Working on a public holiday

I am employed as a driver assigned to drive the managing director of our company. Recently I worked on a day that was declared a public holiday by the President. Am I entitled to be paid an allowance for working on a public holiday? Kindly guide.
FG, Dodoma

According to section 25 of the Employment and Labour Relations Act [Cap.366 R.E 366 R.E 2019], when an employee works on a public holiday specified in the Public Holidays Act, the employer should pay the employee double the employee’s basic wage for each hour worked on that day. Public holidays are specified in the Schedule to the Public Holidays Act.

However, section 3 of the Public Holidays Act gives the President power to declare any date to be a public holiday. A day declared by the President to be a public holiday is treated like the days listed in the Schedule to the Public Holidays Act. Since the President declared the date you worked on to be a public holiday, any employee who worked on that day on the instruction of the employer is entitled to double basic wage for each hour worked on that day. This double basic wage paid that you are entitled to be paid is subject to statutory deductions like pension and tax amongst others.