We have already projected January Makamba will retain his Bumbuli seat but we would also like to probe the reasoning of his stay in power in politics.
One, in his earliest stab in parliamentary politics following his dad retirement in the same seat, he had made a plethora of promises to the Economist Magazine on how he gonna rejuvenate the Bumbuli agro industry economy.
He had promised cold storage and transportation via refrigerated trucks of fruits to Dar Es Salaam and overseas markets were prime in his fertile mind. He also had promised to attract investors in fruit factories to add value, extend expiry dates and expand the market for fruits growers in his then Bumbuli constituency to be conquered.
Once he had attained his personal political agenda and was an MP he spectacularly changed his tack.
He hastily abandoned his earlier promises as he scaled the heights of his national political prominence....
The economy of Bumbuli remains a shack economy and he has done nothing valuable even to get the nomination....
His 2015 presidential stab gunning down the CCM presidential nomination seemly has boosted his political clout in Bumbuli constituency as ethnic pride of producing a presidential material from backyard appears to temporarily work for him....it will be interesting to see how he parries away questions from the opposition of why after a decade or so clutching the MP seat he has almost zero impact on fruit economy....
It appears his stay in power founded on all wrong reasons and this kinda of survival is only possible in a banana Republic masquerading as a lower middle income country!
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