CHADEMA: ZITTO ACHUNGUZWE

LISSU ATAJA WABUNGE WALA RUSHWA

Na Edson Kamukara, Dodoma

KAMBI rasmi ya Upinzani Bungeni imetaka kuchunguzwa kwa madai ya Naibu Kiongozi wa wa kambi hiyo, Zitto Kabwe, kuhongwa.

Kambi hiyo pia imetaja majina ya wabunge sita wa Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), waliokuwa wajumbe wa Kamati ya Nishati na Madini iliyovunjwa na Spika wa Bunge, Anne Makinda, mwishoni mwa wiki, ikidai kuwa kwa namna moja ama nyingine walihusika na vitendo vya rushwa.

Wabunge hao wanatuhumiwa kupokea rushwa kutoka kwa kampuni za mafuta ili kuipigia debe menejimenti ya Shirika la Ugavi wa umeme nchini (TANESCO).

Akizungumza jana na waandishi wa habari mjini hapa, Mnadhimu Mkuu wa kambi hiyo, Tundu Lissu, alisema wamesikia tuhuma nyingi dhidi ya Zitto lakini hawajamhoji kiongozi huyo.

Alisema wanaviomba vyombo vinavyohusika vimchunguze Zitto ili ukweli ujulikane na hatua zinazostahili zichukuliwe kama atathibitika kuwa na makosa.

“Chama hatujakaa na Zitto kumsikiliza lakini tunataka achunguzwe, hatuna masilahi yoyote katika uchafu huu wa rushwa. 

“Uchunguzi huu utatupa msingi wa kumchukulia hatua kama chama ikiwa itathibitika amehongwa,” alisema.


Alibainisha kuwa, mbunge wao huyo amekuwa akihusishwa na kumtumia ujumbe mfupi wa vitisho Katibu Mkuu wa Nishati na Madini, Eliakimu Maswi.

Alisema ni vema Zitto achunguzwe na apewe nafasi ya kujieleza kama itakavyokuwa kwa wengine kuliko kuendelea kusambaza maneno ya kufikirika.

Alibainisha wamejiridhisha pasipo shaka kuwa wabunge wao watatu waliokuwa wajumbe kwenye Kamati ya Nishati na Madini, John Mnyika (Ubungo), David Silinde (Mbozi Magharibi) na Mwanamrisho Taratibu Abama (Viti Maalumu), hawajahusika kwa lolote katika sakata hilo la rushwa.

“Kama kuna mtu ana ushahidi zaidi ya huu tulionao tunaomba atuletee ili hatua zaidi ziweze kuchukuliwa, lakini mpaka sasa wabunge wetu hawa watatu hawajashiriki kwa lolote katika kuomba rushwa,” alisema.

Kauli ya Lissu inashabihiana na aliyoitoa Zitto juzi ambapo alisema hajachukua hongo, ila kuna watu wana lengo la kuchafua jina lake.

Zitto alisema kuwa uchunguzi dhidi yake ndiyo njia pekee ya kuudhihirishia umma kuwa hahusiki na chochote kama baadhi ya watu wanaoeneza maneno ya kumchafua.

Awataja wala rushwa

Kuhusu majina ya wabunge wanaotuhumiwa kujihusisha na vitendo vya rushwa, Lissu alisema kuwa kwa mujibu wa kanuni za kudumu za Bunge na Sheria ya Maadili ya Viongozi wa Umma ya mwaka 1995, wabunge hao walipaswa kutaja masilahi yao kibiashara kwenye shirika hilo.

“Sasa wabunge hawa hawajawahi kufanya hivyo na wameendelea kuwa wajumbe wa Kamati ya Nishati na Madini na wengine kufanya biashara na TANESCO,” alisema Lissu na kuwataja kuwa ni Munde Tambwe, Sara Msafiri, Mariam Kisangi wa Viti Maalumu, Yusuf Nassir (Korogwe Mjini) na Charles Mwijage Muleba Kaskazini.

soma zaidi Tanzania Daima

source: TANZANIA DAIMA, 31st July,2012

I'm not a big fun of siasa, laikini hii habari imenichosha!!!! mmmh!

MALI UNWED COUPLE STONED TO DEATH

A couple who had sex outside marriage have been stoned to death by Islamists in the town of Aguelhok in northern Mali, officials say.

The man and woman were buried up to their necks, then pelted with stones until they died.

The northern half of Mali has been overrun by rebels - Tuareg and Islamist - following a coup in Mali's capital.

Aguelhok in the region of Kidal was one of the first to be captured by Tuareg separatist rebels.

