This party will stick to the policy of zero tolerance in its fight against corruption. There will no longer be any place for corrupt officials to hide in the Communist Party of China. The anti-graft drive will always be on the road and there will be no end.
A communiqué of the Communist Party of China at the end of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee last month. Following the news from China, one is always struck with the role of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which has been instrumental in making what China is today: the world’s secondlargest economy.
As the quotation above indicates, in spite of its globally renowned economic development, the CPC does not take lightly the conduct of its leaders both in the ruling party and the state.
Complacence is no where to be found in the normal conduct of this powerful party which has steered this country to its current high level of economic development since its founding in 1949.
According to a senior official of the Communist Party at the end of the sixth plenary session of the Central Committee meeting last month in prelude to the Party’s national congress next year: “Not only individuals who violate party discipline shall face punishment, but Party organisations and disciplinary authorities in charge of supervising shall also bear responsibility.”
He added: “Some people thought in the past that if they did not violate discipline themselves, they would not be blamed. This is now no more. They will also be punished for ignorance and failure in supervision.”
So this is the level of leadership today in China, a country that is the world’s second largest economy. But making a paradigm between Tanzania and China, albeit far apart geographically and culturally, one sees a leaf to pick from the major political party in China and the ruling party in Tanzania, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), which goes in English as ‘Party of the Revolution’.
Today, we see the Tanzanian ruling party’s national Chairman, John Pombe Magufuli waging a spirited battle against corruption and a lootocracy, which he has done so impressively well in the span period of one year since assumption of office.
But the role of the party today which he leads, born in 1977, following a merger between mainland’s TANU and the islands’ ASP; historically similar to the Chinese Communist Party in terms of organisation and structure, leaves a lot to be desired.
In the old good days, in a one party state then, CCM had regular meetings of its Central and National Executive Committees which performed the role of checks and balances both on the government of the day and leadership in the party itself.
Whenever there were sessions of these top echelons of the party, people in the old good days expected a thorough scrutiny of both job performance of individual leaders and their respective discipline in accordance with the guidelines of the party.
They were not disappointed, as people living in the former one party state then (before the introduction of multipartyism) would testify. So what has happened to the ruling party in the intervening period since the introduction of multiparty rule?
What one sees in actuality today is a party that rejuvenates only when elections are around the corner, not before!
But where you have majority of the population supporting the ruling party and where invariably all elections are won by the ruling party, CCM, why can’t this party reinstate its founding modus operandi of actually being seen as leading the country by issuing guidelines that would be helpful both to the ruling party itself and its government?
The move would tremendously go a long way in supporting the Head of State who is also Chairman of the ruling party, isn’t it, in his current appreciable effort in getting rid of those “boils” across the country?
The “boils” as we have all stood witness had siphoned off otherwise state resources into private pockets! But the party’s organs, had they been busy as in the old good days, would have made an even greater contribution for the good of the country, economically, isn’t it?
This brings us to the thesis of this perspective. Our old friends, the Chinese whom we have been together since the days of the Founder President of this country, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere stand out to provide us a good model from which to pick a leaf in running a political party, starting with the ranks of the party itself as we have seen in their recent plenary session of the central committee of their party, CPC as quoted above.
Although by the Constitution, Tanzania is a multiparty state unlike before, this is the real time to strengthen the party to its founding thrust of building a country of workers and peasants.
“Sasa Kazi Tu!” – Time for Hard Work is Now - which is the clarion call of present day CCM Chairman Magufuli could translate very well for charting out an ideology that augurs well for peasants and workers of this country.
source-www.dailynews.co.tz
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