Again,
The ignoble intolerance and graceless gargantuanism veiled under the guising banner of "standards and speed" shall not prevail without the strongest condemnation from Bunge watchers.
The brutal and uncivil language unleashed on the courteous, peace loving and jovial person of MP John Cheyo, an eminent opposition figure, UDP chairman, pioneering textile executive and established respected businessman who rose to presidential politics, is nothing short of bulldozing bullyism and despairing dictatorship. To add insult to injury, the spinmaster clowning as speaker, uses the "dicatorship" card on the poor, outnumbered, disorganized and often convoluted opposition members.This is simply beyond graceless, for even the graceless must abide by the least amount of common human fairness which dictates that, you cannot invoke the last card on a poor, outnumbered opponent.Sitta could not wait to invoke his speakership's finality on a matter that could very easily be spinned by the ordinary CCM spin machine. And John Cheyo is not known for cheap publicity stunts on a grand scale.
If you think I am hyperboling, think about this.
You could never see A.Y Karimjee acting stupid like this.
You could never see Chief Adam Sapi acting stupid like this.
You could never see Chief Erasto Mang'enya acting stupid like this.
You could never see Pius Msekwa acting stupid like this.
What is wrong with our current speaker? Mind you, this is not an incident, it is a trend.
What the speaker is neglecting to acknowledge, or outright ignoring, is that the people of Tanzania (including his constituency) are no fools, some have seen the media reports, and some, like me, did not even need this brouhaha to conclude that.
Even when one closes his eyes, when shifting the face towards the sun, one will feel it's heat and light through the skin. Tanzanians have closed their eyes for far too loong, but now even the unassuming government trusting people, with their eyes closed, can detect that there is something wrong here.Why is the speaker overreacting so much? Why is common civility, a trait that is so famous amongst Tanzania, lacking like a rare commodity in this supposedly most august of our institutions? Is there something we do not know?
Mr. Sitta, if you cannot see the sign on the wall, if you cannot read the mood of the people, if you cannot acknowledge that the days of "Chama Chashika Hatamu" are over - however much of a monopoly CCM still enjoys- you are not only doing democracy and progress a disservice, you are also being naive and hurting your own political career. If you cannot do away with these partisan tendencies for the country and democracy, do so for your own good, before we turn the place upside down and send you and your lot to the Tanzanian version of the guillotine.