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..utafiti uliofanywa na Prof.Teddy Malyamkono na wasomi wenzake umebaini kwamba Zanzibar ni mzigo mkubwa kwa wa-Tanganyika.
..ningeshauri kila Mtanganyika asome kitabu cha Prof.Maliyamkono.
..ikiwezekana kitabu hicho kitumike mashuleni, kwenye madrasa,sunday school, jando, unyago, etc etc
..ningeshauri kila Mtanganyika asome kitabu cha Prof.Maliyamkono.
..ikiwezekana kitabu hicho kitumike mashuleni, kwenye madrasa,sunday school, jando, unyago, etc etc
The Political Plight of Zanzibar said:ZANZIBAR A DRAIN ON UNION ECONOMY
The astronomical rise of Zanzibars financial dependence on the mainland government is the latest wave of criticism levelled at the Tanzanian union by leading academics.
They quantify the dependence at nearly 835 million US dollars in
transfers between 1983-84 and 1998-99 in a new publication, entitled
The Political Plight of Zanzibar, launched after a two-year study in
the island.
This, as the book points out, is equivalent to the mainland giving
every Zanzibari a gift of 1,202 dollars a year, or roughly five years
of Tanzanias per capita Gross National Product, Teddy Maliyamkono,
the publications editor, says.
It is also equal to the average total annual revenue of Zanzibars
government during the past six years, he adds.
Further questions are raised as to why the Zanzibari constitution
refuses the semi-autonomous state to contribute to the union budget
although the union bore the expenses of supporting its annual balance
of payments deficit.
By refusing to pay and making it their constitutional right not to,
Zanzibar is implicitly denouncing the union. Now the question is, why
is the mainland Tanzania paying a fortune to keep the union unless they
have an immeasurable intrinsic love for the people of Zanzibar!
Maliyamkono, a political scientist, says in the book.
It is argued in some quarters that the political and economic costs
of letting Zanzibar go on its own, could, by far, outweigh present
transfers and benefits which accrue to Zanzibar from the union, he
adds.
Maliyamkono notes that the mainland sends much money to Zanzibar,
and subsidises its power consumption.
Some of the transfers, like smuggling, tax evasion and the money
sent into the island by Zanzibaris working on the mainland, are
invisible and cannot be quantified.
From the economic point of view, there is no denying that it is
Zanzibar that needs the union more than mainlanders do. The union is
Zanzibars livelihood, there is no Zanzibar without the union, he
points out.
The political marriage of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964 has been
plagued by a plethora of operational problems.
Zanzibar, which is heavily dependent on cloves to sustain its
economy, has been complaining that the mainland is benefiting too much
from the union and that it should, in the spirit of its sovereignty,
be allowed to have its own flag.
But according to the authors of the book, there is no denying that
it is Zanzibar that needs the union the most.
Maliyamkono warns that dissolution of the union would be
economically disastrous to Zanzibar.