Open Letter To My President from Ng’winula (a humorist/writer/citizen)

         I’d like to start with a greeting but since you are always busy with abroad trips looking for aids and way to support Tanzania then please allow me to proceed with this letter. I’ll understand if you stop me here, if you are still reading this th...en I’m right that you are a very understanding man which I believe is one of the reasons that made you who you are right now. Super-class people will say I’m nobody but well I’m not. I’m the citizen of the United Republic of Tanzania, and that makes me somebody enough to address you, my president.         Dear his excellence. First of all most please understand that I’m writing this out of any political interest make it within or outside the country (my facebook politics says NIL). I’m writing this neither to get the attention from the media, I’m simply a low class citizen who can’t take it anymore. I read papers and it’s a very heart breaking truth (bitter as it is still I take it) to know for sure that wherever this country is heading we are nearly doomed.  I’m personally into technology industry and, as a youth, very curious about my future life including my kids and my wife (if I’ll marry). I always think if I’ll become a father of my house, what my responsibility is? I then answer myself that I will make sure that I give my family shelter, reliable water supply, reliable electricity supply, food and smooth movement from place to place.          Whenever I think of it (in real Tanzanian world) all that comes in my mind is DARKNESS. No power. I won’t ask you any rhetorical questions sir because I don’t want to waste the very precious time that is limited still. But without power all time is wasted. “Desperate situation needs desperate measures” (I think I quote this from an American movie I don’t remember) therefore please consider it a favor to us (your family) instead of responsibility to provide us with electricity (may be that way things will work out) but we really need the power. If you ask for my opinion, the electrical problem is manmade (no I don’t have a proof it’s an opinion).          Your responsibility as the father of this nation is to fill our hearts with the little hope that we will achieve no matter how hard it is to believe. Let us hope. Give us hope. I know this is your last term and you have four years and probably people will say you can’t make a change, I say no. I say you can make a big change. You are the change. Quoting the great Mahatma Gandhi “Be the change that you want to see…” I believe if you want to see this country lifting high, if you want to give people hope, let it begin with you. Now, I think you have a great team of thinkers, including yourself, with the power in your hands, with desire in our hearts, let it be. Drive us into changing this country. I beg you. There are a lot of things that are going so badly in this country that I start to think it’s not my fault that I don’t have a date maybe it’s the national matter. UDOM students are out of college. No electricity. Corruption (somebody should make a theme). The laws to protect works of art (Juma Nature should had had a foundation by now). A lot of problems and it is just so sad that sometimes I have to defend my government to outsiders trying to explain the causes of problems. I swear I never lied this much in my life like I did this year, all that for my government.  Why writing this letter? Simple, I wrote it to motivate change. GIVE US THE ‘TANZANIAN DREAM’. I choose to limit it to one page so not to bore you neither other readers (I had to post it on facebook because I know it’s the only way it will reach you eventually). Yours in the suffocation of the growing nation’s heart-breaking situations and still patriotic and proud citizen of the United Republic of Tanzania,        Ng’winula. 

By: Ng'winula Unu Kingamkono