Lucifer, alongside Michael and Gabriel, it would appear that as it is in heaven, so it is on earth. And if you go to Mozambique, you can also begin to see that there is a problem there, but there is an attempt at hygiene. You go to Zambia, that is another country, Kenneth David Kaunda.
On the day that he left office, Kenneth David Kaunda had only $8,000 in his account. If you ask your typical African Tanzanian counselor today, before Magufuli came in, that was pocket change. After 24 years in power, $8,000 only.
Those are people who love their country and sacrificed. There is a need for hygiene in Zambia. It is the only country in the world that I know where when an opposition leader blocks a motorcade, it does not become the offense of obstruction, it becomes the offense of treason.
Unprecedented in the world. Hygiene is necessary in that country. And I look forward to hygiene being introduced.
Then, one comes to Tanzania. You know, [Applause] Tanzania, when one talks about hygiene, one must start in the 1960s. One must remember the Arusha Declaration and the nobility of the intentions of Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere.
And that is why many of you may not know, but at one time it was suggested that he be made a saint of the Catholic Church. And the reason was very simple. This was a man who had ideas.
This was a man who had clarity of thought. This was a man who could see the future almost with the exactitude of a Jewish prophet. This was a man who had the humility almost like the humility of the carpenter of Nazareth.
This was a man who loved his country. He made mistakes, and when he made them, he realized and corrected them. That is his greatness.
Is it not saying just who said that nobody can rule guiltlessly? This is a man who found 120 plus ethnic groups and welded them into one nation. So that Tanzanians speak with one voice.
You know, if you look at Tanzania, and you ask your typical Tanzanian, what was the ethnic extraction of President Kambarage Nyerere, they do not know and they do not care. If you ask Tanzanians what was the ethnic extraction of the second president of Tanzania, Mzee Ali Hassan Mwinyi, the Tanzanians do not know and they do not care because it does not matter. If you ask them what was the ethnic extraction of the third president of Tanzania, Benjamin William Mkapa, they do not know and it does not matter and they do not care.
And if you ask Tanzania what was the ethnic extraction of your fourth president, Jakaya Mrso Kikwete, they do not know and they do not care. And if you ask them what is the extraction of your fifth president, John Pombe Magufuli, they do not know and they do not care. They only know that he's a bulldozer.
But you go to my country, Kenya, God save my country. God save my country. When you meet your typical Kenyan, and you introduce yourself as John, they'll ask for the second name, not that mean they may know your full names, but that they may identify you with your ethnicity and pigeonhole you accordingly.
When you go into that country, which is a great country in prospect, but which is being destroyed by negative ethnicity, you ask them who the first president of Kenya was, they'll tell you it was Jomo Kenyatta and he was Kikuyu and we care. We want our Kikuyu president. [Applause] And if you ask them who was the second president, they'll tell you it was Daniel arap Moi of the Kalenjin extraction and we cared because it was our turn to eat.
And if you ask them who was the third president, they'll tell you it is Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and he is a Kikuyu and we want him to continue because we Kikuyus and we Kalenjin only feel safe when one of our own is in State House. And if you ask the opposition, and you ask the leaders, you ask the leaders from my own ethnic group, the Luo of Kenya, the Luo will tell you we have been marginalized for too long. The time has come that God must smile upon us and our son must be the president.
And if you ask the Luhyas, they'll say the same thing. That is a tragedy of gigantic proportions. I'm submitting to us that the country called Kenya needs political hygiene.
I'm submitting to us that the country called Kenya needs to come to Tanzania here on a benchmarking tour and that the president of the Republic of Kenya and all our parliamentarians should sit at the State House and be lectured by John Pombe Magufuli on the finer points of governance. Of course, Mzee Warioba will be there. And other stalwarts will be there.
Salim Ahmed Salim will be there. Great Tanzanians will be there. And Nyerere will remind us because it can destroy a nation.
There is need for political hygiene in Kenya. Right now in Nigeria, the Ibos want to secede and they are being warned by the Yorubas and the northerners. There is need for political hygiene.
But let me also say one of the things that relates to hygiene. Aside from negative ethnicity, there is another thing that has killed Africa and taken away political hygiene, corruption. You know, it would appear that we of the Negroid blood relate very poorly with this thing called money.
