{"id":59606,"date":"2020-01-24T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59606"},"modified":"2020-01-24T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:05:26","slug":"tanzania-president-magufuli-sacks-minister-over-453m-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59606","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania: President Magufuli sacks minister over $453m contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/President-Magufuli-sacks-minister-over-453m-contract-846256?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/385\/38591275.295.jpg\" alt=\"John Magufuli,Tanzania's president\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>John Magufuli,Tanzania&#8217;s president<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tanzania&#8217;s president has sacked his home affairs minister for allegedly mismanaging a $453m fire department contract.<br><br>President John Magufuli said the home affairs ministry, under Kangi Lugola, had signed a contract with a Romanian company without notifying the finance ministry or seeking approval from the parliament.<br><br>The president cited &#8220;lack of integrity&#8221; as a key reason for the sacking.<br><br>The deal was for the purchase of fire-fighting equipment.<br><br>When he came to office in November 2015, President Magufuli promised to stamp out corruption.<br><br>In the past, he has been known to make spot visits to government offices and berated officials who he believed were not doing their work. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Magufuli,Tanzania&#8217;s president DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Tanzania&#8217;s president has sacked his home affairs minister for allegedly mismanaging a $453m fire department contract. President John Magufuli said the home affairs ministry, under Kangi Lugola, had signed a contract with a Romanian company without notifying the finance ministry or seeking approval from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/59606"}],"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=59606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}