KASHFA KWA PRESDENT WETU

 
 
AND THE RECIPIENT SAID OF THE GIFT, “THIS IS A GIFT OF A LIFETIME.”
THANK TO WIKILEAKS, WE NOW KNOW THAT TANZANIA’S PRESIDENT KIKWETE RECEIVED GIFTS FROM A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, ALI ALBWARDY, WHO OWNS A CHAIN OF KILIMANJARO HOTELS.
ALBWARDY ALSO PAID FOR PRESIDENT KIKWETE’S FLIGHT TO LONDON ON A SHOPPING SPREE WHEN THE LATTER WAS TANZANIA’S MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION.  ACCORDING TO WIKILEAKS, AMONG ITEMS BOUGHT FOR PRESIDENT KIKWETE WERE FIVE SUITS FROM SAVILE ROW.
IN RETURN, THE PRESIDENT IS SAID TO HAVE HELPED ALBWARDY TO “CONSTRUCT TWO NEW HOTELS ON THE RIM OF THE NGORONGORO CRATER AND ANOTHER ON THE SERENGETI PLAINS, OVERLOOKING THE MAIN ANIMAL MIGRATION ROUTES.”
THE STATE HOUSE HOSTED A PRESS BRIEFING AND REFUTED THE ALLEGATIONS, SAYING THE GOVERNMENT HAS AN ADEQUATE CLOTHING BUDGET BUT SOURCES WHO HAVE CLOSELY WORKED WITH THE PRESIDENT TELL US THAT THEY WERE NOT SURPRISED TO LEARN HE WAS BRAINWASHED WITH SUITS AND FOREIGN TRIPS SINCE HE LOVES SHOPPING AND DRESSING. “MOST OF THE ALLEGATIONS LEVELED AGAINST THE PRESIDENT ARE UNTRUE BUT THIS ONE IS FACTUAL.”
MOST TANZANIANS ARE PROBABLY ASKING THEMSELVES WHETHER THE HEAD OF STATE HAS A PRICE TAG AND THE SECRECY SURROUNDING SUCH GESTURES AND THE MOTIVE OF THE GIVERS. HOWEVER, WHAT WE DON’T KNOW YET IS HOW MUCH HAVE INVESTORS SCRAMBLING TO SECURE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE PRESIDENT HAVE GIVEN HIM OR HIS ASSISTANTS.