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- Feb 11, 2007
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EYE SPY: The clowning and lies are on!
ADAM LUSEKELO
THIS DAY
DAR SALAAM
ADAM LUSEKELO
THIS DAY
DAR SALAAM
ACCORDING to the government, more than 1.27 million jobs have been created during the last three years. But then you would expect them to say that, wouldn�t you?
You dont need to get A-pluses in the political show in Bongo to know that the ruling CCM has unofficially kicked off the election campaigns for the 2010 general elections. They are now busy tarting themselves up to look pretty before the people of the United Republic of Tanzania.
But are the people buying that? I bet they donèt. If you hear some government ruler start the process of going to a salon to tart himself up on how beautiful the government is, reach for your remote control and watch soccer. Watch Brazilian soccer star Kaka think with his feet. Or phone your chick for a chat.
According to the government, they have created 27 per cent above the one million five-year target set by the Fourth Phase government, which came into office after the 2005 general elections.
If you believe that then you will believe me too. My real name is not Adam Lusekelo, but Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome!
There are more flowery truths coming from the government. The economy of Tanzania is growing very fast. In fact last year it recorded a 25 per cent growth. All that amid crippling water shortages in the real capital Dar es Salaam and not that designated capital joke called Dodoma.
By the way only the other day, the Prez, Jack Mrisho, was photographed by the ubiquitous State House press corps inspecting sketches of the planned Julius Nyerere convention centre in Dodoma? No bozo in Dar! The planned shift to Dodoma is going to take only a few hundred years. As I told you my real name is Julius Caesar.
So while the economy has been booming, there have been intermittent power-cuts. No fear, I hear the government has imported millions of night-vision goggles for Tanzanias students to wear while reading and doing their homework at night.
Talk of students, Tanzania is also leading in persuading students to go to classes in universities or any pretension calling themselves universities or institutions of higher learning!
By the way, after lengthy meditation and reflection, the government has decided to stop importing those eyesores called shangingis, those embarrassing four-wheel cars for the status-conscious ruling class.
Instead the Prez, says he will buy tractors from the money saved. After saying that agriculture is the backbone of the economy of Tanzania for the last 45 years, the government has now come to realize that it has to do something about that backbone of the economy.
These are times for flowery speeches which will go on until after the 2010 general elections. You ve to give it to those politicians. They will yap a lot without actually saying anything. Without batting a lid. What a tough way to make a living!
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