I recently heard Jukwaa la Katiba guys registering their discomfiture with regards the fashionable tendency by first ladies to form NGOs whenever their husbands become presidents.
If anything, I have already written about this crime countless times. Sadly though, this new style of minting and printing money using the office of the president started with Ann Ben Mkapa. When this type of biz’s invented by the third phase many were duped to believe that it aimed at serving the society little knowing it was the opposite. Imbibers opposed this macabre act right away. Who would listen to fyatus like us?
We sometimes fool ourselves thinking that the high and mighty can waste their time to think about us. We goof even more. We give our consent to much nonsense as it was in the case in point. The worst thing I have ever evidenced is the fact that when such ulaji is made, some people goof thinking that it is about them while it actually is only about using them. I still remember vividly. When Mrs Mkapa came with the hoax of fighting for women, our question was: Why after your man became president but not before? Again, who’d listen to boozer at this time of euphoria?
Now that it is an open secret that NGOs are formed to mint and print money using the office of president, it is right time to put a stop on them. Our constitution should clearly stipulate that the wife of the president should not be allowed to form any NGO. For, doing so brings her husband’s office in disrepute due to the conflict of interests arising thereof. This is very logic given that our president is a fallible human being. So too, we've already experimented both having a first lady who does use her husband’s office to make money and the one who doesn't. So we know which is which in this circumstance. under Julius Nyerere and Ally Hassan Mwinyi where the first lady was not in this NGO’s business the office of the president was not in any dispute or disrepute altogether. Come when Mkapa and Jakaya Kikwete allowed their wives to engage in this NGO stuff, we started seeing tongue wagging in protest. Thank lord. Those protesting are the wananchi whose office is abused and misused. We need to listen to them. If the people we portend to serve don’t want our services, why force them if there are no vested interests for those manning these NGOs?
Time for redeeming the office of the president and stopping it from becoming a center for eating frenzy is now. It is now when we write a new constitution that results from our over fifty-year experimentations of the current one that allows such conflict of interests.
By stopping our first ladies from indulging themselves in eyebrow raising business firstly, we’ll be saving and averting them from the danger the former first ladies in various countries. In Zambia, former first lady Regina Chiluba was jailed after her husband vacated the office after it came to light that she used the office of president for private gains.
Secondly, by banning the first ladies from participating in moneymaking activities, we’ll give them more time to console and advise their husbands. Also, banning first ladies from participating in suspicious activities under their NGOs will avert them the corruption allegations such as the former first lady Anna Mkapa is currently facing. It came to light that she acquired some business irregularly.
Thirdly, we’ll be protecting them from being used and abused by corrupt business persons who will pretend to make contributions to their NGOs so as to gain access to the state house. We evidenced this during the second phase whereby some suspicious Asian business persons reached at the point of calling our first lady shemeji. Most of such dirty business people were good tax evaders and smugglers. This is unacceptable. One can see how corrupt and opportunistic such business people are. When the first lady ceases to be, they too cease to contribute to her NGO. Instead, they direct their donations to the new NGO ran by the new first lady. This is how you can see how the so-called contributions offered to help needy mean more that. They really mean business but not altruism as they are wrongly advertised when made or pledged. The presidency is the symbol of the nation.
We've a nugget of wisdom for first ladies. Instead of wasting much time wheeling and dealing, they can spend this time on expanding their knowledge. They can spend their extra time educating themselves especially those whose education levels are wanting.
In sum, given that corruption is the biggest problem our country is now facing. Among other measures, to freeing ourselves from corruption must include stopping first ladies from running NGOs which are always suspicious. It makes no sense to find that after retiring the president is enjoying all millions of shillings in the name of emoluments while at the same time his wife is raking in even more millions from the business she acquired using the same office. This, by itself, is a crime even if we do not treat it as thus.
Source: Business Times March 7, 2014.
4 comments:
Nani aliyeanzisha na kwa nini, Je tuchukue harua gani sisi waathirika wa ufisadi namna hii.....!!!!?
Aliyenzisha ni Anna Tamaa Mkapa akafuatia huyu shosti wa sasa. Yote hii ni kutokana na tamaa ya kutajirika haraka. Angalia sasa hata vitegemezi vimeingia kwenye hii frenzy ya ulaji. Kesho utasikia na ukoo mzima ukiwa na NGO za ulaji simply because mtu wao ni rais ambaye amegeuka kuwa rahisi wa kutengenezea utajiri mchafu na wa haraka.
Basi at least wangekuwa wanasaidia watu wote ila ni ukabila tu! Nakumbuka wanapeleka watu wanaowajua kwenda kusomeshwa tena nje ya nchi wakati walalahoi kibao wanashindwa hata kusomesha watoto wao hapa nchini. Anna Mkapa aliwapeleka akina HOYCE TEMU NA MDOGO WAKE RACHEL TEMU kusoma marekani eti nao ni wasiojiweza khaaaaa!!!
Anna Mkapa ndiye chanzo cha ushenzi na ujambazi huu tunaoshuhudia ambao shosti wa sasa ameigiza. Sina haja ya kuhukumu watu kwa makabila yao ila mkoa ule unasifika kwa ukabila na roho mbaya so to speak. Hawana tofauti na magabacholi hata wanapojisifisa kuendelea kutokana na kuwaibia wengine. Nadhani tunaelewana. Hili jimama sura mbaya ndilo lilimponza chinga ambaye alikuwa ameanza utawala wake vizuri lakini akaumaliza vibaya.
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