We could have waited for a banana to appear, but we believe in the spirit of cheese-development and confidence. We are not so poor that we are unable… - Benjamin Mkapa

Our reason for withdrawal is simple. We are party to too many regional trading organisations. The sum effect of this means that our membership is extremely costly to sustain and we must rationalise our participation in such ventures.

When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.