Tanzanian police said Thursday it planned to arrest all the residents of a village in the country’s south after water pipes were destroyed by a mob.
The inhabitants of Ngolo village were accused of deliberately smashing pipes taking water to a neighbouring settlement in Mbeya region.
Governor Albert Chalamila had on Wednesday, “ordered that all the inhabitants of this village be arrested regardless of their condition.”
In response, police on Thursday deployed several vehicles and officers to arrest the villagers, said regional commander Ulrich Matei.
“They committed economic sabotage. The government has disbursed money, installed water pipes and they destroyed them! We cannot accept that,” Matie said.
The police chief added that he had sent “enough vehicles, with enough fuel and police on board” to arrest the villagers.
Details about the incident remain sketchy, but the village, whose population is around 1,600, lies in an area where water resources are sketchy.
story about Tanzania, reported by Uganda, posted in Kenya…
We need a dictator kama TZ.
We had two for a combined total of almost 40 years. They turned Kenya into a superpower, yes?
Very good ! Infact they should be seriously punished by a court of law for damaging public property and waste of resources !
90s kids :D:D:D
This is the approach ‘Africans’ understand.
If we implemented this with cattle-rustling the deadly upuzi would end.
You are desperately seeking somebody to open your boot. Please do not say ‘we’.
I wonder if Mangufuli is going to go when his term ends… this guy has the makings of someone who will do a Mugabe on Tz and stay mpaka in his 90s
Yeh and some Africans deserve this. Inorder for a country to progress .
depends on how you define a dictator, or the type of dictatorship you mean
Thank God we had our dictators when we were still a very young nation, It brought us together and made us realize we own the government and not the other way round, the only problem with us is the “mtu wetu syndrome” we shall make bigger. steps in progress when we accept the Swahili saying (undugu si kufanana ni kufaana).
What’s their jail capacity ama this is a small village?
Hear me out before you lynch me. Singapore and China are my case studies. Countries which are not electoral democracies. We failed with our democracies because all they did was loot plus the country had a lot of illiterate folks. What we need is a type of government where the citizens have little or no say in governance and only a represantative acts on their behalf. Reason being we are still an illiterate lot which cares about stealing than welfare.
The problem with a dictatorship is that we are largely at the mercy of one man. If this man is a benevolent dictator, then ultimately we can make progress but if not, our country can literally go to the dogs.
In some places, dictatorship has improved the lives of people like for example in China as you mentioned. But also, on the flip side, Chairman Mao caused alot of hardship and famine for tens of millions of Chinese who needlessly died during his reign. On the other hand, Deng Xiapong set china on the course to prosperity. Other places have benefited from dictatorship such as Uganda while others suffered terribly like in Zimbabwe under Mugabe in the second half of his reign. Also, look at North Korea. They may be a Nuclear power but their people have a very low quality of life.
Democracy on the other hand, if we can get it right, is a far more enduring system of government and should endure for centuries to come. Look at the kind of advanced states that the western democracies have built. We may have our mess now in terms of corruption and the like but a democracy helps to keep us politically more stable especially given our own multi-ethnic character as a nation. Also, we may get leaders who can pursue corruption and reduce it like what kenyatta is doing (hopefully he is serious).
So my take on this is that it may take time for us to get our act together but lets do it under a democracy. Even with our corruption, Kenya’s economy has been growing much better under Kibaki and kenyatta than under Moi. It may take time, but we will get there.
The most important thing is how we get there not how fast we get there. Such that when we make it, we will all value, cherish and protect it. We should never be like those foolish libyains who destroyed their own country as if it belonged to Gadaffi
True… and once a country is wrecked say by a dictator or such, its very difficult to bring it back together, especially in multi-ethnic societies. Just look at Somalia and its many different clans.
That was not was said by the police, they themselves came out and denied saying these statements, they are arresting only the villagers involved and 98 of them are currently in captivity. Habari za bongo usiziamini 100%, kuna wapinzani kazi zao ni kukuza habari na kudanganya ili kuweka pctr mbaya kwa serikali. Tz sio nchi ya ajabu kama Kenya, mna mambo yenu very weird, very kenyan, never heard em anywhere else, when you pointing a finger, remember three of them zinapoint back to you.