Free Erick Kabendera

[Ngwasa Omuyaya]

Mfikisheni mahakamani basi , siku ya ngapi mnamuhoji ,masaa 24 yashapita na ni Kinyume na Katiba mliyoapa kuilinda.

 

[1954]

Tatizo tunachanganya dhambi ya kusema uongo na jinai ya uchochezi.

Kibendera kasema uongo kwamba January amegueka tishio kwenye kinyang'anyiro cha Urais eti kwa sababu amesitisha mifuko ya maplastiki. Nani atachochewa na sentensi hii ya kijinga na ya kialinacha? Unprofessional, ignoramus lies, yes, but they don't constitute a crime, must less sedition.

Kama raia wenu wanaweza kusoma article ya siasa za urais halafu wakatoka na mapanga na pistol kwenda kuua jirani zao na vyombo vya dola basi nchi yenu haina stability na ni ya vichaa tayari, sio kosa la mwandishi mwongo.

Kwa nini tunapenda kutumia ovyo silaha ya "uchochezi"?

Uongo ni uchochezi

 

[MWALLA]

No end in sight as Tanzania’s ruling party CCM goes for ‘dissenters’

Saturday July 27 2019

Tanzania's President John Magufuli delivers a speech during a political rally on July 14, 2015 in Dar es Salaam. Ruling party CCM typically supports a sitting president’s bid for a second term. PHOTO | EMILE COSTARD | AFP
In Summary

• President John Magufuli sacked January Makamba from Cabinet last week.
• Mr Makamba is regarded as a potential successor of President Magufuli.
• His recent campaign for the ban of plastic bags, which was widely praised as successful due to his public education crusade, was seen as an attempt to gain political mileage.

By ERICK KABENDERA

What started as a letter by two former secretaries-general of Tanzania’s ruling party defending themselves against allegations of trying to block President John Magufuli from running in 2020 saw the sacking of January Makamba—the son of one of the letter’s authors—Yusuf Makamba from Cabinet last week.
Mr Makamba, 45, was the minister of environment until July 20, when he was fired for alleged poor performance.
However, his followers describe him as a political genius who helped modernise the way the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party conducts its election campaigns.
He is praised for playing a leading role in helping President Magufuli defeat rival-turned-ally former prime minister Edward Lowassa in the 2015 presidential election.
However, his rivals see him as a power-hungry politician who is behind a faction within CCM plotting to block the president from running for a second term in office.
Some allege he played a role in writing the complaint letter to the Elders Council. The other author was Abdulrahman Kinana. The former SGs submitted the letter to the Elders’ secretary, Pius Msekwa, who sent it to the party secretariat.
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Now, former information minister Nape Nnauye, Mr Makamba and his father, and Mr Kinana are accused of instigating a rebellion against the party chairman. A section of party cadres is calling for their expulsion from CCM.

Livingstone Lusinde, the Mtera MP, says CCM should also release the asset-tracing report on officials accused misappropriating party assets, saying some of the former leaders were implicated and its public release would help silence them.

Political mileage
Bashiru Ally, the current CCM secretary-general, last week on Monday assured party members that all was well and warned that the party would not tolerate those who seek to benefit politically from internal disputes.
“We will sack anybody from the party because we have the procedures, regulations, constitution and culture. I warn cadres against using the ongoing nonsense to win in the local governments' elections,” the secretary-general said in Dodoma while launching CCM business stores.

CCM rarely expels its members, but in March 2017 it removed 12 cadres, including a minister, Sophia Simba, after they were accused of supporting Mr Lowassa in the 2015 general election.
Mr Makamba is regarded as a potential successor of President Magufuli. His recent campaign for the ban of plastic bags, which was widely praised as successful due to his public education crusade, was seen as an attempt to gain political mileage.

He was one of the top five CCM ticket contenders in 2015. However, he has been accused of plotting to challenge the president in 2020.
The other top 2015 CCM nomination rankings were former minister Benard Membe and President Magufuli, who won the nomination.
Mr Makamba was then given the powerful role of overseeing CCM’s campaign strategy dubbed “IT Masaki,” which attracted attention from both the opposition and the ruling party, and is credited with attracting young voters who have traditionally voted for the opposition.