Money is a useful facility that enables you to do things with ease. But if you allow money to control you and you begin to adore money and you acquire appetite for money, then you are in trouble. And I want to submit to us that Africa is the only continent in the world where upon appointment into political office or upon ascending to the political office, it's as if you have won a lottery ticket to sudden wealth.
In Africa, when you are appointed a minister, even the newspapers will say if you are appointed to the Ministry of Finance, he's been appointed to the lucrative Ministry of Finance. If you are appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture or Mining, they say you've been appointed to the lucrative Ministry of Mining. But when you are appointed the Minister of Culture, they say you've been appointed to the lean Ministry of Culture.
In other words, there is a sense in which institutions in Africa appear to believe that he who gets into public office has a license to be a thief. And if you look at many African countries, many African leaders cannot account for for their wealth. They have stripped their countries naked.
You know, when I look at some of the great leaders of Africa, some who will not be remembered so very fondly by history, I regret Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zimbabwe. In 1980s, when Mugabe took power, it was said of him that he had the largest number of degrees of any leader in the world and he had degrees. It was said that he was a passionate revolutionary and he was a passionate revolutionary.
It was said that he had liberated Rhodesia, renamed Zimbabwe, into a great country and for the first 10 years he did a good job. Then something happened. Different commentators have different ways of saying some of them say that Sally died and he married Grace and it has never been the same again.
I do not know. Some of them said that he became a prisoner of some of his comrades. I do not know.
But the only thing that I know is that all the historical dividends he had accumulated have now been squandered. Why? They have been squandered because Robert Gabriel Mugabe now presides over a country where there is 90% unemployment.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe now presides over a country which does not have a currency but has a central bank. This is unprecedented in the history of modern civilization. I'm submitting to us that corruption has been at the very heart of the destruction of Africa.
That is why we do not have roads. That is why we do not have good hospitals. That is why we cannot feed ourselves in Kenya today.
We and Ethiopia, we are importing maize from Mexico. In Liberia, they're importing chicken from Brazil. And in many countries we cannot even feed ourselves.
We do not make our own medicine. Medicine is made as generics in India. We do not even produce our own seeds to plant our fields.
They are being made by Syngenta and Monsanto. We do not produce anything because of corruption. But there is a sense in which one can begin to see some hygiene.
There is a sense when I arrived here in Dar es Salaam and I look at the newspapers and I see a white gentleman having flown into Tanzania in a private jet from the company called Acacia goes into State House in Dar es Salaam and literally almost saying mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. And President John Pombe Magufuli as if he was a Catholic father saying [Applause] [Music] I felt tall that there is an African leader who can stand up to international pirates who for 20 years have deprived Tanzania of taxes that would have gone to schools. Taxes that would have gone to the health sector.
Taxes that would have gone to infrastructure. Taxes that would have gone into agriculture. John Pombe Magufuli is a breath of fresh air.
I know that there are some Tanzanians who may think that he's disrupting their agenda. John Pombe Magufuli disrupt their agenda. For if you come into a country and you find a country, a patient suffering from cancer, you've got to subject them to chemotherapy.
And when you administer chemotherapy, the hair will fall out a little. There will be some pain. That pain is necessary because there is no gain without pain.
I'm not a Jewish prophet nor related to one. I'm not a member of CCM. But if John Pombe Magufuli continues on this trajectory and has a second term, in the next 10 years Tanzania will be one of the largest economies in this continent.
God save John Pombe Magufuli. You know I was reading a tweet and some American is saying, "Bring us John Pombe Magufuli. " And I was in Kenya and I said at one time that we need to Magufulify Kenya.
In other words, there is a sense in which a new English word can be found, the Magufulification of Africa. In fact I dare say that even my own paper, instead of calling it a call for hygiene in African politics, I would say the Magufulification of Africa. And I would still be right.
But they write say that one swallow does not make a summer. There are other good examples in Africa of the beginning of the introduction of political hygiene. Ian Khama in Botswana.
