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Dons` mixed views on Nape expulsion
2008-09-10 10:09:02
By Lucas Lukumbo
Political scientists at the University of Dar es Salaam have given mixed views regarding the recent expulsion of CCM youth wing executive council member Nape Nnauye.
Nnauye`s sacking has become the talk of the day in both ruling and opposition circles, and has been accompanied by a media frenzy in the local press.
Commenting on the matter, the Head of Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Dar es Salaam, Prof. Mwesiga Baregu, said political wrangles Tanzanians were currently witnessing within the ruling party at the moment did not augur well for the country.
``Tanzanians are expecting economic advancement from a political party which has ruled the country for decades,`` he said.
He said CCM was rich in political gurus, being the symbol of Tanzanian ideology and an institution that could set the national trend and agenda.
On the contrary, the local government chairman at the University of Dar es Salaam Local Government, who also lectures at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dr Lenny Kasoga, said the expelled CCM youth leader was himself partly to blame for whatever happened to him saying: ``He should have known by now how his party operates,`` Dr Kasoga said.
``It has been a taboo for CCM members to wash their dirty linen in public. He should have known that long before as a stalwart CCM youth league member,`` Dr. Kasoga said.
For his part, an assistant lecturer at the same faculty, Bashiru Ally, said the ruling party could slowly lose its credibility if it would continue to involving itself in witch-hunting.
He called on CCM to concentrate on assisting the people boost their house-hold economies.
``People are not interested in who fixes who in the CCM leadership wrangle, but rather who can make Tanzanians earn more in their struggle for economic emancipation,`` he said.
Speaking on the expulsion of Nape Nnauye, another lecturer, John Njingu, said the expelled youth leader represented reformers in the ruling party youth wing and the party at large.
``As a reformist, Nnauye has been politically murdered, but a message has been sent to Tanzanians as to the state of their ruling party.
“There has been a miscarriage of democracy in the manner in which the decision to purge Nnauye has been arrived at,`` he said, adding that what was now expected was for the party to disengage itself from confrontational politics and engage itself in raising the economic status of those who put them in power.
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