In Swahili we have a saying: “Mfa maji haachi kutapatapa”. The current rise of political kidnappings is a sure indication CCM’s days in office are indeed numbered. When a ruling party has lost its steam, it resorts to abductions, torture and political assassinations to prolong its stay in power. The problem is by doing so, the ruling party has declared war on God, and we know without a shred of doubt who will emerge victorious.
The current president’s regime, which promised to restore the rule of law and good governance, is now backtracking with notable opposition politicians and even those in CCM who question public policy very much in harm’s way. History indicates when an unpopular ruling party chooses violence to stay in power, that tactic never prospers. It’s better to revisit past regimes that unleashed political violence on its people and ultimately were ousted by popular uprisings. The ruling party will soon follow suit.
If there is anything God hates most, it is kidnappings, torture and assassinations of his people. This is why the Scripture declares death on all people who extinguish the rights of others to live according to the plan God has set forward for them.
Similarly, Scripture counsels that whatever we do to others, we do to ourselves. So, if you have little regard for the lives of others, know very well that it is because you disregard your own life.
Most people involved in the destruction of the lives of others little do they know they have wilfully shortened their own lives. And of more significance, they lack scriptural understanding of why God created us in the first place and put us in this world. The first occupant of this world was Lucifer and his fallen Angels.
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And we know too well that God’s gifts and calling are irrevocable. Since God gave this world to Satan and his Angels, nobody can take it from him.
Satan, in the confrontation with My Lord Christ Jesus, the Amen, during the forty days of fasting in the desert, was once truthful when he said the world was his alone but deceitful when he cajoled God to worship him so that he could reward Him with the earth and all its riches.
This world is Hell and the ultimate place of rest for Satan and those who worship and serve him, so it can not be rich as he always claims to deceive us. My question is, why abduct, torture, commit abominations and kill for Hell?
Whoever invests in this world is a fool because he knows he will die and leave everything of his toil behind. Why fight God in a war that you know fully well you will never prevail against the Omnivorous, Omniscient and Omnipresent God?
Idi Amin Dada of Uganda tried, but we all know fully well his end was a tragedy. Mobutu Seseko thought he was smarter than everybody else, but at his end, he was limping with a walking stick, fleeing Laurent-Désiré Kabila, who was closing in on him. Mobutu died in misery on foreign soil in Morocco, and the Belgians whom he had faithfully served didn’t even bother to come to his rescue.
Who will forget General Pinochet of Chile’s last days? Was he not the one who feigned to be wheelchair turned off to evade the wrath of the law while in Britain? And back home, his political allies hatched presidential immunity laws to shield him from
accounting for the many citizens whom he had violated their human rights to stay in power. My question is, where is General Pinochet today?
Do you remember the Khmer Rouge regime under the leadership of the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot? It resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people from 1975 to 1979, nearly 25% of Cambodia’s population in 1975. Where is he now? What did he personally benefit from waging a war against God, except destroying his soul?
What can we say of Saddam Hussein, who eliminated the loyal family to coronate himself as the eternal ruler of Iraq? How many lives did he destroy to sustain himself in power?
But power is elusive, and whoever sins to keep it loses it because he is fighting God. At his end, was not Saddam Hussein forked out from a hole he was hiding from his enemies just like Scripture commanded: Accursed is a bloodthirsty king and will run into a pit to disguise himself and let nobody come to his rescue?
Many have a say over Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Some grandstand for him, while others vilify him. Did he not slay the entire royal family and install himself in power? During all the days of his life, was he not hunting down his perceived threats inside Libya and overseas?
Was he not indicted for the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing that killed 270 people on board? Was his Libyan government not forced to compensate the victims millions of dollars? Was he not toppled from power by the same means that got him into it? After the French army struck his convoy fleeing Libya for South Africa with a drone, was he not fished out of a flood storm where he had hidden himself from his enemies?
What did he get except to face the same music he had diligently served others? Did he not cry for his dear life in the same manner his victims did, but nobody listened to his cry of mercy? Even at his end, did he not attempt to bribe his abductors to no avail? Was not a teen who killed him with a bullet from his own “golden gun” that was meant to protect him?
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In Tanzania, the disappearance of Chadema leader Ben Saanane is linked to the public letter he had penned down pouring cold water on a doctorate Magufuli secured from the University of Dar es Salaam. Ben Saanane’s crime was to suggest that their doctorate was bogus; for that, he paid with his life. But where is Magufuli today?
What did he benefit from that? Are the two fates not dissimilar? Why is humanity lacking the knowledge to understand whatever you do to others is your prayer before God, and he will repay you accordingly?
This article is dedicated to the family of Chadema leader and activist Deusdedith Soka. The security forces may say whatever they want to distance themselves from the controversial circumstances of his disappearance, but everybody knows the gospel truth. In his X account, Tundu Lissu, a vice chairman of Chadema, pleaded with President Dr. Samia to show leadership and order Soka’s release, but to no avail.
Human rights activists lodged a case in the High Court in Dar es Salaam to compel the police to produce him before a court of law. However, the police played dumb, raising serious concerns about whether Soka is still alive!
In the last days before his mysterious captivity, Soka was enticed through an SMS to report to the police, who had confiscated his motorbike for unclear reasons. All along, he has been in touch with his beloved wife.
He went to the police station to retrieve his bodaboda, and from that moment, he vanished without a trace! A few days later, whoever grabbed his phone sent two cryptic messages that volubly confirmed that Soka was no longer in charge of his phone.
The messages contradicted his call for national demos, expressing regret instead. The political content from his phone urged people to seek other solutions to their issues. This type of communication is typical of the police when violating the rights of those advocating for political demonstrations. I compiled these correspondences in the account of another relentless activist, Maria Sarungi X. However, the analysis is entirely my own.
Soka’s disappearance is linked to his clamour for National Protest, and the police are doing themselves great harm before the eyes of the general public by acting as if it was not involved in his abduction, contrary to the law. Paradoxically, this is not the first time Soka has called for national demos.
However, with the rise of African Gen-Z clamour for a say in national governance, his second call worried authorities that their end was nigh. This is why they panicked and acted the way they did. Paranoia now rules their hearts and minds of a humiliating exit from power.
Experience and history abode bad karma for CCM. I am beginning to envision the demise of its chokehold on power is nigh. We cannot have a regime which tramples upon human rights and expects God to approve it. That is satanic, not holy.
The police must come clean on Soka and others because we are not fools! Everybody sees a smoking gun in the hands of the security forces. Remember, violence never pays, period!
What is curious about those cryptic messages is that there was a promise that Soka would surface after the political date of 24th August 2024 he had earmarked for ‘Maandamano’ had elapsed. It now appears that forlorn hope was a diabolical feint because days have passed since then, and he is nowhere to be seen.
As I have indicated in my previous articles, no sooner Tanzanians perceive the security forces are there to harm them than we will be inching slowly but surely towards a civil war. Deusdedith’s family cried aloud and were inconsolable at the High Court, and their cries of mercies were heard loud and clear in heaven.
Now they know they have to begin to expect the worst has occurred to him, who loved this great nation and was more than willing to sacrifice his safety for the better of others.
My question: do we still have any leaders worthy of their names to end this gross violation of human rights? When CCM MP, Hon. Mpina, is also forewarning those plotting to hurt him to leave him alone, you know Tanzania is heading in the wrong direction.
This is very sad when a president is waiting for the new dawn of the now risible 4Rs. Unless past human rights violations are thoroughly investigated, like in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, our murky past will keep intruding, mocking us for hypocritical posturing.
Recidivism seems to be a tactic CCM uses to maintain power by any means necessary. It’s a concerning trend.