 

[MWALLA]

Tatizo tunachanganya dhambi ya kusema uongo na jinai ya uchochezi.

Kibendera kasema uongo kwamba January amegueka tishio kwenye kinyang'anyiro cha Urais eti kwa sababu amesitisha mifuko ya maplastiki. Nani atachochewa na sentensi hii ya kijinga na ya kialinacha? Unprofessional, ignoramus lies, yes, but they don't constitute a crime, must less sedition.

Kama raia wenu wanaweza kusoma article ya siasa za urais halafu wakatoka na mapanga na pistol kwenda kuua jirani zao na vyombo vya dola basi nchi yenu haina stability na ni ya vichaa tayari, sio kosa la mwandishi mwongo.

Kwa nini tunapenda kutumia ovyo silaha ya "uchochezi"?

Kama wanavotumia kuteka kunyonga hao wasiojulikana

 

[BAK]

Shule alisomea UJINGA huyu. Wa kuokotwa jalalani.

 

[BAK]

Kwanini hakuwa amekamatwa kabla ya article hii? Na baada tu siku chache wakamdaka kama si majirani zake mwili wake ungeokotwa ndani ya kiroba au unaning’ing’inia Mkuranga, AMEJINYONGA.

Sinauhakika

 

[MWALLA]

Cc Tindikali

 

[Tindikali]

Uongo ni uchochezi

Unajua kabisa unajirusha akili. Uongo sio uchochezi.

Uchochezi ni kupalia makaa watu wafarakane.

Ramadhani na Salumu hawawezi kuanza kupigana kwa vile eti Juma amemwambia Mwenyekiti wa Kijiji hakwenda shule wakati kaenda.

Uchochezi ni pale Mwenyekiti wa Kijiji anaposema "Juma, anaepinga tusinunue gari la Kijiji badala ya kujenga zahanati, ni adui wa kijiji, na tunajua maadui huwa wanafanywa nini"; halafu punde si punde Juma akachomwa mishale nje ya baraza la kijiji. Hapo umechochea mtu auliwe.

 

[Victoire]

Kwi kwi kwi kwi article imejaa story tu za kwenye magazeti mengine. Mbona hapo hakuna cha kumuudhi mkuu. Kama hadithi flani tu hivi.

 

[Pakawa]

Hii ndiyo article iliyomuudhi bugirichato na kutoa maagizo Erick Kabendera akamatwe na kubambikiwa kesi.

Kuna watu waliumbwa na roho za ajabu sana. Kutesa mwingine ndio furaha yako
Mungu amtetee ndugu yetu
Katika maisha lazima ujue 'Ipo siku'
Ipo siku majuto atakuwa mjukuu kwa baadhi ya watu
Ipo siku nuru itaangaza kwenye giza nene
Ipo siku Mungu atatuonyesha Ukuu na Utukufu wake
Tuzidi Kumwombea ndugu yetu Mungu akatende muujiza juu yake!

 

[BAK]

Alikuwa aokotwe huyu akiwa maiti kama si majirani zake kuwajia juu wasiojulikana waliotaka kumchukua kimya kimya na kuondoka naye. Kulikuwa na sababu zipi za kuwaamrisha voda wahakikishe simu zake zinakuwa disable kama siyo kutaka kummaliza.

Na ni nani huyo aliyewaamrisha voda wazime simu zake!? Wanamjua kwa jina na wadhifa wake Serikalini!?

Kuna watu waliumbwa na roho za ajabu sana. Kutesa mwingine ndio furaha yako
Mungu amtetee ndugu yetu
Katika maisha lazima ujue 'Ipo siku'
Ipo siku majuto atakuwa mjukuu kwa baadhi ya watu
Ipo siku nuru itaangaza kwenye giza nene
Ipo siku Mungu atatuonyesha Ukuu na Utukufu wake
Tuzidi Kumwombea ndugu yetu Mungu akatende muujiza juu yake!

