Tundu Lissu made a glorious
visit, against police orders, to Ololosokwan and Wasso, and was then illegally
stopped from visiting Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Before that I had spent too
long writing about other issues, mostly about how the Tanzanian government/Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) responded to over a weeklong peaceful
protests demanding a permit to renovate Ndian Primary School in Nasipooriong’,
Endulen ward in Ngorongoro division/NCA some of which was also covered in the
previous blog post. The response is increased disinformation propaganda in
media (from an already high level), sending to Endulen market government
provocateurs that since early 2022 have engaged in an ethnic hatred campaign
against the Maasai, and then mass abduction of any man found in Endulen ward,
the elderly, the sick, the very young, with the “excuse” that they would have
participated when Maasai warriors chased away the
government provocateurs. 31 of those first abducted were for over a week held
incommunicado and not taken to court. Even Emmanuel Oleshangai, MP for
Ngorongoro, was arrested/abducted for almost three days. Then followed several
other arrests/abductions, including that of village leaders. Violence, destruction,
and theft by the rangers and police is an integral part of the operation. The
denial of renovation permits is a tool in the government’s concerted efforts to
by suffocation via restrictions and blocking of social services make life
unbearable so that the Maasai “voluntarily” move out of Ngorongoro. Another
round of threats and arrests followed massive protests, mostly by women,
against the government’s blocking of Tundu Lissu from visiting NCA.
This is not to be confused with Loliondo/Sale divisions where the government is using other strategies in its war against the Maasai, with a brutal military attack to demarcate a 1,500 km2 “game reserve” in 2022, after many years of lobbying by OBC that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai, a local police state, several mass arson operations, “arrests” for the sake of intimidation, and on the eve of the illegal demarcation, abduction for over five months of councillors from the affected wards. Now the government and its German donors and facilitators are working hard to make local leaders accept fake and forced legitimation of this crime, which the councillors rejected, for the second time, on 9th September.
Though it seems like the government is moving towards Loliondo-style tactics also in the NCA case.
There are several ongoing court cases against the brutal and lawless Loliondo land theft. The ruling in the judicial review challenging former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana's cruel and unlawful GN No.421 is scheduled for tomorrow 19th September. Unless it’s again postponed, I must very soon write a new blog post about Loliondo. This one is mostly about NCA (Ngorongoro division). Update: Good news! The "Pololeti GCA" does not exist, which must meant that the "Pololeti GR" also does not exist!
EU parliamentarians who were to visit Ngorongoro and Loliondo were 24 hours before their departure, stopped by the Tanzanian government.
I fear there are important
aspects that I’ve missed, but this blog post is already too delayed.
In this blog post:
Reminder of
the protests at Nian Primary School
NCAA’s
journalists kept “reporting”
Genocidal
inciter chased form Endulen market
Manhunt in
Endulen
Abduction of
the MP
More
government disinformation and propaganda
Visit by EU
parliamentarians blocked by the government
Magic visit
by Tundu Lissu cut short by the police
Manongi lying
about ranger violence against Joshua Olepatorro
Flying
Medical Service are back, at least temporarily
Cabinet
reshuffle
Very brief
background
Loliondo in
next blog post
Reminder of
the protests at Ndian Primary School
As reported in the previous blog post, from 31st July to 8th August people gathered
to hold protests at Ndian Primary School in Nasipooriong’ village, Endulen
ward. Villagers said they would not
leave until they’d got a permit to repair the school with walls so cracked that
it’s unsafe for schoolchildren to stay there during heavy rains. As known, the
Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA), in its cruel UNESCO-instigated,
and tourism-cult fuelled efforts to make the Maasai “relocate”, since 2021 is refusing
to grant any permits for building or renovation. There were protest placards,
chants, songs of prayer, and marches to block the Endulen-Ndutu road.
The Ndian headteacher, Ibrahim
Mtunguja, received threats while the Nasipooriong’ village chairman, Kunaay
Nakuta, and Endulen laigwanani of the Nyangulo age set (current warriors),
Koising'et Olekoika, got calls summoning them to Endulen police station. At
Endulen market on 2nd August the police attempted to capture the
chairman, which led to a people’s march to the police station to free him,
which was successful, and the police ran away. Otherwise, the police were
present at the protests, but without intimidating anyone.
On the 5th the
Maasai protestors started building a tented classroom for class seven, while
waiting for the permit. However, the following day NCA rangers demolished the
tented classroom and were by force taking young men’s phones in Endulen ward to
find out who was sharing photos and clips from the protests.
On the 3rd there
was a meeting with people – not sure exactly who - sent from the district
council who were informed that the protests would continue until there was a
permit. The protestors wanted high government officials to listen, which did of
course not happen. The human rights criminals, Ngorongoro DC Raymond Mwangwala
and Arusha RC John Mongella refused to in any way acknowledge that the protests
were going on. Ngorongoro MP Emmanuel Oleshangai attended and promised to
provide feedback about the permit on 18th August, and the protesters
decided to wait for that, but were overtaken by events, terrible events. On 11th
August there were reports of a mason, sent by unknown people, doing renovation
evaluation at Ndian Primary School.
NCAA’s
journalists kept “reporting”
As usual, the NCAA brought
journalists to report that the Maasai wanted relocations to Msomera speeded up,
and as usual, this is the material that the regular press published. Since
early 2022 this kind of reporting, which isn’t new, is sped up into a frenzy of
ethnic hatred, led by the editor/owner of the Jamvi la Habari newspaper, Habib
Mchange, that used to focus on fabrications and slander about opposition
politicians, and reporting about Mchange himself as the coordinator or director
of different organizations that he apparently hoped for the government to
contract. In early 2022, he hit jackpot with the organization MECIRA, an
environmental organization for journalists with its sole focus on evicting the
Maasai from Ngorongoro (later it was also contracted by the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Tourism against pastoralists in Mbarali). Mchange was joined by
the stupidly screaming sports presenter turned frontpage reviewer turned
inciter of ethnic hatred, Maulid Kitenge, and the old anti-Maasai Jamhuri paper
with Manyerere Jackton and Deusdatus Balile.
