clad in green as the CCM ruling party, and
inspections and inaugurations of development projects are invariably
accompanied by embarrassingly stupid shouting and answering in chorus so that
nobody will miss that its Mama Samia Suluhu Hassan who should be thanked for
the good use of taxpayer or donor money. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At his meeting in NCA on 17<sup>th</sup>
February, as mentioned in several previous blog posts, PM Majaliwa winded up by
talking about Loliondo in a way that he hadn’t done when in Loliondo three days
earlier, ordering the of placing beacons to demarcate the disputed 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
“so that we know what land we are talking about(!)”. He also mentioned water
projects outside this area as solving problems when he very clearly, on the 14<sup>th</sup>,
had been told about this land’s importance for grazing. Unsurprisingly, on 1<sup>st</sup>-2<sup>nd</sup>
March, the Minister for Water and Irrigation, Jumaa Aweso, visited Loliondo to
announce water project, which was filmed in action mode. This was brought up at
the RC’s one-year celebration of President Samia, in which he claimed to be
strengthening conservation in Loliondo and Ngorongoro, and then was dressed up
by the multiple-times condemned and exposed imposter Lekisongo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lately Edward Kohi from TAWIRI
(this case is unsurprising) and Ngorongoro livestock officer Chobi Chubwa (also
not surprising) have <a href="https://youtu.be/s4enorhVc2Q" target="_blank">lent</a> themselves to the campaign to rob the Maasai of the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero. The current reasons listed by the proponents of
this old land grab proposal that would cause massive destruction to lives and
livelihoods are: </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Saving corridors and breeding grounds for wildebeests.
Protecting the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. Biodiversity and saving water sources
for Serengeti. The area’s value for tourism. The areas importance for national
borders. And - public services via the government and investors.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Does this mean that there are
land alienation conditions for public services? Last time I heard about that
was in relation to German funds that Maghembe and Mwakilema (current head of TANAPA) in March 2017 told a
parliamentary committee (<a href="https://www.dailynews.co.tz/news/parks-to-receive-20-billion-for-joint-ecosystem-development-programme.aspx" target="_blank">and very much the press</a>) would only be released on
condition of turning the 1,500 km<sup>2 </sup>into a protected area, which
wasn’t denied by the Germans until two years later by representatives of the
development bank in an <a href="https://medium.com/conservationwatch/kfw-comments-on-its-support-to-the-serengeti-ecosystem-development-and-conservation-project-4c67b01b51bd" target="_blank">interview </a>with Chris Lang. When Kigwangalla in November
2017 revealed that the funds had been accepted despite of a decision by all
councillors to reject them in March the same year (after big protests) then MP
Olenasha said there wasn’t any danger, since the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> would not
be excluded from the development projects, but as far as I’ve been able to find
out, nothing has been done there the past five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It should be remembered that
we are talking about is the same as extending the boundaries of Serengeti
National Park, but allowing hunting (the reason for OBC’s lobbying), which in
land grab lingo is called a “buffer zone” and not a “corridor” or anything else.
If the land were taken away from the Maasai, these people would continue
wanting more “buffer zone”. It should also be remembered that the main breeding
grounds for wildebeest are found further south in Ndutu. The logic behind
evicting people in this area to guard the national border escapes me, but I
suppose the answer would be some paranoia about “Kenyans”, even if this north-south stretching area of Loliondo is a tiny part of the border with their scary republic.
As known, one main point by the current anti-Maasai campaign (and the old Loliondo
police state) is that all protests are caused by “Kenyan” organisations that
want to destroy Ngorongoro to benefit their own tourism industry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Being a government authority,
the NCAA used to weaponize development projects in the same way as unethical
investors do, like when the chairman of the Pastoral Council in 2019, shortly
after having spoken up about the MLUM review proposal, was touring Olbalbal
ward together with NCA chief conservator Manongi, the main promoter of the
genocidal proposal, promising development projects. This makes any person look
compromised. However, since 2021 the NCAA are blocking any construction of
public services. Schools and dispensaries are not getting permits. Classrooms
have been built with COVID-19 funds in Loliondo and Sale divisions, but not in
Ngorongoro. In the short-term plan for “voluntary” relocations to Handeni and Kitwai,
which was leaked in January, it’s said that permission will be sought to use
COVID-19 funds allocated for the development of projects to instead relocate
Ngorongoro Maasai. I still haven’t found out where the funds for the building
of houses in Handeni come from. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Much of the rhetoric about
Handeni concerns public services, when it’s the NCAA itself that’s blocking
those in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Regarding Handeni, Majaliwa has said that
– unlike in Ngorongoro – the Maasai would have electricity in Msomera. Is that
impossible in Ngorongoro? Ndumbaro, when meeting with foreign diplomats on 25<sup>th</sup>
March was saying that in Msomera the Maasai would be given land with title
deeds, which is not possible in Ngorongoro. This is the same minister who
during the anti-Maasai hate session in parliament said that all land in
Tanzania is owned by the president and had to be corrected by the speaker. Ndumbaro
has also gravely lied about the land status in Loliondo, and now he’s Minister
of Legal and Constitutional Affairs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwzvyNdQkRay1bgo51NM_jfYuMEhHLN1ya_ly-pdZJ9BpQSvJKgYvbSXNOzoAVQtZ_EKhKsH4SMSSnGzbazqQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The message from the NCAA and
MNRT is that Msomera is so much better than Ngorongoro for the Maasai, but the
only thing that’s better is that NCAA isn’t there with its restrictions, harassment,
and blocking of public services. Ngorongoro is home, it has a better climate,
and a bigger, less densely populated area. Those moving to Msomera will live
together with villagers they don’t know and who have not been consulted about
getting thousands of new neighbours, and it seems like they aren’t organized
enough to question what’s going on. What could go wrong? It can’t even be said
that NCAA isn’t there, since it’s a NCAA project, led by well-known malicious
liars. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQHRuHlT3YAI8PiW8Lao3qk0QBM4tj-Zho7yXxC6SZ4AMHAhXrw1539MI1z5Hn1ib5MZLSezN6Ahv_xJbZR-wp7HBwLd7mSf34s313A3He77SWr7_PLEFHGPyx8ZdgRbIhbl0moPUT3-5hN5X2WjidJZ5GGaeiqhPYWZFE85OOlowGv29Ui_yrW0lJIQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1024" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQHRuHlT3YAI8PiW8Lao3qk0QBM4tj-Zho7yXxC6SZ4AMHAhXrw1539MI1z5Hn1ib5MZLSezN6Ahv_xJbZR-wp7HBwLd7mSf34s313A3He77SWr7_PLEFHGPyx8ZdgRbIhbl0moPUT3-5hN5X2WjidJZ5GGaeiqhPYWZFE85OOlowGv29Ui_yrW0lJIQ" width="320" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99833290"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Brief
summary of NCA, including latest news</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the Maasai were evicted
from Serengeti in 1959 by the colonial government, losing access to over 14,000
km2, as a compromise deal, they were guaranteed the right to continue occupying
the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a multiple land-use area
administered by the government, in which natural resources would be conserved
primarily for their interest, but with due regard for wildlife. This promise
was not kept, and tourism revenue has turned into the paramount interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai in the 25 villages
in NCA live under restrictions not found in Loliondo, are not allowed to grow
crops, or build permanent houses, have the past years been losing access to one
grazing area after the other, and as a result are suffering from high levels of
child malnutrition, while throughout the years they have been shaken by rumours
and threats of eviction. In 1975 those residing in Ngorongoro Crater were
brutally evicted (the NCA Act was changed in 1974), and in 2017 – by order and
after a visit by Majaliwa in December 2016 - the Maasai lost access to the
three craters (see below).The current threat was announced in September 2019,
when chief conservator Freddy Manongi made public the Multiple Land Use Model
review report’s proposal, which is so destructive that it would lead to the end
of Maasai livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There have been uncountable
protests and delegations against the MLUM review proposal, and several promises
from the government to do the exercise afresh in a “participatory” manner, but
then the same genocidal proposal has been repeated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Shortly after taking office in
March 2021, in a speech on 6<sup>th</sup> April President Samia said that
something had to be done about too many people and livestock, or it was “bye,
bye Ngorongoro”. Little more than a week later, demolition notices were made
public, ordering the demolition within 30 days of over a hundred buildings,
private houses, but also those built by the government, like schools,
dispensaries, and the Endulen police station. Two churches and a mosque were
included. Further, 45 people accused of having returned from Jema to where they
were relocated in 2006, were ordered to leave, and so were 174 families deemed
to be “illegal immigrants”. After big protests these demolition and eviction
notices were withdrawn until further notice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In May 2021, the NCAA
headquarters were abruptly relocated to Karatu. Then, the first days of June,
Manongi and NCAA held a promotional event on parliament grounds in Dodoma, handing
out goodie bags with t-shirts, leaflets, and whatever. On 30<sup>th</sup> June,
deputy minister Mary Masanja flew to Ngorongoro with 35 MPs for domestic
tourism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNVxwKxZhrhG03ZoLAyej98N_qRewbRPs5etZwjaI_NpDEHbeFIMmznUe8rfWwugHh7cOQ19gV3Vu_gYgLVdEroms6r1piMEbd2AgsHcI___kCTvoVFZ8dzVU2pjDmAVezbkLbqUDdSzwezJ5TFdTpBlJBQJg9WbzjeHU7_AM88rySq1PxvllO_SyHPQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNVxwKxZhrhG03ZoLAyej98N_qRewbRPs5etZwjaI_NpDEHbeFIMmznUe8rfWwugHh7cOQ19gV3Vu_gYgLVdEroms6r1piMEbd2AgsHcI___kCTvoVFZ8dzVU2pjDmAVezbkLbqUDdSzwezJ5TFdTpBlJBQJg9WbzjeHU7_AM88rySq1PxvllO_SyHPQ" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> September
2021, the Ministry of Natural Resources and tourism uploaded a <a href="https://youtu.be/OQIhJCNDEWA" target="_blank">video </a>in which
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja complains about having seen livestock, and chief
conservator Manongi says that conservation is a war, that the pastoralists have
many “conspiracies” and sadly are winning, adding that now conservationists
must “start” developing conspiracies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzzSncaHHmn2AiOaY9QYNQ40dv12GwQTboB8NgnBmvUXos5X_F2EqZXtW9ii7hi6F1Deeuk2WoKJxd4I7YEvg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> September,
under heavy police deployment and with several arrests to prevent any kind of
protest, President Samia came to Ngorongoro to film the documentary The Royal
Tour. She has still not met with Ngorongoro people. There is a <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/community_petitions/en/jessica_rosenworcel_chair_of_federal_communication_stop_the_royal_tour_tv_series/?cLRKesb&utm_source=sharetools&utm_medium=copy&utm_campaign=petition-1446324-stop_the_royal_tour_tv_series&utm_term=cLRKesb%2Ben" target="_blank">petition </a>against
this documentary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In August and September 2021,
NCAA rangers assaulted several young herders and killed four sheep with a
vehicle, which led to protests on 23<sup>rd</sup> September, which lasted for
several days. An uprising seemed to be on the way, but then everything was put
on hold when MP Olenasha sadly passed away on 27<sup>th</sup> September. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also in September 2021, the
Germans were having a nice time with deputy minister Masanja and – again -
giving away millions for sustainable natural resource and ecological
sustainability development in the Serengeti ecosystem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZmL1oUyVQ5xm5wd2mV53SS2vqzVhkRZUqAPXStdMOE6zESkZwTqfxvvdd-Y8G1519Oe2UO6j1xLzQgVSY4Qxh7d-EQBf3JV9qz7AksjEYK9dOBM2kgE4NQT00JIl2KK2IpHyXzFxmRtaYvYh-CtEtfidMpU2FhQUsqYCM6r8d7WIadMqB3IloNKuW1w" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="563" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZmL1oUyVQ5xm5wd2mV53SS2vqzVhkRZUqAPXStdMOE6zESkZwTqfxvvdd-Y8G1519Oe2UO6j1xLzQgVSY4Qxh7d-EQBf3JV9qz7AksjEYK9dOBM2kgE4NQT00JIl2KK2IpHyXzFxmRtaYvYh-CtEtfidMpU2FhQUsqYCM6r8d7WIadMqB3IloNKuW1w" width="135" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Stefan
Oswald, Head of the Africa Department at Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development, and Deputy Minister Mary Masanja. Grzimek and
Nyerere were “present”<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> October
President Samia held a speech in Arusha talking about how important Ngorongoro
is for tourism and that “we” can’t continue considering people’s interests
while destroying it. She was accompanied and supported by the imposter
Lekisongo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2022 started with a leaked
plan – apparently written on New Year’s Eve - for “voluntary” evictions from
Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) to be fully prepared to begin in February.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, as mentioned above, on
11<sup>th</sup> January RC Mongella visited Loliondo and issued a land
alienation threat that made even the biggest traitors speak up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Habib Mchange’s Jamvi la
Habari paper, that focuses on fabrications and slander of opposition
politicians, initiated a hate campaign against the Maasai of NCA that spread
all over regular and social media, was joined by crazed sports presenters, Maulid
Kitenge and friends, and later (or from the start?) the old anti-Maasai Jamhuri
paper with Deusdatus Balile and Manyerere Jackton. These “journalists” started
an organization with its sole focus on evicting the Maasai from Ngorongoro and
were treated as serious actors by other media. Though Tanzanians in social media
who had earlier not paid much attention to Ngorongoro saw what was going on,
were appalled, and started speaking up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In parliament on 9<sup>th</sup>
February MPs competed in being wilfully ignorant, hateful, and calling for
evictions from Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, there was much laughter and table
banging, while only three MPs spoke up for the Maasai. Majaliwa said that the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act would be reviewed, but first there was to be a
seminar for the MPs and he would meet with people in Ngorongoro and Loliondo. The
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism uploaded some of the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ3Uymvoolv/" target="_blank">worst </a>clips of
MPs. On 12<sup>th</sup> February a one-sided “seminar” about Ngorongoro was
held for the MPs who continued their hateful and defamatory incitement against
the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On the 13<sup>th</sup> the new
anti-Maasai organisation held a loathsome press conference, adding to their
many crazed and dehumanizing “theories” one saying that there were no graves in
Ngorongoro. The Darmpya online news, are asking questions, like how come the “allowances”
for attending the press conference were so extraordinary heavy, who funded it,
and for what purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicv26ELW75MMm7OJYnvzyiTqrgpKH4E3yhshUUjQ4upKQ_D3JVmEXpEAwbYMi-dTZ8FkRUO_LYbzIWFV3SNrKk3X2MI-4AXy3MVOLaJmbsKhCC_pTW0agUJIf3zamPYaTIFhDueeQj6AJ2_b2vP4acXcq513GEWulrlsi4bknbDuSKHxqw7Ft20qvtxw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="937" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicv26ELW75MMm7OJYnvzyiTqrgpKH4E3yhshUUjQ4upKQ_D3JVmEXpEAwbYMi-dTZ8FkRUO_LYbzIWFV3SNrKk3X2MI-4AXy3MVOLaJmbsKhCC_pTW0agUJIf3zamPYaTIFhDueeQj6AJ2_b2vP4acXcq513GEWulrlsi4bknbDuSKHxqw7Ft20qvtxw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA people many people
stopped sleeping and started praying incessantly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> February
Majaliwa held a brief agenda-driven meeting at the NCA hall, for leaders and
closed to the public. There was confusion and thorough registering of the
attendants. Two journalists were arrested and released later the same day. Those
who were locked out stayed outside the hall singing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> March,
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja, who’s very much involved in the war against the
Maasai, brought a caravan of 600 women in diesel guzzling vehicles to Ngorongoro,
to celebrate tourism, CCM, or supposedly International Women’s Day. Meanwhile
Maasai women climbed Mount Makarot to pray for their land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimO3EF-OYN9ppnic-lUq9yevtFeYLf7QtbruUG-IHzmB-BRYJA5jBwNV_clC57uer1aknO21ufHDfVpNkzZMiOeTLMDSt-nKxDSJA8h1YeQakfUKASwwCCS0b5cdyuutkpZqHfAO9ZlLVPlQwPAeZHZzYlbacGdxlbYfQ4M3pCS_LUW8FyruaAmJgHag" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimO3EF-OYN9ppnic-lUq9yevtFeYLf7QtbruUG-IHzmB-BRYJA5jBwNV_clC57uer1aknO21ufHDfVpNkzZMiOeTLMDSt-nKxDSJA8h1YeQakfUKASwwCCS0b5cdyuutkpZqHfAO9ZlLVPlQwPAeZHZzYlbacGdxlbYfQ4M3pCS_LUW8FyruaAmJgHag" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 10<sup>th</sup> March in
Arusha, Majaliwa held a meeting with Maasai from other areas, without any
connection to Ngorongoro, led by the denounced fraudster Lekisongo. The PM was
handed a list of 86 households or 453 persons “willing” to relocate from
Ngorongoro. All had already left the district years ago and are apparently now
looking for compensation money. The following day the PM boasted about this
meeting in parliament, and on the 12<sup>th</sup> real traditional leaders from
Ngorongoro held a press conference to denounce the fraud, but journalist didn’t
want to cover it after having been advised otherwise by Majaliwa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> March,
Majaliwa made a much-publicised visit to Msomera village in Handeni where
houses are hurriedly being built to relocate Maasai from Ngorongoro, without
consulting them, and apparently without consulting people from Msomera that’s a
legally registered village, with its land use plan. Majaliwa was to visit
Ngorongoro on the 15<sup>th</sup>, but it was postponed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 29<sup>th</sup> March it
was reported that NCAA vehicles with armed rangers were driving around in
Alailelai ward in an intimidating way, and later did the same in Endulen. The
following day the behaviour was reported from Olbalbal, and it has continued in
other areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8c0jKnSaUaaTSvAqnOnTxh-chPuT9CD-fkwwWRa4agmIULk9yByLFkm2rNQPkLF8s6jTiqJc7h5M84ppeQBcN0d0vEs0MYn698UjyYexp-0DCO_rttkUGWsnyYp8cxanlBNtu5yYqXWVLjqg6UlaPqAn7F0ErdLaX5cNBV2pzsIJZKGOmRXGbNgjnGQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="472" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8c0jKnSaUaaTSvAqnOnTxh-chPuT9CD-fkwwWRa4agmIULk9yByLFkm2rNQPkLF8s6jTiqJc7h5M84ppeQBcN0d0vEs0MYn698UjyYexp-0DCO_rttkUGWsnyYp8cxanlBNtu5yYqXWVLjqg6UlaPqAn7F0ErdLaX5cNBV2pzsIJZKGOmRXGbNgjnGQ" width="111" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">NCAA informers are reportedly
moving around trying to convince people to register to be relocated. Most (all
in the first list that was made public) who are doing so have already left and
are now looking for compensation money. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> March
Ndumbaro <a href="http://foreigntanzania.blogspot.com/2022/03/ngorongoro-yaikutanasha-serikali-na.html" target="_blank">met with ambassadors</a> to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and
Loliondo, and on the 31<sup>st</sup> President Samia replaced him with Pinda
Hazara Chana. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 3<sup>rd</sup> April, the
NCAA had found some real traitors to show off, unlike the previous
imposters/actors from other places than Ngorongoro, even if long-gone or
unknown people are still looking for a compensation deal. And they are of
course not traitors for wanting to relocate, but for lending themselves to the
dirty war against their own people, thanking President Samia Suluhu Hassan. I
will return to these people, but their argument for being “thankful” for the
dubious Handeni project is all about the problems that NCAA are causing in
Ngorongoro, and then they lend themselves to NCAA’s propaganda, some to the
latest addition to the false government narrative that in this recent form says
that land rights defenders would be denying people the human right of moving to
Handeni … The <a href="https://www.ippmedia.com/sw/habari/aliyejenga%20nyumba-ya-milioni-300-ngorongoro-akubali-kuhama" target="_blank">worst </a>one, part of the richest NCA 1%, had her 300-million TShs house
on last year’s list for demolition without compensation and was supposed to
demolish at her own expense (the order that was stopped until further notice).
