MORENO OCAMPO ALIVYOCHIMBA MKWARA

Kosgey ni Mfuasi wa Odinga. Huyu naye ni waziri katika serikali ya Kibaki. Anatoka eneo la Bonde la Ufa anakotoka rais wa zamani Moi. Ninatarajia watu wa huko watachachamaa sana.

Hapa nimalizie kwa kuonesha ni yapi MORENO OCAMPO aliyasema alipokuwa anatangaza majina ya watuhumiwa sita.Huwezi amini, katika kuwakumbusha wale walio na madaraka makubwa Katibu Mkuu Kiongozi na Aliyekuwa IGP wa Kenya nao ni miongoni mwa watuhumiwa. Rais Kibaki na Odinga hawajatuhumiwa.

In Summary

Next steps

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The six expected to inform the Pre-Trial Chamber II their readiness to appear before the ICC judges.
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The three-judge bench will weigh the merits of Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s application and could reject the request to issue a summons to appear, approve it or transform it into an arrest warrant. The Prosecutor expects this to happen in the first part of 2011.
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If the chamber agrees with Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s request, the individuals identified will be expected to go to The Hague to make their initial appearance before the judges.
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A public hearing to confirm the charges will be held.
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It is at this stage where the judges review the evidence and decide whether it is enough to proceed to trial. The six individuals can be represented by their lawyers. The prosecutor expects this will happen in the second part of 2011 or the beginning of 2012.
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The Pre-Trial Chamber II consisting of judges Hans-Peter Kaul, Ekaterina Trendafilova and Cuno Tarfusser will make a decision to confirm the charges and send the case to trial, amend or reject the charges.
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Mr Moreno-Ocampo expects that the trial of the six would begin in the second part of 2012 or early 2013.



The names of suspected masterminds of Kenya's post election violence have finally been revealed.

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The six include senior politicians in the Party of National Unity (PNU) and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), the main parties that battled it out for the presidency in the disputed 2007 elections.

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday that the prominent leaders bore "the greatest responsibility" for the violence that left 1,133 people dead and 650,000 displaced.

Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta, his Industrialisation counterpart Henry Kosgey, Eldoret North MP William Ruto, the head of the civil service Francis Muthaura, former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali and journalist Joshua arap Sang will now receive summons to appear before The Hague- based court.

Mr Moreno-Ocampo was addressing a news conference after presenting before the ICC judges two cases, each involving three individuals.

"The post election period of 2007-2008 was one of the most violent periods of the nation’s history,” said the Prosecutor.

"These were not just crimes against innocent Kenyans," he said.

“They were crimes against humanity as a whole. By breaking the cycle of impunity for massive crimes, victims and their families can have justice. And Kenyans can pave the way to peaceful elections in 2012.”

Mr Moreno Ocampo said he considered Mr Ruto, Mr Kosgey and Mr arap Sang as the "principal planners and organisers of crimes against PNU supporters".

He said Mr Muthaura used his position as the chairman of the National Security Advisory Committee to "authorise the police to use excessive force against ODM supporters and to facilitate attacks against ODM supporters". Major General Ali also faces the same charges.

Mr Kenyatta is accused of mobilising the outlawed sect Mungiki to attack ODM supporters.

Mr Sang used "his radio program to collect supporters and provide signals to members of the plan on when and where to attack," said the Prosecutor.

He said that “perpetrators” cultivated by Mr Ruto, Mr Kosgey and Mr Sang began to execute their plan by attacking PNU supporters immediately after the results were announced.

"On 30-31 December 2007, they began attacks in target locations including Turbo town, the greater Eldoret area (Huruma, Kimumu, Langas, and Yamumbi), Kapsabet town, and Nandi Hills town. They approached each location from all directions, burning down PNU supporters’ homes and businesses, killing civilians, and systematically driving them from their homes.

"On 1 January 2008, the church located on the Kiambaa farm cooperative was attacked and burned with more than hundred people inside. At least 17 people died. The brunt of the attacks continued into the first week of January 2008."

Mr Moreno-Ocampo accused government officials: Mr Kenyatta, Mr Muthaura and Major General Ali of planning and executing well coordinated retaliatory attacks.

"On or about 3 January 2008, KENYATTA, as the focal point between the PNU and the criminal organization the Mungiki, facilitated a meeting with MUTHAURA, a senior Government of Kenya official, and Mungiki leaders to organize retaliatory attacks against civilian supporters of the ODM.

"Thereafter, MUTHAURA, in his capacity as Chairman of the National Security Advisory Committee (“NSAC”), telephoned ALI, his subordinate as head of the Kenya Police, and instructed ALI not to interfere with the movement of pro-PNU youth, including the Mungiki.

"KENYATTA additionally instructed the Mungiki leaders to attend a second meeting on the same day to finalise logistical and financial arrangements for the retaliatory attacks," he said.

The ICC prosecutor said he had no evidence linking President Kibaki or Mr Odinga to the violence.We follow the evidence where it takes us. We are not taking into account political responsibilities ... there are political debates, but it is not my responsibility," Moreno-Ocampo said.
But three of the six suspects immediately protested their innocence led by Mr Kenyatta.

"My record is clear and it remains very clear that I have never committed any crime," Mr Kenyatta told reporters at a press conference.

"The ICC prosecutor has done his work, we wait for the outcome of the judges," he said.

"I now find myself to be a suspect, I am ready to respond to any allegations made against me."

Mr Ruto also countered Mr Moreno-Ocampo's accusations saying he was not surprised to be named.

"The issues I have raised have now come to pass. It did not come as a surprise to me,” Mr Ruto said at a press conference at Parliament Buildings.

“All along I knew that there was a deliberate scheme, hatched and executed by people who were not interested in justice,” he said..

Flanked by scores of MPs, Mr Ruto said he was ready to face Mr Ocampo at the Hague.

“I am ready, willing and available to face the prosecutor with his witnesses in court as and when i am required to do so. My conscience is clear, I neither participated, organised or had anything to do with the violence.

"It is just a question of time and the truth will come out and shame the devil,” he said while declining to answer any questions from reporters.

On his part, Mr Muthaura said he had not done anything to warrant criminal prosecution.

"The suggestion that I have done anything to warrant criminal investigation is manifest nonsense. It amounts to an unwarranted slur on my reputation and is both unfair and unjustified,” Mr Muthaura told a hurriedly convened press conference at his Harambee House office.

“To issue summons for a person to appear, the pre-trial Chamber of the ICC needs to be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the person for whom the summons is requested committed the crime alleged. No such judicial determination has been made. None,” Mr Muthaura added, flanked by government spokesman Dr Alfred Mutua, President Kibaki’s advisor on the constitution Prof Kivutha Kibwana and a Senior Secretary at the cabinet office, Sam Mwale.

“I wait to see what the judiciary of the ICC make of the Prosecutor’s application. Hopefully they will dismiss his application,” he stated.

“In the event that they do decide to issue summons, I will voluntarily attend The Hague and respect any request the judges of the ICC have for me."

The documents he gave the court included the names of the six, the crimes they are alleged to have committed and the penalty that he will be asking for.

A three-judge bench will now evaluate the two 80-page bundles of documents and decide whether he can proceed and file the charges he has identified.

Two weeks ago, Mr Moreno-Ocampo had promised to name the suspects during an address to a meeting of the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation, convened by the Panel of Eminent African Personalities chaired by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Upper Hill, Nairobi.

The prosecutor said the cases had been strengthened by new evidence his team had gathered, in addition to the leads contained in the Waki Commission and Kenya National Commission on Human Rights reports.“Since last March, when the judges issued an authorisation, my office has been investigating post electoral violence. We collected new evidence, including testimonies, videos and documents. We are not going to discuss our evidence in the media. We will do it in court,” he said.He said the Waki Commission and the KNCHR reports were key in the investigations into the post election chaos but they only provided the background on which his team based its inquiries.



MKWARA MZITO WA MORENO OCAMPO
He warned that will seek arrest warrants from the Pre-Trial Chamber if the conditions, which range from the suspects frequently informing the ICC judges of their movements to an assurance of not interfering with the witnesses, were flouted.

“These conditions are strict. They are in accordance with the Rome Statute (that established The Hague Court) and ICC rules.

"Let me be clear. If the suspects do not comply with the conditions set by the chamber, I will request arrest warrants. If there is any indication of bribes, intimidation or threats, I will request arrest warrants,” he said in a statement that was issued by the ICC.

Mr Moreno-Ocampo has chosen to seek summons for the six suspects that he will name Wednesday, a move that guarantees them freedom instead of requesting for arrest warrants that will required them to be carted to the holding cells at The Hague.

Once a suspect appears at The Hague following a summon, he or she is granted a bond to allow him to go on with normal life.

“I believe summonses are sufficient to ensure the appearance of all six suspects. But as ICC Prosecutor, I am requesting that clear conditions be imposed on them,” he said.

He listed the conditions are: updating the ICC of of their personal contacts and movements; not to contact other suspects unless through their lawyers in preparation of their defences; not to approach any victims or witness; not to influence or interfere with the testimonies of victims and witnesses; to keep off the investigations and not to engage in other crimes.”

“In addition, they must respond to all requests by ICC judges; they must attend all hearings when required, and post bond if the judges so instruct them,” he said.

The suspects will be required to inform the ICC judges of their readiness to appear a few hours after the announcement of their names

WILIUM RUTO

HUYU NI MWANASIASA MACHACHARI SANA WA CHAMA CHA ODM. KWA SIKU ZA KARIBUNI ALISIMAMISHWA UWAZIRI KWA TUHUMA FULANI ZA FEDHA. ANATOKA KATIKA BONDE LA UFA AMBAKO NI SEHEMU YENYE WAPIGA KURA WENGI NA MUHIMU KWA MGOMBEA URAIS YEYOTE.
NI MWANASIASA WA AINA YAKE, ALIKUWA CHAMA CHA KANU WAKATI WA MOI NA AKAKIAMA KANU AKAJIUNGA NA ODINGA - ODM NA SIKU ZA KARIBUNI YUKO KAMA HAYUKO ODM. ALIKUWA ANAJIANDAA KUANZISHA VUGUVUGU JIPYA KUGOMBEA URAIS. KATIKA KURA YA MAONI YA KATIBA MPYA ALIKUWA KAMMBI ILIYOPINGA KATIBA HIYO.
HUYU NI MFUASI WA SIASA ZISIZOPENDA MABADILIKO NA ALIPAMBANA SANA WAKATI WA UCHAGUZI KUMTETEA ODINGA. HAELEWEKI SANA KWANI NI MTATA SANA LAKINI MJENGA HOJA MZURI. NIONAVYO SIDHANI KAMA ATAHUSISHWA NA TUHUMA HIZI MOJA KWA MOJA BASI HATA RAILA ODINGA HATAPONA. KWA WAKATI HUO WALIKUWA PAMOJA SANA.

UHURU KENYATA KIKAANGONI ICC

ANATUHUMIWA KUPANGA VIJANA WA KIKUNDI CHA "MUNGIKI" KUWASHAMBULIA WAFUASI WA CHAMA CHA ODM WAKATI WA FUJO BAADA YA UCHAGUZI KUIBIWA. ALIKUWA ANA NDOTO ZA KUMRITHI RAIS KIBAKI KWA KUZINGATIA KUWA KENYA ITAONGOZWA NA WAKIKUYU TU. NDOTO YAKE KWA SASA NADHANI IMEKWISHA.
INASHANGAZA HIVI INAKUWAJE RAIS KIBAKI ALIMCHAGUA KATIKA KABINETI YAKE MTU MTUHUMIWA WA UHALIFU?

HUYU JAMAA MORENO OCAMPO NDIYE MTU WA KUWAFUNZA ADABU WANASIASA WETU VICHWA NGUMU NA WAIBA KURA WOTE. VING'ANG'ANIZI WA KUPENDA MADARAKA HADI KUFA. WAO KWAO UCHAGUZI NI AFADHALI KUUWA WATU ILI WASALIE MADARAKANI.

MORENO OCAMPO AONESHA CHECHE ZAKE KENYA

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Head of Civil Service Francis Muthaura and former Higher Education Minister William Ruto tops list of six Kenyans allegedly most wanted for the 2007 post-election violence, that claimed lives of over 1,200 Kenyans.

Former Police Commissioner Hussein Ali, Minister for Industrialisation Henry Kosgey and a journaist Joshua Sang complete the list of the big six Ocampo wants indicted.

In a swift rejoinder, President Mwai Kibaki called for calm and urged those named not to resign from government until the allegations against them are proven by the court.

The six were named on Wednesday by ICC Chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo in a live televised forum from ICC offices in The Hague, Netherlands.

