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.
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.
The new minister,
Pindi Chana, was installed on 2nd April, met with the German
ambassador on the 5th, and made a militaristic visit to Ngorongoro
on the 6th.
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.
In this blog post:
The meeting
in Arash and the CCM arrest/abduction
Brief
reminder about the efforts to rob the Maasai of 1,500 km2 in
Loliondo
New “article”
by OBC’s “journalist”
The old trick
of public services as a weapon of war in Loliondo and NCA
Brief summary
of NCA, including latest news
UNESCO
denying responsibility for the genocidal Multiple Land Use Model review
proposal and everything else
Ndumbaro
meeting ambassadors and Germany is discreetly anti-Maasai as usual
Support by
Kenyan senator
Bye, bye
Ndumbaro
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| Pindi Chana in Ngorongoro on 6th April |
