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Dar es Salaam. President John Magufuli criticized prison services on Saturday for allowing prisoners to "sleep" while the department has vast tracts of land across the country that they can work on and support themselves
. Phaizin Kasike Prisons and Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Vice President (Union and Enviornment) Joseph Sokoine at State House, Dr. Magufuli said that he was shocked that with all the free workers, the prison services were still asking for support budget even on minor issues.
"You have huge expanses of land in Mbeya, which is inactive, but from time to time you ask for budget support to buy food," he said. "Prison officers do not have enough houses and they have no idea how to build them, and yet they have land where inmates can work to make bricks."
The president, who did not hide his dissatisfaction Prisons Services, said it would not allow a situation where prison officers lacked housing while inmates were sleeping in better places.
Citing 10 billion shillings, he gave penitentiary services to Ukonga last year. address the fate of the officers. He said it was disappointing that the money was not used to build houses, ostensibly because of laxity. He also asked why the department did not take advantage of the tractors loan facility that the National Service offered him to work on his farms and finance himself.
Detainees who use mobile phones and enjoy conjugal rights must also stop. He cited cases of detainees communicating with relatives even abroad
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