Jakaya Kikwete: Stop charging in foreign currency

[Mzee_Wa_Conspiracy]

Mkuu nashangaa eti malipo ya kisimbuzi wanachaji kwa dola. Mfano azam eti wamepandisha viwango kisa dola imepanda

Lazima apandishe, wenye channels zao hawataki shilingi. Hata ITV na kina clouds hawataki kulipwa kwa shilingi

 

[Mag3]

Your numbers are all fucked up! Trilioni 22 sawa na dola mlioni 10?
Kwanini hujatumia Euros?

Your logic must also be all fucked up...you seem not to comprehend the significance of tol's reasoning, could this be intentional?

 

[sensor]

Idiot president

 

[tol]

Your numbers are all fucked up! Trilioni 22 sawa na dola mlioni 10?
Kwanini hujatumia Euros?

Kimsingi

Kutokana na hoja yako dhifu Kimsingi naona umekubaliana na hayo maesabu ila talizo lako ni kwa nini imetumika dollar na si euro ziko sababu nyingi lakini kwa uchache ntataja hizi
moja wote tinakubaliana kuwa dollar ni pesa inayotumika world wide
pili us dollars ni pesa ya nje ambayo asilimia kubwa ya watanzania wanafahamu exchange rate yake
na Tatu hata Rais wako amekiri kuwa us dollars ni pesa pekee ya nje inayotumika kwa wingi ktk solo la ndani

hapa swala la kujadili ni matokeo ya kutumika kwa dolled ktk solo la ndani ambayo imesababissha kushuka kwa thamani kwa shs ya kitanzania dhidi ya dollar

unapotetea upuuzi usitete kwa hoja za kipuuzi watu watakuona na wewe ni mpuuzi na hivyo kukupuuza

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

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Yaani kampuni za Kitanzania kweli kabisa hazitaki malipo katika shilingi za Kitanzania?

Kweli kama ujuha ulivumbuliwa basi utakuwa ulivumbuliwa Tanzania!!!!!

 

[Chumchang Changchum]

lisiwe tamko tuu na vitendo viwepo....

 

[ERoni]

Hivi Kikwete ni mchumi eeh! Duh!!

 

[Mnasihi]

Nimeamini kuwa mwisho wa ubaya ni aibu. Aisubiri aibu yake october. yaani kaona vyema kwenda kutolea maagizo kwa magabachori yanayolinyonya taifa kwa kuwa aliyawezesha kutuibia. Sawa lakini kwai shukrani ya punda ni mateke.

 

[specialist88]

kikwete ni mwehu aseee!! sina hata haja yakuchukia ujinga jinga wake kwakuwa nimeshamjua-nichizi huyu

 

[Sijali]

Nchi ambayo haikukumbwa na vita wala majanga. Ina ardhi, maji, misitu, wanyama, madini, watu.......

Nci inayomchagua mtu mfujaji, asiyejali, limbukeni, msafiri ------ ....kama huyu inastahiki matokeo haya.uu

 

[Fx Trader]

Jamaa anashangaza sana aisee, miaka 10 kauchuna kimya huku Watanzania tukipiga kelele za kutosha hili la Watanzania kulipa kwa dollar katika mambo mbali mbali nchini. Nakumbuka hapa kulikuwa na mjadala mzito kuhusu issue hii na magazeti mengi nchini yaliandika kwa kina, lakini akaendelea kuuchuna tu. Kabakisha miezi mitatu ndiyo anatoa kauli kama hii tena baada ya kuulizwa swali akiwa India. Hakustahili kabisa huyu kuwa kiongozi wa nchi yetu kaiacha katika hali mbaya sana kuliko alivyoikuta. Bado anaendelea na safari yake ya kuaga nchi za nje, pamoja kujua nchi haina pesa na safari zake zinaongeza deni la Taifa wala hajali anatanua tu.

