The Minister for Industry and Trade, Dr Abdallah Kigoda, has vowed to immediately remove people who have grabbed part of land belonging to the College of Business Education (CBE) in Dar es Salaam.
The Minister for Trade and Industries, Dr Abdallah Kigoda
The minister made the promise after he visited the CBE Dar es Salaam Campus to see the progress of the college and its environment. He said the encroached area will be returned to the legal owner in order to facilitate construction and expansion of the college.
“The grabbed area will immediately be returned without any problem because the college and the invaders will follow every process of the law to understand the boundaries of the college,” he said. CBE Principal, Prof Emmanuel Mjema, said the grabbed area was earmarked for the construction of a 20-storey building which will contain staff offices and 12 lecture theatres.
He said if the invaders returned the area, the construction would start soon this year, adding that they wrote a letter in April, this year, to the invaders to allow the expansion but the response had been negative. “The area was taken over by three people.
Already one person has left… but the other two have not even responded,” he said. Prof Mjema also said the new building would create room for an additional 12,000 students.
The area was taken over in the 1980s whereby the owner today is K.D Surelia, who uses the portion of land around Olympio Street for car air-conditioning and repair while the other part, which faces Bibi Titi Mohamed Street, is owned by IR HR and Sons Limited and now accommodates a garment manufacturing unit.
Dr Kigoda urged the college to send the curricula vitae of best students to the ministry so they could help the graduates get employment.
“If possible please send the CVs of best students because I have been receiving applications for graduates in areas such as production engineering, technical engineering and chemical engineering,” he said. He also promised to help the college in the expansion of its campus in Dodoma.
By SWAUM MUSTAPHER, Tanzania Daily News
