Tanzania president says prisoners should be kicked and made to work 'day and night'

John Magufuli says underemployment of inmates leads to drug use and homosexuality

Tanzanian president John Magufuli on Saturday ordered that prisoners be made to work "day and night", that conjugal visits be ended and that lazy inmates should be "kicked".

The leader, who has come under fire from rights groups over his authoritarian leadership style and a crackdown on freedoms, was speaking at the inauguration of new prisons chief Faustine Martin Kasike.