Manyerere Jackton has since
around 2010, in over 60 articles, incited against the Maasai of Loliondo and
for having them evicted from OBC’s core hunting area, which was brutally and
illegally done in 2022. This “journalist” besides painting the Loliondo Maasai
as non-Tanzanian and destructive, in the craziest way slandered everyone he
remotely suspected of being able to speak up (this blogger very much included),
openly boasted about being directly involved in illegal arrests of innocent people
and sent strange one-liner emails when such arrests took place, while also
fabricating stories for apparently no reason at all. Jackton’s colleague at the
Jamhuri, editor Deusdatus Balile also joined MECIRA. Balile is chairperson of
the Tanzania Editors Forum. On 13th February 2022, the new
anti-Maasai organisation held a press conference, in which Balile announced
that there were no graves in Ngorongoro and that the Maasai feed their sick and
dying relatives to predators, among other insane hate propaganda, that was
repeated in a three-hour parliamentary debate in which parliamentarians
competed at who could make up the sickest stories about the Maasai, and literally
call for sending tanks to Ngorongoro. The Darmpya online news (now Jambo tv), asked questions, like how
come the “allowances” for attending the press conference were so extraordinary
heavy, who funded it, and for what purpose.
Maulid Kitenge, with his
colleague Oscar Oscar, arrived in Ngorongoro, apparently for the first time, in
early February 2022, screaming like a pig in heat, as a dear friend of mine has
described it, about everything he saw, basically including his own shadow, as
something terrible and that the Maasai must be evicted – and so he has kept on.
Like all enemies of the Ngorongoro Maasai, these “journalists”, from areas
immensely more populated, engage in a population panic and painting the Maasai
as destructive, primitive and backwards, at the same time as screaming about
modern houses (never about the obscene luxury lodges) and pretending that the
livestock belong to rich people from elsewhere. Then they cry crocodile tears
about the lack of social services, when those are since 2021, when President
Samia came into office, being very purposefully blocked by the cruel and
criminal government that want to get rid of the Maasai. Attacks by wildlife
make Kitenge (and the rest of the lying criminals, not least the Tanzanian
UNESCO secretary Malebo) get into an ecstatic, screaming frenzy. They love such
news and will pick up cases from years back, while ignoring that it’s a bigger problem
in many areas of Tanzania, not least Handeni district to where they want the
Maasai to relocate. As the relocations to Msomera began, the “journalists”
report about everything that the Maasai get in the new location that they can’t
have in Ngorongoro, ignoring who’s restricting them in Ngorongoro and why, that
Msomera is other people’s land, and that not only the Msomera villagers, but
also some of the government’s favourite migrants have started complaining,
including the poster boy, former MP Telele.
There’s a lot more to say about
such “journalists”, but they are clearly a creation of the NCAA and its chief
conservator Manongi. To return to the protests at Ndian Primary School, the “journalists”
were again sent to Ngorongoro – to report about three individuals who wanted
relocations speeded up … not to report on several days of protest against the
suffocations to make life unbearable for the Maasai with the aim to make them
relocate. According to the Controller and Auditor General 2.5% of NCA
households have been relocated. There are also some who have registered for
relocation, maybe sold their belonging, but their relocation keeps getting
delayed. Then NCAA/government uses this creation of their own to broadcast the
message that “the Maasai want to be relocated”. The Jamvi la Habari used old
pictures from Loliondo on their frontpage, to fake that there would have been a
big manifestation in favour of relocations, and even a close-up of Kijoolu
Kakiya, special seats councillor from Piyaya in Sale – not
NCA/Ngorongoro division – who was abducted for over five months when massive
land was brutally and illegally stolen in Loliondo. Kijoolu usually speaks up
for land rights and has also spoken up against the restrictions in NCA,
particularly about life-threatening effects on women and children who are
missing vaccines and die when not able to reach hospital for childbirth. Then
the journalists were off to Kapenjiro village where some placards-carrying
people had been arranged. These people were thankful to the government for the
opportunity of moving to Msomera, where there’s agriculture and social
services, unlike in the terrible Ngorongoro, at the same time as angry with
those speaking up against the suffocating restrictions and illegal blocking of
social services … The message was that those were “NGOs” and people from other
places (this blogger included, even if I doubt that any of the placard bearers
know who I am). That’s the message that the government/NCAA want to drive
through. That there are Maasai who want to relocate, and selfish people who
want to stop them. In Kapenjiro, NCAA have teamed up with a most horrible
traitors called Ndwala Ngoishiye.
Genocidal
inciter chased from Endulen market
On 15th August, Habib
Mchange appeared unannounced at the busy Endulen market, in a NCAA vehicle,
carrying loudspeakers, with other “journalists” and “government employees”. In
front of gathered children he started haranguing people about relocating out of
NCA. Speaking on behalf of the government, he screamed that “we” now allow you
relocate to Kitwai or wherever you want. Reportedly, Mchange’s gang were then
chased away by some 200 Maasai warriors. Mchange himself, Ferdinand Shayo from
ITV, the freelancer Denis Msacky, and the traitor Ndwala Ngoishiye who was
there as a translator were taken to hospital in Karatu, not
Endulen hospital that the government is doing its best to strangle and
downgrade. Not even the NCAA statement the same evening pretended that Mchange
had been doing journalistic work, but “providing education to those who have
registered to relocate”. Still, much of the press pretended that it was a case
of journalism, as did the NCAA in a later statement. The NCAA statement also
said that “in collaboration with the police, the Ngorongoro Conservation
Authority is looking for all those involved in this incident and legal action
will be taken against them”.
To Mchange’s colleague in
genocidal incitement, Maulid Kitenge of Wasafi tv, the Ngorongoro DC, human
rights criminal (see earlier posts about Loliondo) Raymond Mwangwala, kept to
the message of the NCAA statement and added that everything was peaceful, with
no disturbance to tourism.
The government's main enforcer
of the war against the Maasai of Ngorongoro, and Loliondo, Arusha RC John
Mongella, made a hospital visit to check on his genocidal inciters. At the same
time, he ordered the Arusha Regional Police to hunt down and arrest everyone
involved in the incident.
On 16th August the
frontpage of the Jamvi la Habari said, “The Ngorongoro MP plans murder
strategies”. To other media MP Shangai patiently explained that he had left
the market before the disturbances started and does not support taking the law
into your own hands. It is indeed unlikely that he would have been involved,
but if he had, he’d deserve a medal.
