Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Dear, President Kikwete

Mr. President Complainer-in-chief,


If I could offer you one piece of advice, it would be something like this: when public employees or civil servants fail you/fail the country, you just don't blame them, you take proper actions against them.

That is, you fire them immediately!

And so, you need to be serious Mr. President! Get rid of all the lazy and incompetent people and send out a strong message to the rest of your cabinet and other government employees that you mean business. That you will not tolerate these sorts of behavior! Enough is enough!

With all due respect, Mr. President, I must say that for more than seven years now that you have been in the office, you have been doing nothing but jetting around the world and complaining! I mean, all you do is blame everyone for their failures, rather than taking any responsibility for your own bad leadership?

Every time I read a local Newspaper, all I read is you complaining or blaming someone. This needs to stop Mr. President! I mean, as a nation's leader, when are you going to start taking responsibility for your own bad leadership?

Because all these complaints and blames just make us all sick to the stomach! And quite frankly, we are tired of hearing them, and we can no more take them!

I think you are a really cool person [always smiling, dressing well, and attending funerals and such, on time], but quite frankly, I don't think you have what it takes to be the president of a complex, beautiful country like Tanzania.

In other words, you have failed us and we are so very disappointed in you!

P.S. Please fire that Health and Social Welfare minister guy, Dr Haji Mponda. I don't think he's up to the job. And also, you need to meet with 'em doctors in person ( don't send Mizengo Pinda to negotiate, again). I think he's an arrogant and a terrible negotiator. Remember: people's lives are worth far more than an extra 2.5m of salary per month, which the doctors are demanding.

Sincerely,

Me, a concerned citizen,

Edward Chacha

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President Kikwete blames ministry department for degrading forests
By The guardian reporter
6th March 2012

President Jakaya Kikwete has accused the Department of Natural Resources in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism of degrading forests through issuance of permits to loggers.

He sounded the blame at the State Lodge here when responding to a regional development report read to him by Kilimanjaro regional commissioner Leonidas Gama.

The report, among other things, highlighted the challenge of deforestation and efforts being taken to curb it.

The strategies include suspension of issuing permits for harvesting, using and transporting natural forest products.

Gama said the government had been working hard to curb the problem, but a few unfaithful natural resources officers “continue to issue permits” to loggers despite a ban imposed by a local authority.

In his response, Kikwete directed regional leaders to collaborate with politicians by explaining to them their plans and strategies of forest conservation so that they could deliver the message correctly.

“There has been a problem for experts to have good plans, but politicians are not involved effectively, as a result they fail to talk about and support the plans to their electorate,” he said.

Kikwete also directed local authorities to deal with forestry officers who issue illegal permits to loggers.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN

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