{"id":162224,"date":"2022-02-02T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162224"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:56:00","slug":"tulia-ackson-tanzania-elects-second-ever-female-speaker-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162224","title":{"rendered":"Tulia Ackson: Tanzania elects second ever female Speaker of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/203\/20354077.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Tulia Ackson, Tanzania's new Speaker of Parliament | Photo: Mwinachi Newspapers\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Tulia Ackson, Tanzania&#8217;s new Speaker of Parliament |&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tanzania has a new Speaker of Parliament in the person of 46-year-old Tulia Ackson.<br><br>The new Speaker has served as deputy to immediate past Job Ndugai since 2015 and is widely expected to tow the line of President Samia Suluhu Hassan.<br><br>Samia forced the resignation of Ndugai last month after he publicly criticized government&#8217;s rising debt.<br><br>&#8220;I believe we have elected the right person who will lead the parliament in the right direction,&#8221; senior MP William Lukuvi who supervised the election said.<br><br>&#8220;She knows her boundaries as speaker and she knows there is a head of state who is Samia Suluhu Hassan,&#8221; he stressed.<br><br>Ackson&#8217;s election is expected to align power structures in the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party as it prepares for new elections due in 2025.<br><br>On the matter of Tanzania&#8217;s public debt over which the last Speaker resigned, debt levels according to the central bank stood at almost $28 billion in November 2021.<br><br>Ackson becomes the second woman in the country&#8217;s history to occupy the seat after Anne Makinda who served as Speaker between November 2010 and November 2015. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulia Ackson, Tanzania&#8217;s new Speaker of Parliament |&nbsp; DAR ES SALAAM, Feb 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tanzania has a new Speaker of Parliament in the person of 46-year-old Tulia Ackson. The new Speaker has served as deputy to immediate past Job Ndugai since 2015 and is widely expected to tow the line of President Samia Suluhu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":162226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}