(Nigerians! This Is What Is Called Change)
The Tanzania Example.
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Last weekend they were opening
parliament and there was a state dinner planned for all guests that was going to
cost about 300m. President Magulufi cut
the budget to 25m and ordered that the
rest be taken to buy hospital beds for
Muhimbili. They got 300 beds and
mattresses and 600 bedsheets from that money.
On 23rd Nov 2015 he announced that
there will be no official ceremonies for
Independence Day on 9th December, the
money is to be used for more pressing
issues and the day should instead be spent cleaning up our environment.
On Saturday 21st Nov 2015 a group of 50
people were about to set off for a tour of
commonwealth countries (don’t know for
what) but President Magulufi cut that list
down to 4 people, saving government 600m in tickets, accommodation and per
diems.
No more foreign travel, embassies will
take care; if it’s necessary to go, special
permission must be sought from him or
Chief Secretary. No more 1st class and business class
travel for all officials except President,
Vice, and Prime Minister.
No more workshops and seminars in
expensive hotels when there are so many
ministry board rooms available. President Magulufi asked how come
engineers are given V8s when a pick-up
is more suitable for their jobs.
No more sitting allowances. How the hell
are you paid allowance for a job which
you have a monthly salary? That also applies to MP’s.
President Magulufi has literally pressed
the reset button; returning Tanzania to
default factory settings, because that was
the TZ Nyerere left us with.
On the day after he was brought to power, in the morning as State House
officials were showing him round he
decided to take a walk to ministry of
finance, told them to get their act
together, asked why some employees
weren’t in office (ever since then the traffic jam in mornings has become
worse) and ordered TRA to scrap all tax
exemptions, everyone must pay taxes
especially the big guys
President Magulufi went to Muhimbili
Hospital unannounced and walked through the worst parts that they keep
hiding from important visitors. He fired
the director, fired the hospital board and
ordered that all machines that weren’t
working (so that people go to private
hospitals owned by some doctors) to be repaired within 2 weeks otherwise he
fires even the new director; the machines
were repaired in 3 days
Finally, last week when going to officially
open parliament President Magulufi
didn’t go by plane, drove the whole 600km from Dar to Dodoma.
President Magulufi has reduced the size
of the presidential convoy, even reduced
the size of presidential delegation that
travels with him
President Magulufi chose a Prime Minister we haven’t heard of before, a guy with
reputation for hard work and no
corruption. All the big guys we expected
could be PM have been let wondering
what hit them.
His motto is: Hapa Kazi Tu After President Magulufi visited ministry
of finance and Muhimbii Hospital without
announcing, it is said the ports, (most
corrupt, delaying, thieving officials) were
all of a sudden the most efficient place.
No loads are missing, things are done quickly and that habit of forcing for a
bribe so that your container is released is
no more.
Oh, they say when he was confirmed as
winner people started congratulating him
and wanting to bring gifts to his place he turned them back, saying he will receive
all congrats over the phone, nobody
should visit him.
All individuals/firms that bought state
companies that were privatized but
haven’t done anything (20yrs later) are to either revive the industries immediately
or hand them back to the government.”
Me:How I wish President Buhari and Vice-
President Osinbajo will take some cue
from this truly ‘change’ agent from
Tanzania !

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This is exactly what we expected when we heard change but we were so sure that it wasn't possible