Last Reports of the Year about Injustice and Land Threats in Loliondo and Ngorongoro

When few hours, minutes in Tanzania, remain of this year 2020, the only thing I can say is, at least Ref No. 10 of 2017, Ololosokwan Village Council & 3 Others (Kirtalo, Oloirien and Arash) vs the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania continues in the East African Court of Justice …

 

In this blog post:

The horror of the state of things

NCAA workshop to incite journalists against the Maasai of Ngorongoro

Criminal rangers again seizing cattle on village land in Arash

A reminder of the case in the East African Court of Justice

Vote rigging and murder in Ngorongoro

On Election Day, in Ngorongoro ward of Ngorongoro district, police and Ngorongoro Conservation Area rangers opened fire shooting innocent, unarmed voters who were standing up for democracy, trying to stop election fraud. 23-year old Salula Ngorisiolo was killed. Then the injured victims were arrested, and so was the CHADEMA ward councillor candidate, and the former CCM councillor (who was on the side of justice), and they were locked up illegally for a week and are now facing charges, while the murderers and vote riggers walk free.

 

In this blog post:

Stolen elections in Tanzania

Murder and illegal arrests in Ngorongoro

 

This blog is about “investors” that threaten land rights in Loliondo and the local police state at their service, a police state that was terrifying long before the whole of Tanzania turned into something similar, and it’s about the current genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review proposal. Though this particular post is about a not entirely unrelated heinous crime. There are still some information gaps, but I can’t wait longer to publish this.

Delayed Blog Post About a Lost PR Opportunity for PM Majaliwa in Ngorongoro

 

On Friday 16^th October, the old enemy of Loliondo and Ngorongoro, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, visited Wasso as part of the election campaign. On the stage, with incumbent Ngorongoro MP William Olenasha and CCM’s councillor candidate for Orgosorok ward, Mohammed “Marekani” Bayo who also is OBC’s community liaison (and who received much praise from the MP), Majaliwa, unlike what would have been expected, did not declare that the horrible proposal by the Multiple Land Use Model review team had been stopped.

In this blog post:

The MLUM review proposal

Reactions to the MLUM review proposal

Majaliwa/Olenasha/Marekani horror show in Wasso

Now

If you still haven’t, please read my long blog post about the horrors of the past five years. http://termitemoundview.blogspot.com/2020/10/five-years-of-disappointment-and-terror.html

Five Years of Disappointment and Terror - Not Only in Loliondo

Five years of the fifth phase government in Tanzania are nearing their end. I should write a summary of what has happened concerning the land threats in Loliondo and Ngorongoro district as a whole. This isn’t easy. Even with more fearful silence than ever, much has happened, and apparently insignificant events turn out significant with hindsight. The summary is too long, but I hope it will be read anyway and that those reading it will try to do something to stop the police state and the land alienation plans.

Sadly, I must warn anyone looking for something inspirational about brave indigenous resistance. Don’t read this blog post. These ugly five years have been filled with fearfulness, corruption, and treason. Though maybe, maybe a change is on the way.

In the future I will post an improved version, including 1992–2015. If anything in this blog post needs to be corrected or updated, I will mark the edit in a visible way, and I may continue adding links after publishing.

In this long blog post:

Brief introduction to what had happened before 2015

OBC and the Osero

Thomson Safaris

NCA

2015 with further divide and rule, intimidation, and elections

Divide and rule continued

Jerry Muro doing anti-Loliondo propaganda

Brutal evictions and confusion

Anti-Kenyan operation

Unbelievable treason        

DC Mgandilwa and his dangerous follies

DC/OBC/Oloipiri against Kirtalo

Protest in Sukenya

Illegally arrested

Never-ending lies about giraffes

2015 elections

 

2016 when everything got so much worse

Manyerere Jackton continued and increased his old anti-Loliondo incitement in the Jamhuri

Charity as a weapon again

Multiple illegal arrests with the aim to silence everyone

Further incitement and OBC’s report

Majaliwa “solving the conflict” via Gambo’s committee

 

2017 with massive human rights crimes

Drought and further weakened leaders while the RC’s committee continued its work

What’s a GCA 2009?

