Kingunge is that Ujamaa you preach?

REPORTS that the family of chief cadre and Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) MP, Kingunge Ngombale Mwiru, has been ripping us off for so long cannot pass by without being given a look-in. This is how Bongo is made a begging nation.

Indeed, for those in the know, this started many years ago. In 2002 there were grumblings and rumblings as to why the same family of messiah was allowed to build a petrol station in the Ubungo Bus Terminal (UBT) even where the law does not allow buses to refuel with passengers on board.

One reporter who was then working with Habari Corporation took on the challenge. When she went to interview the owner of the petrol station at UBT, upon completing the interview and leaving the office, she was told to accord greetings to two of the then directors of the company she was working with. One of these double-faced creatures is currently in the ranks doing PR business.

She reported back her findings to her editors as usual. She did not convey the regards thinking this would save her story. You know what? The story did not see the light of day. And that was until recently when things got out of control, when PM Mizengo Pinda was forced to become a witness of this crime perpetrated by the high and mighty.

As I know, the law does not allow buses to refill with passengers on board. Such a prohibition is enforced so as to avert deaths and injuries in case of fire outbreaks. How come that the petrol station is built within the always-fully-packed bus station?

Now that the government is aware of machinations and sabotage the Kingunge family has brought on the city, we need action to be taken. Looking at Pinda’s comments that the contract must be rectified, one can smell a rat. Why rectify without dealing with the loss already incurred?

The right thing to do is return the whole money made through criminal means as this whole business amounts to a replica of Richmond, Kiwira, EPA and so on; even though it is conducted in a different style. Theft is theft.

One can now see clearly why Kingunge has always been in the forefront in defending CCM’s nonsense, for he benefits from this conspiracy. His behaviour reeks of hypocrisy for a person who has presented himself as a staunch socialist. He preaches water and drinks wine.

Wherever money can be made there are families of the biggies. They’re at UBT, Harbour, BoT, in political parties and what not. The money that would enable the city, for example in UBT profligacy, to deliver on basic needs of its residents ends up going to a cabal of self-seeking filches.

This money which the Kingunge family is scooping would go towards city sanitation, installing new traffic lights, and other development activities. So those wondering why our country is in a shambles should make a note.

I’ve for long been making noises about the society of hyenas and dogs. Such society normally is ruined by self-helping goons. Yet still, they scramble almost at every opportunity so as to double the pangs and twangs of poverty for those that are not found in their cabal.

Bongo is becoming a private estate of biggies. They are everywhere where money is. Go to hunting blocks, it stinks there. Parking business has also not been spared. Do you remember the former parking company owned by one illiterate? When the former regime packed and hit the road, his business also went under. How could he survive while he leaned on one big minister who retired with his friend at the top of the former regime?

In a nutshell, Bongo is being turned into a begging pauper by such hyena-like biggies. UBT’’s theft is but a drop in the ocean. There are many out there who are taking everything around us! We remind the government not to sit on its lazy bum while it watches thieves sabotage the nation. Doing so will take away its legality, therefore rendering it illegal.

As for Kingunge, is that the Ujamaa you’re preaching?
Source:Thisday March 20, 2009.