A Few years ago a friend of mine had traveled abroad, he was participating in some conference where people from all over the world were invited. He made some new friends from various different countries, most of them had never heard of Tanzania ! Naturally they were quite curious about the country that sounded "New" to their ears and began asking my friend about how our country is politically, economically, safety wise etc. My friend being a patriot he is, said all the things we would be proud to hear about our motherland......."Oh Tanzania is a beautiful Nation, we are blessed with Natural beauty from Serengeti to Kilimanjaro to Ngorongoro to the islands of Zanzibar. We have a stable government and we could easily be the most peaceful nation in East Africa, Dare I say Africa." he chuckled, with patriotic pride shining bright in his eyes.
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| Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro, Serengeti and Zanzibar. The first thing that comes to someone's mind while describing TANZANIA |
His statement would have been perfect to describe our nation some years ago and half of it still applies as the God given Natural beauty still lies there within our territory HOWEVER he or any Tanzanian would now feel embarrassed to say the last part of the statement to someone who is not familiar with our country.
Peaceful country ??
Do the following images look peaceful to anyone ???
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| Arusha church bombing on 05/05/2013 |
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| Chadema rally bombing on 15/06/2013 |
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| and the recent Vama restaurant bombing on 07/07/2014 All the above took place in Arusha |
There are other bombings that took place in Arusha too but these are the ones that are still fresh in my memory. Not to forget the following:
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Church Priest / Pastor Murders in Zanzibar 2013 |
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| Twin Bombings in Zanzibar Feb 2014 |
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| Two British teenagers who were subjected to an Acid attack last year in Zanzibar Not Forgetting the other bombings that took place in Zanzibar |
Looking at all these objectively, It doesn't make Tanzania look like a peaceful country, does it ?? I don't think so.... On top of this all, NO PERPETRATOR HAS BEEN ARRESTED SO FAR ON ANY OF THE MENTIONED ATTACKS. There were some people held for questioning but nothing concrete.
My blood boils down thinking about how the terrorists are roaming free in the country, planning their next attack, conducting the actual attack and going back roaming on the streets of Arusha / Zanzibar / Dar continuing this atrocious cycle.
The funny thing is the Director of Criminal Investigations, Mr. Isaya Mngulu had spoken to the Daily News paper where he had assured Tanzanians of their safety despite the escalating terrorism incidents in Kenya. Read the article here
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| Director of Criminal Investigations, Mr. Isaya Mngulu |
It is Ironic that the article was published on 08/07/2014 a day after the restaurant bombing in Arusha. In his statement Mr. Mngulu asks people to report to the local government about any suspicious people / activity but there is no mention on the progress or success of apprehending the culprits of the previous attacks.
You have some serious questions to answer Mr. Director of Criminal Investigations. When are they going to be caught ? When will their group be stopped from creating any further carnage ? If there was an actual investigation going on to find them, they would have been caught by now. A blogger from Arusha had exposed a religious school based in Arusha of having links to Al-Shabab by doing a bit of research over the Internet. I wonder if any action was taken by the authorities to actually go and investigate on this? as everything was already done by the blogger Acerbic Arushan. All they had to do was only check on it physically and arrest the scums.
Read the article here http://acerbicarushan103.blogspot.com/2013/05/exclusive-arusha-muslim-school-has.html?zx=972c7d28bce94ea4 .
When will the peace (that we were very proud of talking about) be back ? WHEN ??????????.........................................Oh I know, whenever Mr. Obama comes to Tanzania
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| President Obama dancing after arriving in Dar es Salaam. He could not hide his excitement after seeing the security beefed upon his arrival |
Yes, that's right, Tanzania or should I say Dar es Salaam, became very peaceful when the President of the United States landed here, there were no thieves on any of the streets and no fears of getting bombed, which makes me wonder why can't we have the same standard of safety and security everyday ? Why do we only get such assurance when Obama comes over ?
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