Now she’s registered for compensation, but I doubt she’ll live in Handeni, but rather in the Kwa Iddi area of Arusha.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A committee of representatives
from Ngorongoro are writing a report with community views. This has been
criticized as dancing to Majaliwa’s tune. Even if the main point would be that
the PM is a dangerous liar who should be fired, he will in some way present it
as if people support him. Though at the meeting in Arash, councillor Siloma
said that this report would be taken to the president and not any minister. On
4<sup>th</sup> April, the committee that apparently has grown to about 60
members issued a press statement urging Minister Pindi Chana to start working
on Ngorongoro land disputes by doing the following: <i>“to stop smear campaigns
and vile propaganda against the people of Ngorongoro especially those from the
Maasai ethnic group, secondly to stop all on-going activities and give the
opportunity for member of the society to be heard, third to ban intimidation
and arbitrary arrests of innocent members of the society, community leaders, and
human rights defenders who are working tirelessly to defend the rights of the
society, to stop harassment against independent journalists who are doing a
noble job to inform the public about the situation in Ngorongoro, four, to ban
any malicious utterance against members of the Ngorongoro society branding them
non-Tanzanians, five to order provision of basic services to the people of
Ngorongoro division, six to meet with members of this committee and to start to
collectively strategize on the way forward.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99833344"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO
denying responsibility for the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review
proposal and everything else<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99833344;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> March,
UNESCO issued a statement regarding Ngorongoro saying, <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2419" target="_blank">“<i>UNESCO has never at
any time asked for the displacement of the Maasai people</i>.” </a>This is said by
the main instigator for evictions and worsened living conditions. While there
are other actors operating in the shadows, like tourism industry, other
international organizations, and “Germans”, the Tanzania government has through
the years used UNESCO’s threats of delisting Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a
World Heritage Site, its repeated population panic, and distaste for
agriculture of any kind, or “modern” buildings, as an excuse to worsen the
human rights situation. As late as 15<sup>th</sup> March, Tanzania’s worst
long-term anti-Maasai “newspaper”, the Jamhuri, wrote about how UNESCO support
the government’s eviction plans. Not that this is a credible source in any way,
very much the contrary, but other evidence is overwhelming. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the Multiple Land Use
Model review proposal was presented in September 2019, the UNESCO World
Heritage Centre, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
and International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) had once again
visited Ngorongoro in March the same year and in their <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/documents/174817" target="_blank">report </a>repeated that
they wanted the MLUM review completed to see the results and offer advice,
while again complaining about the visual impact of settlements with “modern”
houses, and so on. They did also recommend the State Party to continue to, <i>“promote
and encourage voluntary resettlement by communities, consistent with the
policies of the Convention and relevant international norms, from withing the
property to outside by 2028”.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
known, unlike recommendations about vehicles, the MNRT loves this kind of
recommendation, and the resulting MLUM review proposal was so destructive that
it would lead to the end of Maasai livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro
District.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MLUM review report
proposes to divide Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core
conservation zone” that is to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA
this includes the Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters
Ngorongoro, Olmoti and Empakaai where grazing these past few years has been
banned through order (residents in Ngorongoro Crater were violently evicted in
1975 after a change in the Act in 1974). This has led to losing 90% of grazing
and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of
natural saltlicks for livestock in these wards. The proposal is to do the same
with Oldupai Gorge, Laitoli footprints, and the Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek
basins. In the rest of Ngorongoro District, the proposal is for NCAA to annex
the Lake Natron basin (including areas of Longido and Monduli districts, like
Selela forest and Engaruka historical site) and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in
Loliondo and Sale Divisions and designate most of these areas to be no-go zones
for pastoralists and livestock. These huge areas include many villages and are
important grazing areas, the loss of which would have disastrous knock-on
effects on lives and livelihoods elsewhere. The annexation of the Osero in
Loliondo caters almost perfectly to the wishes of OBC. Only 18% of NCA would
remain for people and livestock. Is there any sincere person who would dare to
say that this can be achieved through “voluntary” relocations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I should plough through all
UNESCO’s writing about Ngorongoro, and will do so when I get the time, but I’ve
had a look at their decision about Ngorongoro in the 44<sup>th</sup> session of
the “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
World Heritage Committee” from July 2021. Still in this decision UNESCO are
requesting the State Party to provide information about <i>“the status of
agricultural activities in the property”</i> when even the smallest kitchen
garden has been banned since 2009, because of UNESCO’s repeated <i>“deep
concern”</i> which has led to malnourishment. They continue being concerned
with, <i>“challenges resulting from the significant increase in the number of
people residing in the property since its inscription”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO has never expressed any
concern, deep or otherwise, about that the MLUM review proposes a cultural
genocide. When you keep inciting an authoritarian government that values
tourism revenue above human rights, is prone to violence and lawlessness, and
full of pathological liars, to do something about too many people, you’re
complicit to crime, however much you keep mentioning consultations with
stakeholders and rightsholders, and international norms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">UNESCO’s general secretary in
Tanzania, Dr Hamisi M. Malebo, on 28<sup>th</sup> February in a zoom meeting
about developments in the tourism sector with one year of Samia Suluhu Hassan
as president, explained that children in Ngorongoro can’t go to school and mothers
can’t fetch firewood safely for the risk of being snatched by wild animals like
lions, leopards and hyenas (in the <a href="https://youtu.be/lwyz04ar-Nw" target="_blank">original version</a> he mentioned cheetahs as
well ..), so UNESCO’s recommendation to the government is to find the Maasai
other places to live to avoid these challenges. He didn’t say anything about
that NCAA should stop blocking the construction of schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgww2iU224kBYJ9SVWKIstB_MzU6COaauP2ZxsITvNAWsLuEVYc13FGE6RlBHqS1GWiboKxJq_sSiJhdhOI-Cc1wFd_COO2EDcq89OUFQkvq2pLz1SGnBZkhxT5eJ4zca82NL5nWP0EqyaQUQr4znJ8oA3XDN2INKGSpnS_lVErnXc5B5K8lHidF4zpOQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgww2iU224kBYJ9SVWKIstB_MzU6COaauP2ZxsITvNAWsLuEVYc13FGE6RlBHqS1GWiboKxJq_sSiJhdhOI-Cc1wFd_COO2EDcq89OUFQkvq2pLz1SGnBZkhxT5eJ4zca82NL5nWP0EqyaQUQr4znJ8oA3XDN2INKGSpnS_lVErnXc5B5K8lHidF4zpOQ" width="197" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It's good that UNESCO have
been rattled to the extent of writing that statement, or are they just trying
to wash their image because they know that a crime that they support, and even
have instigated, could be committed? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">My recommendation to UNESCO is
to delist Ngorongoro as soon as possible and then shut forever up about Maasai
land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99833381"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ndumbaro
meeting ambassadors and Germany is discreetly anti-Maasai as usual<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 25<sup>th</sup> March in
Dar es Salaam, Minister Ndumbaro met with ambassadors, heads of international
organisations, and development stakeholders to tell them the “truth” about
Ngorongoro and Loliondo. Very little of what he said has been shared <a href="http://foreigntanzania.blogspot.com/2022/03/ngorongoro-yaikutanasha-serikali-na.html" target="_blank">online</a>,
but what’s available is all about the construction of houses in Handeni to where
people will be “voluntarily” moved. Ndumbaro insisted on that it’s against
human rights to prevent anyone from leaving Ngorongoro. Who has prevented
anyone from leaving Ngorongoro? The threat is, obviously, very much the other
way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m worried about what Ndumbaro
could have said about Loliondo, since he has earlier engaged in very dangerous
lies about the status of the land that OBC lobby to have alienated from the
Maasai. It was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CbkBfpeAVef/" target="_blank">reported </a>that the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and International Co-operation, Liberata Mulamula, insisted on how
important it was to give the ambassadors correct information, since there were
fabrications by people inside and outside the country (which is sadly true, but
the fabrications by the government side are both wilder and more dangerous, and
the government’s main worry is about those telling the truth).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Also reported was that the
German ambassador, Regina Hess, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbk6tK0Ag9u/" target="_blank">supported </a>the government's efforts to protect
conservation and the environment in the Ngorongoro area to address the impacts
of climate change. Several people, this blogger included, have since 26<sup>th</sup>
March sought confirmation in social media if it’s true that the ambassador, and
Germany, support the government’s eviction plan, but there still hasn’t been
any kind of reply. Germany does have a long history of working against Maasai
land rights, through Frankfurt Zoological Society, and of staying silent when
Tanzanian government officials claim to have German support against the Maasai,
like in the case of development fund subject to the condition of alienating the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo (see above). The German Embassy doesn’t say
anything, but on 5<sup>th</sup> April, the MNRT published a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb-Ih87A40E/" target="_blank">picture </a>of the new
minister Pindi Chana handing over a gift to Ambassador Hess who was visiting
her office in Dodoma to discuss cooperation to improve the tourism sector.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXXbUW_xI394XxcTfW5WMmi6My6WbKFrm0wGCv4dRaK9OTCeBxQk3uYU-xoMyMKq0Iob8gVPZY8ceGrwCG0hQXsF7ziJ8JvYTTDvLw_TIJUC2gThJmaSCYZH-mZdmKIZu-ynzfjh6m1Iu76gMm0xSXpZIQ-JX2a67d1KxGvsGnV5tJGKqwRUQbe3JkCQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiXXbUW_xI394XxcTfW5WMmi6My6WbKFrm0wGCv4dRaK9OTCeBxQk3uYU-xoMyMKq0Iob8gVPZY8ceGrwCG0hQXsF7ziJ8JvYTTDvLw_TIJUC2gThJmaSCYZH-mZdmKIZu-ynzfjh6m1Iu76gMm0xSXpZIQ-JX2a67d1KxGvsGnV5tJGKqwRUQbe3JkCQ" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8OBdYUHq28sbVy440m-9NHODl_0RIN4-6R7KdJ6d1MKWpH8XbZ49VOYUeMdYHysREiTel6p7Gu9fjO8AQfR4xPEnmwf2rKsXkGgAGv62ubotcR3fQMBXAqxZ447HvkvuTq77mjvIbY7xD_Qp4a1oWbdPsCImaFvqZB88jQbp-aVZT8o1NG_rf6MFYQQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="617" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8OBdYUHq28sbVy440m-9NHODl_0RIN4-6R7KdJ6d1MKWpH8XbZ49VOYUeMdYHysREiTel6p7Gu9fjO8AQfR4xPEnmwf2rKsXkGgAGv62ubotcR3fQMBXAqxZ447HvkvuTq77mjvIbY7xD_Qp4a1oWbdPsCImaFvqZB88jQbp-aVZT8o1NG_rf6MFYQQ" width="193" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I won’t forget the ugly image
of Regina Hess’s predecessor Detlef Wächter on 22</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> August 2017 - while
the illegal invasion of village land in Loliondo was ongoing - smilingly
handing over buildings for park staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti National
Park, to an equally smiling Minister Maghembe, while commenting on the long and
successful partnership between Germany and Tanzania in protecting the
Serengeti.</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFHZ3hDI8h2_O5Bqs2OBNXpJn5wHCwJEXlmSfogAfEpXyNf3rsxYAkoO2v4f0OEmXsXXoIQ7Fs41nV1yJRslQjJdOsIsuEQQN_Bdi9Z8deSIpU8NVJT6ltdYMJF-95F4j-vI88M-kicLzDMQ_boYqf_qEwxuVdIgevU5OK5XTYZ0CewOlUtX31tOcLLw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="595" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFHZ3hDI8h2_O5Bqs2OBNXpJn5wHCwJEXlmSfogAfEpXyNf3rsxYAkoO2v4f0OEmXsXXoIQ7Fs41nV1yJRslQjJdOsIsuEQQN_Bdi9Z8deSIpU8NVJT6ltdYMJF-95F4j-vI88M-kicLzDMQ_boYqf_qEwxuVdIgevU5OK5XTYZ0CewOlUtX31tOcLLw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Germans must be stopped!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99833440"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support
by Kenyan senator<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Kenyan senator Ledama Olekina
of Narok County on 22<sup>rd</sup> March, in senate proceedings warned that if
evicted, Maasai from Loliondo and Ngorongoro are likely to seek refuge in Narok
and Kajiado counties, and that they will be very welcome, but straining the
counties' economy. The senator has also tweeted calling on the government of
Samia Suluhu Hassan to stop any eviction plans, and participated he in a
Twitter Space about Ngorongoro. In 2017 Ledama Olekina, during the illegal mass
arson invasion of village land, took a delegation from Ololosokwan to meet with
the then leader of Kenyan opposition, Raila Odinga, a close friend of President
Magufuli, and Raila phoned his friend, which was followed by, maybe causing,
the replacing of Maghembe with Kigwangalla.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzRsFiOfpN6AkW4dWkTkILEPhb1gr_dIOrCw2uMxb0rfT0pGEZS64YW0D2TlNkKOhUsxfLevTM1pNHwnXjIzA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Someday I must write a blog
post about how incomprehensible cross-border solidarity is to many Tanzanians,
notably government supporters. One sorry anti-Maasai example, with good command
of English, interpreted the senator’s word as “proof” that Ngorongoro was full
of Kenyans. He just couldn’t understand that the senator was talking about
Tanzanians. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk99833477"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bye,
bye Ndumbaro<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The removal of Ndumbaro as
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism is good news. He was a shameless
liar, an anti-pastoralist, and maybe also authentically stupid. However, his
deputy Mary Masanja isn’t any better at all, and she stays. Then, obviously,
the biggest threats are apparent psychopath (non-professional diagnosis) PM
Majaliwa, and President Samia herself. From what I’ve so far heard about Pindi
Chana, she seems to be a CCM careerist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 2<sup>nd</sup> April at the
installation of new ministers, the despicable Majaliwa told Chana, after
talking about tourism and learning from different countries, “<i>We have
conservation work. And you start with Ngorongoro”</i>, and then he <b><a href="https://youtu.be/QVw4_M5UBxw" target="_blank">laughed</a></b>.
The PM said, <i>“It’s going well. We are educating the pastoralist and they understand.
The exercise registering themselves for voluntary relocation is going well.” </i>President
Samia commented on Chana’s diplomatic experience as useful in her new function.
Some interpret this as that she will be better than Ndumbaro at listening to all
sides, while others interpret it as that she will be better at lying to foreign
missions and organisations. The former appear to already have been overrun by
reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned, on 5<sup>th</sup>
April Chana met with the German ambassador. Yesterday, 6<sup>th</sup> April,
there were reports that she would be in Loliondo, and later in the evening the
MNRT quoted her, <i>"I have visited Ngorogoro Conservation Area and
Loliondo to see the great work being done to preserve, protect the wildlife,
develop tourism activities and rehabilitate the infrastructure that the
government has been providing funding for.</i></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I thank the
NCAA leadership for managing so well and I have seen the great work going on.”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She added
that the government will continue to ensure that the Ngorongoro Conservation
Area is protected by all means as one of the most important World Heritage
Sites and the source of government revenue from tourism activities. Then Chana
of course thanked president Samia for The Royal Tour. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aqTKY7rWquU" width="320" youtube-src-id="aqTKY7rWquU"></iframe></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leave Ngorongoro in peace!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at </span></b><a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">sannasus@hotmail.com</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-85304681517952941052022-03-14T18:48:00.007+01:002022-03-15T14:13:10.365+01:00Ndumbaro Tells Dangerous Lies about Loliondo, Majaliwa Holds Fraudulent Spectacle about NCA with the Imposter Lekisongo, and Maasai Land is Attacked in Every Other Way<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After PM
Kassim Majaliwa’s agenda-driven, tricky (his kind of word), and non-listening
visits to Loliondo and Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in mid-February (see
<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/after-loliondo-pm-majaliwa-visits.html" target="_blank">previous </a>blog posts) there have been protest and prayer meetings in both
Loliondo and NCA, statements, further contributions to the anti-Maasai ethnic
hate campaign, very confused media coverage, international solidarity, and the
president selling Tanzania in Dubai. Another issue that urgently should (but won't) be
brought to light, is that the government has used an ill-intentioned law to
kill the case against Thomson Safaris that’s older than this law. </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I may have
written this before, but at calmer times, these developments could all have got
their own blog post. Now, I’m not even keeping up. Then Ndumbaro started
telling full-blown Kagasheki-style lies about Loliondo to Deutsche Welle, and
the following day Majaliwa held a misleading spectacle with traditional leaders
<b>not</b> from Ngorongoro to receive a list of households willing to “voluntarily”
relocate from NCA. I hope I haven't missed anything important and that this blog post will be read depite its length.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Reportedly,
Majaliwa will <b>very soon</b> visit Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Update 15th March: Majaliwa's visit has been postponed. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While the
anti-Maasai hate campaign is speeding and spinning with its more malicious
disinformation, not enough of an effort is made to at least make serious people
and allies keep to facts. Those who don’t know anything make up their own
“facts”, and those who know are too polite to correct them, or worse ... I’ve
almost myself stopped telling writers about their mistakes after publication,
since corrections are never made, and too often misconceptions are kept even
when information is received before publication. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">These are three <b>different</b>, but closely related problems:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo
OBC, that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, have for years
lobbied to have 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land, village land
belonging to the local Maasai, turned into a protected area. A local police
state had, until recently, silenced all local leaders and activists, and still
people from Loliondo are much more silent in the debate than those from NCA.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA, an
8,292 km² multiple land use area, the Maasai live under the purposeful poverty-inducing
rule and restrictions of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, and since
2019 there’s a genocidal eviction plan, that extends to annexing some
surrounding areas, the area under threat in Loliondo included. Current
government efforts focus on “voluntary” relocation and disinformation, while an
ethnic hate campaign rages in media and in the parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo,
but outside the 1,500 km2 area, the American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> claim ownership of
a 12,617 acres private nature refuge and have copied OBC’s use of the local
police state. Sadly, for years it’s been basically impossible to get information
about this land grab. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo
after Majaliwa’s trick<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ndumbaro
lying about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
government’s many tricks to grab the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and Majaliwa keeps tricking<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
anti-Maasai hate campaign does not stop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The president
selling Tanzania in Dubai<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government
kills the Thomson Safaris case in the court of appeal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg78gByPW4XeVMroWfsFfwflShUsYYj5t6NH7-TTlgtMpv2GB64exXsXh_HQc26bSssG6q0Vk9OmWR2tsJElWfSZGC-yHjgRnnwLxTwcrhUqxUUwbFj3D-MPzielzlH3EjYpEFKm9a82WarpQ1JnVV_hYent0jGee0feY8iaBhcjDchX2HnsVY0OBf34Q" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="480" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg78gByPW4XeVMroWfsFfwflShUsYYj5t6NH7-TTlgtMpv2GB64exXsXh_HQc26bSssG6q0Vk9OmWR2tsJElWfSZGC-yHjgRnnwLxTwcrhUqxUUwbFj3D-MPzielzlH3EjYpEFKm9a82WarpQ1JnVV_hYent0jGee0feY8iaBhcjDchX2HnsVY0OBf34Q" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deputy Minister Masanja's caravan of women on 5th March. The MNRT's ideal land use. </td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><span></span></span><p></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk97822787"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loliondo
after Majaliwa’s trick<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97822787;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in earlier blog
posts, in Loliondo on <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/pm-majaliwa-in-loliondo-comparison-with.html" target="_blank">14<sup>th</sup> February</a>, PM Majaliwa didn’t make any
precise announcements about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or about NCA for that
matter, which for many was a relief after the genocidal momentum that had been
built up in an anti-Maasai media campaign and some extremely crazed and
aggressive incitement against the Maasai by a long line of members of the
one-party parliament. Though with his talk about “wider interest of the
nation”, apparent wilful ignorance about the existence of land laws, and
expressed pleasure with not hearing anyone saying, “this is our land”, he was
not any better than RC Mongella whose visit a month earlier had led to loud
protests after years of frightful silence. The public was locked out of the
meeting, but some independent press was there. Sadly, the leaders present did
not speak up about the law, or about the ongoing case in the East African Court
of Justice, and kept talking about how very ready they were to work with the
government. Some attendants addressed other issues, NCA included, by the
message was also very clear from several local leader, that being ready to work
with the government does not mean being ready to be evicted, and the importance
of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> for grazing was explained, not least by MP Emmanuel
Oleshangay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And as mentioned earlier, on
<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/after-loliondo-pm-majaliwa-visits.html" target="_blank">17<sup>th</sup> February</a> in Ngorongoro Division where he was supposed to
address NCA issues, Majaliwa ended by throwing in some alarmingly ignorant
comments about Loliondo. He said that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> (the land that
OBC lobby to have converted into a protected area) is “empty” (there are both
permanent and seasonal bomas). The PM said that, if the problem is water, we
have the minister here, and boreholes can be drilled elsewhere. Just <b>three</b>
days earlier, the Ngorongoro MP had very clearly explained the area’s
importance for <b>grazing</b>. Excising the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> from the 4,000
km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo GCA signifies destruction of lives and livelihoods. The
remaining area has two towns, with district headquarters and hospitals,
agricultural areas, forest, and the horrible American company Thomson Safaris
claiming their own private nature refuge. If anyone has missed it, Majaliwa has
an agenda and won’t listen to anything else. Unsurprisingly, on 1<sup>st</sup>-2<sup>nd</sup>
March, the Minister for Water and Irrigation, Jumaa Aweso, visited Loliondo to
announce water projects. Majaliwa ordered a demarcation exercise of the
disputed 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to be initiated to “know the boundaries”! There
aren’t “boundaries”, since the area is part of the village land and has not
been grabbed! No boundaries are needed, unless there are bad intentions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In a written <a href="https://www.pmo.go.tz/news/wanaotaka-kuhama-ngorongoro-kwa-hiari-wajitokeze-majaliwa" target="_blank">statement </a>from
his office and when presenting his Loliondo and Ngorongoro visits in
parliament, Majaliwa continued with the same threatening and misleading
nonsense. His claim is that the dispute is between local villagers and
conservationists, but since nobody knows the exact boundaries of the disputed
land, at a meeting in Ololosokwan in 2018 there would have been a resolution to
place beacons to demarcate the area. There was no such meeting in 2018.
