TANZANIA: Tundu Lissu claims President Magufuli has been airlifted to India from Nairobi.

Speaking via his Twitter handle, Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu now says President John Pombe Magufuli has been airlifted to India from Nairobi for further treatment.

Latest update from Nairobi: The Man Who Declared Victory Over Corona “was transferred to India this afternoon.” Kenyans don’t want the embarrassment “if the worst happens in Kenya.” His COVID denialism in tatters, his prayer-over-science folly has turned into a deadly boomerang! pic.twitter.com/DyXYYbIvdd

— Tundu Antiphas Lissu (@TunduALissu) March 10, 2021

Unconfirmed sources claim Magufuli was sneaked into Nairobi earlier in the week for further treatment at Nairobi Hospital after developing breathing difficulties.

Tundu Lissu, among other Tanzanians, has been poking holes on the whereabouts of President Magufuli.

Over the past few days, Lissu has turned his Twitter platform into an updates center on the progress of Magufuli’s health and whereabouts.

Taking to Twitter on Tuesday, March 9, Lissu insisted that the president’s wellbeing was a matter of public concern, questioning why his whereabouts and reports that he was unwell had not been formally and publicly addressed.  

Afya ya Rais ni suala la umma. Kikwete alipotibiwa tezi dume Marekani tuliambiwa. Mkapa alipotibiwa nyonga Uswisi tulijulishwa. Baba wa Taifa alipougua saratani ya damu London hatukufichwa. Kwa nini kuna kigugumizi juu ya afya ya Rais Magufuli? Au ndio kila zama na kitabu chake?

— Tundu Antiphas Lissu (@TunduALissu) March 9, 2021

According to Lissu, despite denying the existence of COVID-19 in Tanzania since last year, President Magufuli suffered the same and had to be airlifted for further treatment.

It’s a sad comment on his stewardship of our country that it’s come to this: that he himself had get COVID-19 and be flown out to Kenya in order to prove that prayers, steam inhalations and other unproven herbal concoctions he’s championed are no protection against coronavirus! pic.twitter.com/n1qQHgWnSA

— Tundu Antiphas Lissu (@TunduALissu) March 10, 2021