Mhe. Rais wanaotishia Utawala wako ni Hawa...

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TISS gani?!Nchi hii haina usalama wa Taifa,bali nadhani kuna usalama wa viongozi,walioko madarakani.TISS kazi yao ni umbea tu.Let us be serious.

 

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The Analysit

Maneno mazito haya nina uhakika yatafikishwa kwa mhusika lakini kwa njia ya kejeli (usijali mzee) kama tunavyoanza kushuhudia humu, cha msingi ni kwamba ujumbe utafika.

Maadui wa Kikwete na CCM siku zote si vyama vya upinzani wala Chadema ni kuficha maovu na kulindana ndani ya serikali, hata Kikwete analijua hilo ila afanye nini atamkemea nani, hivyo njia pekee ya kupunguza hasira ni kuwashambulia wale wanaowanyima usingizi maswahiba wake na victim wa kwanza hapa anakuwa Chadema, ni kama baba au mama anapoamua kumalizia hasira zake kwa mtoto asiye na hatia.

Lakini taratibu kadri hasira zinavyomtoka na akili zitaanza kumrudia baadaye atakuja kugundua kuwa amebeba mzigo unaoweza kama si kuliangamiza taifa basi utamuangamiza yeye na familia yake.

 

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mkuu thanks for analytical thinking, nimeipenda jinsi ulivyochambua,,,,sasa mkwere hata akiipata hii ataishia kutabasamu tu alafu anatulia kama ilivyo kawaida yake!!!

 

[Zak Malang]

Wanajamvi:
Nimesoma na nimevutiwa na makala hii iliyotoka katika gazeti la The African la leo kuhusu kuweweseka kwa JK na serikali yake kutokana na kauli za viongozi wa CDM. Imenichukuwa karibu masaa mawili kui-key in makala kutoka kwenye gazet ili tu muisome:


CCM-CHADEMA POLEMICS:
When coming out of hibernation is a crime

"Every country has the government it deserves."

– Aristotle, 4th century Greek philosopher.

He ought to have said “the government and the opposition it deserves” had he known that over two thousand years to come there would be a “multi-party” (sic) country called Tanzania. Truly, Tanzanians have the government they rightly deserve – and the opposition too. They are themselves to blame for that.

And Joseph De Maistre, early 19th Century French philosopher said “if there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.” In other words wars on this world have their origins in moral evil found in the minds of just a few earthmen.

But if the quote by the Frenchman is true, then peace and tranquillity obtaining in the country is a result of all what is best in the moral minds of its people, specifically those who hold the destiny of the country.

For there haven’t been any war – in the real sense of the word – fought inside these borders since the celebrated German army commander, Colonel Von Lettow Vorbeck signed an armistice with the British in the border town of Mbala (then Abercorn in former Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia) 93 years ago.

But that war was imposed on our soil, pitting foreigners who were pursuing their own goals – the control of our land and resources. The locals were drawn into it as a matter of course, as they had no choice.

So since that time peace and tranquillity was used both resourcefully and effectively by the successive powers that were (foreign and indigenous) to advance the interests of the ruling elite, their families and associates at the expense of the general interests. The ruled deserved that because they were found to be not of the complaining type. They are currently even worse – they are praising the flat footed absurdity in the name of graft war that is said to be going on.

It has been said that were it Tanzania confronted with an election debacle similar to the one in neighbouring Kenya in 2007, not a single life would have been lost. Tanzanians would spurn violence and quietly retire in their homes, listening to their radios and/or watching their TVs on how their own version of backward front men – pile blame after blame on the other party.

But we have seen, in the aftermath of our own elections last year, how that was not possible. It is not always possible. I’m certain one day the wananchi will ensure that the leaders do not get away with it, in the manner of their Kenya counterparts.

I’m certain that Jakaya Kikwete is not alone in the CCM leadership in being apprehensive on what could be a political wind sweeping the world – the wind that continues southward almost from where a similar wind had stopped over twenty years ago.

I believe Kikwete was also speaking on behalf of other leaders in his party and the government during his end of month speech last week when he lashed out at the main opposition party – Chadema – for mounting rostrum campaigns to remove CCM from power.

