CCM to tap skills from Tanzanians in diaspora

CCM to tap skills from Tanzanians in diaspora
From MARC NKWAME in Arusha, 17th October 2010 @ 12:06 , Total hits: 73

THE CCM Union presidential running mate, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, said here that his government intends to tap skills and resources from Tanzanians living and working abroad.
Addressing a series of campaign rallies in Arusha, Mr Bilal stated that there were more potential skills, resources and even wealth to be tapped from the Diaspora and should CCM win, then Mr Jakaya Kikwete’s government will ensure that all Tanzanians living overseas are fully involved in catalyzing the country’s development.
‘’It is high time that Tanzania started making use of her people spread around the globe, most of them are highly skilled people who could help in both leadership and executing development projects here, others have wealth and resources that they are eager to share with their countrymen but have no idea how to go about it, we intend to establish a special system that will connect us with them,’’ the CCM’s aspiring vice-president said.
Dr Bilal, who is a nuclear scientist by profession, knows how to go about it: ‘’We have already started working towards connecting Tanzania with the entire world digitally via fibre optic cable to enable faster and easy communications and already many regions have been connected while more efforts to network the rest are going on.
‘’We intend to ensure that young children attend kindergarten schools as the foundation for their early education, pupils who start learning from nursery level have better chances of being able to grasp lessons later in life,’’ stated Dr Bilal.
In most remote parts of Tanzania, children usually by-pass early childhood (kindergarten) level of education going straight to class one (primary), nursery schools are also lacking in rural areas but are abundant in towns.
Mr Bilal hinted that his government would increase the number of female students in higher institutions of learning to reach at least 45 per cent and he maintained that his government will be able to accomplish that by ensuring that the poor girls, who do well in school but lack money, are sponsored to pursue further education.