Further, the written statement says that Majaliwa instructed authorities
concerned with the issue of placing beacons to ensure that they involve the
leaders of the areas at all stages. To make it even more absurd, the statement
says that this isn’t any <i>trick</i> (the word is used in English), that the
government isn’t like that, and that everything is beneficial and done in good
faith! A decades long land rights struggle in which the Loliondo Maasai have
managed to maintain their 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero, despite extremely violent
illegal operations, a local police state that for some years silenced everyone,
and the constant lobbying by OBC, and there isn’t any “trick” involved in
demarcating the threatened land. To me it sounds like a textbook example of the
nastiest trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mzee Kimeriai from Kirtalo
lives in the 1,500 km2, and after Majaliwa’s lies that this land is “empty” he
is begging the government not to finish off his people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyUBxpddLJbMPmlZr2DQ49J04ICqW_7Hywu9hR9_tTttpQ--vk1hRci-lJhNIZSaYZP2a8U8PyfNUoLuHktYg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Following Majaliwa’s threat
there has been several land protection and prayer meetings in Loliondo, even if
not as many as in NCA. In Malambo, 24/7 patrols have reportedly been set up
across the village to report any cars resembling Tanzania Wildlife Authority
(TAWA), Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA), or the Tanzania People’s
Defence Force (JWTZ). On 23</span><sup>rd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> February a meeting was held in
Ololosokwan, organised by traditional leaders, who reported that they had been
hopeful when meeting Majaliwa in Wasso, but terrified after hearing his words
in parliament. This was a prayer meeting attended by some 1,000 people, and strategies of how to protect the land were discussed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjybg63USPIyt_48wSdOPcj0s_TZkQzrlDUrVPGuJg6E7GrCgkDmwxvqr9B2tNP5Mn0BLrLoEN7GrHZfGjVpoi2wPuU97uGc1HR42Y5N8OqVBHM7Y0bl5Vaf9jTJmwBJjpl8Qbr2DteAamvp8sOeOuvuSX4KcwPk8M-V055rRWg33C3NOe-kiJPJUilJA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjybg63USPIyt_48wSdOPcj0s_TZkQzrlDUrVPGuJg6E7GrCgkDmwxvqr9B2tNP5Mn0BLrLoEN7GrHZfGjVpoi2wPuU97uGc1HR42Y5N8OqVBHM7Y0bl5Vaf9jTJmwBJjpl8Qbr2DteAamvp8sOeOuvuSX4KcwPk8M-V055rRWg33C3NOe-kiJPJUilJA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ololosokwan</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day, around 11am
there were reports from people in Soitsambu and Ololosokwan of two army
vehicles full of soldiers moving from Wasso towards Ololosokwan and once in
Ololosokwan in direction towards the osero. An hour later two more army
vehicles travelled the same route. These were the soldiers from the Tanzania
People’s Defence Force that since March 2018 are stationed at Olopolun near
Wasso. During normal routine work that many vehicles aren’t used at the same
time, and reportedly the soldiers were making rude gestures using weapons when
passing people along the way. Most people interpret this as an act of
intimidation, while some say it was normal routine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A statement about land
conflicts in Ngorongoro, Loliondo and Sale, signed by all Ngorongoro
councillors, including the most unlikely, regarding the 1,500 km<sup>2 </sup>mentioned
OBC’s lobbying, land ownership, the ongoing case in the East African of
Justice, Majaliwa’s lie about a meeting in Ololosokwan 2018, and the disquiet
caused by his talk about demarcating the land was addressed. Unfortunately,
this statement was never read, since due to problems with logistics, no
journalists showed up. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reportedly, other statements
are on the way.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today, 14<sup>th</sup> March,
there was a protest and prayer meeting in Malambo in Sale Division, at the
southernmost end of Loliondo GCA where people are under threat of having land
robbed from them for a protected area allowing hunting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxhex84hjSZWtfXtIwlZ5yk4_3pUR-78_-sX-WDQ5Wtz8JXP6Lv9sfeNbAypVV2d2HhkNgXMXyyMmrZil38ag' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Malambo councillor Clement Joel Reson</div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ndumbaro lying
about the 1,500 km2</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 8<sup>th</sup> March, or that’s when the audio clip
was shared, Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Damas Ndumbaro had some
fun lying to Deutsche Welle Kiswahili, or maybe he’s genuinely stupid (some are
convinced that’s the case). His lies were in response to the global web movement
Avaaz that’s returned to petitioning about Loliondo (now mixing it with NCA),
and are loved by everyone in Ngorongoro, while this blogger has more mixed
feelings. Avaaz started their petition in 2012, which was bewildering to all
local leaders, as there hadn’t been any threat from the government since OBC’s land
use plan was rejected, and their first petition text was frankly misleading,
talking about “the Serengeti sell-off” when it was about Loliondo (some
signatories believed the threat to be the opposite of what it really was). In
2013, when Kagasheki tried to rob the Maasai of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, Avaaz
were both helpful, and misleading. Even when they had all facts, they insisted on
writing everything in their own insincere style. What they did in 2014 is so
horrible that I just don’t want to write about it again. Then Avaaz didn’t say
one word during the years of worst terror and violence. This could be because
their contacts in Loliondo didn’t alert them, but others certainly did. Maybe Avaaz
this time are doing the best with the information they’ve been given, and new people
are involved. Though it would be good to arm allies with all facts … It’s what
I’ve been working on for over a decade with not that much to show for it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the Deutsche Welle interview
Ndumbaro seems to have been told that only “first peoples” can have “ancestral”
land and enjoys saying that the Maasai came from Sudan. This is what most
Maasai seem to have reacted to – maybe because those from Loliondo are still
quite silent - advising Ndumbaro who’s Mgoni to return to South Africa, but we
already knew that Ndumbaro has a personal hatred against the Maasai, and
against pastoralism. Then the minister moved on to saying that nobody owns land
in Tanzania and that everyone can be moved, citing infrastructure projects, but
this is a case of foreigners practicing a hobby, and Ndumbaro has still not
learnt that there are land laws, even if he this time wasn’t saying that the president
owns all land, which was what he said when parliament had its first anti-Maasai
day. The minister says it isn’t true that there’s hunting in NCA, in which he
has a point. Though the petition was originally about Loliondo, and the NCA
MLUM review proposal includes annexing areas with hunting, which would require changes
to the NCA Act. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The by far most dangerous lies
are when Ndumbaro mentions Loliondo. He’s back to Kagasheki’s shameless, and
frankly twisted, lie that the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game Controlled
Area (Loliondo division plus part of Sale division) would be a protected area
that has been “invaded”, which previously would have been allowed, but not
anymore, says the minister, ignoring the simple fact that it’s legally
registered village land. This means that he considers the district headquarters
and the DC’s office to be “invaders”. PM Pinda put a stop to this lie on 23<sup>rd</sup>
September 2013 … The lie is based on that in Wildlife Conservation Act 2009 (that
came into operation in 2010) Game Controlled Areas are protected areas, and they
are not allowed to overlap with village land. <b>Therefore</b>, OBC funded the
draft district land use plan that proposed turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
into this new kind of GCA, which was rejected by the district council in 2011,
since it would have led to very serious destruction of lives and livelihoods. For
further horror, Ndumbaro pretends that nobody is living in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>!
Whose houses have then been razed in several illegal invasions of village land?
Ndumbaro has a feeling that it’s foreign countries with an interest in Loliondo
and Ngorongoro that are misleading the public … I wonder if anyone has told
this unbelievably ignorant minister that there’s an ongoing case in the East
African Court of Justice to stop the governments efforts to rob the Maasai of
the land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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government’s many tricks to grab the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since tricky PM Kassim Majaliwa
says that the government doesn’t engage in tricking Tanzanians there are a few
nasty tricks to remind about, and this is also to remind Loliondo leaders about
the circumstances in which you’re most likely to be tricked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2008 local leaders were
tricked, or coerced, by then DC Jowika Kasunga to sign a Memorandum of
Understanding with OBC. There were supposed to be talks to coordinate grazing
and hunting, but when the 2009 drought turned catastrophic, OBC went to the
government to complain, and village land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero was
illegally invaded by the Field Force Unit working with OBC’s rangers, with mass
arson, dispersal of cattle, and abuse of every kind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai moved back, and some
leaders reconciled with OBC that went on to funding a tricky draft district
land use plan that proposed turning the land that had been invaded into a
protected area. The Maasai were united and weren’t tricked. The draft land use
plan was rejected by Ngorongoro District Council. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government and the
investor had another dirty trick up their sleeve. In 2013, Minister Kagasheki
lied to the world saying that the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo Game
Controlled Area (Loliondo Division and part of Sale Division of Ngorongoro
District) was a protected area and that alienating the important 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
meant generously giving the remaining land to the Maasai. This trick did not
work, since the Maasai were more serious and united than ever, garnered support
from both the opposition CHADEMA and from CCM, and then PM Pinda stopped
Kagasheki (not that anyone thought that Kagasheki was doing this on his own,
but he did show enthusiasm).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then the many tricks to buy
off local leaders started creating serious divisions and weakening. Some found
it convenient to benefit from openly praising the “investors” and attacking the
people who they at the same time expected to take risks to defend the land.
Though nobody was tricked enough to sign any MoU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The investors OBC (and Thomson
Safaris) had for many used the tricks of the local police state that through
the successive DCs, security committee, and most every government employee will
threaten anyone who could speak up about them, and engage in defamation and
illegal arrests. The repression and fear of this police state became worse with
Magufuli in office, and by 2016 it was so bad that Majaliwa could enter the
stage with his trick of a select non-participatory committee, set up by RC
Gambo. Some of the members were local leaders and other representatives that
found themselves at the opposite side of the people when marking “critical
areas” under protests in each village. The tricky proposal handed over to
Majaliwa was seen as a victory, even though it was a sad comprise that had
earlier been rejected for many years of better unity and less fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAIMymPfD6sgvsoGuC8GbtIQPRdQnuphz6FAQivs3QJ2q51eQBfGW2t2hl30KrOrLwST4v76HbeSaGEHi8f_v-UTJaAFXb9yIO4iMl50VqoKijGRxquRKDMq9dg00TRS_y0oYYfCTP6EZfbknrAHnI-sA-xGUQtlMV2sCWoem1bGF8PEHNVM9vfQZhSw=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAIMymPfD6sgvsoGuC8GbtIQPRdQnuphz6FAQivs3QJ2q51eQBfGW2t2hl30KrOrLwST4v76HbeSaGEHi8f_v-UTJaAFXb9yIO4iMl50VqoKijGRxquRKDMq9dg00TRS_y0oYYfCTP6EZfbknrAHnI-sA-xGUQtlMV2sCWoem1bGF8PEHNVM9vfQZhSw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Maybe since tricking was so
easy, the government went on with the unthinkable and while everyone was still
waiting to hear Majaliwa’s decision on 13<sup>th</sup> August 2017 an illegal
mass arson operation, like the one in 2009, was initiated and continued, on and
off well into October. Hundreds of bomas were razed to the ground by Serengeti
rangers, assisted by NCA rangers and those from OBC, NCA, TAWA/KDU, local
police and others. People were beaten and raped, illegally arrested, and cattle
seized. Some leaders were frightfully silent while others protested. Minister
Maghembe pretended that OBC’s land use plan would have been implemented and the
operation was taking place on some protected land, while the DC, and Maghembe’s
own ministry, said it was not about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, since Majaliwa
was to announce a decision, but that village land was invaded because people
were entering Serengeti National Park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgldXWG2iakg5mlWcVFCawKUGXcPed3ftYkvbu6uJOEaxc70CkWdf_7N6aXSbWOHt5O5GUVvWqXmrJl5zL-5sB_U6bvTcdFsAvLvc7AWn9xt2WxHwrTSPSGbGjudb_GNaqy9QXoG7feMGStOHN2_y8MBZpMg_C37TQ3ONG0y07j8U6OlYV7lQy2vaHzrQ=s1032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgldXWG2iakg5mlWcVFCawKUGXcPed3ftYkvbu6uJOEaxc70CkWdf_7N6aXSbWOHt5O5GUVvWqXmrJl5zL-5sB_U6bvTcdFsAvLvc7AWn9xt2WxHwrTSPSGbGjudb_GNaqy9QXoG7feMGStOHN2_y8MBZpMg_C37TQ3ONG0y07j8U6OlYV7lQy2vaHzrQ=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oloosek, Ololosokwan, 13th August 2017</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation wasn’t
stopped until late October 2017, a couple of weeks after Kigwangalla came into
office. The new minister also made grand promises, like saying that OBC would
have left Tanzania before 2018. I don’t know if this was a trick, but it was
very soon clear that OBC weren’t going anywhere. On 6<sup>th</sup> December
2017, Majaliwa delivered his vague but terrifying decision that was about
creating a “special authority” to manage the land. He also said that OBC were
staying. The decision was celebrated in the anti-Maasai press (the Jamhuri).
Fortunately, implementation has been delayed, and would of course be contempt
of court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In March 2018, Kigwangalla
welcomed OBC’s hunters to Tanzania (directing himself to a fake account of the
Dubai crown prince) and in April OBC - once again - gifted the Ministry of
Natural Resources of Tourism with 15 vehicles. In March 2018, a military camp
was set up in Lopolun, near Wasso in Loliondo, first temporary, but eventually
made permanent with donations from the NCAA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhft2qb9WNgQGHVxGjb-vSrFohrcc7n7mA64yKAmrB5Y9NgO0W2umdpIoMOd04egEw2lSn4aHNxjjJEiJw61HEK2noWhvjcPBjKOVB8whnjapGWCvIc_OObXRrivuqxkSaxIeRGKN7B1bfuLHRwUbbK3Q4REeISbXp1UtbyK5-TvwyhKtQ5_ZZ04kM5Tw=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhft2qb9WNgQGHVxGjb-vSrFohrcc7n7mA64yKAmrB5Y9NgO0W2umdpIoMOd04egEw2lSn4aHNxjjJEiJw61HEK2noWhvjcPBjKOVB8whnjapGWCvIc_OObXRrivuqxkSaxIeRGKN7B1bfuLHRwUbbK3Q4REeISbXp1UtbyK5-TvwyhKtQ5_ZZ04kM5Tw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Next trick was done by the OCCID
and local police that tried to derail the case in the East African Court of
Justice (EACJ) – filed during the illegal operation in 2017 - by summoning
local leaders and villagers. Nobody dared to speak up about this, except for
the applicants' main counsel. On 25<sup>th</sup> September 2018 the court
finally issued an injunction restraining the government from evictions,
destruction and harassment of the applicants, but this injunction was soon
brutally violated, as a “trick” by soldiers that in November and December tortured
people, seized cattle, and burned bomas in Kirtalo and Ololosokwan. This was
the lowest point ever in the land rights struggle and I have still not
understood how it could happen without anyone at all speaking up. Local leaders
claimed to fear for their lives and thought that the brutality was directly ordered by
president Magufuli. When RC Gambo in January 2019 condemned the crimes in a very
vague way, they changed to thinking that OBC’s director had contracted the
soldiers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There were finally some
promising developments in 2019 when OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested
on economic sabotage charges and OBC tuned down (they never left and Mollel was
never fired) their activities on the ground, but the local police state wasn’t
dealt with and after a lengthy stay in remand prison Mollel was out and back to
work, reportedly after plea bargaining. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then in September 2019, followed
the terrible trick of a genocidal zoning proposal for NCA, which included the
proposal to annex most of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> and turn it into a protected
area allowing hunting … This Multiple Land Use Model review proposal has since
been met with innumerable protests from every kind of group of people from NCA,
but near silence from Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPbwjsfW26LYfQskgnuY9kbvUxmnojcnSwxABIL3tAc0n4KAqoqFGL3S23JZlG3KV35WeBd_a4UQ20lQBsFhdo6CP3LpaeSsMMgWFEr-kiBZgAhK2ORuB2GVSDa3w04pZUWS2KdlMemVoyFZLCfiEw-lXQ-hSrr_iV8NebjLKFXX10y16-CN--nN9qbg=s843" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPbwjsfW26LYfQskgnuY9kbvUxmnojcnSwxABIL3tAc0n4KAqoqFGL3S23JZlG3KV35WeBd_a4UQ20lQBsFhdo6CP3LpaeSsMMgWFEr-kiBZgAhK2ORuB2GVSDa3w04pZUWS2KdlMemVoyFZLCfiEw-lXQ-hSrr_iV8NebjLKFXX10y16-CN--nN9qbg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The worst trick of all were
the stolen elections of 2020, in which Salula Ngorisiolo was killed when police
and NCAA rangers opened fire at Oloirobi polling station in Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2021, besides the big relief
of 17<sup>th</sup> March, brought the trickster Jumaa Mhina as new DED using
every trick to kill the court cases against land grabbing “investors”. Though
the village chairmen have stood their ground and Reference No. 10 of 2017,
Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash versus the Attorney General of the
United Republic of Tanzania continues in the EACJ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, a new trick was brought by Arusha RC John Mongella who summoned village
and ward leaders from villages with land in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> to inform
them that the government would make a painful decision for the broader interest
of the nation. The leaders weren’t tricked, not even those who for years had
worked for OBC and against the people. They refused to accompany the RC for a
tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the attendance list, which could
have been used to claim that they’d agreed to something. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup>
January in Oloirien there was a public protest meeting and a statement by
village, ward, and traditional leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxNRuRtemDRQ-5qnihexxEtP1On-XKbLaix3oi9Zg3bkStFwjG6wd1irGbwQzs8YmxCN9285CvBkfj90lKIzw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oloirien 14th January 2022</div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then tricky Majaliwa came and
wasn’t much better than Mongella, but too well-received, since something worse
was expected. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Three days later, on 17<sup>th</sup>
February in Ngorongoro, Majaliwa ordered the disputed land to be marked by
beacons, so that we may know the boundaries – while claiming that this is NOT a
trick!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then Ndumbaro on 8<sup>th </sup>March
re-introduced Kagasheki’s lies, and on the 11<sup>th</sup> Majaliwa again
mentioned beacons and water projects when informing parliamentarians about a
fake spectacle that he had set up in Arusha, without people from Ngorongoro,
the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Placing beacons to mark the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> osero would be a serious invasion of village land and only
serves the interests of those who want to rob the Maasai of this land. It must
be dealt with urgently! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk97822867"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area after Majaliwa’s trick<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97822867;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA there were big prayer
meetings before, during and after Majaliwa’s visit. There are reports of such
meetings most every day. Just as in Loliondo, the public was locked out of
Majaliwa’s meeting in NCA on 17<sup>th</sup> February (which I wrote about in
the <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/after-loliondo-pm-majaliwa-visits.html" target="_blank">previous </a>blog post), but with the difference that two journalists were
arrested, and those locked out kept singing outside the NCA hall. Majaliwa kept
to his agenda of “too many” people and livestock and would not listen to
anything else. The far too polite attendants followed the agenda of
“conservation”, but their contributions, including reports about missing <a href="https://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/2022/03/baadhi-ya-wakazi-hifadhi-ya-ngorongoro.html" target="_blank">rhinos</a> and suspected culprits (briefly mentioned in my previous blog post), weren’t
reported, since due to the arrests there weren’t any independent journalists
present. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What Majaliwa later communicated
in the <a href="https://www.pmo.go.tz/news/wanaotaka-kuhama-ngorongoro-kwa-hiari-wajitokeze-majaliwa" target="_blank">written statement</a> from his office and in parliament was only that those willing
to “voluntarily” relocate from Ngorongoro should not be hindered, but helped,
and that they should register at the offices of the DC. The terror is in the
context, in the years of restrictions imposed by the NCAA on growing crops or
building modern houses, in the loss of grazing areas and saltlicks, and in the current ethnic hate campaign in media and in parliament, and in how Majaliwa
refers in a neutral, or positive way, to these MPs who laugh approvingly when
their peers suggest sending in tanks against the Maasai and fabricate one
dehumanizing story after the other. And the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model (MLUM)
review proposal, that was presented by Chief Conservator Manongi in September
2019 has still not been thrown into the rubbish bin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MLUM review report’s
proposal is so destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai livelihoods
and culture in Ngorongoro District. When it was presented, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and International
Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) had once again visited Ngorongoro and
in their report repeated that they wanted the MLUM review completed to see the
results and offer advice, while again complaining about the visual impact of
settlements with “modern” houses, and so on. Recommendations and concerns from
UNESCO has in the past repeatedly led to a worsened human rights situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the Maasai were evicted
from Serengeti in 1959 by the colonial government, losing access to over 14,000
km2, as a compromise deal, they were guaranteed the right to continue occupying
the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a multiple land-use area
administered by the government, in which natural resources would be conserved
primarily for their interest, but with due regard for wildlife. This promise
was not kept, and tourism revenue has turned into the paramount interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MLUM review report proposes to divide
Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core conservation zone” that is
to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA this includes the
Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters Ngorongoro, Olmoti and
Empakaai where grazing these past few years has been banned through order (residents in Ngorongoro Crater were violently evicted in 1975). This
has led to losing 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro,
Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these
wards. The proposal is to do the same with Oldupai Gorge, Laitoli footprints,
and the Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek basins. In the rest of Ngorongoro District,
the proposal is for NCAA to annex the Lake Natron basin (including areas of
Longido and Monduli districts, like Selela forest and Engaruka historical site)
and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo and Sale Divisions and designate most
of these areas to be no-go zones for pastoralists and livestock. These huge
areas include many villages and are important grazing areas, the loss of which
would have disastrous knock-on effects on lives and livelihoods elsewhere. The
annexation of the Osero in Loliondo caters almost perfectly to the wishes of
OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A list of 52 heads of households
willing to voluntarily relocate from Ngorongoro was released a few days after
Majaliwa’s visit. Some of those were deceased while others had moved away from
Ngorongoro over a decade ago. Only two of those on the list were actual
residents of Ngorongoro.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">People have for decades been
tortured by the NCAA, so that they will leave “voluntarily”, and in December
2021 the researcher Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel translated this to academic
language about how people are made <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486211052860" target="_blank">relocatable and land grabbable</a> through long
processes of marginalisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The village chairmen from the
25 villages of Ngorongoro Division held a press conference on 22<sup>nd</sup><span style="color: red;"> </span>February to set the record straight about PM
Majaliwa’s visit. The village chairs reminded of that Majaliwa only for an hour
listened to leaders, not the public, and that journalists and local experts
were not allowed in. They explained that they are ready, have always been
ready, to discuss challenges with conservation and tourism, like the number of
people and livestock, but not least the disorderly growth of hotels damaging
the environment, of traffic congestion in the crater, of invasive weeds
(significant increase since the Maasai were blocked from accessing the crater).
