President Magufuli has banned all senior public officials from using fuel guzzling 4 x 4 ca...
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President Magufuli has banned all senior public officials
from using fuel guzzling 4 x 4 cars and other luxury cars, ordering that
all those cars in be seized and sold in a public auction and the money
used to provide public goods & services.
The president further ordered that all ministers, chief justices,
ambassadors and senior state officials must be supplied with a choice of
Probox, Passo, Platz, Vitz , duet or any car that is less than 1400CC.
This move is likely to cause a lot of public anxiety in a country
where Magufuli has become a national ‘sweetheart’ for his austerity
measures and revolutionary ideas that seems to have eclipsed even
opposition.
“This is a public service not a gravy train. Anybody who came here
to make riches should quit and join the private sector. All ministers
and senior statehouse officials are here to work not to seek obscene
opulence. I don’t want to see them drive those big cars (4X4 guzzlers),
if anyone insist please let them go buy their own cars, we (the
government) shall fuel for them. To build this country like I promised
during campaigns, we must make sacrifices and that includes sacrificing
those unnecessary comforts for the small cars. I have ordered the police
to impound any such big cars rode by state officials on the road &
those officials be prosecuted. We are not here to rob the average
Tanzanian but to make his life better. This is the reason I skipped the
AU heads of state meeting in Addis and sent Mama Suluhu ( Dep
President)” noted Magufuli shortly in down town Dar-Es-Salaam on a
working trip.
A spot check by spectator news desk reveals that whereas other
presidents traveled to the AU summit, Tanzania was represented by its
deputy president Ms Suluhu Hassan.
It will be remembered that Magufuli has also banned use of
presidential red carpets. However this latest move is likely to ignite a
hubbub in neighboring Kenya where even governors huge convoys and other
senior state officials use huge fuel guzzling convoys.
