[Text] A PEACEFUL workers assem-

bly at the New Times Corpo-
ration premises in Accra yester-
day being addressed by the
Secretary for Information, Mr Ato
Austin, was brought to an
abrupt halt when the police
body-guard for the Secretary
advanced on and beat the Editor
of the ‘Ghanaian Times’, Mr
Christian Aggrey.

The bulk of workers — male
and female — their tempers
boiling over, advanced to the
rescue of the Editor, and, but for

the timely intervention of the
Editor himself, the PDC and
some executive members of
staff, the whole incident would
have ended in serious trouble.

Mr Ato Austin had gone to the
‘Times’ yard to explain his ver-
sion of developments between
the ‘Ghanaian Times’ and the
Ministry of Information and had
started answering a question
from the Editor when the inci-
dent, occurred.

Mr Austin himself was led off
‘he disrupted assembly ground
by the acting managing director
0 his office.

The body-guard, named by the
Secretary as Constable Dan
Tetteh, attacked the Editor after
Mr Kojo Bentsi-Eshun, Personal
Assistant to the Secretary, was
seen to have pointed out the
Editor to the cop in a whisper.

It was just after this whisper
that the cop started his advance
towards the Editor.

But when the workers advan-
ced to retaliate, the Editor, to-
gether with the PDC executive
and other members of staff went
to intervene and placate the pro-
voked temper of the workers.

The personal assistant and the

INFORMATION OFFICIAL BODYGUARD BEATS NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER

Incident Reported

Accra GHANAIAN TIMES in English 7 May 82 pp 1, 3

policeman were put into a wait:
ing car and the driver tried to
speed off, almost knocking down
some of the workers.

They were, however, intercept-
ed at the gate by a group of the
infuriated workers, who had
locked the gate.

The Editor and some of the
senior officers went to the gate
and escorted the policeman to
the Editor's office to prevent the
workers from pouncing on him.

Whilst the policeman was kept
in his office, Mr Aggrey went
and appealed to the workers to
exercise restraint and let them

go_in peace.

Finally, the Secretary, his
armed body-guard and ,personal
assistant were escorted out of
the NTC premises by the Editor
amid shouts of “shame, shame”
by the workers.

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GHANA



NEPA WORKERS, GOVERNMENT REPORTED ‘STILL AT WAR'

Lagos BUSINESS TIMES in English 10 May 82 p 9

[Text]

cso:

HE trade dispute

between nN Na-
tional Union of Electri-
city and Gas Workers
and the Federal Govern-
ment which threw the
entire country into a
total blackout — last
March, is yet to be
resolved.

Mr. Kiri. Kalio, the
General Secretary of the
Union told the Business
Times last week that the
series of negotiation
meetings held with the
Federal Government
officials have so far not
helped the situation.

electricity workers
with the. National
Electricity Power
Authority are damand:
ing among ot thin;
a radical review of the
Onosode Commission on
parastatals and govern:
ment owned compani
reports and the
Government’s tie
Pe on the report.

en the disputes
reached an uncompromi-
sing climax on February
26, NEPA workers went

on ite a et tothe
country until about
March 9. Even then,
some parts of the

country not have
their electricity supply
restored because some

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NEPA Tvipment were
have . either
developed faults or. were

The union is agitating
for an autonomy for
NEPA if the Authority
is to perform effectively.

Mr. Kalio cautioned
that an agreement
reached with -only the
Senior Staff Association
of parastatals and
government owned com-
panies, the NEPA
chapter, would not be
binding on the junior
workers particularly if
the agreement is not
favourable to them.

It is said that Presi-
dent Shehu Shagari has
set up a special commit-
tee to negotiate with the
Senior Staff Association
of NEPA on the pojnts
in disputes. The setting

Association over the
points in dispute.
non Je not particularly
union is not
interested’ in agitating
for salary increase
for improved. electr Troctvierty
supply to consumers
increased
productivity.
dene union said that
velopment. jects
by individuals and
governments are often
carried out without

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bringing NEPA into the
plat stage. He said
that this gititnde is
adversely affecting the
performance of NEPA.
Another one is what he
described as government
interference in the run-
ning of the organisation.

Government red
tapism, the union
claimed, is responsible
for the unavailability of
materials and spare
parts.

_ Another area, accord-
ing to the union is the
absence of adequate
authority to take
decision on some finan-
cial matters beyond the
meagre sum allowed to
run such a large organi-
sation,

NIGERIA


NIGERIA

CENTRAL BANK GIVES STATISTICS ON CURRENCY
Lagos BUSINESS TIMES in English 10 May 82 p 1

[Text] A total of 84,347.7 million was in circulation as at the end of December,
last year, according to the latest Central Bank's monthly report. This amount of
currency in circulation is the highest ever recorded in Nigeria. It grew from
about N390 million in January 1972 to ¥2,180 million in December 1977. The aver-
age for the whole of 1981 was ¥3,818.7 million.

The graph representing the 1980 and 1981 trend shows a steep rising curve from
March 1980, until the end of December, 1981. The currency in circulation was
82,642.4 million in January, 1980 and fell slightly by 29.1 million in February,
1980. It rose again in March to ¥2,667.8 million and continued to rise from month
to month.

The currency in circulation at the end of December last year, represented an
increase of 403.4 million or 10.2 per cent over the end of November, 1981 figure.
Compared with the corresponding period a year earlier, currency in circulation for
December, 1981 was a rise of 4758.2 million or 21.1 per cent.

Currency outside banks amounted to N3,861.9 million or 88.8 per cent of the total
currency in circulation in December. The remaining N485.8 million or 11.2 per
cent of the total was vault cash.

The implication of a rising volume of currency in circulation is increased activi-
ties. With the credit squeeze, prices ought to fall to reflect the credit squeeze,

but the import consideration now is whether the credit squeeze is going to lower
demand more than the import restriction is going to lower the supply curve.

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FOOD, TRANSPORTATION PRICES NOW SAID HIGHER

Lagos BUSINESS TIMES in English 10 May 82 p 9

[Text]

cso:

CRKERS in the

country have star-
ted to bear the brunt of
the recently announced
austerity measures taken
by the Federal Govern-
ment.

The measures are
aimed at rescuing our
fallen foreign reserves
and also to develop pre-
ference for locally
manufactured goods.

Even with the mere
speculations of the

‘ederal Government's
intention to introduce
an austerity programme
in February, traders
increased prices of their
items of trade and when
eventually the measures
were announced, prices
of goods and service
ware hysterically hiked.

Food items record the
highest increase with
the ban on the importa-
tion of food into the
country. A bag of rice
which sold for N35 early
last month jomped to
N85 last week in Lagos
markets.

The bulk of rice con-
sumed in this country
are imported from the
Uniti States of
America, Thailand and
South Korea. The Nige-
ria National Supply
Company. and the
dential Task Force on
Rice have been handling

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the importation and
distribution of rice in
the country. Dr. Umaru
Dikko, the boss of the
Task Force on Rice, had
had cause last year to
condemn the shoddy
handling of rice distribu-
tion by top NNSC offi-
cials.

Some of the food
items which prices have
jumped are; groundnuts
oil, semovita, milk,
beans, sugar and rice. Av
tin of groundnut oil
which sold for N13 in
March.has risen to N20
by last week while a
medium size bag of
semovita has. jumped
from N6.50 to ¥15.

The popular price of
one dozen of peak milk
which is 2.20 has risen
to N3 and a packet of
sugar has been hiked
from 45 kobo to 80k by
last week. The price of
garri remains almost
relatively at the old
price of N8.00 a tin. The

rice of yam and other
Fecal food items have
also jumped.

Transport

Transport fares also
has been increased
because of the increase
in the retail price of

trol from 15 kobo per
itre to 20 kobo: Com-
mercial vehicle drivers

39

have been harping on

the 5 kobo increase to
‘ant themselves a one
hundred percent

increase on transport
fares charged passen-
gers.

A bus ride from Yaba
to Palm Groove which
used to cost ten Rabo
has now risen to twenty
kobo. The inter state
commercial — vehicles
have also increased their
fares. For instance taxi
fare from Lagos to
Benin City before the
increase on petrol was
N12 but it has been
increased to N15.

NIGERIA


One contribution perhaps will spring from the fact that Angola has a larger
population than Gabon. Gabon very often needs manpower and we can arrive
at an understanding on that point.

On the other hand, there are political experiences which we try to pursue in
our respective countries. This exchange of political experiences is something
positive in itself.

But, if we look at the level of the UDEAC (I think that this is a purely
economic organization which deals with economic problems), then we must talk
about economics. And in talking about the economy as such, we realize that
Angola is not a country of minor importance. Thus, Angola's contribution will
be highly appreciated by other countries, such as Gabon and all of the others
in the UDEAC.

I.A.: Our country continues to be the victim of aggression by South African
racists and by the aggressiveness of the United States administration. In
the light of international law and the principles spelled out in the OAU
Charter, what can you tell us about the silence on the part of some African
states on this problem?

O.B.: You know that there are many twists and turns in politics.

There are people who have the courage to say what they think and there are
persons who think that silence is best!

Concerning the acts of aggression of which Angola is a victim I had a personal
idea which unfortunately was not followed up; the idea was to have the Pan-
African Force, which is in Chad, dispatched to Angola and to put the Blue
Berets of the UN into Chad. These are not the same problems. In Chad, there
are sons of Chad who fight against each other. So it is necessary to regroup
them. We have no need to fire upon our Chadian brothers. But Angola is a
sister nation which is being attacked. It would therefore be necessary to
send a Pan-African force to Angola to guarantee the defense of Angola.

As to the silence you mentioned, it pains me to note it.

When we were at the OAU, we introduced resolutions, we took up the problem,
we talked about it, we made speeches, and when we returned to our countries,
those speeches became a dead letter. The resolutions and declarations, which
we proclaimed from the platform of the OAU do not seem to have been followed
up. I therefore think that we must talk the same language within the OAU: The
language of firmness if we are to have firmness; the language of sincerity if
we are to have sincerity, and the language of defense. Angola is a friendly
land which is attacked by a country that does not want to understand us, a
country that unfortunately continues to have an African name.

As for the American administration, this is a problem, I believe, which had
better be placed in the context of noncomprehension.



[Text] REPRESENTATIVES of the

18 soap cottage industries
now closed down for lack of
acid oil meet in Mwanza next
week to chart out a joint
strategy for securing raw
materials for their industries,

Shihata has reported.

The Small Industries
Development Organisation
(SIDO) Regional Represen-
tative, Ndugu A.H. Mola, said
in Mwanza yesterday that the
soap manufacturers would
meet on Wednesday under
SIDO to consider how they
could jointly secure raw
materials for their work.

After the meeting, Ndugu
Mola said the representatives
would call on the Regional
Party Secretary, Ndugu
Daniel Machemba, to brief
him on their problems and
seek help to overcome them.

He said the meeting would
put forward proposals with
the aim of securing a fixed
quarter of acid oil from VOIL.
VOIL has refused to sell any
of the oil to the. industries.

The representatives would
also discuss the possibilities
of securing raw materials in-
cluding oil from other sources
within the country jointly.
The other raw materials in-
clude .caustic soda, coconut
oil, palm oil and others.

The soap manufacturers are
also expected to discuss the
possibility of approaching the
Bank of Tanzania for an import

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SOAP MAKERS SEEK TO SECURE RAW MATERIALS FOR THEIR INDUSTRY

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 8 May 82 p 3

licence to purchase from overseas
tallow (animal fat) for making
soap as well as equipment used in
the soap making process

They will also consider a
Proposal to amalgamate all the
small industries that deal in the
manufacture of laundry soap with
the aim of establishing one big
soap industry in the region with
modern equipment

The 18 small industries are now
lying idle for lack of acid oil which
is being produced by VOIL in
Mwanza

VOIL which has 7,000 drums of
the acid oil in stock and produc
tion capacity of 120 drums daity
on three shifts has refused to sell
any of the oil to the small in
dustries maintaining that it was
using the oil for its soap unit. The
sap unit user 60 drums daily

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TANZANIA


PRIVATE INVESTORS SEEK TO SHARE IN ZANZIBAR INDUSTRIAL

Dar es Salaam SUNDAY NEWS in English 16 May 82 p 1

[Article by Abdallah Yakuti]

[Text] PRIVATE investors from

Mainland and abroad have
indicated the desire to par-
ticipate in Zanzibar's  in-
dustrial development, the
Isles Minister for Industries,
Ndugu Rajab Baraka, has
said.

The minister told the Isle
Planning Commission that
the Zanzibar Revolutionary
government welcomed private
participation in the industrial
sector provided the investors
“abided by Zanzibar’s
priorities and the Government
Policy to spread industries to
Pemba island as well.”

In this regard, he: said, the
Government was now processing
applications made by prospective
investors.

Ndugu Baraka told the Plan-
ning Commission that 90 per cent
of civil and engineering works at
the 100 million shilling privately.
owned COTEX mill in Zanzibar

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town had been completed. i

He added ‘that anothet
privately-owned enterprise begah
producing matresses early thip
year. i

He said the two factories, whet
operating at maximum capacity,
would contribute 40 million
shillings annually to the Isles

easury in form of taxes. if

Meanwhile, the Z. ma

Forestry Department has 2,38!
hectares of rubber trees sinc
1978, Isles Minister for Natur
esources, Fisheries an
Tourism Simai Mmanga told the
Planning Commission. !
He said some 38 million
shillings had been spent on lan
clearing and importation of se
for the rubber project. i
He said the Forestry Depart-
ment planned to increase the lanj
under rubber trees to 3,016 next
year.
The two Ministers wer
reviewing the performance of their
ministries port during the 1981/

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DEVELOPMENT

TANZANIA

annual development plan and

presenting devel
for the forthcoming
development plan

lopment proposals

annual


OFFICIALS, ENERGY TEAM TO DISCUSS NATION'S ENERGY OPTIONS

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 12 May 82 p 1

[Text] TANZANIA‘s energy

cso:

problems and options will
come up for discussion today
and tomorrow by Government
authorities and members of
an international energy team.

The team* advance
delegation of four arrived in
Dar es Salaam yesterday mor-
ning and its leader is expected
to fly in by charter plane from
Nairobi today.

The team, visiting a total of
28 countries to discuss their
energy problems and
solutions will be led by Mr.
Maurice Strong, the head of
the mission for the North-

South Reendtable.

The'roundtable was created
two "8 ago to act as a
think-tank on global energy
issues.

Its purpose is to have
dialogue between energy and
development experts and
policy makers at the highest
level on international energy
problems and w to deal
with them both at in-
ternational and national
levels.

The organisation has
laready published four reporta
in the last two years, one of
which is titled ‘Energy and
Development: Issues and Op-

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tions.”
The visit to Tanzania and
the 28 countries in general is

part of the project the
organisation has recently em-
barked upon.

While in Tanzania the team
would have talks with
President Nyerere this af-
ternoon and Prime Minister
Cleopa Msuya tomorrow.

Talks have also been
scheduled with the Minister
for Water and Energy Ndugu
Al Noor Kassum and other
ministers.

Tanzai like most other
non oil Third World countries
has been facing energy
problems due to the ever-
rising prices of petroleum and
dwindling forest: resources.
currently spends
r cent of her ex-
on oil imports.

Mr. Maurice Strong is also
Chairman of the Geneva-
based International Energy
Development Corporation.

The other members of the
delegation who arrived yeater-
day are Mr. Kenneth ie,
the Personal Secretarv to the
UN Secretary General for
Special Missione and the
Director of the Beijer In-
stitute, Stockholm, Sweden
Mr Gordon Goodman.

Others are the Executive
Director of the International
Energy Development Cor-
poration Mr Francisco Parra
of Venezuela and a private
Consultant: on energy issues
Mr John Foater of Canada.

Mr. Strong is scheduled to
leave tomorrow afternoon,

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TANZANIA


TANZANIA

COOPERATIVES TO TAKE PART IN DIRECTING TRDP OPERATIONS

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 7 May 82 p 1

{Article by Mkumbwa Ally]

cso:

the Tanzani

ment

operations when they acquire
shares under proposed

amendments to the
Act, the National. Assembly
was told on Wednesday.

The Deputy Minister for
Finance, Ndugu Venance
Ngula told the House here
that this would enable co-
operatives to align the Bank’s
activities more towards rural
development.

Under the amendment Bill,
co-operative societies would
by Presidential Order acquire
shares in the Bank through
an apex organisation.

Tabling the amendments,
Ndugu Ngula told the House
that the societies would
benefit more from TRDB
loans. He emphasised,
however, that the co-
operatives would be respon-
sible to mobilise borrowers to
repay Bank loans iti time.

He pointed out that the
Bank also borrowed from, the
international market and that
unless villages remitted loan
repayments in time, TRDB
would fail to repay its
creditors.

The uty Minister said
this would turn away foreign
creditors, plunging the Bank
into liquidity problems.

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Debating the Bill, Ndugu
Joseph Mungai (Mufindi) asked
the government to consider for-
ming a Co-operative Bank to han-
dle crop financing.

He told the House that this task
would be ty executed by a
commercial bank, pointing out
that TRDB was a development
bank.

The MP suggested that the
National Bank of Commerce
(NBC) to which the former Co-
operative Bank was merged
should initiate arrangements for
its revival.

He said the new bank should be
run jointly by NBC and the Co-
operative movement, adding that

initially the NBC could form a
‘<epertnent, to deal exclusively

tap financing.

‘On problems in repayment of
TRDB loans, the MP told the
House that the Bank was
partly to blame for failing to in-
stitute strick credit supervision.

Reverend P. Misigalo (Tabora
Urban ) told the House that TRDB
loans alone would not solve the
problems facing farmers.

“Peasants need more than
that... how will the inputs loans
help in cases of floods, drought,
quelea quelea, armyworm threats
and the menace posed by wild
beasts?’ he asked.

Windit up debate, Ndugu
Ngula told the House that TRDB
activities would be co-ordinated
by NBC in districts were the for-
mer had no branches.

He explained that his ministry
was reviewing TRDB activities to
take them closer to the villages.

The Deputy: Minister agreed
that the Bank -had low credit

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supervision adding that the
Ministry had plans to provide it
with adequate skilled personnel in
the ext pat years.

juga la said by acquiring
shares in the Bank, co-operative
societies would have a say in its
operations, including
of _inputs.

On revival of the Co-operatives
Bank, the Deputy Minister told
the House that the government
would study the proposal but
suggested immediate

that
measures should be taken to
remove rigidity in NBC to improve
oop, financing.

‘he Bill was unanimously
passed by the House yesterday
and the session adjourned until
June 15 when MPs would start the
Budget session in Dar es Salaam.
The House members started
leaving here Wednesday.


BIT EXPECTED TO BEGIN OPERATIONS IN AUGUST

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 May 82 p 1

[Text] a new company, Biashara

cso:

Consumer Services Limited
established last year by the
Board of Internal ‘ade
(BIT), is expected to begin
operations this August, it was
learnt in Dar es Salaam

venterday.

The BIT Director-General,
Ndugu M.A. Urio, said the
Company whose take-off was
delayed by lack of premises,
would begin with an initial
capital of about seven
million/-

It will first operate as a
supermarket and, depending
on the progress, form depart -
ment stores which would

from the city to the
regions, he said.

He explained that the pur-
pose of the company is to con-
tribute towards public efforts
to control retail trade and

train individuals and con-
sumer co-operators on how to
operate and control retail
business.

“In short, it is our small ef-
fort to contribute in’ the
socialisation of retail trade in
the | country,” Ndugu Urio
said.

He was optimistic that the
new company whose share
holders include national
trading companies such as
Agricultural Industrial Sup-
Plies Company (AISCO),
General Foods Company
(GEFCO), Domestic Ap-
Pliances and Bicycle Com-

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pany (BABCO), Building
Hardware Electrical Supplies
Company (BHESCO) and the
National Pharmaceutical
Company (NAPCO) would
use their expertise to make
the venture: viable both in ser-
vice and profitability.

The Director-General said
that experts toured Zambia
and Europe to study how to
establish the company and
their studies have been
utilised after some ad-
justments conducive to the
country’s social economic con-
ditions.

Ndugu Urio said the com
pany was a long-term plan to
enable customers to get all
their needs.

He said the company would
begin with smallsize man-
power to avoid operational
and financial problems, con-
sidering the supply of goods.

All the Regional Trading
Companies (RTCs) are whole-
sellers and sub-whole-sellers,
“but we think that in big
towns there is a need for a
big, well stocked detail shop
at the centre where consumers
can go and get all their
goods”, he pointed out.

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TANZANIA



SPEAKER 'REPRIEVED'--Lagos, April 28--Moves to impeach the Speaker of Nigeria's
House of Representatives, Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke, crumbled here this week as Mem-
bers hailed him in and out of the Chamber. Some Members earlier had complained of
the Speaker's "high-handedness" and had threatened to impeach him soon after resump- I
tion of sittings following the Easter recess. On April 2, some Members manhandled
the Speaker on the floor of the House, broke the mace and claimed to have passed a
vote of no confidence in him. But their proposed impeachment seems unlikely to
take place after all due to a drop in the number of Members calling for the Speak-
er's removal, as 161 of the MP's formerly in support of his planned impeachment
were reported to have back-pedalled. The Speaker is a member of the Nigeria
Peoples' Party, which holds only 79 of the 449 seats in the House. (A.F.P.)

[Text] [Paris AFRICA AFP in English No 2893, 30 Apr 82 p 15]

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national Tobacco, where
against the background of
management hostility to the
PDC. a leading PDC acti-
vist and sympathiser were
picked by Police on_ the
strength of an uncorrobora-
ted rumour for allegedly
planning to burn down the
factory and at Ningo where
a chief organized the Police
ang his personal supporters
to beat up PDC members
are examples,

ASSAULT

Instances of physical
assault of PDC members are
merely the worst examples
of how counter-revolution ig
seeking to destroy the PDCs.
In many workplaces, mana-
gement hide behind techni-
cal rules to frustrate the
work of the PDCs.

