ACADEMICIANS and over 160 human rights activists who
sensitizes on peace and protest against corruption in the world, have selected
the Chairman of the IPP group who also doubles as Chairman of Tanzania Private
Sector Foundation (TPSF) Dr. Reginald Mengi for being a role model among
business people in Africa continent. Dr. Mengi was selected after having used
his success to serve unprivileged groups in the Tanzania community who includes
people with albinism irrespective of their religion and tribal groups. Dr.
Mengi has been mentioned by human activists yesterday in Arusha led by
Professor Perel Machel from German who leads a group of academicians from USA,
European, Israel, German Mexico, China and Poland who have visited 137
countries in Africa with the aim of sensitizing good governance, peace and protest
against corruption and nepotism which has dominated in Africa continent. Prof.
Machel has described Dr. Mengi as a most important person as he is a well known
person in Europe and moreover has been mentioned by almost every country which
they have visited for his dedication towards alleviating poverty among the
poor, a factor which is rarely done by fewer rich people in the world. He said
unlike Dr. Mengi, many rich people in the world are fond of being prejudiced and
wants other people to worship them irrespective of the fact that most of them
do hide their money in Switzerland while leaving the poor people unattended. The
academicians are amazed by the high rate of corruption which has grown so high
within the ruling CCM party in such a manner that some of them have shown
hatred among themselves while others have fought other fellows the way the
Deputy National Assembly Speaker Job Ndungai who recently knocked out his
fellow contestant and later admitted at a hospital. They said that, this is a
great shame to the ruling CCM party for an action has portrayed a clear picture
that corruption is highly developed in the party, to the extent that it can
cause the deterioration of the long standing peace situation which has been
prevailing longer for the welfare of the country at large. At the occasion, Sister
Dr. Abigaeli Azael from Israel who has ever lived in Tanzania in the past in
1965 has warned that the highly increased rate of corruption in the country is
a shaming the father of the nation the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. She
described the late father of the nation as the only leader in Africa who
dedicated most of his life to fight against corruption to the extent that he
compiled a book entitled “Corruption is an enemy of right”.
She certainly noted
that, corruption malpractices have tarnished the good name of Tanzania. Dr.
Azael has predicted that Tanzania will get a leader with white hairs who will
work diligently to ensure that its people get a fair play in its natural
resources, and has warmed that those who would dare snatch this golden chance
of a new leader are likely to cause political crisis that will lead to the
deaths of numerous people in the country. Prof. Machel from German has also
warned that in order to get away from malpractices within the ruling CCM party,
it was better to call on people from outside the party to screen contestants
instead of leaving the job for themselves as corruption has washed their eyes
by 100 percent. “I have been in Tanzania since May 2015 up to now and have walked
all districts in Lindi, Mtwara, Ruvuma,
Kilimanjaro, Kigoma, Mwanza, Arusha, Mbeya, Tabora, Shinyanga, Mara, Coast,
Morogoro and Dodoma regions and has seen for himself how corruption has ravaged
people’s life”. Prof. Machel has warned
that the only way to stop corruption which has grown so high in the ruling
party CCM is through deregistration of the party so that a cancer of corruption
should never exist again. Dr. Barrack Gibeel from USA has mentioned corruption
to be a source of love for leadership in the country, and it has also become a
source of hatred for those who seeks leadership by force. He is however
appealing to religious leaders in the country to condemn corruption in their
preaching. In his speech, Dr. Gibeel has described Dr. Mengi as a light source
of love in Africa for being the only African businessman who has set a day to
stay with poor and eat with them in the same bowl. The Chairman of the Ethics
committee on peace and human rights for all Christian religious denominations
in the country, Bishop William Mwamalanga has described Dr. Mengi as a person
who loves everybody regardless of their age, and that has been in the forefront
to defend Tanzania in all aspects of human dignity The academicians have
visited about 20 African countries whereby in their mission , have managed to
meet religious leaders and human activists t6o see how they treat their people
in whatever assistances required of them. The countries are Malawi, South
Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, DRC, Namibia, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Uganda,
Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, Angola, Egypt, Lesotho, Somalia, Gambia, and
Rwanda.
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