This incidence is a wake up call to most African states. Mheshimiwa Pombe had every right to be upset especially having arrived straight from Uganda where security even at airstrips is airtight (no pun) and Museveni and his son receive an almost by-the-minute intelligence from even the Ugandan equivalent of KWS.....

Secondly, Pombe raised a genuine concern about the possibility of ivory, gold, diamonds and other minerals that Tanzania is well endowed with being smuggled through JNIA as well as the risk of drug smuggling. Watching this video, makes someone very frustrated especially by the lack of confidence and forthrightness by Tanzania Airport Authority officials. One can easily sense heavy incompetence on the TAA part. Rais Pombe should fire all of them.

Thirdly, this video is a testament that Tanzania is still waaaaay behind our beloved country Kenya despite our Ukabila, Matusi, and banditry. If you doubt my third point, visit JKIA or even Malindi and Isiolo Airports and see how much our government has invested in such scanning machines....or even dare by pass those KAA checks without proper scanning or worst still arrive past check-in time especially for international departures.

Finally, i believe what is happening in Tanzanian airports is a pure case of sabotage and thank God for rais Pombe Magufuli, this mess will be cleaned up

I don't know whether he has fired those guys or not but as i said, Tanzania is still waaaay behind of Kenya in some areas like this. 3 years ago, i travelled to Dar via JNIA. On arrival my book (passport) was stamped but on departure they told me that it is not necessary to stamp Kenyan passports in the spirit of East Africa. A few months down the line i was back and TAA officials nearly went berserk when i acted surprised that they wanted to stamp my book. JNIA is a big joke....Other than traffic,and runway it cannot compare to Mombasa or Kisumu in terms of terminals.Actually it cannot compare to Mombasa on anything other than traffic. I agree with you to some extent about his knee jerk/ad hoc/roadside/pedestrian antics...they are not sustainable and he will fair better as intimated here on wazua if he set up institutions. All in all, i like his spirit and his love for his nation...

murchr other than a selfie, what has Uhuru done since last weekend.

I'm here in magufuli land and it's not Kenya. That I can assure you


Poleni lakini, selfies don't cut it.

I once traveled to TZ on an expired passport. I didn't realize my passport had expired until i got to JKIA and as I was waiting on the cue and scanning it I was shocked to see it had expired. Anyway, I decided to feign ignorance and just use it.

Shock, I went past the JKIA check in, at both checks no one noticed, KQ attendants did pick this up, landed in TZ and the expired document was not picked on entry. On return, the second person checking the pp picked the expired date but just politely advised me to renew it.

Shocked that upto 10 separate eyes could not observe that I was traveling with an expired document. I have no confidence with public servants and can understand Pombe's frustrations.

However, some Tanzanians, especially businessfolk, are having doubts about Mr Magufuli’s flair for the dramatic. When he thinks a public official has misbehaved he fires him on the spot, rather than following due process. More important is that he shows little interest in wider reforms aimed at spurring economic growth. If anything he seems to be making it tougher to invest in a country that already scores dismally on the World Bank’s ease of doing business index, where it is ranked 139th out of 189. “What Africa needs is strong institutions, not strong men or women,” says Zitto Kabwe, an opposition leader.

Instead of addressing these deeper structural issues Mr Magufuli has continued to live up to his nickname of “Bulldozer”: one foreign firm was given seven days to settle a $5m bill, says its boss. The country’s revenue authority then took the money directly from its bank account. By contrast, the government is painfully slow to pay its own bills: it still owes the same company $30m.

Acacia Mining, a gold producer, is owed $98m in VAT rebates—effectively an interest-free loan to the government. “The country has become totally uninvestable,” says a bigwig at a private-equity firm with holdings across Africa. “You pay your taxes for five years and have the returns to prove it and then some guy arrives with his own calculation and says you haven’t paid your tax.”