Most Tanzanians in social
media supported the action taken by the warriors - as it was described by Habib Mchange's dramatization - and regretted that Maulid
Kitenge had not been present. This is how low “journalism” in Tanzania has
sunk. I suppose Kitenge was mentioned since he’s the loudest and most visible of
the instigators of ethnic hatred, and because he has also used his pig-in-heat
style to defend the very dodgy deal with the Dubai state-owned company DP World
to control Tanzanian mainland ports, while critics of this deal are being
threatened, harassed and arrested.
On 16th August,
some 30 vehicles were seen at the Endulen NCAA zonal office, including FFU
anti-riot police. The police searched the homes of the Endulen village
chairman, Thomas Oltwati, and CCM ward chairman, Moses Oleseki, but could not
find them. They arrested a young man named Larasha Olenginina in his shop and first
took him to the Endulen NCAA office, instead of taking him to Endulen police
station.
NCA rangers and police started
searching every single boma in Endulen ward, arresting every man that they
could find. Most were already hiding and sleeping in the bush, so among those
arrested were Daniel Olewanga who has just been released from hospital with TB,
a man born with mental illness, old men and young boys, and even a non-Maasai shopkeeper
who was accused of assisting the Maasai to stay in NCA. Daniel Olewanga was not
allowed to take his medicine with him, he had tried to keep away from people to avoid transmitting TB to them, but was locked up in a cell with over 30 others. NCA
rangers were firing bullets aimlessly, and towards specific people while
chasing them, and NCA vehicles hidden in the bush along the road to ambush any
man they could find. Reports about sexual assault against women during the
manhunt – publicly denounced by women in Endulen on 24th August - are
being investigated. It was first unclear to where those abducted had been
taken, then it was found that some were at Manyara Kibaoni and some at Karatu
police station. Some were also held at Ngorongoro Police Station. Most were
badly beaten and the NCA rangers had special “greeting” that they used on those
arrested, and which consists if slapping both ears at the same time, leading to
temporary loss of hearing. Some of those arrested fainted because of this “greeting”.
Some were tortured with cold water, and several, most it seems, were ordered to kiss the police
cell wall and tell it, “I love you”. All
were questioned about why they are resisting relocation out of Ngorongoro, and
about who is organizing this resistance. Most were asked about who was
organizing the protests at Ndian Primary School.
On 21st August Odero
Odero of Civil and Legal Aid issued a press statement and several Ngorongoro
youths, Kisota Mollel, Melobo Ndara Poshe and Ezekiel Olemangi, held a press
conference.
A habeas corpus was filed on
the 21st and the following day lawyers could see the abducted men
who had been terribly beaten and interrogated about why they were refusing to
relocate to Msomera. On 24th August, they were released on bail -
after over a week of illegal detention and maltreatment - the day after the
Ngorongoro MP was released after almost three days (see below).
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| Finally released on bail. |
In a slightly separate and
confusing (nobody has explained it properly) abduction, Mzee Peter Parsais, CCM chairman of Naiyobi ward – home of
the traitor Ndwala Ngoishiye - was taken by NCA rangers on 19th
August. Two NCAA vehicles were searching for Peter, the rangers arrived at his
house and told his wife that they wanted to personally deliver a letter from
CCM Arusha Region, so they wife told them where he was. The rangers took Peter’s
stick and sword and took him away without telling to where. Later it was found
that Peter was being held at a “safe house” with Tanzania Intelligence
Services, and he was released on 24th August.
Meanwhile, Minister Mchengerwa
inaugurated the second phase of relocation to Msomera and warned anyone “sabotaging”
the exercise.
Denis Peshut from Endulen was
in the morning of 29th August abducted and at noon found at Karatu Police
Station to where everyone is currently being taken instead of Loliondo Police Station
that’s the police headquarters in Ngorongoro district. He was denied bail since
the Officer Commanding Station claimed that the police can't interfere with the
NCAA intelligence unit. Denis was interrogated
about the protests at Ndian Primary School, the chasing of government
provocateurs at Endulen market, and the women's protest during the paramilitary
hunt of any man in Endulen not fast enough. On 31st August he was
finally granted bail.
The night leading to 1st
September, NCA rangers and police arrived in Ormekeke sub-village in a vehicle from
the NCA Endulen zone, driven by Emmanuel Telele who’s employed by the NCA
Alaitole zone. The security forces invaded the homes of the Nasipooriong’
village chairman, Kunaay Nakuta, and the Ormekeke sub-village chairman and
traditional leader, Oreteti Olenjorio (not to be confused with his brother
Ngakenya) by breaking the doors and destroying property. They slapped and
insulted the village chairman’s wife. They also broke the doors of several
relatives to those leaders, including the mother of the village chairman. After
not being able to find the village chairman, the rangers stole ten buckets of honey that belonged to him. Women were
shocked and children ran away.
The rangers and police continued to Alaitole where the same night they arrested the ward councillor, James Moringe who had attended the protests at Ndian Primary School. Also arrested was the traditional leader Petei Ketaika. Both are of the Landiss age-set that are very middle-aged. The rangers and police could not find the Endulen village chairman. These two were taken to Karatu and in the afternoon they were released on bail.
The arrests of men from
Endulen ward continued on 4th September when Nyangulo traditional
leader Zakayo Ponja was abducted from his place of work at a tourist camp in
Serengeti and taken to Karatu Police Station. Zakayo can still not hear well
after being tortured and he has pain and swelling in his chest. Ngakenya
Olenjorio, CCM Secretary Endulen Ward, Moses Oleseki, CCM Ward Chairman, and Thomas
Oltwati, Endulen Village Chairman were summoned by the Ngorongoro officer
commanding station to report at Karatu Police Station and when they arrived,
they were arrested.
Why Karatu and not Ngorongoro
or district police headquarters in Loliondo town? Not only the police district headquarters,
but the district council, the DC’s office, everything, is found in
Loliondo/Wasso towns. The only thing that since May 2021 is located in the
neighbouring Karatu district, is the NCAA headquarters, and the NCAA is clearly
leading and directing the police work. So far 46 people have been interrogated
without legal representation, forced to sign statements that that have not been
read to them, and held for longer than stipulated by the law, in some cases
more than a week incommunicado. Many of them have been severely beaten. Today,
18th September, they had to report at the police stations again, most
of them at Karatu Police Station, to where all are supposed to return on the 21st
for a “final decision”.
