election is to have no opposition. But since opposition did exist, in plenty, executive powers allowed her to imprison them.
From where she sat, advised by her cronies, the matter was merely a convenient temporary detention of noisy fellows to allow the government to wind up the irksome issue of an irritating but required election so the country can go back to its peace and tranquility.
It is amazing how quicky the trappings of power swiftly blind otherwise sensible and intelligent people to believe that the authority vested in the presidency is sufficient to trample and ignore the voices on the ground.
It takes such a short time between elections and the assumption of power for the space between the electors and the elected to become a chasm and the almost comical way the vote beggar becomes the arrogant boss of the‘ Wapende Wasipende’ caliber.
To have the temerity to publish election results with a ninety eight percent winning margin put a new twist to how a conflicted regime, desperate for legitimacy, would concoct and publish statistical nonsense in the quest of trying to legalize a political crime.
Since you have already jailed the opposition and stuffed your ballot boxes to show a semblance of a decent turn out, one still feels compelled to tout ridiculous statistics and publish them, even Kasongo was astounded by the audacity and the ineptness of the lie.
Political mendacity is an art that Kenya has perfected and they will go through all the motions of a disputed election, won by a razor thin margin and the Supreme Court gets to decide the winner. Deceit has a legally sanctioned process.
But historical political superiority complex stopped her from seeking advice from the master conman next door and by the time the country was ablaze, the mother of the nation found herself cast in a new role of‘ The Making of a Dictator’.
The sad reality of the state of democracy in a turbulent global environment is that in the past the inevitable castigation and the threat of sanctions would have made the Tanzanian brazen act impossible. The democracy watchdogs have been trumped by Trump.
As improbable as the situation may seem, Kenya has regained its tattered reputation of a pseudo-democracy just because the regional neighbors are so much worse off and it is sad to see global leaders tolerating Kenya as the best of the worst.
The Tanzanian exaggerated politeness of yesteryears where a Kenya would have joked that the Tanzanian people would probably have asked politely‘ Twaomba Tuandamane’ has been shattered forever thanks to a lady who should have known better.
Throwing aspersions to Kenyan as the unruly neighbor is not going to wipe the slate of the political machinations that have exposed an underlying mass manipulation that do not brook opposition or dissent.
Tanzanians are discovering that their obsessive politeness is a façade for a regime that cannot countenance opposition. Those that dare troll the mother of the nation have found out that the mother’ s milk is a poisoned chalice.
To add insult to the already injured wazalendo is the alacrity with which the regional leaders were shamelessly competing to congratulate their fellow thief. Kasongo was just irritated that there should always be honor among thieves with strict standards upheld.
To call out a neighbor as the prime suspect in the internal instability in your regime is considered ill-mannered even if the neighbor in question has excelled in its ability to poke its nose in other country’ s business and annoy all parties involved with double-speak.
The soft-spoken lady wearing an iron glove is well advised to become good friends with her neighbors since all she needed to do was mess up big time to get free access to the regional WhatsApp group of would-be dynasties getting rid of opponents.
The real question for democracy is not when it started raining in Tanzania but if it will ever stop raining, or worse still, the realization that it was always raining but that the ruling party CCM has over the years suppressed the voice of the voting robots aka electors.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for the electors of the world to unite and smash the voting systems that are funded by the rich for the rich while convincing you that they are the people, voted in by the people to represent the people. The voters must wake up now!