Dar es Salaam, Sept. 17 -- INDUSTRIALISTS have welcomed the pledge given yesterday by CCM presidential candidate Dr John Magufuli that his government would ensure the country's power generation capacity reaches 5000 MW in the next three years.

Dr Magufuli, who seeks his second presidential term, stated yesterday that with the ongoing power projects set to beef up the national grid considerably, Tanzania will have adequate power to feed its envisaged industrialized economy, sell the surplus and get rid of power outages.

Responding, the Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI) banked on the pledge, saying that would be a very important step towards attaining the country's industrialization dream because industries rely mostly on electri...