Beauty with brains ….. CORAZON KWAMBOKA ready to start her journey as a lawyer

<h1 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #525252; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <br /></h1> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3856673890985988942" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></span></strong></span><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA6ueohdasyxDkNVk-fWovVVR7FbJEK2y26C18uYzH8LiQhQ8jdEuLYe3wuPbgUNvLB_OXv3cP-RKADnjaV4yKXoa-kG3vYezfmwCZhu193vTDNCQbP2D-CeQ0vi81m4O_5QNIIi-nVyR/s1600/2.jpg" style="border: none; color: #993333; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdA6ueohdasyxDkNVk-fWovVVR7FbJEK2y26C18uYzH8LiQhQ8jdEuLYe3wuPbgUNvLB_OXv3cP-RKADnjaV4yKXoa-kG3vYezfmwCZhu193vTDNCQbP2D-CeQ0vi81m4O_5QNIIi-nVyR/s640/2.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" width="640" /></a></strong></div> <strong>After years as a socialite, Corazon Kwamboka has finally decided to continue with her career as a lawyer.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"> <strong><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Corazon has started her pupilage and will soon be a fully qualified lawyer in Kenya. Here is what she wrote;</span></span></strong></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <strong><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></strong></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><i><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“Officially begun my pupilage today. Pursing my dreams of being the best intellectual property lawyer in kenya and be able to sit on the same table with the likes of Prof.Sihanya.</span></i></strong><i><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; line-height: 17.25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></span></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><i><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></i></strong></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong><i><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17.25px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">This is the last leg before being admitted to the bar, I have my degree and my law school certificate, now time to learn the practical bit. It took me a while lol, but I am finally doing it."</span></i></strong></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgARqYfPRwfIu-u4KrTZS9gpP_12jcb-KMe6xiuWkkWE29Y1Gk6jXA2UfTMpgJf_EBKRoFr3LrYXcVPt7fyVxq8t1sq_3MpUl9k03hRS_0qbIKUWggGBQ9LusSLYHOmEo353vr6kvLyVz4/s400/0.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" width="400" /></div> </div> </div>

Beauty with brains ….. CORAZON KWAMBOKA ready to start her journey as a lawyer

After years as a socialite, Corazon Kwamboka has finally decided to continue with her career as a lawyer.   Corazon has started her ...

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Why RUTO’s ‘lawyer’, Kiprono, may commit suicide on Friday when OBAMA lands at JKIA

<div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWnRx5ys_E7ZOLoCOb2Z4Oz6svbyGdD_UnOEi7GO45U7dHD1EZsF9SgiamivlWyjRtbpxG0NRnZhg2nUEf1a4mH0z5QInMcnB4M2albzA7mQMSIMcfQXijAN1oL0wmj6GE4kN70FCxsag/s1600/article-2355977-1A9B663E000005DC-467_634x763.jpg" style="border: none; color: #993333; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinWnRx5ys_E7ZOLoCOb2Z4Oz6svbyGdD_UnOEi7GO45U7dHD1EZsF9SgiamivlWyjRtbpxG0NRnZhg2nUEf1a4mH0z5QInMcnB4M2albzA7mQMSIMcfQXijAN1oL0wmj6GE4kN70FCxsag/s640/article-2355977-1A9B663E000005DC-467_634x763.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" width="531" /></a></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Even as Kenyans anxiously wait for the arrival of US President, Barrack Obama, and his family this Friday to attend the 6^th Global Entrepreneurship Summit to be hosted at the UN headquarters in Gigiri, it has now emerged the he will not be accompanied by his first born daughter, Malia, who has been a subject of uncanny marriage proposals from two Kenyans.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">According to impeccable sources, Malia, 17, is busy this summer interning on the set of a television hit series, <i>Girls</i>, that’s currently being filmed in New York and therefore will not find time to accompany her family to Kenya this weekend.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The news of Malia not accompanying Obama to Kenya has dealt Deputy President William Ruto’s ‘lawyer’, Felix Kiprono, a heavy blow since he wanted to use the opportunity to officially ask the US President and First Lady, Michelle, for their daughter’s hand in marriage.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The young lawyer, who hit headlines after he went to court seeking to have Ruto sworn in as President when Uhuru was in The Hague, had already offered 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats as dowry to marry Malia but after the bad news, he got devastated and distraught because Malia meant the world to him.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">And it is not only Kiprono, another Maasai<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>moran,</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>who was also eyeing Malia, is also devastated by news that the love of his life will not be jetting into the country this weekend.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He had offered 500 heads of cattle as dowry to marry Malia Obama, who he described as irresistible.</span></div>

