Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

Already that time this ELCT diocese was shaken by scandals. The management - with knowledge and in conspiracy with the local bishops - stole several 100 Million TSH from different projects in the Makete diocese, not only the hospital as overseas missions tend to lie in support of their brothers and sisters in church crimes.

 

ELCT and more so the funding overseas missions are since decades shaken by corruption and criminal financial performances. One can not help himself to feel disgusted about bishops and the whole institution (ELCT) of god’s people when reading about their numerous scandals while they are going on displaying to be a moral authority for the country.

 

BUT certainly much more disgusting are the overseas Lutheran missions and their corrupt directors, who are to blame for their criminal performance. Since years the presiding European bishops tell the public that the donations given for Africa  would help the poor, while they disappear in black holes from Europe to Africa finally ending up in suppressing the poor even more instead of lifting them up. These lies of a corrupt European Church elites are indeed supporting the same criminal elites in Africa. In Europe medieval times where the church could interfere with all sectors of lives, while being corrupt, murderous and cruel, were finally overcome by secular and democratic societies.

Contradicting their loss of power in prospering liberated Europe, it is disgusting that German and Austrian Lutheran Bishops and their missions are obviously intentionally going on to support and sustain corrupt, powerful medieval churches and their criminal deeds and spirit in Africa.

 

The hypocrites, criminal systems without accounts and audits in Bulongwa are and stay in charge since. Killing ethical persons who have a heart to help their own people by just delivering their expected duties is obviously enough in Tanzania to die.  Being a decent person you come across the corrupt business of criminals, in the church, in NGOs, ministries… that’s obviously enough to die.

Global Fund, international NGOs, Governments… they do nothing but watching and going on to pour cash in the pockets of people who suppress, not help.

 

It is time to sue the missions at the international human right court in Hague for violating the rights of Africans by supporting corrupt NGOs and churches.

 

Dr. Rainer Brandl, MD, DTM&H, MCTM

 

Jackson Mbogela

 

Napenda kuungana na wanamakete wote na hasa wana PIUMA kusikitika juu ya msiba wa Dr. Jumbe Maphingo. Tukiwa kama wagonjwa wa UKIMWI ambao tunahitaji tiba ya mara kwa mara na ya uhakika, tunamhitaji daktari kuliko mtu yeyeyote. Kuuawa kwa Daktari ni kuuawa kwa wadau wa huduma ya afya na watu wanaoishi na VVU wote.

Nchini Tanzania Daktari mmoja kwa wastani anahudumia watu laki moja, kwa hiyo basi kuuawa kwa daktari mmoja ni sawa na kuuawa watu lakini moja na moja. Wanachama wetu wengi walitibia na Dr. Jumbe, na katika madaktari waliotoa tiba na huduma ya kuridhisha alikuwa ni Dr. Jumbe. Wanachama wetu walimpenda na walifanya naye kazi kwa ushirikiano mkubwa, kuuawa kwake ni pigo kubwa sio tu kwa Bulongwa bali ni kubwa zaidi kwetu sisi ambao tulimtegemea kila siku tunapoingia Klinik. Sisi kama wadau wa huduma katika hospitali ya Bulongwa tumeuawa pamoja na Dr. Jumbe.

Wanachama kadhaa wa PIUMA wameonyesha kusikitishwa na tatizo hili. Na tunadhani kanisa (KKKT), Dayosisi (DKK), pamoja Hospitali ya Bulongwa (BLH) wanahitajika kuwajibika kwa tukio hili. Nashangaa kuona viongozi wa hospitali akiwemo mganga Mkuu na mkuu wa chuo cha sayansi ya tiba Dr. John Mscheshi na Mtawala wa Hospitali Edward Masevella bado wanaitwa mganga mkuu na mkuu wa chuo na Mwingine mtawala. Walipaswa kujiuzuru siku nyingi sana ili kusaidia upelelezi utakao baini ukweli wa mambo na sababu zilizopelekea kifo cha Dr. Jumbe. Sio tu kujua ukweli lakini pita itasaidia vyombo vya dola kuweza kuwachukulia hatua watu wote waliohusika na kunyosha mikono yao, kutoa maneno yaliyopelekea Dr. Jumbe Kuuwawa kikatili.

Kanisa lingeweza kuunda tume ndogo itakayofanya uchunguzi wake (internal enquiry) na kubaini ukweli. Timu hiyo ya uchunguzi ionyeshe mianya ya uongozi na kiutendaji iliyopo BLH. Kwa mfano BLH inawajibika kwa DKK katika matatizo tu linapofika suala la pesa BLH inajitenga na uongozi wa DKK. Kwamfano hivi karibuni BLH wamepokea ufadhiri mkubwa kutoka Rapid Fund Envelop (RFE) ambao Dr. Jumbe alikuwa mratibu wake. Vyombo vya dola pamoja na tume ya uchunguzi ichunguze kama mahusiano ya Dr. Jumbe na watendaji wenzake wanaohusika na mfuko huu yalikuwa sawa sawa? Hasa siku za karibuni na kuuawa kwakwe Kama kulikuwa na dosari ningependekeza hapo pawe ndio pa kuanzia kutatua utata unaozingira kifo chake.