He said through the rostrums Chadema leaders were inflaming the wananchi aimed at toppling CCM. He only fell short of saying they were inspiring the wananchi to ape Tunisia or Egypt even though it was easy to read his speech between the lines.

He did not explicitly say that because he knows, and many Tanzanians know, that so far his government has not stated clearly what its position is on the situations in Tunisia, Egypt or even now – Libya. Is it in supportive of what the people in those countries did? Or does it condemn them? Needless to say his government took more than four months to say that Laurent Gbagbo stole the Ivory Coast elections.

Whatever the case, the North African issue is embarrassing to his government even though he can argue that Tanzania’s situation is a world apart from those found in those countries. In that he can cite the fact that unlike Tunisia, Egypt or Libya, here in Tanzania the constitution stipulates strict presidential term limits – pointing out that in Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule, Tanzania has had four presidents.

And that is what CCM leaders boast about, as a mitigating factor, that nothing untoward can ever happen here as men in the top slot always voluntarily make their exits whenever the doors are swung open.

But that line of thinking could be very flawed. Yes – we are not stuck with a president for 30 years like the Egyptians or Tunisians had been, but we are stuck with the same old party for almost 50 years. The only change to it was the name change that came up a third of the way.

Despite of all the goodies (free education, free medical treatment, free water, free electricity etc) Col Gaddafi gave the Libyans, they were still tired of seeing the same face and hearing the same voice for 40 years. So what of CCM minus the goodies?

And CCM’s tactics it uses to remain in power were similar to Egypt’s NDP or Tunisia’s RCD,winning ‘kwa kishindo’ in every election. In Tunisia for instance, RCD won by 96 per cent in elections held last October, but less than three months later it was toppled through a popular uprising. Where were those 96 per cent? They hid in their homes?

Last week I was arguing with friends whether or not the North Africa wind can blow into our region. Some body argued that despite the absence of presidential term limits in Uganda, Tanzania with term limits, is more prone to that than its north-western neighbour.

I thought about this for a moment and tended to agree. The goings on in the ruling party – its lost trajectory, let alone vision, lack of prompt and firm decisions on serious issues facing the country, squabbling among its leaders and above all, rampant high level corruption that is unchecked because of blatant cronyism could be ingredients for something. If our leaders are purposely ignoring that they could be making a great mistake.

No doubt Kikwete’s was telling Chadema not to rock the boat, or let sleeping dogs lie – it should not be the one to pull the trigger.
Or not CCM has not refuted, let alone responded to Chadema’s claims over the hardships facing the wananchi – high prices of basic commodities, including transport, fuel, power rationing including the Dowans issue and others.

Of all these he only appeared to be concerned with high price of sugar which he said it should not go higher. He was unconcerned when during his first term the price shot from about sh 450/- per kg to nearly sh 2,000/- now an increase of 500% in five years!

During the election campaign, Kikwete blasted Chadema for being nothing but a seasonal party, a party that retires into hibernation until election time. That could have been true. But now it wants to reinvent its sustainability, but the move appears to give CCM leaders and its other proponents sleepless nights.

If I were Kikwete, I would call Chadema’s bluff by responding in similar fashion – mobilising his own rallies. But if there is one thing his advisors are best at, is their advice to their boss not to commit himself to some suicidal act -- such as this one, or, as they did in spurning the national presidential candidates’ debate during the last general elections.

In the current atmosphere CCM loathes rallies, it cannot mobilise huge crowds as it used to, without first working overtime – provision of transport to the audience and the deployment of numerous entertainment groups.

Instead Kikwete advised Chadema leaders to use the Parliament or the Councils to air their grievances against the government. They know very well that these are the places where CCM has an upper hand, as any vote called will promptly put them off! Besides, there some issues like Dowans that have been removed for discussion in the House.

But of all things Kikwete said during his last week TV/Radio speech and which I found shocking is that no president since the founding father, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was able to solve the wananchi’s problems, hence he does not see himself any different.

In a way he was openly and publicly admitting defeat before his terms end – a move that stands to simplify the work of writers after he finishes his presidential term.

As I said in my previous article in this column there are times when silence has the loudest voice. And sometimes being a good leader means mastering the art of timing… a time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny… and also a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.