It is not a nightmare that you
can wake up from. The horror is real. The threat, lobbied for by OBC, that
organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, of taking 1,500 km2
of grazing land from the Maasai of Loliondo - squeezing them into land with
towns, agricultural areas, forest reserves, and a nasty American land grab –
was last year implemented with brutality and lawlessness by the Tanzanian
government. The ugly boundary beacons still stand there and the Maasai can only
access their own land as thieves, risking terrible extortion by rangers, which
is a risk that must be taken, since cows need grass. Oriais Oleng'iyo who was
last seen on 10th June 2022, with bullet wounds and held by security
forces, has still not been brought back to his family. After the over
five-month abduction on bogus charges of all councillors, except one who fled,
together with people suspected of sharing information, there aren’t any local leaders
who are speaking up against the crimes. Only the court cases resemble anything
like hope. There is now further evidence (in case anyone had doubted it) that the
Germans support the horror.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area with
its NCAA rule and restrictions was something to avoid at all costs and a reason
for resistance in Loliondo, but now most of Loliondo’s grazing land has been
stolen from the villages and placed under the NCAA, with much worse
restrictions, total restrictions. In NCA itself, with the specific and
outspokenly hostile president, and the relocation drive to other people’s land
600 km away, everything has worsened, but "recently" there have been some visits
by allies, which could maybe lead to something worthwhile.
NCAA rangers and leaders of so-called cultural bomas in Olbalbal and Endulen are involved in violent assault, including rape, against women who sell cultural ornaments independently, and I only got details about this last evening.
The war against pastoralists, and other rural people, continues almost all over Tanzania. In Mbarali, Chunya, and maybe Iringa and Chamwino districts, some 48 villages (could be more) are threatened by the old extension decision (GN No.28) for Ruaha National Park. In Kilombero a massive game reserve was declared on 17th February. In Tarime there’s been lethal ranger violence for decades and on 28th March a demarcation operation on village land begun. In Nyatwali ward in Bunda there are eviction threats for extending Serengeti National Park all the way to Lake Victoria. Last year the government in the most lawless and irrational way planted beacons in several villages to expand to Kilimanjaro International Airport (there’s an ongoing court case). There’s extreme police brutality in Isela sub-village in Ndolezi village, Mbozi district from where people are being evicted for investment around a meteorite museum managed by the NCAA! This is far from Ngorongoro, in Songwe region, at the other end of the country. In Kalilani village in Uvinza district Mahale Mountains National Park is being extended into the village, and last year, at almost the exact time as Ololosokwan was attacked, rangers attacked this village with live bullets, which I didn’t get to know until 24th March this year. And so many other underreported, and unreported, horrors.
Still, the crimes in Loliondo
should suffice for a total tourism boycott of Tanzania.
In this blog post:
President’s
son in law as new Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism
Extortion of
herders continues
Where is
Oriais Oleng'iyo?
Demoralizing
tour by the MP
Land grab
legitimation meeting facilitated by Germans
Crime legitimation meeting number two
Reminder
about the Germans and why they must be chased out of the Serengeti ecosystem
Court cases
Reminder of
the government commandeered visit by the African Commission of Human and
People’s Rights
Visit by the Commission
for Human Rights and Good Governance
Support and
harassment in Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Beatings, rape, threats and silence in Olbalbal and Endulen, women terrorized by rangers and cultural boma leaders
UNESCO and
the terrible Dr Malebo
Updates added at the end of the blog post.
Sorry for the delay in publishing this post. There's too much happening and it's too difficult to confirm much of the information. I may also be too slow and unfocused.
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| Ololosokwan (cows released after extortion paid). |
In this blog
post both Loliondo and NCA will be mentioned, so please try not to mix them up.
Remember:
Loliondo:
Loliondo and Sale divisions of Ngorongoro District. A local police state at the
service of OBC – that has had the hunting block (4,000 km2) covering
the whole of Loliondo and part of Sale, since 1993 - and the American Thomson Safaris that claim a private nature refuge. For many years a constant threat of
robbing the Maasai of 1,500 km2 of vitally important grazing land,
expecting them and their livestock to squeeze into the remaining land. Major
illegal and extremely violent operations in 2009, 2017, and then the worst (and
ongoing) in 2022 when the 1,500 km2 were brutally and lawlessly
demarcated as protected area, evicting the Maasai. Vicious hate campaign by the
reporter Manyerere Jackton since around 2010.
Ngorongoro
Conservation Area: Ngorongoro division of Ngorongoro
District. Harsh restrictions on every aspect of life under the rule of the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and its chief conservator Freddy
Manongi, instigated by UNESCO and IUCN. Blocking of funds for social services
since 2021. Illegal transfer of COVID-19 funds to Msomera in Handeni to where
the Maasai are supposed to relocate “voluntarily”, displacing the Msomera
villagers. In 2022, a vicious hate campaign in media and in parliament. In
September 2022, the management of the stolen 1,500 km2 in Loliondo
was placed under the NCAA, which had been an open threat since 2019.
President’s
son in law as new Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism
On Valentine’s Day, President Samia Suluhu Hassan removed Pindi
Chana from the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism and
replaced her with her son in law, Mohamed Mchengerwa, Minister of Culture, Arts
and Sports. Chana was shifted to Mchengerwa's former ministry.
As known ... Chana's time as Minister of Natural Resources of Tourism has been the worst time ever for the Maasai of Loliondo and Ngorongoro.
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| Table banging in agreement with PM Majaliwa's malicious lies about Loliondo. |
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| In Loliondo with Majaliwa, celebrating the war against the Maasai. |
The horrible, anti-pastoralist deputy minister Mary Masanja has not been moved anywhere.
On 31st March, Mchengerwa appointed Elibariki Bajuta as Deputy Chief Conservator of Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Bajuta has as Head of Protection been Chief Conservator Freddy Manongi's close assistant in the efforts of emptying Ngorongoro of the Maasai. Earlier, Bajuta was District Tourism Officer at the service of "investors".
