watu zaidi yA 100 wamekufa and one would have thought COMMANDER IN CHIEF angeenda MERERANI walau ku save face lakini wapi!
Commander in chief yuko Butiama anakula kuku kwa mrija
Yes, I know this kikao been arranged for a long time but he could have postponed it, if only for a few days, pleading pressing business at Mererani.
JK's place right now ishould have been Mererani. He should have been touring the disaster area, feeling people's pain and dispensing mulligatawny soup and some drinking water, accompanied by MAMA SALMA KIKWETE in aristocratic, frayed jacket, Laura Ashley frock and not some kitenge as she is predeictable.
He should be out there digging drainage ditches in Mererani, not digging latrines in Butiama. A bit of noblesse oblige might not have gone amiss.
It would have conveyed a sense of getting his priorities right. If there was one time when it wouldn't have done JK any harm to behave like an old-fashioned MSWAHILI WAKATI WA SHINDA, this was it.
JK,How about extending a bit of compassion to those you expect to vote for you next time?
As far as voters in Tanzania are concerned, it's not the lack of clean drinking water in Butiama conference centre which is top of their concerns, it's lack of clean drinking water in Mererani.
He won't have endeared himself to those who should be his natural supporters by disappearing off to Butiana while our fellow Tanzanians have been buried under six feet of water and mud
That's what a serious Leader of a Country would have done - consoled the victims and doled out a bit of high-profile, practical help, while simultaneously holding his Prime minister Mr Pinda to account.
In the middle of a national crisis, he shouldn't go missing, giving the impression that he cares more about CCM in Butiama than those ordinary Tanzanians in Mererani.
The time for stunts is over. We need a commander in Chief and not this cartoon like figure who doesnt know what to do in a time of crisis like this.