Why RUTO’s ‘lawyer’, Kiprono, may commit suicide on Friday when OBAMA lands at JKIA

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Tanesco loses Sh6bn in Selcom row.

<div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4surrVsWfdu04QXrRHjmGe_CkLNazNdyxErAxAIU3D_EJC7Z3jPKzrfHi0QNZSXBna2aQxF2L8yrXRIkAziGwHF_C2y4pvz3qxHK97RuRqd06qiJOGWxOU41GKrp9akAyN3KMcfkVfwmR/s1600/George-2May2015(1).jpg" style="border: none; color: #993333; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4surrVsWfdu04QXrRHjmGe_CkLNazNdyxErAxAIU3D_EJC7Z3jPKzrfHi0QNZSXBna2aQxF2L8yrXRIkAziGwHF_C2y4pvz3qxHK97RuRqd06qiJOGWxOU41GKrp9akAyN3KMcfkVfwmR/s1600/George-2May2015(1).jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (TANESCO) has incurred a loss of Sh6bn as of yesterday, four days after terminating a contract with Selcom, a company that provides pre-paid electricity services to consumers on behalf of the nation’s electric power monopolist. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tanesco terminated the contract with Selcom on Tuesday, alleging that the later had been evading tax at the expense of Tanesco and has been responsible for frequent breakdowns of the electricity vending network (Luku) under its guardianship. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">But seemingly unaware of the loss, Minister of Energy and Minerals, George Simbachawene hailed the decision by his subordinates, saying it was a step toward saving the company from frequent losses of revenues.  </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He assured the public that the ongoing LUKU problems were not the fault of Tanesco’s systems but Selcom’s that had failed to deliver the services.</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He said they would also conduct thorough investigations on the reliability of networks on telecommunication companies since there had been complaints about the delivery of services.</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“We’ll also deal with mobile network providers who do not perform well work out measures against them,” he said  </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“We have stopped providing services to Selcom; the firm is not our customer any more and we are calling all customers to access service from Maxmalipo and other mobile providers,” said Tanesco’s Managing Director Felchesmi Mramba on Tuesday.</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">But just a  day following Mramba’s call The Guardian’s observations revealed long queues at  LUKU vending stations including Mlimani City, Namanga, Tabata, Magomeni and Mwananyamala of customers who looked discontent over the way how services were provided. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Amina Hassan at Namanga station said she was standing in queue to purchase electricity for the second hour but was still hope against hope over whether she would make it on time. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">She said efforts to purchase electricity through Tigo Pesa (Tigo service) and M Pesa (Vodacom service) had not yielded any positive results.</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">At Mlimani city Maxmalipo station the meandering queue stretched to the main gate more than 100 metres from the purchasing point, and the urgent was equally troubled by the unusually big crowd to which he had to attend.  </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He looked so confused as he failed to respond to the equally frustrated customers who bombarded him with both complaints and questions that went beyond his jurisdictional powers. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Caroline Limbe also in the queue said they were told that there had been problems with the network since morning when she started the purchasing  processes, implying the problem had been too chronic to resolve. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">But Selcom Tanzania Marketing Manager Juma Mgori told Guardian reporter yesterday that it was Tanesco who was to blame for breaching the contract terms with his company, accusing the electric suppliers of causing the self-imposed loss of Sh6bn. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He said they have filed a court case seeking interpretation of the law governing the contract between the two parties.</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He also accused Tanesco of causing a loss of 18 per cent equivalent to  Sh1.8bn worth tax revenues from breaching the contract with  his company that had been selling 75 per cent of  Tanesco’s electricity countrywide with the average sales of Sh1.5bn every day. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He said Selcom runs over 11,000 sales points countrywide that provide a wide range of service including water bills, electricity, airtime and money transfers. </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He refuted Mramba’s claims that failure to access electricity was a result of Selcom incompetence service delivery, dismissing the allegations as groundless since it was Tanesco that was in control of the Electronic Vending Getways (EVG), devices responsible for processing transactions.</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">He said these devices are designed with low capacity to process only 200 transactions per minutes, causing unnecessary delays and inconveniences to customers.  </span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Tigo Public Relation Officer John Wanyancha said they have cancelled Luku mobile service pending further notice from the relevant authority. Later in the evening yesterday Tigo Pesa manager Ruan Swanepoel said the services were re-instated following a switch to another network provider of the luku services.</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">However Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) Director of Tax payer service and Education Richard Kayombo declined to comment over whether Selcom has been paying taxes..</span></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border: none; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">But he was unaware of the loss of revenues attributed to the termination saga.</span></div>

