Jakaya Kikwete Quotes

Jakaya Kikwete — Tanzanian Politician born on October 07, 1950,

Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete was the fourth President of Tanzania, in office from 2005 to 2015. Prior to his election as President, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2005 under his predecessor, Benjamin Mkapa. He has also served as the Chairperson of the African Union in 2008–2009 and the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community Troika on Peace, Defence and Security in 2012–2013... (wikipedia)

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

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

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.

The presidency is not an office job.

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 Quotes

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