KIWIRA na MCHUCHUMA: A Campaign To Reclaim...

zomba said:
Mimi, system ninayo-elezeya ni Political system.

Na sina mzaha, haya ni mambo yanayomgusa kila m-Tanzania.

Au huijuwi system ni nini?
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Ni nini ulichoelezea kuhusu hiyo political system?

Najisalimisha-Tutaendeleza kule kwenye haya. Tatizo langu hapa umekalia kidedea hiyo system kwenye mada isiyo-rudi kule ulipoanza uzomba wa system-ni hilo tu
Asante
 
AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhh, umenishinda kwa kunivurugiya system yangu, hata jibu sina wala sina ubishi. Jee, huijuwi system ni nini?
 
Mr. clean au BWM or mkali wa takwimu za uwongo. nafikiri mtakumbuka jinsi Mr. Clean alivyokuwa akitupa takwimu za uwongo wakati ule wa uongozi wake na hotuba zake za kila mwezi. Huu mgodi aliwahi kuongelea katika moja ya hotuba zake,akzielezea faida zake kwa umakini mkubwa,kumbe jamaa alikuwa amekwisha pora huu mradi na shemeji yake yona. Kikwete bila kujua akawa na hope mradi huu utazalisha umeme na kusaidia kumaliza tatizo la mgawo wa umeme na Lowassa akadakia kuusifia. mambo yalipokuwa wazi hapa JF,Mr.clean hataki kuongea. Kilichopo ni kuanzisha kampeni ya kurudishwa kwa mradi huu
 
Kwa wewe unayesema kwamba Nyerere alikuwa Fisadi, unajuwa kweli nini maana ya neno Fisadi?.

Nyerere hakuwa malaika kwa maana kwamba hakuwa na makosa katika utawala wake, lakini kumwingiza katika ufisadi itakuwa ni uzandiki usio sadikika.

Ukweli ni kwamba sintaona haya kukuonea haya kukueleza kwamba Nyerere hakuwa FISADI.

Acha chuki binafsi, jenga hoja.
 
I don't trust TAKUKURU at all. It's the same entity that said nothing wrong was done in Richmonduli

Kiwira `affair` under investigation: Daniel Yona already questioned by PCCB

-Mkapa - not yet

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

FORMER senior cabinet minister Daniel Yona is amongst several people who have already been questioned by the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) in connection with the controversial privatisation of the Kiwira Coal Mine in Mbeya Region, it has been confirmed.

Well-placed sources have told THISDAY that Yona, who was minister in charge of energy and minerals when the then state-run coal mine was acquired by a private company established by none other than he and then president Benjamin Mkapa along with close family members, was questioned by PCCB investigators in Dar es Salaam sometime last month (January).

The confirmation comes on the back of a disclosure made in parliament yesterday by the Minister of State in the President's Office (Good Governance), Phillip Marmo, to the effect that the Kiwira privatisation deal is now under official investigation for corruption.

It is the first time the government has made such an unequivocal statement with regard to the Kiwira 'affair', as it has come to be known, involving as it does a former head of state - let alone a former senior cabinet minister.

Contacted later after Marmo's statement in the House, our sources said: ''Yes, it is quite true that Yona has been questioned by investigators over his involvement.''

The sources made it clear that the ex-minister, now retired from politics, was not the only one who had been questioned so far in the course of the PCCB investigation, saying other ''shareholders and managers'' of the coal mine had also been asked to give statements.

They, however, did confirm that ex-president Mkapa himself was yet to be officially questioned by investigators over his role in the affair.

It is understood that Mkapa and Yona jointly registered a private company called Tanpower Resources Company Limited in December 2004 "while still serving as president and minister for energy and minerals, respectively" and were also both directly involved in the privatisation process involving the then state-owned Kiwira coal mine.

This privatisation process culminated in mid-2005, when Tanpower Resources (then only a few months old) entered into a joint venture with the government to acquire 70 per cent of the Kiwira coal mine shares. The private company later increased its shareholding in the coal mine to 85 per cent, leaving the government with just 15 per cent.

At the time of its registration, the first listed directors of Tanpower Resources were the then first lady Mrs Anna Mkapa; Yona himself; Nicholas Mkapa (the then president and first lady's son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa's father-in-law); and one Evans Mapundi.

Among other things, the company was licensed to ''deal with coal mining in order to generate electricity for consumption and sale; to generate power generators, transmitters and general distributors; and to provide power and general projects management, project appraisers and consultants.''

