Topic: Ushauri Murua wa Makwaia wa Kuhenga kwa Kikwete!

Forget about Chadema, Mr President! Rebuild CCM! Monday, 07 March 2011 13:49 Mr Makwaia wa Kuhunga




Deducing from the President’s monthly address to the nation last week, the message is ominous: there is a danger both to national peace and the government of the day. One of the opposition political parties was bent on plunging the country into a crisis to make it ungovernable; removing elected government.
This newspaper’s lead story on the dawn of this month, March 1st rang: Warning that the ongoing demonstrations and rallies of Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) could plunge the country into a crisis, President Jakaya Kikwete has advised the Tanzanian people to ignore the opposition party and refocus on safeguarding national peace.
This newspaper quoted the President as saying that Chadema’s current move to organize rallies across the country had a sinister motive: to disrupt peace and create conditions for violence in the country. He warned that such rallies and demonstrations by the opposition Chadema should not be turned into a vehicle for the forceful removal of the elected government in place.
Too a strong word from the President, I thought. But my first reaction when I sampled the President’s concerns from the media was that the President was actually propping up this opposition party and giving it added stature as Head of State by appearing too obsessed with whatever it was up to!
But by the last weekend, there were more concerns from the propaganda machinery of his party echoing the same words by the President but in a different stronger stance: urging coercive organs of state power to deal with Chadema which nurses “a hidden agenda to remove the ruling party by violence – unconstitutionally.”
Eh, Bwana! What is going on here? Is the situation really that serious to deserve the time of the President and aides in the ruling party to talk this language?
How does a party with only 48 members of Parliament which is not even half of the members of the whole House succeed to remove the ruling party from power via demonstrations and rallies?
Since I am not privy to intelligence information from the Tanzanian state, I may not be qualified to place judgment on the President’s concerns and those of his aides in the ruling party on whether there is a real threat to national peace and security in the course of politicking of one of the opposition political parties in this country.
But from the perspective of a reasonably intelligent or level headed person on the ground, the problem is not really have to do with the perceived threat of the said opposition party, that is whether real or imaginary. But before volunteering on what could be the real problem, let me invite you to some form of imagination, that is imagining you were some where on the corridors of power at the moment in time.
What would you feel, watching television news on prime time, seeing those mammoth crowds at Chadema rallies? Those crowds are awful and politically intimidating, aren’t they, emerging as they do in one of this country’s most populated regions?
Eh! Bwana! They are clearly politically intimidating! Just forget about the words being uttered at these rallies; just come to terms with the magnitude of the crowds. If you were in the ruling party in this country and at the top for that matter, may be as Chairman or Secretary-General of the ruling party, what would be your immediate reaction?
Here now comes what I believe is the problem with people in the ruling party here.
All they think is about is power and how to win and keep that power! They have no time to pose the question: where could we possibly be going wrong?
The other day, I approached, in a comradely manner, one of the leaders of the ruling party, CCM. “Please, let us stop being cliquish. It is not simply true that those in the rank and file who are critical of the thrust of this party today are enemies. Why can’t you meet them, convene a meeting for a frank exchange aimed at charting the way forward for this party?”
This comrade just starred at me. He nodded and said nothing in response. But the next thing I heard is a statement urging state organs to “deal” with CHADEMA quoted somewhere in this perspective!
My open free consultancy to this party, CCM which I belong albeit inactively, is reflected in the heading of this perspective urging the President who is the national Chairman of the ruling party here: Mr President: Forget Chadema! Rebuild your party!
My scenario of rebuilding the party, CCM, would be to start with reviving the credibility and integrity of the party itself which has been seriously eroded. The consequence of this vacuum is the massive crowds we see gracing the opposition!
The leadership should have the courage of purging itself; collecting back party membership cards of those its leadership whose conduct has grossly tainted the image of the party.
Secondly, the party should re-posses its original ideological direction of Socialism and Self-reliance in the context of current global and local conditions. Secondly, which is basic, the party’s focus now should be the lot of the majority poor of this country.
If this is done, seriously and urgently, CCM continuing as the ruling party in 2015 is guaranteed. But, otherwise, should it fail to reconstitute itself, it should get ready to occupy opposition benches next vote. And this will happen via democratic means and will never be by violence because nobody can hoodwink Tanzanians. They are a resilient and mature people!

Makwaia wa Kuhenga is a senior Tanzanian journalist and author based in Dar es Salaam

Chanzo: The Citizen, 7/3/2011


Me:
Welldone Makwaiya, our president has a pile of duties to deal with, not a 'Minor' issue od Chadema demos!

