The Arusha Festival event is good. It serves as a platform for local artists to meet and exchange ideas. However, the organizers of Boma Road festivals need to focus on their targeted groups, because the shows have become a beer and "Nyama Choma" affair.

Also, we don’t have many roads in Arusha thus adding the problem of closing such an important link which leads to both Mount Meru and the AICC hospital is unforgivable.

The festivals along Boma Road have always been a nuisance to me, imagine sealing off other people’s businesses by erecting stalls at the door steps for the sheer reason of drinking and dancing.

We suggest that next time these events should take place on a different venue, because Boma Road is also a residential area and people need to sleep.

The groups that performed during this year’s Boma Road festival, went contrary to our social ethics by dancing semi naked.

At night, people were very drunk and some paired up and started doing questionable things in dark alleys. The festival displayed male youths wearing earrings, plaited hair while their female counterparts, dressed rather revealingly.

I still can not understand the meaning of Boma Road festival because all clothes being

displayed there were too expensive. The whole thing was about selling beer and roast meat.

The show was also a nuisance to nearby businesses and offices such as those of KLM, ATC, Ethiopian Airline, Coastal Aviation, Precision Air, NIC and TTCL.