"I wish to state that the people who have been mentioned have not yet been fully investigated as the pre-trial process in The Hague has only but began. They therefore cannot be judged as guilty until the charges are confirmed by the court," reads Kibaki's satement in part.

Kibaki said calls for action against the named six are prejudicial, preemptive and against the rules of natural justice.

"In the meantime I wish to state that the government is fully committed to the establishment of a local tribunal to deal with those behind the post election violence, in accordance with stipulations of the new constitution," Kibaki said.

The president called for patience sayong security has been beefed up across the country.

He said: "As a nation we must also focus on the need for national healing and reconciliation. This is paramount as we move forward on the path of national peace and unity.I also wish to assure Kenyans that the government has intensified security around the country.The government is providing full support to our security forces to enable them perform their duties of protecting the lives of all citizens and their property."

With the naming political careers are at risk especialyy bearing in mind that the trial process may drag past 2012, the year kenya will hold a general election.

Uhuru kenyatta, akey ally and possible heir of President Kibaki, and William Ruto, have expressed presidential ambitions.

For Raila Odinga too, the naming of Henry Kosgey among the 'wanted' six has dealt a major blow to his hold in Riftvalley. Kosgey has been an astute supporter of Odinga in the Riftvalley, a vote-rich province, especilaly the premier faell ot with Ruto.

Kenyans will definitely be treated to a flurry of political activities as alliances shift and politicians devise new survival tactics ahaed of 2012.

REMMY ONGALA ATANGULIA

One of Tanzania’s most colourful musicians, “Dr” Remmy Ongala, has left a legacy that will probably never be matched.

Ongala, who, in his very characteristic style, gave himself the nickname “Sura Mbaya” (the ugly one) in his heyday, was a burly guitarist, composer and singer — a man who struggled against many odds to make a name in Tanzania and beyond.

Ongala, in his 60s, succumbed to a long bout of diabetes and kidney failure on Sunday night, but will remain the “champion of the poor”, inspired by the songs he composed.

At the time of his death, though, he had switched to gospel music and occasionally preached in Dar es Salaam.

Jean Bosco Mwenda

When the music studios in this part of Africa excelled in nurturing talent, we had Kenyans, Ugandans, Zambians and some Congolese playing and recording music together and influencing Congolese music. Names that readily come to mind include Nashil Pichen, Jean Bosco Mwenda (from Katanga), Daudi Kabaka, George Ramogi, Charles Sonko (from Uganda).

But Ongala was among the musicians from Eastern Congo, who journeyed east in search of greener pastures from the early 1970s. He was in the league that made up the famous Orchestra Makassy, a band that shook Dar es Salaam in the 1970s into the 1980s.

The group was led by Mzee Makassy who brought Ongala to Dar es Salaam.

Speaking to the Nation yesterday, veteran musician Tshimanga Assosa said Ongala was in the forefront of guitar work and vocals in the band.

“He was very inspiring to all of us who had the chance to interact with him,” he said.

Similarly Orchestra Marquis members, including their leader King Kiki, who is still active in Dar es Salaam, leading is own group, La Capitale, Wazee Sugu, were adept at composing and singing in Kiswahili.

But Ongala excelled in Kiswahili lyrics, penning the hit song, ‘Kifo’ (Death), which announced his entry in music in this region. His other popular songs include ‘Mnyonge Hana Haki’ and ‘Marram’.

Among the Congolese musicians in Tanzania, it was Ongala’s Orchestra Super Matimila that incorporated Tanzanians and composed mainly in Kiswahili.

Ongala’s lowest moment in his career was when he had to fight hard to remain in Tanzania after he was declared a foreigner. He fought hard to get an official reprieve, and after the bid to deport him was reversed, Ongala continued to record music.

Most Tanzanian radio stations yesterday morning paid tribute to him with one inevitably started with the presenter playing ‘Kifo’.

Ongala may be finally dead, but the Sura Mbaya will live on for ages in the minds of many people in East and Central Africa, including his original homeland, DRC

JAMAA AMENIKUNA, SIJUI MNAMWONAJE?

TUNGEKUWA NA WATU KAMA HAWA TANZANIA INGEKUWA RAHA SANA. MAFISADI WASINGEPUMUA.

WIKI -LEAKS NA MARAIS WETU AFRICA

Leaked US diplomatic memos sent to Washington say Kenyan politicians have a weak backbone, always bending to international pressure.

The memos which reflect diplomats’ candid views on their host nations, shows America’s hand in key decisions made by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Cables on other African countries had a lot to say about the leaders and their leadership. We sample some of them:

President Yoweri Museveni: Uganda

The US diplomat in Uganda describes President Museveni as autocratic and warns of violence if the February 2011 presidential elections will not be free and fair.

A diplomatic cable accuses Mr Museveni of protecting corrupt ministers but commends him for his support of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia.

“But the President’s autocratic tendencies, as well as Uganda’s pervasive corruption, sharpening ethnic divisions, and explosive population growth are eroding Uganda’s status as an African success story,” says the brief by ambassador Jerry Lanier.

The cable also depicts a president living in constant fear of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. At one time, Mr Museveni requested US protection for fear that the Libyan leader would shoot down his plane. The two leaders have disagreed over the political and economic future of Africa.

While President Gaddafi has been at the forefront campaigning for a United States of Africa, his Ugandan counterpart thinks otherwise, the cables say. President Museveni said he and former South African leader Thabo Mbeki, whom he blames for not offering an alternative to Libya’s approach, were then working together to counter the union proposal.

A cable written on June 18, 2008 discloses it was after a meeting five days earlier between President Museveni and former US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer that the Ugandan leader expressed growing tensions with the Arab state and fears for his life.

Arising out of their conflicting standpoints on the political unity of Africa, President Museveni feared an attack on his aircraft on President Gaddafi’s instructions. “(President) Museveni noted that tensions with Gaddafi are growing as a result, and he worries that Gaddafi will attack his plane while flying over international airspace.

“Museveni requested that the US and Uganda governments co-ordinate to provide additional air radar information when he flies over international airspace,” the June 18 cable states.

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President Jacob Zuma: South Africa

The US considers South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, a smart politician who has weathered many storms.

A cable by a US ambassador in South Africa, says Mr Mr Zuma used several tactics of political survival that give clues to his personality and leadership style. According to the diplomat, Mr Zuma is a highly persuasive, clever strategist, grassroots mobiliser who knows when to play victim for political gain.

A US diplomatic memo says that Mr Zuma’s rise to the pinnacle of South African politics at the same time that serious questions about his character were headline news “is an astonishing political achievement in itself.”

The diplomat observed that despite former President Thabo Mbeki’s intellect and experience as well as his apparent success as a leader, politician, and diplomat, Mr Zuma out-maneuvered him by manipulating the party base and portraying himself as the victim using the ANC image-making machinery.

“Pundits thought Mbeki was the smartest and most effective political leader of his generation, but on December 17, 2007 the ANC declared Mr Zuma the clear favourite, beginning Mr Mbeki’s surprising slide into political obscurity.”

And the US is optimistic about Mr Zuma’s success as President. “With a relatively weak opposition but respected courts and activist civil society, there is optimism that a Zuma administration will, at worst, muddle through,” says the cable.
His supporters’ adoration only grew as his detractors characterised him as an unlettered and corrupt buffoon surrounded by crass and intimidating socialist.

Throughout the political crisis he faced after President Mbeki fired him as VP, Mr Zuma focused on his oft-repeated assertion that he was innocent and that he was the victim of a systematic abuse of power.

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Hosni Mubarak: Egypt

US diplomatic memos on Egypt describe President Mubarak as an “indispensable ally” in the Arab World and supporter of a united Sudan. It says that at 81 years, Mr Mubarak is old but in reasonably good health.

However, the most notable problem is a “hearing deficit in his left ear.” According to the cable, the Egyptian leader responds well to respect for position, but is not swayed by personal flattery. “Mr Mubarak peppers his observations with anecdotes that demonstrate both his long experience and his sense of humour.”

However, the death of his grandson Mohammad affected him deeply and dampened his spirits. The brief says that if Mubarak is still alive it is likely he will run next year’s general elections again, and, inevitably, win.

“Despite incessant whispered discussions, no one in Egypt has any certainty about who will eventually succeed Mr Mubarak nor under what circumstances. He seems to be trusting God and the ubiquitous military and civilian security services to ensure an orderly transition.”

The Egyptian leader is also a firm supporter of unity of the Sudan which is scheduled to hold a referendum next month, says the cable. “Egypt views the stability and unity of Sudan as essential to its national security because of concern over its access to Nile waters and the potential for increased Sudanese refugee flow.”

The memo says that Egypt has been using development assistance in South Sudan to encourage unity. “But the Egyptians are jealous and sensitive to the Qatari foray into resolving Darfur, a crisis squarely in Egypt’s backyard.”

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President Robert Mugabe: Zimbabwe

To the US, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is physically frail but intellectually alert.

A US diplomatic cable describes Mr Mugabe as a ruthless dictator but brilliant tactician with a lopsided sense of economics despite his many degrees.

“He is fixated on land reform and sanctions, and is almost trance-like (monologue, soft voice) in discussing these subjects,” wrote a US diplomat after meeting him at his Harare office.

“He is generally alert and can keep up with a conversation. But physically, Mr Mugabe is frail,” observes the diplomat.

“He appears uncomfortable when seated -- he slouches and frequently turns his body as if to find a better position, and then sits straight up and speaks in a louder voice for a few seconds before lapsing back into the barely audible soft voice.”

The ambassador relays Mr Mugabe’s consisted calls for the West to keep off Zimbabwe’s affairs. Says Mr Mugabe in a cable:

“The countries of Europe and America want to dictate which way our politics should go and they talk about regime change. They want us to go down on our knees and beg. One day we should think about fighting them in the international courts.”

His supporters’ adoration only grew as his detractors characterised him as an unlettered and corrupt buffoon surrounded by crass and intimidating socialist.

Throughout the political crisis he faced after President Mbeki fired him as VP, Mr Zuma focused on his oft-repeated assertion that he was innocent and that he was the victim of a systematic abuse of power.

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Hosni Mubarak: Egypt

US diplomatic memos on Egypt describe President Mubarak as an “indispensable ally” in the Arab World and supporter of a united Sudan. It says that at 81 years, Mr Mubarak is old but in reasonably good health.

However, the most notable problem is a “hearing deficit in his left ear.” According to the cable, the Egyptian leader responds well to respect for position, but is not swayed by personal flattery. “Mr Mubarak peppers his observations with anecdotes that demonstrate both his long experience and his sense of humour.”

However, the death of his grandson Mohammad affected him deeply and dampened his spirits. The brief says that if Mubarak is still alive it is likely he will run next year’s general elections again, and, inevitably, win.

“Despite incessant whispered discussions, no one in Egypt has any certainty about who will eventually succeed Mr Mubarak nor under what circumstances. He seems to be trusting God and the ubiquitous military and civilian security services to ensure an orderly transition.”

The Egyptian leader is also a firm supporter of unity of the Sudan which is scheduled to hold a referendum next month, says the cable. “Egypt views the stability and unity of Sudan as essential to its national security because of concern over its access to Nile waters and the potential for increased Sudanese refugee flow.”

The memo says that Egypt has been using development assistance in South Sudan to encourage unity. “But the Egyptians are jealous and sensitive to the Qatari foray into resolving Darfur, a crisis squarely in Egypt’s backyard.”

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President Robert Mugabe: Zimbabwe

To the US, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is physically frail but intellectually alert.

A US diplomatic cable describes Mr Mugabe as a ruthless dictator but brilliant tactician with a lopsided sense of economics despite his many degrees.

“He is fixated on land reform and sanctions, and is almost trance-like (monologue, soft voice) in discussing these subjects,” wrote a US diplomat after meeting him at his Harare office.

“He is generally alert and can keep up with a conversation. But physically, Mr Mugabe is frail,” observes the diplomat.

“He appears uncomfortable when seated -- he slouches and frequently turns his body as if to find a better position, and then sits straight up and speaks in a louder voice for a few seconds before lapsing back into the barely audible soft voice.”

The ambassador relays Mr Mugabe’s consisted calls for the West to keep off Zimbabwe’s affairs. Says Mr Mugabe in a cable:

“The countries of Europe and America want to dictate which way our politics should go and they talk about regime change. They want us to go down on our knees and beg. One day we should think about fighting them in the international courts.”

HATARI: UFISADI WAONGEZEKA TANZANIA MIAKA MITATU ILIYOPITA

Thursday, 09 December 2010 22:50
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By The Citizen Reporter
Dar es Salaam. Corruption has increased during the past three years, according to the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer released yesterday to coincide with the International Anti-Corruption Day.
Most worrying, according to the report, bribes to police have almost doubled since 2006, and more people reported paying bribes to the judiciary and for registry and permit services than they did five years ago.

