POLICE ARREST THREE TRADITIONAL RULERS

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 7 Jun 82 p 24

{Article by Abubakar Umar]

[text]

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THREE traditional rulers in Nabardo District of Toro Local
Government Area of Bauchi State have been arrested by the
police for allegedly spreading false: information that fed to
the killing of a woman at Chalin Kanawa on May 20, this year.

The arrested persons who
are to appear in court soon for
the alleged offence are:-
Sarkin Gari Muhammadu Na
Ta’ala, Sarkin Chalin Kanawa
Malam Yakubu Garba, and
Maijinka Sarkin Noma.

This was contained in a report
submitted to Bauchi State House
of Assembly by a five-man com-
mittee under the chairmanship oft
the former deputy speaker, Alha-
ji Isa Umar Hinna. The commit-
tee was assigned to investigate
alleged bizzare killings of inno-
cent citizens in and around the
state capital. . ‘

According to the report, on
May 21, this year, a report carne
from the’ Divisional Police’ Of-
ficer (DPO) of Toro that the
District Head of Nabardo lodged

“areport that a womanwas killed”

at Chalin Kanawa in Toro Local
Government on May 20, this year.
__ The report ac that on hear-
ing the complaint, the DPO of:
Toro detailed some policemen
under the command of an officer,
Bukar Kablai to the scene of the

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incident only to discover that the
report was false. This led to the
arrest of the traditional rulers.

It said so far, only four killings

had taken place, in the area but
that nonetheless, the general
public had been peddling
rumours thai such killings have.
continued. In an anonymous let-
ter. to a committee member,
Alhaji Muharnmadu Tirwun, it
was claimed that 30 people were
killed at Muri, Buzaye and Kun-
dum.
The report said the state com-
missioner. of police confirmed
four cases of such killings at Inkil
and. Shadawanka, inciuaing the,
the arrest of the suspected assail-
ant of the woman. The committee
earnt trom the commissioner
that three persons have been ar-
rested in connection with the
cases.

Members: of the committee are:
former deputy speaker, Alhaji
Isa Umar Hinna, Alnaji Muham-
madu Tirwun, Alhaji Danladi
Wuntin Dada, Alhaji Mohammed
Shira, and Mr. Keftin E. Amuga.

NIGERIA



SCHOOL IS CLOSED AFTER PROTESTS

Harare THE HERALD in English 19 Jun 82 p 1

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MARLBOROUGH High
School in Harare was
closed yesterday after
trouble among the
pupils.

Schoolchildren of both
races said the trouble
began when black pupils
demanded equal rights,
an equal number of pre-
fects, the right to choose
their own prefects and
more black teachers.

A pupil said: “We were
told this morning that
the schoo]. was being
closed until Wednesday
and that all the sports
fixtures for the weekend
have been cancelled.

“All the boarders have
gone home and there are
no pupils at the school.”

A police spokesman said
yesterday: “Police have
been to the school to
investigate the incidents,
but they were asked

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not to intervene wnt
‘th as °
draw onthe understand-
ing that they would
return if the situation
deteriorated.”

Marlborough is being
turned into just an A-
level centre, a process
that started this year.

‘The regional director of
education for Harare,
Mr Jonathan Gapara,

refused to
give details of the
frouble at the school.

“As far as the Ministry
of Education and Cul-
ture is concerned, I have
made my report to head
office on what is hap-
pening at the school
‘We have made certain
decisions and that !s
that, .

“we are bringing the
situation under  con-
trol and any publicity
might prejudice the
situation.”

ZIMBABWE



"Let us hope that this cooperation which is being carried out through the use
of our own resources, also excluding any paternalism, which our peoples re-
ject, and taking into account the future, will continue, expand, and prosper.
We are here in the service of that cooperation and Algeria, its people and its
government have made it their credo."

The political secretary of the UDPM, for his part, stated that the ceremony
"symbolizes and is concrete evidence of the excellence and the specific nature
of cooperation between Algeria and Mali." The minister of public works and
transport did not fail to stress the effort made by the Algerian government,
which has not only guaranteed financing of the study but also provided high-
level cadres for the needs of the project, who along with their Malian brothers,
have fully covered the terrain and then completed the necessary analyses and
syntheses within extremely short periods.

"This is an example of south-south cooperation which is important because of
its progress and its results," Mr Djibril Diallo concluded. In substance, he
stressed the priority nature of our commitment to the implementation of a true
policy of supply and security for the country where hydrocarbons are concerned.

The satisfaction expressed by Mr Djibril Diallo has to do with the multiple
goals PETROSTOCK proposes to achieve. In fact, this establishment for the sup-
ply and safe storage of oil products, which is a public enterprise of an in-
dustrial and commercial nature, with financial autonomy, is participating in
the steady supply of our country with oil products, byproducts and residues.

To this end, it is responsible for seeing to the construction and administra-
tion of storage capacity for these products, the establishment and administra-
tion of security stocks of oil products, their byproducts and residues, the
implementation of the agreements negotiated by the state pertaining to the
supply of oil products and direct or indirect participation on behalf of the
state in all industrial and commercial operations which may be related to the
activities of the enterprise.

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ZIMBABWE

ARMY, POLICE SAID 'OUT OF BOUNDS'
Harare THE HERALD in English 19 Jun 82 p 5

[text] The defence force, the police, the offices of the Prime Minister and
the President and the prison services will not open to investigation by the
Ombudsman "for the time being" because such investigations might "be detri-
mental to the security of the State," the Minister of Justice, Mr Simbi Mubako
said in the House of Assembly yesterday.

The minister was defending this clause of the Bill in its committee stage
from attack by members of the Republican Front.

The clash provided the first division called in the House since it began
sitting on Tuesday, as well as the first signs of friction within the
chamber between the Republican Front and the independent alliance of former
RF members who sided with the Government on the issue, Mr P.K. van der Byl
(RF, Kadoma/Chegutu) said that if these sections of the Government were
protected from investigation by the Ombudsman, "is there a great deal of
point in having an Ombudsman Bill at all, other than as a purely cosmetic
exercise?"

The issue of the exclusions of these sections of the Government had been
raised by RF leader Mr Ian Smith (Southern) in the second reading debate on
Thursday, said Mr Van der Byl, but he found the minister's answers then
unsatisfactory.

‘Abuses!

He said it was in the spheres of the defence force, the police and the prison
services that the "worst and most grievous abuses of power could take place
and where these abuses of power could most grievously affect the private
citizen."

Would it not be in these areas that "the real power" and. the consequent poten-
tial to commit serious abuses lay? he asked.

"It is, therefore, our contention that in these spheres perhaps the private

person should be protected by the Ombudsman more than in any other," Mr Van
der Byl said,

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[Question] Isn't the creation of DMI in response to concerns of proselytizing,
of religious propaganda, but in a completely new form?

[Answer] That is not at all the case. We are not a religious association but a
profitmaking financial institution belonging to the entire Muslim community.
Realizing profits for our shareholders is our concern.

Please allow me to remind you that what distinguishes us Muslims from others,
is that the different aspects of our life are inspired by our religious education
and by the Sunna of Prophet Muhammad (may he rest in peace).

Islam, a religion of tolerance par excellence, has the advantage of containing
the rules to be followed both in our social and private lives and with respect
to business relations and financial practices.

It has become incumbent upon us to transmit the message of the existence of an
Islamic financial system. Now any and everybody has the freedom to choose
between two systems of financing. In short, there has been no religious pro-
selytism.

[Question] Doesn't the fact that DMI headquarters have been established far
from the Islamic center constitute a self-contradiction? Why the Bahamas?

[Answer] The choice of the Bahamas may astonish all good Muslims, but certainly
not experienced international financiers.

So, for financial reasons but also for reasons of neutrality and political
security, we preferred to be a legal entity governed by the law of the Common-
wealth of the Bahamas.

This choice was also made in order not to experience the influence of such and
such a political or religious current,

Nonetheless, one may read in the document of the founder's invitation to Ummat
al-Islami that it is their ardent desire to establish our institution's head-
quarters in future in the holy places of Islam and precisely in Mecca al-
Mukarramah, when the structures permit and to the extent that this will not
prejudice the shareholders' interests.

[Question] In fact, tell us Mr Boutayeb, how can profits be realized in
respect for Islamic precepts? What is the method of investment and reinvestment
adopted by the DMI?

[Answer] The Islamic financial system uses the concept of sharing in the profits
realized as in the risks of loss, thus creating a direct association between
capital and labor based on just renumeration of the shareholder and of the
Manager of the funds.

The concept of "leasing" or credit leasing is well developed, especially in the
financing of industrial projects, particularly as far as equipment is concerned.

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IMPLEMENTATION OF TINKHUNDLA FACING PROBLEMS

Mbabane THE SWAZI OBSERVER in English 19 Jun 82 p 4

[article by Mandla Magagula]

[Text]

DESPITE public statements
and assurances that the Tin-
khundla system of govern-
ment has been successful,
there appears to be some
blems over its complete
implementation to replace
the British system of admin-
istration which Swaziland
inherited at independence.
The Indvuna Yetinkhu-

" ndla, Mr Mndeni Shabalala,

said his office requested
‘Parliament to allocate E730-
000 as its budget for the
1982/83 financial year.

But this amount was red-
uced to E274 000 by the
Budget Committee because
some of the Tinkhundla
branches were not yet wor-
king.

SYSTEM

When the system was in-
troduced in 1977, it was
envisaged that it would eve-
ntually replace, all the fea-
tures of the British type of
administration, but up to
now little headway has been
made to achieve that aim.
District commissioners still
exists and we still use some
of the laws enacted during
the British administration.

The system’s impleme-
ntation is being delayed bec-
ause some senior civil ser-
vants are sitting on some
Paperwork, say some infor-
med sources connected with
‘Tinkhundia.

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For the system to function

effectively, it is thought that
regional administrators in
the four districts should be
appointed with the status of
Deputy Ministers enjoying
more power than the present
district commissioners.

This idea is believed to be
unpopular with some senior
public servants who.are jea-
lous of the benefits that will
be enjoyed by the politically
appointed regional admini-
strators.

i Mt Shabalaia says he en
j rcent support
Wee chiefs Yesterday. e was
due to meet chiefs at San-
dleni, Shiselweni District.

Then there is the unex-

lained relationship

een the Tinkhundla
Department and the Mini-
stry of Home Affairs which
at present is responsible for
local administration. Since
independence regional aff-
airs have been administered
by the defunct Ministry of
Local Administration,
which has been replaced by
the Ministry of Home Aff-

airs.
DUTIES

With the establishment of
the Tinkbundia Depart-
ment, some of the duties of
the Ministry of Home Aff-
airs are being taken over by
this office.

In the past, District Com-

SWAZILAND



ee

Independence has not really improved the
lot of Moslems In Ghana. An attempt by Dr Kwa-
me Nkrumah to integrate Islamic education into
the national educational system was sabotaged
by officials of his own Ministry of Education. In-
deed, the few Islamic splinter groups which ma-
naged to remain in the nation’s educational
system like the Ahmadiyya Movement have had to
sacrifice some Islamic principles by, for example,
accepting to go to school on Friday, which Is the
day of rest In Islam, and staying away on Sunday,
a day which although is meaningful to Christlans
remains completely meaningless to Musiims.

When Nkrumah left, that was the end, at least
until the early seventies when the then Govern-
ment, in response to students’ demand for demo-
cratization of education, got one officer in the
Ministry of Education to tackle the Muslim Issue.
The very competent work of that officer was agaln
allowed to go to ruins when he retired recently.
As most Islamic schools are squeezed out of the
system, the officers who are charged with adml-
nistering the system just use funds as they please
and probably draw a long list of ghost teachers
and claiming salaries on their behalf.

Even though no. primary educational system.
be it Secular, Christian or Islamic, prepares puplls
for any particular profession or career, we are yet
fo be convinced how only the Islamic system
creates redundant people who indulge In black
marketing, smuggling, gambling and other vices
such as depending on alms for livellhood as

Glaimed by the Regional Secretarv.

The traditional Islamic schools are doing a great-service
to Ghana. Although thelr teachers are paid by the Islamic
community, they do not ask for any special favours like tax
exemption, et cetera, as against teachers In the Christian
schools who are paid by the State In addition to the various
‘tax exemptions given to the churches.

Muslims have suffered a long history of discrimination
and Intimidation. Even when rellef aid Is to be distributed
in the north, where Muslims outnumber Christians, this Is
done through Christian committees which use the ald items
as religious traps to get converts. in the Constitution which
has just been overthrown, workers and Muslims were denied
any say in how the country should be run; all the orthodox
Christian churches and professionals were reserved respec-
tive areas of Influence. Even though there are Islamic gra-
duates who are proficient In English and Arabic, they are
hardly employed in the public service, and we continue to
send out diplomats to Arabic countries who do not under-
stand a word of Arabic and fall completely to relate with
the environment of their missions. ,

In all these, the Muslims complicate issues by not
Indegenizing thelr leadership. There remains a large number
of their Imams and leaders who are foreigners, unlike the
orthodox churches where forelgn priests are In the mino-
rity. However, this Is not to say that Islam has not produced
brains who are Ghanalans and who can “take their places
as men and women of our race.”

Ghana, like the USA, Is a secular republic, and like
the USA, Ghana must see to It that all the varlous people
with their various religious bellefs are fairly Integrated. But
Ghana Is the only country In West Africe where the two
main Islamic events are not-national holidays whilst the
Christian events are, .



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organised to a size com-
patible with the country’s

- population and economic

strength and havin;
regard. to geo-politi
considerations.”

A programme of train-
img and re-equipment was
being undertaken to pro-
duce a defence force
capable of dealing with
any foreseeable threat to
national security. “My
ministers responsible for
security have full powers
to act swiftly and effec-
tively,” the President seid.

The House would be
asked, within 14 days of
the sitting, by a resolution
in terms of the Unlawful
Organisations Act, to con-
firm President Banana’s
dclarations earlier this
year that certain com-
panies were. unlawful
organisations.

The exercise of restruc-
turing the ‘Zimbabwe Rep-
ublic: Police would be con-
tinued. The support unit
would be substantially ex-
panded and as many ex-
combatants as possible
would be recruited into it.

The police _ reserve
would be restructured
with a view to streamlin-

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ing its present cumber-
some composition. It
would be entirely non-ra-
cial and Zimbabwean
citizens of all races would
be encouraged to join to
assist regulars in their
task of maintaining peace
and order.

The _ Government _in-
tended negotiating extra-
dition agreements with
neighbouring and selected
other countries to
facilitate the return of
fugitive criminals to stand
trial or serve thelr sen-
tonees. .

On foreign affairs, the
President said the Govern-
ment had continued to
resist bloc politics in
international relations. It
had instead espoused non-
alignment as a_. positive
force in the world at the
moment.

It would continue to be
closely involved in efforts
to lbereto Namibia and
South Africa.

The Government would
continue to work
ceaselessly to see that a
fair and just solution was
found to the Namibian in-
dependence dispute and to
ensute the liquidation of
the abhorrent system of

apartheid.



SEYCHELLES

GOVERNMENT MOVES TO BOLSTER FISHING INDUSTRY
Victoria NATION in English 14 Jun 82 p 10

[text] The Government's fisheries policy, listing seven min objectives,

has been made public as an integral part of the overall strategy of continually
improving the people's level of income, nutrition, education and social
development.

To increase these standards, the policy says the country must reach a high
degree of self-sufficiency in food production, use all available human and
physical resources to the utmost, reduce the reliance on imports and encourage
exports.

The fisheries policy has been drawn up with all this in mind, specially since
the fishing industry is expected to be a major weapon in the development
battle.

The objectives include the creation of a prosperous industry while at the
same time ensuring a sustained supply of fish to the local market at reason-
able prices. The local supplies will have to be properly distributed to
meet the demands of both consumers and the tourist industry.

Marine resources will be efficiently managed and mariculture, aquaculture and
periculture will be promoted,

Employment opportunities in the fisheries sector will be spread out
regionally to include permanent settlement in districts and on the other
islands.

Another objective is to develop specific fisheries activities vital to certain
districts, such as the production of salted dried fish on Praslin and the
outer islands.

The necessary legislation will continue to be introduced to enforce the regu-

lations of the Exclusive Economic Zone and to defend the sovereignty of
Seychelles waters.

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MOZAMBIQUE

DRIVE AGAINST EMPLOYEE CRIME AT AIRPORT LAUNCHED
Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 10 Jun 82 p 2

[Text] The opening of baggage, thefts, and small smuggling operations concerned
with shrimp and cashew nuts--chiefly crimes committed by certain workers at the
Maputo International Airport--are due to the low level of vigilance and the
lack of correct coordination and specific assignment of tasks among the admin-
istrative structures and police forces and vigilance groups stationed at the
airport. That was the situation noted during a meeting held with the airport
workers under the leadership of Joao Jose Manhanguele, PPM [Mozambican People's
Police] commissioner for the city of Maputo.

Denunciation of the above-mentioned problems took place in a lifeless atmos-
phere characterized by the apathy of the participants, among them LAM [Mozam—
bican Airlines] officials. Only by carefully conducting the meeting in such a
way as to stir the participants to speak was the PPM commissioner able to un-
cover a few minor, but also unspecific, cases.

But the few who did speak, among them one of the airport officials, made it
possible to get an acknowledgement of the existence of thefts, stealing, the
opening of packages and luggage, and smuggling carried on in restricted circles.

Thefts and Baggage Opening Growing Worse

It should be emphasized that almost all those who spoke were reticent about men-
tioning specific cases or names.’ They simply admitted that "we are aware of
many incidents, and it is the workers from here who are stealing."

Antonio Baptista, who is an official in the Freight Claims Department, said
when questioned about the matter that he has been receiving numerous complaints
from passengers on both domestic and international flights about the opening of
luggage and thefts from packages. He said the situation was tending to grow
worse.

He added: "It is not only small things that are being stolen here. In the sit-
uation we are in, even a motorbike could be stolen." Thefts occur most often
in connection with packages from Tete--mainly when the shipments consist of
beverages and other foodstuffs--and those from Nampula--peanuts and other items.

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ZAIRE

THREE FINANCING AGREEMENTS WITH FRANCE SIGNED
Kinshasa ELIMA in French 6 May 82 p 7

[Text] At the conclusion of their meetings, Yoka Mangono, state commis-
sioner for foreign affairs and international cooperation, and Jean-Pierre
Cot, French minister for cooperation and development, who presided over
the greater Franco-Zaire Mixed Commission, expressed their satisfaction
over the results obtained.

They emphasized that the results constitute an important step for the :
stimulation of Franco-Zaire cooperation. The joint communique published
at the end of this session indicates that the negotiations took place in
atmosphere of great frankness and friendly cordiality. This made it pos-
sible to strengthen Franco-Zairian cooperation and renew new perspectives
for it, especially in the priority areas of the rural development plan,
transport and communications, mines, energy, industry, public health and
training.

At the conclusion of the meetings, Mangono and Cot signed three financing
agreements whose total was not made public. They also signed three agree-
ments for cooperation in the field of higher education.

At the conclusion of all these meetings Mangono had a brilliant reception
at the Intercontinental Hotel in honor of Cot and his delegation.

Numerous state officials, members of the diplomatic corps as well as Zairian
-xperts serving on this mixed commission, attended this reception.

During his toast, Yoka summed up the work of the seventh session of the
mixed commission and expressed his satisfaction at the results obtained.

Cot left Kinshasa Tuesday at 11:15 pm for Paris. Shortly before leaving
Kinshasa, the French minister declared that he believed in Zaire since

it is a country with bright prospects and which possesses all the means to
raise itself to the rank of great nations. Zaire has all the resources it
needs, large natural and human resources, particularly since its human
resources are made up of a very young population. He also thought that
Zaire was capable of overcoming its difficulties. Concerning the results

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international economic order, and, first of all, with respect to the stabili-
zation of the market prices of raw materials. I remember the very eloquent
plea of President Houphouet-Boigny at the Franco-African conference, in

favor of the stabilization of the market price of cacao; I must say that

on this point the president of the Ivory Coast Republic aligned himself

very exactly--and made note of it--with what Francois Mitterrand had developed
on his side, at the Cancun Summit Conference, where the position of the
French delegation was identical with that of the Ivory Coast delegation.

[Question] For you Mr Minister, what are the priorities, at the present
time, the most important issues to be settled concerning the African con-
tinent?

[Answer] There are two; the first is vast and I will only touch on it:

it is that of the world economic crisis, its effects on the countries the
least prepared, that is, the developing countries. We are seeing this dis-
aster reach, one after another, the countries of the African Continent,
even those that were believed to be sheltered from any shock. In this
situation, the obligation of solidarity is stronger than ever, and France
will keep to this obligation.

The second problem is that of African unity. The OAU is today shaken by
a fundamental crisis, regarding the admission of the Saharan [Democratic
AAB] Republic into the OAU, which provoked, as you know, the departure of
19 delegations from the meeting during which the admission was noted.

This division within Africa is a division which worries us greatly, because
we are very committed to African unity, not for the pleasure of unity, but
because we know very well that if Africans do not manage to solve their
own problems themselves--and how could they do it outside of the OAU--
others will take on the solving of problems in their place, and this means
that you open, in this way, a freedom of moves for the maneuvers of the
superpowers and that you put a finish to what is the basis of African
politics and of the possibility of African states to fully develop their
sovereignty: the principal of nonalignment to which the African states
have so wisely clung until now.

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GOVERNOR ON CRITICISM--Ogun State Governor, Chief Bisi Onabanjo, declared
recently that any of his officials who chose to criticise him unnecessarily
would be sacked, He said that he could not tolerate anyone staying in his
administration and at the same time criticising his policies. He would
rather take it from outside, he said. "When you think this administration

is not good, you get out and begin to criticise, I will take it," he declared,
Chief Onabanjo who was speaking on the Ogun Radio programme “Meet the Press"
said that people want to practice the presidential system without trying to
cultivate the political culture that went with it, Apart from this, Chief
Onabanjo said he had received reports that that some top officers of his
government including board members, permanent secretaries and members of
management committees, behave irresponsibly and misuse their official posi-
tions. He remarked that some already sacked officials were deliberately
attaching political reasons to their removal, Chief Onabanjo said specifically
cally that the allegation by Dr Otegoye that he was removed from the Board

of Wemabod because of his gubernatorial aspiration was not true, "I am
still going to remove many more people who are not in the race so when people
are removed they will always have reasons," he said, [Excerpt] [Kaduna

NEW NIGERIAN in English 2 Jun 82 p 17]

TIMBER DEFICIT--The Minister of Agriculture Malam Adamu Ciroma has appealed
to Nigerians to stop their indiscriminate and wasteful forestry exploitation,
denuding and subsequent impoverishment of our agricultural lands. "At the
current rate of exploitation, Nigeria will face serious timber deficits by
the year 2000 A.D.," he said. The minister mde this assertion in Abuja

on Saturday at the launching of the World Environment Day and Nigeria's
second National Tree Planting Day. He said that the objective of the second
national tree planting ceremony was to develop a sense of forest husbandry
and raise the low level of public awareness in it among Nigerians, This, he
said, would help to rekindle people's interest in the conservation, preserva-
tion and sustained development of our forest heritage, The minister further
disclosed that the Federal Department of Forestry, in collaboration with its
counterparts in all the states, would embark on extensive afforestation and
re-afforestation programmes, especially in the arid zones of the country.
[Bukky Wilson] [Text] [Kaduna SUNDAY NEW NIGERIAN in English 6 Jun 82 p 1]

NATRA DEVALUATION--Finance Minister Victor Masi has denied that Saudi Arabia
had offered a $lbn loan to Nigeria to help meet a crisis over oil income.
Well-placed sources in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) said earlier this year that such Saudi Financial help was offered to
Nigeria after oil buyers deserted it as it held to an OPEC-mandated price of
$35.50 a barrel. The Saudis were anxious to maintain the $34 reference price
while buyers were telling Nigeria it could boost its depressed oil sales if
it broke OPEC pricing rules, Nigerian oil sales have since recovered without
a price cut but Mr Masi told reporters the government was still considering
the advantages and disadvantages of devaluing the naira. The biggest argument
against devaluation was that oil revenues, source of most of Nigeria's foreign
earnings, were designated in dollars and would not be affected. Mr Masi said
Nigeria had withdrawn nearly $730m. from the International Monetary Fund

(IMF) to shore up its economy, He said foreign borrowing this year had

been set at B2.047bn. (just over $3bn.), which would all be tied to specific
projects. [Text] [London WEST AFRICA in English No 3385, 21 Jun 82 p 1672]

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Maximo Rafransoa; I believe that the problem is one of personnel. I feel that
possibly there is a need for greater commitment to the government in the latter's
development policy. I feel that it is a matter of affirmation. I repeat that
the big problem, in my opinion, is that the churches of Mozambique must achieve
greater political maturity. It is necessary that the churches have historical
awareness. They need to realize that they must-be in the midst of the people,
since here they are in a people's republic. That being the case, they must
understand the role to be played in a socialist society. I believe that this
is also a problem presenting itself to the churches in Mozambique. They must
look at the efforts made in other socialist countries of Africa: in Congo,
Benin, Madagascar, and Ethiopia.

Question: There is an issue in Mozambique that has even merited an analysis
by the party: it is the problem of nationality and the church. In colonial
times, the Catholic Church was allied with the colonial power, and even today,
people wonder about that. What is your opinion?

Maximo Rafransoa: The churches affiliated with the AACC include Orthodox

churches, Protestant churches, and native churches. The Catholic Church is not

a member of our organization. So the situation in which the Catholics in Mozam-

bique, Angola, and even Portugal were a part of the colonial power is a problem

for the Roman Catholic Church. But as an example, my companion here, with whom

I had dinner yesterday at the Polana Hotel, told me it was the first time he

had been to the Polana because in the old days (in the colonial era), it was

off limits to blacks. Well, I cannot speak for the Catholics, but my opinion

is that they must bear witness to this (transitional) period as Africans. They :
must bear witness to the building of a nation. Look, I have known many Protes-
tants who took part in the armed struggle. While that was not their official
position, it was a clear position. The churches in Africa are still lulled by
their routine practices, but they must also make a political interpretation of
the reality surrounding them. On the other hand, of all the African churches--
with the exception of the Orthodox Church in Ethiopia, which participated in
the emperor's feudal system--I don't know of a single Protestant church that
collaborated with the colonial power. j

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Many experiments have been made, notably in the Middle East and in Pakistan,
within the framework of Islamic banks in order to test the Islamic financial
system.

Convincing results have since been registered, especially by the Faysal Islamic
Bank of Egypt and Sudan and by the Islamic investment company created in 1977
in the Bahamas.

Encouraged by these results, a group of dedicated Muslim personalities, headed
by Prince Muhammad al-Faysal Al-Sa'ud, son of the late King Faysal of Saudi
Arabia, established a financial institution of international dimensions under
the name of Dar-al=Mal al-Islam, or the House of Islamic Funds. .

[Question] What is its orientation?

[Answer] This institution which was created in the Bahamas on 27 July 1981
intends to meet the legitimate aspirations of the billion Muslims throughout
the world.

With capital of $1 billion, or more than CFA 315 billion, it wants to contribute
to the Islamic nations a structured, organized, and integrated financial system
in order to permit them, among other things, to unify their economies by
developing their complementarity, and, finally, to orient and channel investments
in terms of real development needs.

Next it is a question of achieving profitable operations thanks to a sound policy
of risk allocation and a modern management system. The savers' money will be
invested in compliance with the Sharia.

[Question] Under what organizational form does the DMI think itself capable of
implementing the mission which has thus devolved upon it?

[Answer] The DMI acts under the form of a holding company through its operating
affiliates which are being created in many Islamic countries.

The administrative and international headquarters is located in Geneva, and the
group's affairs have been placed under the control of a supervisory council
composed of 18 members elected at annual shareholder meetings.

Operations are subject to the control of a religious council composed of
experts in Muslim law in order to evaluate their compliance with the precepts

of Islam.

