Rutashubanyuma
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- Sep 24, 2010
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There were times when I honestly perceived professor Anne Tibaijuka as a presidential material, not anymore. In fact, I am now kicking my butt for being duped by her veneer of innocence and an ironclad aura that seems now misplaced and quite deceitful!
While her UN incursions are a littany of controversies bordering upon theft and rampant misuse of money she somehow turned that part of her résumé into an enviable narratives of success worthy of emulation! How cunning this professor has always been! Placing her selfish indulgences above everything else. She has always been a cold calculating person who hides her steel teeth behind a disarming genial smile which now it is high time she is exposed for who she really is.
So where trust is everything that glues public office seekers to much revered values of legitimacy and accountability, but professor Tibaijuka justifies lack of trust on " the ends justifying the means."
In few words, the professor vehemently argues that although IPTL dirty money is bad but she received it for a good cause of developing her school which in every possible way was and; is still is, a personal effect.
She fails to grasp the fact that returning the bootleg is an admission of wrongdoing but not its only remedial redress. One returns stolen money as a concession that she also perpetrated theft of public funds. That admission is sufficient to convince her that her political career has come to a screeching halt. No amount of defence can change that but can only excell in abasing the defender of lawlessness and diminished accountability.
What we see here is a case of recklessness and poor judgment which now has acquired pantomime proportions! She may claim to be the modern day Amazonian Robinhood but the snag here the latter never personally benefited while in her case her personal real estate was a main beneficiary! So the matter is distinguishable in everyway one peeks at it.
Professor stoops so low on this matter that she fails to acknowledge that IPTL nuisance was a cabinet decision which she is part and parcel and that now she must full bear the brunt of collective responsibility.
The last time our government flaunted the virtues of collective responsibility was when they were parlayed to muzzle a runaway minister Augustine Mrema who was irked by the Mwinyi regime mishandling of the Chavda scandal.
So collective accountability which encapsulates the whole notion of "guilty by association" seems an unpalatable appetizer now to professor Tibaijuka.
Another area professor Tibaijuka exercised poor judgment is enmeshing her political intrigues with those of another learned professor Dr. Muhongo that they are going nowhere: that political accountability was out of question! That was perplexing!
The political failures of professor Muhongo are more elaborate than of hers. You thought if she had anything left in her upstairs worthy being called intellect and wit she would have fought her political nightmares alone. Distancing herself from the rest of the embattled ministers seemed the best tactic for her but wallowing herself in professor Muhongo's incurable mess was akin of shooting herself in the eye.
For practical purposes, we should begin referring to both of these expendable dons in past tenses because they have no future in our political orbit. Their references to president Kikwete as their last standing fortress is another testimony of miserably failing the judgment test. Kikwete now is enduring a lame duck presidency tantamount to a middle aged woman coming to terms with the loss of the glamour imposed by meno pause. Kikwete's legitimacy to lead this nation has been eroded by many scandalous revelations ranging from how he nailed a second term in office to how his family has amassed incredible wealth which can only be indubitably ensconced by official graft.
It is not too late for both professors to concede that they are out of their political breath, and accepting responsibility for exercising poor judgment in the whole caboodle seems the wisest thing to exercise, but continuing asserting a moral higher ground - knowing we now know how incompetent they are, will only add salt to an already foul and festering wound.
While her UN incursions are a littany of controversies bordering upon theft and rampant misuse of money she somehow turned that part of her résumé into an enviable narratives of success worthy of emulation! How cunning this professor has always been! Placing her selfish indulgences above everything else. She has always been a cold calculating person who hides her steel teeth behind a disarming genial smile which now it is high time she is exposed for who she really is.
So where trust is everything that glues public office seekers to much revered values of legitimacy and accountability, but professor Tibaijuka justifies lack of trust on " the ends justifying the means."
In few words, the professor vehemently argues that although IPTL dirty money is bad but she received it for a good cause of developing her school which in every possible way was and; is still is, a personal effect.
She fails to grasp the fact that returning the bootleg is an admission of wrongdoing but not its only remedial redress. One returns stolen money as a concession that she also perpetrated theft of public funds. That admission is sufficient to convince her that her political career has come to a screeching halt. No amount of defence can change that but can only excell in abasing the defender of lawlessness and diminished accountability.
What we see here is a case of recklessness and poor judgment which now has acquired pantomime proportions! She may claim to be the modern day Amazonian Robinhood but the snag here the latter never personally benefited while in her case her personal real estate was a main beneficiary! So the matter is distinguishable in everyway one peeks at it.
Professor stoops so low on this matter that she fails to acknowledge that IPTL nuisance was a cabinet decision which she is part and parcel and that now she must full bear the brunt of collective responsibility.
The last time our government flaunted the virtues of collective responsibility was when they were parlayed to muzzle a runaway minister Augustine Mrema who was irked by the Mwinyi regime mishandling of the Chavda scandal.
So collective accountability which encapsulates the whole notion of "guilty by association" seems an unpalatable appetizer now to professor Tibaijuka.
Another area professor Tibaijuka exercised poor judgment is enmeshing her political intrigues with those of another learned professor Dr. Muhongo that they are going nowhere: that political accountability was out of question! That was perplexing!
The political failures of professor Muhongo are more elaborate than of hers. You thought if she had anything left in her upstairs worthy being called intellect and wit she would have fought her political nightmares alone. Distancing herself from the rest of the embattled ministers seemed the best tactic for her but wallowing herself in professor Muhongo's incurable mess was akin of shooting herself in the eye.
For practical purposes, we should begin referring to both of these expendable dons in past tenses because they have no future in our political orbit. Their references to president Kikwete as their last standing fortress is another testimony of miserably failing the judgment test. Kikwete now is enduring a lame duck presidency tantamount to a middle aged woman coming to terms with the loss of the glamour imposed by meno pause. Kikwete's legitimacy to lead this nation has been eroded by many scandalous revelations ranging from how he nailed a second term in office to how his family has amassed incredible wealth which can only be indubitably ensconced by official graft.
It is not too late for both professors to concede that they are out of their political breath, and accepting responsibility for exercising poor judgment in the whole caboodle seems the wisest thing to exercise, but continuing asserting a moral higher ground - knowing we now know how incompetent they are, will only add salt to an already foul and festering wound.
