DODOMA-(MaraviPost)-Former Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli will be led to rest on Thursday, March 25, 2021 after succumbed to heart attack last week.
Here is his inspiration history:
Born to a Peasant farmer on 29th October, 1959 in Chato Gheita Region.
University Education
• Bachelor Degree in Chemistry & Maths at Dar es salaam University (1985-1988)
• Masters of Science in chemistry at Dar es salaam University (1994)
• PHD in Chemistry at University of Dar es sslaam (2009)
WORK
• Industrial Chemist and teacher (1988-1994)
• Member of Parliament & Deputy Minister of works (1995-2000)
• Minister of works (2000-2006)
• Minister of Lands and Human Settlement (2006-2008)
• Minister for Livestock Development and Fisheries (2008-2010)
• Minister for works (2010-2015)
Nickname: Bulldozer
Motto: ‘hapa kazi tu’ translated as ‘’only work matters’’
Major Values and Principles: Zero corruption and Time Management
President: 5TH November, 2015 with Chama Cha Mapinduzi
What makes HON. JPAM outstanding?
• Visited Ministry of Finance on the first day in office and fired all absentees and late comers.
• Pulled funds intended for Independence Day celebrations and directed them for Cholera operations.
• Fully changed and revamped the Tanzania Port Authority and Tanzania Revenue Authority.
• Cut salaries of top public servants and increased the salaries of grass root public servants like teachers.
• Banned all foreign trips for public servants and a 2017 central bank report indicated that this saved the country a whooping 47B TZ Shs in one year.
• Refused to follow WHO guidelines on COVID-19, urged Tanzanians to put faith in prayer and do herbal-infused steam therapy.
• Refused to borrow funds for managing COVID-19 and said COVID-19 and its Vaccines are a foreign conspiracy in the process of neo-colonialism.
• As a president, Hon JPAM had never travelled outside AFRICA even for official occasions including the UN General Assembly and had only visited.
• Introduced Economic nationalism and independence
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Made Tanzania achieve the middle-income status in 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic.
• Constructed a fully-fledged railway for Tanzania in his first term.
• Improved transport and agriculture
• Created more than 500,000 new jobs for Tanzanians
Source: niletrumpetmagazine.com
