{"id":14378,"date":"2015-12-16T19:47:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14378"},"modified":"2015-12-16T19:47:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:47:03","slug":"tanzania-president-magufuli-fires-anti-corruption-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/16\/tanzania-president-magufuli-fires-anti-corruption-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania President Magufuli fires anti-corruption chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Tanzania&#8217;s anti-corruption body, Edward Hoseah, has been sacked by President John Magufuli for negligence, the government says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The president expresses his dissatisfaction at the body&#8217;s conduct in fighting corruption in the country, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Magufuli has also suspended four top officers in the anti-corruption body who travelled abroad despite the government&#8217;s recent suspension of all foreign trips for public servants.<\/p>\n<p>Since coming to office in October, Mr Magufuli, who is nicknamed &#8220;The Bulldozer&#8221;, has announced a range of cost-cutting measures, including a ban on unnecessary foreign travel by government officials.<\/p>\n<p>He also replaced the independence celebration with a clean-up campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This suspension should send a clear message to other public servants who think the president was bluffing when he announced the ban on foreign trips, the government added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Tanzania&#8217;s anti-corruption body, Edward Hoseah, has been sacked by President John Magufuli for negligence, the government says in a statement. The president expresses his dissatisfaction at the body&#8217;s conduct in fighting corruption in the country, it added. Mr Magufuli has also suspended four top officers in the anti-corruption body who travelled abroad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}