Lusekelo anakata tawi alilokalia?

Pedro said:
wazazi wetu walisoma bure, sisi tulisoma bure na sasa tunatesa.
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Pedro,
umeshapata kujiuliza serikali ilitoa wapi fedha za kusomesha wazazi wako, pamoja na wewe bure?! kwasababu hakuna kitu cha bure dunia hii.

inawezekana we did not pay out of our pocket, lakini serikali ilitumia kodi tulizokuwa tunalipa kugharamia elimu,afya,ulinzi etc etc.

hii dhana ya kusema elimu bure ni kiini macho cha kuwaziba midomo,kuwatia unyonge, na kuwasomba msukule, wananchi. once ukiwaambia hivyo basi wanaona kama ni fadhila na hawatakiwi kuhoji jambo lolote.

Mwanakijiji,
Nitajaribu kuchangia vipengele vifuatavyo kama ulivyoviainisha.

Madini:
si kweli kwamba Mwalimu aliamua kilimo ndiyo kiwe uti wa mgongo wa taifa. kilimo tayari kilikuwa uti wa mgongo.

jambo aliloamua Mwalimu ni kwamba viwanda vya nguo ndiyo viwe injini ya uchumi wetu kuelekea industrialization. rejea hotuba ya mei mosi kule mbeya.

matatizo ya madini kuvamiwa na wageni ni ya uongozi na siasa. ziko nchi nyingi tu zimechimba madini bila kuvamiwa na wageni. mbona botswana hawana matatizo hayo ya DRC,Angola,...?

vilevile ni maandalizi gani yalifanyika kujenga uwezo wa kuchimba madini yetu? badala ya kufungua vyuo vya siasa bora tungejenga vyuo vya madini[engineers,technicians etc]

hata idara za geology na mining engineering hazikuwa idara za mwanzo kuanzishwa pale chuo kikuu. we simply didnt have a vision.

Siasa za Dunia:
actually hakuna anayemlaumu Mwalimu kwa kutofungamana na upande wowote. katika foreign policy ni wachache wanaomkaribia.

kipindi cha utawala wa Mwalimu tulikuwa tunapata misaada toka EAST na WEST kuliko nchi nyingi za dunia ya tatu. what we did na hiyo misaada ni kitendawili.

sikubaliani na dhana kwamba ati ni bora kuwa masikini lakini huru. hiyo ni dhana ya kukata tamaa. tunaweza kuwa huru na wenye maendeleo vilevile.

Azimio la Arusha:
Mwalimu mwenye alishasema kwamba alikosea kutaifisha mali na viwanda kwa haraka namna ile. wengi wetu tunapinga ile JAZBA na PUPA iliyotumika ktk kuendesha zoezi hilo.

vilevile kudai kwamba ati asingetaifisha mashamba leo hii Tanzania ingekuwa na matatizo ya ardhi kama Zimbabwe ni kupotosha. settler community ktk Tanganyika ilikuwa ndogo mno. vilevile isingeweza kustawi kwasababu tuliamua kuwa wajamaa, na ardhi,kabla hata ya 1967, iliamuliwa iwe mali ya taifa.

Hatukupaswa kutaifisha mashamba na viwanda vilivyokuwa vikizalisha tayari. Tulipaswa kuanzisha vyetu along side hivyo vilivyokuwepo.
 
Somebody send this piece to Lowassa please.Yeye ndiye kinara wa mtindo wa ku-intimidate editors wa magazeti.

Lusekelo is a rare breed of journalist, wengine walisha kolimbwa kama kina Stan Katabala wa Mfanyakazi.
 
Adam Lusekelo
Daily News;
Wednesday,December 05, 2007

HE must be an imperialist agent - the guy who sent me that letter. Or, he could be a communist agent provocateur, or both.

‘Eti’, he says we all know that Osama Bin Laden’s ambition in life has been to destroy America for many years. ‘Eti’, Osama has put a lot of time, money and effort to train terrorists and suicide bombers to do his bidding.

The cheeky guy, who wrote me that letter, says that he has come up with a simple, cheap and effective plan, which will help Osama to achieve his aim.

The agent-provocateur says that all Osama has to do is pick just one Tanzanian government official and get him elected into the US government and that’s all.

Thanks to this government competence within a month the Niagara Falls will dry up. The nation’s power generators will mysteriously and inexplicably start blowing up and develop technical faults. America will be plunged into darkness. The economy will plummet and pollution will be on the rise.

As things get worse the ex-Tanzania officer will go on TV and boldly tell them that the economy is growing at double digits.

All the money allocated to alleviate the power crisis will be lost in this individual’s ravenous pockets and accumulated in his Swiss accounts.

Even though the country's people will be devastated by the crisis, he, impevous to their cries for help, will be focusing on more ‘important’ issues like buying new presidential planes and touring foreign countries to promote is country.

The only thing that will be developing during this dire period, will be this person’s bulging tummy. Very cheeky stuff from this agent of imperialism. Our glorious rulers are gym friendly and they have modest tummies!

‘Eti’, eventually the ex-Tanzanian in America will decide to hire a non-existent company called Richmond to supply emergency power generators, which will promptly go on strike.

The cheecky guy says that - mind you the move will be backed by an even more brilliant plan to employ specialist who claim to be able to make rain.

Not surprisingly, these plans will fail and lo! And behold! America will be lost in oblivion. All this thanks to the intelligence, sincerity and competence of just one Tanzanian politician.