Maghembe and his co-opted committee

Spontaneous protests

Meanwhile grazing areas were lost in Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Proposal by the RC’s committee and unused parliament seat

Brutal, illegal, and unexpected invasion of village land and silent MP

Kigwangalla becomes a hero and then makes an ugly U-turn

Majaliwa’s decision

 

2018 with silence and extreme brutality committed by soldiers

Kigwangalla’s U-turn

Military camp

Daylight corruption when OBC again brought gifts to the MNRT

Secret meeting for a “friendlier” version of Majaliwa’s decision

Oakland report and Kigwangalla goes totally insane

Exterminating the opposition

Kigwangalla’s budget

Intimidation drive to derail the case in the EACJ

Soldiers attacking herders

The bizarre case of mistaken identity

The East African Court of Justice finally issued interim measures

Soldier brutality, burning bomas in violation of court orders

 

2019 with death, a faint glimmer of hope, and then a genocidal proposal

More illegal arrests ordered by DC Rashid Mfaume Taka

The RC condemning the burning of bomas in a strange and vague way

The president’s surprising statement

Perjury in the EACJ

OBC’s Mollel gets caught by PCCB and is locked up to rot in remand prison while all his accomplices remain untouched

Science magazine article deeply embedded with human rights criminals

JWTZ soldiers killing Babuche in Wasso town

Threats in the press

The genocidal proposal

Reports about the strangest study tour to OBC’s camp

 

2020 that will hopefully not just be a sad, long funeral for democracy

Mwananchi interview with Kigwangalla

Renewed negotiations with those who keep insisting on the genocidal proposal

MOU about the Pastoral Council

Visit to Kigwangalla and feedback meeting

Councillor reports about abuse and sabotage committed by NCA rangers and then the criminal DC receives much praise for intervening

Information about NCAA funds at councillors’ meeting

Kigwangalla threatens Lake Natron

Statement from Ngorongoro ward

Elections …

 

Ngorongoro Pastoralists Attacked from all Sides – Fighting Back Here and There, and Hopefully Soon Everywhere

In this blog post:

Lake Natron

Ngorongoro ward

Ex-RC Gambo

Manongi in the press

Adjourned hearing in the East African Court of Justice

Things are apparently quiet on the ground in Loliondo where the 1,500 km2 Osero of important grazing land is wanted as a ”buffer zone” not least by OBC that organizes hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai and that has used this land as their core hunting area since 1993. The Maasai have been able to fight off OBC’s intense lobbying, and keep their land, even though there have been several illegal operations (ordered by representatives for the central government) with mass human rights crimes. Maybe even more dangerous is the local police state in which all government officials have participated in harassment, threats, and illegal arrests of those speaking up against “investors” that want to manage, or own, Maasai land, and which has worsened considerable the past years leading to almost complete silence. Though since late February 2019 OBC’s Tanzanian director finds himself in judicial vacuum in remand prison while being investigated for mostly unrelated crimes, and OBC are keeping a lower profile, while instead a basically genocidal zoning proposal for more than the whole of Ngorongoro district is being pushed by various ugly characters in and around the Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism.

