Dar es Salaam.Anti-drugs police have arrested a man believed to be the country’s most wanted drug kingpin. Ali Khatibu Haji, popularly known as Shikuba, was arrested at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) last Sunday after two years of an intensive manhunt. The 44-year-old is considered one of the most powerful and influential drug barons in Tanzania. He is said to be the leader of a cartel operating principally in East Africa but with a reach as far as China, Brazil, Canada, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Huku baadhi ya wajumbe wa Bunge la Katiba wanadai posho ya shilingi laki tatu kwa siku haitoshi, waongezewe na wengine wakidai wanunuliwe iPad…kule nguvu kubwa imetumika kupambana na ‘taarifa za kizushi na kipuuzi’ za gazeti la Daily Mail kwamba kushamiri kwa ujangili kunachangiwa na serikali ya Rais Jakaya Kikwete kuwakumbatia baadhi ya vigogo wanaojihusisha na biashara hiyo haramu…na sasa ripoti hii kuhusu kushamiri kwa matumizi ya madawa ya kulevya nchini Tanzania. Haitoshangaza kusikia watawala wetu wakiilaumu France24 kwa ripoti hii na kudai imelenga kuchafua jina la Tanzania…Yaleyale ya mbuni kuficha kichwa kwenye mchanga