Kikwete: I can turn Tanzania into heaven if I get a billion dollars a month

fyddell said:
Mi nadhani kiongozi bora na competent ni yule anayetumia resources zilizopo/alizonazo effectively kwa ufanisi mkubwa ili ku accomplish his/her objectives. Hivi huyu aliomba ridhaa ya wananchi kuwa kiongozi wao kwa kuomba omba uko ughaibuni? Je zile ahadi alizozitoa kwa wananchi wakati wa uchaguzi alitegemea kuzitimiza kwa kuomba omba misaada nje? Kwanini asitumie alichonacho na hata asipomaliza ahadi zote tutasema kua hata hivyo kajitahidi but sio kwa mwendo huu wa kuzungusha bakuri ulaya na marekani.
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Kama misamaha ya kodi ni 3% ya pato la taifa anataka kupewa nini zaid huyu kilaza?!
Na hiyo misaada tunayopewa huwa inafanya nini?! maana tuliambiwa kuwa sisi ni namba 3 kwa kupokea misaada mikubwa duniani!!
Bahati mbaya ni kwamba huko nje huwa hawamuulizi maswali magumu zaid ya yale ya kiudadisi kama hilo la ndoto zake! Labda kwa kujua sisi huwa tunamuuliza?! ama kwa kuona kuwa sisi ndo tunaopaswa kumuuliza?!
Au labda kwa kuona kama akili ya 'dira ya taifa' iko tenge hivyo basi sisi ni zaidi hivyo hakuna haja ya kujitaabisha kuuliza....wanakula na kipofu...!
Na kwa kudhani yuko na 'wazee wa daresalama' anaropoka tu, wazungu kwa kuwa focus yao iko kwenye hiyo misamaha wanayopewa na rasilimali zetu wanazozipata baadaye, huwa wanamsaidia senti chache ili aje kutangaza kwenye hotuba zake za kijuha, halafu kwa 'wawekezaji' hao zinarudi kwa mamia na maelfu kwenye dhahabu zetu, wanyamapori wetu, mikataba ya umeme, ardhi yetu, uranium...!
Kweli huyu kilaza hakustahili kuwa rais!
 
[h=1]President Kikwete: “I Can Turn Tanzania Into Heaven”[/h] May 22, 2012 Have Your Say



