"AFFIRMS THE TAX IS A PHONE LINE OF DEVELOPMENT WASIOPENDA Hypocrisy" .... Mizengo Pinda

WHEN ikiahidi government to reconsider charges Sh 1,000 telephone lines in order to reduce the burden on the country, the Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda, has said the charges are not hurting people but his income will go directly to help spread rural electrification.

He said that when he spoke at a rally yesterday in Songea, in his one-week visit in Ruvuma, having visited the new governor of Njombe.
"It's like the added charges on petroleum products, which has given us a lot of money to fund roads, connecting cities and regions and many were built and continue to be built.
"Who does not want electric pate as urban villages, to help remove the darkness, to run small industries and help boost the economy? Opposing these charges, they tutakii good, "said Pinda.

National budget being covered last month, passed 1,000 Sh charges for the use of cellphones, money order zisaidie earned a great deal of spread in rural electrification run by the Rural Electrification Agency (REA). For Ruvuma region alone has around 150 villages will receive electricity under the program.

In all regions in the country there are differing numbers of vitakavyonufaika many villages in the program. Electricity is in the energy sector which is one of six selected sectors implemented under the program to ensure the greatest impact are available now, with a maximum of three years, starting in fiscal year 2013/14. Other sectors are agriculture, transport, water, education and income.

Before the rally, the Prime Minister launched the College of Vocational Studies of Songea, kinachodahili more than 500 students and offer short courses in various vocational.


Initially Prime Minister Pinda said the price of maize from farmers in Ruvuma region, it will be Sh 500 per kilo instead of Sh 450, wahamasike farmers to sell maize to the National Agency for Food Security (FRA).

Ruvuma Region is one of the regions producing maize, a staple food in abundance and FRA intends to buy 50,000 tonnes in the same region.

RFA is scheduled to buy more than 200,000 tons in the world for food security, a greater degree than in the past.

In another development, Prime Minister Pinda also laid the foundation stone for the construction of the international market in the village of nine on the border with Mozambique, as one of 48 to take are border markets facilitate trade and counter smuggling. Today the Prime Minister will leave Dar es Salaam Move back after finishing his tour in the region.