8 November 2009
Arusha — The meeting that was scheduled to bring together all key persons, officials, institutions and residents of Loliondo to discuss recent conflicts in the game controlled area has been shelved indefinitely.
The Ngorongoro District Commissioner Elias Wawa Lali said the gathering will now take place sometimes in November. The actual date was originally set for October 29 but according to the DC a recently emerged trip of officials from the District to Uganda made them postpone the meeting.
"We had to postpone the meeting because officials were going to Kampala to start making arrangements for the forthcoming study tour of Ngorongoro pastoralists to Uganda as directed by President Jakaya Kikwete," explained Mr Wawa Lali.
But while the Ngorongoro DC claimed the gathering date was pushed forward to November, some residents in Loliondo are not sure if the event will ever happen.
"This is the second time that the meeting is being postponed we think the officials here are no longer interested with the said gathering," said Samuel Nangiria who works for one of the Non-Government organizations in Ngorongoro District.
But the residents of Loliondo also seem to be losing 'interest' in the long reigned series of conflicts in the area. Their area Member of Parliament, Saning'o Ole Telele tabled the issue of Loliondo conflicts before the National Assembly in Dodoma last week.
The Field Force Unit police who have been camping in Loliondo have already left the area after their 'mission' was accomplished. The absence of the cops, according to the residents, now signals 'another season of peace.'
The FFU had been dispatched to the area to clear 'trespassers' who had allegedly invaded a hunting block belonging to Ortello Business Corporation.
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