How corruption rocked Kikwete's govt in the past decade

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National Coordinator of Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (TDHRC) Mr Onesmo Olengurumwa said although President Kikwete played some role in the transparency but the credit must be directed to other institutions which played bigger role in exposing corruption.

Dar es Salaam. They came one after the other, shaking the country to the core in ways never witnessed before, forcing multiple cabinet reshuffles. They are non-other than mega corruption scandals. These “monsters” have haunted President Jakaya Kikwete’s administration like a never ending nightmare in the ten years he has been in office. It all started in his first year in office in 2006 when the Controller and Auditor General’s (CAG) called for special audit of the Sh133 billion Bank of Tanzania’s External Payment Arrears (EPA) account. It turned out to be the first major corruption scandal in President Kikwete’s administration. An Ernst & Young audit found out that about Sh133 billion had been wrongly and dubiously been paid to some 22 local companies during the financial year 2005/06. The EPA scandal shook the nation and eroded the credibility of both the government and the central bank (BoT). The BoT’s credibility would further been tarnished by revelations that the construction cost of the twin tower headquarter building was inflated by Sh222 billion. Both scandals led to the firing of the then BoT governor Daudi Balali and the appointment of the new one, Prof Benno Ndulu in 2007.

How corruption rocked Kikwete's govt in the past decade

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