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		</div><p><span style="font-size:large;"><i>Tanzanian President John Magufuli threatens cabinet ministers &#8216;declare (your) assets, sign an integrity pledge by Saturday or face sack.&#8217;</i></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#990000;"><span style="font-size:large;"><i>&#8220;</i></span></span><span style="font-size:large;"><i><span style="color:#990000;">The president&#8217;s instructions that all ministers who were yet to declare their assets and liabilities should do so before 6pm (on Saturday) has been implemented&#8221;</span>&#8211;</i></span>prime minister&#8217;s office<br /><img alt="https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1466558/john-magufuli.jpg" height="416" src="https://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1466558/john-magufuli.jpg" width="640" /> </p>
<div class="story-body-text story-content"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Photo: <span class="credit">Reuters</span></i></span><span class="cap"><br /><span><b>New Tanzanian president John Magufuli has launched an anti-corruption campaign in the country</b></span></span><span><b><span class="credit"> </span></b></span></div>
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<div class="story-body-text story-content">Magufuli launched several initiatives to clamp down on corruption since winning an election in November.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content">Businesses have long said corruption was a major obstacle to working in the east African nation and a deterrent to investment. Tanzania is ranked 117th out of 168 countries in Transparency International&#8217;s 2015 corruption perception index where No. 1 is least corrupt.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content">&#8220;The president&#8217;s instructions that all ministers who were yet to declare their assets and liabilities should do so before 6pm (on Saturday) has been implemented,&#8221; the prime minister&#8217;s office said in a statement. It said those who did not would be fired.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content">Earlier this week, a body that monitors civil servants said four senior ministers and one junior minister had yet to sign.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" id="story-continues-2">Cabinet ministers and other public officials are required by law to declare their assets and liabilities at the country&#8217;s ethics secretariat by Dec. 31 each year, but in the past this has often been ignored. The integrity pledge is new.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" id="story-continues-3">Magufuli, who took office late last year, has pledged to root out corruption and government inefficiency. He has sacked several senior officials, including the head of the government&#8217;s anti-graft body, the chief taxman, a senior rail official and the head of the country&#8217;s port authority.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content" id="story-continues-4">Tanzania is one of Africa&#8217;s biggest per capita aid recipients, but payments have often been delayed because donors said they were concerned about corruption, poor governance and the slow pace of reforms.</div>
<div class="story-body-text story-content">In 2014, a group of donors withheld nearly $500 million in budget support to Tanzania over corruption allegations in the energy industry after a scandal led to the resignations of three cabinet ministers.</div>
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<div class="story-body-text story-content"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Credit: ibt </i></span></div>