Mzee Makwaia, Ng'wadilla Namhala.
hUYO UNAYEMSHAURI HASHAURIKI BABA, UTAMALIZA MATE, KUMBE HATA WASHAURI WAKE WANA UMRI WA MIAKA 35.Hata JKT hawajawahi kwenda hawayajui matatizo ya watanzania wako pale kutetea mishahara yao .Wanapoona Dr.Slaa anaungwa mkono wanahisi sasa mapinduzi yanakuja, kumbe ni watanzania wanajaribu kutafuta pa kutokea maana serikali yao si sikivu, hawana uhakika na mlo mmoja, wanapoona mtu anawafariji kama Dr.Slaa ndiyo wanaishia kusema huyu ndiyo mwenzetu.

JK hana washauri na hata yeye hayuko makini.Shuleni tunaambiwa ukitaka kufaulu soma kwa bidii na maarifa.JK hana juhudi wala maarifa hawezi kuiongoza TZ kwenda kileleni.

mr.idimi chadema isn't a minor issue like you try to simplify it,..the crowds scare the sh*t out of JK,..he is so obssessed with dr slaa that he can't shake him off,.he knows what he did to the election results,whenever he hears him speak he holds his breath,he is paranoid,.he knows who deserves to be in that state house.,infact all ccm senior figures know who won the election thats why they all lose their senses when the phd holder utter a word,..the doctor better be around him cuz the heart attack is lurking..

By Lu-ma-ga

Mzee Makwaia, Ng'wadilla Namhala.
hUYO UNAYEMSHAURI HASHAURIKI BABA, UTAMALIZA MATE, KUMBE HATA WASHAURI WAKE WANA UMRI WA MIAKA 35.Hata JKT hawajawahi kwenda hawayajui matatizo ya watanzania wako pale kutetea mishahara yao .Wanapoona Dr.Slaa anaungwa mkono wanahisi sasa mapinduzi yanakuja, kumbe ni watanzania wanajaribu kutafuta pa kutokea maana serikali yao si sikivu, hawana uhakika na mlo mmoja, wanapoona mtu anawafariji kama Dr.Slaa ndiyo wanaishia kusema huyu ndiyo mwenzetu.

JK hana washauri na hata yeye hayuko makini.Shuleni tunaambiwa ukitaka kufaulu soma kwa bidii na maarifa.JK hana juhudi wala maarifa hawezi kuiongoza TZ kwenda kileleni.

Nothing with was JKT rather than impating one-partism and brainwashing

nakubaliana na mzee wa kuhenga makwaia,ni kweli ccm acheni kujihami mwananchi wa sasa ni tofauti na yule wa kale anajuwa na anaelewa kila kitu ccm inafanya,nadhani msikipe lawama chadema wanaccm wenyewe mpeane lawama mlidhani kuwa ccm itakuwepo daima na pia mlidhani watu bado wamelala usingizi wa pono la hasha huu ni wakati wa ccm na viongozi wake kubadilika wasijifanye ni mi
ungu mtu watambue kuwa wananchi wanahitaji mabadiliko so kama kuna chama kinaonyesha uelekeo huo ni lazima wananchi watakiunga mkono

kwa hiyo wananchi wamekichaguwa chadema na kukiunga mkono labda kwa maono yao wanadhani ndio chama kitakacho watowa hapa walipo sasa na kuwapeleka pale

ccm mtajitowa wenyewe madarakani kwa mambo mnayowatendea watanzania na msikilaumu chadema

By maandamano

mr.idimi chadema isn't a minor issue like you try to simplify it,..the crowds scare the sh*t out of JK,..he is so obssessed with dr slaa that he can't shake him off,.he knows what he did to the election results,whenever he hears him speak he holds his breath,he is paranoid,.he knows who deserves to be in that state house.,infact all ccm senior figures know who won the election thats why they all lose their senses when the phd holder utter a word,..the doctor better be around him cuz the heart attack is lurking..

Kwi kwi kwi!
Mkuu Maandamano,
Kama umeangalia vema, neno 'Minor' katika maoni yangu pale juu nimeliwekea alama za kufungua na kufunga semi (inverted comma) makusudi. Naelewa sana kwamba CDM inawalaza sisiemu macho. Msimamo wangu hautofautiani sana na wa kwako. Kwa kujazia, namuunga mkono Frederick Sumaye, kwamba inatakiwa sisiemu wajibu hoja za CDM na si kutoa vitisho! Kama gharama za maisha zimepanda, inatakiwa sisiemu na serikali wa prove kwamba hazijapanda kwa mifano halisi, na si kututisha.
Otherwise wanapoteza muda kutaka kuzima moto mkali!