Scattered, Scarce, and Delayed Reports While Waiting for Action against the Genocidal MLUM Proposal in Ngorongoro

I must write about recent developments in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) even though the little information I have got is now old. This blog has for a decade dealt with “investors” threatening land rights in Loliondo. There’s almost total silence about what’s happening in Loliondo, and the current most acute threat against the 1,500 km2 Osero is that its annexation to NCA is included in the report that proposes such extensive “no-go zones” in NCA and beyond that it would mean the end of all Maasai life in Ngorongoro District, and these proposals keep being insisted upon by the Ngorongoro chief conservator Manongi, and an ugly assortment of individuals inside and around the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, while far too timid local leaders keep asking for the report to be overhauled, which keeps being granted, and is then ignored. The latest blog post somewhat explained the most recent promises by Minister Kigwangalla. Since then, the councillor of Endulen has reported about how this is being sabotaged, and surprisingly about how the criminal DC has been supportive of the Maasai (or doing damage control for the government). I can’t explain everything in this post, but there’s a decade of posts, and the latest ones have been about the MLUM report. I hope and expect to soon be able to write about some more serious action against the brutal proposal. Meanwhile I will post this.

In this blog post:

A brief reminder about the Osero

Articles

Councillor reports about abuse and sabotage committed by NCA rangers

Pastoralists into New Round of Negotiations with those who Want to Wipe them off the Map of Ngorongoro

This blog has been too silent. I’m very sad and tired, and in Loliondo, and Ngorongoro district as a whole, people have been busy discussing Covid-19, or “politics” (possible candidates, and I’m not innocent in this regard, even if my main interest is in who will best defend the land), while the biggest threat ever looms over everyone’s head – the insane Multiple Land Use Model report of last year. This threat has again been spoken about, and there’s a new attempt to, from the inside, stop planned atrocities.

In this blog post:

The genocidal report

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Some slow and timid reaction                                              

MOU about the Pastoral Council

Open letter to the president

Press statement

Visit to Kigwangalla and feedback meeting

Human Rights Criminals Visited a Charitable Project in the Form of a Military Camp in Loliondo

In this blog post:

The visit to the JWTZ camp

Tanzania People’s Defense Force JWTZ

Manongi, king of the NCA

DC Rashid Mfaume Taka – human rights criminal and perjurer

Summary of Osero developments of the past decades

It’s been revealed that the military camp in Loliondo is being made permanent, and with funding from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority. I should have written about this immediately when I heard about it on 2^nd March, but I’m too sad, tired and stressed, and didn’t start writing until the weekend, and after that I needed to know what some people had to say about the draft ... Then, this past week, RC Gambo toured Ngorongoro District and had a visit to the military camp in his schedule, so I waited for another week, totally in vain, since “nobody” has heard anything about Gambo at the JWTZ camp. Due to an emergency, the RC had to return early to Arusha, and may therefore not even have visited the soldiers. I may update this blog post, and now it surprisingly seems like I may be getting information about another issue for next blog post.

Update 16th March: RC Gambo was at the military camp, “placing the foundation stone”.  Council Chairman Siloma had some stomach churning words of praise for the soldiers, but I’m too tired to analyze that at the moment.

New or by Now Old Year, Old Silence, and the Same Unanswered Questions about Loliondo

Three months have passed since the latest blog post, which is unacceptable and can only be explained with that everyone is saying that there isn’t anything happening (very improbable) and that I (thousands of kilometres away) know more than they do. This does however not excuse my silence when there are so many old truths to keep reminding of, and unanswered questions to keep asking.  However madly disappointed I am with “some” people in Loliondo, and however exhausted I am by unrelated unsolvable problems, I must never again stay quiet for this long.

For a brief reminder of what this blog is about: Maasai pastoralists in Loliondo, who already lost land with the creation of Serengeti National Park, have kept being threatened with “conservation”, and due to the influence of tourism investors been victims of human rights crimes and suffered (keep suffering) a local police state with all government officials at the service of these investors that want to manage the land.

In this blog post:

Resumed hearing in the East African Court of Justice

How could a whole year pass without anyone speaking up about the soldier violence – arson included - of 2018?

Why has OBC’s director, Isaack Mollel been locked up in remand prison for almost a year?

Why has Kigwangalla sued the Jamhuri magazine? (This part may be outdated and irrelevant)

What’s the government’s plan?

Summary of Osero developments the past decades

There are of course more questions than these, and they will be asked in coming blog posts.