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AFRIMA MOURNS PAPA WEMBA

<div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtd8kLs0_YIgv4m9w5CDSrMLbONDoAI2iSJ-GLgxw3TXKA1PCyOwAasa3CJ-tCvqSro7u0RRT_RzSMu-xOS11MPrrQlViXq08nXiHDsEyV8uaq4cCojwYDVr8oMlqlV5bCwf4KXAfjkI/s1600/Papa+wemba+2.jpg" style="border: none; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtd8kLs0_YIgv4m9w5CDSrMLbONDoAI2iSJ-GLgxw3TXKA1PCyOwAasa3CJ-tCvqSro7u0RRT_RzSMu-xOS11MPrrQlViXq08nXiHDsEyV8uaq4cCojwYDVr8oMlqlV5bCwf4KXAfjkI/s640/Papa+wemba+2.jpg" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 600px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" width="478" /></a></div> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">AFRIMA MOURNS PAPA WEMBA</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with the African Union Commission, AU, mourns the death of Papa Wemba, real name Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">The iconic musician from the Democratic Republic of Congo died in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, during the FEMUA urban music festival on Sunday April 24, 2016. He was 66.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Papa Wemba was considered an African icon and world music star after fusing his Central African musical heritage with Western pop, rock and rap. He pioneered a blend of African, Cuban and Western sounds, which became one of Africa's most popular music styles. This earned him the nickname "King of Rhumba Rock". Besides his musical influence, Wemba popularised Sapeur fashion, an eccentric look with three-piece suits, shiny black leather shoes and flashy accessories.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Reacting to the death of Papa Wemba, President and Executive Producer, AFRIMA, Mr Mike Dada said: "At AFRIMA, we feel a sense of humongous loss since the announcement of the death of Papa Wemba. This is the time we at AFRIMA and Africa at large need him the most. He was one of the African music legends that had shown interest in attending AFRIMA 3.0 in November this year. He was a voice of Africa, an icon of African music and epitome of Africanness. His pride and commitment to African music and sense of dressing were part of the narratives of African culture. These are the African narratives we shared and are propagating across the world."</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">Dada said further: "The International Committee of AFRIMA recognises the role of African legends, dead or alive, in music, culture and entertainment. In 2014, the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was honoured with a Posthumous Legendary award for his contribution to the narratives of Africa while Ladysmith Black Mambazo from South Africa won the award at the 2015 edition in Lagos, which coincided with the group’s 55th anniversary of telling the African story worldwide."</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">In partnership with the African Union Commission, AFRIMA is a project developed to celebrate, reward and showcase the rich musical culture of Africa, stimulate conversations among Africans and between Africa and the rest of the world about the great potentials and values of African culture and artistic heritage, for the purpose of creating jobs, reducing poverty, and calling attention of world leaders to Africa as well as promoting the positive image of Africa to the world.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #8f8f8f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir4fk090quFnfZVhAjN57rYHMJWnae3lq3c_F5uc3SkjXu5Fp6hnSi9bhtTmlnMXYxyGnaw3ChdymBl1QiNVh2PcLX_c64ouBTpe0m3YUkX8XvvbWtYMvqqevo9YzVRRkZ-MDdf-S4w1g/s1600/President+and+Executive+Producer%252C+AFRIMA%252C+Mr+Mike+Dada.JPG" style="border: none; color: black; list-style: none; margin: 0px auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir4fk090quFnfZVhAjN57rYHMJWnae3lq3c_F5uc3SkjXu5Fp6hnSi9bhtTmlnMXYxyGnaw3ChdymBl1QiNVh2PcLX_c64ouBTpe0m3YUkX8XvvbWtYMvqqevo9YzVRRkZ-MDdf-S4w1g/s640/President+and+Executive+Producer%252C+AFRIMA%252C+Mr+Mike+Dada.JPG" style="border: none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 600px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" width="634" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 8.8px; text-align: center;">President and Executive Producer, AFRIMA, Mr Mike Dada</td></tr> </tbody></table>