The report prepared by Transparency International (TI) and released in Berlin, Germany, says six out of 10 people around the world reported the increase of corruption incidents. On the other hand, one in four people reported paying bribes last year.

Views on corruption trends are most negative in Europe and North America, where 73 per cent and 67 per cent of people, respectively, think corruption has increased during the past three years.
Despite the results, the survey also found that seven out of 10 people would be willing to report corruption incidents.
“The fall-out of the financial crises continues to affect people’s opinion of corruption, particular in Europe and North America. Institutions everywhere must stand resolute in efforts to restore trust and good governance,” said Huguette Labelle, chair of Transparency International.
“It is heartening that many people are ready to take a stand against corruption. This willingness must be mobilised,” Labelle noted.

The 2010 Global Corruption Barometer surveyed more than 91,000 people in 86 countries and territories. It focuses on petty bribery, perceptions of public institutions and views of who people trust to combat corruption.
The survey showed that in the past 12 months, one in four people paid a bribe to one of nine institutions and services providers from health to education to tax authorities. The police are named as the most frequent recipients of bribes, according to those surveyed, with 29 per cent of them reporting to the police that they had paid a bribe.

In sub-Sahara African, the report says one in two people reported paying a bribe during the past 12 months. This compares to 36 per cent of people surveyed in the Middle East and North Africa, 32 per cent in the newly independent states, 23 per cent in Latin America, 19 per cent in western Balkans and Turkey, 11 per cent in Asia Pacific and just 5 per cent in the European Union countries and North America.

More than 20 countries reported an increase in petty bribery than in 2006, when the same question was asked by the Barometer. The biggest number of reported bribery payments in 2010 is in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Cameroon, India, Iraq, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda where more than 50 per cent of people surveyed paid a bribe during the last 12 months.
Almost half of all respondents say they paid bribes to avoid problems with the authorities and a quarter of them say it was to speed up processes.

Sadly, few people trust their governments or politicians. Eight out of 10 say political parties are corrupt or extremely corrupt. The civil service and parliament are considered the next most corrupt institutions.
Half the people questioned say their government’s action to stop corruption is ineffective. This reflects little change over time. However, opinion have worsened slightly since 2007 in Asia Pacific, Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa – while they have improved in the newly independent states and North America.

HATARI - TANZANIA YA KESHO BILA WANASAYANSI

Over 2,600 candidates get zero in math

Thursday, 09 December 2010 22:31
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By Fatuma Mwampepo
The Citizen Correspondent

Morogoro. A total of 2,629 out of 46,308 pupils who sat for the 2010 Standard Seven national examination in Morogoro Region in September scored zero in mathematics, it has been revealed.

Some 33 of the 774 schools that had candidates in the exam did not have a single pupil who passed the subject.
This was revealed here recently by the acting regional education officer, Ms Meryrose Lyimo, when releasing a report on the examination results.
She said 746 pupils – 354 and boys and 392 girls – scored zero in mathematics in Kilosa District, the worst record in the region.

It is followed by Morogoro Rural District where 680 pupils – 369 boys and 311 girls – got zero.
Mvomero District had 544 pupils who scored zero in the subject, followed by Kilombero (395), Ulanga (170) and Morogoro Urban (94).

Ms Lyimo said most of the schools that did not have any pupil who passed the subject were located in hilly areas, and faced an acute shortage of teachers.
She asked respective district councils to find ways of improving performance such as motivating teachers.
“They can come up with arrangements that will see teachers in their areas get some motivation that would encourage them to stay in the areas, which have few teachers,” she said

MAUAJI YA KIMBARI NYUMA YA MOBILE PHONE YAKO

We furahia tu kutumia smart phone yako, lakini hujui ni matokeo ya damu inayomwagika kkule Congo DRC.

MATOKEO DARASA LA SABA - 47% WAMEFELI: INATISHA

Matokeo ya mtihani wa darasa la saba mwaka huu kwa Tanzania ni sikitiko kwa mtu yeyote makini. Yaani asilimia 47% wamefeli? Hii ni aibu. Hili lingine la kudhoofisha vita dhidi ya madawa ya kulevya ama kuna nia nzuri nyuma ya pazia?

Nchi yetu inakoelekea ni kubaya kimaadili, hapa Tanesco inatumika kwa maslahi ya mafisadi au ni halali kwa yanayotokea juu ya Dowans?

HIVI SISI WAAFRIKA TUNA MATATIZO GANI NA WIZI WA KURA?

Mwaka huu tumekkuwa na matukio ya ajabu sana ambayo yameonesha ni jinsi gani sisi waafrika bado tuna safari ndefu sana katika ustaarabu wa kuchagua kupata viongozi. Hebu angalia kinachotokea huko Ivory Coast, yaani uchaguzi unaitishwa wa kidemokrasia, unafanyika, Tume ya Uchaguzi inamtangaza fulani ndiye mshindi lakini wanatokea kikundi cha watu wenye nguvu wanamtangaza mtu aliyeshindwa ndiye mshindi na wanamwapisha haraka sana.

Ukiitizama Ivory Coast inanikumbusha wakati ikiwa chini ya Houpheit Boingy,baba wa Taifa ikiwa na maendeleo ya juu sana. Mzee wa watu akafariki, kama alivyotutoka Nyerere hapa kwetu, nchi ikageuka shamba la bibi. Labda nikumbushe tu, alipofariki mzee yule, Henry Konan Bedie aliyekuwa waziri mkuu wa Boingy alikaa madarakani kwa muda hadi uchaguzi ulipoitishwa.

Uchaguzi ulikuwa na kimbembe cha aina yake. Unajua Ivory Coast ilikuwa imeendelea sana eneo la kusini anakotoka Boingy na Kaskazini kulitengwa kabisa. Ila watu wa Kaskazini ni wasomi sana. Kilichotokea, katika uchaguzi ule aliyekuwa anatarajiwa kushinda alikuwa ni Alasane Watara, msomi ambaye alizaliwa Kaskazini mwa Ivory Coast na familia ya wahamiaji, wakata mpira katika mashamba ya mpira kutoka Burkinafaso (Upper Volta). Upande wa kaskazini kumejaa wahamiaji wengi lakini hawa wote ni mababu zao ndio waliohamia ila walizaliwa hapo lakini wanachukuliwa kama wageni na hawastahili kkupewa nafasi za juu za uongozi. Unyanyapaa wa hali ya juu. Inafanana na hali ya Pemba anayofanyiwa Maalim Seif au Raila Odinga huko Kenya ama Kiiza Besigye huko Uganda. Hawa wote watausikia uraisi kwenye bomba kutokana na unyanyapaa wa wapinzani wao.

Katika uchaguzi ule wa Ivory Coast, waligombea watu watatu: Alassane Watara ambaye alikuwa ametoka kufanya kazi IMF and World Bank na alikuwa ndiye aliyeonekana angeweza kuiongoza nchi hiyo. Wagombea wengine walikuwa ni raisi aliyejitangaza leo na kujiapisha Laurent Bagbo ambaye alikuwa ni kiongozi wa upinzani kwa muda mrefu kipindi cha Boingy. Mgombea mwingine alikuwa ni aliyekuwa waziri mkuu na raisi wa muda, Henry Konan Bedie ambaye uchaguzi wa juzi alikuwa mshindi wa tatu na aliwasihi wafuasi wake kumuunga mkono Watara katika ngwe ya pili.

Uchaguzi ule wa miaka kama nane iliyopita haukutangazwa matokeo yake kwani ikiwa ni wazi Allasane Watara alikuwa anakwenda kushinda, jeshi lilichukua madaraka na kutangaza hali ya hatari. Mkuu wa majeshi, Generali Robert Guei alichukua madaraka na yakatokea machafuko makubwa kati ya wenyeji dhidi ya wafuasi wa Watara ambao wanachukuliwa kama "wakuja". Hii inaitwa chuki dhidi ya wageni "xenophobia". Machafuko yaliendelea hadi pale wanajeshi walipomuua Generali Guei na nchi ikachafuka na watu wakafa kibao.

Umoja wa mataifa ukaingilia na uchaguzi ukaitishwa na Bagbo akashinda kiutata. Maadam watu wa Kaskazini waliona wanaonewa, waliamua kuanzisha uasi na nchi ikagawanyika ambapo kijana afisa wa jeshi anayejulikana kama SORRO aliongoza uasi huo.Nchi haikutawalika tena ingawa Bagbo amekuwa akiongoza nchi kwa kipande cha kkusini zaidi hadi pale walipofanya maridhiano na kuunda serikali ya umoja wa kitaifa ambayo imepelekea uchaguzi huu ambao Bagbo ameuvuruga.

Ni wazi kwa hali hii, nchi za Afrika zimeanzisha kasumba ya kutumia hila katika chaguzi ili kung'ang'ania madarakani. Ilianzia Kenya raisi Kibaki aliapishwa kinyemela tena usiku. Ikaenda nchi kama Guinea tumeona yametokea nini kule na hata hapa kwetu Tanzania, uchaguzi uliopita umeondoa heshima ya Kikwete kwa kiasi fulani miongoni mwa watu makini.

Hivi sisi waafrika tuna nini? Sasa raisi wa Ivory Coast ni nani kati ya aliyetangazwa na tume ya uchaguzi au huyo aliyejiapisha?

HII KUTOKA FACEBOOK KWA RAFIKI YANGU JUU YA MASHOGA

On Homosexuality and Bestiality
by Kitioni Wekesa on Friday, 03 December 2010 at 09:26

I choose to pray before I present my views on homosexuality and bestiality. Dear Lord, my desire has been for truth and nothing but the truth. Along the line, I learnt that to have found truth is to have found beauty, goodness, perfection, and above all justice. However, beautiful as truth may be, I have learnt that naturally knowledge is very elusive. It is not that knowledge is impossible but rather that given angularity, historicity of knowledge as limited by our faculties, we are not able to be conclusive enough in our assertions. Therefore dear Lord, for my oversights I am remorseful and for whatsoever insight, I can only be grateful to you.

I have been sympathetic towards homosexuals in most of my arguments with any anti-gay campaigners. I am grateful that I count myself heterosexual and thus homosexuality naturally is absurd and in a way inconceivable. However, considering my own sexual journey and the ups and downs of learning and discovering the sexual self, I would not be surprised that individuals may learn to become homosexuals. Whether learnt or naturally acquired, I wish not to judge anyone. Like Jesus, I look down as I write all this on the ground.

A dissection of sexual acts engaged in by homosexuals and heterosexuals could help in dismissing some pretense at disdain. I am privy to the understanding that whatsoever people do during sexual intercourse if reflected upon is to a large extent disgusting, and nauseating. Take courage to look at literature on sex and you notice that, as practiced, it is more than just normal i.e. the proper way. Often than not, there are those that enjoy anal, oral and even object aided sex. If heterosexuals enjoy all these forms of sex in the privacy of their rooms, how are they very different from what homosexuals do in the privacy of their rooms. I believe that de-stigmatizing homosexuality will help towards holding them accountable.
A good friend has often challenged me by pointing out that if we become this liberal, we shall soon start tolerating bestiality or men sleeping around with chicken, goats and animals. To this I wish to respond as follows.

1. a man sleeping with a man and a man sleeping with a goat are two different cases2. the only similarity is the associated absurdity3. However, the difference is that i...n the first instance both make rational choices while in the latter case one is imposing something upon a hapless creature.4. to the extend that the two exercise their freedom in a way that they are neither hurting each other or society in any way, why would i have a problem with that?5. In the same way we would protect a 15 year old minor given we argue that they are not of rational capacity to exercise free will or not to yield to undue influence, so should we extend our care to animals and all creatures or things in the world

Therefore, do not be dismissive with regard to the issue of gay and lesbian relationships. What we should guard against is any maneuvers that would lead to such people having undue influence on our young brothers and sisters. Just as we should guard that heterosexuals through such acts as nudism or porn do not unduly influence our young people.
Again, to God be the glory that all men shall respect the natural way. Further, to God be the glory that all men and women will seek more to understand towards compassionately helping each other rather than reacting and thus seeking to condemn or vilify. Over to you my friends!!!

HUYU JAMAA WA NAIROBI JAMAA ANA WAZO MBADALA

UNATAKA KUJUA KUIBA KURA?

Kama tunafuatilia mambo hatusshangai bara la Africa linaongoza kwa kasumba ya kuchakachua kila jambo. Kura kwao ndio mchezo wa kusalia madarakani. Hebu tizama katika siku si chini ya miezi miwili wizi wa kura imekuwa gumzo Afrika ya Mashariki,na Magharibi: Tanzania, Guinea na Ivory Coast.
Tizama mbinu zitumikazo.