On 20th August, the
MP for Ngorongoro, Emmanuel Oleshangai, posted a letter in social media saying
that his life and his family were in danger. The previous night, rangers had
invaded his home, disturbed his family and issued threats to his life. The
leader of the patrol, who was wearing a red t-shirt, said that if the MP was
found, they should shoot him in the leg, or wherever, so that the job would be
finished. His mother had fainted and still not recovered. After this, Shangai
phoned the Ngorongoro district investigation officer Kwakaya to tell him that
if they needed him, they should stop disturbing his family. Kwakaya told him to
come to Karatu for questioning, which surprised the MP, since the district
headquarters in Loliondo would have been expected. However, in the afternoon
police in three vehicles again arrived at his home with the aim of arresting
his wife, who’s innocent. So, he wanted to inform Ngorongoro resident and
Tanzanians in general that is life is in trouble and security is not good. He
explained that the problem stemmed from the accusations in the Jamvi la Habari
that he’d been involved in violence at Endulen market, which he has already
explained to media, and if the police wanted his statement, they should summon
him for that and not come to his home with guns.
Shangai said
that, if anything happens to him, we should know that it is at the instructions
of the DC of Ngorongoro, Raymond Mwangwala and the RC of Arusha, John Mongella.
I’d say, we should keep that (and who is the boss of those two) in mind
regarding everything that happens in Ngorongoro.
On 21st August MP
Shangai was on his way, together with several lawyers, to the Regional Crime
Officer (RCO) in Arusha but was told that the RCO was busy and that he should
instead report at the District Police Station in Karatu. They turned back, but
at Rhotia (Marera), near Karatu, the road was blocked by a NCA vehicle and another
vehicle with police officers. The MP was arrested and taken to Karatu Police Station
to where he was already on his way.
At Karatu police station the
MP was interrogated until past midnight. Among many other people, the Officers
Commanding District of Ngorongoro and Karatu were present at the station. The
accusation was about injuring the inciter of ethnic hatred at Endulen market. Then
the MP’s lawyers were asked to leave and come back the following morning when he
would be granted bail.
When the lawyers returned with
tea for the MP in the morning, he was no longer at Karatu police station. The
police officers said that he had been transferred in the middle of the night,
on order by higher authorities, but they didn’t know where. The lawyers went to
court to enquire but was told that the MP had not been brought. Then they went
to Chekereni and Tengeru police stations without finding him. At Arusha Tourism and Diplomatic Police Station they were told to direct their questions to the RCO,
but he was not available. The lawyers held a press conference about the MP and
about the 31 men who had been locked up for a week and who had been tortured. Another
night passed with MP Shangai’s whereabouts unknown.
The following day a habeas
corpus was filed and in the evening MP Emmanuel Oleshangai was released on
bail. Unlike the other arrested people from Endulen, he had been treated well,
but had refused food during the whole abduction. I suppose this was because he
feared for his life.
On 25th August
there was a multitudinous reception of MP Olehsangai upon his return home to
Endulen.
More
government disinformation and propaganda
On 22nd August,
while the Ngorongoro MP and over 31 abducted men from Endulen were being held
incommunicado, NCA Chief Conservator Manongi, his deputy Bajuta, Minister
Mchengerwa, Arusha RC Mongella, the Tanzanian UNESCO secretary, the horrible Dr
Malebo, Deputy Permanent Representative
to the Tanzania Mission to the UN in Geneva, Hoyce Temu, the shameless Chairperson
of the National Council of NGOs, Lilian Badi, the government’s favourite
traitor from Kapenjiro, Ndwala Ngoishiye, and other criminals held yet another
disinformation conference for media. I haven’t listened attentively to it all,
but judging from what was reported by such outlets as the Daily News, East
Africa tv and others, they went on with the same old propaganda, without
touching on the ongoing manhunt, including abduction of the MP, in Endulen.
There was population panic and insulting ethnic profiling of the Maasai, but
mostly crocodile tears over how terrible everything is in Ngorongoro and how
generous the government is helping the Maasai to relocate “voluntary”, which so
many are registered for, and as perverse as usual was the silence about
suffocating restrictions and blocking of social services as a strategy to very
purposefully get rid of the Maasai. As usual, Dr. Malebo went on and on about
wild predators eating the Maasai, and he listed every disease found in
Ngorongoro (and of course elsewhere …) Still, UNESCO have not distanced
themselves in any way from this individual.
Every day there are articles about how the Maasai in Ngorongoro want the relocation process speeded up, about how wonderful Msomera is, or how terrible Ngorongoro is. Sometimes the latter could be written by serious people instead of government campaigners, but then as a description of government policy and not about something the government is saving the Maasai from by relocating them. Regularly, lately several time a week, it seems, NCAA are bringing so-called “journalists” to Ngorongoro and Msomera.
On 29th August there was a particularly bizarre case of
reporting. The Maasai, besides the usual government message, were supposedly
asking for forgiveness for “attacking journalists”. The statement was read by Ndwala
Ngoishiye who technically is a “victim” of said attacks, since he was taken to
hospital in Karatu, after acting as translator of the incitement.
Social media trolls calling
for the relocation of the Ngorongoro Maasai have increased their presence in
September.
Visit
by EU parliamentarians blocked by the government
Three Green European Union
parliamentarians - Michèle Rivasi, Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana, Claude Gruffat -
were on 4th September due to travel to Ngorongoro and Loliondo as
part of an independent observation mission, but 24 hours before departure, the
Tanzanian government, through its ambassador to the EU, said it had decided to
“defer this visit to a later date”. The EU parliamentarians were by ambassador
Jestas Abouk Nyamanga promised that they’d be allowed to carry out this
independent mission during an event at the EU parliament in May, in which the
ambassador and the horrible Dr. Malebo were lying their heads off as usual, but
at this same event, uniquely and in the most wonderful way, the Maasai
representatives, Joseph Oleshangay, Nengai Kilusu Laizer, Noorkishili Nakero
Naing’isa were able to set the record straight, right there at the same venue.
