John Magufuli from Tanzania says prisoners are free workers :: Kenya

The Tanzanian president has demanded that prisoners work long hours and be punished if they are lazy.

John Magufuli was speaking at the inauguration of a new prison chief.

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Rights groups have accused him of growing intolerance.

million. Magufuli lost her immense initial popularity by repressing the media, targeting opposition politicians and asking that pregnant schoolgirls be banned from school.

He said that inmates should cultivate their own food in the prison fields.

"It's a shame for the country to continue feeding the prisoners: all the prisons have fields, the inmates must cultivate them," he said.

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"Some prison staff do not have a house, do prisoners work, make bricks day and night, show them lazy, kick them, have workers free of charge, "he adds.

He also asked that conjugal visits be stopped.

"A man is in prison, leaving his wife outside, and a prison official receives this woman and authorizes the prisoner to do things that he is not supposed to do during his detention, I do not want to hear about that anymore, "he said.

million. Magufuli said the underemployment of inmates led to drug use and homobaduality in prisons.

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"I do not want to hear about that, I want reforms in the management of prisons," he said.

The leader, nicknamed The Bulldozer, has been accused by his detractors of becoming more and more authoritarian – an accusation he denies.