The INCC will like to re-
mind all that the responsibi-

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lity of developing and conso-
lidating the revolutionary
power of the popular
masses, which it has been
charged by the PNDC to
supervise ang co-ordinate, is
a fundamental element of
the Revolution and wil] not
be compromised.

‘The INCC, therefore, urges
all those who truly want to
advance the Revolution to
react to the problems of the
PDCs in a way which will
make them better and
stronger organs of popular
power so as to distinguish
themselves from those who
are Nop interested in the
PDCs as the Problem.

The Revolution has no
room for the latter attitude
and will react decisively and
ruthlessly.

‘The true patriot interested
in the development of the
Revolution must respect the

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co-ordinating and supervi-
sing structure of the PDCs
and a often as_ possible
seek to resolve PDC_ issue
within thig framework.

JUDE QUARSHIE,
SECRETARY (INCC),



MANUFACTURER PREDICTS SCARCITY OF LOCAL GOODS SOON

Lagos BUSINESS TIMES in English 10 May 82 p 1

[Article by Roseline Umesi]

ext o
[Text] CARCITY f

locally produced
goods may hit the

is not possible, under
the recently announ-
ced economic
measures by the
Federal Government.

The. Executive
Director of the Manu-
facturers Association
of Nigeria, Dr. Uma
Eleazu, ‘told the
Business Times last
week that the side
effect, ‘‘is that many
manufacturers i
reduce the level of
their production,
while the small
business
organisations and
importers will close
down their business
operation.”

He said that this
would lead to
massive - redundancy
or unemployment,
which would in turn
increase the level of

crime in the country.

Other implications

include scarcity and

general increase in

the price of consumer’
s.

Dr. Eleazu said
that the financial
implications of the
measures as it affects
manufacturers is
enormous. He stated
that the increased
cost of borrowing and
the compulsory
advance deposit of 35
per cent in respect of
raw materials and 50
per cent in respect of
capital ls meant
that only very rich
large manufacturing
organisations can
afford to fulfil these
requirements. He
also said that a lot of
small scale manu-
facturers or assem-
lers will not co;

The Executive Di-
rector remarked that
the implication. of
this is that there
would be a decrease
in level of production,
while there will be
general price increase
of consumer goods,
because of the
increase in import
duty on most of the
raw materials and the
high cost of
borrowing. This, he
said, will impose
economic hardship on.
the majority ‘of
consumers.

He said that the
importers will find it

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difficult to import the
required consumer
goods, because of
inancial constraints.
he manufac-
turers, he stated have
been having a lot of
problems in clearing
their goods, because:

(a) They are being
asked to pay the new
import  dut; by
customs officials,
despite the fact that
some of the goods
‘arrived on or before

the announcement of
the measures.

(b) The manufac-
turers complain that
the customsmen
refuse to clear the
goods unless the
importers get letters
from the Ministry of
Commerce _ stating
whether the goods
are on import licence.
Customs men are
asking for licences for
goods which were not

laced on import
licence before the
announcement of the
measures, _ before
they could clear
them.

These problems are
causing port conges-
tion at the Apapa and
Tin Can Island ports.

The customs offi-
cials on their own

complain that
ar cement
the Central Bank are

very complicated.
new increased
rate of import duty is

retarding some
importers from
claiming their goods.

The Executive Di-
rector said that the
measures would have
been said to protect
the manufacturers, if
all these financial and
technical problems
do not arise.

Dr. Eleazu said
that members com-
plained that the
oversea suppliers
refuse to honour the
outstanding letters of
credit, because the
government said that
it has little foreign
exchange.

The SGS_ inspec-
tors’ work has been
complicated, since all
the goods are now
subjected to inspec-
tien. The implication
is that even the
below 10,000 y ohich
normally should have
been exempted from
CISS inspection are
now recalled back to
the ports of loadin;
for inspection, whic
causes a lot of delay,
Dr. Eleazu pointed
out.

Forms M are said
to be piling up in the
Central - Bank

NIGERIA



ZANZIBAR AGRICULTURE MINISTRY DEVELOPS HIGH-YIELD RICE SEEDS

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 May 82 p 1

[Article by Abdallah Yakuti]

(Text ]

THE Zanzibar Ministry of Agriculture has produced 334
tonnes of Surinam, Super and Taiwan fast growing and high
yield rice seed varieties since the government began a seed
multiplication programme five years ago.
The Isles Minister for Agriculture, Ndugu Hassan Nassoro
Moyo told the Zanzibar Planning Commission that trial
luction on the seeds by FAO expeyts at Mwera Valley in
zibar has revealed that as much as 70 bags of paddy can
be harvested from one acre compared to the traditional
seeds whose maximum yield is eight bags per acre.
He said the Ministry had launched a campaign to en-
courage peasants to use the new varieties and use efficient
agricultural methods to boost paddy production in the Isles.

The fpvernment has prepared 288 hectares of low land out
of which 130 hectares had been planted with the new seeds
under irrigation farming, Ndugu’ Moyo said.

The Minister, explained that his Ministry planned to use
29 million/- next year to expand the acreage under irrigation
and to continue with the seed multiplication and research on
the new seeds.

The main problem hindering the Ministry's efforts was lack of
funds to meet the planned objectives, Ndugu ‘Moyo said, adding that
last year, for instance, his Ministry requested for 253 million/- for its

projects but only 80 million/- was released by the Treasury.

the cash-crop diversification programme, Ndugu Moyo ex-
plained that during the forthcoming annual development plan,
cultivation. of cardamon and coconut trees as key supplementary
crops to cloves would receive maximum attention.

Minister said the acreage under nursery farms for the develop-
ment of cardamon and coconut seedlings were to be raised to about
400 hectares.

‘On livestock development, Ndugu Moyo said 76 per cent of the
planned targets for ,the 1981/82 period were successfully im-
plemented.

He said 422 dairy cattle for state dairy farms were purchased and
6,000 other Boran cattle from Kenya were at Makurunge Ranch to
improve the genetic potential of Zebu cows now dominating the
ranch.

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Anambra Students Warned Against Being Used by Politicians
(Oruruo Ogugua; DAILY STAR, 4 May 82)........eceeeeeceoeeee

Austerity Measures Reportedly Lay Off 40,000 Abuja Workers
(Rich Nmaram; DAILY STAR, 4 May 82).......eceseeeeeeeee wees

Federal Government Urged To Give Up Shares in Newspapers
(Dom Ekpunobi; DAILY STAR, 4 May 82)...... ee eeee sees

Briefs
Ojukwu Expresses Gratitude
Zaire's Ties With Israel
Army Bans Political Symbols
Speaker 'Reprieved'

TAN ZANTA

Zanzibar To Increase Foreign Exchange Reserves
(Abdallah Yakuti; DAILY NEWS, 16 May 82)............05 see

Officials, Energy Team To Discuss Nation's Energy Options
(DAILY NEWS, 12 May 82)..... cc ceeeeece cece e ee eeee se eeeee

Deputy Minister Gives Breakdown of NBC Loans
(Simeon Ileta; DALLY NEWS, 4 May 82)......cceseececeeeeeee

Private Investors Seek To Share in Zanzibar Industrial
Devel opment
(Abdallah Yakuti; SUNDAY NEWS, 16 May 82)..............0.-

Commission To Prepare National Agricultural Policy
(Isaac Mruma; DAILY NEWS, 13 May 82)............+ee00- see

TRC To Upgrade Tabora Railway Training College
(DALLY NEWS, 17 May 82)... ...c cece cece cece cree ee eeeeeee eee

Kibiti-Lindi Road Construction To Begin in July
(DAILY NEWS, 5 May 82).........00008 eee cece rene cece rer ene

Cooperatives To Take Part in Directing TRDP Operations
(Mkumbwa Ally; DAILY NEWS, 7 May 82).......-.eceeeecceeeee

‘Influential’ People Violate Law on Importation of TV Sets
(DAILY NEWS, 3 May 82)

TRC To Obtain Australian Equipment To Rehabilitate Lines
(Simeon Ileta; DAILY NEWS, 29 Apr 82)

Zanzibar Tender Board ‘Inhibits Timely Completion' of Projects
(Abdallah Yakuti; DAILY NEWS, 19 May 82)...........0eeeeee

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YUGOSLAV FOOD TESTING EQUIPMENT

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 May 82 p 3

[Text] .YUGOSLAVIA _ yesterday

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granted to Tanzania equip-
ment and chemicals for use in
food testing and analysis
worth Im/-. ‘

The equipment and
chemicals, to be used by the
Tanzania Industrial Develop-
ment Organisation (TIRDO),
were granted within the
framework of the joint United
Nations Industrial Develop-
ment Organisation (UNIDO)
and the Yugoslavia
Programme for International
Co-operation through the
country’s Federal Committee
for Energy and Industry.

Speaking at the handing
over ceremony at TIRDO of-
fices in Oysterbay, Dar es
Salaam, the Deputy Minister
for Industries, Ndugu E.C.
Mwanansao, the equip-
‘ment and icals would

eatly help build up a viable
food testing and control
technology capacity in the
country.

The consignment, also
falling wit! in the auspices of
the Tanzania-Yugoslavia
Joint Commission on
Economie and Technical Co-
operation that came into
being in 1962, was handed
over by the Yugoslav Am-
bassador to Tanzania, Ndugu
D. Ivan Ivekovic. ‘

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TANZANIA


SUPPLY OF GREENS, STAPLES, FRUIT DECLINES IN DAR ES SALAAM

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 May 82 p 3

[Text] THE supply of greens, staples

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and. fruit from Tanga,
ilimanjaro and Arusha
Regions has drastically dwin-
dled in the past few days,
pushing up prices of some by
almost 100 per cent in Dar es
Salaam markets and stalls.

Supply shortfalls of.
vegetables and fruit follow a
decrease in the number of
transporters willing to ferry
commodities because of bad
roads.

According to the Planning
and operations Manager of
the Kariakoo Market Cor-
poration, Ndugu S. Chijoriga,
the few transporters still will-
ing to ferry commodities had,
however, increased their
charges. Many vegetable
dealers now found it
uneconomical to make trips to
Dar es Salaam.

‘A random sampling of
prices of vegetables and
fruit showed increases
of between 75 to over
100 per cent. A bunch of
cooking bananas (mchale), for
instance has shot up to 150/-
from 90/- only last month.

A bag of sweet potatoes
now fetches 500/- instead of
280/-. Prices sell at double

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their prices last month.

Ndugu Chijoriga s: nor-
thern and central regions had
now become the main and the
only reliable, suppliers of
vegetables and other green
staples consumed in Dar es
Salaam. :

He said Morogoro . and
Iringa Régions supplied a
1 quantity of potatoes,
a, tomatoes, cabbages,
and citrus fruit. ~

Mbeya Region is the mai
supplier of peas and cookit

ig
bananas (Bukoba_ and

Mwanza type) while Singida

Region supplies onions.

He that Lushoto,
Muheza and  Korogwe
Districts in Tanga Region,
famous for regular supplies of
yams, oranges and toma-
toes, had now almost

ceased sending them
to this region.

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to the National Milling Corporation (NMC) said the purchase of maize would also
benefit Zimbabwe, a landlocked country which had a surplus of one million tons of
maize last year. The donor countries include the members of the European Economic
Community, Norway, Sweden, and Japan and the World Food Programme (WFP). [Text]
[Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 7 May 82 p 3]

CHOLERA PATIENTS--There were five patients of cholera in Dodoma region by Monday
this week, according to the Regional Medical Officer Dr. J. Tesha. Four patients
are at Myumi, Dodoma Rural district, and another one at the government hospital

in Dodoma, he said. Meanwhile the Dodoma Urban District Party Secretary, Ndugu
Shabani Mohammedi has appealed to the residents of the district to clean their sur-
roundings to control the disease. A Shihata survey, has revealed that there is
poor sanitation in some of the houses, and garbage is not collected in various
arses of the municipality. [Text] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 5 May 82
p3

NABICO HALTS PRODUCTION--The National Bicycle Company (NABICO) has sent an unspeci-
fied number of its workers on a three-month compulsory leave starting May 1 due

to financial constraints facing the company. A copy of the letter issued to the
affected workers said that "due to the prevailing financial problems facing the
company and the country at large, the company has been forced to stop production
for not less than three months". This meant, the letter said, each worker af-
fected would be paid a month's salary and the three-month period can either be ex-
tended or shortened depending on the exigencies of the situation. According to
sources within the company the move has affected more than 300 workers. Produc-
tion at the Bicycle Company has been falling recently for lack of raw material and
spare parts. There are also reports of theft of spare parts by some of the workers
at the company. However, according to a message delivered by NABICO workers on
27th April this year before Dar es Salaam Regional Party Chairman Ramadhani Nyamka
during the official opening of the company's JUWATA branch, the company aims at
producing 5,000 bicycles every month for six months starting this July. [Text]
(Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 4 May 82 p 3]

NETHERLANDS GRANT--Tanzania will receive grants totalling 375 million/- from the
government of the Kingdom of Netherlands for the year 1982. This follows the sign-
ing of an agreement yesterday between the two governments at the end of their an-
nual consultations which began on Monday in Dar es Salaam. The Ambassador of the
Netherlands to Tanzania, Mr. A Van Der Willigen signed on behalf of his government
and the Deputy Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Ndugu A. H. Mshan-
gama signed on behalf of Tanzania. A press release issued from the Ministry of
Finance said yesterday that the main part of the assistance will be used to fi-
nance the sugar industry, the cotton sector, livestock development, rural water
supply programmes, economic infrastructure, small scale industrial development and
import support. It added that the assistance to the sugar industry will go to
the Mtibwa Kilombero and the Kagera Sugar companies. The cotton sector will re-
ceive support on implementation of a repair and maintenance programme of two and
half years. According to the release, apart from the support to the industrial
estates in Dar es Salaam, Shinyanga and Songea, new small industrial activities
will be financed at the Tanzania Leather Associated Industries (TLAL) estate in
Morogoro. In the field of economic infrastructure, further assistance will be
given to Tanzania, condludes the release. [Text] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in
English 8 May 82 p 1]

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him with an address of welcome highlight-
ing the abnormality of the exclusion of
Sapele from the national ports programme,
and he had promised the development of
the port. “Today’s ceremony marks the
fulfilment of that promise”’.

A MAJOR local interest was repre-
sented by the Orodje of Ororokpe, who on
behalf of Okpe Chiefs presented the
President with “traditional kola”, and also
put the port in the context of promises
made during the 1979 elections by Senator
Dafinone, the sometimes controversial
NPN caucus leader in the Senate, who, as
banners across the roads in Sapele re-
minded us, can claim Sapele as his home
town, and had clearly played a role in
helping to “deliver” Sapele, and the sur-
rounding area to the NPN. The surround-
ing area, Okpe kingdom, or Okpe local
government area, is one of the major
segments of the Urhobo-speaking area in
the south-west part of Bendel State. As the
Orodje said, the Okpe kingdom covers
one-third of the area of the entire Bendel
South, and in all that area there is not a
single institution of higher education. He
also stressed the need to recruit workers
from among the local community.

Abuja gateway

Other complaints centred on the road
connecting Sapele with Benin, which,
although in fairly good tarred condition, is
already serving as the principal access road
to Warri port, which was extensively de-
veloped in the 1970s, along which the
juggernauts are already pounding. Chief
Akpata had already described Sapele port
as the “Gateway to Abuja”. It is certainly
the nearest port to the future federal
capital, and both Warri and Sapele can be
expected to be important access ports for
supplies and equipment as the build-up to
Abuja increases. There is also the traffic
from the newly opened Delta steel plant
near Warri, fanning out to the rest of
Nigeria, just as there will be heavy traffic
on its way to Ajaokuta where the major
steel project is due to be completed in
1983. It was not surprising that Chief
Akpata stressed the need for a dual car-
riageway, and drew attention to the
bridges on the rdad that are “crying out for
maintenance and modernisation”. I can
confirm that the two bridges over the River
Ethiope on the Benin-Sapele road are
unlikely to stand the sort of strain to which

increased heavy traffic will inevitably sub-
ject them. The Deputy Governor of Ben-
del State, Demas Akpore, who repre-
sented the Governor, went further (not
surprising, perhaps, since Bendel is a UPN
state) and called for a deepening of the
port, and a railway extension into Bendel
(an old dream of the area). He also drew
attention to the wealth of ports in the state,
of which only two have been developed.

The President in his speech was able to
reply on one specific point. After mention-
ing that the Federal Government had
already developed the road network sys-
tem linking the port with the rest of
Bendel, and with Kwara, Imo and Niger
(which constitute the “primary hinter-
land”), he said that he had already in-
structed the Federal Ministry of Works to
undertake “as a matter of urgency, the
realignment and up-grading of the two
bridges on this route so that they will move
cargo to and from this port,” which was
understandably well received. If all this
sounds a little like the kind of log-rolling in
the states that goes on in the USA, it is the
sort of thing that makes up much of the
bread-and-butter of politics anywhere in
the world. Bendel, one cannot forget, may
well be one of the key states in next year’s
federal election, and the NPN wants it.
“The atmosphere of the event, with the
Okpe chiefs and many others in their
traditional regalia,gave a remarkable sense
of occasion. I was sitting next to Chief
Onakposegha, Olorogun of Idjerhe, whose
name was embroidered on his fan, and
there were a variety of straw hats and
smocks and ropes of pink and red coral
beads, so characteristic of this region, as
well as the red-covered top hats of the
Okpe chiefs. Although at one point grey
storm clouds seemed to be lowering, the
sun was hot, the rain held off, and between
speeches, the Harbours’ Band showed the
diversity of its talents, from highlife to
“Edelweiss”.

The NPA itself has produced some
remarkable statistics on the expansion of
its own activity in the last two decades. For
example the total cargo throughout (dry
and liquid) rose from 2.74m. tonnes in
1960/61 to 36.43m. tonnes in 1980/81; shop
traffic in terms of number of vessels en-
tered (including oil tankers) rose from
1,818 to 11,933 over the same period; the
number of berths increased from 10 to 88,
and the revenue earned rose in the same 20
years from about N6m. to a projected

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Probe Ordered

Accra GHANAIAN TIMES in English 8 May 82 p 1

[Text]

cso

IHE PNDC Secretary for
'nformation has ordered
an investigation into the
incident which led to the
striking of the Editor of the
“Ghanaian Times” by the
Secretary's police escort, a
press reelase from the Mini-
stry announced yesterday.

The incident took place
after the Secretary finished
speaking to the workers of
the New Times Corporation
on, , Thursday, the “release
said.

It gave the investigating
committee 48 hours to re-
port back.

_Meanwhile, Mr Kojo Ben-
tsi-Eshun, the special ageist-
ant to the Secretary and the
Police Constable Dan Tetteh
have been suspended pen-
ding the findings of the
committee.

The Secretary was him-
self present when the inci-
dent took place.

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| and methods best suited to
solving our problems — includ-'
ing those associated with food
growing.

More than just that, a revolution for
the people CANNOT be divorced
from ideology. The working
people ail over the world have an
ideology.

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INCC URGES BETTER RELATIONS BETWEEN POLICE, PDC's

Accra GHANAIAN TIMES in English 29 Apr 82 p 6

[Text]

like to draw the attention of
the general public to certain
actions which seek to under-
mine the development and
legitimacy of the PDCs,

Numerous reporig have
Teacued tne INUC and iis
Suwvtumdsung organg vf in-
Siauces Wuerg FU mempers
were harassed, bean up
aug iocxea up in celig at
the imsugauon of persons
Wuo lee, wireatened by we
development of  pepwiar
power aua the aavaucement
and Consoliaauon or we
Ou-going revoiuuonary pro-
cess.

Apart from directly
stiawg Puyoically at PUL
Tnemwwers Inese persoug have
Svugul Wo luuutruune = «aud
Diuut the growin vf pupwar
Power vy Uyllg to Dy-pass
Ine deveiupang = paciunal
framework ior supervislug,
Co-orainaung and deaung
With mauerg periaining 10
the FUUs L¢. the 4INUC and
ilg subordinate organs.

In the Past four days
alone, tue ANU has received
at least twelve reports or
uiciuentg im whin mem-
bers of the Wolice ana
Armed Forces, insugated on
the basis of iaoricated
Swries aod trivia] mcidents,
have turned on members Ot
PLCs.

PROBLEMS

In other places, counter-
revoluuonary cniefs and s0-

called big men have organt-
zed tneir supporters to abuse
the laws of this country and
ilegally assault and harass
PLC members.

The people of this country,
Particularly the working
Peopig and peasants, have
given @ massive response to
the call by Flight-Lt. Raw-
lings on the people of this
country to form defence
committees which will ulti-
mately develop into organs
of popular power and gov-
ernment.

In recognition of this pro-
jected role, the people’s
defence committees are as
legitimate as the PNDC

and the Revolution. Any-
one who challenges
the legitimacy of
the PDCs challenges the
legitimacy of the Revolution.
A position of general hosti-
lity of the PDUs igs a posi-
tion of hostility to the Revo-
lution which amounts to
counter-revolution.

The INCC accepts that

there are instances where
PDC have behaved
improperly. One believes,

however, that such cases are
to be seen ag problemg te be
‘pected

ex in the develop-
ment of new institutions,
only truly

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tact with these bodies
work out measures to
vent such incidents.

sentatives of various investi-

gative bodies, it way accepted
that the INCC and its sub-
organs, is the sole
chargeq with

ry powers

subordinate regional
district organs or to involve
them’ from the earliest

stage.

