The East African
Tuesday April 13 2021
The late president John Magufuli (centre), when he toured infrastructure projects in Dar es Salaam in March 2021, a few days before he was taken ill. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
He vowed at every chance that he was on a warpath against corruption and spendthrift practices in government, and yet made sure great expenditures were hidden away in the President’s Office, making sure they would not be independently audited.
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He will remain enigmatic for some time, and even when volumes are churned out on his life, work and legacy.
John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, was paradoxical in many senses. He was a driven man, always anxious to do more than would appear to be what was expected of him as part of duty. At the same time, he left out of his to-do-list too many things that he should have attended to.