Extortion
of herders continues
Brutally robbed of their own
grazing land, the Maasai of Loliondo are directed to use remaining land that to
a large extent is occupied by towns, forest reserves, agriculture and an the
ugly American land grabber, Thomson Safaris (claiming a private “Enashiva Nature
Refuge”) and that everyone knows can’t sustain their livestock, they
must graze like thieves at night and risk both large nocturnal predators on
four legs and the two-legged version impounding livestock at huge “fines” of
TShs 100,000 per cow and TShs 25,000 per sheep or goat. Though after the
rangers of Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) took over after
Tanzania Wildlife Authority (TAWA) there has been a possibility of negotiating
to pay lower and more direct cash extortion. Reports from Ololosokwan are that since
security forces in June last year moved in to finish off the Maasai, liquor
business is thriving, and new prostitutes move in daily. On 19th
February, 700 cows belonging to six different owners were seized in
Ololosokwan, even outside the fake and illegal “game reserve”, and TShs 6
million were extorted from the owners. Lately, the rangers’ way of operating
has turned even more terrifying.
On 3rd March, 62
cows from Sedui village in Alailelai ward (NCA, not Loliondo/Sale) were caught
in this ward that somehow (apparently since it’s the same early rainy season
grazing area as in Malambo) according to the rangers is part of the fake and
illegal “game reserve” in the Loliondo hunting block. The owners paid 6.2
million in “fines”, and the cows were released on 6th March.
On 11th March, 47
cows belonging to Simat Rotiken were seized by rangers in Ololosokwan, on land
illegally called a "game reserve". The extortion was the regular TShs
4,700,000 (100,000 per head of cattle).
On 12th March it
was reported that 600 sheep belonging to the Karinya family from Serng'etuny, Piyaya had one week earlier been
seized in the Imbarbali area of Serengeti National Park, and taken to Naabi
gate. This is technically more legal than the lawless extortion of herders
on village land declared a fake and illegal “game reserve”, but cruel and
totally disproportionate. The owners attempted to pay the extortionate TShs
12,000,000 fine, but this was refused by TANAPA/SENAPA that work for the end of the Maasai. On 15th March a vehicle with loudspeakers
was announcing the auctioning of the sheep in Mugumu and other places west of
the national park. The sheep were sold on the 15th. This is the
worst that can happen, and in the past, it used to be stopped by any means.
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| The sheep. |
At night-time on 16th
March, 55 cows belonging to Mure Olempoe were seized in Ololosokwan, in the
Kuka Hill area, on village land illegally called a “game reserve”. The
rangers attempted to seize more cows, but those ran away. It was first said
that the cattle had been taken to Klein’s gate and that the owner would have to
pay the insane TShs 100,000 per head of cattle extortion “fine”. On the 18th,
it was revealed that the situation was even worse. The cows had been taken to
Bologonja on the north-eastern corner of Serengeti National Park, on the border
with Kenya, and Serengeti rangers, claiming to have seized the cows in the
national park, were saying that they would be auctioned off. The cattle were auctioned on 31st March, and Olempoe bought 20 of his own cows.
The same evil method was repeated at night-time on 21st March on illegally demarcated village land in the Osero Sopia area of Ololosokwan village. 440 cows belonging to people from Mairowa, Njoroi, Olekenta, and Osero Sopia (Ntasikoy Pere, Leshoko Tanin, Toroge Oriais, Kumoi Naing'isa, Orantai Nampaso) were seized and taken to Bologonja. On Friday 24th March, one of the cattle owners. Oriais Toroge, was arrested and taken to Mugumu. He was released on bail, and there was an “illegal grazing” case. The court ruled that the cows had been lost and strayed, and they were supposed to be released, but as of today, 1st April, they are still being held at Bologonja!
Karipoy Ngaiseri's 103 cows
were seized in the Oldoinyo Keri area of Ololosokwan on 29th March,
in the fake and illegal "game reserve", near Taasa Camp, and taken to
Klein's gate. After the owner was extorted TShs 100,000 per head, the cattle were released on the 30th.
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| Ololosokwan. |
Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023 is challenging:
1. Imposition of TShs 100,000 ransom compounding fees as unfounded in the law.
2. Jurisdictions of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in imposing compounding fees.
85-years old Orias Oleng'iyo from Ololosokwan has not been seen since 10th June 2022, at his home in the Engong'u area of Ololosokwan, with bullet wounds and held by security forces that had been sent in their hundreds to brutally and lawlessly demarcate 1,500 km2 of village land and very important grazing land, as the protected area that the “investor” OBC for years has been lobbying for. Unlike other abducted people from Loliondo, Oriais never appeared on lists of those who had been detained, and was not among those charged with bogus charges that were dismissed after months of illegal detention and torture. His son filed an habeas corpus case in court.
On 22nd March, the
case of enforced disappearance of Oriais Oleng'iyo
of Ololosokwan, Loliondo division, in Ngorongoro District, Miscellaneous
Criminal Application No. 68 of 2022 came up for hearing before Judge Gwae, in
the High Court of Tanzania, Arusha Registry.
Since the respondents’ lawyers
did not show up, the case was postponed to 30th March. The plaintiff,
Oriais’ son Ndoloi Oleng’iyo, who saw his father being taken away by security forces, was also requested to appear on the 30th.
What the plaintiff is applying
for:
1. The Court to order the
defendants to bring before the Court Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo who has been taken
to an unknown location since he was arrested at his home in Engong'u Nairowa,
Ololosokwan Ward, Loliondo, Ngorongoro District.
2. Court to order the
respondents to set at liberty Oriais Oleng'iyo.
3. The Court to order the
respondents to attend Court to explain the reasons for holding Orias Pasilange
Ng'iyo against the Law.
4. The Court to order the respondents
to bring back the body of Oriais Pasilange Ng'iyo dead or alive.
Respondents:
1) Officer Commanding District
– Ngorongoro
2) Regional Police Commander –
Arusha
3) Arusha Regional
Commissioner
4) Ngorongoro District
Commissioner
5) Inspector General of Police
in Tanzania
6) Attorney General
The above are not only
responsible as holders of their respective offices, but Arusha RC John Mongella
was the official enforcer of the brutal and lawless demarcation, directly
representing President Samia. The Ngorongoro DC Raymond Mwangwala accompanied
every government official who arrived to issue threats, make military style
exhibitions, and pose with the illegal beacons, as then IGP Sirro (now
ambassador to Zimbabwe) and many others did.
