The Warioba constitutional commission was a charade. While it claimed the people they interviewed wanted presidential powers trimmed Warioba draft did the opposite: the draft report refused even to bring parliamentary accountability to all presidential appointments.
The draft recommended the appointments of the principal officers in the election commission to be done by what they dubbed appointments committee "Kamati ya uteuzi" headed by chief justice and members were chief justice of Zanzibar, speakers and their deputies of both Houses, strangely because of the composition of the Warioba commission included University dons it came as of little surprise the draft recommended University don be included in the NEC apex appointments committee. The Appointments committee as recommended by the Warioba commission and later adopted by the illegal constituency assembly had incurably violated the doctrine of separation of powers between the judiciary, the Parliament and the executive. Moreover, all appointees have the potential to represent the ruling party, CCM and as a result that "Kamati ya uteuzi" defiled all intentions of creating an independent NEC.
Warioba commission refused to reform the local government cloaking its sheer dereliction of duty under the shrubbery of "Serikali za Mitaa siyo suala la Muungano...." was not a union matter....
The Warioba commission refused to separate executive appointments and parliamentary ones hence condoning executive appointments being wantonly abused by the president for the purposes and intents of controlling and leashing the Parliament like a pet [emoji3].
The Warioba constitutional commission was adamant that political appointments sponsored by political parties cease to hold those positions if their memberships in those political parties were terminated claiming it is to sustain discipline [emoji6]in political parties little acknowledging democracy is to serve the people of Tanzania and not elites in the political parties.
The Warioba commission refused to curtail public servants from holding more than one post or holding positions in political parties and in the government or barring judicial officers from holding executive positions. The violations of the doctrine of separation of powers is overwhelmingly the very reason abuse of executive powers is not eviscarated.
The Warioba commission refused to impose two term limits on MPs, Councillors and principal officers in the political parties as a condition to access subsidy.
The Warioba commission refused to change the sanctum of our constitutional democracy from multiparty nonsense to democracy of the people of the United Republic of Tanzania. It makes no logic at all that our foolhardy democracy is for political parties not for the people!
Part of the problem of the Warioba commission was its legitimacy. It was established by unconstitutional law which is an alien to constitutional reforms.
So it is in this light we appraise Warioba utterances as insincere and very misleading
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