Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

[Rutashubanyuma]

1. Is respect for justice measured by the length of time between the date of an appointment to office and the date of revocation of the appointment? Pathetic!
2. "... NEC will never run a free and fair election until ..." Is this a statement of fact or your own opinion?

If you are keen in knowing how Tanzanian elections are rigged pay attention to the pleadings and the evidence being hotly argued in our High Courts: Polling supervisors are always under immense duress to announce rigged results in favour of the ruling party regardless of position contested.

In a specific case of TANDAHIMBA, the presidential results were rigged in the constituent forms, and NEC announced rigged results until they were shamed by web transparency.

In most other constituency presidential, parliament and division electoral results were deprived of transparency and now we have a leadership which we are not sure it truly capture the will of the voters cast in ballot box.

 

[Pulchra Animo]

You are out of touch of the real issues behind this sacking.

She gave evidence in a court of law against a ccm parliamentary aspirant leading to the opposition triumph and after her reappointment ccm zealots complained and the ignominious sacking followed.

Had NEC not employing the services of local government in the last election she would not have deponed any evidence and her appointment would not have been subjected to the witch hunting.

The marriage of convenience between NEC and local government as its election supervising agent removes all kinds of pretence of a free and fair election.

Local government employees are holding their posts at the pleasure of appointer which has vested interests to rig an election to his favour.

Sometimes a little humility in declaring ignorance saves nine while arrogance which only succeeds in displaying your folly sucks!

So in short no correlation of this stinking appointment with democratic credentials as you had wittingly alleged.

And no opinion but restating the facts as they are.....

1. Gossips and speculations are just that; they shouldn't be repackaged and offered as evidence in support of anything! Is this the first time CCM ha lost an election case? Better yet, how did the loss of the two parliamentary seats in question differ from the loss of each and every parliamentary seat that the opposition coalition won in the 2015 election and the responsible DED was not sacked?

2. As a matter of fact, NEC officials and deputies thereof are currently presidential appointees, directly or indirectly, and so are DEDs. That said, how would a returning officer who isn't a DED enhance the NEC's ability to conduct a free and fair election?

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

1. Gossips and speculations are just that; they shouldn't be repackaged and offered as evidence in support of anything! Is this the first time CCM ha lost an election case? Better yet, how did the loss of the two parliamentary seats in question differ from the loss of each and every parliamentary seat that the opposition coalition won in the 2015 election and the responsible DED was not sacked?

2. As a matter of fact, NEC officials and deputies thereof are currently presidential appointees, directly or indirectly, and so are DEDs. That said, how would a returning officer who isn't a DED enhance the NEC's ability to conduct a free and fair election?

You still are in the dark no wonder you dismiss serious matters as gossips and speculations.

Decisions in a courtroom never encroach on NEC powers of determining electoral winners based on election law. Having this hindsight you were dead wrong to deduce ccm two election losses as a result of court decisions.

More paramount, the TANDAHIMBA case study cited was presidential outcome unrelated to the constituency election dispute now decided by the High Court. So as I have indicated early a little humility than presuming knowhow which you lack could have deeply mitigated your hopeless situation.

That returning officer was victimized for doing her job. Had her court deposition favoured CCM she would have kept her job. Her reappointment confirmed beyond reasonable doubt was meritorious until the cat came out of the bag: She is opposition sympathizer!


If you were conversant with my early assertions NEC reforms require parliamentary vetting after equal opportunity is afforded to all qualified candidates interested to fill vacancies there. The NEC apex be formed by stakeholders which include political parties, NGOs among others.

There will be presidential appointments after parliamentary vetting and the appointees afforded with security of tenure available to the High Court judges. Just before the commencement of the last election, the then president Kikwete hazardously changed the composition of the commissioners of NEC in a manner which impute an exertion to rig the election. Security of tenure will not only castrate an overzealous president from interfering with the integrity of election but also will assure commissioners they are above political intrigues and manipulations let alone intimidation of reprisals while serving there

NEC should employee its own staff like in Kenya and cease from outsourcing the local government as its election implementing agent.

The rest of your comments are highly misconceived of the meaningful reforms demanded and required at NEC.