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| Mongella and Mwangwala lying and issuing threats in Loliondo. |
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| Former IGP Sirro in Loliondo posing for the war against the Maasai. |
On 30th March there
was a hearing. Unsurprisingly, the government side is denying everything,
saying that they never arrested Oriais, that he isn’t on any lists of detained
people, that nobody has any names or numbers of police officers, or vehicles. The
ruling is set for 10th May.
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| Ndoloi |
Where is Oriais Oleng’iyo???
See below for more about ongoing
court cases.
Since mid-February until
mid-March, Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Olehangai has been on a tour of villages in
Loliondo, Sale and Ngorongoro. The MP who has several times spoken up in
parliament with great seriousness about the Loliondo land threat, was
apparently seen by many as their only hope, and emotionally received. Sadly,
however, Oleshangai seems to in the most demoralizing way not to have spoken up
strongly about the land theft and human rights crimes. Reports from Ololosokwan
are that he called for rangers to stop seizing cattle in the 500-metre area
outside the illegal demarcation, which authorities want to be a no-go zone.
Though seizing livestock in the illegally demarcated area isn’t any less
criminal, which makes talk about the 500-metre not that helpful. Oleshangai has
also engaged in the most disgusting praise of president Samia, and sadly
there’s video evidence of this. The ruling party, CCM, truly is the most
destructive sect, destroying everything in its way. There’s so much more to say
about this, but it’s just too painful.
Land
grab legitimation meeting facilitated by Germans
On 28th February, a
disgusting meeting about the Ngorongoro District Land
Use Framework Plan for the next 20 years was held at the Ngorongoro District
Council Hall in Wasso. Sadly, those responsible for the horror have been much
more generous with information about this meeting than have serious people,
maybe because the latter weren’t there. The meeting was led by DC Raymond
Mwangwala, the National Land Use Commission represented by Discory Kanuth
(spelling?), and Frankfurt Zoological Society were thanked for facilitating it. Ngorongoro Land officer and chairman of the land planning committee, Kelvin Aligaweza, described it as a stakeholders meeting following up
on the team of 40 state security and surveyors that in late October were sent
to re-survey the villages and used illegitimate village leaders to impose fake
and forced land use plans. At that time the DC was appearing in media talking
about further land alienation via Wildlife Management Areas as an aim of those
land use plans. Fortunately, none of the councillors from the wards affected by
the brutally and lawlessly demarcated “game reserve” attended this meeting. An overwhelming majority of the attendants were non-Maasai, but there were some traitors as well.
The chairman of Soitsambu
village, Marko Lorru, who for years has been known as an undependable figure, a
friend of the worst “investors”, and I’ve had some nasty encounters with him in
social media, appeared in media in support of this legitimation meeting. Doing such
a thing after the 1,500 km2 Osero has been brutally demarcated and
alienated is going very, very far into treason indeed. Lorru praised the
usefulness of the “participatory” land use planning. Two NGO people had been
invited to the meeting, Joseph Parsambei of TPCF and Rose Njilo of Mimutie.
Both have for some time been known as very compromised and the government’s
favourites. There’s an audio clip of Parsambei speaking in agreement with the
government’s land use planning, blaming the councillors for not attending,
saying that everyone should participate, and heaping some praise on FZS. It’s
terrible to hear.
Masegeri Tumbuya Rurai
represented Frankfurt Zoological Society. This individual was District Natural
Resources Officer during the mass arson in 2009. In social media in 2012,
before blocking me, he described the 2009 operation as a consequence of the
Maasai rejecting a WMA. Before that he had been giving me somewhat sincere
information about how to visit Loliondo safely (to be accompanied by someone
from the district council and prevented from getting to know anything at all).
In 2013 Tumbuya Rurai was described as the most dangerous person in the
district who spent 70 % of his time working for OBC as their official informer
and contact person, who had allegedly been rewarded with a Nissan Xtrail from their
director Mollel. Tumbuya Rurai was reportedly very helpful preparing the map
for OBC’s rejected district land use plan. By now, Tumbuya Rurai has been
working for FSZ for many years as their Serengeti Project Manager.
In Ololosokwan, most of the
zoning sign boards from the October-November fake and forced land use planning,
using an acting chairman under the influence of OBC, have after the return of
village chairman John Pyando been taken down and hidden. Ololosokwan, like
other villages, already has a land use plan. The problem is that the main
part of the grazing land has been brutally stolen and must be returned!
Crime legitimation meeting number two
In the evening of 30th March, I was informed that meeting number two in the German-facilitated land theft legitimation efforts would be held the following day. Even worse, there were fears and rumours that the councillors would attend, and I wasn’t the only one who felt sick because of this, but fortunately those from the wards affected by the brutally and illegally imposed game reserve did not attend. Though, sadly, the two women’s special seats councillors who were locked up on frivolous and malicious “murder” charges did attend. I don’t know why.
Reportedly, the District Council Hall was full of people looking for the generous German allowances. DC Mwangwala in his opening remarks said that MP Oleshangai had called him to excuse for not attending but gave his blessing for the meeting. I hope the DC was lying. It’s been reported that the DC gave directions to the CCM district secretary that he should deal with the members of his party who are sabotaging the government efforts and CCM manifesto of planning the nation. It’s believed that he meant the councillors that didn’t attend the meeting. It’s been explained to me that the CCM secretary isn’t accountable to the DC, but systems are broken down.
Added 3rd April: here’s the threat in a clip by Chanel 10, shared by the DC’s office on Facebook.
FZS’s Masegeri Tumbuya Rurai was again speaking, and so was the chairman of the land planning committee, Kelvin Aligaweza. According to one account, FZS were also represented by their land use planning technical advisor, Christopher Cuthbert Christopher.
The same traitors as last time
have been mentioned by a reporting government supporter against land rights (Dudui).
Soitsambu chairman Marko Lorru and NGO director Joseph Parsambei again praised
the government.
For some reason, the Deputy
Minister of Minerals, Steven Kiruswa, was on an incognito visit to the district,
apparently not even known by the DC. He addressed the meeting and the following day (today) he visited a gemstone mine in Ololosokwan.
May they all be cursed.
Reminder
about the Germans and why they must be chased out of the Serengeti ecosystem
If anyone had believed
otherwise, it should now be clear that FZS and the Germans support the
Tanzanian government’s crime in Loliondo. In June 2022, FZS, that never has
said anything about violence for conservation in the Serengeti ecosystem,
seriously rattled by Survival International, expressed “shock” about the
violence in Loliondo and distanced itself from any involvement in the land
demarcation, but still claiming that the land status would be “uncertain”. German-funded
development projects in the Serengeti ecosystem are implemented by Frankfurt
Zoological Society (FZS) and TANAPA through the Serengeti Ecosystem Development
and Conservation Project (SEDCP) and for years land use planning has been an
important part of this.
