Tanzania - Britain Relations sour after indecent UK’s Prime Minister remarks

We have been
deeply saddened and appalled by the remarks by the UK’s Prime Minister, David
Cameron, who last week told the Commonwealth leaders that African countries
 which won’t support gays’ rights as well as same sex marriages can’t get aid 
from Britain.

It is appalling because after 50 years of Tanzania’s independence, Cameron, a grandson of the very same British Colonialists who robbed Africa, still believes that he can dictate what we should and shouldn’t do in using aid as a bargaining tool.

First of all, we would like to inform Cameron following
his ill-conceived remarks that Tanzania has its cultural values, which its citizens will always endeavor to promote and nurture.

 It is by these values that we have built a peaceful and united country for all people regardless of their race, gender and faith.

Though we are still poor in terms of economic and social development, we have always remained a united peaceful nation that has its values.

We are not a nation of angels, and haven’t claimed to be a country of saints. However, the
truth is that we are a nation with values and tradition that reflect our reality, identity as well as what we stand for in promoting democracy and human rights.

In this country we do know there are gays, lesbians and the likes. However, at no time have we condemned these groups because they are fellow human beings. But that doesn’t at all justify the ill-conceived advice from UK’s Prime Minister.

Our moral values give us the right to choose what to legalise or what we shouldn’t allow to be legalised. Just because we don’t legalise it doesn’t mean we have condemned those who practise these inhumane acts.

If today we are forced to recognise and legalise gays and same sex marriages, tomorrow we shall be ordered by the same cheap minds to declare prostitution ‘lawful business’ in Tanzania.

If, Cameron with his cheap and ill-timed mindset thinks that whatever happens in our society should be recognised, then one day drug dealers, armed robbers and their likes will also demand the right to be recognised.

We shall not at all as nation legalise gays and same sex marriage because these acts are against our beliefs and immoral by all standards. We are not a nation of animals, but a society of human beings who use brains to reason, instead of emotions.

Tanzanians will not die simply because Cameroon, the ‘Head Prefect’ has suspended aid to our country. We shall always triumph above these cheap immoral thoughts masterminded and marketed by those whose moral authority went bankrupt many years ago.

During the past 50 years of our
independence, we weathered many storms as a nation, and at no time, did our
people die because there wasn’t any aid from UK.

What we have overcome during five decades of our independency is greater than the so called UK’s aid. UK can
go to hell with its aid, but, Tanzanian will always remain there no matter how many times Camerons has fumed.

If a UK Prime Minister can have such a cheap mindset of trying to use aid as a tool of influencing British’s immoral and
evil acts in Africa, then no wonder today, some countries in Europe are on the
blink of collapse economically and culturally.

Let David Cameroon and his billions promote evils at the peril of UK, but, not Tanzania
 or Africa. We don’t need billions of aid, which comes with a string of conditions of
 moral decay in our country.