[Question] Are non-Muslims who are governed by other rules for living de facto
excluded from the DMI's sphere of activity?

[Answer] Not at all. The founders of DMI particularly insisted on the necessity
of cooperating with the peoples of the Book without any religious segregation.

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of the seventh session of the greater mixed commission, he stated that the
two sides were satisfied since they show the desire of France and Zaire
to further their collaboration.

The latter is carried out on several levels: political, cultural, economic,
etc. Concerning the financial level of French cooperation in Zaire, Cot
stated that at present, in view of the international economic situation,
the coverage, which varies between 350 and 450 million French francs, will
be maintained at this level. This amount covers the financing of plans

and loans.

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cso:

“The use of a special

“warrant is a procedure

which is only used in
exceptional circumstances
because once used it
means: that Parliament
has been by-passed,” he
said.

Parliament should be
reluctant to act as a

“rubber stamp”. He looked
to the Ministry of Finance
to safeguard the tradition
of Parliamentary control.
. If ministries needed
extra money it meant that
they had aot accurately
forecast their requirements
originally, Mr Smith said.

The Deputy Minister of
Finance, Economic Plan-

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ning and Development. ir

“ Moton Mallanga, said the

supplementary | estimates
did not arise because of
carelessness on the part
of the Government.

“In certain circum-
stances it does happen
that the estimates do not
take into account every-
thing since they are made
by human beings.”

Mr Malianga assured
the House that his minis-
try would: give “very seri-
ous care” to estimates in
the future.

The Government's esti-
mated expenditure for the
year ended June 30 will be
about $1687 281000 — a
3 percent rise on the ori-
ginal figures presented
last July in the Budget.



NIGERIA

SHAGARI SPEAKS ON ARMY'S ROLE, EQUIPMENT
AB061536 Lagos NAN in English 1510 GME 6 Jul 82

[Text] Kaduna, 6 Jul (NAN)--President Shehu Shagari said in Kaduna today that
the federal government would embark on a re-equipment programme: to enhance the
operational capability of the Nigerian Army.

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the week-long Army Day celebrations at the
Murtala Mohammed Square, President Shagari said that the army had already re-
ceived a wide range of modern and sophisticated equipment and that more would
be provided in future.

He however warned that the equipment should be kept in good shape through
maintenance and careful handling "since large sums of the taxpayers money
have been spent on the equipment."

President Shagari said that the rate of technological development in the world
was such that Nigeria could not afford to lag behind "if we intend to play our
proper role in Africa and in the world."

He said that he had directed the chief of army staff to hold commanders at all
levels responsible for the serviceability of equipment within their commands.

He urged the army to intensify training programmes for its personnel so as to
derive maximum effectiveness from the use of the equipment.

President Shagari commended the army for its contributions towards world peace
especially in Lebanon and in Chad, adding that through the efforts of the
Nigerian peace-keeping troops in those countries, the Nigerian Army had almost
recome synonymous with peace-keeping.

He reminded the army of the need to maintain and improve on its present stand-
ards, saying that "you can only achieve this objective by maintaining the
highest standards of discipline."

Dressed in a ceremonial army uniform, President Shagari inspected a parade
mounted by a detachment of the army and undertook a tour of the army exhibition
at the square,

The Army Day events are designed to interest members of the public in the ac+
tivities of the Nigerian Army and to aid recruitment drives.

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SWAZILAND

BRIEFS

AIR TALKS CONCLUDED-~The Swaziland delegation discussing assistance to Royal
Swazi Airways by Lufthansa, concluded its discussions in Cologne yesterday.
An agreement has been reached on a German training programme for personnel
development and a proper in-depth study for future operations and require-
ments, The delegation is led by Dr Victor Leibrandt, Minister of Works,
Power and Communications. The delegation is flying from Germany to Holland.
[text] [Mbabane THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND in English 23 Jun 82 p 16]

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Relatives of persons of Benin nationality are requested to appear at the Ministry
of Interior and Public Security as soon as the publication of this communique
appears. In any case, Benin nationals arrested will be handed over to the
comrade presidents of state administration committees and provincial prefects

to be morally and socially reeducated and to be reintegrated in national
production and construction activities.

As for individuals of foreign nationality, they will be handed over to the
competent authorities of their respective countries.



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Haig Resignation Not 'a Matter of Regret'

(Lagos International Service, 1 Jul 82)...........0005 eens

Shagari Speaks on Army's Role, Equipment

(NAN, 6 Jul 82).... ccc e cece eeeeceeeeenee Saeeee see ee eee

Further Opinion on Relations With Israel

(Asuquo Edet; SUNDAY NEW NIGERIAN, 30 May 82)...........26

Further Reportage on Country's Land Use Act

(NEW NIGERIAN, 31 May, 1 Jun 82)...cecceeceecsceecceceecees

Court Decision
Validity on Technicality, Editorial

Green Light Reported for October Move to Abuja

(Clement Eluaka; NEW NIGERIAN, 4 Jun 82)........eeeeeeeee .

Vice President Addresses Military Graduates

(NAN, 2 Jul 82)...... Perer errr errr eee rere eee eee rere eee eee

Muslim View of Kano Uprising Published

(Ibrahim Sulaiman Abu; SUNDAY NEW NIGERIAN, 6 Jun 82).....

Reasons for Bendel State Bankruptcy Explained

Police

(Andrew Isibor; NEW NIGERIAN, 5 Jun 82)....ccceseeecceeeee

Arrest Three Traditional Rulers
(Abubakar Umar; NEW NIGERIAN, 7 Jun 82).........eeeeeeeeee

Oyo State May Create Own Police Force

(NEW NIGERIAN, 3 Jun 82)........ee00- bee eeeeens eeeeee sees

Equal Rights Sought for Fulani Nomads

Briefs

(NEW NIGERIAN, 29 May, 2 Jun 82)........ceeeeeccccnccenees

Plateau Education Commissioner
Fulani Leader

Bendel NPN Reorganization

Kwara Teachers Strike

Governor on Criticism

Timber Deficit

Naira Devaluation

Kaduna Political Activities Banned
Indoctrination of Ibo Students
Students Suspended

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The recent legal institutionalization of a one-party state in Kenya was not at
all surprising as it merely legalized a de facto state of affairs ever since
Odinga posed a serious threat to Jomo Kenyata. One is, however, concerned and
dazzled about events in Zimbabwe where the prime minister has initiated pol-
icies and taken steps to bring about the emergence of a one-party state.

This move tends to lend credo to the overriding penchant in African rulers

to stay in power as long as they live. The [words indistinct] of opposition
parties which has consequently led to corruption, economic mismanagement and
political repression have largely been responsible for the wave of military
coups that have taken place in the continent.

It is for this reason that we commend the courage and fairness of Mr Ramgoolam
and his labor party. We hope the MMM will continue with this good example
and expel the fears that it will change the country into a one-party dictator-
ship. We further hope that the MMM will in future, as did its predecessors,
respect the wishes of the electorate and ensure fair and free operation of

the democratic process. This is the only thing that can ensure the progress
and freedom of its people. Meanwhile, we appeal to other African states to
emulate the good example of Mauritius and usher in a new democratic era on the
continent as this is the only way to insure against poverty, political re-
pression, and instability that have become the bane of the African continent.

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This is a goal which the
Seychellois people, too,
have fought long and hard
to achieve and we rejoice
that our Mauritian friends
will now join in the com-
mon struggle for peaceful
and progressive develop-
ment.

But as we share the ela-
tion of victory as the new
government of Mauritius
gets down to the enormous
task of revitalising the
country’s economy, there
is one grave danger that we
must never allow to be over-
shadowed.

The danger, not only for
Matritius but for the whole
westem Indian Ocean, Is
that the forces of Imperia-
lism will now redouble thelr
efforts to maintain an en-
tirely unjustified hold on
the region.

The danger is now even
greater than before the
election that certain big po-
wers will step up their at-
tempts te destabilise inde-
pendent nations and bring
them within their sphere of
influence. —

The victory of the socia-
list. grouping in Mauritius
comes as a hammer blow

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to these forces, who must
have been surprised by the
strength of popular feeling
expressed, If not by the re-
sult itself.

Yet, as we have recently
tearnt to our cost in Seychel-
les, the forces of imperia-
lism will stop at nothing in
their bid to bring what they
see as an area of great
strategic importance under
thelr domination. And now
that Mauritius has joined
Seychelles and Madagas-
car in what could be term-
ed a bulwark against ag-
gression and outside inter-
ference, doubtless the for-
ces of Imperialism witl be
moré determined than ever
to regain | their previous
status in the region.

Aind so the people of Sey-
chelies as Well as the peo-
ple of Mauritius must be
more vigitant than ever and
more determined than ever
to defend their hard-eamed
gains. j

As we Celebrate a fa-
mous Victory, we must keep
a sharp éye open for the
uninvited guests who bring
not a message of congra-
tulaions .. . But foaded
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SEMINAR WARNED TO 'KEEP A WATCH ON NUMBERS'

Mbabane THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND in English 22 Jun 82 pp 1,

[Article by James Dlamini]

[text]

DELEGATES to
a top-level se-
minar yesterday
predicted a bleak
future for Swa-
ziland — _ unless
steps were taken
to deal with the
population
explosion.

Leading persona-
lities from a_cross-
section of Swazi soc-
iety were taking part
in the seminar on Law
and Population at
Kwaluseni Campus.

Speaker after speaker
expressed the view that
untess the government took
urgent steps to introduce
approproate programmes,
the population situation
would reach crisis
proportions.

The question “of the
incorporation —_ proposal,
which it is understood will
mean an other 750,000 new
citizens, was discussed at
length.
= The seminar discussed
thefindings of a recent
survey conducted by the
University of Swaziland.
The survey was the brain-
child of the Law Depart-
_ment of the university.

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related to law and

development.

In his _ preliminary
remarks, the Attorney
General, Mr. _ Patrick
Makanza said: “It is a
seminar, which in my

opinion’ happens 10 be
taking place, more by co-
incidence than by design, at
the the right time for
Swaziland because of
current developments which
make serious discussions on
population’ more urgent.
I’m sure you will agree with
me that the addition of
large numbers of people to
the existing population of
Swaziland call for more
deliberate planning in the
political, economic and
social spheres.

“In almost every country
today the issues of
population have become
urgent. This is no less true
of Swaziland and is perhaps

more true in relation to the
Third World, most of
which is perilously on the
brink of becoming the
Fourth World due to pover-
ty, ignorance and disease.
“The concept of
population immediately
conjures up related issues of
resources — limited
resources for that matter —
as well as __ political,
economic and social aspects
and not the least, legal

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perimeters, within which,
these various aspects are td
be controlled in order to
yield the maximum
benefits.

“These issues require
multi-dimensional solutions
from various disciplines
which are inter-dependant
and have to be closely co-
ordinated."”

Yhe head of the
Department of Statistics
and Demorgraphy in the
University, Dr. Erick
Huppert,. predicted that if
current fertility rate trends
do _not change, the
population of Swaziland,
excluding the KaNgwane
and Ngwavuma _ people
would be million after 78
years from this year.

He said: ‘I have to shock
you a fittle bit. If the
fertility rate doesn’t
decrease and the mortality
rate slightly decreases as it

is by the year 2,050,
Swaziland: ‘will have a
population of seven
million.””

Dr. Huppert » further

predicted that more than 50
per cent of the population.
will be below the age 15 by
the year 2,000 if current
fertility rate trends remain
steady.

“This will mean that a
smaller qumber of the
population will have, to
sustain a larger population.

SWAZILAND

16

Complex

He stated that the
population is growing
quicker than the current
development can sustain.
He stated that the university
was planning to set up a
demography unit to study
and see the agricultural
sector can be improved to
meet population growth.
“If all Swazis were
unified and if all those areas
in South Africa. and to
become part of Swazttand
the situation becames even
more complex. We don't.

* know what the age structure

there is,’” he said.

Dr. Huppert said he tried
to do a study of the South
African census from a
separate volume dealing
with Swazis in the republic.
He said in 1970, the total
Swazi population = was
reported as 470,000 people,
He said the number has
risen dramatically to
750,000, as reported in the
1980 census.

“This is a tremendous
population increase, the
same as we have here. One-
third of this number is
reported as living in urban
areas. It is definitely an area
where we have to do a lot of
research,”” he said.

However, Dr Huppert
was not happy with the
growth rate figures: of the
South African census.



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Sub-Saharan Africa

FBIS

No. 2660

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ZAIRE

NEW GAS-GENERATING ENGINES PRESENTED
Kinshasa ELIMA in French 5 May 82 p 8

[Article by KILUBUKILA NKUNDI: "EVA [Evrard Co] gas-generating engines
presented during an official ceremony"]

[Text] "Our country is making many financial sacrifices to meet its energy
requirements. Our monthly fuel bill for energy requirements has kept
rising since the boom in petroleum prices. We, therefore, attach great
importance to any effort to lighten our difficulties," said Matadi Wamba,
state commissioner for energy, at the CCIZ [International Trade Center of
Zaire] last Monday evening, during the official presentation of vehicles
by Zaire Tubetra, demonstrating the new technique of using EVA gas-gen-
erating engines to run vehicles, electricity-generating assemblies, and
tractors without using oil for fuel.

The ceremony was attended by three members of the Executive Council, namely,
state commissioners Mata a Nkumu of the PIT [Postal, Telephone, and Tele-
graph Service], Makolo Jibikilayi of environmental conservation and tourism,
and Matadi Wamba of energy, not to mention numerous representatives of
agroindustrial enterprises and representatives of the diplomatic corps
accredited to Kinshasa.

On this occasion four speeches were made: Eric Lambion, managing director
of Zaire Tubetra; Citizen Bemba Saolona, president of ANEZa [National
Association of Zairian Enterprises]; Willy Evrard, president of the Evrard
Trade and Industry Co (Andeene, Belgium); and Citizen Matada Wamba, re-
spectively.

Before thanking the members of the Executive Council and the president of
ANEZa for the interest they had shown in this project, the managing director
of Zaire Tubetra emphasized in his speech the great honor and pleasure the
company feels in presenting for the first time to Zaire a new technique
which should allow the country to produce energy wherever needed with raw
materials that are available in great quantity on the spot. In his turn,
the president of ANEZa stated that his association intends to encourage
such private efforts likely to help the country in the face of the current
world economic crisis.

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LIBERIA

Briefs
FRG Loan
MADAGASCAR
Report by President, Prime Minister Analyzed
(MADAGAS CAR-MATIN, 3 Jun 82).......04-- sence cence cece een
MALI
Algeria Providing Oil Storage Facility Aid
(L. D. G. Traore; L'ESSOR, 2 Jun 82)......scceceeeeceecees
Party Calls for Surrender of Arms, Ammmition
(L'ESSOR, 22-23 May 82)..ccceseccerccecccccecccrscsecscnae
MOZAMBIQUE
Machel Reasserts Unity of Mozambicans
(Migueis Lopes Junior, Ricardo Timane; NOTICIAS,
B Jun 82)... cece cece cc cece cen eee eee secre erecsseeeanseeeee
Editorial on Growth of Revolutionary Ardor
(Editorial; NOTICIAS, 10 Jun 82)... ..cceececcccscvvscceaee
Drive Against Employee Crime at Airport Launched
(NOTICIAS, 10 Jun 82)....ceceeceeeccncsece
Churches Urged To Achieve 'Political Maturity’ .
(Maximo Rafransoa; NOTICIAS, 10 Jum 82)........00-
Briefs
Chief of Staff in Hungary
Dos Santos at CEMA Meeting
NIGER
French Minister Discusses France's African Policy
(Jean-Pierre Cot Interview; LE SAHEL, 18 May 82).........
Foreign Companies Rapped for Failure To Invest in Country
(Arbi; LE SAHEL, 12 May 82)......cccceccceccceccscscceves
NIGERIA

Commentary Welcomes Mauritius Democratic Change
(Lagos Intemational Service, 28 Jun 82).....ssesseeeeeee

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J. M. Van Den Abeele, engineer, made a technical presentation concerning
the production of EVA gas-generating engines, and there was a demonstration
of the ability of the wood-burning gas-generating engines to propel vehicles
and to turn and power electricity-generating assemblies. This ended the
outside ceremony, in the square in front of the CCIZ.

Introduced during World War II in 1940 by the Evrard Co, the project for
construction of current, modern gas-generating engines adapted to the diffi-
culties of obtaining oil for fuel, is just what is needed, especially in
the hinterland. In addition to making it possible to economize, it offers
numerous benefits to companies. For all these reasons the group of agro-
industrial companies, SIPEF [expansion unknown] situated in the east of our
country, showed particular interest in these gas-generating engines. The
Zaire Tubetra currently handles the commercial representation for these
gas-generating engines while preparing to assemble them on the spot.

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MOZAMBIQUE

EDITORIAL ON GROWIH OF REVOLUTIONARY ARDOR
Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 10 Jun 82 p 1

[Editorial]

[Text] A nation is not measured in terms of square kilometers of territory or
the number of its inhabitants.

A nation is a cultural product of the dialectic established between a social
group and the territory which historically contains that group. A nation
exists and prevails by the degree to which the concept of it lives and is ac-
cepted by each molecule of its component parts--its people.

Nation and people are therefore merged in that permanent movement of interac-
tion for which man's struggle to transform nature for his own benefit serves
as the driving force.

One effect of the meeting held recently in the country's capital was that it
decolonized the abstract and alienating ideas of the nation which the ideologi-
cal apparatus of Portuguese colonial fascism tried to instill in us for decades.

With the return from the nation's "shoreline" to its "main channel" by the
thousands of "emigrants in conscience" represented by those who had been com-
promised with the colonizer, a new cultural qualitative leap has been achieved
in the political concept of the "Mozambican people."

By rehabilitating those new members, we as a people are now prepared to deal
with the total war being imposed on us by "Boer" Nazi fascism.

Today more than ever, the regime of apartheid knows that in order to destroy
the nation that we are, it will have to annihilate the entire people making up
that nation. And we can imagine the despair overtaking the agents recruited
in our territory by Pretoria on seeing that against them are arrayed the weap-
ons of the Mozambicans, who were once regarded as fertile ground for recruit-
ment and enticement.

It is significant that while swelling the flow in the main channel of the

nation-river, the strong current of the revolution is also throwing more impure
cargo up onto the banks.

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TANZANIA

REACTION TO BUDGET SPEECH
Dar-es-Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 Jun 82 p 1
[Article by Mkumbwa Allyl

[text] Wage earners have commended the Government decision to mintain the
existing tax rates next financial year but some economists have expressed
guarded optimism over the budget and the Structural Adjustment Programme
(SAP) announced in the National Assembly on Thursday.

Office workers and men on the streets interviewed in Dar es Salaam yesterday
welcomed the 1982/83 revenue and expenditure proposals tabled by Finance
Minister Amir Habib Jamal describing the proposals as "a people's budget."

“In. fact, I had taken a pen and paper to list down the new prices”, a Dar es Salaam
office worker who maintains a family of five said. .

“We had been conditioned to this anxiety about new prices each time the Budget is
presented... the people were rather disappointed that that was not the case this year”, com-
mented Professor Kami Rwegasira of the Institute of Finance Management (IFM).

One Western diplomat said of the Budget, “It is a wise and unusual government that
knows when. people have reached the limit of how much can be taxed,

But Professor Rwegasira said the freezing of tax rates “makes up curious” because it
would be difficult to hold down recurrent Government expenditure at the projected levels

“or- actount: of “titlationary~facors. we - : :

“As a result, I guess, there will be more Government borrowing from b

flaming inflation. I would not be surprised if the fixed rate of money supply
_is exceeded”, he pointed out. a

The Professor thought commodity prices were likely to rise
because the Budget was not co-ordinated with the National
Price Commission. “Last year, for example, the Price Com-
missioner allowed new increases over.those determined by
Budgetary projections”, he recalled. .

He said this interrupted the objectives of the fiscal policy,
adding that new prices granted by the Commission must. con-
sider earlier prices announced in Parliament. .

Ndugu ‘Rwegasira said SAP had good objectives but pointed
out that these would not be achieved without explicit im-
plementation discipline. .

He, however, hailed as positive proposed measures to restrict
foreign exchange allocation; production and export incentives;
and the trimming of overhead costs in parastatal organisations. _

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CEMENT PROBLEMS GETTING HARDER

Mbabane THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND in English 22 Jun 82 p 16

article by Mashumi Twalal]

[text]

THE crisis facing the
building industry over ce-
ment supplies might force
government to call halt to
current building projects.

If that happens, hun-
dreds of governemnt
workers in the Ministry of
Works’ building branch
would have to be laid off, 2
spokesman said yesterday.

He said unless an agree-
ment was entered into
urgently between
governemnt and local sup-
pliers over the price to be
charged — or an alternative
devised soon — all govern-
ment building projects will
have to be abandoned.

“There is no way we can
continue with the work if
we do not receive supplies
soon,” he said. .

The spokesman told The
Times that realising the
possible crisis, represen-
tatives of his department
had approached authorities
for 2 meeting regarding the
issue of cement.

He said: ‘‘We have been
assured that everything
necessary is being done.””

According to the
spokesman, the problem
has been caused by a
deadlock between the
government and the local
suppliers of cement, Inter-
Africa, who sre agents of
Matola Cement Manufac-
turers, over the new price of

cement charged ‘by Inter-
Africa agents. -

“Meanwhile the projects
are suffering, as we are now
relying om the last few bags
of cement from the old

“stock. We bave even had to
supplement by getting some
from. other Ministries,”
said the spokesman.

He explained that the
agents had been charging
E3.31 per bag of cement un-
til April, when they sudden-
ly announced that the price
had gone up snd asked
_government to approve this
and pat in the gazette. The
price they were requesting
was E4.10 a bag, he said.

The spokesman said the
agents had given as a reason
for their application for a
price increase, a statement
saying the raw material us-
ed to make cement, clinker;
had gone up in price. But,
said the spokesman,
government refused to ap-
prove this new price, even
after discussions.

Said the spokesmar
“For this reason, we have
not had a supply of cemeat
since the beginning of this
financial year, at the end of
April.””

Recently, a number of
private builders and con-
crete block manufacturers
notified The Times of the

fact that they had written to
the Ministry of Industry

SWAZILAND



He said that foreign aid turned out to create huge profits which are used to
develop the donor countries.

The Chairman urged the soldiers to try to attain what he termed "the freedom
to be" because it is through the attainment of freedom to be that they would
attain "the freedom to have."

"There is only one objective for man and that is the freedom to be and to
have," he added,

He said man was made to create and tame nature and as such Ghanaians have to
nurse their latent creative instincts to become independent,

Flt-Lt Rawlings was of the opinion that because Ghanaians did not understand
the natural freedom of man they are held in the bondage of so called "essen-

tial commodities."

"We must step on the threshold of independence so that nobody will control us
anymore," he philosophised.

Flt-Lt Rawlings asked the soldiers to learn the fundamentals of revolution
so that they could properly be the vanguard of the revolution.

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MUSLIM VIEW OF KANO UPRISING PUBLISHED

NIGERIA

Kaduna SUNDAY NEW NIGERIAN in English 6 Jun 82 pp 2, 14

{Article by Ibrahim Sulaiman Abu]

[text]

$0 much noi
the Kano upris'
and indirectly, on,lslam and Must
of the public and a number of institutions have

ng..So miuch insu

has been made by’ different group interests 0
fave been pured, dire

ome sections

ized the oppor-

The pre:

tunity to blackniail and intimidate Muslims. Yet so little has
been said by way of assessing the true nature, the beliefs and the

possible connectit

tempt to interprete

tions. My attempt is
=, ferent perspective.

Our first question
Kano. Uprising Islamic? There,
are three kinds of revolutions’
known to Islam. The first. is a:
Jihad undertaken by upright,

“Honest, andtotally selfless
leaders to re-establish the

Islamic tenets and traditions in.

-their pure forms, restore Muslim *
honour, integrity and. freedom,
-and to pull down the edifice of
unbelief and eliminate the_cor-

tion, injustices and .abomi-";

mal le practices associated with
it.
"To this, belong the movements
of Shehu Usman Dan Fodio. in-
Western Sudan; Sheikh Omar El-
Futi of Sene-Gambia, Imam
Ahmad al-Mahdi of the Sudan
and Imam Khomeiny of Iran.
Each of these movements follow-
ed a historical‘and social pattern.
that is well-known and well-
established in Islam.

The second is an uprising
undertaken by zealots motivated
by greed and a desire to satisfy
their personal whims, and to use

Is’ the:

Muslims fo enhance their ego.

They are known for their inability °

to understand issues, refusal to a-

ccept realities, and for employing”

un-Islamic methods to achieve
their ends. They have special in-
terests in attracting the ignorant
and the most stupid to their
movements, as well as special

hatred for the intelligent and

learned among Muslims. . -

To this belongs a host of.

“Mahdis’ and ‘Reformers’ each of
whom have met total elimination.
The leading Muslim historian,
Tbn Khaldun has this to say on
this kind of people: ‘Man;

religions people....come to revolt
against unjust amirs. They call
for a change in, and prohibition
of, evil practices. They hope for a
divine reward for what they do.
They gain many followers and
sympathisers among the great
mass of the people, but they risk
being killed, and most of them ac-
tually do perish in consequence of
their activities as sinners,
unrewarded because God has not

50

on of the uprising. Nor has there been any at-
the incident beyond the secular imagin:
to.losk at the episode from a totally'd

estined them for such” (ac-"
“tivities)- (Religous reforms)
are a divine matter thav
materialises only with God’s,
pleasure and suj , through
sincere devotion for Him and in
view of good intentions towards
the Muslims. No Muslim, no per-
son of insight, could doubt this...
Many deluded individuals took it
upon themselves to establish the
truth. They did not know that
they would need group feeling
slamie Solidairty) for that. ~~

‘They did not realise how their
enterprise must necessarily end
what they would come to.
Towards such people, it is

‘mecessary to adopt one of the
following courses. One may
‘either treat them as if they arein- -
sane, or one may punish them
either by execution or beatings
when they cause trouble, or one
may ridicule them and treat
. them as buffoons.”” :
The third kind of revolution is
what is called Fitnah. It may oc-



UGANDA

DEMOCRATIC PARTY, JOURNALISTS URGED TO COMBAT VIOLENCE
Kampapa UGANDA TIMES in English 1 Jun 82 p 1
[Article by Asuman Nakembo]

[Text] Opposition Members of Parliament and their supporters in the Democratic
Party (DP) have been told to rise against violence in their areas and help
the government in combating crime,

Addressing journalists in Kampala yesterday the Vice President and Minister
of Defence; Mr Paulo Muwanga, expressed deep concern over what appeardd to be
deliberate lawlessness in some parts of Buganda.

He pointed out that of late there has been a serious hunt for supporters of
the UPC in Buganda and said:

"Their houses have been attacked and in certain cases the UPC supporters
have lost their lives."

But he warned: "The situation must be arrested immediately, I appeal to
supporters of the Democratic Party and their representatives in Parliament
to rise against violence."

Mr Muwanga observed that DP had always thought it fit to remain silent
whenever acts of this nature took place in Buganda.

"But it is difficult to believe that these acts are perpetuated against UPC
supporters without the knowledge of the DP supporters. It is most unlikely
that DP does not know that these acts are taking place in Buganda,

"I therefore appeal to the opposition party whose members mainly come from
Buganda to do everything possible to assist government in its efforts to rid
Buganda of these crime waves which are politically motivated."

