I, Jason Mtolela endorsing Liberatus Mwang'ombe for the Association of Tanzanian Community (ATC) DMV president 2014
By the way, I should be clear that I am an independent; I don't have any political affiliation with any ideology. For more than a decade I have lived in DMV area, but I never voted for any ATC president, this will be my first time to walk to the ballot box to cast my vote. Our past community leaderships have been characterized with serious corruption, failure to unity the community, using community leadership to advance personal interests, failure to address the core needs of the community, among the others. According to my survey, such attitudes or behaviors of our leaders have been recipe for community disunity and dysfunctional.
Recently, I have been closely following our community campaign trail. I made up my mind that decision not to cast my vote is not a good option at this time, as by doing so is giving up on my own life and a bright future. As we all know as a community, we all have an extraordinary stake at this election. So, I decided that this time around I have to participate in our legitimate election for the leadership of our community, which is an essential component for our progress, not only over here in the DMV, but also back in our homeland.
As aforementioned, I am an independent, and I don't have any intention whatsoever to demean Idd Sandaly with his outgoing team. This leadership has failed to achieve the main objectives of our community in many aspects. I will catalog a handful of those failures: it failed to unity members of our community, if the statistics indicating that there were less than ten active members until the time of election is true, then the community is in a serious situation, because, if such disunity continues unchecked will lead to the collapse of ATC.
Unaccountability on community funds is another failure. It doesn't make sense when the outgoing leadership claims that it cannot disclose the ATC financial records. it should be remembered that the leadership has been put in the office by the members, who voted for it, and that they (members) have the right to have access to such records. The question to every community member is: will I vote for someone who is hiding financial records from the members?
Idd Sandaly with his team failed to demonstrate transparency. Community members deserve more than what this leadership has done. Many issues during this leadership were dealt with behind closed doors. No adequate information were given to members. Such behavior led to mistrust of the leadership. This atmosphere is not favorable for the prosperity people are looking for.
We need transformation in our community. The leadership is intended to be a vehicle through which our dreams can be fulfilled. So, as voters, we need someone who will be a trustful leader, uniting figure, transparent, visionary and one who will address our needs not wants. This is Liberatus Mwang'ombe.
As we all know, the society is dynamic, so we need a leader who will bring us together for our collective objectives so we can chart a new course, and Libe has demonstrated that. He has ignited the desire and passion people has been waiting for, for a long time. So many of our fellow community members have great ideas, but have been shut outside by our leaders. His policies are consistent with our needs; what we need is to use our fundamental rights (vote) to propel him to the office.
Liberatus's policies indicate that he will not only be responsible for our community here in DMV, but to connect us to our homeland as well. He is a staunch advocate for our National Constitutional amendments, that will facilitate our development and our fellow Tanzanians. Libe has unique leadership potentials; as a community we need to utilize him for our development economically, socially and in other aspects.
I am asking for our community brothers and sisters to vote for Libe, a transformational and uniting figure.
Jason Mtolela
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