Tanzania’s New President President John Magufuli is Leading by Example

An Exemplary African Leader
Tanzania’s New President John Magufuli is Leading by Example
By Tom Okure, PhD
December 9, 2015

John Magufuli who is Tanzania's newly elected President, led his people today in cleaning the streets of Dar es Salaam to mark his country's independence day. Stating that it would be a 'shameful' waste of public funds while people are dying of cholera, he cancelled the usually lavish Independence Day celebrations and instead ordered Tanzanians to clean-up their neighborhoods.

Dressed casually and wearing a hat and gloves, the president accompanied hundreds of people in sweeping the streets of Dar es Salaam and picking up rubbish in the city.  The scene was replicated across the country, with schools and shops remaining shut as people swept streets, pruned trees, and tidied up their areas from the crack of dawn.

Mr Magufuli said last month that it would be shameful to spend huge sums of money on the independence celebrations when cholera was kiling Tanzanians. He stated that Cholera has killed about 60 people in Tanzania over the last three months in poor areas which lack proper toilets. Since he was elected in October this year, Mr Magafuli has been nicknamed "The Bulldozer" Watch the Video: