EDITORIAL: Committed leaders wanted

Africa doesn’t need leaders who take up leadership roles or positions by chance, but it will prosper through well trained and skilled people ready to uphold accountability and patriotism.

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CCM craves for election of committed, able leaders
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CHAMA Cha Mapinduzi has appealed to voters to elect competent and dedicated leaders in the coming general elections who can maintain the existing peace and stability in the country. Mwanza CCM Regional Secretary Mr Miraji Mtaturu said in Misungwi ...
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Elect committed leaders, Idd tells Tanzanians
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ZANZIBAR Second Vice-President, Ambassador Seif Ali Idd, has urged Tanzanians to choose serious and committed leaders during the October 25 general election. “Elect serious people who would take you to the next stage of the country's development,” he ...

A photograph of the meat business at Mkuyuni in Mwanza region in yesterday’s edition of The Citizen is likely to be met with a “so what?” response in some quarters. But there is more to it than meets the eye.  The focus of the photo is chunks of meat hanging from hooks in a butchery. It is a common sight countrywide. And what it represents – the sale of food in unhygienic conditions – merits some reflection.

It is three weeks now since political parties hit the campaign trail to canvass for votes from the 24 million Tanzanians registered to vote on October 25.

>Now that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report has been tabled in the august House, we wish to give the thumbs-up to Parliament for directing its oversight team, chaired by Mr Zitto Kabwe, to investigate and establish the truth on the controversial withdrawal of money from the Tegeta escrow account at the Bank of Tanzania (BoT).

Two events took place on the political scene on Tuesday--Edward Lowassa’s nomination as the presidential candidate for a coalition of four serious opposition parties and the fact that the ruling party’s candidate for president, Dr John Magufuli, picked nomination forms from the National Electoral Commission (NEC).

Minus Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan, whose presidential luck run out after losing an election to Muhammad Buhari a little over four months ago, Africa has two reigning, hat-wearing heads of state.

>I came across this very interesting quote: “Many people do not fall in love; they fall in love with the idea of themselves being in love.”