President Magufuli Directs RCs and DCs to Maintain Peace

President Magufuli has directed Regional Comissioners (RCs) and District Commissionners (DCs) to maintain peace, security, tranquility amongst people in their area of work. President also urged the RCs and DCs to put forward public interest and to ensure that they deliver to the expectation of the people. He also assured them the government will give the full support throughout to support their daily routines and ensure that their goals are achieved.

The president said all that early today during the swearing ceremony of the new RCs and DCs in the state house in Dar Es Salaam.


Hon. Magufuli appointed new RCs in three regions and 139 DCs dropping 100 from the current list and retain only 39 of them. One of the reason he gave for dropping 100 DCs is old age as majority of them are already in retirement age.

Among the new DCs, 22 were serving as District Executive Directors (DEDs) while the remaining 78 are new appointees, including the youth and educated Tanzanians with experience in a number of fields.

“President Magufuli considered a number of criteria before making the se-lection, including age in which he decided that leaders over 60 years of age should retire,” the Chief Secretary (CS), Ambassador John Kijazi, said in a statement issued by the Directorate of Presidential Communications early this week.

Source: Daily News