This election is NOT about Lowassa, says Jack Daniel of Jamii Forums!
By Jack Daniel's
This election is about choosing a different path for our country. We, as the citizens of this country we love, have a choice to make about the path we are going to pursue as a country. There are two candidates on the ‘spotlight’ with two different paths for our country.
We are going to make a choice about whether to continue on the path we have been on, or try a new prospective path, We are going to choose on whether to continue with the same policies that have brought us here or try new ones.
Magufuli has worked with Kikwete 100% of his time, there is no record of him saying no to any of his policies, which means the policies that have failed and dumped many of us into poverty in Tanzania today are highly likely to be continued by Magufuli. Moreover, Magufuli is in a network where he can’t work differently. Lowassa has worked with Kikwete 20% of his time, he has differed with Kikwete on several occasions, his priority on education was/is in contrast with Kikwete’s agricultural priority, he wanted to end Richmond’s contract but his efforts were blocked by Kikwete, just to mention a few.
We are going to make a choice about almost everything that matters to us, for instance a choice about:
A government that will invest heavily on education because part of the problem we have today is having many people who can’t reason and make choices intelligently…we can’t just continue to lower pass marks to paint a picture of an educated population quality not quantity of education matters.
A small government, not the kind of a large ineffective government similar to the one that we had over the last decade that spends public funds unwisely and unnecessarily.
A government that will respect human rights and human dignity not forgetting freedom of press, of speech, of association and of assembly….we can’t just continue to have irresponsible law enforcement, intelligence community and military that put the ruling party’s interests ahead of the nation’s.
The government that will facilitate job creation for the youth…not similar to the one that killed our industries and businesses by putting self-interests ahead of the nation’s...not the one that fails to find good markets for our products…..and not the one that allows unregulated importation of products that turns our country into a dumping zone.
A government that will work on an overhauled constitution which will increase accountability, transparency and prosperity, not a government that will work with the existing or similar to the existing constitution that has a lot of proven weaknesses.
We’ve got to raise our reasoning beyond the choice of candidates for presidency and think more about the kind of path that we need as a country. We have a choice to make the next five years look like the last five (business as usual) or make the next five years look different (business through change)
Attacking Lowassa is trying to make Tanzanians believe that this election is not about a new path for our country…..What the critics fail to understand is that this election is not about Lowassa, it is about us (the citizens)
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