Citizen

2022 - 8 - 15

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470 Tanzanite miners lose permits over Sh700 million unpaid dues (The Citizen)

The government has suspended licences issued to at least 470 tanzanite small-scale miners over Sh700 million in unpaid dues.

According to Mr Mshai, the 470 miners have 30 days to settle monies owed to his office short of which they would not be allowed into the mining sites. A total of 470 of them will have to settle the outstanding fees or engage on other income generating activities to earn a living. Should they fail pay the money, they would be taken to court under the new mining laws and their amendments.

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Bridging the citizen journey: Addressing technical debt within the ... (Open Access Government)

The need to integrate legacy systems has slowed down progress with there being a hesitancy to adopt new technology within the public sector.

Only when this is done, can the public sector bridge the citizen journey and create meaningful experiences that build trust. This is only possible once they begin to address the technical debt that prevents citizens being provided the experiences they expect and deserve. Then, public sector organisations can really begin to respond to needs with empathy by truly understanding citizens issues and giving them experiences personalised to their needs. This is particularly important as citizens want to know that public sector organisations care about their needs, and more so than the private sector. It is essential the public sector organisations build trust amongst the communities they serve, which can only happen with the right technology in place to prioritise, listen and respond to citizen needs with empathy. These services can then be scaled in line with this, ensuring the maximum support is given where it’s needed most, and citizen issues are responded to and resolved swiftly.

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Why hospitality, transport have lost out on bank credit (The Citizen)

Sectors that had increasingly received bank financing were agriculture, mining,SMES, trade and manufacturing.

Rate of accessing new loans declines because some of the businesses have also been dealing with accrued interest expenses from previous debts,” he said. Same for the transport sector where there was less traffic and cargo volume,” he said. And, according to Mr Kimario, currently the sectors were viewed differently because of the recovery and growing demand which means the businesses in the transport and hospitality sector were going to require credit addition to meet their new demand. Mr Tarimo said in the transport and communication sector there are still headwinds of the pandemic also as logistics business and services associated with it were significantly down in the last two years. “The risk appetite of these activities to banks has fallen, and due to the pandemic it has become harder for business personnel who want to let say open a hotel to convince banks to take the risk of lending them,” he said. Mr Mkwawa said the analysis of the businesses in these sectors show inconsistent cash flows which is one of the major reasons why banks are reluctant to lend to these sectors.

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A harrowing escape from childhood marriage in Mwanga (The Citizen)

Enteshi John (not her real name) in the library of the secondary school she was enrolled in after attempts by her father to marry her off to a man in his ...

FCS provided a grant to Ajiso to establish child protection committees in Mwanga. Between June and December 2020, Ajiso trained and empowered more than 50 stakeholders to found and serve on the child protection committees. I wanted a chance to change my society – help them understand that there is more to life than the cows we rear,” she says. Acting in collaboration with the Mwanga district administration, they seek to make this policy standard among all schools. After the first instance, he had promised not to marry her off again. This time in early 2020, with schools closed to halt the spread of Covid-19, her father saw an opportunity to try again. She trekked once again, blanketed by darkness and with the sounds of the odd hyena eerily in the distance, to the main road into Mwanga Town. She had flashbacks to her first escape, when she had to hide at a safe house until her primary school exam results came out, and she could enrol in secondary school.

Undocumented Mexican Citizen Sentenced To Two Years In ... (Department of Justice)

Jacksonville, Florida – U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Armando Amaya-Lopez (36, Vera Cruz, Mexico) to two years in federal prison for ...

On December 5, 2021, Amaya-Lopez was arrested by officers from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, at which time he identified himself as C.M. and provided the driver license he had obtained in that name. When he did so, he knew that the identifiers belonged to another person and that he was not lawfully authorized to possess or use the identifiers. On September 27, 2013, Amaya-Lopez went to a tax collector’s office in Ft. Myers and applied for a driver license, again identifying himself as C.M. He passed the driving examination and was issued a driver license in the name of C.M. On July 25, 2018, he went to a tax collector’s office in Jacksonville and obtained a replacement driver license in the name of C.M. However, a fingerprint check revealed his true identity and returned records reflecting that he was a Mexican citizen who was illegally present in the United States. During an interview with law enforcement, Amaya-Lopez admitted his true name and citizenship and said that he had paid $1,000 to an unknown person to obtain false U.S. citizen documents. According to court documents, on August 6, 2013, Amaya-Lopez went to a tax collector’s office in Tampa and applied for and obtained a Florida identification card in the name of a person with the initials C.M. When he applied for the identification card, he claimed to be a U.S. citizen and he provided as proof of citizenship a birth certificate from Puerto Rico and a Social Security card, each in the name of C.M. The birth certificate and Social Security card set forth true identifiers for C.M., including his name, date of birth, and Social Security Number (SSN). Each time that Amaya-Lopez obtained a Florida identification card or driver license, he signed a digital application affirming under penalty of perjury that his name was C.M., that he was a citizen of the United States, and that the other identifiers that he had provided, such as his date of birth and SSN, were in fact his.

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