VETERAN TANZANIAN DIPLOMAT LASHES OUT AT CCM FOR HASSAN NASSOR MOYO'S DISMISSAL FROM THE PARTY!

A career and a veteran Tanzanian diplomat has strongly and unequivocally lashed out at CCM for dismissing from the Party Zanzibar's veteran politician and one of the architects of the new face of today’s Zanzibar, Mr Hassan Nassor Moyo, calling such an action as a great loss to CCM and not to Mr Moyo.

Without mincing his words the diplomat who was our country's former deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tanzanian ambassador and High Commissioner to several countries, wrote….” fighting for Zanzibar's rights in the Union is no offence and is not tantamount to opposing the Union”.

The diplomat concludes…” Removing Mr Moyo from the Party is an intentional trip up. It’s only the foot that would be hurt and not the obstacle! Pitty! Pitty! Pitty!”.

The diplomat – a high ranking Tanzanian so far to come out cleanly and openly with dissatisfactions over the Moyo's dismissal from the Party, once criminalized corruption in the country when he quoted Mwalimu Nyerere speaking in Edinburgh in the 90s that – “There is a receiver and a giver …..giving bribes is tax deductible here (in Britain) and is never condemned. It should be a criminal offence”.

Whether the foot would really be hurt or not, let’s wait for the people of Tanzania to decide in October, 2015.

Yashwant Sinha with Amani Abeid Karume, President of Zanzibar, after his call, for a group photograph, State House, Zanzibar, 27 April 2003; among others are, sitting from left: Shashank, Dr. Abdul-Kadir Shareef, Deputy Foreign Minister of Tanzania (2nd), Dinesh K. Jain (7th); standing from left: Ahmed Ali Saleh, Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tanzania (2nd), Eva L. Nzaro, High Commissioner of Tanzania to India (3rd), and S.D. Nur, Consul General of India in Zanzibar (5th). Zanzibar is famous as 'the spice island' Yashwant Sinha, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, Dr. Abdul-Kadir Shareef at a Reception, India House, Dar es Salaam, 26 April 2003. The following is from the horses's mouth! "Nimemjua Mzee Hassan Nasor Moyo tokea mwaka 1960 , nikiwa na umri wa miaka 17, pale alipokuwa akipigania haki za wafanya kazi wa znz, na kuongoza chama hicho cha Wafanyakazi wa znz, akishirikiana na Mzee Ahmed Hasan Diria. Alikuwa akija Vikokotoni, nyumbani kwa Mzee Diria, mara kwa mara, kwa shughuli zao.  Wakati wote huo, Zanzibar imekuwa ndio kiini cha misimamo yake, isiyotetereka, na yenye kutabirika.  Hakupata kuwa mpinzani wa Muungano, si baada ya kuundwa, na wala si hii leo. Mzee Moyo ndiye mtu pekee, aliye hai hii leo ambaye ameshuhudia binafsi utiaji saini wa Mkataba wa Muungano; hawezi kuwa mpinzani wa Muungano. Anachopigania ni masilahi ya ZNZ tu, ndani ya Muungano.. Watu wanaweza kutofautiana naye katika mbinu na njia za kupata masilahi hayol, lakini kamwe hawezi kushutumiwa kuwa ni mpinzani wa Muungano. Kudai haki za Zanzibar si kupinga Muungano. Bali, kuibeza na kuidharau Zanzibar ni kupinga Muungano; maana pasi na Zanzibar na "Tanganyika" hakuna muungano. Vivyo hivyo, kudai masilahi ya Tanganyika si kupinga muungano. Hivyo, lazima watu waheshimu mawazo ya wengine katika kutetea kitu kimoja. Kumfukuza Mzee Moyo ni hasara kwa waliomfukuza na si kwa Mzee Moyo.  Nimesikitishwa sana na kitendo hicho, ijapokuwa sikushangazwa. Ni kujikwaa kwa makusudi; unaoumia ni mguu siyo jiwe! Pitty! Pitty! Pitty!". Imeandikwa na: Balozi Dr. Abdulkadeer Shareef.