Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

And the consequences can also be very grave in An African context

Or in hardcore facts, democracy threat

Remember how Idi Amin Dada Dada ascendancy to power?

It's to many a historian Milton Obote wouldn't have been toppled had he looked the other way after he came to terms with how Idi Amin was amassing wealth under his watch

But it's very debatable how long Idi Amin Dada would have been content answering to inept civilians once extremely loaded

Greed is a curse

Once bitten by greed incontinence becomes the hallmarks of embodiment of that loser

At beginning he will say please forgive me that housing loan

Then he will come back for a second mortgage

Then a third mortgage

Before you know it, he ask for a car loan

Then a cargo carrying pickups

A loan after a loan and before another there will be a request to write off previous ones

As the civilian rulers grappling with appeasement of men and women in uniforms

They begin losing their own ironclad grip on budgetary allocations and actual expenditure

If you peek at the last budget

Damning facts indicate ingratiating the military comes at the expense of development budget

Civilian rulers are almost toothless to control recurrent budget

Because almost 70 percent is wages and allowances

Unless they offload civil servants which is in itself a very unpopular move