{"id":21751,"date":"2015-12-09T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T10:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-president-john-magufuli-helps-clean\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T10:40:03","slug":"tanzania-president-john-magufuli-helps-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-president-john-magufuli-helps-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania President John Magufuli helps clean streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Tanzania’s new President John Magufuli has joined hundreds of residents in the main city Dar es Salaam to take part in a public clean-up operation.}<\/p>\n

Mr Magufuli picked up rubbish from the street outside State House as part of the scheme, which he had ordered to replace independence day celebrations.<\/p>\n

The move is being seen as symbolic of the president’s promise to tackle corruption, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n

Thousands of people across Tanzania are reported to have joined the clean-up.<\/p>\n

Last month, Mr Magufuli cancelled traditional independence day celebrations, which usually include a military parade and concert, saying it would be “shameful” to spend huge sums of money while the country was facing a serious cholera <\/p>\n

“Let us work together to keep our country, cities, homes and workplaces clean, safe and healthy,” Mr Magufuli told a crowd of surprised onlookers as he picked up rubbish off the street, AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n

“Tanzania has changed – this is a new Tanzania,” one resident told AFP, on a break from cleaning up the city’s public beach.<\/p>\n

Since coming to power in October, Mr Magufuli, nicknamed “The Bulldozer” for his no-nonsense approach, has announced a range of cost-cutting measures, including a ban on unnecessary foreign travel by government officials.<\/p>\n

The hashtag #WhatWouldMagufuliDo, coined after the initial cancellation of festivities last month, has been trending on social media in Tanzania and across East Africa, as people come up with their own money-saving initiatives: <\/p>\n

Last month, Mr Magufuli ordered the cost of a party to inaugurate the new parliament to be slashed from $100,000 (\u00a366,000) to $7,000.<\/p>\n

He also sacked the head of the main state hospital after finding patients sleeping on the floor during a surprise visit to the facility.<\/p>\n

\"President<\/figure>\n

SOURCE:BBC:[Tanzania President John Magufuli helps clean streets->www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35049628]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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