The INCC, therefore, con-
demng the practice whereby

‘so prefer to run to the
Police ang. Multary with
stories about ‘trouble-
makers’ anytime they are in
conflict with PDCs, Such be-
haviour is calculated to des-
troy the PDCs and weaken
the authority of the emer-
ging national co-ordinating
structurg under the INCC
and in most cases clearly
emanate from a hostility to
the PDCs and the Revolu-

Recent incidents at Inter

GHANA


N274m. and expenditure from about
5.8m. to over N312m. (the latter again a
projected figure). Personnel increased
from 8,867 to 34,428. Such rapid growth
has inevitably brought its problems,
although the congestion question seems
well on the way to being resolved. I even
heard it expressed that Nigeria has been
building too many ports in relation to
projected traffic, but this is an error on the
tight side. There have been other ports in
Africa that were deemed to be white
elephants that have more than justified
their existence. Both Cotonou and Lomé
were sniffed at in their day, but look at the
success of both of them now. Nigeria’s
planners, in any case, looking ahead envis-
age an industrial and commercial port (site
unidentified) to “serve the West African
sub-region”, for which the President said
about 848m. was envisaged in the Fourth
Development Plan.

Omimi country

One Bendel port, actually not far from
Sapele, that no one seems to feel will be in
the immediate line for further develop-
ment is Koko. This was a pet project of the
Finance Minister of the First Republic, the
late Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, and one of
my lunch companions was recalling the
struggles that took place to stop its expan-
sion, simply because it was seriously under-
used, although for its two berths it was
completely set up with installations, cus-
toms facilities, etc. It came into its own
briefly during the emergency of the civil
war, when it was used for evacuation, and
other military purposes. Once upon a time
Sapele was virtually Okotie-Eboh’s town.
Although he himself was from Warri (part-
Urhobo, part-Itsekiri), he had gone to
school in Sapele, and had risen to the
management of Bata Shoe Company in
Sapele, before going into politics on the
NCNC ticket. Already wealthy before
going into politics, he waxed and
flourished in office, and handsomely en-
dowed Sapele with works and projects

some of which were named after his own
local appellation ““Omimi-ejo” (river spir-
it). Since his assassination in 1966, and the
dispersal, although not disappearance of
his fortune, you don’t see much evidence

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of him in Sapele, although the Omimi
companies still exist. But future students of
Nigeria in the First Republic may yet come
to write of the life and times of Omimi-ejo.

Budgetary Disciplinary Council of the State
Inspectorate-General for Administrative
Reforms to pay back the amount into the
State Treasury and to face disciplinary and
legal measures. He is also not supposed to
carry out any official or private business for
the next ten years, while awaiting the
above measures against him. Mr.
Bahounoui Batende Leon was also a mem-
ber of the CNU Central Committee and an
unacceptable capitalist in the Cameroonian
sense as could be found.

Commenting on the government’s ac-
tion against Mr. Bahounoui, the weekly
Cameroon Tribune, in its “Civic Chal-
lenge” column suggested the stiffest
punishment to others found guilty of the
type of crime committed by Mr.
Bahounoui. The Cameroon Tribune
quoted the Cameroon penal code on
crimes of misappropriation of State funds
over half a million francs. The offender can
be punished with life imprisonment and the
defaulter’s property confiscated.

When it comes to corruption in Came-
roon, the question often asked is “who
corrupts who, and who are the corrupt in
the country?” Maybe the oil-boom and the
discovery of other minerals and gas in the
country will make some people over-rich in
the midst of many in absolute poverty.
Sky-scraper buildings spring up daily in
both Douala, Yaoundé, Victoria and
Garoua. Can Cameroon afford capitalists
if these capitalists exploit others, cheat
their governments and embezzle?

David Ndifang

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The burning problem we face is the problem of the Western Sahara and the ques-
tion of Chad. Chad is beginning to become known as an issue and then we have
the acts of aggression suffered by Angola. Concerning these acts of aggression,
I think that I already told you what my viewpoint is, in other words, the OAU
should also establish a Pan-African force to assist our Angolan brothers.
Everybody should participate according to his means in order to be present.

As for Chad, we know what the problem is. Right now, the authorities in Chad
do not trust the Pan-African forces, they do not trust the OAU. It would
therefore be necessary for the OAU to try to justify itself in order to pre-
sent itself with a new face.

Concerning the problem of the POLISARIO [Popular Front for the Liberation of
Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro], we decided, during the last summit meeting
in Nairobi, to ask the interested parties to obtain a ceasefire, followed by
a referendum. You learned recently that the OAU secretary general, in his
official capacity, introduced the question of the Saharan Democratic Arab
Republic. This produced reactions. Certain people suspended the meeting,
some simply left, and in the end "everything came to nothing."

The conference of information ministers was held in Dakar at that same time
which I just told you about. When the POLISARIO delegation turned up, Senegal
asked it to return to its country. Because of that, Algeria became angry and
walked out and other countries also left. The problem is this: Is the
POLISARIO to be present during the meeting and how? All countries that do
not want to hear any talk about the POLISARIO, at least for the time being,
will refrain from attending. Will those that attend make up the required
quorum to deliberate in the name of all of Africa? This is the question now.

I think that wisdom and realism must prevail among us Africans, at least
among African chiefs of state, to make sure that the Tripoli summit meeting
will be held and can take place under good conditions. I am afraid that
the summit meeting is already compromised. I wish somebody would tell me
that the summit meeting is not and cannot be compromised. I would say that
in Libya because, for me to go to Libya, certain conditions would have to
be met to the fullest extent because, keeping in mind the OAU charter,
which says that once a country hosting the OAU summit does not manage to
gather a majority of the participants, it is necessary to return to the
country where the headquarters is located and that would put us into Addis
Ababa to debate the same problem.

On that we also had a resolution at the last OAU summit meeting which called
for a ceasefire on the Moroccan side and on the part of the POLISARIO,
followed by a referendum. Why has all this been delayed? Well, I do not
know why. When we have a chairman in office, we must always hope that

he will keep us informed on these things.

I have heard it said that a summit will be held, perhaps very soon, which
will be attended by certain countries, by some chiefs of state who.were even
there when the OAU was first founded, in an effort to try to find ways and
means which would enable us to start over again on new foundations because
it would be very unfortunate and it would be catastrophic if the OAU were
not to survive.

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BRIEFS

ZANZIBAR PLANNING COUNCIL MEETING--Zanzibar Planning Council begins its week-long
meeting today to discuss and adopt Zanzibar's 1982/83 annual development plan which
will be presented to the council by the Minister of State (Planning), Ndugu Mohamed
Faki. The council, consisting of over a hundred members, is expected to review
Zanzibar's current annual development plan Shihata reported from Zanzibar yester-
day. According to the 1980 Zanzibar Constitution, annual development plans for
the Isles are ratified by the Zanzibar House of Representatives after they had been
adopted by the Planning Council and the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council. [Excerpt]
[Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 14 May 82 p 1]

OIL DEPOT EXPANSION--BP Tanzania Limited plans to spend 25 million/- this year for
improvement, putting safety measures and expanding the capacity of the oil depot
installation in Dar es Salaam to hold increased dem and of fuel and other petroleum
products. The company has also set aside 10 million/- for maintenance work of its
plant equipment and building a new loading gantry. This was said in Dar es Salaam
yesterday by the BP Managing Director, Mr. N. Callander, when addressing his com-
pany's Workers Council which met to review the 1981 budget and examine the one for
this year. [Excerpt] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 15 May 82 p 3]

CCM MEMBER ON SOVIET FARMING--Tanzanians have been called upon to concentrate more
on learning new agricultural techniques in order to improve the country's farm
output. Speaking on arrival from a three-week tour of the Soviet Union, a member
of a three-man CCM delegation said the Soviet Union had scored great agricultural
advancement and Tanzania had a lot to learn from them. The member, Ndugu A. F.
Masatu from the Party Headquarters, said Tanzania could emulate Soviet Union's
agricultural technology to improve her food production. Ndugu Masatu who was ac-
companied by a member of the Party National Executive Committee (NEC), Ndugu Daudi
Mandanda and the Tunduru District Party Secretary, Captain Theodos Kasapira said
the Soviet Union was using very good irrigation systems and simple harvesting equip-
ments. He cited a tea picking machine which if made available to Tanzania could
reduce the work-load experienced by farmers on tea plantations. He said the equip-
ment could be locally manufactured. Ndugu Masatu said that the Soviets had also
managed to be very successful in agriculture due to good leadership and through
giving incentives to farmers. [Excerpt] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 15 May
82 p 3]

MAIZE FROM ZIMBABWE--Tanzania will receive 40,000 tons of maize worth 92,630,000/-
from Zimbabwe between May and August through a grant from several donor countries.
The Planning Advisor for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Tanzania,
Mr. J. Jansonius, told Shihata in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the first consign-
ment of 10,000 tons was scheduled to arrive next Tuesday. Mr. Jansonius, attached

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TRC TO OBTAIN AUSTRALIAN EQUIPMENT TO REHABILITATE LINES

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 29 Apr 82 p 3

[Article by Simeon Ileta]

[Text]

THE Tanzania Railways Cor-
poration (TRC) would soon
secure equipment worth 30m/-
from Austria to help in the
rehabilitation of the cor-
Poration’s aged railway lines.

The Minister for Com-
munications and Transport,
Ndugu John Malecela said
here yesterday that the
Austrian Government had
already confirmed that it
would supply TRC with four
ballast trumping machines
and four crushers.

Speaking during a short
ceremony at the Dodoma

Motel where he received a
confidential report on
problems of TRC, prepared by
a five-man Parliamentary Ad-
visory Committee, Ndugu
Malecela said the equipment
was very important in the
rehabilitation exercise. Tan-
zania’s railway lines were
built 80 years ago.

He said despite problems
facing TRC its workers were
doing a commendable job to
service and operate a railway
network to the hold.

The minister said his
ministry would continue to
look for financial and
technical assistance from
friendly countries to help in
the rehabilitation exercise
and urged the corporation to,
utilize such assistance in the
vest way possible. .

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The fiveman Parliamen-
tary committee on TRC was
appointed by the, then
Minister for Communications
and Transport, Ndugu
Ibrahim Kaduma, to study
problems facing the cor-
poration and advise the
ministry on the best ways of
solving them.

The committee which star-
ted its work last August, com-
prises Ndugu E.K. a
MP for Mpanda — (hair-
man); Ndugu M. Samizi
(Kigoma Urban) — Secretary;
Ndugu Y. Lukoya (National ):
Ndugu R. Sembuli (Morogoro
Rural); and Ndugu E. Ayila
(Tarime). 7

The minister told the mem-
bers to use their positions as
the MPs to freely speak out

on problemé facing TRO foe
the benefit of other MPs.

Presenting the report, the
chairman of the committee
Ndugu Nealamba, expressed
hope that the report, not yet
made public, would greatly
assist in solving TRC
problems.

He said, However, that
TRC would only succeed in its
services through increased
cooperation among its
workers.

The committee is a per-
manent body and Ndugu
Malecela called on TRC
workers to continue assisting
it in its duties.

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ANGOLA !

BRIEFS

FOREIGN GUESTS OF UNTA-~Representatives of about 40 countries were invited
by the central Angolan labor union UNTA [National Union of Workers of Angola]
to attend the ceremonies commemorating the International Day of Workers this
coming 1 May. Invited guests from Uruguay,Bulgaria, Brazil, and Zaire are
already in Luanda and the arrival of delegations from the Democratic Republic
of Sao Tome and Principe, Hungary, and Portugal was expected yesterday. The
delegations of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, the Soviet Union, Cuba,
the GDR, and France are expected in the country's capital during the next
several days. [Text] [Luanda JORNAL DE ANGOLA in Portuguese 28 Apr 82 p 1]
5058

COOPERATION WITH HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY--A cooperation agreement between the
University of Angola and Humboldt University was signed the day before yes-
terday in Luanda at the end of a visit made to this country by a delegation
from that GDR university. It is recalled that the German delegation has been
in the country since 20 April and had an opportunity to visit some of the
schools at university centers in Luanda and Huambo. [Text] [Luanda JORNAL
DE ANGOLA in Portuguese 1 May 82 p 2] 5058

BULGARIAN RELIEF DONATION--The Angolan Red Cross recently received another
gift coming from the People's Republic of Bulgaria consisting of 8,400 kilo-
grams of food products and 600 kilograms of clothing intended for the victims
of the acts of aggression by the South African racists. It is recalled that
Bulgaria for the same purpose last September sent a donation consisting of
medications and other aid materials. [Text] [Luanda JORNAL DE ANGOLA in
Portuguese 1 May 82 p 1] 5058

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GUINEA

BRIEFS

SEKOU TOURE VISITS SPAIN--Comrade Ahmed Sekou Toure, secretary general of
the Guinean Democratic Party and supreme leader of the revolution, returned
to Conakry today, Thursday, 27 May 1982 at 1520 from Madrid, capital of
Spain, where he paid a state and friendly visit from 25 to 27 May in the
company of his wife, Hadja Andree Toure, and a large official delegation.

On his way to Madrid, the head of state spent one night in Rabat where

he was received at 1730 GMT on 24 May by Prime Minister Maati Bouabid
accompanied by members of the Moroccan Government, the personnel of our
embassy and their families as well as Guinean students and trainees in Rabat.
[Excerpts] [AB281033 Conakry Domestic Service in French 2200 GMT 27 May 82]

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GOVERNMENT RAISES PRICES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 1 May 82 p 1

[Text ] THE Government has raised the

cso:

prices of premium and regular
petrol and other petroleum
products to counter the risin;
‘uel importation, production an
transportation costs, according
to a statement issued by the
National Price Commission in
Dar es Salaam yesterday.

The statement said the new
prices became effective
yesterday. The newer premium
and regular oil prices would
affect all regional headquarters
while those of other petroleum
Products would be confined to

ar es Salaam only. .

It said the new retail price for
premium petrol would now be
75 a litre instead of 9/35 and
that of regular petrol 7/65 a litre
instead of 7/25.

In Dar es Salaam, cooking gas
will now sell for a maximum of
5/65 per kilogramme instead of

5/265 per kilogramme.

Wholesale prices for industrial
diesel in the city are 3/887 a litre
instead of 2/405; furnace: oil
2/915 per litre instead of 2/134;
and jet A-1 4/028 per litre instead
of 3/546.

Other fuel price rises in the
city are retail prices for kerosene
4/00 a litre instead of 3/35 and

diesel at 4/55 per litre instead of
3/90.

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Explaining the increases, the
statement said that the price of a |
barrel of imported crude, had
risen by 5.2 per cent since
Tanzania reviewed fuel prices in
November 1980.

At that time, the price of one
barrel of imported crude was
US$ 33.602 while now the price
averaged US$ 35.376 per barrel.

It ‘said that the TIPER

refinery’s fixed costs had risen
freom six million shillings in 1980
tc, seven million shillings this
year and the variable costs had
Increased from 0/829 in 1980 to
1/$56 this year.

Fuel transportation costs by
rail had risen by 15 per cent and
the road transport charges had
also pore up, the statement
added.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of
Transport and Communications
has announced an increase of 48
per cent in the road
transportation rates for fuel
products to counter rising ope-
rational costs — incuding the
increased ‘prices of vehicles,
tyres, spare parts and workers
minimum salaries

The new rates took effect
yesterday.

A statement issued by the
ministry in Dar es Salaam
yesterday said that the rates on
murram roads would now be
1/50 per -1000 litres‘ for every
kilometre instead ot 1/-. ;

The rates on gravel roads will
be 2/- per 1000 litres on every
kilometre instead of 1/35.

The last time the Government
revised the rates was in
December 1979 when the rates
rose from 65 cents per 1000 litres

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kilometre to 1/- and

from 1/15 per 1000 litres of every

kilometre
roads.

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TANZANIA

POLICE SEIZE TEA, COFFEE TO HAVE BEEN EXPORTED ILLEGALLY TO EUROPE

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 13 May 82 p 1

{Article by Charles Kizigha]

[Text] DAR ES SALAAM Port police have intercepted 380 tea chests and 300

cartons of raw coffée — all worth about 850,000/- — at the city’s
harbour, the Port Police Commander Ndugu Ali Juma Guguru said ir

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Dar es Salaam yesterday.

Ndugu Guguru said the tea
and raw coffee were to have
been exported to Europe
illegally.

je told the Daily News that
the port police intercepted the
380 tea chests packed in two
containers on April 28 this
year.

He added that the con-
tainers had been placed in

Shed Number Six at the port,
and were intended to be
loaded aboard a foreign ship.

Ndugu Guguru said the 380
tea chests belonged to the
Tanzania Tea Authority
(TTA) and were valued by the
police at about 700,000/-.

He said the 380 tea chests
were part of the 460 tea chests
loaded in two railway wagons
at Mponde, Mombo, in
‘Lushoto District some_time
last month destined for Dar es
Salaam.

During investigations into
the intercepted tea, he sai
the last week of last month,
the police found the two
wagons at Ilala Goods Shed
empty.

TTA officials told the
police that although the

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authority had expected the
two wagons from Mponde last
month, no tea was received.

Ndugu Guguru said, Ac-
cording to TTA officials, the
authority did not know of the
arrival of the Mponde tea in
Dar es Salaam until after
TTA had been approached by
the police.

He explained that the tea
chests were transferred from
the wagons into the
containers but did not reveal
the place where the transfer
was done.

But, he said, the containers
had been removed from the
Shed Number Six and were
now at the port police station.

Ndugu Guguru said some
300 cartons of raw coffee,
worth about 150,000/- were
intercepted by the police last
Tuesday morning aboard a
Polish vessel at the Dar es
Salaam harbour.

He said the ship’s- crew
claimed to have bought the
coffee from Tanzania Tea
Blenders although none of the
crew had documents relating
to the alleged purchase.

Ndugu Guguru said some
30 members of the crew were
questioned by the police in
relation to the raw coffee. In-
vestigations were still going
on and the vessel was still at
the Dar es Salaam port, he
added.

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DROUGHT TO CAUSE SHARP DECLINE IN COFFEE PRODUCTION IN ARUSHA

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 13 May 82 p 3

[Excerpt] A” SHARP decline in coffee

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production has been predicted
in’ Arusha Region during’ the
1982/83 crop season, Shihata
has reported.

The region’s Agriculture
Development Officer, Ndugu
Stephen Mmari, has at-
tributed decline to drought
that the region experienced in
March. He, however, did not
indicate the extent of the
declit

preva js recent review of the

ing situation, Ndugu
Mmari said that other cash
and food crops would also be
adversely ‘affected ‘by the
drought... ..

Smallholder coffee growers
in Arusha Region increased
their coffee output from 5.9
million kilogrammes in
1979/80 to 8.68 million
kilogrammes in 1980/81.
During the 1981/82 season,
production dropped to 6.28
million kilogrammes and the
predicted decline would , be
the second in two years, he
said.

The review also paints a
gloomy picture on the region’s
food situation. It says that in
Mbulu, Hanang and Kiteto
districts, maize and wheat
farmers who expected long
rains between December and
January, got none.

“They planted twice but
their crops dried up.
When it started rain-
ing early last month,

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they were already
disheartened,” the review
8

The region’s hope for self-
sufficiency in food would en~
tirely depend on rains con-
tinuing till the end of May in
Karatu area and Arymeru
District where the survival of
beans, wheat and maize
would then be assured.

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GHANA

BRIEFS

RAILWAY PROTECTION REQUESTED--The PNDC has requested People's Defence Committees
in towns and villages along railway lines to set up patrols and vigilant groups
to help protect the nation's railway lines. A Ministry of Information statement,
signed by the Secretary, Mr Ato Austin, yesterday said the Ghana Railway Corpora-
tion had been alarmed by recent incidents of tampering with rail lines. These
range from stealing of rail fastenings, insertions of sleeper keys into rail
joints, to digging diamonds very close to the tracks. The statement described
these as "criminal acts" and urged the PDCs especially those around Kade, where
the incidents had occurred most, to help track down the offenders. It warned that
revolutionary action would be taken against anyone caught.--GNA. [Text] [Accra
GHANAIAN TIMES in English 13 May 82 p 3]

DIMITRON ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION PLANNED--A 21-member committee was inaugurated
last Wednesday in Accra to plan the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georgi Dimi-
trov, the first President of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Captain Kojo
Tsikata (rtd) who performed the inauguration in place of Mr Chris Bukari Atim,
PNDC member, urged the members to relate activities planned to the Ghanaian situa-
tion. He observed that Ghana's present situation could be likened to that which
Georgi Dimitrov fought and overthrew. Dr Victor Narh, president of the Ghana-
Bulgarian Friendship Society, organizers of the anniversary, appealed to the
Government to name the circle at the Tema end of the Motorway after Georgi Dimi-
trov. He also urged the Government to reconsider the opening of Ghana's embassy
in Sofia, "taking into consideration the free offer of accommodation by the Bul-
garian Government." The Bulgarian Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Costadin Giaorov, likened
the speech of the chairman of the PNDC at his May 1979 Trial to that of Dimitrov
in his fascist trial, and urged Ghanaians to rally behind the Chairman for the
smooth progress of the Revolution. The committee is under the chairmanship of
Captain Tsikata. [Text] [Accra GHANAIAN TIMES in English 7 May 82 p 3]

FUEL SENT TO NORTHERN REGION--The Petroleum Department of the Ministry of Fuel and
Power has mounted an emergency programme to dispatch a total quantity of 60,000
gallons of gas oil to the Northern Region. Another consignment of 60,000 gallons
is to be sent to the Upper Region. According to a release issued by the depart-
ment, the operation followed information reaching the Ministry that farmers in
both regions had been finding it difficult to plough their fields because of acute
shortage of petroleum products. It hoped the exercise would solve this problem
and enable the farmers to forge ahead with the agricultural revolution. The Minis-
try, therefore, appealed to the general public and the security agencies to co-
operate fully with the tanker drivers to carry out their assignment with success.
[Text] [Accra GHANAIAN TIMES in English 12 May 82 p 8]

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UGANDA

REGISTRATION, BANNING OF JOBLESS IN KAMPALA SAID TO NO AVAIL
Order Issued
Paris AFRICA AFP in English No 2893, 30 Apr 82 p 18

[Text] Kampala, April 30--Ugandan authorities have ordered all people without
permanent places of work to leave the capital, Kampala, and return to their
village homes with effect from tomorrow May 1, Uganda radio announced here last
night.

