Step forward Dr Adam!
Adam Lusekelo, 25th February 2009 @ 10:47, Total Comments: 24, Hits: 3497
Fake is thy name Tanzania ! Slowly but surely, we have been trashing our own country and now the comedy continues. We are trashing our education system. Reports say that our MPs are falling all over themselves to acquire fake PhDs.I have also got a PhD after years of hard work. I got the PhD at the University of Kusadikika after finishing my thesis entitled: 'Watching girls go by in the Dar es Salaam metropolis'. The methodology involved an in-depth scrutiny of the ethos of sex vis-a-vis HIV/AIDS in the city.
See? Easy streets! All Tanzanians should be awarded PhDs. Maybe we should replace the word 'Ndugu', which makes much more sense to me, than 'Dokta'. The nosey press over the weekend rang some of the dokta ministers. The Minister of East African Cooperation, Dokta Diodorus Kamala, said he acquired his doctorate degree from Commonwealth Open University, which the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) simply pooh, poohs as a load of nonsense.
But that is not the end of the story. Dokta Kamala is also undertaking a second doctorate degree at the Mzumbe University through long-distance learning arrangement. He has never said about the doctorate's discipline. It could be 'The sexual habits of horny beans in Morongo Region', I don't know.Presumably after that Dokta Kamala will be titled Hon. Dokta-Dokta Diodorus Kamala, Minister for East African Cooperation! Which is cool. One wonders: Does he do anything else, apart from being a Minister for East African Cooperation?
Another minister is Dokta Nchimbi. He also got his doctorate through Commonwealth Open University, which the TCU regards as a load of bull. Dokta Nchimbi confirmed his academic mettle when he told the nosey press: "I'm attending a soccer match. If you want to talk to me make sure it is about my ministry and not anything else," he is quoted to have said.But Dokta Nchimbi should know that uttering fake doctorate degrees is a criminal offence. That does not affect his offices? Surely it does. He was busy watching ball.
Probably Dokta Mrisho Ngassa was in the game. He scored after he got a lovely ball from the skipper of Taifa Stars, Dokta Shadrak Nsajigwa. Come to think of it -- why do we love to attach titles to our names? It must be human vanity. You want to claim you are heavier than other humans. That the air you breathe is better than the air other human beings breathe.
I attended a course on human psychology. The topic was 'The wars between officialdom versus the media.' I even teach the younger, easily intimidated writers who are new to the job. Officialdom loves to create 'atmosphere'. They will want to invite you to their air-conditioned offices, whose rent is paid by the taxpayers. Will make you wait unnecessarily. Then they will talk at you, instead of talking to you. Just refuse to be intimidated.
Just look at the pompous bureaucrat, then mentally strip him off his clothes and then infect him or her with a stab of diarrhoea and put him in the loo. Believe me you will feel much more relaxed. In the end they are just like the rest of us! We want to know -- just who are those fake doctorate degree holders in the Cabinet?
Total Comments on the above stories (24) Comment Funny. Why does Obama not refer to himself as Dokta Barack Obama PhD (Harvard), son of Dokta Obama Sr. PhD (Harvard), son of Dokta Onyango, PhD (K'Ogelo)? it is simply Mr. Barack Obama, or President Obama occassionally.
Funnier still. It was not Dr. Julius Kambarage Nyerere PhD, son of Senior Chief Nyerere Burito. Simply Mwalimu or Ndugu Nyerere.
Why the embarassing African obsession with titles, including bogus ones? Imagine His Excellency the President & Commander-In-Chief of the All The Armed Forces of the Peoples Republic of So and So, EBS, MP, Mtukufu Rais, His Premiership, His/Her Worship the Bishop, et cetera.
No so funny: Iddi Amin Dada, Al Haji, President of the Republic Of Uganda, Conquerer of the British Empire, MBE, OBE, EBE etc.
Or in the the cases of Mobutu and Bokasa, the understandable unsupportable long titles, many unpronounceable. Comment It really doesn't make sense at all!
Dr.Nchimbi should open his mouth and talk to the public about his PhD. I have only one question to him: "what do you do with your PhD sir?"
President Kikwete wants you people with the highest degrees in the country to write books so that you can add value to the general public. Be honest brother, can you really do some thing of that kind? If you have a genuine degree please react to this otherwise tutajua kuwa ni Wizi mtupu! Comment Watajwe majina yao wote hao wenye fake PhD.