Apparently, the Tanzanian
government had proposed a totally government commandeered visit, which was
rejected by the EU parliamentarians, who were then no longer welcome, 24 hours
before departure. The same happened to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights
of Indigenous People, Francisco Calí Tzay, in December 2022. Unlike the EU
parliamentarians, the rapporteur unfortunately did not issue a press statement,
so Ambassador Nyamanga lied (one of his milder lies …) about him, saying that
he had not come to Tanzania since allegations were unsubstantiated, as had been
seen by the African Commission of Human and People’s Rights commissioners. That
disgraceful ACHPR commission did indeed accept being commandeered by the
Tanzanian government (described in several blog posts) and did not meet one
single victim, or even an independent voice in Loliondo, and in Msomera the
commissioners, some of whom were Swahili-speakers, passively sat next to the
Tanga RC when he talked in a threatening way to the Msomera villagers. ACHPR
have not released a report but a brief final communiqué recognises some
problems, while praising the Tanzanian government …
For a quick reminder of the
quite insane lies told by Tanzanian diplomats, who have apparently all been
instructed to make fools of themselves: they claim terra nullius, that Loliondo
has never been inhabited and is a protected area since German colonial times,
that the demarcation was done in friendly agreement with the Maasai (so
friendly that all councillors of affected wards were abducted on the eve of the
demarcation, and kept abducted for over five months …), that the Ngorongoro
Maasai are relocated so that they won’t keep getting eaten by wild animals, and
that social services have been cut after relocation, since the population has
diminished! And the Maasai are of course Kenyans, and so on.
Magic
visit by Tundu Lissu cut short by the police
The deputy chairman of the opposition
party CHADEMA, Tundu Lissu, peppered with 16 bullets in 2017 – which has still
not been investigated - with over 20 surgeries, and a long-time ally of the
Maasai, was to hold rallies in Loliondo and Ngorongoro on 8th
(Ololosokwan, Wasso, Loosoito) and 9th (Mokilal, Endulen, Alailelai)
September. CHADEMA sent a letter to inform the Officer Commanding District
(OCD) Ngorongoro of these rallies but got the reply that in Ngorongoro Conservation
Area a permit from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority is needed and that
in Loliondo division, according to information, political activities,
especially public rallies, are not permitted. Lissu declared that Ngorongoro
was not a prison and the Maasai not its inmates, so he was going anyway.
Lissu’s entourage had been
holding several rallies in Mara region, and for some reason that only seemed to
bother me, and nobody else, they set out late from Mugumu, later than the
announced arrival time in Ololosokwan, and it’s a 3-hour drive through
Serengeti National Park.
The reception in Ololosokwan
was overwhelming. People had been urged and threatened not to turn up, and there
had been some sabotage to preparations, but despite of fuel prices, there was a
long caravan of motorcycles receiving Lissu and people ran next to the CHADEMA
vehicles for kilometres. They had been left alone with their tormentors for
very long, and those in contact with people on the ground know the damage that this
has done. Lissu did not show a detailed knowledge about the brutal and illegal
demarcation of a “Pololeti Game Reserve” but enquired with young attendants and
admonished them to have detailed statistics at hand. Though I’ve only seen
short clips with bad sound from Ololosokwan. Lissu was presented a gift by the
disappeared Orias Oleng’iyo daughter. A young man, one of many who were was
illegally locked up in remand prison for almost six months at the start of the
military attack on Loliondo, has gone through a radical personality change to
the better after meeting Lissu. The police did not disturb this meeting.
Unsurprisingly, Maulid Kitenge
shared a video clip of an almost deserted market area in Ololosokwan, lying
that this was what Lissu had encountered.
Then the entourage was off to
Wasso where another very well-attended rally was held, but maybe not with the
same emotional significance in this town further from the stolen land and with
many non-pastoralist inhabitants. The Maasai presence was however overwhelming
in Wasso as well. The speech from Wasso is better documented, among other
issues, Lissu mentioned that he had been speaking up for Ngorongoro when the
two Ngorongoro MPs that he coincided with in parliament decided to stay silent.
The message was that many people around the world care about what’s happening,
the people of Ngorongoro are not alone. The police stayed passive.
Another meeting, in Loosoito
(some mention Arash), was on the timetable, but it was already too late, and
upon leaving Wasso, one of the CHADEMA vehicles hit a cow that instantly died,
and the car was destroyed. The CHADEMA leaders drove to Karatu instead where
they must have arrived very late at night, or early morning.
On the 9th, three meetings in NCA were scheduled. The CHADEMA leaders went to the NCAA headquarters in Karatu where they were told to obtain permits at Lodoare gate but were then stopped by the police some 12 kilometres before reaching the gate. At the same time, at the gate, Ngorongoro residents were blocked from returning home, even after paying entrance fees, as Joseph Oleshangay has reported about. Lissu’s entourage decided to sit down to block the Karatu road until they’d be allowed access to NCA. The huge waiting crowds in Mokilal, Endulen and Alailelai organized prayers and protests. After a standoff Lissu’s blockade of the Karatu road was broken off with teargas. Ng’atait ole Babu from Endulen who was travelling with the CHADEMA leaders was arrested. Lissu made a call with a message to the waiting Maasai that he’ll be back, that they aren’t alone, that Ngorongoro isn’t a prison and they aren’t its inmates, that they have the same rights as any Tanzanian, that those abusing them are violating the law, that they should stay strong and not be silenced, that “that mama” will be defeated.
Early next morning, Lissu, and
those travelling with him, CHADEMA leaders, guards, and a journalist, were
arrested, and so were the Karatu CHADEMA leadership. The location where Lissu
was being held was not known until the evening when he was presented at Arusha
police station. He had first been taken to Monduli. The accusations against
Lissu are about illegal assembly and obstructing police work. He will be back
to Ngorongoro.
Maasai women continued
protests and a heavy presence of the anti-riot Field Force Unit descended upon
them with threats. A police commander – some say he’s the Arusha RPC, but
I haven’t been able to confirm – is seen in a clip threatening the Maasai not to
make him hurt them. Two women, suspected by the NCAA of having organized the
protests were arrested: Glory Julius and Noonguta Peshut. First they were
driven to Karatu and then back to Ngorongoro where they were granted bail in
the evening. Glory was during the arrest kicked, beaten with a stick, slapped
and insulted, and for 12 hours she was not allowed to breastfeed her
one-year-old child. Glory was on 24th August seen in social media
clips of the women’s protests refusing to relocate to Msomera, and in which
President Samia was cursed. Noonguta, who’s 66 years old, was pushed around
badly, and hurt her back.
