THE Alliance for Change and Transparency
(ACT-Tanzania) party, was officially launched in Dar es Salaam with its
leaders saying that the focus will be to set up policies and strategies
targeting to alleviate poverty among Tanzanians.
Speaking during the function, the
party’s leader, Zitto Kabwe, said that the ACT was committed to
promoting public interest and patriotism which was advocated by the
founder of the nation, the late Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere.
He said that Nyerere’s dream was
reduction of poverty among Tanzanians and promotion of a nation with a
narrow gap between the poor and the rich. He said that almost 54 years
ago “we became independent.
The founder of the nation, the late
Mwalimu Nyerere was a young man of about 39, with hopes of eradicating
poverty, suffering and misery.
“It is the time to create economies of
citizens through revolutionary changes that are going to be made by his
party which could send us back the country to the hands of citizens,” he
urged.
Mr Zitto credited ACT as a party which
believes in principles of self-reliance, hard work, sincerity and
professionalism towards bringing positive change in the country.
He said, ACT-Tanzania headed to the
principles of Patriotism, democracy, freedom of thought and action,
dignity, equality, integrity, transparency and accountability.
He declared that the party is for all
its citizens with no regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, skin colour
or disability status.
He added that ACT opposes some of the
bills that was presented to the ongoing parliamentary session which are
bill of rights to information, the media and the criminal network
because they aimed at depriving the rights of citizens to communicate
freely and express their views as enshrined in the constitution.
“Every Tanzanian regardless of his
position must be under the law, and to us accountability must begin with
the leaders, this system will help the public to distinguish between
politics and public responsibilities,” he added.
He said that the country is passing
through a period where many politicians have been marred by several
corruption scandals and consequently built a picture that every
politician is corrupt.
“We want our country to build the whole
economy. We we’re going to nationalize everything and control all state
economic transactions.
For his part, the ACT-Tanzania head
adviser, Professor Kitila Mkumbo, said their leadership structure has
focused to distinguish between the party’s duties and public
responsibilities once they got into the power.
“The party’s chairperson will be
responsible to ensure the party stands for an ideology and philosophy in
accordance with its constitution and the head leader will be
responsible to publicize our policies to the public in a line to create
awareness,” he said.
Credit: Daily News
