Ikulu mission uphill for graft-soiled CCM

The ruling party’s presidential aspirants have vowed to end corruption should they get a chance to lead the nation. Virtually all have identified themselves as true followers of the Founding Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. They claim they will end corruption. Still others have promised to form a special tribunal to handle all cases related to corruption.

Butiama. Mr Charles Makongoro Nyerere, son of Mwalimu Nyerere, yesterday joined field that is getting increasingly crowded with aspirants eying the CCM ticket for the presidency, declaring himself the best-placed person to hold the party together and uproot corruption in the country.

The CCM presidential primary contest leading to the 2005 General Election was nasty. Corruption was so rampant that you could say that money talked loud and clear. Behind the scenes campaigning was also intense as much as it was rogue. There were plenty of allegations of dirty tricks. A section of the media was used to defame and assassinate the character of other candidates. The campaigns of some of the main contestants were waylaid by rivals, campaign cash stolen.

Nigeria finally has a government after a wait of more than five months but the new ministers have their work cut out to reverse a damaging slump in Africa's leading economy.

>While Tanzania has made strides in realising target Number Four of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), it still faces an uphill task in attaining target Number Five, which is on maternal health, Vice President Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal has said.

A veteran politician and Member of the Constituent Assembly (MCA), Mr Kingunge Ngombale Mwiru, has conceded that it will be difficult for CCM to secure a two-third majority of MCAs from Zanzibar.

Efforts to control the spread of cholera—that has so far killed 17 people in Dar—may not bear fruit any time soon because public health authorities have failed to tackle the deadly disease at its sources, according to a survey by The Citizen.

When the outgoing Member of Parliament for Mwibara, Mr Kangi Lugola, displayed cheap imported goods in the National Assembly on June 17, 2015, to show why the shilling fell freely between January and June this year, some may have thought it was an isolated case.

Writing the constitution of the people is not an easy task, it needs time and common understanding among those involved in the process, the Constituent Assembly (CA) was reminded yesterday.