MPs poke holes at CCM performance.


Special Seats MP, Susan Lyimo.
Opposition Members of Parliament yesterday faulted performance of Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) saying it has failed to implement its 2010 election manifesto.
 
They observed that most of the issues outlined in the ruling party’s 2010 election manifesto have not been put into practice.
 
Debating the Prime Minister’s Office budget estimate for the 2015/2016 financial year, the opposition legislatures argued that the government has not done enough to improve peoples’ lives.
 
It all started with Special Seats MP, Susan Lyimo (Chadema) who said the ruling party manifesto stated that there would be agriculture bank by 2015, a promise that has not been achieved.
 
 “Ten years down the lane, the agriculture bank that would have improved the lives of farmers is nowhere to be seen, yet the ruling party boasts of great success in agriculture development,” she said.
 
But her assertion did not go well with members of the other side of the floor, prompting deputy minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperative, Godfrey Zambi to intervene.
 
The deputy minister told the House that the bank will officially be operational from 1st July this year as all plans for its establishment have been completed.
 
“Let me clarify that the bank will soon open as the board and administrative staff are already in place” he said.
Zambi added that despite official launching, it has been in operation through agriculture window at the Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) where at least Sh 24 billion was deposited. 
 
But Lyimo insisted that the government promised a fully fledged bank. She also noted that CCM promised to revive the dying industries in the country and reposses the privatised industries that were not operating.
 
She argued that most of the industries and factories lay on death beds at a time when Tanzanians needed products from them. 
The outspoken MP said for instance, the General Tyre was dead while many Tanzanians now own cars and could buy products from the factory.
 
She added that textile industry was dead; adding that Tanzanians now use imported clothes from China while the ruling party in its manifesto said it would revive textile factories.
 
The most striking, according the legislator, was that the ruling party had promised to build Vocational Education Training Authority (VETA) centres in all district by 2015 but nothing at all has been done. 
 
On water projects, she said the ruling party stated in its manifesto that by 2015 all villages in the country would have reliable source of water 
 
The MP who took the House by surprise, contributing holding a printed copy of the CCM manifesto noted that the ruling party also promised to register all elder people in the country, provide them with identity cards that would allow them get free treatment.
 
To date, she said there are over two million elderly people in the country and they have not been reached by the government as promised in the election manifesto.
 
The Muhambwe Member of Parliament, Felix Mkosamali, (NCCR-Mageuzi) on his part took issue with the government for failure to disburse funds for various projects.
 
He said only 28 per cent of the internally sourced funds was released while only 20 per cent of foreign sourced was disbursed to various projects.
 
“It is a shame that we are here, working on a budget that will not be implemented,” he said, adding that itwas needless for the government to bring MPs to Dodoma to work on an empty budget.
 
Mkosamali, one of the youngest and vibrant MPs in the tenth parliament also took the government to task for failure to implement its plans, adding that it relied so much on private sector for survival.
 
“It looks like the directors in some of the private entities have more brains than most government officials and leaders,” he said.
 
Special Seats MP, Muhonga Ruhwanya, (Chadema) specifically identified section 206 of CCM manifesto that says the government shall implement the manifesto to the letter to improve lives of Tanzanians.
 
But her special seats counterpart, Moza Said Abeid (CUF) argued that the government was playing politics with people’s lives. “Let the ruling party stop this dirty game and do what it promised to do in the party manifesto” she observed.

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