President of Tanzania cancelled 61st Independence Day celebration, diverts funds to kids with needs.
President of Tanzania, Sammie Suluhu Hassan has cancelled the 61st Independence Day celebration scheduled to hold on Friday, diverting the funds for the celebration around $445,000 to building of dormitories for children with special needs around the country.
Tanzania is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.Christianity is the largest religion in Tanzania, but there are also substantial Muslim and animist minorities.[
Tanzaniaโs President Samia Suluhu Hassan has cancelled Independence Day celebrations scheduled for Friday and directed that the budget instead be used to build dormitories for children with special needs.
The 61st Independence Day event was to cost $445,000, money that will be used to build eight dormitories in primary schools around the country.
Tanzaniaโs Minister of State, George Simbachawene, on Monday said the money had been disbursed.
He said that instead of having parades and other national celebrations, the East African country will commemorate Independence Day by having public dialogues on development.
โThe debates and conferences will be preceded by various schedules for regional and district leaders to carry out social activities in different areas including cleaning hospitals, schools, elderly homes and groups with special needs,โ he said.
Usually, Independence Day celebrations are marked with pomp and state banquets.
This is not, however, the first time Tanzania has cancelled the celebrations.
In 2015, then-President John Magufuli cancelled celebrations and diverted funds towards the building of a road in the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
In 2020, he did the same and directed that the budget be used to buy medical facilities.
The current president, Hassan, is Tanzaniaโs first female head of state.
Decades before she rose to higher office, she worked as a development officer in the Zanzibar government. She was also a project manager for the UNโs World Food Programme and later the executive director of an umbrella body governing non-governmental organisations in Zanzibar.
She also previously served as a minister for youth employment, women and children, and has spoken publicly to encourage Tanzanian women and girls to pursue their dreams.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
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