Executive Chairman of IPP Dr Reginald Mengi.
International academicians as well as human rights activists have described the Executive Chairman of IPP Dr Reginald Mengi as a role model among business people on the Africa continent.
They have mentioned him as a person who has used his achievements to serve the underprivileged groups in community, irrespective of irreligion and tribe.
The group selected Dr Mengi in Arusha yesterday after it was proved that he uses his success to serve the unprivileged groups who include people with albinism, irrespective of their religion and tribal groups.
Professor Perel Machel from Germany, leading academicians from USA, Israel, Germany, Mexico, China and Poland visiting various African countries, recognised Dr Mengi’s contribution.
The academicians are sensitising good governance, peace and protest against corruption and nepotism which is rampant in Africa.
Prof Machel said Dr Mengi, who is also Chairman of Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF), is a well known person in Europe, as well as the countries they visited visited for his commitment to fight poverty.
He said Dr Mengi is different from most other local rich people who want people to ‘worship’ them even though they hide millions of shillings in Switzerland, leaving majority of people with no help.
Dr Barrack Gibeel described Dr Mengi as ‘a light source of love in Africa for being the only African businessman who has set a day to stay with the poor and eat with them in the same bowl.’
Chairman of ethics committee on peace and human rights for Christian religious denominations in Tanzania Bishop William Mwamalanga said Dr Mengi loves everybody regardless of their age and has been on the forefront to defend Tanzania in all aspects of human dignity
Meanwhile, the academicians were concerned at the high rate of corruption within the country’s ruling party to the extent that they ‘hate one another,’ citing the incident in which National Assembly Deputy Speaker Job Ndungai recently knocked out a fellow contestant, who had to be hospitalised.
They stated that this was a bad omen for it would cause further deterioration of the traditional peace for which Tanzania is known the world over.
At the occasion, Sister Dr Abigaeli Azael from Israel, who first visited Tanzania in 1965, warned about corruption. She said it was shaming the nation founded by the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.
Nyerere was the only Africa leader dedicated to fighting corruption and noted that that corruption malpractice has tarnished Tanzania’s name.
On the other hand, Prof Machel said it was better to call on people from outside CCM to screen contestants instead of leaving the job to themselves as “corruption has washed their eyes by 100 per cent.”
“I have been in Tanzania since May 2015 and have toured Lindi, Mtwara, Ruvuma, Kilimanjaro, Kigoma, Mwanza, Arusha, Mbeya, Tabora, Shinyanga, Mara, Coast, Morogoro and Dodoma regions. I have seen for myself how corruption has ravaged people’s lives.”
Dr Gibeel from USA mentioned corruption among the country’s leadership, saying it has become a source of hatred and appealed to religious leaders to condemn it when preaching.
The academicians visited 20 African countries and met religious leaders as well as human rights activists to see how they treated people in whatever assistances required of them.
The countries are Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, DRC, Namibia, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, Angola, Egypt, Lesotho, Somalia, Gambia and Rwanda.
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