NAIROBI, Kenya
Tanzanian opposition leader Freeman Mbowe called on Sunday for the new government to prioritize a new constitution, reviving calls for limiting presidential powers.
Mbowe, chairman of Chadema, the country’s main
opposition party, said in a speech the current constitution gives “someone the
chance to be a dictator or a king”, adding it should be a government priority to
set a timetable and a procedural framework to change the constitution.
Mbowe also called on President Samia Hassan to
“fast track” her proposal, presented on Tuesday, to form a scientific committee
to research COVID-19.
Hassan took office on March 19 following the
death of President John Magufuli, who had been Africa’s most prominent COVID-19
sceptic. Magufuli had urged people to shun mask-wearing and denounced vaccines
as a Western conspiracy, and the country also stopped reporting data on coronavirus
last May.
Magufuli disappeared from public life for
several weeks before he died and there were rumours he was that he was ill with
COVID-19. Hassan, who served as Magufuli’s deputy for six years, has said he
died of heart disease. - Reuters
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