President Jakaya Kikwete says he will retire a most happy man, having enabled many women to ascend to leadership and key decision-making positions in various public establishments. Mr Kikwete ends his second and last term as Tanzania’s president when the country holds the General Election in October to pick, among other political leaders, a new occupier of the State House.
Speaking at celebrations to mark the International Women’s Day held at national level in Morogoro yesterday, the Head of State said the other thing that his leadership is proud of is that of creating an environment for women to get away from a tradition that discriminated them.
“I am proud to have created an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment that has helped to improve their material wellbeing and it wasn’t like I was doing them a favour, it was their right,’’ he added.
Mr. Kikwete said for the period that he has been president; he made sure that there was an extended representation of women in various decision-making bodies, noting that it was wrong to disregard women on the basis of their gender. No one like women if you educate the women you educate the whole society.
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