“If Mwalimu Julius Nyerere were to return to the nation he built on the ideals of African unity, he would be horrified.
As Tanzania’s first female president fought to secure her own mandate, blood flowed across the land.
Cut off from the world during and after polling, Tanzanians endured what rights groups now describe as a bloodbath that was hidden behind an official blackout but laid bare through reports shared with their Kenyan counterparts,” reports the Kenyan Standard in today’s edition, as Madam Dictator gets inaugurated while hiding in an army barracks in Dodoma, Tanzania’s administrative capital.
Madam Dictator has used abductions, killings, sexual violence, harassment, and torture to stop any dissent to her kleptocratic rule.
The tragedy in Tanzania is that Madam Dictator has a law in place which says that once the election result has been announced, it cannot be challenged in a court of law. That is typical crude dictatorship because what recourse does anyone who is aggrieved have when they are not allowed to go to a court of law? It is a total embarrassment and a mockery of justice.