As the citizens of tanzania and businesses continues to help thier fellow citizens of gongo la mboto, there is little to be seen by the government accountability. Help has been pouring in from all over tanzania from religous institutions, public or private institutions, banks and even from ordinary citizens also overseas embassies. As the money and goods poures in the next logical question is is it going to be distributed equally to the victims or is going to be business as usual as it has happened over and over again in this kind of situations.
Thats is why i wanna drell on this question of accountability. In other countries the 1st thing to happen after a disaster in this magnitude is to set up a command center as to coordinate rescue operation between defferent agencies i.e Fire, Ambulance, Police and the local government. 2nd is to identify victims to set up a actionable plan how to help with i.e Family reunions(as the bombs went off people had to run so families got separeted), Emegency shelters(for those whos houses were destroyed) and provied basic human needs while people are waiting to go back to there houses if anything is left behind.
Thats how the initial process should work. The command center also will be responsible to receive all the donated goods or money from the public. As usual in african tanzania there is no such thing as a command center. its just to complex for us.
We will just set up a simple committee with same people who lives in gongo la mboto and some who dont even lives there. There is definitely going to be corruption on the doneted funds and goods. The list of victims will be inflated as to add more victims just for same people to profit from the disasteer. To be modest some funds and goods will ended up on wrong hands.
accountabiliy? what accountability. Even if the president promised that there will be fair compensation to all victims and the assessment will be done by the army, The army has not shown any accountabily and is the source of the ploblem at hand and if there is any one to be held accountable for this shamefull masecre of innocent civilians should be the army and its masters at ministry of defence. The president should remove or suspend the membersof the armed forces responsible for the explosions.
This is not an attack on the army but its an honest truth bear in mind it has happed before at mbagala base dar es salaam on aplril 29,2009. As then and now no accountabily just fake promises that it will never happen again. Mbagala victims some were left to their own devices as the compesetiuon was to late to little.
Lets take both cases mbagala and gongo la mboto, just imagine if the"accidents" as the government proclaims
happened in a privete company or instiotution resulted on same amount of deaths and distructions.
the same government through its police force and judicial arm will go hard on those who owns those institutions, most likely the owners and whoever was negligent will be prosecuted in the court of law and surely ending up in jail for long time or gets a death penalty (we still have death penalty laws in TZ- just a reminder) what an accountabily? just a thought?.
The army will produce the list of people who needs to be compensated but the list will be already chakachuliwa by no fault of army investigaters, By the end of the day people will profit from this disaster and some victims will received less than what they deserve and some will get more than the deserve and some will get nothing. As we have seen it before again and again until people wake up one day and say enough is enough this is no way to run a country. We have seen all before people we just bury our head on the sand.
The culture of compensation delivery in tanzania is full of faults,Corruption, Greedy, Excessive force by Government u name it any thing associeted with bad governance. We have seen it all before when our roads need expansion, airports, ports etc. Excessive police force used to remove people from their ancestral lands making way to wawekezaji(wachekeshaji) in maining sector, tourisim (ngorongoro) with little care of an average poor citizen of tanzania. Keep up the good work
So just to let you know pips that even though you have doneted with all your heart and soul most likely your money will ended up someones pockets who is no a victim. So keep up the good work pips and be ready for another episode like this in the near future in the village, town or city near you. Sleep tight
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