A Kenyan woman living in Tanzania broke down as she mourned former Tanzania President, the late Dr John Pombe Magufuli, at the Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
In an interview with BBC, Magreth Anyango contrasted Magufuli's leadership with that of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and claimed that Uhuru's regime was oppressive.
Anyango claimed that she relocated to Tanzania in search of peace, tranquillity and harmony, adding that Magufuli loved his citizens and treated them as his own children, and had their interests in his heart.
"We Kenyans loved him sincerely. Tanzanians should have loaned us Magufuli, just for one week.
"Magufuli could have salvaged Kenya's poorest citizens from hunger. We in Kenya are languishing in poverty, we are not succumbing to Covid-19," Anyango broke down into tears.
She claimed that Kenyans viewed Magufuli as either the biblical King David or Solomon. Anyango said that the two kings could predict the future and avert looming disasters.
"I cannot eat knowing that Magufuli is dead. No one is being evicted in Tanzania like in Kenya. Why did Magufuli pass away?" she lamented.
Magufuli passed away on Thursday night, March 18, and will be buried on Friday, March 26 at his Chato, Tanzania home.
Uhuru, while speaking at the funeral service on Monday, 22, said that Magufuli taught Africans how to develop their country without having to depend on foreign aid.
The deceased also banned foreign trips and worked from Tanzania, fighting corruption and fast-tracking development projects.
In Kenya, however, foreign trips cost billions of shillings. The foreign debt is nearly Ksh 7.3 trillion and myriads of taxes were introduced to raise money for developments as foreign doors warned that the country is at risk of defaulting loans.
The Treasury also wants MPs to raise the borrowing cap past Ksh 9 trillion to allow the government to borrow more loans.
Speaking recently on taxes, President Uhuru asked Kenyans to steadfastly pay taxes as it was important in running the government.
"I will not lower taxes. You will have to pay because there is no other way we can build facilities, roads, and schools. We must pay taxes," Uhuru said on Wednesday, February 10. A few days later, he lamented that Ksh 2 billion is lost daily as thieves embezzle taxpayers funds.
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