Makwaia mwenyewe akikwambia naenda kulia nifuate usiende kulia, wewe nenda kushoto, utamkuta huko.

By Idimi

Forget about Chadema, Mr President! Rebuild CCM! Monday, 07 March 2011

Deducing from the President’s monthly address to the nation last week, the message is ominous: there is a danger both to national peace and the government of the day. One of the opposition political parties was bent on plunging the country into a crisis to make it ungovernable; removing elected government.

This newspaper’s lead story on the dawn of this month, March 1st rang: Warning that the ongoing demonstrations and rallies of Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) could plunge the country into a crisis, President Jakaya Kikwete has advised the Tanzanian people to ignore the opposition party and refocus on safeguarding national peace.

This newspaper quoted the President as saying that Chadema’s current move to organize rallies across the country had a sinister motive: to disrupt peace and create conditions for violence in the country. He warned that such rallies and demonstrations by the opposition Chadema should not be turned into a vehicle for the forceful removal of the elected government in place.

Too a strong word from the President, I thought. But my first reaction when I sampled the President’s concerns from the media was that the President was actually propping up this opposition party and giving it added stature as Head of State by appearing too obsessed with whatever it was up to!

But by the last weekend, there were more concerns from the propaganda machinery of his party echoing the same words by the President but in a different stronger stance: urging coercive organs of state power to deal with Chadema which nurses “a hidden agenda to remove the ruling party by violence – unconstitutionally.”

Eh, Bwana! What is going on here? How does a party with only 48 members of Parliament which is not even half of the members of the whole House succeed to remove the ruling party from power via demonstrations and rallies?

Since I am not privy to intelligence information from the Tanzanian state, I may not be qualified to place judgment on the President’s concerns and those of his aides in the ruling party on whether there is a real threat to national peace and security in the course of politicking of one of the opposition political parties in this country.

But from the perspective of a reasonably intelligent or level headed person on the ground, the problem is not really have to do with the perceived threat of the said opposition party, that is whether real or imaginary. But before volunteering on what could be the real problem, let me invite you to some form of imagination, that is imagining you were some where on the corridors of power at the moment in time.

What would you feel, watching television news on prime time, seeing those mammoth crowds at Chadema rallies? Those crowds are awful and politically intimidating, aren’t they, emerging as they do in one of this country’s most populated regions?

Eh! Bwana! They are clearly politically intimidating! Just forget about the words being uttered at these rallies; just come to terms with the magnitude of the crowds. If you were in the ruling party in this country and at the top for that matter, may be as Chairman or Secretary-General of the ruling party, what would be your immediate reaction?

Here now comes what I believe is the problem with people in the ruling party here.
All they think is about is power and how to win and keep that power! They have no time to pose the question: where could we possibly be going wrong?

...

My open free consultancy to this party, CCM which I belong albeit inactively, is reflected in the heading of this perspective urging the President who is the national Chairman of the ruling party here: Mr President: Forget Chadema! Rebuild your party!

My scenario of rebuilding the party, CCM, would be to start with reviving the credibility and integrity of the party itself which has been seriously eroded. The consequence of this vacuum is the massive crowds we see gracing the opposition!
The leadership should have the courage of purging itself; collecting back party membership cards of those its leadership whose conduct has grossly tainted the image of the party.

Secondly, the party should re-posses its original ideological direction of Socialism and Self-reliance in the context of current global and local conditions. Secondly, which is basic, the party’s focus now should be the lot of the majority poor of this country.
If this is done, seriously and urgently, CCM continuing as the ruling party in 2015 is guaranteed. But, otherwise, should it fail to reconstitute itself, it should get ready to occupy opposition benches next vote. And this will happen via democratic means and will never be by violence because nobody can hoodwink Tanzanians. They are a resilient and mature people!

Me:
Welldone Makwaiya, our president has a pile of duties to deal with, not a 'Minor' issue od Chadema demos!

Makwaia, you got a critical point here, and you have my support.

My/our President...should understand the key problem, and should employ correct and appropriate solution for the problems. Without that, more and bigger obstacles are to come and very soon. Chadema has the right agenda out of CCM's faults. CCM can, and need to purge itself from its sins, and it has to do it now.