Tanzania’s president is waging a war on hunger — and while he’s at it, he wants to modernize his East African nation’s agricultural sector to lift millions of his countrymen out of poverty.
But Jakaya Kikwete’s biggest constraint is a lack of resources.
“If somebody says, ‘What is your wish?’ I’d say, ‘If I got a billion dollars a month in terms of government revenue, I can turn Tanzania into heaven,’” Mr. Kikwete told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview.
He doesn’t have that luxury, so he has turned to the international community for help.
For Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, money to advance Africa's agriculture is essential for his and many other African nations. "If we can succeed, we will lift millions and millions of people out of poverty very quickly," he says. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Mr. Kikwete, 61, was one of four African leaders invited to attend a summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations at Camp David last week. The other three were from Ghana, Ethiopia and Benin.
“The overriding message that we brought here is: Assist Africa. Transform its agriculture,” Mr. Kikwete said. “We underscored the fact that indeed there is cause for concern for food security and nutrition security in Africa.”
Africa accounts for about 236 million hungry people, more than one-fourth of the world’s total, according to U.N. statistics.
In Tanzania, malnutrition is the cause of high rates of infant and maternal mortality, and stunted, anemic children.
“There is a problem, and a serious one, that needs a solution,” Mr. Kikwete said.
“And the solution to problems of hunger and nutrition first and foremost is to ensure food security,” he said. “How do you ensure food security and nutrition security? You deal with the agriculture question.”
Between 70 percent and 80 percent of Tanzania’s population lives in rural areas. Agriculture is their mainstay.
Agricultural practices are untouched by modernity. Farmers still use handheld hoes to till the land, are overly dependent on rain to irrigate crops, sow low-yield seeds, and don’t use adequate amounts of fertilizer and pesticides.
Tough neighborhood
“Unfortunately, our agriculture in Africa is characterized by backwardness,” Mr. Kikwete said. “We are not producing enough to meet our own food requirements … and our people are not producing enough to overcome poverty.”
In Tanzania, the challenge is “little application of modern science and technology in agriculture,” he added.
Increasing productivity of Africa’s farms not only would reduce the levels of hunger and malnutrition, it also would increase incomes.
Tanzania is 95 percent food self-sufficient, but it is located in a difficult place.
“Our biggest problem in the country is the neighborhood,” Mr. Kikwete said.
To its north, Kenya has endured three to four years of drought that has forced it to look to Tanzania for food. Parts of Somalia are in the grip of a famine, while South Sudan faces significant food shortages.
The high demand has strained Tanzania’s food supply and pushed domestic prices sky high.
Mr. Kikwete sees in this challenge an opportunity. He has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to increase production of food, particularly corn and rice, to have enough to feed Tanzanians, as well as export.
His government set up the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania in a part of the country that gets the most rain and has ideal soil and climate conditions. If all goes according to plan, the corridor will create 420,000 jobs and produce an annual income of $1.2 billion.
“If we can succeed, we will lift millions and millions of people out of poverty very quickly,” Mr. Kikwete said.
Agriculture is not high on the list of priorities for most international donors. Two decades ago, they gave $18 billion to Africa for the agriculture sector. That dropped to $3 billion three years ago, and has crept up to about $6 billion today.
Tanzania has turned to the private sector to supplement the international community’s contributions.
The G-8 announced over the weekend a “New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition” to accelerate the flow of private capital to African agriculture.
President Obama separately announced that 45 private-sector companies had committed to invest more than $3 billion in agricultural projects and programs that will help millions of small-scale farmers in Africa.
Tanzania has received $698 million from the Millennium Challenge Corp., an independent U.S. foreign-aid agency that helps lead the fight against global poverty. That five-year grant ends next year.
Mr. Kikwete is eager to get a U.S. commitment for a second phase.
International largesse
Under the first phase, roads were built, villages were electrified and water was supplied to two major cities, Morogoro and the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam.
In the second phase, Mr. Kikwete wants to keep the focus on rural electrification and water supply.
“We have expressed the wish, and they have expressed readiness to talk, so let’s see what comes out of the discussions,” he said.
“We are seeing the American side be responsive,” he added.
Daniel Yohannes, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), has high praise for the way Tanzania handled the first phase of this grant.
“President Kikwete has been instrumental to the success of Tanzania’s MCC compact,” Mr. Yohannes said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies last week.
Despite such praise, Mr. Kikwete knows that the state of the global economy will determine how much money international donors will be willing to offer.
“We accept the reality that we will not get much, and already aid has declined, but we think we may not lose everything,” he said. “We don’t see signs on the part of the U.S. government to abandon the poor.”
Mr. Obama has said the U.S. will keep its commitments to end world hunger.
Tanzania has reason to be optimistic about its future: Large reserves of oil and natural gas were discovered recently.
Mr. Kikwete is determined not to let this potential resource windfall become a liability, as it has done for many other African nations.
“We know in … a number of countries in Africa, these resources … have turned into a curse instead of being something useful,” he said.
“We will try as much as we can to learn from what has gone wrong with some of our friends, and let’s see if we can do better,” he said. “I am hopeful that we will.”
© 2012 The Washington Times
 
Kama hajui kwa nini watanzania ni masikini, how he knows the strategy to eliminate poverty? Huu ni usanii tu!
 
Bei ya vyakula ilivyoanza kupanda wakati huyu jamaa anaingia madarakani,yeye alienda Tandale pale kuwaambia washushe bei ya vyakula,wenye akili tukajuwa ndio tumekwisha. Ukimpa mtoto dhahabu au allmasi yeye atabaki kuichezea tu. Tumebarikiwa kuwa na Rais ambaye bado anyonya dole gumba-yaani toto kubwa lenye midevu na bado linavuta nyonyo ya mama yake
 
in a month we get tsh 500 billions meaning its 30% of what he aim, and on that there are plenty of loopholes, and recently we have discovered huge deposit of gas, what to do is very simple lets take a world bank loan we hire expert and we extract and sell and control our own gas! Its simple, cant do that! Ok then lets tax them no less than 40%! But not our dhaifu he wishes like a beggar.
 
Same old woulda, COULDA, SHOULDA stories?!!!! nani akupe hizo hela za bure, badala ya kumake use of the vast resources and opportunities at the disposal of president's office kutengeneza hizo pesa anatuletea wishful daydreaming stories za kijiweni!!!
 
EMT said:
But Jakaya Kikwete's biggest constraint is a lack of resources. "If somebody says, 'What is your wish?' I'd say, 'If I got a billion dollars a month in terms of government revenue, I can turn Tanzania into heaven,'" Mr. Kikwete told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview.

He doesn't have that luxury, so he has turned to the international community for help. Mr. Kikwete, 61, was one of four African leaders invited to attend a summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations at Camp David last week. The other three were from Ghana, Ethiopia and Benin. "The overriding message that we brought here is: Assist Africa. Transform its agriculture," Mr. Kikwete said. "We underscored the fact that indeed there is cause for concern for food security and nutrition security in Africa."

Source: The Wahington Post: Tanzanian plows fertile ground in pitch for aid - Washington Times
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Yaani hapa nilipo sina mbavu kwa kicheko.