The Islamists in Aguelhok stoned the couple to death in front of about 200 people, officials said.

"I was there. The Islamists took the unmarried couple to the centre of Aguelhok. The couple was placed in two holes and the Islamists stoned them to death," a local government official told the AFP news agency.

"The woman fainted after the first few blows," he said, adding that the man had shouted out once and then fallen silent.

TIMBUKTU HAS NOW BECOME A GHOST TOWN

While the interim government is busy battling with the soldiers who overthrew the previous administration in March, the picture in the north grows darker.

What began as a rebellion in January by ethnic Tuareg has been usurped by Islamist militant groups who have taken advantage of the coup and imposed Sharia in most of the key towns in the north.

Music has been banned from local radios, women face being beaten if they are seen with their heads uncovered and people have been whipped in public for various misdemeanours.

source: BBC NEWS

FROM BIRD FLU TO PIG FLU; NOW - SEAL FLU

Scientists in the United States have identified a new strain of influenza in harbour seals that could potentially impact human and animal health.

The H3N8 flu has been associated with the deaths of harbour seals in New England last year.

Researchers say the virus may have evolved from a type that had been circulating in birds.

They say the discovery highlights the potential for pandemic flu to emerge from unexpected sources.

Continue reading the main storyResearchers were puzzled by the mysterious deaths from pneumonia of 162 harbour seals around the coast of New England last year.

Autopsies on five of the marine mammals indicate that they died from a type of H3N8 influenza A virus that is closely related to a strain circulating in North American birds since 2002.

One of authors of the research paper is Prof Ian Lipkin, from Columbia University in the US. He is a celebrated virus hunter who in the past has helped identify West Nile virus and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). He told the BBC that finding this flu virus in seals was an interesting "new jump".

Cause for concern

As well as mutating to live in both animals and birds the scientists say this flu has evolved to make it more likely to cause severe symptoms. The virus also has the ability to target a protein found in the human respiratory tract.

Dr Anne Moscona of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City edited the report and says that the new virus is a worry.

"There is a concern that we have a new mammalian-transmissable virus to which humans haven't yet been exposed. It's a combination we haven't seen in disease before."

One of the big concerns for Prof Lipklin is that seals are acting as a mixing vessel for viruses in a way that has previously happened in pigs.

"What was interesting about this is the seals are acting as an intermerdiary - they have receptors for both bird flu viruses and well as mammalian flu viruses, so you have a host in which this virus can adapt, evolve and become more mammalian in phenotype and more capable of causing disease in mammals.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS; 31st July, 2012

MAGONJWA YANAONGEZEKA DUNIANI

VENEZUELA ACTING AMBASSADOR, KILLED IN KENYA

Police in Kenya have arrested six people in connection with the murder by strangling of Venezuela's most senior diplomat in the country at her residence in Nairobi. "We are holding six. Please give us time. Let us investigate," Anthony Kibuchi, Nairobi area police commander, told Reuters by phone on Saturday, without giving more details. On Friday, police said Olga Fonseca, Venezuela's acting ambassador and charge d'affaires, had been found dead in her residence on her bed, but that it was unclear why she had been killed. Officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Kenyan staff at the embassy's residence had complained to its Diplomatic Police Unit after the new envoy fired them. Fonseca had sacked them after they refused to retract sexual harassment claims against the former head of the Venezuelan embassy, the employees said. The ministry is investigating their allegations, officials said on Friday. Though Fonseca's murder is not thought to be related to theft, violent and sometimes fatal robberies in Nairobi are common. Diplomats are among the most well-guarded people in the east African country. Officials in Caracas said Fonseca, who started her job on July 15, was also Venezuela's representative to UN agencies based in Nairobi, and had responsibility for Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. SOURCE: Al jazeera Inasemekana kuuwawa kwake kuna tokea baada ya kesi ya sexual scandal iliyotokea 2011, ambayo wafanyakazi wa ebassy ya Kenya walii-repot. Ila police bado hawajatoa uthibitisho wa nini hasa kilichomfanya auwawe.

EBOLA IN UGANDA; TUOMBEE MUNGU AENDELEE KUTUEPUSHA

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has called on people to avoid physical contact, after the deadly Ebola virus spread to the capital, Kampala.

Fourteen people have died, including one in Kampala, since the outbreak began in western Uganda three weeks ago, he said in a special broadcast.

Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases in the world.

It is spread by close personal contact and kills up to 90% of those who become infected.

Mr Museveni said health officials were trying to trace everyone who had had contact with victims so that they could be quarantined.

People should avoid shaking hands, kissing or having sex to prevent the disease from spreading, he added.