"The Vice President assured the nation that already all the btigade commanders
were responding positively to President Obote's call to members of the armed
forces to follow his new guidelines in matters concerning security and the
civilian population,

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To ensure a proper running of the fishing centre, the policy calls for a
coordination of efforts by the Ministries of Agriculture, Planning and
Development, Health and Defence and such parastatals as the National Invest-
ment Company, SNIC, the Fishing Development Company, FIDECO and the National
Commodity Company, SEYCOM.--SAP

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MOZAMBIQUE

BRIEFS

CHIEF OF STAFF IN HUNGARY--The chief of the general staff of the Mozambican
Armed Forces, Sebastiao Mabote, was in the Hungarian People's Republic several
days ago as part of his visit to several socialist countries. In Budapest Lt
Gen Sebastiao Marcos Mabote was received by the member of the Politburo and
secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party,
Mihaly Korom. Present during the meeting was Col Gen Istvan Olah, chief of the
general staff of the Hungarian People's Army. [Text] [Maputo NOTICIAS in
Portuguese 7 Jun 82 p 1] 11634

DOS SANTOS AT CEMA MEETING--The secretary of the Central Committee for Economic
Policy of the FRELIMO Party, Marcelino dos Santos, arrived in Budapest yesterday
to participate in another CEMA session. Accompanying Marcelino dos Santos is
Hipolito Patricio, Mozambican ambassador to the USSR. The member of the Polit-
buro of the FRELIMO Party left for the Hungarian People's Republic last Satur-
day. [Text] [Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 7 Jun 82 p 1] 11634

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FURTHER REPORTAGE ON COUNTRY'S LAND USE ACT

Court Decision

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 31 May 82 p 15

[text]

JUSTICE F. 0. Nwokedi ruled last Friday at the Enugu High Court
that the Land Use Act was “perfectly” constitutional.

He also said that Governor
Jim Nwobodo, acted
“perfectly in order’”’ by revoking
the statutory right of occupancy
of Chief R.O. Nwocha, a promi-
nent Enugu-based building con-
tractor, to his property at Plot
M17, Independence Layout,
Enugu.”

Mr. Justice Nwokedi also ac-
cepted. the argument raised by
the state Attorney-General, Mr.
Robinson Iweka, that the revoca-
tion was done in the over-riding
public interest and in good faith.

He rejected the arguments of
the leading counsel for the plain-
tiff, Chief F.R.A. Williams, with
senior advocates, that the state
government could not pay ade-
quate compensation for the pro-
perty, which Chief Nwocha put
at 15 million Naira.

The judge in addition turned
down the application of the plain-
tiffs counsel to have the case
transferred to the Federal High
Court.

Making his submissions earlier
Mr. Onyiuke said that the Land
Use Act should not be seen as an
integral part of the 1979 Constitu-
tion.

He described it as “essentially
an existing law as set out in Sec-

tion 274 of the Constitution” ad-
ding that its entrenchment is ‘‘un-
warranted meddlesomeness” by
the military rulers of the country.

Chief Onyiuke further argued
that according to the provision of
the law of succession, the state
governor could not, under Section
28 of the Land Use Act, claim the
same authority as a military
governor to revoke occupancy
rights.

He said that the state governor
had no authority under Section
274, sub-section 4, of the Constitu-
tion to change the text of the law.

The power, he continued,
belonged to the President, since
the Land Use Act was a federal
enactment.

The Attorney-General, Mr.
Iweka, said that'to dismiss the
authenticity of the Land Use Act
‘was to discountenance the reality
that during 13 years of military
tule, this country was governed
by decree.

He pointed out that the Land

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NIGERIA

Use Decree had received the
sanction of the National
Assembly.

Mr. Iweka said that the state
government had set aside 3.5
million Naira as compensation
for ty acquired an al
more money would be voted for
the purpose if the need arose.

The land in question, he said,
had been acquired by the govern-

“ment to erect public buildings.

In March, last year, the state
government revoked certificates
of occupancy to 314 residential
plots in various towns in the
state.

This year, the government said
that occupancy rights had been
restored to 138 of the plot allot-
tees, as a “humdanitarian’’
gesture, to provide the affected
persons with a place to retire to
on leaving active service. i

It also said that alternative
allocations would be made to
those whose allocations remained
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GOVERNMENT PLEDGES CRACKDOWN ON PROFITEERING

Harare THE HERALD in English 16 Jun 82 pp 1, 3

[text]

THE Government will step
in and undertake the dis-
tribution of goods where
there is profiteering in the

resent system, President
Banana sald yesterday. _

Opening the third ses-
sion of the First Parlia-
ment of Zimbabwe, he said
legislation would be placed
before Parliament for the
establishment of a State
trading corporation and a
small enterprises develop- °
ment corporation.

While the trading com-
pany would undertake

trade with other countries’
and operate in Zimbabwe
at both wholesale and re-
tail levels, the other com-
pany would assist in de-
veloping the growth of
small co-operatives and
provide assistance for
small businesses, especial-
ly those established. on
co-operative principles,

Steps would bei taken
to set up State industries
in certain sectors to pro-
duce goods required by
the Government at the
lowest possible cost to the
Exchequer. 4

“My Government will.
undertake research to es-
tablish the cheapest and
most efficient sources of.
supply, having regard to
quality, price and delivery ©
time and methods of pro-
duction,” President Ba-°
nane said.

A thorough investiga-
tion was being carried out

into the purchasing poll-
cies and procedures of the

Government and
statal organisations so as
to rationalise and central-
ise them to achieve maxi-
mum cost benefit,

+The Government had
also set up a broadly-
based Prices Board, re-
presentdtive of the public
and private sectors, to ad-
vise it on all economic
issues relevant to price

+ contro] policies.

‘The President said a
price control mechanism
was necessary to ensure
fair and reasonable prices
both for necessities and
tee Soy

prove the quality 0!
people’s lives. .

In pursuance of the
country’s policy to expand

“trade abroad and to
maximise

foreign exchange

earnings, the Government

would continue to appoint

trade representatives in
foreign countries.

It would also continue

to conclude trade agree-

ments. with other govern-"

ments and encourage both
exporters and importers
to increase the flow of
trade with the countries
concerned.
- The funds generated
from commodity aid agree-
ments with international
4 foreign gov-
ernm ‘would make pos-
sible the ‘importation "of
fertiliser, machinery and
equipment essential for
lopment projects. in

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ZIMBABWE

both the public and the
private sectors.

Further commodity sid
agreements were being
negotiated and. would be
brought into effect soon,

This year marked the
start of a new, crucial
phase in the development
of the people and the
country.

‘The Government in-
tended to participate more
directly in the building
industry. The Ministry of
Construction would as-
sume increasing responsi-
bility for the erection
of Government buildings;
using its own construction
teams, he

While the initial empha-
sis would be in the rural
areas, construction, in
urban areas would also
pe . undertaken by the
ministry to an increasing
extent.

‘The Government would
continue to encourage the
formation of village dev-
elopment committees to
enable local communities
to participate in decision
making, identity local
‘needs and implement solu-
tions. |

It was the aim of the
Government to promote
income - generating” activi-
ties in the rural areas and
to launch a vigorous lit-
eracy campaign. Plans for
the establishment of pre-
schoois were underway.

The Government would
accelerate the process of



The commandant also called for a revision of the memorandum of understanding
between Nigeria and Britain "because there are too many ambiguities in the
present one."

He said that the command and staff college was presently faced with problems
of accommodation, transportation and communication, adding that the accommo-

dation problem was recently further compounded by a rainstorm which damaged
many residential buildings.

Today's graduates comprised 61 officers of the Nigerian army, 12 from the
navy, and 18 from the air force.

Two officers each from the Ghanaian army and air force and two officers from
the Tanzanian army also graduated.

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Validity on Technicality

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 1 Jun 82 p 1

[Editorial:

"The Land Use Act"]

[text]

AS we have suspected all along, mat-
ters have now come to a head over the
Land Use Act. On May-12, we expressed
worry at the calls that were being made
by traditional rulers and leading politi-
cians alike for the abrogation of the Act.
Now the Chief Judge of. Oyo State,
Justice E.0. Fakayode, has pronounced
the Act as dead mainly on the grounds
that the Act refers to ‘‘military gover-
nors’’ and not ‘‘governors’’ as those to
administer it. The learned Chief Judge
was not the first to pass such a judg-
ment. On March 4 the Chief Judge of
Borno State, Justice Kalu Anya made a
similar verdict. The Borno State gover-
nor, he had said, had no powers to
revoke the certificate of occupancy of

a plaintiff Umar Ali and Co. because.

he (the governor) was not the military
governor referred to in the Act. For him
to have such powers, said the judge.
the Act would have to be amended ac-
cordingly, by at least two-thirds majori-
ty of the National Assembly, and sup-
ported by at least two-thirds of the state
assemblies, vide section 9(2) of the
Constitution.

Since Justice Fakayode’s judgment,
there has been two contradictory ones.
According to Justice A.L.A. Balogun
(Lagos) and Justice F.0, Nwokedi
(Enugu) the Land. Use Act is perfectly in

‘order. Justice Balogun cited sections

cso:

274, 275 and 276 of the Constitution to
buttress his judgment. Unfortunately,
however, the constitution is not par-
ticularly helpful as a reference for the
resolution of the matter—that is if we
insist on being sophistical. Two subsec-
tions of section 274—i.e. subsections
three and five—provide ample basis for
opposing viewpoints on the matter to

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hold their respective grounds. Section
274(3) says that nothing in the Constitu-
tion can deprive the courts of the power
to nullify any law on grounds of incon-
sistency with another. At the same
time, however, section 274(5) states
that nothing in the Constitution shall in-
validate the Land Use Act alung with
three others. Clearly it looks like each
provision was-fnade as if the other did
not exist.

Still, with dué respect to Justice
Fakayode and Kalu, it cannot be said
that the Land Use Act never existed.
Section 274(5) validates it and there is a
contradiction only to extent that a court
may nullify it. It cannot, however, be
nullified on grounds of being contradic-
tory to the Constitution. The main pro-
blem is the use of the words ‘‘military
governors’ instead of just plain ‘‘gover-
nors’”’ as they are now. Surely, this is
not the subStance of the law and surely
therefore there is no need to invoke
section 9(2) of the Constitution before it
can be amended. As we see it, section
274(2) is adequate. This section says
that the ‘appropriate authority’ (defin-
ed by the Constitution as the president,
a governor or any person appointed by
law to revise or rewrite laws), can BY
ORDER make such an amendment.

Once again we would like to repeat
our position of May 12 that we should let
the Act be. The overriding considera-
tion here should be to put an end to land
speculation as a basic hindrance to
economic development. The Land Use
Act does precisely that. If we must
modify it at all, it should be to take ac-
count of local variations in land use and
to check its abuse by those entrusted to
administer it.



SOUTH AFRICA

BRIEF

INGWAVUMAN PROCLAMATION SIDELINED--The state president's proclamation removing
the Ingwavuma district from the control of the KwaZulu Government has been set
aside in the supreme court in Pietermaritzburg. Mr Justice (Millin), sitting
with Mr Justice van Heerden and Mr Justice Kriek, found that the state presi-
dent had acted beyond the powers conferred on him when he issued his proclam-
ation in the government GAZETTE on Monday. The state has given notice of its
intention to appeal against the judgment. Mr Justice (Millin) ordered the
state to pay all costs as well as those accrued by its employment of two
counsels, [Text] [MB010726 Johannesburg Domestic Service in Afrikaans

0600 GMI 1 Jul 82]

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MUSLIM COUNCIL GETS NEW LEADER

Dar-es-Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 Jun 82 p 3

[text]

CSO:

THE Muslim Council of Tan-
zania (BAKWATA) has a new
Secretary-General following
the resignation of Sheikh
Mohammed Ali early in the:
week. . ~

According to a statement
issued in Dar es Salaam at
the end of a one-day BAK-
WATA . Executive Council’s
extraordinary meeting on
Monday, the Council accepted
Ndugu_ Ali’s offer of
resignation.

It_said_ the former BAK-
WATA Deputy Secretary-
General, Sheikh Adam
Nasibu, has been appointed
Secretary-General.

It was claimed that Sheikh
Mohammed Ali was con-
nected with a workshop of
young Muslim authors who
wrote books that allegedly
mixed religion with politics.
_ The Executive Council
which was attended by 75
members, also banned mem-
bers of the “Workshop of
Islamic Book Authors” from
working in any BAKWATA
institution in the country.

The statement also said the.
extraordinary Executive
Council meeting also suspen-
ded the chairman of the
workshop, Ndugu Mussa
Mdidi from Executive Com-

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mittee membership and
dismissed his assistant,
Ndugu Mtengwa Burhani

It said Ndugu Burhani, who
was BAKWATA’s Education
Secretary ‘and Executive
Secretary, would be in-
vestigated for. his alleged in-
volvement in misap-
propriation of the
organisation’s property.

It also said BAKWATA no
longer recognised the ac-
tivities of Professor M.H.
Malik, a former teacher at
Kinondoni Secondary School
and* workshop leader and
author, but who is no. longer
in the country.

Meanwhile, the Executive
Council meeting has ap-
pointed a twelve-man com-
mittee to draft proposals for
re-organising the Council's
structure and reviewing its
Constitution, according to the
statement.

The committee, has been
given six months to complete
the work.

ie statement said BAK-
WATA’s 1973 constitution
would continue to be used in-
stead of the new one, adding
that elections under the new
constitution that were taking
Place in the regions should be
stopped immediately.

TANZANIA



NIGERIA

HAIG RESIGNATION NOT 'A MATTER OF REGRET’
ABO11040 Lagos International Service in English 0830 GME 1 Jul 82
[Dayo Adoyeye Commentary]

[Text] The American secretary of state last Friday resigned from the govern~
ment of President Ronald Reagan. At the crowded news conference, after the
president had accepted his letter of resignation, Mr Haig gave the reasons
for his resignation. He said it had become clear to him in recent months
that the foreign policy on which he and President Reagan had embarked upon
was shifting from that careful course they had laid out. The resignation
came at a critical time for America's embattled foreign policy and holds ser-
ious implications for American policy towards several regions of the world.

With the Falklands crisis just winding up and the Middle East erupting again
with the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the administration has more need than
ever for an experienced foreign policy chief like Mr Haig. More importantly,
Mr Haig's resignation holds serious implication for global politics.

In Europe, Alexander Haig is widely regarded as the man in Washington most
sensitive to European concerns. During the Falklands crisis, Mr Haig urged
the United States' strong support for Britain, stressing the importance of
military ties over relations with Latin America. Mr Haig is also known to
have urged U.S. support for the Soviet gas pipeline to Europe. A project
fiercely supported by the United States' European allies as a provider of

new jobs and energy resources. The administration is in opposition to the
project and its latest decision to tighten its ban on the use of American
technology for the pipeline probably provided the immediate cause of Mr Haig's
resignation. The news of his resignation, not unexpectedly, was received with
regrets in European capitals.

The resignation also has serious implications for the Middle East. Mr Haig
is known to be an avowed friend of the Israelis. It is widely rumored that he
secretly aided and abetted the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, The resignation,
which was received with joy in the Arab world, might cause a slight shift in
U.S. policy toward the Arabs. Several key administration officials had in-
deed argued for tough action against Israel's intransigence and belligerent
actions. They may now have their way. They hope his resignation will

39



ZAIRE

BRIEFS

SALARY INCREASES FOR BREWERS--Effective immediately, the personnel of the
Bralima, Unibra, SBK and Brasimba breweries will enjoy the following
increases: 30 percent in contractual wages, 42 percent in housing allow-
ances and 6 to 8.5 percent per child in family allowances, according to the
collective contract governing the industry, signed Tuesday at the Zoo,
between the National Workers Union of Zaire (UNTZa) and the companies.
Bralima pays its workers family allowances covering 14,000 children; Uni-
bras, for 12,000; Brasimba, for 4,000; and SBK, for 1,460. Bralima and
Brasimba were represented by Poma Apotsa, personnel director of Bralima.

SBK was represented by Citizen Nzuzi Mbuila, chief of personnel. The

UNTZa was represented by Mebwe Elongo, Lulupepe Kaniam and Kitari Mayangisa,
national secretary and deputy national secretaries, respectively, repre-
senting the Federation of Brewery Workers. In his talk, Citizen Wembo
Maungu, manager of ANEZA [National Association of Zairian Enterprises],

who had represented the employers at the negotiations, expressed his satis-
faction, on the one hand, for the brewers’ efforts to improve their workers'
living standards despite the difficulties of the current economic situation
and, on the other hand, for the wage unification which, he stated, allows
workers who are employed in the outlying regions to enjoy the same bene—
fits as those working in the capital. Before urging the workers to increase
their dedication to work, Citizen Mebwa congratulated in the name of UNTZa
the managers of the four breweries for the comprehension they showed, which
made it possible for both parties to sign the agreement. Bralima employs
4,000 workers; Unibra, 2,500; Brasimba, 600; and SBK, 300. [Text] [Kinshasa
ELIMA in French 6 May 82 p 9] 9772

CLEANUP OF KALAMU--In addition to the elections and the salongo, security
also constitutes one of the points on the program of the tour that Citizen
Sakombi Ekope, regional MPR chairman and Kinshasa city governor, is cur-
rently making. At Kalamu, which he visited last Tuesday, the chief of city
administration deplored the insecurity of property and persons and announced
the launching of an operation to clean out the vagrants throughout the

24 zon es in his jurisdiction. The CADER [expansion unknown] was placed

at the city commandant's disposal for this purpose, to carry out a con-
tinuing and vigorous action to protect property and persons. Citizen
Sakombi Ekope stressed the active participation of men and women militants
in this struggle against lawbreakers and in strengthening security con-
sciousness. Since the trip is to heighten the awareness of the masses in

109



ZIMBABWE ACCUSES SA OF GERM WAR

Harare THE HERALD in English 21 Jun 82 p 3

[text]

THE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Witness Mangwende
— in a speech read on his behalf by Zimbabwe's ambas-
sador to the United States, Dr Elleck Mashingaidze —

accused South Africa of
using bacteriological] wea-
pons in its war against
SWAPO and Angola,

He also expressed grave
concern about South Afri-
ca’s nuclear weapons
capacity.

The minister said it
was the duty of all United
Nations member states “to
desist from all military
co-operation with the
racist regime, including in
the auclear fields.

Failure to do so would
be a great blow to all
efforts to curb auclear
arms proliferation.

The minister said Zim-
babwe was “gravely coa-
cerned at the acquisition
by the -racist South Afri-
can regime of the capa-
bility to manufacture
nuclear weapons”.

He added: “We have no
doubt that the adventurist
and. desperate apartheid
regime would use them to
unleash a nuclear holo-
caust.”

He also conveyed Zi-
mbabwe’s concern about
the development, produc-
tion and stockpiling of
bacteriological weapons.

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It was no. secret, he
said, that South Africa

Thad’¢ resorted to using

bacteriological warfare,
especially in Angola, “in

its quest to destabilise the“

Southern African sub-
region”.

He called for negotia-
tions on an international
treaty prohibiting . the
possession and stationing
of such weapons in other
countries.

Regional campaigns
against armament were
important. Dr Mangwe-
nde underlined Africa's
intention to stay a nuc-
lear-free zone, following
a UN resolution adopted
in 1977.

“We also vehemently
condemn the nuclear col-
laboration between Israel
and South Africa,” he
said, urging UN member
states to discourage
“these two pariah states”
from conducting secret
nuclear weapons research
and development.

‘Turning to the Indian
Ocean, a UN-declared
zone of peace, the minis-
ter accused the super-
powers for continuing to
‘yiolate the sanctity of
the Indian Ocean.

ZIMBABWE



EMERGENCY POWERS TO BE RENEWED

Harare THE HERALD in English 11 Jun 82 p 1

[Text]

THE present state of emergency will be
renewed before it expires on July 25,

President. Banana
said yesterday.
Opening the Third
Session of the First
Parliament of Zimba-
bwe, he said the secu-
rity situation in the
country demanded that
the emergency powers

continue so that sterner -

measures may be taken
to protect the country.

“Therefore the House
-will be asked to renew the
present’ state of emer-
gency before it expires at
midnight on July 25.”

He said there were a
number of armed bandit
groups roaming the coun-
try and harassing the civi-
lian population.

“My Government ts de-
termined to take whatever
steps are necessary to
deal with the people res-
ponsible. for these anti-
State activities, whether
they are politically
motivated or otherwise.

“These actions not only
cause suffering to the
people, they are also de-
trimental to the de-
yelopment of Zimbabwe.”

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Anyone or any group,
which engaged in ac-
tivities prejudicial to good
government in Zimbabwe
or the maintenance of law
and order would be met
with the full force of the
Jaw.

The defence of the

country was the respon-
sibility of all the people. It
was therefore imperative
that a programme of
military training involving
sections of the population
other than the regular de-
fence forces be initiated.
. The Government had
plans ‘to establish 2
people's militia, Para-
military training would be
given to able-bodied men
and women in a con-
tinuing exercise that
should be enthusiastically
welcomed by all patriotic
Zimbabweans.

‘The integration of
separate forces into the
Zimbabwe National Army
and the Air Force of Zim-
babwe had now been com-
pleted. The work now had
to be consolidated with an
emphasis on training and
discipline, and the
maintenance of the high-
est military standards.

The army and the air
force were being re

ZIMBABWE



JPRS 81305

19 July 1982

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA REPORT

No. 2660
CoNTENTS
BENIN
List of Persons Arrested Published
(EHUZU, 20 May 82).......... stew ee cee eee seen eee eeee see 1
CAME ROON
Appropriation Bill for 1982-1983 Approved .
(Yaounde Domestic Service, 24 Jun 82).........--- eeeeee 5
GHANA
VALCO's Decision Against Revolutionary Process, Asserts
Rawlings
(DAILY GRAPHIC, 21 Jun 82).......0e-eeeeee bee e ee eee tee 7
New Youth Movement To Be Formed
(Breda Atta-Quayson; DAILY GRAPHIC, 24 Jun 82)......... 9
Call for Restructuring of Islamic Education
(Editorial; GHANAIAN TIMES, 25 Jun 82).. 10
Briefs
New Muslim Hospital 12
New Muslim Movement 12
KENYA
Call for Investigation of Causes of Student Unrest
(Editorial; MSETO, 23 May 82).....eeeeeeeeseseeee eeveee 13
Moslem Endowment Funds Asked To Help Needy Students
(Editorial; MSETO, 23 May 82)....... eevee ee eeeee ee eeeee 14
LESOTHO
Briefs
Ambassador Presents Credentials 15
-a- {III - NE & A - 120]



union unity, the speaker stated that following MPR views of the revolution,
the UNTZa urges policies of cooperation, of good organization of trade
union delegations, and said that arbitrary action would never be tolerated.
That is why he asked, among other things, the leaders of Tissakin to review
their decision to dismiss two substitute trade union delegates, reported
to have committed a serious error.

After having warned his audience against politicians acting in poor faith,
against false rumors and unfounded accusations, the UNTZa general secretary
turned to questions from workers. The grievances he heard can be summed
up in inadequate wages, problems of health, transport, job classifications
and other social benefits. Citizen Kombo answered all the questions and
explained the period of crisis that not only Zaire is traversing but all
humanity. However he did recognize that, at the end of each year after the
enterprises had made up their annual statement of affairs, nothing should
prevent paying workers an annual bonus. He reassured his questioners that
their grievances were well founded. That is why the leaders of the National
Federation of Workers in the Textile Industry and the social partners of
this sector are reviewing the collective contract of the UTEXCO sector,

and local agreements can be added to it, according to the situation in

each enterprise. It should be mentioned that during this informal dialogue
with the textile industry workers Citizen Kombo stressed trade union pro-
cedures, warning workers against barbarous strikes, which have no place in
the Republic of Zaire.

The UNTZa general secretary was accompanied on his trip by his deputy,

Citizen Ilunga; by the city secretary of UNTZa; leaders of the national
textile workers federation; and trade union employees of Ngaliema.

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102



SENEGAL

ISLAMIC BANK OFFICIAL DISCUSSES BANK'S GOALS, PLANS
Dakar LE SOLEIL in French 19 Apr 82 p 4

[Interview with Belkacem M. Boutayeb, general coordinator for West Africa of
Dar-al-Mal al-Islam; date and place not specified]

[Excerpt] On 2 to 15 April Belkacem M. Boutayeb, general
coordinator for West Africa of "Dar-al-Mal al-Islam
[DMI]," a new financial institution of Muslim obedience
recently created in the Bahamas, made a working visit
of cooperation to Senegal. °

During his stay, Boutayeb had talks on several occasions
with the country's political and religious authorities,
stressing the interest which the creation of the DMI has
aroused.

Before his departure for Geneva, where the DMI S.A.
administrative headquarters are presently located,
Boutayeb wished to survey the institution's activities
with us.

He also stressed the ethnic and religious bases of the
Islamic financial system and the role which DMI could play
in the economic recovery of the developing countries.

At the end of his mission, Boutayeb said he was optimistic
and very satisfied with the results already registered.

[Question] Mr Belkacem M. Boutayeb, could you tell us the circumstances and the
reasons underlying the recent creation of "Dar-al-Mal al-Islam," which, as its
name indicates, is an Islamic financial institution?

[Answer] Until recently, in order to have access to the capital markets the
Muslims had no choice but to accept using the western financial system. Now,
we know that the teachings of Islam and Muslim law consider the practice of
interest rates usury, illicit.

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NIGERIA

VICE PRESIDENT ADDRESSES MILITARY GRADUATES
AB021745 Lagos NAN in English 1710 GMI 2 Jul 82

[Text] Jaji (Kaduna State), 2 Jul (NAN)--The vice president, Dr Alex
Ekwueme, said today at Jaji that the federal government would continue to
make adequate provisions for the armed forces for the effective defence of
the country within the limits of available resources.

Speaking at the graduation ceremony of the participants at the first joint
training programme of the three arms of the armed forces, the vice president
said that since last year the federal government had invested 13.07 percent
of its resources on capital projects for the armed forces.

He said that no nation could survive modern warfare without “adequate capabil-
ity for exchange of information and cross fertilisation of ideas among its
armed forces," adding that it was the policy of the federal government to
build a mobile, effective, disciplined and contented armed forces.

The vice president stated that since the inception of the present administra-
tion, training programmes for the armed forces had been intensified in a bid
to transform them from their essential politican role during the era of mil-
itary government to the constitutional role of defending the nation's ter-
ritorial integrity.

He praised the authorities of the institution for the high standards they had
achieved inspite of scarce and limited resources.

Dr Ekwueme expressed appreciation for the contribution made by the British
advisory team to the nation's effort to build a command and staff college of
which future generations of Nigerians would be proud.

Earlier, the commandant of the college, Maj Gen D. Y. Bali, had said that the
aim of the 10-months' course was to develop the knowledge and understanding of
middle-level man-power of the armed forces and prepare them for increased
responsibility.

Maj Gen Bali expressed satisfaction that standards at the institution had been
"consistently high."

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UGANDA

BRIEFS

RAILWAY AGREEMENT WITH TANZANIA--Kampala, June 5--Ugandan and Tanzanian
railway officials have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a
second railway route for Uganda through Tanzania, Uganda Radio announced
here yesterday, It gave no details but stressed that opening the second
rail route to the sea for Uganda would not mean that the landlocked country
would stop using its traditional route through the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
The radio said the importance of the Kenya-Uganda railway in Uganda's trade
transactions was recognised. (A.F.P.) [text] [Paris AFRICA AFP in English
No 2904, 8 Jun 82 p 16]

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MALI

PARTY CALLS FOR SURRENDER OF ARMS, AMMUNITION
Bamako L'ESSOR in French 22-23 May 82 p 7

([Circtilar No 5 of the UDPM /Democratic Union of Malian People/: "Fight
the Illegal Introduction of Arms and Ammunition"'/

fText/ The attention of the militants is drawn especially to the development of
a phenomenon which if it should not be quickly overcome and wiped out threatens
to compromise public security.

This concerns the recrudescense of the smuggling and undeclared import of
arms and ammunition in the following categories whose acquisition, detention
and distribution is prohibited except in special cases duly authorized by
competent authorities:

-firearms and ammunition known or used for warfare.
-defensive weapons and ammunition.

-hunting weapons and ammunition.

-firearms in general.

