The Prime Minister, Edward Lowassa has challenged churches to ensure available resources are properly and equitably used for the benefit of all the people.
He made the challenge in Dar es Salaam yesterday when opening a workshop of Church leaders on Joint Ownership of Properties as an Effective Way of Fighting Poverty.
The workshop has been by organised by the World Council of Churches (WCC).
`The government values the contribution of the Church, not only in spreading the Word of God, but also in providing various economic services to communities,` said Lowassa in a speech read at the workshop on his behalf by the Deputy Minister (Disaster and HIV/Aids), Dr Luke Siyame.
Lowassa said it would be fair if different institutions gave one voice to ensure the war against poverty succeeds in African countries.
He praised institutions under the Church in the country for their efforts to offer services to the community.
Lowassa said the government understood the contribution of the churches in areas like construction of schools, health centres and water services.
`This has contributed a lot in enabling the wananchi access quality services and therefore continue to work for their own development,` he said.
The PM said African countries could do away with poverty if they took into consideration good governance that went hand in hand with the rule of law.
He said the need for modern agriculture was important for the development of countries in the continent.
Lowassa said presence of modern infrastructure would help in the fight against poverty.
One of the participants of the workshop, Dr Rogate Mshana said time had come for African leaders to change and do things for the interest of their nations and the people who chose them instead of taking care of their own personal interests.
He said some of the leaders had been taking properties leaving the wananchi who put them in power, poor.
Dr Mshana said such a situation made people lose hope in those they chose to effect development change.5
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