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SUPPRESSION NURTURES OPPOSITION

From the way his term is going, President John Magufuli isn’t fond of opposition. He doesn’t like to be reprimanded. He’s doing everything he can to ensure that only he remains in the political arena. He’s telling other political figures to wait for 2020.Magufuli’s government is trying to achieve was impossible 25 years ago – what those CCM members who told the Nyalali Commission that they were not prepared to embrace a multi-party system could not do.The only opening the rulers have are the defective laws on the list of 40 which the Nyalali Commission advised be reformed or repealed; later adding more laws to the list because they are not in keeping with the concept of democracy in a multi-party system.There are many such laws, but those most often used to wrong the people are the Newspapers Act, the Prisons Act, the National Security Acts, and the Cyber Crimes Law.
These laws are oppressive and cruel, and trample people’s freedom to think, to congregate, to communicate, to exchange views, and to inform each other.
Magufuli and his government have failed to realize that the more the persecuted the opposition and critics of the government are, the stronger they become.
Twenty-five years of persecuting the opposition has not managed to stay the winds of change. The Parliament that in 1993 had one opposition member, now has more than one hundred. Thousands of neighborhoods, streets, villages, wards and hamlets, are led by members of the opposition.
According to every calculation, the opposition has been gaining ground, not because it is the leaders’ will, but according to the dictates of the times. Thus, the Fifth Presidency can expect to be shocked by the will happen in four years.President Magufuli fears dissenting opinions. He thinks the best way to ensure his continued power is to forbid others from engaging in politics. He knows his orders are not possible to carry out. He understands that they violate the country’s constitution, which recognizes the legitimacy of political parties. He knows that his orders contravene the Political Parties Act of 1992, which oversees the activities of political leaders and their followers. But there are three things Magufuli doesn’t know. First, that, as things are going, the more he uses the police to shut down the opposition by force, he and the police could lead the nation into a catastrophic conflict that may cause him the same difficulties that have faced dictatorial leaders before him.
Second, he does not know that, if he does not want members of the opposition to speak, they will speak, for he will not succeed in moving the nation back twenty-five years in time.Third, he does not acknowledge that a country’s stability and power come from the vigor and well-being of its opposition, not from shouting and applause of CCM cadres. In suppressing the opposition, the president sows the seeds for the putrefaction of his government and fertilizes the opposition’s garden.translation

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