Petition: Mr. Sinclair should Stop divulging privileged government information and should not have access to them before the Tanzanian General Public:
Dear Mr. Jim Sinclair,
Recently you released a public statement regarding the mining industry in the African country of Tanzania, that has touched off a justifiable outrage in the Tanzanian Cyberspace and in some segments of the Press.
You wrote that you've had "the privilege" of seeing the yet-unreleased Presidential report on the ailing, corruption-laden mining industry in Tanzania. People are wondering how a foreign investor was able to gain access to a report which has just been turned over to the President by an inquiry commission, before the real stakeholders of the country's mineral resources have had a chance to see it.
Such a blatant leak of a presidential report would have been a no-no in Canada or the US, where your businesses originate from. So, why lower the standards when dealing with small countries Mr. Sinclair? We may be regarded as, or I guess we are, insignificant, impoverished, little failing states on the edge of the universe, but we are not cadavers yet, and such flagrant disregard of our laws and honor of the Presidency is extremely disconcerting to some of us, citizens, albeit the President himself is not bothered, if he actually gave you "the privilege" of a peek at it!
And Mr. Sinclair, if the Commission or the President, whose praise you lavishly sing, had the inexplicable friendliness to show you the report before its formal release to the general public, why would you disparage the people and the Commission with your thinly veiled call to the President not to follow recommendations to fix a malfeasant industry which serves but a venal few? And if you have no problem with the report's recommendations, as you confusingly wrote, why, then, tell the President not to disturb the markets with the report's recommendations?
We just don't know who gave you the "privilege" to see this report before us, the people.
Such international, self-serving influence peddling is the type of superpower hegemony that is decried around the world. The type of paternalistic thinking that's giving America, and her Western cronies, a bad name. It provides excuses to those who cause destabilizing atrocities we are seeing around the world!
We were extremely puzzled and dismayed! Mr. Sinclair, whatever privileged information you might have from His Excellency, we ask you to refrain from discussing or distributing to the public as long as that information is not available officially to the general public. If you don't halt your public dissemination of privileged information you might have, we will consider that to be a clear and present assault to the dignity, independence and honor of the Tanzanian people and our way of life.
We will consider you not as a friend to our country and Tanzanian people but an emerging and obvious threat to our quest for equality, dignity and prosperity or us and our posterity. In our own way we will mount a PR offensive against you and the presence of your investments in Tanzania, till you apologize for this and halt your offensive actions. This we will do.
Sincerely,
Consortium of concerned Tanzanian Citizens,
Organized by : JamiiForums.com
My Take:
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