



Eswatini: Ministry of Health – COVID-19 Update (09.06.2020)















I wish you were right Mr. President. I wish the results was true, but your actions says otherwise. President Joseph Magufuli, its hard to trust you. When you have not published COVID-19 or Coronavirus results for over 5 weeks. At the same time there is revealed in Kenya and Uganda, that Tanzanian drivers are tested positive for it on the regular.
President Magufuli, the Declaration isn’t making it true. It would have been perfect and genuine, if it was true. It would have been bloody brilliant. There should be celebration for Arusha down to Dar Es Salaam across the sea to Zanzibar too.
I have a hard time believing that it vanished into thin air. When you only prayed and didn’t do any social distancing, neither acted towards the spread of the virus. You have sleepwalked, you have walked blindly towards the future. The results was so dire the final days of releasing them. This is why I have a hard time it just went away.
When you keep numbers secret and doesn’t publish it. Who knows how bad it really is? I doubt it has gone away. It is more like the game of don’t find it, therefore it doesn’t exists. Or I am not testing for it or contact tracing it, therefore it’s not there. That is losing strategy, because in the end the public will spread it and the public will be positive with it. The results are shown with how many of the truck drivers are positive when they are crossing the borders. It is not like they got a hot minute before entering either Uganda or Kenya. But they had it already as they were passing the border-points.
Magufuli cannot run away from that. The Truck-Drivers are a sign of the failure of containing it. The President can be a coward and not be sincere about the situation. He can act like its not there. However, that doesn’t change the realities. The President knows this, but rather live by his own propaganda. Because its easier to live on a lie than actually do something useful. It costs less and you need manpower to achieve results.
We know that Magufuli lacks character and honour. He is a self-centred individual who needs love every single second of his life. There is not a moment where needs positive energy and vibes. The President needs kisses, hugs, attention and headlines of praise. If he doesn’t get that. His Excellency will go into a temper tantrum and the office will not look the same.
With this knowledge, it’s not strange that the Ministry of Health has stopped publishing their results. Since that hurts the pride and love-meter of the President. That breaks down the scale of love and makes the President walk on needles. The Minister and the directors cannot stomach that pressure and erratic behaviour. Therefore, its easier not to publish something and keep the public in the dark.
That is why to boost his own ego and megalomaniac tendencies he declared the United Republic of Tanzania “free for COVID-19 cases”. However, as long as Tanzanian Nationals are positive on the borders and border-points to neighbour Republics. You know there are stemming and even possible community spread in Tanzania. Not that I want more illness, but the science is very simple. The common sense is still common.
H.E. President Magufuli you can declare something, but that doesn’t make it true. It only make it obvious that you want to be dubious. This only shows your intention of keeping the world in darkness and you thinking your own population as fools. We can never know the truth, because you hid that from the world. However, drip drops of the reality crosses the borders every single day. That will undermine your message. Unless, you close the borders, which you never would do. We know that. You know that. That is why we are here and your continuing to live on a lie. Peace.





“Today, the Joint leadership of the security forces interacted with selected leaders of the BODA BODA industry and took the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of their challenges. Resulting from this understanding, the Joint Security Forces assured the BODA BODA leaders that their concerns will be forwarded to the National Task Force in order to come up with a road-map and modalities for the full normalization of the BODA BODA operations” (Uganda Police Force – ‘Joint Security Cautions Public on Lock-down Protests’ 07.06.2020).
We knew this would happen sooner or later. That the authorities in combination with the owners, leaders and the big-men behind the operations of boda-boda’s. Not like there only was one Boda Boda 2010 and not other associations, companies or collectives of boda-boda’s.
If you don’t know what Boda-Boda’s are, they are motorcycle-taxis. Where there is one driver and space for one more passenger usually. There can be more like a mother, a child and the driver. Depending on the type of boda and how big the person are. Most of the times its two persons sitting close to each other. That is why this is an in issue in a COVID-19 or a Coronavirus aspect. As there is no space between the passenger and the driver.
That is why the Presidential Directive in his latest address on the matter undermined the industry. An important part of communing in town, cities and in crowded roads. As the boda-boda’s are perfect ways of dipping through traffic on roads packed with jams. This is very common for working professionals with access can easily cross town with these.
In a gig-economy this sort of job is vital. They are getting paid for the amount of business they are getting through the day. The days staying at home and not riding is a loss. They are earning nothing not driving around. When they could earlier before the new directive drive cargo. They could at least do pickups and deliver it.
Now there is apparently a road-map to get them back on the road again. I’m sure the Task Force will have a few hurdles, a few potholes and road-blocks before they are back at it again. We can just hope this is it. They have waited for weeks. There is a need to both secure the driver and the passengers.
We understand that, but there should be some way to resolve it or ensure they still have business. Even if this might mean less passengers and more cargo. There should be something to keep this industry alive and the workers active. Peace.