 

[Pulchra Animo]

You still are in the dark no wonder you dismiss serious matters as gossips and speculations.

Decisions in a courtroom never encroach on NEC powers of determining electoral winners based on election law. Having this hindsight you were dead wrong to deduce ccm two election losses as a result of court decisions.

More paramount, the TANDAHIMBA case study cited was presidential outcome unrelated to the constituency election dispute now decided by the High Court. So as I have indicated early a little humility than presuming knowhow which you lack could have deeply mitigated your hopeless situation.

That returning officer was victimized for doing her job. Had her court deposition favoured CCM she would have kept her job. Her reappointment confirmed beyond reasonable doubt was meritorious until the cat came out of the bag: She is opposition sympathizer!


If you were conversant with my early assertions NEC reforms require parliamentary vetting after equal opportunity is afforded to all qualified candidates interested to fill vacancies there. The NEC apex be formed by stakeholders which include political parties, NGOs among others.

There will be presidential appointments after parliamentary vetting and the appointees afforded with security of tenure available to the High Court judges. Just before the commencement of the last election, the then president Kikwete hazardously changed the composition of the commissioners of NEC in a manner which impute an exertion to rig the election. Security of tenure will not only castrate an overzealous president from interfering with the integrity of election but also will assure commissioners they are above political intrigues and manipulations let alone intimidation of reprisals while serving there

NEC should employee its own staff like in Kenya and cease from outsourcing the local government as its election implementing agent.

The rest of your comments are highly misconceived of the meaningful reforms demanded and required at NEC.

This is rather a bunch of malarkey, fraught with internal inconsistencies and a lack of directional consistency! Unless and until you free yourself from the partisanship yoke, your ability to make an impartial and objective analysis will remain severely constrained and, therefore, of little or no relevance.

Mbilinyi was not the first, and won't be the last, DED to declare an opposition political candidate victorious, nor was she the first DED to testify in an election case, effectively defending her own decision to declare the opposition candidate a winner. Each and every DED who declares one political candidate victorious over another (or others) is a potential defendant in an election case. There's no reasonable cause to believe that a DED would testify against her own decision, whether good or bad!

Because of your inability to see the forest for the trees, you previously argued that NEC wouldn't be able to conduct a free and fair election unless it severed its functional relationship with the local government machinery, as though NEC itself were outside the presidential span of control. After realizing that your prescription was really a sham, you're now cunningly moving away from it in a desperate move to come up with a plausible prescription!

You won't move me to respond to this kind of moving target again!

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

This is rather a bunch of malarkey, fraught with internal inconsistencies and a lack of directional consistency! Unless and until you free yourself from the partisanship yoke, your ability to make an impartial and objective analysis will remain severely constrained and, therefore, of little or no relevance.

Mbilinyi was not the first, and won't be the last, DED to declare an opposition political candidate victorious, nor was she the first DED to testify in an election case, effectively defending her own decision to declare the opposition candidate a winner. Each and every DED who declares one political candidate victorious over another (or others) is a potential defendant in an election case. There's no reasonable cause to believe that a DED would testify against her own decision, whether good or bad!

Because of your inability to see the forest for the trees, you previously argued that NEC wouldn't be able to conduct a free and fair election unless it severed its functional relationship with the local government machinery, as though NEC itself were outside the presidential span of control. After realizing that your prescription was really a sham, you're now cunningly moving away from it in a desperate move to come up with a plausible prescription!

You won't move me to respond to this kind of moving target again!

Please when will you begin to back your postulations with facts and anecdotes? The rest of your contributions are irrelevant in that discourse. In fact since independence no presidential appointee got the sack in less than two days after being appointed because of the ccm hostile evidence!

I am throwing a gauntlet at you to refute this averment with concrete facts. Please save me from misplaced conjurations of yours!

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

One thing I know: CCM biggest threat to its quest of perpetual stay in power ironically is the Magufuli administration ironclad lockdown against the opposition.

Most voters are asking themselves whether illegal suspension of some parts of the constitution like multiparty democracy will enhance or weaken the rule of law which is a key ingredient for equity development.

