Tanzanian government has honoured fisherman, Jackson Majaliwa, who was among the first responders at the scene of the plane that crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday.
WITHIN NIGERIA had reported that a domestic passenger plane belonging to Precision Air, plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania due to bad weather shortly before landing in the northwestern city of Bukoba.
According to Eastern Africa, the Kagera Regional Commissioner, Albert Chalamila, handed over a cash gift of $428 (equivalent of Tsh1 million) to the fisherman from the lakeside town of Bukoba on Monday.
The Tanzanian President, Samia Suluhu, also offered Majaliwa a job with the firefighting and rescue brigade.
Twenty four passengers survived while 19 died in the Sunday’s plane crash.