After the Tanpower Resources' takeover, Nicholas Mkapa - the president's son - was appointed to the board of directors of the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Limited Company, while his father-in-law (Mbuna) became board chairman.

Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd has since entered into a whopping $271.8m (approx. 326bn/-) agreement of intent with the still state-owned Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) to supply 200 megawatts of coal-fired electricity to the national grid.

And under equally dubious circumstances, the privatised Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd has also been given control of the Kabulo coal prospect, a nearby but separate area from Kiwira, also formerly owned by the government, and with proven reserves of up to 14 million tonnes of coal.

Minister Marmo's statement in parliament yesterday was in response to a question from Dr Raphael Chegeni (Busega-CCM), who asked to be told what exactly the government was doing to tackle high-level corruption.

According to the MP, government investigators appeared more preoccupied with petty corruption, leaving perpetrators of grand corruption to slip through their fingers.

Declaring that the government was keen to fight corruption in high office as well, the minister cited the Kiwira affair probe as one of the ongoing investigations in this regard.

When allegations of corruption and abuse of office against Mkapa in particular first surfaced mid-last year, the PCCB director general Dr Edward Hosea, was quoted as saying the anti-graft watchdog would not investigate the ex-president.

In this light, it remains unclear if the current PCCB investigation into the Kiwira 'affair' will at any point zero in on Mkapa, or make a point of avoiding him altogether despite his heavy involvement.
 
Kwa mujibu wa taarifa ya Dr. Mwakyembe, leo, PCCB yenyewe inabidi ichunguzwe, duhhh, kesi ya ngedere kuipeleka kwa nyani.
 
Hapa,uchunguzi watakukuru usimamishwe kwanza mpaka yenyewe ichunguzwe,ikarabatiwe
 
Koba said:
..kwanza inabidi kumtimua hosea na fake investigators wake ndio labda tuanze kazi,lakini bora na hii tumkabidhi Mwakyembe ili kieleweke.
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Koba nakubaliana nawe . JK made mistakes sasa amepata nafasi ya kuwaondoa watu wa ajabu ambao anadhani hawafai na amesha saidiwa na kamati mbali mbali . Kama anaitakia CCM mema basi muda ndiyo huu .
 
Kakianani.pccb Nayo Si Iliitetetea Richmond Jamani?itaweza Kutoa Report Ka Dr.mwakyembe Kweli?.yangu Macho
 
We ain't stoppin' now.......

Mkapa should be investigated-opposition


2008-02-09
By Angel Navuri, Dodoma

The ppposition alliance has named former president Benjamin Mkapa among people lined up for in-depth investigations following allegations that he is among shareholders of a firm that acquired the formerly state-owned Kiwira Coal Mine while he was President.

Addressing a press conference in Dodoma yesterday, the Assistant Opposition spokesperson, Dr. Wilbrod Slaa, (Chadema) flanked by Hamad Rashid Mohamed, (CUF), who is also the opposition spokesperson in the House, said Mkapa had shown no sympathy for poor Tanzanians by grabbing resources that could benefit the majority.

``Official BRELLA registration documents indicate that Benjamin William Mkapa, an entrepreneur using Box 15 Lithuli Street (meaning the State House) is the property owner of Tan-Power Resources Company Ltd that has denied thousands of Tanzanians the right to own shares in the country`s wealth. He has tainted his own credibility and should be held responsible for his misdeeds,`` said Dr Slaa.

He said the wananchi should not be carried away by celebrating the unfolding situation that includes the resignation of former Prime Minister Edward Lowassa and dissolution of the entire cabinet as the more serious task still lay ahead.

``Our ambition is to make sure that all looted resources are returned and the wananchi relieved of the burden currently on their shoulders. You all remember when Lowassa told us that the national economy was in top gear. Now it appears that the good economic situation was in his pocket and that of his colleagues,`` explained Dr Slaa.

He gave as an example the unclear terms of agreement that resulted into the milking-dry of Tanesco, which is currently obliged to pay 244bln/- annually to power companies such as IPTL, Agrekko, Austrum, Songas and Richmond, contracts which he said should be reviewed with immediate effect.

He alleged that 87 foreign fishing boats were currently over-exploiting the country`s resources in national waters, yet the government had opted to remain silent for reasons better known to some government officials.