It is evident from the seizures by customs services and an evaluation of
intelligence information that defensive and hunting weapons and ammunition
are mainly those involved in extensive illegal traffic.

These weapons are illegally brought into the national customs territory by all
means of transportation either (1) hidden in old clothing or other places in
trunks and declared to customs as being personal effects or (2) transported

in small quantities in suitcases or even carried stripped down on the bodies of
small-time merchants or other "smugglers."

After getting by the customs hurdle, these weapons are deposited in farming
hamlets or in rural or even urban housing in the custody of individuals
interested in smuggling or persons of good faith who agree to holding the
packages without realizing their contents.

22



In a completely different connection, the resurgence of cattle thefts, with a
total of 21,673 in 1981 as compared to 18,500 in 1980, requiring expenditures
of 137,021,798 Malagasi francs in 1981 as compared to 80,226,500 in 1980, must
be noted. We now know the steps taken by the revolutionary regime with regard
to the more "extensive" use of the "development" army, for the safety of the
peasants and to encourage production.

The decline in our production of fish from the sea, to 10,600 tons in 1981 from
10,850 in 1980, should also be noted. However, there is here a source of con-
siderable interest (local consumption, exports) if we can only learn to ex-
ploit this "insular" activity more fully.

The effort undertaken by the revolutionary regime to develop the Grand Sud and
Oublie region is also worthy of praise, in particular the water pipe systems
from Tolagnaro to Amboasary, Ambovombe to Tsihombe, Beloha to Betroka, etc.
Drilling, well construction, acquisition of tank trucks and the building of
storage tanks--all this is happening there! The participation of friendly
countries, in particular the Common Market countries and Japan, should be
stressed in particular.

Industry

The industrialization effort is also considerable. A sum of 18,298,000,000
Malagasy francs was allocated in 1981 for the construction or expansion of cer-
tain industrial units. Among the most important projects we might mention the
KOBAMA flour mill in Antsirabe, the Arivonimamo poultry complex, the SIRAMA
[Malagasy Sugar Company] plant in Namakia, the SUMATEX plant in Toliary, the
JIRAMA [Malagasy Electricity and Water Company] household appliance manufac-
turing facility in Analamahitsy, the ZEREN fertilizer plant in Toamasina, the
Amboanio-Mahajanga cement plant, etc. Allof this illustrates the often
little-known activities of the revolutionary regime at a time when pessimism
is often gaining the upper hand. This is a human failing, it must be acknowl-
edged.

The address delivered by Prime Minister Desire Rakotoarijaona to the People's
National Assembly last Friday is still the focus of political circles in the
Democratic Republic of Madagascar to the extent that it is a mine of informa~
tion on the one hand, and on the other, it has made it possible to understand
the various achievements of the government in the course of the 1978-1980 plan
and the work begun on the 1982-1987 plan. But as these achievements are im-
possible without financial support, we will base our comments here on the
taxes collected by the Malagasy government during 1981.

Direct Taxes

The total of direct taxes for 1981, estimated initially at 21.5 billion
Malagasy francs, came to 23,463,000,000, representing a 9.3-percent increase.

On learning of these figures, one cannot help but think of the financial poten-

tial enjoyed by the government. This was why it was able to undertake a number
of projects that the prime minister made a point of mentioning in his report.

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ZATRE

UNION LEADER WARNS TEXTILE WORKERS NOT TO STRIKE
Kinshasa ELIMA in French 6 May 82 p 2
[Article by Elonga Adjadje: "UTEXCO: A striking decline!"]

[Text] Kombo Ntonga Booke, general secretary of the National Union of
Workers of Zaire, has for some time been making an inspection and informa-
tion tour of the capital enterprises. While this tour should also be con-
sidered a means of making contact with the newly elected leaders of the
trade union organization in Zaire, it should be agreed that the presence
of a leader among the working masses is a stimulant which brings new in-
spiration and encourages production during this period when all efforts
are being deployed for the success of the national development plan,

Last Monday Citizen Kombo visited four textile factories of the UTEXCO
group, namely UTEXCO, Zaire Print, Tissakin, and Zaitex. During meetings
with leaders of these different production units, the UNTZa general secre—
tary was able to define the difficulties hampering these factories’ full
functioning. For example, the current situation at UTEXCO is most alarming
since the greater part of production is stored in warehouses because of the
lack of buyers. This means that 600 million reserve zaires are stagnating
in this factory's warehouse. There is also the competition from sellers
of secondhand clothes (tombola bwaka).

At Zaitex and Tissakin, the problems are more in the field of organization
and planning. Production is well marketed despite the fact that the turnover
has somewhat declined as a result of the reduction in orders. Despite
everything, the leaders of these two factories are confident of the future,
since there is a brisk demand by businessmen for their range of production
(bags and blankets).

Before meeting the workers of UTEXCO, Zaire Print, Tissakin, and Zaitex

to respond appropriately to workers' grievances, the UNTZa general secretary,
of course, had to inform himself about the general trends in these enter-
prises. Thus, in a word, Citizen Kumbo explained the trade union role,
which is to defend the material and moral interests of its members. And
this defense can only be carried out well when workers show discipline,
respect for plant property, a professional attitude, etc. Discussing trade

101



CHURCHES
Maputo NO’
[Report o

Africa Co
place not

Question:
zambique

‘MOZAMBIQUE

URGED TO ACHIEVE "POLITICAL MATURITY"
TICIAS in Portuguese 10 Jun 82 p 5

mn press conference by Maximo Rafransoa, secretary general of the All-
mference of Churches, by Experimental Television on 9 June 1982;
specified]

[Text] A more realistic interpretation of politicosocial
reality is a necessity for the churches of Africa and the
entire world--that was the gist of the press conference
held yesterday by Maximo Rafransoa, secretary general of
the All-Africa Conference of Churches (AACC).

Maximo Rafransoa, who is a Malagasy by nationality, has been
part of the AACC Secretariat since January 1981. Yesterday's
meeting with Mozambican reporters at the Experimental Tele-
vision (TVE) facilities was brief, but it served to demon—
trate that a new current is already "moving faster" in
Africa's churches.

The secretary general of the AACC, who can be described as

a "progressive," is part of that group of clergy for whom
socialism is not the "specter threatening the free world."
In his analyses of specific social groups, among them the
South African society, whose government oppresses the people,
his use of Marxist categories is well known.

On the political level, the dialogue with Maximo Rafransoa
dealt with an area of the world where tension is increasing--
southern Africa--and with the efforts that the AACC has been
making to guarantee peace and stability in the region.

Below we are presenting portions of the dialogue with
Rafransoa, who also touched on the problem of the church's
place in a country with a socialist system.

In your opinion, what are the main problems being encountered in Mo-
and also in your mission of evangelization?

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WHEAT SEEDS FOR PEASANTS--At the conclusion of the next harvest the Matadi
Flour Mill (MIDEMA) which is experimenting with wheat cultivation in the
North Kivu area will proceed to the distribution of selected seeds of this
produce to the peasants involved in the plan, according to the general
management of MIDEMA at Kinshasa. In this phase of the popularization of
wheat cultivation, MIDEMA plans to train about 32,000 peasants in the cul-
tivation zone. According to the same source, the seeds will come from
hardy, high-yield types of wheat that were tested in the North Kivu station.
Until now the MIDEMA has kept a certain number of types for carrying out
its vast wheat cultivation project on an industrial scale in this subregion.
[Text] [Kinshasa ELIMA in French 5 May 82 p 9] 9772

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cso:

Chief Akpore frowned that be--

ing the first executive governor:
of Bendel State was misconstrued
by Governor Ambrose Alli as
licence to conceive and execute
certain policies unilaterally and
without any meaningful consulta-
tion in an era when unquestioning
and uncritical followership of
leadership should be dead and

gone.
In the letter of reproach to the
deputy governor dated May 20,

had expressed surprise at Chief
Akpore’s condemnation of the
establishment of ‘the university

as one of the errors of the present
administration in Bendel State.

The letter which was signed by’

the club’s President, Mr. DB,
Umobuarie had alleged that ie

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this year, the Fans Golden Club.

54

deputy goverfir did not condemn
the establishment of the universi-
ty at the onset but that he had
chosen this period of political:
chess game and monoeuw to
criticise a university whose
students had matriculated." ~
Speaking to the New Nigerian

in Benin City on Tuesday, Chief

Akpore confirmed his reply to the
Fans Golden. Club which he

_ described as ““‘ignorapt of the
happenings in the'state.”” 7
govern6r safd that:

he support the establish-

ment of universities eve here
in the state, “but now it the:
state government cannot pay
teachers’ salaries and provide the
basic ‘esGential services, I cannot
support the establishment of the
Bendel State University now”. he
deposed.


If one must continue to argue that in its current organization the Economic
Affairs urban division still has a justification for existing, then it is
time to strengthen it by replacing "weak persons" by more honest inspectors
and by giving these latter the means to act with integrity. Or, if not,
then it is more than necessary to create another body which will carry

out the functions of Economic Affairs and show greater seriousness in
intent. It involves the socioeconomic situation of nearly 3 million in-
habitants of Kinshasa, and indeed, our national prestige.

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DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS TO BE TRIED

Mogadishu HEEGAN in English 18 Jun 82 pp 1, 6

[text]

MOGADISHU, Thurs-
day — In a meeting it
held in the People’s Hall
at 5 p-m. late this week
the SRSP Central Com-
mittee studied the decis-
ions taken recently by
the Political Bureau on
June 9,1982, regarding
certain elements in nat-
ional responsibility, af-
ter carefully weighing
reports on the destructi-
ve activities of these ele-
ments against the nat-
ion, the Central Commit-
tee approved the follo-
wing decisions made by
the Political Bureau wh-
ich had been already
broadcast to the nation:

1. To strip them off of
any political, civil and
military responsibilities.

2. To expel them from
the SRSP and its Cent-
ral Committee.

3. To divest them of
their parliamentary dig-
nity and expel them from

the People’s Assembly.

72

4. To keep them in cu-
stody until trial by a co-
urt of law.

The Central Commit-
tee also approved a call
earlier by the President
to wage a merciless war
against tribal agitators,
those who are engaged
in propaganda activities
inimical to the Nation,

, embezzlers of public fu-

nds and _ blackmarketee-
ring.

The President urged
Central Committee mem-
bers to strengthen their
efforts and unity, and
while praising the Soma-
li people, exhorted them

.to national unity, coope-

ration and expanded pro-
duction in order to at-
tain rapid progress.
MASS RALLY IN
HARGEISA
Meanwhile, a mass
rally in support of — the
recent decision taken by
the national committee
for policy, security and

SOMALIA



MOZAMBIQUE

MACHEL REASSERTS UNITY OF MOZAMBICANS
Maputo NOTICIAS in Portuguese 8 Jun 82 p 1

[Article by Migueis Lopes Junior and Ricardo Timane: "There Are No Longer
Former War Criminals, There Are Only Mozambicans"]

[Text] "There are no ANP's [Popular National Action], there are no PIDES
[Police for the Control of Foreigners and Defense of the State], we are all
Mozambicans," there are no commandos, there are no GE [Special Groups], we
are all Mozambicans; there is not National Women's Movement, there are no

war godmothers, we are all Mozambicans. The hall of Josina Machel [school]
yesterday was the voice of millions, the unanimous force of our revolution
embodied in a meeting such as there has never been held in any part of the
world. Voices merged and flowed freely, shouted with tremendous force. Free
Mozambicans were meeting the Mozambicans who are just beginning to be free and
to enjoy this liberation. Tears of joy were shed by the audience and the
participants. Newsmen charged with the difficult mission of transmitting
through the rigid and poor means of words moments that surpass the normal
dimensions of time and space were overcome by emotion. Their eyes were filled
with tears. The event was happening to us and the hand that was taking notes
became paralyzed. How can one describe the cry, the unanimous shout of
freedom that shook the hall during the minutes that last an eternity, when
President Samora concluded reading his speech closing the session. This

shout had the value of a solem promise among the unknown graves, among the
mourning and pain, linked to humanism and generosity, the sacred task of total
and complete liberation of land and men, which represented the most beautiful
foundation of our revolution. For those rediscovered Mozambicans, represent-
ing all the others from Rovuma to Maputo in this their new commitment to the
people and fatherland, yesterday was truly the day of their independence;

the beginning of another phase of the protracted war of liberation of con~
science from the clutches and ghosts of the past, assumed in their origins,
causes and development. A day of meeting with the family, a day to raise
one's head, of giving the eyes the brilliance of dignity, of the right to
hard and healthy work and without burdens or complexes, sleep without night-
mares, toward joyful and wholesome fun. Joy shared by free Mozambicans who thus
saw their ranks enriched and more firm the wall of their unity. Joy allowed
and made possible by the methods and principles of a party which made of
politics a supreme way of culture because it is the synthesis of the most noble
ideals and aspirations of a people.

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© encouraging the growing of
drought-resistant crops in areas
with less rainfall;

@ growing crops suited to the
local weather and ecological con-
ditions;

@ clearing hurdles which stood in
the way of ensuring smooth pur-
chase of food from growers, and
particularly stopping buying crop
on credit and instead pay spot
cash to motivate: peasants;
@ensuring that crops bought
were safely stored, transported
through reliable ‘means and
distributed aldng established
channels.

‘The Prime Minister emphasised
that bodies responsible for han-
dling food. crops .at all levels,
financial institutions and regional
and district leaders should ensure
that the process of purchasing and

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handling crops was more efficient
this, than, last year. .

It would be an unpardonable
offence if undué red tape, laxity
and negligence -frustrated efforts
in collecting harvested food and
cash crops produced by growers
through their additional efforts
this season, hei warned.

‘The Prime Minister paid tribute
to peasants and their respective
leaders for the good work done in
the last, and this, season which
hadTM shown an increase in cash
crops such as dbffee and food
crops such as maize, potatoes and
cassava. }

He explained that Tanzanian
peasants had continued to con-
tribute towards the survival of the
country in the face of the difficult
economic situation and un-
favourable weather conditions.



CAMEROON

APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1982-1983 APPROVED
AB251015 Yaounde Domestic Service in French 1900 GMI 24 Jun 82

[All figures as heard]

[Excerpts] The first ordinary session of the 1982-83 legislative year has
just come to an end. This evening's marathon session was devoted to examin-
ation and adoption of the bills studied during this budgetary session. This
concerns the appropriation bill of the 1982-83 financial year. The bill was
unanimously adopted.

The 1982-83 appropriation bill which was adopted this evening by our deputies
was balanced at the attractive sum of 410 billion CFA francs. In comparison,
last year's budget stood at 310 billion CFA francs. The appropriation bill
adopted this evening comprises 365,845,000,000 CFA francs representing fiscal
revenue; 110,363,000,000 CFA francs representing nonfiscal revenue with
1,792,000,000 CFA francs accuring from various revenues; and 6 billion CFA
francs drawn on the reserve fund.

Out of the 410 billion CFA francs of this budget, 256,712,000,000 will be re-
served for the current budget. This amount will also be split up for the
running of public services which takes 186,209,467,000 CFA francs and trans-
fer expenditure which takes 70,502,543,000 CFA francs. The capital budget
stands at 153,288,000,000 CFA francs. [passage omitted]

Now the breakdown of the budgetary allocations:

Presidency 8,121,388,000 CFA francs
Attached services 14, 028,077,000
National assembly 2,032 ,961,000
The prime minister's office 576,054,000
Economic and social council 287,696,000
Foreign affairs 3,561, 118,000



CSO:

defence was held at the
square facing the Natio-
nal Theatre.

According to the reg-
ional authority of the
North-west Region, the
demonstration was atte-
nded by party commit-
tee leaders, heads of go-
vernment departments,
social organisations, ar-
med forces and nume-
rous people for the city’s
four quarters with pla-
cards and slogans sho-
wing their support and
satisfaction in the appro-
priate measure taken ag-
ainst the accused who,
in cooperation with fore-
ign enemy agents, at-
tempted to endanger and
undermine the sovereig-
nty of the Somali nation.

Addressing the mas-
ses, the Regional Party
Secretary of Northwest
Region Col. Abdalla Ha-
ji Ahmed expressed sati-
sfaction with their spirit.
and national conscious-
ness as well as their co-
nfidence in the revolut-
ionary leadership and
the party.

The Secretary called
on the demonstrators to
intensify their struggle
and properly act in acco-
rdance with the objecti-

_ ves of the 21st October

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Revolution inorder © to
root out corrupt elements
and ensure stability and
tranquility in the coun-
try.

In conclusion, Jaalle
Abdalla wished the So-
mali Nation success in
unity and face the ene-
_my with one objectivity.
' PARTY CONGRESS

POSTPONED

Meanwhile, the Assis-
tant Minister of Infor-
mation and National Gu-
idance Dr. Khalif Muse
Samater, a member of
the Organisation and
Propaganda Committee
for the second Congress
of the SRSP, stated that
the preparation procedu-
res of the Congress are
very promising as the di-
strict party cells and
job-site party cells have
concluded their sessions
according to schedule.

Speaking on behalf of
the Committee, the Assi-
stant Minister declared
that, taking into account
the SRSP Central Com-
mittee resolution dated
15.5.82, the Congress will
be held ten days after
the holy month of Ra-

. madhan, and the regio-

nal party sessions will
take place sometime be-
fore the event.

— SONNA



JUVENILE SCHOOLS 'NOT ENOUGH' CLAIMS JUDGE

SWAZILAND

Mbabane THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND in English 22 Jun 82 p 1

[Text]

CSO:

juvenile delinquents.
‘Answering questions during
‘the seminar on law and:
‘population at Kwaluseni
“Campus of UCS yesterday
Judge Nathar said the.

“Juvenile Industrial:
School” and. the" “Young
“Persons - Prison,” in”

and the Courts were.
reluctant to send offenders
to these institutions. ‘It isa”
worrying aspect. that wee
don’t have an adequate.
<eformatory ~ system in?
‘Swaziland,”. Judge: Nathan -

said. ~ at
“The industriat school in
Malkerns is. intended: to
“eater for young people from:
14.to. 18 and. run by the
Prison authorities. But it is
Gifficult to distingyish this
institution fromi the Young
+ Persons: | Prison,” . Judge-

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oNathad” said: “> “The
Government’ has ' played
around: with: his. juvenile

“school, but it. doesn’t?
work,” he said. - ““The~

young people are treated as
young criminals. This is one
aspect that the Government

has. to. take a serious look

into,” he added. ;
Institutions

‘The Principal Magistrate,

* Mr. Ben Dunn said juvenile
delinquency. has increased

dramatically during the last”

five years. He said during

the last five years, more and”

mere young people have.
appeared in. the:
Magistrates’ Courts for
various offences including
rape and burglaries. He said

80 percent of these cases .

have an element of theft.

- “The absence. of a
juvenile court system to
deal strictly with such cases
and the absence of a
juvenile institution are
matters to be thoroughly

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looked ifito:. He said the
courts preferred to render
corporal’ punishment. to
avoid sending youngsters to
the institutions in
Malkerns. He stated that
the law allows for the
detention of young people
in these institutions for &
minimum of two years,
something which the court.
would rather not do as a
matter of practice. :

“When one traces these
young peoples’ back-
ground, they.:mostly come
from the - rural areas.
During.a short period, one
finds that . they have
accumulated a shocking list
of previous offences. -He
said . the _ Courts find
‘themselves tied up because
jn a situation like that they
cannot suspend or postpone
sentences. “This. is a
growing problem and not
enough ‘is being done,” he
charged. .

He said that this applies
mostly to male juveniles.



BENIN

LIST OF PERSONS ARRESTED PUBLISHED
Cotonou EHUZU in French 20 May 82 p 4
/Excerpts/ The comrade minister of national defense announced the following:

In execution of instructions given to the comrade minister of interior and public
security and the comrade minister of national defense by the national executive
council permanent committee within the framework of security and purification

of morals throughout the country, various operations for the checking and
verification of identity papers were carried out by the Benin people's armed
forces in the city of Cotonou after midnight.

These operations in the zone lying between the old port and the Dantopka market
resulted in the arrest of several persons who obviously constituted a public
danger to our peaceful people since this particular zone had become a veritable
refuge for individuals without employment and of doubtful morality who
wandered around and operated villainously and often armed.

Up to now, the following persons have been arrested:
1. Atacora Province

Yoto Yaka, 38 years of age.

2. Atlantic Province

Houedanou Amorce, 26 years of age.
Akoundenou Paul, 18 years of age.
Zinsou Koko, 45 years of age.
Houndebasso Bertin, 18 years of age.
da Silva Calixte, 46 years of age.
Adanvehinto I. Roger, 32 years of age.
de Souza Cyrille, 16 years of age.
Abul Calixte, 33 years of age.
Gnonlonfound, 22 years of age.
Zinkpe Pascal, 23 years of age.
Dossa Lucien, 16 years of age.

da Silveira Georges, 36 years of age.
Quenum Innocent, 20 years of age.



ZAIRE

AGENTS HARASS MARKET WOMEN
Inshasa ELIMA in French 5 May 82 p 9
[Article by N'zinga Nsingi: "Who Maintains the Price Jungle in Kinshasa?"]

[Text] Plummeting purchasing power of the greater part of the population,
excessive price increases in stores, shops and markets; that is the current
socioeconomic situation in Kinshasa. And when called on to identify those
who are responsible, it is dishonest merchants who are quite frequently
mentioned. But actually one should not fail also to cite the Economic
Affairs inspectors. In fact the latter in their way are encouraging the
decline in living standards of the Kinshasa population.

The Economic Affairs inspectors appear unequal to their official task of
enforcing prices in all markets, stores and shops. Or rather, they carry
out their functions with excessive zeal in the little markets where they
easily intimidate the mamas that have taken to small-scale buying and
selling in order to feed their children, or other “economically disadvantaged
persons." Thus, Economic Affairs inspectors are often a nightmare for

small traders.

But they fall down on their job even worse when they are faced with the
"economically strong" who always know how to soften them up without much
difficulty. Thus, the Economic Affairs inspectors help maintain the Kin-
shasa price jungle. In fact, all the managers of the stores in the center
of the city recognize what Economic Affairs inspectors are: they are men
who lose their bearings at the sight of the coin of the realm. To these
managers, the strict tone of the Economic Affairs inspectors often repre-
sents nothing more than a demand for a high sum of money to maintain silence.
And practically everything is taken care of in this atmosphere. Prices

do not go down. On the contrary, they keep rising, according to the moods,
the days and the months. Those who ought to see that prices are respected
are satisfied to say nothing and do nothing on receipt of a sum of money
or a gift in kind. And more and more expatriots are starting to stick out
their chest and take advantage of the innocence and "easy-going nature"

of the people of Zaire, that is, the Economic Affairs inspector who agrees
to be corrupted into failing to perform his duty.

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DEATH SQUADS THREATEN KA-NGWANE CHIEFS

Mbabane THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND in English 21 Jun 82 p 1

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A NUMBER of chiefs and
other pro-unification South
African Swazis have been
threatened with death.

Some of those threatened
with death have fled their
homes, according to
sources from KaNgwane.

The threats, believed to
have been made by forces
Joyal 10 former KaNgwane
chief executive councillor,
Mr. Enos Mabuza, _
followed the announcement
by the South African
Government last week that
KaNgwane and _the
Ingwavuma —will,~—«be.
incorporated ~ into
Swaziland.

Killers

The sources said the
forces were determined to
kill all leading personalities
who favour incorporation
and destroy — their
properties.

The sources also refuted
Mr. Mabuza’s recent claim
that out-of about 20 chiefs
in KaNgwane only two
wanted incorporation. In
fact, the source, said only
12 chiefs there were against
the unification while 15 are
in favour.

In a reference to the
referandum demanded -by
Mr. Mabuza to test the
views of South African
Swazis on the unification,

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‘the source dismissed such
an idea.

~ “There was © 20

referandum when the Swazi
land was arbitrarily
‘annexed into South Africa.
So, why a referandum when
the land is being returned
to its rightful owners,”” be
asked.

In. a reference to a
statement by the Azanian
People’s Organisation
(AZAPO) expressing -its
opposition to _— the
unification of the Swazis,
the source expressed
surprise at such an
outburst.

These, he said, were the
people who run to
Swaziland to seek
protection whenever things
become more difficult for

_ them in their own country:

Children of such
prominent black leaders in
South Africa as Nelson
Mandela (ANC leader
serving life sentence on
Robben Island) received
their education in

‘Swaziland. .
He added: ‘‘Numerous
other South African

freedom fighters have been
granted political -asylum in
Swaziland, The people (the
AZAPO) are now biting the
hand that feeds them.”

The source described the
deal with South Africa as a
break-through. But, he said
it was also a big challenge to
the Swazi nation.

SWAZILAND



ZAIRE

CALL TO KEEP JMPR PATROLS HONEST
Kinshasa ELIMA in French 5 May 82 p 2
[Article by Mbulumbulu Mulamba: "Patrols and Honesty"]

{Text] Last Friday the district office of Mandrandele Tanzi at Lemba
learned of a strange scene which took place among elements of the JMPR
[Youth of the Popular Movement of the Revolution]. Very early in the
morning, there were words between these militants in the presence of the
district chief and the section commander of the gendarmerie. Someone from
CADER [expansion unknown] had just taken a sum of money from the pocket

of his friend. The latter objects, threatens, throws a few punches. Con-
fusion reigns. What is the situation, really? It was not long before things
were straightened out. The previous night's booty was the source of dis-
agreement. In fact, it was the aggrieved one, according to the other,

who had pulled the trick. "He ran off with all the money we took in last
night..." The commandant looks around wonderingly. He must surely be
used to this kind of scene. They go to the district chief who says not to
try to mix oil and water; and at all events he was going to register a com
plaint with the zone commissioner. The aggrieved one also threatened to
get in touch with the municipal authorities.

This scene, which at first sight might appear funny, makes one stop and
think. It appears that the first aim of the JMPR elements on patrol is to
get money. In fact it is rare that after a night on patrol they bring back
any suspicious characters to their headquarters. Understood this way, it
is a matter of peaceful citizens who were unable to pay the ransom demanded
of them. And the real troublemakers move about freely during the night

and commit their misdeeds without hindrance.

It is regrettable to note that despite numerous appeals for order made

by the authorities, the situation is simply getting worse. The authorities
in charge should see to it that the JMPR elements are properly trained.
Discipline and vigilance should be their watchwords, since a patrol car-
ried out by undesirable elements could turn out badly.

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FUEL SHORTAGE HITS ATC

Dar-es-Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 23 Jun 82 p 1

[text]

AIR Tanzania Corporation
(ATC) yesterday announcéd the
cancellation of some domestic
flights following the shortage of
jet fuel and non-availability of
watermethanol.

Announcing this in Dar es
Salaam yesterday, Air Tanzania
General Manager © Bakari
-“Mwapachu said the reduction of
the airline’s daily requirement of
33,742 litres of jet fuel to 17,210
litres per day adversely affected
domestic and regional flights.

Jet fuel shortage and non-
availability of watermethanol, he
explained, would ground the
entire F27s fleet, the aircraft that
extensively covered the domestic
network.

He.added that the Boeing 737
and Twin Otter fleet did not
need watermethanol.

As ‘a__ result, . Ndugu
Mwapachu ‘aid, ATC will cancel
today’s Bezing 737 service to
Mwanza’ also the “ Fokker-
Friendship services to Songea
and Tanga. °

He said that a Twin Otter will
operate the Bujumbura flight
instead of a Fokker-Friendship
and services to Mafia, Dodoma
and Kilwa normally operated by

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‘a Twin Otter will be put oft.

The General Manager said
that the Musoma. Mwanza and
Tanga services operated by >
Fokker-Friendship — will
cancelled. 4

He said. that ATC had no
specific explanation as to when
the fuel~ and .watermethanol
situation would come to normal.
“Extended shortage of these
‘may mean total grounding of the
airline’s fleet.

The - airline was forced to
cancel its flight to Mahe, the
| Seychelles, last Sunday because
there was'no fuel, he said.