 

[BAK]

By BBC
More by this Author
Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera, who was arrested on Monday, is to be charged with sedition, his lawyer has said.
Jebra Kambol said in a statement that the police first questioned his client over his citizenship even though he holds a Tanzanian passport.
He was then passed over to the cyber crime unit for interrogation, the lawyer said.
Kabendera is now being charged with sedition in connection with an article published in The Economist about the nation's president entitled: John Magufuli is bulldozing Tanzania’s freedom, Mr Kambol said.
If you search for the article online, it now links to an Economist piece published on Thursday called Another critic of President John Magufuli is silenced.
"Erick has been denied police bail despite the fact that bail is a constitutional right in Tanzania," Mr Kambol said, adding that officers had been sent on Friday to search the journalist's house.
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Since Mr Magafuli, nicknamed “The Bulldozer”, came to office in 2015, laws overseeing the media have been toughened and a number of newspapers and radio stations have been suspended for "incitement".
He has often warned about fake news in the wake of articles critical of the government, saying there are limits to press freedom.

 

[BAK]

This article was written 2 years ago. So why the sedition charges were not filed then? WHY NOW!?

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The dinosaur of DodomaJohn Magufuli is bulldozing the opposition and wrecking the economy
“African socialism” did not work in Tanzania last time, either

Print edition | Middle East and Africa
Oct 19th 2017 | NAIROBI
CRITICALLY ill in a hospital in Nairobi, Tundu Lissu, the chief whip of Tanzania’s main opposition party, Chadema, is a lesson to those who would criticise the Tanzanian president, John Magufuli (pictured). On September 7th Mr Lissu was gunned down in broad daylight near his house in the sleepy administrative capital, Dodoma, after returning from a session in parliament. The attempted assassination came just two weeks after he was arrested—for the sixth time—for such things as insulting the president. It is not clear who was behind the attack. A month later, the government has yet to make any arrests. Mr Lissu had previously complained about being followed, and said he worried he might be killed. “This cowardly attack on one of Tanzania’s most fearless and prominent politicians raises concerns about the safety of all dissident voices in the country, at a time when space for dissent is quickly shrinking,” said Amnesty International, a human-rights group.
Tanzania, a country of 55m people on the East African coast, is rarely seen as one of Africa’s problem cases. Unlike Congo, Uganda or Burundi, it has never had a civil war or a military dictatorship. And although its elections have never once ousted the party (and its predecessor) that has governed Tanzania since independence in 1962, nor are they especially bloody affairs. Yet over the past two years, since the election of John Magufuli, Tanzania’s descent into autocracy has been stunning. It is a lesson in how when the presidency is strong and other institutions are weak, a single bad leader can set a country back many years.

 

[BAK]

Tyranny in Tanzania

Another critic of President John Magufuli is silenced
The repression is hurting Tanzania’s reputation and its economy

Print edition | Middle East and Africa
Aug 1st 2019 | JOHANNESBURG
JOHN MAGUFULI, Tanzania’s president, is known as “the Bulldozer”. When he took office in 2015 the nickname was seen as a compliment: at last the East African country of 57m people had a leader who would take on graft and get things done. In his first months in charge Mr Magufuli wasted no time in cracking down on corruption (at least among his enemies). But since then the only things being squashed in Tanzania are civil liberties.

One observer who knows this well is Erick Kabendera. A journalist, Mr Kabendera has written for the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company, and many other international outlets. He has documented Mr Magufuli’s abuses of power, including a proposal last year that would make it illegal to contradict official statistics.

On July 29th Mr Kabendera was forcibly removed from his home on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital, by plain-clothes policemen. His phone, and those of his wife and neighbours, were taken. The premise for the abduction is unclear and his whereabouts are unknown.

Mr Kabendera’s arrest is not the first attack on journalists in Tanzania under Mr Magufuli. Azory Gwanda, a freelance, was abducted in 2017 and has not been seen since. At least four newspapers and two radio stations have been closed. Legislation enacted in 2016 made it harder to criticise those in power. (The East African Court of Justice says it violates press freedom.)

Other critics of the regime, including opposition MPs, are frequently arrested. One MP, Tundu Lussu, was shot in 2017 in an assassination attempt. Companies such as Acacia Mining have been shaken down for huge tax bills.
The repression is hurting Tanzania. Earlier this year the IMF warned that authoritarianism and arbitrary policies were crimping growth in what was once one of the continent’s fastest-growing economies. Mr Magufuli, naturally, blocked the report’s release.

