tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post1035686812040140094..comments2023-04-10T15:04:05.370+03:00Comments on Politics, Society & Things: Should We Blame CCM for the Current Underdevelopment & Poverty in Tanzania?January Makambahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03283092901955096056noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-7789375110659002282009-04-08T13:18:00.000+03:002009-04-08T13:18:00.000+03:00CCM can never evade the blame. It lands squarely o...CCM can never evade the blame. It lands squarely on them.<BR/><BR/>Now we are hearing of MIGA... so where was CCM to announce of MIGA problems BEFORE signing investment deals?<BR/><BR/>Oh I know, they CCM are the smartest ones who know how to handle everything.<BR/><BR/>Discussing MIGA with the opposition or the general wananchi would be stooping low.<BR/><BR/>When will CCM understand that Gold is way more valuable than paper currency?<BR/><BR/>With gold we could even do barter deals with countries like China where they can mine gold and build some true wealth for us such as roads, bridges, sea and air ports.<BR/><BR/>The West (Canada and South Africa) don't really need gold that much that's why they have the audacity of giving us crappy deals.<BR/><BR/>Guys wake up, has anyone read the report "Breaking the curse" produced by Action Aid?<BR/><BR/>I have uploaded it on the following link for anyone interested (http://tinyurl.com/libeneke-la-madini)<BR/><BR/>Bottom line is we are the biggest losers.<BR/><BR/>Out of $3000,000,000 worth of gold sold over previous 4 years, Tanzania Treasury has received a mere $1,000,000.<BR/><BR/>Pity. Shame.<BR/><BR/>We are losing big time, because our leaders don't know how to negotiate. They assume the World Bank and IMF know better than the people of this country.<BR/><BR/>If we don't gird up our loins and act like patriots how on earth can we expect MIGA to help us??<BR/><BR/>Sio siri kila nikifikiria napata uchungu sana.<BR/><BR/>Hii gold ingetosha kabisa kutupatia infrastructure za nguvu kama Johannesburg ambayo tunaishobokea.Dar-es-Salaamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01955391493376626295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-19032352098690979392009-04-06T10:06:00.000+03:002009-04-06T10:06:00.000+03:00With all respect i support some of the arguments, ...With all respect i support some of the arguments, however i do oppose to say CCM is immuned of this mess that Tanzania is into. I believe CCM should be held accountable for this mess we're into. Prior to 1980 I believe to blame CCM is not fair. However, post 1985 CCM is part of the nightmare. We had enough educated people to look at the policies, we also had the know how power. <BR/><BR/>IFI played a big role to cripple Tanzania Economic development with their scum policy and projects. However, CCM supported those scums policies without provides any checking and balance. Some of the leaders from CCM benefited from those scum projects which were initiated by World Bank and IMF ( they sent their children to western college, they enjoyed every moment while many Tanzania faced downturn economy). CCM had opportunities even to asked simple questions, but they didn't. IFI used their economist to run stupid projections about the economy and CCM leaders presented those scum forecast to Tanzanian.<BR/><BR/>IFI played their part to get us into this mess, but CCM press the button which killed us. Look at the rudder scum for instance, IFI opposed the whole things because Tanzania doesn't need such a thing. However, with CCM bunge and CCM government we end up to purchased a damn thing. <BR/><BR/>I do understand some of the projects came from IFI were quid pro quo. But the questions remain what about efficiency and effectiveness? Where is check and balance? The DO GOODER tell us what to do, but how about those things that are in our contro? How about good education for kids, do we need to blame IFI for that? How about scrapy roads? Do we need to blame IFI? How about poor policy and law crafted at the bunge? Do we need to blame IFI for that? How about escalade of HIV/AIDS do we need to blame IFI for that? How about craft of the budget?<BR/>I can go on and on.<BR/><BR/>I think IFI get us into this mess, but CCM press the red button and kill us.<BR/>That is all<BR/>Mdau wa Pugu KajiungeniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-64130399483412053432009-04-05T22:38:00.000+03:002009-04-05T22:38:00.000+03:00You know i didn't read all that ...its Colin Powel...You know i didn't read all that ...its Colin Powell friendly<BR/><BR/>will be reading reading commentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-90667382319536475562009-04-05T04:09:00.000+03:002009-04-05T04:09:00.000+03:00Where 1 Trillion will be spent on.*$500bn for the ...Where 1 Trillion will be spent on.<BR/>*$500bn for the IMF to lend to struggling economies.<BR/>*$250bn to boost world trade<BR/>*$250bn for a new IMF "overdraft facility" countries can draw on<BR/>*$100bn that international development banks can lend to poorest countries<BR/><B>*IMF will raise $6bn from selling gold reserves to increase lending for the poorest countries</B><BR/>Source: BBC <BR/><BR/>The last point is of very interest to me, i dont want to prejudgemental, and sound to me the same gold we are selling them for a peny, it is now recycled to us as stimulus package to help us/africans economy.<BR/><BR/>Man, They are very smart people, setting the price, keep the price floating and growing, while other commodities are struggling, because they keep the gadamn thing in the bankers, for their own survival and growth, I MUST GIVE IT UP TO THEM, THEY ARE SMART!, are we not going to do the same guys?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-54722281182795420262009-04-04T07:08:00.000+03:002009-04-04T07:08:00.000+03:00even obama speak up against corruption, just yeste...even obama speak up against corruption, just yesterday on the town hall meeting in Sta. France.