EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
THE SILVERDALE CASE
President Kikwete had a choice. To support the interest of bona fide investors or the criminal activities of one of his countrymen.
In 2005, Benjamin Mengi publicly declared that he would chase British investors Stewart Middleton and Sarah Hermitage from Tanzania if necessary "cut to pieces in a coffin". He made this statement in front of senior Moshi police officers who did nothing except laugh and support Mr. Mengi. One of the officers shouted to the investors behind Mengi, that they should go back to Zimbabwe. The investors are British.
From that point on, Mengi engaged in unchecked criminality to intimidate, harass and abuse the investors using the police and the judiciary as his personal puppets of abuse. He threatened to behead the investors staff and threatened to and succeeded in putting them in prison for offences they did not commit. He contracted to kill Stewart Middleton with a local Moshi thug with a plan to put a bullet in his head and throw his body into the Kikafue River and yes, he eventually did succeed in driving the British investors from Tanzania.
He constantly boasts of his relationship with Kikwete threatening people with imprisonment at whim and the loss of their jobs if they did not comply with his wishes.
He constantly boasts of his relationship with Kikwete threatening people with imprisonment at whim and the loss of their jobs if they did not comply with his wishes.
In 2006, President Kikwete promised the British government that he would personally make sure that the rule of law was applied to the Silverdale Farm case. He also promised former British Minister of Africa and former Foreign Secretary but he did not deliver on his promises.
No comments:
Post a Comment