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Tanzanian President, Samia Suluhu Hassan is facing backlash from her countrymen for making offensive remarks about female footballers. S
he made the comments at a ceremony on Sunday to celebrate the victory of a national men’s team in a regional football championship. The remarks came in because she raised the point of funding women’s sports as well.
“For those who have flat chests, you might think they are men and not women. And if you look at their faces you might wonder… because if you want to marry, you want someone who is attractive. A lady who has the qualities that you want.”
The Tanzanian President went further to add that women footballers lost all these qualities that a man would want to see in a woman he would want to marry.
“The life of marriage is like a dream to them. Because even if one of you here takes them home as your wife, your mother will ask if they are a woman or a fellow man.”
Though she recognized the fact that currently, women are making the country proud. This is because they are bringing trophies.
“Today they are making us proud as a nation when they bring trophies to the country. But if you look at their lives in the future, when the legs are tired from playing, when they don’t have the health to play, what life will they be living?” she said.
Catherine Ruge, the head of the women’s wing of the opposition Chadema party and a former MP was disgusted by these comments.
She condemned the president’s comments saying they are humiliating.
“The comment by president @SuluhuSamia on women footballers is a humiliation to all women. All women deserve respect.”
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