A statement issued yesterday by the Prime Minister’s Office in Dodoma noted that Premier Majaliwa who attended the celebrations on behalf of President John Magufuli, said: “I will soon call for a meeting with all religious leaders, that will include Archbishops, Bishops and Sheikhs so we can discuss and figure out the best way the government can improve lives of Tanzanians.”
Responding to a brief read by the Church’s Secretary General, Dr Leonard Mwizarubi, Prime Minister Majaliwa said the government has started evaluating ways that will enable Tanzanians access services easily.
“The secretary general and Archbishop touched on high prices of building materials. Next month, the parliament will start going through government budget and we will look at this issue by involving the minister of finance... we will do this to make life easier for the ordinary person,” he explained.
Mr Majaliwa urged the EAGT leaders and its followers to continue praying for the country, the 5th government and its leaders as they continue to fight graft in the country.
“I believe your prayers to the government and its leaders, the nation will succeed in its objective. Continue to praying for us because fighting graft has a lot of challenges.
I want to assure you that the government will continue fighting graft as stipulated in the laws and regulations of the country. No one will be unfairly treated,” he insisted.
The Premier also promised to look into a dispute over land belonging to the Church located at Ipagala before he leaves for Dar es Salaam today.
“Tomorrow (today) morning, I will call the CDA Director General to give me a full report on this matter and I believe the director can be a good link between the public who have erected buildings in the area and the Church who owns the land,” he explained.
He added: “If he can get a different area and demarcate plots for the public who evaded the Churches’ land... this might help solve the problem.
The public went to court knowing very well that your land was fenced, now they do not want to move out because they don’t have alternative place,” the premier added.
Earlier in his speech, Archbishop Mwakipesile said his Church will continue praying for the 5th government, for peace and harmony to reign. He also touched on the disputed land which has made it difficult to continue with construction of a school due to the conflict between the public and the Church.
“We have been unable to complete construction of a school because those who invaded the land have filed a case in court for more than one year now. We appeal that the Courts speed up the decision on this issue,” he said.
Dr Mwakipesile said the Church has 4,670 buildings countrywide and 420 plots of land for the purpose of building churches and centres for providing services to the public.
On his part, the Church’s Secretary General, Dr Mwizarubi, appealed to the government to reduce prices of building materials to enable the ordinary persons afford to build decent residential houses.
Culled from Daily News
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