The radio said this measure would remain in force "until further notice."

It said all people over 15 now living in Kampala proper or the districts of
Mpigi, Mukono and Luwero must register with their parish chiefs or ward of fi-
cials with evidence of their residence qualification.

The four districts lie in Central Uganda where clashes have been reported in
the past between Government troops and anti-government guerrillas.

Uganda radio did not elaborate about the specific categories of people who
would be required to return to their villages, for example whether the new
measures would cover casual labourers like hawkers and cigarette boys.

The measures were part of a "series announced Thursday afternoon in Kampala
by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Dr John Luwuliza Kirunda, to improve
security in and around Kampala," the radio explained.

The measures also included an order to motorists to travel with photocopies of
registration cards of their vehicles at all times with effect from May 10.

Meanwhile, a Kampala vernacular daily, the UGANDA POST, today reported that
unidentified men killed a policeman at Lubya village, west of Kampala, on
Tuesday. The attackers took away the policeman's gun, it said. This brings
to four the number of policemen killed in Kampala suburbs since the weekend.
(A.F.P.)

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UGANDA

ZAIRE

Changes Noted in Karamoja Province
(Marie-Therese Delboulbes; AFRICA AFP, 30 Apr 82)..

Registration, Banning of Jobless in Kampala Said To No Avail
(AFRICA AFP, 30 Apr, 4 May 82)...

Order Issued
Unemployed Stay Put

Briefs
Official Attacked in Hospital

Commentary Asks Reconciliation in Chad

(AZAP, 22 May 82).........0005 teen meee cence ec eeeceneeee

Briefs
Medical Trips Abroad Banned
Asylum in Cape Verde
Mobutu on Israeli Ties

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BIT Expected To Begin Operations in August
(DAILY NEWS, 19 May 82)..........

Flood Victims in Kyela District Now Lack Food
(Mkumbwa Ally; DAILY NEWS, 19 May 82)..

Party Paper Asks OAU To Resolve Rift
(AFP, 25 May 82)

Civil Work on New Thermo Power Station Completed
(DAILY NEWS, 18 May 82)...... cece eeeeee see eeceeceeees seeee

Minister Notes Eamings of Peasants From Sales of Cloves, Copra
(Abdallah Yakuti; DAILY NEWS, 17 May 82)............. tence

Government Raises Prices of Petroleum Products
(DAILY NEWS, 1 May 82)......cccce esc eee cence ee ceeeceenee

NASACO Expects Before Tax Profit by End of June
(Daniel Mshana; DAILY NEWS, 8 May 82)......cceeeececccecee

Police Seize Tea, Coffee To Have Been Exported Illegally to
Europe
(Charles Kizigha; DAILY NEWS, 13 May 82)...

Drought To Cause Sharp Decline in Coffee Production in Arusha
(DALLY NEWS, 13 May 82)

Zanzibar Agriculture Ministry Develops High-Yield Rice Seeds
(Abdallah Yakuti; DAILY NEWS, 19 May 82).......

Soap Makers Seek To Secure Raw Materials for Their Industry
(DAILY NEWS, 8 May 82)....... Sees eee ween eee enee

Supply of Greens, Staples, Fruit Declines in Dar es Salaam
(DAILY NEWS, 19 May 82)............... Sener eee

Yugoslav Food Testing Equipment
(DAILY NEWS, 19 May 82). ....cccecccc cece eee ceeceeeccenee .

Briefs
Zanzibar Planning Council Meeting
Oil Depot Expansion
CCM Member on Soviet Farming
Maize From Zimbabwe
Cholera Patients
NABICO Halts Production
Netherlands Grant
ADB Survey on Financing
Kenya Hands Over Cattle
TRC Locomotive Depot
New Mineral Policy

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It would be unfortunate if the Africans--who in spite of everything do have a
certain degree of maturity and who did organize the OAU--were to accept the
death of the OAU. That is something I do not accept!

I.A.: Mr President, in an exclusive interview for JEUNE AFRIQUE, OAU secretary
general Edem Kodjo said that he accepted a part of the responsibilities that
were his and and that it is now up to the chiefs of state to accept their share
of the responsibility.

0.B.: Well, personally I would say that the OAU secretary general is a per-
sonal friend of mine; we know each other. According to my viewpoint, I be-
lieve that this was not the right time to do that; he made use of his right,
in making us, the chiefs of state, responsible, so that we could assume our
responsibilities. I agree! But if we had at least been informed on this
situation in advance, in spite of the fact that this was a meeting on the
budget, then the admission of the SDAR would have been announced. If he had
said that the problem would be introduced then it is evident that each chief
of state would have issued very specific directives to his minister of foreign
affairs. But they were there because of another agenda and the question was
beyond their reach; they did not have instructions from their chiefs of
state. Thus, the very least they were thinking they could do was to leave
the room. But the question should have been put to the chiefs of state who
are the only responsible persons here; I frankly believe that the ministers
should not have left the room the way they did.

And besides there is another solution which continues to gain momentum and
that is the possibility of holding a special summit meeting on this problem
at any moment, in any locality, if the current chairman should so decide,
if the interested parties were in agreement; then we could have a single
summit on that specific point.

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Finally, there are illegal activities underway which harm the interests of

the population and which in the final analysis are reflected in the very
balance of the Angolan economy. What alternative is there to daily having

to live on a small wage and to find oneself forced to look at products

without being able to buy them? For many people, the solution seems to be

to go in for moonlighting which makes it possible to increase the family
budget. Anything goes, from the excessive prices on certain small professional
services to the sale of cigarettes at 150 kwanzas per pack, along with door-to-
door sales of micates or peanuts at prohibitive prices, etc.

This generates a vicious circle which aggravates the living conditions of
those who, out of honesty, shame, or lack of initiative do not resort to
these additional sources of income.

Going to any of the markets in the capital means that you have to bring along
at least several thousand kwanzas to get just half a dozen articles. You cannot
get cornmeal or palm oil. But when they do turn up, the price skyrockets.

There are no onions. But even during periods of utmost abundance, prices do
not go down because the profiteers establish a price list which is difficult
to go back on. Potatoes, only at times of sorrow and then as a special favor.
Fish, not worth looking for. Meat, forget it. Etc., etc., etc.

One must ask why the permanent inspectors assigned to each market in Luanda
somehow are inoperative. In general, do they just take the easy way out, do
they allow themselves simply to be intimidated by the grocery women or do
they not yet have the necessary competent judicial support to do their jobs
properly?

This is a question which must be analyzed quickly because the consumer cannot
in fact continue to be subjected to this arbitrary situation and to the in-
supportable prices which the profiteers establish.

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UGANDA

BRIEFS

OFFICIAL ATTACKED IN HOSPITAL--Kampala, April 29--An official of the ruling Uganda
peoples Congress (UPC), Steven Dungu, has died after being attacked by gunmen in
his sick bed in the Nsambya mission hospital in Kampala, a vernacular daily,

Taifa Empya, reported today. Mr. Dungu was admitted to the hospital early this
month after gunmen attacked his home in the southern suburbs of Kampala, it said.
He was a branch chairman of President Milton Obote's UPC in the Makindye parish,
on the southern outskirts of the capital. The newspaper did not disclose the date
of his death or when he was attacked in his hospital bed. Officials at UPC head-
quarters declined to give details. (A.F.P.) [Text] [Paris AFRICA AFP in English
No 2893, 30 Apr 82 p 18]

csO: 4700/1274

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ZAIRE

BRIEFS

MEDICAL TRIPS ABROAD BANNED--Kinshasa, May 1--Zaireans have been banned from
leaving the country for medical reasons, Information Minister Kande Dzambulate
said here last night. Mr Dzambulate, who was giving details of a Cabinet meet-
ing yesterday, said the ban had been imposed because many people, with the com-
plicity of doctors, had been going abroad ostensibly for medical reasons but in
fact for other purposes. Victims of serious disabilities, including cancer and
heart trouble, were exempt from the ban provided their cases had been verified
by two medical commissions appointed by the Minister of Public Health,

Mr Dzambulate said. Another measure taken at yesterday's weekly meeting
presided by Prime Minister N'Singa Udjuu was the reintroduction of obligatory
"Salongo," or clean-ups by the whole population, with effect from next Satur-
day. Mr Dzambulate warned that anyone who tried to escape this obligation
would suffer "severe penalties." In this context all buildings on Kinshasa's
main avenue, the June 30 boulevard, would be given a new coat of paint.
(A.F.P.) [Text] [Paris AFRICA AFP in English No 2894, 4 May 82 p 21]

ASYLUM IN CAPE VERDE--Praia, April 28--The Cape Verde Goyernment has granted
political asylum to seven Zairese opposition members now living in Angola,
official sources said here. The Zairese were not identified by name, but the
sources said they were from the region of Shaba Province, which is the former
secessionist state of Katanga. The granting of asylum was negotiated by Onesimo
Silveira, a former representative in Angola of the United Nations High Commis-
sioner for Refugees who has since moved to Ethiopia. (A.F.P.) [Text] [Paris
AFRICA AFP in English No 2893, 30 Apr 82 p 22]

MOBUTU ON ISRAELI TIES--President Mobutu has commented on his decision to
restore relations with the state of Israel. This decision caused a great
deal of uproar in the Arab countries. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have, moreover,
broken off relations with Kinshasa. Zaire broke off relations with Israel
in 1973 because African lands, belonging to Egypt, were occuped by Israel.
This reason has now disappeared. The break, President Mobutu said further,
was not caused by the fate of Arab lands but by that of African land
belonging to Egypt. The Zairian head of state affirmed that his country
is not ready to submit to the yoke of an Arab neoslavery system. He
described Arab-African solidarity as a booby trap, and criticized Arab
leaders, describing them as slave-taking caravanners with riding crops and
turbans. [Text] [LD211004 Brussels Domestic Service in French 0900 GMT
21 May 82]

END
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DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED OVER DENIAL OF U.
Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in English 12 May 82 pp

[Article by Ayikwei Armah]

[Text] THE circumstances sur-

cso:

rounding the recent high
tate of refusal. by British
Immigration authorities to
grant entry permits to
Ghanaian passengers to
the Unitec! Kingdom have
been explained.

Even though no visa re-
quirement is needed by
Ghanaian passengers to
the United Kingdom in
view of the country’s
Commonwealth status,
there are still certain im:
migration rules and regu-
lations required to be ful-
filled by citizens of ali na-
tions, including Gha-
naians, who plan to enter
Britain

Investigation conduct-
ed by the “Graphic” in
regard to the recent spate
of repatriation of Gha-
naians arriving at the
Heathrow Airport has re-
vealed that such rules and
regulations are not fully
complied with by those
repatriated

Mr Kim Knight, Immi-
gration Attache at the Bri-
tish High Commission has
this to say: “There is no
hard and fast rule about
the entry permit to pas-
sengers to Britain’

According to him anyo-
ne who wants to visit Bri-
tain first has to seek
“Entry Clearance or Cer-
tificate of Pattriality” at
the British High Commis-

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sion in Accra before tra-
velling

He noted that this entry
permit is normally pro-
duced to immigration aut-
horities at the Heathrow
Airport who in addition
demand answers to que-
stions as to a passenger's
intention to visit the U.K.
Depending on the outco-
me of such answers pas-
sengers may or may not
be allowed entry

Mr Knight noted that
some of the passengers
from Ghana to Britain are
not properly schooled
about this requirement.

The investigation furth-
er revealed that deported
Ghanaians have a legal
right to seek legal redress
at British courts, tribunals
or with human rights or-
ganisations, in the U.K

He said no one had
lodged a case with the
British High Commission
for improper repatriation
In this regard, he appeal-
ed to all persons who feel
unfairly treated by any re-
patriation order to contact
the British High Commis-
sion Consular office in
Accra for a redress.

Since the December 31
Revolution a total number
of 327 Ghanaians have so
far been sent back home
for not being able to fulfil
the immigration rules at
Britain's Heathrow Airport
thus rendering the €6,444
return air-ticket to London
a waste

Disclosing this to news-
men at the Kotoka Inter-
national Airport after a to-

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1,4

tal of 21.Ghanaian pas-
sengers had been given
the repatriation orders
from Britain recently, an
official of the security
branch of the Ghana Air-
ways Corporation said

even Ghanaian passeng-
ers in transit through Bri-
tain to the United States,
France and West Ger-
many are also refused
entry by the British autho-
tities.

According to the ofti-
cial, Ghanaian passeng-
ers who are given the re-
patriation orders are kept
for days and sometimes
weeks in cells while they
waited for flights to Gha-
na.

In some cases, Gha-
naian students who are
returning to school in We-
stern Europe and America
are also refused entry
permits.

Sources from Heathrow
Airport, he said, indicate
that British immigration
authorities are exceptio-
nally rude to Ghanaian
passengers. "British im-
migration authorities are
encroaching on the liber-
ties of travellers, espe-
cially Ghanaians, the offi-
Cials said.

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ANAMBRA STUDENTS WARNED AGAINST BEING USED BY POLITICIANS

Enugu DAILY STAR in English 4 May 82 p 1

{Article by Oruruo Ogugua]

[Text] THE, Governor of Anam-

cso:

State, Chief Jim
Nwobodo, has warned
Anambra State students in
institutions of higher
learni not to allow
themselves to be used or
mani ted as pawns in
the hands of unpatriotic
politicians or extremists
who may not wish the state
administration and_ the
people of the state well.

Chief Nwobodo made the
warning in Enugu during
the 6th convocation cere-
mony of the Institute of
Management al
Technology which t
place last Saturday.

Governor Nwobodo then
appealed to the staff of the

institution to resist any
temptation that. may,
remotely drag them into
unhealthy politics that will
be a disservice to and
subversiqn of. the state
administration of which
they are a part.

Governor Nwobodo com-
mended the students union
of the institution for the
responsible manner with
which it so far pursued its
activities.

He commented briefly on
the need for the moral tone
of the institution to
improve.

“It is the expectation of
all of us to see that the IMT

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jeaves no stone unturned.
in embarking immediately ,
on certain _ remedial
measures, directed

.towards a visible improve-

ment in the moral life of the
student population”

Earlier, in_ his opening
speech. the Rector of the
institution. - Dr G. E
Emembolu. had recounted
the spate of students unrest
the institution had
experienced in the past but
expressed satisfaction that
in their determination to
build a heaitny acaaemic
community ‘the IMT for
the first time in its history
has- gone through two
academic sessions without
unrest

He described this new
development as the dawn

of a new era in the
institution and ‘attributed
their success to team work
and rapport between the
governing council and staff
of the institution and also
due to the mature and’
responsible leadership of
the students’ union

\. 1 demonstration of his
appreciation the Governor
donated two luxurious
buses to the students and
made available the sum ot

N65 for the welfare and
encouragement oof the
various departments of the
institutior

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NIGERIA


GABON

BONGO ALLUDES TO POSSIBLE COOPERATION WITH ANGOLA
Luanda JORNAL DE ANGOLA in Portuguese 12 May 82 p 3

[Interview with President Omar Bongo by Filomeno Manacas: "Angola and Gabon
Can Cooperate in the Economic Area"]

[Text] Following the approximately 3-week stay of a delega-
tion from the Angolan Press in Gabon (JORNAL DE ANGOLA,
ANGOP [ANGOLAN PRESS AGENCY], National Radio and Television
TPA [People's TV of Angola], including a photographer from
DIP [Department of Information and Propaganda]) we are
printing in these pages, starting today, a series of

reports for which material was collected in that country.
These reports include group interviews conducted by the
delegation from Angolan Press as well as articles written
by our correspondent in the visiting party, Filomeno Manacas,
which we call to the attention of our readers. We are sorry
that we did not have a prior announcement on this but we are
today presenting the interview conducted by the Angolan
journalist with His Excellency President Omar Bongo of
Gabon, thus opening a series of reports. Here is the title
of the next article in this connection: "Libreville--
allaround growth gives rise to deliberate organization."
This article will be accompanied by the second part of

the interview with President Omar Bongo.

Conflict Between Angola and U.S. Should Preferably Be Placedin the Context
of Noncomprehension

I.A. [Angolan Press]: Mr President Omar Bongo, we know that Your Excellency
was invited soon to visit our country as part of the closer approach which
is materializing between the two countries. What can you tell us about the
problems that might possibly be taken up during conversations with President
Jose Eduardo dos Santos and what are the prospects for the development of
bilateral cooperation?

0.B. [Omar Bongo]: You are talking to me about a possible working visit to
your country which I am to make shortly to Luanda.

I think that my visit to your country will basically be devoted to establishing
contact within the context of the excellent relations existing between our



CAMEROON

BRIEFS

PALM OIL LOANS--Paris, February 28--The European Investment Bank has provided
two loans worth some 10.5 million dollars for the construction, extension or
renovation of four palm oil processing plants in Cameroun. Part of the money
will help the Cameroun Development Corporation in a large-scale investment pro-
gramme up to 1987, which also involves the French Government, the World Bank
and the Commonwealth Development Corporation. (A.F.P.) [Text] [Paris AFRICA
AFP in English No 2893, 30 Apr 82 p 22]

cso: 4700/1273



TANZANIA

"INFLUENTIAL' PEOPLE VIOLATE LAW ON IMPORTATION OF TV SETS

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 3 May 82 p 1

[Text] THE Customs

Department

has problems to book
violators of the law restricting
the importation of television
sets into Tanzania Mainland
apparently because some in-
fluential members of the
public are involved.

This was disclosed by the
Acting Commissioner for
Customs and Excise, Ndugu
A. Josiah, in a weekend in-
terview with Shihata.

He said the customs depart -
ment had impounded some 83.
TV sets since the law was
promulgated in 1974.

The interview with Ndugu
Josiah was a follow up on the
appeal by a Member of
Parliament last week, for the
government to reconsider its
position on provision of
television service for the
Mainland. Zanzibar has
television service.

Ndugu Josiah said there
were people who were allowed
by the Treasury to import TV
sets “in the public interest”;
or brought the TV sets into
the country before 1974; or
smuggled them undetected.

He said sets were also being
smuggled in dhows and boats
from Zanzibar. It was difficult
for the customs department to
arrest the smugglers because
the customs department does
not have enough patrol boats
to cover the entire coastline,
he added

Asked -if customs officers
conducted — house-to -heuse
searches to book the culprits.
Ndugu Josiah said: “It is now
easy to book culprits by sear-
ching their homes because
some of these are big people”.

The Acting Customs Chief
suggested that the present law
restricting the importation of
TV sets in the country needed
amending to cover TV screens
brought into the country for
purpose of | watching video
tapes.

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54


CLOSING PRIVATE JETTIES SAID THROWING 4,000 OUT OF WORK

Lagos BUSINESS TIMES in English 10 May 82 p 9

[Article by Jackson Imafidon]

cso:

of vate jetties were
closed. down on the
orders of the Federal
Government in a new
onslaught inst

smugglers.

The introduction of
the austerity program-
me is ai at improv-
ing the state of foreign
-eserve which was repor-
ted to be on the decli
lately. A lot of smug-
gling activities are said
to be carrying out in the
Private jetties which was
outside the strict
control of the Nigeria
Ports Authority.

The President of. the
Dockworkers Union of
Nigeria, Mr. J.
Ogunleye said that his
tariat je being besieged

is ley
daily by the displaced
dockworkers who want
to be redeployed ‘to
other contractors opera-
ting at the Tin Can
Island and Apapa Ports.

The president added
that although his union
is in full support of the
Federal Government’s
economic measures to
sustain our economy, it
is equally worried over

4700/1271

the fate of the members
of his union who are
being thrown out of
their jobs as a result of
the sealing off of private
jetties.

Mr. Ogunleye explain-
ed that sealing off to

rivate jetties would

rom all probability not
stop smuggling of goods
into the country,
because according to
him, the bulk of smug-
gling activities are
carried out through our
"Redepleying the d
leploying tl jis-
placed dockworkers;. he
said, is not an easy task
because many
stevedoring _contrac-
tors would have not
enough jobs to enable
them absorb the displa-
ced dockworkers.

Last week, the dis-
placed .dockworkers
were seen at the offices
of the National Dock
Labour Board at Orile-
Iganmu, Lagas. The

xecutive Secretary of
the Board, Mr. S.
Bassey said that his
Board was not very defi-
nite on the exact
number of workers
involved in the displace-
ment at the private
jetties.

37

He’ added. that the
Board was ing hard,
to ensure that the
dockworkers who have
lost their jobs at the pri-
vate jetties are re
assigned to other
Stevedoring contractors
operating at the Lagos

Mr. Bassey said that
his Board cannot give
an assurance that all the
displaced dockworkers
from the private jetties
would be absorbed into
the services of the re-
maining stevedoring
contractors in the Lagos

He said that there is
mobility of labour in the
dock industry because
Sader” obligation. ‘to
under obligation
e 4 soc <Wwor-
kers in service and regi:
tered with the NDLB,
What the workers would
lose now, is only
identity as they move
from one employer to
another, he said.

The ships currently
berthing in the private
jetties will have to be
moved to the Lagos
Ports where they will be
off-loaded. ;

The NDLB explained
that would mean more
jobs for the contractors
in the Lagos ports as
these ships from the pri-
vate jetties would be

NIGERIA

shared among them.
Stevendoring contrac-
tors in the private
jetties are the worst hit
because with the seal off

of the private jetties,

they have been deprived
of their operational
areas.