What they are not ready to discuss is evictions. They are not going anywhere. Their
message to the world is that they don’t need tourism that robs them of their
land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EjWkjtNIc78" width="320" youtube-src-id="EjWkjtNIc78"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> March,
Deputy Minister Mary Masanja, who’s very much involved in the war against the
Maasai, brought a caravan of 600 women in diesel guzzling vehicles to
Ngorongoro. This was supposed to be in celebration of International Women’s
Day, but celebrated tourism, domestic tourism, and not least the CCM government.
Almost all these women were overweight, which was a striking contrast to the (due
to purposeful ill-intentioned restrictions by the NCAA) often malnourished
Maasai women. The ministry and the NCAA uploaded video clips of these women
squirting champagne and – like foreign tourists at other times (the return of which
is celebrated) - overcrowding the Ngoitokitok picnic site in Ngorongoro crater,
an image that was much celebrated. This wastefulness and destructiveness were
obviously the image that the anti-Maasai ministry want to show the world, and
it’s been much shared by them. Meanwhile, the Maasai climbed Mount Makarot to
pray for their land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 10</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> March in
Arusha, Majaliwa held a meeting with Maasai traditional leaders – </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">not</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> from
Ngorongoro – in which he was handed a list of 86 households or 453 persons “willing”
to relocate from Ngorongoro. Not only when speaking, but also in the written
message from his office the PM said that the government had set aside 400,000
km</span><sup>2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> in Handeni. It was the first thing many people saw, but
newspapers just copied it, and everything else about the Handeni plans, unquestioningly.
The total area of Tanzania is 945,087 km². Present, and speaking for evictions
from NCA, was of course the imposter Lekisongo from Monduli who in October 2021 falsely
was presented as the leader of all Maasai traditional leaders at a public meeting
with President Samia. At that time, Ngorongoro representatives were forced to
hold a press conference to denounce this individual – which I suppose made him irresistible
to tricky Majaliwa. Among the numerous attendants, the only person from
Ngorongoro was an allaeged NCAA informer from Alailelai who’s one of the two persons on
the first list that’s been made public who actually is a Ngorongoro resident,
but it has later been revealed that he left Ngorongoro over five years ago. The
rest of the attendants were from Arusha town and Monduli. This kind of fraudulent
spectacle may seem too strange to be true, but remember that Majaliwa when
Magufuli hadn’t been seen since 27</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> February 2021, at prayer in the
main mosque in Njombe town on 12</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> March, assured Tanzanians that
the president was in good health and working hard, with loads of files on his
desk. On 17</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> March 2021, Magufuli was officially declared dead.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizVLzrOj9JtlrdRwRaD0es_YWuPoXeISw1pUIFh2OULhqgx5g3q3JLUZT_SQ5Wc8VPD1UGg6t5ijjthFyoHUX2m9DTHixl6zTte66GC_UTF05NMQxDv49O5kaXZyBMsMUcGQTcWpqW-nUFQhxvMnd7ml_gIYzuoyQIGUCV-5a7Vp-2Iz0vJQEduCaUGA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1397" data-original-width="2048" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizVLzrOj9JtlrdRwRaD0es_YWuPoXeISw1pUIFh2OULhqgx5g3q3JLUZT_SQ5Wc8VPD1UGg6t5ijjthFyoHUX2m9DTHixl6zTte66GC_UTF05NMQxDv49O5kaXZyBMsMUcGQTcWpqW-nUFQhxvMnd7ml_gIYzuoyQIGUCV-5a7Vp-2Iz0vJQEduCaUGA" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fraudster Lekisongo on the right</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day in
<a href="https://youtu.be/1ddDEdB9iOw" target="_blank">parliament</a>, when talking about his meeting with Maasai traditional leaders … Majaliwa
said that he had a slip of tongue and that it was acres and not square
kilometres. He did not explain what he slipped on to meet with Maasai from
Arusha and Monduli, including a well-known fraudster, to talk about Ngorongoro.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> March, the
chairman of the laigwanak of Ngorongoro, <a href="https://youtu.be/yTvlcYghQN0" target="_blank">Metui ole Shaudo</a>, told Watetezi tv
that he and his peers had not been invited to, or informed about, the PMs
meeting in Arusha, and that they do in no way agree with what was said by
Lekisongo, who keeps pretending that he can represent them. The councillor for
Malambo and laigwanani, <a href="https://youtu.be/4WSBuWocbl4" target="_blank">Clement Joel Reson</a>, said that in Sale division the
traditional leaders had been waiting in vain for the PM to visit, and then they
see how he shows up in Arusha to discuss Ngorongoro with people not from
Ngorongoro. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 12<sup>th</sup> March, the
Ngorongoro laigwanak, traditional leaders, held a press conference to denounce
Majaliwa’s spectacle. The message was that they will sue Lekisongo in a court
of law for repeatedly and fraudulently claiming to represent them while speaking
in favour of the government’s relocation plans. They also denounced Ndumbaro’s talk
that they would be from Sudan. The laigwanak declared that no ward, village, or
traditional leaders had been involved in any Handeni plans. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>All journalists were unable to cover this press conference due to restrictions from Majaliwa!</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzKGk2846u1hfjMgvOi7g0lJmab7wxzaHQqm037iVpo4Ajr717jK7q7z1bnx4exnVGySYuAnUtY86otLEl5qg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxzuI9l1Laxc_aQYou6KeNtry8ZCkrlSxCkHBOPzDzYssPqohJ6wDnSzZB7wk6jGNqWS2MoIoniRJmsfnOH3A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> March,
Majaliwa visted Msomera village in Handeni where houses are being built to
relocate Maasai from Ngorongoro. It would be interesting to know if it’s the COVID-19
funds mentioned in the leaked document from January that are being used.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now it’s said that Majaliwa
will <b>very</b> soon visit Ngorongoro. I’ll write a new blog post about that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #800180; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Update 15th March: Majaliwa's visit has been postponed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The anti-Maasai
hate campaign does not stop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in earlier blog
posts, this year has seen a vicious anti-Maasai hate campaign conducted by
Habib Mchange of the Jamvi la Habari below-gutter tabloid, known for fabrications
and slander of opposition politicians, and for starting numerous “organisations”
to quote himself as their representative. Another member is the sports
presenter, turned frontpage reviewer, Maulid Kitenge, who shortly after having
joined the hate campaign was in Ngorongoro on a first time visit with his
colleague Oscar Oscar in a NCAA vehicle. Anything Kitenge sees: a cow, an
elephant, a modern building, or his own shadow will make him scream like a pig
in heat that the Maasai must be evicted from NCA. The main “arguments” of
this hate movement is that the Maasai are too many, that their livestock are
owned by “rich people from elsewhere” fabricating some baseless anti-Kenyan
paranoia, that they are living like animals, being eaten by predators, and that
there aren’t any graves in NCA! Other members are the editor of the old
anti-Maasai newspaper, the Jamhuri, Deusdatus Balile who added some lurid colonial
fantasies about Maasai burial practices to a well-funded <a href="https://youtu.be/gnqo4pyhX5w" target="_blank">press conference</a> by
this group. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Balile’s colleague in the
Jamhuri, Manyerere Jackton, in well over 50 articles has been spewing out
unhinged hate rhetoric against the Maasai of Loliondo, and campaigned for
taking the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> away from them. He has claimed that 70 percent
of the Loliondo Maasai would not be Tanzanian, and published lists of hundreds
of private persons that his “sources” consider to be “Kenyan”. His slandering
of those speaking up for land rights, or those he thinks could speak up for
land rights, has been vicious and insane. Even worse is that I’ve experienced
first-hand how he likes to boast about being directly involved in arrests of
innocent people. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Most shameful is how other
media - including Deutsche Welle Kiswahili – have treated this anti-Maasai hate
group and their organisation “MECIRA” as some kind of legitimate conservation
actors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Though <b>one</b> news outlet,
Darmpya online news, are asking questions, like how come the “allowances” for
attending the press conference were so extraordinary heavy, who funded it, and
for what purpose. There are also many Tanzanians online who have spoken up
against the hate campaign. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Further, Kitenge has shared a
photo of himself visiting PM Majaliwa …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-7nGpS686d8xN5oFiKqkAqkXqwywG0EEB4jb-wfavChp9tgY3v8GVIgF48olWs68dZBZq32ZPmayplkW_s_Q6eYP-nT6c4mmyAlh-bj0jxNmh94ZSa_frjJj_tr9-vpYEBBmt_qoCKA521Xjne1UT7trlvODRTwFeu9CvKlQC6vbjSf6wZIXB_r6DQw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="833" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-7nGpS686d8xN5oFiKqkAqkXqwywG0EEB4jb-wfavChp9tgY3v8GVIgF48olWs68dZBZq32ZPmayplkW_s_Q6eYP-nT6c4mmyAlh-bj0jxNmh94ZSa_frjJj_tr9-vpYEBBmt_qoCKA521Xjne1UT7trlvODRTwFeu9CvKlQC6vbjSf6wZIXB_r6DQw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kitenge visiting Majaliwa. Birds of feather ...</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Even worse was of course the
spectacle in parliament on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bungetz1/videos/549692425992173" target="_blank"> 9</a></span><sup><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bungetz1/videos/549692425992173" target="_blank">th</a></sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bungetz1/videos/549692425992173" target="_blank"> February</a> when the atmosphere was such
that the crazier hateful lies a parliamentarian spewed out against the Maasai,
the more laughter and table banging there was, and the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism to their Instagram page uploaded clips of the most
hateful MPs, in case anyone thought they are just deranged individuals who
happen to be members of parliament. Only three parliamentarians, all Maasai,
spoke up against this hate feast that was followed by a one-sided “seminar” to
educate the MP, in which to same behaviour just went on.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lately, a briefer version of a
clip uploaded by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism in September has
again been shared online. I wrote about this clip at the time, in which Deputy
Minister Mary Masanja, on a visit to NCAA complains about having seen livestock,
and chief conservator Manongi says that conservation is a war that they aren’t
fighting for their own interest, but for the nation. He says that the
pastoralists have many “conspiracies” and that they sadly are winning, adding
that now conservationists must “start” developing conspiracies. As if he hadn’t
already in the restrictions and abuse of the Ngorongoro Maasai, and in his “workshops
for editors and senior reporters”. Basically, everyone from Ngorongoro is
convinced that Manongi is behind the current hate propaganda. Remember that the
clip isn’t even any leaked secret plan, but something used to show off, or get
sympathy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 22</span><sup>nd</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> February a
new article was published by the old anti-Loliondo “journalist”, Manyerere
Jackton, who after over 50 articles full of defamation and fabrications, toned
down his campaign for OBC when the director, Isaack Mollel, spent some time in
remand prison for “economic sabotage”. This time without mentioning names,
except for mine, he attacks those who work against Majaliwa’s plans to “save”
Ngorongoro and Loliondo, and parrots what he was told in one of Manongi’s
workshops. In the past, this individual has described me as an international
spy who gets billions of money from those who’ve sent me to destroy the Serengeti
ecosystem, among other deranged fabrications. In this latest article Manyerere claims
that in Loliondo Majaliwa reprimanded people who spread hate propaganda,
including one foreign national who has been deported twice, and who in social
media tarnishes Tanzania and her own critics. I haven’t been able to get hold
of anyone else who heard this, but the “journalist” knows that the PM was
referring to me, and he even spells my name correctly. Though instead of
linking to my blog, he can’t abstain from the baseless fabrication of describing
me as an important fundraiser for Loliondo NGOs, when the truth is that I’ve never
fundraised one shilling for the NGOs, and totally lack any skill for making
people give away money. It’s how this “journalist” works. He lies all the time,
even about unimportant issues. Though so much worse than this is how he has sent
me triumphant one-liner emails when innocent people are about to get arrested
in the Loliondo police state. I hope to some day meet Manyerere Jackton in a
court of law about this.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">President selling
Tanzania in Dubai<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">At the end of February,
President Samia attended the Dubai Expo 2020 and signed a <a href="https://theexchange.africa/industry-and-trade/tanzania-president-samia-36-mous-dubai-expo-2020/" target="_blank">US$7.49 billion</a>
business partnership deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here’s photo of her and OBC’s
hunter, the UAE Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
al Maktoum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE7qq356vSz2h7p4YJYoXCfCZ-UMtzs-SGDZ_8NOVIu1n_nIHRjb33fWSjYCpZqUBLcWFDVPLYg1layQyx5DowQJNQ1oDO36iPWBTSik9xk8VqbWk8JfY6f4kfb82b_MRDoNZnMPIqLvlAk8zbkUJOcAPoBWbtAfKLGEnRW6s5gqof-cjbulzS8UMJDA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE7qq356vSz2h7p4YJYoXCfCZ-UMtzs-SGDZ_8NOVIu1n_nIHRjb33fWSjYCpZqUBLcWFDVPLYg1layQyx5DowQJNQ1oDO36iPWBTSik9xk8VqbWk8JfY6f4kfb82b_MRDoNZnMPIqLvlAk8zbkUJOcAPoBWbtAfKLGEnRW6s5gqof-cjbulzS8UMJDA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s a lot more to report about
this, but I’m already afraid that nobody will read this blog post.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk97822965"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Government
kills the Thomson Safaris case in the court of appeal<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97822965;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The government is moving
forward all over the district in its efforts to hand over Maasai land to
“investors”, or what’s in their terminology is called, “the broader interest of
the nation”. The American <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>, owned by Rick Thomson and Judi Wineland
claim their own private Enashiva Nature Refuge in the villages of Sukenya and
Mondorosi, or Soitsambu before the sub-division of villages. They base this
claim on having bought the right of occupancy from Tanzania Breweries that
cultivated a small part of it in the 1980s and then, using forged documents, got
a 99-year right of occupancy in 2003, selling it to Thomson in 2006. The right
of occupancy was for 10,000 acres that somehow was turned into 12,617 acres (51
km<sup>2</sup>) before selling it to Thomson. Though most of all this land grab
is based on the Loliondo police state and Thomson’s way of learning and
perfecting OBC’s strategies of how to use it for divide and rule, violence,
threats and defamation via the DC, security committee, and government officials.
Besides the local Maasai, several journalists have experienced how this local
police state work for Thomson, and so have I. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, at the height of
unity and seriousness in Loliondo, Land Case 26 of 2013 was filed: Mondorosi
Village Council, Sukenya Village Council and Soitsambu Village Council versus
Tanzania Breweries Ltd, Tanzania Conservation Ltd (Thomson Safaris), Ngorongoro
District Council, the Commissioner for Lands, and the Attorney General. An
earlier case had been dismissed on a technicality. In 2015 the High Court in
Arusha, ruled against the Maasai on all points except a minor one concerning
TBL adding 2,617 acres. Since then, this case has continued in the court of
appeal. To my sadness and frustration, since 2016 it has been basically
impossible to get any updates from the ground. The local police state worsened considerably,
and even more so to silence those speaking up about Thomson Safaris that also
affect a smaller area than OBC. Occasionally I hear from people who talk about
harassment of herders, without explaining well, and then they go offline for
years, literally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in earlier posts,
in 2021 the new DED Mhina started working hard to make the village chairmen
withdraw the cases against OBC and against Thomson Safaris. He almost succeeded
with the heavily compromised chairmen of the villages that have sued Thomson Safaris
who declared that they would sign the DED’s letter of withdrawal, but then they
changed their mind, and such a letter never reached the court.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This year, late-January, out
of court negotiations failed. Thomson Safaris and the government only wanted to
discuss the 2,617 acres, and then only pointing out borderline areas, so the
case continued until 18<sup>th</sup> February when the Solicitor representing
the Attorney General who was in the case one of the respondents stood before
the Court and claimed to have been representing both parties (the appellants
and the respondents) and as such, the government (the respondent) has no
interest in the Appeal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same prayer was brought to
the East Africa Court of Justice in Application no 15 of 2017 (arising from Reference
No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien, and Arash versus the Attorney
General of the United Republic of Tanzania) and was overruled. Unlike the East
African Court, the Court of Appeal of Tanzania without affording the appellants
the right to be heard, dismissed the appeal <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This was based on legislation
introduced under Magufuli to do away with all separation of power, so that
local governments can’t sue the central government, but it should not be
possible to use this on a case filed before the law came into operation. Still,
the court ruled that there wasn’t a case, and the lawyers to the villages
weren’t even added to the records. Now a new case must be filed. The ruthless
hypocrites must be forced to move their very private nature refuge to Boston,
USA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFvs1tgZRbhc_ntzS7LvOa8jH5pJyVUl0JZTAbM61aAyPtGEE3_vwyBPbhLw8qlSkUABxSDempd6YvAAH0-Tey6a2f2c4Kd7nEDUhnMknQc05YiQvjErySi7MxeNV9T2Y53LSlAynhoOUoaXOSJU28pk9H1CwvisvwKxUqvCB5qN6iMdmqEPhd8UrVEA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="553" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFvs1tgZRbhc_ntzS7LvOa8jH5pJyVUl0JZTAbM61aAyPtGEE3_vwyBPbhLw8qlSkUABxSDempd6YvAAH0-Tey6a2f2c4Kd7nEDUhnMknQc05YiQvjErySi7MxeNV9T2Y53LSlAynhoOUoaXOSJU28pk9H1CwvisvwKxUqvCB5qN6iMdmqEPhd8UrVEA" width="157" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There’s too much to write
about, I have probably missed something important, and everyone’s too busy. I hope it’s because those who want to rob the Maasai of their land will soon be stopped …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-78956970949203636972022-02-19T20:47:00.003+01:002022-02-24T23:22:45.814+01:00After Loliondo, PM Majaliwa Visits Ngorongoro Conservation Area and There he Makes a Lawless Statement about Loliondo, Ordering Beacons to be Erected in Contempt of Court<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Just when I
had scrambled through a night to finish a blog post about Loliondo before
Majaliwa’s visit to Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), to manage to treat the
Loliondo and NCA issues separately, the PM makes a terrifying statement about Loliondo
- when in NCA! It has become necessary to keep the issues separate after increased
national and international interest has led to a flood of mixed-up articles. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Loliondo OBC,
that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, have for years lobbied to have 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of important grazing land, village land belonging
to the local Maasai, turned into a protected area.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In NCA, an 8,292
km² multiple land use area, the Maasai live under the poverty-inducing rule and
restrictions of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority, and since 2019
there’s a genocidal eviction plan, that extends to annexing some surrounding
areas, the area under threat in Loliondo included.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For further
confusion Loliondo is one of the three divisions of Ngorongoro district, while
NCA is the same as Ngorongoro division of the district. The 4,000 km<sup>2</sup>
Loliondo Game Controlled Area, that delineates the hunting block, is the whole
of Loliondo division, plus part of Sale. This isn’t <b>that</b> hard to
understand. If you google Loliondo, you may find articles about the neighbouring
Longido district, since Tanzanian journalists very often mix up Loliondo and
Longido, but even when geographically correct, almost all articles will be confused
in some way, even the most serious ones. When this blog is confused, I say so.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Majaliwa in
NCA issuing illegal orders about Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC and the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Points of
what has happened so far this year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">About NCA in
the PM’s meeting in NCA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiN_ipLgNRzxbWMEWFlhogQhCbaN1KuYofMa3qex-Z65nV9B2BBPac2WfjcOfytU3-Ep8d9JuLbNylWa3gZY6Q3okEMvH06JMYskubOYL8G4oyHk296zul0PSsUU2dTc_6HJHa8a44oD8rBaqQwRYv9hrDOKDRzK7GjYGyEtZJ843OCBfLox3U-c2Es_A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="600" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiN_ipLgNRzxbWMEWFlhogQhCbaN1KuYofMa3qex-Z65nV9B2BBPac2WfjcOfytU3-Ep8d9JuLbNylWa3gZY6Q3okEMvH06JMYskubOYL8G4oyHk296zul0PSsUU2dTc_6HJHa8a44oD8rBaqQwRYv9hrDOKDRzK7GjYGyEtZJ843OCBfLox3U-c2Es_A" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Majaliwa in
NCA issuing illegal orders about Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/pm-majaliwa-in-loliondo-comparison-with.html" target="_blank">visiting Loliondo</a> on 14<sup>th</sup>
February, PM Majaliwa came to Ngorongoro Conservation Area on the 17<sup>th</sup>.
