Meanwhile in Tanzania; president Magufuli helps clean the streets
While our own president is causing a world of kak back home, it’s good to see other heads of state inspire their people and lead by example.
Earlier we reported on John Magafuli’s insanely cool first couple of weeks in power and he’s still at it.
According to the BBC, Magufuli joined hundreds of residents on the streets of Dar es Salaam and helped out at a public clean-up operation that he spearheaded himself not two weeks ago.
Magufuli was photographed picking up rubbish on the streets outside State House in the public cleaning programme he thought up to replace the normal independence day celebrations.
Nicknamed “the bulldozer”, John Magufuli has been systematically rooting out corruption and laziness in his new government. The public cleaning programme instead of expensive independence day celebrations and military parades is just one example.
“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.
“Tanzania has changed – this is a new Tanzania,” one resident told AFP.
Some of his other big changes include cutting government spending on luxuriy flights, overseas travel, parliamentary spending and firing the head of the country’s largest state hospital for not doing his job properly.