Mr.Kiwete is not saying the truth. He is just bluffing. To me Kiwete can't do nothing even if he gets that 1 billion USD or more per month in terms of Government Revenue. Kiwete himself is corrupted in the first place,his political party and its government are all corrupted. The 1 billion dollars he is claiming to turn Tanzania into heaven shall be ended in pockets of few individuals; the corrupted guys!

To me with that 1 billion dollars a month,Kiwete and his henchmen gonna turn Tanzania into hell. Already Tanzanians are in hell despite the fact that this country is blessed with abudancy of natural resources: Gold,Diamonds,Tanzanites, Uranium,Natural gases, National Parks full of Wildlives,what else?

Tell Kiwete to visit Rwanda and see and learn what Kagame is doing for the Rwandese. Rwanda is now nothing else but a heaven of East/Central Africa if not Africa as a whole! Kagame is doing wonders in his country. We can ask Mr. Kiwete what is the Revenue monthly income of the Rwanda Revenue Authority(RRA)? Can it be 0.75,0.5,0.25 billion dollars a month taking into consideration that Rwanda is a very small country as compared to Tanzania?

I remember one of our Ministers was asked by a journalist such a question as to why Rwanda was now developing very fast economically as compared to Tanzania. Do you know what the Kiwete's Government poor minister replied? With full confidence the Minister replied that Rwanda is a very small country as compared to Tanzania!!!! I wish I could be around during that interview! I could have rebuked the poor minister that the size of a country is immaterial when you come to the issue of development! What can you say about USA,India,South Africa, Brazil,India,Canada etc? Are they also small countries like Rwanda? Definetely not! The proper answer here wa GOVERNMENT POLICY.Full stop.

The Policy which is running our Government machinery is very poor,corrupted and full of mismanagement. The Policy makers and the policy are the same! We need to change our Policy makers automatically changing the policy in order to forge ahead with real development come year 2015.

We need real leaders with real development.
 
Is JK know how heaven looks like that can convert tanzania into heaven?? no influence on that and if was my marketing manager and am his managing director I would not only terminate from job but also vanish front of my eyes because my company could loose many customers instead of increasing. Plz use properly few resources you have, then you can ask what your trying to ask from developed countries.
 
kwa kiongozi makini kama kagame angalikuwa tanzania angeweza kuzalisha zaidi ya hizo na kutufanya tuishi kama mbinguni lakini kwa JK hata ngepewa ngapi hawezi hataweza si makini kwa kweli hawezi alikuwa anafurahisha maongezi
 
EMT,

..JK ameshindwa kujipanga tu.

..utalii unaingiza about 1.4 trillion in TShs a year.

..that should be around 1 billion dollars a year.

..Katika miaka 7 aliyokuwa madarakani, tayari tungeweza kuwa na fedha za kuifanya Tanzania kuwa "nusu ahera" kulingana na matamanio ya JK.
 
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JokaKuu said:
EMT,

..JK ameshindwa kujipanga tu.

..utalii unaingiza about 1.4 trillion in TShs a year.

..that should be around 1 billion dollars a year.

..Katika miaka 7 aliyokuwa madarakani, tayari tungeweza kuwa na fedha za kuifanya Tanzania kuwa "nusu ahera" kulingana na matamanio ya JK.
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Alikuwa anamaanisha pesa za kupewa na hao waliomuuliza swali, Angekuwa Kweli Ana nia ya kuifanya bongo iwe ahera angeweza kuraise Hiyo amount in a week kupitia natural resources tulizonazo hapa nchini.
 
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Daniel Anderson said:
Hapo ulipoweka red mkuu, umemaliza kabisa.

Sijui huyu ndugu alisomea uchumi wapi mwee? Hajui allocation ya scarce money ni precious kuliko extravagance of hizo billions?
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Mkuu, hata kama alisoma, kasahau, where's his advisors? huwa anasoma nini on his leisure time? mwe!
 
EMT said:
Tanzania's president is waging a war on hunger — and while he's at it, he wants to modernize his East African nation's agricultural sector to lift millions of his countrymen out of poverty. But Jakaya Kikwete's biggest constraint is a lack of resources. "If somebody says, 'What is your wish?' I'd say, 'If I got a billion dollars a month in terms of government revenue, I can turn Tanzania into heaven,'" Mr. Kikwete told The Washington Times in an exclusive interview.

He doesn't have that luxury, so he has turned to the international community for help. Mr. Kikwete, 61, was one of four African leaders invited to attend a summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations at Camp David last week. The other three were from Ghana, Ethiopia and Benin. "The overriding message that we brought here is: Assist Africa. Transform its agriculture," Mr. Kikwete said. "We underscored the fact that indeed there is cause for concern for food security and nutrition security in Africa."

