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Friday, June 24, 2016

668m/- allocated to Pangani water projects

DAILY NEWS Reporters in Dodoma
THE government has allocated 668,257,356/- to implement water projects in Pangani District during the next financial year under the second phase of the Water Sector Development Fund (WSDP II).
This was revealed by Deputy Minister in the President’s Office (Local Government and Regional Administration), Selemani Jaffo, at the National Assembly when responding to a question by Pangani MP, Juma Aweso.
The MP had sought to know when the government would end water shortage in his constituency, noting that the district was facing acute water shortage with Mkalamo, Masaika, Mikunguni, Mkwaja, Mwera, and Bushiri wards the most affected areas.
The Deputy Minister admitted that Pangani is one of the areas across that country that has been experiencing water shortage but told the House that the government was committed to end problem in the country. “The government in collaboration with development partners has been executing the water sector development programme since 2006/07.
In the Pangani District council five projects have been completed at six villages of Madanga, Jaira, Bweni, Kwakibuyu, Mzambarauni and Kigurusimba,” Jaffo told the House.
He revealed more projects will be carried out in ten other villages of Pangani District under the second phase of the water sector development fund.
He named the villages as Mkalamo village, (Mkalamo Ward), Stahabu, Mtango, and Mikinguni (Mikunguni Ward), Mikocheni and Sange (Mkwaja Ward), Mwera (Mwera Ward), Kipumbwi (Kipumbwi Ward), Msaraza (Bushiri Ward) and Masaika (Masaika Ward). The Deputy Minister bought the legislator’s suggestion that the problem could be solved by drawing water from Pangani River.
Jaffo said it was in the government’s plans to set up a massive project of utilising the river to supply reliable services in the district, noting that a total of 10bn/- was needed to finance the project. Mpwapwa legislator George Lubeleje (CCM) also decried scarcity of water at Mpwapwa and Kongwa areas, saying people were forced to buy a 20-litre container at 1,000/-.

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