<BR/><BR/>I know some of it, playing politics(thats another point of discussion), but he didn't undermine corruptions for sure! <BR/><BR/>This is what he had to say.....<BR/><BR/>Q Thank you, Mr. President. My name is Matthias Kutsch (ph). I'm a student from Heidelberg, Germany. (Cheers, applause.) And my mother tongue is German, but my French is not good enough, so I ask my question in English. <BR/><BR/>You mentioned in your speech that we are a lucky generation; we live in peace, we live in democracies and free states. And we are very pleased to have this situation in Europe. But this is not the case all over the world, even not in Europe. Look to Belarus, for example. There's an autocratic regime. <BR/><BR/>And so my question concerns the many children all over the world that live in poverty, under human rights violations. <BR/><BR/>They have hunger. They have no education and other problems. So what is your strategy, Mr. President, to solve this problem? <BR/><BR/>PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, it's an excellent question. And the -- first of all, I think one of the things that we should be very proud of, from the G-20 summit yesterday, was that we made a significant commitment to additional resources through the IMF and other mechanisms to provide assistance to emerging markets and poor countries that, as I said, are bearing the burden of a collapse in the financial system that they had nothing to do with. <BR/><BR/>The problem is so many of these countries had export-oriented markets. And when the economies contracted in our developing nations, it made them extremely vulnerable. You know, you have a country like Botswana, which is actually a well-managed country that has made enormous progress. But their main revenue generator is diamond sales. And they have literally seen the diamond market collapse, in part because they couldn't get trade financing, in part because the demand in developed countries has -- has dropped off. <BR/><BR/>So we started to make progress there. Our most important task right now is helping them get through this crisis. Over the long term, though, <B>we've got to have a strategy that recognizes that the interest of the developed world in feeding the hungry, in educating children, that that's not just charity; it's in our interests. </B><BR/><B><BR/>There is not a direct correlation between poverty and violence and conflict and terrorism, but I can tell you that if children have no education whatsoever, if young men are standing idle each and every day and feel completely detached and completely removed from the modern world, they are more likely, they are more susceptible to ideologies that appeal to violence and destruction.</B> <BR/><BR/>If you have no health facilities whatsoever in countries in Africa, these days a pandemic can get on a plane and be in Strasbourg or New York City or Chicago overnight. So we better think about making sure that there are basic public health facilities and public health infrastructure in those countries, because we can't shield ourselves from these problems. <BR/><BR/><B>So that means developed countries have to increase aid. But it also means that the countries who are receiving aid have to use it wisely. </B><BR/><BR/>And my father was from Kenya, and when I traveled to Kenya, I had just been elected to the United States Senate. Everybody was very excited and, you know, they greeted me and -- you know, as if I was already a head of state. And, you know, there were people waving and lining the streets. I went to speak at a university, and I had to be honest, which was, America has an obligation to provide Kenya help on a whole range of issues.<B> But if Kenya doesn't solve its own corruption problem, then Kenya will never grow. It will never be able to provide for its own. <BR/></B><BR/>And so there's nothing wrong with the developed nations insisting that we will increase our commitments; <B>that we will design our aid programs more effectively; that we will open up our markets to trade from poor countries -- but that we will also insist that there's good governance and rule of law and other critical factors in order to make these countries work. </B><BR/><BR/>We spend so much time talking about democracy. And obviously, we should be promoting democracy everywhere we can. <BR/><BR/>But democracy, a well-functioning society that promotes liberty and equality and fraternity, a well-functioning society does not just depend on going to the ballot box. It also means that you're not going to be shaken down by police because the police aren't getting properly paid. It also means that if you want to start a business, you don't have to pay a bribe. I mean, there are a whole host of other factors that -- that people, you know, need to -- need to recognize in building a civil society that allows a country to be successful. And -- and hopefully that will -- that approach will be reflected not just in -- in my administration's policies but in the policies that are pursued by international agencies around the world. <BR/><BR/>Okay. Good. (Applause.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-41234663794456248292009-04-04T06:56:00.000+03:002009-04-04T06:56:00.000+03:00So the Heading should have read, WE SHOULD BLAME, ...So the Heading should have read, WE SHOULD BLAME, CHADEMA, CUF, THE OPPOSITION, ccm, etc and all other HOMO SAPIENS YOU COULD THINK OFF, EXCEPT MWALIMU,<BR/><BR/>Sorry, but it seems to me the whole article is out of whack, recycled, irresponsible, irrelevant and dismissive particularly on the issue of corruptions, How dare someone would right that one off! it also sounds to undermine your own assesment on the role of IMF/WORLD bank you are trying to vilified.