Through the decades, FZS, the
Tanzanian government, and OBC share the same narrative about the Maasai, and
German funds keep being showered to prop of the crimes against pastoralists
committed by the Ministry of Natural Resource and Tourism and its parastatals
in close cooperation with Frankfurt Zoological Society. In the early 2000s, FZS
and the government were working hard to make the Maasai accept a Wildlife
Management Area (a recipe to turn land into protected areas while still
nominally village land, increasing the influence of investors, conservation
organisations and central government, practically always imposed under threat
of land alienation) which was rejected.
In March 2017, then Minister
for Natural Resources and Tourism Jumanne Maghembe and Serengeti chief park
warden William Mwakilema (current head of Tanzania National Parks Authority,
TANAPA) told a parliamentary committee (and very much the press) that German
funds would only be released on condition of turning the 1,500 km2
into a protected area. In Loliondo 600 women demonstrated against accepting the
German money. These conditions for releasing funds were not denied by the
Germans until two years later by representatives of the development bank in an interview with Chris Lang, and we don’t know who was telling the truth. Then,
while Loliondo was attacked by mass arson implemented by Serengeti rangers in
August 2017, a most revolting picture was published of ambassador Hess’s
predecessor Detlef Wächter. The picture showed Wächter smilingly handing over
buildings for park staff in Fort Ikoma, in Serengeti National Park, to an
equally smiling Minister Maghembe, while commenting on the long and successful
partnership between Germany and Tanzania in protecting the Serengeti.
After the 2017 illegal mass
arson operation, the MP and the District Council Chairman said that there wasn't any risk at all with accepting German funds, since they were meant for the
whole of Loliondo and Sale, not excluding the 1,500km2. However there haven’t been any projects at
all in the now brutally and illegally demarcated area, while water projects
outside it have been heavily used in government rhetoric for land alienation.
Reporting from a meeting with
diplomats on 25th March 2022, the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Tourism wrote that the German ambassador Regine Hess, supported the
government’s “efforts” in Ngorongoro, while the Maasai in NCA (not Loliondo) were
being deprived of social services to enforce “voluntary” relocation to Handeni.
This support has not been publicly denied in any way by the ambassador who –
after the brutal and illegal demarcation of the 1,500 km2 was
launched – went on meeting and smiling with some of the main responsible for
the crimes in Loliondo, like RC Mongella on 6th July 2022, and talk about
the “cooperation” between the two countries, and the Germans keep showering the
brutal and lawless Tanzanian government with money. In August 2022, Bärbel
Kofler, German Deputy Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development visited
Tanzania for more of the same.
On 20th December
2022, in a ceremony with the worst perpetrators of the crimes in Loliondo, PM
Kassim Majaliwa and then Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana, Ambassador Regine Hess handed over 51 vehicles that – as
reported by the embassy - are part of the 20 million euros (approx. 49.4
billion shillings) committed funds by Germany for emergency funding and
recovery for biodiversity in response of COVID-19 facilitated by the German
development bank, KfW and Frankfurt Zoological Society, FZS. The vehicles were
to be distributed into Serengeti and Nyerere National Parks and Selous Game
Reserve and would have a great impact on supporting “operations”. In the
ceremony Majaliwa mentioned poachers and “encroaching” livestock as the objectives of those “operations”. The following day, in a creepily gleeful way,
the German Embassy tweeted that during the vehicle handover ceremony Chana
announced that one rhino calf had been named Majaliwa after the PM and a second
female calf Regine after Ambassador Hess, “in appreciation of their efforts in
supporting conservation in Tanzania”.
And as seen, on 28th
February 2023, and 31st March, FZS facilitated most disgusting land use planning meetings to
legitimize the massive land theft and human rights violations of 2022.
This kind of German behaviour must
have consequences! They Germans must be chased out of the Serengeti ecosystem!
Court cases
On 14th March there
was a hearing in Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022, the judicial review
challenging the Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism’s GN No.421 of 17th
June 2022 as “illegal, unreasonably made, irrationally influenced, with
procedural impropriety, in breach of both the rules of natural justice and the
doctrine of legitimate expectation to the communities who have been living in
the place for centuries”. The respondents (government side) had not filed
any response. The court allowed them seven days to this. Next hearing is scheduled for 4th May for oral highlights of written submissions.
As known, on 1st
November 2022 it was disclosed in Court that President Samia had on 14th
October declared a Pololeti Game Reserve (GN No.604, 2022) on the same brutally
and lawlessly demarcated village land. On 23rd March, there was
another application in Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022 challenging
the presidential declaration. The case has been scheduled for hearing on 30th
May 2023.
In the East African Court of
Justice, the ongoing case against the Tanzanian government’s fake and illegal
“Pololeti Game Reserve” is Reference No.37 of 2022.
As mentioned, the ruling in
Reference No.10 of 2017 was appealed (Appeal No.13 of 2022 East Africa Court
of Justice), and on 6th February there was a scheduling conference.
Both sides will file submissions and the hearing will hopefully be in May. As
detailed in several earlier blog posts, the ruling was strangely, the last
second, postponed from 22nd June, during the extremely brutal
violation of court orders, to September. In the most shambolic way, the ruling showed that the court had not even understood what the witnesses were saying. This
ruling was that the Maasai had failed to prove that the mass arson operation in
2017 was committed on village land and not in Serengeti National Park, when the
government’s own documents very clearly show that the crimes took place on
village land.
Then there is Application No.2 of 2022 that is a contempt of court application, filed in January 2022, when RC Mongella started making threats of alienating the 1,500 km2, against which the East African Court of Justice had issued an injunction in September 2018. An affidavit was filed after every court order, and everything else, had been violated.
Reference No.29 of 2022 in the
East African Court of Justice is not about the brutal Loliondo land theft but
challenges the coordinated and suffocating policies in the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area.
