Question: What does your name TANESCO stand for?

Answer: It stands for Tanzania Electricity SupplyCompany. Any fool can tell you that.

Q: Are you sure it is not Tanzania Electricity'Shortage' Company?

A: Looks like you are shopping for a lawsuit; I have a very bright lawyer, in fact two of them.

Q: Congratulations! How did you manage to hire them?All the same, lets face it, there is more power shortage here than the 'supply,' doesn't this disturb you?

A: As long as I still collect my monthly bills, not at all!

Q: But how do you collect the bills without supplying the power, all the electric meters should be standing still at the moment.

A: I stopped reading meters very a long time ago. You see, estimation and concocted invoices have proved to be the best alternative because they arenever affected by the power shortages.

Q: So what is the reason behind current power shortages?

A: How many times shall I keep on telling you that it is due to drought?

Q: Drought? I never knew that electricity also grows on farms like maize and beans. Still, have you tried irrigation?

A: Good gracious, how ignorant some people are. Look here, ours is hydro-electricity, the power is generated by water driven turbines. If there is drought, the water level drops and the turbinescan't be driven.

Q: Have you tried manually driving them? I mean, there are many jobless people around here, who wouldonly be too happy to be employed as turbine drivers.

A: Good idea, but as I said, there is drought at the moment so where will we get enough food to feed all of them?

Q: But, should that be your problem? Just pay them their monthly salaries and let the guys fend for themselves.

A: No! The human rights people may not like it.

Q: The human rights people may even hate it more, once they hear that your power rationing schemes,have ! in the past been causing deaths of infants, who were being incubated in local hospitals.

A: What they don't know won't irk them.

Q: Indeed! So, when exactly will the power shortage likely to end?

A: As soon as the rains start falling.

Q: But the rains have started to fall, in fact, they have been doing so for the last three weeks.

A: Have they? Well ...I didn't notice, but all the same, this power shortage is an interesting phenomenon and will continue indefinitely, with orwithout the rains!

Q: But why?

A: Why not?

Q: So the drought thing is just an excuse to torture people?

A: .... And a very good one at that! Genius.

Q: At this rate and such lame excuses, will this country ever get to develop?

A: Who wants a developed country? All we need is a developing country.

Q: Dar is famous for its Saturday wedding ceremonies, don't you think this ongoing powershortages will affect them?

A: As you have noted, the weddings usually take place on Saturdays. I assure you that electric power will always be available on weekends. It is only the send-off parties that will be affected; actually we are trying to discourage them. We also just don't want to supply electricity on weekdays, because wehate to see people working.

Q: At the moment the only other country experiencing power shortages must be Iraq, but it is because the country had been into war.

A: But we have also been to war, in 1979 we fought against Id Amin, the Ugandan dictator, don't you ever read history?

Q: Not if I can help it. History is a very boring subject, which has this tendency of repeating itself.

A: .... Ha! Ha! Ha! Just like our power rationing.

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  1. Tehehe hehehe hehe!!! Nice intavyuu Michuzi. Unafaa kuwa Comedian!!!! Lakini kweli kuacha utani this umeme thing is boring yaani hata haieleweki, To make the matter worse here comes Richmond!!! Jk kweli nguvu yako ndio imeishia hapo kuhusu umeme? Can't u really do something? Yaani kama kuna watu walikuwa wanakufagilia wakati wa uchaguzi mie ni mmoja wao lakini mbona unatuangusha sisi tuliokupigia kura. I think there is some hidden agenda here!!! We (Tanzanians) are really tired of this we need to know what is really happening here!!. Aah!! It is hopeless talking about this thing!!! Am stopping!!! Au mnasemaje wenzangu?

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  2. Mimi kuna maswali najiuziza sipati majibu kabisa nayo ni hivi netgroup wanafanya nini tanzania?

    Kwa nini wasiondolewe?

    Nasema hivi kwa sababu muda walioingia tanzania 2002 walikuta tuna umeme miaka minne mpaka sasa ni maendeleo gani kama wataalamu wanaolipwa mishahara mikubwa wameweza kufanya kuliko ile tannesco iliyokuwepo?

    Je na wao tuwape muda?

    Au walikuja kuhakikisha ni jinsi gani shirika linaweza kuuzwa kwa eskom?

    Mimi sioni haja ya kuwa na watu wakaitwa wataalamu wakati wengine walizolewa mitaa ya Jburg na capetown.

    Anyway ngoja niachane na hili maana wakubwa wanalijua sana.

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  3. Mimi nasema huu ndio ule upuuzi wa ki afrika ambao kila siku naongelea. Viongozi wote wa afrika ni wezi wakubwa na wala rushwa, Katika miaka yote hii 45 nina uhakika ya kwamba tatizo la umeme lisingekuwapo, nina uhakika kwamba kama ikulu ingekosa umeme within 14hrs basi kikwete na serikali yake wange acha kuiba mali ya umma na kutuletea umeme.

    Hakuna wa maana ndani ya afrika wote ni wezi wakubwa wanao haribu nchi zetu.

    Michuzi toa haya maoni kuonesha ni jinsi gani demokrasia kama imekuwa ndani ya Tanzania.

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  4. Michuzi nadhani imefika wakati ukue sasa maana unadhani ukubwa ni umri tu,hichi ni kitu gani cha kuweka hapo watu wadiscuss??!!!!! kama hauna issue tulia mtu wangu utapata taratibu utaupload,au sio?!!
    Kazi yako nzuri ila unataka kuiharibu kwa issue za kijinga kama hiyo.

    Keep it Up!

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