<BR/><BR/>Imagine, our country mines contracts decision or any other decision concerning our future, your future, your children future, signed off in the Hotel lobby for a PENNY, are you kidding me ? Not just that, but all government sectors, stink with corruptions, which results a fine mind, responsible people decision not prevailing because of corruptions, ie. include mine, Dont dare stop me with your own essay corruption on my conscious, even my tax shillings count nothing to your judgement, except that of INVESTORS, changing name like KINYONGA to put their TAX PAYMENT to VOID, while the poor man get whacked with the TAX, I pay more tax than MOVENPICK/aka Kilimanjaro(Dont know even their names this days) hotel I guess? So Mr/Miss article author who made that decision, I didn't, who have to reverse/impose change on those decision ? So when the poor man get incentives tax cuts on his/her small business?, and at the same time, we leave the BIG corporate earners in TAX RETENTIONS, till when ? and thats where you undermine my feelings about this government irresponsible, by always scapegoating the problem on others? chadema, cuf and others ??<BR/><BR/>CCM undermines us as citizens, it institute those so called investors to high status, and we become prisons on our own country. I guess I agree with you on this or may be you not? You are totally confusing me!<BR/><BR/>I dont have time for this halecunations, but I will only agree on one point about IMF/World Bank, we should have a united FRONT, against this entity when implimenting the so called ECONOMIC BLUE PRINT on our countries... but the rest of the article, it is just lots of DING DONG!<BR/><BR/>IMF and WORLD BANK REBIRTH WITH WHOPPING 1 TRILLION DOLLAR!, I guess we wont stop them with their agenda, for a foreseable future but, we CAN ENFORCE THE CHANGE, if we put our mind onto it.<BR/><BR/>Iddy, by the way who wrote the article, I reserve my suspicious and judgement for now?? and that thing with european/american babies of Tanzanian origin, Man! where did you get that one from ????? are you blaming them as well ?? LOL<BR/><BR/>By MchangiajiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-76710540346095436692009-04-03T23:27:00.000+03:002009-04-03T23:27:00.000+03:00Che Solasi,I also argued about the fact that event...Che Solasi,<BR/>I also argued about the fact that eventhough the framework was from IMF/World Bank, but who enforced the policies? Did those who enforce the policies act in the manner of efficiency and responsibility? Did we closed all loopholes and channel the resource to the right sectors?<BR/><BR/>I tend not to believe on blaming the whole thing to IMF and World Bank, eventhogh they played a big role. I think our leaders played the huge part to cripple Tanzania development. The irresponsibility among our self contributed to some extent to drive us to this ditch.<BR/><BR/>I believe on blame everybody notion. I shared my fifty cents in this mess that we're into. <BR/><BR/>Che Solasi who should we blame?Iddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17287706680889901040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1964830726550749649.post-61523582695215968912009-04-03T22:25:00.000+03:002009-04-03T22:25:00.000+03:00IddyI categorically disagree with most of the cont...Iddy<BR/><BR/>I categorically disagree with most of the contents of this article and I'm very skeptical of the rest of it. It seems the objective of its author was to bash on the IMF and World Bank (nothing wrong with that) but without any substance to support it's core arguments. Another thing that bothers me is the clear passive gesture of protecting the leadership of their inept and almost catastrophic policies that were ushered in with poor decision-making.<BR/><BR/>OK. We know IMF and World Bank are in it for their economical profit at the very least. We also know our country has needs in many areas to facilitate development. So whatever agreement/arrangement made has two willing partners which are the IMF/World Bank and our leaders on our behalf. It's not as if we were/are facing nuclear annihilation or somebody was forced to signed with the threat of a bullet on his head. While I'm not defending the IMF and World Bank, I think the author forgets that the decision to do business with them was made by our leaders. If our leaders knew it wasn't beneficial to the welfare of the state, why did they sign on it? And the mismanagement of the resources provided whether through a loan or any other sort of aid was not by IMF or World Bank.<BR/><BR/>While the article question the capability of an average Tanzanian to understand the really reason behind lack of development and continuing poverty, I don't understand why he/she relegates corruption to mere nuissance when it compounds all the problems stated in the article because its an epidemic. So I don't have a problem when the Opposition or CCM brings the issue of Ufisadi because by solving it, we'll have one less problem to deal with. By dismissing the issue, we would be lessening or justifying a greater crime of one/few citizen ripping off all of us. For me corruption can and should be given the merits of treason of some degree. Yet I don't believe corruption can be completely eradicated but it can be reduce by starting from higher up. <BR/><BR/>On the point of bureaucrats and CCM, last time I check most Ministers were MP who were affiliated with some party or another. You can't be a member without following some guidelines of that membership and that in itself brings an image that correspond to your affiliation. So if you behave badly, that image will become associated with you affiliation: case point G. W. Bush and how he helped Obama win the U.S. presidency.<BR/><BR/>I do agree though that, African countries should form a unified front to deal with unacceptable policies of IMF, World Bank or any other entity/country that can be detrimental to the interest of Africans. I think the problem will be misguided ambitions among member countries and/or selfish aspirations of few individual.... but there's always hope.Che Solasihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13837891973968823825noreply@blogger.com