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Job Ndugai ousted as parliamentary speaker after he criticised government's debt strategy as threatening sovereignty, President Samia Suluhu Hassan is shoring up her position in an early bid to win the ruling party's nomination in the 2025 elections. Last month she ensured the departure of long-time parliamentary speaker Job Ndugai. He was replaced by Tulia Ackson, a close ally of President Hassan.

Dr Ackson garnered 100 percent votes, beating eight other candidates in the race to succeed Job Ndugai.

Tulia Ackson, the candidate for speaker of the National Assembly, has won the confidence of the head of state. She is a close friend of former president John Magufuli, and a figure capable of

Dr Ackson will replace Job Ndugai, who resigned on January 6 over statements he made questioning the Dar’s borrowing.

The East African Monday June 28 2021 Summary President Samia, 61, took over a country that was being treated as a pariah due to Covid denialism after the late president announced that the coronavirus had been vanquished in the country in April 2020, and stopped publishing Covid-19 data. She inherited a dying economy, hard-hit by the vagaries of the coronavirus and a deeply divided nation smarting from a highly contentious result of a general election in which the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) had swept the board, leaving just a vestige of opposition. From the outset, the president was face...