Cabinet positions have a habit of being unstable and quite a few appointees last just a couple of years and then have to abandon ship, in which case all this isn’t quite surprising.
Still there are questions that ought to be asked especially in the manner in which the Home Affairs minister decided to quit, after criticism.
The cue came from CCM NEC Ideology and Publicity Secretary Humphrey Polepole who sounded out alarm that killings in Kibiti area were targeting local government officials belonging to the ruling party, apart from hitting police posts and patrols.
For the minister to have resigned on that criticism, it is as if he was the designer of that targeting and was thus taking responsibility for the manner in which it has gone awfully wrong, a preposterous proposition.
Indeed the matter was still at a rather low level response within the government as a whole, the first step being to create a special police region as elsewhere.
Strictly speaking, it is hard to assign weaknesses in the security situation at Kibiti to the minister in like manner as the president assigned the mineral concentrates inspection or analysis weaknesses to the minister.
In the latter case the relevant comparison would be assigned to the minister responsible for transportation the stoppage of trains to Morogoro for a while after rains swept off rails, as that is force majeure, beyond his control.
There is a dedicated group of evil doers in that area and organisational structures are being put in place to control them, the first step being the formation of a special police region for Rufiji-Kibiti.
The second of ironies of the resignation is really the logical implication that the minister was worried by the formation of a special police region as the strategy he was being blamed for would no longer work, or something as absurd as that.
At the moment of resignation one is interpreted or comprehended by where the matter stood, and that is what was happening up to that point, and thus it is incomprehensible how the minister opted to resign specifically at that point, with the decision to form a special police region.
If anything, Polepole directed his more forthright criticisms at opposition parties, for not showing real solidarity on the matter.
Premature resignation isn’t caused by what was on the table at that moment but rather it was ‘too much’ to bear given the weight of other things, and on the basis of how things are being done in the fifth phase, one ought not to be surprised that something is amiss even with the former Home Affairs minister.
But more importantly, he is likely to be critical of the policy underlining what is happening on the ground, either critical of police force capacities and his clear inability to do something about it, and perhaps inability as well to convince top level authorities to do something about it either.
Forming a special police region amid lethargy and avoidance in investigation or presence on the ground might be a hardy answer to the issue.
At the same time a particularly disturbing policy matter can be hypothesized, as to whether or not the situation is just criminal, or the public authorities admit and root out a greater threat.
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