Without checks and balances well enshrined in our constitution the lofty objects of sustainable development now being volubly brandished by the rulers of the day are unachievable!

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

Development paradigm which is centred on people has a minimum of four characters namely:-

1) Multiparty democracy

2) Accountability

3) Interactive dialogue or participation, and,

4) Transparency

Anybody who claims we need to trust him to lead us to the Promised Land has either no inkling of what meaningful development is or he is simply selfish and consequently unfit to lead.

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

How do we define an insult?

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

If you call someone a fool is that degrading if in your considered opinion he is nothing less than just that!

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

If you call someone a dictator is that degrading when you have the evidence he has no regard to the very constitution he swore to uphold when sworn in office?

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

But if you call someone a madman and you have no medical report to bail you out then trouble is brewing in your doorstep.

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

So again let us go full circle for just one more time....what is an insult and what is nor?

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

An insult is to portray someone untruthful but it is not an insult if you bespeak the truth about that character.

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

*POLISI TANZANIA WAMFANYA TUNDU LISSU KUWA MTU MASHUHURI DUNIANI APATA HITS MILLIONI 82 KATIKA SEARCH ENGINE YA GOOGLE NYINGI KUTOKA AUSTRALIA, MAREKANI NA ULAYA WAKITAFUTA (SEARCH) NENO TUNDU LISSU.*

Kesi anazofunguliwa Tundu Lissu na Polisi zimemfanya kuwa mtu mashuhuri duniani, Mtandao wa Google Search Engine umepata maulizo (hits) millioni 82 zote zikitafufuta (search) neno Tundu Lissu huku hits nyingi zikitokea Australia.
Kutokana na takwimu hizo za Google Search Engine sasa Tundu Lissu anaingia katika orodha ya watu mashuhuri duniani kwa gharama ya Polisi wa Tanzania. Tundu Lissu anamfuatia Donald Trumph kwa kupata hits nyingi katika mfumo wa Internet wengine wakiandika Tundu Lissu.
Katika kurasa za Facebook taarifa za Tundu Lissu and jina Tundu Lissu pia zimepata "Like" millioni nane na mia tano na sitini hadi leo saa kumi na moja jioni kwa saa za GMT.
Chanzo : Google Statistics

After this arrest, Tundu Lissu has garnered more than 82 million hits.
He is really getting the kick thanks to his tormentors

 

[Shoctopus]

Tanzanians know it's no easy task to secure jobs and growth in a highly competitive, volatile and uncertain medium global economy. Despite the challenges and the naysayers, we are going to make it happen.

Reshared:
Economic Overview
The overall macroeconomic performance remains strong with a high rate of growth and a low rate of inflation. Real grows domestic product (GDP) growth is projected at 7% for 2015. From the supply side, the main drivers of growth recently has been several fast growing sectors, such as construction, transport and financial services. Inflation has gradually declined over the past 30 months due to tight monetary policy and falling international energy and food prices. While inflation has slightly increased recently largely driven by increase in domestic food prices and possible ragged effects of sharp depreciation of the local currency during the first half of 2015, the level remains relatively low at 5.6% in February 2016.

The external sector of the economy improved following a declining current account deficit that stood at 8.1% of GDP in 2015. Export growth driven by regional trade in manufacture goods and reduced imports bill from cheaper imported oil contributed to this decline.

Although revenue performance in 2015/16 has been better than in the past few years, shortfall has been experienced in the first quarter of the FY driven largely by weak implementation of the new 2015 VAT ACT. The new government is committed to 4.2% of GDP fiscal deficit target for 2015/16. The government faces additional expenditure needs, equivalent to 0.7% of GDP, coming from expenditures carried over from last FY, payment of government arrears to TANESCO, and additional fiscal space need for provision of free basic education and expansion of higher education students' loans program (new presidential initiatives).

Social Context
Approximately 28.2% of the population lived below the poverty line in 2012; a reduction from 34% in 2007. During the 2007/12 period, there were improvements in living conditions, access to basic education, health and nutrition and, labor force participation in non agriculture employment. Nevertheless, these benefits were not distributed equitably. Inequality has increased between urban and rural population and approximately 12 million Tanzanians are still living in poverty.

