UHURU TORCH TO ARRIVE IN MBINGA TOWN ON JUNE 13

Tarehe ya kuwekwa: May 11th, 2024

By Alex Nelson Malanga

Information Officer---Mbinga TC

Mbinga. The Uhuru Torch race team which is set to arrive in Mbinga Town Council (MTC), Ruvuma Region on June 13 this year is scheduled to be greeted by over 2,000 participants.

MTC Uhuru Torch race assistant coordinator Mr. Condrad Adam Kawonga said: “We have extended an invitation to people from all walks of life for them to take part in this significant event.”

It is Nyasa District Council that will hand over the Uhuru Torch to its MTC counterpart on the aforementioned date, before the latter handing it over to Songea Municipal Council on the following day, according to Mr. Kawonga.

He went further to expound that the Uhuru Torch will be received at Mhekela village, Kilimani Ward and handed over to Songea Municipal Council at Likuyufusi Street on June 14.

Looking at the bigger picture, at a regional level, Ruvuma Region is set to receive the Uhuru Torch on June 8 from Mtwara Region, with the handing over venue being Sauti Moja Village, Tunduru District Council.

The region will carry it to all its eight councils, before handing it over to Njombe Region on June 16.  

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, and racialism.