Shortly after our independence, there was a lampoon between Kenyans and Tanzanians. Six years after independence, we (Tanzanians) determinedly ushered in the Arusha Declaration of socialism. Equality, national ownership of means of production, self-reliance and total manumission of Africa became our main and noble vector. Indeed, we did a tremendous job to emancipate many African countries especially in South African region, thanks to the late Julius K. Nyerere. Kenya, on the other hand, embarked on western capitalism- under which equality of human beings is utopia. Kenyans called us a “man-eat-nothing” society while we referred to them as a “man-eat-man” society. In Swahili, a society of nyang’au or gibbons!

I still remember one radio presenter asking his audience: “In which country does everybody own a car?” They used to reply: Tanzania, just because we wore tyre-shoes famously known as katambuga. We were a time capsule in the region for every body to laugh at!

Fifteen years after the Zanzibar masquerade (Declaration) silently killed the Arusha one, Tanzanians, against the odds, are a society of man-steal-and-vend-everything-and-everybody including his own mother! It is facing decadency and decaying faster, way faster than one would expect!

Tanzanians used to take capitalism as cruel and exploitative. Where are they today? They are more political "animalistic" and cannibalistic than the Kenyans they used to call gibbons. If Kenyans were gibbons, Tanzanians are currently devils. Ask me why. The Kenyans we used to laugh at, at least have something to show for their paradigm whereas Tanzanians have nothing to show but regret after some few devils miserably vended every mineral, animals, logs, banks, parastatals and what not for their own selfish interests!

Whereas Kenyan government officials suspected for wrongdoing are shown the door, in Tanzania, the same are, regrettably, heavily protected. The whole government shamelessly whitewashes the stinking dirty! Refer to what happened when Kibaki’s inner sanctum and allies Dr. Chris Murungaru, David Mwiraria and Kiraitu Murungi were implicated in the Anglo-leasing scam. They were not sacred or spared as it is in Tanzania currently, where many ministers (including their boss, the president) are implicated in many felonious deals. They are still "tanuaing"! Ask them what we should expect. No one knows. It is like putting the finger in the wind hoping to bet well! Wananchi, boot all looters out please! Do the right thing.

Kenyans, for the love of their country, are able to use our tanzanite for the good of their country whilst our Judas are busy plundering in lieu of protecting our resources! Some thugs are able to come and rob our banks so as to invest at home. They are even helped by the Tanzanians who used to call them thieves and selfish! Whilst Kenya is becoming an economic hub and power house in the region, sadly, Tanzania is becoming a playing ground and rosy bed for political and economic predators! The Kenyans we used to hate do not hate us. They allow us to use their roads despite having mad drivers!

The Kenyans we used to regard as shrewd do not hide their wealth like ours! The Kenyans -we used to regard as egoistic- are able to export their Form Four failures to teach our so-called international schools and academies! These very Kenyans come to our country and buy our produce whilst when we export them ourselves, they don’t buy them! While Tanzanians are entangled and stranded in skullduggery and turpitude -with no known definition- Kenyans are flying and reaping the rewards of capitalism! Ask Tanzanians to define the type of policy governing them. Phew! Disgusting!

We used to nag Kenyans for choosing old guards as presidents. Ask us with our young Turks. What do we benefit for having young blood which is best at pushing us down to purgatory? What anathema!

The good Kenyans we used to hate, smartly used to sell to us their Cussons Imperial soap and Rivatex khangas when we had none. Though at inflated price, they did milk us. Contrary now, we are selling them our farm produce at throw-away price!

While Kenyans nicely guard their border posts, we abusively let ours be used as conduit for evading tax. Ask the junior minister for East African white elephant Cooperation what befell him at Sirari in September. He was treated like a gawk despite being a mheshimiwa! Did you hear the government file any note of discomfiture?

We pretend to love each other whilst the truth is: we hate each other! The enemy who tells you; "I am your sworn enemy" is better than the one who pretends to be your hubris. Ours have sedated us –with sweet words- so as to mistakenly regard them as our saviors while they are our slayers!

Whereas Kenyans were able to pay their retirees -formerly employees of defunct East African Community decades ago- ours are dying without seeing a dime! Many have died without seeing even the office of the pay master. But again many swindlers are still in offices plundering even more! On top of the pensions of those innocent creatures, they’re expediently selling and squandering our resources so as to make our country poorer and poorer. Albeit having all types of riches, we lag behind when affluent societies are mentioned! Is it a curse or what?

Tanzanians who were taught equality and humanity, are currently facing insurmountable gulfs and disparities among themselves. To get a decent person in high places is rare.  It is as difficult as finding a needle in the mountain of hay! What is going on is hypocrisy a la mizengwe. Hither is where cannibalism, ufisi, nihilism, hopelessness, uselessness you name it, come in.

Let’s go to the facts. Kenyans know what they’re doing whilst Tanzanians, currently suffering from myopia and systemic political cannibalism, do not know their fateful future! How can they know with all this nihilism, vacuity, uppity and vacuum? We used to fear them, but presently, we fear ourselves more than we used to do to them!

Nonetheless, Kenya is not spared of larcenous rulers. The difference  though, is the fact that Kenyan rulers do not act like rat. They openly invest and employ people in their projects. They even pay taxes for their businesses. Their properties are known to the general public. They are able to save in their Kenya Commercial Bank which has branches in Tanzania. Where is our National Bank of Commerce, that we tomfoolery and madly offered to Boers? Ask Tanzanian ones. Everybody will flip flop and come up with bull-and-cock and other wishy-washy tales! Guys, the guys we used to goofily scorn and holler at are now heartedly laughing at us! What a shame! Shame, shame on you! What do we do?