Why do our politicians love hypocrisy?

I CAN smell a rat in Dowans power generators’ deal. Whenever we say things are getting worse and are contrary to what we were promised, we’re accused of petty jealousies, bias and lack of patriotism. But what is there to be jealous about in this chaotic situation.

We recently heard supremos saying the same thing we’ve been saying for a long time. Like us, they’re reprimanded and told to shut up or put up! Will they succumb to these cheap politicking.

If you are bickering and tearing yourselves, should we really keep mum? Should we keep mum while things are getting worse. If scandals are surging time and again, should we really keep mum. Nay, it can’t be.

Someone must say it point blank. Failure to tell the truth is as good as corruption. And indeed, failure to accept and face the truth is the most corrupt tendency that has been experienced in the history of this land.
When politicians assured people they were fit for duty, people trusted them. They gave us what we wanted so as to give them what they wanted and expected from us. They promised heavens-most important of all-to fight graft.

Time and again, the electorate have honestly and openly been reminding politicians to do the right thing and deliver. Is this bad really As politicians assured them: This hank is theirs and whoever they entrust running it is their servant. When then did we become masters instead of the humble servants we promised to be.

Is pointing out that corruption is ruining our people a crime that deserves the rants and raves of politicians For example, during Richmond scams we’re told, the power generators they brought were unfit. This is why they did not produce even a single voltage.

That's why we booted them down and those that ushered them in. Edward Lowassa knows this even if he’s still being paid retirement perks for not doing so.

Astonishingly, we’re now told the generators are fit! This way, aren’t we rewarding Richmond and its sister-Dowans for their rip-off? What makes things worse is the fact that those who were telling us how worse the whole deal was are the ones telling us to purchase these loss-making things!

The people who supported the purchasing of Richmond ’s power generators must firstly tell us what has changed for them to make this astonishing U-turn.

What makes everyone have doubts is the fact that some of those who were in the front line in telling us to commit our money to suspicious deals are the same people implicated in radar scandal.

Why should one buy a car that has never moved even an inch?
Why are we repeating the same error every time? It has become an in-thing for a few thieves to steal our money under the pretext of supplying power.

Every year we’re told we need emergency power supply. Unfortunately this started during the second phase administration and billions of shillings have been stolen ever since. When will we have reliable power supply?

I strongly believe that those who say our country is mismanaged and abused base their arguments on this inescapable reality.

For a country with sufficient water bodies like Tanzania , it is a shame to rely on coca-cola-like-means of supplying power to the nation.

During the campaigns we were promised that controversial contracts entered by the former regime would be rectified. Ever since, no single contract has ever been reviewed!

Another killer fact: TANESCO has always complained that many companies commissioned to supply power to it like IPTL, Kiwira, Dowans, Aggrecko and others have become a thorn in a shoe.

Our bills have always been inflated to finance this anomaly resulting from corruption-sired contracts. Tanzania hikes power more than any country in Africa .

Even Burundi , DRC, Rwanda and even Somalia have comparably reasonable power tariffs.
Something must be wrong with our leaders
Source: Thisday Feb.4, 2009.