Halafu wachukuliwe hatua zifuatazo: 1) walipe hela walizopewa(mshahara etc) kama wasomi wa ngazi hiyo kwa muda wote walipokuwa madarakani. 2)wanyang'anywe madaraka waliyonayo maana sio waaminifu kushika public offices. The same should apply to those dons at Mzumbe. Don't eat wananchi's money that way. Let those posts go to the deserved candidates. Comment My african brother you have a vision,i never miss your midweek column,i salute u Comment My african brother you have a vision,i never miss your midweek columns,salute u Comment How does holding a Doctorate make you any different?At the very least "A Doctored-Doctorate?".In principle,Doctorates are normally confined in the University Campuses,and not misused elsewhere to send scares and chilling waves of apprehension to the Led who have never seen the gimmicks and treacheries of a Half-Baked Lecturer in "Mikogocology!".Deliver is the keynote address.But Dishing out promises and articulating the Abstracts and the No-Where-To-Be-Seen theories! Most of these guys,Adam let me tell you frankly have excelled in 'Pumbaology',just chance to listen to their Rhetorics and you will burst out laughing! Whoever told them,that if you start with a PhD in your introduction to those screwed-eyes in the villages,it will send shivers all over their spines "must be blessed" for the Kingdom of Liars is assured!just next to hell! Cheers Adam! Keep on keeping on! Comment Adam ,You have hit me where it hurt most!
These type of people have been warned by jesus ,like 2700 yeras ago, how to respect a high table, yet they still like to be as sly as a fox! When you are being invited to the wedding, dont ever go to the high table if you are not the right person,you wont be confortable when a wedding crew replace your sit with the right man! This is exatly hold truth to these fake doctors! I think their concience is bothering them at the moment when the public is curious about their PHDs! Doctorate degree is the highest qualification, the western europe and America societies, rely on trusting a person to take charge in the capacity of CEO( Chairman and Executive officer), in large business companies like MC Donald, Wal Mart stores and Exxon. Does that means , these people wanted us, to trust them in the capacity of running our corporate & industry, with their fake doctorate? Then if they are, definitely, we dead and burried! It is a paramount important , to go a residential training rather than a corresponding mail order class to become a doctors. The whole scandals looks as ugly as sin , and the government need to do something furious, to stop this lunacy practize of self exulting people in our society from spreading to village lever!!. That is disrespectful to our society, and they have our name soiled in the world communities. Adam, Longa, longa! Comment I was taught that the benefits of cheat is short lived, sooner or later the truth is revealed and the 'chester' is known. But what takes me by surprise by these so called fake PhDs is the time it has taken to know the truth. I believe the same people have been promoted to senoir level of governmnet offices and even get paid accordingly. How did they deliver in their capacity? Could no one get to learn the incompetencies as they discharge their duties. This makes me believe that there might be even more people having fake academic credentials in this our country Comment Adam, I hope you are as sarcastic and mischievous in real life as you are in your style of writting. You must be a good friend to have Comment True our education system really leaves us with no value due to such corruption of fake degrees and also due to the strickness of our system, a lot
needs to be understood regarding the young beings attitudes and the problem it creates when were in thrown in situations which are very strict compered to the western ways, its now that we should be saying that building bridges with the westernes in our country inorder for the uplifment of our society, we should take up the best of the west, and really throw the the worst of the west away, what one sees as a youngster straight outta bongo-land, that we have taken up a lot of the nonsense of the west, instead of the sense... Comment Journalists have written and many people have made comments. My concern is to the Government. How comes that the government is not taking any measures until now?
And you journalists should go farther than TCU and ask what the employers of brother Nchimbi(PhD) and his allies are upto. And...Why doesn't CCM say some thing about it as well? Makamba or any other msemaji should tell us how come they have such people in place. Go back to wananchi and confess for your deception. You lied to them that Dr.so and so has come to ask for their kura. Shame on you(all who were involved) in puting bogus persons on delicate governement positions. Please remove them from that power and stop ashaming us in the eye of our neighbouring countries. Shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Comment "Come to think of it -- why do we love to attach titles to our names? It must be human vanity. You want to claim you are heavier than other humans. That the air you breathe is better than the air other human beings breathe."
hahahahahh! and then why do media used to write these titles, I think they should put them in brackets, (Dr) Luse.
as a readeram not after those funny titles at all. Comment It is terrifying and utterly heart-breaking to imagine how many unearthed fake academic credentials are out there! And in a country where cheating and fraud is almost a norm, fake academic credentials are just one hat out of many. There are surely legions of other 'respectable' people with fake credentials from purchased driving licences, tittle deeds, passports,birth certificates et cetera.When you have people in public offices who cheated in exams and then in acquiring all these other credentials which undeservedly 'merited' appointment to their positions, you can hardly wonder as to the regrettable service delivery and unimaginable bureaucracy that is is clogging our economic arteries.