Ian Khama in Botswana, it is said that a minister in his government went to him and said "I've been named in a scandal, Your Excellency, help me. " He told him, "There is nothing that I can do. " The individual went to his rural home.
The following day it is reported that he had committed suicide. I'm not a sadist nor do I intend to be one, but if there are such individuals, I want more suicides. Ian Khama is yet another breath of fresh air.
Paul Kagame of Rwanda. 1994 the United Nations turned away. The Rwandese within 100 days, anything between 800,000 and 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed even in churches.
Then there came a tall, lanky man, Paul Kagame and his comrades in arms. I was there 2 days ago. And one of the best drives out of any airport in the world is to be found in Kigali in Rwanda.
And you can see so that those who thought that Africans cannot do it, our color is innocent. The Negroid, the dark color is innocent. It is not in our DNA.
[Applause] No. What happens is that there are some within our ranks who are errant who must be punished. One can go on and on, but even my own good friend Yoweri Kaguta Museveni found a dilapidated Uganda.
And even if you say that Yoweri has now stayed a little longer there is a sense in which history will remember him fondly. One can go on and on. But one must also remember that lunch must be served.
And if one remembers that lunch must be served, one must also remember that there is the law of diminishing returns. And one must also remember that one must now grow to their conclusion even as they are talking about a call for political hygiene. So I'm submitting to us this morning that Africa can be great and Africa must be great.
But Africa will only be great if we Africans do that which is good and right. The great Indian nationalist Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari said that when politics stumbles, the country pays. So the first thing that we must do is to introduce hygiene in our politics.
And now that I'm in Tanzania, the first thing that we must do is to Magufulify our politics. I know that there is a Kiswahili saying, "Gema akisifiwa tembo alitia maji. " And I'm conscious that one of the names of President Magufuli is Pombe.
But I have no doubt that President Magufuli will remain on the right course. As you say here in Tanzania, "Atabaki kwenye njia kuu hata chepua. " I'm suggesting to us that we introduce hygiene in our politics, which means and mzee wa riaba will remember when we were talking about the constitution.
Africans must begin looking at their constitution and there must be constitutions which are addressed the African environment. You know there was a time after the fall of the Berlin Wall. When European powers from London, Paris, Madrid, and Washington told us that democracy is equals to multi-party politics.
Democracy equals to this. I now hold the view that while plurality is a good thing, a constitutional reviews gives us an opportunity to come up with homegrown solutions. which I think now has created an environment that makes governance very difficult.
You, when you make a constitution, make a better constitution than we did. I'm submitting to us that we must now look at our constitution as the primary governance document in order to ensure that we create hygiene in our politics. First of all, there is a sense in which the electorate must also be educated.
Democracy presupposes that the electorate is mature and the electorate knows what it wants. You know, 3 days ago, an individual from my ethnic group called me. And he told me this, "This time round, we are taking it.
" And I said, "Who are we? " And he told me, "Don't you know? " I knew what he was saying, of course.
And immediately I told him, "Never, ever appeal to my ethnic sensibilities. I did not go to school that I vote individuals because they come from my ethnic group. " Tell me their agenda on health, their agenda on agriculture, so that if I vote for them, it should just be coincidental that we come from the same ethnic extraction.
I'm submitting to us that even you, the electorate, when you are called upon to vote, vote right. I remember in 2007 when I attempted to seek a parliamentary seat, and I had a 10-point agenda with Sarah Zangu. The people said, "Sisi hatutaki sera, tunataka karo.
" Then I told them subsequently that how is it, and I repeat it again here, you have been given an opportunity to elect, you elect hyena to take care of goats, and then when the goats have been eaten, you wonder why. [Applause] I'm submitting to us that one of the ways is having a new constitutional dispensation. The other thing that we must do beyond the institution, beyond the constitution, is to have institutions.
You know, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, whom you now rightly refer to as Baba wa Taifa, said, "You are not successful until your successor succeeds. " Today, Mwalimu Kambarage Nyerere is successful because his successors have succeeded. Did you not have Mzee Mwinyi?
Did you not have Benjamin William Mkapa? Did you not have Jakaya Mrso Kikwete? Did you not have John Pombe Magufuli, who I have seen and said, "We must protect the sitting president.