Development Challenges
Tanzania's main challenges include addressing infrastructure bottlenecks, improving the business environment, increasing agricultural productivity and value addition, improving service delivery to build a healthy and skilled workforce, and managing urbanizations. The country also has a youthful labor force growing by approximately 800,000 every year and needs to increase the private sector's role in employment creation for them.

The new administration has outlined among its priorities; increasing government revenues and reducing inefficiencies; investment in good health systems; raising education quality; increasing access to water and improving availability to electricity.

You can find this through Tanzania Overview

My take; Given the international headwinds and fragility, this is an achievement of which we should all be proud. So like the Tanzanian people, we are upbeat and optimistic, even though some Tanzanians are feeling the transition more acutely in some parts of the country than others. We also know we have the opportunity to do more by accessing the largest and fastest growing economy in our own region, namely Kenya.

So why don't you know even a little bit about your own country? I believe that; Not all UKAWA members are null brained "malofa" but show me a null brained and I bet you are showing me a UKAWA member!! Lastly, you're invited to a welcoming beverage [emoji482] for Masunga Maziku. Happy holiday..

You sound like a well rehersed songbird! What do you mean by poverty line if your govt. refuses to ratify ILO minimum wage standards? If patients who need emergency surgery at the biggest hospital in the country have to wait in cue for weeks?
It's not a matter of statistics, GDP, and the rest. The fact is that: There are no jobs for millions of young people and their numbers are swelling every year! To make matters worse many of them are semi literate, have none of the skills required by foreign capital investment. You can't feed them words and promises of hope.
However, if you revamp the mineral exploitation agreements to make sure Tz gets its fare share of the proceeds thereof you wouldn't have to keep increasing taxes on everything, and incomes of your poor, miserable workforce, killing the goose that's laying your golden egg.

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

You sound like a well rehersed songbird! What do you mean by poverty line if your govt. refuses to ratify ILO minimum wage standards? If patients who need emergency surgery at the biggest hospital in the country have to wait in cue for weeks?
It's not a matter of statistics, GDP, and the rest. The fact is that: There are no jobs for millions of young people and their numbers are swelling every year! To make matters worse many of them are semi literate, have none of the skills required by foreign capital investment. You can't feed them words and promises of hope.
However, if you revamp the mineral exploitation agreements to make sure Tz gets its fare share of the proceeds thereof you wouldn't have to keep increasing taxes on everything, and incomes of your poor, miserable workforce, killing the goose that's laying your golden egg.

Magufuli is now the weakest president of all time because he fears the opposition to the extent of trampling their constitutional rights under multiparty imperatives.

A weakened leader banishes rivals in a forlorn hope his weaknesses can be cloaked under the carpet.

A strong leader nurtures his rivals to strengthening himself from critical acclaims.

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

It is too surreal to see our inchoate democracy is backsliding because of a very weak, low self-esteem and incompetent leadership on a precipice of ceding power to the opposition.

The only way they can stay in power is either electoral rigging and/ or a clampdown on multiparty democracy.

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

The election time promises of "change we can believe in" were spurious and the Mwenge unabated marathon is a confirmatory proof....

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

From gentler police with a caring eye to serve its people to a brutal force maiming, killing and arraigning its people. Gratuitous force seem now to be the enduring cliché to our police force.

What is the difference between a colonial force and ours beats me! One thing the two forces share are their unwavering commitment to protect, defend and marshal the rulers of the day.

"Polisi jamii" remains misunderstood and completely work not even started let alone "work in progress" .

The way we recruit and promote members of the police force do not involve its main clientele which is us no wonder they never serve us but those who determine their pay cheque!

Genuine reforms to our police will begin in earnest when the recruitment and promotion of its members involve US and not THEM alone!

 

[Rutashubanyuma]

YASOME MAONI YA PROFESA JOSEPH MBELE KUHUSU KAULI ZA TUNDU LISSU

RAIS MAGUFULI NI DIKTETA UCHWARA?

