World Bank is holding up to $50million (equivalent to Sh112billion) for Tanzania in reaction to the East African country’s ‘repressive’ law on statistics.
This comes at a time when Parliament has just approved new amendments to the 2015 law to criminalise the dissemination or otherwise communication to the public any statistical information which is intended to invalidate, distort or discredit official statistics.
WB holds Sh112 billion for TZ over the Statistics Act
