Doyo reveals pain that ignited his bid for country’s top office
Presidential candidate of the United Republic of Tanzania through the National League for Democracy (NLD) ticket, Doyo Hassan Doyo speaking during a special interview with journalists from Mwananchi Communications Ltd in Dar es Salaam. PHOTO | PAULO MUNGO
Dar es Salaam. When Doyo Hassan Doyo speaks about his presidential ambition, he does not begin with policy manifestos or rehearsed rhetoric.
Instead, he recounts a memory that shaped him as a boy of 13 in Misima village, Handeni district. His voice hardens as he recalls how his mother, unable to pay a development levy of Sh250, was humiliated in public.