AfDB Approves USD 251 Million Funding for Roads in Tanzania and Sierra Leone

Tank you ADB and JICA for the great project for the development of Tanzania and Africa at large. However despite the Project Appraisal Report clearly insisting on compensation and resettlement of the 753 Project Affected Persons(PAPs) in this project it is sad to learn that most of the affected persons on the Dodoma - Babati road project have been served with notices by TANROADS (Dodoma) to demolish their houses immediately without compensation. The most affected people are those along the small town of Bereko in Kondoa District Dodoma Region. These people will be made poorer against the objective of MKUKUTA as stipulated in the report because they will not afford to re-ssetle without compensation and they will be made destitutes in their own country. I believe this is not the aim of the project. All efforts to resolve this problem with TANROADS, including submitting the land authorized acquisition documents given to these people by the Land Office,have been in vain. Furthermore TANROADS have not involved these people to participate in the process of the project design and implementation in the first place. The report indicates that 753 people will be compensated along Babati - Dodoma road and 13.27Billion TZS have been set aside for the purpose, now how come TANROADS have given notice to these people to demolish their houses without compensation? This problem needs the intervention of ADB and JICA to resolve immediately. Thank you again.

Thank you ADB for funding road construction in Tanzania. its really a symbol to development and connect our Africa and ensuring the sustainable development of our continent.