{"id":229516,"date":"2021-03-14T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T08:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229516"},"modified":"2021-03-17T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T08:18:36","slug":"tanzania-the-second-covid-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229516","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania \u2013 The second Covid coup?"},"content":{"rendered":"

President John Magufuli\u2019s disappearance makes him potentially the 2nd \u201cCovid denier\u201d head of state to lose power.<\/h4>\n

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian March 12, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

John Magufuli, President of Tanzania<\/a>, has disappeared. He\u2019s not been seen in public for several weeks, and speculation is building as to where he might be.<\/p>\n

The opposition has, at various times, accused the President of being hospitalised with \u201cCovid19\u201d, either in Kenya<\/a> or India<\/a>, although there remains no evidence this is the case.<\/p>\n

To add some context, John Magufuli is one of the \u201cCovid denier\u201d heads of state from Africa.<\/p>\n

He famously had his office submit five unlabelled samples for testing<\/a> \u2013 goat, motor oil, papaya, quail and jackfruit \u2013 and when four came back positive and one \u201cinconclusive\u201d, he banned the testing kits and called for an investigation into their origin and manufacture.<\/p>\n

In the past, he has also questioned the safety and efficacy<\/a> of the supposed \u201ccovid vaccines\u201d, and has not permitted their use in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

In the Western press Magufuli has been portrayed as \u201canti-science\u201d and \u201cpopulist\u201d, but it is not fair to suggest that the health of the people of Tanzania is a low priority for the President. In fact it\u2019s quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

After winning his first election in 2015 he slashed government salaries (including his own) in order to increase funding for hospitals and buying AIDs medication. In 2015 he cancelled the Independence Day celebrations and used the money to launch an anti-Cholera campaign<\/a>. Healthcare has been one of his administration\u2019s top priorities, and Tanzanian life expectancy has increased every year<\/a> while he has been in office.<\/p>\n

The negative coverage of President Magufuli is a very recent phenomenon. Early in his Presidency he even received glowing write-ups from the Western press<\/a> and Soros-backed think tanks<\/a>, praising his reforms and calling him an \u201cexample\u201d to other African nations.<\/p>\n

All that changed when he spoke out about Covid being hoax.<\/p>\n

When he was re-elected in October 2020 the standard Western accusations of \u201cvoter suppression\u201d and \u201celectoral fraud\u201d<\/a> appeared in the Western press which had previously reported his approval rating as high as 96%.<\/p>\n

And the anti-Magufuli campaign increased momentum in the new year, with Mike \u201cwe lied, we cheated, we stole\u201d Pompeo initiating sanctions against Tanzanian government officials<\/a> as one of his final acts as Secretary of State. The sanctions were notionally due to \u201celectoral irregularities\u201d, but the obvious reality is that it\u2019s due to Tanzania\u2019s refusal to toe the Covid line.<\/p>\n

Just last month, The Guardian, always the tip of the spear when it comes to \u201cprogressive\u201d regime change ran an article headlined<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for Africa to rein in Tanzania\u2019s anti-vaxxer president<\/p>\n

The article makes no mention of goats, papaya and motor oil testing positive for the coronavirus, but does ask \u2013 in a very non-partisan, journalistic way:<\/p>\n

What is wrong with President John Magufuli? Many people in and outside Tanzania are asking this question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before going on to conclude:<\/p>\n

Magufuli [is] fuelling anti-vaxxers as the pandemic and its new variants continue to play out. He needs to be challenged openly and directly. To look on indifferently exposes millions of people in Tanzania and across Africa\u2019s great lakes region \u2013 as well as communities across the world \u2013 to this deadly and devastating virus.<\/p>\n

The author doesn\u2019t say exactly how<\/em> Magufuli should be \u201cchallenged openly and directly\u201d<\/em>, but that\u2019s not what these articles are for. They exist simply to paint the subject as a villain, and create a climate where \u201csomething must be done\u201d. What that \u201csomething\u201d is \u2013 and, indeed, whether or not it is legal \u2013 are none of the Guardian-reading public\u2019s business, and most of them don\u2019t really care.<\/p>\n

Oh, by the by, the article is part of the Guardian\u2019s \u201cGlobal Development\u201d section, which is sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>. Just so you know.<\/p>\n

So, within two weeks of The Guardian publishing a Gates-sponsored article calling for something to be done about President Magufuli, he has disappeared, allegedly due to Covid. Funny how that works out.<\/p>\n

Even if Magufuli miraculously survives his bout of \u201csuspected Covid19\u201d, the writing is on the wall for his political career. The Council on Foreign Relations published this article<\/a> just yesterday, which goes to great lengths arguing that the President has lost all authority, and concludes:<\/p>\n

a bold figure within the ruling party could capitalize on the current episode to begin to reverse course.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to read the subtext there, if you can even call it \u201csubtext\u201d at all.<\/p>\n

If we are<\/em> about to see the sudden death and\/or replacement of the President of Tanzania, he will not be the first African head of state to suffer such a fate in the age of Covid.<\/p>\n

Last summer Pierre Nkurunziza, the President of Burundi, refused to play along with Covid and instructed the WHO delegation to leave his country\u2026before dying suddenly of a \u201cheart attack\u201d or \u201csuspected Covid19\u201d. His successor immediately reversed every single one<\/em> of his Covid policies, including inviting the WHO back to the country.<\/p>\n

That was our first Covid coup<\/a>, and it looks like Tanzania could well be next.<\/p>\n

If I were the President of Turkmenistan or Belarus, I wouldn\u2019t be making any longterm plans.<\/p>\n

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Last year Burundi\u2019s President Nkurunziza refused to comply with WHO\u2019s Covid demands. Weeks later he died from a sudden \u201cheart attack\u201d and his successor immediately complied. Now Tanzania\u2019s President Magufuli, who also opposed Covid vaccinations, has disappeared <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":229518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Unreported_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229517,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229516\/revisions\/229517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}