Mr Koro I’ve found this article following what was published in The Bulrushes.
I am of the opinion that this article is asking to know the truth.
READ THE ARTICLE HERE: Tanzania Can’t Harm Its Hunting Community, Writes Emmanuel Koro – The Bulrushes %
The second seems like it was written after being satisfied with facts based on the quotation of the people with a higher position of influencing policy on land, and it was even directing courses of action to be taken.
I’m sad to see that the huge coverage you give to the accessible authorities and use it to legitimise their actions. It is dealing unfairness to the natural justice of having no word from the afflicted Maasai people.
Had you brought up voices of those who protested and got beaten and injured, your article would have been a tool of balanced information and fairness.
The locals who protested know their rights, not Maasai wielding spears to authorities as we do when defending our animals.
Coming to demarcation of the land for conservation, now in this time is like an act with a dubious intention.
Creators of the Serengeti ecosystem then concluded from long ago with facts that the Maasai way of life in the area is synonymous with what the world is contemplating now as the ideals of human wildlife coexistence.
Up to now and later years it still is.
However, with our new government the dollar hunters with other intentions of royal exclusivity need the area and don’t want to see the local herdsman go about grazing in the middle of the colourful zebra stripes as it is not picturesque.
For this even we Tanzanians wonder what is going on?
Why are Maasais, who have preserved the land for all the years, suddenly not needed when no facts of endangered fauna and flora has been reported?
It is frustrating to read your article in The Bulrushes, where you seem to conclude that the government is justified to act in a manner to save wildlife when it is not true.
Your pen is either a spear to put down for good those you couldn’t reach on the social media because they are busy following their animals and you give opinion for or of them or you are commissioned by the dollar hunters or even by the decision makers of our nation to whitewash injustice and unfairness or all of them put together.
The Maasai have suffered unfairly and their land taken and now with reduced pastures to graze as the whole prime area demarcated for dollar hunters you seem to advocate for.
Why haven’t we seen this before now?
When did the alarm to save the ecosystem from Maasai people go off?
Why such force against the normal local government procedures requiring local participation?
We here in Tanzania still wonder when you out there have answers.
Perhaps the intentions of your article keep us asking what is going on?
By the way, I am Maasai.
Ole Moono.
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