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Hosea says ready to act on radar suspects.

The Director of Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau Dr Edward Hosea says his office is ready to deal with all those implicated in the radar deal. He said the readiness of his office comes after completion of a special task between the government of Tanzania and that of United Kingdom. His comments come a few days after the Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr Bernard Membe swearing that the government will take care of all those implicated in the scandal.

Bi Kidude Snubs sauti ya Busara festivities.

Veteran Taarab singer, Bi Kidude on Saturday snubbed the Busara festivals for malaria campaign gig in Dar es Salaam. According to the schedule the evergreen diva was to perform with Tausi Women�s Taarab, a group based in Unguja. However,on Friday afternoon the Malaria Campaign crew whisked her to Dar on a chartered flight. By the time Sauti za Busara organisers learnt that Bi Kidude was not going to perform it was too late as the songbird was already in Dar .

Courts should use swahili says lawyers Arusha lawyers want the Judiciary to fully embrace Kiswahili in its proceedings because it is the most spoken language in Tanzania. They have proposed that court proceedings should from now be conducted in Kiswahili instead of English which many Tanzanians do not use in their daily communication. Duncan Oola, the chairman of the Tanganyika Law Society, Arusha Chapter, said last week that the bilingual practice in the country's Judiciary system has its drawbacks that must be addressed. He said although the suspects and witnesses testified in Kiswahili and evidence recorded in the same language, the judgements and sentences are written in English. "This had in many cases led to obvious misintepretation and break down of communnication" he said during the Lawyers' Day celebrations. He proposed that courts should use more Kiswahili in their proceedings as most people in Tanzania were Kiswahili speakers rather than English. But the Acting Judge in-charge of High Court in Arusha Kakusho Sambo said the issue of which of the two languages; Englsh and Kiswahili should be used in court proceedings was not the only problem facing the Judiciary in the area. He said Arusha region was facing an acute shortage of court buildingsk, especially in the newly-created Longido district, Karatu as well as Simanjiro in neighbouring Manyara region. The shortage has led to judges and magistrates to work on a shift basis in order to reduce the volume of cases in the courts as they can't operate simultaneously for lack of sufficient space. He said cases from the three districts had to be transferred to Monduli,Mbulu and Kiteto districts which are themselves often overwhelmed. Judge Sambo called on the authorities in Arusha and Manyara regions to look for temporary buildings to accomodate the district courts and offices. People should also be mobilised to built court buildings through contributions just like they have successfully build primary and secondary schools in all the wards all over the country.

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