Alafu huwa wanafanyaga hivi.

Huko Zimbabwe nako Mugabe kashindwa kazi nyumbani wakati mkongwe mwenzake Museveni ana raha wakati wa kampeni kaamua kupiga na kuimba mziki wa Rap.

WAJUE MAWAZIRI WALIOAPISHWA

Baada ya baraza la mawaziri kuapishwa hapo jana, sasa ni wakati wa kujua sifa au wajihi wa wateule hawa maalum wa serikali yetu tukufu.Inasemekana wengi ni majeruhi na wanaodai hivyo wanayo mengi ya kusema juu ya mapungufu ya baadhi yao.Mtizamo wa mapungufu unatolewa zaidi na wale ambao ni wapinzani wa CCM.
Naye Lowasa ameamua kutoa tamko juu ya tuhuma kumzidia.

MAONI YA WANANCHI JUU YA CABINET LA JK

Nilipofuatilia vyombo vya habari leo, kuna maoni tofauti juu ya cabinet ya Jk.
Baadhi wana tafsiri zao tata na wengine ndio hivyo tena. Pia wengine walitaka hata baadhi ya wateule waachwe sijui kwanini.

BARAZA LA MAWAZIRI LATANGAZWA

Hatimaye Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muungano Dr.Jakaya Kikwete amelitangaza baraza lake la mawaziri. Taarifa kutoka Mawasiliano Ikulu imesomeka kama ilivyo hapo chini.

Katika Muundo wa Serikali hakuna mabadiliko makubwa isipokuwa yafuatayo:

1. Idara ya Umwagiliaji tumeiunganisha na Kilimo ambako ndipo ilipokuwa zamani.

a. Imeonekana upangaji wa maendeleo ya kilimo unakuwa hauna hakika bila ya umwagiliaji kuwa sehemu ya kilimo. Tuliihamishia maji kurahisisha pia upangaji na hasa kwa vile maji ndiyo wanaotoa haki ya matumizi ya maji.

b. Kwa kuwa tatizo la uhaba wa maji ya binadamu ni kubwa sana na tunataka tuongeze kasi ya kukabiliana na tatizo hilo tumeona tuiondolee wizara hii mzigo wa umwagiliaji ili ibaki na kazi moja tu ya kuhakikisha kuwa watu wanapata maji safi na salama mita 400 kutoka wanapoishi.

2. Idara ya Vijana tumeihamisha kutoka Wizara ya Kazi na kuihamishia Wizara ya Habari kwa sababu kuu 2.

a. Kwanza inashabihiana na michezo na utamaduni.

b. Tunataka Wizara ya Kazi ipate muda wa kutosha wa kushughulikia masuala ya ajira na wafanyakazi ambayo sasa yamepanuka.

3. Shughuli za Uwezeshaji wa Wananchi zilizokuwa Wizara ya Fedha na Wizara ya Kazi zitahamishiwa Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu.

4. Marekebisho mengine ni madogo:

a. Katika Ofisi ya Rais tunairudisha shughuli ya mahusiano na jamii hivyo tunaongeza Waziri wa Nchi ambaye pia atashughulikia shughuli zilizopanuka za Tume ya Mipango, MKURABITA na TASAF.

b. Katika Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu tutakuwa na Waziri wa Nchi wa kushughulikia Uwekezaji na Uwezeshaji wa Wananchi.

c. Katika Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu Wizara ya TAMISEMI tumeongeza Naibu Waziri wa kushughulikia masuala ya Elimu.

Baada ya kusema hayo nitangaze orodha yetu:

MAWAZIRI NA NAIBU MAWAZIRI

Ofisi ya Rais

1. WN – OR – Utawala Bora
Mathias Chikawe
2. WN – OR – Mahusiano na Uratibu
Stephen Wassira
Ofisi ya Rais, Menejimenti ya Utumishi wa Umma
Hawa Ghasia
Ofisi ya Makamu wa Rais
1. Muungano
Samia Suluhu
2. Mazingira
Dr. Terezya Luoga Hovisa
Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu
1. Sera, Uratibu na Bunge
William Lukuvi
2. Uwekezaji na Uwezeshaji
Dr. Mary Nagu

Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu, Tawala za Mikoa na Serikali za Mitaa (TAMISEMI)
George Huruma Mkuchika
1.Aggrey Mwanri
2. Kassim Majaliwa

Wizara ya Fedha
Mustapha Mkulo
1. Gregory Teu
2. Pereira Ame Silima
Wizara ya Mambo ya Ndani ya Nchi
Shamsi Vuai Nahodha
1. Balozi Khamis Suedi Kagasheki
Wizara ya Katiba na Sheria
Celina Kombani
Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje na Ushirikiano wa Kimataifa
Bernard K. Membe
1. Mahadhi Juma Mahadhi
Wizara ya Ulinzi na Jeshi la Kujenga Taifa
Dr. Hussein Ali Hassan Mwinyi
Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Mifugo na Uvuvi
Dr. Mathayo David Mathayo
1. Benedict Ole Nangoro
Wizara ya Mawasiliano, Sayansi na Teknolojia
Prof. Makame Mnyaa Mbarawa
1. Charles Kitwanga
Wizara ya Ardhi, Nyumba na Maendeleo ya Makazi

Prof. Anna Tibaijuka
Goodluck Ole Madeye

Wizara ya Maliasili na Utalii
Ezekiel Maige

Wizara ya Nishati na Madini
William Mganga Ngeleja
1. Adam Kigoma Malima

Wizara ya Ujenzi
Dr. John Pombe Magufuli
1. Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe
Wizara ya Uchukuzi
Omari Nundu
1. Athumani Mfutakamba

Wizara ya Viwanda na Biashara
Dr. Cyril Chami
Lazaro Nyalandu

Wizara ya Elimu na Mafunzo ya Ufundi
Dr. Shukuru Kawambwa
1. Philipo Mulugo

Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii
Dr. Haji Hussein Mpanda
1. Dr. Lucy Nkya

Wizara ya Kazi na Ajira
Gaudensia Kabaka
Makongoro Mahanga

Wizara ya Maendeleo ya Jamii, Jinsia na Watoto
Sophia Simba
Umi Ali Mwalimu

Wizara ya Habari, Vijana na Michezo
Emmanuel John Nchimbi
1. Dr. Fenella Mukangara

Wizara ya Ushirikiano wa Afrika Mashariki
Samuel John Sitta
Dr. Abdallah Juma Abdallah

Wizara ya Kilimo, Chakula na Ushirika
Prof. Jumanne Maghembe
1. Christopher Chiza

Wizara ya Maji
Prof. Mark James Mwandosya
Eng. Gerson Lwinge

Nitawaapisha Jumamosi tarehe 27 Novemba, 2010 saa 05:00 asubuhi

VITI MAALUM - ITAFUTWE FOMULA NYINGINE

Binafsi sipendi kabisa kusikia mtu anatambulishwa kama Mbunge wa Viti maalum. Sidhani kna manufaa yoyote ya umma kutoka kwa wabunge hawa. Hii ni upotezaji wa fedha za umma kwa wabunge ambao sijaona wana tija gani bungeni.
Naomba nipewe jina la mbunge wa viti maalum ambaye amewahi kuwa agitative enough kuonesha anawakilisha kundi fulani la jamii. Itafutwe fomula nyingine ya kupata wabunge hawa, kwa mfano kuwe kuna uchaguzi wa mbunge mwanamke kila mkoa kwa kushindanisha kila chama kutoa mgombea wakati wa uchaguzi.Hii itasaidia kupunguza matumizi yasiyo na tija.

Ndio maana nashangaa kwa nini wako zaidi ya 100 sasa bungeni, je hii ni nzuri kwa mwanamke wa kawaida ama ni mradi wa kifisadi?

DU! CHADEMA AU CCM, NANI YUKO SAHIHI?

Eti Jakaya Kikwete alichaguliwa kwa udini au siasa? Je ni kweli kuna udini Tanzania? Kuna jamaa kajadili hapa, kasheshe kwelikweli. Hii demokrasia yetu bwana, ina vituko sana,yaani kama ni kweli Raisi anajiandaa kufanya uteuzi huku baadhhi ya wabunge wanamshinikiza ni wizara ipi awape. Hapa Rais wa nchi ni yupi? Anayejichagulia cheo au anayetoa cheo? Jiulizeni.

Kuna madai kuwa wabunge wa chadema wamegawanyika wengine wakiona kuwa walikosea. Huu ni wakati wabunge waelewe kuwa in order to prevent the country not been thrown to the dogs completely, ni wakati wa ujasiri. Kama ni kweli Chadema wako makini na wana dhamira basi tutarajie kuwa tanaweza shuhudia maandamano na hata mikutano ya hadhara tena siku si nyingi. Nchi imefika mahali panapohitaji mkombozi na ni vyema wajiandae, kwani kuwa upinzani si kupiga makofi tu mjengoni bali ni kazi haswa.

Kitendo cha Chadema kina asili ya kihistoria.

CHADEMA WANA KAZI KUITHIBITISHIA JAMII JUU YA UHALALI WA KUSUSA BUNGE

Watu wameendelea kuilamu Chadema kumgomea Raisi Kikwete Bungeni.
Inaelekea CCM watazua hoja binafsi Bungeni kuwaadhibu wabunge wa Chadema. Hapa napo ni utata mtupu, kwani yatatokea yaleyale ya Zitto Kabwe.
Mtizamo wangu ni kuwa nadhani ni vyema Chadema watoe maelezo ya kina kwanini waliamua kufanya vile. Manaake watanzania wengi wanalitizama tukio lile kama vile kukosa adabu.Inashangaza sana kuwa watanzania wengi hawaelewi njia mbalimbali ambazo ni sehemu ya kuwasilisha ujumbe kuwa kuna tatizo linahitaji ufumbuzi.
Inaonekana nchi imejaa "laymen" wengi sana ambao kwao wanaaona nchi yetu inatawaliwa vizuri. Ukisoma makala hii katika "The Citizen" la leo ni wazi hata wasomi wengi wanahimiza eti kuwe na dialogue, maridhiano. Hivi kweli tunahitaji maridhiano hapo ama ni Katiba ibadilishwe?

KATIBA MPYA NDIO SULUHISHO
Watu kadhaa wanatoa maoni na mitizamo yao kuwa Katiba kama
sheria mama, ni wakati wa kutengenezwa upya.

SPIKA MWANAMKE - ILIKUWA SAHIHI?
Unajua wengi wamesema na hata mimi naamini kilichotokea ni ubaguzi wa kijinsia. Kinachobakia ni mama kuhakikisha she has to prove wrong that she's an agents of the mafisadi. Ningependa tumsome huyu mzee hapo chini ana mtizamo wake juu ya hili:

Is the procedure to elect House Speaker fundamentally flawed?

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By Karl Lyimo
Last Friday, Tanzania came into a newly constituted National Assembly – ‘Bunge’ – and a new Speaker, Anna Makinda. The significance of this is three-fold… One: almost a third of the 339-seat House is from Opposition political parties. Two: a goodly proportion of the new MPs are youngish…


But, perhaps the most important aspect of the whole shebang is that, for the first time in the country’s 49-year Independence History, the Speaker is a woman. This has thrown a spanner in the gender-inequality works.
At long last, the Legislature – one of the three statutory Estates of the Realm… Or four, if you take into account the de facto the Independent Press Estate – is headed by a daughter of the soil.

For better or for worse, this – taken together with the fact that nearly a third of the august House is also ‘manned’ by Lady Members – is another major step in the way forward to entrenching gender equality in Tanzania.
Of course, the Lady Speaker didn’t fall like manna from Heaven. She was tactically maneouvred into the scoring position by her ‘Nambari Wan’ patron, the veteran ruling party CCM. The top party caucus axed ten of its members who’d come forward to contest the post, leaving three aspirants – all women, as it ‘conveniently’ happened!
The field included Samuel Sitta, the immediate past Speaker, and Andrew Chenge – a decoy if I ever saw one! But, that’s another story…

Considering that gender equality’s a fashionable clarion call, there was no better vehicle to convey one of the three into the Wool Sack (House-of-Lords pardon!). In the event, Ms Makinda easily won the post with 265 votes against 53 for his formal rival from the Opposition, Mabere Marando.
This wasn’t surprising – especially considering that her party already had 251 MPs as of November 12, compared with a combined total of 82 ‘Opposition’ MPs… as well as scores of fellow women MPs!

However, what’s surprising – if that’s the correct word – is that Marando could only muster 53 of the votes… One would’ve naturally expected him to garner all the ‘Opposition’ votes! What happened to the other 29?
Of course, the easy answer’s that ‘they virtually crossed the floor,’ going to their political rivals who were already heavily fortified, anyways! But, this wasn’t necessarily the case – or she’d have won by 280 votes (251-CCM-plus-29 Opposition ‘defectors’).
Equally interesting is that some CCM MPs may’ve also voted for the Opposition candidate – thereby reducing Makinda’s ideal total from 280 to 265.

