In
this very brief blog post:
Confusion about the “special authority”
Few meetings
Dismissed preliminary objection
Livestock census
Background summary
Confusion about the “special
authority”
After
PM Majaliwa’s much delayed announcement of his decision how to “solve the
conflict” over 1,500 km2 of important grazing land in Loliondo that the
“investor” from Dubai, Otterlo Business Corporation, for years has lobbied to
have converted into a protected area, silence has ruled Loliondo.
The
PM’s decision, rushing through a legal bill before February/March to create a
“special authority” (chombo maalum) that will manage the land, was a huge
disappointment and caused great fear in those I heard from, and this makes the
silence hard to explain. There had been hope that the village land would be
left in the hands of villagers, with the condition that they form a WMA, which
was the compromise proposal reached by the Arusha RC’s select
(non-participatory) committee. A WMA carries considerable dangers in itself and
had therefore been rejected for a decade and a half.
