THE FUTURE OF TANZANIA AFTER BALALI AND LOWASA (Will things change or history retains same momentum?)
Our country hasn’t done enough yet and we should not be fooled by praises from developed nations like USA and others. More work lies ahead of us. Poverty continues to dig even deeper in our communities, leaders continue to steal from us everyday and go unpunished. I hope Balali and the Richmond guys get their share of punishments including freezing of their accounts, and so forth. Until harsh actions against greed leaders are taken, other than forcing them to resign, my faith to Tanzanian government will be restored.
As I imagine how much money has been looted by the hands of trusted officials in such sensitive positions like that of PM and Balali, I wonder how these greed people could do that?, how did the government let that happen anyway?, or why these people had so much authority to even be able to do that?. If we had effecient and proper steps, procedures and accounting control procedures, what bullet proof vests they used to go unchecked, and unoticed until the money was paid to wrong hands? I think they had never been able to steal at the first place. For our nation to be safe in the future, tighter procedures must be established immediately. I hold the government responsible for letting things get out of control.
Suppose Balali’s 133 billion shillings and Lowasa’s 172 billion was used to build schools or hospitals or hire and train more teachers, how much impact that could make? Every citizen’s life had been touched and Bush should have noticed that immediately. That is when Tanzania should get true praise but not praise for using donor’s money. As work needs to be done on our international airports (in pictures), so do the corrupt governing system. We need Kikwete and his cabinet more than we need the developed world, whose intention is not only to do us a great favor, but do them good at the expense of our despair.
Tanzania has a lot of money and resources to turn the country into a developed nation in just a few decades. But poor planning, corruption, greed, poor education and neo-colonialism continue to hurt us all. We should not be begging as we are doing. We should fight begging addiction and dependence to colonial masters, stop creating new colonial masters. We fought for political independence; we cannot fight for economic independence. We should not anticipate others to solve our problems. (Mgeni njoo mwenyeji apone), we are capable of taking care of our problems, as an independent Africa using the wealth concentrated in few dirty hands.
While we continue to strengthen relationships with the outside world, our leaders must take extra cautions especially when accepting grants of any form. Grants are capable of doing us both good and harm. The impact can be beyond explanations especially when grants serve intended purpose. But how can this be accomplished if our central bank’s money can be stolen? However, any donor’s hidden agenda if any, requires even more scrutiny and wisdom from our leaders. History repeats itself. As USA sees potential in Tanzania, it sees opportunity and wealth of all kinds. The return on its investments is also well calculated. This can cause even more harm in the long-run.
Colonialism did its great harm, so does neo-colonialism. Our leaders continue to volunteer to bring strangers and show them nation’s treasures through investment promotions and friendly relationships. When strangers see the treasures, they want to become our best friends so we can trust them and even show them more of our treasures. This is what happened during the early contacts with the outside world earlier before the industrial revolution of the 18th century. Its negative impacts continue to hit hard on all African generations and all generations to come.
Mtanzania
As I imagine how much money has been looted by the hands of trusted officials in such sensitive positions like that of PM and Balali, I wonder how these greed people could do that?, how did the government let that happen anyway?, or why these people had so much authority to even be able to do that?. If we had effecient and proper steps, procedures and accounting control procedures, what bullet proof vests they used to go unchecked, and unoticed until the money was paid to wrong hands? I think they had never been able to steal at the first place. For our nation to be safe in the future, tighter procedures must be established immediately. I hold the government responsible for letting things get out of control.
Suppose Balali’s 133 billion shillings and Lowasa’s 172 billion was used to build schools or hospitals or hire and train more teachers, how much impact that could make? Every citizen’s life had been touched and Bush should have noticed that immediately. That is when Tanzania should get true praise but not praise for using donor’s money. As work needs to be done on our international airports (in pictures), so do the corrupt governing system. We need Kikwete and his cabinet more than we need the developed world, whose intention is not only to do us a great favor, but do them good at the expense of our despair.
Tanzania has a lot of money and resources to turn the country into a developed nation in just a few decades. But poor planning, corruption, greed, poor education and neo-colonialism continue to hurt us all. We should not be begging as we are doing. We should fight begging addiction and dependence to colonial masters, stop creating new colonial masters. We fought for political independence; we cannot fight for economic independence. We should not anticipate others to solve our problems. (Mgeni njoo mwenyeji apone), we are capable of taking care of our problems, as an independent Africa using the wealth concentrated in few dirty hands.
While we continue to strengthen relationships with the outside world, our leaders must take extra cautions especially when accepting grants of any form. Grants are capable of doing us both good and harm. The impact can be beyond explanations especially when grants serve intended purpose. But how can this be accomplished if our central bank’s money can be stolen? However, any donor’s hidden agenda if any, requires even more scrutiny and wisdom from our leaders. History repeats itself. As USA sees potential in Tanzania, it sees opportunity and wealth of all kinds. The return on its investments is also well calculated. This can cause even more harm in the long-run.
Colonialism did its great harm, so does neo-colonialism. Our leaders continue to volunteer to bring strangers and show them nation’s treasures through investment promotions and friendly relationships. When strangers see the treasures, they want to become our best friends so we can trust them and even show them more of our treasures. This is what happened during the early contacts with the outside world earlier before the industrial revolution of the 18th century. Its negative impacts continue to hit hard on all African generations and all generations to come.
Mtanzania
posted by TANZANIA AND THE WORLD ECONOMY | 4:10 PM
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I think you have a point here. African leaders should see this.
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