MAGAZETI YA LEO IJUMAA FEBRUARY 24,2017
Toa Maoni Hapa Chini
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APOSTLE DAMAS
BASHITE!!
Tanzania has been an event driven country; especially since John Magufuli was sworn in as the president of the United Republic of Tanzania back in November, 2015.
We have been overwhelmed with event after event, each day comes with something new that always jeopardizes the chances of as a country settling in one issue, trying to solve whatever problem we are facing at the moment. This trend has been mostly because of the way our government works, everybody comes with agenda; EVERYDAY and the worst part is, most of these agendas are not even remotely close hence we find ourselves in amidst of chaos, eventually we end up spectators without any clear solution in mind.
Few weeks ago, Dar es salaam’s regional commissioner Paul Makonda or as he is now famously known Daudi Albert Bashite a.k.a DAB, made the headlines as he usually does, since those referendum days with his little incident that involved the then chairman of referendum committee who also served as the prime minister years ago. Makonda became known more as Kinondoni’s District Commissioner back then when Mkwere was the president before clinching to his present position.
This time around, Makonda was on literally everybody’s mouth after taking to public the names of people who according to him were both in drug use and drug business, the list that by majority contained names of some famous people in the land.
The move was applauded by just as many as those who opposed it but in the end, drug issue was given attention that it actually needed even if the way RC chose to conquer the problem was more of a publicity than really doing something about the disaster. Mind you, RC has state apparatus under him, why did he not call up for an investigation, catch these people silently and then come up with names plus evidence??
As usual, it was a rush decision that did more harm than good, especially to those who were victimized.
Like I said before, the country has been overwhelmed with series of events it’s “Bandika Bandua style and this was evidenced when deputy minister for health, Dr Hamis Kigwangalla tried to steal spotlight, vowing to announce the names of homosexuals who are using social media to “market themselves” all this before the drug dust settles, as Tanzanians he stole our attention from all the other things for a little while, most of us trying to discuss in social media what this really means and for how long the government is going to deflect from the most important issues.
Unfortunately for Kigwangalla, his issue was not so hot, the drug thing was still the trendiest topic in the end he failed to publicly announce the names due to “technical reasons”, I guess he would have used paper to write the names of the culprits just like Makonda we would have another story to tell.
Amid all these, the biggest truth bomb was dropped, few posts started to circulate claiming MAKONDA is not MAKONDA!!!
According to sources, Paul C. Makonda is actually Daud Bashite. All that he has right at this moment came because was given another person’s certificate since he scored divion 0 on his O-Level national exams.
I am not going to check authenticity of these allegations but I have to point out the fact that one of the things that this government does best is calling press to refute, explain or sometimes just impose new things; by this trend the fact that RC or any other government official has come forward to “clean” Makonda/Bashite’s name is daunting.
There are so many success stories out there, Bashite’s is not as inspiring as most of these stories. There are people who have gone through hell to get to the place they are right now, Bashite’s story is relevant and close for us to understand. From this point onwards, I will be referring to RC as Daudi Bashite just to avoid confusion, I want to talk about Bashite as a person and one lesson that we all need to take from this man. Daudi Bashite has gone through many failures but he kept on pushing.
As I mentioned earlier, he didn’t perform well in his O level examination but when he got a chance to redeem himself, even if it was using another person’s certificate; he took the chance. Fortunately, that wasn’t his last failure as he was denied admission to Sokoine in 2005, but in 2006 he applied in another College and managed to get in. One year into his studies, Bashite ran out of luck as he was discontinued from his course due to bad performance (6 supplementary out of 8 courses). The stories of failures in his life are many that will probably bore you but my message is one and it can’t be as clear as KEEP GOING, KEEP PUSHING.
Just like Bashite didn’t give up and kept on trying, you owe it to yourself to not give up. You are much more than whatever you are going through, you are a winner, don’t you ever forget that. While you keep on pushing, be nice; be nice to all people around you regardless of how useless you might think they are.
Hey, remember one thing as you "Bashitelize" on your way to the top -SIKIO HALIZIDI KICHWA, be humble, be considerate, listen. Even when you are the king or stand amid people on behalf of the living God, be compassionate, have empathy and don't hit others on the head with your power.
Bless u
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