The East African Community (EAC) is now contemplating to develop the piece of land which the government had dished out to its Arusha-based secretariat at Kisongo area along the main Arusha-Dodoma road.
Apparently the EAC,
which has already completed and moved into its new headquarters in
Arusha City, now wants to build staff houses as well as a shopping
centre and possibly a school on the other Kisongo plot.
The EAC Deputy Secretary General in
charge of Finance and Administration, Mr Jean Claude Nsengiyumva, last
week led a group of officials to inspect the 130-acres piece of land
allocated to the EAC by the Government of Tanzania in Mateves area, Kisongo, in the outskirts of Arusha City.
The land in Kisongo was allocated to the
EAC in August 2005 by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Jakaya
Kikwete and the plot was meant for the community’s future property
expansion. Mr Kikwete is now president of Tanzania.
Accompanying the officials were
surveyors who included Mr Yohana Shumbi and Danielson Naiman from
Josjujo Surveyors and Land Consult, a firm based in Arusha.
The visit was aimed at reestablishing the boundaries of the land, with the view to starting processing its title deed.
Once the official title deed is
processed, the secretariat intends to initiate grand development
projects on the land that will include staff housing scheme,
international school, health centre, recreational facilities, exhibition
ground and banking as well as a shopping mall.
During the ninth Ordinary Summit of the
EAC Heads of State that was held in Kigali on 26 June 2008, the Heads of
State decided that “time had come for the EAC to put in place a housing
policy geared at acquiring and constructing houses for all the key
Community staff.
The heads of state had advised that EAC
‘’should approach banks and financial Institutions as well as social
security funds with a view to structuring mortgage lending for effecting
the housing policy.”
According to the EAC Deputy Secretary
General, Mr Nsengiyumva, EAC can effectively implement the above
directive as well as other grand development projects, only after the
right of occupancy to the said piece of land is granted.
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