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| Freeman Mbowe |
Summary
Freeman Mbowe's name is popular in politics and a bit in business, but if you listen to the Chadema chairman talking about his life you realize that there is another unknown side of him.
Dar es Salaam. Freeman Mbowe's name is popular in politics and a bit in business, but if you listen to the Chadema chairman talking about his life you realize that there is another unknown side of him.
Talking about his life step by step when he was interviewed by Tundu Lissu, the party's vice chairman, Mbowe described the various things he went through, including his dismissal by the former deputy governor of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), Bob Makani and decided to resign directly from the BoT.
Freeman Mbowe
"Elder Makani said, you see the door, I get up here and I do not see you. I actually left with a strong tent, I came to his secretary and he asked me why you are in the tent? I told him what I met there no.
That is the day I left the Central Bank, I never came back, "said Mbowe, describing his dismissal from the BoT by Makani in 1986. foreign exchange, including direct employment for Form Six graduates and Army Nation Building training in Ruvu and Lugalo camps.
Through a program called Speaking out with Tundu Lissu, the Belgian-based politician plans to interview various people and post the interview online every Tuesday.
Through the interview, Mbowe says as a BoT, the Governor was Edwin Mtei, who later became the founder and first chairman of Chadema and Bob Makani, the former secretary general and second party chairman was the deputy governor.
Explaining the reason for leaving the BoT, Mbowe, who had been working to enforce the Student Resolution Act to work for two years before joining the university, says he was also assisting his father, Aikaeli Mbowe in his business and thus overburdened with work. .
"Since Mzee (Mbowe's) business was in Dar es Salaam, I started helping Mzee with the business. So when I was at work having a break I ran to my father's office and helped with work, and came back at eight o'clock to continue.
Freeman Mbowe
"After the death of my mom, who was the co-director, my father appointed me to fill his vacancy. But before that he appointed a sister who later went to the United States, so I was given one.
So I worked for the Central Bank but also a businessman at the same time. "
Due to his many responsibilities, after two years of working out where he was required to join a university, he was unable to go after being fired by his father's business.
However, he says when it came to 1986 he decided to continue with school.
"I went to Bob Makani, the then governor of the administration, to apply for a leave of absence to complete my studies, and then to continue my business because I felt overwhelmed.
"I went to his office and told him, it was lunch time. Realizing that Makani was acquainted with my father, I thought he would help me. Elder Makani said, do you see the door? If I get up here I will not see you," said Mbowe.
He said after that he focused on his father's business and others he started himself.
He founded the company.
Explaining how he started his business, Mbowe said that until 1985 together with a friend whom he named Martin Omary, they started a business fishing and exporting fish. "We formed the FM Exports (Freeman and Martin Export) company in 1985.
It was difficult at that time to go and capture the rope couches found on the sea rocks and transport them. "I officially went into fishing and bought boats. I'm going to pick up prawns, there's an area called the Great Rock, we're going by boat to Nyamisati.
"It was a single-engine boat we went to the Mafia to take the shrimp, process it and export it. At that time the main market was Botswana, later Oman and Spain," he said.
He also said his business was selling fruit abroad using Gulf Air Airlines.
Nyerere and the Mbowe family
Speaking of his early life, Mbowe says his father was a prominent businessman before even Tanganyika gained independence in 1961 and was a major influence on the traditional rulers of the Northern Regions.
"Mzee Mbowe was prominent in the Northern Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Manyara regions and had links with traditional rulers, from Mangi Maruma of Rombo, Mangi Shangali of Machame, he was close to them due to his popularity," he said.
In that context, he said his father was able to persuade the traditional rulers to accept Tanu and support the struggle for independence. "The old man entered politics as a close friend of Kambona (Oscar) and later Mwl (Julius) Nyerere and others who were fighting for independence.
The old man had also invested in Dar es Salaam at the time called the Coast Region, "he said.
Nyerere helped him get a permit to buy a car outside
Due to the closeness between his father and Mwalimu Nyerere, Mbowe has described how he had to use the leader to get permission to import his first car abroad.
"Now when I started my business my first car was a BMW 520i.
When I tried to enter my first car I got stuck in a permit. So the father, because he was close to Mwalimu, followed him and told my son he wanted to get in the car, and he said give Mbowe permission, "he said.
In Nyerere's relationship with Mzee Aikaeli Mbowe, his father represented Mwalimu Nyerere in sending Makongoro Nyerere's proposal when he married Judge Nyerere.
The life of my youth.
In the interview, Mbowe began by describing his life story stating that he was born on September 14, 1961 as the 10th child to father Aikael Alfayo Mbowe and the ninth child to his mother Aishi Ephraim Shuma.
He was born in Machame village and baptized on December 9, 1961 on Tanganyika Independence Day. He attended Lambo Primary School in Kilimanjaro Region from pre-school to seventh grade in 1975. "In 1976 I went to Kolila Secondary School and when I reached Form Two he was transferred to Kibaha Secondary School.
"I studied until 1979, when the Kagera war was raging, I left and was selected to continue with Form Five at Ihungo Kagera High School," he said. Fearing the war, he said his mother wanted him not to go to Kagera region and was to be transferred to Minaki High School where he also studied History, Geography and Economics (HGE), but his father refused.
"Father said if his colleagues have gone to study there and if it is a war then find him there, then I went there to the battlefield, Ihungo. I read Ihungo and we finished.
Mbowe recalled one of the incidents that took place after the Kagera war ended, when soldiers returned from the battlefield in Bunazi area, high school students were required to go and receive them.
"At that time the large schools of Ihungo, Rugambwa, Kahororo, Bukoba secondary, Umumwani, Ntungamo, we had to walk to Mutukula border and we walked day and night to receive the soldiers."
After completing Form Six in Kagera, he says he did well to go to university, but he first had to go to the Nation Building Army and then he went to Ruvu JKT (Coast) and after completing his training he joined the BoT. "At the time you were filling out a job form in Form Six, the first job I filled out was to go to the Central Bank, the second job Foreign Affairs third job I don't remember," he said.
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