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Sasa kumjua Ulimwengu miaka mingi ndo amekwambia uje umtangazie hadharani hapa kwamba anaumwa?Kwa wale wanaomkosoa Jenerali kuhusu 'Babu'; Namfahamu Jenerali kwa miaka mingi. Anayo acute case ya kisukari, lakini pia haingii akilini mwake kuamini tiba ya babu ndiyo itamponyesha.
Have you read the article carefully? Generali has used Babu situation as one of the example to highlight the bigger problem that is ailing our society. He has not questioned the curative properties of the cup and neither has he queried the faith aspect of babu or even of those queing to get the cup.
The fact that we have so many sick people willing to travel for thousands of kilometers to drink a cup of herbal drink which has not been properly tested by the government is a sign of bigger problems. The fact that some sick people are willing to be discharged from government and private hospitals to risk the long journey to Loliondo for a treatment that only God knows whether it really cures is a big course for concern.
The issue here is not whether the medicine being administered by Babu cures or not. It is not even whether those who drink it have faith in their Gods or not.
The issue is that our health system is a total failure and most importantly our health regulatory system has completely fallen apart. These are the issues the president and his generals should be brainstorming about at the moment. Up to this moment the government has not said anything whether the medicine really cures all those diseases that it is claimed to treat or whether there are any side effects.
As an objective analyst Generali could not stick to only one issue because most of these issues are multi dimentional and they cut across the board. In my opinion that was yet another excellent piece from Jenerali.
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The centre cannot hold when the president looses humiliation upon his ministers
By JENERALI ULIMWENGU
The signs are everywhere, from the faith healer buried deep in the bush of Loliondo, drawing endless queues of an obviously diseased populace, to the squabbling within ruling party circles, to the bizarre sight of the head of state dressing down his ministers in the full glare of television cameras, to a minister accusing five unnamed European countries of funding an opposition party to destabilise the country…
That desperate people with all sorts of ailments should abandon conventional hospitals and line up for weeks in the wilderness waiting to "drink from the cup," and that no one with the authority to do so has had the decency to say anything about the claims of the therapeutic qualities of "the cup" is, to put it mildly, disturbing.
But maybe we should not be expecting too many people in government to stick their necks out to say things they believe to be right when there is a danger they might be publicly upbraided by their president?
A couple of ministers have had to endure this public humiliation by President Jakaya Kikwete recently, and I doubt many of their colleagues are in a hurry to follow suit.
Particularly hurting was the occasion where the minister for infrastructure was defending his resolute action in demolishing illegal structures erected on road reserves.
The president effectively ordered his minister to stop being a bully and be more humane, to think of the plight of those poor people whose properties would be destroyed.
What better gift could the president have thrown in the lap of the land grabbers in chaotic Dar es Salaam?
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Chanzo: The East African
My take: Hii kali kweli kweli -- hasa pale anaposema wapora ardhi -- hasa hapa Dar wanasherehekea 'ruhusa' ya JK kufanya vitu vyao! Hivi nchi hii bado haijaisha tu?