Uchochezi wa Mohamed Said na dhihaka kwa Wapigania Uhuru wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar

Mohamed Saidi, ulikuwa na sababu gani ya kuaga hapa jamvini na sasa unarudi kinyemela?Kwani kuzaliwa kwako Dar es salaam kuna manufaa gani kwa taifa hili unalotaka kuliaangamiza kwa kwa uchochezi wako wa kidini? Au ulifanya juhudi gani ili uzaliwe Dar? kwanini ujivunie kuzaliwa Dar kana kwamba kuzaliwa Dar es Salaam ni "achievement". Sasa angalia majivuno yako yanavyo kuletea mateso;
Haya msome na huyu na uzijibu hoja hizi;
Hebu angalia na kigongo kingine hiki hapa!
Babu Mohamed upo hapo?
 

Yericko,

Unajua nakuonea huruma sana.

Mtego wako umekamata chui sio paa.

Ungekuwa una busara ungerudi nyumbani ukamwacha chui.
na mtego wako.

Cha ajabu unakwenda kwenye mtego wako ukaunusuru.

Chui kakunasa wewe.

Umekosa mtoto na maji ya moto.

Hivi hukutegemea kama utapambana na mimi
ulipobandika ile ya "Maaskofu..."

Wewe Kizungu chako ndiyo hiki cha "conspiracy book."

Ndiyo nikasema wewe na kundi lako ndiyo mjikusanye
mje mpambane na mie.

Mwisho...
Kitabu changu ni shubiri kwa mfumokristo.

Ikiwa shubiri huijui na hujui inatibu maradhi gani muulize
Ritz au yule ndugu yake...

Unamjua sana.
 

Niko ndugu yangu.
Nimekusoma.

Laiti ungeingia kwenye bahari yenyewe.

Ungesoma sentensi nzima ungeipata maana kamili.

Ukinyambua huko kuzaliwa Gerezani peke yake hapo
hakuna cha kujadili.

Wazungu wana neno lao "out of context."

Hilo la kurudi mbona nilishaeleza huko nyuma?
Ungekuwa kwanza basi unasoma ndiyo unaandika.

Usikimbilie kuandika kabla ya kusoma unatoa raha ya
mnakasha na we mwenyewe unajifedhehesha.

Huwezi kuja hata na chelewa acha kigongo ikiwa wewe
ni mvivu wa kusoma.

Sasa rudi kasome kisha njoo na magongo.
Insha Allah utanikuta nakusubiri.
 
Westing time for nothing,kama historia haikuandikwa kipindi hicho,hiki kipindi iandikeni kwa ufasihi lakini si kwa kudanganya watu,kama ilivyoonekana kumbe hata hamjui halafu mnapotosha wananchi,Pia mkiandika hiyo historia andikeni na uhusika wa Field Marshal Okelo kwenye mapinduzi ya Zanzibar mbona mfumo Islam unamtoa wakati yeye alihusika moja kwa moja na mapinduzi ya Zanzzibar?
 

Sasa msomi kama hapa umekosolewa kwamba umedanganya si hata kwenye hizo series zako ulizoorodhesha umedanganya watu pia? Huo ndio wasiwasi wangu kwamba unaweza kudanganya watu wote lakini huwezi kudanganya watu wote wakati wote watagundua kwamba you are a traittor
 

E,


Fungua uzi mpya.
Hii mada nzuri sana.

Umekisoma kitabu cha Dk. Harith Ghassany "Kwaheri Ukoloni Kwaheri Uhuru?"
Kina mengi.

Fungua uzi tumwage mchele kwenye kuku wengi.
Utastarehe na nafsi yako.

Huu uwanja ushajaa.
 
Mohamed Saidi umeondoka ukirudi jibu hizo hoja za Nyambala acha kurukia akina Yeriko hoja ulizotakiwa ujibu unakwepa,NENDA KAJIBU HOJA
 

Na hiyo 1953 walikuwa wanaasisi TAA?
 

Wewe ndiye unaetakiwa kuleta ushahidi wa tuhuma zako, na hujauleta mpaka sasa, Mohamed Said anakusaidia kama hupajui, maana unapopajuwa wewe mpaka sasa una YAI, zero, nil.

Mbona una mapungufu ya uelewa? tuhuma ulete wewe halafu ushahidi alete unaemtuhumu?

Unakuwa kama kadondo? unamjuwa kadondo? sidhani kama mtu wa kuja hata mmoja anaweza mjuwa kadondo.
 

