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| Society for International Development Associate Regional Director Aidan Aidan Eyakuze presents overview of research done by the agency at inauguration of 'State of East Africa 2013 Report'. |
Ambassador Juma Mwapachu, Global President of the Society for International Development (SID), said if the governments do not find solutions to reduce the inequalities - mainly caused by corruption and poor use of resources, crime rates and violence will be inevitable in such countries.
Ambassdor Mwapachu made the statement in Dar es Salaam yesterday during the launch of a report titled: “The State of East Africa 2013; One People, One Destiny? The Future of Inequality in East Africa.”
He said between 1960 and 1980s Tanzania was an egalitarian state, but this has now changed due to increase in corruption and poor use of resources.
Earlier the SID Associate Regional Director Aidan Eyakuze said that the gap between the rich and the poor seems to be widening in Kenya and Tanzania while in Uganda it has remained stable for two decades.
He said the report established that Burundi is the least unequal country in East Africa, followed by Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.
However, the difference occurs in the provision of social service in rural and urban areas.
According to the report, 60 per cent of urban health facilities have electricity, clean water and improved sanitation compared to five per cent of rural facilities.
In education the report shows that just two per cent of schools in rural Tanzania have adequate infrastructure and little comfort is given by the fact that urban schools are hardly better off.
It further reveals that students in rural areas in the country are taught for less than half of the scheduled teaching time and those in urban areas are taught for 27 per cent of the scheduled time.
Contributing to the report Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) Chairman Dr Reginald Mengi called on the countries in the region to invest more in education for the young generation.
Dr Mengi who is also the IPP Executive Chairman noted that education in the country is not stable because there are no strong and long term plans aimed at improving the sector.
“It takes up to 25 years to build a solid education foundation, but in Tanzania every leader who gets into office after five years comes up with his or her plans,” he said.
He said empowerment of the people to participate in exploiting the country’s natural resources was one of the best strategies to eradicate the present inequalities.
“We shall never build a strong economy if Tanzanians are not given an opportunity to benefit from their natural resources,” he noted.
Meanwhile, in a move aimed at fighting cyber crime in the country, the University of Dodoma (UDOM) in collaboration with security organs are preparing a model dubbed Cyber Security Clinic (CSC).
The model will among others enable the nation to still access network in case criminals tamper with the signals and put lives of the public in danger.
It means mobile phones remain active and bank transactions can still be conducted, according to Dr Leonard Msele senior lecturer in Informatics College Virtual Education at UDOM said in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
Addressing cyber stakeholders, Dr Msele said so a group of experts has already started finding ways to deal with cyber crime in mobile phones.
For his part, Assistant Director for Informational Communicational Technology from the Ministry of Communication Science and Technology, Eng Peter Philip, said cyber crime is growing and that laws to deal with such acts are already in the pipeline.
He said next year the government will submit to Parliament at least three laws on electronic transaction, data protection and cyber crime.
The deputy Head of Cyber crime Unit in Police Force ASP Joshua Mwangasa said more than 50 cases related to cyber crime have been reported so far.
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