ATC. cancelled flights to
Lindi, Nachingwea, Zanzibar,
Pemba, Dodoma and Tabora
yesterday, he said.

'” Ndugu Mwapachu said that
the airline was forced to
terminate a-service in Tanga that
‘normally turns round at
Kilimanjaro beeause of non
availability of watermethanol.

Asked. to, comment, the
Managing Director of BP
Tanzania, Mr. M. Callander,
said since the jet fuel stocks were
not that good “there awas. no

alternative but to. cut down
ATC’s demands.” .

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TANZANIA

_ BP Tanzania is supplier of jet
fuel to Alitalia, the Dutch Royal
Airline (KLM), Swissair, Air
‘India, Lufthansa, © Zambia
fitways and Uganda Airlines,
he said.

The Chairman and Managing
Director of Esso Standard, Mr.
Peter Tristem, said that the jet
fuel position was not all that
comfortable. “But we have been
assured that some jet fuel will be
made available sometime during
the week,” he said.

He said that foreign airlines
supplied jet fuel by Esso

- Standard bad been co-operating

yery well by lifting their own jet
fuel before flying into the
country.

Esso Standard supplies fuel to
British Airways, Air France.
International,
Scandinavia Airlines, Sabena.
Aeroflot and Ethiopia Airlines.

Meanwhile, sources close to
the Tanzania Petroleum
Development Corporation said
in the city yesterday that the
Tanzania and Italian Petroleum
Refinery (TIPER) had some
technical difficulties and
was short of imported refine
products.



OYO STATE MAY CREATE OWN POLICE FORCE

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 3 Jun 82 p 24

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THE Minority Leader of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Alhaji
Olatunji Mohammed, has claimed that a bill to create a police force in
Oyo State has been presented to the state House of Assembly by the At-
torney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adewale Thomp-

son.

The bill, titled ‘‘a law to make provision for the establishment of the
Oyo State Guard, and for other matters incidental thereto or con-
nected therewith.”

Alhaji Olatunji told a news conference in Lagos yesterday that if the
bill was passed into law, it would lead to chaos and anarchy in the
state.

“Members of the guard”, according to the bill, “‘shall be employed
to perform functions formally undertaken in connection with the in-
vestigation and enforcement of the law relating to crime and shall in
that connection act in collaboration with the members of the police
force,” Alhaji Olatunji added.

‘The minority leader told newsmen that the bill stated that a member
of the guard shall be required to deal with and prosecute criminal of-
fences under the directives of the state Director of Public Prosecu-
tions in any court'established by the law of Oyo State, (save the high
court).

According to Alhaji Olatunji, the bill stipulates that a guard shall
have power to arrest any person reasonably suspected of committing
or having committed a criminal offence.

The guards are also empowered to detain for a reasonable length of
time any person suspected to have committed an offence and to in-
vestgate the cause of a criminal offence.

They: will also empowered to prosecute any person suspected to have
committed an offence before any court of law in the state having
jurisdiction over the alleged offence.

‘A member of the guard appointed under this law shall when on duty”
in uniform have the powers, privileges and immunities of law enforc-
ing officer under any law relating to criminal matters.

Alhaji Olatunji stated that the Oyo State Government had no power
to establish a police force in the state.

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‘die in battle before him, and kill-
ing all those who disagree with
him! -

‘ Thus, from all indications, they’
-movement has Zionist connection,
and its “message” is utterly
detrimental to Muslims. It is aim-
ed at undermining Muslim socie-
ty, confusing its values, render-'
ing it impotent and dependent en-
tirely on non-Muslim peoples and.
creating anarchy and stupid
egalitarianism which ultimately
could ruin it.

_ This brings us to the last ques-
tion: How do we interprete the in-
cident from the Islamic
view? I have said that the Kano
uprising is a fitnah — very’ well
known in Islamic history. A fit-
nah of this nature always hits a
Muslim community when, aban-'
doning the Islamic values, it suc-
cumbs to ‘corruption, and ar-
roganee. and is pervaded by in-
justice. It comes to check in a bit-
ter way, the excesses of the com-
munity, to falsify its assump-
tions, and shake the very basis of
its existence.

When we see the incident from

this angle we will not be surpris-
ed that it occurs in Kano. Kano to-
day —as a city and as a State -
the heart of Muslim Society in,
Nigeria. and indeed in West
Africa. It. contains the largest
schocentration of Musiims sand isa
sym lus] er

sperity: But Kano fas made itself
‘the epitome of corruption and ar-

. There is nowhere in this :

rogance.
country where Islamic values are
treated with utter disrespect and
cynicism as in Kano, nor is there’:
any place comparable to Kano
where the noble human character
has been perverted through
unimaginable and senseless acts
of I and immorality.

We see in Kano the limit of
human irresponsibility, inversion
of Islamic values, and submis-

‘sion ‘to materialism.

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has eaten so deep into the men-
tality of a good number of the
people that it has become part of
their character. Arrogance IS
easily disc in their leader-
ship, in their learned men, in the
youth, in the business community
and even in the beggars.
Moreover, injustice has almost
reached its perfection in Kano.
‘The existence of a large number"
of beggars side by side with a
small number of those who live ir
scandalous opulence is an indica-
tion that the humane and just
message of Islam has been aban-

doned.
‘When a Muslim soceity reaches
this point, it is ready for a terrible
ant el un as
170,000 le fl it eS
and many hundreds died, and a
considerable among of T
destroyed cannot surprise

anyone familiar with ic
Noris the fact that the whole

population, nearing a million,
and backed by a sunerier
material force (the ponice), i
rendered completely helpless,
paralysed and humiliated by a
force of Seven Monkols in-
surprise e Mongols in-.
vi the Muslim world, the
death toll was indeed higher
more than three million) and the
humiliation greater. -

And in 1967, three million Jews
defeated a hundred millions
Arabs, capturing 47,000 square
miles ‘of Muslim territory, in-_
élading the Nobie Sanctuary of.
-Jeruslem and half a Jordan in on-
ly six days! Always the Muslim
society pays dearly for succumb-
ing-to materialism, corruption,
arragance; and for allowing
itself to be pervaded by injustice.
The Kano incident is one of those
cases where .a hostile, non-
Islamic movement marches on a
Muslim society to teach a bitter,
painful lesson ;



KENYA

MOSLEM ENDOWMENT FUNDS ASKED TO HELP NEEDY STUDENTS
Nairobi MSETO in Swahili 23 May 82 p 2
[Editorial: "An Appeal for the Mosque Endowment"]

[Text] Last week a deputy minister of labor, the honorable Sharif Nassir
Taib, made some good recommendations to the board of trustees of the Mosque
Endowment Commission.

Sharif Nassir proposed that the commission use the large sums of money it
has accumulated to improve the condition of Islamic youth, many of whom
cannot continue with their studies because of lack of money.

This leader wanted it to be known that there is no need at all for Islamic
leaders to travel to Arabia or anywhere else in search of aid to build schools
and mosques while the Mosque Endowment Commission here has ample funds which
can be used for that purpose.

He called on the Muslims of Kenya to be a good example to other Muslims in
the world. Without a doubt, the finest example Kenya's Muslims can set
is an effort at self-reliance.

We endorse Sharif Nassir's urging that the Mosque Endowment Commission
should meet with Muslim leaders from time to time to find ways to help
Muslims--especially youth who need educational assistance.

One important matter that the trustees of the Mosque Endowment Commission
must recognize and give more importance to is helping Muslim children get
a western education along with religious instruction.

Undoubtedly the donors of the funds accumulated in the Mosque Endowment, before
dying, intended to bequeath their wealth to the erection of mosques, colleges,
schools, etc., and finally to ensuring that the poor would benefit from

those funds.

Whatis the use of amassing those revenues (money, houses, farms, etc.) and
not giving consideration to the importance of helping the intended recipients
of such aid?

We hope that this issue will be thoughtfully pondered by the trustees of
the mosque endowment. Many Muslim youth in this country need educational
assistance. If these young people succeed they will surely turn out to be
eminently successful individuals, not only for the Islamic community alone
but also for the whole nation of Kenya.

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Secondly, Egypt as a member

of OAU did not have the courtesy‘

of informing African members
that she was establishing rela-
tions with Israel. And Egypt who
was a combatant in a cause
through which we break ties with
Israel is today enjoying peace
with Israel.

Thirdly, of recent, Saudi
Arabia, Israel’s implacable
enemy, issued a 5-point peace
programme that implicitly
recognises the existence of
Israel. This act alone, inspite of
disagreement among the Arabs
on the mechanics of implemen-
ting the programme. once and for
all shows the futility of settling
the problem through the use of
force. And the need for breaking

the “no war, no peace” situation.
At the height of the oil crisis we
asked the Saudis to increase their

prices to the same level as ours;
they refused: we asked them to cut
production, they‘ refused. All
these were in. our attempt to
stabilise our oil market. They
refused, they said because it was
in their national interest to do so.

When the present economic
crunch came due to their indirect
sabotage, they were the first to
offer us financial aid and
-everyone knows the humiliation.
that goes with any foreign finan-
‘Gal lean.
__ The sum total of all these Arab
infractions is that our vital na-
tional interest and theirs do not
coincide. Therefore, for you to
take the restrictive view of our
Foreign Policy objectives tn rela-
tion to South Africa alone when
dealing with the issue is very
dubious.

The analysis as far as the

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Israeli question is concerned
should be all embracing.

The point here now is that the
presence of Israeli experts in
Nigeria whether they are fake or
not; whether or not they are ex-
pe loiters as you would want us to

lieve, will serve our vital na-
tional interest.

It will serve our vital national
interest to harness all resources,
both internally and externally, in
the current crusade for Technolo-
gical break-through and Agricul-
tural development. We therefore
need the Israelis very much, just
as we have the British, French,
Americans, etc. here.

Of more interest to me, is your
effort in linking Israel—South
Africa relationship to our na-
tional interest. Admittedly,
Israel link with South Africa is a
satanic connection. It is a rela-
tionship borne out of siege men-
tality.

Formosa is another country
that has joined the connection*
just for the purpose of maintain-
ing the status quo in their various
countries. It must be stated here,
that of the trio, Israel is the only
country that has consistently
voted for third world aspirations:
in world organisations.

Have a look at Israeli perfor-
mance in this regard at UN.
‘Israel has shown her desire for
peace by signing a Peace Treaty
with Egypt; accepting in princi-
ple, Palastinian autonomy on the
West Bank; by relinquishing
Sinai. She has shown her desire to
pull out of the connection (South
Africa) if African countries end
their diplomatic hostility.

Israel is aware of the ultimate
demise of apartheid and she is
equally aware of her long term
gains in maintaining sound and
Profitable relations with other

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African countries. it is our
hostilities that pushed Israel into
South African arms in the first”
place. Prior to the last Arab-
Israel war, Israel we know,
detested South Africa because of
treatment of Jews in the Apar-
theid enclave.

Gausu, you failed to enlighen
your readers that we today main-
tain diplomatic ties with other.
countries that equally armed and

give other instruments of war
_to South Africa. The

Chief culprit, France, some
few months ago was our darling in
imperalists’ effort to discredit
Libya: You failed to tell your
readers that USA, Canada, Bri-
tain and of recent Argentina are
countries that maintain ties with
us as well as South Africa. There
are countries that can act as
bridges for South African es-
pionage agents’ entry into this
country. These countries also
maintain links with Israel. So,
what is the porous argument,

a vour use of ANC and PLO to
buttress the connection argument
really exposes you. For one thing,
ANC and PLO have different
aims. The ANC’s Constitution
states in fact that the organisa-
tion is dedicated to the building of
a democratic society where all
races of South African Society
awill be equal, have the same op-
portunities, rights and work
towards the general good of all.
The ANC, which was using non-
violence means initially but now
uses force, is dedicated to
destruction of Apartheid as a
system. It is dedicated to.
maintaining of the democratic
traditions that. have built the
South African society to its pre-
sent standard. But what do we
have from PLO!



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THE Abuja International Airport is safe, the Chairman of the House
of Representatives Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Mr.
Amos Idakula told the House in Lagos yesterday.

In a report submitted to the:
House, the committee noted that
the general laying of the tarmac
and other surface areas had been’
completed.

The report stressed that the
tefminal building and the control
tower had been contracted out
dnd were under accelerated con-
struction.

It explained that the hills:
around the airport were 15;
kilometers away and would pose

_no danger to planes on landing.

It will be recalled that last
Wednesday, the President of the
Airlines Pilots and Flight

Engineers Association of Nigeria
(APFEAN) Captain Tunde
Ashafa said that planes would not
land at Abuja unless the airport
was declared safe.

In a_statement from the AP-

FEAN the impediments around
the airport were enumerated as:
* Lack of aid of description. -

* No wind sock and tower.

‘The weather pattern around’

‘there makes operations difficult
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For this reason, the association
has stated that the members
would not operate at the airport
until “it is satisfactorily proved
safe by a competent authority.””

President Shehu Shagari is ex-
pected to land at the airport next
Saturday before proceeding to:
commission the access road of:
the airport

“Phe statement. sent by the:
president of the association, Cap-
tain Tunde Ashafaj countered the
ement credited to the

‘Aviation, Mr. John

Kadiya.

Last week Tuesday, the
minister on arrival at the Abuja
Airport declared that it was safe
for flight operations.

‘According to fhe statement, the
pronouncement by the minister
was contrary to the-report from
the captain in command of the
plane who flew the aircraft there.

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missioners supervised local
administration in close co-
operation with the chiefs.
The Tinkhundla Office is
establishing local commi-
ttees which in some cases
_involve more than one chief,

de ling on the size of the
ethene

The Minister of Home
Affairs, . Prince Gabheni,
who is a member of the
Committee of Seven which
toured the country to ex-
plain the new system in
1977; has so far declined to
discuss this matter to clarify
the relationship of his Mini-
stry and the Tinkhundla
Office.

When the system becomes
fully operational, the office
of District Commissioner
will be abolished and rep-
laced by the Regional Admi-
nistrator’ who will be res-
ponsible to the Indvuna Yet-
inkhundia under the Prime
Minister's Office.

QUESTIONS

The change from Perma-
nent Secretary to Principal
Secretary is part of the plan

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to change the administrative
structure.

There is also the question
of whether the Committee of
Seven succeeded in trying to
explain clearly to the people
how the system would work,
especially the electoral pro-
cess. Some people have since
criticised the system of elec-
ting members of parliament.
When the elections were
held in October 1978, many
people were under the imp-
Tession that the elected can-
didates would automatically
represent them in Parlia-

ment.

It was only later that it
“dawned on the electorate
that there was an- electoral
college which elected Mem-
bers of Parliament from
among the candidates ele-
cted by the people.

The Indvune  Yeti-
nkhundla has said that the
Committee’ of Seven held
two meetings st each Inkhu-
ndla and explained how the
elections would be condu-
ected.

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Since then the committee
has never addressed Tin-
khundla.

' PROCESS

However, Mr Shabalala
conceded that more mee-
tings should have been held
to explain in more detail
how the electoral process
worked.

In spite of these setbacks,
the system has succeeded in
returning the country to

liamentary ent
End Mr Shabalale said the
next elections would be held
under it some ‘time next
year, subject to His Maje-
sty’s direction.

However, Mr Shabalala
conceded that a lot of work
remains to be done before
the system is implemented
fully. He recalled that du-
ring his recent address to
the nation at Lobamba
Cattle Byre, His Majesty
had made it clear that the
system would be retained as
a means of Government and
that plans were underway to
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GHANA

NEW YOUTH MOVEMENT TO BE FORMED
Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in English 24 Jun 82 pp 1, 4
[article by Breda Atta-Quayson]

[text] A National Democratic Youth Movement which shall be based on the
principles of patriotism, international brotherhood and the dignity of labour
is to be formed shortly,

The movement will provide a broad banner under which the youth would be
mobilised to concentrate their efforts on the liberation of the under-
privileged.

The movement, when established, will sponsor the formation of a children's
organisation for the age group of four to 15 years to inculcate revolutionary
principles into them,

Mr Zaya Yeebo, PNDC Secretary for Youth and Sports said this at the 10-day
Cadre School for the Armed Forces PDCs currently taking place at the Afienya
South Training Centre near Tema yesterday.

The Secretary said that the envisaged National Democratic Youth Movement
would embrace "youth in the Armed Forces, the Police, the Civil and Public
Service, people in the private sector of the national economy, markets,
streets and in the rural and urban areas,"

He stated that the National Youth Organising Commission was only an interim
body which is working out the modalities of the transition from the "neo~-
colonial National Youth Council (NYC) to a mass National Youth Movement."

The new national youth movement, Mr Yeebo indicated, would intensify skill
training programmes with special emphasis on cadre development.

He said under this programme "an ideologically clear core of cadres would be
provided with skills in carpentry, masonry, blacksmithing, plumbing, animal
husbandry, food crop farming etc."

The new movement would take active part in the implementation of the "Food
for the People Programme" by establishing agricultural projects such as

fish ponds, food crop and industrial crop farms, animal husbandry and food
preservation research projects, Mr Yeebo added.

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cur in form 6f an extetnal aggres-
sion, or it may come as an inter-
nal uprising; but in each case, it
is associated with Islam only ina
negative sense. In general it is
aimed at exterminating Muslims,
undermining Islam, confusing its
beliefs, and perverting its tradi-
tion. The movement in Kano
definitely belongs to this class of
movements. Its belief in a pro-
phet other than Muhammad
(may Allah bless him and give
him peace); its perversion of
worship; its anathematisation of
Muslims, its violation of the sanc-.
tity of Muslim life, honour and.
property clearly exposes it as a
movement opposed to Islam and
its values. All Islamic authorities
agree that anyone who believes
that there is a prophet after
Muhammad is not Muslim, that
any body who rejects the Sunnah
of the Prophet is not a Muslim
even if he professes belief in the
Qur’an; that any body who at-
tempts to change the Islamic
mode of worship is not a Muslim
ands that-rit «is _un-‘Islamic ‘to
anathemetise Muslims just to
find‘anexcuse to attack them.
Thus ‘all :the cries about
: “Islamic uprising” in Kano are
‘misplaced; there is nothin;
(Islamic init, it is rather an attac!
on Muslims by a group wanting to
weaken and embarass : the

Muslini society. ” "

‘This::brings us to the second
question: If the uprising is not

Islamic, what then is its possible

connection? An analysis of the

beliefs of the movement may help
us in tracing its origin. They are

-known for:their vehement rejec-

ti¢n ef:hadith and sunnah, and

henceptheir rejection of the Pro-
phet of:istam. But Muhammad
bétises:.the transfer of Pro-
ood and world righteous:
leadership from the House of

Ishaq to that of Ismail. This is-

very significant to the Jews who'

see in this an outright negation of
their claim to being the ‘chosen of

God’ and their claim to world

leadership.

Hence from the seventh cen-
tury to the present, they have
taken upon themselves the
responsiblity to slander the Pro--
phet, vilify his character and per-
sonality, cast doubt on the
authenticity of his Sunnah, and
seduce people from following:
him. The: movement also allows

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its people to face any direction
during the prayer, beside their
distortion of worship and their re-
jection of the Pilgrimage to
Makka.

The ‘facing of Qibla — the
Ka’aba at Makka-marks in’
Islamic history the turning point
in Muslim-Jewish: relationship
for it symbolises the-tranfer of
world Islamic centre from
Jerusalem to Makka. Asking peo- ©
ple to face any direction during ©
prayer is.to provide them with an
excuse tp face Jerusalem once
again, a move which is part of the
megsage of the Israeli-basea
.Baha' "i Movement ea ae arly
operat in Nigeria, i rly
‘in Zaria'and Jos. The movement
also: rejects all scientific inven-
tions‘and- regards the use of them
as “un-Islamic.” They thus re-
ject,- in .toto, . science and
technology, and by extention, the
cumilative scientific and intellec-
tual experience: of man. This
:“message” is. obviously alluring
‘to petty minded Muslims who
are thus provided with the excuse
tos regard the inabilities. and
scientific and technological
failures of Muslims as a virtue.
The fallacy of their “message”
surfaces when we see them using’
“un-Islamic” guns and riding
“un-Islamic” vehicles to carry
out their mission. Their rejection
of science and technology is con-
nected with the treacherous
zionist and imperialists’ designs
to prevent Muslims from acquir-
ing any ability or skill to protect.
themselves,- secure their in-
dependence, enhance their digni-
ty, and utilise in an effective way
their natural resources, so that
they remain perpetually enslav-
ed to industrial nations, remain-
ing only with‘empty slogans and
their Huniffiating failures.

Finally; they preach a very ab-
surd kind’ ‘of-‘egalitarianism.
Every kind of authority is to them
an idol — ‘gunki’. The Imam in-
prayer is an idol, and acceptance
of any directive, even that of the
prophet amounts, in their view, to
idol-worship. Children should not
respect their parents and there
should be no authority what-
soever in human organisation. ,

Yet the leader constitutes
;himself into an irrational, tyran-
nical idol, demanding absolute
obediencé, askirig all his
followers to ensure that they all



SENEGAL

Islamic Bank Official Discusses Bank's Goals, Plans
(Belkacem M. Boutayeb Interview; LE SOLEIL, 19 Apr 82)...

SEY CHELLES

SOMALIA

Mauritanian Election Hailed as Indian Ocean Socialist

Victory
(NATION, 17 Jun 82)......eeeeeeeeeeeeee

Government Moves To Bolster Fishing Industry
(NATION, 14 Jun 82)....ceeeeceecceseee

Destructive Elements To Be Tried
(HEEGAN, 18 Jun 82)......ceeeeececceees

SOUTH AFRICA

Briefs
Ingwavuman Proclamation Sidelined

SWAZILAND

TANZANIA

Implementation of Tinkhundla Facing Problems

(Mandla Magagula; THE SWAZI OBSERVER, 19 Jun 82)..

Death Squads Threaten Ka-Ngwane Chiefs
(THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND, 21 Jun 82)....

Seminar Wamed To 'Keep a Watch on Numbers'

(James Dlamini; THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND, 22 Jun 82)........

Juvenile Schools 'Not Enough' Claims Judge

(THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND, 22 Jun 82).......... seeeee see eee

Cement Problems Getting Harder

(Mashumi Twala; THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND, 22 Jun 82)........

Tension Builds Up at Power Project

(Mandla Magagula; THE SWAZI OBSERVER, 19 Jun 82)..........

Briefs
Air Talks Concluded

Muslim Council Gets New Leader
(DALLY NEWS, 19 Jun 82)....cceceseeeeee

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SEYCHELLES

MAURITANIAN ELECTION HAILED AS INDIAN OCEAN SOCIALIST VICTORY

Victoria NATION in English 17 Jun 82 pp 1-2

(tText]

LAST weekend’s general
election in Mauritius will
go down in history as one
of the most overwhelming
victories ever won in a na-
tional multi-party ‘ballot
anywhere In the world,

By taking all 60 seats up
for election In the Maurl-
tian Parliament, the ailian-
ce of the Mouvement Mil-
tant Mauriclen and the Par-
ti Soclaliste  Maurtclen
showed that the people
‘were determined to have
radical political and social
changes in thelr country.

At the. same time the
election result was an un-
equivocal rejection of the
regime and policies of
Prime Minister Sir Seewoo-
sagur Ramgoolam, whose
Labour Party and Its allies
had failed abysmally to set
Mauritius on the path of
prosperity and social jus-
tice since the country be-
came independent from Brl-
taIn 14 years ago.

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The MMM and PSM to-
gether have achieved a bril-
liant victory for social pro-
gress, a final victory which
— as Seychellois President
Albert René sald in his
message of congratulations
to the two parties — was
the fogicat result of a tong
and harrowing struggle In
difficult conditions by the
people of Mauritius.

It Isa victory that will
have far-reaching conse-
quences, not only in Mau-
ritlus but throughout the
Indian Ocean.

By committing themsel-
ves to a policy of positive
non-atignment, the coun-
try’s new feaders have
struck a resounding blow
for the right of smai? na-
tions in the region to live in
peace and total Indepen-
dence, developing thelr re-
sources for the benefit of
thelr people with no out-
side interference.



This short description of practices used should aid in (1) orienting and
intensifying the investigations that should be extended to all objects

that might constitute a dangerous weapon to public security and (2) getting
to the smuggling and facilitating the search for illegal arms depots.

The vastness of the frontiers, the intrepidity and ingeniousness of the
smugglers make especially difficult and complex the campaign against arms
traffic by using conventional administrative means and methods.

Assistance by other authorities, especially political authorities, proves
indispensable.

This aid must be made concrete by (1) ‘informing and alerting militants to the
importance and dangerous nature of the development of this phenomenon,

(2) communicating of intelligence information to competent services responsible
for control over and surveillance of the national customs territory and (3)
having militants participate effectively in seizure operations, if the case
arises.

Any person possessing arms and ammunition, regardless of the quantities,

who cannot justify their origin in accordance with Article 77 of the Customs
Code, must be reported to the closest customs authorities, or if the latter

are not available, to the most accessible administrative or political authority.

By means of this citcular, the deputy secretary general of the UDPM requests all
militants to lend their active assistance to the administration in order to
help in making a census of all arms and to uncover the smugglers and all

their possible accomplices.

More generally speaking, in conformity with previous party decisions within the
framework of effective necessary collaboration between the political and
administrative authorities, militants must aid the administration in all census
operations, relating both to persons and to goods.

I call on you to provide the widest distribution of this circular and to comment

on its terms with all militants for the purpose of effectively implementing it
and reporting to the central executive office.

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In coming weeks we intend to proceed to a similar subscription operation in
Morocco and before the end of the year, in Nigeria. Negotiations are in
progress with other African countries, and we are confident of bringing them
to a successful conclusion.

[Question] And in Senegal, in particular?

[Answer] During my stay in your country, I had the opportunity of talking with
the highest political and religious authorities, including the general caliphs
of the Tidjaniya Brotherhood and members of the Muridiya Brotherhood.

I also met with various economic operators in Dakar as well as in the interior
of the country.

Everywhere I noted a feeling of confidence, of hope for this work whose concern
is the welfare of the members of the Islamic nation.

All these contacts established at various levels lead me to believe that the
foundations of the Islamic system and the new possibilities which DMI is capable
of contributing as a motor of economic and social development, have been per-
fectly assimilated and approved.

[Question] In Senegal, as in all the other countries, there will soon be created
an Islamic Investment Company, a "Masraf" or Islamic bank, and an Islamic Soli-
darity Company equivalent to an insurance company.

First, public subscription for shares in DMI capital (the current subscriptions)
was launched in order to permit the Senegalese and all residents to participate,
if only symbolically, in this important financial institution, which is meant
to be the Islamic fer de lance in the fight against under-development.

Senegal is the only country where the DMI leaders have agreed to extend the
public subscription campaign over a 2-month period because of the situation and
local circumstances, but also and especially because of the profound esteem and
great respect which the Senegalese president and people inspire in their firm
determination for a better and more equitable future. The subscription
campaign will end officially and definitively on 30 April 1982.

[Question] How do you perceive your future relations with the other local
financial institutions which are governed by a moral philosophy other than that
of Dar-al-Mal al-Islam?

[Answer] At all my meetings with the authorities of Senegal's financial
institutions, I noted great readiness to cooperate with our group in strict
keeping with the Islamic philosophy, by the BIAO [International Bank for West
Africa], BNDS [Senegal National Development Bank], and Citybank, among
others.

It is our desire to establish cordial and positive relations with all the other
banks or financial institutions established in Senegal.

