“The law provides loopholes for these harvesters to use fake names on grounds that they can be hardly tracked down,” says Ephraim Mmbaga the Liwale District Commissioner, adding, “the law governing harvesting is so weak that it limits the district harvesting committee to the list of names short of access to the harvesters in person.” Acknowledging allegations that his committee had approved illegal timber harvesting in Luwele and Chigugu villages on account of forged documents, he says the village leaders might have colluded with the harvesters to provide the district committee wrong information.
Matokeo yaleyale yaliyomzuia Maalim Seif kuwa rais wa Zanzibar ndiyo yakampaisha Rais John Magufuli kutangazwa kuwa Rais wa Tanzania. Kidemokrasia (Demokrasia ya Tanzania) kwa tafsiri ya dola na chama kinachoongoza dola ni pale ambapo wagombea wa CCM wangelikuwa wanaongoza wote, lakini pia bila aibu aliposhindwa mmoja wakashindwa kujibaraguza ilimradi wazuie matokeo yote ya Zanzibar kwa chaguzi zote (urais wa Jamhuri na ule wa Zanzibar) na kwa hivyo uchaguzi wa marudio unaokwenda kufanyika Zanzibar (huku vyama vyenye nguvu kama CUF vikiwa vimeususia) ungelifanyika kwa nafasi zote za urais wa Jamhuri na ule wa Zanzibar.