IMF Joins World Bank in Querying Tanzania's New Statistics Law

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By Kenneth Karuri

October 26, 2018, 12:21 PM GMT+3
  • World Bank has said law revisions buck global standards
  • New law criminalizes questioning the accuracy of state data.

The International Monetary Fund raised questions over Tanzania’s amendments to the national statistics law, just weeks after the World Bank expressed concerns over the revisions.

In September, Tanzania’s lawmakers passed amendments that criminalize publication of figures that haven’t been approved by the statistician-general, changes that the World Bank said were “out of line with international standards.” The alterations also impose fines or a minimum three-year jail term on anyone found guilty of questioning official figures.

“We are awaiting further information from the authorities about the implications of the amendments and any regulations that may be issued to operationalize them,” the IMF Resident Representative Bhaswar Mukhopadhyay said in an emailed response to questions.

The Dar es Salaam-based Citizen newspaper reported this month that the World Bank froze disbursement of a $50 million grant to Tanzania because of the amendments.

Rights activists have warned that passage of the law, which is yet to receive presidential approval, is part of a broader government crackdown on dissent and criticism of its political and economic records.

IMF officials will conduct an Article IV-related mission to Tanzania at the end of November, Mukhopadhyay said. In its last review, the lender said that while the country had a relatively strong macroeconomic performance, implementation of structural reforms had been uneven.
 
Yaani hadi mwisho wa utawala wa awamu ya tano tutashuhudia mengi tu

Kitu kinachomwangusha mtawala huyu wa awamu ya tano ni kujiona yeye ndiye mwenye akili kuliko mtu yoyote na watu tuliobaki hatujui kitu chochote.......

Ndiyo tatizo la kuchagua kiongozi ambaye amejitangaza kuwa yeye ni kichaa kutuongoza!

Yajayo yanasikitisha sana!
 
Ukiona giza ujue karibia kunakucha.
Break muhimu kwa safari ya uhakika
 
Kelele za chura hazimzuii ng'ombe kunywa maji.
Teh wewe kweli sijui upo dunia gani una habari WB walisitisha bilioni takribani 100 na ushee walizo kuwa wanatoa kufadhili tafiti ? Ndio serikali yako ikakurupuka kusema sijui watabadilisha hiyo sheria ya kimaku .kwanini kufanya tafiti iwe kosa la jinai ? Halafu ndio mnataka taifa liende mbele ? Au mnataka tubaki na tafiti zenu za kubangua maganda ya korosho huku bei yenyewe tu mmeshindwa kupanga ?
 
By Kenneth Karuri

October 26, 2018, 12:21 PM GMT+3
  • World Bank has said law revisions buck global standards
  • New law criminalizes questioning the accuracy of state data.

The International Monetary Fund raised questions over Tanzania’s amendments to the national statistics law, just weeks after the World Bank expressed concerns over the revisions.

In September, Tanzania’s lawmakers passed amendments that criminalize publication of figures that haven’t been approved by the statistician-general, changes that the World Bank said were “out of line with international standards.” The alterations also impose fines or a minimum three-year jail term on anyone found guilty of questioning official figures.

“We are awaiting further information from the authorities about the implications of the amendments and any regulations that may be issued to operationalize them,” the IMF Resident Representative Bhaswar Mukhopadhyay said in an emailed response to questions.

The Dar es Salaam-based Citizen newspaper reported this month that the World Bank froze disbursement of a $50 million grant to Tanzania because of the amendments.

Rights activists have warned that passage of the law, which is yet to receive presidential approval, is part of a broader government crackdown on dissent and criticism of its political and economic records.

IMF officials will conduct an Article IV-related mission to Tanzania at the end of November, Mukhopadhyay said. In its last review, the lender said that while the country had a relatively strong macroeconomic performance, implementation of structural reforms had been uneven.
Hawana jipya
 
Yaani hadi mwisho wa utawala wa awamu ya tano tutashuhudia mengi tu

Kitu kinachomwangusha mtawala huyu wa awamu ya tano ni kujiona yeye ndiye mwenye akili kuliko mtu yoyote na watu tuliobaki hatujui kitu chochote.......

Ndiyo tatizo la kuchagua kiongozi ambaye amejitangaza kuwa yeye ni kichaa kutuongoza!

Yajayo yanasikitisha sana!
Watz sijui tuko na inferiority thinking, can't you even imaging there authorities c_ ar taking duty to endorse those laws, everything is Misconducting presidential authority.
Why not abusing the Parliament we phase out during electional time? Ifike hatua tuwe tunapoint moja kwa moja mamlaka husika zilitunga hizo sheria , hata hao IMF kwann wasilikosoe Bunge letu na wanakimbilia kuikosoa serikali? Hawajui ya kuwa bunge ndo chombo pekee kilichotumika kutunga hizo sheria?.
Afu na ww mwenye haka kakoment nilokokakot hujui haya yote ?
 
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