On 11th September social
media accounts of the Ngorongoro DC, and of the district council shared a most
disturbing picture with a text saying that Ololosokwan village council members,
community development experts and conservationists from NCAA and the district
council had done training on development projects and conservation “benefitting
from Pololeti Game Reserve". The councillor Moloimet Saing'eu is in the
picture. Some say that the village council members strongly deny having agreed to
anything at all. Anyway, such government moves aren't damage control for CCM, but the contrary, escalating party desertion.
There were reports on 12th
September that police and rangers were seen approaching the Maasai elderly
women asking them to bless them after the highest level of curse they were
given on 10th September which can't be taken away by any means when
given out. They got this curse when beating and insulting the women. The
results are supposed to be turning crazy or dying a natural death. The curse on
President Samia on 24th August was of similar strength.
Esupat Moses, born and bred in
Endulen, as were her grandparents, was on 14th September arrested
and locked up for 9 hours, accused of not being a resident of Ngorongoro. This is
intimidation, and intimidation only.
I remember that on Election Day, 28th October
2020, non-party affiliated 23-year Salula Ngorisiolo was shot to death when
NCAA rangers and police opened fire at unarmed voters who were protesting open
and shameless election fraud at Oloirobi polling station in Ngorongoro ward. No
Ngorongoro leaders at all have denounced this murder.
Manongi
lying about ranger violence against Joshua Olepatorro
On 25th August, in
a NCAA statement and in a video clip of chief conservator Manongi it was
claimed that NCAA had met with the Nainokanoka village leadership and with the
police, and that there were no testimonies at all saying that a ranger would
have smashed out 15-year-old Joshua Olepatorro’s upper front teeth. Manongi
went as far as saying that his rangers can’t do such a thing and have never
done such a thing. This contrasts sharply with decades of testimonies of ranger
violence in NCA, and elsewhere, everywere actually, in Tanzania. The following day there was a reply
by Nainokanoka councillor Edward Maura and the village government setting the record straight regarding Manongi’s disinformation propaganda.
As reported earlier in this blog, on 13th July, Joshua Olepatorro – described as 15-year old, but looks younger - from Nainokanoka was attacked by NCAA rangers when returning from having grazed cows in Olmoti crater together with other young herders who all ran upon the sight of rangers. The rangers got hold of Joshua and one of them - identified by Joshua as Elibariki Israel Namungu - beat him with the butt of his gun, so that three of his upper front teeth were smashed out, and then they left him there in the bush, until he was picked up by his friends. Unlike other cases of ranger violence, this case received some limited media attention. The Nainokanoka councillor and the village chairman have already spoken to the press, and so has Joshua’s mother, and Joshua himself. The brutal assault has been reported to the police (NGO/RB/125/2023), but nobody has been arrested.
The Oakland Institute have
also uploaded a video clip of Joshua and his mother. Joshua says that that the
attack is common behaviour of rangers towards young herders. It’s what rangers
do. His mother adds, “they hate us, they don’t want us here.” She’s determined
to stand firm and get justice for her son, and she asks the president who’s a
mother like her if she can feel the pain of her son.
Flying
Medical Service are back, at least temporarily
In late August 2023, Flying
Medical service got a temporary clearance to fly again. In social media, they
reported that for reasons not made known to them, Flying Medical Service the
only non-profit Air Ambulance Service in Tanzania, was grounded for the last 16
months by the ministry of health and the Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority.
“During those
16 empty months, we had to totally unnecessarily refuse to fly 146 emergency
flight requests, not treat more than 9,294 patients, not vaccinate more than
31,628 children, not examine 7,192 pregnant women, not treat 231 TB patients,
and not treat 102 HIV patients.”
In yet another one of her
frequent cabinet reshuffles, the president transferred her son in law Mohammed Mchengerwa
to become Minister of State in the President's Office in charge of Local
Governments. This is allegedly in “preparation” for the 2025 elections. His
time as Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism was brief, but nasty. New
Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism is Angellah Kariuki. Mary Masanja was
removed as deputy minister. Masanja has in a most rude and vulgar way for a
couple of years represented the government’s anti-pastoralism and tourism cult.
Apparently Masanja has not been transferred anywhere. Dunstan Luka Kitandula is
new deputy minister. Damas Ndumbaro who first as Minister of Natural Resources
and Tourism and then as minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs has been
very active in the war against the Maasai, particularly in lying to foreign
diplomats about Loliondo and Ngorongoro, is now Minister of Culture, Arts and
Sport.
Very
brief background
See the previous blog post for
a more detailed background.
All permits for construction
or renovation of schools or health facilities in the 25 villages of NCA, even
those already with government funds in their accounts, or third-party
donations, have since 2021 been denied by the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Authority and since 2022 there’s a drive to manipulate the in every way
suffocated Maasai to relocate to other people’s land, that in no way can
accommodate pastoralism, 600 kilometres away. These are not the first
restrictions or eviction efforts, but the worst. There’s a population panic –
used as an excuse for any human rights violations - on part of the
government and some international organizations, notably UNESCO (see earlier
blog posts) even when Ngorongoro is less densely populated than most areas of
Tanzania and has become a huge tourism money-maker for government coffers and
deep pockets, with the Maasai living there, in their land.
The Maasai already lost access
to over 14,000 km2 when evicted from Serengeti in 1959 by the colonial
government – accompanied by Bernhard Grzimek’s rallying cry, “Serengeti Shall
Not Die” (this Nazi-party member also wanted the Maasai out of Ngorongoro and
is still revered by the German embassy in Tanzania) - and as a compromise deal, they were
guaranteed the right to continue occupying the 8,292 km² Ngorongoro
Conservation Area as a multiple land-use area administered by the government,
in which natural resources would be conserved primarily for their interest, but
with due regard for wildlife, and in case of conflict the interest of the
Maasai would take precedence. This promise was not kept, and tourism revenue,
as seen again and again, has turned into the paramount interest, with
restrictions for the Ngorongoro Maasai.
