Dar es Salaam, Feb. 19 -- ZANZIBAR: PRESIDENT Hussein Ali Mwinyi has called for strengthened good parenting as a background for children to become decent and patriotic in making Tanzania become a crime-free country.

“We need to promote and sustain good behaviours among children. Parenting begins at the family level then community and the government level in the hierarchy. If you collectively do that, we cannot have thieves, rapists, corrupt leaders and illicit drug users,” Dr Mwinyi said here over the weekend.

He said this after having a Friday mass prayer at Masjid (Mosque) Makuti, in the outskirts of the Stone Town, and emphasised.

“Being a good parent (mother/father) is the most important thing because a childs gro...