| Name | Samwel Sitta |  |
| Surname | Sitta | |
| First Names | Samwel | |
| Alternate Name | ||
| Title | Mr | |
| Country of Birth | Tanzania |
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| From | To | Organisation | Position |
| 2005 | Speaker's Office | Speaker of the National Assembly | |
| 2005 | Urambo Mashariki Constituency | MP for Urambo Mashariki | |
| 2005 | Tanzania Investment Centre | Director General | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Political Affiliation | CCM |
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| Notes | Speaker wants reporters to accompany MPs in foreign trips The Speaker of the national Assembly, Samuel Sitta has underscored the need for local journalists to accompany MPs in foreign trips to gain experience from their foreign counterparts. ’’We thought we should be going with journalists in our foreign visits and this office will cover the costs. It is your responsibility to decide who should go first and who follows,’ the Speaker said. He was addressing a press conference in Dodoma yesterday during which he urged journalists to learn about the high-tech applications of the facilities in the ultra-modern Parliament building in Dodoma. Sitta said it would be a good experience to let journalists go with MPs so that they see how other parliaments are and how their counterparts do their work. In these tours, Sitta said, MPs and journalists will be going into groups of seven or eight MPs and for journalists he did not specify the number but he told the journalists currently attending Bunge sessions to discuss and share with them their ideas. He called for a conference with press people following claims published in some of the newspapers (not The Guardian) that the new Parliament building is full of obstacles for those accessing it. Despite the building’s attractiveness journalists told the speaker that there are a lot of complications at entrances where people are being restricted to pass through some of the gates for the reason that they are not meant for them. On their part, journalists asked the speaker to change the gallery reserved for them because it is not sufficient for the work they doing. Some of the obstacles that journalists claimed to face are the tiny space they have to sit, not having to see the MPs in action easily, no communication between the MPs and journalists, lack of working facilities that they were promised to have like Internet service. Other problems they face include a long distance especially for photographers something that reduces the credibility of their pictures. The Speaker promised the journalists that the problems would be solved immediately and he thanked them for expressing their views. [ The Guardian (Dar es Salaam) - 28 Jun 2006 - www.ippmedia.com ] |
| Record last updated on 28 JUN 2006 |