Reminder
of the government commandeered visit by the African Commission of Human and
People’s Rights
I still haven’t seen any final
report from the late-January promotion visit by the African Commission on Human
and People’s Right, “Specifically, to seek information on and assess the
situation of human rights of Indigenous Populations/Communities in Tanzania,
including particularly to review the situation in Loliondo Area and Ngorongoro
Park.”
I wrote about this ridiculously
government commandeered ACHPR visit in the previous blog post but will briefly
repeat it here.
Not until the last minute was
anyone able or willing to put the commission in contact with affected people
informed about this visit, which throughout was directed and facilitated by the
Tanzanian government using premises and vehicle form the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism and accompanied by the DC and his team.
On 24th January,
the Commission visited Ngorongoro Conservation Area (don’t mix this up with
Loliondo) where they the previous day had agreed to meeting affected community
members in Mokilal village where people had gathered. Arriving in NCA vehicles,
accompanied by the DC and his team, and with heavy security, the Commission was
instead diverted to Nainokanoka where the DC had prepared people that would say
that they were willing to relocate to Msomera. Still, other villagers wondered
why the Commission was in Nainokanoka when people from all wards had gone all
the way to Mokilal to meet them, and they got some limited space to express
their views. Then the Commission made a touristic visit to Ngorongoro crater
and arrived late at Mokilal. The DC on the spot made up a new law that since
flags must be hauled at 6 pm, there could be no international meetings after
that. Even so, people in Nainokanoka and Mokilal managed to tell the Commission
about the many violations committed by the Tanzanian government, the
transferral of COVID-19 funds for Ngorongoro schools to Handeni, the underhanded,
non-participatory way of the Msomera relocation plans, and the increasing
restrictions on life in Ngorongoro, to push people to relocate. Adulterated,
hazardous compensatory salt from NCAA since access to Ngorongoro crater was
banned in 2017 was presented to the Commission. There were horrific details
about the catastrophic effects of lack of access to water in two wards since
September 2022, through government decision, and not suffered by tourists.
On 25th January,
the Commission flew to Loliondo on planes belonging to the Tanzania National
Parks Authority, TANAPA, to again meet with the DC and his handpicked people and
compromised NGOs. Nobody from the worst affected villages was invited, not a
single village leader or ward councillor. Victims of the government’s land
theft and violence were waiting in Wasso, but first the Commission was to take
a tour, in a convoy of over thirty vehicles, mostly police and other security,
of the land that brutally and lawlessly had been turned into a “game reserve”.
Somehow “security concerns” arose, Wasso had become “too dangerous”, and the
delegation was diverted to Ololosokwan, 45 kilometres away. Victims gathered in
Ololosokwan to give testimony, thinking that their prayers had been answered
and that the international body would come to rescue them, but waited in vain
for hours, then it was too late, and the Commission had to leave Loliondo. A
clip in which Salangat Mako, one of those waiting in vain, in English delivers
his message to the Commission was shared online, and then he received threats.
On 26th January,
the Commission visited Msomera to where the Tanzanian government wants to
relocate the Maasai of NCA (this does not concern Loliondo). In between the
government show the villagers got some limited space to explain that Msomera is
a registered village with its land use plan and the villagers were informed by
surprise and at gunpoint that Maasai from Ngorongoro would be accommodated on their
land, and that they had suffered illegal land alienation and arrests. Most of
the space in Msomera was taken by the Tanga RC who – standing next to the
Commission in the most threatening way claimed that Msomera would have been a
protected area and that no certificates issued after the declaration of Handeni
GCA would be valid. The government’s favourite lie about old Game
Controlled Areas, that totally overlapped with village land, was used to say
that the Msomera villagers were invaders and that the Ngorongoro immigrants had
more rights to the land.
On 28th January
some people from Loliondo were taken to Arusha to give their testimony in the
premises of the African court. Those who had waited in vain in Ololosokwan had
lost all faith in the Commission and didn’t attend. Reportedly, everything said
was astonishing news to the commissioners that had let themselves be shepherded
by the government.
The Commission and the
Tanzanian government held a press conference, in which then minister Pindi
Chana and the executive secretary of the Tanzania National Commission for
UNESCO, Hamisi Malebo (see below) told the usual wild lies. A final
communiqué by the Commission mostly consisted of stupid praise for the
Tanzanian government but included some ridiculously timid “concerns”.
In December 2022, the UN
Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, José Francisco CalÃ
Tzay, was to visit Tanzania, but he simply called off the visit when the
Tanzanian government insisted on managing him.
Visit
by the government’s Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance
The Commission for Human
Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) which is a government organ, suddenly
appeared unannounced in Ngorongoro on 15th March.
There’s a clip from 16th
March, in which the councillor of Nainokanoka, Edward Maura welcomes the
commission, and asks first how a government commission can hold those
responsible for human rights violation accountable, when it’s the government
itself that’s violating every right in Ngorongoro. Then he asks, when
“Pololeti” in Loliondo and the Ngorongoro relocation has been all over social
media for many months, and even the African Commission has visited, how come
the Tanzania Commission doesn’t appear until now. Thirdly, he asked where they
have been all this time. In Endulen, those invited who could come at a very short
notice refused a closed meeting, so it was held outside at night.
On the 17th CHRAGG
visited Ololosokwan and on the 18th Malambo. Reportedly, people
asked the same questions as those asked by Maura, but nobody was brave enough
to get video clips to upload. Though invitations there, and in all villages, were
for CCM leaders, and a few traditional leaders, more than victims, even if the
two categories overlap.
In Malambo, the leaders presented
in writing the brutal effects of the illegal game reserve on their ward that
had 464 km2 stolen in the sub-villages of Sanjan and Ndinyika.
Besides massive loss of grazing land, terror and violence, death of thousands
of livestock, hunger, poor communications and extortionate “fines” this stolen area
had:
Two nursery schools.
Two churches.
Four water tanks.
Four mobile clinic stations.
Nine livestock watering dams.
And 3,450 people lost their
homes.
There was a pleading tone that
upset me more than others.
Then CHRAGG met with NGOs,
both the compromised ones and those somewhat more serious. Their explanation
for being so late was that the commission expired and was appointed in January.
They did not give much hope about the current regime, to which they can only
offer advice, but said that the record would be kept for the future.
