Why not wait for a few months until water levels begin to fall? … Tanesco may soon be forced to spill water from our dams in order to keep IPTL chugging along as planned.’ Source: East African, February 18, 2002 Hardly two months after IPTL start power production, its minority shareholders VIPEM file a suit in the Tanzanian High Court to wind up the company unless they receive thirty percent of IPTL equity. VIP are concerned that they may not receive their ‘fair share’ of the dividends from IPTL over the project’s twenty year life span. VIP estimate the net present value of their share of these dividends at $100 million.
Je tupo kwa ajili ya mkulima na mfanyakazi wa taifa hili? Ambaye sasa anaelekea kushindwa kumudu hata mlo mmoja kwa siku? Ambaye ana mtoto mwenye akili lakini chuo kinapofunguliwa hawezi hata kupewa nauli ya kurudia chuo? Anayekosa shilingi mia tano ya kununua panado akipata homa? Lakini anayelilisha taifa hili chakula miaka nenda miaka rudi, tukijua fika kuwa kuwa hatununui mazao yake kwa bei stahili hivyo hatumtendei haki? Kwa nini tusichore picha za almasi, na maghorofa kwenye kofia badala ya jembe na nyundo?