‘Give people a hearing when deciding their development’

Kinana made the remarks when speaking to CCM members and Mtama Constituency residents in Lindi region after launching the Majengo Sokoni party branch.

He said that although there are representatives of the people, including parliamentarians, and councillors, they do not have the power to change the current situation, so it is important that the people get more power to participate in deciding the things that are important to them.

Kinana said one time he was party secretary general and the then party Ideology and Publicity Secretary; Nape Nnauye went to Ngorongoro District and held a meeting.

"When we were there, if you looked at me, you would have asked me, I would have said that the people need water, but when we asked the people, they said that their problem is not water, but the telephone network.

“You can see that you go to a place thinking that people's problem is school, its water, but their problem is something else entirely, so we must involve the people.

“In deciding the things that concern their lives, we should not take the responsibility of thinking about them, we should not take the authority of deciding for them. It is good to sit with the people and talk to them so that they can tell us what they need at what time and for what reason,” said Kinana.

He explained that if you tell the people today to volunteer to build roads, they can tell you that they want schools first, and listen to what their desire is.

He emphasized that this makes him think that the basic things concerning the development of the people must be ordered by the people and must come from the people. The MPs see a good thing, the district council sees a good thing, but they have no decision about it.