By Evarist Baimu Nyaga Mawalla - Home

under the Business licincing Act No. 25 of 1973 but on tribal and racial grounds.All the applicants have had established homes with some to them owning theirown homes. Many of thewe3 as pointed above have families and children ofschool going ate. Like any of us irrespective of position in life are entitled toexpect peaceful enjoyment of live that this constitution of the Republic wants. Allof these3 have nbot been convictedof any offence. They are law abidingcitizens most of whom have stated are active party members. Like all law abidingcitizens they expect amongst many rights, enjoyment of the right to work and notfor this right to be frustrated all the applicants do not criginate from this part of theRepublic, obout half of them could customarily be tied to Tanga Region whileothers to Shinyanga, Dodoma and Kilimanjaro Regions.The District Commissioner of Songea District had stated that he was not theoriginator of the decision not to have business licences issued to the applicantson the basis of race or tribe he had been told by the Regional Administration ofRuvuma Region to ensure that Somalis and Wagunya were not issued withbusiness licences. He nonethelessought to support the dicision and as itappears to this court merely on suspicion that the people who have broughtabout increase in lawful dealing in Government trophies were Somalis andWagunga he produced no evidence on this stand let me first group and lattertouch on the applicantsindividually. All that the District commissioner ofSongea District said to support the allegations that Somalis and Wagunya wereinvolved in unlawful trade of elephant tusks and rhinoceros horns was what (theD.C) called a great increase in the numbers o these offences during the years433