President Jakaya Kikwete warns East African neighbours against sidelining Tanzania!!!

[Kabaridi]

DODOMA, TANZANIA: Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has spoken about the fate of his country’s future in the East African Community ( EAC) saying Tanzania will not leave the regional bloc.

Addressing the Tanzanian Parliament in Dodoma, Kikwete said accusations that his country is an unwilling partner are unfounded adding that Tanzania has never been invited to any meeting attended by leaders from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, nations that have come to call themselves willing partners.

“If they invited us but we refused, then they can claim so, but I have not received even a single invite.” Kikwete said.

Kikwete also refuted claims that Tanzania is delaying quick intergradient of the region, insisting that such claim are not even close to the reality urging that Tanzania has practically shown that it is not opposed to integration as evident by it the coming together Tanganyika and Zanzibar to form Tanzania.

“The Tanganyika Zanzibar union is the only one in Africa that has lasted longest, many countries have tried but failed, next year we will be celebrating 50 years” Kikwete told parliament in his speech delivered in Kiswahili.

Kikwete said Tanzania remains a faithful member of EAC because it has implemented the treaty that revived the community and obeys its various protocols and lawful agreements arrived at by the community’s organs.

“If there is something we have not done well, it is because of its foundation and not because we have ignored decisions. If the commission wants to decide how we will relate to Mozambique, have we reached that level yet?” Kiwete wondered.

The president also told parliament that Tanzania has spent a lot of time and resources in making EAC reach where it is and it would be very expensive for them to quit or act in a manner that would weaken its growth.

“We contribute Usd12 million to the community’s budget every year, nobody in their right mind would throw away such investment.”

Kiwetete however, listed to the applause of the full house why Tanzania is seen to be dragging its feet in the integration process.

“We are concerned about the fast tracking of the integration, land, employment and immigration these are the only aspects we do not agree on.”

Standard Digital News - Kenya : President Jakaya Kikwete says Tanzania is concerned about land, immigration, employment and acceleration of political federation

 

[livefire]

warns who? Kabaridi when such news pop up take some malt, its refreshing, very refreshing.....

 

[Maji_Baridi]

"We are concerned about the fast tracking of the integration, land, employment and immigration these are the only aspects we do not agree on."

Bwana Kikwete, what else is there? Those are the main sticking points of the EAC. This union has been crafted & molded for so many years for anything to be termed as "fast tracking". Get on the bus or get out of the way.

 

[WENYELE]

“We are concerned about the fast tracking of the integration, land, employment and immigration these are the only aspects we do not agree on.”

Bwana Kikwete, what else is there? Those are the main sticking points of the EAC. This union has been crafted & molded for so many years for anything to be termed as "fast tracking". Get on the bus or get out of the way.

Teh...we will never get on the bus so easily as u thnk and we wont get out of the way! Never ever!

 

[ZeMarcopolo]

"We are concerned about the fast tracking of the integration, land, employment and immigration these are the only aspects we do not agree on."

Bwana Kikwete, what else is there? Those are the main sticking points of the EAC. This union has been crafted & molded for so many years for anything to be termed as "fast tracking". Get on the bus or get out of the way.

You idiot,

What is "so many years" to you?

Tanzania understands the challenges of union. It has experienced union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar for 50 years now. A half a century of experience is what makes Tanzania behave more wisely than the other EAC states.

Not listening to Tanzania in this is like a newborn who thinks he knows more than his grandfather.

Wisdom is not sold in the market, it is acquired mostly through experience...

 

[Dhuks]

Initially the coalition of the willing was about a transport corridor through kenya which Tanzania rightfully ought not to have been invited but the last meeting in kigali touched on issues that should be handled in eac meeting

 

[Kabaridi]

warns who? Kabaridi when such news pop up take some malt, its refreshing, very refreshing.....

i know this one i posted with a clear head. it is funny tz is now playing the victim. EAC as a political bloc will continue being a hindrance to the economic progress and peace initiatives of east africa and its people and any political elements withing EAC must be now be scuttled for economic integration. I am glad kenya uganda and rwanda have shown intent and have hit the ground running

 

[livefire]

i know this one i posted with a clear head. it is funny tz is now playing the victim. EAC as a political bloc will continue being a hindrance to the economic progress and peace initiatives of east africa and its people and any political elements withing EAC must be now be scuttled for economic integration. I am glad kenya uganda and rwanda have shown intent and have hit the ground running

i would rather have Tz keep singing EA can't do without her, some morons honestly over estimate there importance....#no offense intended.

Its not once, twice or thrice that Tz has rescinded/renegaded on earlier agreed frameworks. Every organization has acceptable internal stress limits beyond which constituting members have to dev means of dodging the trouble maker.

as Maji_Baridi stipulates, its an effort in futility if the core points of which EAC is founded are always shot down by one imbecile that deems herself the pace setter at the expense of other members.

If Tz wants to show commitment as a "willing" partner, let her prove her worth by bending over or she stays forever aside.

Coming days seems interesting.

