System ya utawala wa Tanzania inachanganya baadhi wa watu. Wengi wanadhani hii imesababishwa kwa kiasi kikubwa na muungano lakini sidhani kama ni hivyo. On one hand tunaweza kusema tunafuata presidential system ambapo kunakuwa Rais na Makamu wa Rais. On other hand, tuna Primie Minister ambaye ni kiongozi mkuu wa serikali bungeni. Hapa itaonekama kama vile tunafuta parliamentary system. However, interestingly, japokuwa bunge linaweza kupiga kura ya kutokuwa na imani na Prime Minister bado anaonekana yupo more accountable to the President.
Ukiwauliza watu tunafuata system gani ya utawala, wengi watasema ni presidential system. Lakini ukiangalia kwa undani tunafuata semi-presidential system ambapo Rais na Prime Minister wote ni wahusika wakuu in the day-to-day administration of the State wakati Vice President yupo yupo tuu. Bado sijaelewa ilikuwa vipi mpaka tukawa na semi-presidential system kwa sababu mara nyingi semi-presidential system inatokea pale ambapo Rais na Prime Minister wanatoka vyama tofauti. Kwa mfano, Kenya walikuwa na post ya Prime Minister lakini wakai-abolish mwaka 1964 kabla ya kuirudisha tena kwaka 2008 due to the power sharing agreement between political parties.
Semi-presidential system au kwa jina lingine "cohabitation" ni effective katika check and balance au wakati ambao kuna "bitter and tense stonewalling" kati ya Rais and Prime Minister hasa pale wanapotoka vyama tofauti. Kwa upande wa Tanzania, sidhani kama haya yatatokea kwa sababu Rais na Prime Minister wanatoka chama kimoja. Na unapokuwa na Prime Minister kama Pinda ndio kabisaaa.
Sidhani kama watawala wetu watakubali kufuata parliamentary system ili wawe more accountable to the parliament. Parliamentary system ingetufanya tu-abolish cheo cha Urais and Makamu wa Rais na kubakia na Prime Minister na Deputy Prime Minister kama Uingereza. So, kilichobakia ni either kuendelea na semi-presidential system au kuwa na full presidential system. Kama tukiwa na full presidential system, inabidi cheo cha Prime Minister kifutwe na kubakia na President and Makamu wa Rais. Prime Minister ndie anayefanya cheo cha Vice President kiionekane obsolete.
Personally, naunga mkono kufutwa kwa cheo cha Waziri Mkuu na kubakia na cheo cha Makamu wa Rais. BTW, Pinda si alishasema hatarudi tena serikalini baada ya uchaguzi ujao kama CCM ikishinda? Kwa nini tusitumie hii opportunity kufuta hiki cheo once and for all hadi tutakapokuwa serikali ya mseto kama Kenya?