Unatuhumu kudanganywa na palipodanganywa hupaoneshi? uko timamu?

Kama upo timamu onesha kimoja ulichodanganywa kwenye kitabu cha Mohamed Said.

Kwanza ilikuwa uchochezi, wenzako wameshindwa kuonesha hata moja la uchochezi. Ikawa dhihaka nayo pia mpaka sasa hawajaonesha, wewe unakuja na "kudanganya" nao pia huuoneshi na nnakupa fursa lakini nna uhakika hutoweza kuuonesha.
 
Yericko Nyerere,

Kwa kuwa unabeba jina la Nyerere ingawa hatujui una uhusiano upi na akina Nyerere, naomba unifafanulie:

1) Kuna wakati Nyerere alipewa sifa mitaani ya kuwa ni "mchonga", jee ni kwa ajili ya kusema hovyo au kwa ajili ya kuchonga meno?

2) Kama ni kwa ajili ya kuchonga meno, meno aliyachonga kabla ya kuingia ukristo huko Tabora au alichongwa utotoni.

3) Au alichongwa baada ya kuingia Ukristo, ujanani au uzeeni?

4) Jee, aliyemchonga hayo meni (kama kachongwa) unamjuwa ni nani? ili tumuweke kwenye kumbukumbu.

5) Pitia hizi picha zikusaidie kutupa majibu.

Haya ni katika kuiendeleza historia ya mtakatifu to be:



6) Kama alipewa sifa hiyo kwa ajili ya kusema hovyo na si kwa ajili ya kuwa kweli kachonga meno, usijibu kitu, ntakuwa jibu nimesha lipata.
 
Mohamed Saidi umeondoka ukirudi jibu hizo hoja za Nyambala acha kurukia akina Yeriko hoja ulizotakiwa ujibu unakwepa,NENDA KAJIBU HOJA

E,

Ikiwa unasoma post hili swali la kujibu maswali nimekwisha lieleza
huko nyuma.

Huwa sijibu kila kitu.
Hujibu jambo ambalo naona litakuwa na manufaa.

Ikiwa na wewe unapenda kufanya mnakasha na mimi nakusihi jambo
moja.

Zingatia mjadala wa kiungwana.

Ningeweza na mimi nikakujibu kifedhuli kama ulivyoniandikia angalia post
zangu za hivi karibuni.

Hayo nayaweza pia.
 

E,

Hapana sikusema uongo katika kitabu changu.

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Baada ya kusoma vitabu, magazeti na majarida hayo hapo juu nikapitia nyaraka za Sykes.

Hizi nyaraka kwa kweli ni katika hazina ambayo sijapata kushuhudia kote nilipopita kufanya
utafiti.

Nimekutana na barua za Keneth Kaunda alizokuwa akiandikiana na akina Sykes mwaka 1953,
barua za wanaharakati wa wakati ule - Rashid Kawawa, Dk Wilbard Mwanjisi, Chief Thomas
Marealle, Julius Nyerere mwaka 1953...

Baada ya kusoma nyaraka hizo nikafanya mahojiano na wale walioshiriki katika TAA na TANU.

Ndipo sasa nilipokaa kitako kuandika.

Ili mtu uwe katika hali ya kusema kuwa mimi nimeandika ''uongo'' itabidi awe ni mwelewa wa
historia ya Tanganyika lau kwa uchache.

Si kitu mtu unaweza kuamka na kusema mwandishi amedanganya.
Ni jambo linalohitaji ujuzi.

Mimi nilikwenda ''maili moja zaidi'' kwa kuleta katika historia mambo mapya kama yalivyokuwa
yakijulikana na kuyaeleza kwa namna nilivyoelezwa na wenyewe wahusika wakuu.

Mathalan.

Iliffe ameandika paper nzima kuhusu chama cha makuli cha Dar es Salaam na alimtaja Abdu Sykes
kama kiongozi mwaka 1948.

Yeye alipitia juu juu.

Mimi nimekieleza kisa kile kwa upande wa makuli wenyewe walikichukuliaje chama chao na vipi walifanya
mipango yao ya kupambana na ukoloni.

Kwa kweli ni mengi.

Yeye hakumuelezea mtu muhimu sana katika mkasa ule G. Hamilton.

Huyu aliletwa na serikali kuja kuwafunza Waafrika namna ya kuendesha vyama vya vya wafanyakazi na
wanafunzi wake walikuwa Abdu Sykes na Islam Barakat.

