Teachers collect 3m/- to help Samia pick up 2025 general election form

TAHOSSA is a professional organization comprising of about 500 members drawn from private Secondary Schools in Tanzania

The monies have been donated by more than 3,000 heads of schools through the 'Mother's basket' following their just-ended 18th annual general meeting (AGM) in Mwanza.

The meeting was addressed by President Samia Suluhu Hassan through zoom.

TAHOSSA treasurer Zamoyoni Uzale told reporters here yesterday that the AGM donated more than 3m/- with the aim of enabling her to take the 2025 presidential election nomination form.

“Along with other things that happened in this meeting, the big thing was the mother's basket, whose idea we got four months ago before this AGM, supported by the leaders and all the members due to the work she did during the short period she led the nation,” said Uzale.

Uzale said that teachers have benefited a lot from the various decisions made by President Samia in the education sector, including the wise-use of IMF monies issued due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which builds well-furnished classrooms across Tanzania.

“All heads and teachers have been given tablets for teaching and keeping up-to-date records, so we said we must support her by agreeing unanimously to contribute to her so that she continues to lead our country,” he said.

The TAHOSSA official said: “As heads of secondary schools we’ll fill in the presidential nomination form on behalf of her through the monies we’ve contributed for her, so that she continues to lead the nation and ensure that she meets her goals in the next tenure—2025/2030. As teachers, we appeal to CCM to have one form so that she should not have opposition within the party.”

In her telephone address at the TAHOSSA meeting, President Samia promised to continue to be with the teachers to help them in the implementation of their duties.

“We continue to organise ourselves well to fulfill the wishes of the teachers, I know what is bothering them at the moment is housing, so next year we’re focusing more on building teachers' houses apart from the infrastructure of the school we will build,” said Samia.

President Samia stressed that the government continues to work on the issue of teachers' interests so that they can work with the spirit of preparing students who will become the future leaders of this nation.