E- mail recived by HDC 11.10.2010:

 

To whom it may concern,

Reference is made to comments made on the Haydom Development Company's (HDC) website, starting from March 15 this year, regarding the role of the Olsen family in a proposal for a Foundation for Haydom Lutheran Hospital, a hospital owned by the Mbulu Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). The Olsen family wrote to the hospital's Board in May this year to request confirmation that the family had never instigated nor approved any proposal to become permanent Trustees of a possible Foundation, counter to allegations made by HDC. This letter has previously been mentioned to you in E-mail correspondence from me. The Board provided the required confirmation, and passed the request on to the Halmashauri Kuu of the Mbulu Diocese for additional support. Pastor Lazaro Rohho, General Secretary of the Mbulu Diocese, has requested in a conversation with my mother in Haydom that I pass on to you a response he has sent to me following my query regarding the status of this confirmation (see below). 

For the sake of good order and transparency, and in the hope that you aspire to provide accurate information on your website, I would be grateful if you could delete your misrepresentations regarding the perceived role of the Olsen family in the initial draft of the Foundation proposal. Note that the Halmashauri Kuu of the Mbulu Diocese has also not been the source of the suggestion to include the Olsen family as permanent Trustees. Since both the family, as the target of the suggestion, and the Halmashauri Kuu, as the designated representative of the owner, have not instigated nor approved this proposal the issue has in fact never been relevant, irrespective of discussions in fora you refer to.

Regards

Knut Evjen Olsen   

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In Knut E- Olsens e-mail was a copy of an e- mail from rev. Lazaro M. Rohho, recieved by Olsen after a request from his mother, Mama Kari

From: Lazaro Rohho [larohho@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 10:20 AM
To: Olsen, Knut E
Subject: RE: RESPOND TO YOUR MAIL TO BISHOP ZEBEDAYO DAUDI

Dear Knut
Greetings in the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ.

Even though the letter you referred to is not in my disposal at this moment, but I have this morning got some information from one of the HLH board member. From this information I would like to say, on behalf of the ELCT-Mbulu Diocese, that:

MBULU DIOCESE REGRET FOR THE TROUBLES THAT THE FAMILY OF OLSEN HAVE UNDERGONE. IT SHOULD BE KNOWN THAT THE SUGGESTION FOR THE INCLUSION of THE OLSEN NAME IN THE TRUSTEES OF THE PROPOSED FOUNDATION WAS NOT FROM THE HALMASHAURI KUU OF THE MBULU DIOCESE NOR FROM THE OLSEN FAMILY.

Wishing you God's blessing

Rev. Lazaro Marseli Rohho
General Secretary
ELCT-MBULU DIOCESE
BOX 16 MBULU
TANZANIA-EAST AFRICA