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Front Page Former Unga Limited resident vies for presidencyBy Valentine Marc Nkwame
A former Unga Limited based resident, turned gospel singer, Faustine Munishi, has announced his intentions to be the fourth President of Tanzania. Through his latest "Address to the Nation" appearing in all the 10 Websites that he manages, Munishi, who currently works and live in Nairobi, Kenya, maintains that, "God has called him to rule the country!" Tanzania’s third multiparty general elections are scheduled for November next year. He did not however reveal the name of the political party that he would use as an outlet. With seven successful gospel albums under his belts, Munishi asserts in his "National Address" that "God has called him to rule the country". Aged 44 years, Munishi admits to be only a Class Seven primary school leaver (without the certificate). He, however, assures that he is now more educated than any professor in the world because he possesses the kind of wisdom that the former Biblical King, Suleiman had. "It is the kind of wisdom that Tanzanians cannot afford to miss", he said, adding that he guaranteed them major political and economic changes. "Since its independence, Tanzania has been under CCM , which under Nyerere and currently Mkapa is destroying the country", he says. A former Catholic before his "Salvation" in 1980, Munishi also plans to drop his first name "Faustine" which he was given during baptism. "My actual name is "Ndeyanka", He revealed, explaining that the other name "Munishi" means "Owner of the Land". The seventh born of Mkabayuni Makombo and Stephen Munishi of Moshi, Faustine Munishi attended Kindi Juu primary school which he completed in 1974 before moving to Dar es Salaam and later Arusha where he settled. In Arusha, he lived at Unga Limited working as an artist - painting murals but also admits to have been a part-time criminal. He became a born-again Christian in1980 and embarked on another career as gospel singer under the EAGT Evangelist Bishop Mosses Kulola. A Kenya group "Jesus Harvesters" later discovered him and invited the singer to Nairobi where he caught the eye of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) producer Karanja Kimwere who recorded two of his songs and featured them on Television. From then, Munishi became a household name in Kenya, releasing seven albums including his controversial latest "Mpende Adui". Munishi is also a church minister with the "Christian Brotherhood Church" of Nairobi, owns a farm in Nakuru, a home at Ngong Hills and an unfinished ‘castle’ in Moshi. Married to Mrs Prisca Munishi, the singer is a father of three children - Mojashi, Salelo and Mangi. He is currently trying his hand as a web designer through which he managed to construct his own ten different websites currently helping him in the "Presidential campaigns!" If his dreams become true, Munishi promises to govern the country through God’s Ten Commandments as issued to Prophet Mosses about 5,000 years ago.
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