Uhuru,Kagame,Museveni kukutana Nairobi.

[Wacha1]

Mi nilijua ni habari ya kweli, Asante kwa kutujuza Kiongozi.

Follow this link .... .. Chinese maze: Uganda

Saturday, July 13 2013 at 14:49
As Presidents Kenyatta, Kagame and Museveni prepare to meet in Nairobi next month for a review of progress on resolutions they made in Entebbe late June, concern is emerging over recent developments in Kampala that threaten to derail East Africa's grand rail project. Just weeks to the meeting, Kampala is scrambling to work its way out of a maze of Chinese construction firms, all fighting for the lucrative tender to build a new railway network extending to the border with South Sudan and a new port on Lake Victoria.

During the two-day meeting between the presidents that ended on June 25, the three countries parcelled out roles to fast-track the development of key infrastructure projects.

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Uganda was assigned the lead role in rail sector development and political federation while Kenya will champion the pipeline development and electricity sectors, and Rwanda the Customs, single tourist visa and EAC e-Identity card projects.

READ: Presidents agree to fast track EA political federation

But implementation of the rail development could run into early trouble as the procurement process gets caught up in a maze of Chinese firms and their lobbyists.
At the centre of the bitter fight are four companies – China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation, China Harbour and Engineering Company, China Communications Construction Company, and China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHEL), who have signed memoranda with different arms of government.
The situation not only exposes Uganda to litigation, but could also result in a messy contest that could delay the project's implementation.
One part of the story is that President Museveni, who wants the Uganda People's Defence Forces to participate as a way of building capacity and lowering the construction costs of similar projects in future, made an offer to two different Chinese firms. It has also emerged that two of the contenders are actually different subsidiaries of the same mother company.

On February 17, 2004, President Museveni held a meeting with the chairman of China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation (CCECC) in Kampala, during which they discussed the firm's participation in the development of a regional railway network. A follow-up meeting was held between the company and then Minister for Works and Transport John Nasasira in October 2006.

In between, the scope of the project changed to include development of a modern railway network to replace the Kampala-Malaba-Tororo-Pakwach line as well as an extension to Nimule on the border with South Sudan.
Four years later, in October 2010, in a letter to the chairman of CCECC, President Museveni said he had directed his Works Minister and the Chief of Defence to work with the company "on modalities aimed at forging a working relationship that is aimed at paving a way for developing and implementing this massive infrastructure project."
In December 2011, CCECC entered into an MoU with the governments of Uganda and Tanzania for the development of a new port at Mwambani, Tanga, a port at Musoma, supply of marine vessels to ply the route between Musoma and Kampala, construction of a new port at Bukasa in Kampala, and upgrading and extension of the railway line from Tanga to Arusha through to Musoma.

Omari Rashid Nundu, the Minister for Transport, then signed for Tanzania while Dr Stephen Chebrot, the Junior Minister for Transport, signed for Uganda.

 

[Edzeame]

Ma rais Uhuru,Kagame na Museveni kukutana Nairobi mwezi ujao kuendeleza mazungumzo kuhusu reli, bomba la mafuta na shirikisho la EA. Kikwete missing in action yet again. Source The East African.

Kikwete had been missing in action and visibily absent in an EAC meeting in Burundi during Kibakis time na kiti chake kikawa empty halikukaliwa na yeyote hata mwakilishi, ni tabia yake ya kawaida, he can only attend an EAC meeting at arusha kwa sababu it is headquarters but it sends a very wrong message for any head of state who needs to leave behind a legacy.

Remember this integration is no longer about fastracking a political federation. kwa hivyo if Tanzania's suspicions is lingering on the same, very sorry it is about opening and increasing economic capacity of the region.

fact:

it is true South sudan is bigger than Tanzania kenya and uganda combined Opening south sudan by creating railway connections, oil pipelines and trade centers that will connect to lappset and uganda oil pipleine

Wafrika viongozi ndio wanatumika kuiharibu hali ya umoja AM. lakini hivi majuzi uhuru alipokuwa mamlakani kikwete hakuwa kwenye meeting ya Uganda, is there anything new? that we do not know

 

[Kifarutz]

Waende zao na unafiki wao. M7 and Uhuru wakafie mbele huko,.! Sioni sababu ya wao kununu ugomvi wa JK na The ugliest president in Africa..!