In order to preserve the nation, sometimes memories must be selective. " I remember after the civil war in Nigeria, the young Yakubu Gowon, receiving the Biafrans who had surrendered, said, "Brothers, I'm happy to see you. " And the commentator says, "At a critical point in Nigerian history, the victor did not gloat, and the vanquished were not humiliated.
" What Pombe Magufuli is doing is right. There is no future without forgiveness. There is no future without selective memories, but we must never forget.
I'm submitting to us that the only thing that survives and will introduce hygiene in African politics is institutions, because institutions will exist beyond us. And I'm happy to say that in Tanzania, one begins to see institutions. One begins to see individuals who are smaller than institution, because if you are larger than institution, then you consume institution.
And Mobutu Sese Seko reminded us that when he changed his name from Joseph Désiré Mobutu to Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga. And when he died, until today, the Democratic Republic of Congo is not at ease. Beyond the institution, the other thing that we must do is that we must have men and women of integrity.
These men and women of integrity are not angels. They'll have made mistakes, but they'll have learned from those mistakes. These men and women should be subjected to certain ideals.
That is why Mwalimu Nyerere once again said, "Lazima tuwe na siasa ya maadili na miko. " There must be taboos in politics, the do's and the don'ts. "Tukiwa na sera huria, basi ni uhuni utatamalaki.
" I'm submitting to us that we must have integrity in order to inject hygiene in Kenyan in in in African politics. I'm submitting to us the fourth thing that the other thing that we must do is that we must de-ethnicize our politics. And I'm saying, "It doesn't mean that you reject your being a Sukuma or a Maasai or a Luo or a Kamba.
Celebrate all those, but remember that in order to produce melodious music, you play the white of the piano and the black of the piano, and lo and behold, there is symphony, and there is harmony, and there is joy. " I'm submitting to us that in order to introduce hygiene in our politics, the quality of the lives of the people must be improved. The gross national happiness index must improve, not the gross domestic product.
I'm submitting to us that the misery index must go down. In other words, young Tanzanians and young Africans must have the opportunity to realize their potential. They must not go out to be humiliated.
You know what today And if there is any Chinese in the assembly, forgive me because the Chinese are an amazing people. 30 years ago, China was a third world country. Then they made a decision, and China will never be the same again.
I want to submit to you, all of you who are in this assembly, 99% of the things that you have are from China. If it is your phone, even if it is iPhone, it is assembled in China. Everything we have is from China.
China has become the factory of the world. They know what they want, and they are going for it. I'm submitting to us that if we are to produce hygiene in African politics, we must know what we want.
Nyerere used to say, "Wakati mwingine Waafrika tunabaki tunashangaa na kudua. " "Eh, Wachina hao. " I'm submitting to us that China knows what it wants, and Africa must now ask herself, "What does she want for our women?
What does she want for our young men and women? " And I have no doubt that we have the wherewithal to find out what we want. I'm submitting to us that we must also introduce equality and inclusivity.
Our women must be given their pride of place. And I must say, you know, somebody said something with which I agreed terribly 2 days ago. Why must it be that when we are dealing with our women and our youth, we must create for them a microfinance, a micro Why?
For how long will our women will be in microenterprises? Why can't our women be involved in mega enterprises? I'm submitting to us that we must mainstream our women because 52% of the population cannot be left in the periphery.
And I'm saying that when you include everybody, when everybody is at the dinner table, then everybody will be happy because the last time I checked, I used to think that there were two ways of being at the dinner table of civilization. And I used to say that at the dinner dinner table of civilization, you can be present as a waiter or a diner. But 2 days ago, somebody told me, "No, that you can also be the food to be eaten.
" So, Africans, choose you now what role you want to play at the dinner table. Do you want to be the food to be eaten? Do you want to be the waiter to be waiting upon the diner or you want to be the diner?
Africans have been food for too long. Africans have been waiters for too long. This is the time to be diners at the dinner table of democracy.
I'm submitting to us that we are not children of a lesser God. I'm saying that there is a tide in the affairs of men which taken on a crest leads to great fortunes. But if you miss them, it leads to great miseries.
Shakespeare was right. Chinua Achebe was right. If you want and you seek, you will never fail to find.
