HAKIMU WA ILALA ASOMEWA MASHTAKA YA RUSHWA KISUTU.

Hakimu na Rushwa                                                                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Hakimu Mkazi wa Mahakama ya Wilaya ya Ilala Pamela Kalala (kushoto),akitoka katika mahakama ya Hakimu Mkazi Kisutu jijini Dar es Salaam jana,baada ya kusomewa shitaka la kuomba rushwa ya Shilingi milioni tatu.Picha na Michael Matemanga

WAZIRI MKUU MSTAAFU AMEITAKA AFRIKA IPAMBANE NA RUSHWA, AMERIDHISHWA NA UTENDAJI KAZI WA TAKUKURU.

Sumaye ameitaka Afrika kutokomeza rushwa

 

Na Romana Mallya

Waziri Mkuu Mstaafu, Frederick Sumaye amezitaka nchi za Afrika ikiwemo Tanzania kupambana na makundi na kuwalipua wala rushwa na wapokeaji kwa kuwachukulia hatua.

Alitoa kauli hiyo jana jijini Dar es Salaam katika maadhimisho ya miaka 20 ya Chuo Kikuu Huria cha Tanzania, (OUT).

Katika mada yake iliyokuwa ikizungumzia kuhusu changamoto za kupunguza umaskini nchini, Sumaye alisema nchi za Afrika zipo nyuma kimaendeleo na kwamba yapo mambo mengi yanayotakiwa kufanyika.

Alitaja baadhi ya mambo hayo kuwa ni nchi kuwa na serikali inayopambana na makundi yote mabaya hasa rushwa.

"Lazima tuipige vita rushwa ili kile kidogo kinachotakiwa kipatikane basi kipatikane kwa ajili ya huduma za wananchi na sio kupotea njia," alisema.

Alitaka nchi zifanye biashara ambazo zitaweza kuzimudu na kutolea mfano Tanzania.

"Tusiuze tu vitu kwa mfano magogo, pamba na madini nje ya nchi, tunatakiwa vitu hivi tuvibadilishe kuwa thamani ndio tuvipeleke nje kwenye soko la biashara, tunaiuzia magogo China halafu yeye anayabadilisha kuwa vitu vya thamani anakuja kutuuzia sisi tena, kwa nini sisi tusifanye vyote hivyo, tuwauzie wao," alisema.

Kuhusu rushwa na utawala bora, Sumaye alisema lazima nchi ifikie mahali iwe na utaratibu wa kuhakikisha jambo hilo halivumiliki kwa sababu limekuwa likiigawa jamii katika kundi la wenye utajiri na maskini.

Mtazamo wake kama Taasisi ya Kuzuia na Kupambana na Rushwa (Takukuru) kwa sasa inafanya kazi yake ipasavyo kutokana na kuanzishwa wakati akiwa madarakani, alisema anafikiri inafanya kazi yake.

Kuhusu nini kifanyike, Sumaye alisema nchi inatakiwa kuwa na utawala bora ambao utawezesha rasilimali za nchi zinatumika kwa manufaa ya watu wote.

Pia alisema nchi inatakiwa kuhakikisha inakuwa na utawala wa sheria na kuheshimu haki za binadamu na kuwepo na matumizi sahihi ya mali za taifa ili kila Mtanzania aweze kunufaika nazo.

Naye, Mkuu wa Chuo hicho, Profesa Tolly Mbwette, alisema kuwa, katika maadhimisho hayo miadhara ya majadiliano iliyotolewa imelenga jamii na serikali kwa ujumla.

Alisema lengo lake ni kutoa michango yao kwenye maeneo tofauti ambayo serikali imejiwekea katika kuyafikia maendeleo.

Profesa Joseph Mbwiriza wa OUT akichangia majadiliano hayo, alisema suala la umaskini ni kubwa na watu wengi wapo nje ya mfumo rasmi wa uchumi.

"Wanawake wengi hatuwatambui, kazi wanazozifanya haziingii kwenye takwimu zetu za kiuchumi za taifa, nini kifanyike tutekeleze Mpango wa Kurasimisha Rasilimali na Biashara za Wanyonge Tanzania (Mkurabita) ili kazi zao na za wengine zitambuliwe kisheria, " alisema.

Katika maadhimisho hayo mijadala mbalimbali ilitolewa ukiwemo uliokuwa ukiangalia kupotea kwa maadili kwenye jamii ya Tanzania.

CHANZO: NIPASHE JUMAPILI

JUSTUS KATITI THE FORMER TRA ACCOUNTANT ACQUITED IN SOME CHARGES OF FORGERY AND MONEY LAUNDERING

 

MHASIBU TRA AACHIWA HURU NA MAHAKAMA YA KISUTU, LAKINI YUPO RUMANDE AKIKABILIWA NA MASHTAKA MENGINE.

Dar es Salaam.  The former Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) accountant, Mr Justus Katiti, and four others were yesterday acquitted by the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court of 10 charges including money laundering. Mr Katiti and his co-accused were set free after a judgment read by magistrate Aloyce Katemana for more than an hour concluding that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. “There is no weighty evidence produced to the court that proves the charges against the accused. So, the court sees that the accused are not guilty of the offences and thus the court dismisses all the charges and sets them free,” the magistrate ruled. However, the accused will remain in the remand prison because they are facing other money laundering charges at the same court. Mr Katiti and his co-accused were facing 10 counts including conspiracy, forgery and falsely obtaining the money between September and October 2008, the property of Barclays Bank Tanzania. Other accused in the case are Fortunatus Muganzi and Godwin Paula, who were employees of the bank and businessmen Gidon Utulo and Robert Mbetwa. During the hearing of the case, the prosecution produced 28 witnesses along with several evidence to support their case. The accused were charged that between September 29, and October 6, 2008, they stole from the bank. The accused allegedly forged a Barclays Bank form number E.7 to show that Tourism Promotion Services (Tanzania) Limited requested the bank to pay Sh338,935,337.46 to East Africa Procurement Services Limited for selling them hotel equipment. They were also charged to have uttered the forged form to the Barclays head office in Ilala and obtained the money. Another count facing Mr Katiti is that, being a TRA employee with intend to defraud prepared and uttered false information to show that the Tourism Promotion Company paid the sum amount as VAT while he knew to be false. The accused also allegedly transferred the money from the Tourism Promotion Company account at CRDB Bank to Barclays Bank and distributed it to various individual accounts before they withdrew the money