Just like in Loliondo the public was locked out of the meeting, but the reactions
to this were stronger with people gathering to sing outside. Also, online there
were much more reaction from Ngorongoro youths than from their Loliondo counterparts
that have been silenced by a special kind of local police state, even if, after
years of silence, there were <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-arusha-rc-sends-message-that.html" target="_blank">protests </a>in Loliondo in January. Two journalists (of
course not those from the anti-Maasai organisation) were arrested and later
released. In Loliondo some independent journalists were allowed. Just as in
Loliondo, the attendants who were allowed in could not have their phones with
them. An explanation from leaders to why they went along with excluding the
public has now been shared, and it was because the hate rhetoric in parliament would
have focused on presenting the Maasai as “violent”, but that was only a small
part of the many obvious and hateful lies that were told in the national
assembly. Local leaders should have learnt that there’s nothing more dangerous
than being meek and dancing to Majaliwa’s tune.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In Ngorongoro Majaliwa made ignorant
and lawless statements about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero in Loliondo, of a
kind that he had not made when in Loliondo three days earlier. Some people said
that at the end of the meeting, the PM declared that beacons were to be erected
to demarcate the boundaries of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> area, and the following
morning it was more than confirmed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Majaliwa again showed that he doesn’t
know, remember, or care about what has happened, or what anyone has said. He
just wants to push forward his (OBC’s) agenda. He said that the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
is “empty” (there are both permanent and seasonal bomas) so what’s the problem,
he wondered, if it’s water we have the minister here, and boreholes can be drilled
elsewhere, he added. Just three days earlier, the Ngorongoro MP had very
clearly explained the area’s importance for grazing. Excising the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
from the 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> Loliondo GCA signifies destruction of lives and
livelihoods. The remaining area has two towns, with district headquarter and
hospitals, agricultural areas, forest, and the horrible American company <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a> claiming their own private nature refuge. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An official<a href="https://www.pmo.go.tz/news/wanaotaka-kuhama-ngorongoro-kwa-hiari-wajitokeze-majaliwa" target="_blank"> written statement</a> from
the PM’s office says that Majaliwa’s words were. <i>"The controversy is
between the local residents and the conservationists, but no one really knows
where the area starts and ends. These are the 2018 resolutions reached at a
meeting in Ololosokwan. It is best to place permanent markers to make it easier
to identify the area; it should be known what size the 1,500 square kilometres is
and which area it concerns”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"Nothing
is to be done as a trick that affects any Tanzanian, there is no such
government. Everything that is said to you is beneficial, and it is done in
good faith.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“In addition,
the Prime Minister instructed all authorities concerned with the issue of placing
beacons to ensure that they involve the leaders of the areas at all stages.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reason that the area isn’t
demarcated is that it – contrary to OBC’s wishes – has <b>not</b> been grabbed
from the local Maasai, and there’s an ongoing case in the East African Court of
Justice. There also wasn’t any such meeting in Ololosokwan in 2018. Majaliwa’s
disastrous activities to “solve the conflict” via a select committee took place
in 2016-2017.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that we are dealing
with someone who, when Magufuli hadn’t been seen since 27<sup>th</sup> February
2021, at prayer in the main mosque in Njombe town on 12<sup>th</sup> March, assured
Tanzanians that the president was in good health and working hard, with loads
of files on his desk. On 17<sup>th</sup> March 2021, Magufuli was officially
declared dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4Pt0C37wseOtWjWvKqhtQSpeoAeTDy1yNML0oKwzqGP8JO5BGmLuhk_YQTWOKIBydDQOsXcCoXS7SR0G31iIhQavPndT_M0Q6Zg5ZJrPzfmLCNVdWuxCfTD5hEQ7x_FmvpzxFFlCdrdyg6r6MTgveyHjf49GotY2e5OCc6q5CuNSDtari8Pi50Tn1ZA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4Pt0C37wseOtWjWvKqhtQSpeoAeTDy1yNML0oKwzqGP8JO5BGmLuhk_YQTWOKIBydDQOsXcCoXS7SR0G31iIhQavPndT_M0Q6Zg5ZJrPzfmLCNVdWuxCfTD5hEQ7x_FmvpzxFFlCdrdyg6r6MTgveyHjf49GotY2e5OCc6q5CuNSDtari8Pi50Tn1ZA" width="267" /></a></span></b></div><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The following day in
<a href="https://youtu.be/4jrIQqn2gYc" target="_blank">parliament</a>, Majaliwa repeated the same ignorance and land alienation plan for the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero. The PM initiated by saying that the contributions in
the recent parliamentary discussion about Ngorongoro had shown the importance of
managing the area in a sustainable way for the broader interest of the nation.
For crying out loud, a large segment of Tanzanians witnessed the behaviour of
those MPs, and saw that what’s needed is an urgent genocide prevention task
force! Other than demarcating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, the only plan mentioned
was not to hinder, but to help, those who “voluntarily” seek to relocate from
NCA. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">PM Majaliwa is lawless,
boundaryless, and very dangerous. He must be stopped!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC and the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Otterlo Business Corporation
(OBC) that since the early 1990s has the hunting block (permit to hunt) in
Loliondo and organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai has for years
lobbied to have their 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> core hunting area turned into a
protected area. Around OBC (and the American Thomson Safaris) a local police
state has developed, in which basically every government official, and
particularly the security committee and always the consecutive DCs (currently
the DED has taken this place) openly, shamelessly, and with astonishing
lawlessness work for the investors, threatening, defaming and arresting anyone
suspected of being able to speak up. This has led to several illegal invasions
of village land with mass arson, multiple human rights crimes, fear, treason,
and almost complete silence these past years when repression has worsened in
the whole of Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGOer83mXV8XLz_dJYuKwx497S6UGUQndJRkLA7ccLljwrpQy-FZdkJIgm-EY7Wwy8gOW49hsIUpEOYyBivRPRSUWcCZ3QgpPDq2POVNTChH0nE3nQiH_NTq2VEWKFL1nkE2ObiTNgXWNfj75YXlfTmluJLuW8HnJGTmE7rEhbBOzUELO2AksWelP6wA" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGOer83mXV8XLz_dJYuKwx497S6UGUQndJRkLA7ccLljwrpQy-FZdkJIgm-EY7Wwy8gOW49hsIUpEOYyBivRPRSUWcCZ3QgpPDq2POVNTChH0nE3nQiH_NTq2VEWKFL1nkE2ObiTNgXWNfj75YXlfTmluJLuW8HnJGTmE7rEhbBOzUELO2AksWelP6wA" width="192" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sheikh Muhammed at Oloipiri Primary School in 2018</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC have been lobbying to
convert the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, which is an important grazing area, and
legally registered village land, into a “protected area”. In 2008-2009 then DC
Jowika Kasunga pressured the local villages to enter a MoU with OBC. During the
drought in 2009, an illegal mass-arson operation on village land was ordered by
the DC’s office. Hundreds of bomas were burned to the ground, cattle were
seized and scattered into drought areas, and all kinds of violent crime was
committed by the Field Force Unit and OBC’s rangers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Some local leaders, but far
from all, reconciled with OBC that then went on to fund a draft District Land
Use Plan that proposed turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a protected area.
This plan was rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, Khamis Kagasheki,
then Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, made vociferous statements shamelessly
lying that alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> meant gifting land to the
Maasai. At that time of not-again-seen unity and seriousness in Loliondo, the
Maasai garnered the support of both the CHADEMA opposition party and the ruling
CCM, and Kagasheki’s threats were finally stopped by PM Pinda. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, under Lazaro Nyalandu (minister
who replaced Kagasheki), divide and rule, and efforts to buy off local leaders
worsened, which was followed by increased repression and multiple lengthy
illegal arrests in 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">By 2016, local leaders were
much weakened, and PM Majaliwa set out to “solve the conflict”, via a
non-participatory select committee set up by then RC Mrisho Gambo, while Minister
Jumanne Maghembe was just as enthusiastic about OBC’s land use plan as
Kagasheki had been. When Gambo’s select committee, which, besides conservationists,
“investors” and such, also contained some local leaders and NGOs, toured the
area under threat to mark “critical areas”, at every place they were met with
protests. Finally, when the select committee reached a sad compromise proposal in
the form of WWA (which had previously been fought off successfully) local
leaders saw it as a victory. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing was supposed to happen
while everyone was waiting for Majaliwa’s decision, but on 13<sup>th</sup>
August 2017, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area rangers, assisted by
OBC rangers, KDU/TAWA anti-poaching squads, local police, and others set fire
to five bomas in Oloosek, on village land and far from the national park. The
rangers said they had orders to remove livestock, housing and people from the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> that OBC, Minister Maghembe, and others wanted to alienate
from the villages. Leaders claimed to have been caught by surprise, and that
they had only heard about an operation to remove people and livestock from
Serengeti National Park. The DC was saying that the reason was that people and
cattle were entering the national park “too easily” but that it wasn’t about
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> since PM Majaliwa was to make a decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8NzY4fayy7fl1FAbCiyn7IHN4byOd5wgD8dLpX7rET7IczB6NvmwgxgIfntytUIFInrOEYZAcOgTDiP0_3L6yec0NKv8bWV0IJoI6SKZq_Ni7CFFoQVcojuZaPy9Y4rC7MUYC8PG_C07sPIcZEk6VogK1gEjhEvcWiMuq7UaD-UmM7rSG4aJ63svlag=s1032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8NzY4fayy7fl1FAbCiyn7IHN4byOd5wgD8dLpX7rET7IczB6NvmwgxgIfntytUIFInrOEYZAcOgTDiP0_3L6yec0NKv8bWV0IJoI6SKZq_Ni7CFFoQVcojuZaPy9Y4rC7MUYC8PG_C07sPIcZEk6VogK1gEjhEvcWiMuq7UaD-UmM7rSG4aJ63svlag=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation would go
on for over two months and hundreds of bomas were razed from Ololosokwan to
Piyaya 90 km further south – most intensely between 13<sup>th</sup> and 26<sup>th</sup>
August, but with scattered arson attacks well into October - there were
beatings, illegal seizing of cattle, and herders were illegally arrested.
Village centres became congested with people and animals. Those returning after
the arson were brutally beaten by the rangers who also destroyed makeshift
shelters and blocked access to water sources. Women were raped by the rangers.
The last day of the illegal operation some rangers shot 80 cows in Arash. There
was terror and panic everywhere, and painful disappointment with the inaction
of some leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation, with its
many human rights crimes, wasn’t stopped until Hamisi Kigwangalla was made new
minister in late October, and for a short time was saying that OBC would be
chased away, until he U-turned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> December
2017, Majaliwa finally delivered his long-awaited decision about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
and the decision was a big and terrifying disappointment. The PM hadn’t chosen
between a WMA or a GCA 2009 but decided “something else”. Many people had been
present, but nobody seemed to have understood very well, since Majaliwa first
had said many nice and promising words. The only thing that everyone had heard
clearly was that OBC would stay. A brief press statement the following day made
things somewhat, but not much, clearer. The PM had ordered the MNRT to prepare
a legal bill with the aim of forming a “special authority” to manage Loliondo
Game Controlled Area, to protect the ecosystem of Serengeti National Park,
while benefitting all sides, and this was to be rushed through to be included
in the 2018/2019 budget. Councillors and village chairs from Loliondo issued a
concerned, but not strong enough statement, while in the Jamhuri newspaper, OBC’s
“journalist” Manyerere Jackton celebrated Majaliwa’s decision. (See the
<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/pm-majaliwa-in-loliondo-comparison-with.html" target="_blank">previous blog pos</a>t for a somewhat more detailed description of Majaliwa’s intervention).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, in 2018, OBC, as had
been done before, made substantial vehicle gifts to the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A military camp was set up in
Loliondo in 2018, and fear worsened to the point that no local leaders dared to
speak up against an intimidation drive to derail the case in the East African
Court of Justice that had been filed during the 2017 operation. On 25<sup>th</sup>
September the court issued interim orders restraining the government from evicting
the residents, destroying their homesteads, or confiscating their livestock on the
disputed land until the main case is determined. Then, at the lowest point
ever, nobody even spoke up when the soldiers from the national army started
torturing people and in November and December 2018 razed bomas in Kirtalo and
Ololosokwan, without any kind of official order, an in violation of court orders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a small relief when
OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested in 2019, but the Loliondo police
state wasn’t dealt with and hardly even Mollel’s personal economic crimes.
Theories on why this happened mention Mollel’s clashes with Kigwangalla and
Gambo, or that it could be a message to Abdulrahim Kinana (who since the early
1990s had been close to OBC) that nobody is safe. After a prolonged stay in
remand prison, he was released without any court ruling, allegedly after plea
bargaining. While Mollel was still locked up, in September 2019 a genocidal
plan for NCA was presented and it included proposals for surrounding areas,
such as fulfilling what OBC had been lobbying for. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With the so-called elections
in 2020, Salula Ngorisiolo was killed at Oloirobi polling station when NCAA
rangers and police open fire at unarmed voters who were protesting election
fraud, and OBC ended up with at least three of their employees as councillors. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2021, the new DED Jumaa
Mhina started acting as a DC, pressuring the chairmen of the four villages with
a case in the East African Court of Justice to withdraw this case. The chairmen
are resisting, and the case continues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC John Mongella reignited the threat against the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>.
Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages with land in the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would make a painful decision
for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders refused to accompany the RC
for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the attendance list, which
could have been used to claim that they’d agreed to something. On 13<sup>th</sup>-14<sup>th</sup>
January there was a protest meeting and a statement in Oloirien. All leaders,
including those who’ve been fearfully silent for years, and even the traitors
who to some extreme extent have been working for OBC and against the people, signed
the statement against the RC’s threat and against OBC, while the popular
protest was even clearer. The only thing that was slightly off with the leaders’
statement was a strange reference to the sad proposal that had been handed to
Majaliwa in 2017, as if it had been something positive. It would have been
better to just forget it. Then another stop order (there is already one) was
applied for in the East Africa Court of Justice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwrrDSoWLMwAdQCNi_ezBaDeS4Nl0LbNG0hQPs_sLUudIKr8joorC_upN24q-QrG78hqAk3g0Tojg0cD7FE-Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then on 14<sup>th</sup> February
2022, PM Majaliwa visited Loliondo with some ignorant talk about the wider interest
of the nation, and on the 17<sup>th</sup> in NCA he orders beacons to be erected
to demarcate the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>! The following day he repeated the same
in parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It should be remembered that,
as reported in the previous blog post, the PM does not believe in land laws. I’d
say that he’s totally lawless and boundaryless. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Points of
what has happened so far this year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-This year started with a
leaked plan for “voluntary” evictions from Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA)
to be fully prepared to begin in February.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Then on 11<sup>th</sup>
January RC Mongella visited Loliondo and issued a land alienation threat that
made even the biggest traitors speak up. The following day there were protest
meetings and a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-A couple of international organisations
issued statements in support of the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-The Jamvi la Habari paper initiated a hate
campaign against the Maasai of NCA that spread all over regular and social
media, was joined by crazed sports presenters, and later (or from the start?)
the old anti-Maasai Jamhuri paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-These journalists started an
organization with its sole focus on evicting the Maasai from Ngorongoro and
were treated as serious actors by other media.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Tanzanians in social media
who had earlier not paid much attention to Ngorongoro saw what was going on,
were appalled, and started speaking up, even the most prominent ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/anti-maasai-genocidal-frenzy-in.html" target="_blank">In parliament on 9<sup>th</sup>
February</a> MPs competed in being wilfully ignorant, hateful, and calling for
evictions from Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, there was much laughter and table
banging, while only three MPs spoke up for the Maasai. Majaliwa said that the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act would be reviewed, but first there was to be a
seminar for the MPs and he would meet with people in Ngorongoro and Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism uploaded some of the worst clips of MPs, and not as bad
examples …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-On 11<sup>th</sup> February eight permanent
secretaries to ministries arrived in Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-On 12<sup>th</sup> February a
one-sided “seminar” about Ngorongoro was held for the MPs who continued their
hateful and defamatory incitement against the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-On the 13<sup>th</sup> the
new anti-Maasai organisation held a loathsome press conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-In NCA people didn’t sleep
and many spent the whole Sunday 13<sup>th</sup> praying.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-On 14<sup>th</sup> February
PM Majaliwa visited Loliondo and engaged in ignorant talk about the wider
interest of the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk96129419"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">About
NCA in the PM’s meeting in NCA<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96129419;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned above, Majaliwa’s
meeting at the NCA hall, was for leaders and closed to the
public. There was confusion and thorough registering of the attendants. Two
journalists were arrested and released later the same day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCTuMao5-7JFS2UCV-67Lo_noP5DzxyYwnmFzKBqSMmOqJ-BLdvKhR0kJ9se9S2BAE8OUuej94K8kj9NSKU9tFWaXPNlVUtaxGA5BzZS8mflvwrq7OTPOWllJ-TWXjF3Gwr8vuETLcA059J0dIHLpKgR0D5AqU-JN-zUlF5pxmAWKRBFw33IPPUSTrxg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1280" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCTuMao5-7JFS2UCV-67Lo_noP5DzxyYwnmFzKBqSMmOqJ-BLdvKhR0kJ9se9S2BAE8OUuej94K8kj9NSKU9tFWaXPNlVUtaxGA5BzZS8mflvwrq7OTPOWllJ-TWXjF3Gwr8vuETLcA059J0dIHLpKgR0D5AqU-JN-zUlF5pxmAWKRBFw33IPPUSTrxg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not allowed to meet Majaliwa.</td></tr></tbody></table><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Majaliwa made it clear that he
was there to talk about the challenges of increased populations of people and
livestock, and of how to protect tourism and conservation. The decades of abuse
by the NCAA against the Maasai was not an issue in any way. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In media what’s been reported is
that the PM has taken note of the resident’s willingness to conserve the area for
tourism, and later most reporting has been about Majaliwa’s announcement that
those willing to “voluntarily” relocate from Ngorongoro should not be hindered,
but helped, and that they should register at the offices of the DC, RC and the
chief conservator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As mentioned in earlier blog
posts, the researcher Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel published an article in
December 2021, explaining how people are made relocatable through long
processes of marginalisation. <i><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486211052860" target="_blank">“Making land grabbable: Stealthy dispossessions by conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania”</a>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So far, there has hardly been
any reporting at all about what the attendants had to say. Maybe because those who would have reported about it were arrested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Instead Clamian Thadeus who
attended the meeting has shared some of what was said:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Edward Maura, councillor for Nainokanoka,
made it clear that people are ready to sit down with the government to discuss
the challenges, but should avoid conspiracies from the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism. Maura talked about plans by former president Kikwete for
a livestock improvement ranch, which had been stopped by the current chief
conservator.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Alaitole councillor James
Moringe said that local leaders are not ready to negotiate with the government
on how to evict people but on how to address challenges to promote
conservation, people, and tourism. James reported the disappearance of rhinos and
handed a list of rhinos to the PM along with an envelope containing his suspicions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mosses Ndiyaine, resident of
Oloirobi village said the people of Ngorongoro are ready to sit down with the
government but before doing so challenges that exist because of the poor
relationship between the NCAA and the residents must be addressed. Like, the transfer
of funds and dismissal of employees of the Pastoralist Council, the authority
suing residents for alleged wrongdoing, lack of management plan for Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and the three foundations of its establishment (People,
Tourism and Conservation), and the saltlick stock tests showing adulterated and
potentially harmful content.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">William Oleseki from Endulen,
said he was one of the representatives in Dr Runyoro’s commission to review the
Multiple Land Use Model in Ngorongoro, but it wasn’t participatory, and the views
of the local Maasai weren’t included in the final report, which led the local
representatives to withdraw from the commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kisika Kilorit, traditional
leader from Alilelai ward said they were ready to sit down with the government
to address the challenges but were surprised by the way some government
officials appointed by President Samia to sit down with traditional leaders to
discuss how to solve the challenges facing the area, and how despite the Arusha
RC’s promises to meet with the traditional leaders for this matter it has never
been successful. And they were surprised to see the media move to write and the
parliament to discuss an issue that is already in the process of negotiating
with the traditional leaders and the Arusha RC, without the traditional leaders
being informed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kakesio councillor Johanes
Tiamasi said that the government had previously relocated people to an area in
Sale Division, but they had to flee the area for security reasons and now most
of them have returned and some have fled to an unknown location while the government
has not followed up to fulfil their responsibilities for security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">MP Emmanuel Oleshangai too said
that the people of Ngorongoro are ready to enter negotiations with the government
to address challenges (as if it isn’t what they’ve been doing all the time
while continuously being mistreated. This talk gives me a headache. Just tell the
PM to go “somewhere” …). He said since the coming of the Chief Conservator (Manongi) there
have been changes in the management as many managers were sacked and the obstacle
is this conservator who has been observed clearly saying he has failed to
manage the tripartite objectives for the establishment of this area, MP
Oleshangai said. There are subordinate staff who report to this conservator,
whose job is to ensure sabotage against the community and those who do not
support this objective are dealt with mercilessly including transferring them
to other posts. The Assistant Commissioner named Elibariki Bajuta has been
intimidating and threatening his colleagues that he has put the Government in
the pocket, and nothing can be done against him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MP stated that the
increase in population and livestock is not the only challenge facing the area,
but there is the challenge of many uncoordinated tourist vehicles, arbitrary
construction of hotels and tourist camps, as well as some of these hotels
directing sewage systems, and such, drying up water sources flowing into the
Ngorongoro Crater.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjElK8H4wwvGdfDqJ43fQ9jOTaTt0nBbim1Mpo5oPKde1Sfcnk5vecI4kXzWin4nGlZ0okPdT-0KfivmTqH0e0GZc4bvc5YxiSS3K8_LoNeDqVw5yjW7G-cNqGxezcx22ptQyR6aE3cQnhStWS45EckCPWpdy_mB8Nj5YPgj_O9SRoVkZB5erogv3FC4w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjElK8H4wwvGdfDqJ43fQ9jOTaTt0nBbim1Mpo5oPKde1Sfcnk5vecI4kXzWin4nGlZ0okPdT-0KfivmTqH0e0GZc4bvc5YxiSS3K8_LoNeDqVw5yjW7G-cNqGxezcx22ptQyR6aE3cQnhStWS45EckCPWpdy_mB8Nj5YPgj_O9SRoVkZB5erogv3FC4w" width="241" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk96129468"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96129468;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai in the 25 villages
in NCA live under restrictions not found in Loliondo, are not allowed to grow
crops or build modern houses, have the past years been losing access to one
grazing area after the other, and as a result are suffering from high levels of
child malnutrition, while throughout the years they have been shaken by rumours
and threats of eviction. The current threat was announced in September 2019,
when chief conservator Freddy Manongi made public the Multiple Land Use Model
review report’s proposal, which is so destructive that it would lead to the end
of Maasai livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. This had followed a
joint monitoring mission from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and International
Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) that once again visited Ngorongoro and
in their report repeated that they wanted the MLUM review completed to see the
results and offer advice, while again complaining about the visual impact of
settlements with “modern” houses, and so on. Recommendations and concerns from
UNESCO had in the past repeatedly led to a worsened human rights situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the Maasai were evicted
from Serengeti in 1959 by the colonial government, losing access to over 14,000
km2, as a compromise deal, they were guaranteed the right to continue occupying
the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a multiple land-use area
administered by the government, in which natural resources would be conserved
primarily for their interest, but with due regard for wildlife. This promise
was not kept, and tourism revenue has turned into the paramount interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The MLUM review report proposes to divide
Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core conservation zone” that is
to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA this includes the
Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters Ngorongoro, Olmoti and
Empakaai where grazing these past few years has been banned through order. This
has led to losing 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro,
Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these
wards. The proposal is to do the same with Oldupai Gorge, Laitoli footprints,
and the Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek basins. In the rest of Ngorongoro District,
the proposal is for NCAA to annex the Lake Natron basin (including areas of
Longido and Monduli districts, like Selela forest and Engaruka historical site)
and the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo and Sale Divisions and designate most
of these areas to be no-go zones for pastoralists and livestock. These huge
areas include many villages and are important grazing areas, the loss of which
would have disastrous knock-on effects on lives and livelihoods elsewhere. The
annexation of the Osero in Loliondo caters almost perfectly to the wishes of
OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNEj71Ye7QIpaR6LCvQCAGA74lCXytZyvM4EKYptA2ilBfvwIMFG0O1ewl_QF8QtL6QkQA0wPbtAVwZVEzlrTVSbTQbUy_yaQyp37AV2Rx3Zj-78kco-qHkPMEUv7IBueYDtWaKewwq6vVXwXEgYvyEugaN9aR0E2XokWP7Ln0rPpCsu0SdKs2_tF8Vg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNEj71Ye7QIpaR6LCvQCAGA74lCXytZyvM4EKYptA2ilBfvwIMFG0O1ewl_QF8QtL6QkQA0wPbtAVwZVEzlrTVSbTQbUy_yaQyp37AV2Rx3Zj-78kco-qHkPMEUv7IBueYDtWaKewwq6vVXwXEgYvyEugaN9aR0E2XokWP7Ln0rPpCsu0SdKs2_tF8Vg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since it was announced in
September 2019, there have been several protest statements and delegations by
ward and village leaders, customary leaders, and youths. There have been
promises from Kigwangalla and then Ndumbaro that the MLUM review is to be done
afresh and in a “participatory” manner, but then the same genocidal threat is
returned. In April 2021, 45 families accused of returning to Ngorongoro after
being relocated to Jema in 2006 were ordered to leave within 30 days. Further,
more than a hundred houseowners, accused of building their houses without NCAA
permits were ordered to demolish them. On the list were even government
buildings, like schools and a police station. A third group of approximately
174 other families accused of being illegal immigrants were listed in the
notice. After protests, the eviction notices were withdrawn until further notice.
