{"id":23973,"date":"2016-03-18T01:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T01:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-political-parties-urged-to-shun-divisive\/"},"modified":"2016-03-18T01:08:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T01:08:28","slug":"tanzania-political-parties-urged-to-shun-divisive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-political-parties-urged-to-shun-divisive\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania:Political parties urged to shun divisive tendencies, hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Mwigulu Nchemba, has said that no political party can be compared to the life of a human being, stressing that members of the public should not kill each other due to ideological differences between political parties.}<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nchemba made the remarks yesterday, when addressing hundreds of Katoro residents in Geita District, when he was given an opportunity to greet members of the public at a rally addressed by the Prime Minister, Mr Kassim Majaliwa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no political party in the world that has the same value as that of the life of a human being or a human being\u2019s blood. This is with regard to what happened recently in Geita and Tunduma where three people lost their lives because of political party differences,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of you who are fighting and hurting each other because of political party differences attend Parliamentary sessions. When we meet in Parliament, we greet each other and drink wine together,\u201d he told the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is it that makes you such bitter political enemies? Your actions are impacting on innocent lives.<\/p>\n<p>Children are left orphans just because of differences in political party affiliations? Politics should not be taken like football games. Don\u2019t be political enemies,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr Majaliwa has promised Geita residengts that he will send the Minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof Sospeter Muhongo, to the district tomorrow to help solve the issue of allowing the public in the district to re-process the already processed sand to find minerals from the sand that is piled up in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have called Prof Muhongo to come here with his team of directors and experts from STAMICO, to solve and arrest this issue.<\/p>\n<p>I know this had already started since the vice-president visited this area, and I have been told that 75 per cent of the issue has been addressed,\u201d he told his audience.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Majaliwa, who completed his official tour of the region, returned back to Dar es Salaam yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11005 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nchemmba.jpg\" alt=\"MINISTER for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Mwigulu Nchemba \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mr Mwigulu Nchemba, has said that no political party can be compared to the life of a human being, stressing that members of the public should not kill each other due to ideological differences between political parties.} Mr Nchemba made the remarks yesterday, when addressing hundreds of Katoro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99],"byline":[2476],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2476,"name":"DAILY NEWS","slug":"daily-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2476,"name":"DAILY NEWS","slug":"daily-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23973"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23973"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}