The head of state only starts to act when thr shilling had depreciated by 25%? Are you serious sir? Your deputy MoF was campaigning instead of issuing a statement to calm the market?

 

[Fx Trader]

Please also instruct govetnment agencies like TCRA to stop charging in dollar. Charity starts at home!

After the govetnment failing to act i wouldn't be surprisd that other businesses and insitutions will stary quoting in dollars becauae of the local of confidence in the local currency!

 

[BAK]

Ni kwa sababu hii Serikali imeamua kuchukua likizo na kuacha haya makampuni ya ndani yafanye vile yatakavyo. Kampuni zinapewa onyo la kutokataa malipo kwa kutumia T shs au faini yake ni 20 million zitaacha zenyewe baada ya kampuni chache kutozwa faini hii, lakini ndiyo hivyo tena nchi ipo ipo tu kama haina kiongozi kama haina Serikali kwanini haya makampuni yasijiamulie vile watakavyo bila kujali wateja wao.

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[No SQL]

mi nahis alkua anawaambia wahind...mana ingekua cc angetwambia wkt amepata nafas Arusha...
c tutaendelea kucharge kwa dola au kama n kwa Tz shillings bas tutafanya conversion kulingana na dola ilivyo.
nan afilisike kwa uzembe wa wachache
by the way..fimbo ya mbali hyo...

 

[Mzee Mwanakijiji]

Linchi la kijinga kweli hili.

Umeona wapi eti hata kodi za pango la nyumba sehemu kama Sinza au Kurasini zinalipwa kwa dola?

Nchi ikiwa imejaa watu wajinga na wapumbavu kuliko ilivyo kawaida kupata maendeleo ni ndoto!

Inatisha! Hivi watu wameanza kutumia dola kulipia vitu juzi? Na hilo linaloitwa "onyo" la Rais mbona halina chochote cha kutishia? kama watu wanalipa nini kitawatokea wanaohusika? Na kwanini hakijawatokea hadi leo hii? Ineffective president.

 

[Fx Trader]

Restore confidence and ban implement directive to stop businesses to charge in dollars!

Jk should learn a lesson from india who faced similar problem when the rupee depreciated from 45 to 69 per dollar in a matter of 6 months. Some of the actions including :

1. Replaced the Governor
2. Raise interest rates
3. Intervene heavily in the market
4. Restrict or discourage imports of non essential goods i.e. Gold

 

[Kobello]

Kimsingi

Kutokana na hoja yako dhifu Kimsingi naona umekubaliana na hayo maesabu ila talizo lako ni kwa nini imetumika dollar na si euro ziko sababu nyingi lakini kwa uchache ntataja hizi
moja wote tinakubaliana kuwa dollar ni pesa inayotumika world wide
pili us dollars ni pesa ya nje ambayo asilimia kubwa ya watanzania wanafahamu exchange rate yake
na Tatu hata Rais wako amekiri kuwa us dollars ni pesa pekee ya nje inayotumika kwa wingi ktk solo la ndani

hapa swala la kujadili ni matokeo ya kutumika kwa dolled ktk solo la ndani ambayo imesababissha kushuka kwa thamani kwa shs ya kitanzania dhidi ya dollar

unapotetea upuuzi usitete kwa hoja za kipuuzi watu watakuona na wewe ni mpuuzi na hivyo kukupuuza

Kimsingi siwezi kukubaliana na hoja ya kipuuzi kama hiyo uliyoikopi kutoka ka M. Goldstein. Upuzi wake ni kuwa mwaka 2005 thamani ya dollar haikuwa shilingi 650, ilkuwa karibu mara mbili ya hapo, making the budget to be like 6bn$ against 10bn$ za leo. Kwa hiyo bajeti ni kweli imeongezeka na kujitegemea kwa zaidi ya 90% ni kukubwa kuliko kwa 2005.

Usikopi vitu kama si vya kweli.

 

[Kiranga]

Mpaka John Mashaka kaandika kuhusu the dollarization of the Tanzanian economy. Hii ilikiwa 2009.Kikwete na serikali nzima kimya.

