EDITORIAL: Hurry not this key process

 For the last 30 years or so, particularly after the re-introduction of political pluralism in 1992, there have been persistent demands for a new constitutional order in Tanzania. These demands were partly re-enforced by the recommendations by the Nyalali Commission in 1991, but pressure can be traced back to the 1980s.

EAST AFRICAN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY The energy sector plays a key role in enabling the unlock of EAC’s economies for the benefit of integration.  Legislators are thus calling for concerted efforts to bridge the energy deficit in the region through the sustained use of clean and renewable energy.  EALA late yesterday visited the Olkaria Geothermal Project in Naivasha, Nakuru County and lauded the contribution of the power plant in meeting the needs of the region.  The Assistant General...

A country that is unable to feed its people cannot justify its very existence. The Kilimo Kwanza initiative confirms the premium attached to agriculture by President Jakaya Kikwete’s administration. It is through such programmes that sufficient resources can be channelled into boosting agriculture to enhance food security.

We have keenly followed the Escrow Account report and debate in Parliament and drawn three main lessons from the discussion. The first of these is that public leaders in this country have no idea what taking political responsibility is.

>Two local papers yesterday reported three cases of unnatural deaths in different parts of Tanzania. In Manyoni, the driver of the Officer Commanding District (OCD) blew off his head with a gun in the privacy of his bedroom. In his suicide note, he said nobody should be investigated because he had made a personal choice.

>Tanzania introduced multi-party politics in the 1990s after quite a bit of dilly-dallying. This was essentially because the results of an opinion poll conducted earlier showed that only 25 per cent of the people wanted a multi-party system.

>About 52 per cent of people on the Mainland would have voted for the Proposed Constitution had the referendum been held between January and February this year, according to a Twaweza opinion poll.

>It’s too bad that, the local tourism sector,  generator of 25 per cent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings, and creator of some 27,000 jobs, has literally been caught by the   ‘misfortunes come in a series’ trap. A little over one month ago, 17 tourists were ambushed  at a lodge in the northern tourist circuit, attacked, and robbed of items valued at over Sh20million.

Why are we always in a hurry? We get up in the morning and hurry to get ready for work even if it means falling over the dog and drinking instant breakfast on the road while talking on the cell phone about things that can’t wait until we get to work.