Monday, 03 December 2012 09:01 digg_url = ' + location.href + '; digg_title = 'Ruling party’s Parents Wing in land conflicts'; digg_bodytext = ''; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_window = 'new'; The Citizen CorrespondentsDar es Salaam. The CCM Parents Wing (Wazazi) and a number of individuals and institutions have been embroiled in land disputes.According to Wazazi national chairman Abdallah Bulembo, 85 per cent of such disputes are in Dar es Salaam. Wazazi is claiming that such plots are its properties while individuals and institutions insist they belong to them and have put up permanent structures there.

Mr Bulembo told reporters yesterday that some of such land conflicts are in courts. One of such cases has been dragging on  for 19 years and its verdict is now awaited. Mr Bulembo also said the organisation was planning to turn its 10 poorly performing secondary schools into vocation training centres in 2014. By so doing, primary school leavers who fail to join secondary schools will be join the centres to learn artisanal skills. “We have 71 schools. Fifty-three of them are performing well, 12 others have average performances while 10 schools are performing badly because they have serious shortages of teachers,” he said.He noted how competition was growing among school owners and teachers were lured to areas where salaries were high. Private schools can hire teachers from the rest of East African countries.

Wazazi schools have been strictly run on a service basis and not as commercial.He said one  ofthe greatest challenges facing education was how to provide parental care as a new regulation of punishing students that requires a teacher to fill in a form before punishing a student had complicated the situation.Reported by Louis Kolumbia and Silas Nicodem

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