But it is the human cost that is most apparent. Tanzania was until recently a relatively liberal country in a region dotted with tyrannies. Under Mr Magufuli that reputation is in tatters. It is a story that Mr Kabendera has told. He seems to be paying the price for that.■
This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Taken"

 

[mzalendoalltz]

Ujinga huu

 

[chase amante]

Daah,mungu anawaona ccm

 

[MarkHilary]

Mimi kama mwandishi wa habari natumia kalamu yangu kulinda maslahi ya taifa langu dhidi ya mabeberu. Natumia akili,kipaji na uwezo wangu wote kuhakikisha taifa langu ni imara mbele ya maadui zake. Natumia kalamu yangu kama silaha kali kabisa kulinda heshima ya taifa langu

Kamwe sitoacha maadui wa nchi yangu watumie kalamu yangu,kipaji na maarifa yangu kwa ajili ya nchi zao,na dhidi ya taifa langu. Sitoacha kamwe mahitaji yangu binafsi ya uchumi wa familia yangu yaharibu na kuumiza mustakabali wa wananchi milioni hamsini wa taifa langu wakati ninayo fursa ,kama nikiamua kutumia uwezo wangu wote niliopewa na manani ya kukidhi mahitaji yangu binafsi ya kiuchumi kwa ubora mara elfu moja kama nikiungana na wananchi wenzangu na viongozi katika kutetea maslahi ya taifa langu yaliyoko hatarini kukwapuliwa na mabeberu

Basi kwa sababu nimeamua kuwa kibaraka,mlafi na dalali wa kuangamiza taifa langu,nimeamua bora nipate kiduchu ughaibuni ila mimi na wananchi wa taifa langu tuendelee kuishi utumwani mpaka kizazi cha kumi na,malalo ya wototo wetu,wajukuu,vilembwe na vilembekeze yachukuliwe bure na mabwanyeye ili taifa langu na utukufu wake vifutwe kwenye historia ya dunia ndani ya karne moja,adhabu yoyote iliyo halali au haramu kwa namna halali au haramu na iwe juu yangu. Tafadhali msinitetee kwa ujinga wenu. Niliamua mwenyewe kufanya upande ulio muovu wa maisha yangu. Niacheni nifanye malipizi. Malipo ni hapahapa duniani! Karma haibagui. Ni kani ya asili ya ulimwengu!

 

[boaz mwalwayo]

Kwa ushahidi upi??? Unathibitisha vipi kuwa hii article ndiyo iliyommuudhi JPM?? Halafu una ushahidi upi kuwa JP alitoa maagizohuyo anayeitwa Kabendera akamatwe??? Tukiacha hayo ni kipi cha ukweli kkwenye article hiyo?? Je, huyo Makamba ni potential successor wa Magufuli? Habari inaandikwa kichochezi halafu huyo eti anajiita mwandishi wa habari?? Objectivity kwenye habari hiyo iko wapi?? Huyo aliyepachika taaluma ya uaqndishi ni vvema aendelee kuhojiwa huko Polisi...Hatuwezi kuwa na watu wa aina hii wanaofanya mambo kinyume cha taratibu kwa kisingizio cha freedom of expression and opinion...freedom of expression is not absolute anywhere in this world/planet...

Hata Mtoto wa darasa la pili anajua hilo kunamkosoaji awamu anaeweza kukosoa akabaki salama ni yupi Mfano lissu

 

[Titicomb]

Msaliti na afanywe lolote lile kutoa funzo kwa wengine.

Erick ni adui wa taifa, anastahili adhabu kali sana.

Sitaki unafiki kuigiza namuonea huruma Erick Kabendera Msaliti.

Ikilazimu aongezewe adhabu tu zaidi ya hiyo waliyopanga kumpa. Huyu ndio alikuwa anashiriki mpango wa vizazi vyangu kuishi kwa shida au uhamishoni.

 

[eliakeem]

Kwanini hakuwa amekamatwa kabla ya article hii? Na baada tu siku chache wakamdaka kama si majirani zake mwili wake ungeokotwa ndani ya kiroba au unaning’ing’inia Mkuranga, AMEJINYONGA.

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Wewe ni mfano wa kuigwa.