Dr Shein: It is illogical to think of breaking the Union

Zanzibar  President Dr Ali Mohamed Shein has said that it is illogical to break the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar because majorities of Tanzanians still have interests and benefits from it.

The Isles President made the remark yesterday soon after he laid the foundation stone at Mtoni Kidatu Juu Chama Cha Mapinduzi branch in Urban West Region.

The thinking of breaking the union is not right as the good intentions in social integration and increased economic power between two parties are more pertinent now than before, he said.

The founders of the Union who came from the two political parties TANU and ASP fulfilled their obligations, he said adding that it is upon the current generations to safeguard it instead of harbouring the thinking that it should be broken.

“Our Union has benefited both citizens of the Union, whereby people in other parts of the world envy us the way we live as children of one family without discrimination,” he said citing some attempted examples which failed as Egypt and Syria, Guinea, Senegal and Gambia.

He said the continued existence of the Union is a pride for Tanzanians in the eyes of the world.

Unfortunately those who are fighting for the Union to collapse are those who have already benefitted either in work promotion, education or have economic projects in either part of the Union.

Dr Shein called upon the current generations to refrain from activities that intended to break the Union.

“The Union government has decided to rewrite the Constitution with the intention of, among other things, improving the Union for the benefit of both sides, but some people are bent at breaking it,” he said.

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN