BY THE GUARDIAN REPORTER
1st January 2013
Addressing the nation in his end of the Year 2012 speech, President Jakaya Kikwete said currently the government was preparing policy and new laws on gas extraction and use.
“The government intention is to ensure that the resource is well supervised for the benefit of the country and its people as well as safeguarding the interests of the investors,” President Kikwete said.
His statement follows recent demonstrations by residents of Mtwara protesting against the government decision to build a gas pipeline to transport gas from the region to Dar es Salaam without clearing how they were going to benefit from the resource.
“Their claim to know how they will benefit is understandable and the government will ensure that they benefit from the resource, but their condition of restricting gas from being transported to any part of the country is unacceptable,” President Kikwete said.
He added: “Any resource found in any party of this country is the property of entire nation and not property of the people where it has been discovered, since the revenue obtained from any source in the country is used to serve all people regardless of their location,”
He called on politicians in the country to stop deceiving people by promoting agenda which fuel hatred among them for political gains.
On the constitutional review, President Kikwete said the commission has finished the first phase of the work of collecting public views in all regions and that it will embark on the second phase of collecting views from special groups in January this year.
He said after collection of the public views the Commission will prepare a constitutional draft which will be ready by May this year.
He called for the people’s participation in all processes of the making of the new constitution in order to have the mother law which comprises the views of the people on how they would like to be governed.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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