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Government leaders, clerics and traditional leaders held a meeting yesterday at the office of Regional Commissioner Amos Makalla and agreed to hold a joint prayer in another effort to end road crashes in the region . for this Saturday, at the CCM, the Ruanda Nzovwe and Mbeya residents of all political affiliations, religions and ethnic groups were called to come in large numbers
"We implement all the directives issued by the national leaders to improve Security dictates that we turn to God for our region to be safe, "Makalla said.
Representative of traditional chiefs at meeting, Rocket Mwashinga chief of the Safwa tribe expressed his optimism after the prayer planned to appease the spirits
He revealed that the traditional leaders will hold a separate ritual Wednesday to consult the spirits in order to establish if someone is dying. "If we have established that accidents are the result of human labor through the force of evil spirits, the evildoers will be cursed during our ritual, but if it is the will of God, we believe that he will pay attention to our prayers, "said Mwashinga.
One of the religious leaders who attended the meeting, Sheikh Hassani Katanga of the Mbeya Central Mosque, said they were considering working with the local media. Live the Thursday event so that even those who are at home can take part in it.
Rev. Oscar Hngere, of the Free Pentecostal Church of Tanzania, recommended that for the purpose to be reached, such prayers should not be a one-off event but a routine.
Mbeya's latest accident claimed the lives of five people on Friday.The accident occurred a few hours after the new Home Affairs Minister , Kang i Lugola demoted the Mbeya regional traffic officer for failing to control the accidents
. Another accident occurred at the same black spot the previous weekend and involved a container truck and three suburban minibuses. Barely 24 hours after the accident, Minister Lugola went to Mbeya and dissolved the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) and all Regional and Regional Road Safety Committees for n & # 39; could not contain recurring incidents. After questioning the NRSC chair and members of various regional road safety committees, Mr. Lugola stated that they were not well informed of what they were supposed to monitor: the road . the Highway Code and its regulations.
Lugola also ordered Police Inspector General Simon Sirro to take legal action against regional traffic officers from 10 regions that recorded the highest number of accidents from the road recently. He named the police areas whose traffic heads face action like Ilala, Kinondoni, Temeke, Mbeya, Tarime-Rorya, Dodoma, Morogoro, Tabora, Ruvuma, Shinyanga and Manyara.
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