East African Business Week (Kampala)
15 November 2008
Dar Es Salaam — East African countries have failed to agree on how to handle three major pertinent issues: land ownership, free movement of people and permanent residence.
This time, Tanzania openly gave her stand - that there would be no land deal in the East African Community (EAC).
Tanzania's Minister for EastAfrican Cooperation, Dr Deodorous Kamala said the just ended meeting held in Zanzibar did not agree on these three crucial issues.
The meeting was attended by ministers and multi-sectoral committees within the EAC.
Following this development, fresh negotiations would be needed.
It was expected that the three issues would have been resolved by next month but now the matter will be discussed in March next year.
The obvious is that all the time, Tanzania has been against proposals put forward by its neighbours, Kenya and Uganda especially on land and free movement of the people.
Dr Kamala said that the majority of Tanzanians were against such proposals for fear that it may allow an influx of people who would come to Tanzania and grab land.
He said land was a very sensitive issue and that Tanzania is of an opinion that the issue is not supposed to be under discussion on the Common Market.
Tanzania was also against Identity Cards (IDs) to facilitate free movement of people in East Africa for fear that the IDs might be forged or manipulated.
Instead, Dr Kamala said, Tanzanians were of the opinion that let passports be in use because they were credible and recognized internationally.
In another development, Tanzania has said that there was need to immediately set a mechanism on how to use the waters of Lake Victoria.
Tanzania is accusing Uganda for using a lot of water from the lake than Kenya and Tanzania put together.
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Who would be the beneficiaries of this crafted free movement of people and land acquisitins scum other than the multinational NGOs who are trying to grab African land by creating tribal wars to depopulate poor Africans from their land by strategically starting tribal wars; lLike that COLTAN war going on in Democratic Republic of Congo right now. This is exactly what they did in Rwanda by causing the in1994 gencide.
These renegade NGOs/corporation never cease to to disappoint. All they need are headless african leaders who are willing to slaughter their own people to make way.
Tanzania may object to the proposal right now. But, these renegade NGOs/corporations always find just the right african man capable of doing the job. The right Tanzanian leader, like Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, will emerge with some "little persuassion" .
Now the rubber hits the road. I have argued, under the DOCTRINE OF SOUPISM, that what are called "African countries" are no more and no less than occupied territories by thieving proxies organized as bunkum political parties.
Don't go around blaming NGOs and coroporations: a stranger cannot enter your house except by force of arms or by invitation. The former is history; the latter, ain't: did the peoples of the respective countries invite the loathed entities?
Morever, who really owns these territories?
And, please, don't say "Africans," for the question will then be the precise determination of that amoebic category.
Cheers.
The willy nilly way in which Uganda has been parcelled out by the NRM, National Rats Movement of Museveni's of Uganda cannot and should not be allowed to spread unchecked. That, Tanzanian and Kenyans would never allow to happen in their countries. Its high time indigenous Ugandans did like wise and bring the wanton sale of their resources for pittance.