Tarime DC assures farmers on dam safety

MUGINI JACOB in Tarime Daily News; Thursday,August 23, 2007 @00:02

THE government has assured Biswari villag ers in Tarime District, Mara Region, that plans to construct a multimillion dam in their village will not affect their lives. Instead, the Tarime District Commissioner, Mr Stanley Kolimba, said the dam to be constructed by the Mara River Basin Project at the cost of 200,000 US dollars (about 250m/-) was meant to ease chronic water shortage that was experienced in the village for years and support small scale irrigation projects. "We have examined this project carefully and blessed it after realizing that it is meant to benefit our people," he told the Biswari village meeting on Tuesday evening। Full Story The district chief further told the villagers that in the course of executing the project, no land would be grabbed from anyone and that they will not be restricted from fishing at the neighbouring Mara River. The meeting was also attended by senior officials from the Ministries of Water and Agriculture who asked the villagers to cooperate fully with relevant authorities in implementing the project for their own goo