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Candidate promises numbering of all houses in Dar
2005-10-08 07:33:33
By Guardian Reporter
The NCCR-Mageuzi’s Parliamentary candidate for Kinondoni constituency, Hashim Rungwe, has said if elected he would make sure that all streets in Dar es Salaam are named and every house is numbered.
Rungwe who had originally bid, unsuccessfully, for his party’s nomination for presidency last May said he would also make sure that more roads are constructed.
Speaking to this reporter during an interview last week, the candidate said it is sad to imagine Dar es Salaam city fathers are content with a city without street names, without better accessibility in terms of roads and most of the houses have no numbers.
Rungwe who is the first Tanzanian African to assemble and sell imported cars, said he took the initiative to show fellow Africans how to import and sell cars in the 1980s, many of whom have successfully followed suit.
He said he now has a big mission before him to ensure that Tanzanians ’live decent lives in decent cities and decent houses’.
He wondered how Tanzanians could trust CCM by giving them power again after the party had failed to manage the city for more than forty years.
He said his other mission is to ensure that the city of Dar es Salaam does not only grow horizontally, but also vertically.
Elaborating, he said the horizontal growth of the city makes it extend vastly, rendering most of its services both expansive and expensive.
Rungwe who is also popularly known as ’Mzee Bahari,’ after his motor firm, Bahari Motor assembly, said if elected, he would make sure that he goes for a ’shrunk city’ that is vertically developed.
As regards the valleys that cut across the city, which have always been the subject of much controversy and discussion whenever it rains he said he has views that differ from those of politicians in power.
According to him, these areas should be developed and houses erected right from their very rims to avoid land wastage.
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