with maternity wards in a country notoriously short of midwives.
He was quoted saying, “If they’re so sympathetic with the kids-bearing kids, they’d better build special schools in their neighbourhoods to recruit minors wannabe moms.”
Some people cheered the suggestion, believing that such schools would guarantee the rebellious activists a place in heaven where they would sit on the right hand of the Lord for going typical of the Holy Biblical call to go and multiply come what may.
But those frowning upon the ban were so worried of the fate of the juvenile mom and her wrong offspring, wondering over how she would make a living at a time when the unwanted father, the would-be bread earner, would be serving a 30-year jail term.
Others went further by imagining the fate awaiting the young man who had played smart in impregnating the poor schoolgirl, but was now in jail in the midst of hardcore sex offenders who have not seen a woman since time immemorial when they were shoved behind bars.
Oh! It’s a chemistry proper for making him a good father to the 30-year-old orphan on his release. That is in case Tanzania would be yet to join the democratic West in the same-sex marriage hyper freedom. Indeed, I like it here because I can smell drama wherever I put my nose, and our parliament is not an exception. I like parliament, especially when seeing the deputy chief lawmaker having to apply her veto power to bar an opposition legislator from making a point simply because she would not take the latter’s challenge.
The rebellious lawmaker was accusing the ruling party faction of bias, saying they were doing nothing in parliament but parroting the government stand and dancing to its tunes instead of voicing the interests of their electorate and questioning and monitoring state authorities.
But the lady deputy chief legislator simply responded: “Look! It goes without questioning that the ruling party legislators should defend and praise the government because it’s theirs, the same way as you always support your opposition faction.”
“Thank you for the answer, Hon. Deputy Speaker, as your statement speaks volumes about what’s really going on at the seat you are occupying,” said the opposition legislator.
Upon which the deputy chief legislator turned mad saying, “Yes! I’m a CCM member, but I always act in accordance with the laws, rules and regulations of parliament. I’ve never taken sides in favour of my party or discriminated against opposition legislators… Stop talking and take your seat.”
So, she was an exception; and of course being at fault for not recognizing this special virtue in the person of his boss, the opposition legislator had his right to speak revoked.
It was just a day before the chief lawmaker had wished one of the two naughty opposition lady legislators whom he had banned from attending the parliamentary sessions till next calendar year was sent before him that he approved her arrest.“Bring her here, if possible in handcuffs and I will sign. Otherwise she has to understand she’ll ultimately end up under my own custody right here in this hall,” he told parliamentarians in response to allegations that the condemned lady legislator was waging an off-limit social media war against his authority.
Hours later, a district chief who appeared to be in league with the chief legislator went on air to order her immediate arrest for using “seditious and abusive language against the dad.” The naughty lady legislator currently making laws in the alleys of her neighborhood had two days earlier reportedly told female members of her party that “the president ought to make a break.”
“In my capacity as your boss who’s empowered to put anyone under my jurisdiction behind bars as I deem fit, I hereby orderan immediate arrest and an apparent 48-hour police detention of her that she may be sent to court to clarify of what she exactly meantby such a remark… we can’t tolerate a person who incites people to raise against our presidentand course social unrest,” the chief told the scribes in Dar es Salaam. But no sooner had he ordered the arrest than he was quoted as saying: “I still wonder what she really could have meant by such remarks in her speech.”
“What kind of unconstitutional break is it that she might have meant?” he said, keeping the public that sensed contradiction in his statementsat bay as to the real motive behind his arrest order.
While some people questioned the chief’s sanity as they saw nothing seditious in the phrase, judging from the standards of common sense, others including citizen journalists sensed ulterior motives in the chief’s order,saying the step did not amount to a mere coincidence.
I like it here even more as I see our cops are slowly but surely winning battles in the Kibiti war zone, tearing into rags the public notion that they have been highly outmaneuvered by the killing maniacs in the Kibiti, Mkuranga and Rufiji triangle of hell.
They have finally gunned down two suspected killers in a bush hideout this week in a situation that raised public eye brows as the police wereadamantly secretive in revealing the corpses and not even the names of the liquidated maniacs, saying the revelation would disrupt the course of the crackdown.
They say the five bandits in a bush hideout had to run away from the equally determined police force, leaving behind a shotgun and a submachine gun, with only one of them, seemingly a slow runner to get shot down by the advancing troops.
He joined another who had been apprehended earlier but attempted escape on seeing his fellows running away from the police. They both died on their way to the hospital to treat bullet injuries.
But here you are with the social media as usual. They were soon awash with speculation that the scenario was typical of the past police dramas on anti-terror crackdowns when they wouldsimulate shoot outs with ghost terrorists to arouse public confidence in police.
Citizen journalists wonder why the police declined to reveal the identity of the killed bandits but ended up showing the guns they had left behind, a picture that negates the nature of the killers who had sent shockwaves across the nation. I like it here as I can’t stop wondering how the cops in Kibiti have dared to prove dad wrong by uncovering the killers’ hideout in the bush far from the residential area.
The dad was earlier quoted as telling Kibiti residents that they knew the killers and that they were living with them but did not want to expose them.
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