FROM the tip of the country in Tunduru to Namanga and its environs, Kagera and extend to Zanzibar, the world of cloves, one would come in a country that is sitting on opportunities, endowed with vast arable land favourable for transforming agriculture, mining of rare minerals including
Helium in Lake Rukwa, basically natural resources necessary for a resource-based industrialisation and all sorts of tourists attraction sites.
Based on these natural blessings as well as other natural resources- rivers, forests, fisheries in vast quantities worth significant amount, and the commitment of the Fifth Phase Government under President John Pombe Magufuli (JPM) call for industrialisation drive in the country, Tanzania must now prove to the world that Africa can also manage to develop and feed its people, and it is just a matter of time, and what matters is purely having faith.
The regime has on a serious note focused on agribusiness, as the engine of structural transformation to create jobs, increase its people’s incomes, and feed them, meaning that people who are well fed and healthy, will be capable of defining their own destiny and alleviate poverty.
With peace flourishing everywhere in the country, investors seeing the essence of investing, and sparing no stone to eliminate corruption, Tanzania is now widely believed to be on the right track to address its woes in terms of diseases, poverty and ignorance.
With that enticing base set and the private sector joining the government in the drive, regional interactions and collaborations, will automatically mean massive industrialisation and “over cup effects” will likely make the continent a force to reckon with.
Some of these achievements do not come on their own unless a sacrifice is made and the sacrifice has been the call by JPM that it is now time for the country/Africa to industrialise and stop being the destination of some shameful goods it is capable of making on its own.
With a number of companies looking towards coming to invest in Tanzania, or in the region for large-scale projects after realising that transportation infrastructures are being improved, trade corridors opening, and several treaties being signed between countries, Tanzanians have all the reasons to support such a regime.
The country now has reliable power that is suitable to run any form of industry around the clock the whole year, besides security that is also guaranteed, hence what remains is the citizens and stakeholders supporting the government in the industrialisation and regional development drives.
Seeing the essence of supporting the government, it is hats off for financial institutions to have also chipped in to fight poverty in the country by lowering their interest rates and this in a way is investing in the people.
All these collective roles at the end of the day promote development and help the government to increase capabilities in servicing the citizens.