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By Staff Writer
Mwanza City Council has surveyed 3,566 plots with the aim of allocating them to people, it has been learnt here.
According to Adam Y. A, who is the Project Manager of the 3,500 plots project, the plots before being allocated will be upgraded for easy construction work.
He said that the survey and upgrading works has been made possible by a treasury loan of Tshs. 830m, which must be repaid within 6 months.
To start with plots in Buswelu and Nyegezi areas are ready to be allocated to people under new arrangements, he said.
Under the new arrangement, he further clarified, those who would be provided with the plots, would have to contribute for the surveying, compesation and upgrading works.
The prices of those plots are:- Nyegezi area, high density Tshs. 450,000, medium density Tshs. 800,000, low density Tshs. 1,200,000 and PBS category is Tshs. 7,700,000.
Those in Buswelu the cost are:- high density Tshs. 360,000, medium density Tshs. 640,000, low density Tshs. 720,000 and PBS category is Tshs. 5,500,000.
Elaborating the issue further, he said those people whom contributed in the surveying of the plots, would be given a top priority in the allocation of those plots, adding, "the amount that everyone has contributed will be deducted from the cost of a plot of his/her choice".
There would be a grace period of six weeks, whereby those who contributed in the surveying cost, would be invited to purchase the plots, and when that period expire, the general public would also be invited to purchase them, he noted.
Where do some Mbugani residents go for their ‘long calls’ ?
By Staff writer
Some residents of Unguja Mlimani area, in Mbugani Ward, in Mwanza have no access to pit latrines while many others do use dilapidated ones.
According to a survey by this reporter, in fact, some latrines are so dilapidated and full that they can cause an environmental pollution, detrimental to their general welfare as a result of faeces that are flowing from the hilltops’ latrines downwards.
Most hilltops’ houses in Mwanza have substandard latrines because physical features of this lakeshore city is characterized by large and undulating tableland and, sometimes, rock hills and ridges that rise up to about 6,000 feed above sea level. Spectacular outcrops of bare granite rocks are also common.
A research carried out by Bugando Medical Centre’s Anti-Epidemics in 2001, indicates that due to the said features, about 76% of Mwanza’s squatters have not been able to make latrines of their own because it is difficult to do so.
Subsequently, according to the research findings, the hilltops’ squatters live in pathetic conditions since most of them have neither access to safe running water nor areas for disposing of solid and liquid wastes.
The areas that were covered by the three-year project, funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) , are Bugando Kati, Busanda Jeshini, Kiseke, Ilemela, Mhandu, Isengenhe, Bugalika ‘A’, Bugalika ‘B’, TANESCO ‘B’, Gwinea, Msumbiji, Mwembegiza and Misheni.
March, 2005 issue
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