LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT DR. JOHN POMBE MAGUFULI

Dear Mr. President,
ESTA-TZ Limited is dealing with the development of a city of science, technology and innovation, I.e. ESTA-Tanzanite City. The City is our endeavor to stimulate the development of home grown technology capabilities by empowering and enabling university and college graduates in the fields of science and technology, to develop technology and manufacturing capabilities, then assist them to launch and build new technology-based industries that will be owned in partnership with other citizen through Friend’s Club of the Tanzanite City

Our motivation being to make the city an Africa’s factory and innovation powerhouse, that will affect everyone’s life in this continent and play great role in improving the quality of life, economic growth and protecting our environment, the Tanzanite City, will be the mining of the talents from the brains of our young people and a factory for processing them out into automobiles, ships, computers, processing industries, TVs, mobile phones, etc. it will be the hatchery of technology industries in Tanzania,

Knowing that this is very big undertaking that we can only achieve with the assistance and generosity from all members of our community, the government and non-government Institutions, and that Without these, achieving this mission will not be possible, we are now working to establish a Not for Profit Trust (ESTA-Tanzanite City Trust) that will be responsible to support the whole mission as described in the Grand Concept Manual

Dear Mr. President, with this letter first of all I would like to recognize your effort to transform our country especially with your ambition to make Tanzania highly industrialized in the next ten years. We know how tuff it is to change the mindset of the people and make them believe in what you are doing against their status quo, don’t be discouraged, one day if not now people will understand your language and see what you are looking after, but before we reach there be sure that a lot will happen to either encourage or discourage you. All in all, it needs big heart and a lot sacrifices that already you have demonstrated, we are sure with that spirit of yours we are heading the right direction.

Dear Mr. President, during Mwl. Nyerere’s age, at schools we were taught that for our nation to develop we need four major ingredients; Land, good politics, people and good governance. With changes that had occurred in the world since the end of cold war in the end of 1980s we can now redefine the ingredients of development as; Good governance, technology and nature resources. Good governance is mandatory but must be mixed with either of the two, technology or access to natural resources or both as it is for the highly developed countries. The poorest countries have only one ingredient and they have stuck, fast developing countries have at least two, good governance and technology, or good governance and plenty of natural resources.

Good governance puts the systems in place and brings discipline and makes the people focus on development businesses. Where good governance is blended with technology, the country becomes strong and stable and can access natural resources from other countries. And when the good governance is blended with plenty of natural resources, the countries could properly plan the use of their resources to acquire the technology they need. Having technology or natural resources without good governance normally leads to the violence and unrests caused by scrambles for control among the greedy

Dear Mr. President, you are now transforming our nation towards good governance and discipline, blending it with the plenty of natural resources our country have been endowed, we only need technology to move from where we are to our promise land. With technology, we will be able to sustainably harvest our natural resources, process them and utilize them to bring wealth to our people, with technology we can make our country the Africa Factory where all other African countries will turn to for their various needs instead of going all the way out to other continents. This will be great footstep embracing the dream of the father of our nation of uniting Africa economically

As I have said above, this is a tuff undertaking and required the participation of all stake holders and citizens of this country to make it. You my president alone won’t succeed, you need our support, and your government if they real want to support your vision of industrialized Tanzania, must truly commit themselves to work with big dreamers who have great ideas and want to change this world.

We at ESTA-TZ believe that this country will be developed by our own efforts, our brains and determinations, no one will come from china, from Europe, from Asia or from America to develop us but all of them can render great contribution to our development if we will be able to partner with them and benefit from each other, they need our resources as much as we need their technology, let’s play the right card now for the better future of our nation.

Understanding this all, the Tanzanite City is one of the strategy that will provide sound facilities & infrastructures required to cater the needs of the expected scientific and technological advancement and supporting R&D and other technological operations in the Tanzanite City and provide to the talents and experts, the required resources to support their’ activities and enable them to conduct researches, build new instruments, conduct experiments, and scientifically test their ideas in development of technologies that address social and economic needs of our people, and bridge the gap between need and means; between scientific & engineering challenges and technological innovations needed to overcome them; between laboratory development and demonstration in the field.

To solve our problems and develop the capability to create jobs and increase the flow of foreign currencies into our country, we must greatly reduce our dependence on imported items and instead we should develop the technology capability to manufacture industrial items to carter our own needs and the needs of our neighboring countries, In order to achieve this. The Tanzanite city if successful will address the following issues:

Importing everything while we export less: This not only narrows the opportunity of our nation to create jobs but also drains our foreign currency reserves which by the way we don’t have much because we don’t export much as we import, to combat this, we must continuously and sustainably reduce within specific period of time, our dependence to the import of technology items by developing technology capabilities to manufacturing of our own products rather than selling products from other countries.

Utilized our country’s geographical position to our advantage: Our country is a gate way by which our land locked neighboring countries use for import of their industrial items and exports of raw materials. When they pass by, we join them and go all the way out there to bring things that our young graduates from our universities would have been manufacturing here.

Export of raw materials: Since we do not have technologies for processing our agricultural products and mineral raw materials we export them raw, our neighbors are also using our country to export their raw materials. The question is wouldn’t it be wealth if we could process those materials into finished or semi-finished products before we allow them out of our boarders? What does it take and How do we manage? Where and When should we start? how do we start?   

Lack of access to the new technologies & mechanisms for technology transfer: Now our countries are in competition to lure the foreign investors (FDI) to invest in various manufacturing sectors such as assembling and processing industries. But due to the fact that there is big gap in technology capabilities between the foreign investors and our entrepreneurs and the link between them is very weak, it is difficult for our entrepreneurs gaining access to the new technologies via foreign joint ventures and Foreign Direct Investment hence they are unable to absorb, assimilate, and innovate the new technologies

Because our country has no plenty of resources to facilitate quick evolution industrialization, the best way to go about may involve doing the following:

·         develop our own homegrown technology capabilities and promote rapid progress of export-oriented industrialization and development of strong and competitive Small & Medium Industrial Enterprises as an essential prerequisite for continued development and increased competitiveness of the manufacturing industries.

·         creating geographical proximity between the core industries and its upstream and downstream businesses to easy sharing of the common facilities and resources hence reducing technology development and manufacturing costs, we should create perfect ecosystem and link between economic development, people development and government revenue creation,

·         creating link between foreign investors especially assembly industries and local entrepreneurs especially supporting industries and facilitate innovation driven growth of technology-based industries and finally We need to create conducive environment for launching and building myriad technology-based industries and nurture them through to stand-alone stage, and connect them with foreign investors to create partnership that will benefit both

And that is all about development of the Tanzanite City of Science, Technology and Innovation

Dear Mr. President, May I Take this Opportunity to ask your government to support us and join hands with us to achieving this crucial mission. The generous support of your government will make it possible to develop our own “Guangzhou”, where people from other African countries will turn to for their shopping instead of just passing by and going all the way to Asia buying items that we could manufacture here so creating jobs and increasing our foreign currencies reserve.

From your government, we need two things; number one is land - about 400sqkm with expansion provision for the development of the city where about 100,000 industrial enterprises will be built in the next 15 year that will create about two million direct jobs in this city. Second is support from your governments institution such as COSTECH, TIRDO, SIDO, BRELA, TFDA, TBS etc.

With this support, we are sure to TURN BUSHES INTO HIGHLY INDUSTIALISED CITY, and make our own GUANGZHOU & SILICON VALLEY for Africa

Regards

Nsollo Nkalla

CEO & Founder 

ESTA-Tanzanite City

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