Guest blogger Tubulu Nebasi: The Failure of the Manongi Regime of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and the Maasai as Natural Conservationists

 

By Tubulu Lerug Sokoine Nebasi (Diwani Nje ya Halmashauri/Councillor outside the District Council).

 

(Tubulu is the first guest blogger here at View from the Termite Mound, but any serious voice for Ngorongoro land rights – not least including Loliondo, if anyone would be brave enough - is more than welcome.

/Susanna)

 

Ngorongoro, particularly the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, is legally known to be a Multiple Land Use Area and it was by early 1959 when the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority Act (formerly Ordinance) No.14 of 1959 was initiated and defined the three main functions of the Area: Conservation, Tourism and Development of Indigenous People. The Maasai people are known to be the owners of the land and Ngorongoro is the Land of Maasai people, followed by the agreement of the Maasai to vacate the Western Serengeti on 13^th, 14^th March and 20^th April 1958 by the Laigwanak (elders) of Ngorongoro and Loliondo division of the Maasai District (Munge Ole Keyamba, Ole Pose, Olong'oyu and others agreed on behalf of all Maasai).

 

Today Ngorongoro is not better than before, the life of the indigenous people is not better, employment of Maasai people to the NCAA is not better, Multiple Land Use is not better, Ngorongoro Pastoralist Council, NPC, is not better, only militarism thrives.

A Brief Reminder of Rashid Mfaume Taka's Crimes, a Statement by Ngorongoro Councillors, and Manongi’s War against the Maasai Continues

 

Ngorongoro has a new DC after the human rights criminal and perjurer Rashid Mfaume Taka has been retired. I must remind of the crimes committed by the old DC, but know very little about the new one. On 27^thJune, the Ngorongoro councillors issued a statement about the land conflicts in the district. This is an improvement that I must write about. As feared when I was writing the latest blog post, at least 35 MPs visited Ngorongoro. As usual, this post could have been published several days ago.

 

In this blog post:

A reminder of the crimes committed by former DC Rashid Mfaume Taka

Statement by the councillors of Ngorongoro District Council about land conflict in the divisions of Sale, Ngorongoro, and Loliondo

Tourism by parliamentarians, and soldiers