Happy Friday JF massive.
To those of you in the anti-Magufuli brigade who are chagrined that what you had hoped for and prayed about didn’t pan out, maybe better luck next time.
To those of you in the ‘resistance’ who relished in peddling calumnies about the demise of the president and now have egg all over your faces, I say keep ya head up
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To the 'woke' vocal [online] minority who oppose everything Magufuli, what is it exactly that you don’t like about him or about what he is doing?
I say a vocal minority because I believe the silent majority out there is with him.
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the notion that someone who is putting it all on the line to make things better for the people, can be strongly disliked by a majority of the very people he is fighting for. It can’t be. It just can’t be.
Now, I get it. I get that maybe his style is not everyone’s cup of tea.
At times he can be belligerent, minacious, and often times speaks in a hectoring manner.
I’ll give him a pass.
He gets frustrated just like many of us do when we don’t get what we expect to get.
Here’s an anecdote.
A couple years ago I had some probate issues that I had to take care of at the primary and district court level.
It wasn’t complicated or anything. It was just a matter of obtaining a couple signatures from the clerk of court and the magistrate and I’d be done.
But man oh man. I was given the run-around like nobody’s business. Comeback tomorrow because so and so is out today. Next day yo go you’re given some other lame excuse and asked to come back tomorrow. And it goes on and on until you pay up [some bribe].
After a week of going and coming back, eventually I had it up to here and almost flipped some tables in that courtroom.
When they realized that I wasn’t there to play around, they tended to my issue ‘expeditiously’ [like TI likes to put it].
Now, who can tell me had I not gone ape-shit I would have gotten my documents in a timely manner without having to offer some bribe?
Here comes a guy who wants to drastically change what some may contend had become the norm, and you are out there trying your hardest to oppose him but yet you’re the first one to complain about how terrible things are!!
Doesn’t make sense to me.
Yes, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. But I’ll tweak that a little bit.
You repel more flies with vinegar than with honey if you want to clean something up.
You can’t drastically change a rotten system with a namby-pamby approach. It ain’t gonna work.
If in the process of being tough you make a few honest mistakes here and there, so be it. It's not the end of the world. They can be corrected.
I expect a lot of frothing at the mouths of the usual suspects. I also pretty much know exactly what you will counter with.
Just bring it.
Signing out.
Ngabu.