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My government is for the majority ordinary people who voted me overwhelmingly during last October elections,\u201d Dr Magufuli noted. He ordered Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner, Abubakar Kunenge to ensure that the majority petty traders have room to do their businesses and earn a living in the area.<\/p>\n<p>re holds with President John Pombe Magufuli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: AMONG food vendors and petty traders doing their activities at Mbezi International Bus Terminal in Dar es Salaam, a sombre mood was prevalent yesterday as many of them contemplated what the futu \u201cWe just hope that the next president will sustain the late President Magufuli\u2019s way of embracing petty traders, he was really our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[7735,2116,7736],"class_list":["post-25305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-food-vendors","tag-john-pombe-magufuli","tag-samuel-mrisho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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