By last week, official
sources, said that the
Federal Government
was. going to review its _
seal off orders on the pri-
vate jetties. Some
government agencies
also operate from the
private jetties and this
is likely going to soften
the Federal Government
hard line on the private
jetties.

Observers in the ports
industry are of the view
that with the ban placed
on the importation of
many foreign _ goods,
activities at the ports in
due course are going to
reduce: with the
resultant effect of many
more dockworkers los-

their jobs.

The source added that
other service companies
in the ports industry are
definitely going to be
affected by the econo-
mic crisis now plaguing
the economy of Nigeria.


ZAIRE

COMMENTARY ASKS RECONCILIATION IN CHAD
AB221038 Kinshasa AZAP in French 0825 GMT 22 May 82
{AZAP commentary: "For the Bleeding to Cease in Chad"]

[Text] Kinshasa, 22 May (AZAP)--Since Friday in Kinshasa, the Chadian
problem has once again become the topic for discussion. A minisummit
aimed at finding ways and means of restoring peace and tranquility to

Chad is currently being held in the Zairian capital by President Arap Moi
of Kenya, the current OAU chairman; his Zairian counterpart, Citizen Mobutu
Sese Seko; as well as OAU Secretary General Edem Kodjo; the foreign affairs
ministers of Senegal and Nigeria; and the Chadian minister of agriculture.

Traumatized by a fraticidal war which claims several lives daily from among
the belligerents, the Chadian people must examine their conscience and help
to restore peace in the country. But this cannot be achieved as long as

the OAU's efforts are thwarted by the intransigence of some Chadian leaders.

At each of the OAU meetings devoted to the Chadian issue, the recourse to
political negotiation among the different factions stand out as the most
appropriate way to engage the peace process for this country. After an
objective analysis of the situation, some wise men noticed that apart from
the reconciliation of all the children of this country, weapons cannot solve
the Chadian problem.

Meanwhile, President Goukouni Oueddei, who is developing a thesis which is
diametrically opposed, does not see things this way. And this is the main
difficulty, the stumbling block to the restoration of peace in Chad.
Adhering to this thesis only perpetuates the shedding of blood in this
country which has been drained of its blood.

The Kinshasa discussions will undoubtedly once more recommend moderation
to the leader of the Transitional National Union Government of Chad [GUNT]
to try to convince him of the necessity to transcend the old enmity between
him and Hissein Habre so as to create the conditions necessary for the
restoration of peace and calm to his coumtry. Certainly, quarrels of
personal dignity are difficult to obliterate from politics, but they can
be overcome for the sake of the state if only the desire to do so is
expressed and the supreme interest of the Chadian nation is taken into
consideration at this particularly crucial moment of its history.

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BRAZILIAN COOPERATION PLANNED-~Brazil has pledged to give immediate assistance to
the country in areas of agriculture which need priority attention to increase pro-
duction. Mr Agenor Soares Dos Santo, the new Brazilian Ambassador said this when
he presented his credentials to a member of the PNDC, Rev. Dr Kwabena Damuah at
the Castle in Accra yesterday. This assistance Mr Dos Santos said, will be in the
form of machinery and other essential implements. He said there were plans to
institute an exchange programme between Brazil and Ghana which would involve ex-
perts in various fields. The Ambassador also expressed the Brazilian Government's
desire to foster good diplomatic relations between the two countries and also find
solutions to the socio-economic problems facing the country. Replying, Rev. Dr.
Damuah expressed gratitude on behalf of the government to the Ambassador and ad-
vised that the cooperation should be extended to cover trade between the two coun-
tries. According to the PNDC member, Ghana is prepared to trade in timber, baux-
ite, manganese and gold, adding "Ghana has something good to offer to raise the
morale of the revolution". On culture, Rev. Dr Damuah stressed that some struc-
tures within the society needed to be changed and this would be based on our cul-
ture. "Outsiders are going to learn from us especially through our culture," he
emphasised. [Text] [Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in English 29 Apr 82 p 8]

EEC FOOD AID--The European Community is to grant Ghana 10,000 tonnes of cereals,
600 tonnes of butter-oil and 2,000 tones of milk-powder. According to a release
issued in Accra by a delegation of the Commission of the European Communities (EEC)
in Ghana, this followed a recent announcement of its 1982 Food Aid Programme .

The release said the community had been providing food aid to Ghana on annual ba-
sis since 1977 and the food is delivered free-on-board at European ports with
shipping arranged by the Ghana government. The food is sold on the local market
and the proceeds paid into a counterpart fund to be used for development projects
in the agricultural sector. [Text] [Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in English 11 May 82 p 8]

HEALTH OFFICIAL ON LEAVE--In line with the Ministry of Health's reorganization
exercise, the director of medical services, Dr A. G. Beausoleil, is to proceed
on an indefinite leave with immediate effect. An official statement said

the principal secretary, Mr I. K. Boateng, and the principal assistant
secretary, Mr W. G. Benissah, both in the Ministry of Health are to be
redeployed with immediate effect. Also to go on an indefinite leave are two
top officials of the Suhum cocoa development project pending investigations

into charges of malpractices against them by the Workers’ Defense Committee [WDC].

The order, which takes effect from next Tuesday, was given by the acting

chief executive of the cocoa marketing board, Dr Kwame Gyamfi. In a resolution,
the WDC said the two officials had been running the project in their own way

to the exclusion of all others. The workers alleged that the two had been
frustrating the efforts of the WDC in the discharge of its duties and that of
late they had been playing some workers against their representatives in a

bid to divide their ranks. Earlier at a rally, the workers called for the
appointment of a competent agriculturist as project manager to save the

project from further decline. [Text] [AB291359 Accra Domestic Service

in English 1300 GMT 29 May 82]

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25



AUSTERITY MEASURES REPORTEDLY LAY OFF 40,000 ABUJA WORKERS

Enugu DAILY STAR in English 4 May 82 p 16

[Article by Rich Nmaram]

[Text]

cso

RE than 48.000

workers employed by-
some indigenous construc-
tion companies at Abuja’
have been laid-off by their.
employers following the
preaent shattered economy
of thé country.

The construction com-
pani¢s said that the present
monetary situation 4m
Nigeria‘had placed them at
@ point that “We can no

longer meet up with the

Payment of our workers” -
A famous contractor who
just returned from

Abuja told the Daily Star"
that he had abandoned all
his cdnstruction work at’
Abuja because the hgira
had ceased to flow tem
Lagos. .

“T have sent all my.
workers away — and
promised them that work
May resume any time the
naira pipe is open’ the
contractor assured

The contractor who said
he was a member of the
NPN front liner. confirmed
that about 98 per cent of all
the contractors at Abuja
have abandoned their
work~

He said that a lot of

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roblems about money nad
een surfacing since the
President announced
measures to revitalise the
sagging economy of the
country

Also speaking to Daily
Star one of the affected
workers just back from
Abuja said. “Many of us at
Abuja are _ suffering
because contractors who.
employed us just
abandoned us there since
two weeks ago and there is
no sign of their coming
back soon

“Some of us have not
received our salary for the
past two months and as
things look now. there is no
hope of getting it again”

the poor worker lamanted.

42

NIGERIA


SOCIAL SECURITY DEBTS--The interim management committee of the TUC [Trades
Union Congress] has given employers 3 months to pay all arrears of social
security contributions due to their workers or face the consequences,

The social security national insurance trust should also give workers

their up-to-date statements of their contributions. [Excerpt] [AB011550 Accra
Domestic Service in English 1300 GMT 1 Jun 82]

PRIVATE STUDENTS' ALLOCATION ABROAD--The government will drastically cut down
foreign exchange allocations approved for private Ghanaian students currently
undertaking various courses overseas because of the precarious position of the
country's foreign exchange. As a part of a general exercise to control the use
of the scarce foreign exchange a committee has been set up to identify the non—
priority areas which do not deserve foreign exchange allocation. Government
sources said there were about 4,500 private Ghanaian students abroad. Other
areas which will come under careful scrutiny by the committee will be remittances
for business travels, medical treatment abroad and foreign travels by government
delegations. The sources said private students purusing vital courses which
would be beneficial to the country would be allowed transfers. Currently, there
are no foreign exchange budget limitations set by either the Ministry of Economic
Planning or the Bank of Ghana for the transfer of money for private students and
business and government travels. [Text] [London WEST AFRICA in English No 3380,
17 May 82 p 1352]

COCOA SHIPMENTS-~A total of 92,260 tonnes of cocoa have so far been shipped by

Ghana to her foreign customers since the December 31 Revolution. In addition, a
total of 23,240.8 tonnes are at the Tema and Takoradi Ports awaiting shipment.

Announcing this at a news conference at the Burma Camp the national co-ordinator
of the Cocoa Evacuation Committee, Lt-Col. W. M. Mensah-Wood, said the committee
was gradually making every effort to increase shipment of cocoa to avoid conges-
tion at the ports. The national co-ordinator noted: "shipment to date is just
satisfactory". [Text] [London WEST AFRICA in English No 3380, 17 May 82 p 1352]

ENERGY CONTRACTS WITH FRG, ITALY--Accra, May 12--Four major contracts worth 53.31
million cedis (19.38 million dollars) were signed here this week with a West
German and an Italian firm by Ghana's Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Elec-
tricity Corporation. A.E.G. Telefunken of West Germany is to supply and construct
transformers and a sub-station and carry out civil works for the first phase of
the Volta region electrification project, at a cost of 24.55 million cedis (8.9
million dollars). It signed with the VRA, which is the sole agency for the de-
velopment of Ghana's hydro-electric power. The Electricity Corp., which directs
distribution of power in the country, signed a 28.76 million cedis (10.4 million
dollars) agreement with Sadelmi Cogepi of Italy covering the construction of
transmission lines. Completion of the projects is scheduled for October 1983.
(A.F.P.) [Text] [Paris AFRICA AFP in English 14 May 82 p 8]

24



MINISTER NOTES EARNINGS OF PEASANTS FROM SALES OF CLOVES, COPRA

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 17 May 82 p 1

{Article by Abdallah Yakuti]

[Text]

cso:

Shihata, Zanzibar.

ZANZIBAR peasants earned
125,497,165/- between July
1981 and last April from the
sale of cloves, clove stalks
(makonyo) and copra, the
Isles Minister for Trade,
Ndugu Idi Pandu said over
the weekend.

He said the Isles peasants
sold 6,106 tonnes of cloves,
4,735 of copra and 497 tonnes
of clove-stalks to the State
Trading Corporation (STC).

The clove stalks are used
for extraction of clove oil.

Presenting a report on his
Ministry during the. 1981/82
annual development plan,
the Minister told the Isles
Planning Commission
meeting that the three
products ‘brought. in 472
million/- in foreign exchange.

The Minister said the plan-
ned target for next year is to
raise the export of cloves by
15 per cent, adding that the
export of copra would be stop-
ped for a while in order to
satisfy the local market with
coconut oil and soap.

For over a year now,
coconut oil and washing oil

whose main ingredient .is
copra have been in short sup-
ply mainly because peasants
were reluctant to sell the
dried buts to ZTC because of
low prices.

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However, the situation has
improved a bit since March
when the government in-
creased producer prices for
copra by 50 per cent to 7/50
per kilogramme. ~ .

The Minister told the Com-
mission that his Ministry's
major task would be to
strengthen regional trading
companies to facilitate the
implementation of the govern-
ment’s, declared policy to
enhance the role of public
owned commercial in-
stitutions instead of private
business ventures.

He said that measures to
reduce Zanzibar’s trade
deficit with Tanzania

Mainland would be enhanced,

by the Ministry and its
commercial institutions.

61

TANZANIA


ANGOLA

SHORTAGES, PROFITEERING DRIVE FOOD PRICES UP
Luanda JORNAL DE ANGOLA in Portuguese 28 Apr 82 p 2
{Article by Joao Serra: "Black Market Prices"]

[Text] The recent shortage of wheat flour in Luanda oddly enough caused in-
surmountable difficulties even for the profiteers themselves who habitually
make that new home pastry article called "micates."

Flour as a matter of fact had run out everywhere and although Luanda was with-
out bread and "micates" almost for a whole month, the operators did not lose
sight of this business and the source of easy profits at the expense of the
primary necessities of the ordinary citizen. One business which is not new
and which was particularly widespread during that period of time was the
public sale of peanuts at prohibitive prices.

Persons selling that product could then be seen practically at all corners
throughout the city. Just half a dozen grains, which did not even fill the
palm of the hand, cost 20 kwanzas or more and there seemed to be no shortage
of customers because a small quantity of peanuts to exercise the teeth is al-
ways stimulating.

The question that interests us here however is the frequency with which cer-
tain products are put up for sale out in the streets at inexplicable prices,
products which only very rarely are found on the regular market.

There was no flour for sale at the supermarkets in Luanda. But there were
hundreds of individual stands in Luanda selling micates, at street corners,
in the doorways of buildings, along the main traffic arteries.

There were no peanuts to be had anywhere, not even on the city markets. But
every day one could see hundreds of children or women indiscriminately selling
this product out in the streets at prices that really constitute highway
robbery.

There are no potatoes. But on the city markets there are greengrocers who
never mention that product. What is lacking is the consumer, the money to
buy goods--that is how high prices are being driven up. Some of these
grocery women--for the sake of safety (or out of shame?)--now prefer to sell
potatoes secretly in their own homes.



TUC LEADERSHIP ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR 'UNAUTHORITARIAN' REDEPLOYMENT

Accra GHANAIAN TIMES in English 13 May 82 pp 1, 5

[Article by Francis Kokutse]

{Text ]

HE Interim Management Committee of the Trades Union Con-

gress (TUC) will
elimination of opportunists who
Committees to carry out
activities.

anti-people

now concern itself with the exposure and

hide behind People’s Defence
and counter-revolutionary

In this connection, the TUC yesterday pledged its readiness

to co-operate with the

democratic power. —
Mr E. K. Aboagye,

- interim chairman of the TUC,
this in Accra when he announced

Interim National Co-ordinating Committee
(INCC) to establish genuine and strong

structures of popular

r disclosed
the formation of a 17-member

committee to run the affairs of the TUC in Accra.

Mr Aboagye called on workers to be wary of attempts by
certain persons who might seek to divide the ranks of workers by
infiltrating the PDC in order to weaken the workers front.

These attempts, he added, were intended to create room for
the continuous exploitation and oppression of workers.

He noted that since PDCs
were organs of popular revolu-
tionary power, their activities
must remain political so that
they could check sabotage, mis-
management and corruption.

The unions, he emphasized,
whose responsibility it was to
fight for the workers’ rights,
must be left to educate workers

‘on: production and productivity
stressing that none of the two
organs must be seen as taking
over the other's function.

CO-OPERATION

According to Mr Aboagye, the
present TUC would co-operate
with government in its efforts
to redeploy labour.

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He, however, cautioned that
he TUC leadership would onh
support a proper and unauth
arian redeployment involving
democratic discussions with wor-
<ers and the provision of alter-

aatives for workers to take
Cecisions by thenissives.
The interim cnairman also

pointed out that any aitempt to
redeploy labour must take ac-
count of the rehabilitation of
vital industries so that it would
not lead to the undue scattering
of skilled febour.

He also called on the PNOC
to take stops that would bring
to the door-steps of farmers,
manufactured and other essen:
tial commodities at contro!
ces to serve as_ incentives io
them to increase production end
sell their products at control
prices

Mr Aboagye, however, cau-
tioned the Government against
the use of force on farmers to
bring out their goods,

15

He urged the
Trade to come out with an efi
tive scheme of rationing to cn-
sure that every worker and citi-
zen received his basic needs
without forming lona queues.

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GHANA


Once again, the Kinshasa minisummit will offer the opportunity to make the
representative of the GUNT understand this. It will assure him that all
things fully considered, he will not be victimized in the reconciliation
exercise. Contrary to that, posterity will have it that he has been able

to sacrifice his intransigence and personal dignity on the alter of national
harmony, for the supreme good of all the Chadian people and of all Africa.

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KIBITI-LINDI ROAD CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN IN JULY

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 5 May 82 p 1

[Text] CONSTRUCTION of the 330-

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kilometre all weather Kibiti-
Lindi Road, will start in July,
the Minister for Works,

Ndugu Sitta told tl
National Assembly he
yesterday.

The Minister said con-
struction of the road which i
scheduled to take five years,
will be undertaken in three
phases. The first phase will be
from Nangurukuru to Kilwa
Masoko.

Ndugu Sitta, who was
speaking during question
tiftie, said @ construction of a
camp with ten residential
houses, an office and a depot,
was currently under way and
would be ready by next
month,

The Minister was an-
swering Ndugu B.G. Nnun-
duma (Lindi Rural) who wan-
ted to know: when con-
struction of the road would
start and if the government
was aware of the negligence in
the handling of the con-
struction equipment for the
project.

Ndugu Sitta said the govern-
ment had already dismissed
several workers in connection with
the matter. He said the exercise of
taking disciplinary action against
irresponsible elements would con-
tinue.

Construction equipment for the
toad was ordered from Japan un-
der a 100m/- Japanese credit.

Ndugu Sitta said construction of
the firat phase of the road would

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be undertaken by a local con-
tractor to be appointed before the
coming financial year.

He said tenders for the con-
struction of the second and third
phase’ from Nangurukuru to Kibiti
and Nangurukuru to Lindi, would
be awarded to foreign contractors
because of the complexity of the
wan rep jth by

In reply to another question
Ndugu G.M. Nnayahe (Newala),
Ndugu Sitta said ‘uction of
the 1.3 billion/- Mbamba Bay-
Masasi Road, would start when
the country’s financial position
improves.

Asked why the proposed road
should not be extended to Newala
and Mtwara, the minister said it
was difficult to consider the
suggested extension, for the
original project itself was facing
financial problems.

‘The minister also said work to
repair the Mkomazi-Same Road
will start during the next fina
year with the arrival of con-
struction equipment next month
and July under a World Bank
programme.

Ndugu  Sitta, who was an-

ing Ndugu Chediel Mgonja
id his ministry had ac-
corded the project high priority,

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TANZANIA


Unemployed Stay Put
Paris AFRICA AFP in English 4 May 82 p 18

[Text] Kampala, May 1--Many of Kampala's estimated 50,000 unemployed who were
ordered to return to their home villages by today appear tohave decided to stay
put, despite a stern warning yesterday from vice-president Paulo Muwanga that
there will be no mercy for those "caught cheating."

The unemployed were given 36 hours to leave Kampala by Internal Affairs Minis-
ter John Luwuliza Kirunda last Thursday, but today the main taxi park and two
bus terminals had barely more than the usual number of passengers.

There were no unusual queues or crowds at the bus terminals, and quite a number
of those traveling were women, children and old people--not just the unemployed
young men most affected by Thursday's order.

Mr Kirunda told journalists yesterday that he estimated the number of people
affected by his order would be in the neighbourhood of 50,000 and Vice-
President Muwanga said there would be no mercy for those found with fake iden-
tity cards claiming fictious [as published] places of work.

Mr Muwanga also holds the key portfolio of Defence, and he and Mr Kirunda are
the strongest advocates of tough government measures to rid Kampala of hostile
guerrilla elements.

At yesterday's press luncheon where the two men made their comments Mr Muwanga
promised all possible backing for the measures announced by Mr Kirunda.

Apart from the evacuation order to the unemployed, the measures include a re-
quirement that everyone over 15 living in the central districts of Kampala,
Mukono, Mpigi and Luwero register with their parish chiefs by May 10.

Mr Muwanga told pressmen yesterday that government identity checks had 'made no
headway’ in the search for guerrillas in Kampala. Interrogating captured
guerrillas had also proved useless as they all had operational code-names and
could not even identify their financiers by name--although these were well
known to them by sight.

The vice-president, defended recent mass swoops by the army on Kampala and its
suburbs, saying the government had no better way of capturing the guerrillas
in the capital.

In its operations, usually starting at dawn, the army rounds up all the men in
an area and drives them in trucks to the Nsambya police college in Kampala for
"screening.'

The screening process is similar to that employed by the British colonial
authorities 20 years ago in neighbouring Kenya against the "Mau Mau" movement:
All the men rounded up are paraded before captured guerrillas who point out
their colleagues or commanders. (A.F.P.)

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TANZANIA

PARTY PAPER ASKS OAU TO RESOLVE RIFT
AB251651 Paris AFP in English 1633 GMT 25 May 82

[Text] Dar es Salaam, 25 May (AFP)--Tanzania's ruling party newspaper
today called for the Organization of African Unity, 19 years old today,

to resolve the rift over the admission of the Western Saharan Arab Republic
and help consolidate unity on the continent.

The Swahili-language daily, UHURU, warned that the enemies of African unity
were fueling the dispute "in their campaign to frustrate our valuable unity

in Africa."

With the OAU's birthday celebrations, African nations will celebrate the
increased membership and strength of the organization, the paper said.

"But African nations are supposed to bear in mind that their efforts to

build the unity in this continent have displeased those who like to per-
petuate our weaknesses so that they could continue to rule us and exploit
our resources for their benefit," the paper said under a banner headline.

Meanwhile, a statement issued by the Namibian liberation support committee
at the University of Dar es Salaam said that the conflict in the Western
Sahara has tested the very fabric of the African unity.

The committee also emphasised the need to intensify the liberation struggle
in Namibia and South Africa to bring the majority rule in those southern
African territories.

Africa's political freedom would be incomplete without the independence
of the Namibian people and majority rule in South Africa, it said.

