The Chant of Savant

Monday 19 May 2008

Chenge, was your homecoming heroic or stage-managed?

DEAR Brother Andrew Chenge,

I hope you are still fine chewing the beef so extended to you by your dear wife 'Commando Suzy' and sympathizers. How gourmet was it? If anything, the slap-happy homecoming you’re accorded behind vicious rumours caused editorial ad-libbing.

Let’s go down to serious business. Did I get you right when you averred that you committed nothing illegal save that your political foes -- real and imaginative -- were behind your political demise? Shame on them if they really exist and shame on anybody who says they exist while they don’t.

May I ask you to ask the people of Bariadi Mashariki the rationale behind squeezing president Jakaya Kikwete that he crucifies fisadis whilst they themselves act to the contrary? Did they come in scores just because there was stew to quaff and steaks to chew? Are they really this bogus and cheap so as to be vended like hand-me-down clothes at Manzese?

Do they value nyama choma more than their future? Who used who by fooling who? Ignorance is bliss. Uroho mwingine bwana!

By the way, were you expelled just because your political ’foes’ asked for that or just because it was unveiled by the British media that you had a lot of money stashed in their off shore banks?

Do you remember your vijisenti cajolery that turned tables against you so as to caterwaul? Why didn’t you shed more light on the vijisenti? How do you think your former boss, Jackie took your "truth" to the non-barbarian Bariadians?

Another thing, do you remember that your 'best' advice on privatization has produced a lot of billionaires causing our country to be ranked high in the Forbes Magazine? Remember Kagoda, Jeetu Patel, Maregesi, Lukaza, and all those behind Deep Green Finance ghost companies?

I still honour you for ushering Richmond LLC in. It’s doing a tremendous job of minting money; and Tanzanians are coughing much, thanks to your patriotism.

By the way, what have you to say regarding your friend and former boss environed for enriching himself, his family friends when he was in the state mansion doing his missions?

Tell me please. Are his enemies a make-believe sort of stuff just like those of yours? Will this pretext assuage the dent already been made really?

Let me ask the Bariadians? Did you seriously take Chenge’s ’truth’ that shows how he ’honours’ you? �Some ’nitwits’ however, say: ’’He’s taking you for a ride.’’

Who fooled who in this see-saw and Bungee-like abracadabra? They are asking.


Let me add. Do you think your MP was expelled just because some evil souls did not like him? You Bariadians, have you ever heard of EPA, Richmond , IPTL, Net Solutions and such? Do you purchase electricity from Mkangafu known as Tanesco? How much do you cough compared to other neighbouring countries? What of my friends in Buzwagi, Kahama and Nzega? Do you know why you ’benefit’ a lot from your minerals? It is because your son, the millionaire of vijisenti, was smart in bargaining the deals.

The other day I read somewhere that in the neighbourhood of Kahama, pupils were studying under trees! Well done. Those are the fruits of your son’s wisdom of minting money and saving it abroad.

By the way, was your ambiguous homecoming heroic or staged? Did you really deserve it?

The wisdom of today is fools rush where angels fear to tread. Also Latin has it that "Timeo dona ferentis"- I fear those who bring gifts.

By the way, why is CCM divided over this salmagundi?

Source: Thisday May 19, 2008.

1 comment:

Mwarobaini said...

It is only someone who is completely naive who will entertain the idea of staging a homecoming to his constituency after resigning under allegations of corruption.

Neither Chenge nor Lowassa have a sense of what politics is all about. Their behaviour can only be explained if one accepts that they are in 'panic mode' and are trying to salvage the little support that unbelievably remains in their constituencies.