After 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

 

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.

 

In Loliondo OBC, that organises hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, have for years lobbied to have 1,500 km² of important grazing land, village land belonging to the local Maasai, turned into a protected area.

 

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.

 

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 km² Loliondo Game Controlled Area, that delineates the hunting block, is the whole of Loliondo division, plus part of Sale. This isn’t that 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.

 

In this blog post:

Majaliwa in NCA issuing illegal orders about Loliondo

OBC and the 1,500 km² Osero

Points of what has happened so far this year

About NCA in the PM’s meeting in NCA

Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal

 

PM Majaliwa in Loliondo – Comparison with Earlier Intervention that had Catastrophic Results

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

In this blog post:

Majaliwa in Loliondo

The 1,500 km2, OBC, and Majaliwa’s destructive intervention in 2016-2017 – compare with what’s happening now

Anti-Maasai press conference

 

Anti-Maasai Genocidal Frenzy in the Tanzanian Parliament when Discussing Ngorongoro

 

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.

 

Remember that Loliondo and Ngorongoro Conservation Area are two different, but closely related issues.

 

In this blog post:

Loathsome spectacle in parliament

Statements

Adulterated saltlicks

Permanent Secretaries have arrived in Loliondo

Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal

Ndumbaro

Leaked Short-Term Eviction Plan for Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Vicious Anti-Maasai Hate Campaign in Media

 

It’s time to write about the leaked short-term plan for “voluntary” relocation from Ngorongoro Conservation Area. As known, the medium-term plan is for a cultural genocide, turning most of NCA and much of surrounding areas into no-go zones for people and livestock. Everyone has now got the information anyway, so there must have been more than one leak. Then there has been terrible incitement in Tanzanian media against the Ngorongoro Maasai – led by Habib Mchange of the Jamvi la Habari, and picked up by Maulid Kitenge who ran away with it like a pig in heat (I got that perfect image from a dear friend) but those people are also a distraction from the real threat

 

I hope I won’t have any news from Loliondo to write about other than something good about the RC backtracking, or a win in the East African Court of Justice. On 1^st February, Loliondo representatives who were in Dodoma to attend the swearing in of Emmanuel Oleshangai as MP, met with former PM Mizengo Pinda who is in the highest organs of the CCM ruling party. Pinda reassured them that the government hadn’t made any decision about the 1,500 km² and advised them about meeting people. Why did the RC, the central government’s highest representative in Arusha region then issue a land alienation threat on 11^th January? I’m glad that there has been so much international solidarity, much more than at more threatening times, and the reporting has got better, even if some incorrect information still gets through.  

 

Remember that Loliondo and NCA are two separate but closely related issues. They are not as detached as some local people may think but can’t be mixed up as is sometimes done by outsiders. The Maasai in NCA live under harsh restrictions that don’t exist in Loliondo. It’s Loliondo that’s my area of expertise.

 

Much of this blog post is ongoing events and questions.

 

But enough is enough! Stop inciting against and threatening people who already lost massive land when evicted from Serengeti National Park, and on whose land the wildlife is found that every opportunist wants to make money off!

 

In this blog post:

Leaked short-term eviction plan for NCA

Anti-Maasai hate campaign in media

Ngorongoro people explaining and explaining

Journalists detained after attending community meeting in Nainokanoka

Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the MLUM review proposal

Ndumbaro signing 30-year leases with criminals

New MP

Photo: Jamvi la Habari (this is supposed to make you upset)