As Sumaye faults government
Chadema-Ukawa endorsed Presidential candidate Edward Lowassa says if elected, he will sanction allowances for local government leaders including village chairpersons to motivate them in their work.
Addressing a massive crowd at Makondeko grounds in Katesh, Hanang District, he said local leaders were key to running the government.
“That is why I am planning to start paying allowances because these leaders are doing a very good and recommendable job that has to be recognised and appreciated,” said Lowassa, a former premier who recently defected from the ruling CCM to the opposition camp.
He expressed his dismay on the current situation in which local leaders are not paid anything despite their importance.
“…I am determined to transform this nation... I want to make Tanzania a poverty-free nation,” Lowassa declared.
However, he commended the action taken by the long-serving CCM stalwart Kingunge Ngombale Mwiru to abandon the ruling party.
He further said that should he win in the October 25 General Election he would ensure that clean and safe water is supplied to Kateshi, the headquarters of Hanan’g District, Manyara Region.
Among other pledges, Lowassa said he would remove all nuisance taxes, rehabilitate all secondary schools and make his government provide free education from kindergartens to universities.
Among other pledges, Lowassa said he would remove all nuisance taxes, rehabilitate all secondary schools and make his government provide free education from kindergartens to universities.
“I don’t want to hear teachers sending back students to their parents because they do not have money to contribute towards the construction of laboratories and other items,” he said.
For his part, another former Prime Minister, Fredrick Sumaye, called on CCM to be ready to hand-over power because its era has expired as people wanted change.
Said he: “Kikwete’s government tries to compete with him but they can’t because he has been in power for ten years.”
Sumaye described the current government as a failure as inflation has gone up instead of going down. As an example, he said, the price of one kilogramme of sugar in 2005 was 500/-, but now it has risen four-fold to 2,000/-, declaring:
“Kikwete’s government cannot compete with me; I have a clean record in my performance.”
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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