Update: On 1st November, Miscellaneous Cause No.09 of 2022 – a parallel case to the one filed in the EACJ to stop the fake and illegal Pololeti GCA - was mentioned in the high court and met with the information that the evil Samia Suluhu Hassan had on 14th October declared the land as a “Pololeti Game Reserve”.
On 22nd November the DPP dropped the bogus murder case, and the new blog post is basically finished, except for some terrible uncertainties.
More updates at the end of this blog post, and a new post will be ready as soon as possible.
On 30th September
2022 in Arusha, the East African Court of Justice delivered its ruling in
Reference No. 10 of 2017 Ololosokwan Village Council & 3 Others versus the
Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania. The case was so very clear
that it seemed impossible that the Maasai would not win, and the judges seemed
to have understood. Still, the ruling was “dismissed for lack of merits”. The
court argued that the applicant villages failed to prove that the mass arson
operation in 2017 was carried out on village land and not in Serengeti National
Park, as was the lie by the government (respondent) witnesses in 2018, after
the attorney general in the initial response from November 2017 had lied that the
1,500 km2 would have been declared a protected area, which is what
Minister Pindi Chana – illegally – did on 17th June this
year. The court seems not to have noticed this glaring discrepancy between
the attorney general (respondent) and the respondent’s witnesses.
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| TANAPA's map from the 2017 operation clearly shows that an overwhelming majority of bomas were illegally burned on village land. |
The lawyer Joseph Moses
Oleshangay tweeted, “The case has been dismissed. I believe the three
months’ time delay was meant to rewrite the decision. No other means can
explain more than 90 days delay.”
In this blog post:
The ruling
Reference No.
10 of 2017
Illegal
annexation to Ngorongoro Conservation Area and recent violence there
