What happened to my elder sister, Martine Kengela?

Dear Editor
I am Alex Kapanga, a Congolese subject working in Zambia as a biology teacher at Hillcrest Technical High School in Livingstone.
I am trying to trace the truth about the death of my elder sister, Martine Kengela, a Congolese subject who lived for a long time in Arusha as a musician. She once married Ndala, also a musician, and sung together. She was permanent resident in Tanzania or had already changed the citizenship to become Tanzanian.
According to the news received by the family, she went with a female friend to some distance from Arusha, where the two of them were murdered. No further light has been thrown to us since 2005. Three years down now and the family is still trying to find the truth about that death. She was a well known woman in the area. I think this sad news may have struck the town. Is there any way that that you could get this news and help us know what really happened.

In case that Martine Kengela had already changed the names, please help us trace using Martina as the late musician. Maybe people would have known her as a Tanzanian, but the most important to our family is to know the truth.

I am looking forward to getting a response from you or your readers.

Alex kapanga
Livingstone, Zambia
Kapanga_k@yahoo.com

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Parking woes, arrogance and hooliganism

Dear Editor,
In your newspaper an article was published recently relating to unlawful acts being carried out by the parking people.
There has been no response in your paper to this from any of the Regional authorities.
Please find out from the Regional Traffic Officer and others on the following issues. Who is responsible for putting up "NO PARKING", "NO ENTRY" signs on Arusha's roads. When you get your Driving licence you learn that you park according to road signs. But there are no signs to show which are "NO PARKING" areas, yet this “hooligans” come and clamp your vehicle. If you are lucky, a shop keeper or a tailor or a newspaper vendor would come rushing to your aid and inform you that this is a NO PARKING area. Is this how backward we are. And this people are so arrogant. There is no room for discussion. You either pay up or have your car towed to the NMC godowns.

Look at the NO ENTRY sign opposite the golden Rose hotel. When a vehicle is coming out of that road, the sign gets hidden from view. Usually there are supposed to be 2 NO ENTRY signs on both sides of the road on circular discs of up to 2.5 feet diameter.
Most people suffering from these injustices and 50000/- fines are company drivers whose income is a mere 100,000/- per month. They get into real problems with their employers and many have lost their jobs.

Even the parking lines are hardly visible from the road. In some areas there are no parking lines but you are told that there are specific ways to park a car. You need to be a magician to know
how to park where. Or how about signs showing ANGLE PARKING or PARALLEL PARKING. I know we are a third world country but are we that dumb. I know the dear President is doing his
best to uplift our country's standard of living, but what are this other government employees doing to assist him.

All those who have paid unnecessary fines please send your receipt number and details of the circumstances under which you were unlawfully fined to the email below as we want to
forward this data to relevant authorities in Dar, or whether by consensus of the aggrieved parties to launch a law-suit against these unlawful elements.
Email: news.456@hotmail.com

Thanks
Philip

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I would like to touch base with my niece

Dear Editor
I need to see if someone could please give us some information. My niece and a fellow teacher was in Arusha on the 19th of June. They were going to a village and she said that she would contact us on the 21st of June. No one has heard from them since the 19th. She is there on a teachers grant on village story telling. She had been real consistent on emailing us but as I said we lost communication. Please what do we need to do to try and contact her or if we can get some kind of information on what we can do. I would really appreciate any help you could give us.

Sincerely, Carolyn

Dancnturtle2@sbcglobal.net

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