Kinana hopes ‘open courts’ will be helpful to give people a platform

Twaweza’s new survey indicates that Tanzanians are generally ill-informed on the gains from gas economy. Let’s take this as a wake-up call. It is interesting that Twaweza has released the report at a time when politicians are stomping around the country, telling the electorate they will upgrade Tanzania’s economy using revenue sourced from gas deals.

>The chairman of the leading opposition party Chadema, Mr Freeman Mbowe, has advised women in the country to join competitive politics if they want their voices to be counted in decision-making.

 Over 250,000 Tanzanians are using M-Pawa, just three weeks since the service — a brainchild of Vodacom’s M-Pesa and Commercial Bank of Africa — was launched in Dar es Salaam.

>The Constituent Assembly members debated mode of voting to adopt when passing various decisions in the House last week.

MPs James Lembeli of CCM and Philemon Ndesamburo of Chadema have urged their fellow Constituent Assembly members to put aside narrow political interests when debating the draft constitution.

>Members of the Constituent Assembly (MCAs) want to maintain the clause in the Constitution that forbids a petition against the winner of the presidential vote. This is truly shocking. What the MCAs are proposing is that once the winner of the presidential votes is announced, no one has the constitutional right to appeal.

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>Police frequently disrupt demonstrations by opposition parties, even when they are peaceful. Journalists on duty also get the same hostile treatment. This is unacceptable.

Few weeks ago Tanzanians were made to believe that they will not be bothered by a referendum on the proposed constitution until after General Election slated for October next year.