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The Flag-Off at Machame For Kilimanjaro Challenge 2014

<div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: navy;"><em><strong>The Minister for Tourism and Natural Resources, Hon. Lazaro Samuel Nyalandu with the two children from Moyo wa Huruma Orphanage Centre who will join other climbers locally and internationally for the Kilimanjaro Challenge 2014 which has been sponsored by Geita Gold Mine (GGM) in partnership with Tanzania Commissions for AIDS (TACAIDS) joined by Mrs. Faraja Nyalandu, Dr. Fatma Mrisho, Executive Director of TACAIDS and the climbers at the Flag Off Ceremony in Moshi to raise funds to fight against HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.</strong></em></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: navy;"><em><strong><span style="color: navy;"><img alt="2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-109114" height="480" src="http://dewjiblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/210.jpg" width="640" /></span></strong></em></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: navy;"><em><strong>Kili Challenge Ambassadors from Scotland Rugby team Mr. Rory Lawson and Mr. Dave Callam joined by Ms. Fatma Fernandes Managing Director of Abel & Fernandes Communications at the Flag Off Machame Gate in Moshi, Tanzania for the Kilimanjaro Challenge 2014 which has been sponsored by Geita Gold Mine (GGM) in partnership with Tanzania Commissions for AIDS (TACAIDS) to raise funds to fight against HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.</strong></em></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: navy;"><em><strong><span style="color: navy;"><img alt="3" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-109115" height="480" src="http://dewjiblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/310.jpg" width="640" /></span></strong></em></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: navy;"><em><strong>Kili Challenge climbers as they hope to reach Uhuru Peak so as to raise funds to fight against HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.</strong></em></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Geita Gold Mine (GGM) in partnership with Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) officiated yet another year of the Flag-Off of the Kilimanjaro Challenge at Machame Gate in Moshi. The Kili Challenge Flag-Off ceremony was officiated by Hon. Lazaro Samuel Nyalandu the Minister for Tourism and Natural Resources in the presence of Kilimanjaro Regional Commissioner Hon. Leonidas Gama and Moshi District Commissioner Hon. Dr. Ibrahim Msengi.</strong></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>This year marks the 13th historic climb for this noble course with more than 500 individuals from all across the world participating in Kilimanjaro Challenge and its impact is tangibly seen amongst our communities. The Kilimanjaro Challenge is an annual activity that aims to raise funds from different partners through sponsorship of climbers to Mount Kilimanjaro and to distribute the funds to relevant charities fighting HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.</strong></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>During his flag-off speech at Machame in Moshi, the Hon. Lazaro Samuel Nyalandu said, “This year’s climb began in Dar es Salaam in early May this year where our President H.E. Hon. Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, officially launched the beginning of this great journey of which today we are witnessing. The biggest message we take from this climb today is determination, zeal and hope. These three can take us to a higher elevation in this fight. With the zeal, hope and determination you have shown us that Tanzania without HIV/AIDS is possible. The government would like to applaud this initiative by Geita Gold Mine (GGM) and Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) as the Kili HIV/AIDS Challenge has contributed towards raising awareness on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and is supporting the Tanzanian government’s national initiatives towards zero new infections, zero stigma incidences and zero mother to child infections so that as a country we meet the Millennium Development Goals.”