Then Osama Bin laden can pay a state visit from his hideouts in the wilderness of Afghanistan to come and thank Tanzania for supplying its secret weapon to him.

Then this provocateur asks me that – aren’t we lucky to have so many of them running our country?
 
Mmm,

makubwa yanakuja,
by the way did you get the concent of the Guy you showed his personal email at the end?
 
Tunaweza kumpatia Osama a very competent tanzanian government offcial called Nazir. Huyu tutampatia bure na mkataba wa kumkabidhi huyu mtu tunaweza kusainishana hata pale Kandahar
 
Funny times always
Someone sent me an e-message acknowledging some stuff I write. I quickly replied by quoting him an American scribe, Will Rogers. He said: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts," he said.

Spot on! The most hilarious sentence in the last 50 years is to hear some senior government officials climb into numerous fora around the world, pull long and sad faces and say: "We in Tanzania are poor, our people have inadequate medical care.

Our education system hardly exists...."blah!" "blah!" "blah!" Then we gratefully accept rice aid from Japan. But ours is the same country which bought a radar system at a rip-off price and some people have benefited handsomely from the scam and are still being called "mheshimiwa."

Ours is a country which bought a presidential jet at a rip-off price. The actual price was simply doubled. Better for Tanzanians to eat grass if they have to eat! Which is very understandable. Some guys have to make money to play with every five years. They call it democracy.

 That's nothing. Do you know that up to today our government doesn't know who the owners of the Kagoda Agricultural Company really are? Tanzanians are eager to hear about the process of naming names. But our glorious government is very sure about one thing - it just does not know who owns Kagoda!

What about Dowans? Who owns the company which has been lumbering Tanzanians and masquerading as a power company? The government swears that it has no idea. Maybe Dowans is owned by a couple of spirits from another world. If that is so and Tanesco chief, Dr Idris Rashid, said he has had a chat with them, then he must be psychic.

He must be having a special medium by which he can "see" and even have a chat with the spirits of Dowans. But the government certainly does not know who the owners of the Dowans are! Some things just need witchdoctors to see. Since independence, pirates have been making tonnes of money fishing the shores of Tanzania.

I am talking about very serious money. I don't know what got into Minister John Pombe Magufuli's mind. But the fellow has started to think about actually doing his job. The sting on the ship of pirates that was caught with 200 tonnes of fish a fortnight ago. The game has been going on for eternity.

Only one ship could be fined $20 million dollars. I am sure that more than 10 could be caught. A commodity, which could be sold for a handsome profit. But no. Our rulers never cease to roam the world, pulling long faces and moaning that Tanzania is poor. There is a debate going on the "aid" thing. Maybe they should not give us the so-called "aid" after all.

If they do that then it might concentrate the minds of Tanzanians, as to where the money we earn goes. It is easier to go abroad, begging bowl in hand and moan about being poor, while we let foreign pirates come and loot Tanzania off our national resources. Just like that! That is a national shame. It has been going on for decades. With such mentality this scandal will be going on for ages. And everyday our rulers are roaming the planet on begging trips. It must be some sick joke.
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this is the talent
 
Very funny, satirical, humorous yet brilliantly intelligent.

Jamaa ni genious of his own kind kwa ukweli.
 
Je hiyo article imeandikwa na the Man called Adam Lusekelo?? Maana heading na article haviendani. Au mimi ndo nimepitwa sijaelewa. Msaada kwenye tuta jamani.
 
hawezi kulinganishwa na mwandishi yeyete hapa Tanzania wa light column -- kwa Kiingereza. Tena ni mpiganaji wa ufisadi kweli kweli na anatoa faraja kwa wapiganaji wengine.
 
He is so funny and introspective. He should start a Jon Stewart type show it will be hilarious.
 
Lunanilo said:
He is so funny and introspective. He should start a Jon Stewart type show it will be hilarious.
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I am not so sure,

Adam Lusekelo is and has always been a print journalist.The leap to TV is no small task.
 
Kiranga said:
I am not so sure,

Adam Lusekelo is and has always been a print journalist.The leap to TV is no small task.
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Could he be a producer/writer and get aTV friendly personality ( one of ze original commedy guys?) to present the material? What I like about that format ( The Daily Show) is to watch politicians and the so called experts giving conflicing perspectives of their own ideas. Anyway Adam is useful where he is if he can not make that leap I am still happy he is there and observes what is going on.
 
Hi all,

As a matter of fact mr A. L. did a tv stint in the late 90s - about 10 yrs ago - during the days of ITV "kiti moto programs", if I remember correctly. But I am of the opinion that a media man is still the same no matter what medium he uses, be it tv, radio, papers, etc. He/she can be effective, so long as he/she (gender sensitivity, mwanangu, no?) prepares well for each edition.

Coming back to A. L., this guy is special, lets give credit where its due; and he has been around for some time. I remember reading his column -With a Light Touch -since Ronald Reagan was president of the US! And then he did a stint withe BBC Africa Service quiz program and did brilliantly there too. He does NOT give wild eyed opinions, you can see reasoning, research, level-headedness throughout his work.

Keep it up, M'Seur Lusekelo! I am a big fan.
 
Adam Lusekelo, what can I say, I have been following this guy since Primary school.

Of late, when he is on point, he is hitting the bone, some days he comes across as straight out of some bar, with the hangover still in the head.
 
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