Legislator suggests adoption of family planning systems to evade land crisis in Tanzanian

A legislator of Rombo constituency which is led by the opposition (Chadema) Joseph Selasini has said that, the government should come with a proposed bill to be enacted in Parliament which would enforce Tanzanians practice family planning systems for their future lives. The legislator is of the view of the fact that, by having proper family planning systems, the government would be in a position  to make use of its land for proper development economic planning and be able to provide social services with ease for the people in the country. The legislator aired out his views in the parliament when he raised a supplementary question and noted that, Tanzania’s population is growing at a much faster rate and yet the size of the land on which people have occupied remains intact. The legislator had directed his question to the ministry of Tourism and Natural Resources whereby there is currently a wrangle between the ministry and people in local communities which in real sense has made people to invade land reserved for wild animals and forest reserve. He justified his point by noting that, people have occupied some parts of the land portion set aside for game reserve due to lack of spaces and used it for cultivation an aspect which has currently caused a mutual of misunderstanding among the people living closer to national parks. In responding to the question, the deputy minister said he had received the advice and will work on the matter as it is a meaningful factor to have a family planning system so that the government should also be able to make use of the land spaces it has. The minister also noted that, when the country attained its independence it had about 10.5 million people, but now the population has pegged out to approximately 50.3 million people which is an increase of 500 percent within 57 years. Statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics shows that Tanzania has a vast land of about 970,000 hectares of land whereby about 230,000 is set apart for national reserve areas for forests and wild animals. About 15 percent of the rest has been occupied by the indigenous and investors for economic development.