Why Are So Many Africans Saying Magufuli Was Murdered?

Executive Summary

• Many Africans have been claiming the Tanzanian president John Magufuli was murdered.
• We cover why this claim is being made.

Introduction

In this following video regarding the death of John Magufuli, there were many comments about how Magufuli must have been murdered.

After reading these comments, I searched for evidence online that this was the case, and I could not find any. So I posted the following comment. 

My Comment (#1)

Is there evidence that Magufuli was murdered? I looked it up and found the cause of death was a heart condition.

I received this response.

Which killer is going to show you evidence that they murdered the person. Come on bro think outside the box.

And I replied with this comment.

My Comment (#2)

Requesting evidence is not thinking within the box. This is a scientific approach to thought. If someone has evidence he was killed, then why doesn’t that person present it. If not, then I can claim all of the last 20 presidents of different countries were murdered, but the killer’s left no evidence. I am open to ideas as a person who thinks 9/11 was an inside job. Shady stuff happens all the time — I am aware of this.

Can a fake death certificate/cause of death be created in a Tanzanian hospital?

I thought this quote I found was interesting.

“The announcement came after government denials that the president was ill as pressure mounted to explain his almost three-week absence from public view. Several people were arrested this week for spreading rumors over his ill-health on social media.”

Why was Magufuli having people arrested for spreading rumors? There is a lot of outpouring of support for Magufuli, but it would seem obvious a government should not be arresting people for starting rumors. Furthermore (unless the evidence is provided that he was murdered), it looks like the rumors were correct.

I received the following comment in reply from another commenter.

Then dont think it was heart attack cos that is also hear say, he was probably murdered.

I replied with the following comment.

My Comment (#3)

No, that is not hearsay. That is the reported cause of death. See this article. https://news.yahoo.com/death-tanzanias-magufuli-draws-sorrow-093619106.html

It states he had Corona but also a heart condition. Sometimes Corona will force other health conditions to come to the front. Can anyone find an article that states he was murdered? I looked and could not find any articles that stated he was murdered.

I am lost here. How do people on this thread know that Magufuli was murdered if there is no evidence that he was murdered and no coverage regarding a murder?

I received this comment in reply.

Its well documented that the CIA can dart you with a poison that causes a heart attack and leaves no trace .

Having now received multiple comments, all proposing that Magufuli was murdered, I decided to look up this specific claim in Google. However, when I posted a very close response to what you will see below, it was deleted from and by YouTube.

YouTube has been deleting my comments on many topics when I reply to a commenter. However, the following is what I concluded. Even though there is no evidence for the claim of murder, my comment was deleted because my comment, which asks for evidence, can be viewed as anti-African.

My Comment (#4)

As so many people commented that they know that Magufuli was murdered, I looked up articles on this topic. I found one article by an African media source, and here are some quotes.

We are slaves of the West still in the 21st Century! Magufuli was NOT a DICTATOR!

Dr. John Pombe Magufuli was among the most finest African leaders that existed after Muammar Gaddafi and Robert Mugabe. These leaders have similarities for passionately supporting the African ideologies and empowering their people in whichever little ways they had to and without worshiping Western Countries.

Dr. Magufuli was a man who put Tanzania first before of everything. The few ideological differences Magufuli had with it’s neighbours like Kenya which made most of us ‘hate’ him were justified. He never liked us because we worshiped the West more than we believed in ourselves.

Dr. Magufuli was determined to empower the lives of the people of Tanzania. Magufuli believed in Africa. Magufuli was never a dictator. We were brainwashed to believe that he was a dictator. The Western funded the opposition to distract and disrupt him from his agenda of empowering the people of Tanzania without depending on the West.

He had to ruthlessly resist by using all the power at his disposal. The Western used this as a tool against him too by making us believe that he was an intolerant leader who never wanted opposition. Magufuli was not fighting Tundu Lissu, Magufuli was indirectly fighting with the West hiding behind Tundu to destabilize the Tanzanian Government.

In the Kenyan case, just to expound on the same, the West controls us by tactically managing both the opposition and Government at equal levels. For instance the East (China) has in the recent past tried to muzzle Kenya to its side because they know Raila Odinga is a darling of the West but Uhuru (Government) is tactically playing the 2 never wanting to give in to any.

Back to the Tanzanian story. It has been tactically choreographed that Dr. John Pombe Magufuli died of Covid 19. Magufuli was an excellent scientist, he knew what he was doing and saying. The West never liked it that way. They brainwashed us, including me to believe that Magufuli was fighting with nature. With this they took advantage and dealt with him.

MORE HERE, Disturbing images of Magufuli’s last looks.

Dr. John Pombe Magufuli was among the most finest African leaders that existed after Muammar Gaddafi and Robert Mugabe. These leaders have similarities for passionately supporting the African ideologies and empowering their people in whichever little ways they had to and without worshiping Western Countries.

