The opponents of President John Magufuli’s courage and commitment of re-negotiating and making big deals with investors have continued to be ashamed after investors continued to respond positively to government’s call and requests.
President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Dr. John Pombe Magufuli once insisted that his presidency has no partner, few understood him. Yet on another occassion he reiterated his readiness to remain even with few people he started with, a dozen others understood his classical lecture. But he is a scientist and his administration employs a litany of "scientific approaches" as confirmed by the country's Spokesperson, Dr. Hassan Abbasi in a media briefing last week.
A myriad of transformational efforts by President John Magufuli of Tanzania to revamp the mining sector in a bid to make his country benefit from the mineral wealth are now paying dividend. The country introduced legal amendments, institutional reforms and initiated taskforces to renegotiate mining contracts with giants like Acacia Gold and Tanzanite One firms. The efforts, opposed by a section of mining investors, are now yielding results.
Many Tanzanian experts, like me, are deservingly quiet, watching how the country is progressing in terms of realizing its cherished dream. But some recent series of articles obviously calculated at destroying the image of Tanzania are disquieting thus a comeback. One such latest example is Washington Post’s article published 30, 2018 entitled: “Why is Once- Peaceful Tanzania Detaining Journalists, Arresting School Girls and Killing Opposition Leaders? The erroneous, incompetent, non-factual article was written by one Rachael McLellan who calls herself a PhD Candidate at Princeton University, researching on opposition parties and decentralization in Tanzania.
The story of the Telegraph newspaper on Tanzania’s Rufiji Hydro Power Project in Tanzania, written by one Adrian Blomfield fits, exactly in what Kierkegaard tells. It is fooling. Needless to say, the Telegraph, has seriously negated journalism professionalism and used their newspaper as a racist tool to fool Africans, is a clear manifestation of a serious problem in European journalism.