EMILE Yotham Ntakamulenga probably woke up early yesterday in a jovial mood. It was one of those great days in his life.
He drove all the way to No. 1 Barack
Obama Drive, location of the white-painted State House in Dar es Salaam,
exuding confidence and hope that he would be among the 139
newly-appointed District Commissioners (DCs) who were set to sign an
integrity pledge with the Ethics Secretariat.
Just a few minutes after the
Commissioner of the Ethics Secretariat, Judge (Retired) Salome Kaganda,
had finished issuing directives to the newly-appointed DCs and three
regional commissioners (RCs), who were sworn-in by President John
Magufuli yesterday, she said there was a problem with the DCs list.
“There is no problem with the appointment of the new RCs.
But there is a point of correction on
the attendance of DCs,’’ she said adding: For the post of Serengeti DC,
Mr Emily Ntakamulenga was wrongly appointed. I hereby make a correction
and announce that Mr Nurdin Babu is the right appointee of the
president.’’
What promised to be Mr Ntakamulenga’s
big day turned sour and the smiles vanished instantly after Ms Kaganda
asked him to leave the room so that the exercise could continue.
He collected himself and immediately
stood up, picked his documents and exited the room under the escort of
the State House security detail Press photographers and TV cameraman
jumped into action in their bid to record the scene and take photographs
of Mr Ntakamulenga as he walked out of the room.
It was not immediately established what
his next destination was. The revocation of Mr Ntakamulenga’s
appointment may have come as a blessing in disguise to Mr Babu, who is
now waiting to be sworn-in by Mara Regional Commissioner, Dr Charles
Mlingwa, who was sworn-in yesterday to replace Mr Magesa Mulongo, who
was dropped in the mini-reshuffle made by Dr Magufuli earlier this week.
Earlier, in a televised speech beamed
live by several local television stations, Dr Magufuli revoked the
appointment of two other DCs just a few minutes to the scheduled
exercise to sign the integrity pledge.
Those affected included Ms Fatma Hassan
Toufiq, who was replaced by Ms Agnes Hokororo. Her appointment was
revoked after the president realised that she was also an MP.
According to Dr Magufuli, his government
would no longer appoint people who are doing other jobs. “In a bid to
increase efficiency, my government will be a one-person-one-job one,’’
he insisted.
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