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Tabora makes some economic headway
2006-07-09 09:36:20
By Nsuduki Limbe, PST, Tabora.
Tabora Region has spent more than 2.5bn/- in implementing a total of 148 development projects this year. The Acting Regional Commissioner, Musa Samizi, said here during the week at the uhuru torch rally that the district Councils injected more than 52.4m/- while community ’s contribution was to the tune of 69.1m/-.
During the occasion, the community development based projects In the fields of education, health, water supplies, agriculture, natural resources, social services, housing, youth and women groups were launched.
The torch rally went through 16 projects in Tabora, 20 in Uyui/Nzega, 23 in Sikonge, 25 in Igunga, and 34 in Urambo districts.
Delivering the uhuru torch message at different places and districts, the race leader, Juma Muswadiku, urged wananchi to stop engaging children in the worst forms of labour.
’’Give them their basic right of education,’’ he said, noting that the youth contribute to national hope and manpower.
Engaging children in tobacco farms, family chores and livestock was detrimental to their development, he warned.
He appealed to parents to see to it that girls have access to economic power by sending them to school. ’’Education, not livestock, is their fundamental capital,’’ Muswadiku observed.
Some parents and guardians in Tabora Region engage girls in livestock keeping and do marry them off at a tender age. This he said was a stumbling block to their development.
On the other hand, he advised livestock keepers to cull their animals by selling some and make sure the money they get was used for development activities like building better living quarters.
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