Lessons from Blair: Time to think the unthinkable , Mama Samia

Acting publicity secretary

UDP

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It is my considered view that going by Samia’s rather accidental circumstances that she finds herself as head of state, I believe it would be in her interest to consider with the utmost seriousness, the need to adopt a completely new way of doing politics.

Specifically, the incredulous about-turn on Covid would be enough to endanger the survival of the CCM government. It would be a clear way of separating the wheat from the chaff. Tanzanian presidents, by and large, are adept at escaping tough questioning such that I dare to say they easily sleep hours like most of the working population. It is interesting how in a book from 2018 by Ambassador Juma Mwapachu titled Tanzania in the age of Change and Transformation, he writes: “I wonder what could happen were Tanzania to adopt the Westminster form of government in its new constitution and ditch the current Presidential system? After all, one of the most ardent concerns about the Presidential system of government centres on the extensive powers of the President and the resultant subjugation of the powers of Parliament.”