President Samia has parroted the eviction rhetoric in the most unsettling way.
Then in January there was leaked information about a plan for immediate
“voluntary” relocations to Kitwai and Handeni, while RC Mongella renewed the
land alienation threat about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo which is
another issue, but included in the MLUM review proposal, and the always present
anti-Maasai media campaign was intensified. Then PM Majaliwa illegally announced
the alienation of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> Osero in Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk96188537"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">PM
Majaliwa is lawless, boundaryless, and very dangerous. He must be stopped!<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk96188537;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZUPLemBVcTDstGmRYj6wVRR-u6baK_mUYeE1GzXSI6Z0THmP9JDmdqLRBMnf2A74F0psE0NXlbBd6D2Y8jYkVqkGjs_WVMPUsoTMM1tGYn8L9g6OShi6dUZc4cN9EYnh22Fsvp0mmbPjNcA-CD8opzaWMLYHREAOe70AiHPxsBxK6dvgd2pjZ8IblDA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZUPLemBVcTDstGmRYj6wVRR-u6baK_mUYeE1GzXSI6Z0THmP9JDmdqLRBMnf2A74F0psE0NXlbBd6D2Y8jYkVqkGjs_WVMPUsoTMM1tGYn8L9g6OShi6dUZc4cN9EYnh22Fsvp0mmbPjNcA-CD8opzaWMLYHREAOe70AiHPxsBxK6dvgd2pjZ8IblDA" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her
fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be
able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never
worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from
her Loliondo work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-60211461100683948592022-02-17T04:37:00.004+01:002022-02-21T12:27:50.869+01:00 PM Majaliwa in Loliondo – Comparison with Earlier Intervention that had Catastrophic Results<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tomorrow PM
Majaliwa is supposed to visit Ngorongoro Conservation Area, so this blog post
about his visit to Loliondo must be published now tonight, even if I'd liked to work more on it.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I just don’t
know how to stop people from mixing up the two closely related issues
(following my blog would be a good idea though) or from creating more inexplicable
confusion. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Majaliwa in
Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The 1,500
km2, OBC, and Majaliwa’s destructive intervention in 2016-2017 – compare with what’s
happening now<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anti-Maasai
press conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> <span></span></o:p></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-This year started with a
<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/leaked-short-term-eviction-plan-for.html" target="_blank">leaked plan</a> for “voluntary” evictions from Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) to
be fully prepared to begin in February. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Then on 11<sup>th</sup>
January <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-arusha-rc-sends-message-that.html" target="_blank">RC Mongella visited Loliondo</a> and issued a land alienation threat that
made even the biggest traitors speak up. The following day there were protest
meetings and a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-A couple of international
organisations issued statements in support of the Maasai. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Jamvi la Habari paper initiated
a <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/leaked-short-term-eviction-plan-for.html" target="_blank">hate campaign</a> against the Maasai of NCA that spread all over regular and social
media, was joined by crazed sports presenters, and later (or from the start?) the
old anti-Maasai Jamhuri paper. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-These journalists started an
organization with its sole focus on evicting the Maasai from Ngorongoro and
were treated as serious actors by other media. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-Tanzanians in social media
who had earlier not paid much attention to Ngorongoro saw what was going on, were
appalled, and started speaking up, even the most prominent ones. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-In <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/02/anti-maasai-genocidal-frenzy-in.html" target="_blank">parliament on 9<sup>th</sup>
February</a> MPs competed in being wilfully ignorant, hateful, and calling for
evictions from Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, there was much laughter and table
banging, while only three MPs spoke up for the Maasai. Majaliwa said that the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Act would be reviewed, but first there was to be a seminar for
the MPs and he would meet with people in Ngorongoro and Loliondo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-The Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism uploaded some of the worst clips of MPs, and not as bad examples
…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-On 11<sup>th</sup> February
eight permanent secretaries to ministries arrived in Loliondo. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-On 12<sup>th</sup> February a
one-sided “seminar” about Ngorongoro was held for the MPs who continued their
hateful and defamatory incitement against the Maasai. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-On the 13<sup>th</sup> the new
anti-Maasai organisation held a loathsome press conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">-In NCA people didn’t sleep
and many spent the whole Sunday 13<sup>th</sup> praying. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The permanent secretaries to
ministries, led by the new TAMISEMI permanent secretary, informed local leaders
that they were touring many places around Tanzania to meet people, but it’s
believed that they were there to prevent mobilization before the PM’s visit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Valentine’s Day 2022, PM Majaliwa
arrived in Loliondo smiling and soft-spoken, laughingly saying that he didn’t
come with lorries to evict people, unlike what some people out there were
saying. This was a relief, since it broke the genocidal momentum that was
carried forward by some “journalists” and most MPs. I haven’t understood if Majaliwa
referred to those people, or as usual were blaming land right activists for the
unrest that, as always, is stirred up by investors, NCAA, their media, and most
of all the government, and this time the parliamentarians. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The PM’s talk was mostly so
general that it was difficult to know if he was talking about Loliondo, NCA, or
both, but he announced that he would later visit NCA and Sale, and referred to
his earlier Loliondo visits. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Even if it was an open-air
meeting, only those invited – councillors, village chairs, Maasai and Sonjo (who
don’t use the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>) traditional leaders – were allowed. Other
members of the public, including NGOs, were not allowed anywhere near the fence
by the police – while such land threats as <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-reminder-about-loliondo.html" target="_blank">OBC</a>, <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>, and Frankfurt
Zoological Society were of course invited. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Despite the “friendly” tone,
the content of Majaliwa’s words was the same as RC Mongella’s threat on 11<sup>th</sup>
January. He praised the Maasai as stakeholders in conservation and talked about
how “participatory” everything should be, but his main point was the importance
of wildlife as a national resource through tourism revenue. The broader
interest of the nation again … He was pleased that nobody was saying “our land”,
since nobody in Tanzania, especially no tribe, own land, that all is owned by
the public and held in trust by the president. I don’t know if anyone dared to
tell him that there are land laws, or if that would be considered sedition. Don’t
mention the law to a lawless government. Though as late as a month ago, in the
statement following the RC’s threat, councillors, village chairs, and traditional
leaders all spoke up both about the law and the ongoing case in the East African
Court of Justice. Majaliwa described the MPs as advising the government, but I think that everyone present had seen at least some video clip of how this was done. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From what I’ve seen and
heard of those invited to the PM’s meeting, they were generally explaining how very
ready they were to work with the government, and with investors, even if those stir
things up and aren’t ready to cooperate, some added, if it was done in a “participatory”
manner and without evicting anyone. Quite sad and depressing. Though the very
new MP Emmanuel Oleshangay looked confident explaining that Loliondo Game
Controlled Area is 4,000 km2 and includes the DC’s office, the towns of
Loliondo and Wasso, the district council headquarters, health centres, teacher’s
collage, schools, and dispensaries. In the GCA outside the 1,500 km2 there are
also agricultural areas, and the area claimed by the horrible Thomson Safaris as
their private nature refuge, I’d add. Very little grazing land would be left if
the 1,500 km2 were turned into a protected area, and 73,000 people depend on it
for their livelihoods. Seeing this clip was a positive change from the past
years, even if an OBC vehicle in the background reminded of how difficult it is
to get criminals off the land. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sometimes Loliondo people appear
not to remember anything at all, but it’s hardly possible that anyone could
have forgotten earlier visits by PM Majaliwa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk95955976"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
1,500 km2, OBC, and Majaliwa’s destructive intervention in 2016-2017 – compare with
what’s happening now<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Otterlo Business Corporation
(OBC) that since the early 1990s has the hunting block (permit to hunt) in
Loliondo and organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai has for years
lobbied to have their 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> core hunting area turned into a
protected area. Around OBC (and the American Thomson Safaris) a local police
state has developed, in which basically every government official, and
particularly the security committee and always the consecutive DCs (currently
the DED has taken this place) openly, shamelessly, and with astonishing
lawlessness work for the investors, threatening, defaming and arresting anyone
suspected of being able to speak up. This has led to several illegal invasions
of village land with mass arson, multiple human rights crimes, fear, treason,
and almost complete silence these past years when repression has worsened in
the whole of Tanzania. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">OBC have been lobbying to
convert the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, which is an important grazing area, and
legally registered village land, into a “protected area”. In 2009, under
Minister Mwangunga, this lobbying led to an illegal mass-arson operation on
village land, ordered by the DC’s office. Then OBC funded a draft District Land
Use Plan that proposed turning the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> into a protected area.
This plan was rejected by Ngorongoro District Council in 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2013, Kagasheki, who by
this time was heading the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, made
vociferous statements shamelessly lying that alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>
meant gifting land to the Maasai. At that time of not-again-seen unity and
seriousness in Loliondo, in which the Maasai managed to get support both from
the opposition CHADEMA and the ruling CCM party, Kagasheki’s threats were
finally stopped by PM Pinda. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, with Nyalandu at the
head of the Ministry, divide and rule, and partially successful efforts to buy
off local leaders worsened, which was followed by increased repression and
multiple lengthy illegal arrests and malicious prosecution in 2016. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Following the illegal arrests
in 2016, in the Jamhuri newspaper, the “journalist” Manyerere Jackton (who was
directly involved in these arrests) was calling for PM Majaliwa to return the
threat against Loliondo revoked by his predecessor Pinda in 2013. In November
2016, several newspapers were writing about a report by OBC themselves, on
alarming destruction caused by the Maasai, which had also affected hunting
activities, the quality of trophies, and their availability. OBC complained
that Wildlife Conservation Act 2009 could not be enforced due to a “loophole”,
and that basing hunting block fees on the whole 4,000 km<sup>2</sup> LGCA wasn’t
“realistic”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">PM Majaliwa ordered on 15<sup>th</sup>
December 2016 then Arusha RC Mrisho Gambo to “solve the conflict” via talks
between villages and OBC and used the occasion to threaten the already silenced
NGOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Gambo set up a select committee
consisting of representatives of government organs, not least the various
parastatals within the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, “investors”,
conservation organisations, NGOs, women and youths, and a few local political,
traditional and religious leaders - to “find a solution” to the conflict. A
deputy minister noted that Majaliwa was a very dangerous person indeed and the
Maasai’s “only ally” was the RC himself who was viciously attacked with fabrications
in the Jamhuri.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The much-weakened local
leaders included in Gambo’s committee reached the conclusion that the only
counter proposal that could work was the Wildlife Management Area (WMA) that
the Loliondo Maasai had successfully rejected for a decade and a half of
pressure by the Government and Frankfurt Zoological Society. A WMA will, while
nominally still village land, hand over much power to central government and
investors, and is, if operational, meant to set aside exclusive areas for
wildlife and tourism. On 21<sup>st</sup> January 2017, the RC declared that
there were two options: Game Controlled Area as in WCA 2009 (OBC’s proposal, which
is same as a Game Reserve) or WMA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Minister of Natural
Resources and Tourism at the time, Jumanne Maghembe, soon showed equal
commitment to OBC’s land use plan, as has been shown by Kagasheki in 2013.
Despite of the ongoing talks, on 25<sup>th</sup> January 2017, Maghembe made an
appearance in the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, and flanked by the “journalists”
Manyerere Jackton, and Masyaga Matinyi declared that the land had to be
alienated before the end of March of that year. The Ngorongoro councillors
issued a statement protesting Maghembe’s declaration, but the minister went on
meeting the press with the same misleading rhetoric as was Kagasheki and was of
course much praised in the Jamhuri. RC Gambo, however, declared that the work
by his committee would continue. People in the MNRT and its parastatals aggressively
supported OBC’s rejected old land use plan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibrOiPcqSqTk30Mot0AZKBIFEVgFMN4xw12HxJs37DxbXo3BXdcNgEFJ5m_eehmxqTlYQ_0e_2D7QgCihaTqXzvGnqx2KOx_8UicaT9h4x7-oOHqOeLkpQ4AaInnwYsW0Od6n_hwvfhVPKQQi9PsPsPawQuPrNaBjDnMzlZyV_d8mnm_sAs_49Ce2gQQ=s632" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibrOiPcqSqTk30Mot0AZKBIFEVgFMN4xw12HxJs37DxbXo3BXdcNgEFJ5m_eehmxqTlYQ_0e_2D7QgCihaTqXzvGnqx2KOx_8UicaT9h4x7-oOHqOeLkpQ4AaInnwYsW0Od6n_hwvfhVPKQQi9PsPsPawQuPrNaBjDnMzlZyV_d8mnm_sAs_49Ce2gQQ=s320" width="194" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup>–7<sup>th</sup>
March 2017 the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Land, Natural Resources and
Tourism was brought to Loliondo by Maghembe on a most co-opted visit, avoiding
meeting local Maasai, while most every supporter of the land alienation plan in
the country was brought to lecture this committee. The one-sidedness was so
extreme that several members protested being used to rubber stamp handing over
the land to OBC. Maghembe and Serengeti Chief Park Warden William Mwakilema (currently
director of TANAPA) told the committee that funds from the German Development
Bank (KfW) for the Serengeti Ecosystem Development Programme to be implemented
by Serengeti National Park and FZS were subject to confirmation of the land use
plan alienating the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>. Nothing was heard from the Germans
confirming or denying this until two years later when in was denied by KfW
representatives in an interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 15<sup>th</sup> March 2017,
some 600 women held a manifestation in Wasso town. The RC with his committee
were in town to finalize their work and the women demanded a real solution to
the land conflict with placards against losing more land, against OBC, and
against the District Council accepting money from Germany, and after a decision
by the council, the chairman, Matthew Siloma, at least officially … refused to
sign accepting the German pieces of silver.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7dVkjYJDKOWcPo_IY5uqlFpTKUw11Q13CQ7v32-rNvpqSmRUe160SIeM8kGxVoYPlLQRaoL5mTbbdCZHGBCNFwMIMtVUGaTggpDD63jJjogepGt-2O3xr5Lk8-JRWsKvAPXCD3ulVdfQ2Jet16-ahdq-AArnMrt1qlANY9OtbKdcvywryyF7IF0wngg=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7dVkjYJDKOWcPo_IY5uqlFpTKUw11Q13CQ7v32-rNvpqSmRUe160SIeM8kGxVoYPlLQRaoL5mTbbdCZHGBCNFwMIMtVUGaTggpDD63jJjogepGt-2O3xr5Lk8-JRWsKvAPXCD3ulVdfQ2Jet16-ahdq-AArnMrt1qlANY9OtbKdcvywryyF7IF0wngg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> -19<sup>th</sup>
March 2017, the RC’s committee toured the area under threat from Ololosokwan
southwards all the way to Piyaya and Malambo to mark “critical areas”, and at
every place they were met with protests. Women were crying and screaming for
the government to abandon the plans to take the land, some car mirrors were
broken, and some protesters were detained by the police, the Regional Police
Commander was ordered to arrest anyone interfering with the process, and the RC
– the “only ally” - irrationally accused the protestors of being “bribed” by
NGOs (the NGOs were in his own committee ...) and otherwise using exactly the
same slander as the OBC-friendly press had used against him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7NH0YIyN_xaGybTQsYSfeMBuAHkuJT7OZ6LTuCtD3GqlRhun99hx6ORbXhyCCvAn4W3JcOFpL5QtJV-SNW06tiaJrmn7VmzSK4NkyyMBe6XerXfASavkJHH6OkfQzh3SIJ791vivjCB20HSgdeKv2zeM1e6Vn-ZK9fAblCAcTY6Kxy3ogUvowUkpUsg=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7NH0YIyN_xaGybTQsYSfeMBuAHkuJT7OZ6LTuCtD3GqlRhun99hx6ORbXhyCCvAn4W3JcOFpL5QtJV-SNW06tiaJrmn7VmzSK4NkyyMBe6XerXfASavkJHH6OkfQzh3SIJ791vivjCB20HSgdeKv2zeM1e6Vn-ZK9fAblCAcTY6Kxy3ogUvowUkpUsg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> March 2017,
Gambo’s committee reached a proposal through voting – WMA was the preferable
alternative. The WMA proposal had been successfully rejected for a decade and a
half and was now presented as a victory by the fatally weakened local leaders. A
month later the committee’s final report was handed to PM Majaliwa who was to
decide.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Majaliwa didn’t announce his
decision until almost eight months after having been handed the proposal by
Gambo’s committee, and meanwhile the unthinkable happened. Nothing was supposed
to happen while everyone was waiting for Majaliwa’s decision, but on 13<sup>th</sup>
August 2017, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Conservation Area rangers, assisted by
OBC rangers, KDU/TAWA anti-poaching squads, local police, and others set fire
to five bomas in Oloosek, on village land and far from the national park. The
rangers said they had orders to remove livestock, housing and people from the
1,500 km<sup>2</sup> that OBC, Minister Maghembe, and others wanted to alienate
from the villages. Leaders claimed to have been caught by surprise, and that
they had only heard about an operation to remove people and livestock from
Serengeti National Park. The DC was saying that the reason was that people and
cattle were entering the national park “too easily”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuSJ4Yz9_NpFFdmbtLTOUxmNLP7cLCecbAutJlVwufhWOVBcZjsi_TW36ysbgWEojL1jySsjPEtM7xjmIYFoNAkILbgHebEzSx3r-0bBUqnEH1zgD6AN2w0y8GomS3BG8P-rmTYSLpoR3EBq4FsRkmmXPUe72qhbrsmcZq7C9P9NV13NI0vy-ZoXDuAw=s1032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="1032" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuSJ4Yz9_NpFFdmbtLTOUxmNLP7cLCecbAutJlVwufhWOVBcZjsi_TW36ysbgWEojL1jySsjPEtM7xjmIYFoNAkILbgHebEzSx3r-0bBUqnEH1zgD6AN2w0y8GomS3BG8P-rmTYSLpoR3EBq4FsRkmmXPUe72qhbrsmcZq7C9P9NV13NI0vy-ZoXDuAw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">MP Olenasha, on 14<sup>th</sup>
August in social media, said that he was deeply sorry, that he and other
leaders were only aware of an operation to remove livestock from the National
Park, had not been involved in anything else, that residing near the boundary
isn’t against the law, and that they were doing all they could to stop the
operation. Then the MP kept quiet in public for the rest of the operation,
while bomas in one area after the other were burned to the ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The illegal operation would go
on for over two months and hundreds of bomas were razed from Ololosokwan to
Piyaya 90 km further south – most intensely between 13<sup>th</sup> and 26<sup>th</sup>
August, but with scattered arson attacks well into October - there were
beatings, illegal seizing of cattle, and herders were illegally arrested. Village centres became
congested with people and animals. Those returning after the arson were
brutally beaten by the rangers who also destroyed makeshift shelters and
blocked access to water sources. Women were raped by the rangers. The last day
of the illegal operation some rangers shot 80 cows in Arash. There was terror
and panic everywhere, and painful disappointment with the inaction of some
leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Soon appeared publicly a
letter from DC Rashid Mfaume Taka, dated 5th August 2017. In this letter the DC
orders the removal of livestock and housing from Serengeti National Park, and
“bordering areas”. The order did of course not have any legal ground at all. Another
letter, written on behalf of the Chief Park Warden of Serengeti National Park
Mwakilema (now director of TANAPA) to then DC Rashid Mfaume Taka on 4<sup>th</sup>
August, was also shared in social media, and revealed that the Ngorongoro
Security Committee, headed by the DC, on 23<sup>rd</sup> June 2017 ordered
Serengeti National Park to plan the operation to remove livestock from the park,
and “from the boundary”. The letter also informs the DC that funds for the
implementation have been obtained and that the TANAPA leadership had approved
the operation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 17<sup>th</sup> August
2017, the Ministry for Natural Resources and Tourism issued a press statement
explaining the “removal of cattle and housing from Serengeti National Park and
the boundary of Loliondo Game Controlled Area”. In the words of the DC, it’s
explained that the operation in Loliondo GCA would take place on a 90 km
stretch from north to south and with a width of 5 km – which means village land
and is a confession of crime.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In OBC-friendly press the DC
was quoted saying that the operation was not about removing people from the
1,500 km2, since PM Majaliwa had not yet made his decision about that issue.
