As of October last year, Tanzania, East Africa’s Largest producer of cement, was facing so much shortage that prices almost doubled.
A 50kg bag of cement that would, on normal market weather conditions go for about USD 6 the price shot up 30 per cent to a little over USD 8, show the National Bureau of Statistics data for October 2020.
It was a paradox, and the hardliner government wouldn’t have it, newly re-appointed into power, Tanzania’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa was swift to act. He ordered a nationwide inspection of all known cement factories, warehouses, distribution points and even retail shops.
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