How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

How the Berlin Conference Clung on Africa: What Africa Must Do

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Mkapa come clean on Kiwira deal please





I once wrote taxing the environed former president, Benjamin Mkapa, his wife, son, daughter-in law, in-law and friend to come clean reminiscent to Kiwira deal.

I did this after noting Mkapa is totally out of touch. He keeps mum over, and sits on allegations that he misused and abused our resources and the state house altogether.

Now once again, the media seems to stay put; to see to it that the mystery surrounding Mkapa’s improper behaviors is unraveled so that it can set us free. It revealed yet other damning truth that Mkapa and his Tanpower outfit illegally acquired Kiwira mine at a throw-away price of million Tshs. 70 in lieu of billion 4-odd! My foot! This is stupidity and insanity! Why this mess? Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

How will the hoi polloi languishing in penury receive this sacrilegious news? This is a bloody theft even if it is committed by the high and mighty.

This becomes worse especially when the person implicated answers to the title of president.

Though the-chimerical-power-that be told us to stop bothering the big man in his retirement (he’s entitled to enjoy on top of immunity shall he pack up without committing any crime as the case in point), we need explanations. Though this is wrongly conceived as disturbing peace and tranquility of the Island of peace, we’re not dodos. No peace can be there without justice.

What of his wife, kids and friends? Were they as well presidents behind the curtains so as to enjoy this bloody immunity?

Looking at the value of the property so stolen, it does not cross my mind that this bulimia would be committed by such high profile people in the first place! Shall this go uncorrected as some myopic drivelers think; the future of our ICU economy is grim. Even all primordial songs and brouhahas I hear of its rejuvenation and resurrection are but mockery!

This reminds me the tale of self serving goons. They sold all of their belongings including themselves and their kids and parents.

Given that these goons did not reckon with the future, later on, the mass rebelled and turned tables against them. How it ended? Chaos of course! Nicolae Ceausescu even Ferdinand Marcos and such can tell.

Though the king has opted to keep mum; thinking the allegations would vanish, chances are things change every moment of their lives. Even those protecting them will never die in the-power-that be. Those hoi polloi dying of penury will one day wake up and give them a heck.

Though the king may wrongly think the mess will clean itself, the truth is the king is naked. For a reasonable mind this is but the time to mount defense. It is sine qua none to do so. Otherwise this is bloody theft even if it has been committed by the high and mighty.

Even those abetting with such freebooters are themselves guilty of the same offense even if they are above the law. Too the owners be they Wananchi or the-power-that be consenting to this sacrilege must be zany, yahoos, yo-yo, zombies and nitwits not matter who and what.

I highly respect Mkapa. But I vehemently abhor his silence. For it does not do him good. I still wonder a firebrand and tough gong like him to end up becoming like a kid who depends on the parents to defend him.

Though nobody is pushing the punk, he lives like a rat. Why shouldn’t he if at all the ball is in his court and he does not want to put his house in order?

I will holler again and again. The groveling Kiwira deal will never be put to rest until all stones are turned. And those day-dreaming it will die a natural death; are dead wrong.

By the way, which type of wisdom was applied to vend a property worth Tshs. Billion 4-odd at the throw away price of Tshs. Million 70!
By the way is this fool-them-by-empty-words uwazi na ukweli we were told? My foot! What a bad augury and precedent for yet other to come freebooters!
May I submit?

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