Though the same article quoted Maghembe talking about the 1,500 km2 Loliondo “Game
Reserve”, as if OBC’s land use plan would have been approved. Maghembe also
said that NGOs were burning the bomas and in an article Manyerere Jackton
published in the Jamhuri, the DC who when believed to be of another kind than
his predecessors had been badly defamed by the "journalist", was now, after
having ordered the illegal operation, quoted as a someone just stating the
truth. The DC says – as is also shown by a map prepared by TANAPA for the
illegal operation - that 89 bomas had been burned inside Serengeti National
Park and 241 bomas or ronjos in the 5 km “border area” (village land). The DC
and the MNRT were saying that village land had been invaded because people were
entering the national park too easily, while Maghembe went on undisturbed for
30 minutes on Azam tv showing the map from the land use plan rejected in 2011,
pretending that it had been implemented and that the Maasai had invaded their
own land. He also repeated some of Manyerere Jackton’s slander of people, but
without remembering exactly which lies he was supposed to tell about each
person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAUz-SKWJgww32UEEtPBX7EEtIa6VcTrNzR7cA9fm3bjHuGSN4ptZtm5TY5p06r79IhQggz5QCg_zBnxVqIhUqVt5NuFZrIelK51pJsonvJ1Me5RpC0U11HigntsrPdAmRO1OQZqugeUMgvfDLGL9JlAtBcW9FR_JrUS_cuuehGuNXFMluuCYzd5gv8A=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAUz-SKWJgww32UEEtPBX7EEtIa6VcTrNzR7cA9fm3bjHuGSN4ptZtm5TY5p06r79IhQggz5QCg_zBnxVqIhUqVt5NuFZrIelK51pJsonvJ1Me5RpC0U11HigntsrPdAmRO1OQZqugeUMgvfDLGL9JlAtBcW9FR_JrUS_cuuehGuNXFMluuCYzd5gv8A=s320" width="240" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 22<sup>nd</sup> August
2017, while Loliondo was burning, a smiling German ambassador was seen all over
media next to an equally smiling Minister Maghembe, while commenting on the
long and successful partnership between Germany and Tanzania in protecting the
Serengeti.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAeU24NaI3yKEiu_Yz7teR3mKhIz_b3r93_YJNkcKKkokyzsuijjgjtzQtc8s9cb4JhiSsGlbeKvC3QJTxgXMnq6opy3VJCKD4hlZQNVZ7siou2JH4kfgHthYPA68XpClnrat8JxaYhS0PhhrEu7oEKcRKGRt_EuJwPCRphh8JuuLDv_2nSaW3jcETyA=s595" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="595" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAeU24NaI3yKEiu_Yz7teR3mKhIz_b3r93_YJNkcKKkokyzsuijjgjtzQtc8s9cb4JhiSsGlbeKvC3QJTxgXMnq6opy3VJCKD4hlZQNVZ7siou2JH4kfgHthYPA68XpClnrat8JxaYhS0PhhrEu7oEKcRKGRt_EuJwPCRphh8JuuLDv_2nSaW3jcETyA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While the MP kept shockingly
silent many other local political leaders spoke up in protest quite early, like
the councillor and the chairman of Ololosokwan. Onesmo Olengurumwa of Tanzania
Human Rights Defenders Coalition sent out an urgent alert already the first day
of arson, and on 30<sup>th</sup> August, together with a delegation from
Loliondo, he submitted official complaints to the government organ Commission
for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG/THBUB). Various international
organisations sent letters to Magufuli.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 4<sup>th</sup> September
2017, CHRAGG issued an interim order to stop the evictions and demanded that
the government explain the operation - but the crimes continued unabated
despite the order.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 21<sup>st</sup> September
2017, the court case was finally filed in the East African Court of Justice by
the villages of Ololosokwan, Kirtalo, Oloirien and Arash against the Attorney
General of the United Republic of Tanzania.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 5<sup>th</sup> October, the
senator of Narok County in Kenya, Ledama Olekina, took a delegation from
Ololosokwan to see the Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and seek his
support defending their land, asking him to speak with President Magufuli.
Raila agreed to do so and is said to have reported back that his friend
Magufuli had told him that everyone involved in the operation would be fired.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The “only ally” RC Mrisho
Gambo never spoke up with one word against this massive horror. Neither was
anything heard from PM Majaliwa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 7th October 2017, Magufuli
announced a cabinet reshuffle which included the good news that Maghembe was
removed as Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism. The new minister was Hamisi
Kigwangalla. After a public meeting in Loliondo calling for Kigwangalla to come
and witness the truth, and several twists and turns and strange announcements by
the new minister, on 26<sup>th</sup> October 2017 there was a public meeting in
Wasso in which Kigwangalla put stop to the criminal “operation”. Though his
ultimate message was that the conflict was now on Majaliwa’s table. Kigwangalla
became an instant hero in Loliondo, and the following day, he declared that
OBC’s hunting block would not be renewed. It all seemed too good to be true,
and it was. Unsurprisingly, the frontpage of the 31<sup>st</sup> October issue
of the Jamhuri in big red letters proclaimed that Kigwangalla messed up,
pretending that he had stopped an operation in a protected area when what’s
stopped was an illegal attack on village land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnEBmcd4ERSSCLqaCGl7AbLv4TSIsqHPdVDzkY_IKYNO1Uo3zxBfSWPVk467fd9Quj9sOi0CIoODspz1a8elHT94fk9HD8-hyTzRRbj7JvU42I9EEy7qK8hHTmSVwKhARwAfoNoGAVjeL2TRSzKL2DebeDzpEotbS-2-8g4Liaf5w3ZFYqlwRmjiVSHw=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnEBmcd4ERSSCLqaCGl7AbLv4TSIsqHPdVDzkY_IKYNO1Uo3zxBfSWPVk467fd9Quj9sOi0CIoODspz1a8elHT94fk9HD8-hyTzRRbj7JvU42I9EEy7qK8hHTmSVwKhARwAfoNoGAVjeL2TRSzKL2DebeDzpEotbS-2-8g4Liaf5w3ZFYqlwRmjiVSHw=s320" width="230" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Later, after he had U-turned,
Kigwangalla would be mentioned in an appreciative way in the Jamhuri, but when
he wanted to remove another UAE hunting company, Green Mile Safari, from Lake
Natron GCA, he was again accused of various real or fabricated wrongdoings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kigwangalla returned to
Loliondo on a surprise visit and declared the Director of Wildlife fired on suspicions
that he would be following the directions of OBC. In a <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://youtu.be/EtZMkGcf0hk" target="_blank">video </a>from Loliondo
Kigwangalla strongly and clearly declared that he was going to clean up his
house. Kigwangalla had witnessed a corruption syndicate at the service of OBC
and this reached all the way into his ministry. He had directed PCCB to
investigate OBC for corruption, starting with questioning the director, Isaack
Mollel, (it wouldn’t happen until over a year later) who had been boasting
everywhere about having bribed his predecessors with 200,000 US dollars, while
saying that 100,000 would be enough for this little boy Kigwangalla.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The happiness was shortlived.
On 14<sup>th</sup> November 2017, Kigwangalla reported in social media that he had
met with development partners from Germany, and the Germans were going to fund
community development projects in Loliondo, “in our quest to save the
Serengeti”. Even some councillors seemed surprised by Kigwangalla’s news and
made phone calls that confirmed that the chairman had indeed signed the German
money - that 600 women had protested in March, and the District Council decided
not to sign. The chairman himself said he had not signed, but was going to very
soon, since it was such a wonderful project, and didn’t have anything to do
with the threat against the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Time passed and OBC didn’t
show any sign of packing. In social media OBC’s assistant director (now
councillor from 2020) told me his employer was there to stay and that I would
have a heart attack, while OBC’s PR officer informed me that, "OBC is
waiting for you to come and pack them off".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 6<sup>th</sup> December
2017, Majaliwa finally delivered his long-awaited decision about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>,
and the decision was a big and terrifying disappointment. The PM hadn’t chosen
between a WMA or a GCA 2009 but decided “something else”. Many people had been
present, but nobody seemed to have understood very well, since Majaliwa first
had said many nice and promising words. The only thing that everyone had heard
clearly was that OBC would stay. A brief press statement the following day made
things somewhat, but not much, clearer. The PM had ordered the MNRT to prepare
a legal bill with the aim of forming a “special authority” to manage Loliondo
Game Controlled Area, to protect the ecosystem of Serengeti National Park,
while benefitting all sides, and this was to be rushed through to be included
in the 2018/2019 budget. Councillors and village chairs from Loliondo issued a
concerned, but not strong enough statement, while in the Jamhuri newspaper,
Manyerere Jackton celebrated Majaliwa’s decision. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Early on there were rumours
that the legal bill to form the “special authority” was needed, since the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> would be placed under the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where
hunting is otherwise not allowed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, in 2018, OBC as had been
done before, made substantial vehicle gifts to the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ54ZZKPRrr4-Eg9YbOgImIqA74MQNFoEFVBUaI0g65j5WMt42ITEY0EhksnilWcUTUyLygAg5OlpnyJPc4noQTMY-KBINLqNbTt9JN4FENRLNHwBqQ1xxetXd5KzrFL_gkmyhAYEvZbwqZQjK1FZhdLfuLd8OfoVm2Q2mzuZx-LniA-FSPzglS_ggaA=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQ54ZZKPRrr4-Eg9YbOgImIqA74MQNFoEFVBUaI0g65j5WMt42ITEY0EhksnilWcUTUyLygAg5OlpnyJPc4noQTMY-KBINLqNbTt9JN4FENRLNHwBqQ1xxetXd5KzrFL_gkmyhAYEvZbwqZQjK1FZhdLfuLd8OfoVm2Q2mzuZx-LniA-FSPzglS_ggaA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A military camp was set up in
Loliondo in 2018, and fear worsened to the point that no local leaders dared to
speak up against an intimidation drive to derail the case in the East African
Court of Justice that had been filed during the 2017 operation. At the lowest
point ever, nobody even spoke up when the soldiers from the national army
started torturing people and in November and December 2018 razed bomas in
Kirtalo and Ololosokwan, without any kind of official order. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a small relief when
OBC’s director Isaack Mollel was arrested in 2019, but the Loliondo police
state wasn’t dealt with and hardly even Mollel’s personal economic crimes. Theories
on why this happened mention Mollel’s clashes with Kigwangalla and Gambo, or
that it could be a message to Kinana (who since the early 1990s had been close
to OBC) that nobody is safe. After a prolonged stay in remand prison, he was
released without any court ruling, allegedly after plea bargaining. While
Mollel was still locked up, in September 2019 a genocidal plan for NCA was
presented and it included proposals for surrounding areas, such as fulfilling
what OBC had been lobbying for. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">With the so-called elections in 2020, Salula
Ngorisiolo was killed at Oloirobi polling station when NCAA rangers and police open
fire at unarmed voters who were protesting election fraud, and OBC ended up
with at least three of their employees as councillors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2021, the new DED Jumaa
Mhina started acting as a DC, pressuring the chairmen of the four villages with
a case in the East African Court of Justice to withdraw this case. The chairmen
are resisting, and the case continues. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, on 11<sup>th</sup> January
2022, Arusha RC Mongella <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-arusha-rc-sends-message-that.html" target="_blank">reignited </a>the threat against the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>.
Mongella summoned village and ward leaders from villages with land in the 1,500
km<sup>2</sup> to inform them that the government would make a painful decision
for the broader interest of the nation. The leaders refused to accompany the RC
for a tour of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the attendance list, which
could have been used to claim that they’d agreed to something. On 13th-14th
January there was a protest meeting and a statement in Oloirien. All leaders,
including those who’ve been fearfully silent for years, and even the traitors
who have been working for OBC and against the people, spoke up against the RC’s
threat and against OBC, while the popular protest was even clearer. Then
another stop order (there is already one) was applied for in the East Africa
Court of Justice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">PM Majaliwa arrived and see
above what happened (or a small part of it).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk95956031"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anti-Maasai
press conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk95956031;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On 13<sup>th</sup> February –
the day after the genocidal hate feast in parliament - the anti-Maasai
organisation recently started by Habib Mchange of the Jamvi la Habari below-gutter
tabloid, and joined by the sports presenter, turned frontpage reviewer, Maulid
Kitenge, who shortly after having joined the hate campaign was in Ngorongoro on
a first time visit with his colleague Oscar Oscar in a NCAA vehicle. Some other
“journalists” have joined, but I don’t have the time to process all this now. Under
normal circumstances, I could write several blog posts about this press
conference. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Though noted was the presence
of Deusdatus Balile, editor of the Jamhuri and director of the Tanzania Editors
Forum. This was hardly a surprise. Balile repeated some of the old Jamhuri
lies, but this time without mentioning names (except for mine, but with a less
crazy story than usual) and for extra dehumanization he made up his own version
of colonial fantasies about Maasai burial practices, while claiming that there
aren’t any graves in Ngorongoro. Sadly, since most of my 5,000 Facebook friends
are Maasai from Ngorongoro there are Maasai graves in my newsfeed several times
a week, but that’s not the point, and I may write about this in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now I just want to remind of
that Balile’s colleague in the Jamhuri, Manyerere Jackton, in well over 50
articles has been spewing out unhinged hate rhetoric against the Maasai of
Loliondo, and campaigned for taking the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> away from them. He
has claimed that 70 percent of the Loliondo Maasai would not be Tanzanian, and
published lists of hundreds of private persons that his “sources” consider to
be “Kenyan”. He’s slandering of those speaking up for land rights, or those he
thinks could speak up for land rights, has been vicious and insane. As an
example, he has written that I get billions of money to destroy the Serengeti
ecosystem for the benefit of those who sent me. Besides this campaign, he’s
capable of writing any lie for no particular reason at all. Even worse is that I’ve experienced
first-hand how he likes to boast about being directly involved in arrests of
innocent people, since I’ve several times got rude and triumphant one-liner
emails when such a thing is about to happen, and he doesn’t hide it in the
articles either. Fortunately, Manyerere Jackton has been silent about Loliondo
since his supposed employer, OBC’s director Isaack Mollel, was locked up in
remand prison for economic sabotage in 2019, and after a long stay released,
allegedly following plea bargaining.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though now he’s “writing about” (inciting against) the Maasai of NCA.
During all these years, almost nobody who hasn’t been personally targeted has
cared about the deeply unethical ways of this “journalist”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was first angry with the Darmpya
online news outlet for broadcasting the anti-Maasai press conference, but they
are asking questions, like how come the “allowances” for attending this press
conference were so extraordinary heavy (Tanzanian journalists are usually paid
for attending press conferences but this was out of the ordinary), who funded
it, and for what purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are so many people to
name and shame, and so many to thank (like <a href="https://www.actwazalendo.or.tz/mamlaka_ya_hifadhi_ya_ngorongoro_ivunjwe_wanangorongoro_washirikishwe_ipasavyo" target="_blank">ACT Wazalendo</a>). Each one deserves
their own blog post, but tomorrow Majaliwa will come to Ngorongoro Conservation
Area and people are praying.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV_HIpYsC5h57Jp1_aqCIjf8LEGkQgzXSmGvSI_R4LfK_dFEEcLkevGmfzw-ISgr6XoooNxend0VFtB7DROgN2nIVHWt6ZfXcTrkq4O9mKd5bpND88zOb38YWhppNlRMgDk13wBknBvMEylYwbbJk_n4RbPfMc5UFqbJ0I7IGY1nYDlfvAgMeOWL46uw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV_HIpYsC5h57Jp1_aqCIjf8LEGkQgzXSmGvSI_R4LfK_dFEEcLkevGmfzw-ISgr6XoooNxend0VFtB7DROgN2nIVHWt6ZfXcTrkq4O9mKd5bpND88zOb38YWhppNlRMgDk13wBknBvMEylYwbbJk_n4RbPfMc5UFqbJ0I7IGY1nYDlfvAgMeOWL46uw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVxxzlMUEpz7VvdcljSeN0fZCJyOW9NmNLN5_w2JfYN3Xw7JjVTd9jkfpFC618VvdM6P-_VjFhyZgx2K3hvk_xdiebqC0XtCrkpULQtvqy9K87GcijO39oRwsEq8xwrRlEdFsWnUCMyT_Au6e9b0MbnQoaLVtboUy9JUtwNN5fa41DoojtR50TdhZNMQ" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="1000" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVxxzlMUEpz7VvdcljSeN0fZCJyOW9NmNLN5_w2JfYN3Xw7JjVTd9jkfpFC618VvdM6P-_VjFhyZgx2K3hvk_xdiebqC0XtCrkpULQtvqy9K87GcijO39oRwsEq8xwrRlEdFsWnUCMyT_Au6e9b0MbnQoaLVtboUy9JUtwNN5fa41DoojtR50TdhZNMQ" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">15th February</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-393463874272421687.post-35504231133981571362022-02-12T23:48:00.003+01:002022-02-21T13:46:43.638+01:00Anti-Maasai Genocidal Frenzy in the Tanzanian Parliament when Discussing Ngorongoro<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Genocidal anti-Maasai
frenzy has been exhibited in parliament, almost without pushback. The plan is
now to review the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act, and to receive more lecturing
from the biggest enemies of the Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that
Loliondo and Ngorongoro Conservation Area are two different, but closely related
issues. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In this blog post:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Loathsome
spectacle in parliament<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Statements <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Adulterated
saltlicks<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Permanent
Secretaries have arrived in Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk95535004"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUEyaLihua7S7cyshhtpKq_AaIJUYTuN_cKruUUxJCcB574-oRr6DIQNEr9l7QWj-p-lSguQQ9Rv6kD0hcdTLwPiepxLCJURte4PdgeiLRm3kgANdbkS3qXoZmVIcVMKh8I-kTMLSrEjz8WuPvoOfjNrW_LUdfYiT3RiKt4gH729UNTve5S1uUJD7zQw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="688" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgUEyaLihua7S7cyshhtpKq_AaIJUYTuN_cKruUUxJCcB574-oRr6DIQNEr9l7QWj-p-lSguQQ9Rv6kD0hcdTLwPiepxLCJURte4PdgeiLRm3kgANdbkS3qXoZmVIcVMKh8I-kTMLSrEjz8WuPvoOfjNrW_LUdfYiT3RiKt4gH729UNTve5S1uUJD7zQw" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ndumbaro</td></tr></tbody></table><a name="_Hlk95535004"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /><br /></span><span></span></b></a><p></p><a name='more'></a><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk95535004"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Loathsome spectacle in parliament</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bungetz1/videos/549692425992173" target="_blank">9<sup>th</sup> February 2022</a>
was sad day for the Parliament of the United Republic of Tanzania, and this
considering that this one-party parliament is the result of the shamelessly and
brutally stolen elections of 2020. Following a report by the Standing Committee
on Lands, Natural Resources, and Tourism several MPs went all out in genocidal
incitement against the Maasai of Ngorongoro, while only three, all of them
Maasai, spoke up in any way for the Maasai. Almost all were of the opinion that
the Maasai and their livestock were “too many” (of course without comparing
population densities with their own districts) and something had to be done.