On 23rd March, in
Arusha, CHRAGG met with journalists whose human rights have been violated when
trying to report about Loliondo and Ngorongoro. So, it seems like this
commission is at least to some point serious. The journalists spoke about
arrests and about threats not to report, while some “special” journalists were
tasked with reporting in a one-sided way, denying Tanzanians the right to know
the truth. As noticed, the past year, Tanzanian reporting has indeed been even
more atrocious than usual.
In 2009, CHRAGG was
responsible for the most appalling whitewash report on the mass arson evictions
operation that year. Though, during the mass arson in 2017, CHRAGG actually
issued an interim order to stop the evictions and demanded that the government
explain the operation - but the crimes just continued unabated despite this
order. Reportedly, the reason for this unexpected seriousness was that CHRAGG
had a new chairperson.
Support
and harassment in Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation
Area (not to be confused with Loliondo) recently (or not so recently since I’m
unacceptably slow) have received some external support.
On 6th February the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network issued a statement saying, “In this
region, the Catholic Church has been very active for a long time, providing
health and education services and thus substantially supporting the people. For
its part, the Tanzanian government is now withdrawing financial support for
these facilities in order to cripple them and forcefully evict the Massai
community. As central as the preservation of creation is, it is essential not
to use it as camouflage for the primary intention of the Tanzanian Government
at the detriment of the marginalised Massai community. Conversely, it is imperative to recognise and
honour their contribution to the preservation of biodiversity.”
On 20th February, there
was a public Zoom meeting in Endulen about the downgrading of the hospital,
part of the restrictions to make to Maasai leave NCA. The meeting was attended
by catholic bishops from around the world and a UN representative.
Around the same time the
German parliamentarian Cornelia Möhring visited Ngorongoro her tweets indicated
that she had understood the situation. Hopefully she will in the Bundestag
raise the issue about the German involvement in the crimes against the Maasai.
As mentioned, the early rainy
season Nadeng'are area for Alailelai and Naiyobi wards overlaps and is shared
with Sanjan in Malambo that’s been declared a fake and illegal “Pololeti Game
Reserve”. Herders from Alailelai have been extorted by NCAA rangers both in the
stolen area and outside, and both ways are totally illegal. Also young people
from Sendui crossing the area on foot, without livestock, have been arrested,
beaten and robbed by rangers.
As mentioned in the previous
blog post, young herders were in January assaulted and tortured by rangers in
Ormoti crater. In December 2016, PM Kassim Majaliwa, without following any law,
ordered livestock not to be permitted in the craters of Ngorongoro, Ormoti and
Empakaai. There have been mentions without details, but I have not been able to
confirm further harassment in Ormoti.
On 26th February, two
people from Alaitole ward were arrested for non-violently chasing wildebeest from
their bomas, which is done to prevent them reaching the bomas since they carry malignant
catarrhal fever. Old clothes are usually used as barriers and the direction of
grazing livestock is changed to avoid the disease. The case was to be mentioned
on 24th March but postponed until 4th April.
When I was to
publish this blog post, I finally got details about the most terrible violent
crime that’s being committed by NCAA rangers in collusion with leaders of so-called cultural
bomas. See below.
Besides the decades long
restrictions to make the Maasai relocate, and the downgrading threat against
Endulen hospital, the illegal blocking of permits for already funded social
services for schools, dispensaries and village offices, continues since 2021, the
year that President Samia came into office and started inciting against the
Ngorongoro Maasai in several speeches. Primary schools are without functioning
toilets, third party donations have been denied by the NCAA, and as reported
COVID19 funds for Ngorongoro schools have been transferred to Handeni. At the
same time Flying Medical Service are grounded since March 2022, officially due
to technical reasons, which they dispute. The numbers of unvaccinated children
are growing.
On 29th March, the
Controller and Auditor General (CAG), Charles Kichere, announced that 2,5% of
Ngorongoro households had been “relocated” at a cost of TShs 24.7 billion. In a
horribly threatening way, he said that the cost for “relocating” the remaining
22,000 households would be TShs 988 billion. The CAG did not disclose where the
money is coming from. Oddly, the CAG report that is currently subject to
scrutiny (2021/22) ended on 30th June 2022, before anyone was
relocated to Handeni.
Beatings,
rape, threats and silence in Olbalbal and Endulen, women terrorized
by rangers and cultural boma leaders
On 18th March I was told about
terrible abuse of women and children at Golini gate, in Ngorongoro Conservation
Area involving beatings and even rape by rangers. It would have happened the
previous day, but that was not the first time, but a recurrent crime. Then the
person who shared the information didn’t reply to further questions, and I
couldn’t find anyone else who had heard about it until 31st March.
The extreme abuse has been
committed by NCAA rangers in collusion with the leaders of the so-called
cultural bomas of Olbalbal and Endulen where handicraft is sold, and tourists
are entertained. My informant got confirmed information about two incidents.
One deadly accident and one terribly violent crime.
On 14th March a girl died
after being hit by a tourist vehicle. She died on the spot after being dropped
off in the Kanjiro area by a truck that gave her a lift from the Golini area.
She was a daughter of the Oloodoemunge family. I have not got her name.
Extreme ranger crime was
committed in January when women were beaten with sticks and the wife of a young
man from the Olemusha Leparukei boma (homestead, not cultural boma) was raped. The attackers were the leaders of the cultural bomas and
rangers who arrived in a vehicle from the Olbalbal area driven by Leng'iria /
Luka Oleyapa who is an NCAA ranger. The woman who was raped was pregnant and
miscarried that night. Then the rangers and the cultural boma leaders handed the husband of the raped woman TShs 50,000 for him to keep quiet. The following
day a vehicle full of rangers went to the boma and threatened the owner with
that he is an immigrant from Sale, so he should keep quiet, or they will sue
him.
The two victims are from the
same boma, the girl who was killed in a vehicle accident and the woman who was
raped.
Violence by rangers who
dehumanize the Maasai and other rural people in their work to protect tourism
and conservation is well-known in many areas of Tanzania. These terrible
cultural boma leaders collude with the rangers to protect their business
interests. They don’t want women to sell cultural ornaments along the road.
They want tourists to come to their cultural bomas.
I do hope that legal action
can be taken and that Ngorongoro people can get involved in stopping this
horror. Another horror upon all the horror.
