The President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Dr. Hussein Ali Mwinyi has asked the citizens to understand the Government’s mission is to ensure that the Old Town remains as it was two hundred years ago and not to change it. held at Tembo House Hotel, Shangani today on 22 March 2023, Western Region.
President Dr. Mwinyi has said that there are those who are trying to mislead that the Government aims to change the Old Town by dividing it and privatizing it and he explained that the aim is to give people who have the ability to build the buildings, take care of them so that they can last for the next two hundred years citing as an example the current Tembo Hotel building which was the Embassy of the United States in 1831 and the building inaugurated today for reform was a school in 1944.
In addition, President Dr. Mwinyi has invited investors to come and cooperate with the Government to restore the status of the Old Town and build it while giving three months to those who were given various Buildings to repair and develop them. If they fail, the Government will take them over. He also explained that the Government has decided to allocate funds to ensure that it brings a better water system. modern electricity system, Internet service, road construction in the Old Town to become an attraction for tourism.
In addition, President Dr. Mwinyi has thanked the King of Oman Sultan Haitham Bin Tariq M Said and his Government for the support of 21 Million US Dollars for the construction of the Beit-al-Ajaib Building and returning it to its status and the contractor has been found and the construction will begin soon.