Na Profesa Joseph Mbele

Nimeona nianzishe mjadala wa suala linalovuma wakati huu nchini Tanzania, ambalo ni: Je, Rais Magufuli ni dikteta uchwara?
Tundu Lissu, mwanasheria wa CHADEMA ndiye mwanzilishi wa dhana hii ya kwamba Rais Magufuli ni dikteta uchwara. Kwa kuanzia, ninapenda kuwashutumu polisi na watawala wa CCM kwa namna walivyolishughulikia suala hili.

Kwa mujibu wa katiba ya Tanzania, Tundu Lissu ana haki na uhuru wa kuwa na mawazo yake kuhusu suala lolote. Ana haki na uhuru wa kuwa na mtazamo wake juu ya Rais Magufuli. Ana haki na uhuru wa kutoa mawazo yake kama alivyofanya.

Mtu mwingine yeyote naye ana haki na uhuru huo. Kwa hivi, kauli ya Tundu Lissu haikuhitaji hatua zilizochukuliwa na polisi za kwenda kumkamata na kumsafirisha kutoka Singida hadi Dar es Salaam kwa mahojiano makao makuu ya polisi.
Jambo ambalo lingeweza kufanyika, bila taabu yote hii na ufujaji wa hela za walipa kodi, ilikuwa ni kwa serikali kujibu hoja za Tundu Lissu na kuthibitisha kuwa Rais Magufuli si dikteta uchwara. Malumbano ya hoja yangetosha.

Ndio utaratibu unaotakiwa katika jamii iliyostaarabika. Ninaamini kuwa wa-Tanzania wana akili timamu, na wana uwezo wa kuchambua mambo. Wana uwezo wa kusikiliza hoja za pande mbali mbali na kutambua upande upi ni sahihi. Madai ya polisi na watawala wa Tanzania kwamba kauli ya Tundu Lissu ni uchochezi ni ya kuwadhalilisha wananchi. Ni kusema kwamba wananchi ni wajinga, wasio na uwezo wa kutathmini na kuchambua mambo.
Ni kwa nini serikali haikuchukua njia hii ya kujibu hoja kwa hoja? Inamaanisha kwamba katika serikali nzima hakuna mtu mwenye akili ya kuweza kumpinga Tundu Lissu na kuthibitisha kuwa Rais Magufuli si dikteta uchwara? Inamaanisha kuwa watendaji wote wa serikali hii ya CCM ni watendaji uchwara, au ni watendaji hewa, au ni vilaza?

Rais Magufuli, kwa mtazamo wangu, amekuwa akivuka mipaka ya katiba kwa baadhi ya kauli zake. Hana mamlaka kikatiba wala kwa mujibu wa sheria za vyama vya siasa, kuweka vizuizi juu ya mikutano na maandamano ya vyama vya siasa. Taratibu zote zimeelezwa katika katiba ya Tanzania na katika sheria ya vyama vya siasa.

Kwa bahati nzuri, katiba ninayo na nimeisoma, na sheria ya vyama vya siasa, ambayo imewekwa kwenye tovuti ya ofisi ya msajili wa vyama, nimeisoma pia: http://www.orpp.go.tz/en/rules/. Kwa kupitia katiba na sheria, ni wazi kuwa Rais Magufuli anakiuka katiba na sheria, na kwa hivyo, kauli ya Tundu Lissu kwamba Rais Magufuli ni dikteta uchwara ni sahihi.

Vyama vya siasa vinawajibika kufanya mikutano na maandamo kwa amani, ili kutangaza sera zao, kutafuta wanachama wapya, na kadhalika. Rais Magufuli, au mtu mwingine yeyote hana wadhifa wa kuwawekea zuio kama alivyofanya. Hana mamlaka ya kusema kwamba watu wafanye siasa katika maeneo yao tu. Hana mamlaka ya kutangaza, hata kwa kisingizio cha "hapa kazi tu," shughuli zipi za kisiasa zisitishwe hadi mwaka 2020. Huu ni udikteta.

Mimi ni raia ambaye si mwanachama wa chama chochote cha siasa. Ninachotaka ni kuona nchi inaendeshwa kwa mujibu wa katiba na sheria zilizopo. Ninataka utawala wa sheria, unaozingatia haki za binadamu.

Is someone sane reading and understanding this?