UNESCO
and the terrible Dr Malebo
As I wrote about a year ago, on
21st March 2022, UNESCO issued a statement regarding Ngorongoro
saying, “UNESCO has never at any time asked for the displacement of the
Maasai people.” This was said by the main instigator for evictions and
worsened living conditions. The Tanzanian government has through the years used
UNESCO’s threats of delisting Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a World Heritage
Site, its repeated population panic, and distaste for agriculture of any kind,
or “modern” buildings, as an excuse to worsen the human rights situation. The
most rabidly anti-Maasai press enjoy reporting about UNESCO’s support for
eviction plans. UNESCO’s general secretary in Tanzania, Hamisi M. Malebo, not
only supports relocation of the Maasai out of Ngorongoro Conservation Area but
has in a shameless and loud way voiced support for the extremely violent and
illegal demarcation of 1,500 km2 of essential grazing land in
Loliondo and Sale for a “game reserve”. He does this openly and loudly, in
front of international organizations, and I have not seen any kind of
indication that UNESCO would distance themselves from this individual.
When the genocidal Multiple
Land Use Model review proposal was presented in September 2019, the UNESCO
World Heritage Centre, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN) and International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) had once again
visited Ngorongoro in March the same year and in their report repeated that
they wanted the MLUM review completed to see the results and offer advice,
while again complaining about the visual impact of settlements with “modern”
houses, and so on. They also recommended the State Party to continue to, “promote
and encourage voluntary resettlement by communities, consistent with the
policies of the Convention and relevant international norms, from within the
property to outside by 2028”. As
known, unlike recommendations about too many vehicles (the presence of which
instead is loudly celebrated, not least by deputy minister Mary Masanja), the
MNRT loves this kind of recommendation, and the resulting MLUM review proposal
was so destructive that it would lead to the end of Maasai livelihoods and
culture in Ngorongoro District, and as seen, the genocidal plan for Loliondo,
including the annexation to NCA of the illegally demarcated land, has been
brutally and lawlessly implemented.
The MLUM review report proposed
to divide Ngorongoro into four zones, with an extensive “core conservation
zone” that is to be a no-go zone for livestock and herders. In NCA this
includes the Ngorongoro Highland Forest, with the three craters Ngorongoro,
Olmoti and Empakaai where grazing these past few years has been banned through
order by PM Kassim Majaliwa, not law (residents in Ngorongoro Crater were
violently evicted in 1975 after a change in the Act in 1974). This has led to
losing 90% of grazing and water for Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards,
and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks for livestock in these wards. The proposal
is to do the same with Oldupai Gorge, Laitoli footprints, and the Lake Ndutu
and Lake Masek basins. In the rest of Ngorongoro District, the proposal was for
NCAA to annex the Lake Natron basin (including areas of Longido and Monduli
districts, like Selela forest and Engaruka historical site) and the 1,500 km2
in Loliondo and Sale Divisions and designate most of these areas to be no-go
zones for pastoralists and livestock. These huge areas include many villages
and are important grazing areas, the loss of which will have disastrous
knock-on effects on lives and livelihoods elsewhere. The in June 2022
implemented alienation and annexation of the 1,500 km2 in Loliondo
caters almost perfectly to the wishes of OBC. Only 18% of NCA would remain for
people and livestock. Is there any sincere person who would dare to say that
this can be achieved through “voluntary” relocations? In Loliondo extreme
violence was used and in NCA the brutality of restrictions keeps worsening to
make the Maasai leave “voluntarily”.
Another example of the instigation by UNESCO is the decision about Ngorongoro in the 44th
session of the “Convention Concerning the Protection of the World
Cultural and Natural Heritage World Heritage Committee” from July 2021, UNESCO is
still requesting the State Party to provide information about “the status of
agricultural activities in the property” when even the smallest kitchen
garden had been banned since 2009, because of UNESCO’s repeated “deep concern”
which has led to malnourishment. They continued being concerned with, “challenges
resulting from the significant increase in the number of people residing in the
property since its inscription”.
UNESCO has never expressed any
concern, deep or otherwise, about that the MLUM review proposes a cultural
genocide. Their partner in incitement, the IUCN, did issue a statement against
the violent land alienation in Loliondo – maybe as damage control for the
trophy hunting industry that the IUCN appears to be close to – but not one word
from UNESCO. When you keep inciting an authoritarian government that values
tourism revenue above human rights, is prone to violence and lawlessness, and
full of pathological liars, to do something about too many people, you’re
complicit to crime, however much you keep mentioning consultations with
stakeholders and rightsholders, and international norms.
UNESCO’s general secretary in
Tanzania, Dr Hamisi M. Malebo, on 28th February 2022, in a zoom
meeting about developments in the tourism sector with one year of Samia Suluhu
Hassan as president, explained that children in Ngorongoro can’t go to school
and mothers can’t fetch firewood safely for the risk of being snatched by wild
animals like lions, leopards and hyenas (in the spoken Zoom seminar he
mentioned cheetahs as well …), so UNESCO’s recommendation to the government is
to find the Maasai other places to live to avoid these challenges. He didn’t
say anything about that NCAA should stop blocking social services.
I’ve been informed that, while
UNESCO is obviously a criminal organisation it has no legal relationship with the national UNESCO commission of Tanzania. Malebo
though is having a great time using the name UNESCO.
On 28th January this
year 2023, in front of the shamefully government commanded African Commission
for Human and People’s Rights Malebo continued in this vein defending the relocations
of the Maasai to areas where they will be able to pursue economic activities “which
are not permitted in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area due to its reserve
status.” While at the same time denying any kind of unequal treatment of
the Maasai in NCA who are obviously strangled by restrictions. Regarding
Loliondo, not only did Malebo pretend that the land was not legally registered
village land but lied that that it “had never been inhabited” (!) and claimed
that the government reached an “amicable decision” to leave the 1,500km2
as a wildlife corridor. What the cruel, immoral and deeply stupid Malebo find
“amicable” is that:
- On 25th May 2022, with great
ceremony, PM Majaliwa was handed “community recommendations” that he had
requested, and those were to stop to any plans of alienating the 1,500 km2,
investigate human rights violations, and remove OBC.
-Instead of following the
recommendations, the government abducted ALL councillors from affected wards,
except one who fled, on 9th June 2022, the day before the illegal
demarcation began, later charging them with “murder” for a death that took
place on the 10th and locking them up for over five months, without
any kind of serious attempt at prosecution, together with random people
suspected of sharing information.