 

[Kabaridi]

integration, land, employment and immigration
livefire what am saying is the above are the components that create the basis for any integration, so by tz curtailing the same and then go ahead to claim that an EAC bloc exist, what are their players sniffing currently???............

commercial interests being driven by handful of people within tz has hindered east african countries from accruing full benefits of the EAC..........
I know kenya has policies on the three as well as TZ. if it has always been a question of who will blink first, tz must exit the scene, as nobody is interested with them. no one has shown interest in their model. let tz forget EAC and take pride in her natural resources/land and rightly so, as for kenya rwanda and uganda. these are not failed states like the DRC. no one can curtail integration--free movement of people within east africa hoping to call that 'eac bloc'.

 

[livefire]

integration, land, employment and immigration
livefire what am saying is the above are the components that create the basis for any integration, so by tz curtailing the same and then go ahead to claim that an EAC bloc exist, what are their players sniffing currently???............

I know kenya has policies on the three as well as TZ. if it has always been a question of who will blink first, tz must exit the scene, as nobody is interested with them. no one has shown interest in their model. as for Kenya and uganda and Rwanda. these are not failed states like the DRC. tz wants to curtail integration--free movement of people within tz hoping to call that 'eac bloc'

i get your point mkuu loud n clear.

and as maji baridi clearly querried, i don't know what's intergration without the said, quote n quote:

-integration,
-land,
-employment and
-immigration

i hope the coalition of the willing keeps up with their blue print, Tz is clearly not prime for EAC, maybe later she will and as such she can be unreservedly excused from those four clauses. whether his excellency J.Kikwete explodes at EAC legislature, those four points are the pillar stones of EAC, which really waters his entire speech in entirety minus them. in that case he would just have sent his minister to make the brief

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Its not once, twice or thrice that Tz has rescinded/renegaded on earlier agreed frameworks

Reneged.

 

[The Boss]

Reneged.

Naona kama una some kind of phobia na bad grammar lol

 

[livefire]

Reneged.

lol, shukran mkuu.

 

[Mtumishi Wetu]

Kabaridi if intergration with TZ aimed on atainment of free land resouces, then forget to chain TZ in that system!!
With those wishes you are free to go with those in your fold!!

 

[mwita patrick]

Mnataka integration ya land....Kenya mna ardhi gani ya kushare?????????.....tz ndo consumer.mkubwa wa products za kenya with over 45m population za watu.....ndo maana we are the really.participant wa EAC.....in kenya only few owns land esp those who have but in tz everyone owns the land dats where we can't agree.....kenyatta owns half of Kenya...can't you see that's the problem???????

 

[simplemind]

Naona issue ya ardhi inapigiwa kelele sana. Je wahamiaji wote wakulima? La muhimu ni right to residence and right to own property (HOME) by way of market mechanism ie willing buyer,willing seller. Land speculation and hording should under no circumstance be allowed.

 

[Kabaridi]

Kabaridi if intergration with TZ aimed on atainment of free land resouces, then forget to chain TZ in that system!!
With those wishes you are free to go with those in your fold!!

Mtumishi Wetu those three form the basis of any integration, so for tz to say we differ with majirani on the same. then eac might be a creation of the human mind. populist opposition politicians can use the dysfunctional EAC to posture not forgetting there has been enough time for ironing out issues, ironically players have been playing politics and seeking to satisfy narrow selfish needs/interests, so better it be dissolved, that also shows it has all along not been centred around the people of EA. so goodluck and go tz you have all it takes/natural resources, gas, coal, gold............ and all the best with your union with DRC and burundi

 

[Koborer]

Mnataka integration ya land....Kenya mna ardhi gani ya kushare?????????.....tz ndo consumer.mkubwa wa products za kenya with over 45m population za watu.....ndo maana we are the really.participant wa EAC.....in kenya only few owns land esp those who have but in tz everyone owns the land dats where we can't agree.....kenyatta owns half of Kenya...can't you see that's the problem???????

Fine, stay away then and don't lament when we move on. Keep your land may be even fence off your borders so that we don't threaten it.

 

[JokaKuu]

Koborer, Kabaridi, livefire

..kama una pesa unaweza kukodishwa[hata 99 yrs] ardhi huku Tanzania kupitia Tanzania investment center[tic].

..kwenye masuala ya employment, Tanzania imeajiri Wakenya na Waganda wengi kuliko nchi yeyote ktk jumuiya. sasa tatizo liko wapi??

..kuhusu work permit fee, Rwanda peke yake ndiyo ilikuwa imezifuta. Kenya mlikuwa mna-impose fee ambayo ni almost the same na ya Tanzania.

..I think wenzetu mnapenda sana conflicts. Hata hiyo CoW mambo yake mazuri hayatangazwi, kinachotangazwa ni kuwa Tanzania is isolated.

 

[Maji_Baridi]

You idiot,

What is "so many years" to you?

Tanzania understands the challenges of union. It has experienced union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar for 50 years now. A half a century of experience is what makes Tanzania behave more wisely than the other EAC states.

Not listening to Tanzania in this is like a newborn who thinks he knows more than his grandfather.

Wisdom is not sold in the market, it is acquired mostly through experience...

The same Zanzibar that circumvented the government and registered Iranian oil tankers under TZ flag to avoid the oil embargo? Nice try.