There is a group of huge hippopotamuses which may soon or later start wondering g around the new Arusha City, hippos are water animals with their powerful jaws, speedy velocity and sharp saber teeth and they can be means to be extremely aggressive and dangerous sometimes. However, the leaders of the town do not believe that but they are planning on having these hippos confined in one area where they will be fully monitored after the proposed special tourist attraction site planned for the new Arusha city, opens around Suye Hill Kimandolu ward. There will be a number of different other wildlife species which will also be introduced into the place.
Mr. Gaudence Lyimo who is the City Mayor said that they intend to make the whole of ‘Mount Suye into a tourist site and added that at the lower slopes of the hill there is also a wide mushy area with potential for aquatic animals like hippos. He said the plans is to bring some wildlife species that can easily live close to humans without causing damage to their properties and the people themselves in order to have a recreation area within the city where local residents as well as visiting tourists could go to relax and that way help the government earn some money.
According to Mr. Lyimo, Arusha is considered as a tourist town but in actual sense that is not the case, it is just a gateway spot to the Northern Zone’s National parks: “Tourists just pass through Arusha while on their way to national parks like Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara and Mount Kilimanjaro therefore they hardly spend their time in the city so it is high time the town was made at least a simple tourists center so said the mayor.
the council is therefore working around the clock to make sure they create a National Park within the city though essentially it may just be a zoo or at best a game sanctuary if all goes well but the official did not reveal when exactly hippos and other wild animals will be transferred to this place an when it will open.
