Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

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Rutashubanyuma said:
We have always been long on applauding both the effort and intent but short in appraising the effectiveness of drastic measures declared and vigorously pursued by our post colonial administrations.

Nyerere was lauded for Azimio la Arusha but he later admitted the policy tools and directions were faulty, and economic decimation was all too much of an eyesore to all of us. The legacy of Nyerere administration will always be soiled by sheer levels of economic mismanagements despite genuine efforts to address causes and effects of our underdevelopment.

Mwinyi administration was accorded a red carpet reverence for the frantic effort to undo "Nyerereism" via the antithesis of the Zanzibar declaration but we all know better the indigenization of our economy took a back seat as the economy was placed in grubby hands of aliens.

Mkapa administration cemented official graft while its successive administration of Jakaya Kikwete approved it in all its pernicious forms.

Then comes Magufuli administration while a couple of weeks in office seems lacking ideas of how to reform the government, and has so far been generating plenty of heat but very little substance.

Sweeteners may taste good on mouth but in the stomach are likely to foment gastric juice notorious for corroding the intestines. What this nation needs is reforms on good governance where accountability has been sacrificed at the altar of nepotism and sycophancy.

We need to restore pre-independence accountability if we are to reach where a president has no business to snatch duties and responsibilities of his juniors but to oversee them.

For start, he needs to acknowledge NEC ought to be fully investigated by an impartial commission how it conducted this election despite its numerous vain claims that the election was free, fair and transparent. We need a legislation to empower that commission but we also need the same commission to investigate thoroughly how this very partisan police interfered with the electoral process. We cannot face another election where UKAWA are adamant they were shortchanged and we have a president who may or may not be a squatter at our IKULU pretending to bribe us with "peremende" and expect for a different result.

On government splurge, we need concrete policies and pieces of legislation like capping staff emoluments based on a ratio of recurrent expenditure. What I have seen; so far, is a battle of nomenclatures which past administrations fought with equal zeal but lost because they never identified policy tools to do it.
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Believe it or not, Its not possible to put in place "an impartial NEC" for, human beings are by nature greedy, possessive and selfish.

To them "an impartial NEC" can only be perceived if the final verdicts of an election, are in their favor and nothing less. Shorter to that the looser will vehemently dispute the result tending to believe that the entire electoral process was rigged!!!.

The aftermath of what transpired in Kenya's last general election, supervised by a much tooted " Independent Electra l Commission" can evidently testify.
 
KAPONGO said:
Believe it or not, Its not possible to put in place "an impartial NEC" for, human beings are by nature greedy, possessive and selfish.

To them "an impartial NEC" can only be perceived if the final verdicts of an election, are in their favor and nothing less. Shorter to that the looser will vehemently dispute the result tending to believe that the entire electoral process was rigged!!!.

The aftermath of what transpired in Kenya's last general election, supervised by a much tooted " Independent Electra l Commission" can evidently testify.
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What we need is to demystify the appointing powers of the president to the NEC..president is too humane not to depict all the weaknesses you espouse and besides where there are counsel of many wisdom prevail.

We may legislate in our constitution, for example, the election commission will be formed by major stakeholders as follows incorporating, of course, your genuine concerns:-

1) Ten members duly elected by political parties from their general assembly and apportioned according to the latest proportional representation in parliament, gender not a consideration due to ambiguities of fulfillment of prorate requirements,

2) Four members duly elected by TLS AG two from each gender,

3) Four members from NGOs duly elected by all members of NGOs with two members of each gender,

4) Two members duly elected from retired High Court judges body, each from opposite gender,

5) The chairperson duly elected among themselves to serve one term only,

6) Nec members to serve one five year term,

7) Maximum number is 16 members,

8) Decision upheld if supported by at least half of attendees or more in any meeting,

9) Quorum satisfied if twelve or more members attend,

10) No role of parliament in confirmation process

11) President appoints them after the above process is completed, first members then chairperson follows,


That is my idea of "an impartial NEC" with the composition of NEC as enumerated above.

But the independence of the election commission is incomplete unless the following reforms are also enacted:-

We need to empower Nec to do its constitutional onus by revoking all statutes which forces it to offload its constitutional mandate to presidential appointees in the local governments known as DED masquerading as election supervisors!

NEC needs to hire its own staff who will supervise elections and use latest technology such KIMS KITS to transmit results

No more security apparatchik lingering in hotels armed with replica forms to forge the polling station verdict

No hassles in registration of voters as that task will be handed to NIDA who know who are citizens and the exercise be done daily on working days up to one month or four weeks before elections

No more separate register for general election versus local governments elections

No more the cumbersome of queueing to register as voters


These are minimal reforms we need before 2020 elections and anything less than them will mean a sham election is not by accident but by design!

Kenyan elections were free, fair and verifiable but ours are not at that level!

It is in transmission of election results via Kims Kits and tallying done by computers with all forms from polling stations to the national level all displayed on their website of election body via internet and TVs.

Also no role for local governments in Kenya despite being duly elected without presidential picks!

It's sad to see almost four years since the then chairman of NEC Retired Justice Damian Lubuva recommended to the president to severe NEC from his own appointees in local governments by changing elections law. So far, he has shown free, fair and verifiable elections is not his cup of tea...in fact his conduct so far suggests he is plotting to rig massively the next election to his favour and his CCM!

Kenya is another level and you can't dismiss the integrity of the election results simply because there are disputes but there must be means of judicial review and redress to aggrieved parties.

If we have even a modicum of Kenyan legal and structural framework it will be a dream come true

The ZEC incorporating political parties stakeholders shaw it is very possible to run a free, fair and credible elections save for electoral chairperson needs to be elected by themselves if we aren't to repeat mistakes committed by Jecha

Just for a president to promise diplomatic corps our election will be free, fair and verifiable simply because he said so without engineering meaningful reforms is regrettable to put it mildly.

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