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NIGERIA

BRIEFS

BENDEL NPN REORGANIZATION--Bendel State branch of National Party of Nigeria
(NPN) is now being reorganized. Making this know at a press conference in
Benin City, the state Protem Chairman of the NPN, Mr Tony Anenih said that
the reorganization was designed towards taking over the state from the Unity
Party of Nigeria (UPN) in the 1983 general elections. Mr Anenih told newsmen
that the current reorganization led to the removal of the former chairman and
secretary, Mr Tayo Akpata and Dr Odogu Egbune respectively from office for
alleged ineffectiveness. "Mr Akpata was given reasonable time to reorganize
the party and give it a sense of direction but Mr Akpata failed to do so,"
he said, The party, he further said, had no alternative other than to remove
Mr Akpata in the interest of the party. Mr Anenih disclosed that the
national headquarters of the UPN had already directed that a state congress
of the party be held on Monday to rectify the removal of Mr Akpata and Dr
Egbune. The chairman described as baseless and of no consequence a statement
zecently credited to the NPN National Secretary, Alhaji Suleiman Takum to
the effect that the vote of no confidence passed on May 21 this year, on Mr
Akpata and Dr Egbune was illegal and unconstitutional, He declared that

"the removal of Mr Akpata and Dr Egbune is irrevocable." [Text] [Kaduna
NEW NIGERIAN in English 5 Jun 82 p 3]

KWARA TEACHERS STRIKE~-More than 1,000 primary school teachers in Oyi, Bik,
Asa, Owode and Ifelodun Local Government areas of Kwara State are now on
strike in protest against the non-payment of their salaries and allowances
since March, The teachers told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that they
had petitioned the State Legislature on their grievances and that they would
not call off the strike until their entitlement were paid. The Principal
Secretary of the state branch of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Mr Michael
Jolayemi, said that the State Government owed the teachers about N2.8 million
in salaries and allowances. Mr Jolayemi said that teachers in the 43
secondary schools taken over by the School Board in October last year had
also not been paid their May salaries, and warned that the teachers would go
on strike unless their salaries were paid immediately, The Permanent
Secretary in the state Ministry of Finance, Mr Emmanuel Oki, however, told
the State House of Assembly yesterday that funds had been released to the
state Ministry of Local Government for the payment of the teachers salaries.
The House had ordered the State Commissioner for Education and Local Govern-
ment to appear before it on Monday. (NAN) [Text] [Kaduna SUNDAY NEW
NIGERIAN in English 6 Jun 82 p 4]

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LIBERIA

BRIEFS

FRG LOAN--A loan agreement for nearly $3 million was signed in Monrovia today
between Liberian Government and the FRG for the implementation of the Katota
pipe-borne water project. Foreign Minister Dr Fahnbulleh signed on behalf
of the Liberian Government while the German ambassador to Liberia signed for
his government. [Excerpt] [AB012128 Monrovia Domestic Service in English
]100 GMr 1 Jul 82 AB]

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NIGER

FRENCH MINISTER DISCUSSES FRANCE'S AFRICAN POLICY
Niamey LE SAHEL in French 18 May 82 p 3

[Interview with Jean-Pierre Cot, French minister of cooperation and develop-
ment, by the staff of MEDIAS FRANCE INTERCONTINENTS [MEI], date and place
not specified]

[Excerpt] On the day before President Francois
Mitterrand's official trip to Nigeria, the Ivory
Coast and Senegal, Jean-Pierre Cot, the French
minister of cooperation and development, explained
to the FRANCE INTERCONTINENTS MEDIA AGENCY what
"France's African foreign policy," as he insistently
calls it, consists of and how the French govern-
ment puts this policy into practice.

[Question] If the activities of France abroad, the worldwide and prompt
aid that Paris provides to various Third World countries, are generally
known, what is less well known are the methods of the overseer of these
actions, the workings of the Ministry of Cooperation and Development. Mr
Minister, what is your department's role and with whom do you work?

[Answer] The Ministry of Cooperation and Development is a department in-
herited from the former Ministry of Cooperation. I say inherited because
it is in the process of transforming itself and increasing the scope of
its activity. The former ministry dealt only with bilateral relations
with the African states. The new one also has competence in the area of
multilateral relations, notably in what concerns relations with the World
Bank and with the European Development Fund. It will be better able to
mobilize the totality of French resources, multilateral as well as bilateral,
devoted to public aid for development. It is an administration which in-
cludes 15,000 cooperants, 1,500 functionaries and which, I must say, is

in the field, an efficient administration, with its agriculturalists, its
teachers, its geographers, its technicians. It is an administration which,
I believe, functions well and which the African states have, in the end,
learned to appreciate over the course of years.

33



NIGERIA

REASONS FOR BENDEL STATE BANKRUPTCY EXPLAINED

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 5 Jun 82 p 3

[article by Andrew Isibor]

[text]

THE establishment of the

’ Bendel State University, Ekpoma
is one of the the main causes of ;
the present financial woes of the .

Bendel State, the Deputy Gover-
nor of the state, Chief Denias
Akpore has said.
Another cause he gave was the
-continued: refusal of Governor
Ambrose Alli to accept valid ad-
vice and acknowledge the finan-
cial danger signals from 1980.
Chief Demas Akpore made
this accusation in His reply to a
letter of reproach by the Fans
Golden Club challenging him on
his condemnation of' the
establishment of the Bendel State
University. :
Chief Akpore noted that in his
last budget address, Governor
Alli made a vision of 122
million Naira for all sections
education j in the state. 4
that the governor in the *
same vein earniarked the ps of
61 million Naira (50 per cent of
the entire estimates) to be spent
on both the recurrent: and
capital) expenditures of the
‘Bendel State University,
2 deputy 8 wond
‘The governor lered
how Governor Alli could have ;
managed the remaining 61
million Naira for all other sec-
tions of education when at the
minimum of 13 million Naira per
month the governor required 156
millios for the payment of
teachers’ salaries alone this“
financial year. “

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Chief Akpore declared ‘‘the
financial situation in Bendel
State from the onset of Governor
Alli’s administration, the subse-
quent worsening -position of the
economy as a result of the much
noised oil glut, the failure eve:
month since the present ad-
ministration in arly c eae to

salaries ly, clearly in-
Ficated Jong ago that the idea of
the establishment of a university.
at this time was disastrous.” .

He said it was very clear to all
state government .functionaries
and members of the public that
the relentless competition of
other sectors of the state’s
economy with the area of educa-
tion was mounting daily with oc-
casiona! strikes and rumours of
strikes yet the governor con-
tinued. to. overlook " these
forebodings. © ">. .

The deputy overnor recalled ,
that in vember 1980, he hac
” suggested that a university af this
time was impracticable in the’
light of ‘existing financial cir-
cumstances. He said he had in-
dicated that the budgetary‘ re--
quest of 10 million Naira be
reduced to 10,000 Naira per an-
num.

He added that he also sug-
gested that activities in respect of
a university -be restricted to
feasibility studies but all these,
he said, were ignored by Gover-
nor Alli.



But this sum remains inadequate in terms of the achievements proposed in the
1982-1987 plan.

Indirect Taxes

With an initial estimate of 12,206,000,000 Malagasy francs, the total for
indirect taxes came to 14,743,000,000, representing an increase of 15 percent.
Again this is an addition to the state budget which is not negligible. But
the use of this amount also depends to a great extent on its distribution to
the various ministries. According to the prime minister's report, each minis-
try proved capable of managing its budget (for operations and in some cases
investments) and was thus able to undertake projects. Each ministry head,
however, will have to provide details. Following the address by Prime Minister
Desire Rakotoarijaona, it is also possible to state that, despite the crisis,
the officials are doing everything in their power to ensure that our revolu-
tion triumphs.

Registrations and Stamps

The taxes collected by the government on registries and stamps in 1981 came to
15,079,513,000 Malagasy francs in 1981, up 28 percent from the initial esti-
mate. The figures show that all the government estimates were exceeded, a
reflection of the effort made by the executive branch to ensure the triumph of
the Malagasy socialist revolution. We await the initiatives of the chief of
state, particularly in this period of crisis.

Malagasy Tax Monopoly Administration

While the total in 1980 came to 6,687,835,489 Malagasy francs, the figure was
up 47 percent in 1981 (9,852,554,441).

Customs Duties

Because of the decline in the volume of products imported by the Malagasy
state--an austerity requirement--the budget resources obtained from customs
duties were down 23 percent (51,818,527,668 Malagasy francs in 1980 as compared
to 39,525,551,619 in 1981). However, we believe that this reduction will make
it possible to relaunch national investments. However, we must plan to in-
crease our export products, our main source of foreign exchange.

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Another economist said he was not surprised by the tax
freeze because wage earners were already heavily taxed. “There
is virtually no more taxing to.do’’, he said. .

He said SAP was welcome on short-term considerations but
added that the programme’s long-term implications must
analysed to ensure that the ground gained was not lost.

The Union of Tanzania Workers Organisation (JUWATA)
Secretary-General, Ndugu Joseph Rwegasira, described as sad-
dening proposals to close down some industries and the
shelving of proposed projects.  _

“The closing of industries means layoffs and suspension of
projects implies reduced employment prospects... labour
movement would applaud this”, he explained.

. He added, however, that the decision was ‘“‘a necessary evil”
om account of the country’s difficult economic situation.

The Acting Head of the Dar es Salaam University Economics
Department, Dr. B.J. Ndulu, said the Government decision not
to raise tax rates was consolated by the hop. «1.<: the proposed
economic rehabilitation plan would increase production to
create a wider tax base.

“When industrial capacity utilisation reaches say, 60 per
cent the volume of production would expand, allowing collec-
tion of huge Sales Tax...The implication is to tax new products
rather than redistribution”, he explained.’

Dr. Ndulu, however, cautioned against further devaluation of
the shilling, saying that the exercise should halt at 20 per cent
devaluation which must be spread over a long period.

“Massive devaluation at a time will prove disastrous rather
than advantageous to the economy”, he said.

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eventually enable the United States to have a more balanced and objective view
of the Middle East crisis.

U.S.-Chinese relations will also be affected. The former secretary of state
opposed arms sales to Taiwan, because he feared jeopardizing relations with
China. The administration's insistence on continued arms sales to Taiwan
particularly annoyed Mr Haig as it undercut his efforts to strengthen U.S.
relations with Beijing, and thereby pressurize the Soviet Union. Many of
the administration's officials believed Mr Haig was rather too soft and re-
garded his. policy toward the Chinese as that of appeasement. It is not un-
likely U.S.-Chinese relations will witness a lot of friction following the
exit: of Mr Haig.

Since its inception, the present U.S. administration has not given serious
attention to African issues. Mr Haig did not seem to give much tought to
African problems. The U.S. foreign policy toward Africa had been widely un-
favorable to African aspirations. Last year, in a blatant act of bigpower
aggression, the United States shot down two Libyan air force jet fighters.
The United States has cut its aid to Africa.

More important is the United States' continued efforts to frustrate the inde-
pendence of Namibia. African countries are not impressed by Mr Haig's lLink-
age (?phases) on the Namibian independence. He wants the withdrawal of Cuban
troops to be linked with Nambian independence. To Africa, therefore, Mr
Haig's resignation is not particularly a matter of regret.

In Latin America Mr Haig's tilt toward Britain in the Falklands dispute has
seriously damaged U.S, relations with that region. Mr Haig was the major in-
stigator of U.S. policy in El Salvador where he planned to have a showdown
with the Soviet Union.

While welcoming the changes, we hope the new secretary of state will see is-
sues more objectively, rather than in a perverse East-West perspective, and
address himself positively to third world problems and aspirations.

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and Commerce to ask for
assistance and its advice.

The builders said they
had been informed by Inter-
Africa that they would now
be required to pay E4.04
per bag for all future sup-
plies and that the agents
were not prepared to con-
tinue to supply them unless
they agreed in writing to the
new price.

One contractor wrote:
“We have always
understood that the price

‘for cement in Swaziland

was controlled and that any
Price changes would first be
published in the Govern-
ment Gazette. Therefore, it
would appear that we
would be quite wrong to ac-
cept a price change without
the proper official notifica-
tion and could be assisting
in the circumvention of the
law by agreeing to accept,
in writing, an ungazetted
change.”

According to the contrac-
tors, the agents had pointed
out that this was due to a
lack of clinker, the raw
material from Mozambi-
que, and that as a result,

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Matola were no longer able
to produce cement
themselves but were impor-
ting from South Africa in
bulk and bagging at Mat-
sapha, thus the need for 2

price rise. -

Wrote one contractor:
“Altogether, it would ap-
pear that we are now faced
in Swaziland with a sit
tion where the producer
attempting to control the
supply, set the price and
dictate retailers business
methods.”

To ail the builders, the
Ministry of Industry
replied: ‘‘May you be in-
formed that at present mo-
ment, the main subject mat-
ter, price increase on ce-
ment, is at the hands of the
high ‘authorities. You will
soon be informed of the
outcome.”

When asked for comment
yesterday, a very senior of-
ficial at the Ministry
replied: ‘You. must never
ask me things out of my
line. I have finished and
eannot help you.””



Fulani Leader

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 2 Jun 82 p 21

[text]

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FEDERAL and state govern-
ments have been called upon to
come to the aid of cattle Fulanis
now scattered in bushes
throughout the country.

Making the call in Kaduna last
weekend, the National Secretary
of Miyetti Allah Cattle Fulani
Association, Alhaji. Shehu
Abubakar, said the nomadic life
of these people had made any
development efforts for them dif-
ficult

‘Alhaji Shehu Abubakar said for
any meaningful development for
the cattle Fulanis-to take place,
they should first be given perma-
nent settlement, including provi-
sion of enough grazing grounds
for their animals.

He recalled that during the col-
conial days, there were “burutali”

for cattle rearers. He said this
practice had since been ignored.

Alhaji Shehu Abubakar noted
that lack of official grounds for
cattle rearers had been the
major cause of disputes between
the cattle Fulanis and the
farmers. He said a solution
should be found to this problem.

He believed. that if the Green
Revolution. programme ig to be
successful. governments..should
give equal assistance to both crop: 5
and livestock farmers.

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TENSION BUILDS UP AT POWER PROJECT

Mbabane THE SWAZI OBSERVER in English 19 Jun 82 p 1

[Article by Mandla Magagula]

[text]

A member of the Works
Council, Mr Zeblon Tsabe-
dze, accused the manage-
ment of ignoring the cou-
ntry’s policy of settling
industrial disputes by
peaceful - _ negotiations
instead of resorting to
strike action.

Mr Tsabedze said since
the four-day strike by
workers at the hydro-
electric site last month, the
management had done
nothing to remove the
workers’ grievances.

He said the administra-
tive manager, Mr Ian Trela
who is also secretary of the
Works Council, had “co-
nsistently refused to dis-
cuss our problems.”

Mr Tsabedze said the
workers’ pleas had fallenon

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deaf ears despite telling Mr
Trela that “our leaders
have said we should sit’
down and thrash out our
problems peacefully”..

“tn fact, Mr Trela told
us that the company will do
nothing to improve the lot
of the workers until it
completes its contract in
Swaziland,” said Mr Tsa-
bedze.

Asked to comment on the
allegations Mr Trela said:
“As far as I am concerned,
the matter has been reso-
lved”. *

He refused to discuss the
matter further and ordered
me ,to leave the premises
immediately.

Mr Tsabedze also accu-
sed the Labour Departme-
nt’s failure to help in solving

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SWAZILAND

TENSION is building up between workers and
the management of the George Wimpey Inter-
national, contractors of the Luphohlo Hydro-
Electric scheme, because of the management’s
alleged refusal to discuss the workers’
grievances with the Works Council.

their problems.

He said during the recent
strike an official from the
department told a delega-
tion of the workers that
there was nothing it could
do against the company.

“This was discouraging
because we thought the Go-
vernment would protect the
interests of both sides,”
said Mr Tsabedze.

Some of the office staff
supporttd Mr Tsabedze
and said workers were
unhappy about the way Mr
Trela was handling their
problems.

The Labour Commissio-
ner, Mr Ralph Bhembe,
said the workers should
channel their complaints
through the Works Council.



Pressed

The minister, on being pressed by Brigadier Probert, replied that the guards
in question would not be subject to investigation by the Ombudsman, The
brigadier reacted with: "Is that justice, is that right, is that correct?"

Mr Paddy Shields asked the minister whether the clause in question conformed
with the Lancaster House agreement, but he was not answered,

The chairman of committees, Mr James Bassoppo-Moyo put the clause to the
House and Mr Van der Byl called for a division but no vote was taken because
the independents, ZAPU, and the UANC siding with the Government meant that
less than 10 votes would be opposed to the clause, and the clause was carried.

Line-Up

As the eight RF MPs began lining up on the one side of the House and the rest
on the other side, Mr Dennis Divaris (Independent, Kopje) began to call for a
point of order, but was drowned out by Mr Van der Byl, who called out loudly
that Mr Divaris could not mke a point of order during a division if he was
"uncovered" (without his hat on),

The Committee Stage was carried without any amendment.
Mr Mubako asked the House for permission to take the Third Reading immediately

but Brigadier Probert objected, and the Third Reading will be taken on Tuesday
next week.

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LOCALLY MADE FIREARMS TO BE WITHDRAWN

Harare THE HERALD in English 18 Jun 82 p 3

[text]

BULAWAYO

ZIMBABWE

LOCALLY manufactured firearms are being withdrawn because they are

“unsafe”, Central Firearms Registry and police sources have confirmed.

‘None could estimate

the number involved.
* The guns, all sub-
machineguns, are licensed
as semi-sutomatie machine
Pi the registry.
“They are Cobra, TS-3,
Commando, A
GM 15 and Scorpion. The.
sources said there -were
thousands of them in cir-
culation among private
citizens.

This is the first time
anything has been said
about the firearms being
declared unsafe. People
who have been trying to
re-register the guns have
been simply turned down,

Thousands have given
up trying to re-register
and are handing them in
to police stations before
the re-registration dead-
line expires. -

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Local manufacturers
cashed in on the lucrative
firearms market during
the Uberation war when
the Rhodesian regime
could not import enough
guns because of the
United Nations embargo.

A CFR source said: “We
regard the gums as not &
good weapon for home
protection. They are not
safe at all and are dan-
gerous to their handlers.”

He could not say how

the decision to withdraw
them had been reached,
but “I can agsure you this
decision was made high
up”.
Police sources in Bula-
wayo said there was a@
“steady strear of the
guns being handed in by
people who coulu not re-
register



Jorge Costa and other infiltrators did not flee. They were expelled by the
dynamics of a process which inexorably determines who its enemy is in every
phase and inexorably brings about the early collapse of dissimulating maneuvers.

The concept of the nation, accepted and united against threats to its survival
that come from abroad, does not eliminate the class struggle which propels and
runs through all structures of our society.

That is why the Political and Organizational Offensive on the domestic level,
of which the Offensive for Legality is a part, "must" operate in parallel with
the joint offensive by the nation against the armed gangs financed and sent
into our country by South Africa.

That is why the internal enemy has sought at all levels, to some extent success-
fully, to block and ward off the blows being struck against it by those offen-=
sives.

That is why the survival of bureaucracy, departmentalism, technocracy, and the
coincident and multiple failings and shortcomings that have been felt in the
field of production and supply can objectively be attributed to the conscious
acts of sabotage practiced by the internal enemy in collusion with the Republic
of South Africa.

That is why the organized people must take back into their own hands responsi-
bility for deeper involvement in both the internal offensive and the struggle
against the armed gangs.

That is why it is imperative and urgent to deepen the offensive within the vari-
ous branches of the Defense and Security Forces, the state apparatus, and the
economic sectors. That is why it is imperative to unmask and neutralize those
who have’ been and are sabotaging the offensive from within and preventing it
from developing to its fullest expression. This is a matter of vigilance that
we must direct above all at our own structures so that the weaknesses that en-
courage and strengthen the enemy can no longer be called shortcomings.

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Fassinou Marcel, 14 years of age.
Adognon Bertin, 31 years of age.
Akowanou Felix, 13 years of age.
Hounguevou Michel, 32 years of age.
Hounkpe Segonan, 35 years of age.
Oussou Damase, 30 years of age.

5. Zou Province

Ogouma Etienne, 30 years of age.
Aguessi Jean, 17 years of age.
Gbaguidi Jean, 16 years of age.
Gnonlongan Gabriel, 13 years of age.
Hountcha Charles, 11 years of age.
Soungbohe Theophile, 34 years of age.
Behanzin Michel, 31 years of age.
Ahamada Andre, 33 years of age.
Djeco Clautaire, 17 years of age.
Zodehougan Leonard, 23 years of age.
Djakpo Clement, 24 years of age.
Hefoummey Remy, 18 years of age.
Nouagobi Albert, 42 years of age.
Dagbeto Louis Glele, 28 years of age.
Azanai Ephrem, 23 years of age.
Agbohounme Pascal, 16 years of age.
Lougbegnon Alfred, 22 years of age.
Gangbo Nestor, 22 years of age.

6. Foreigners

Sia Daniel, 16 years of age.
Kouekou Ama, 26 years of age.

John Daouda, 26 years of age.
Raphael Gnonboule, 21 years of age.
Obitchere Valentin, 32 years of age.
Kalo Djoma, 34 years of age.

Nana Samuel, 33 years of age.
Kamarou D. Fassola, 16 years of age.
Johnson Jacob, 22 years of age.

Oke Djamma, 27 years of age.
Ogouyomi Alias, 25 years of age.
Igbe Olegoun, 19 years of age.
Choka Antoine, 21 years of age.
Debayenon Tossou, 40 years of age.
Tchegbedi Jerome, 33 years of age.
Kouemigan Ekoe, 20 years of age.
Lawson Eboe, 20 years of age.
Mitognihoun Lucien, 41 years of age.
Sohou Kouam, 14 years of age.
Youssou, Sal, 23 years of age.



FURTHER OPINION ON RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL

NIGERIA

Kaduna SUNDAY NEW NIGERIAN in English 30 May 82 p 3

[Article by Asuquo Edet in Gausu Ahmad's colum:

Relations With Israel?--Rejoinder"]

[text]
Today; ! am donating this

column to Mr. Edet who has a dif-
ferent opinion from mine on the
question whether Nigeria should
renew relations with Israel, an arti-
cle | wrote which was published
by this paper an May 9, 1982.

Dear Gausu:

Your article failed woefully to
convince any Nigerian nationa-
list as to why our resumption of
ties with Israel is not to our na-
tional interest. Even your invoca-
tion of the Kissingerian concept
of linkage did not help in the.
matter. Instead, it exposes your
shollowness.

One expected you to define ‘na-
tional interest’ but you didn’t
because this is one of the tripods
on which your arguments stood.
You deliberately skipped the
vital aspect of the issue by feign-
ing ignorance of a “‘clear defini-
tion” of what Nigeria’s national
interests are.-Again, your com-
parision ef ANC and PLO vis-a-
vis their relationship with South:
Africa and Israel is dubious.

Now, let’s get to the basics and:
the dynamics of the matter. What
constitute national interests are
those intrinsic and vital factors
that enhance, maintain,

guard and “consolidate national
institutions and character. These
factors. may be political,
econimic or social and in interna-
tional relations the mechanics of
protecting and preserving these
factors are fluid indeed. This
aspect is what has given rise to
the concept of “no permanent
friend, no permanent enemy’’.

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"Should Nigeria Renew

Nigeria cannot be said to be
outside this definition. So, what
you would have done to convince
Nigerians in this regard would
have been to show how these in-
trinsic and vital factors will be
threatened by our resumption of
ties with Israel. You failed or,
deliberately closed your eyes to
the fact that Nigeria doesn't ex-
ists ina vaccum: that she belongs
to international organisations 1
like OAU and UNO. That Nigeria
didn’t in the first place break ties
with Israel because. her vital in-
terests were threatened - but
because of her association in the
OAU.

Gausu, you deliberately failed
to mention the Arab factor in
your write-up. Those who strong-
y advocate resumption of.

iiplomatic ties with Isreal are do-
ing so because of glaring Arab
treachery, These are the facts. At
the initiation of Yom Kippor War
by the Arabs, Nigeria played her
brotherly role by breaking
diplomatic ties with Israel. The
Arabs, whose use of oil as a
political weapon in the first place
and which has partially led to our
economic woes today, refused ta
help our less fortunate African
countries through reduced oil
price, inspite of Nigeria's in-
tervention and pleadings. They
sold their oil at the same price to’
all irrespective of the diplomatic
suport they recieved from
African countries. To placate us,
they established a bogus develop-
ment fund that never took off.



Houessou Justin, 42 years of age.
Kponso Theophile, 42 years of age.
Lanfonkponde Nazaire, 18 years of age.
da Costa Roger, 18 years of age.

Azoha Jean, 14 years of age.
Zodehougnan Hyacinthe, 29 years of age.
Aballo Antoine, 41 years of age.

3. Mono Province

Sossaminou Yaovi, 28 years of age.
Aite Godfroyd, 22 years of age.
Eclou Parfait, 19 years of age.
Hounza Comlan, 24 years of age.
Ayaovi Georges, 19 years of age.
Ramaou Francois, 20 years of age.
Ahouanye Magloire, 18 years of age.
Agbegnigan Eugene, 36 years of age.
Amoussouguenou Dominique, 31 years of age.
Kpotanhinto Basile, 23 years of age.
Degboe Vital, 18 years of age.
Hounkpe Alfred, 22 years of age.

4. Oueme Province

Bayaki Latifou, 20 years of age.
Saizonou Albert, 36 years of age.
Kabirou Liadi, 25 years of age.
Logbo Felicien, 22 years of age.
Dossou Kiki, 28 years of age.
Agossou Houndjenoukan, 26 years of age.
Vianou Sebastien, 16 years of age.
Siaka Waissi, 30 years of age.
Lawani Ramanou, 21 years of age.
Nandjimou Adechinan, 33 years of age.
Odou Pascal, 32 years of age.
Sohoungohoue, 18 years of age.
Agossou Djoyi, 20 years of age.
Akplogan Richard, 22 years of age.
Klika Jean, 18 years of age.
Koulafoke Jean, 22 years of age.

Eloi Pie, 12 years of age.

Bonou Etienne, 16 years of age.
Hinnouho Honfo, 38 years of age.
Zinsou Gbossemede, 24 years of age.
Mehounou Sourou, 20 years of age.
Okounde Agbavayinon, 22 years of age.
Dakpogan Medard, 13 years of age



NIGER

FOREIGN COMPANIES RAPPED FOR FAILURE TO INVEST IN COUNTRY
Niamey LE SAHEL in French 12 May 82 p 3
[Article by Arbi: "Arbi's Proposal"]

{Text] I no longer remember who said this the other day at a management
conference, but, it must be admitted, he was perfectly right. The large
corporations of the square, at least certain ones, and particularly those
established in our country for quite a long time, have a tendency to take
Niger for a "milk cow" and nothing else. Yes, nothing else.

Probably too busy making "CFAs," they practically never make themselves
talked about. Not on the radio, or elsewhere. They do not advertise in
our newspapers, because they have no need of publicity. They do not invest
in our country because all profits must be repatriated. They do not build
either for their management people or for their...seat of operations.

They undertake nothing, because they do not want to spend anything.

They just barely manage, from time to time, to apply a coat of paint, or
install a few shiny windows in the front of the old buildings that have
sheltered them for more than a century.

Could these companies not take advantage of the sort of time out, decided
on by the government, to invest in the country by building, for example,
some new buildings? This would have the advantage of proving that they
are participating in the effort of the country toward its development and
toward its social tranquility since the time out risks putting "to rest"
for a short time, hundreds of qualified workers.

Myself, I think that they could. You need only to consider the example of
the BIAO. A masterpiece, this building!

But, you'll see; once again they are going to say: "The BIAO [International
Bank for West Africa]...that's the BIAO!"

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Mr Mubako said that the reason for excluding the services from investigation
was "above all, security."

Security

"For the time being it is not possible to extend jurisdiction of the Ombudsman
to the services because it might have the result of investigating the activ-
ities of the defence forces and the police and the prison services too much

to the detriment of the security of the State," Mr Mubako said.

He also pointed out that the Bill made provision for the President to allow
the Ombudsman to investigate the areas in question.

For the time being however, he believed it better than the Ombudsman confine
his activities to “ordinary civilian" sections of the Government.