That’s if only because among them must be ‘male chauvinist pigs’ (Angela Davis pardon); disappointed Sitta-supporters, Opposition Camp followers-at-heart…
(Would you believe it? Nine ballots were spoiled!)
Confused? Let’s leave that and move on! Ideally, such crucial voting shouldn’t be secret… MPs should’ve the courage of their convictions, stand up and be counted as supporting who – and may the best candidate win!
(Indeed, the best candidate, Samuel Sitta, was jettisoned via caucus fiat. In my view, Sitta did much to put Tanzania in the good books of the comity of nations than most any other person – bar Mwalimu Nyerere… But, again, that’s another story).

Finally, regardless of what the Constitution says in the rider to Article 68, the Speaker wasn’t elected by MPs in the real sense of the term.
One really doesn’t become an MP unless and until one formally takes and subscribes the Oath of Allegiance…


Only then can we nail them to the masts if, say, it is found that they had sold their vote for a mess of pottage!
Then there’s the small matter of the Public Leaders Ethics Code… Is the Speaker (Article 84(5) and her MPs (Article 70(1) able, willing and ready to publish formal statements regarding their property… Sorry. Cheers!
[ Israellyimo@yahoo.com

Ukishaisoma hiyo makala nataka uniambie unaonaje? Mie nampa shavu mzee kwa kujenga hoja.

JK AFUNGUA BUNGE LA 10 - CHADEMA WAMSUSIA

Nimemtizama Raisi wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete akihutubia Bunge mjini Dodoma. Lilikuwa ni tukio la aina yake kwani serikali ya CCM ilijitahidi kuonesha kuwa kwa sasa ni wazi kule Zanzibar CCM na CUF ni kitu kimoja. Maridhiano yamekuwa ni machungu kwa kambi ya upinzani kwani kwa sasa itapata wakati mgumu kwa idadi kinyume na watu walivyofikiri awali kuwa upinzani Bungeni ungekuwa umeimarika kumbe wapi.
Kuhudhuria kwa Makamu wa Kwanza wa Rais wa Zanzibar, Seif Sharif Hamad, kumeonesha wazi kuwa kwa sasa CUF kama mshirika mkuu wa CCM Zanzibar ni wazi kuwa serikali ya CCM imefanikiwa kuleta amani Zanzibar na hapo hapo kudumaza nguvu ya upinzani katika Bunge la Jamhuri ya Muungano.

1. CHADEMA WAMSUSA RAISI
Baada ya Raisi kukaribishwa na Spika wakati akianza kumshukuru Spika, nilimwona mbunge wa Hai, na mwenyekiti wa Chadema, Freeman Mbowe akitizamana na mwenzake na mara moja wabunge wote wa Chadema ambao wanaunda Kambi ya Upinzani bungeni walisimama na kutoka nje huku wakizomewa na wenzao wa CCM kwa makofi ya kejeli. Rais alibakia akitabasamu; Rais wa Zanzibar alionesha uso wenye kutaharuki na kuwaza sana wakati huo. Nilitegemea rais Kikwete azungumzie hali iliyojitokeza lakini alijifanya hajali na akamaliza hotuba yake bila kusema lolote lakini hakuacha kupiga mkwara kuwa wapinzani watambue kuwa yeye ndiye Rais wao.

Hili la utambuzi nadhani Raisi bado hajalielewa; hapa kuna swala la kupinga utaratibu mzima wa uchaguzi wa Raisi na hasa muundo na utendaji wa Tume ya Uchaguzi kama kiini cha hali tata na kasoro ambazo hazielezeki kimantiki kwa mtu yeyote mwenye akili ya kufikiri kimakini. Tatizo ambalo limejitokeza nadhani ni “legitimacy” ya uraisi wa Kikwete. Ni kweli tayari ameapishwa lakini suala wabunge kumgomea si la mzaha ni suala lenye kuhitaji kujiuliza hivi tumefikaje katika hali hiyo?

2. UTAWALA BORA – UFA WA KIDINI
Raisi katika hotuba yake ya ufunguzi wa bunge la tisa miaka mitano iliyopita alidhamiria kuimarisha taasisi za kidemokrasia ili zifanye kazi kisasa. Hadi leo unapoona kuna mapungufu mengi sana katika suala zima la uchaguzi ni wazi raisi kashindwa kutimiza ahadi yake. Taasisi zote za kidemokrasia kuanzia msajili wa vyama hadi Takukuru, haziko huru na zinaendeshwa kama vile bado tuko katika nchi za kikomunisti. Huo kwa Rais Kikwete ndio usasa anaoutaka alafu anashangazwa na aibu hii ya wabunge kumsusa.

Nimefuatilia hotuba ya Rais Kikwete anasema eti nchi ina ufa wa kidini ambao unatishia mgawanyiko wa kitaifa. Kila hili linaposemwa na viongozi wetu tangu wakati wa Kampeni linanishangaza sana. Ikumbukwe kuwa uchaguzi wa mwaka huu umekuja kipindi ambacho demokrasia imekuwa hadi asasi na viongozi wa kidini tayari wameanza kushiriki katika kushawishi masuala ya kisiasa. Hali hii haikwepeki katika maendeleo ya kidemokrasia na kwa wahafidhina “conservatives”, kwao wanadhani viongozi wa dini wameamua kumpigia chapuo mgombea Fulani. Ni vyema Raisi pamoja na wanaomshauri wafuatilie maendeleo ya demokrasia kule Amerika ya Kusini ambapo pamewahi kuwa na udikteta sana hapo nyuma. Lakini tangu kuibuka kwa wimbi la “ Theolojia ya Ukombozi” viongozi wa dini waliamua kuungana na waumini wao kupigia chapua katika kutoa elimu ya uraia wakibainisha sifa za kiongozi bora. Matokeo yake walichaguliwa viongozi bora na leo uchumi wa nchi hizo umeimarika na utawala bora ndio usiseme.
Kipindi chote cha kampeni sikuwahi kusikia viongozi wa kidini wakiendesha kampeni au mahubiri dhidi ya mgombea Fulani kwa kuvutia watu wao wachague muumini wao. Ila viongozi wa dini wengi wa kikristo walikazia sana sifa za kiongozi bora ambazo kwa kiasi Fulani ziliwagusa wagombea Fulani bila kujali dini zao. Huu ndio ulikuwa msisitizo na ni wazi kwa mtanzania yeyote mwenye akili timamu atakubaliana na mimi kuwa, katika sifa za kiongozi bora ambazo ziliainishwa na viongozi wa dini hasahasa zilikuwa zikitaja kiongozi atakayechaguliwa awe na sifa ambazo zitasaidia Taifa kuepukana na changamoto ambazo serikali ya Kikwete iliyopita ilikuwa imeshindwa kuzishughulikia.

Ni wazi viongozi wengi wa dini walionesha kuwa hawakuwa wanaridhishwa na utendaji kazi wa serikali ya awamu iliyopita. Bahati mbaya sana viongozi wengi wa aina hiyo walikuwa wa dini za kikristo. Hali hii ya kuelezwa hisia za ukweli ndizo zinamfanya Raisi Kikwete na wapambe wake kutafsiri hali ile kama vile kuna ufa wa kidini. Ninaamini kwa viongozi wengi wa kidini wa kikristo ambao naamini wamekwenda shule vizuri, hata kama leo hii Tanzania ingekuwa chini ya raisi mkristu, na uongozi kuwa wenye mapungufu kama ya awamu iliyopita bado wangepiga kampeni katika mwelekeo ambao ulijitokeza. Siamini kabisa kuwa kuna ufa wa kidini Tanzania wala hakuna chuki dhidi ya kiongozi wa Taifa ambaye ni muislamu bali tatizo ni aina ya uongozi uliokuwepo.

4. AHADI
Kama kawaida yake Raisi Kikwete ametoa ahadi lukuki kupitia mpango wa Maendeleo 2025. Kazungumza mengi matamu masikioni juu ya ndoto yake kichwani juu ya Taifa hili. Kwa mazoea na rais Kikwete sidhani kama ni kweli ana dhamira ya dhati kwani ili tuifikie ndoto hiyo, ni wazi inambidi abadili staili yake ya utawala.

Huku tukisubiri Baraza la Mawaziri kutangazwa, ni wazi tayari serikali atakayoiunda imeshaonesha kuwa haina dhamira ya kupambana na ufisadi kwani uchaguzi wa Spika mpya wa Bunge kwa kumuengua Spika aliyekuwepo umeonesha kuwa Bunge limetekwa nyara na Chama tawala. Serikali yake inataka Spika ambaye ataminya haki ya Wabunge kuhoji serikali katika baadhi ya mambo ambayo yana maslahi ya Chama. Bunge kwa kutumia kisingizio cha “ni wakati wa mwanamke kuongoza mhimili mmoja wa dola” limeonesha wazi halitaki Spika ambaye ataruhusu kila jambo lenye maslahi ya umma kujadiliwa kwa undani. Majadiliano ya aina hii tayari yamewaumbua baadhi ya vigogo wenye fedha ndani ya chama katika Bunge lililopita. Hali hii inaonekana imeleta migawanyiko na hivyo ni afadhali wezi wa mali za umma wasizungumzwe kwani Chama kitachafuka.

5. SERIKALI NA WOGA ISIOUJUA “PARANOIA”
Maadam serikali itakayoundwa itaendeshwa kwa kuhakikisha mambo yote ya kifisadi yanafichwa basi ile “moral authority” mamlaka ya kimaadili ya Raisi Kikwete kuahidi kkuwa atapambana na ufisadi inakuwa haina mashiko kabisa. Nchi imefika hatua inaendeshwa kwa staili ya “Kleptocracy” badala ya “Democracy” alafu watu wanafanya mzaha kwa kusingizia kuna ufa wa kidini au waziri Mkuu Pinda anaonya kuwa kuna Chama Fulani kinatishia amani na umoja wa kitaifa. Hivi hata Pinda haoni ilivvyo vigumu kutumika katika serikali ambayo maslahi ya umma yanashika nafasi ya tatu? Ya kwanza ikiwa ni maslahi ya makundi Fulani ya wakwasi, la pili ni chama na mwisho wananchi. Maadam viongozi wengi wameamua kuchagua “unafiki” kutumika, basi sitashangaa hata yule Spika aliyechinjiwa baharini atapewa zawadi ya uwaziri na atakubali kutumika kwa kufuata misingi ambayo haiamini bali ili mradi mkono unaenda kinywani. Aina hii ya viongozi ndio ambao wamelifikisha Taifa hili kwa sasa halina viwango katika kila kitu ni usanii tu “mediocrity”.

Ukitizama elimu inazalisha wahitimu mediocrity kuanzia ngazi zote hadi vyuo vikuu. Asilimia kubwa ya watanzania hawana uwezo wa kufikiri kwa kina katika mambo mbalimbali. Tumefika mahali sasa Bunge linakuwa na wawakilishi karibu mia mbili wa viti maalum ambao hawana tija kwa Taifa zaidi ya kula fedha za bure tu. Yako mengi nikiyatizama naogopa hivi watoto wangu wataishi Tanzania ya aina gani? Waama! Mungu aepushe mbali, kwa kweli sioni kama tunaelekea kuzuri huko mbele kama Raisi Kikwete asipobadilisha namna ya kuongoza Taifa hili.

HAYA NI MAFANIKIO
Hotuba ya Raisi imedhihirisha mafanikio katika ukusanyaji kodi kumeongezeka, utegemezi wa wafadhili kumeshuka hadi 28% kutoka 42% nadhani. Si haba hapa serikali imejitahidi. Lakini napo pananishangaza sana; hebu fikiria mbona hali za maisha ya watu wa chini ziko hoi bado? Ile “trickle down effect” mbona haipo? Hapa sitasita kusema ufisadi, anasa na matumizi holela ni tatizo ambalo linaondoa ile umaana wa makusanyo lukuki.

Si hilo la makusanyo tu, bali kkuna hili la “mfumuko wa bei umeshuka”, Raisi Kikwete katoa sababu nyingi sana kuhusu misukosuko ya kiuchumi iliyoikumba nchi yetu. Juhudi zilifanyika na tukamudu lakini pia amesema eti mauzo ya nje yameongezeka sana hasa kupitia sekta ya madini. Mimi mwenyewe wakati namsikiliza nilipitia bei ya dhahabu nikaona imeongezeka zaidi sokoni lakini nikashangaa kama wazalishaji mbona bado mfumuko wa bei ni tatizo kwetu ilihali “export” ni kubwa? Kuna nini hapa? Hayo madola ya madini yanaingia serikalini au yapo mifukoni mwa mafisadi? Anajua mwenyewe, lakini sikuona mantiki katika kutetea mfumuko wa bei.

