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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 10th 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.

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