As much as it’s the parliament that decides who is going to be the Speaker, the process has to be tested in the court of public opinion. And this can be done by stakeholders coming out and owning the process on their own terms.
Should Tanzania fail to honour its commitments to reforms, and choose to shelve the recommendations made during the Dodoma meeting instead of implementing them, the government should be blamed not on those who chose to participate in the dialogue.
Saturday’s mini cabinet reshuffle comes hardly four days after President Samia hinted about it, promising to get rid of her assistants who have their eyes on the 2025 general elections.
Many of those engaging in the debate over Ndugai’s resignation have not been able to appreciate the current situation as it is and have, therefore, not succeeded in putting the saga into context.
Whatever one’s conclusions about Tutu, what is not debatable is that the world has lost a crusader in the struggle for freedom, justice, equality, and peace.
What happens in 2022 will set the tone for the General Election in 2025 and, probably, for the country’s politics in the long run.
Uchambuzi huu unafanyika kwa kutoa alama maalumu kwa mawaziri wote. Alama A itamaanisha aliyefanya vizuri sana. B vizuri. C ikimaanisha kawaida. D ikiwa isiyoridhisha na F ikimaanisha mbaya.
The Speaker of Parliament says he takes full responsibility for what he said and he is sorry to Tanzanians that he has wronged.
The firebrand lawyer and politician says he will be in Tanzania by March from Belgium where he sought asylum after a botched assassination attempt against him, the government’s failure to give him security assurances notwithstanding.
The party says one of the qualities of an independent NEC is that its officials must be drawn from people who either personally applied to serve in the commission or recommended by people with high social standing within the communities.
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