AfricaPress-Tanzania: ZANZIBAR second Vice President Hemed Suleiman Abdullah has underscored the need to review all the agricultural projects in the Isles so as to ensure that their implementation brings wider and positive outcomes to the community especially farmers.
In his tour to inspect various developmental projects in the Isles, Hemed wanted coordinators and supervisors of the projects to ensure that they firstly assess the projects to ensure they don’t affect people’s incomes but rather support their development.
According to him, there are some of the projects which have been forcing farmers to pay fees during cleaning of farms as advised by donours something which do not help the farmers but rather drag them into more vulnerable conditions.
“The government will take a closer look in all the projects in line with the costs incurred in order to satisfy itself before commencing the implementation, we \want to ensure that the projects ultimately bring productivity that will benefit the majority of people,” he said.
The second VP said the government will work hard to ensure that it implements all the promises provided by President Hussein Mwinyi during the General Election campaign last year.
“We will fulfill this by sitting down and listening to people’s problems including land disputes, settlements, roads, agricultural infrastructure, through this, we will get a common direction for achieving goals while solving the challenges,” he said.
He however, reminded members of the public that they still have a responsibility to remain patient, work hard while the government is addressing the challenges facing them.
On electricity, Hemed urged the leadership of Zanzibar Electricity Corporation (ZECO) to organize itself commercially and guarantee people and investors with sufficient power to stimulate development.
Addressing residents in Tunguu, Machui, KibondeMaji, Bambi Kijiwe and Bonde la Cheju villages in Central District, the Second VP said the government is aware of all the challenges and is pioneered to address them all.
He directed council authorities to continue putting in place deliberate measures to ensure that all the government revenues are collected and well spent to bring development in the country.
Central District Commissioner Marina Thomas said the government has sent water in all the 38 shehias, something which has brought relief to the dwellers and stimulated development.
She said all the villages within the district have already secured access to clean and safe water services following the increase of water projects implementations.
Marina said the success has been in line with the availability of electricity services on a large scale due to the 12 projects implemented recently benefiting the majority of the people.
