Tanesco: Paying Dowans will paralyse power supply

Dar es Salaam. Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) says it would not afford to pay $65 million (nearly Sh110bn) in compensation it has been ordered to pay a private power generating company.In court papers filed to appeal against a High Court judgement that withheld the compensation, Tanesco argues that its operations could be severely affected by the huge payment owed to Dowans Tanzania Limited and Dowans Costa Rica.

Accoding to The Citizen,It has been leant that yestarday Tanesco filed in the High Court an application seeking to temporarily suspend enforcement of the award of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) pending determination of an appeal to challenge the High Court judgement.

“If execution is allowed, the applicant’s ability to generate, transmit and distribute the much needed electricity will be adversely affected, causing a severe power crisis and damage the Tanzanian economy,” the public power utility argues.
The company further argues that it stand to suffer irreparable loss for the reason that the amount involved in the case was colossal, and if collected is likely to paralyze its daily operations.

Though law firms Rex Attorney, FK Law Chambers Advocates and the support of a seasoned lawyer and the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Prof Palamagamba Kabudi, Tanesco argues its intended appeal against the ICC award stands a greater chance to succeed.

They said it raises serious points of law, which need to be determined by the Court of Appeal before the execution need can be allowed.

The filing of the application comes after Justice Emilian Mushi dismissed late last month Tanesco’s petition that challenged the award issued in November against the company for breach contract in 2008.

Attempts to register the award was met by stiff opposition from Tanesco, politicians and civil society organisations, who argued that the order was contrary to public policy and amounted to economic sabotage. However their respective cases have failed.

Justice Mushi declined to interfere with the ICC findings, which he said, adequately addressed the case. He went further to order that the award be formally registered and be an enforceable decree of the court.

Though Tanesco admits that a notice of intention to appeal against the order is not a bar to execution, it argues that the facts of its case were strong enough to justify the court to exercise its discretion to temporarily suspend execution of the order.

Now TANESCO again warn the government about paying DOWANS like when government wanted to enter into such contract. WE ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS INTEND TO PAY BUT THEY JUST WAITING TO HEAR WHAT THE PUBLIC WILL COME UP WITH. This is our company, and if it will stall then all of us we gonna be f'''d up.Even if the government seem to have some interest with this people..It still morning my fellow Tanzanians let us wake up for the future of we and our childrens.

Muammar Gaddafi: How did he die?

The confusion surrounding the dictator's death has left many questions as to exactly how it happened

 

In the picture is Gaddafi, his wife and a concrete tunnel where was his final hiding place before being captured

Some footage originally shows Muammar Gaddafi able to walk, in later stills he appears lifeless. Photograph: Reuters TV

 
Did Muammar Gaddafi receive his fatal wounds while attempting to escape or was he executed?
Already questions are being asked about the circumstance of Gaddafi's death, whether he died from his injuries during a Nato airstrike and subsequent gun-battle with government forces.
So what evidence is there for how Gaddafi died?

Video exists of Gaddafi alive after his capture. When he is next seen he appears lifeless

Several fragments of mobile phone footage exist showing brief snapshots of Gaddafi apparently able to use his legs after capture, Gaddafi moving his hand up to his throat and a lifeless Gaddafi after being helped into a pickup truck. While the quality is poor in all of them, it appears that in the first sequence of Gaddafi still alive he is bleeding from a wound on the left side of his head, parallel with his left eye.
In post mortem stills, taken in an ambulance after his death, several wounds are visible including a large round wound close to his left temple, a wound in the centre of his forehead and an elongated wound close to his throat. Doctors and a reporter who saw the body also describe seeing a gunshot wound to the chest although this may have been the wound close to his throat.
Doctors in the ambulance who saw him also described a gunshot wound to the head and one to the chest although it is not clear whether these were received before or after capture given evidence of an existing head injury on capture attested to by other NTC officials.
Accounts of his death by an unnamed NTC official and a fighter interviewed on television suggested he had been shot with a 9mm round "after" being taken into custody.

It has been claimed the wound to the head is a gunshot wound

From the post mortem pictures it is hard to tell when the wound to the temple was delivered or by what. It is clear that Gaddafi had a head injury of some kind when captured. In most of the video fragments there is evidence of bleeding down that side of his face, soaking the shoulder of his shirt, even when pictured alive.
Close contact gunshot wounds – often associated with execution – typically show a different appearance. They are often star shaped and surrounded by a "tattoo" of gunpowder and other residues.
This is not apparent in what can be seen of the obvious wound to the temple. It is impossible to tell from the post mortem images so far released from the ambulance if there is an associated exit wound, but a plastic bag appears to have been placed closed to where it might be expected. So for now it is difficult to tell how he received the injury, at what range, when or in what circumstances.

In the footage of Gaddafi lifeless propped up in the truck, he appears to be unconscious but bleeding heavily from his head.

There is footage of what appears to be a mob attack on Gaddafi on the ground. The difficulty with this segment is that it is not clear whether Gaddafi is alive or dead. In the other fragments that appear to show him alive he is wearing a gold coloured tunic and trousers. By the time this footage has been taken, his shirt has been removed suggesting it may be later in the sequence of clips – perhaps after Gaddafi was already dead.