Some, like special seats MP Salome Makamba and Mtwara MP Hassan Selemani Mtenga
screamed for forced evictions and seemed to want the Maasai wiped off the
surface of earth as soon as possible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Salome Makamba described
herself as a friend of elephants. She extolled Ngorongoro’s touristic value
asking how many more billions it would be without the Maasai, claimed that
Maasai cattle were owned by imperialists from outside Ngorongoro, and that the
Maasai were illiterate, living in abject poverty, that she knew they would like
to move, but were hindered by NGOs financed by the neighbouring country. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Mtenga repeated the talk about
tourism billions, population increase, and the broader interest of the nation, and
he claimed that people killed by lions were secretly buried at night. He wanted
the Maasai to be removed by army tanks and thought that the reason it hadn’t
been done already was rich people with NGOs, and the neighbouring country
making every effort to kill Ngorongoro. Far too many parliamentarians laughed
and banged the tables in approval. The sight was loathful, but it should be
remembered that this parliament flouts on the blood of innocent Tanzanians,
like Salula Ngorisiolo who was killed when NCAA rangers and police opened fire
at unarmed voters who on 28<sup>th</sup> October 2020 were protesting election fraud
at Oloirobi polling station. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy_uPaBqU_4msyVYksbIY5MJsPJiRQTifNof5rNG_ZMBvYBEuK-oBhh7-MR8Ja9LNSmkoo7ZFNNt4EmnZj47A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Hassan Selemani Mtenga</span></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Other parliamentarians who
spoke strongly for defending the natural heritage against the Maasai, its
custodians whose land use is the reason that it is there, was Elibariki Kingu
for Singida West, and Livingstone Lusinde Kibajaji for Mtera, who raised laughter
fantasising about multi-floor houses and German shepherds like that of the
celebrity Wema Sepetu (the anti-Maasai “activists” love a social media clip of
some domestic dogs - not German shepherds -hunting, supposedly in Ngorongoro),
throwing in last-years tragedy when three children were killed by a lion in
Ngoile. Further, Lusinde said that rhinos run away to Morogoro when they hear
cowbells – when half of Tanzania’s rhinos are found in Ngorongoro. There’s not
one single rhino in Mtera.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The atmosphere was such that
the crazier hateful lies a parliamentarian spewed out against the Maasai, the
more laughter and table banging there was. The Ministry of Natural Resources
has to their Instagram page uploaded clips of the most hateful MPs, in case
anyone thought they are just deranged as individuals who happen to be members
of parliament. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The talk about NGOs from Kenya
is new to the incitement against the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area,
and apparently borrowed directly from the Loliondo police state at the service
of “investors” (<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-reminder-about-loliondo.html" target="_blank">OBC</a> and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-decade-since-trent-keegan-was.html" target="_blank">Thomson Safaris</a>). The rest was more or less well
rehearsed, lessons from nasty and brainless anti-Maasai media, and chief
conservator Manongi, who of course also will borrow from the Loliondo police
state and includes catering to OBC’s wishes in his genocidal Multiple Land Use
Model review proposal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The flaming new Ngorongoro MP
Emmanuel Oleshangay, did what he could to defend his constituency, with some
help from Christopher ole Sendeka for Simanjiro, and Edward Lekaita for
Kiteto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oleshangay said that Ngorongoro
can’t die when the Maasai had been living there for 60 years (those evicted
from Serengeti, others have been there for nearly three centuries) without harming
wildlife. He also spoke up about the malicious media campaign and explained the
status of the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo, accusing RC Mongella of causing
unnecessary panic. He intervened to explain that children in Ngorongoro go to
school when other MPs were saying otherwise. Shangay could also have talked
about how the NCAA are denying construction permits for school buildings. Maybe
he did (the clip is almost three hours, and my Swahili is limited). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Damas Ndumbaro, Minister of
Natural Resources and Tourism, said that it’s a big lie that his ministry is
grabbing Maasai land. Like the most vulgar and ignorant anti-Maasai person, or
troll, in social media, apparently denying the existence of land laws, he
claimed that there isn’t any tribe that owns land, that all land belongs to the
president who can take it away as she sees fit. Speaker Tulia Ackson even had
to intervene to correct Ndumbaro saying that the public owns the land, and that
the president holds it in trust. Allegedly, Ndumbaro is a lawyer by profession.
Responding to the complaints about the anti-Maasai hate campaign in media,
raised by the MP’s for Ngorongoro and Simanjiro, Ndumbaro spoke of the
government’s commitment to freedom of expression! That’s something new … The
campaign is indeed looking more and more state orchestrated. Since the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Act is old, and it’s three functions of conservation, tourism
and development of the local Maasai no longer work together, Ndumbaro said that
his ministry will review the <a name="_Hlk95488450">Act, </a>based on the
recommendations by the committee and the MPs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">PM Kassim Majaliwa talked
about having met with the leadership of Arusha region and with the ministry.
What remained was meeting with people in Ngorongoro, and in Loliondo where he
held many meeting in 2017/2018 to “educate them” … With the aim that all MPs
would have the same understanding of what’s happening in Ngorongoro a one-day
seminar is to be held with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, NCAA,
TAWA and TANAPA. Later, Simanjiro MP ole Sendeka asked the speaker if, to avoid
one-sidedness, some Ngorongoro representatives could attend the seminar. The
speaker explained that the MPs represent their constituencies and will be free
to ask any questions. So, the worst enemies of the Ngorongoro Maasai will “educate”
the already blood thirsty parliamentarians. Emmanuel Oleshangay who was sworn
in on 1<sup>st</sup> February will need a lot of help to be prepared. (The seminar was held today, 12th February, but I don't know what Shangay said).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An overwhelming majority of
parliamentarians shouted “yes” to reviewing the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Remember that from 31<sup>st</sup>
May to 4<sup>th</sup> June 2021, NCAA held a special exhibition showing
“conservation, tourism, and community development” at the parliament grounds in
Dodoma, goodie bags included. Then on 30<sup>th</sup> June 35 parliamentarians were
invited for domestic tourism in Ngorongoro, together with Deputy Minister Mary
Masanja. On 5<sup>th</sup> July a group of soldiers for the Tanzania People’s
Defence Force got the same treatment. In September 2020, the permanent
secretary and other officials from the Ministry of Constitutional and Legal
Affairs had their domestic tourism, which caused some disquiet in Ngorongoro. I
would have thought that this would be enough to make the MPs share the same
understanding of Ngorongoro, and the loathsome performance in parliament on 9<sup>th</sup>
February 2022 indicates that they are quite radicalized indeed, but this is not
enough for the enemies of the Maasai who were to hold a seminar as well, and it
was held already today 12<sup>th</sup> February.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyAhQNZHAJetFzosv-xfdz5n3I7gf2FMJUYQ34LWdzok7JpMxuVepPRFZy-bIkMoGwaKbxdeBGZTGjFoTgq4_yY7VoPGqFI3e0G6LV5RBE7KDZeMPTAIws-GS1vuwiRrZRtnsuDCEYsAk7wCGs-NorLe6MteRuI7FAajDj_PEyIZ0TS2Lota8nv1w_Tw" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyAhQNZHAJetFzosv-xfdz5n3I7gf2FMJUYQ34LWdzok7JpMxuVepPRFZy-bIkMoGwaKbxdeBGZTGjFoTgq4_yY7VoPGqFI3e0G6LV5RBE7KDZeMPTAIws-GS1vuwiRrZRtnsuDCEYsAk7wCGs-NorLe6MteRuI7FAajDj_PEyIZ0TS2Lota8nv1w_Tw" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tulia Ackson, then deputy speaker, and Chief Conservator Manongi in June 2021.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If they had the slightest
interest, the MPs could listen to Ngorongoro people to get the know what’s
actually happening, instead of parroting insane incitement. Innumerable
statements have been issued by different groups from Ngorongoro since the
genocidal MLUM review proposal was presented by Manongi in September 2019. Unlike
what the MPs seemed to believe, the Maasai aren’t voiceless lion food and it’s
very feasible for an MP to just go to Ngorongoro independently to listen. Maybe it would be more likely to happen if the Maasai started handing out
goodie bags but in this they wouldn’t be able to compete with the NCAA anyway. In
Loliondo people have been intimidated into silence for the past years, but I
hope that ended when there were manifestations and a statement against the
threat issued by RC Mongella on 11</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> January.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Still, there is a silver
lining in all this horror, and it’s that so many non-pastoralist Tanzanians in
social media are voicing out their support for the Ngorongoro Maasai. Among CHADEMA
opposition politicians, the support seems almost total, with one notable
exception that’s the party’s former shadow minister of natural resources and tourism,
Peter Msigwa. Msigwa is apparently with delight participating in the ignorant
and cruel anti-Maasai rhetoric. Maybe he’s just stupid, but he also seems
bitter about together with Tundu Lissu having supported the Loliondo Maasai in
2013 when Kagasheki was issuing terrible threats, and then when PM Pinda put
stop to the threats, the Maasai forgot everything about the CHADEMA support.
Msigwa thinks the Maasai are “playing victims”, without understanding that they
are real victims and playing politics. Tundu Lissu continues as the best friend
the Maasai could ever have. Issa Shivji is very supportive as well, so I think
the haters can have their sports presenters imitating pigs in heat. The Maasai
are supported by the brains. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apparently, this lecturing by
the enemies of the Maasai was done already today, 12th February. Judging by
what’s been <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ4jaJegeZh/" target="_blank">uploaded </a>by the Ministry, the anti-Maasai frenzy continued. The
Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has uploaded clips of Hawa Mwaifunga,
Special Seats, Ezre Chiweleza for Biharamulo, Timotheo Mnzava for Korogwe
Rural, and Elibariki Kingu for Singida West.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dydLJDxgkvwSCe_RqJIPccqDaGLfoIFQCdfpkUx0o5cSqDMmg6RsaJFdE1SCB709lUB2obnIGFuPN1LmmnD5w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Chiweleza at the "seminar"</span></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Statements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The same days as the loathsome
spectacle in parliament, some Ngorongoro youths held a press conference in Dar
es Salaam denouncing the latest hate campaign in media conducted by Habib
Mchange of the Jamvi la Habari and the sports presenters Maulid Kitenge and
Oscar Oscar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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traditional leaders called 10 journalists to Karatu where they tried to explain
what is happening.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/58Qm0XllPxE" width="320" youtube-src-id="58Qm0XllPxE"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today, 12<sup>th</sup> February,
several human rights organisations issued a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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saltlicks<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk95535052;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the online publication the
Chanzo an <a href="https://thechanzo.com/2022/02/07/unmasking-government-controversial-proposals-in-ngorongoro/" target="_blank">article </a>by Joseph Oneshangay (not to be confused with the MP) exposed
the old truth that the claims of pastoral threats to nature and wildlife in
Ngorongoro, aided and abetted by the government against its own people, is no
more than a hyena eating its own kids claiming to smell goats. Joseph explains
the background to the past few weeks’ media rampage and exposes a saltlick
scandal. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the government in 2017
restricted the access to several areas with natural saltlicks, salt has been
provided to individual pastoralist. Since then, people have witnessed a number
of cattle dying after consuming the government provided saltlicks. In December
2021 laboratory result concluded that the saltlicks do not comply with the
Grazing Land and Animal Feed Resources of 2012. Calcium level were much higher
than declared on the label, which suggests that the saltlicks have been
adulterated with e.g., limestone. Iodine could not be detected in any of the
samples. Silicon levels suggest that they may have been adulterated or
contaminated with sand. Lead was traced in one sample.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk95535078"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Permanent
Secretaries have arrived in Loliondo<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk95535078;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As described in the posts from
<a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-arusha-rc-sends-message-that.html" target="_blank">15<sup>th</sup></a> and <a href="https://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2022/01/loliondo-and-ngorongoro-attacked-from.html" target="_blank">27<sup>th</sup></a> January, Arusha RC, John Mongella visited
Loliondo and on 10<sup>th</sup> January started inspecting projects funded by
COVID-19 money. There was fear for what he would announce about NCA, but
instead, on 11<sup>th</sup> January he reignited the long-running threat
against 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> of village land that OBC, that organises hunting
for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, want turned into a protected area. Mongella
summoned village and ward leaders from villages with land in the 1,500 km2 to
inform them that the government would make a painful decision for the broader
interest of the nation. The leaders refused to accompany the RC for a tour of
the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup>, or to sign the attendance list, which could have been
used to claim that they’d agreed to something. On 13th-14th January there was a
protest meeting and a statement in Oloirien. All leaders, including those
who’ve been fearfully silent for years, and even the traitors who have been
working for OBC and against the people, spoke up against the RC’s threat and
against OBC, while the popular protest was even clearer. Then another stop
order (there is already one) was applied for in the East Africa Court of
Justice where four villages have an ongoing case in its final stages against
the government. There was some media coverage of the protests and several
international organisations issued urgent alerts and press releases in
solidarity with the Loliondo Maasai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwao-Y1dAJhYupXOyYhvgN56j-TpL7Gegfjee_D3rIyKopog_bIxpD85Z09eu3UChZIzSfbR7aHpDrGszKxnQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then nothing more except for a
confused Instagram post was heard from the RC, former PM Pinda assured Loliondo
representatives (in Dodoma for Shangay’s swearing in ceremony) that there isn’t
any government decision, but Loliondo was mentioned repeatedly in the loathsome
parliamentary spectacle on 9<sup>th</sup> February, including by PM Majaliwa
who announced that he would visit. Then, on 11<sup>th</sup> February, there
were reports that eight Permanent Secretaries to ministries had arrived in
Loliondo, and that Majaliwa will visit on Monday 14<sup>th</sup>, or Tuesday 15<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk95535106"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ngorongoro
Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Maasai in the 25 villages of
NCA live under restrictions not found in Loliondo, are not allowed to grow
crops or build modern houses, have the past years been losing access to one
grazing area after the other, and as a result are suffering from high levels of
child malnutrition, while throughout the years they have been shaken by rumours
and threats of eviction. The current threat was announced in September 2019,
when chief conservator Freddy Manongi made public the Multiple Land Use Model
review report’s proposal, which is so destructive that it would lead to the end
of Maasai livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. This had followed a
joint monitoring mission from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and International
Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) that once again visited Ngorongoro and
in their report repeated that they wanted the MLUM review completed to see the
results and offer advice, while again complaining about the visual impact of
settlements with “modern” houses, and so on. Recommendations and concerns from
UNESCO had in the past repeatedly led to a worsened human rights situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When the Maasai were evicted from Serengeti in
1959 by the colonial government, losing access to over 14,000 km2, as a
compromise deal, they were guaranteed the right to continue occupying the 8,292
km² Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a multiple land-use area administered by
the government, in which natural resources would be conserved primarily for
their interest, but with due regard for wildlife. This promise was not kept,
and tourism revenue has turned into the paramount interest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The MLUM review report
proposes to divide Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core
conservation zone” that is to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA
this includes the Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters
Ngorongoro, Olmoti and Empakaai where grazing these past few years has been
banned through order. This has led to losing 90% of grazing and water for
Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks
for livestock in these wards. The proposal is to do the same with Oldupai
Gorge, Laitoli footprints, and the Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek basins. In the rest
of Ngorongoro District, the proposal is for NCAA to annex the Lake Natron basin
(including areas of Longido and Monduli districts, like Selela forest and
Engaruka historical site) and the 1,500 km2 in Loliondo and Sale Divisions and
designate most of these areas to be no-go zones for pastoralists and livestock.
These huge areas include many villages and are important grazing areas, the
loss of which would have disastrous knock-on effects on lives and livelihoods
elsewhere. The annexation of the Osero in Loliondo caters almost perfectly to
the wishes of OBC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3nAyt7tmd4hB-WwYHgyt5aib82qNhifI8O5I0IYDFI28-w42FNVvzVob-h2FocRH98NLZEaurvC3j-WwPVZ5fpMcbHORMMs4lRoddNbOpF2R1LnfSB9p97BVzPaabQ2rp18A_uNjMOXb3FzceaZ9HYnHvbSS2EBesMIGQXCqKf509crNR4LFrUbr2zQ=s843" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="843" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj3nAyt7tmd4hB-WwYHgyt5aib82qNhifI8O5I0IYDFI28-w42FNVvzVob-h2FocRH98NLZEaurvC3j-WwPVZ5fpMcbHORMMs4lRoddNbOpF2R1LnfSB9p97BVzPaabQ2rp18A_uNjMOXb3FzceaZ9HYnHvbSS2EBesMIGQXCqKf509crNR4LFrUbr2zQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since it was announced in
September 2019, there have been several protest statements and delegations by
ward and village leaders, customary leaders, and youths. There have been
promises from Kigwangalla and then Ndumbaro that the MLUM review is to be done afresh
and in a “participatory” manner, but then the same genocidal threat is
returned. In April 2021, 45 families accused of returning to Ngorongoro after
being relocated to Jema in in 2006 were ordered to leave within 30 days.
Further, more than a hundred houseowners, accused of building their houses
without NCAA permits were ordered to demolish them. On the list were even
government buildings, like schools and a police station. A third group of
approximately 174 other families accused of being illegal immigrants were
listed in the notice. After protests, the eviction notices were withdrawn until
further notice. President Samia has parroted the eviction rhetoric in the most
unsettling way. Then in January there was this leaked information about a plan
for immediate “voluntary” relocations to Kitwai and Hamdeni, while RC Mongella
renewed the land alienation threat about the 1,500 km<sup>2</sup> in Loliondo
which is another issue, but included in the MLUM review proposal, and the
always present anti-Maasai media campaign was intensified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Nothing more was heard from
the RC and the leaked plan is apparently not on schedule.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then, on 9<sup>th</sup>
February 2022, in a loathsome anti-Maasai spectacle in parliament it was
announced that there would be a review of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Act
of 1975.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They will be stopped!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhezlzfj4lCt7uovx3q5oAlzXF4Xe29NX2ekHHh4niJBpEiSmq94AeP8KCxu9CcU1NDgMCR80d3L_yhqGEsW8jN61gk-tmPSLhsfDcGON8Vis4WNKal5tgDrt3nC0o3SYxGJ7QJE35dCqeWovi6aWUfTkhtHRkH3pOU_9O9gXFQITQ1KHEzWmcjvYtUFQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhezlzfj4lCt7uovx3q5oAlzXF4Xe29NX2ekHHh4niJBpEiSmq94AeP8KCxu9CcU1NDgMCR80d3L_yhqGEsW8jN61gk-tmPSLhsfDcGON8Vis4WNKal5tgDrt3nC0o3SYxGJ7QJE35dCqeWovi6aWUfTkhtHRkH3pOU_9O9gXFQITQ1KHEzWmcjvYtUFQ" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Susanna Nordlund is a working-class person based
in Sweden who since 2010 has been blogging about Loliondo (now increasingly
also about NCA) and has her fingerprints thoroughly registered with Immigration
so that she will not be able to enter Tanzania through any border crossing,
ever again. She has never worked for any NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t
earned a shilling from her Loliondo work. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:sannasus@hotmail.com">sannasus@hotmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Susannahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12122582965111940302noreply@blogger.com0