EYE SPY: The clowning and lies are on!
ADAM LUSEKELO
ADAM LUSEKELO
THIS DAY
DAR ES SALAAM
ACCORDING to the government, more than 1.27 million jobs have been created during the last three years. But then you would expect them to say that, wouldn't you?
You don’t need to get A-pluses in the political show in Bongo to know that the ruling CCM has unofficially kicked off the election campaigns for the 2010 general elections. They are now busy tarting themselves up to look pretty before the people of the United Republic of Tanzania.
But are the people buying that? I bet they donèt. If you hear some government ruler start the process of going to a salon to tart himself up on how beautiful the government is, reach for your remote control and watch soccer. Watch Brazilian soccer star Kaka think with his feet. Or phone your chick for a chat.
According to the government, they have created 27 per cent above the one million five-year target set by the Fourth Phase government, which came into office after the 2005 general elections.
If you believe that then you will believe me too. My real name is not Adam Lusekelo, but Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome!
There are more flowery truths coming from the government. The economy of Tanzania is growing very fast. In fact last year it recorded a 25 per cent growth. All that amid crippling water shortages in the real capital Dar es Salaam and not that designated capital joke called Dodoma.
By the way only the other day, the Prez, Jack Mrisho, was photographed by the ubiquitous State House press corps inspecting sketches of the planned Julius Nyerere convention centre in Dodoma? No bozo in Dar! The planned shift to Dodoma is going to take only a few hundred years. As I told you my real name is Julius Caesar.
So while the economy has been booming, there have been intermittent power-cuts. No fear, I hear the government has imported millions of night-vision goggles for Tanzania’s students to wear while reading and doing their homework at night.
Talk of students, Tanzania is also leading in persuading students to go to classes in universities or any pretension calling themselves universities or institutions of higher learning!
By the way, after lengthy meditation and reflection, the government has decided to stop importing those eyesores called ’shangingis’, those embarrassing four-wheel cars for the status-conscious ruling class.
Instead the Prez, says he will buy tractors from the money saved. After saying that agriculture is the backbone of the economy of Tanzania for the last 45 years, the government has now come to realize that it has to do something about that backbone of the economy.
These are times for flowery speeches which will go on until after the 2010 general elections. You ve to give it to those politicians. They will yap a lot without actually saying anything. Without batting a lid. What a tough way to make a living!
I HAVE NEVER EVER HEARD A COUNTRY ON EARTH THAT DID ACHIEV A 25% GROWTH RATE IN ITS ECONOMY, INDIA LAST YEAR PREDICTED 8% BUT THEY HAVE ACHIEVED 7.5% EVEN EMERGING GIANT CHINA NEVER WENT AS FAR AS THAT NUMBER, 25%! YOU ARE KIDDING. AND HOW MANY JOBS? 1.27 MILLIONS WHERE IN TANZANIA? I DON'T KNOW MAYBE! A COUNTRY WHERE YOU CAN'T GET A JOB UNLESS YOU BUY IT, OR YOU KNOW A BIG FAT CAT/ A BIG PATATO OF THE GOVERNMENT. MAYBE THEY TALK ABOUT UNSKILLED JOBS.
ReplyDeleteAdam (Julius Caesar)you are full of fun. I like your sense of humor. You combine journalism, literature and art. I just love your articles. They are informative, educative and entertaining. Yes, we will hear much more blah blah to the run up to 2010. Keep it up, bro!
ReplyDeleteWhat a tough way to make a living?That is an easy way to make a living brother men.Siasa ni kilimo which means mkulima na mwanasiasa same input and same productivity,hapo tupo?