Leo kabakisha miezi ndio analiona hili?


http://issamichuzi.blogspot.com/2009/10/dollarization-of-tanzanian-economy-is.html?m=1

 

[ikisimama panda]

kikwete ni mwehu aseee!! sina hata haja yakuchukia ujinga jinga wake kwakuwa nimeshamjua-nichizi huyu

meseji ya kipumbavu kama hii mkuu futa na delete kabisa

 

[BAK]

In Tanzania today, air-tickets, school fees, hotel accommodation, automobiles, import duty, merchandise and even rent within affluent parts of the country is being priced and paid in United States Dollar. Those unwilling to pay the dollar are required cough the local currency, based on the day's prevailing exchange rates.

It leaves many to wonder on the country's economic direction, worthiness of her currency and the seriousness of her leadership to contain the rapidly spreading dollarization virus. Tanzania is being dollarized at whose benefit, and does this mean our country is a failed state, economically?

By definition dollarization means an extreme situation of an economic instability in which a foreign currency –often the US dollar- replaces a country's currency in performing basic functions of money.

In some countries it becomes an official policy of the government to curb economic dilemma by letting the dollar become medium of exchange. It also implies that the domestic central bank is no longer available as a lender of last resort.

In other words some countries adopt the use of dollar so as to tie trade of their goods to world prices, so that the domestic inflation is closely related to United States Inflation. Official dollarization has been adopted in countries suffering from CHRONIC and extreme economic problems such as inflation; basically it is adopted in almost failed states.

While in Tanzania recently, I took a short vacation to Bagamoyo. I went to one of the resorts, and was requested to pay for the services in US dollar. I adamantly refused to pay the dollar because I was in my country, alternatively was advised to pay in domestic currency based on the day's prevailing exchange rate, and believe it or not, the rate demanded was USD 1 was TSH 1355 as opposed to TSH 1315 which was the median. This sent me into a state of confusion on how useless the domestic currency has become to Tanzanians.

Amid Zimbabwe's descent into social political turmoil, and economic nightmare characterized by historic and record breaking inflation levels, in the threshold of being a failed state, Zimbabwe was forced to dollarize her economy.

Zimbabwe dollar became worthless despite the relentless effort by the central bank to stabilize and even peg the country's currency with hopes of restoring economic vitality of a nation that once stood as Africa's breadbasket.

Zimbabweans had to swallow their pride and adopt a foreign currency –US dollar- for her survival. Comrade Mugabe, an African hero, and a dictator in the eyes of the west, succumbed to colonization, which he has been against all of his life, by letting his country use a foreign currency. American dollar, therefore, became and perhaps is still the official medium of exchange.

Tanzania is one of the few African countries boasting peace and stability. The country's strategic wealth of natural resources should have rendered her currency to be one of the strongest around the region should it have been blessed with good and formidable management; blessed with leaders who foresee the future and ready to be sacrificial for the good of their nation, than the gluttonous, economic vultures the country is blessed with today.

My inquisition as to why I was being charged a foreign currency in a sovereign nation brought about new discoveries; it came into my knowledge, while in Bagamoyo, that some of the frequent guests in these resorts are Cabinet Ministers and Members of parliament.

And all of them pay for the services rendered in United States Dollar. And my only question is, if ministers, high ranking government officials and Members of parliament can pay their bills in US dollar, who else then, can fight for the common man whose pillars of hope are being fractured and fragmented by the introduction of the dollar social divide culture? He has no defense!

We are going to be so naïve to believe that, these businesses charging foreign currencies are owned by ordinary citizens. These facilities are owned by the society elite and the KLEPTOCRATS; economic robbers–within the establishment- around the country who control the resources of the masses, collecting from the poor citizens, and even looting the public coffer just to turn around and transfer their loot into their offshore accounts. These few persons make life particularly harder and unattainable to the poor majority.

