What is a police state?
Per the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, a police state is a "country where people’s freedom, especially to travel and to express political opinions, is controlled by the government, with the help of the police."
Now, given what is currently going on since Magufuli's ascension to ascendancy, aren't we now a police state? If we aren't a police state, then what are we?
Everyday we wake up to [news] stories of members of opposition parties getting arrested, harassed, denied their right to peaceably assemble and all that jazz.
We wake up to stories of Joe Publics getting...
Kwa karibu miaka 10 sasa baadhi yetu tumekuwa tukipinga na kukemea vikali sana vikao vya CCM kufanyikia ikulu ya Dar es salaam.
Haya mambo yalishika kasi sana enzi za Jakaya Kikwete [ambaye siku hizi ni kipenzi cha makamanda].
Magufuli naye sasa anauendeleza huo utaratibu wa hovyo.
Hii inakera sana. Siipendi kabisa mimi.
Ndiyo, inawezekana si kinyume na sheria kufanyia hivyo vikao vyao hapo ikulu.
Lakini, hata kama kwa sasa si kinyume na sheria, kufanyia vikao vya kichama kwenye mali ya serikali ya Watanzania si sawa hata kidogo. Inaleta picha mbaya ya matumizi ya mali ya umma kwa...
Utendaji kazi wa Rais Magufuli ni wa ajabu kweli.
Au naweza kusema ni ambao haufuati desturi ama kawaida ya utendaji wa mambo. Ni unorthodox, kwa kimombo 😜.
Hivyo ndivyo ninavyoweza kuuelezea kwa kifupi.
Fuatana nami nikuelezee kwa nini nasema hivyo;
Nimeangalia video fupi ya hotuba aliyoitoa Dkt. Bashiru mara baada ya kuapishwa kwenye hiyo nafasi yake mpya hapo jana.
Katika hotuba yake hiyo ambayo aliitoa bila kusoma, Dkt. Bashiru alisema kuwa jioni ya siku ile aliyoteuliwa, alikuwa yupo sehemu [nahisi labda alikuwa nyumbani kwake] akisoma mafaili ya kazi zake za ukatibu mkuu wa CCM...
I am anti-stupidity and pro-intelligence. Anti-foolishness and pro-common sense.
Having said that, I’m not here to cape for Magufuli on just about anything and everything.
I look at issues on a case by case basis.
Today, the East African Community heads of state held a virtual meeting sans President Magufuli.
Last week SADC did the same.
President Magufuli has missed several of these types of meetings a number of times now.
Is he an isolationist?
It’s hard to make sense of his absences. Like for example, what made him miss today’s virtual gathering?
Did he have an over-packed...
Kwa sasa hizo zinakutosha.
Haya bisha sasa sikuwahi kumkosoa Magufuli…..msssenge wewe 🖕.