The best way to honour Mwalimu Nyerere was to reform the Union on things that did not conform with the present time without creating enemies.

contradictions in union -CUF As Tanzanians marked the 36th anniversary of the Union yesterday, the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) has re-stated the need of reviewing contradictions in the 1964 political marriage between Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, Fatma Maghimbi, told The Guardian yesterday that the future of the Union remained bleak to Zanzibar because there was not any mechanism to address the contradictions which arose out of the nature of the union. "No one is happy in Zanzibar," said Maghimbi claiming Zanzibar's economic interests were not being adequately addressed in the present form of the union. She said Zanzibar was being sidelined when it came to economic aid and scholarships. She insisted that the only solution was three-government union. "We CUF are saying a three-government system is going to solve the contradictions," she said. Maghimbi further claimed that the revolutionary government, under Dr. Salmin Amour, was incapable of analyzing the problems Zanzibar faced in the present form of the union. She cited the lingering political stalemate on the spice islands and the resulting "arbitrary" arrests of CUF members. She said the failure of the Union President Benjamin Mkapa to intervene on the matter called for an immediate review of the 36-year-old union. "Problems arise in Zanzibar and we complain. President (Mkapa) would have intervened (if the problems were) in Mwanza," she noted. Maghimbi's statement came six months after she told the special House session to pay tribute to the late Mwalimu Nyerere last November, that union would never be defended through what she described as threats and witch-hunting. She made her terse statement in apparent reference to President Mkapa's speech during the late Mwalimu Nyerere's burial in which he vowed to deal accordingly with those found wreaking havoc on the Union. The political marriage formed in 1964 after the Zanzibar Revolution was lacking in lustre, she said adding: "There should be a national consensus on both sides." She said the best way to honour Mwalimu Nyerere was to reform the Union on things that did not conform with the present time without creating enemies.