By Marc Nkwame , The Guardian
ARUSHA Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda has expressed concern over what he termed as increase of informal shops selling alcohol and other items in residential areas.
According to him, on each and every street, there are myriads of cubicles within residential buildings, commercial properties or even standalone blocks being rented out to traders who convert them into shops, hair maintaining salons, groceries, liquor stores and tailor marts.
Even some religious institutions make use of their outer spaces of their buildings to erect stalls for hire.
“Arusha is a tourist city and not some cheap town where people come to buy candy,” he said yesterday.
According to Makonda, Arusha is in dire need of quality hotel rooms to accommodate local and international visitors coming to the city, adding that the last thing visitors need to see in the city is lack of planning.
He was addressing Arusha residents during the event to receive 20 new motorcycles donated to regional police by CRDB Group which is conducting its annual general meeting of shareholders here.
Makonda said that he was posted to Arusha to address the issue of inadequate accommodation facilities in the city which serves as the country’s diplomatic and tourism hub.
The RC tasked Arusha Regional Police Commander, Justine Masejo to ensure that crime is brought down in the city and that is why many institutions contribute to the efforts of equipping the police force with facilities such as motorcycles.
Zanzibar President, Dr Hussein Mwinyi graced CRDB members’ seminar and used the occasion to appeal to the institution’s management to start conducting the annual events in the isles as well.
“Zanzibar has opened its doors for investors and we therefore need training sessions like this for residents of Zanzibar and also where possible your annual meeting for 2025 should be held in Unguja,” he said.
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