The leader of the main opposition party in Tanzania, CUF, Prof Ibrahium Lipumba, has issued stinging unprecedented criticism of President Jakaya Kiwete's government. In a report published in the Nation media group owned Mwananchi newspaper recently, Lipumba asked Kikwete to reduce his foreign trips and stay home more to tackle the major problems facing the nation. He wondered what the president was doing trying to woe investors abroad when the national power grid was slowly grinding to a halt.
Elsewhere investors in the country have demanded that the government addresses the two major problems facing businesses at the moment. Namely the energy crisis and the
free falling Tanzanian shilling. They warned that by early next month the two major towns of Arusha and Mwanza will be plunged into total darkness as the national grid in those areas totally grounds to a halt and fails altogether.
As all this is happening in his backyard, President Kikwete has been busy doing diplomatic duty for Kenya discussing alleged "instability" in the country with President George W. Bush. His foreign trips have also been numerous and have included a curious stop in Spain's famous Real Madrid club to receive a Real Madrid jersey with his name printed on the back.
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I find it amazing that he had the time to go to the Barnabeu with all the other more pressing issues he had for his country!
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ReplyDeleteMany newspapers in Tz have written bashful commentaries on the Nation Media Group complaining why they were portrayed by the Sunday Nation Cartoonist as stooges of their president.
The way things are going on in these two lovable country just makes me wonder which country's diplomat will fire the first verbal shot publicly.
If one country does something, the other raises up in arms e.g the Kikwete Bush saga
And now this... Kenyan media and Tz media saga.
They actually say that the Nation newspapers have
stooped too low as to portray them as licking Kikwetes boots.
These are interesting times....
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