Raisi anadai eti kwa sasa Tanzania inauza zaidi bidhaa nchini Kenya kuliko Kenya inavyouza Tanzania. Imenishawishi nifuatilie mauzo ya Kenya na Tanzania nione inawezekanaje hili litokee kwa nchi ambayo bado tunaona karibu kila kitu kina chapa ya Kenya madukani? Viwanda vyetu bado vimelala, kilimo chetu anajua mungu, utendaji kazi wetu ndio huo ambapo watanzania wengi starehe ndio jambo la mbele zaidi.

6. MICHEZO
Mwisho, Raisi kagusia kuhusu michezo. Hapa alinikuna kiasi Fulani kwa kueleza jinsi ambavyo zamani wakati akiwa shuleni alivyokuwa akifundishwa michezo na mwalimu wa michezo. Ana mawazo mazuri kuhusu kuimarishwa kwa sekta ya michezo hapa nchini na anajua ni nini chanzo cha kudorora kwa michezo. Ila kuna kitu ambacho bado kama watanzania hatujakitilia maanani kama kweli tunataka maandalizi ya michezo na hata sanaa kwa ujumla.

Hapo awali nimeeleza masikitiko yangu juu ya hali mbaya Taifa lilipofikia na nikasema kuwa kwa sasa kwenye elimu hatujali viwango “quality” sisi tumebakia bora liende. “mediocrity”. Michezo na utamaduni ni kielelezo cha jambo hili pia. Ningedhani Raisi Kikwete angepaswa kuelewa kuwa sekta ya michezo imekuwa ni aibu ya Taifa kwa sasa. Michezo haizingatii elimu; na ningedhani kuna haja ya fani ya michezo katika vyuo vikuu na vile vya ualiimu ianzishwe kwa kasi ya hali ya juu. Ukitizama wawakilishi wetu kwenye michezo kama “Olimpiki, Jumuiya ya Madola na hata Soka” pamoja na kuwa na makocha ambao serikali inawalipa bado ni vituko tu. Mediocrity, hali inayosababishwa na wanamichezo wasio na uelewa wa michezo kama fani ya kielimu. Michezo imebakia kkuchezwa na wengi wa vijana walioshindwa kusoma kabisa, wahuni, wavuta bangi, watukutu na watu mbalimbali ambao ni “ant – social katika jamii.

Matokeo yake kuanzia viongozi hadi wachezaji wote hawana maono “vision” wala mtizamo wa mbali ukiacha fedha kama posho za kusafiri tu. Bahati mbaya sana kwa kuzingatia hii hali ya “mediocrity” katika fani mbalimbali hapa nchini, hata wataalamu lukuki pale wizara husika na michezo wamebakia wasindikizaji wa wanamichezo katika matamasha makubwa ya kimataifa ya michezo. Hawana jipya katika kubuni mbinu za kuendeleza michezo nchini. Raisi Kikwete anapaswa aone uendelezaji michezo katika jicho la mtizamo ninaoujadili. Kuna haja ya michezo kuanzia mashuleni na shule ndio ziwe kisima cha kuandaa vijana katika michezo mbalimbali.

Hata kwenye sanaa za maonesho, Raisi amedai kuna mafanikio. Lakini mimi nadhani yapo ya kuboresha zaidi. Ingawa mimi si mtizamaji sana wa filamu za kibongo, lakini nadiriki kusema inanishangaza kila nikitizama filamu, mada ni mapenzi tu. Mtu atasema eti ndio inayouza. Naamini kuna haja ya kuhimiza mada zingine kwenye mambo kama ufisadi, kilimo, siasa na mambo yote yanayoikumba jamii.

HITIMISHO
Taifa limepoteza tunu ya utendaji kazi wa kizalendo na uwajibikaji. Mambo yanafanywa kiujanjaujanja sana. Katika kila fani wataalam kuanzia kilimo hadi michezo wao ni kufukuzia mapato ambayo hawajayafanyia kazi. Utashangaa utawaona wataalamu wa elimu, kilimo hadi michezo wakinawiri kimaisha lakini mambo wanayoyasimamia yako hoi bin taabani. Ripoti zao ziko safi sana ila kimatendo ni bure sana.

Raisi Kikwete hajui kuwa Taifa kwa sasa ni mediocrity kila pahala. Uelewa wa mambo na kuzingatia kanuni za utendaji kazi kwa tija ya maslahi ya umma unapotea. Mfumo wa siasa na utawala una matatizo, watanzania wengi ni wagonjwa kisaikolojia. Their psyche is in disarray. Sina hakika kama hujachelewa; lakini naamini sasa tumefika point of no return. Kama Raisi wetu mpendwa hutabadilika kwa kuanza kuwawajibisha na hata kukaa mbali na mafisadi, hakika kiama cha nchi yetu kitaanza sasa. Na ndipo hapo tutajua legacy ya Kikwete. Nabakia nikisubiri Baraza la mawaziri na nitaweka waraka mwingine.

PINDA - MTOTO WA MKULIMA WAZIRI MKUU TENA

MWELEKEO WA SIASA ZA TANZANIA BAADA YA UCHAGUZI MKUU 2010

Ukizitizama siasa za kiafrika, UKABILA, haukwepeki. Tangu juzi nimetizama wabunge wakiapishwa huku wakiwa wamesindikizwa na ndugu na hata vikundi vya kikabila utadhani mwisho wa siku matokeo ya utendaji wao yatawafikia wanakabila wenzao. Yuko bwana mmoja amejadili jinsi siasa zetu zilivyojaa ukabila.
Huku tukiwa tumemaliza uchaguzi, ni wazi kuwa CCM imethibitisha kuwa ni chama ambacho ni nguva wa kisiasa. Pamoja na kutotegemea tena hekima za Nyerere lakini bado CCM inapeta.
Kudhihirisha kuwa CCM itaendelea kutawala kwa miongo kadhaa, hebu ona jinsi ambavyo itakavyoweza kutawala siasa za Tanzania hadi 2030.

JAKAYA KIKWETE AAPISHWA

Nilichokiona leo uwanja wa Uhuru ni maombi ambayo yalikuwa yanaashiria mawazo na mitizamo ya viongozi wa dini.
Kwa mfano huyu shehe wa waislamu, yeye alikazia kwa ufupi sana juu ya:

Ee Mola wetu, tunaomba wakinge viongozi wetu na fitna ya uongozi

Uiepushe na siasa za kidini *3

2.Mtu wa pili alikuwa Askofu Valentino Mokiwa akiwakilisha Umoja wa Makanisa Tanzania. Yeye alisisitiza katika sala yake yafuatayo:

Eti Raisi JK apewe na kujaliwa Nguvu katika kuongoza na hekima kutawala
Eti Mungu atuepushe na Tofauti za kisiasa na za itikadi, kidini,
Mungu aepushe dhidi ya Machafuko, pia Mungu ampe JK nguvu za akili, roho, mwili, hekima, busara, na uwezo wa kutafakari mbele.

3. Maombi ya tatu yalitoka kwa kanisa mama: Baraza la maaskofu Tanzania , Askofu Michael

Akiwa na karatasi alisoma sala yake kama ifuatavyo:
Aliamua kuitumia sala ya Nabii Suleiman akimuomba Mungu amtie JK yafuatayo:
Moyo wa hekima na akili, uwajibikaji, baraza la mawaziri, bunge na mahakama na vyombo vya ulinzi waweze kuongoza kuleta heri ya milele mbinguni.

4. Baadaye ikafuata hotuba ya shukrani ya JK na hakusema mengi kwani ameahidi atasema sana siku ya uzinduzi wa Bunge.rais amesema tutembee kwa kifua mbele kwani bado watanzania wengi wanakipenda chama cha mapinduzi.Amewashukuru watu wawili: Dr. Gharib Billali na Mke wake mpendwa Salma Kikwete kkusaida kutafuta ushindi CCM.
Mama Ngangari kutafuta ushindi, lakini pia amewashukuru wagombea wenzake waliowania uongozi na akakiri changamoto zao na ni lazima CCM igangamale kwani huko mbele kutakuwa kugumu.

5. Ameahidi kutibu majeraha ya kampeni ambayo yamegawa watu na jamii za nchi yetu kidini, rangi, jinsia na umaeneo. Amewaomba vyama vya upinzani visaidiane naye kudumisha amani na kuondoa nchi kugawanyika. Hapa atawategemea viongozi wa dini na wanahabari wasaidie kuifanya Tanzania kuendelea kuwa kisiwa cha amani.

6. Jk hakuisahau Tume ya Uchaguzi kwa kazi bora iliyofanya. Ila kazi kubwa iliyo mbele yetu ni kufanya tathmini kujua ni yapi yaimarishwe kuleta chaguzi zijazo zenye ufanisi zaidi.

7. Watu wa ulinzi na usalama nao hawakubaki nyuma kushukuriwa na amewaomba waendelee kusimamia utulivu na pia kwa gwaride zuri ambalo walilifanya mbele ya umati wake.

8. Pia ameshukuru UNDP kwa msaada wao katika kufanikisha uchaguzi, Katibu Mkuu kiongozi kwa kuandaa sherehe na pia viongozi wa dini kwa dua zao.

UCHAGUZI MKUU KWISHA KWA HASIRA ZA BAADHI YA WANANCHI WA MIJINI

Uchaguzi mkuu ndio leo na ninaamini watanzania watapiga kura kumchagua kiongozi wanayemhitaji katika wakati tulionao kama Taifa. Ni wazi kama kuna haja ya mabadiliko basi wapiga kura hawatasita kutumia wasaa mfupi katika chumba cha kkupigia kura na kuhakikiksha kuwa ile karatasi ya kupigia kura haitumiki vibaya. Binafsi sipigi kura leo kwa sababu za msingi kabisa kwangu ingawa ni wazi ninapoteza haki yangu ya kiraia. Nitaeleza baadaye kwanini sipigi kura.

Katika uchaguzi huu watanzania watahitaji kupiga picha ya miaka mitano iliyopita na wajionee wenyewe kama kweli Taifa la Tanzania linahitaji mtu mbadala na vilevile chama mbadala. Ni kipindi kigumu kuamua kwani si rahisi kwa watanzania wengi kuamua kutaka mabadiliko na wala si rahisi pia kwa watanzania wengi kuchukua uamuzi kuendelea na aina ya uongozi ambao umemaliza muda wake. Nitajadili mambo haya mawili kuona ni kwanini wapiga kura leo wako njia panda?

Moja, wapiga kura wengi leo hii watapenda kuendelea na chama pamoja na viongozi wa chama kilekile ambacho wamekizoea kwa miaka nenda rudi. Ni chama ambacho kwao kimekuwa ndio kinachohakikisha uwepo na upatikanaji wa mahitaji yao. Nitatoa mifano kadhaa kuonesha uzuri wa chama hiki kikongwe: Hebu fikiria mfanyakazi wa serikali, mtumishi wa umma ambaye anafika kazini muda anaotaka kama vile yeye ndiye mwenye mali. Haulizwi kwanini amechelewa na mara nyingine hata asipofika kazini haulizwi.

Mwingine anafika kazini lakini hafanyi kazi yeyote na mwisho wa mwezi analipwa mshahara na pia anapandishwa cheo. Si hili tu, pia hebu fikiria wako watanzania kibao ambao kitaaluma ni sawa na bure kabisa, mbumbumbu kabisa, yaani hata kuandika vizuri hawawezi kabisa, mtu hajui hata kuandika barua au taarifa yoyote ikaeleweka na kupeleka ujumbe. Aliajiriwaje? Ni mfumo wa chama na serikali iliyopo. Pakitokea mabadiliko mtu huyu atakuwa hatarini sana.

Si hayo ya wafanyakazi wengi wa kada za chini. Nenda kada za juu. Hapo napo ni kasheshe tu. Wako wengi wamegawiwa vyeo na nafasi walizonazo katika ngazi mbalimbali. Kwao urafiki na uswahiba wao kwa wenye chama ndio njia pekee ya kufaidika na nafasi na vyeo katika taasisi mbalimbali. Hawa ni wengi sana na sidhani kama watakubali kupiga kura kukiondoa chama cha ccm madarakani. Hawa wote, ni kutetea maslahi yao kibinafsi zaidi pamoja na tabaka tawala na kuendeleza hali iliyopo “status quo”.

