Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

Why Magufuli administration misses the point on Government splurge

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New York, Friday September 11 2020

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• The ruling party's anti-democratic actions could call into question any claim of victory it makes in the national elections scheduled for next month, the centre predicted.

• Under President Magufuli, Tanzania has witnessed “a pattern of murders, assaults and disappearances” aimed at opposition activists and figures within CCM who criticise the country's direction.

• The analysts drew a sharp contrast between President Magufuli's autocratic rule and founding President Julius Nyerere's commitment to democratic norms.

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Tanzania's “democratic experiment” is imperiled by repressive laws and political violence being carried out by the country's ruling party, a think tank affiliated with the US Defence Department warned on Tuesday.

Over the past five years, President John Magufuli “has banned rallies, muzzled the press, cowed and co-opted independent institutions and committed overt and covert violence against political opponents and 'dissenters' within the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party,” said an analysis by the Washington-based Africa Centre for Strategic Studies.

“Tanzanians today live in a climate increasingly filled with fear and reticence to exercise their rights lest they run afoul of a raft of new restrictive laws or suffer physical retribution,” the think tank added.

The ruling party's anti-democratic actions could thus call into question any claim of victory it makes in the national elections scheduled for next month, the centre predicted.

“This will necessarily have consequences for ties between the Magufuli government and democracy-supporting regional and international actors.”

The analysts drew a sharp contrast between President Magufuli's autocratic rule and founding President Julius Nyerere's commitment to democratic norms.

Mwalimu Nyerere “conceived of African liberation as the building of inclusive democracy, a free press, tolerance of criticism, respect for minorities and limits on power,” the Africa Centre observed.

Under President Magufuli, however, Tanzania has witnessed “a pattern of murders, assaults and disappearances” aimed at opposition activists and figures within CCM who criticise the country's direction.

Under President Magufuli, however, Tanzania has witnessed “a pattern of murders, assaults and disappearances” aimed at opposition activists and figures within CCM who criticise the country's direction.

“Violence has become deeply embedded in CCM’s current calculus of control,” the Pentagon think tank stated.

The Africa Centre quotes independent commentator Andrew Bomani, whose father worked as an aide to President Nyerere, as lamenting: “We had come to believe in a form of exceptionalism that such practices could never happen in our country.”

Media freedom

Freedom of the press has also deteriorated markedly since President Magufuli came to power in 2015, the assessment noted.

It cited the country's descent from 70th to 124th place in the annual global press freedom index compiled by Reporters Without Borders. That drop was the most precipitous of any country in the world during the past five years.

Many of the restrictions imposed on the Tanzanian society have been tightened this year on the grounds that such measures are needed to halt the spread of the coronavirus, the think tank notes.

President Magufuli has simultaneously claimed, however, that Tanzania has been purged of the virus. And the government has stopped publishing statistics on the number of infections in the country.

“Tanzania’s lack of transparency in response to the pandemic is widely seen as having accelerated the virus’s spread in East Africa,” the Africa Centre stated.

Hope remains, however, that Tanzania will return to a democratic path.

Mwalimu Nyerere's legacy, along with interventions by faith-based bodies, can serve as “a source of resilience in navigating the way forward,” the centre said.

In addition, “regional engagement is vitally important given Tanzania’s historical role in continental affairs,” the analysis suggested.

“This, however, must go beyond traditional diplomacy, given that the CCM is still viewed as a senior leader and mentor by fellow ruling liberation movements.” Much depends on these African leaders “overcoming their aversion to confronting the CCM”, the think tank observed.

Pentagon think tank accuses Magufuli of political repression | The East African

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God is Nice and He Likes You

‘This seemingly insubstantial fact revolutionised my life,’ wrote Adrian Plass, author of The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass Aged 37¾. He continued, ‘I became a Christian when I was sixteen years old, but it wasn’t until I was thirty-seven that I absorbed an essential truth. God is nice and he likes me.’
Sadly, deep down many people think that God is not that nice, he does not like us very much and he spends most of his time being cross with us. This could not be further from the truth.
In the passages for today, we see how much more than just ‘nice’ God is – his goodness, amazing love and faithfulness. We also see that not only does he ‘like’ you, he loves you – you are his ‘precious and honoured’ child (Isaiah 43:4).


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Psalm 108:1-5

Higher than the created universe

Scientists today are discovering more of the vastness of our universe – how high the heavens are.
Yet, God’s love for you is so great. It is higher than the heavens. His ‘faithfulness reaches to the skies’ (v.4). ‘The deeper your love, the higher it goes’ (v.4, MSG).
David worships God with music and singing early in the morning: ‘I will awaken the dawn’ (v.2b). Focus your worship today on God’s love and faithfulness.

