Tanzania President To Buy Disabled Man A Tricycle From His Salary & He Announced It In A News Broadcast

Tanzanian's president has offered to buy a disabled man a motorised tricycle after seeing him in a news report ingenuously using a bicycle to move around.

In statement read out during a news broadcast, John Magufuli said that he will use money from his salary to buy the tricycle and hand it over in a week.

Mr Magufuli, nicknamed the "bulldozer", has been known to make populist pronouncements since he came to office in November.