Editorial:CCM has spoken again - loud and clearer

 

CCM has, as expected, effected significant changes to its secretariat and charted the way forward in recommendations presented to the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting yesterday.

In one of the changes announced by the ruling party’s National Chairman, President John Magufuli, the number appointments’ slots by the chairman to the NEC has been reduced from 10 to 7.

 

Changes in the CCM-NEC’s line-up were inevitable following the events that have taken place in the country due to last October’s general elections in which the party garnered the majority of votes to win the presidential election.

Yet, memories of that election remain vivid to this day, judging from the political drama that characterised the process to the end, in which CCM itself tasted the rough waters. It needs not belabouring the fact that it had been one of the eventful years in the ruling outfit in recent years.

Given its strong foundations, built over the years since it was founded in 1977 following the merger between TANU on the Mainland and Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) in the Isles, the party emerged stronger and united than ever before.

Addressing the committee’s meeting in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Chairman Magufuli rightly acknowledged the need to rebuild the party, asking members to forget about the past and look to the future instead with a new sense of purpose and solidarity.

Further note is being taken to the national chairman’s observation to the fact that the party was among the institutions mentioned in the corruption indexes and his avowed action against all those party functionaries who will be found to be engaged in the vice.

We take further note of the reconciliatory note displayed by Dr Magufuli when he said that CCM members should let bygones be bygones and instead unite and work together to consolidate the party. CCM is going through a new era of youth dynamism, science and technology experienced throughout the world.

The new appointees to its secretariat exude youth and change in accordance with modern time national and international dictates. Most important of all are Tanzanians themselves. They need dynamic leadership, fresh ideas and accelerated development.

It is the ruling party and has been so since independence in 1961 for Tanganyika and the revolution in 1964 in Zanzibar. It runs the Union and Zanzibar governments. The stronger CCM is the better for Tanzania.

SOURCE; http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/editorial/47239-ccm-has-spoken-again-loud-and-clearer