 

[Lastname]

Mbona haijaandikwa popote kwenye latest editon ya The East African? The East African: News - Understanding The Region humu ndani kuna watu kwa makusudi wanachochea nationalism na ku-test public opinion kuhusu mtazamo wa mahusiano na nchi jirani.... Hata hivyo mi naona hata kama the trio of KKK wangekutano bila the fourth K hakuna matata. It is a well known fact that our president in not interested in wasting time meeting with regional leaders, or indeed African leaders. He only associates with them when he wants patronize them. In any case what benefits can you get by wasting time with them? Ndio maana JK anatumia muda wake kuwatafuta viongozi wa maana na kupeana nao mikono, kuongea nao, kuwatembelea, ndio maana safari zake nyingi ni za nje ya Africa, na zimezaa matunda, Obama came!

Ombaomba umeona dili, unapewa bila kutumia akili wala jasho lako unaona dili? Harafu unajisifu kuwa wewe . . . . . . hivi umemsifiaje?

 

[Edzeame]

basi mchunge JK asiwe proverbial fisi kwenye njia panda, LOL yaani kaona SADC na EAC which will only result in kupasuka kuwili.
Tayari Drc yenyewe tanzania inatolewa kijasho na imeshindwa kuikomboa kutoka kwa mikono wa kagame na museveni and it has become a headache for every tanzanian president mpaka mkapa, prompting him to come up with a defence pact ya SADC but the problem still lingers on
na imefanyika kwa miaka zaidi ya ishirini. is it always economically viable and worth dying for? a food for thought!

CC FJM JokaKuu

 

[JokaKuu]

basi mchunge JK asiwe proverbial fisi kwenye njia panda, LOL yaani kaona SADC na EAC which will only result in kupasuka kuwili.
Tayari Drc yenyewe tanzania inatolewa kijasho na imeshindwa kuikomboa kutoka kwa mikono wa kagame na museveni and it has become a headache for every tanzanian president mpaka mkapa, prompting him to come up with a defence pact ya SADC but the problem still lingers on
na imefanyika kwa miaka zaidi ya ishirini. is it always economically viable and worth dying for? a food for thought!

CC FJM JokaKuu

..origin ya SADC defence pact ni Frontline states for the liberation of Southern Africa.

..Frontline states zilianza na Tanzania, Zambia, and Botswana[if not mistaken].

..later on Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, joined in that order after each country was liberated.

..Frontline states walikuwa wanapigana pamoja, na waliamua kwamba ukimshambulia mmoja umeshambulia wote. That is the reasons there were Mozambican soldiers fighting alongside Tanzanians during the war in Uganda. Also, Tanzanians, and Zimbabweans, fought alongside Mozambicans when they were threatened by Renamo bandits who were supported by the CIA,apartheid South Africa, and other puppets African regimes[names withheld].

..from military and defence coorperation, Frontline states decided to establish an organ to coordinate economic cooperation so as to reduce their dependency on apartheid South Africa. That in short is how SADC was established.

NB:

..Namibia,Malawi, Mauritiuse, DRC, siyo original members wa SADC.

..I think SADC was established right after Zimbabwes independence.

cc: Geza Ulole, Kabaridi, Jasusi, Shwari, FJM

 

[Balacuda]

Tanzania tunahitaji rais mwingine anayejali diplomasia na maelewano na nchi jirani. Tukicheza huyu Kikwete atatuingiza vitani!!

Huwezi kujipendekeza kwa mtu ambaye hakuhitaji. Ni sawa na kujikomba kwa mtu ili awe anakupa lift kwenye gari yake. Be mature and free tunahitaji maisha sio mashindano

 

[MUKAMASIMBA]

Huwezi kujipendekeza kwa mtu ambaye hakuhitaji. Ni sawa na kujikomba kwa mtu ili awe anakupa lift kwenye gari yake. Be mature and free tunahitaji maisha sio mashindano

Dunia hii maisha yako kwenye economic competition,usipo compete hakuna maisha kwa sasa,mambo yote competition na integration.

 

[Malinyingi]

yupo busy akikenua kwenye misiba wenzake wanapiga maendeleo

i see?

 

[mchumia tumbo]

Jaribu kuuona Mwisho wa EAC ulivyokaribia

 

[Crucial Man]

Raisi wetu si mtuhumiwa wa icc..hao wakina m7 na kagame ni icc convicts to be..uhuru yeye tayari inajulikana wazi,ujambazi na ufadhili wa mungiki ishamland icc..to hell with th devils.

 

[Ruzibiza]

kwa hili mi naona ni pa kuoneshea uwanaume wake, hatakiwi kumbembeleza mtu jiografia inawafanya waitegemee tz. Btw kama watu wa karibu na rais ndo akina mwigulu mnategemea nini?

hujayasikia ya kuihama bandari ya Dar kwa rwaanda na uganda...mwisho tar 1/9/2013?