By Idimi

Forget about Chadema, Mr President! Rebuild CCM! Monday, 07 March 2011 13:49 Mr Makwaia wa Kuhunga




Deducing from the President’s monthly address to the nation last week, the message is ominous: there is a danger both to national peace and the government of the day. One of the opposition political parties was bent on plunging the country into a crisis to make it ungovernable; removing elected government.
This newspaper’s lead story on the dawn of this month, March 1st rang: Warning that the ongoing demonstrations and rallies of Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) could plunge the country into a crisis, President Jakaya Kikwete has advised the Tanzanian people to ignore the opposition party and refocus on safeguarding national peace.
This newspaper quoted the President as saying that Chadema’s current move to organize rallies across the country had a sinister motive: to disrupt peace and create conditions for violence in the country. He warned that such rallies and demonstrations by the opposition Chadema should not be turned into a vehicle for the forceful removal of the elected government in place.
Too a strong word from the President, I thought. But my first reaction when I sampled the President’s concerns from the media was that the President was actually propping up this opposition party and giving it added stature as Head of State by appearing too obsessed with whatever it was up to!
But by the last weekend, there were more concerns from the propaganda machinery of his party echoing the same words by the President but in a different stronger stance: urging coercive organs of state power to deal with Chadema which nurses “a hidden agenda to remove the ruling party by violence – unconstitutionally.”
Eh, Bwana! What is going on here? Is the situation really that serious to deserve the time of the President and aides in the ruling party to talk this language?
How does a party with only 48 members of Parliament which is not even half of the members of the whole House succeed to remove the ruling party from power via demonstrations and rallies?
Since I am not privy to intelligence information from the Tanzanian state, I may not be qualified to place judgment on the President’s concerns and those of his aides in the ruling party on whether there is a real threat to national peace and security in the course of politicking of one of the opposition political parties in this country.
But from the perspective of a reasonably intelligent or level headed person on the ground, the problem is not really have to do with the perceived threat of the said opposition party, that is whether real or imaginary. But before volunteering on what could be the real problem, let me invite you to some form of imagination, that is imagining you were some where on the corridors of power at the moment in time.
What would you feel, watching television news on prime time, seeing those mammoth crowds at Chadema rallies? Those crowds are awful and politically intimidating, aren’t they, emerging as they do in one of this country’s most populated regions?
Eh! Bwana! They are clearly politically intimidating! Just forget about the words being uttered at these rallies; just come to terms with the magnitude of the crowds. If you were in the ruling party in this country and at the top for that matter, may be as Chairman or Secretary-General of the ruling party, what would be your immediate reaction?
Here now comes what I believe is the problem with people in the ruling party here.
All they think is about is power and how to win and keep that power! They have no time to pose the question: where could we possibly be going wrong?
The other day, I approached, in a comradely manner, one of the leaders of the ruling party, CCM. “Please, let us stop being cliquish. It is not simply true that those in the rank and file who are critical of the thrust of this party today are enemies. Why can’t you meet them, convene a meeting for a frank exchange aimed at charting the way forward for this party?”
This comrade just starred at me. He nodded and said nothing in response. But the next thing I heard is a statement urging state organs to “deal” with CHADEMA quoted somewhere in this perspective!
My open free consultancy to this party, CCM which I belong albeit inactively, is reflected in the heading of this perspective urging the President who is the national Chairman of the ruling party here: Mr President: Forget Chadema! Rebuild your party!
My scenario of rebuilding the party, CCM, would be to start with reviving the credibility and integrity of the party itself which has been seriously eroded. The consequence of this vacuum is the massive crowds we see gracing the opposition!
The leadership should have the courage of purging itself; collecting back party membership cards of those its leadership whose conduct has grossly tainted the image of the party.
Secondly, the party should re-posses its original ideological direction of Socialism and Self-reliance in the context of current global and local conditions. Secondly, which is basic, the party’s focus now should be the lot of the majority poor of this country.
If this is done, seriously and urgently, CCM continuing as the ruling party in 2015 is guaranteed. But, otherwise, should it fail to reconstitute itself, it should get ready to occupy opposition benches next vote. And this will happen via democratic means and will never be by violence because nobody can hoodwink Tanzanians. They are a resilient and mature people!

Makwaia wa Kuhenga is a senior Tanzanian journalist and author based in Dar es Salaam

Chanzo: The Citizen, 7/3/2011


Me:
Welldone Makwaiya, our president has a pile of duties to deal with, not a 'Minor' issue od Chadema demos!

Makwaia namkubali sana huyu Mzee ni watu tunaowaita wenye uwezo wa kudhubutu. Angepewa nafasi ya Tiddo Mhando kipindi kile!!! duuuu! asingemaliza mkataba coz angeweka mambo yote hadharani bila upendeleo sasa angekuwa mbaya kwa mwajiri .....tetetteteteehhhhh