{"id":19937,"date":"2020-12-09T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=19937"},"modified":"2020-12-09T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:28:32","slug":"magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions","title":{"rendered":"Magufuli to Ministers: Stop Avoiding hard decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>RESIDENT John Magufuli has advised the newly sworn-in 21 ministers and 23 deputy ministers to stop avoiding making tough decisions for the betterment of Tanzanians.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony held in Dodoma, President Magufuli said it was better for the ministers to make bad decisions than not to do it at all.<\/p>\n<p>He said if the decisions aim at solving people\u2019s challenges, Ministers and their deputies should not be afraid to make insisting that \u2018it is better to make a mistake\u2019 than avoiding to decide.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile President John Magufuli has directed Minister of Education Prof Joyce Ndalichako to make sure that History becomes a compulsory subject as a measure to promote patriotism among the young generation.<\/p>\n<p>He has students must understand \u201cwhere we come from\u201d and well as people who fought for the country\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. RESIDENT John Magufuli has advised the newly sworn-in 21 ministers and 23 deputy ministers to stop avoiding making tough decisions for the betterment of Tanzanians. Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony held in Dodoma, President Magufuli said it was better for the ministers to make bad decisions than not to do it at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[6990,711],"class_list":["post-19937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Magufuli to Ministers: Stop Avoiding hard decisions - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"RESIDENT John Magufuli has advised the newly sworn-in 21 ministers and 23 deputy ministers to stop avoiding making tough decisions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magufuli to Ministers: Stop Avoiding hard decisions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"RESIDENT John Magufuli has advised the newly sworn-in 21 ministers and 23 deputy ministers to stop avoiding making tough decisions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-09T22:49:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fd13241725f1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"517\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Magufuli to Ministers: Stop Avoiding hard decisions\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-09T22:49:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions\"},\"wordCount\":146,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fd13241725f1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/magufuli-to-ministers-stop-avoiding-hard-decisions\",\"name\":\"Magufuli to Ministers: Stop Avoiding hard decisions - 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