The Association of Local Authorities of Tanzania (ALAT) wants to be granted an observer status in the Arusha-based, East African Community (EAC). Speaking in Arusha, the Chairperson of ALAT Dr Didas Masaburi, pointed out that if the current EAC wishes to be people-centred as it claims, then it cannot avoid including local area authorities from the community’s five member states.
Dr Masaburi, who was accompanied by the association’s Secretary, Mr Habram Shamumoyo, was speaking at the climax of the local authority’s constitutional council held in the city.
The assembly had made various recommendations for the 2013 draft constitution, including a need to make the immigration department part of the official security organs.
“Other than just having the army and the police there is need to have the immigration department recognized as an important organ in the official security sector,” stated the ALAT chairman.
The ALAT meeting on constitution reforms made a stab on the proposed three governments system where some of the people who contributed called for the re-establishment of the mainland (Tanganyika) government to operate in-sync with the Zanzibar Government and then form the overall federal Tanzanian government.
“Three governments will be expensive and cumbersome to run and why should we have a federal government at the threshold of forming the East African Federation?” asked Dr Masaburi.
By MARC NKWAME, Tanzania Daily News
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