Badala ya kuwapa ujuzi ule akataka kuwaingiza katika siasa za kikomunisti kuwahujumu Waingereza.
Kisa hiki kinasisimua sana.

Hebu waza hata kwa dakika moja afisa Mzungu kutoka Dockworkers Union, London Mkomunisti.

Nimechukua shida hii kukueleza kwa haya yote ili ujue kuwa siko humu kufanya maskhara.

Tumalize.

Ikiwa wewe unataka kujua ukweli basi andika kwa ustaarabu niulize maswali nami nitakujibu.

Na si lazima ukubaliane nami.
Ila mimi nitakueleza kile ambacho nina hakika hukupata kukusikia hata siku moja.
 

Yericko,

Unaandika kwa pupa bila tafakuri.
Hii inatokana na kutojua historia ya baba yako na Abdu Sykes.

Muulize mama yako atakufahamisha ikhsani iliyokuwapo baina yao.

Bibi yako Bi. Mugaya na Bi. Mluguru biti Mussa mama yake Abdu
walikuwa mashoga wakubwa sana.

Unakifahamu kile kisa cha Nyerere ''kulishwa sumu'' kilitokea nyumbani
kwa Bi Mluguru.

Andika kwa adabu unapomtaja Abdu Sykes huyu ni baba yako.
Kwetu sisi rafiki ya baba yako ni baba yako.

Sasa tuendelee.

Soma hapa chini mambo yalivyokuwa wakati wa uchaguzi wa 1953 kati ya
Abdu Sykes na Nyerere:

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[TD] The election was by a show of hands. Phombeah who was in charge of the Arnatouglo Hall was the returning officer.

Phombeah asked both Abdulwahid and Nyerere to go out of the hall for voting to begin.

The whole week before voting Phombeah was making rounds campaigning for Nyerere. But there was no need of doing that; the TAA inner circle of Abdulwahid, Ally, Dossa Aziz and Rupia had already decided to make Nyerere president of the Association and the election was a mere formality. After Abdulwahid and Nyerere had gone out, voting began.

Abdulwahid ‘lost' the election-the first loss in his whole political career-and Nyerere won by a very small margin.[1]

This was the beginning of the end of the influence of the Sykes family in the TAA and the beginning of Nyerere's political career. From that day the political history of Tanganyika was never to be the same again.

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[TD="width: 601"] It is strange that this milestone in Nyerere's life has neither been documented nor accorded importance.

In his whole political career Nyerere was never again to face a more formidable opponent than Abdulwahid.

This contest between Abdulwahid and Nyerere has become a legend.

Some reports have it that Abdulwahid won the election, others say Nyerere won by a single vote; yet others say that TAA members had to vote thrice to get the winner since the votes were tying.

Dossa Aziz reports that Abdulwahid did not lose that election, and went on to say that:

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[TD="width: 601"] ''There was no way Nyerere could defeat Abdulwahid in Dar es Salaam of 1950s. Abdulwahid was not defeated in that election. We all wanted it to be that way. We wanted Nyerere to assume TAA leadership.''[2]
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[TD="width: 601"] Nyerere himself has never talked about this election or how he came to lead the Party in Dar es Salaam.

The nearest he got to reflect on Abdulwahid was in the farewell speech to Elders of Dar es Salaam, and unfortunately his memory failed him as he could not recall what post Abdulwahid was occupying when he (Nyerere) joined TAA in 1952.
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[TD="width: 601"] In order to understand the dilemma facing Abdulwahid, Nyerere and the TAA leadership, particularly the inner circle, one has to keep in mind that Muslims were a majority in Dar es Salaam and were in control of local politics.

Very few Muslims had confidence in mission-educated Christians. They were perceived as being too close to the colonial state to take a leading role in the struggle for independence, and many people used the election to show their objection to Nyerere.

They saw him as an outsider withdrew their support from the association. Nyerere was new to the town.

He had no political base of his own and was for the most of the week teaching at Pugu, outside Dar es Salaam.

Abdulwahid was flamboyant and as president of TAA he had put colour into the office. He used to invite TAA activists to his house for lunches and dinners and this added to his popularity.

At that time many thought Nyerere would not fit into Abdulwahid's shoes.
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[1] See Listowel, op. cit. p 221 also Iliffe, A Modern History... op. cit. p 510.

[2] Dossa Aziz, interviewed in 1987.
 
Ushahidi wa hotuba niliyobandika hapo juu ni kielelezo tosha cha kuthibitisha uongo wa Mohamed Said.
 
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