In 1975, after a change in the
NCA Act in 1974, the Maasai were brutally evicted from residing in Ngorongoro
Crater and all cultivation was prohibited. The cultivation ban was lifted in
1992, but brought back in 2009 (or 2008), to the whole of NCA, after many
“grave concerns” in the recommendations by UNESCO and IUCN. Now not even the
smallest kitchen garden is allowed, which together with loss of access to
grazing areas has led to malnutrition. The Maasai are not allowed to build
permanent houses and suffer all kinds of harassment by NCA rangers, that want
to restrict motorbikes, building materials, and demanding permits for just
anything, including demanding ID for the Maasai to pass Lodoare gate.
After a visit by PM Majaliwa
in December 2016, the Maasai lost access to the three craters Ngorongoro,
Olmoti, and Empakaai, which has led the loss of 90% of grazing and water for
Nainokanoka, Ngorongoro, Misigiyo wards, and a 100% loss of natural saltlicks
for livestock in these wards. This was done through order and not any change in
the law. Replacement salt donated by the NCAA was found to be substandard,
adulterated, and lead to the death of many cows.
In September 2019, the
notorious chief conservator Freddy Manongi made public a Multiple Land Use
Model review proposal, which was so destructive that it would lead to the end
of Maasai livelihoods and culture in Ngorongoro District. The proposal included
the Loliondo 1,500 km2 land theft with annexation to NCA, which was committed
in 2022.
Shortly after having come into
office in 2021, Samia Suluhu Hassan started bringing up the need to “save”
Ngorongoro from the Maasai, in an explicit and repeated way not used by any
previous president. A week after her first of many speeches of this kind there
was on 12th April 2021 demolition orders for private houses, primary
schools, dispensaries, Endulen police station, churches, and a mosque, which
after protests was stopped until further notice.
Also in 2021, in May, the NCAA
headquarters were hastily relocated to Karatu, promotional spectacles headed by
the infamous chief conservator Freddy Manongi were held on parliamentary
grounds, and in September 2021 a clip was uploaded in which Deputy Minister
Mary Masanja complains about having seen cattle on a trip with MPs and Manongi
talks about a war, that pastoralists have many conspiracies and that conservationists
must start cooking their own conspiracies.
2022 started with a leaked
fast-tracked plan for “voluntary” relocations of Ngorongoro Maasai. In the plan
the Kitwai and Handeni GCAs are named as the areas for relocation and
misleadingly described as protected areas that will be declassified. On the ground
in Msomera, Handeni, there was of course a registered village with its land use
plan and bewildered villagers looking on as houses were speedily being built
for Ngorongoro Maasai. Eventually Msomera villagers started speaking up about
dispossession and abuse. Arusha RC John Mongella was the recommended overseer
of the project, and that’s what he become for the whole of the war against the
Maasai in both NCA and Loliondo/Sale. The plan recommended seeking permission
to use COVID-19 money allocated for the development projects to fund the
eviction of Ngorongoro Maasai - and then on 31st March 2022 then DED
Mhina sent letters to Ngorongoro headteachers ordering them to transfer
COVID-19 funds for Ngorongoro schools to Handeni District council.
A hate campaign against the
Ngorongoro Maasai was sharply escalated in media and in the one-party
parliament. Then meetings about Ngorongoro were held with Maasai imposters from
other parts of Tanzania. Minister Ndumbaro held lying sessions with diplomats
to tell them the “truth” about Ngorongoro and Loliondo. Then some in-authentic,
compromised, or naïve Maasai registered to be relocated to Msomera and much
paraded in media, with former MP Kaika Saning’o Telele (who in 2023 started
complaining) as the worst example.
A meeting was held on 12th
October 2022 between government representatives and Endulen Hospital. The
government plan was announced as to further suffocate key life serving services
downgrading the hospital to a clinic. This was adding to the harsh defunding of
clinics and dispensaries and the unexplained grounding of Flying Medical
Service for 16 months.
On 29th March 2023,
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 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.
In his budget speech of early
June 2023, the new Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Mohamed
Mchengerwa, in a militaristic way promised that there will be no turning back,
no surrender, in completing the relocation exercise to Msomera.
Loliondo in
next blog post
Loliondo and NCA are two
separate, but closely related issues …
The Loliondo Game Controlled
Area, which is the same as the Loliondo hunting blocks, covers the whole of
Loliondo division and part of Sale division of Ngorongoro district. The Maasai
in Loliondo are not at all subjected to the suffocating restrictions of NCA –
the NCA example has made them understand the dangers of having their land
managed as anything other than regular village land - but have for decades been
under threat of having 1,500 km2 of village land that’s important
grazing land turned into a protected area. This land alienation has been
lobbied for by OBC that organize hunting for Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai and that
has had the hunting block (permit to hunt) since 1992/1993. For many years, a
land rights struggle, has fought off this land alienation, despite of a local
police state in which anyone that could criticize certain “investors” has been
harassed, threatened, defamed and arrested, and despite of illegal mass arson
operations in 2009 and 2017. Though under the most anti-Maasai president ever,
in June 2022, through a brutal military operation, the 1,500 km2 was
demarcated and the Maasai evicted.
All councillors from affected wards were abducted and
locked up for almost 6 months, there were shootings, beatings, slashings with
bayonets, rape, theft of motorbikes and telephones, destruction of houses,
illegal arrests and trumped up charges, even shooting of cows, thousands fled
to Kenya, everyone was supposed to squeeze into residential and agricultural
areas with very insufficient grazing areas left, having to enter their own land
as thieves at night for grazing, seizing and huge “fines” (extortion) on
livestock that continue. Then 84-year-old Oriais Oleng’iyo was last seen
injured and detained my security forces on 10th June 2022.
Following this massive, illegal land theft, there was
German-funded and facilitated, fake and forced land use planning drive, leading
to a draft Ngorongoro District Land Use Framework Plan 2023-2043. The
Ngorongoro councillors – under heavy pressure to accept it, including public
threats by the DC – have now twice rejected this crime legitimization, even
when they all are members of the very problematic CCM ruling party, and all
compromised to some extent. The German-funded government will keep pressuring them.
