He was recently crucified for siding with the good guys. When the Speaker asked for more security around him last month, I though the guy was simply being over the top. Who would want to harm Sam Six? It sounded so unreal. How could anyone want to be so crude?
Well, events over the past week have shown that indeed, Sam Six is being threatened. The man is being hunted. Some people have not been exactly tickled silly by the way he has been running the show in the Bunge.
While most of us observers have been thinking that the Speaker has been doing his job tolerably well, some forces have been baying calling for his blood. They wanted a lynching.
They want him out. The country has been looking on in horror as Sam Six was being savaged by his own ‘pals’. You wonder if this was a secret agenda or clever plot, but the whole affair has made him an instant national hero.
Buoyed by a collective approval of millions of Tanzanians, Sam has come back swinging back. He said on Sunday that he would continue to wage war on grand corruption and other forms of criminality both within the party and government. “I’ll always make decisions which are good for the majority.
I firmly believe that God is with me, and will never relent,” he said during a meeting organised by religious leaders. Which is music to most Tanzanians. The thing is the country has been held at ransom for a long time now.
Most of the people have been chafing under this spectacle of the rule of money by a few corrupt businessmen masquerading as politicians. The majority in the country are simply being bullied by a monied few. This just can’t go on.
The late Mwalimu Nyerere said: “To bully someone is evil. But to agree to be bullied is an even worse crime.” Are Tanzanians agreeing to be bullied? Yes, but not forever. It is just that the situation is getting to be obscene. This is just not right! You cannot have a situation whereby some sell-out politicians blatantly come out in support of grand corruption.
The situation had to give in, sooner or later. Well it is giving in now. Supporters of grand corruption are training their guns at the wrong targets. It is not only Sam Six and the hero MPs in the Bunge who are the problem.
It is millions of Tanzanians who are just fed up. They have been watching this steady rape of their country and are now getting angry and frustrated. They are not members of any party.
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