Nyerere’s leadership sadly missed, opine Tanzanians

 In this Bettmann/CORBIS image, President Julius Nyerere addresses a press conference at State House in

Posted  Saturday, October 11  2014 at  11:25

In Summary

His recorded speeches continue to reverberate as if he made them yesterday. Is Tanzania the way he would have wished it to be? What you do miss most about him?

This year, Tanzanians mark the 15th anniversary of the death of Founding Father of the Nation Julius Nyerere, who died on October 14, 1999. People in Tanzania, Africa and across the world remember him for various reasons.

His recorded speeches continue to reverberate as if he made them yesterday. Is Tanzania the way he would have wished it to be? What you do miss most about him?

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I miss his leadership as president. He was a man of action and true to his word. He dealt with criminals appropriately in order to protect interests of the country. He was very close to the people. He did not seek people’s sympathy but found solutions to people’s problems.

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What is happening now in Tanzania is not what Mwalimu Nyerere wished. I’m missing his leadership style. His gap is too obvious now. There is currently sort of a vacuum at the top. Leaders are not always not there.

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Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was the only leader who worked for his nation. He couldn’t wait for his people to work for their nation. He helped people have self-esteem, so he led them to fight against tribalism, racism and religionalism.

He could stand strongly before big nations and make a case for the entire continent of Africa.

Currently there is no leader like him in the whole of Africa. His talent is nowhere to be seen.

Very OK

One time he wanted Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to unite and form one government. He really believed in unity.

Janeth K

He must be in deep sorrow right now if at all he is able to see what we’re doing to mother Tanzania. This is not what Mwl Julius Nyerere wanted.

Pritesh

We were suppressed in his time. Having toothpaste was regarded as a crime. Having an ordinary television was a sin. His policy of nationalisation put the entire country behind by a hundred years.

We look at Kenya and its progress which we were entitled to but we never got what we deserved due to such socialist policies which made an era of lazy people who expected to be fed for free if they did not have anything.

Now the times are becoming more realistic but there is a lot of space for improvement within our systems and approach in handling situations such as medicals, education and many more of such nature.

Harris L

We are far away from where he wished Tanzania to be.

corruption has been increasing rapidly, leaders don’t observe the code of conduct and ethics and most are hypocrites. We are not in well at all.
By: The citizen