On village level there are some worrying signs of leaders going along with FZS
ideas, particularly when they can use such to get rid of their least favourite
neighbours. At least their efforts to make villagers abstain from attending the
meeting with Tundu Lissu were an enormous failure. These are issues that I most
very soon deal with in next blog post. I’m trying to keep this one focused on
Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
There are several ongoing court cases against this massive land theft. In the midst of extreme government lawlessness in Endulen, NCA, the high court has ruled that the case challenging the president’s cruel and illegal GN (Government Notice) No.604 of 14th October 2022, turning 1,500km2 of important village land in Loliondo, since June 2022 invaded by security forces, into a “Pololeti Game Reserve” can proceed, and prohibits operation of the GN until determination of the case (substantial application). This is Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 178 of 2022. I have not understood what the practical on the ground implications of this ruling are, but it seems like, if the ruling in the other judicial review, concerning Pindi Chana's GN No.421, is favourable to the Maasai, all operation of the fake game reserve will be stopped by court order.
The ruling keeps getting
postponed in Miscellaneous Civil Cause No. 21 of 2022, the judicial review
challenging former Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism Pindi Chana's GN
No.421, of 17th June 2022, a week after the start of the military
attack demarcating village land in Loliondo, declaring a fake and illegal
“Pololeti Game Controlled Area”, that was in October the same year followed by
the president’s equally illegal game reserve. Now the ruling is scheduled for tomorrow 19th September!
I still can’t think of any
better international action against the President Samia’s war on the Maasai
than a total tourism boycott.
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
Flying Medical Service air ambulance was on regular
schedule to Naiyobi ward in Ngorongoro Conservation Area for treatment of
patients, but was not allowed to treat children and pregnant women for lack of
permit from the Ngorongoro District Medical Officer. Or such a prohibition by
the DMO was alleged by "relocation" instigators.
The livestock seized in Loosoito, Mbuken and Malambo Madukani were released without the usual extortionate "fine, after the lawyer Joseph Oleshangay wrote a letter informing Manongi, Pius Onesmo Rwiza, Robert Laizer and Maurus Msuha that a criminal complaint would be filed against anyone seizing livestock contrary to the court order.
1st October
3rd October
Announcement that Assistant NCA conservator Elibariki Bajuta is to be transferred to become DC of Urambo.
Ward councillors and the village chairpersons of 14 villages affected by the 1,502 km2 land grab were summoned to attend a meeting at the DC's office in the morning of the 4th.
A 6000 man JKT workforce in the most militaristic way initiated the construction of 5,000 houses in Msomera.
4th October
The maliciously lying government has released its own
version of the High Court ruling on the minister’s GN declaring a “Pololeti
Game Controlled Area”, claiming that the status quo would be a protected area, pretending
that the old Loliondo GCA would have been such.
Only the councillors of Malambo and Piyaya attended the DC's meeting in which he said that livestock entering the stolen land will be seized and auctioned!
5th October
Reports that rangers are starting grass fires as a means of harassment of herders.
Ntayia's cows are still locked up.
NCAA and JWTZ vehicles have been circulating from Arash to Ololosokwan and the rangers have beaten young men and taken their phones, swords and spears. No livestock have been seized but the rangers threaten with starting tomorrow.
6th October
The cows seized in Ololosokwan on 1st October, have now been released without any extortion fee. This is particularly good news, since juzi the DC was threatening with seizures and auctioning, and yesterday rangers and soldiers were driving around threatening people.
In Arash JWTZ military and NCAA rangers violently attacked at least seven people, including the councillor SIloma.
7th October
Massive livestock seizures in Ololosokwan and Arash.
The NCAA issued a statement denying the well-documented adulterated replacement salt that had again been mentioned in social media after and article was published.
8th October
582 heads of cattle were seized in Ololosokwan.
9th October
Some 100 heads of cattle were seized in the Oloosek area.
10th October
Press statement by Ngorongoro youths about the government's contempt of court. https://youtu.be/jkvneS6_nMY
Some councillors wrote a weak pleading letter to the
regional CCM secretary asking for help to release the livestock, and then the
CCM secretary wrote to RC Mongella pretending that the councillors were
agreeing with the land theft and grazing prohibition.
11th October
The livestock were released without extortion fines.
12th October
Announcement that the horrible Manongi was finally retiring and one Richard Rwanyakatoo Kiiza is the new NCA chief conservator.
13th October
The horrible Prof Malebo was again lying his head off at the UN.
14th October
Prayer meetings in several villages in NCA. Irkeepus, Mishili, Alchaniomelock.
15th October
A press conference was held putting the record straight about the government's new denial of the hazardous replacement salt.
18th October
519 heads of cattle and 136 sheep, belonging to ole Shukur, ole Tompoi and others, were seized in the Klein's area in Ololosokwan. In Arash 45 cows belonging the Mzee Siloma and William Siloma were seized, and 620 sheep and goats belonging to Kidemi Sharab, Risie Lilash, and Sipironi Potot.
20th October
After speaking up about human rights violations in Loliondo and Ngorongoro at the 77th Session of the the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arusha (of all HR crime sites ...,) Tanzanian journalist and activist Odero Odero was arrested and questioned by Immigration officials who had orders from above.
The illegally seized livestock in Arash were allowed to graze.
21st October
Kambatai Kimeriai from Kirtalo was arrested with his motorbike when bringing food for
his children. He was taken to Ololosokwan police station. When leaders tried to
have him released, he was taken to Loliondo town by criminal rangers.
21st October
Criminal
rangers seized 1,300 sheep and an unknown number of calves in Malambo and took
them to the Orn’goswa camp.
22nd October
More livestock seized in Iloope
Ilokony, Arash on the 22nd and in Leken in Kirtalo. In
Ololosokwan the criminal rangers seized 332 more cows and there were filming
drones everywhere.
Potot Lose 134 cows
Mzee Rotiken 112 cows
Leile boma 69 cows
Mzee Ngatuny 17 calves
23rd October
These people were provided with court summons since
they have been sued for contempt of court.
DC Raymond Mwangwala
Conservator of illegal "game reserve" Pius
Rwiza
Prisca J. Ulomi, Head of the Government Communication
Unit
Robert Laizer, in charge of criminal rangers, Arash
David Mkenga, in charge of criminal rangers, Ololosokwan
Kambatai
Kimeriai was released on bail and now together with two other people has a case of "trespassing onto protected area".
24th October
https://youtu.be/6BsNI2g1MDQ
26th October
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