CCM SAYS YES, WE’RE WITH JPM
Dar es Salaam. The ruling CCM is happy with the ethical drive, effi-ciency and industriousness of President John Magufuli’s government and declared full support to the new Head of State.
Addressing a press conference at the party’s sub headquarters in the city, the CCM Secretary General, Mr Abdulrahman Kinana, said the party’s Central Committee which sat on Monday unanimously commended Dr Magufuli, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Premier Kassim Majaliwa for hitting the ground running.
This is the first time for top leadership of CCM to come out and comment on Dr Magufuli who was sworn in a month ago. Meanwhile, the President is already a globally famous figure and social media sensation. According to Kinana, what Dr Magufuli is an execution of the CCM Election Manifesto and his personal campaign promises. He dismissed Chadema’s sentiments suggesting that Dr Magufuli is delivering on their policies as baseless.
“We all campaigned for two long months and at the end Tanzanians voted a CCM candidate. They (Chadema) lost and I think they are yet to wholeheartedly accept defeat, and now they are trying to find ways of pleasing themselves by saying the President is implementing their policies; Dr Magufuli is wholly a CCM man who is grounded on his party’s Manifesto. I can only advise these people and their party to prepare themselves for next elections,” he said.
The ruling party supremo insisted that the Central Committee is be-hind Dr Magufuli in his drive to fix the rot within Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) so that the country can efficiently collect all due revenues.
“Just like the way our 2015-2020 Vision directed, the fifth phase government has introduced number of cost-cutting measures and then channel the saved monies to provide for pressing needs of the people.”He said the ruling party CC wants all civil servants and public at large to emulate Dr Magufuli in everyone’s respective area of work for the country to register faster development.
The President has implemented a number of austerity measures including scrapping today’s Independence Day celebrations, chopping parliament’s inaugural cocktail party budget from Sh250 million ($100,000) to Sh15 million ($7,000). He also slapped a ban in all but essential foreign travel by public servants and restricted First and Business Class tickets to the President, Vice President and the PM.
The government also prohibited the use of tax payers’ money to print and distribute festive season cards ahead of this year’s Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Meanwhile, Dr Magufuli’s equally no-nonsense Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa discovered that nearly 3,000 cargo containers had recently been cleared from Dar es Salaam Port while the prerequisite taxes worth billions hadn’t been paid for them.
President Magufuli responded by sacking TRA Commissioner General Rished Bade, TPA Director General Awadh Massawe, and Permanent Secretary for the Transport ministry, Dr Shaaban Mwinjaka. Seven TRA officials are standing trial over the scam.
The PM further ordered investigations at Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) where it was discovered that Sh16 billion had been misused.
There are other areas that Dr Magufuli has promised to work on and would affect among others some of CCM’s big shots. Addressing a meeting with members of the business community recently, he said: “Some of our industries were privatised to CCM bigwigs, and they’re among those who failed to develop them and they are using the premises to keep their livestock.”
He has already promised that his government will reclaim all privatised industries from investors who failed to make use them as per pre-sale agreement.
When asked the last CCM government never too action against most of the rot that Dr Magufuli’s is currently fixing, Mr Kinana first said: “It is because these things have just been recently uncovered.
”
However, reporters pressed him further and reminded him he is on record as criticising the last
government to the extent of saying there were sluggish ministers, Mr Kinana said Dr Magufuli was “exemplary”.
Addressing a press conference at the party’s sub headquarters in the city, the CCM Secretary General, Mr Abdulrahman Kinana, said the party’s Central Committee which sat on Monday unanimously commended Dr Magufuli, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan and Premier Kassim Majaliwa for hitting the ground running.
This is the first time for top leadership of CCM to come out and comment on Dr Magufuli who was sworn in a month ago. Meanwhile, the President is already a globally famous figure and social media sensation. According to Kinana, what Dr Magufuli is an execution of the CCM Election Manifesto and his personal campaign promises. He dismissed Chadema’s sentiments suggesting that Dr Magufuli is delivering on their policies as baseless.
“We all campaigned for two long months and at the end Tanzanians voted a CCM candidate. They (Chadema) lost and I think they are yet to wholeheartedly accept defeat, and now they are trying to find ways of pleasing themselves by saying the President is implementing their policies; Dr Magufuli is wholly a CCM man who is grounded on his party’s Manifesto. I can only advise these people and their party to prepare themselves for next elections,” he said.
The ruling party supremo insisted that the Central Committee is be-hind Dr Magufuli in his drive to fix the rot within Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) so that the country can efficiently collect all due revenues.
“Just like the way our 2015-2020 Vision directed, the fifth phase government has introduced number of cost-cutting measures and then channel the saved monies to provide for pressing needs of the people.”He said the ruling party CC wants all civil servants and public at large to emulate Dr Magufuli in everyone’s respective area of work for the country to register faster development.
The President has implemented a number of austerity measures including scrapping today’s Independence Day celebrations, chopping parliament’s inaugural cocktail party budget from Sh250 million ($100,000) to Sh15 million ($7,000). He also slapped a ban in all but essential foreign travel by public servants and restricted First and Business Class tickets to the President, Vice President and the PM.
The government also prohibited the use of tax payers’ money to print and distribute festive season cards ahead of this year’s Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Meanwhile, Dr Magufuli’s equally no-nonsense Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa discovered that nearly 3,000 cargo containers had recently been cleared from Dar es Salaam Port while the prerequisite taxes worth billions hadn’t been paid for them.
President Magufuli responded by sacking TRA Commissioner General Rished Bade, TPA Director General Awadh Massawe, and Permanent Secretary for the Transport ministry, Dr Shaaban Mwinjaka. Seven TRA officials are standing trial over the scam.
The PM further ordered investigations at Tanzania Railways Limited (TRL) where it was discovered that Sh16 billion had been misused.
There are other areas that Dr Magufuli has promised to work on and would affect among others some of CCM’s big shots. Addressing a meeting with members of the business community recently, he said: “Some of our industries were privatised to CCM bigwigs, and they’re among those who failed to develop them and they are using the premises to keep their livestock.”
He has already promised that his government will reclaim all privatised industries from investors who failed to make use them as per pre-sale agreement.
When asked the last CCM government never too action against most of the rot that Dr Magufuli’s is currently fixing, Mr Kinana first said: “It is because these things have just been recently uncovered.
”
However, reporters pressed him further and reminded him he is on record as criticising the last
government to the extent of saying there were sluggish ministers, Mr Kinana said Dr Magufuli was “exemplary”.
CCM SAYS YES, WE’RE WITH JPM
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