Africa accounts for about 236 million hungry people, more than one-fourth of the world's total, according to U.N. statistics. In Tanzania, malnutrition is the cause of high rates of infant and maternal mortality, and stunted, anemic children. "There is a problem, and a serious one, that needs a solution," Mr. Kikwete said. "And the solution to problems of hunger and nutrition first and foremost is to ensure food security," he said. "How do you ensure food security and nutrition security? You deal with the agriculture question."

Between 70 percent and 80 percent of Tanzania's population lives in rural areas. Agriculture is their mainstay. Agricultural practices are untouched by modernity. Farmers still use handheld hoes to till the land, are overly dependent on rain to irrigate crops, sow low-yield seeds, and don't use adequate amounts of fertilizer and pesticides.

Tough neighbourhood

"Unfortunately, our agriculture in Africa is characterized by backwardness," Mr. Kikwete said. "We are not producing enough to meet our own food requirements ... and our people are not producing enough to overcome poverty." In Tanzania, the challenge is "little application of modern science and technology in agriculture," he added. Increasing productivity of Africa's farms not only would reduce the levels of hunger and malnutrition, it also would increase incomes.

Tanzania is 95 percent food self-sufficient, but it is located in a difficult place. "Our biggest problem in the country is the neighborhood," Mr. Kikwete said. To its north, Kenya has endured three to four years of drought that has forced it to look to Tanzania for food. Parts of Somalia are in the grip of a famine, while South Sudan faces significant food shortages. The high demand has strained Tanzania's food supply and pushed domestic prices sky high.

Mr. Kikwete sees in this challenge an opportunity. He has instructed the Ministry of Agriculture to increase production of food, particularly corn and rice, to have enough to feed Tanzanians, as well as export. His government set up the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania in a part of the country that gets the most rain and has ideal soil and climate conditions. If all goes according to plan, the corridor will create 420,000 jobs and produce an annual income of $1.2 billion. "If we can succeed, we will lift millions and millions of people out of poverty very quickly," Mr. Kikwete said.

Agriculture is not high on the list of priorities for most international donors. Two decades ago, they gave $18 billion to Africa for the agriculture sector. That dropped to $3 billion three years ago, and has crept up to about $6 billion today. Tanzania has turned to the private sector to supplement the international community's contributions.

The G-8 announced over the weekend a "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" to accelerate the flow of private capital to African agriculture. President Obama separately announced that 45 private-sector companies had committed to invest more than $3 billion in agricultural projects and programs that will help millions of small-scale farmers in Africa.

Tanzania has received $698 million from the Millennium Challenge Corp., an independent U.S. foreign-aid agency that helps lead the fight against global poverty. That five-year grant ends next year. Mr. Kikwete is eager to get a U.S. commitment for a second phase.

International largesse

Under the first phase, roads were built, villages were electrified and water was supplied to two major cities, Morogoro and the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam. In the second phase, Mr. Kikwete wants to keep the focus on rural electrification and water supply.

"We have expressed the wish, and they have expressed readiness to talk, so let's see what comes out of the discussions," he said. "We are seeing the American side be responsive," he added. Daniel Yohannes, CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC), has high praise for the way Tanzania handled the first phase of this grant.
"President Kikwete has been instrumental to the success of Tanzania's MCC compact," Mr. Yohannes said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies last week.

Despite such praise, Mr. Kikwete knows that the state of the global economy will determine how much money international donors will be willing to offer. "We accept the reality that we will not get much, and already aid has declined, but we think we may not lose everything," he said. "We don't see signs on the part of the U.S. government to abandon the poor."

Mr. Obama has said the U.S. will keep its commitments to end world hunger. Tanzania has reason to be optimistic about its future: Large reserves of oil and natural gas were discovered recently. Mr. Kikwete is determined not to let this potential resource windfall become a liability, as it has done for many other African nations.

"We know in ... a number of countries in Africa, these resources ... have turned into a curse instead of being something useful," he said. "We will try as much as we can to learn from what has gone wrong with some of our friends, and let's see if we can do better," he said. "I am hopeful that we will."

Source: The Wahington Post: Tanzanian plows fertile ground in pitch for aid - Washington Times
Can one remind me the currency of this country..... If Mr. President is crying for Dollars in public....!!!! Some plug-in must be missing somewhere.... ANANIKUMBUSHA..... "TUWACHORE" kakalia kigoda cha dhahabu..... haoni na anomba.... Jamani mweeeeee!!!!
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Kama ningekuwa mgeni kwa JK ningeshangaa..... TUMESUBUTU.jpg
 
Is our presida have been to heaven or being in flight daily is what the heaven he refers?
 
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