Kikao cha Wanatasnia Wote wa Filamu Tanzania

I Refuse to be Part of Your Wedding Committee!

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Dear Friend,


I refuse to be part of your wedding committee!

I got your invitation card to the committee. I see you quoted an amount that I am expected to contribute.I must say that I feel honoured that you remember me. It has been years since the last time we spoke. I remember we used to be in the same school, and we recently befriended each other on Facebook.

However, friend, I must say that this came as a surprise to me. You see, I am unable to afford a wife myself. I have been planning to get a lady and head to the A.G chambers. I hear it will cost me very little money.

I see that your wife is trying to keep up with the Kardashians. It is a dream wedding that she wants. If you are able to afford that, my friend, it will be a very good thing to do. But, kindly do not tie me to financial obligations when mine are choking me. The current economic times have put a rope around everyone’s neck. I cannot afford Kshs 10,000/- (180,000/- Tsh) as contribution towards your wedding.

I am willing, more than willing to be a service provider- to oversee pitching of tents, directing guests to the sitting places, showing them the little rooms, collecting gifts.I am willing to attend the committee to pray for your marriage. I am willing to attend your wedding. I am willing to do all this. Friends need friends. But
friends don’t exploit friends.

I saw a facebook group you had created earlier as well- something about a goat eating party in preparation for ruracio (pre-wedding).   You will forgive me, because the first thing I thought was: what a money collecting idea!

I could push myself and bring you a gift on your wedding day. It is a noble thing to do. However, I will not buy you a wife, help you wed her in an expensive ceremony, then stock your house. I often tell people to live within their means. I know you will thank me someday.

If you cannot afford your wife’s dream wedding, and you give it to her still, what happens when she is about to deliver, and she needs a dream delivery at the Aga Khan-Princess Zuhura Pavillion? Will you call us for an emergency ‘my-wife-is-delivering’ committee? When the kid wants to go to school and has to go to Cianda School and Makini School, will you call us in as well? The world has needier people, and more deserving causes!

All I am saying is a wedding, a luxurious one in this case is not for you if you cannot afford three quarter of the money required.

Mwenyekiti wa CCM Awasili Dodoma Kwa Vikao Vya Chama

Na Mwandishi Maalum, Dodoma, Jumamosi Nov. 19, 2011



Mwenyekiti wa CCM Rais Dkt Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete Jumamosi (Nov 19) jioni amewasili mjini Dodoma tayari kwa vikao muhimu vya chama hicho tawala vitavyofanyika kwa siku nne katika ukumbi wa Makao Makuu ya CCM maarufu kama White House.


Katika Uwanja wa ndege wa Dodoma Dkt Kikwete amepokewa na viongozi pamoja na wana CCM wengi wakiongozwa na Makamu wa Rais Dkt Mohamed Ghalib Bilal na Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda ambaye ni Mwenyekiti wa Wabunge wa CCM.

Baada ya mapumziko mafupi katika Ikulu ndogo ya Dodoma Dkt Kikwete alielekea ukumbi wa St. Gaspers ambako aliongea na wabunge wa CCM na kupata nao chakula cha usiku.

Katika hotuba yake, Dkt Kikwete aliwapa changamoto wabunge hao wa CCM waende kwa wapiga kura wao na kuwaelemisha kuhusu mchakato wa upatikanaji wa Katiba mpya uliopitishwa Jumamosi Bungeni Dodoma.

Dkt Kikwete aliwasisistizia wabunge hao umuhimu wa kupeleka elimu hiyo ya mchakato wa kupata katiba mpya kwani hivi karibuni kumekuwepo na upotoshaji mkubwa wa nini kinachoendelea, na kusema kuwa wakiwa wabunge wa chama tawala ni wajibu wao kuelimisha umma kwamba kanuni na sheria zote zimefuatwa katika kupitisha muswada huo ambao umesomwa kwa mara ya pili, baada ya kusomwa mara ya kwanza kwa mujibu wa sheria.

Rais Kikwete aliwakumbusha wabunge hao kwamba mchakato huo si jambo geni na kwamba ndio uliofuatwa na Marais wote toka wa awamu ya Kwanza hadi ya tatu, akisisitiza kwamba ni muhimu wanancho wote wakaelewa hilo, ikizingatiwa kwamba kuna baadhi ya watu wachache wanaotaka kupotosha umma kwamba hatua hiyo ni batili wakati sio kweli, ikizingatiwa kwamba kila lililo katika katiba ya sasa limezingatiwa.

Pia aliwasihi Watanzania kujitokeza kutoa maoni yao ya ni katiba gani wanayoitaka pindi muda wa kufanya hivyo utapowadia, na wasikubali kughiribiwa na wachache waliopania kupindisha ukweli.

Kwa mujibu wa ratiba leo Jumapili kutakuwa na Kikao cha Kamati ya Usalama na Maadili ukumbi wa White House kitachofanyika kutwa nzima, kitachofuatiwa na kikao cha Kamati kuu ya CCM Jumatatu na Jumanne. Halmashauri kuu ya CCM itakutana kuanzia Jumatano hadi Ijumaa.