-Teargassing, shooting,
beating, slashing, disappearing, arresting, charging with nonsense, innocent
Maasai while security forces planted illegal boundary beacons. Seizing and
shooting livestock, destroying houses, stealing motorbikes and smartphones.
Evicting from very importing grazing land, legally registered village land, and
then extorting illegal “fines”.
-Government official after
government official appearing in Loliondo for military-style celebrations and
threats, or in international environments with concerted, demented lies.
So amicable …
I maintain my recommendation
to UNESCO that is to delist Ngorongoro as soon as possible and then shut
forever up about Maasai land.
For context, I should add
brief background summaries at the end of this post, but I’ll try to abstain,
since the length makes it less likely that many people will read the post. It’s
a dilemma. Please contact me if anything is unclear.
Susanna
Nordlund is a working-class person based in Sweden who since 2010 has been
blogging about Loliondo (increasingly also about NCA) and has her fingerprints
thoroughly registered with Immigration so that she will not be able to enter
Tanzania through any border crossing, ever again. She has never worked for any
NGO or intelligence service and hasn’t earned a shilling from her Loliondo
work. She can be reached at sannasus@hotmail.com
Updates:
4th April
Msomera villagers have got organized to protest being illegally
displaced by the “relocation” of Maasai from Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and
their testimonies were all over online media, also to some extent regular
media.
5th April
Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 2023 was mentioned in court
and there will be a hearing on 10th May. To people from Ngorongoro
division who in January had to pay the usual extortion fines when their
livestock were seized in the illegal game reserve in Malambo, are challenging the
imposition of TShs 100,000per head of cattle as unfounded in the law, and the jurisdiction
of of NCAA in imposing such fees.
https://youtu.be/Qi8wdTeJ5BU
6th April
Davis Mushi, Serengeti senior conservator and head of security department, ignored court summons for disobeying Mugumu court orders to release 440 cows illegally held at Bologonja since 21st March.
The lawyers
for the owners of the cows held at Bologonja managed to address the court on
the following:
1. An order
for Ex parte hearing on the application
2. If the
above fails, to issue arrest warrant for them to come show cause why they
should not be punished for disobeying valid order of the court.
Ruling on 18th
April 2023
16th April
The anti-Maasai group of "journalists" called Mecira were again reporting from Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
17th April
304 sheep belonging to Mbaoi Pusindawa from Lemetema were seized by rangers when taken to water in the fake and illegal game
reserve in the Nadengare area, Sanjan, Malambo. The sheep were taken to the Orng'oswa camp and the
owner had to pay an illegal 7.6 million “fine”.
18th April
At a side event to twenty-second session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Tanzanian activists informed the attendant of the current state of the Loliondo evictions and the so-called “voluntary” relocations from Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
25th April
The judge ruled that Solio Toroge must pay 5,000 per
cow per day since 21st March and 2,500 per calf per day. Also one payment of
100,000. This is so confusing that my head hurts, and it’s not
fair. I will straighten it out for next blog post.
29th April
I was informed that the 440 cows had been released after the illegal fine and payments.
2nd May
268 cows belonging to three members of the Tiiye family were illegally seized in the Orng'oswa area of Sanjan sub-village of Malambo, on land brutally and lawlessly demarcated as “game reserve”. 250 cows belonging to mzee Sarkay Tiiye, 12 belonging to mzee Olodupa Tiiye, and 6 belonging to Kimani Tiiye. The owners paid the extortion money of 26.8 million TShs the following day and the cows were released.
3rd May
120 cows were seized by 12 rangers, including SENAPA,
NCAA and FFU, in the Empiriripiri area of Ololosokwan, just outside the
illegally demarcated game reserve. The owner, Kutiti Ketuta, was severely
beaten, his testicles crushed. The extortion money of 100,000 per head of
cattle was paid.
4th May
At the hearing of Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of
2022, the judicial review challenging Pindi Chana's illegal GN No.421, the
government lawyer raised a preliminary objection about being served late with
the application, if I've understood it correctly. The case is postponed to 15th
May.
In the evening of 5th May, NCAA rangers and FFU Kilimanjaro tried to capture some 400-500 cows, belonging to several owners, in the Oloosek area of Ololosokwan, next to beacon 57 at Enalubo. The security forces fired bullets into the air and the cattle dispersed, but they took 50-60. An unknown hero shot an arrow at one of the criminal rangers, but the ranger only got a light hand injury. In the evening of Sunday 6th May village leaders were summoned to a meeting with the OCD. They were ordered to search for the cattle owners who had been mentioned in social media (by me before being told by about the arrow). On 7th May Sanaet Ngirashai, Turanda Kedoki na Odinga Ngirashai were arrested and taken to Loliondo police station. They were released om bail the following day.
10 May
The ruling in the case of
enforced disappearance of 85-year-old Oriais Oleng'iyo of Ololosokwan, Loliondo
division, in Ngorongoro District, Miscellaneous Criminal Application No. 68
of 2022 was set for 10th May, but postponed till the 17th.
15 May
The preliminary objections in Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022 were overruled. The case will be heard on merits 29th May.
There was a hearing in Appeal No.13 of 2022 East
Africa Court of Justice. The date for the ruling will be communicated.
17th May
Vice president Philip Mpango visited Ngorongoro district and inaugurated several projects, while the land theft and human rights violation in Loliondo weren't addressed in any way. Some people handed over protest placards about the blocking of social services and other restrictions imposed to make the Maasai leave Ngorongoro "voluntarily". Mpango read some of the placards.
Judge Gwae dismissed Miscellaneous Criminal Application No. 68 of 2022. The reason were that Oriais Oleng'iyo's son had failed to prove that the respondents arrested his father. that the respondents weren't those responsible for the demarcation exercise, and that there was no other witnesses.
20th May
The Ngorongoro councillors voted in unison to reject Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043 and in support of a motion against the suffocation of social services in NCA. Those who have moved to Msomera weren't there.
Maasai delegation have gone to Europe and will hopefully severely deal with those who are facilitating and encouraging the crimes by the Tanzanian government against the Maasai. On, 31st May, they attend a public event at the EU Parliament: Forced Evictions in the Name of Conservation: the Role of the EU.
31st May
CCM Political Committee Arusha Region, with the implementor of the war against the Maasai RC John Mongella are touring the district, inspecting projects in Loliondo and Sale, and have already been seen in company of councillors.
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