Mr Van der Byl said that if the provision to give the Ombudsman the additional
jurisdiction was contained in the Bill, the Government should extend that
jurisdiction now.

Issue

‘What is the issue that suddenly might make it desirable to do so in the
future when it is at present anathema?" he asked.

Mr Mubako also said that if the areas concerned were allowed to be investi-
gated, the Ombudsman would be flooded with complaints.

Prisoners would complain over the fact that they were in prison and those
apprehended by police would complain simply because they had been arrested,

Mr Van der Byl replied that there was already provision in the Bill for
"£rivolous" complaints to be disposed of. He said the minister was "missing
the point and obscuring the issue with a very erudite mass of verbiage."

Mr Mubako recalled the 1969 Rhodesian republican constitution which had also
had provision for an Ombudsman but also without jurisdiction to investigate
the armed service or the police.

Brigadier John Probert (RF, Borrowdale), the RF's new Chief Whip spelt out
what he called "a postulation" for the minister to consider.

"Suppose the President's motorcade was on the way back from Marondera and on
one of the people traveling in the motorcade opened up with his gun on a car
that didn't get out of the way, and injured one person, or suppose that a
person did not get out of the way fast enough and one of the guards put his
rifle butt through the windscreen and assaulted the persons in the car, would
the Ombudsman be committed to investigate?" he asked, :

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LESOTHO

BRIEFS

AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS--Lesotho's ambassador to Mozambique, His

Excellency D, Makoae, yesterday presented his credentials to President Canaan
Banana of Zimbabwe [Text] [MB021230 Maseru Domestic Service in English
1130 GME 1 Jul 82 MB]

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CALL FOR RESTRUCTURING OF ISIAMIC EDUCATION
Accra GHANAIAN TIMES in English 25 Jun 82 p 2
[Editorial]

[text]

HE Secretary for the Western Region, Dr M. A.
Appiah, has_ called for the immediate re-
structuring of Islamic education because, In his
opinion, the Islamic system does not benefit the
society; besides, it falls to prepare pupils for any
particular profession or career. He also noted that
the system creates “redundant people who in-
dulge In black marketing, smuggling, gambling
and other vices, or depend on alms for livell-
hood,” and finally advised Muslims to move away
from buying and selling on the pavements and
enter into the productive sector.

We disagree with the Regional Secretary’s
comments on Islamic education, because they
cannot be supported by the facts. Historically it Is
Islam and not Christianity that gave Ghanaians
their first formal education. Indeed, up till today
the only non-colonialist alternative to colonial re-
cords of our country and of all other West African
countries are the Islamic Arabic sources; and so
today no book of history on Ghana or West Africa
Is respected If it shies away from Islamic sources.
The only Christian missionary source which
comes close to this enviable record are the Ger-
man missionaries who worked here.

In order to deny the ‘natives’ an alternative
source of written records to compare with their
own, the colonialists conducted a campaign of
Intimidation and harassment against Islamic edu-
cation In West Africa, especially In Ghana. They
effectively barred graduates of Islamic schools
from any work opportunities unless they went
through the colonial educational system. The
colonial teachers refused to recognize Islamic
names and forced Moslems to adopt white Christ-
fan names before they were allowed to be educa-
ed.

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UGANDA

ZAIRE

Reaction to Budget Speech
(Mkumbwa Ally; DAILY NEWS, 19 Jun 82)....... ween een e ee nane

Isles Budget Session Ends
(Abdallah Yakuti; DAILY NEWS, 19 Jun 82).........eeeeeeeeee

Fuel Shortage Hits ATC
(DAILY NEWS, 23 Jun 82)....cceccecceeecccsecnccccececeseees

Premier Explains Food Situation
(DAILY NEWS, 25 Jun 82)... ccc cece cece c cece cece ceeeee weno

Briefs
‘Two New MP's

Democratic Party, Journalists Urged To Combat Violence
(Asuman Nakembo; UGANDA TIMES, 1 Jun 82)...

IDA Grants 70 Million Dollars for Economy
(UGANDA TIMES, 3 Jun 82).....

Role of Co-ops in Coutry Called Vital
(UGANDA TIMES, 3 Jun 82)......

Briefs
Railway Agreement With Tanzania

Intemal Developments Received by Brussels Paper
(LE SOIR, 22 Jun 82)... ... cece cece cece cece ere r ec eenee fees

Three Financing Agreements With France Signed
(ELIMA, 6 May 82)....cecceceeceeeees deeeeeeee seeeee seeeee

Union Leader Wars Textile Workers Not Wo Strike
(Elonga Adjadje; ELIMA, 6 May 82).......... eee cacncccccee

Call To Keep JMPR Patrols Honest
(Mbulumbulu Mulamba; ELIMA, 5 May 82)........se-eeeeeee .

New Gas-Generating Engines Presented
CELIMA, 5 May 82).c.ecceeccccccccccccccccceeccers seeceeee

Curfew Imposed for Minors in City
(ELIMA, 5 May 82).

Agents Harass Market Women
(N'zinga Nsingi; ELIMA, 5 May 82)

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ZAIRE

CURFEW IMPOSED FOR MINORS IN CITY
Kinshasa ELIMA in French 5 May 82 p 2
[Article: "CADER [expansion unknown] placed at disposal of tow commandant'"]

[Text] Last Thursday at the City Hall a large meeting having to do with
the problems of security of property and persons was held under the chair-
manship of Sakombi Ekope, regional chairman of the MPR and governor of the
city of Kinshasa, in which the battalion commanders of the gendarmerie and
the commissioners of the capital zone participated.

During that important meeting the chief of the Urban Executive stressed
particularly the need for harmony in relations between the municipal author-—
ities and the commanders of the gendarmerie section of the city of Kinshasa.

The city's first official called for a monthly meeting of the regional
security council to review the general situation in the city.

The governor decided to place the CADER at the disposal of the town com
mandant in order to permit the gendarmerie to carry out a thorough-going
and vigorous program to protect property and persons.

He also asked the zonal commissioners and the population as a whole to
support the gendarmerie for the complete success of this wide-ranging
action, whose success the authorities are taking for granted.

On this same subject of security, the urban authorities announced that,
pending the publication of the decree regulating the movement of minors,
there would be a curfew beginning at 8:00 pm Thursday 29 April, throughout
the whole city of Kinshasa, forbidding the movement out-of-doors of children
unaccompanied by their parents. The regional chairman promised the city
commandant his whole-hearted and sincere cooperation for all the actions

he would take on behalf of the Kinshasa population. The deputy governors

of the city, Kpama Baramaoto Kata and Nzita Pwati, as well as the city
commandant, Colonel Banzenge, attended this meeting.

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Based on the principle that commerce and all resulting profit are perfectly legal,
there consequently exist several variants or methods of financing and participation
which DMI may put into practice.

In certain cases, the Islamic Bank acts as a shareholder, financing various
projects, or as trustee or manager of funds from client savings. It succeeds

in covering its administrative expenses and ensuring an entirely legal margin of
profit that is reflected in the dividends to be distributed to shareholders and
on the profits paid to the clients of Islamic joint deposit accounts (an account
blocked for a certain period).

Reserves are formed by the profits realized, and shareholders, as well as
clients, have full discretion to reinvest their profits in order to make them

produce better results.

DMI will take action in all sectors of the national economies (fisheries,
industry, agriculture, trade, etc.), thus responding to the priority concerns
of the leaders and of the private sector.

[Question] There were a few restrictions, though...

[Answer] The only restriction concerns affairs closely or indirectly affecting
trade in alcohol or pork or games of chance, which are prescribed by Islam.

[Question] What possibility of control do you have on the ultimate use of the
funds?

[Answer] Financial institutions owe it to themselves to control the exact use
of available funds which are mobilized only for production purposes and not
for current consumption. This action will be taken in a direct manner, for
example, by purchasing the material necessary to construct a plant, a hospital,
etc.

[Question] And the poor fee?

[Answer] The payment of this fee called the "Zakat" is one of the five pillars
of Islam and it is incumbent on each of us to pay it. The method of calculating
this "Zakat" will be indicated on all profits or dividends distributed.

[Question] Let's talk now about West Africa, of which you are the general
coordinator. What reception was the DMI initiative given? Where do you stand
at present?

{Answer] The first African countries to respond to the founders' invitation
are Senegal, Guinea, Morocco and Nigeria,

The first public subscription of $2 million launched in Guinea on 1] February

has been completely sold. What delights us the most was the large number of
Guineans who displayed their confidence in DMI.

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MALI

ALGERIA PROVIDING OIL STORAGE FACILITY AID
Bamako L'ESSOR in French 2 Jun 82 p 3

[Article by L. D. G. Traore: "Mali, Algeria Cooperate on Construction of
Storage Tanks in Gao and Timbuktu]

[Text] PETROSTOCK, which was established in March of 1981 and has its head-
quarters in Kinzambugu, representing an innovation in government policy in the
realm of storage and distribution of oil products on our national territory,
has been providing businessmen with services for some months now. And where
it is functioning most successfully, it owes its success to the excellent
cooperation relations linking us with certain adjacent countries, in particu-
lar the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (RADP).

Thus, within the framework of the plan for the development of storage and dis-
tribution infrastructures for oil products on the territory of Mali, it was
decided during the fourth session of the mixed Algerian-Malian committee which
was held in December 1981 to draft documents finalizing the feasibility studies
on the plans for the construction of storage tanks for hydrocarbons in Gao and
Timbuktu. These documents were submitted to our government the day before yes-
terday during a ceremony at which the political secretary of the UDPM
[Democratic Union of Malian People] and minister of public works and transport,
Mr Djibril Diallo, presided.

The first speaker was his excellency.Mr Moundjid, ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary of the RADP to Mali. He made a point of stressing the charac~
teristics of the cooperation in which our two countries have engaged within
the framework and to the benefit of their development.

"Tt is well, therefore," he said, "simply to recall that the cooperation in
question is first of all that which links the two countries engaged in the
struggle for development in an extension of the battle they waged for their
independence and freedom. It is, moreover, cooperation which the circumstances
and the stakes in the world today impose upon us.

"It is by this token that it represents an important factor and a definite en-
couragement to the relations and trade between African and Third World coun-
tries. It is in addition an illustration of the positive good-neighbor
policy to which our respective governments are committed and a factor favoring
the blossoming of our subregion.

20



Territorial administration
Justice

Armed forces

National education

Youth and sports

Information and culture

Finance

Economy and planning

Tourism

Scientific and technical agency
Agriculture

Stock breeding, fisheries and animal husbandry
Mines and energy

Equipment

Town planning and housing
Public health

Social affairs

Post and telecommunications
Transport

Public service

7,301,444,000 CFA francs
3,373 ,453 ,000
27,796,006 ,000
40,446 ,000,000
3 226,186,000
2,300,320, 000
9,291,280,000
2, 605,348,000
659,565,000
730,744,000
7 265,525,000
2,208,827 ,000
1,019,940,000
14,050, 105,000
8,525,061,000
13 ,827,000,000
20,348,709, 000
6,309, 246,000
1,424,153 ,000

1,457,120,000

The amount allocated to internal public debts stands at 5,315,500,000 CFA

francs compared with 5,627,015,000 last year.

The interventions by the state

will amount to 37,564,756,000 CFA francs and common expenses will amount to

27,732 ,285,000 CFA francs, [passage omitted]

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It was when President Samora with the full wéight of a legitimate representa-
tive of our people at the end of his speech ordered the removal of the tags
with the names of the former war criminals that the-loudest applause and shouts
of joy were heard. Singing and dancing transformed the hall into an immense
sea of happiness.

All merged into a whole of determination. It was a day of removal of all
stigmas, it was a day to figure in the calendar of future generations, a
warning to those who intend to violate our sovereignty and reduce us to
slavery.

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25



UGANDA

IDA GRANTS 70 MILLION DOLLARS FOR ECONOMY
Kampala UGANDA TIMES in English 3 Jun 82 p 16

{vext] support for economic recovery in Uganda will be continued through a
70m dollar credit, the International Development Association (IDA) announced
here.

In June 1981, Uganda introduced a financial programme to revive the depressed
and faltering economy, This programme, which involved floating the Ugandan
shilling, removing administered price controls, increasing agricultural
producer prices, utility tariffs and interest rates and reforming taxation
has helped start an economic revival, It was supported by an IMF stand-by
arrangement and by reconstruction lending. This first round of assistance
of 72.5m dollars was approved in 1980.

As a further step the Uganda government announced a two year recovery
programme in April 1982 designed to channel domestic resources and external
assistance into sectors and projects most likely to raise production and
improve the country's foreign exchange position. Priority is to be given to
the production of export crops, basic consumer goods, building materials and
agricultural inputs and the improvement of transport and communications.
Resources will be concentrated on the most urgent rehabilitation needs. The
recovery programme was also the government's basic document at a consultative
group meeting convened by the World Bank on May 18 and 19 in Paris.

The government will use the IDA Credit over a nine month period to finance
the importation of essential agricultural inputs, spare parts and raw
materials necessary to stimulate production in line with its recovery
programme, The programme will also strengthen the government's capacity to
formulate and implement policies and programmes in the critical areas of
pricing and marketing of export crops, administration, planning and foreign
exchange allocation, semi-public organizations and external debt management.

The IDA credit is for 50 years including 10 years of grace; carries no
interest but bears a small annual service charge of 0.5 percent on the

undisbursed balances of the credit and 0.75 percent on the disbursed
balance.

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94



ISLES BUDGET SESSION ENDS

Dar-es-Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 19 Jun 82 p 1

[Article by Abdallah Yakutil

[text]

THE Zanzibar House of Representatives has approved
the Appropriation Bill allowing the Isles Government to
draw 1,364.2 million/- out of the Consolidated Fund for
public expenditures for the 1982/83 financial year.

The Bill also empowers the
Zanzibar Minister for Finance
to: Te-allocate certain ap-
Propriations or effect sup-
plementaries if he thinks they
are necessary in the public in-
terest. .

The House, which wound
its three-week budget session
here yesterday, also approved
the Financial Law
(Miscellaneous Amendments)
Act of 1982 which revises the
schedule of fees for
registration’ of business
names, marriages, divorces
and stamp duties.

_ Presenting the Bill to the
,House, Finance Minister
Mohammed Ramia said the
slight fee increases were in-
tended to meet operational
expenses of the Administrator
General in preparing
registration deeds.

Closing the ssession, the
Leader of - Government
Business in the House, Ndugu
Ramadhan Haji, appealed for
disciplined use of approved
funds to avoid  over-
expenditures. _

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87

He said ministries’ should
strive to operate within the
approved expenditure levels
because the Treasury would

“not be in a position to approve
supplementary votes.

The Minister told the
House that shortage of
trained manpower and
foreign exchange would con-
tinue to. affect the per-
formance of Zanzibar’s key
production sectors during the
year, but said efforts were
being made to train the
required personnel and to give
priority to necessary imports.

“He said during the 1981/82
financial year, there were 142
students pursuing various
technical courses in the
Mainland’s institutions of
higher learning and 90 others
were abroad.

Ndugu Haji also informed
the Representatives that the
government was evolving a
programme to absorb school
leavers in state farms and
teaching in an effort to tackle
unemployment among
priniary school leavers.

‘The House adjourned to a
date to be announced later.

TANZANIA



VALCO'S DECISION AGAINST REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS, ASSERTS RAWLINGS

Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in English 21 Jun 82 pp 1, 5

[text] The decision by the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) to shut down one
of its five pot-lines at the Tema Smelter site is aimed at creating socio-
political problems in the country, Flt-Lt. J.J. Rawlings, chairman of the
PNDC has said.

The PNDC Chairman said it was also aimed at thwarting the advancement of
the revolutionary process going on in the country.

Fit-Lt. Rawlings made these observations when he opened a ten-day Cadre
School for the Armed Forces' Defence Committee (AFDC) at the Afienya Youth
Training Centre near Tema last Saturday.

The school, which is being attended by 100 members of the AFDC drawn from
the Greater Accra area, is to educate the soldiers on the aims and objectives
of the revolution and the role they are expected to play in it.

Flt-Lt Rawlings explained that because of the on-going revolution which is
Meant to create awareness among the masses ‘of this country, there are attempts
by VALCO and other multinationals to cripple the economy thus creating socio-
political problems.

The PNDC Chairman pointed out that the problems of this country stemmed from
the activities of the multinationals and that the current revolution is
meant to cut off the stronghold these companies have got on Ghana.

"Unlike June 4, we will now concentrate on the big cheats and not just minor
and superficial cheats we see in the Makola Markets," he stated.

"We have to do away with the situation which makes us to serve other people's
economy," the Chairman stressed.

Explaining the tricks and techniques used by the so-called developed countries
to get a firm hold on peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America, F1t-Lt.
Rawlings maintained that foreign aid which is supposedly meant to help these
countries rather enslaved them,



He, however, called upon the local press also to contribute "your share
in condemning these acts of violence unreservedly. You have the means if
you have the will," he said.

Mr Muwanga cautioned some local newspapers to refrain from being used by
some cheap politicians some of whom he said were criminals in disguise.

He warned those loca] journalists who may be interested in encouraging
violence "the moment you do so you are digging your own grave, Therefore
don't associate yourselves with crime."

He revealed that the UPC had so far lost a big number of its supporters
and named some of the most recent incidents in Busiro county, Mpigi District
and other areas in Kampala District.

He added that a few days back a UPC chairman was gunned down at Abayita-Abab
Ababiri, another one was gunned down at Najanankumbi and over the weekend a
UPC chairman was abducted and shot at Nsimbe on Kampala-Masaka road.

"It is clear that all these acts are politically motivated but on our part
we are committed to following the guidelines recently laid down by President
Obote and the UPC policy of no revenge."

Mr Muwanga re-assured the journalists that everything was being done to
ensure that relationship between the army and the civilians "is as good as
it should be, But let civilians not invite bandits in their own areas,"
he said.

He told the people encouraging violence: ‘The UPC government is here until
the year 1985 and we are not going to give up no matter how many UPC supporters
are killed."

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93



INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS RECEIVED BY BRUSSELS PAPER

PM021503 Brussels LE SOIR in French 22 Jun 82 p 1
{Unattributed report: "Zaire: Postponement of Deupties' Trial"]

[Text] The trial of 13 Zairian deputies accused <of trying to form an op-
position party has been postponed to 28 June according to one of the accused's
two Belgian lawyers.

The trial was due to start in Kinshasa on Saturday. Mr Robert Goffin and Mr
Eric Vergauwen, the two Brussels lawyers, who have still not obtained visas
from the Zairian Embassy in Bruzzels, had asked for the trial to be postponed.

In addition, according to Zairian sources in Paris, 12 doctors considered to
be the ringleaders of the strike which was staged last week at the Mama Yemo
Hospital in Kinshasa have been arrested.

According to these sources their colleagues are being questioned by the police,
but a number of officials are apparently reluctant to conduct these interro-
gations for fear of being included on a "black list" drawn up by the medical
corps and of subsequently being deprived of medical care.

The Zairian Government, which is refusing to give in to the striking doctors'
demands, has apparently requisitioned 32 practitioners.

Cancellation of All Gun Licenses

On the basis of reports that some containers brought into Zaire "without ade-
quate checks" contain arms and not goods, the Zairian Government has decided
that all gun licenses will be cancelled and that measures governing the pos-
session of weapons will be revised, including those relating to missionaries
and diplomats.

In addition the cabinet has decided to review and strengthen legislation
on the residence and movement of foreigners in the mining cities and in Inga
(lower Zaire). Unemployed foreigners and bogus businessmen will be expelled
from the national territory.

The government spokesman justified these decisions by the resurgence in
fraudulent exports of precious substances and by the "alarming" appearance
of an illicit influx of forged foreign currency.

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emancipation by identify-
ing and removing all
customary, social, econ-
omic and legal disabilities
preventing . equality be-
tween. men and women.

African customary law
would te reviewed, parti-
cularly in the spheres of
divorce, | cus’ and
guardianship of children
and ownership, of pro-
perty.

A youtn development
programme would’ be im-
plemented by providing
relevant training and put-
ting the Zimbabwe Young
Peoples’ Service Pro-
gramme into full opera-
tion. Ten provincial and
eight district skills-train-
ing centres would have a
total intake of more than
11000 trainee youths.
Youth brigades would be
formed throughout the
country.

President Banana said
the Government intended
to review all existing land
tenure systems and. to
formulate a system of
tenure. for resettlement
areas watch ould even-
tually provide the basis
for a unified land tenure

In addition, efforts
“would: be concentrated on
an expanded resettlement
programme and on bring+
ing all available land imo
productive usc. :

The Agricultural Fin-
ance Corporation Act and
the Farmers’ Stop-order
Act would be amended to
allow the AFC to lend
money to communal and
smail-scale farmers on the
security of special. stop-

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orders; These would not
require registration, but
would give the AFC the
same rights as ‘creditors
holding registered atop-
orders,

It was Government
Policy to provide free pri-
‘mary education through-
out the country so that
every child was educated.
To achieve this, all com-
munities, in the rural and
urban areas, would be ex-
pected to make some cén-
tribution.

Couneil. Legislation would
be. drawn His consulta-
tions wii. interested
parties had taken place.
Government would
also initiate collective and:
co-operative schemes for
the production of building
materials, the construction

of existing.
Loan facilities
would be gextanded to
cover @ CTOSS-sec~
tion of the community. .
mate economy was, be:
ig. constantly m« et
and the Government was

had already in-
creased interest rates and
embarked on new meas-
ures designed to influence
and contro! prices and in-
comes,

Godd progress had been

made in processing. the
pledges. at the Zimcord
im March last year,

114

Aid programming dis-
cussions had been suc-
cesstully concluded with

all those countries and or-
ganisations which pledged
financial resources at the
conference,

So far, out of the en-
‘tire Zimcord pledge, a
total of $480 million had
been committed to agreed
Projects. “This rate of
commitment is regarded
as very satisfactory,”
President Banana said.,

He announced that two.
commissions would be es-
tablished for financial
matters. These would be a
Tax Commission to. ex-
amine the entire fiscal
system, including the sys-
tem of subsidies and dis-
tribution of subsidy bene-
fits, and a Monetary
and Financial Commission
to inquire into the mone-
tary and financial sector
so that the Government
could establish a suitable
Policy framework to as-
sist in the achievement of.
its economic and social
objectives,

The President potated
out that if the economy
was ‘to continue to grow,
greater emphasis would
have to be placed on de-
velopment and mobilisa~
tion of local human re-
sources. The Government
was already forging ahead
with its programmes aimed
at providing and enlarg-
ing skills development
centres and training in-
stitutions, both in public
and the private sector.

Expansion - programmes

had already started at
Harare Polytechnic and
the Bulawayo and Kwekwe
technical colleges, Intake
fignres at the colleges had
also expanded and the
racial balance consider-
ably improved. _

A start would be made
on the establishment of a
Technica] Teachers’ Train-
ing College which would
teduce the country’s dep-
endence on foreign’ tech-
nical instructors. The Gov-
ernment also had plans to
set up an Institute of
Textile Technology at the

Bulawayo Technical Col-
lege next year.

Plans were under way
for the establishment of
technica) colleges in Gwe-
ru, Mutare, Hwange, Chin-
hoyi and the Lowveld. The
one at Gweru was expect-
ed to be opened in 1984.
The new colleges would
bring into focus trades
which were essentia] to
modern Zimbabwe.

Information services
would continue to be ex-
panded in order to ensure
the dissemination of Gov-
ernment licy and to
assist in the reconstruc-
tion and = rehabilitation
programmes. Radio 4
would be devoted to a
full-time education pro-
gramme to reinforce educ-
ational services in the
remote areas.

Community radio and
television sets would be
installed at growth points
throughout the country.
Mobile cinema units would
be increased to provide a
more frequent service in
the rural areas.



KADUNA POLITICAL ACTIVITIES BANNED--The Kaduna State Police Command has banned
all political activities, including meetings, rallies and processions, The
ban will last until June 25, after which the situation will be reviewed,

In a statement, the Command said it took this decision because the present
situation in the state was not conducive to political activity. It appealed
to all political leaders and their supporters to co-operate by observing the
ban. [Text] [London WEST AFRICA in English No 3383, 7 Jun 82 p 1552]

INDOCTRINATION OF IBO STUDENTS--The Nigerian People's Party (NPP) has been
advised to stop indoctrinating Ibo students to believe that they are unwanted
outside Ibo land, This sort of indoctrination has led Ibo students outside
Anambra/Imo states to behave as if they were studying in foreign lands and
thereby causing trouble for themselves with their host Federal Advanced
Teachers College episode could not have taken place, The Kontagora incident
has exposed some Ibo leaders as reckless opportunists and who would like to
destroy the Ibo people in order to clinch to power, Otherwise, Mr Okoro
said, how could a government that has much to do, could have time to dabble
in students politics. Mr Okoro said that since the inception of the Federal
Advanced Teachers College, Kontagora the students union has always been led
by the Ibos and only when the other students decided to change the leadership
of the union did crisis erupt. It is of note for purposes of record that
the Imo/Anambra students population is about one-third of the total students
population and when, because of the new NPP policy of infiltrating all
students union, other students from the other 17 states including Plateau
NPP-controlled states joined hands to overthrow the Ibo NPP students leader-
ship there. [Text] [Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 3 Jun 82 p 3]

STUDENIS SUSPENDED--A spate of violent demonstrations have been reported in
three post-primary institutions in Gongola State within last week, The
institutions are General Murtala Muhammed College in Yola, Government Girls'
Secondary School in Gombi and Teachers’ Training College in Jada. All the
form five students of GMCC Yola numbering about 200 have been suspended from
the school following the demonstration, According to an official government
statement, the disturbances were caused by either misunderstanding between
students themselves or between students and school authorities, The report
stated that during the demonstrations, government's properties, buildings,
equipment and other valuable documents as well as personal effects worth
thousands of Naira were alleged to have been destroyed. The vice-principal
of the school, however, explained that the students would be allowed to sit
for their WASC examinations, adding that the students were suspended because
of the deteriorating relations with their juniors. [Text] [Kaduna NEW
NIGERIAN in English 7 Jun 82 p 13]

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61



[Question] What, in a word, are the conclusions which you feel capable of
drawing from the working trip which you have just made to our country?

[Answer] We feel that our mission will have been completely accomplished if the
Message is perceived both concerning the financial philosophy that Islam
teaches us and the real development objectives that DMI has set itself in Senegal.

I would like, however, to take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude
and my respectful admiration for the imposing work undertaken by President Abdou
Diouf and his government team. We thank them for the trust and encouragement
which they have given our action since the beginning.

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67



GHANA

BRIEFS

NEW MUSLIM HOSPITAL--The Ghana Muslim Mission is to establish a hospital in
the Central Region with assistance from the Saudi Arabian government, Alhaji
Muhammed Iba Aikins, secretary of the Central Region branch of the Ghana
Muslim Preachers Association, has announced, Addressing Moslems of Mankesim
at the weekend, Alhaji Aikins said in addition, the mission would open five
more Islamic-English schools in the region during the 1982-83 academic year,
He said feasibility studies on the hospital had almost been completed and it
was expected to take off early next year, Alhaji Aikins advised Muslim
parents to give their wards formal education by sending them to schools to
enable them grow up to become useful citizens of the country in future. He
urged all Ghanaians to forget their political, religious and tribal sentiments
and unite as a team for the success of the country's development. Alhaji
Aikins urged Ghanaians to see themselves as vessels of the Almightly Allah,
united in a "Holy War." He said it was only with divine guidance that
Ghanaians would be able to escape the many pitfalls and traps that had been
laid for them and set in their path, Malam Amadu Amoasi, regional president
of the association, urged all Moslems and members of other religious bodies
to continue to offer prayers to God for the success of the agricultural
revolution. He also urged Muslim communities to undertake communal labour
and farming to ensure increased food production, [Text] [Accra GHANAIAN TIMES
in English 21 Jun 82 pp 1, 3]

NEW MUSLIM MOVEMENT--A new Muslim movement known as "Ghana Muslims Reformative
Organisation" has been formed in Kumasi. At the first meeting of the organisa-
tion at the Uddara Barracks mosque, the Imam of the Fourth Battalion of
Infantry said the aims and objectives of the new organisation would be to
seek the unity and welfare of Muslims in the country, Alhaji Ibrahim said

the organisation would undertake large-scale farming throughout the country
as its contribution towards the success of the "green revolution." It would
also build schools, clinics and hospitals through voluntary contributions.

