THE LONG WAIT IS OVER AS UHURU TORCH ARRIVES IN RUVUMA

Tarehe ya kuwekwa: June 8th, 2024

By Alex Nelson Malanga

Information Officer…Mbinga TC

Tunduru.  After months of waiting, finally the wait is over and the Uhuru Torch Race 2024 is in Ruvuma Region.

The Uhuru Torch Race arrived in the Region on June 8, 2024 at around 7am, and to welcome the team was Ruvuma Regional Commissioner Hon. Colonel. Ahmed Abbas Ahmed who hosted a grand reception at Sauti Moja village, located in Tunduru District.

Mtwara Regional Commissioner Hon. Colonel Patrick Sawala handed over the Uhuru Torch to Hon. Colonel Ahmed moments after its arrival in the Region.

A few minutes later Hon. Colonel Ahmed handed over the Uhuru Torch to the acting Tunduru District Commissioner Hon. Peres Magiri as a sign of launching the race at the regional level.

The Uhuru Torch is set to be carried to all Ruvuma Region’s eight councils until June 15, 2024 and handed over to Njombe Region on the following day.

The Uhuru Torch race, whose theme is ‘conserve the Environment and Participate in Local Government Elections for a sustainable Nation’, was on April 2, 2024 launched in Kilimanjaro Region by the Prime Minister Hon. Kassim Majaliwa.

 The Uhuru torch is a national symbol in Tanzania depicting freedom, equality, integrity, respect for human dignity, peace, hope, and strengthening union between mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.

The lighting of the Uhuru torch was made on National Independence Day on December 9, 1961 by the first president the late Mwl. Julius Kambarage Nyerere and later taken to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro as a symbol of national illumination.

 The Uhuru torch aimed to enlighten and awaken the sense of nationalism, and illuminate the nation by saying “no” to poverty, inequality, illiteracy, diseases, ethnicity and racialism.