Kwa upande mwingine kuna watanzania wengine ambao kwao kura yao itataka mabadiliko. Kwao kuendelea na utawala uliopo si hatua muafaka. Kwao wanataka Tanzania mpya wakiamini yako mambo mengi ambayo yanapaswa kubadilika. Kwa mfano, habari ya ufisadi iliyokithiri hapa nchini kwa takriban katika serikali inayomaliza muda wake ni hadithi ambayo kwao ni chungu ambayo haivumiliki. Kwa mfano, wizi wa fedha za EPA, Kashfa za Meremeta, Richmond, na nyingine nyingi hazina majibu.

Kwa wapenda mabadiliko wanashangaa jinsi ambavyo chama kilichopo madarakani kilivyoshindwa kutoa majibu ya msingi juu ya hatua madhubuti kuondoa ufisadi nchini. Wanakasirishwa zaidi na hatua ya chama kuwapiga marufuku wagombea wake wote kushiriki midahalo ambayo ingeruhusu wahojiwe na watoe maelezo kwa wananchi juu ya mapungufu yanayoonekana katika utendaji wao kwa miaka mitano iliyopita.

Wanaopenda mabadiliko wanashangazwa na jeuri iliyooneshwa na chama kilichopo madarakani wakati wa kampeni. Hii ni jeuri ya fedha katika matumizi ya vifaa vya kampeni wakati wananchi wengi wakipata shida juu ya huduma mbovu na kupanda sana kwa gharama za maisha kunakosababishwa na kushuka kwa thamani ya shilingi. Wanapotaka majibu hawapewi na wanapoleta majukwaa kama vile midahalo pia wenye nchi hawako tayari kutoa ushirikiano. Hali hii ni wazi kuwa watawala hawataki kuwa “accountable” na kwa wapenda mabadiliko hili si jambo la enzi hizi.

Kwa ufupi makundi haya mawili ya wapiga kura: Lile la kuendeleza hali iliyokuwepo “statua quo”, na lingine la mabadiliko yaani kuhimiza “accountability” ndiyo yanayoshindana leo. Litakaloshinda litakuwa na wajibu wa kuhakikisha jamii ya watanzania inaendeshwa kwa kufuata matakwa yake. Nitaendelea kumsubiri mwenyekiti wa tume ya taifa ya uchaguzi amtangaze mshindi na ndipo tutajua hatima ya nchi yetu. Hapo tutajua tutajua nchi itaenda kwa staili ipi kati ya kifisadi fisadi ama ile ambayo tunaahidiwa tu lakini hatuna hakika kwa dhati kama kweli itatimizwa ama inatekelezeka.

Mwisho niseme tu kwanini sijapiga kura leo: kwanza kabisa sijawahi kujiandikisha kwa makusudi kabisa kwa kuzingatia kuwa siamini kuwa kwa muundo wa Tume ya uchaguzi tuliyonayo haiwezi kuwa huru katika utendaji wake wa kusimamia zoezi la uchaguzi. Mpaka hapo Tume huru kwa kuzingatia matakwa ya demokrasia itakapokuwa imeundwa ndipo nitakaposhawishika kupiga kura.

KAMPENI ZA UCHAGUZI TANZANIA

Nilikuwa kimya sana kwa muda mrefu, sasa nitajaribu kuwalisha watu juu ya yanayojiri juu ya Kampeni za uchaguzi mwaka huu 2010. Tayari Moshi tumeshuhudia bonge la kampeni la kitajiri na vimbwanga vya kila aina vya mgombea uraisi ambaye pia ni raisi wa Jamhuri ya Muungano JK. Hiyo ilikuwa ni wiki hii. Sidhani kama kutakuwa bonge lingine la mkutano kama ule kwa habari nilizozipata.
Wacha hayo, sasa hivi stori kuu ambayo ni ya msingi ni hii kuendelea kukamatwa pembe za ndovu kule Hong Kong kutokea Tanzania. Jamani, mimi nataka niulize, hivi, si ndio sisi tulikuwa tunataka turuhusiwe kuziuza pembe tukawekewa uzibe na majirani zetu majuzi tu, sasa kwa jeuri tumeamua tunaziuza kinyemela au ndio nisemeje?

Pili, kuna hili la Mke wa Raisi jamaa hawataki ampigie mumewe kampeni, mimi naona kama vile kuna ka wivu hivi, hivi ina maana mke wa raisi kutumia mali za serikali dhambi? kwani si ndio mama namba moja eti? Sasa kama yeye ndiye namba moja kwanini makelele wajameji? Hebu someni wake wengine wa maraisi wanavyofanyaga alafu tujiulize hivi kwani mama yetu ana shida gani, si tumuache atumbue kanchi haka masikini?

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KWAHERI MAXIMO

MAXIMO NA WABRAZIL NA KIELELEZO CHA UCHANGA WA SOKA LA BONGO

Nimeitizama mechi ya Taifa Stars dhidi ya Brazil iliyochezwa tarehe 7/06/2010 siku ya jumatatu na ikanifurahisha sana. Furaha yangu si kufungwa bao 5 – 1 kwani tangu awali nilitarajia tungefungwa 3 – 0 lakini matarajio yangu hayakuwa hivyo. Ilikuwa ni mechi ya mwisho kwa Marcio Maximo na zawadi nzuri ya kocha huyo kuonesha kielelezo cha kazi aliyoifanya takriban kwa miaka isiyopungua mitatu na ushehe.

Marcio Maximo alianza kazi yake kwa kupokea timu ambayo ilikuwa haina misingi yeyote ya soka la kisasa. Ni timu iliyokuwa inaendeshwa kienyeji sana, timu ambayo nina hakika ilikuwa haina tofauti na timu za vijijini hapa Tanzania. Kimsingi timu hii kwa kipindi chote cha Maximo imekuwa katika kujengwa ingawa wadau wengi wa soka wamekuwa wakimlaumu kocha huyo mbrazili kuwa hana mafanikio yeyote. Kimsingi hawajui kuwa kujenga timu yenye wachezaji wa kiwango cha chini kama ya kwetu inahitaji kizazi “generation” kuandaliwa tangu utotoni katika timu za makundi tofauti ya umri ili kufikia timu kamili ya kisasa.

Wadau wengi walisahau kuwa Maximo amekuta timu ya kuokoteza mitaani ya wachezaji wasiojua kuwa kwenye mpira kuna nidhamu ya mpira ili uweze kufanikiwa. Wadau wetu wa soka hawakuzingatia mambo mengi ya msingi ambayo Maximo kailetea nchi yetu lakini ukweli utabakia pale pale kuwa huyu bwana kwa kiasi kikubwa kawafumbua macho watanzani na TFF juu ya jinsi ya kuendesha timu ya soka kisasa. Lililobakia ni kazi hiyo kuendelezwa na mrithi wake kutoka Dernmak ambaye ametangazwa hapo jana.

Kilichoonekana katika kipigo cha jana ni kielelezo tosha kuwa wachezaji wetu bado sana. Ni wachezaji ambao kimpira bado wako chini sana, uwezo wao kiufundi ni mdogo sana. Ni wachezaji ambao naweza kusema kuwa hawafundishiki kirahisi na wala hawajifunzi. Inashangaza kuwa pamoja na kuwa na kocha wa hadhi ya Maximo, bado wachezaji hawa wanapata fursa nyingi za kutizama mechi kupitia runinga lakini sidhani kama wanajifunza kitu. Ndio maana nasema Tanzania inahitaji kizazi kipya cha soka kiandaliwe ili kuweza kufikia angalau mafanikio ya timu kama Ivory Coast.

Kama watanzania tutaendelea kutaka kushawishi na kuwapangia makocha wachezaji wa kuita kambini kamwe hatutafika popote. Umefika wakati tuheshimu kazi kitaalamu badala tu ya kufuata hisia zetu mioyoni mwetu. Kama tutafanya hivyo ni lazima tu soka letu litapiga hatua.

Jambo pekee ambalo ningetaka kumshauri kocha mpya ni kuwa kuna haja ya kuibua vipaji vya soka kutoka mikoani. Ninaamini kuna vipaji vya soka vimejificha mikoani na haviibuliwi kwani soka letu limebakia ni la Dar es salaam tu. Makocha wa mikoani wanatakiwa kuwatambulisha vipaji vilivyopo huko mikoani.

Mwisho, naamini soka ya Tanzania inaelekea kuzuri, nimshukuru Maximo kwa kututoa tongotongo.

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TUNAJENGA TAIFA; KISIA NIKO WAPI HAPA?

DU! RAIS JK AMEKASIRIKA KWA HOJA NYEPESI

Hatimaye Raisi wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania aliamua kuhutubia Taifa mwisho wa mwezi wa Aprili kwa kutumia mtindo tofauti na mazoea. Hapa alibadili hadhira, badala ya kuhutubia Taifa, Raisi Jakaya Kikwete aliamua kuwahutubia wazee wa Mkoa wa Dar es Salaam. Wengi wao walionekana ni wanachama wa CCM kwa mavazi yao hali ambayo sidhani kama iliwakilisha taswira ya utaifa kwa mtu yeyote makini.

Raisi wa nchi anapoamua kubadili hadhira, ni wazi anazo sababu za msingi na ndio hapa binafsi nadhani ukakazi unakoanzia kwa kuzingatia yote aliyoyasema katika hotuba ile huku akishangiliwa kwa kelele na makofi lukuki. Ushangiliaji huu wa kishabiki hata katika mambo ya msingi kabisa unatia shaka dhamira ya dhati ya raisi pamoja na watu wake wa karibu kwa ustawi wa Taifa letu. Ninasema hivi kwa maono yangu kwani kuna kila sababu ya kufikiri kwa kina ambayo imenifanya niione hotuba ile kama lengo lake kuu ilikuwa ni kuwajibu TUKTA dhidi ya azma yao ya kuwahamasisha wafanyakazi kugoma.

Moja ya wasiwasi wangu kuhusu dhamira ya kiongozi wetu mkuu ni ile hali iliyojitokeza kwa yeye kutumia muda mrefu kuponda na kukebehi madai ya TUKTA kutaka kima cha chini kiwe ni shilingi laki tatu. Binafsi kwa serikali yetu ninayoifahamu ni kweli haiwezi kulipa kiwango hicho kamwe lakini naamini inaweze kulipa kiwango cha juu zaidi ingawa chini ya hapo kama kima cha chini. Raisi hawatendei haki TUKTA kwa kuwaponda ilihali wamejaribu kumuamsha kutoka lindi la udhaifu wa serikali yake katika kukusanya kodi. Naamini kama kweli nchi hii kodi itakusanywa kwa dhati ni wazi serikali yetu ina uwezo wa kulipa wafanyakazi wake kwa mujibu madai ya TUKTA.

Serikali yetu haikusanyi kodi kuendana na rasilimali na biashara zilizopo; serikali yetu inasamehe sana kodi, mtu makini arejee taarifa ya CAG iliyotolewa hivi majuzi, angalia misamaha ya kodi inavyoathiri mapato ya serikali yetu. Raisi anapotuambia kuwa mapato ya serikali ni madogo sana nashindwa kumuelewa kabisa. Angalia viongozi wa ngazi za juu wanavyoikwangua hazina ya nchi yetu kupitia wabunge, mawaziri, makatibu wakuu, wakuu wa mikoa na wilaya kwa malipo lukuki ya posho mbalimbali ambazo hazilipwi kodi lakini mfanyakazi wan chi hii anakatwa kodi katika kila apatacho. Hapa nadhani Raisi wa Jamhuri angekuwa anapaona na ana dhamira ya dhati ya kupagusa ili kuleta haki na usawa wa kugawana keki ya Taifa basi asingelithubutu kung’aka kama alivyokuwa katika hotuba yake.

Raisi ameonesha kung’ang’ania sana mambo madogo katika kutia nguvu hoja yake na akaacha mambo makubwa ambayo ndiyo msingi wa wafanyakazi wa nchi hii kudai haki yao. Kwa mfano, sidhani kama ni sahihi sana kwa raisi kuongelea kuwa TUKTA inadai kima cha chini cha laki tatu kwa wafanyakazi wa majumbani (house girls) au kwenye mabaa (bar maids). Hivi kwa kazi wafanyakazi hawa wazifanyazo, ina maana hawastahili kulipwa malipo stahili kuliko wanayolipwa sasa? Sioni mantiki kama mtu ni tajiri, anakwenda kijijini anamchukua mtoto wa masikini ambaye ameshindwa kupelekwa shule alafu anakuja kumfanyisha kazi kwa kipato ambacho si haki kibinadamu. Hapa raisi ameonekana kuwatetea sana matajiri; kwake wenye viwanda kwa mfano alionekana kusisitiza kiwanda cha Maji, hapa nachukulia mtu kama Mengi, eti ukimlazimisha alipe kima cha chini cha juu hatapata faida. Inatia shaka inawezekana raisi ana ubia na watengeneza maji mpaka anajua faida yao, kwani mie naamini biashara ya Maji kwa sasa ina faida kubwa sana.

