{"id":34539,"date":"2021-08-09T16:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?p=34539"},"modified":"2021-08-09T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T14:01:23","slug":"zitto-what-it-will-take-to-foster-unity-in-the-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/zitto-what-it-will-take-to-foster-unity-in-the-fight-against-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Zitto: What it will take to foster unity in the fight against Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>Dar es Salaam<\/b><\/p>\n<p>. The ACT-Wazalendo party leader, Mr Zitto Kabwe, issued three recommendations yesterday which, according to him, would bolster the country\u2019s unity amidst the fight against the global Covid-19 pandemic.Mr Kabwe called for establishment of a team of \u2018trusted people\u2019 to spearhead the public sensitisation and awareness campaigns against the continuing spread of the pandemic.This, he said, would entail doing away with some individuals who had put science aside and who once proclaimed that Tanzania had defeated the pandemic through bizarre means.Further, he suggested that there be an inter-parties dialogue meant to rebuild democracy and the need for the government to up its resolve to improving Tanzania\u2019s business environment. He said with the sixth phase regime, under President Samia Suluhu Hassan, making a complete U-turn in the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was only sensible to do away with individuals who were preaching a completely different approach during the past regime.He said that was the only way to win the trust of majority of Tanzanians in the fight against the disease. Mr Kabwe was of the view that the country could not have a better implementation of new policies in regard to how to curb the pandemic, if the same persons who advised the government to use non-scientific measures remain in power. \u201cNow that the government has made a U-turn in modalities of curbing the Covid-19, we cannot have the same people who used to make us believe that Tanzania had defeated Cov-id-19,\u201d noted Mr Kabwe.He added: \u201cWe cannot have the same people who made us believe that lemons and ginger could cure Covid-19.\u201dHe also insisted on the need for Tanzanians to continue taking precautionary measures, which include, social distancing, wearing face masks, sanitising and washing hands using running water and soap.Meanwhile, Mr Kabwe commended the sixth phase government in its efforts to improve press freedom, abandoning the use of force in tax collection and dropping groundless cases.However, he said the government under President Hassan has so far not done well in the area of political freedom.This, he said, was due to the existence of the Political Parties Act, 2019 as well as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) and the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) which, he said, were not friendly to opposition parties. \u201cIt is our request to the President that we hold an inter-par-ties dialogue that will enable us to agree on how we can take our country to the next level when it comes to re-building our democracy,\u201d said Mr Kabwe.Mbowe\u2019s arraignmentHe called on the President to intervene by using a political approach in bringing to an end what he called a \u2018politically motivated case\u2019.Mr Mbowe, who was arrested last month in Mwanza, a few hours before launching a public forum on constitutional reform, is facing charges related to economic crimes and financing terrorist activities between May and August 2020.Referring to President\u2019s stance of building the economy first before turning to demands of a new constitution and allowing political parties\u2019 rallies, Mr Kabwe cautioned that the Head of State\u2019s efforts could not become successful if a five -year and half political injuries were not healed.As Covid-19 bites, official data shows that Tanzania\u2019s economy grew by 4.8 percent last year against the projection of 5.6 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. 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The ACT-Wazalendo party leader, Mr Zitto Kabwe, issued three recommendations yesterday which, according to him, would bolster the country\u2019s unity amidst the fight against the global Covid-19 pandemic.Mr Kabwe called for establishment of a team of \u2018trusted people\u2019 to spearhead the public sensitisation and awareness campaigns against the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,10,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-34539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zitto: What it will take to foster unity in the fight against Covid-19 - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dar es Salaam . 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