Mr Museveni said relatives and friends should not bury anyone who is suspected to have died of Ebola.

"Instead call health workers because they know how to do it," he said.

Mr Museveni said seven doctors and 13 health workers at Mulago hospital - the main referral hospital in Kampala - are in quarantine after "at least one or two cases" were taken there.

One victim - a health worker who had been transferred to the capital later died.

"I wish you good luck, and may God rest the souls of those who died in eternal peace," Mr Museveni said as he ended his address to the nation.

The first victim of the latest outbreak was a pregnant woman in Kibaale district, about 170km (100 miles) west of Kampala.

It then spread at a funeral, Mr Museveni said. Uganda has seen three major  outbreaks over the past 12 years.

The deadliest was in 2000 when 425 people were infected. More than half of them died.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS, 30th July,2012

WHY IS INDIA SO BAD FOR WOMEN?

Of all the rich G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be for a woman, and yet it prides itself on being the World's largest democracy.

This is the story of the above photo                                

One evening two weeks ago, just a few miles downhill, a young student left a bar and was set upon by a gang of at least 18 men. They dragged her into the road by her hair, tried to rip off her clothes and smiled at the cameras that filmed it all. It was around 9.30pm on one of Guwahati's busiest streets – a chaotic three-lane thoroughfare soundtracked by constantly beeping horns and chugging tuk-tuks. But for at least 20 minutes, no one called the police. They easily could have. Many of those present had phones: they were using them to film the scene as the men yanked up the girl's vest and tugged at her bra and groped her breasts as she begged for help from passing cars. We know this because a cameraman from the local TV channel was there too, capturing the attack for his viewers' enjoyment. The woman was abused for 45 minutes before the police arrived.

Within half an hour, clips were broadcast on Assam's NewsLive channel. Watching across town, Sheetal Sharma and Bitopi Dutta were horrified. "I was fuming like anything. There was this horrible, brutal assault being shown on screen – and the most disturbing thing was, the blame was being put on the woman, who, the report emphasised, was drunk," says Sharma, a 29-year-old feminist activist from the North-East Network, a women's rights organisation in Guwahati. "The way it was filmed, the camera was panning up and down her body, focusing on her breasts, her thighs," says Dutta, her 22-year-old colleague.

It was only a few days later, when the clip had gone viral and had been picked up by the national channels in Delhi, that the police were shamed into action. By then, Guwahati residents had taken matters into their own hands, producing an enormous banner that they strung up alongside one of the city's arterial roads featuring screen grabs of the main suspects. Six days after the attack, the chief minister of Assam, the state where Guwahati is located, ordered the police to arrest a dozen key suspects. He met the victim and promised her 50,000 rupees (£580) compensation.

Indian women, such as these three in Bawana, on the outskirts of Delhi, frequently come under pressure to abort female foetuses. 

Kwa kifupi, according to the news, wanawake wa  India mpaka leo wanauzwa kama bidhaa, wanaozeshwa kindoa kuanzia wakifika miaka 10, wanaweza chomwa moto kutokana na kutoafikiana kimahari ( wanawake ndio huwa wanatoa mahari na si wanaume) hii pia imefanya India kuongoza katika utoaji wa mimba za watoto wa kike kwasababu kwa wale wazazi masikini huogopa kuja kushindwa kutoa mahari. Wanawake huwa pia exploited and abused as domestic sex labourers, na kuna sehemu hadi leo  wanawake wanapanda mabasi yao wenyewe na wanaume ya kwao.


Mengine ni kama haya:


Last Wednesday, a man in Indore was arrested for keeping his wife's genitals locked. Sohanlal Chouhan, 38, "drilled holes" on her body and, before he went to work each day, would insert a small lock, tucking the keys under his socks. 


Earlier this month, children were discovered near Bhopal playing with a female foetus they had mistaken for a doll in a bin. In the southern state of Karnataka, a dentist was arrested after his wife accused him of forcing her to drink his urine because she refused to meet dowry demands.


In June, a father beheaded his 20-year-old daughter with a sword in a village in Rajasthan, western India, parading her bleeding head around as a warning to other young women who might fall in love with a lower-caste boy.( Hii hapa ndio imenichosha kabisaaaa)




Source: The Guardian 23rd, July.




Hizo ni badhii ya manyanyaso wanawake wakihindi wanayapitia kwasababu ya jinsia yao. Tooooo sad!

KATIKA HAWA WAREMBO, NANI ZAIDIII?

KIMORA LEE SIMMONS

TYRA BANKS

NAOMI CAMPBELL

THEY ARE ALL VERY HARD WORKING WOMEN