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| Bishop Tarcisio Ngalalekumtwa (centre from TEC) with other CCT leaders |
The Christian Churches of Tanzania have called for peace and wanted that everybody must be an agent of peace before, during and post the election.
In the joint statement from the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) and the Christians Council of Tanzania (CCT), they appealed to citizens to be attentive with political leaders’ agenda which want to divide people on basis of their religious beliefs or ethnic background for their political gain and lust for power.
They said that despite of the differences in their political ideologies and affiliation people should remember that they are citizens of one country and one nation. “You should not let anyone treat you like a commodity, to be bought for breaching peace,” they said in their statement.
They also called on the citizens to make informed decisions during the coming General election by voting for good leaders who won’t be taken up by greedy and selfish interests. “Such kinds of leaders are unfit to lead this nation,” they said.
They said, “The peacekeepers of this nation are Tanzanians themselves and therefore, safeguarding peace for their prosperity and the generation to come must be their priority.”
By Sarah Pelaji, Kiongozi Newspaper TEC