Tanzanian President John Magufuli has revealed he earns a salary of 9 million Tanzanian shillings ($4,000) per month, making him one of the lowest paid African leaders as he pursues a much-criticized policy of deep public spending cuts. Magufuli’s salary is a small fraction of that of other African leaders. He has no other publicly known sources of income and his government said last year it plans to submit a parliamentary bill that would prohibit public leaders from engaging in business to avoid conflicts of interest. By contrast Kenya’s president earns a monthly salary of around $14,000. The annual presidential salary was previously set at 14.1 million naira, which in mid-2015 was the equivalent of $70,000.

Source: Egypt Independent October 04, 2017 11:47 UTC