He said the organisation had already acquired ten hectares of land at
Adukrom, near Kumasi, to start the farming project and urged individual
members to embrace the PNDC agricultural programme by cultivating large farms.
Other speakers included chief of Kumasi Zongo, Alhaji Aminu Ali. [Text]
[Accra DAILY GRAPHIC in English 23 Jun 82 p 5

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12



UGANDA

ROLE OF CO-OPS IN COUNTRY CALLED VITAL
Kampala UGANDA TIMES in English 3 Jun 82 p 16

[vext]. The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Cooperatives and Marketing, Mr
John Okodoi, has stressed the role of the co-operative movement in the
rehabilitation and reconstruction programme,

He was opening the 18th annual general meeting of the Uganda Co-operative
Central Union (UCCU) Ltd at Cooperative Union hall here,

Mr Okodoi said the government, having reviewéd the sad state of affairs
during the past Dark decade, has considered the co-operative movement as
one of the basic centre pieces of this country's economic rehabilitation and
reconstruction, .

The permanent secretary who deputised for the Minister, Mr Yona Kanyomozi,
emphasised that they had a challenging task to perform their role posi-
tively in accordance with the government policies and to the satisfaction
of the masses.

Explaining that unions were a democratic controlled form of business, Mr
Okodoi said their board of directors must preserve the democratic control
of their members by representing them in many executive duties of the
management.

He entrusted the board of directors of UCCU with the task of deliberating,
reaching decisions and giving instructions to the management as a board and
not individuals.

He said the board of directors should set clear cut and unambiguous policies
to delegate sufficient authority for the union's management to perform
efficiently and effectively.

Mr Okodoi further outlined the board's challenging tasks and said they must
evaluate the performance of management against set policies, the agreed plan
of action and the annual approved budget.

He focused their attention on the union's deficit of 6.6m/- operational loss
P'

of 10.7m/- and the misappropriation of 8m/- during the 1980/81 season and
said these should be urgent and immediate issues for examination.

95



MADAGASCAR

REPORT BY PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER ANALYZED
Tananarive MADAGASCAR-MATIN in French 3 Jun 82 pp 1-2, 4
[Text] This explains that.

It is in that spirit that we have seen fit to compare the two major addresses
delivered recently by President Didier Ratsiraka and Prime Minister Desire
Rakotoarijaona.

In fact, the two reports are complementary, and indeed they overlap.

Crisis has struck us with its full force. This is well known. And it is also
"all-round" crisis in the sense that it comes in part from imported inflation
because of the world economic situation, and in part from our difficulties in
handling the existing reality, that is to say the crisis.

The current situation demands of us "the utmost in production," above all in
the agricultural sector, so that we will be self-sufficient in food and can
export a surplus as a "source of foreign exchange." This is the interpretation
to be given the address delivered to strike a balance for 1981 by Prime Minis—
ter Desire Rakotoarijaona last week. There is also, as some people believe
after this series of major addresses of national interest, a need to pursue a
true austerity policy.

Agricultural Figures

Madagascar is a basically agricultural country. It is regrettable to note that
a large part of our farm production showed either a substantial decline or a
barely perceptible increase in the course of 1981. This was the case with
cassava, with 1,744,610 tons produced in 1981 as compared to 1,691,675 in 1980
(3 percent). Peanut production even declined by 21 percent, with production
of 30,470 tons in 1981 as compared to 38,945 in 1980. There was a decline for
tobacco, with production of 3,890 tons in 1981 as compared to 4,540 in 1980
(14 percent). This was also true for sugar cane, with 1,441,100 tons produced
in 1981 as compared to 1,483,000 in 1980 (0.8 percent). Happily, cottons pro-
duction showed a substantial increase in the course of this period, to 38,128
tons in 1981 from 24,600 in 1980, representing a 50-percent increase. For-
tunately as well, vanilla (6 50 [sic]), cloves (78 percent) and kabaro (59
percent) showed an increase.

17



GREEN LIGHT REPORTED FOR OCTOBER MOVE TO ABUJA

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 4 Jun 82 pp 1, 21

[Article by Clement Eluaka]

[text]

PRESIDENT Shehu
Shagari has been given
the green light to move
to Abuja in October this :
year. : Tino ep
This was part of the
recommendations submitted:
to the House of Representa-.-
tives yesterday by its com--
mittee on the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT).

In the report submitted by
its chairman, Mr. Amos
Idakula (NPP Plateau) the
committee said that the ex-
ecutive arm of the Federal
Government could move to
the new. federal capital next.
September as scheduled!
because all the necessary
facilities would have been
completed.

The committee, however, said
that the National Assembly
would not move to Abuja in
September because the three
storey National Assembly Con-
_ ference Centre was yet to be com-
pleted. -

46

~ The report said that the three
storey centre was still in its in-
itial stages and would pose a ma-
jor constraint in the movement of
the National Assembly to Abuja.

The report suggested in view of
the present austerity measures a
time lag should be provided to
enable the construction of the,
centre to be completed and in--
stalled with all the technical and.
communication facilities.

The. report observed that the
FCT had not been given the
desired emphasis to private par-
ticipation in the construction of
the city adding that the building
of the FCT should not be the sole
responsibility of the Federal
Government but a collective
responsibility of all Nigerians.

It further observed that when
the committee visited Abuja,
there was no noticeable physical
presence of private ventures ad-
ding that this should be attributed

to the fact that land was not
allocated to members of the
public.

Others were that private par-
ticipation on Abuja should be en-
couraged adding that flats should
be allocated to members of the
public to encourage residentia!
and industrial venture. .

NIGERIA



TANZANIA

BRIEFS

TWO NEW MP'S--President Nyerere yesterday nominated Brigadier Yusuf Himid
and Ndugu Daudi Ngelautwa Mwakawago National Members of Parliament with
immediate effect, A State House statement issued in Dar es Salaam said
Mwalimu made the nominations under the Union Constitution which empowers him
to nominate 20 members from Zanzibar and 10 others from the Mainland, The
statement said Ndugu Himid would be the eighteenth nominated MP from Zanzibar
while Ndugu Mwakawago becomes the eighth from the Mainland. Ndugu Himid is
the head of the Tabora Brigade of the Tanzania People's Defence Forces
(IPDF) while Ndugu Mwakawago is the Party Chief Executive Secretary, Ndugu
Mwakawago, who was the incumbent MP for the Iringa Urban seat in the 1980
elections was defeated by Ndugu Amrani H, Mayagila, [Text] [Dar-es-Salaam
DAILY NEWS in English 22 Jun 82 p 1]

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By way of example, it was reported in the meeting that two LAM workers had been
arrested for stealing 30 kilograms of shrimp from Quelimane on the 30th of last
month. The pilferers, who were discovered by a member of the People's Militia,
were turned over to police authorities and are now awaiting trial. But that

is only a drop in the bucket as far as day-to-day life at the airport is con-
cerned.

Parallel with those facts, the LAM station chief revealed that the enterprise
is currently paying claims to certain foreign companies as a result of a number
of irregularities similar to those reported at the meeting.

Collusion?

The PPM commissioner for the city of Maputo, Joao Jose Manhanguele, said at the
conclusion of the meeting that many of the cases occurring at the airport are
due to a lack of permanent supervision of the workers and that to some extent,
the situation may give the impression that there is collusion in some cases.

The commissioner asked: "There are thefts; everyone admits it and knows of in-
cidents. But nobody knows anybody. How is that possible?" Plans have been
made, however, for a meeting in the near future that will include in particular
the LAM workers from the departments where most of the problems have been oc-
curring. That meeting will also be aimed at learning about more problems,
since few workers participated in the meeting held the day before yesterday.

Coordination Among Structures

During a brief meeting held by the PPM commissioner with the head of the Airport
Migration Station and the commander of the PTC, it was concluded that there is
a failure to coordinate activities by those structures and the airport adminis-
tration as well as a failure to supervise the militiamen and members of the
People's Vigilance Groups.

Moreover, there is a failure to define the specific tasks to be carried out by
members of the People's Vigilance Groups. That explains why, at times, some
of them have been doing no more than checking for excess baggage, a task that
is not directly assigned to them.

The PPM commissioner said that to deal with those problems, the structures in
question should meet as soon as possible to establish a new basis for work and
make plans for developing closer relations with the airport's administrative
structures.

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KENYA

CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF CAUSES OF STUDENT UNREST
Nairobi MSETO in Swahili 23 May 82 p 2
[Editorial: "Causes of Riots Should Be Investigated"]

[Text] Many of our domestic authorities recently called for an investigation
into the root cause of the student strikes in some of our domestic .
institutions of learning.

In a period of just one week this month, from 5 May to 7 May, student riots
occurred in Egerton College, Kenyatta University College and Kenya Technical
Teachers College.

Simultaneously, students of the Medical Training College (MTC) were also
preparing to boycott classes but, luckily, deputy Minister of Health James
Njiru seized the opportunity to talk with the students and the danger of
a strike was averted.

The thing that is troublesome and so confusing is seeing that when the
students of those colleges boycott classes, they start rioting and vandalizing
those colleges. Rioting is simply not the way at all to make their demands
known to the competent authorities. It is total lack of manners and
destruction which absolutely must not be put up with in those colleges.

On the other hand, we endorse the views of Mr Njiru that many of the problems
leading to strikes in schools and colleges are attributable to students whose
parents are wealthy. Mr Nijru said that when those colleges are closed,
wealthy parents send their children abroad to continue their studies.

Thus, it is evident that poor students are the ones who suffer the most as a
result of the closing of those schools. Therefore, it would be most advisable
for students from poor families to keep at their studies while in college
until they are done, and not be tempted in any manner to take part in strikes
which could bring about the interruption of their studies.

Finally we endorse the authorities' call for a speedy investigation in order
to be able to determine immediately what type of people are stirring up the
student strife in our colleges. A thorough investigation must also examine
why the recent trouble took place while our country was preparing for an
important international conference on the environment. If the investigation
surfaces any one, politician or ordinary person, that person must be dealt
with expeditiously.

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EQUAL RIGHTS SOUGHT FOR FULANI NOMADS

Plateau Education Commissioner

Kaduna NEW NIGERIAN in English 29 May 82 p 11

[text]

PL U Commissioner for
Education, Dr. Sambo Daju, has
said in Jos that any effort to
deprive the fomadic Fulani ac-
cess to education would amount
to denying them their right to
equal opportunity.

Speaking at the opening of the
Nomadic Education Programme
at the Teachers Resource Centre,
in Jos, Dr. Daiu said that the.
Nomadic Fulani possessed a°
great potential for economic
development. .

He said that the cattle economy
of the Nomads could be greatly
improved ‘through literature and
other teaching materials sich as
stories and songs based on their
culture. .

Dr. Daju said that for any
educational programme to be
meaningful, it must be based on
the culture of the people, adding
that teaching materials should be
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demands of the people.

The commissioner said that the
state government was providing
educational facilities for the
Nomads because of its policy of
providing equal opportunity for
all irrespective of ethnic,
political and religious affilia-

tions.

‘The wife of the state Governor,
Mrs. Mary Lar, said that the
state government had earmarked
10 local government areas for the
effective implementation of the

ramme.

Phe said that the criteria for
selecting the local governments
were based on sampled research
which showed the concentration
of Nomads, their mobility and the
degree of the response to existing
schools.

About 32. Nomadic teacners are
participating in the programme
designed to acquaint them with:
Nomadic culture and to help
them become more resourceful.

NIGERIA



view of the coming elections, the Kinshasa city governor constantly calls
the voters' attention to the choice to be made of their representatives,
at the level of zonal councils as well as at the level of the Legislative
Council, because, he says, it would be unfortunate to elect persons who
previously had confused the public treasury with their own personal funds.
The governor ended last Tuesday's working session by urging the Kalamu
population to participate extensively in the collective work of salongo.
Sanctions up to imprisonment will be leveled against those who resist.
Yesterday he met with grassroots leaders of the zones of Kinshasa, Lingwala
and Barumbu, gathered at the Zeka bar. [Text] [Kinshasa ELIMA in French
6 May 82 p 7] 9772

“EXTLED OPPONENT ON AID--Paris, June 8--Zairean exiled opposition leader Paul
Mokede today appealed to European countries to halt their aid to President
Mobutu Sese Seko and "suspend military agreements tying them to the Zairean
dictator." Mr Mokede, leader of the Lumumba-Congolese National Movement
(MNCL) ,. accused Mr Mobutu of selling his country to the min multinational
companies to satisfy his own needs." "While the human rights situation
continues to deteriorate in Zaire, many people were detained again last week"
in preparation for the president's current visit to Asia, including China,
Mr Mokede said, (A.FoP.) [Text] [Paris AFRICA AFP in English No 2904,

8 Jun 82 p 21]

OFFICIALS DISCHARGED--Citizen Salumu Amisi and Koyi Mosindo, deputy governor

of Shaba region and Tanganika sub-regional commissioner respectively, have been
suspended from their positions in accordance with two departmental decrees signed
Friday by Professor Vunduawe Te Pemako, state commissioner for territorial
administration and vice first state commissioner. Citizen Mbalanga Hahe
Mombongo Lia, new deputy governor of Shaba, arrived in Lubumbashi Sunday to
replace Citizen Salumu Amisi. Citizen Mbalanga has up to now been an adviser

in the territorial administration department. On his arrival, Deputy Governor
Mbalanga was greeted by Citizen Massibu Kundi Ay Mataya, regional chief,

Citizen Koyagialo Gbase, urban commissioner, and Colonel Akeye, commander of the
8th Military District. /Text/ /Kinshasa ELIMA ‘in French 18 May 82 p 47 5671

WEATHER CAUSES FOOD ANXIETY--Ecological conditions in the Kivu region which have
remained almost constant over the past decade have suddenly changed this year,
at least as far as the southern region is concerned where a veritable drought
has prevailed in defiance of the forecasts of farmers half of whose crops are
now definitely jeopardized. The most affected areas are Kabare Center, Ikoma,
Izege, Chiherano and Nya-Ngezi in Ngweshe, not including Bukavu or centers

for children afflicted with kwashiorkor. In the mountainous Kivu region, food
deficiency diseases constitute a very serious problem. As for limiting the
immediate effects of the food shortage, it is necessary to at once plan for the
sending of foodstuffs to the affected regions for stocking purposes. These
foodstuffs would be sold at readily accessible prices as soon as the main dry
season begins. As for the effort to reestablish the ecological balance in the
region, it would be desirable for the executive council to at once implement
all the environmental protection measures already taken. In a more concrete
manner, it is urgent to prohibit systematic cutting down of trees and the
alteration of natural waterways in order to encourage the local agronomic
services to gradually move forward toward the artificial "forestation" of bare
areas and toward the establishment of green belts around populated areas that
do not now have such forestation. /Text/ /Kinshasa ELIMA in French 18 May 82

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NKOMO WANTS ALL-PARTY PROBE

Harare THE HERALD in English 21 Jun 82 p 1

[text]

cso:

BULAWAYO.
‘HE Government should
set up an all-party com-
mission to find out why
2 “dark: cloud” ts looming
over Zimbabwe.

‘The ZAPU president, Dr
Joshua Nkomo, said yee-
terday that the current
wave of robl in the
country should be looked
at's a nations! problem
which should. be solved
through a united effort.

He was speaking. to
more than 2000 people at
the. Hyde Park cemetery
in Bulawayo during the
burial of Mrs Loisa Sihwa,
an official of tho Ministry
‘of Foreign Affairs and @
central committee member
of the party who died in
Harare last week after a
short illness,

Also present were
several Members of Parlia-
ment, the Mayor, Coun-
cillor Naison Ndlovu, and
several ZAPU central com-
mittee members.

_Dr Nkomo said Zim-

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babwe should remain a
country capable of solving
its owm problems rather
than demolish itself
through partisan criti-
cisms.

“We should look for
ways to build up this coun-
try and not dwell on secus-.
ing each other.

“Nobody wants to sup-
port robbers and if we do
net entertain the truth
‘about these problems and
work for solutions, we will
be- treading on the wrong
path which will draw us
back,

“These who are
destroying Zimbabwe do
not seem to be found, yet
we. have law enforcement

» We should look
inte why they afe not
apprehended.”

Dr Nkomo called for the
enlistment of' local people
into the police reserve
units and greater co-opera~
tion among the people,
police, soldiers and council-
lors. to create a stable
Zimbabwe;

ZIMBABWE



ZIMBABWE

Briefs
Salary Increases for Brewers
Cleanup of Kalamu
Exiled Opponent on Aid
Officials Discharged
Weather Causes Food Anxiety
Wheat Seeds for Peasants

Nkomo Wants All-Party Probe
(THE HERALD, 21 Jun 82)...... cece cece cece eeceeceee we eeeeee

Government Pledges. Crackdown on Profiteering
(THE HERALD, 16 Jun 82)......... eee ence eee ee eee eeeee tee

Amy, Police Said 'Out of Bouds'
(THE HERALD, 19 Jun 82).....ccecec cece eec cence ecreceee noes

Zimbabwe Accuses SA of Germ War
(THE HERALD, 21 Jun 82)..........68- pret aneeeneneencsceeees

School Is Closed After Protests
(THE HERALD, 19 Jun 82)....cceeeccccceencccceracccees seeee

Locally Made Firearms To Be Withdraw
(SHE HERALD, 18 Jun 82).......-0006 dee ecw e eee r weer censeene

State Seeks $51 Million for Pay Rises
(THE HERALD, 17 Jun 82).....eeseecceceeecs bee ween eee neces

Emergency Powers To Be Renewed
(THE HERALD, 11 Jun 82).....-eeeeeeceeeeeeeeee tee eeeeeceee

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PREMIER EXPLAINS FOOD SITUATION

TANZANIA

Dar-es-Salaam DAILY NEWS in English 25 Jun 82 p 1

[text]

THE country imported
310,785 tonnes of grain in the
1981/82 season to offset shor-
tages, the Prime Minister
Ndugu Cleaopa Msuya, said
yesterday.

He told Parliament in Dar
es Salaam that drought, ex-
cessive flooding, bad weather
and crop attack by pests had
contributed to the food
shortage in the country.

Targets for the marketed
amount of grain during the
season were not met, and the
National Milling Corporation
(NMC) bought from growers
only a total of 159,044 tonnes
of food against earlier projec-
tions of 171,222 tonnes.

Ndugu Msuya, tabling the
estimates of his office to a full
morning session, explained
that even if the projected pur-
chases were met, the country
would still have to import
food. :

The food was imported
from several friendly coun-
tries and some was brought in
through the World Food
Programme (WFP), he said.

Ndugu Msuya said
Shinyanga, Mwanza,
Morogoro and Rukwa regions
were attacked. by an outbreak
of armyworms which attacked
the crop in the fields and the
notorious American beetle,
Prostephanus truncatus, alias
Scania. .

People in areas which were
hit by drought were provided
with food by the government
after their crop had failed on
two successive seasons.

A total of 21,100 tonnesof
food were distributed to eight
regions as follows: Dodoma
(9,452), Lindi (2,016),
Shinyanga (2,000), Tabora
(2,000) and the rest to Mara,
Arusha, Singida and Mtwara,
the Prime Minister said.

Ndugu Msuya told the
House that initial reports on
the crop position in regions
were encouraging for some:

Rukwa, Ruvuma and Iringa
regions had received enough
rainfall ‘and had started har-
vesting, he said.

However, he added that
Lake Zone regions, central
and southern regions did not
receive enough rain and the
respective authorities in these
regions should work out ways
of buying food from endowed
regions.

The Prime Minister ex-
plained that reports had not
yet been received from nerth-
eastern regions. +

He directed that when. faced
with the problem of food shortage
in future, Tanzanians should con-
sider the following :-
© Buying all the food crops in

regions blessed
with good harvest.

— particularly Iringa, Kuvuma,
Mbeya and Rukwa, and having it
soundly stored and’ distributed to
the urban areas and regions with
a shortage;

© plugging all the outlets which
allowed food to go out of the coun-
try through smuggling:

© continuing with efforts to grow
crops: such as bananas, cassava

and potatoes in areas with enough

water and wherever suitable;



A Responsibility "in the Field"

[Question] How does the Ministry of Cooperation and Development stand in
relation to the president of the republic and his advisor for African and
Malagasy affairs and to the Ministry of Foreign Relations?

[Answer] It's simple enough. The president of the republic determines
the larger orientations of the development policy, for one thing, and for
another, he traditionally plays an eminent role in what concerns foreign
policy, including, of course, African foreign policy to which Francois
Mitterrand is particularly attached. It is, after all, the reason he ac-
cords such importance to his trip to French-speaking Africa south of the
Sahara and to its various stages, which are Niamey, Abidjan and Dakar, and,
I would say, the reason we wish to give so much luster to this official
visit.

The presidential role is, therefore, an essential one. Within this frame-—
work, the special advisor for African affairs, Guy Penne, is responsible
for assuring personal relations between the president of the republic and
the various heads of state. President Kountche, President Houphouet-Boigny,
President Diouf have, very naturally, in the person of Guy Penne, a sort

of direct line with the Elysee.

The Ministry of Cooperation and Development, for its part, is responsible
for putting into practice the cooperation and development policy, that is
to say, that it is I who control the cooperation budget, who make more
specific the concepts of development that we intend to put into practice,
who is responsible for these 15,000 cooperants of whom I spoke earlier,
and who is responsible, when there is a problem of financial aid, for
example, for setting up financial assistance, etc. I have, therefore, a
responsibility that I would call practical, a managerial responsibility
while the minister of foreign relations and the president of the republic
have a more political responsibility, a responsibilitiy for the larger
orientations.

A New Economic Order

[Question] If you had to define in a few words what has changed in the
area of cooperation between France and Third World since the arrival to
power of Francois Mitterrand, how would you do it?

[Answer] I believe there has been an important change. It has been
important because France has affirmed its solidarity with the Third World,
and not only in words. She has affirmed her commitment to double aid to
the Third World over the course of the next 7 years. That means budgetary
allotments, cooperants and transfers of resources.

She has affirmed, besides, her solidarity with the Third World in the
political battles the Third World is leading: for example, the struggle
against apartheid in South Africa. Finally, she has affirmed a solidarity
with the Third World with respect to what is called the search for a new

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STATE SEEKS $51 MILLION FOR PAY RISES

Harare THE HERALD in English 17 Jun 82 p 1

[rext]

THE Government is seeking an extra $51 million to cover
teachers’ and soldiers’ pay rises and the cost of thg. military

demobilisation programme, which is taking longer thai
Defence spending has jumped by $21 million — 312° mill

salaries and the remainder to cover the cost of’ personnel. awaiting
discharge from the army — according to a second set of supplementary

estimates placed be-
fore the House of

Assembly yesterday.

The Ministry of Edu-
cation and Culture is seek-
ing a further $26 438 000
to cover pay awards
while the Ministry. of
Local Government and
Housing has requested
$1,5° million more to pay
for the construction of a
teacher’s house at each of

* the 356 new secondary
schools in communal lands.

‘This is covered by a
grant from the Swedish
government.

Other supplementaries
are: Parliament $498 000,
Prime Minister's Office
#8 000, Economic Plan-

and Developmen’
$102 000; Agriculture
$478 000; Natural Resour-
ces and Tourism $92 000;
Cabinet Office $190 000;
Mines $500000; National
Supplies $82000; Le;
and Parliamentary Affairs
$65 000; Housing’ $40 000,

The Cabinet Office needs
the allocation to pay for
the cost of insignia for
honours and awards.

The Ministry of Mines
wants $500 000 to get the

_newly-constituted Mineral

Marketing, Corporation off
the und.

Speaking during the de-
bate on the estimates, the
Minister of State in the
Prime Minister’s Office
responsible for defence, Dr
Sydney Sekeramayi, said
demobilisation , could. be
completed by the end of
this year if all went
smoothly,

The delay was “to ensure
that when the exercise is
done the people who get
demobilised are adequately
catered for in terms of
providing job opportuni-
ties and training facili-
ties”.

During the vote on the
additional money for the
Cabinet Office, the Prime
Minister, Mr Mugabe, was
asked for details of the
insignia for which the
money would be used. —

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ZIMBABWE
ted.
for
‘Deserving’

Mr Mugabe said it was
intended to make the
wards to “men we deem
deserving”: during the
second independence anni-
versary celebrations, “but
we were not quite ready
with the persons and the
numbers”.

‘The only award made
go far was the Gold Chain
of the Grand Master of
the Zimbabwe Order of
Merit to President Banana.

.The Appropriation (Se-
cond Supplementary) 1981-
82 Bill passed through its
first, seconé and third
readings.

During the second read-
ing debate Mr Ian Smith
(RF, Southern) said the
use ‘of special warrants
by some ministries to ob-
tain money should not be
condoned by the Ministry
of Finance.



He called upon the delegates to discuss the issues at length and take correc~
tive measure which should be followed up by the union's board of directors.

The permanent secretary advised them to identify good men and women who under~
stand the intricacies of the union's business.

On the powers of the management and the board, Mr Okodoi advised the delegates
to decide as a matter of policy what powers the management should not assume
behind the directors.

He noted that there was a general tendency for managements to feel free and
give themselves and their staff loans without considering the adverse implica-
tions to the union's finances if such loans were not repaid.

The permanent secretary advised the union to diversify its functions by look-
ing into the possibilities of mnufacturing animal and poultry feeds,
fertilisers, dehydrating or packaging vegetables, producing farm implements
and going into agricultural export trade,

He commended the union's decision to go into partnership with Uganda Bags and
Hesssian Mills, Tororo, Uganda Tannery, Jinja, plans to start a 2,000 beef
cattle ranch at Kigumba and an industrial estate at Nalukolongo.

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NIGERIA

COMMENTARY WELCOMES MAURITIUS DEMOCRATIC CHANGE
AB281354 Lagos International Service in English 1030 GMT 28 Jun 82
[Dayo Adeyeye Commentary]

[Text] Democracy moved a step forward in Africa with the smooth constitutional
change of government in Mauritius. The little country, which is even further
off the southeastern part of the African continent than the Malagasy Republic,
recently sprung into world headlines with the Mauritian Militant Movement

[MMM] in collusion with the Mauritian Socialist Party won all 60 seats avail-
able from the incumbent government of Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, The MMM did
not contest the remaining two seats on the neighboring island of Rodrigues be-
cause of its affinity with the party that won those two seats, the Rodrigues
People's Party.

This was the first constitutional change of governing party of the electoral
process in a member state of the OAU., Since the elections, there have been
comments, especially by western skeptics, that the country will soon, like its
brother African countries, revert to a one-party dictatorship. This conten-
tion is borne from the fact that the MMM as a party of progressive orientation
and from the fact it won [word indistinct] massive electoral victory which has
generated fears that the island will soon become a one-party Marxist dictator-
ship.

For now there can be no doubt that the people of Mauritius and Rodrigues have
voted in the government that they feel best to represent their interests. It
will be another matter if the ruling coalition party changes the constitution
to prevent any reappearance or participation in the political process of the
interests represented by the Ramgoolam Labor Party. The event in Mauritius

is a matter of joy to all lovers of democracy and freedom in Africa. The
smooth constitutional change of government in that little island is an encour-
aging sign of relief at a time when there is an increasing trend toward elec-
toral fraud and one-party states in Africa. In several African countries the
parties that were fortunate to succeed the erstwhile colonial governments have
held on tenaciously to power and some of the countries have banned and pre-
vented the emergence of opposition parties. Sometimes curious reasons and
excuses are used to justify such actions.

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