Bongo, the generous no man's land

WHEN the parliament passed takrima (Generosity) gaffe aiming at bribing voters, we warned that takrima-beneficiaries would become generous enough to act ’hampty-dumpty’.

To prove my words, there, recently, happened an astonishing and saddening episode whereby a Kenyan swindler, Paul Maweu defiled our education system thanks to candle love.

He fooled us like crazy.. The guy was employed as a lecturer by more than one university whilst he had not achieved even a KCSE! Why didn’t police submit this nincompoop to Mnali for drubbing!

And if truth be faced, we’ve many Kenyan impostors in our so-called international academies. Many of them are but Form-Four failures. But given they’re Kenyans and Tanzanian employers and parents are mad about them, they are even illegally (but generously) employed!

One thing Tanzanians don't know however, is, whilst they’re blindly in love with Kenyan quacks; in Kenya parents prefer Ugandan teachers they import before exporting their failures to Bongolala.

Another reason is, many so-called international things are owned and manned by either illiterates or non-professionals just like the one that goes with the name of the female saint whose owner is but a pure illiterate despite having an honorary PhD.

Let’s ask point blank. Why did this happen in the first place? Firstly, Tanzanians are known for their generosity especially to foreigners. But the same pseudo-generous beings hate each other! Kandoro’s mgambo - good at harassing and stealing vitumbua-beating marching guys as they spare Indian and Chinese purveyors!

If anything, this is the secret behind the increase of Indians especially when it comes to mega graft. So too, this is why EPA’s buggers are not arraigned. Doing so will go against our spirit of ’generosity’.

But without planting the spirit of loving our country and shying away from this megalomaniac generosity, one day we'll be ruled by a foreigner as it once happened in Kagera.

Our generosity has offered Indian economic refugees and international criminals to find a bed of roses and green pastures thanks to having ’generous’ honchos. Former Minister for Industry and Commerce, Idd Simba, once said that ten Indian businessmen own the whole economy of the country.

The same guys live almost in all National Housing houses and they control commerce throughout the country. To make it worse, they are implicated almost in all multi-billion scandals. Go to streets with Indian names in the city centre. The street names sound more like Mumbai than Dar es Salaam!

After discovering that in Bongo any foreigner is king, Chinese chingas are now moving into the country in scores to join this fete. Nobody bothers to query. What if the wabongo would go to China or India to do the same illegal businesses or conspire with honchos to ruin and rip their countries off?

Even in Mirerani and wherever minerals are mined, indigenous Tanzanians give room to foreigners to enjoy our generosity. I once put it to a generous politician who carefully digested what I had asked and then shamefully answered ’’Bongo is the country of love and generosity!’’

He added that when a friend pays you a visit, it’s important to let him sleep with your memsahib. The result is we end up with corruption scandals such as EPA and Richmond! Gosh, which love is this that makes you behave like a stupid candle Is it love or corruption and myopia coupled with greed?


It is indeed filial of love where you super-inflate the price of a presidential jet and a defensive radar in order to give these guys mshiko to take back to the country of slum dog millionaire. You let them use Kagoda to steal from EPA so as to stash some cash back home to reduce the number of poor guys.

I'm told India only has over 300,000,000 paupers! If you doubt this, watch the movie slum dog millionaire then you'll see the unthinkable. Currently, they're generously penetrating in politics so as to see to it that they become decision-makers.

There is one thing I’ve never understood. I usually hear politicians tell our people not to make many babies because overpopulation curtails our economic growth. But the same guys generously allow illegal immigrants to make our countries theirs as they fully and generously involve in capital flight.

You know what There are undisputed rumours that the number of Ethiopians and Somalis running away from poverty and wars back home is increasing simply because it is easier to generously purchase Tanzanian passports badly needed to make it to South Africa and elsewhere.

The other day someone told me that even our cops respond generously wherever there is money rather than where there is crime! He said if you call them to rescue a woman from the generous hands of a rapist, it’ll take you a month to get their response!

Even our higher-ups have taken a leaf from this. Don’t you remember how the president generously told thieves to return our money though they generously refused

One generous wino told us not to call fisadis by names because it'll frighten the do-nothing investors like Dowans, IPTL and such.

We must maintain our generosity. For example, when someone invests in our country but does nothing, we must pay him generously as we generously get our ten per cent that we generously bank in Jersey and elsewhere.

More important, our mumbo-jumbos must generously self help on things like Kiwira coal mine, harbour and what not. And indeed, we must generously keep mum to let them enjoy their retirement generously. For those that die generously after serving generously like Daud Ballali must be honoured on heroes’ day.

Before I forget, we recently wanted to extend our generosity to Dowans by purchasing its rotten power generators at a super-inflated price after it generously burned our fingers under Richmond!
Long live generosity. Sophocles says: When wisdom brings no profit, to be wise is to suffer.

Source: Thisday Feb. 11, 2009.