Difficulties may and indeed will exist, but it's through overcoming them that we grow stronger. And I'm submitting to us that we have the ability to do that. And to the young Africans, Chinua Achebe posed the question, "Where are the young suckers that will grow when the old banana dies?
" Are you those young suckers that will grow when the old bananas who are seated here die? Because the future of Africa is in your hands. Young Chinese are coming here teaching us how to read Mandarin.
Are we teaching them Kiswahili? Young Chinese are coming here working 7 days a week. Are you working 7 days a week?
You artists, Kuku can var is on you. But beyond varing rizoni, the Kuku must learn and liberate Africa. You young Africans, why are you going to Europe and America?
You young Africans, why are you celebrating Manchester United not Young Ah? You young Africans, why don't you have Sunday Manara and Gibson Sumbuli recreated rather than Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi? You young Africans, why are you celebrating Julio Iglesias?
Why are you not celebrating Farida Karoli? Why are you not remembering Baraka Mwinyi Sheha Mwaruka solo in his national? I'm submitting to us that in order to have political hygiene, we must also have self-esteem.
[Applause] Self-esteem. Once we have self-esteem that we know that we are equal than that God in his divine wisdom decided the God that I worship is a God of diversity. He looks at a white man and a white woman, he says, "Behold a great creation.
" And he turns to the Arab, the brown Arab, and says, "Oh, what a good brown creation. " And he turns the slitty-eyed Chinese and the Japanese and he says, "Behold what a great creation. " And he turns to the Negroid and says, "I perfected it here.
What a perfect turn. " So that when we sit at the dinner table of civilization, it is the diversity that we should look forward to. And I'm submitting to us that once we've done all that, then Africa will be great.
Once we have done all that, Africa will be great and Africa can be great. But Africa will not be great on the basis of pronouncements. I know that the African sat in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and came with Africa Agenda 2063.
But Africa will not realize Agenda 2063 when 90% of African Union budget is externally financed. He who calls the piper calls the tune. That old English saying is still true.
Because as they say in French in French, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The more things change, the more they remain the same in Africa. But I'm submitting to us that this time round, it they must not remain the same.
So, fellow Africans and individuals who may not be Africans but are from other civilization and our sisters and brothers, make Africa great. This continent can be great. Make Africa's education great.
Let Dar es Salaam University be great. Let Nairobi be great. Let Fourah Bay in Sierra Leone be great.
Let our education be great and we will make it great. Let African agriculture be great. Let us feed ourselves.
Let us have food and beef and chicken and grains made in Africa. Let African agriculture be great. Let African infrastructure be great.
Let us have the new train moving from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to Dakar in Senegal and from Cape Town to Cairo. Let there be great infrastructure. Let us have one passport so that when I arrive at Dar es Salaam, I'm not asked for my passport.
Please, let us have one. Let us have one currency so that I don't have to fly for 1 hour and I confront Tanzanian shilling. I fly for 55 minutes, I confront the Rwandan franc.
I confront the Angolan kwanza. Let us have a unit of currency which is uniform. You can call it the Afro, whichever name you prefer, but let us have one currency.
I'm submitting to us that we can be great. Let us have our women have occupied their pride of place. Let us make the Congo the Silicon Valley of Africa.
Let us make Niger or Burkina Faso the head of nuclear power. Let us make Congo and the Kariba the production headquarters of electricity. Let there be light in Africa.
Let there be light in Africa. And I'm submitting to us that that can be achieved if we introduce hygiene in African politics and African affairs. Let us have Africa magulified.
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We need to give power back to the people. We need to I am Dr Okediran, a former member member of the parliament from Nigeria. And I have two questions for you.
Um when you were making your beautiful presentation, you condemned uh uh President Mugabe for staying too long. But you are partial to uh Museveni and uh Paul Kagame. Uh are you trying to tell us that uh we can allow a little extension of office for our leaders?
Uh how do we do this? Thank you. Thank you.
I am Dr Camillus Cassala of the Eastern Africa Statistical Training Centre. I have followed Professor Lumumba's presentation. I would like to submit to us that this what I'm going to say will be the summary of his presentation.
