Mdau wa Diaspora ajibu maswali kuhusu daraja litakalojengwa kutoka Dar hadi Zanzibar


Comment by Prof Abdul Sheriff regarding Diaspora's Proposal to build the Dar-Zanzibar Bridge:

Regarding the Dar es Salaam-Zanzibar sea bridge, some facts may bring some sense into the thick heads of these Diasporans.

China is the second largest economy in the world. At the present time the world’s longest sea bridge is China’s to connect Hong Kong and Macau, but it is only 34 miles (54 km, compared to the proposed 70 km Dar-Zan bridge), and it cost $20 billion. It serves the Bay Area of China which has economic output of $15 trillion. What is the output of Zanzibar and Tanzania as a whole?

The population of Hong Kong and Macau totals more than 8 million, compared to Zanzibar’s 1.5 million.
Do I need to go further to show how ridiculous this project that our Diasporan brains are dreaming about.
I would like to know whether any Zanzibari (and who?) was involved in this mega Diaspora project?
Even if we could build such a bridge, what shall we transport from Zanzibar – mangoes, shokishoki, cloves; in return for Mbeya rice, vegetables and fruits, and of course a lot of Mainlanders who are flocking to Zanzibar because they cannot get a job on the mainland, and the same the other round?
Is it just another clever Union project to swallow Zanzibar, the way Bahrain has been swallowed by Saudi Arabia? No thanks!
I am surprised that this Diaspora leader had the guts to make such a proposal in front of the President of Zanzibar as a serious proposition. But then this is our times.
Abdul Sheriff
 
Hawa madiaspora wamepiga kimya au bado wana mpango wa kulijenga hilo daraja
 
Hivi huyu mleta uzi huu yupo kweli
Yuko kimya San muda tu au kalamba teuzi

Ova
 
No economic viability compared to the large amount of money needed to poor into the project. Porojo tu za kisiasa, nani angetoa pesa zake akatupe kwenye mradi usio na faida yeyote za kiuchumi!
 
We Chawa mbona baada ya jiwe kuondoka umepotea ?
 
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