Kanisa halijataka kuchukua hatua za makusudi za kufanikisha upelelezi wa jambo hili. Dr. Jumbe hajatendewa haki. Awe alikuwa mbakaji au hapana, hakuna mtu ana ruhusa ya kuhukumu tena hukumu ya Kifo zaidi ya mahakama. Ningependekeza maandamano kwa wanamakete wanaoitakia huduma ya afya mema, yaitishwe maandamano yatakayokuwa na malengo mawili. 1. Kulaani kuuawa kwa daktari 2. Kuieleza dunia jinsi sisi tulivyoathirika na kifo chake, 3. Kulitaka kanisa lichukue hatua zaidi hasa kwa uongozi wa BLH kwa kushindwa kuwalinda madaktari. Mtu asimame amtetee Dr. Jumbe. Mtu asimame amsemee Dr. Jumbe.

Uwezo wa hospitali ya Bulongwa ya kutoa huduma bora umekuwa ukishuka kila siku. Hopsitali imekosa vitendea kazi muhimu, hospitali imekosa watalaam na huduma imekuwa ya ghari sana. Kama hakuna huduma bora na nafuu ya tiba athari zake ni kubwa na hata huweza kusababisha KIFO kwa watumiaji wa huduma hiyo.

 

PIUMA tunasimama leo na kudai haki za tiba Bora, Kanisa liwajibike kwa kifo cha Dr. Jumbe. PIUMA tunadai kuwa na huduma inayokidhi mahitaji ya wanachama wake. TUNATAKA TIBA BORA. 

By JAFFAR MJASIRI, 4th June 2011 @ 12:30,

 

The motive behind the murder of a specialist medical worker, Dr Jumbe Maphingo, who was working with Bulongwa Lutheran Hospital in Makete District, Iringa Region, remains a mystery.

 

According to the Iringa Regional Police Commander (RPC), Mr Evarist Mangala, police are still investigating the matter following the murder in which medical college students are implicated. The students are suspected to have attacked the deceased on May 23, this year, at his home.

 

Mr Mangala said that the police reached the crime scene on the very night the murder occurred. It, however, took the law enforcers about half an hour to reach the place. The distance between the police station and the crime scene is about 30 km.

 

The RPC said that four arrests have been made so far and that the suspects have already been paraded in a court of law. They are in remand awaiting completion of police investigation.

 

The RPC told this newspaper that the late Dr Maphingo was hit on the head by the suspects with a heavy object. The attack led to profuse bleeding. The victim died on the way to hospital.

 

The Police Commander said that the medical college, whose students have been implicated in the murder and arrested, continues with its operations as usual.

 

He said that in order to reinforce security the Police Force will involve members of the public in maintaining peace in the area as investigation into the murder continues.

 

However, sources at Bulongwa Lutheran Hospital have confirmed that there was a power struggle at the medical college, whose name is yet to be revealed. The college offers diploma education in dental therapy and certificates in nursing.

 

A source at the hospital, who wished to remain anonymous, said that it was clear that the late Dr Maphingo had been lined up for a “very senior position,” a situation that could have prompted his murder.

 

Describing the circumstances of the murder, the Hospital Administrator, Mr Edward Masevel, said that a female medical college student went to the deceased’s home at around 9:00 pm on the day of the murder.

 

He said that under normal circumstances students were not allowed to visit the doctors. He added that the female student’s visit was clearly a violation of college rules.

 

Independent sources told this newspaper that a gang of rowdy students appeared at the deceased’s residence wielding machetes and sticks soon after the female student entered the deceased’s house.

It was at this juncture the female student wailed complaining that she was being raped. The student gang entered the murder victim’s house and battered him to death. Following the murder seven students have been arrested including the female student.

 

The students are still in custody, according to the source. The Hospital Administrator also described the late Dr Maphingo as a good medical doctor who abided by professional ethics.

“We were all shocked to hear allegations of rape because this man had strong integrity in the community and in the medical profession,” he said.

 

Since the late Dr Maphingo was in charge of discipline in the college and had also been lined up for a higher professional post, it was likely that he had made enemies of some sort, he said.

 

“We don’t believe that he ever attempted to harm anyone. He was a very religious and ethical man,” he said. The administrator said that college authorities have been advised by police not to close the institute so that they allow investigation to continue smoothly.

 

Speaking to the Daily news on Saturday the District Commissioner, Ms. Zeinab said that she had attended the burial of the late Dr Maphingo and advised the Bulongwa community to remain calm and allow the law to take its course.

 

Some doctors who talked to this reporter described the late Dr Maphingo as a man of God.

According to Dr Issa, the late Dr Maphingo was strictly ethical and professional. He was a keen Muslim who made a pilgrimage to Mecca every year.

 

The late Dr Maphingo was born in Tanga in 1965. He studied in Russia for his first medical degree. He then joined Muhimbili University College of Health and Allied Sciences.

 

He worked for several years in government hospitals before joining Bulongwa Lutheran Hospital.

Source: SundayNews