He had to ruthlessly resist by using all the power at his disposal. The Western used this as a tool against him too by making us believe that he was an intolerant leader who never wanted opposition. Magufuli was not fighting Tundu Lissu, Magufuli was indirectly fighting with the West hiding behind Tundu to destabilize the Tanzanian Government.

One of the commenters stated that all African leaders are murdered and do not die of natural causes. The idea proposed above, that Muammar Gaddafi and Robert Mugabe are good African leaders, is not sustainable as both robbed their countries. Gaddafi did have good programs for his population, but he ran a dictatorial regime with zero input from the population. As for Mugabe, nothing Mugabe said came true, and the currency of Zimbabwe is now worthless due to hyperinflation.

The evidence-free claim regarding Magufuli’s death is that many Africans blame the performance of African governments on the West and Western meddling. This makes African countries’ failure to meet any of their promises of what would happen after independence the fault, not of Africans but the West. This is appealing to many Africans.

This comment is what was removed from YouTube. This illustrates how anti-freedom of speech YouTube has become.

Conclusion

I have noticed a pattern where Africans generally don’t look for evidence when formulating their views. Africa has universities, but the evidence-based approach has not yet come to Africa. Or to the degree that it has, it is minimal.

This impacts the statements made about Magufuli’s education. Apparently, Magufuli had a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Dar es Salaam. However, while praised by Tanzanians as very learned, Magufuli’s policies were quite anti-science. He was notable for denying Covid, and that is just the beginning. See this quote on several of his policies that contradicted science.

In 2017, Magufuli banned pregnant girls and teenage mothers from attending school and prohibited family planning. This was followed by crackdowns on individuals and organizations seen as critical of these policies. The authorities censored and suspended newspapers and radio stations for publishing or airing material critical of Magufuli’s presidency. The government also arbitrarily arrested – and in some cases brought harassing prosecutions against – journalists, activists, and opposition politicians perceived to be government critics.

Magufuli declared Tanzania free of Covid-19 in June 2020, after which the authorities imposed new restrictions on media outlets because of their reporting on Covid-19. They fined and suspended licenses of media companies and summoned media professionals over coverage of the pandemic. – Human Rights Watch

What is Human Rights Watch?

Human Rights Watch is a highly reliable source that critiques Western countries as much as non-Western countries. For example, HRW is highly critical of the prison system of the United States. So the idea that the organization is part of Western media and racist (a likely method of discrediting them by Tanzanians and other Africans) is not a credible claim.

Secondly, Magufuli’s policies make one question the Tanzanian educational system. If Magufuli could obtain a Ph.D. in chemistry but repeatedly have such anti-science policies, how valid was that degree?

How good is science education in Africa overall?

As an example, one country, South Africa, has won more non-peace Nobel Prizes than all blacks globally, which of course, the major population of blacks in Africa.

Denying Human Rights Violations, Restrictions of Political Opponents and Suppressing Speech

What is also curious is that Africans deny Magufuli’s repressive policies. Human Rights Watch further describes these.

“Over the past six years, President Magufuli oversaw abusive laws and policies that seriously undermined human rights in Tanzania,” said Otsieno Namwaya, East Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The new government now has a chance for a fresh start by ending problematic past practices.”

President Magufuli was last seen in public on February 27, and the media reported that he was seriously ill due to Covid-19-related complications that could have aggravated an existing heart condition. However, government officials insisted that he was well and threatened to arrest journalists who published news of his health. In March, police in Iringa and Dar es Salaam arrested at least four people for “distributing fabricated information” about the president’s health.

In the weeks ahead of the elections, the authorities suspended television and radio stations, censored mobile phone communication, arrested activists and journalists, and blocked social media. On the eve of elections, police fired live ammunition into crowds on the semi-autonomous island archipelago of Zanzibar, killing at least three people. The authorities continued to threaten and pursue opposition leaders and supporters even after Magufuli was declared the winner of the October vote.

However, in Africans’ eyes, the more important thing is whether a leader stands up to the West.

Magufuli most certainly did that.

It is true that Tanzania was being robbed by Acacia Mining as we cover in the article How Accurate Was the Economist Article on Magufuli?, and it is true that The Economist was functioning as an anti-African Westner news outlet by slandering Magufuli simply because he was trying to get Acacia Mining to pay an appropriate level of taxes on what it was extracting from Tanzania. We covered this in the article The Economist Misleads Again on Tanzania Versus Acacia Mining.

Magufuli’s move to restrict flags of convenience, which are a regulatory scam by Western shipping companies to flag their vessels in weak countries they can easily corrupt. This is extremely rare for an African leader as the vast majority of African leaders are easily bought off by all business interests (both foreign and domestic). This is true of Western politicians, and currently, a very large number of US politicians are selling out the country to China for heavy compensation.

Africans appear to be willing to give up their rights and allow for political corruption and human rights abuses as long as that leader makes a show of pushing back on Western companies.

References

*https://www.kenya-today.com/politics/did-the-west-kill-president-magufuli-the-world-cartels

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Magufuli