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Similarly, ‘The
Times" of Zambia news-
paper, while supporting
President Kennet.
Kaunda’s condemnation
of grr tion, decle 7
“ ictment against
Zambia's civil servants
is that they don’t report
for work; they steal
public money and pro-
perty; they idle in offi-
ces; they lack integrity
— they are guilty of
every conceivable offi-
cial disservice. The civil
service should not be
there at all as it is not
serving a purpose. It is
an evil service.” Very
heady stuff indeed!

As far as the con-
struction industry is
concerned, it must seek
to persuade govern-
ment that if it genuinely
desires development
both physical and other-
wise, then government
must regal the con-
struction industry as its
natural ally in the achie-
vement of the worthy
goal of spreading deve-
Topment throughout the
country.

It is all very well for
government to decide
what and where to deve-
lop but the execution
falls squarely in the
ambit of the construc-
tion industry. It should
be obvious that without
the active co-operation
of an active and dedi-
cated construction
industry none of the
giant schemes can
succeed. If the “‘Green
Revolution” is to be-
come a reality, then we
have to accept that its

arametres extend
Beyond the sharing of
fertilizers and tractors.

Its success rests firm-
ly on improving the

ality of life on the
farms and the construc-
tion industry has a pivo-
tal role to play in the
building of comfortable
farm-houses, grain
stores, refrigerated
warehouses e.t.c.

Equally, the Housing

Programme of the Fede-
ral and State Govern-
ments can only become
a reality if we succeed in
creating a result orien-
tated, virile and respon-
sible construction indus-
try.
2 is therefore odd
that government chose
to single out the con-
struction industry for
the imposition of a 2’ per
cent tax on turnover
when every other enter-
prise is assessed to tax
only on its assessable
profit after adjusting for
capital allowances and
losses carried forward
from previous years.

Ironically, ‘the ,con-
struction industry was
already paying a “spe-
cial tax” varying bet-
ween 10 to 15 per cent of
turnover but this tax
went not to the Govern-
ment Treasury but to
the ‘‘Special Agents”.

It is a startling revela-
tion to discover that the
man or women who
merely signed a piece of

paper or
authorised/awarded the
contract made far more
money in a few minutes
than ‘the man. charged
with actually executing
the contract ‘over a
period sometimes exten-
ding over several years
during which he would
also be at the mercy of
those responsible for
effecting payment for
work done.

Tam sure that the con:
struction industry, if it
was. given the .choice,
would readily submit to
the 2%: per cent tax on
turnover if it could be
exempted from the 10 to
15 per cent “special
tax"!! Indeed, if the
Government is truly de-
termined to collect tax
based on turnover, the
obvious target should be
the “Special Agents.””

I would be the last
person to suggest that
the construction indus-
try is overflowing with
saints but I do believe

that having got to hea-
ven, they should at least
be given the opportu-
nity. to behave like
angels! It is clearly in-
controvertible that the
industry offers abund-
ant opportunity for up-
ward mobility.

Many of today’s
giants started out off as
carpenters, joiners,
bricklayers, masons etc.
but through dilligence,
hardwork, innovation,
risk-taking and enter-
prise as well as good for-
tune, they have propell-
ed themselves to the
highest rungs of their
chosen profession.

Also, it is not un-likely
that if the Government
would guarantee the
availability of WATER
AND ELECTRICITY
throughout the country,
wherever contractors
find themselves work-
ing. the construction
industry would readily
submit tc 2% per cent
tax on turnover.

Powers

Perhaps we should re-
mind ourselves that the:
Federal Inland Revenue
Department has always
had wide powers to
query accounts submit-
ted by companies and
disallow expenses which
it considers unreason-
ably high or not “wholly
and necessarily incurred
for the purpose of the
business.”’

It is also vested with
wide powers to conduct
investigations into the
affairs of companies and
examine their sccount-
ing documents in cases
where the Inland Reve-
nue. Department feels
that taxation is bein;
fraudulently
However, the im]
of turnover tax is clea
ly a deviation from the

sition

demonstrable
from what sources do we
expect them to find the
mamey to Pay taxes on
non-existent
evaded. are they to further
7 deplete their working
capitat followed by the

To assess tax or. non-
existent profits is to
imy additional stress
and disruption on the
cash flow of companies
that may barely be sur-
vivin the imauma of
sl escalating wa;
rates, ‘unpredictat lg
import duties, incessant
power failure and erratic
water supply. .

Recently, for about
two weeks, the country
was denied elecirichy

ply..because emplo-
yees of the National

Electric Power Auuno-

rity (the almighty

NEPA) were on strike.

Shortly thereafter, tran-

sactions at the Central

Bank of Nigeria were

suspended while the
Government carried out
its “financial stock-
taking” thus creating a
severe bottleneck for
commerce and industt
throughout the lengt!
and breadth of the coun-
try.

It is probably an
exageration to suggest
that in those few days
most companies would
have lost their entire
profit for the whole year.
However, we should not
be surprised when seve-
ral months hence, com-
panies present their
accounts some of which
would show substantial
losses.

Some of those losses
would no doubt be
directly attributable to
the disruption inflicted
by the suspension of
electric power and the
disruption of the smooth
flow. of financial tran-
sactions. Where compa-
nies have made actual
losses

profits?

concept that companies /#Ying off of workers

pay tax only or their
assessible profit.

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ADB SURVEY ON FINANCING--The African Development Bank (ADB) will send a team of
experts to Tanzania to study the economy and identify possible areas where the
bank could assist in financing, the Finance Minister, Ndugu Amir Jamal, said in
Dar es Salaam yesterday. The Minister, who returned yesterday from Lusaka where
he attended the bank's 18th annual meeting, said this agreement was reached dur-
ing bilateral talks between the Tanzania delegation and ADB officials. The ADB
has so far assisted a number of projects in Tanzania, lending out 1,007.6 mil-
lion shillings between 1973 and now to finance industrial, agricultural, live-
stock, water and communication schemes. [Excerpt] [Patrick Mwanukuzi] [Dar es
Salaam SUNDAY NEWS in English 9 May 82 p 1]

KENYA HANDS OVER CATTLE--Tarime--The Kenya Government last week handed over to
Tanzania 28 head of cattle and two donkeys smuggled from Nyatira village about a
year ago. The handing over ceremony was held at Tsibania in Kenya. Handing
over the cattle, the Commissioner for South Nyanza, Mr Amos arap Bore, said that
Kenya returned the smuggled cattle because Tanzania was a good neighbour. Ac-
cepting the cattle, the Tarime Party Secretary, Ndugu A. Malley, thanked Kenya
for being a good neighbour and added that he believed frequent meetings would
foster closer friendly relations. [Text] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English
12 May 82 p 3]

TRC LOCOMOTIVE DEPOT--The Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) Phase Two diesel
locomotive depot at Morogoro is to be inaugurated this Friday, Shihata reported
in Dar es Salaam yesterday. The depot, which is the sole workshop in Tanzania
with facilities for a completed overhauling of diesel locomotive engines, in
financed by a Canadian grant of 16 million/- through the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). The depot construction, undertaken by a Brazilian
firm--CICOL and Jos Hansen, a West German firm--started in February, 1978 under a
pact signed between TRC and CIDA. The depot can overhaul 84 locomotives engines
annually, the agency reported. The first depot, commissioned in 1974, was meant
for the normal running purposes and minor repairs. The need for an overhauling
workshop arose in 1976 following the break-up of the East African Community.
Prior to that, overhauling of locomotives engines was done at the community's
workshop in Nairobi. The Canadian High Commissioner to Tanzania, Mr. K. Johansen,
will represent his country at the inauguration ceremony, Shihata said, quoting

a TRC official. [Text] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 12 May 82 p 1]

NEW MINERAL POLICY--The Minister for Minerals, Ndugu Jackson Makwetta, said in Dar
es Salaam over the week-end that the Government was planning to introduce a min-
eral policy to combat illegal mining of minerals and their smuggling across the
boarders. Without giving figures, he said the policy was prompted by an increase
in illegal mining business which he said made Tanzania suffer big losses. Ndugu
Makwetta told reporters the new policy would govern the supervision and control of
mineral potential. He said mineral buying posts would be increased as well as
giving individual mineral dealers the technical and material assistance. Under
the new policy, the Minister said, the Government would define specific areas

with minerals where the Government, parastatals, villagers or individuals would

do mining. The policy would also specify which minerals should be exploited by
the government through co-ordination with international organisations. Ndugu Mak-
wetta said the government planned to increase supervision of purchasing of minerals
and strengthening of security, especially on border areas to discourage smuggling.
[Text] [Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 17 May 82 p 3]

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who would probably be
unable to find alter-
native They bon Or
should borrow
money and leur addi-
tional interest charges
in order to pay their
taxes?

As of now, Nigeria is
running a very worry-
ing high cost economy
and the vagaries of eco-
nomic life dictate that
even the best managed
companies may not
always make profits:
Certainly not all com-
panies would make pro-
fits. Construction com-
panies cannot be regard-
ed as exceptions. Parti-
cularly, the new com-
panies with massive
overheads, expensive
managerial costs etc are
likely to make losses
durin uring their gestation

Penpart from the go-
vernment, the construc:
tion industry is the lar-
gest single employer of
labour and for that rea-
son only, if nothing else;
we should be wary of the
social’ consequencies of
erp ling their source of

loyment.

qually, the construc-
tion industry is capital
intensive — staggering
sums are laid out on
plant and equipment,
may of which have to be
imported since we do
not produce them; and it
is about time we started’

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proaucing them! turn-
over tax seeks to deny
the construction indus-
try legitimate claims for
capital allowances as!
well as relief for losses
previously incurréd.
Also, definition of
what constitutes “ con:
struction” is vague
it has created a situa-

Clearly a case of * say
by association.”
Taxation is.a

very
powerful instrument for"

revenue collection, redis-
tribution of income and
engineering social
change. However, the
discriminatory of
turnover tax
be justified if the
industry which is the
subject of such tax is
one that is redolent with
anti-social or other unde-
sirable characteristics
such as the risk of can-
cer, disability
alchoholism, prostitu-
tion, drug abuse etc. It
is therefore
logic to impose a discri-
minatory tax on an

economic activity whose
social c ies are
most desirable — every.

one wants to live-and
work in a comfortable
and congenial surround-
ing.

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DEPUTY MINISTER GIVES BREAKDOWN OF NBC LOANS

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 4 May 82 p 1

{Article by Simeon Ileta]

[Text] THE  National-: “Hank . of

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Commerce (NBCJ had. .by
September last year, issued loans
totalling 10,260,918/- to 492
villages. . financiny various
development projects, —_ the
National Assembly was told
yesterday.

The Deputy Minister for
Finance, Ndugu Venance Ngula
‘told the House during question
time, that, of the total loans

ven, 5.7 million/- went to
finance commercial _ activities
and 4.4 million/— for agricultural
projects.
illages in Rukwa region
top the list of recipients of the
loans with 219. villages in the
region having received 4.1
million/- since the Bank started
the programme in 1975.

Other major recipients are 63

villages in fringa region which
ot 2:4 million/-, 55 villages
lbeya region. about 2 million/-

and 40 villages of Lindi region

504.452/-.

_ Ndugu Ngula said that villages

in Mtwara and Singida regions

had not utilised the facility at all.

The Deputy Minister ‘was
responding to a question by
Weugu- “Leonard —“Raboboye
(National) who had claitned. shat
conditions given by NBC" for
village loans were complicated’
and unnecessary.

Ndugu Kaboboye, demanding
to know how much the NBC had
given out to villages and

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individuals, also asked what
steps were being taken by the
government to make it easier for

the villages to obtain loans from
the NBC.

Ndugu Ngula told the House that
the NBC gave loans to 1,812
individuals amounting to 96.6
million /- by December ° 1979/80
financial year. |

About 55.7 million/— was given to
1,038 individuals in the last financial
year, he said.

The Deputy Minister said it was
not true that conditions for obtaining,
loans were complicated and
unnecessary.

A village applying for a loan was
among other things required to have
registered as a co-operative, have a
bank account, show books of
account, have projects approved by
the village government as well as
sound leadership.

He said however that many
villages have not benefited from
NBC loans because they have no
trained people to prepare project
writeups.

The Deputy Minister said the
government ‘had realised the
problem and the employment of
village managers, now numbering
2,400 was one of the steps taken; to
solve the problem.

He however said villages should
use other trained people such as
community development officers.
agricultural officers and other
officials in the District
‘Commissioner's offices. in preparing
project writeups in loan
applications.

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TANZANIA


GHANA

RECENT APPOINTMENTS, ORGANIZED LABOR ISSUE ANALYZED
London WEST AFRICA in English No 3380, 17 May 82 p 1296

[Text] NEW appointments by the Provisional among the most dedicated and talented

National Defence Council have filled the
remaining ministerial vacancies, and
should tighten-up inter-ministerial per-
formance along policy lines laid down by
the full Council. The Legon law lecturer,
Dr. Kwesi Botwe, becomes Secretary for
Finance and Economic Planning. This
appointment will give some assurance to
progressives in Ghana about the direction
of economic policy. At the time of going to
press, we were uncertain about the back-
ground of the new Secretary for Labour
and Social Welfare, Mr. K. K. Kwayie, but
certain that the question of organised
labour in Ghana today was hotter than
ever.

Indeed, the acting TUC executive under
Mr. J. R. Baiden, has launched a counter-
offensive that looks foolhardy, to say the
least. It has alleged that the PNDC “is
afraid to tolerate the existence of legiti-
mate, free and independent institutions
that might question some aspects of the
Revolution. They realised that the trade
union movement was the most influential
and outspoken institution operating in
Ghana and must, therefore, be eliminated.
The PNDC has adopted unworkable eco-
nomic policies that are being forced on the
workers and farmers of Ghana. They want
to have a trade union leadership that will
discipline workers to accept whatever poli-
cies are put forward by the PNDC. . . The
political base of the revolution are the
People’s Defence Committees which have
proved to be unworkable in the work-
places. The PNDC viewed the existence of
the local trade unions as a threat to the
supremacy of the PDCs at the workplaces
. . . The Ghanaian trade union leaders are

leaders of workers in any country of the
world . . .” To complete this bold attack,
the TUC called for African and inter-
national trade union “support and solidar-
ity in its struggle to maintain the rights and
dignity of the labour movement to change
its leaders through constitutional means
and not through the application of such
crude methods which will only create
division, apathy and dissatisfaction among
the workers”.

Besieged, politically and sometimes phy-
sically, by the militant Association of Local
Trade Unions, the retreating TUC execu-
tive has made the mistake of calling fire on
to its own head by a dishonest and self-
serving attack on the PNDC in order to
focus labour rights and dignity around the
fate of one set of leaders, mostly discre-
dited. They have been discredited precisely
because their leadership over the past
decade resulted in “division, apathy and
dissatisfaction among the workers”.

The other appointments were Captain
Kojo Tsikata (rtd.) as Special Adviser to
the PNDC, Colonel J. M. Ewa (rtd.) as
Chief of Staff, PNDC office, and Mr. P. V.
Obeng as co-ordinating secretary to the
PNDC. The by-now notorious “Campaign
for Democracy in Ghana” was recently
trying to promote Tsikata as an alternative
to Flt-Lt. Rawlings in order to suggest that
Ghana was in for a period of violent
struggles within the military. Instead of
joining the “Campaign” to conclude by
this appointment that any or all of the
Libyans/Cubans/Soviets, etc., have taken
over Ghana, it is certainly more judicious
to see this as counterbalancing, officially,
the less-than-progressive influence of cer-
tain members of the PNDC itself on the

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TRC TO UPGRADE TABORA RAILWAY TRAINING COLLEGE

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 17 May 82 p 3

[Text] THE Tanzania Railway

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Cor-
poration (TRC) plans to
upgrade the Tabora Railway

‘aining College in an effort
to arrest the current shortage
of technical staff in the cor-
poration. . °

The TRC General Manager,
Ndugu Tom Mmari, said in

Morogoro last Friday that the
college would be upgraded
with loans to be extended by
Kuwait and Kreditanstalt Fur
Wiederaufbau (KFW) of West
Germany. .

“Tenders have been
received and juated and
development’sin technica]
training is expected in due
course,” he added.

Ndugu Mmari_was com-
menting on TRC’s staff
training programme during
the ceremony in which
President Nyérere
inaugurated phase two of the
TRC diesel locomotive
workshop in Morogoro.

He recalled that prior to the
split of the East Aftican
Railways Corporation
(EARC), mechani
Prentices for the i
side used to be trained in
Nairobi, but they were now
being locally-trained in con-
ditions pe described as ‘Very
difficult.’

The TRC was training its
own mechanics and elec-
tricians at Morogoro to cope
with the increasing volume of
work. The training is un-

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dertaken with Canadian
assistance, he explained.

He said the training in
Morogoro was undertaken by
converting one house as a
hostel for 45 students.

“Still this is far from
satisfactory since the demand
is so great for staff of this
calibre,” the general manager
said,

Ndugu Mmari said Canada
had earmarked funds for a
students’ hostel and staff
houses in Morogoro for all
trades pertaining- to diesel
locomotive maintenance.

He explained that the
‘Morogoro diesel locomotive
workshop would require a
total of 374 employees, of
whom 251 would be qualified
technicians, thus underlining
the need for. training more
staff.

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TANZANIA


CIVIL WORK ON NEW THERMO POWER STATION COMPLETED

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 18 May 82 p 3

[Text]

cso:

CIVIL works in Tabora on a

new ‘40 million/- thermo-.

power station has been com-
Bleted and experts from
ritain are being awaited to
start installing four
generatore with an installed
capacity of 10.5 megawatts.
‘he Tabora egional
Manager of the Tanzania
Electric Supply Company
(TANESCO), Ndugu Rene
Pointe, told Shihata that
some experts from Norway,
currently in Mwanza working
on some broken down
generators, would arrive in
‘abora this week to redress
crankshafts of the new
generators which were rusty.
The crankshafts are among
machinery reportedly rusting
in open air for nearly two

years.

He said while the British
experts were being awaited,
TANESCO was now working
to revive one old generator at
the Tabora old power station
to raise power output from
the present 500 to 1,000
kilowatts.

Ndugu Pointe said some
spare parts for reviving the
generator had been received.
Another lot was expected
from Dar es Salaam.

Construction of the new
power station, which started
in 1979, was scheduled for
completion last year. But it
was delayed due to shortage

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of building materials and the
subsequent demolition of the
foundation in the power
house after it was found it did
not meet the required
specifications.

On Friday Mwanza town
was plunged into total
darkness following a fault in
‘a generator at Mwanza South
Power station.

Though the acting
-TANESCO Regional
Manager, Ndugu Ben
Mwang’amba declined to
comment on the issue man-
taining that he was too busy,
sources said that because of
the fault at the power station
TANESCO could not run its
two generators operating at
Nyakato power station.

The black out which started
before 8 o’clock lasted for the
whole night and crippled in-
dustrial production and the
municipality’s water supply
system.

Housewives had to resort to
the lake water.

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TANZANIA


Revolution Seen Unable To Divorce Itself From Ideology
(Editorial; DAILY GRAPHIC, 4 May 82)....... see ee eeccerece

Recent Appointment, Organized Labor Issue Analyzed

(WEST AFRICA, 17 May 82)..

Briefs

Railway Protection Requested
Dimitron Anniversary Celebration Planned
Fuel Sent to Norther Region

Social Security Debts

Private Students' Allocation Abroad

Cocoa Shipments

Energy Contracts With FRG, Italy
Brazilian Cooperation Planned

EEC Food Aid
Health Official on Leave

GUINEA

Briefs
Sekou Toure Visits Spain

NIGERIA

Situation of Sapele Port, Other Ports Described
(David Ndifang; WEST AFRICA, 10 May 82)............06- eee

Central Bank Gives Statistics on Currency
(BUSINESS TIMES, 10 May 82)

Measures Suggested for Black Market, Economic Problems
(J. K. Randle; BUSINESS TIMES, 10 May 82)........ ben eeee

NEPA Workers, Government Reported 'Still at War'
(BUSINESS TIMES, 10 May 82)

Manufacturer Predicts Scarcity of Local Goods Soon
(Roseline Umesi; BUSINESS TIMES, 10 May 82)..............

Closing Private Jetties Said Throwing 4,000 Out of Work

(Jackson Imafidon; BUSINESS TIMES, 10 May 82)........

Petroleum, Natural Gas Workers Sign Agreement
(BUSINESS TIMES, 10 May 82)

Food, Transportation Prices Now Said Higher
(BUSINESS TIMES, 10 May 82)

PPA Reportedly Will Present List of Candidates
(DALLY TIMES, 13 May 82)......cccececcccec ccc ecncnccscees

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PPA REPORTEDLY WILL PRESENT LIST OF CANDIDATES

Lagos DAILY TIMES in English 13 May 82 p 1

(Text ] T

cso:

HE “Progressive Parties Alliance (PPA) is to
present a common list of candidates for the five

elections to be contested next year. 2

This. is‘one of the 14-points

resolution adopted at its two
days’ meetin; hich ended in
Lagos yes'
+ The meeting ; directed all the
PPA leaders and governors to
staft immediately to mobilise
the public to ensure
maximum turn-out for the
registration of voters.

In this connection, the meeting
called on FEDECO to announce
in details the dates, venues and

procedures for the registration of
voters.

In the communique, read by.
the summit chairman, Dr.
Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Alliance
urged FEDECO to announce the
timetable” leading up to the
elections of 1983 and fix the
exact dates of the'five elections.

The meeting considered the
state of the nation’s economy
and the harmful effects which the
fiscal measures of the Federal
Government might have on the
economic development of the
country and on the individual*
citizens.

It noted that statutory allo-
cations paid to state govern-
ments every month had been
falling steadily.

It was the view of the PPA
leaders that the President should
exercise his powers to ensure
that each state has sufficient
funds to pay personnel emolu-
ments, other charges and special
charges as approved by the

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respective houses of
Assembly.

