Abaya Onyiego@abayaonyiego
Saa zingine mambo iko kwa jirani pisses me off.
This guy's grandfather migrated to Tanzania in search of opportunities may be and ended up acquiring land there. The man has lived in Tanzania his entire life and he looks like he is in his 40s and by his own account, it was his grandfather who first moved there, raised his father, and his father then raised him. Despite being third-generation, he is still unable to own land in Tanzania because their constitution does not permit foreigners to own land.
This is outright discrimination.
Are there no other foreigners and especiallythe whites owning land in Tanzania? Are there no whites owning properties in the rich surbubs of Mikocheni or Masaki? . Are we honestly supposed to believe they are all renting and own nothing?
The other day I came across the story of Rostam Aziz the man who has been accused of Magufuli's death recently bought the largest shareholding in Nation Media in Kenya. When I dug into his background, the man is not even of Tanzanian descent; his roots are Iranian. He is now one of the biggest businessmen in Tanzania and Iam certain that he owns multiple propertiesand in all likelihood carries a Tanzanian national ID and passport.
Yet our mlalahoi from Kenya, whose only crime is having a grandfather who crossed the border, is being denied the same rights and this is probably because his family was never wealthy.
@kibeandy sometimes back was arrested on his way to play pool tournament in Arusha and after he was released he said Tanzanians hate Kenyans and I dont know how true could that be but this clip had me thinking towards that direction.
This is a blatant double standard and it is one that runs deep across many African countries. we marginalise our own Black people while rolling out the red carpet for foreigners.
What kind of constitution denies someone the right to own even a single piece of property? Kenya hosts countless foreign nationals, Tanzanians included, who own property here without issue. Yet Kenyans are being put through hell trying to do the same in Tanzania. This is unfair !
Even in a superpower countries like the United States, Tanzanians have purchased land, secured legal documentation, and their children born there have grown up as full American citizens.
Why is Tanzania holding itself to a different standard?
If the same was applied to a Tanzanian how would his/her government react?
when @RealJaguarKenya was mp for Starehe and said Tanzanians should be evicted from Gikomba market, the Tanzanian people went wild for those remarks and Jaguar had to apologise.
In the video, Prime Minister @mwigulunchemba1 is questioning this man with a Kenyan ancestry about his Tanzanian identity , you can imagine! a man who was born there, has lived there all his life and he even has a Tanzanian accent.
Meanwhile, back here in Kenya, we have Black Americans repatriating from the US, buying land, building homes and settling without any drama. Kelis Rogers owns land in a wildlife conservancy, grows her own food, and nobody has bothered her once.
I genuinely wonder whether the office of foreign affairs CS @MusaliaMudavadi pays any attention to situations like this. It is deeply troubling to watch a Kenyan being humiliated by people we have lived with as neighbors.
Kenya and Tanzania have shared a long and warm relationship. Kenyans have been consuming Tanzanian music from long before the rest of the world caught o, and Tanzanian artists have made more money in Kenya than Kenyan artists have made on home soil.
If this is how a Kenyan is treated, one can only imagine how a person from west Africa would be received.
The Ministry of foreign affairs needs to step in and bring this man home. The government has land. Assign him some and let him live with dignity.
The contempt on display in that video is stark and it was caught on camera. Now ask yourself what could be happeing where there are no cameras?
This is pure backwardness.
My sister @MariaSTsehai , get land here please especially in my home county Kisii, incase @SuluhuSamia denounces your Nationality. Kisii is very fertile and receives rains in plently.
Parrots like @MwijakuBurton I know are very happy with this clip.
Africa should wake up yawa!
Lets rise above this shame!
cc. @Dr_Buchu @_James041 @Kibet_bull