Raisi ameonekana kutowajali wafanyakazi wa Tanzania kabisa kwa kuwatisha eti kama mtu hataki kazi aache kuna wengine watajiunga. Hapa imeonesha jinsi gani raisi kama mwajiri mkuu asivyojua kabisa misingi ya utawala wa wafanyakazi. Ukiwa kama meneja mkuu, Raisi hapaswi kutumia kauli kama ile kwani moja kwa moja raisi analazimisha kuwa na wafanyakazi wa umma wanaofanya kazi bila msukumo chanya, waliokatishwa tamaa, wanafanya kazi bora liende. Ni katika mfumo huo, sitegemei maendeleo ya kweli kufikiwa katika kipindi tunaongozwa na sera za vitisho na kutojali. Ina maana raisi wetu haelewi madhara ya kisaikolojia watakayoyapata wafanyakazi ambao kwa ukweli wanafanya kazi kwa vipato vidogo sana lakini wanaona serikali yao ikisema haina fedha huku ikiruhusu mabilioni ya fedha kuliwa na vijikundi vidogovidogo vya mafisadi kupitia kashfa kama “Richmond, Meremeta, IPTL, mikataba ya Rites na vijimambo vingi ambavyo kamwe watanzania wamebaki gizani huku fedha zikipotea alafu watu wanaambiwa hatuna uwezo wa kulipa mnachotaka.

Raisi alizungumza jambo zuri sana kuwa kama serikali italipa kwa mujibu wa madai ya TUKTA, basi ina maana wafanyakazi 355,000 wa serikali watakuwa wanawanyonya wananchi wapatao milioni 39. Raisi anafikiri ukilipa wafanyakazi hao aliowataja basi inaishia hapo, kiuchumi hapa kuna “domino effect”, naamini kwa idadi ya wafanyakazi wa serikali wanategemewa sana na watu wengi. Malipo yao yanakwenda mpaka kwa watoto, wajukuu na hata wazee wa wafanyakazi hawa. Hapa naona raisi alighafilika kidogo lakini hapaswi kubeza idadi ya wafanyakazi eti ni ndogo. Kama kweli ana dhamira ya kuondoa unyonyaji basi asitumie wafanyakazi wa serikali bali atumie kundi dogo tu ambalo ndilo msingi wa unyonyaji hapa nchini. Nitaeleza:

Kundi hili ambalo naamini linatumia fedha nyingi sana ambayo kama ikidhibitiwa kwa utaratibu mzuri unaojali haki sawa katika jamii ya kitanzania ni kundi la wateule wachache wa nyadhifa mbalimbali za kitaifa pamoja na wawakilishi wa wananchi. Hapa naongelea wabunge takriban mia tatu na ushehe, nina hakika hawa ni mzigo kwa Taifa letu. Wengi wao hawana chochote wanachochangia bungeni ni kupiga usingizi, ama kukaa kimya na kila siku kujichukuliwa posho ambazo nadhani hazikatwi kodi. Nina wasiwasi hata kama mbunge hajahudhuria kikao bado analipwa. Siamini katika kipindi tunaelekea katika uchaguzi ni vyema wabunge wanaomaliza muda wao wakalipwa mafedha lukuki ya Mfuko wa Jimbo (CDF) kama si matumizi mabaya? Busara ingekuwa kuwasubiri wachaguliwa wapya, je kwa nini tusiamini kuwa hii itakuwa fedha ya uchaguzi? Bado tena mbunge huyuhuyu atalipwa mafao yake ya miaka mitano, mamilioni ya shilingi ambayo yanazidi kabisa mafao ya mfanyakazi wa serikali aliyeitumikia nchi hii kwa miaka zaidi ya thelathini. Hivi Mheshimiwa Raisi anajua vipaumbele vyetu halisi ni vipi?

Orodha ya wanyonyaji ni ndefu ikijumuisha waheshimiwa mbalimbali wa ngazi za kitaifa, wizara, mikoa hadi wilayani. Mtindo ni mmoja tu, kazi kidogo mapato ni makubwa tena bila kodi. Kama kweli Raisi angelikuwa ni muungwana basi angelijadili hili tuone mtizamo wake badala ya kutuletea mambo madogo kama ya “mahouse girls na mabar maids”. Nasema hivi nikitambua kuwa kama hili tabaka la viongozi ambalo ni mzigo kwa hazina yetu “parasitic class” kama litaangaliwa na serikali basi angalau itasaidia kuwezesha serikali kuwalipa wafanyakazi wake mshahara wenye heshima na utu. Hapa lazima niseme wazi kuwa sidhani kama mshahara wa laki tatu na kumi na tano ndio ulipwe kwani hata mie nadhani kwa maisha ya Kitanzania hii inaweza chochea mfumoko wa bei kama wa Zimbabwe. Naamimi panahitajika kiasi zaidi ya kinacholipwa kwa sasa.

Hapa lazima nimkumbushe Raisi kuwa alijisahau na hili angelizungumzia basi wafanyakazi wangeliridhika. Hakuwa na haja ya vitisho kwani mwisho wake Raisi anakuwa ndio chanzo cha tabaka la wafanyakazi wa umma ambao hawana tija kwani wanafanya bila kupenda wakifanyacho. Kwa maana nyingine, Raisi kupitia hotuba yake amedhoofisha ari ya wafanyakazi wake.

Nilipokuwa ninamsikiliza mheshimiwa Raisi JK, nilijikuta nikitafuta nakala ya magazeti ya nyuma ambayo iligusa ripoti ya Mkaguzi Mkuu wa Serikali (CAG) ya mwaka 2009 nakwambia nilijiuliza hivi raisi anapoongea na wananchi kweli anakuwa anatafakari mapungufu ya serikali yake katika kuhakikisha fedha za serikali zinatunzwa na kutumiwa vizuri ambapo kwa kiasi fulani ingesaidia kuboresha maslahi ya wafanyakazi? Kwa mfano ripoti hiyo inaonesha kuwa kwa mwaka 2009, serikali kupitia TRA ilitoa misamaha ya kodi shilingi 752.4 bilioni. Hii ni sawa na asilimia 18% ya mapato ya serikali yalisamehewa. Hapo hapo taarifa inaonesha kuwa TRA ilishindwa kukusanya kodi kwa kutimiza lengo kwa shilingi bilioni 426.4. Hapa ni wazi uwezo wa kukusanya kodi una walakini na ukiongeza na misamaha kuna kama takriban shilingi Bilioni moja inaachwa tu kupotea. Kwa ufupi taarifa hiyo naweza nikainyumbulisha kama ifuatavyo:

i) Matumizi ya hovyo kununua magari: 4 bilioni.
ii) Upotevu wa fedha katika manunuzi (procurements):12.9 bilioni
iii) Fedha zilizotumika nje ya bajeti iliyokusudiwa: 67. 4 bilioni
Ukitazama mashirika ya umma ndio hatari pia:
i) Bodi ya mikopo Elimu ya Juu (HESLB) imegeuka kuwa chombo cha kutoa zawadi kwa watanzania. Kwa mfano, taarifa inaonesha kuwa kutoka 1994 – 2004/05, imekopesha wanafunzi 113,240 lakini haijaweza kufuatilia fedha zake kwa wengi ni wachache sana wameanza ama wamerudisha mikopo. Bodi imetumia shilingi 51.1 bilioni ambazo kinadharia zinakuwa kama zawadi kwa walengwa, hakuna ufuatiliaji.
ii) Kuna hili la wafanyakazi hewa ambapo kutokana na udhaifu katika usimamizi wa malipo, shilingi bilioni 3 zilipotea mwaka 2009.

Kwa mtizamo wa haraka, kuna kama shilingi 890.8 bilioni, karibu Trilioni moja zimepotea katika kipindi cha mwa ka wa 2009. Kwa mantiki hii, nilipomsikiliza rais akilalama kama vile serikali yake ni masikini sana, ripoti ilinijia nikajiuliza labda ingelikuwa vyema kwa raisi kuwapa picha halisi ya changamoto zinazoikabili serikali yake na angeliwaomba wafanyakazi wajitoe mhanga ili kuepusha upotevu wa mapato ili serikali iboreshe makusanyo ndipo TUKTA ifikirie suala la kuomba maslahi. Badala ya kuwalaumu akina Mgaya, angeliwaomba wamsaidie kuwafunda wafanyakazi juu ya kujali kazi zao kwani upotevu mkubwa wa mafedha hayo au kutofikiwa kwa lengo la makusanyo ni matokeo ya wafanyakazi kuzembea majukumu yao. Ndio maana naamini kabisa raisi Kikwete pamoja na hotuba yake ndefu bado hakuwa na mantiki kabisa siku ile. Ile si hotuba ya Kitaifa, kama ni kwa wazee tu basi ilikuwa muafaka lakini kwa wafanyakazi ambao wengi wao wana akili na wanaona mapungufu kibao serikalini, rais hakututendea haki wafanyakazi.

Pamoja na mapungufu yote ya hotuba ile ya Raisi, lakini lazima nikiri kuwa, ni wajibu wa kiongozi wa serikali kama raisi kuhakikisha nchi haikumbani na migomo. Serikali haina budi kuwazoesha watu wake na masuala ya migomo kama njia ya kutatua matatizo yao. Katika kutimiza hili, raisi amefanikiwa kwani naamini kabisa hakuna mtu atakayegoma kama TUKTA wataendelea kuitisha mgomo mwingine baada ya kusitisha huu wa sasa. Hakuna mtanzania ambaye yuko tayari kufukuzwa kazi au kuandamana akumbane na rungu la dola. Kufanikiwa huko kuepusha mgomo ni ushindi kwa raisi lakini tija na weledi miongoni mwa wafanyakazi vitabakia vikishuka badala ya kuboreka.

Mwisho nimalizie kwa kusema tu kuwa Raisi alipoamua kuzungumza na wazee labda kwa kuwa wote wale enzi zao zimepita labda aliamua aongee katika lugha watakayoilewa ndio maana akaamua kujadili hoja kwa kutumia dhana nyepesi ambazo kimsingi hazikuwa madai makuu ya TUKTA. Naamini kama niliwasikiliza vizuri viongozi wa TUKTA, yapo mambo matatu ya msingi ambayo sikuona Raisi akiyagusa. Mambo hayo ni: Kodi kubwa kwa Makato ya Mishahara, Mishahara midogo sana, Mazingira bora ya Kazi. Hebu fikiria, kuna wafanyakazi lukuki wa serikali wanalazimika kufanya kazi zaidi ya muda wa saa za kazi lakini hawalipwi stahili zao kwa mujibu wa utaratibu.

Na ndipo hapa pamenifanya nijiulize: “Hivi kweli, Raisi wetu anajua athari za kisaikolojia za kauli zake hasi dhidi ya wafanyakazi na viongozi wake katika kuifanya Tanzania kuwa nchi yenye mafanikio kutoka kwa wafanyakazi wake? Naachia hapa lakini niseme tu hii ni “ Food for Thought”.

NAREJEA NA YALIYOTOKEA

Huko Uganda, Museveni anabanwa kwa kutumia milioni 300 kwa siku.

MNYIKA ANAGOMBEA UBUNGE

Mara nyingi nawaona watu hasa vijana wakionesha dhamira hasa ya kuwa viongozi wa umma. Leo nimekutana na kijana mwenzangu, wa Chama cha Chadema, anatangaza rasmi kugombea ubunge.
Kwa mazingira ya Tanzania, sina hakika kweli kama dhamira yake itafanikiwa iwapo atachaguliwa. Bado mindset/mawazo mtizamo ya watanzania vijana kwa wazee haitamruhusu mtu wa haiba yake kuweza kufanikisha azma yake kirahisi. Kizazi kipya cha vijana wa Tanzania ya leo kimeamua kurithi mtizamo wa wazazi wao: yaani kufanya mambo kwa kufuata hisia zaidi kuliko kwa kufanya uchambuzi wa kina katika kila jambo. Kwa maana nyingine, kama mtu unafikiri sana katika kila jambo unalofanya kama ninavyomfahamu Bwana Mnyika, sidhani kama kweli Bw. Mnyika ataweza Bunge la Tanzania. Watanzania wa leo ni wavivu sana kutumia ubongo, mara nyingi tunatumia mioyo katika kufikiri. Ni jambo la hatari sana na ndio maana watu kama Mnyika wanaonekana na baadhi ya watu kama vile ni vichaa.

Si kwamba ninamchukia ama sipendi Mnyika awe mbunge, ila nataka ajue tu kuwa itakuwa vigumu sana kufikia malengo yake ya kuleta mabadiliko katika Taifa hili changa la Tanzania. Ninamtakia harakati njema.