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Happy New Year Son of a Pen,Adam!Its me your Compatrio Tonny rubbishing around in the stinky profiles of Politicio!Forgotten the Latin we used to hyme in those ghostly church choirs!When Politics used to be Decent.These days every Tom,Dick and Harry could seemingly be a Politician capable of chewing up those economic jargons and growth statistics and spew out magnanimity in political splendour!By the way lest I forget,Tanzania always lucky as it were, has its own brand of economics,specifically known in Wall Street as BONGONOMICS.It has its own pack of economic literature,its own terminologies and its menu of PhDeeez!No wonder in the arena of Bongonomics you come across a PhDeez Artist in Bongonomics who would swear to the Almighty God that "Have the prices of commodities gone up?But we didn't touch anything I swear!"Woooow!Been able to create surplus employment in the TZ,thanx to the ingenuity and super intelligence of the powers that be in the "Central"Committee of the SiSiEmz!such horrendous words jetting out of a sullen mouthpiece belonging to an extinguished Profesa Minister of Babtism!Jesus Come Back!Which economy have we been talking about?One that has registered an impressive twodigit positive annual economic groeth rate at a time when even the superpowers,financiers of our entire development budget have been witnessing downturns in their economies;One that has created employment far and above the targets at a time when same economic giants are experiencing mass layoffs and chilling unemployment rates;One that has never seen Inflation going up at a time when economic giants have been going thru hard and harsh living costs and mortgage finance plummeting;how long is this cheap ride gonna take us Bongolanders,best known as Wa Danganyikans! Inflation in Tanzania has a completely different definition for those of you wishing to major in economics at Manzese University!No,no Sir,in TZ Inflation does not refer to an upward spiral increase in the prices of commodities or rather Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Goods or rather the withering of the purchasing power of the local shilling or The DayLight Robbery done by the People's Government on Innocent Voters and Humble Citoyens by Printing more paper money when knowingly that production of real goods and services has gone down!Infact Inflation in TZ has nothing to do with prices!It has no economic meaning whatsoever to any sane mind!Employment gone up?Who said so!In which sectors or subsectors has employment gone up,Professor?Wauza Mitumba you call it gainfull employment creation?Saccos financing a whole stream of Boutiques and Salons,you call that gainfull employment creation "from the point of view of decreasing economic and technological dependency from the ex-colonial masters?"Come-Oooon Professor,its time to stop being too Bookish!Unfortunately I have never known of any University in this World conferring PhDeeez on Practical and Applied Economics!You may attain the highest excellence in economic theorising,thats all,nothing more!But translating those Theories into economic reality,thats where we start parting wayz!No wonder we hear all those political rubbishes from the most eloquent!Declining Inflation,Positive TwoDigit Real Economic Growth rates,Romantic Bank Interest Rates,Shilling gaining Value,positive employment growth rates and you know what?The Government having created the conditions for sustainable economic growth?did you hear that?the stable macro economic fundamentals?its just small small problems left,otherwise we are on track!did you ever come across a politician who has never seen the inside of an economics classroom brandishing such utter Nonsense? Of all the mothers, only recently,our learned friend Professor Ndullu has also succumbed to the whims of petty politicians by uttering economic flashes that are totally the opposite of economic reality?what a pitty this is?This looks like "endless love" Adam.Forgive me,let me not attempt to Bore You with these sentimental economic doctrines of Judaism!Remember "The Politics of the Belly",this is what it is all about!CIEO! jamani tumechoshwa na utapeli wa kisiasa!nchi imeoza,inaelekea kubaya kama viongozi hawata acha kusema uongo na kudanganya wananchi kwasababu tu wengi wao hawatang'amua uongo huo.HII NI DHAMBI KUBWA SANA MBELE YA MWENYEZI MUNGU!Motto utawawakia hapa hapa Duniani!Inshallah,panapo majaliwa!
ReplyDeleteI am impressed Julius Caesar!! Yeah, put the records straight, we know what they are up to, they have been just like tht all these yrs. I am irritated tht we do not see these things, especially the so called elite, the learnt people, we are just too greedy to go along these politicians, b'se we think by going against we'll b in trouble. No one is a better citizen just b'se he/she puts in a green garment whn attending political rallies. Wake up fellas, it's time, the real time, our dear brothers and sisters, mothers and daughters are suffering!! Let's simply reverse this whole thing. We deserve a better Tanzania than we are having or promised by the same greedy and selfish people!!!!
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Thank you very much Mr. Adam for you enlighting article, however, I wish this type of article could be produced frequently, and especially in Swahili language so that even walala hoi can read.Africa, Tanzania in particular, need people like you Mr.Adam, The Civil Society ili kuwaelimisha watu how to hold their leaders accountable. I believe that Civil Society can enhance democrtic reform through blogs, radio, and newspapers. Institutions such as trade Unions, Churches, women's organization, farming co-operatives, and mosques are all part of the civil society, as we may recall, those are the same institutions which helped to chase away the colonial rule in the 60's. Either Citizens have given up their democratic right, or they don't care anymore, somebody need to remind them that it is also their responsibility to hold their leaders accountable. We saw two years ago in Pakistan when the country's civil society forced General Musharaf to declare the state of emergency. It relly works.
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