WHILE I agree with my brothers about the condemnation that surrounds the elections in Tanzania during the first week of November, 2025, I have wondered, with a great sense of wonderment, if the story about Tanzania’s president Mama Samia Suluhu is only half the story.
The stupidities
I find it difficult that Mama Samia could have committed the stupidities leveled against her without a powerful devil either forcing her into it, or tranquilizing her brain into a stupor.
Mama Samia assumed the presidency in 2021, after the death of president John Magufuli. Since Magufuli had done only six months of his term, Mama Samia had the rest of the term to consolidate her position.
However, it appears that she waited until the election year came by, 2025. In April, the police “jumped on” Tundu Lissu, Chadema Party leader and locked him up in a jailhouse.
Tundu was small fish really, but commanding perhaps 25% of the electorate, with 35 seats in the house, especially in his home province of Arusha.
Another leader, of even a smaller party, the ACT party, was Sister Dorothy Semu, with four members in a house of 393 members. The name ACT refers to change and transparency.
Together, these two parties commanded less than 40 seats. But Mama Samia was unhappy, and just for the heck of it, “roughed” up Sister Dorothy and Brother Zito Kabwe (her predecessor who had retired from politics.
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Please dear readers, notice the juicy but sad part. The word “Change” was propitious and these two parties were well advised by secret agents from foreign countries, namely Britain and the US: these agents are affiliated to George Soros Foundation and the Democracy Foundation.
By roughing them up, and throwing them in some stupid dirty jailhouses, Mama Samia attracted the attention of Human Rights Organisation in New York.
These brothers then became much bigger than they were, describing how ‘Tanzania has suffered and endured pain and suffering for six decades of Chama Cha Mapinduzi.” (Sister’s words).
The “democracy organisations” described above do this kind of rabble rousing for a living. Their aim is to see African countries in constant turmoil, so as to make them easy targets for mineral exploitation.
The African Union concluded that the actions described above “diminished the competitiveness of the elections” violating the basic human rights of “participation.”
In any case, in an electoral pool of 37 million voters, and there is no opposition “participation” (that word again), the electoral victory is “pre-disposed” (legalese for saying Mama has cheated).
I make two points here. Sister Dorothy and Brother Tundu are now lionised in the UK and the US as “standing up to dictatorship.”
Mama Samia is now, all of a sudden, in the space of two months, viewed as an evil African dictator. Dear readers, whatever is happening, surely the US Central Intelligence Organisation is listening. It overthrew Ghana’s Kwame Nkurumah, Congo’s Patrice Lumumba, and Libya Muammar Khadaffi.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (October31) said some very bad words. Amnesty International (November2) is sending some investigators in response to some “unlawful killings.”
US President Donald Trump is contemplating some sanctions against Mama Samia.
Some names are coming up as villains, very black, dark and sinister advisors to Mama Samia and behind all these behaviors; Abdul Ameer, is Mama Samia’s son and former president Jakaya Kikwete.
On this foolishness, we have a report from a Kenyan election observer, Elizabeth Onyengo. When she went to a polling station in Dar-es-Salaam, she was supposed to register in Zanzibar, 700 miles away, in a provincial office.
The idea was to make problems for observers.
Secondly, voters were not required to show identities and were allowed to vote several times.
My intuition is that Mama Samia was set up by some very cynical operatives in order to overthrow the whole Chama Cha Mapinduzi and its anti-colonial ideology.
She foolishly fell into the trap by being seduced by “strong man fables.”
The real story
Prior to all these shenanigans, World Bank regional director, Mark Pemberton, demanded a meeting with Mama Samia, in an attempt to force her to accept a US$12 billion “development loan.”
This loan would hand over sovereign authority in Dar-es-Sallam port development and management, electrical grid development and cyber-space (Space-link/ Internet) communications.
In Uganda and Kenya, such developments involved cost over-runs of well over 40%.
This means that the “real cost” would be US$12 billion plus 40% over-runs US$4.8 billion Tanzania, against Magufuli’s no-loans policy, would be placed in a debt-trap forever.
There were also time over-runs. These projects were never completed under projected time.
In case of “differences between Tanzania and the World Bank”, the World Bank would nominate arbitrators.
Further, in case of national laws coming in conflict with the international project, the World Bank would over-rule local sovereignty.
There is also a dispute about a United Arab port development company, DP International, which Mama Samia preferred to run Tanzanian ports.
This company, an Arab Islamic entity, though referenced as one of the best in port management, was met with resistance in the Trump administration because of its Islamic connections.
Mama Samia, a Muslim does not harbor any animosity against DP.
Pemberton was “very mad” to put it mildly and revealed an American condescending attitude towards Mama Samia.
The answer. She must be taken out.
*Ken Mufuka is a Zimbabwean patriot. He writes from the US.
