Sorrow as Azam Media consoled over five staff losses
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- Government officials, politicians and media stakeholders have expressed their sympathy to Azam Media Ltd following the losses of its five staff members, who died in an accident that occurred Monday on July 8, 2019 in the Shelui Area. The deceased were travelling to Chato District in Geita Region for the inauguration of the Burigi-Chato National Park.
Dar es Salaam. Government officials, politicians and media stakeholders have on July 9, 2019 sympathized with Azam Media Limited, employees and members of families that lost five people in a road accident that occurred in the Shelui area, Singida Region.
The five crew members are among the seven people killed in the accident that involved a minibus and a truck. They were travelling in the minibus to Chato District in Geita Region.
The other two people killed in the accident are the minibus driver and his conductor as three other crew members were injured, two of them seriously.
Speaking Tuesday on July 9, 2019, at the Azam Media Limited headquarters located along the Nelson Mandela Road here, media stakeholders, government officials and politicians consoled the company for the losses of its staff.
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) director general, Mr James Kilaba, said people are born to die.
“This is a formula; birth brings people to the world while death makes people disappear from the world. It isn’t our choice to be born or die, but it is involuntary,” he said.
He says nobody knows when he/she will die, noting that we need to love each other and be humble to others.
Azam Media Limited deputy managing director Tido Mhando said the company would continue working with various stakeholders in implementing social and economic activities.
“The deceased were on safari for similar responsibilities at the invitation of the Tanzania National Parks Authority (Tanapa) for the inauguration of the Burigi-Chato National Park which is being launched today,” he said.
The Chadema national chairman and official Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Mr Freeman Mbowe, said fair, free and well utilized media organizations are significant in informing, educating and entertaining the public.
“The media has lost key people this year including owners, directors, senior leaders and journalists. But, their deaths don’t mean that the media should stop working,” he said.
The Tanzania Media Women’s Association (Tamwa) executive director, Ms Rose Reuben, said her organization had been training journalists on road safety issues in order to provide them with respective knowledge on the matter.
“We have been doing so in order to reduce accidents in the country because the knowledge we equip them could easily reach the public and therefore minimize road carnages,” she said.
