27 Machi, 2015

Final training three days of training in investigative stories





Studies have grown good for all three days and a lot we have learned from our trainer Peik Johansson.

In the study has demonstrated different ways of using the Internet to get through for investigating information primarily using Internet to examine the seriousness of the matter and how to get and to make an investigation of the matter to the presidency with all the parameters necessary.

For myself i can say that, the work shop was so fantastic and it improves my knowledge to use internet for Investigative journalism.

As well i can say that i can use my knowledge to teach my colleagues in the workplace.

PRESS FREEDOM IN TANZANIA WE NEED CHANGES IN OUR LAW.



POLICEMEN WERE STRUCK JOURNALIST DAVID MWANGOSI AND MAKE YOU HIS DEATH SPONTANEOUS




Since independence of Tanzania 1961, known as Tanganyika, There was Freedom of media but in 1970’s the government introduced act of news paper 1976 and act of broadcasting No 6 in the year 1993 .This act gives Minister of Information, Culture and Sports authority to punish the news paper at anytime. http://www.egov.go.tz.
According to this act journalist fill their no freedom for media. In marking the 20th anniversary of World Press Day, President KIKWETE said the following: “Being an ardent believer in press freedom which is part of the extended Freedom of Expression, I would like to congratulate all members of the media in Tanzania and around the world. We have every reason to celebrate the impressive level of achievement in Tanzania.” 
(Source: Kikwete commends local media fraternity. Daily News Tanzania.)
Perhaps he really is an ardent believer in Press freedom. However, not for Tanzania. 
As far as “impressive level of achievement” is concerned, his regime’s record on media repression, unprecedented in the history of Tanzania, speaks for itself. Today, the nation, where once papers published, informed the public about GRAND corruption and on corrupt officials, has become a nation, where journalists are brutally killed, violently attacked, a local paper banned and articles revealing GRAND corruption, suppressed. 
Recently in Parliament, Mr. Joseph Mbilinyi, the shadow Minister of Information, Culture and Sports said the following:
“Tanzania has turned into a nation that bans media organs that unveil graft and abuse of power among leaders and officials of the government and the ruling party.”
FOR, it is under the current regime: 
That articles on the longest running, most expensive legal suit in Dar’s history (a cash generating project of few officials) are suppressed. 
That unprecedented attacks on journalists are taking place: Mr. Daudi Mwagosi (brutally shot by a police officer in front of people). Mr. Absolum Kibanda, Tanzania Editor’s Forum Chairman, was seriously injured in a violent attack which left him blind in one eye, and Mr. Erick Kabendera constantly harassed, his parents interrogated because he testified in a trial. (For more on Erick Kabendera’s harassment please read: "Voices of Danger: Break-ins and family interrogation fail to silence Tanzanian reporter" The Independent. Wednesday May 8, 2013.)
That a local paper, Mwanahalisi, was banned when a story that exposed the identity of those behind the kidnapping and torture of Dr. Ulimboka was published.
Also, noteworthy is the report from the Legal and Human Rights Center Tanzania.
Some excerpts on Freedom of the Media from the Legal and Human Rights Center Report 2012 Tanzania:
The banning of Mwanahalisi newspaper violated not only the freedom of the media but also the right to access information as provided for in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966 (ICCPR) the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) and Article 18 of the Constitution of United Republic of Tanzania, 1977 which provides for almost absolute freedom of expression.
The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania continues to use the oppressive law such as the Newspapers Act to suppress the freedom of the media in Tanzania. This law has for many years been condemned as one of the draconian and unconstitutional law..”~ Legal and Human Rights Center Report 2012 Tanzania. 
Experiences indicate that the Tanzanian government’s attitude towards the media is characterized by the fact that free media exposes all sort of State abuse to the public. “ ~ Legal and Human Rights Center Report 2012 Tanzania. 
There was a time in Tanzania when the media published, reported about GRAND corruption, but that was in the past.
Once upon a time in Tanzania, the press published articles against GRAND corruption, revealed the criminal activities of few officials and the role played by the Bank of Tanzania in the Valambhia case, now known as the most expensive legal suit in Dar’s history.  The Valambhia case began, almost 20 years ago, as a civil suit between two business partners during the regime of the second President. However, when the Tanzanian government intervened in the case, disregarding ALL high court rulings, the case continued like a drug addiction during the Mkapa years.  As long as Mr. Valambhia was in the courts, certain lawyers were handsomely paid by the BoT.  
However, most important to note, that throughout the years, the local media: papers and radio, published and talked about the case. University students filled the courtrooms, the case was studied at University of Dar es salaam, and today 9 out of 15 Valambhia cases are being taught at the local University.
During those days, The Valambhia case was on the lips and minds of all people, from taxi drivers to the local street vendors, from middle class to the elite, from rural to urban.  People were informed. They were informed on all the courts decisions, the role played by BoT in the matter, and of the names of the corrupt officials, Ministries involved.
Almost daily the matter was published in the papers because local journalists continued to write and report on the matter.  Under life threatening conditions and intimidation, the few reporters continued to write and report. Even when they were offered money NOT to write about the case, they wrote.  During those days, it was those few reporters and the local media on the front lines in the war against corruption in the country. 
In 2002, an article appeared in The EAST AFRICAN, which revealed a report compiled by a South African Security firm in which the firm accused certain Tanzanian officials, including the Tanzania Attorney General’s chambers and the Bank of Tanzania of ‘conspiring and engineering money laundering’ in the Valambhia case.  
 (Source: “DAR officials ‘Abetting Money Laundering’.” The East African. Monday, April 29, 2002.)
In 2003, the Valambhia case, which had been in litigation since 1989, was finally and conclusively determined by the highest court of the land, the Court of Appeals. The most famous, historic struggle for justice against corruption, a struggle for the rule of law culminated in an arrest warrant for the late governor of the Bank of Tanzania, Mr. Daudi Balali. 
The press was right there.
It was the first and rare occasion in the history of Tanzania where a high court had issued an arrest warrant for one of the highest public official, a governor of the Bank of Tanzania.

