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WINGU zito limetanda kuhusu afya ya Naibu Waziri wa Ujenzi, Dk Harrison Mwakyembe baada ya Waziri wa Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii, Dk Hadji Mponda, kusema kuwa ripoti ya ugonjwa wa Mwakyembe, anayo mwenyewe na kwamba wizara haina ripoti iliyotolewa na Mkurugenzi wa Makosa ya Jinai, Robert Manumba, kwa waandishi wa habari.

Lakini wakati Dk Mponda akitoa kauli hiyo, baadhi ya watu wa kada tofauti wakiwamo viongozi wa dini na wasomi, wamekosoa ripoti hiyo ya polisi.

Mmoja wa watu hao, Katibu Mkuu wa Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema), Dk Willibrod Slaa alisema,"hata mimi simwamini Manumba."

Malumbano hayo yanakuja wakati Dk Mwakyembe ambaye ni pia ni Mbunge wa Kyela, akitarajiwa nchini jana kwenda India kwa matibabu katika Hospitali ya Apollo.

Mkataba kati ya TANESCO na Richmond Development wa tarehe 23 Juni, 2006 wa kuingiza majenereta ya umeme kufuatia upungufu wa nishati hiyo uliokuwa umekithiri nchini mwaka 2006 ulihamishiwa kwa kampuni ya Dowans Holdings S.A tarehe 14 Oktoba, 2006 mwezi mmoja kabla bila ya kuihusisha TANESCO kama ilivyotakiwa kwa mujibu wa kifungu 15.12 cha mkataba huo.

Kifungu hicho cha Mkataba kilikuwa kinaruhusu mkataba huo uliokuwa na thamani ya dola milioni 172.5 kuahulishwa kwenda kwenye kampuni nyingine baada ya makubaliano ya pande hizo mbili tena kwa maandishi.

Sehemu ya kifungu hicho cha mkataba huo ambao FP inao kinasema wazi kuwa “Neither party may assign this agreement or grant any security interest, charge, lien, or other encumbrance in this Agreement other than by mutual agreement between the parties in writing”. Kwa maneno mengine, mkataba ulikataza pande zote mbili (TANESCO na RDC) kuhaulisha jukumu lolote au jambo lolote linalohusiana na mkataba huo kwenda kwa kampuni au chombo kingine pasipo makubaliano ya maandishi kati ya pande hizo mbili.

Hivyo kitendo chochote kwa upande wa TANESCO au Richmond kuhamisha mkataba au majukumu yake kwenda kwa chombo kingine bila ridhaa ya kimaandishi ya mwenzake ilikuwa ni uvunjaji wa mkataba huo. Hata hivyo, katika taarifa ambazo Kamati Teule iliyoundwa na Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania kuchunguza Richmond ilipatiwa chini ya kiapo kampuni ya Richmond ilihamisha mkataba wake kwa Dowans Holding S.A tarehe 23 Disemba, 2006.

Whitney Houston’s funeral will be held Saturday at the Newark, New Jersey church where the pop diva sang as a child, the funeral home told AFP on Tuesday.

“The service will be held Saturday 12 noon (1700 GMT) at New Hope Baptist Church,” said an employee at the Whigham Funeral Home in Newark, which was making preparations for Houston to be laid to rest.

CBS television reported that a public memorial service for the acclaimed singer would be held at the Prudential Center sports arena in Newark, with details of the two-day event to be confirmed later on Tuesday.

Houston was found dead on Saturday, at the age of 48, in her bathtub in a luxury suite of the Beverly Hilton hotel as preparations were under way for the Grammy Awards, the highlight of the music industry calendar.

Houston, who possessed one of the greatest-ever singing voices and sold more than 170 million records, fought a long and public battle with substance abuse after her career and personal life went off the rails.

Fans were awaiting autopsy results that may not be made public for up to eight weeks, as speculation rages that the pop legend may have died from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol.

The autopsy was completed on Sunday but the results have been held back pending the completion of a toxicology probe.

Celebrity website TMZ said it learned from unnamed “family sources” that the singer died from a lethal combination of prescription drugs and alcohol.

Los Angeles assistant chief coroner Ed Winter would not speculate about the cause of death, but told reporters that some pill bottles were found in Houston’s hotel room.

“There weren’t a lot of prescription bottles,” he said. “You probably have just as many prescription bottles in your medicine cabinet.”

Fox News reported that six bottles of pills were found in the hotel room where Houston died, among them the prescription anti-depressant Xanax and other pain medication.( Source: AFP)

A French judge has charged Congolese music star Koffi Olomide with three counts of rape and illegal confinement after complaints from three of his former backup dancers, his lawyer said Wednesday.

“Koffi Olomide went Monday afternoon of his own free will to answer a summons by an investigating judge in (the Parisian suburb of) Nanterre, where he was charged,” Olomide’s lawyer Manuel Aeschlimann told AFP.

The singer has since returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo, he said, without waiting for a French ruling on whether he should be held without bail.

Aeschlimann said a former dancer had filed a complaint in 2006 and that two years later two more dancers followed suit. One of the plaintiffs was a minor at the time of the alleged sexual assaults.

He said the case against Olomide was “empty and hollow. There is no material evidence and the statements of the three women who accuse him of rape contain numerous contradictions.”

Aeschlimann alleged that the women filed the complaints in the hopes of obtaining temporary French residency permits.

(Source : AP News Agency) 

Zambia national football team players celebrate their victory with their trophy at the end of the African Cup of Nations final football match between Zambia and Ivory Coast on February 12, 2012, at the Stade de l’Amitie in Libreville. AFP PHOTO

The Zambian government has given $59,000 to each player in the national side which won the country’s first Africa Cup of Nations title on Sunday, the sports minister said Tuesday.

“The government has given each one of you $59,000, and that is beside what the corporate organisations might decide to give. This money is from the government,” Chishimba Kambwili said on national radio.

The award is a princely sum in a nation where, per capita, the gross domestic product is less than $1,500.

Zambia defeated hot favourites Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties after 120 goalless minutes in Sunday’s final, which had emotional overtones for Zambia.

The final was staged in the Gabonese capital Libreville, off whose coast a military aircraft carrying the 1993 Zambian national squad plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 30 players, officials and crew on board.

The victorious national team returned home Monday, sparking a near stampede at the Lusaka show grounds where 200,000 people gathered to celebrate the Chipolopolo Boys (Copper Bullets).

Players and government officials had to be whisked away amid chaotic scenes after fans became unruly.

But the win was also greeted with sombre prayers at the burial site of the 1993 squad, where President Michael Sata is expected to lay a wreath later Tuesday to honour the team whose spirits are widely credited with ensuring Zambia’s victory.

Source: AFP