A Police State

[Nyani Ngabu]

How?

Go back to my initial post.

 

[Estone]

Hata viongozi wa dini baadhi wapo kimya.Utawala unakandamiza waumini wao.Wananukuu maamdiko "tiini mamlaka zilizopo" kweli.Ni pepo gani mchafu amepita Tanzania.Mbona kipindi cha JK walikuwa wanaongea au ni udini?Eeh Mungu uliye hai tuokoe wanao tunaangamia.

Ubinafsi, hofu, rushwa na udini vipo kwa viongozi wa dini zetu hawa. Maana walishatanguliziwa michango ya kujenga makanisa, misikiti kudhamini kwaya tayari wanatonge mdomoni hawwawezi kuongea.

Hofu ya kutengwa na wakuu wao yaani maaskofu, mufty hofu ya kunyooshewa kidole na mkono wa kushoto wa dola.

Amani yao inategemea viongozi.

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Instead of progressing, we are regressing.

Magufuli has a lot of dictatorial tendencies.

 

[Chagu wa Malunde]

The Police have powers to arrest anybody within the law for a certain period of time before he/she appears to court, that does not prove/warrants the state to be described as a police state.

Unaandika kidhungu gan? Unatumia nguvu kutumia lugha ya wengine kwa nini usiandike kiswahili? ...arrest within law...!

 

[Imeloa]

Generally the below characterizes a police state:

From google.

''A police state is a government that exercises power through the power of the police force. Originally, a police state was a state regulated by a civil administration, but since the beginning of the 20th century it has "taken on an emotional and derogatory meaning" by describing an undesirable state of living characterized by the overbearing presence of civil authorities. The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force that operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state. Robert von Mohl, who first introduced the rule of law to German jurisprudence, contrasted the Rechtsstaat ("legal" or "constitutional" state) with the anti-aristocratic Polizeistaat ("police state").''

From Collins dictionary:

''A police state is a country in which the government controls people's freedom by means of the police, especially secret police.''

To my knowledge I have never seen secret police in Tanzania.

Wasiojulikana are an example of the secret police.

 

[Missile of the Nation]

Dah mzee, ukiamua kugonga vitu, huwa unagonga vitu deep sana

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Dah mzee, ukuamua kugonga vitu, huwa unagonga vitu deep sana

Unajua niliandika hivyo mwaka gani?

 

[Missile of the Nation]

Unajua niliandika hivyo mwaka gani?

Nimeona ni 2016, uligonga mlemle.
Yaani umeucover utawala huu katika full spectrum yake, ambayo ni dictatorship na utawala ambao hauna affinity na democracy kabisa!

 

[TAI DUME]

Hili kaburi kalifukua nani? Enzi hizo jamaa alikuwa akili yake haijatiwa maji

 

[Mudawote]

What is a police state?

Per the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, a police state is a "country where people’s freedom, especially to travel and to express political opinions, is controlled by the government, with the help of the police."

Now, given what is currently going on since Magufuli's ascension to ascendancy, aren't we now a police state? If we aren't a police state, then what are we?

Everyday we wake up to [news] stories of members of opposition parties getting arrested, harassed, denied their right to peaceably assemble and all that jazz.

We wake up to stories of Joe Publics getting arrested and taken to court just because they posted some unflattering things about his Excellency on social media.

We wake up to stories of some news media outlets getting suspended and/ or fined under questionable pretexts.

We wake up to sights and sounds of members of the police force doing what they term as 'routine exercises' in full view of the public...hmm....really?

The right of free speech, freedom of expression, and to peaceably assemble are some of the most important civil liberties.

I know they are not absolute rights. They do have some restrictions. But come on now, Magufuli doesn't even want people to do politics. We should not let him infringe those rights on us. No way, no how.

He just wants people to work. What if politics is what some people do for a living? What the hell should they do? Construction or something?

Our rights are being trampled on and we all must say no. Say no to a police state.

We are Tanzania, not Kim Jong Un's North Korea.

nyamaza kabisa, mliyataka wenyewe, sisi tuliwaambia toka mwanzo muheshimu mamlaka ya rais na vyombo vyake nyie mnaleta nyege za amsterdam ngoja mkomeshwe