The PPA reaf-
firmed its support for+
the demand of more
states in the country.

It directed mem-
bers of the four poli-
tical parties in the
National Assembly
to set in moticn the
process for the enact-
ment of a necessary
legislation to create’
new states which
satisfied the condi-
tions laid down by
the Constitution.

The summit
appointed “a high-
powered committee
to study the present
fiscal measures of the
Federal Government
and recommend an

alternative solution.

The communiqu
was _ signed y
national leader of the
NPT Dr: Nnamdi

Azikiwe; the UPN
leader. Chief Obafemi
Awolowo; the PRP
leader; Chief Michael

Imoudu: and the

national chair-
man, Chief. Adeniran
- Ogunsanya.
- Governor
Mohammed Goni of
Borno State signed
for the GNPP.

NIGERIA


PETROLEUM, NATURAL GAS WORKERS SIGN AGREEMENT

Lagos BUSINESS TIMES in English 10 May 82 p 9

[Text] A COLLECTIVE

cso:

sign Detween. has bee Ne
tional Union of Petro-
leum and Natural Gas
Workers and the mana-
gement of Texaco Nige-
ria Limited (TOPCON).

agreement was -

signed in Lagos last

week by representatives .

of both parties.

Mr. J.E. Robinson the
General Manager of
‘Texaco, signed for the
management of his com-
pany while Messrs O.
Kokori the General Se-
cretary and A. Okougbo

the Assistant General.

Secretary _ respective-
ly signed for the
workers.

In” a_ short speech
before the signing cere-
mony, Mr. Robinson en-
joined the.workers to
identify themselves
with the problems and

aspirations of the com-*

pany to ensure peaceful
industrial relations.

He warned the wor-
kers of the hard time
ahead because of the
present economic crisis

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in the country and the
austerity programme ot
the Federal Government
to combat the uncom-
fortable economic situa-
tion. There might be
cause to lay off some
workers, he forecast if
the situation does not
improve for the better.
In response, . Mr.
Kokori said that the

Nigerian workers are

quite appreciative of the
country's economic cri-
sis and are therefore
willing to co-operate to
resustate it. The snag,
he.added, is that our eco-
nomy is the worst
exploited in the world.
ur leaders and forei-
gners, he said, gang up

. to exploit the Nigerian

working. masses. “He
point out that to re-
trench oil workers now
that the economy is
experiencing some pro-
blems would be most
cruel and a gross exhi-
bition of ingratitude to
the workers who have
laboured all these years
to bring-the country to
the position it is now.

38

NIGERIA


NASACO EXPECTS BEFORE TAX PROFIT BY END OF JUNE

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 8 May 82 p 1

[Article by Daniel Mshana]

[Text] THE National

cso:

Shipping
encies Company
|ASACO) ts a profit of

22m /- before by end of
this June from its 1981/82
operations. Total income is
expected at 67m/-.

The NASACO General
Manager, Ndugu C.B: Sim-

fukwe, told the company’s
Master Workers Council
meeting in Dar es Salaam

yesterday that the profit was
below the projected 28m/- by
21 per cent while the income
by four per cent from’ the
Projected 70m/-.

le noted that the per-
formance recorded little in-
crease compared to 2980/81
when the company netted a
profit of 2im/- from an in-
come of 66m/-.

Ndu Simfukwe inted
out at thie year's per-
formance reflected how the
company was being affected
by the current adverse
economic situation.

This, he said, wat fue fe
the drop in imports due the
country’s reduced purchasing
power and the fall i exports
like cotton, 1 and
cashewnuts whose crop was
affected by bad weather.

This also included the
dwindling in imports for
countries like Zambia, which
use Dar es Salaam Port.

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Tabling his company’s
budget for 1982/83, Ndugu Me
Simfukwe told: the Master
Workers Council that the
company has projected an in-
come of 76m/- during the year
with a profit of 29m/-.

The projections are above
this year’s earnings by 14 and

BE Rt oor |B income and

Naupe Siesta Simfukwe explained
that shipping a vities were
expected to bring in 63.4m/-
with expenditure estimated at
20.1m/- while the clearing and
forwarding section would
Bererate 2.6m/..

Transportation, cargo
storage and other activities
are expected to earn the com-
pany a total of 7.1m/-.

fe said general expenditure
was, however, estimated to in-
crease by 7 per cent from

44.5m/- during the current
budget to 47.8m/- next finan-
cial year.

The increase, he said, was
due to frequent price rises on
items used in operations. “We
have, however, tried to cut
down unnecessary ex-

nditure in reponse to the
Party and Government’s call
to parastatals to minimise
their operational costs,” he
added.

He said the company plan-
ned to spend 62m/- for the
construction of offices,
workers quarters’ and
godowns in Dar es Sala
and Mtwara while 4.4m/- has
been earmarked for the pur-

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TANZANIA

chase of office equipment and
saloon cars.

Earlier, the Minister for
Trade, Ndugu Ali Mchumo,
who officially opened the
meeting, commended
NASA! workers for their
good performance in the last
two years.

Ndugu Mchumo advised
NASACO to’ co-operate with
the newly established Central
Freight Bureau to avoid ex-
ploitation by capitalist ship
8 who charged high

it rates. = -
le said NASACO had a
vital role to Play in the
national economy since about
90 per cent of the country’s
imports and exports passed
through its hands. ~



For example, when I went to the United States in June of last year, I heard
talk about inviting one or the other person. I told the American authorities:
There is a government, there is a chief of state, and Angola is a republic.

Do you think that, in doing so, saying that you are going to invite one person
or another, this is going to please me? It is as if in Gabon we-had anti-
Gabonese who did not want to understand that there is a republic, that there is
a Gabon, that there is an independent and sovereign country. And if some
people have fun in betraying their own country and you receive them, that
would not please me.

This is what I told President Reagan.

Very recently, I was very happy to meet an old friend, David Rockefeller, who
came to see me in Franceville. After Franceville, he went on to Luanda to
meet with the Angolan government.

I believe that all of those persons--I am not saying this because this happens
to involve America or some other country, since African problems are so very
different--all of these great powers do not know Africa and in particular
they do not know certain countries.

I believe that the American administration still is not familiar with our
problems, especially those of Angola. You have to experience them; you have
to understand them to know that, I think, you can accomplish something not
by helping an opponent of the Angolan regime. This must be understood.

There was a moment when "everybody" had a liberation movement, the MPLA, UNITA
{National Union for the Total Independence of Angola], and FNLA [Angolan
National Liberation Front].

We know all of those movements in the OAU as liberation movements. But the
MPLA was the most structured movement which had cadres and an organization.
Well, President Neto became president. Later on, our brother Dos Santos
became president.

I think that the Americans could help us, that they could do something for
Angola; somebody should tell people that you do not have to start shooting
and that they should try to understand each other.

Perhaps we can establish unity and not division with the passage of time.
I always said that you can accomplish everything with the bayonet and the
gun except sit down in front of them. This I think is a question of time.

We shall see. We had Carter. You can tell me that Carter did not understand
anything about the Angolan problem and that there is now a new president.
Well, I do not know whether American policy toward Africa will develop toward
understanding and improvement regarding that which they still do not know
about our countries.

This is why we are doing everything possible to be a little patient. They
are beginning to understand us because, as we can see, they are beginning to


TANZANIA

COMMISSION TO PREPARE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 13 May 82 p 1

[Article by Isaac Mruma]

[Excerpt] THE GOVERNMENT has appointed an 11-member commission to prepare

anew the national agricultural policy, the Minister f i
John Machunda, said in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Agriculture, Professor

cso:

The commission would
make a careful study of
current crop production
trends and point out problems
of sagriculture production
throughout the country, he ex-
plained.

The commission would also
look at the factors behind
varying performances in crop
production in the regions in
the past.

Professor Machunda said
the commission would also
study the problems which
frustrated the efforts of
peasants in the rural areas
and agricultural work in
farms owned by parastatal
organisations and individuals.

commission’s recom-
mendations are expected to
enable the nation to increase
its thrust towards the produc-
tion of more food and cash

chairmanship. of the Adviser
to the President (Economic
Aff: ), Professor S.
Mbilinyi, is expected to spend
four months on this task. It
started work yesterday.
Members of the commission
met. yesterday at the
headquarters of the Ministry
of Agriculture in Dar es
Salaam for a briefing.

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Other members are the
Chairman and Managing
Director of the Tanzania
Rural Development Bank
(TRDB), Ndugu P. Magani,
the Mtwara Regional
Development Director, Ndugu
R. Shirima, and the National
‘Agricultural and_ Foo: r-
poration (NAFCO) General
Manager, Ndugu A. Kaduri.

Ndugu J. Semwaiko, of the
Prime Minister’s Office,
Ndugu T.E. Banda, of the
Ministry of Agriculture, Dr.
B. Simon of the Tanzania
Pesticide research Institute
(TPRI) Arusha and Professor
M. L. Kyomo, of the Faculty
of Agriculture, Forestry and
Veterinary Science of the
University of Dar es Salaam,
are also members.

Others are Ndugu S.A.
Bulegi of the Prime Minister’s
Office; Adviser «to the
President (Rural Develop-
ment), Professor J.H. Maeda,
and Ndugu C.Y. Mpupua, of
the Ministry of Agriculture.

The secretary of the com-
mission secretariat is Ndugu
Mpupua. Others in the
secretariat are Ndugu B
Tenesi and Danstan Njau of
the Ministry of Agriculture.

Ndugu Machunda said the
members would visit, some
regions to enlist peasants’
views on the . national
agricultural policy.

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TANZANIA

ZANZIBAR TENDER BOARD ‘INHIBITS TIMELY COMPLETION' OF PROJECTS

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 May 82 p 1

[Article by Abdallah Yakuti]

[Text]

cso:

Shihata, Zanzibar .

DELAYS by the Zanzibar
Tender Board in processing
applications by construction
firms for the procurement of
building materials from Tan-
zania mainland were yester-
day singled out as the main
reason inhibiting the timely
completion of projects on the
es.

A committee of the Zan-
zibar Planning Commission
reviewing the performance of
the ministries of Education,
Health and Housing for the
1981/82 annual development
plan period, said most con-

struction projects earmarked
for the respective ministries
were not completed because it
took long for the Tender
Board to approve purchases
of cement, stabilising iron
bars and roofing materials.

Ndugu Abdalla Natepe
suggested to the committee
that the government should
be asked to allow public in-
stitutions to make purchases
without passing through the
Tender Board.

But other committee mem-
bers maintained that such a
Move would defeat the pur-
pose for which the Board was
established. oo

Ndugu Edington Kisasi
argued that, essentially the

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Tender Board was set up to
check against misap-
Propriation and extravagacy
in the use of public funds.

Admittedly, he added, the
Tender Board has proved to
be slow in its work due to the
big volume of applications it
received. However the cum-
bersome process was a
necessary evil that should be
maintained for the control of
public expenditure.

‘The Chairman of the Ten-
der Board, Ndugu Haji Alli
Muhija who attended the
meeting supported Ndugu
Kisasi’s contention, arguing
that instead of condemning
the Board, the committee
should advance constructive

suggestions to help the body
improve its efficiency.

Ndugu Thabit Kombo
refuted claim that the Tender
Board was a stumbling block
to the performance of govern-
mental institutions in Zan-
zibar. “Some of these in-
stitutions have failed to meet
the planned budget because
they do not have enough
working capital’, Ndugu
Kombo charged.

It is for these reasons, he
added, that parastatals on the
mainland were refusing to
supply Zanzibar with certain
items or services on credits
and instead were demanding
payments in advance because
many institutions in Zanzibar

56

have often failed to honour
their debts.

Under the law setting up
the Zanzibar Tender Board,
no government department
can undertake any major con-
struction work, or make pur-
chases amounting to more
than 1,000/- without the ap-
Proval of the Tender Board.
The ceiling for parastatals ‘is
4,000/-.

The committee later
unanimously agreed that
members of the tender Board,
leaders of public and private
construction companies in
Zanzibar should appear
before the Committee today to
explain problems which ham-
per their efficient operations.


independence which was obtained at the price of blood and a thousand sacri-
fices.

This is why I think that it is necessary for that Contact Group to do what
Great Britain did: Have a roundtable conference. The persons involved had
their discussion and then the elections were held.

As head of state within the OAU, which I was, they never came to talk to me.
I saw that Group when I was OAU chairman--never after that. I do not even
know what they are doing or to whom they report on their work and all that
sort of thing. Nobody knows what they are doing, whether they have an under-
standing among themselves, whether they understand each other.

Once they fail to understand each other, once they themselves do not condemn
the policy of South Africa, they no longer can be useful to us in short-range
terms. Perhaps they are trying to tire us out in order later on, at the
moment we fail to arrive at an understanding, to persuade somebody through
deception and to get him where they want him so that the whole thing would be
finished and over with.

I have no confidence in the Contact Group because as I can see it they have
been taking a lot of time and they will continue to take a lot of time in
placing a representative government in Namibia.

They tell us that they are going there to maintain contacts. But contacts
cannot go on eternally, year after year. We now run the risk of getting to
the end of 1982 without those contacts having produced anything.

This is why I personally no longer have any confidence. In the beginning,
everything was very nice. But now, taking into account the time that has
been lost, the time that was wasted, the Contact Group no longer inspires
any confidence,

The trouble is that they are doing everything. Where are the Africans? It
was said that, since they are five countries, we should also place the four
or five African countries alongside them because this involves an African
country (Namibia). We are going to work for an African country. We are
Africans who must take up the problems of Africans but they are certainly
not doing anything about those problems. I believe that it will be necessary
for the OAU, for the UN, for the OAU member countries in the UN to challenge
the establishment of the Contact Group because otherwise we run the risk of
losing much more time.

I.A.: The summit meeting of OAU chiefs of state is scheduled for June in
the Libyan city of Tripoli. What current issues do you think will or should
be stressed at that summit?

0.B.: Well. I do not claim to be a good or a bad prophet. I do not know

whether the conference will in fact be held in view of the way things have
been going in the OAU. I might ask you: Where is the OAU headed?

10


ANGOLA

JPRS 81019

10 June 1982

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA REPORT
No. 2637

CoNTENTS

Shortages, Profiteering Drive Food Prices Up

(Joao Serra; JORNAL DE ANGOLA, 28 Apr 82) 1
Briefs
Foreign Guests of UNTA 3
Cooperation With Humboldt University 3
Bulgarian Relief Donation 3
CAMEROON
Briefs
Palm Oil Loans 4
GABON
Bongo Alludes to Possible Cooperation With Angola
(Omar Bongo Interview; JORNAL DE ANGOLA, 12 May 82)....... 5
GHANA
Information Official Bodyguard Beats Newspaper Publisher .
(GHANAIAN TIMES, 7, 8 May 82).....ccccsceecececceccececees 13
Incident Reported
Probe Ordered
TUC Leadership Announces Support for 'Unauthoritarian'
Redeployment
(Francis Kokutse; GHANATAN TIMES, 13 May 82)...+..- se eeeeee i
INCC Urges Better Relations Between Police, PDC's
(GHANATAN TIMES, 29 Apr 82).......eeeee cece eee e ences seer. 16
Dissatisfaction Expressed Over Denial of U. K. Entry Visas
(Ayikwei Armah; DAILY GRAPHIC, 12 May 82).........eeeeeeee 18

-a- [III - NE & A - 120]



[Article by J. K. Randle]

[Text] Ti now appeats that

the Nigerian under-
ground economy
otherwise known as “the
black market’’ has
reached really si r-
ing proportions. the
indications are that the
black market may have
overtaken the legitimate
open economy and it is
the non ition of
this factor it often
renders government eco-
nomic policies and finan-
cial strategies futile.

It is 4 a vast
underground network o!
ruthlessly efficient and
lucrative __ enterprise.
Needless to say, it
totally circumvents
taxation, customs duty,
Central Bank ‘restric-
tions etc.

The problem is not

eculiar to Nigeria.

igures recently
ublished in the United
tes of America reveal
that the underground
economy in the U.S. was
estimated at 420 billion
dollars in 1981, that is
about 14 per cent of the
Gross National Product.

Similar! , the
underground econo!
in Britain has been esti-
mated at about £30
billion i.e, 11 per cent of
its Gross National
Product. Neither is it a

new problem here.
However, we have to
find a new way of
dealing with an old
problem.

It is an inescapable
fact of economic life that
if you impose bad laws,
oppressive taxes or un-
reasonable custom
duties, you simply
transfer power and
decision making to a
lower level, eg. the
Customs and Excise
officials who become
extremely powerful and
very rich as a conse-
quence of the transfer of
authority by default.

jigeria’s present eco-
nomic and __ financial
‘problems attributable to
structural factors.
Apart from the
abundant

nce
on just one product-oil,
there is the basic
imbalance between
Nigeria’s productive
capacity and _ the
amount of money in cir-
culation. Wherever you
have this sort of
disequilibrum, the
result is inevitably
chaos.

At best importation
can pone

. , if as the
ene pe

Ekwueme disclosed
recently, we spend W1.3
billion monthly on

31

MEASURES SUGGESTED FOR BLACK MARKET, ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

Lagos BUSINESS TIMES in English 10 May 82 p 15

imports, the interest-i
question nis how moch | it
se actually
and physically enter the
country? Rough
estimates suggest that
about 30% of those
goods never arrive in the
country; - about _10%
“disappear”’ at the ports
while out of the
reminder about 20.
per cent are hmrfiddiately

“exported” across our
borders to Chad, Niger,
Benin Republic, etc.
However, our present
difficulties should not
necessarily plung us
into despair. Rather,
they should re-inforce
our determination. After
all our moments of
failure sometimes
provide the seeds of
subsequent triumph.

Government must
endeavour to re-order its
priorities and cut down
on waste. Contractors
handling various go-
vernment projects must
be educa not to
regard “mobilisation
fees” as ‘demobilisation
money” especially as
the whole countTM is
littered with uncomple-
ted contracts and aban-
doned projects.

The government itself
would have to make a
serious effort to cut
down on. unnecessary
bureacracy as far too
much paper and file

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shuffling inevitably
leads to frustration and
delays in the execution
of projects. This is
unacceptable at a time
when every community
is crying out for deve-
lopment. Indeed the
greatest danger in the
country is the fear of
being left behind.

It is worth recalling
that the President,
Alhaji Shehu Shagari,
recently declared that
“vcndit was disturbing
that people now adore
corruption rather than
abhor it,” but we would
point out that the choice
that follows from that is
that the government
should either make an
all-out effort to deal
with corruption or alter-
natively, government
would have to reduce its
domineering profile in
economic activity so
that corruption and in-
efficiency in the public
sector are countermind-
‘ed by vastly improved
efficiency in the private
sector.

Indeed, only last week
President Mousa Traore
of Mali spoke of corrup-
tion among officials
“who encourage corrup-
tion and place their pri-
vate interests above
their administrative du-
ties because they are
engaged in a mad race
for money.”



UGANDA

CHANGES NOTED IN KARAMOJA PROVINCE
Paris AFRICA AFP in English No 2893, 30 Apr 82 p 1
[Article by Marie-Therese Delboulbes]

[Text] Kampala, April 28--Karamoja has moved in two years from the iron age of
the spear to the modern epochof the tractor, penicillin and the Kalashnikov
assault rifle.

It is a marginal and largely forgotten province in North-Eastern Uganda which
attracted attention in 1980 because of a very severe famine. Many European
and American humanitarian groups came to help.

Today, many have packed their bags or are about to do so. The Karamojong peo-
ple are generally in good health--and a resurgence of insecurity these past
few months is encouraging departures.

There are fewer than 50 doctors, nurses and technical aid staff left, alongside
the mission stations like those of the Italian Verona Fathers who have been in
Karamoja for 40 years.

The insecurity is different from what it used to be, a variety of witnesses
agree. Traditional inter-tribal raids on livestock are now being accompanied
by 'normal' robbery with violence, following the murder of an Italian nun last
November on a track in the bush.

A number of whites have been among the victims, usually without serious conse-
quences. One French doctor recounted how he got some highway robbers to return
his mattress and car tyres by threatening to keep them out of his hospital if
they were wounded and needed treatment. The holdup took an even more comical
turn when the gang laid down their Kalashnikovs to help push the doctor's
Landrover.

The doctor and his colleagues, who had three slightly wounded raiders in their
hospital, asserted that despite a growing number of raids they preferred to be
in Karamoja than in the capital.

The main clashes since the beginning of the year haye been between the Karamo-

jong clan of the Matheniko, from the Moroto region, and Teso tribesman from
Soroti.

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GHANA

REVOLUTION SEEN UNABLE TO DIVORCE ITSELF FROM IDEOLOGY
Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in English 4 May 82 p 2
{Editorial: "Don't We Need an Ideology?"]

[Text] 4 GHANA Broadcasting Corpora- _ undertaken in a social vacuum.

tion (GBC) report attributed to
Mr B. B. D. Asamoah, the Secre-
tary to the Provisional National
Defence Council (PNDC) gave
the impression that this is not
the time to discuss ideologies,
but a period to grow more food.
Indeed, few Ghanaians would ar-
gue about Mr Asamoah’s re-
ported assertion that we need to
grow more food; the positive re-
sponse Ghanaians have given to
the Green Revolution points to
that fact. The Secretary’s com-
ment on ideology is something
else. a
For some years now, many Gha-
naians bristle at the mere men-
tion of ideology. But an ideology
' fs nothing more than a consi-
! stent set of ideas and principles,
aimed at achieving a specific
type of development for society.
In this respect, we hasten to point
out that religions — Islam, Chri-
| stianity — have their own ideolo-
gies without which their creeds
would be empty. !t is ideology
that determines the general di-.
rection in which a society directs
its energies and efforts.
Food growing, to refer te the spe-
cific point in question, cannot be

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Who will grow the food, whati
type of food to grow, how the
food is to be distributed are all.
related questions which can be
answered satisfactorily only in
the presence of a consistent
programme based on a consi-
stent body of ideas and princi-
ples.