</strong></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>According to the Executive Director of TACAIDS Dr. Fatma Mrisho, “What our climbers will achieve in the next 7 days will be a monumental task in our national struggle to tame the deadly scourge. It is this kind of involvement to our society, youth in particular, and realization that HIV/AIDS can be mitigated that will take our country to an ultimate success of seeing Tanzania free of the HIV/AIDS Challenge. It can be done if each and every one of us plays our part. Approximately 1.6 million people in Tanzania are living with HIV/AIDS and about 86,000 new infections every year. This pandemic is mostly affecting the youth of Tanzania and the disease has orphaned 1.3 million children. We need to change this therefore TACAIDs in collaboration with Geita Gold Mine and other various stakeholders through Kilimanjaro Challenge, we will continue to provide financial support in order to fight against this pandemic.” She continued to say, “We hope to build a national team spirit in the fight against this menace and I urge other stakeholders from local and international investors to come forward, join us and contribute to the Kilimanjaro Challenge fund so that we can meet our dream of having a zero free generation from HIV/AIDS.”</strong></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Speaking in regard to the flag-off ceremony, the Managing director for Geita Gold Mine Mr. Michael Van Anen said “GGM is proud to be part of this initiative where various companies which are working locally, could join forces and participate in this noble course. GGM leads this initiative by establishing relationships and mobilizing key likeminded partners to raise funds, sponsor individual climbers, or donate through an auction for this cause. Currently in its 13th year, the difference in life changing in the communities is enormous and we are looking forward for an HIV/AIDS zero Tanzania in the near future.” He continued to say, “I would like to urge anyone who would like to join us to visit www.geitakilichallenge.com and see how they can be part of this great initiative.”</strong></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>AngloGold Ashanti Sustainability Vice President Mr. Simon Shayo said “More than 600 people from different parts of the world have participated to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro for the Kilimanjaro Challenge initiative which has raised in excess of US$500,000 per annum. For the 2014 our heroic determined climbers we say bravo to you all! We highly commend you for deciding to undertake this challenge for a good course and for fulfilling your dreams. You are set out to conquer the highest mountain in Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro, not for fun but as a way demonstrate your solidarity with the rest of Tanzania and the World in responding to the challenge of HIV/AIDS, and in particular your devotion sends a message of care and love for those affected in one way of another by HIV/AIDS as well as reaffirming our duty and commitment to fight HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. In reality HIV/AIDS affect us all, it affects humanity in its entirety.”</strong></span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: black;"><strong>Geita Gold Mine and TACAIDS using the umbrella of Kilimanjaro Challenge is playing a pioneering role in the awareness on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and look forward for the day when Tanzania will be declared Zero HIV and AIDS infection as it is reported that Tanzania’s prevalence rate has gone down from over 13% in 2000 to 7.8% by 2007 and as low as 5.1% today. Let us all rise up to join the fight against HIV/AIDS to get to Zero on HIV and AIDS: Zero New Infections, Zero Stigma and Zero AIDS related deaths</strong></span></span></span></div>

The Flag-Off at Machame For Kilimanjaro Challenge 2014

The Minister for Tourism and Natural Resources, Hon. Lazaro Samuel Nyalandu with the two children from Moyo wa Huruma Orphanage Centre wh...

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