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Jamani yule aliyekuwa anazima na kikombe cha maji ni kuchanganyikiwa tu, Lazima ma Hotel Tanzania wajue kuweka vitu vya kuzimia moto. na pia nyumba kumi kumi vilevile.
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Two Somali owned 5 star hotels located at the historical town of Bagamoyo some 60km from Dara-Salaam the capital city of Tanganyika has turned to ashes on Monday.
“In fact my Hotel was among the leading deluxe hotels in the town of Bagamoyo, and there were 280 workers working in the hotel, and the cause of the fire is yet mysteries, but investigations are underway to detect out the cause of the fire, the fire was very ferocious, and has annihilated money worth 10 million U.S$, but the goodness is that it is registered in the insurance company, the fire swiftly spread to another hotel in the next building owned by a Somali man as well, and it has also completely destroyed it, this hotel of mine was built in the year 1997, everything happens in the will of God the almighty and this simply a building in the world and thanks to God to what has hppend we are Muslims we should come up with strong and unshakable faith to what ever we come across evil or good” said the Abdullahi Noor Gulled the owner of hotel Paradise in Tanganyika speaking to Somaliweyn correspondent in the town of Arusha in Tanganyika.
Since the last effective central government in Somalia collapsed in the year 1991 the Somalis have scattered in the entire of the world and East Africa is one of the places where they have occupied most, in Kenya for instance they have big hotels and shopping malls.
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http://swahilitime.blogspot.com
Bagamoyo infernos: Third time `unlucky` for Paradise hotel owner
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Dar es Salaam
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into the causes of the raging infernos that gutted two popular tourist hotels in Bagamoyo, Coast Region early this week amid rising fears of possible arson involved.
As police and insurance investigators continue their work on the case, THISDAY’s own inquiries have established that this in fact is not the first time that the owner of one of the hotels destroyed has been hit by such a disaster involving one of his various business entities.
It has been verified that Abdullahi Nurguled, the Somali-born owner of Paradise Holiday Resort, was also the proprietor of Guled Hotel in Mogadishu, which similarly burned down some 20 years ago.
He is understood to have then moved to Tanzania a couple of years later, and taken over the once-renowned Morogoro Shoes Company Limited (Moroshoes) as lead investor during its divestiture process from being a formerly state-owned company.
According to available records, the company’s shoe-making plant in Morogoro also burned to the ground in the mid-1990s. This makes the latest incident involving the Paradise Hotel in Bagamoyo third time ’unlucky’ for Nurguled.
However, in a telephone interview with THISDAY yesterday, Nurguled allayed growing suspicions that the Paradise Hotel disaster may have been pre-meditated with the aim of collecting an ample insurance pay-check.
He said it was merely a case of bad luck.
Nurguled declined to speculate too deeply on the causes of the Bagamoyo fire, noting that both his insurers and the police are still investigating the matter.
But on the burning of the Moroshoes plant, he said: ’’I lost everything in Morogoro. The factory was not insured, so I got nothing. I lost at least $1.5m.’’
Regarding the Guled Hotel incident in Mogadishu, he explained that at the time there were riots going on in the troubled Somali capital, and some hooligans took advantage of the situation to vandalize, loot and burn the hotel.
He said he also lost ’everything’ in that disaster. However, he did not touch on the issue of insurance with regard to that incident.
When contacted yesterday for comment on the ongoing police investigation of the fires that gutted both Paradise and Oceanic Bay Resorts in Bagamoyo last Monday, the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Robert Manumba said the aim is to determine whether or not arson was involved.
The two hotels, which stand adjacent to each other along a choice bit of the Indian Ocean coastline in the historically-significant township, were simultaneously burnt to ashes, causing losses estimated to extend to billions of shillings, plus dozens of jobs lost.
According to eyewitness accounts from the scene of the incident, the fire is said to have started in the Paradise Hotel kitchens, spread to the hotel’s thatched roof, and then to the neighbouring Oceanic Bay Hotel, destroying property and vehicles along the way.
No one was injured as all workers and guests at both hotels managed to escape.
According to eyewitness accounts, the inferno was fuelled and spread so quickly because of the palm-thatched roofs over both hotels.
Paradise Hotel officials tentatively estimated the value of the destroyed property to be in the region of $8.6m (approximately 10.8bn/-).
It is understood that the hotel was insured by the Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB).
Source: www.thisday.co.tz