The latest claim has been that her government has planted informers in lecture halls to identify and take action against lecturers opposed and preaching against her administration.
This is after the University of Dodoma Academic Staff Association (UDOMASA) reported on how a lecturer was arrested for allegedly encouraging students to join the December 9 demos.
Isaac Mahenge, the UDOMASA Secretary General, says an informer among the students recorded the lecture and took the recording to higher authorities, who then ordered the arrest.
John Heche, Vice Chair of Tanzania's main opposition party CHADEMA, says that Samia is now not any different from Hitler.
He says nothing of this kind has ever been witnessed in Tanzania since independence, and citizens must ensure the situation comes to an end.
"If this has indeed happened, it is a high-level dictatorship and cannot be accepted. You cannot interfere with freedom of opinion and profession to this extent," he says on X.
"We have been to schools and universities but I have never seen a teacher being told what to teach in class. We have now become the Republic of Iran or Hitler's Germany. We cannot accept this hooliganism."
This happens as Samia's government continues to face allegations of brutality against opposers and critics, and has been repeatedly accused of subjecting some to forced disappearances.
Heche and other top CHADEMA officials have also been repeatedly arrested and detained, as the party's boss, Tundu Lissu, remains in detention for months over his opposition to Samia's rule.
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