Miundo Mbinu Duni!

Gari la mizigo likiwa limezama katika matope kufuatana na mvua zinazoendelea kunyesha katika sehemu mbalimbali za nchi (Source:Mwananchi)

Modernisation of Dar Roads to Begin 2015!

Modernised road network in Dar es salaam will begin to take shape 2015, the City Director, Mr. Bakari Kingobi, told the 'Daily News' Monday.

Mr. Kingobi said the city needed over Tshs 4.2trillion to improve its road infrastructure to accomodate growing traffic demand by 2030.

Mr. Kingobi said in an interview that a recent study had found out that the average vehicle travel speed was 25.6 kms per hour and that it would be decreased to 10 kms per hour in 2030, if nothing was done to improve the infrastructure.

According to him, Japanese International Cooperation Agency(JICA) has suggested that the implementation of the plan be executed in two phases, first in 2015 and another in 2030.

In the the first phase he said, 149kms of roa needed to be expanded, construction of the five fly-overs and a traffic managementsystem in central business district. JICA estimated the cost in the phase at Tshs.693billion.

"A total of 1,091kms of roads (including phase one) the proposed express way, tested and confirmed to be important and confirmed to accomodate the traffic demand within the city by 2030. The estimate total cost(phase I and II) projects is Tshs 4.2Trillion, he said".

The strategies proposed in short-term, medium and long-term include the construction of a road parellel to Ali Hassan Mwinyi by land reclamation at Salander Bridge area,establishment of the city Urban Transport Authority, Ubungo, Tazara and Bandari junction flyovers followed by Mwenge and Magomeni.

Others include establishment of the Dar es salaam Transport Authority, the Dar es salaam Urban Development Agency and the involvement of private sectors among others.

following the government's request, Japan through JICA in February 2007 selected a consortium of consultants, consisting of Pacific Consultants International and Construction Project Consultants Inc, both of Tokyo to make a study.

The study team initiated technical efforts since April, 2007 and completed the study in June, last year and final report handed over officially to Dar es salaam City Council on behalf of the government in November, last year (Source: Daily News).

Death Escape!

HOW WE ESCAPED DEATH:" It is through God's Grace and professionalism by the pilot tha we survived the crash...We were lucky that the plane did not explode on impact".

Police Boss Major-Gen. Hussein Ali(facing camera),Rift Valley PC Hassan Noor Hassan and assistant minister Orwa Ojodeh walk away fro the scene of the accident.

A split second decision by the pilot of a police helicopter to crash-land on buildings saved a high-powered team of top government officials.The decision also averted a serious accident that may have killed people in a huge crowd that had just attended a public rally addressed by two cabinet ministers in Kipchoge Keino Stadium in Kapsabet town.

When he realised that the helicopter was loosing power at a critical stage during lift off, Captain Patrick Mugane considered two quick options: To turn to the stadium where a huge crowd had gathered and risk the possibility of crash-landing on people, or crash on buildings. He chose to land on the buildings in a prison farm and saved all 28 people on board and the huge crowd on the ground, which included cabinet Ministers George Saitoti and Chris Obure, among other diginitaries. (Source: www.nation.co.ke)

Anateseka baada ya Kugongwa na Pantoni!

Pili Saidi, 46, mkazi wa Kigamboni, akisimulia mkasa uliompata wa kugongwa na pantoni ya ya Mv magogoni mwaka jana, akiwa kama abiria na ilipokosa mwelekeo na kuanza kuyumba, alisukumwa na wakati akianguka ikamgonga.Anasema kuna mtu alipoteza maisha katika tukio hilo.

Ajali hiyo, ilipelekea yeye kuvunjika mguu wa kushoto, kung'oka baadhi ya meno, kuteguka mkono na kuteguka kiuno. Pili, anasema kwamba amekuwa akihangaika kimaisha kwa kuwa tangu aumie katika ajali hiyo amekuwa ni mtu wa kuhangaika kwani hawezi tena kufanya kitu chochote cha kujipatia riziki. "Nimekuwa mtu wa kuhangaika sana ndio maana nilienda ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu ili nipatiwe msaada wa matibabu. Unavyoniona hapa nimetoka ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu kuchukua barua ya kupatiwa matibabu bure MOI".

Huyu mama anasikitisha sana, kwani anayemhudumia ni bibi mtu mzima anayeonekana kuwa na umri wa kama miaka 80 au zaidi(ametokea kidogo pichani).

Ninachojiuliza mimi, kwanini Bima isichukue jukumu la kumpatia msaada huyu mama kulingana na malipo anayotarajia kupata kama hicho kivuko kina Bima? Na je, kama hakina Bima, nani anastahili kulipa fidia ya kuumia kwa huyu mama? Wadau karibuni kwa michango ili tumsaidie Mama Pili Saidi.

DPP Stolen Car Found in Zambia

The Director of Public Prosecution(DPP), Mr. Eliezer Feleshi's motor vehicle with registration number STK 502 that was stolen on march 5, this year with six sets of computers has been found in Zambia.
Dar essalaam Special Zone Police Commander Suleiman Kova, tols reporters in Dar es salaam that the vehicle was seized by the police in Zambia in collaboration with their Dar es salaam counterpart on May 1, this year.
The DPP vehicle was stolen at Tabata area in Ilala district around 9pm.
According to Mr.Kova the vehicle had the six sets of computers which were to be transported to some regionalpolice offices. The vehicle was being driven b6y Ali Ramadhan, who according to Mr. Kova, parked it a a wrong place.
He said that the driver was instructed to park it at the central Police but he left it at Tabata where the appliances were stolen.
He said police in Zambia arrested 4 suspected bandits in connection with the incident bringing to 12 the number of suspects arrested so far.
others were arrested by police in Dar es salaam on April 27, this year.
Mr. Kova declined to mention the names of the suspected robbers on grounds that the police were still conducting the investigations.
He also said the suspects were members of an organized crime network that involved Zambians and Tanzanians.

It is Scary, Not for the Faint Hearted!

In the picture, the victim was car jacked in Johannesburg South Africa, 'the murder capital of the world'. Robbers beat the victim in the picture and then tied him down and gragged him behind his own BMW until the police pulled them over and arrested the suspects. The victim lived to tell his story. It has been said that the victim was recovering at a local hospital

(source: www. MyPE.co.za).

Three Die in Dar separate Accidents!

Three people died and several others were injured in separate accidents which occured in Dar es salaam on wednesday.
Special Zone police Commander Mr. Suleiman Kova said two road accidents killed two people, leaving three others injured.
The first accident occured along Bagamoyo Road at Mbezi Interchik area, and it involved a Toyota Hiace with registration number T265 AZT which was  being driven by Mwalimu Mohamed(32) a resident of Manzese.
He said the car is said to have hit a truck with registration number T506 ACZ which was being driven by a resident of Tandale, Yusuf Ibrahim(35).
The other accident which occured at Temeke Njia Panda area, a car with registration number T853 AML Toyota Hiace hit Zubeda Abdallah(11), killing her instantly(source:The Daily News).