Picture a scenario likely to be faced by a peasant, hardened by poverty from the countryside that has never touched a dollar, must go through to pay for his or her child's school fees? Picture a recent graduate, trying to find housing, and has to pay in terms of the dollar. Does this mean that the poor are marginalized in their own country, at the expensive of the rich minority who retains exclusive rights to better services and preferential treatment?

Is it the new class Identity where dollar rules and serves as sign of power and prestige?

Currency is a symbol of nation's sovereignty; source of cultural identity and pride. but when the very leaders we hold with high regards as custodians of our laws, and protectors of our sovereignty, lead the way by supporting the notion of our currency being worthless, then we have a problem.

And there is no way we can resolve our economic issues unless we vote in leaders who walk the talk, not just hypocrites and inexorably feebleminded, who don't understand the negative consequences of using foreign currency in your own country. Unless this is a government project meant to stabilize or get rid of the already worthless currency, the unworthiness of our currency will only get worse.

Unnecessary imports must be curtailed to encourage domestic innovation, and thus lessen demand for foreign currencies. The parliament must make sure all corrupt individuals who are threatening the economy, by having so much money in circulation are arrested and expeditiously tried, with their assets either frozen or confiscated.

This will in the long run, bring stability into the economy by letting the market play fairly following natural economic laws, reversing the current artificial environment created by the few rich who have inflated prices basically for everything to unrealistic levels, while demanding foreign currency for the services they offer.

I inexorably believe that, the Bank of Tanzania, has the power, and an upper hand, through its monetary policies to tame the problem if it decides and has the will to do so, especially by compelling depository and other financial institutions to cooperate in an effort to contain the dollarization pandemic. Country's leadership, especially the parliament through passage of sweeping financial reforms and laws, can have far reaching effects in the efforts to rid the country of this problem.

The will to bring change must exist amongst the lawmakers; they must also understand the consequences of the dollarization to an economy. Alternatively, monetary experts may need to consider "currency pegging" as known in the economic circles or capital markets, in order to bring a temporary corrective measures while exploring long term solutions to the problem

The greatest solution of all is the citizenry who has more powers than any other institution .An ordinary citizen has the ability to refuse paying a dollar for the services rendered. This effort is the most effective and has far reaching consequences if can be pursued and adapted, because in the long run, it will bite where it hurts the most; the pocket of the perpetrator. An ordinary citizen has the power to boycott all businesses conducting their trade or services in foreign currency, and above all, has the power to vote out leaders who do not represent their interest and are part of the corruption syndicate .

There is no salvation available to the common man than his own self; Consumer Protection Agency which would have organized mass action, boycott, or institute legal action against these businesses is either dead or does not exist, or has been infiltrated by corruption, and rendered useless by the Kleptocrats, and I guess ordinary citizens are praying for the rise from dead Edward Sokoine, Julius Nyerere, and a few other true patriots who hated corruption with passion, to save their country.

If only we could unite and get rid of our enemy FEAR, we will see the re-birth of the Nyereres and Sokoines, of our generation, and the wind of change will blow our way.

Reminiscent to recent Zimbabwe's, and Latin America's dollarization of their economies in the turn of the decade, the musky and nascent cloud of dollarization of Tanzanian economy, is spelling the chronicle of failure foretold; collapsing of an economy at some point, unless immediate vigorous measures are taken.

Without being careful, and working aggressively to combat the growing dollarization, we may find ourselves in a state where all we have worked for becoming worthless, in exchange for sacks of banknotes to buy a loaf of bread. We must STOP the usage of dollar in our country, else we are handing our country over to the vultures of corruption

Mungu Ibariki Tanzania
John Mashaka
Mashaka.john@yahoo.com

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Mpaka John Mashaka kaandika kuhusu the dollarization of the Tanzanian economy. Hii ilikiwa 2009.Kikwete na serikali nzima kimya.

Leo kabakisha miezi ndio analiona hili?


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