Tanzania: Women MPs with fake eyelashes, finger nails banned from entering parliament

Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament Job Ndugai. [photo, courtesy]

Speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament Job Ndugai has banned female Members of Parliament from entering the House with false eyelashes and finger nails. The speaker said on Monday 10^th September 2018 during a House session in Dodoma, Tanzania.

“With the powers vested in me by the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania, I now ban all MPs with false eyelashes and false finger nails from stepping into Parliament,” Ndugai said.