I am of the opinion that degrees (foreign or local) should be registered and given unique numbers. This will subject such credentials under scrutiny and somehow narrow chances of cheating. But in a corrupt society,you can do this and still come full cycle, as those checking these might also be corrupt! So the bottom line here is eradicating corruption which seems to be the root of all evils bewitching us.
Thank you Adam, you have the audacity to call a pig just that, a pig! Comment Dr.Adam, i salute you. Very good article
This saga expalins why we're perfoming badly in almost all sectors. It is no different from driving forward by using a rear mirror.
Why calling yourself Dr why you don't deserve? The fact that he is doing a second doctorate explains that he got a fake PhD! There are many! Nchimbi, Mahanga, Nagu, and the litany goes on! Sources also whisper that the commissioner of TRA ,Mr Lauwo has a forget Masters degree. There are many. I suggest we design a blog whereby people can post anonymously the names of the officials who have fake degrees. Surely,dokta Adam will be number one!
The scrutiny exercise should start in the cabinet. Just imagine when we reach TPDF! A general with fake passes from Monduli. Uwiiiii Comment Dr.Adam, i salute you. Very good article
This saga expalins why we're perfoming badly in almost all sectors. It is no different from driving forward by using a rear mirror.
Why calling yourself Dr why you don't deserve? The fact that he is doing a second doctorate explains that he got a fake PhD! There are many! Nchimbi, Mahanga, Nagu, and the litany goes on! Sources also whisper that the commissioner of TRA ,Mr Lauwo has a forget Masters degree. There are many. I suggest we design a blog whereby people can post anonymously the names of the officials who have fake degrees. Surely,dokta Adam will be number one!
The scrutiny exercise should start in the cabinet. Just imagine when we reach TPDF! A general with fake passes from Monduli. Uwiiiii Comment Sure Adam, this people claim themselves Dr's, not because they breath special air but because a name starting with Dr seems to be a good qualification to become a Fisadi. Voters trust the name Dr. I think is high time for TCU to wake up. All holders of fake doctorate to be published in public to let people know. Comment Dear 'Dr.' Adam,
It's very disappointing really to see that the governing authorities do know that there are ministers with fake certificates and apart from just complaining they keep quiet. Why then taking to court those who are suspected of forged certificates from BOT?
Is this justice in our country? Is there rule of law in our country or just a bunch of lawless rule? This fashion of some leaders in our country attaching themselves with the title of 'Dr.' started towards the final term of the previous government. Leaders who are concerned with big titles have nothing new except show off, irresponsibility and it is infact a sign of corruption. Just compare with their predecessors, "Dr. Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga" of Zaire, "His Excellency Wa Muyaya Ngwazi Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda" of Malawi, "His Excellency VC DSO MC MBE Al Haj Field Marshal Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire Life President Dr. Idi Amini Dada" of Uganda, and the list goes on and on. What is this? All these have a common history which we all know. Comment It is true that many people who posses PhD are lying it is at for everybody with PhD to give us physical address of his/her university Comment Keep it up, Adam! You are certainly the custodian of national fidelity. Your knowledge, candor and courage deserve nothing short of reverence.I think just one article by you is worth the cost of a year's spending by a full cabinet ministry assigned the responsibility of fighting vice or bringing decency and common sense to the nation. A lutta Continua, Ndugu! Comment Dear "Dokta" Adam:
We can solve this problem today without any delay. How did we know they are called Doktas - it was through the press. Stop referring them as Dr's if you know they are fake. We expect the press - people to use the title "Dr" when they are sure about the individuals degree. Another thing - please educate the press that Honorary Doctorate degrees are not PhD's. Comment Hi. In the future I'm going to keep here links to their sites. But I do not worry about the sites where my link is removed. So if you do not want to see a mountain of links, simply delete this message. After 2 weeks, I will come back and check. Comment Could you help me. I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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Thanks 😛. Aurora. Comment It is joke now!i dont know what are they doing at TCU!Even the Speaker is a joke,i guess he has the power to suspend an MP with a fake certificate!How comes the so called DRS Milton Mahanga and Raphael Chegeni have the most fake of all ,Phds from Washington International University?It is registered in tax haven islands!!!!!!!!Unaccredited!
Wikipedia will tell you anything!
It is really shame because one of them or both are in the cabinet!!!!where are we heading ?I am not sure people of Ukonga know this!!!leNot to mention those of Busega!
God bless Tanzania!I guess it is the only country with cabinet and MPs with the dubious Phds!