ULIMWENGU: Whining’s for cowards, you have the power, make changes...
Tanzania Commissioner General of Police (IGP) SimonSirro. He recently accused his own force of going off the rails; of being mired in corruption; of coveting his position and seeing him as being unfit to hold it. PHOTO | THE CITIZEN | NATION MEDIA GROUP
A former head of state frequently complained about people whining about this or that other problem, and intimated that Tanzania was fast becoming a nation of whiners. When I heard him vent his frustration a second time I quipped that he was himself becoming a whiner over whining.
His people did not stop whining, and neither did he, for he continued whining till he retired, saying things like the people were "intellectually lazy," which I thought he should not say too loud, since this laziness must have helped him get elected twice!