Lord, thank you that your love for me is higher than the heavens. Thank you that your faithfulness reaches to the skies. ‘Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth’ (v.5).



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Galatians 3:26-4:20

Greater than any human love

Imagine the greatest human love in the world – for some people it might be the love a parent has for their child. Yet, God’s love for you is even greater.
When you put your faith in Jesus, you also became a child of God: ‘You are all children of God through faith in Jesus Christ’ (3:26). We were baptised into Christ. You have clothed yourself with Christ (v.27). This is how close your relationship with Jesus has become.
In Christ, no distinction of race, rank or gender exists: ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus’ (v.28). We are ‘all equal... all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ’ (v.28, MSG).
There is no excuse for discrimination, prejudice or hatred. Paul does not say that differences do not exist; rather, he says these differences simply do not matter.
You belong to Christ, you are an heir to all the amazing promises that God made to Abraham (v.29). You have now inherited ‘the whole estate’ (4:1).
Paul uses an analogy from Roman law. In ancient Rome, until the age of fourteen, an heir was under the control of a tutor who had been nominated by his father. Until this age a child was treated in the same way as a slave. Usually, the heir became a free agent at the age of fourteen. Paul explains that while the people of God were under the Mosaic law, it was much like being under a tutor. They were under a form of slavery (v.3).
But now, Jesus Christ has set you free: ‘Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful heritage. You can tell for sure that you are now fully adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into our lives crying out, “Papa! Father!” Doesn’t that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you’re also an heir, with complete access to the inheritance’ (vv.5–7, MSG).
How amazing it is to have the full rights of a child of God and that God sent the Spirit of Jesus to live in you. As a result, you can address God in the same intimate way that Jesus addressed him.
Paul continued to warn the Galatians against slipping backwards, as if they were still under the law. Before, they ‘did not know God’ (v.8). Now, they do know him – or rather they ‘are known by God’ (v.9). It is even more important to be known by God than to know him. But, of course, living in a relationship with God means that both are true.
He urged them not to go back to a kind of legalism (vv.10–11). False teachers were trying to lead them astray.
Paul pleaded with them. He reminded them of their love for him when he first preached the gospel to them. They welcomed him as if he was Jesus Christ himself (v.14). When he came to them he was ill. It may have been an eye condition, because he said, ‘You would have torn out your eyes and given them to me’ (v.15). That is how much they loved him.
Now the false teachers were trying to alienate them from him (v.17), but Paul’s love for them remained constant: ‘Do you know how I feel right now, and will feel until Christ’s life becomes visible in your lives? Like a mother in the pain of childbirth’ (v.19, MSG).
When you know God’s love for you – even greater than that of a parent for their child – and his Spirit comes to live within you, he gives you a love for others. This too is like a loving parent for a child. It was this kind of love that Paul had for the Galatians.
Sometimes not getting what you want can be the best thing that can happen. Paul felt frustrated at not being able to be with and speak face-to-face with those he loved. He did not want to be ‘reduced to this blunt, letter-writing language’ (v.20, MSG). If Paul had had his way, the letter to the Galatians would never have been written. As it was, he was forced to do something he did not want to do and countless millions of lives have been changed and blessed as a result.

Lord, thank you that you have poured your love into my heart by the Holy Spirit. Help me, like Paul, to love others in this same way, to care passionately, even if it involves ‘the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in [them]’ (v.19).



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Isaiah 43:1–5a
These are such wonderful verses and so encouraging when you, or someone you love, are facing some really difficult things. God may not take it away, but he has promised to be with you, to walk with you, to protect you as you go through it.



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Museveni strolling tentatively our red carpet oblivious of the impending handing over the reins of power as Mr politicians mulls over making history as the first president of CCM to handover power to the buoying opposition


The stress is palpable as Tanzania decides whether Africa still needs strongmen or strong institutions.

It's a referendum on the administration in power eager to sell a package of "miundombinu" as a substitute to human rights!
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Mr. Politicians is full of implausible promises but short on exculpating himself from unkempt promises..and the list of unkempt promises is mind-boggling...

Why make knew promises when old ones were thrown to the window?

Why do you think anyone will believe you this time around when trust was broken at will last time around?

Rebuilding trust is ALWAYS easier said than done....

Tshs 50 mill per village government not kept and five years razed, most perplexing are new promises which everybody knows are clouds and winds without rain but are still on a conveyerbelt! Are u serious?

Journalists were promised to get better working environment but last time around were warned no press freedom without limits and some were hounded to the dock answering unfounded criminal charges and some vanished without trace.....

Last time around was easier to deceive us because few really knew you but now we all have a huge duffelbag to rummage ...and what we now see is not a nation we were planning to bequeath to our children children ..something has to give in or our broken statehood will damage our moral glue that keeps us united together

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