(That was then. NOW, it’s an entirely different matter. In 2009, under the Kikwete regime, articles on the Bank of Tanzania’s role in the matter and on the GRAND corruption involved in the case are suppressed.)
Important to note the fact that during the Mkapa years, BoT was synonymous with CORRUPTION. During President Kikwete’s second term, a horrific silence observed on the Bank of Tanzania’s corruption. 
The silence starts with the suppression of articles on the Valambhia case.  

In 2009, two articles that appeared in local paper concerning the Valambhia case, were both suppressed.  The two articles listed below are the only ones I was able to find.
Articles as follows:
1) “REVEALED: the most expensive legal suit in Dar’s history” 
This article revealed the GRAND corruption behind the Valambhia case. It exposed the role of the BoT in the matter. (The case ended in 2003, however, what is going on presently is described in the article by a Snr. Official: The case ended in 2003…There is no case..This is a cash generating project of few officials….No one cares to stop it, because its their cash generating machine. And the Bank pays. Meanwhile, generating an unjustified debt to nation.)
2) “BoT ordered to clean house” 
Also suppressed. This article exposed the culture of nepotism at the BoT, it revealed the endless hiring of so called ‘consultants’ and the BoT role in the Valambhia case. 
& So the cash generating UNSUSTAINABLE machine of the FEW continues to generate an UNWARRANTED, UNJUSTIFIED, UNNECESSARY, debt to the nation, but lines pockets of the FEW continues….& BOT pays…under the current regime.  
For over 20 years, the media in Tanzania published articles on the Valambhia case. Those published articles provide a historical record of a momentous fight for the rule of law in Tanzania. They give an in depth look at the most historic fight against GRAND corruption in Tanzania which involved the highest court of the land and the Bank of Tanzania.
In SUPPRESSING articles revealing the GRAND corruption in the matter is to DENY the people of Tanzania their own history in the struggle for justice against corruption, in the struggle for the Rule of Law in Tanzania. 
Thank for Michael MacDonald
Freedom of the Press? Not in Tanzaniaby Michael MacDonald, Huffington Post.

24 Machi, 2015

WHAT DID WE DO ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE TRAINING?




For 2nd day of training, I learned how to search for information and information via the Internet, also have learned the importance of using the Internet in the access point to inform me that I need to write.

Through this training there is nothing I dislike, but everything I liked and I am very grateful to get this training.

I also learn' t on how to find information  from Google searching engine(advance searching) whereby we searched different issues like inflation rate of Tanzania , world press freedom day, population statistics of Iringa municipality , finally we were given the  task of choosing one topic among the provided for doing research on internet and write it with our own words.