Jakaya Kikwete Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Jakaya Kikwete:

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.
~Jakaya Kikwete


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#ae536fdd

We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.
~Jakaya Kikwete


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#3ba4919d

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.
~Jakaya Kikwete


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#abc33e94

Africa needs access to markets.
~Jakaya Kikwete


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#08f4f58c

Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.
~Jakaya Kikwete


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#e060cb51

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.
~Jakaya Kikwete


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#87f998f0

The presidency is not an office job.
~Jakaya Kikwete


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#ccce31b2

Our government is focused on creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity and on creating the right conditions for Canadian businesses.
~Jakaya Kikwete


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#1dcbe26d

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.
~Jakaya Kikwete


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#434a7f94

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.
~Jakaya Kikwete


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#ddefa768

If we invest in logistic centers, improve on infrastructure and create a facilitative environment, we can easily turn Dar es Salaam into another Dubai of its kind.
~Jakaya Kikwete


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#a46f4fcf

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
~Jakaya Kikwete


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/jakaya-kikwete-quotes/#4f0c3bf6

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