Mzee Mwanakijiji
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One of the biggest port management firm from Singapore Portek International is embroiled in an energy scandal that has been brewing in Tanzania for almost five years now. Portek Systems and Instruments Limited of Singapore, a subsidiary of Portek International owns 54 percent (other sources claims 39 percent) of common shares in Dowans Tanzania Limited.
According to various sources and Tanzanian government officials PSI Ltd has been part of the infamous energy contract inherited from Richmond Development Company. Together with Dowans S.A of Costa Rica, Portek Systems and Instruments was and is still part of a new energy firm solely created in the beginning to inherit the Richmond contract which was entered few months before.
Richmond Development Company of Houston in USA was later found to have entered illegally an energy contract with TANESCO - a public utility firm in Tanzania. The Parliament of Tanzania established a Select Committee led by a constitutional scholar Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe to investigate the Richmond Contract in 2007 to determine the legality of the Richmond/Tanesco contract to provide power generators during the energy crisis of 2006.
The findings of the select commitee implicated former Premier Edward Lowassa as well as other cabinet members and a popular Chama cha Mapinduzi MP and Election Manager for Kikwete's campaign in 2005 Mr. Rostam Aziz. ...... ....
According to various sources and Tanzanian government officials PSI Ltd has been part of the infamous energy contract inherited from Richmond Development Company. Together with Dowans S.A of Costa Rica, Portek Systems and Instruments was and is still part of a new energy firm solely created in the beginning to inherit the Richmond contract which was entered few months before.
Richmond Development Company of Houston in USA was later found to have entered illegally an energy contract with TANESCO - a public utility firm in Tanzania. The Parliament of Tanzania established a Select Committee led by a constitutional scholar Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe to investigate the Richmond Contract in 2007 to determine the legality of the Richmond/Tanesco contract to provide power generators during the energy crisis of 2006.
The findings of the select commitee implicated former Premier Edward Lowassa as well as other cabinet members and a popular Chama cha Mapinduzi MP and Election Manager for Kikwete's campaign in 2005 Mr. Rostam Aziz. ...... ....