We remember too well the Opera-
tion Feed Yourself Programme
under Acheampong. After its
initial success the programme
failed to offer any long term so-

__ lution. | _ .

We trace the failure of that pro-
gramme to the absence of any
ideological frame-work in which
it could be placed.

Ex-President Limann claimed that
his ideology was Ghana while
his Vice-President said agricult-
ure was his. We are paintully
aware of where their confusion
took us.

Thus we believe that at this time
when we should be planning and
building our country, we should
not shy away from elaborating
that broad body of ideas and
principles which alone can help
us to decide on the strategies


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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT URGED TO GIVE UP SHARES IN NEWSPAPERS

Enugu DAILY STAR in English 4 May 82 p 16

{Article by Dom Ekpunobi]

[Text] IE Federal Govern

cso

ment. has been urged.
to give up its capital share
in the Daily Times" and

New Nigeria
newspapers
” Speaking at. ~ the
launching of a new maga
zine the “OPTIONS”, in
Lagos the’Chairman’‘of the
Nigeria External Telecom-
munications. Alhaji
Ibrahim Tahir. said that
the measure. would’ give
the newspapers thé capa-
city to be free from bigotry
and report objectively.

Alhaji Tahir. referred to
his earlier memorandum to
the Federal Government
on the issue. and wondered
why action was being
delayed on the transter of
ownership of the
newspapers,

He expressed the view
that the complications. of
the political community
and the tempo, of events
and their pressure have
been a major force in
slowing down the
President's efforts to
return the two papers to
private interests and
create a better climate for
an independent press. ,

The NET chairman
however believed . that
despite criticisms —_ the

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President and the NPN:
tegimes were far’ more

liberal towards the press:

than the country have been
fed to believe

Continuing Alhaji Tahir
said that. the _ basic
conditions and features of
media practice in the
country which he said
include lack of maturity
and . objectivity. — still
remained.

Compared to what the
practice of journalism was
in the First Republic
Alhaji Tahir said
“nevertheless I believe.
and evidence justifies the
belief that compared to the
rhetorical. salacious brand
of journalism in the First
Republic. steadily rising
through the 13 years of
military rule. journalism in
Nigeria today has

progressed."
He stated that there was
room for better

achievement but warned
that journalism should be
cut off the ambilicus of the
pipe-play the tune idea

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NIGERIA


SITUATION OF SAPELE PORT, OTHER PORTS DESCRIBED

London WEST AFRICA in English No 3379, 10 May 82 pp 1242-1243, 1245

[Article by David Ndifang in the column "Matchet's Diary"]

[Text] Sapele--

“PORTS are the gateway to the nation’s
economy” was one of the more didactic
slogan’s that received visitors on their way
into Sapele for the opening of the new port
here. The importance of ports in the
mainstream of Nigeria’s economic life was
seen in the 1970s when port congestion
become a regular and extremely costly
phenomenon. It was for that reason that
the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA)
embarked on a programme of port expan-
sion, beginning with the modern complex
at Tin Can Island, and rehabilitation and
improvement at other ports, from Apapa

to Calabar, via the multitude of ports in the ,

Niger Delta. The ports programme was
written into the Third National Develop-
ment Plan (1975-80) with a total envisaged
expenditure of N2 billion. Sapele port was
one: of those written into the Third Plan.
According to NPA literature, the contract
for its construction was initially given as a
turn-key arrangement to Bouygues of
France in July 1977, but “the soil condition
encountered when construction work was
commenced was entirely different from
that assumed at the pre-contract stage”,
implying serious modification of the pre-
pared design, but none of the new designs
were at a cost which fell within the original
contract sum. The project was thus frozen
until the return to civilian rule, when
following a review of all projects, a new
contract was awarded to the German firm,
Julius Berger Nigeria Ltd., at a sum of over
N48.6m., and, as the Chairman of the

NPA Chief Tayo Akpata, said in his
speech at the opening ceremony, Berger
completed the contract on schedule to
provide Nigeria’s “second instant har-
bour,” the first being Tin Can Island.
The port itself lies on the Benin River,
some 6km. downstream from Sapele town,
nearly 100km from the Bight of Benin at
Escravos and a little way away from the old
Sapele wharf, the historic timber port of
the African. Timber and Plywood Com-
pany. The new port has six berths (includ-
ing one Ro-ro) where the old wharf only
had two. As President Shehu Shagari said
in his speech at the opening. Sapele is
“renowned as one of Nigeria’s oldest port
cities. It first came into operation in 1897,
with the advent of British traders and
British colonial administration. All
through the colonial period and up to the
beginning of the last decade, this port
played a significant role in the economic
development of this nation”. When,
however, with the congestion of the seven-
ties, and new ports were developed in
Lagos, Warri and Calabar “Sapele was
conspicuously left out”. Thus, although
continuing to function as a timber port,
Sapele has had the impression of neglect
and relative decline in its fortunes. This is
where politics enters the situation. The
speeches at the opening were an honest
demonstration of the political aspects of
Sapele port, couched in electoral terms.
The President himself said that during his
presidential campaigning in 1979 the
citizens of the town of Sapele presented

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without being
processed.

The Director said
that it is not possible
to generate raw
materials locally now,
because there was no
previous plan . He
said that it requires
long-term planning.

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course of events in Ghana. P. V. Obeng’s
role is important, if only because the
“patriotic front” character of the PNDC
makes attacks possible from both the left
and the right. - .

One recurrent feature is the mediation
necessary between the burgeoning inter-
ventions of defence committees and even
some secretaries and various manage-
ments. The PNDC must avoid any tenden-
cy to always appear to be placing checks on
the development of popular participatory
democracy. The contradictions between
labour and capital cannot be wished away,
especially in a neo-colonial economy in
crisis. Raising the “banner of productivity”
is not the same thing as advancing the
transformation of Ghana’s economy and
society.

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countries. I will be given an opportunity to broaden the field of action in
our cooperation. I must tell you, first of all, that during this working
visit, during this interview, during this journey which I will make to your
beautiful country, I will evidently be given an opportunity to explain to you
what we did. Right now, it is impossible to say anything further.

Give me time until Luanda. After my working and friendship visit, you can
question me about what we did.

I.A.: The government of Gabon recently expelled or decided to expel from its
territory the traitor Frank Rank of the so-called FLEC [Front for the Libera-
tion of the Cabinda Enclave] grouplet. What other measures might yet be taken
in this question?

0.B.: Well. You have mentioned a very specific case which I am familiar
with; it is the case of Frank Rank. I would like to tell you from the bottom
of my heart--you know that I have my own way of expressing myself--that, when
I say something, I believe that it is a reflection of the truth. We have
with us here members of the embassy of Angola, that is, the charge d'affaires.
He lives in this country, he knows this country.

I think that the case of Frank Rank was the only one!

He was here, as far as I know,asa refugee--he says--and on request of the
Angolan authorities, on request of the charge d'affaires here, we forced him
to leave the country. He left and then he came through here and finally
departed from Gabon.

If there were other cases of this kind, I think that the charge d'affaires
would have told us about them; the Angolan government would also have informed
us. If we had any knowledge of cases involving persons whom I will call
traitors and whom we call the troublemakers of Africa, then I think that it
would never be to my discredit because I am not forced to abide by the Vienna
Convention. It was drawn up by the colonialists or the neocolonialists for
those whom they wanted to protect. As far as Gabon is concerned, if we were
to be informed about an Angolan individual who is here and pursues a policy
contrary to his country, we would put him on an airplane and he would leave
national territory.

I.A.: Last December, the UDEAC (Union for the Economic Development of Central
Africa) Conference was held here in Gabon; it was attended by some heads of
state who are not members of the Organization,particularly President Jose Eduardo
dos Santos. What contribution do you think the RPA can make to the UDEAC?

0.B.: You know that Angola is a big country. And you have to tell things as
they are: Angola has much wealth, both on the surface and in the subsoil and
it is quite natural that, since we are in the same part of the continent
(Central Africa), we can be members of a common economic organization.
Angola's contribution will therefore be manyfold because we cannot define
that contribution precisely.


FLOOD VICTIMS IN KYELA DISTRICT NOW LACK FOOD

Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 May 82 p 3

[Article by Mkumbwa Ally]

[Excerpt] FLOOD victims in

cso:

Kyela
District have complained of
food shortage because they
can not go to market places
and reach other food sources.

Some victims, interviewed
on Monday, they were
surviving on single meal
daily while others said they
relied on water.

Aerial surveys over the af-
fected areas showed that 17
out of the 22 villages hit by
floods, were still surrounded
by water on Monday. Ndobo,
Lugombo/Mwaya, | Mwam-
busye, Ilopa and Lubaga
villages are seriously affected.

“Food is our problem... We
have some money but there is
nothing to buy’, lamented
villagers at Kilwa. Others in-
terviewed at Ndobo village
said their food stock were
swept by floods together with
cattle, pe and chicken.

“We have been surviying on
tender bananas ana rice
retrieved from the floods.
Sometimes we sleep on empty
stomach”, they explained.

The la Area Com-
missioner, Ndugu Emmanuel
Mgina, said they needed a big
helicopter to send food aup-
plies to village shops in the af-

ed areas which could not
be reached by other means.

The police helicopter, sur-
veying the flooded areas and
which was expected to return
to Dar es Salaam yesterday,

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was not appropriate for that
Purpose, he said.

Ndugu Mgina said some 70
bags of maize despatched to
Ntebela Division at the week-
end took long to reach there
because the lorry hauling
them was stuck at Tukuyu in
Rungwe District.

Three Land Rovers, each
capable of carrying six bags,
were set to transport the food,
he said. The vehicles would
travel through Tukuyu to
avoid floods on the direct
Kyela-Ipinda Road.

Ndugu Mgina said another
70 bags of maize allocated for
Unyakyusa Division would be
diverted to Ntebela where
most of the flooded villages
are situated. Arrangements
were also being made to send
beans to the villages.
the villages.

Ndugu Mgina said the
second consignment of food,
to be sold at RTC prices,
would be channelled through
the Kyela-Ipinda Road which
was expected to be passable
shortly.

“Our main handicap is
transport. We have received
three Land Rovers. But these
are not enough because some
will have to be used by of-
ficials to collect data on
dam ages caused by floods”, he
said.

The fact-finding team, sent
to the flooded areas, would
also list down poor families
who could not buy food. The

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report would be sent to the
Prime Minister's Office, he
said.

There were no fresh floods
yesterday. The dry spell which
started on Saturday con-

tinued but officials gave ten
days or more for the stagnant
waters to evaporate. Other
means of drainage have been
ruled out because of the high
water level of the flooded
areas.

The flooded villages are
mainly those lining Kiwira,
Mbaka and Lufilyo rivers.
Others are: situated on the
shores of Lake Nyaga.

District authorities have
said the affected areas may
face food shortage after the
floods.

Actual figures of the
amount of crop destroyed by
floods are being worked out.
But initial estimate show that
some 8,000 hectares of paddy
and other food crops were in
water.

The other villages, which
are partially flooded, are
Kajunjumele, Kilwa,
Tenend le, Masebe, Ttunge

jatala, lola, nga
Kikuba, Lukwepo, “Mtn

and Bwato. Others
Lusungo and Mpu
tiffkama.


The Tesoti slayed a Karamojong leader, the self-styled "General" Apopolis,
on February 6. In revenge, the Matheniko on March 3 raided Katakwi to the
east of Soroti and killed at least 68 people.

The UGANDA TIMES reported that after that battle more than 50,000 people had
fled their villages in East Teso. Witnesses quoted by the Government paper all
affirmed that there were big differences from previous patterns of attack.
"These are not ordinary cattle raids," said a local chief. A village elder
agreed, adding that "formerly a raider would only care to drive somebody's
cattle (away), never caring to kill even the innocent babies."

The survivors interviewed said some of their assailants were of a different
physical type from the Karamojong. "Some of the bandits have long braided
hair, others have marks at the side of their faces," they said.

Turkana tribesmen from nearby Kenya were said to be among the raiders, and
advanced weaponry was more in evidence than previously, witnesses reported.
Unconfirmed rumours had it that former soldiers under ousted dictator Idi Amin
were with the Matheniko clansmen, with cattle camps set up along the border
with the Teso area.

The situation was viewed as serious enough for General Tito Okello, Uganda's
Armed Forces chief, to visit Soroti, the Teso district capital.

But it has proved impossible to ascertain whether the latest bandits are simply
a better-organised band of cattle rustlers, or if destabilising political fac-
tors are playing a part.

In Karamoja today, a Kalashnikov rifle is worth four or five cows. The Jie
clan around Kotido has 100,000 head of cattle, for a population of 20,000 to
30,000 people, an expatriate has estimated. The clan undubitably has the
means to defend itself.

For the relief groups from UNICEF and OXFAM, from the Irish-based Concern and
France's Hopital sans Frontieres, the urgency of the situation of two years
back has disappeared. But the big question remains: What will happen to the
results of all the effort expended during that time?--To get dispensaries going
again, to make water pumps work, to start up farming cooperatives?

There is a lot of complaining about the individualism and lack of interest
evidenced by the nomad Karamojong. But it is also acknowledged what a well-
nigh impossible wager it was to want to make them leap the centuries in just
a couple of years, when the church missions have barely succeeded in 40 years
to get them to stay put in one place.

Relative optimism was voiced at a hospital at Tokora in South Karamoja, where
one of the two doctors from France noted that the local structure was better
than elsewhere because the staff included Ugandan nurses and midwives and, in
addition, a medical assistant with four years’ study behind him.

"After we leave, the hospital ought, in a year, a year and a half, to still be
a dispensary of a good standard," he forecast. (A.F.P.)

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NIGERIA

BRIEFS

OJUKWU EXPRESSES GRATITUDE--Mr Odumegwu Ojukwu has expressed his greatest
gratitude to President Shehu Shagari and the entire people of Nigeria for
granting him unconditional pardon and paving the way for his earliest retum
to the country. In a release issued in Ivory Coast where Mr Ojukwu has
been in self exile for 12 years, Mr Ojukwu declared: "I will return home

in the interest of unity, in the spirit of total national reconciliation and
in the service of progress. I will returm to my fatherland to serve the
people at whatever level the people may decide." He expressed his profound
gratitude to the president, to his (?cabinet) and to all Nigerians without
whom this reconciliation would not have been possible and to President
Houphouet-Boigny whose care [words indistinct]. [Text] [AB212154 Lagos
Domestic Service in English 2100 GMT 21 May 82]

ZAIRE'S TIES WITH ISRAEL--The NEW NIGERIAN and the DAILY SKETCH comment on
Zaire's decision to reestablish diplomatic relations with Israel. It
expresses fear that Zaire's decision might motivate other African states

to do the same. The NEW NIGERIAN would not want Nigeria to resume relations
with Israel, but feels that the country should continue to maintain ties
with the Arab states, which it says, have been protecting her interests

in the wake of the oil glut. The SKETCH, on its part, says the Arab

threat for Zaire for resuming diplomatic relations with Israel underscores
the dilemma of developing countries that borrow money from them. It calls
on Nigeria to make it clear to the Arabs that it is not because of them that
she is yet to normalize diplomatic ties with Israel. In its second editorial,
the SKETCH advises Ghanaian politicians seeking political asylum in Nigeria
not to make the country a platform for attack on their country. The paper
urges the Ministry of External Affairs to warn them not to abuse Nigeria's
hospitality. [Text] [AB211015 Lagos International Service in English

0830 GMT 21 May 82]

ARMY BANS POLITICAL SYMBOLS--Officers and men of the Nigerian Army have been ban-
ned from wearing vests or any other items of clothing bearing political party sym-
bols. The ban order was contained in a circular sent to all units and formations
by the office of the Chief of Army Staff. According to the latest issue of SOJA,
a news bulletin of the army, the circular expressed dissatisfaction with some
soldiers who wore political party vests in the barracks. It pointed out that

the practice was inimical to the policy of the army which banned soldiers from
taking part in partisan politics. It added that if not checked, the practice could
corrode the image and discipline of the army. It enjoined commanding officers

to educate their soldiers against involvement in partisan politics. [Text]

[Lagos DAILY TIMES in English 8 May 82 p 1]

44



TANZANIA

ZANZIBAR TO INCREASE FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES
Dar es Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 16 May 82 p 1

{Article by Abdallah Yakuti]

[Text] THE ZANZIBAR Revolutionary Government has resolved to increase its
foreign exchange reserves by 10 per cent annually and to reduce its trade
deficit with the Mainland beginning this year, it was revealed here yester-

cso:

day.

Opening a_ week-long
meeting of the Zanzibar Plan-
ning Commission the com-
mission’s chairman, Ndugu
Aboud Jumbe, pointed out
that because of stagnation in
agriculture and high priced
imports of manufactured
goods, Zanzibar’s foreign ex-
change reserves had fallen
drastically.

“Low food production has
led to massive imports which
have eroded the serves. At
the same time our ability to
export cash crops has fallen.

Zanzibar has been earning
very little to build up the
reserves,” he pointed out.

Zanzibar generated an
average of 400° million/- in
foreign exchange annually
from the sale of cloves and
copra. The amount was
inadequate to meet Zanzibar’s
requirements.

Worse still, he saia, Zan-
zibar had been paying a lot of
foreign exchange for buying
fuel and manufactured goods
from the international
market.

Ndugu Jumbe, who is also
the President of Zanzibar fur-
ther explained the slump in

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agricultural and industrial
productivity had also affected
Zanzibar’s trade balance with
Tanzania mainland.

Last year, for example, Zan-
zibar bought manufactured
goods, textiles and food from
Tanzania mainland worth
about 140 million/- from the
Mainland while she sold: to
the mainland cash crops and
manufactured goods worth 34
million/- only.

“We cannot allow this
situation to continue and that
we should increase produc-
tivity to ensure that there is 4
reduction of imports and that
Zanzibar’s export potential is
expanded,” he said amid -ap-
plause.

To attain these goals, he
said, the Zanzibar govern-
ment had re-structured its in-
vestment policy to place more

emphasis on the production-
oriented sectors of the
economy rather than the ser-
vice sector as was the case
before.

Of the 513 million/-
set for the develop-
ment budget 312 mil-
lion/-, or 61 per cent of the
total budget was invested for
the development of
agriculture, industry and
natural resources during the
current develcpment plan, he
said.

46

During the forthcoming an-
nual development plan
(1982/83),. the same in-
vestment ratio is to be main-
tained for the investment of
574 million/- earmarked for
the plan, he explained.

Ndugu Jumbe, however, ex-
pressed fear on the non-
utilization of funds allocated
for various developmeni
projects. He said that of the
513million/- set for develop-
ment under the current an-
nual development plan
(1981/82), only 239 million/-
had -been utilized by last

March.
“This means our plans are

either unrealistic or the finan-
cial calculations on the plan-
ned targets were highly in-
flated.”

“T plead to this commission
to try and find the loopholes
in the current development
plan to ensure that the plan
we are to launch next July is
realistic,” he emphasized.


send people like David Rockefeller who went to Angola. This is not out of
compassion. It is because they know that this is an independent and
sovereign country and because they have interests there. They have in-
terests to defend or to seek. You do not go to a place where you cannot

get anything. I believe that this is a question of time and I sincerely hope
that this is so.

I.A.: Concerning the question of Namibian independence, SWAPO and the Front-
line Countries have already expressed their disagreement with the double vote
formula proposed by the Contact Group which would be used in the eléction pro-
cess for Namibian independence. What do you think about the stubbormess of
the Contact Group on this issue and what do you think about the real con-
tribution which it can make to speeding up independence for Namibia?

0.B.: I have no special opinion concerning matters which are being taken up
within the OAU and the UN. As an African chief of state, I first of all asso-
ciate myself with the position of my brothers in the Frontline Countries.

And I agree with them on what we decided in the UN and in the OAU. But there
is a "but" on my part. I think that it is dangerous to take sides, in other
words, saying that a certain party or a certain man should govern a recently
independent country, especially when it involves the case of Namibia.

I feel I should say this: There is an external SWAPO and there is an internal
SWAPO, there are other movements and other political parties. My opinion is
that we should have facilitated things if, under UN control, we were to hold
elections to see who among all of them really represents the people. Once
this has been done, it is not sufficient for a party to win a majority so
that it will be the only one to run the country. Something nationwide is
required here. That is my viewpoint.

I think that, concerning the Contact Group, its members have the veto right
within the UN. And there are some among them who are members of the Security
Council. Regardless of what solution we work out, we Africans would have to
submit it to a vote in the Security Council. And those people are then going
to use their veto right and the matter will never come out into the light of
day.

I personally believe that we have lost enough time. This is why we should
make the Contact Group understand—-as I see it--that they should either change
their work method or that they should simply fade out. We cannot understand
racist South Africa, apartheid and that Group of Five who tell us: "We are
going to do something but you just take it easy, take it easy, take it easy."
We placed our confidence in the Contact Group but it is not doing anything.

So, we have to act. Just look at what is happening in Zimbabwe; if I tell
you that everybody should participate in the elections, this is because we
met in Zimbabwe in 1977 at the OAU summit which I presided over. We put out
a resolution stating that the Patriotic Front would lead Zimbabwe to indepen-
dence. I said at that time that we could not mention only the Patriotic Front
in this connection. What about the other parties? At that time we were
afraid of Archbishop Muzorewa, the Rev Sithole, Chief Chirawu, and perhaps
even Ian Smith. Well, there were free elections and Mugabe won them. Today,
others are trying to spread uncertainly so as to cast doubt on Zimbabwe's