Dr Slaa recalled the time the opposition members were warned in Parliament not to refer to the national economy as being threatened, ``But with no doubt the findings of a select committee under the chairmanship of Dr Harison Mwakyembe on Richmond Development Company LLC have proved that corruption allegations made by the opposition against some government officials were genuine,` he said.

`We do not hate anyone or celebrate the downfall of certain individuals. Our concern is people`s development and fighting corruption so as to make sure that all those implicated in embezzlement of public funds, including permanent secretaries like Grey Mgonja (Treasury), are brought to justice,` Dr Slaa said.

With regard to the taskforce assigned by President Jakaya Kikwete to seek legal measures against those implicated in BoT External Payment Arrears, EPA, scam, the opposition alliance declared it had no faith in the team.

EPA probe team drew members from the Police force, office of the Attorney General and that of the Prevention and Combat of Corruption Bureau, PCCB.

However, both opposition and CCM MPs who contributed to the Richmond debate in the House had questioned the integrity of both the PCCB and the AG, who did nothing to stop the signing of the dubious contract signed between TANESCO and Richmond, a briefcase firm with no track record, while the PCCB was accused of whitewashing the deal and terming it as corruption free.

``We would like to caution President Kikwete not to pick a wrong candidate as Prime Minister because we will not hesitate to raise our concern if we are not satisfied with the choice. He must be a person who was not included in the list of shame that we announced at Mwembe Yanga grounds in Dar es Salaam,`` he said.

Later, Parliament endorsed the appointment of Mizengo Pinda as the country's new Prime Minister. Pinda has not been implicated in any major corruption scandal.

SOURCE: Guardian
 
Pamoja na Watanzania kutojibiwa swali letu la kutaka kujua Mkapa, Yona na familia zao walimiliki vipi KCM, kampuni hiyo nayo itaanza kuchota toka TANESCO kupitia mkataba wa shilingi bilioni 326 ambao hauna maslahi kwa Watanzania kama wanavyofanya IPTL, Richmond na walivyofanya Net Group Problems

Kiwira to rescue Mbeya region

Jaffar Mjasiri
Daily News;
March 10, 2008

Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) expects to start getting power from the Kiwira Coal and Plant Limited (KCPL) early next year for distribution in Mbeya region.

Tanesco Managing Director, Dr Idrisa Rashid told the Daily News in Dar es Salaam yesterday that they expected to get 50 megawatts in April and 150 megawatts in October 2009 from KCPL.

He refuted claims that the project was behind schedule.

However, industry sources feared the KCPL deal had elements of proving another big burden for power consumers in the country due to its tariff structure.

Dr Rashid said they would pay KCPL US cents 5.60 per kilowatt-hour, which KCPL General Manager, Francis Tabaro said was a very competitive rate.
Mr Tabaro appealed to the public to have confidence in them as they were determined to do a very good job.

But a knowledgeable industry insider worried that power supply contracts tended to favour investors more than consumers and the interests of the country at large.

For instance, said the source, the contracts provided for penalty to delay services but another clause quickly clawed back the provision saying such penalty would not apply over a prolonged period of time.

Mr Tabaro said they would start serious coal mining in the next two weeks or so and said they would be very transparent in their operations.

KCPL is largely a local company in which the government also holds a stake. Prominent Dar es Salaam lawyer, Joe Mbuna chairs the board.
 
nafikiri hiyo heading ingekua hivi MKAPA AND YONA TO BE BILLIONAIRES maana tanesco itakamuliwa pesa ambazo ni mara mbili ya pesa inazokamuliwa na richmond kwa siku, yaani kiwira itakamua tanesco 300 million per day, maana tujuavyo waungwana hiyo kiwira coal mine ni ya mkapa na yona walijinunulia wenyewe wakati wapo madarakani.
 
Kiwira coal mine takeover by Mkapa/Yona
company: How the fast-track process went down

-The story as told through official written correspondences

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

THE joint venture agreement between Tan Power Resources Limited and Kiwira Coal Mines Limited was approved as early as March 2005less than three months after Tan Power Resources was registered as a co-families enterprise of then president Benjamin Mkapa and senior cabinet minister Daniel Yona, it has now been confirmed.

THISDAY investigations have already revealed that the increasingly-controversial agreement followed a 'fast-track' privatization process of the previously state-owned Kiwira coal mine in Mbeya Region.

And it now transpires that this 'fast-track' process included a formal letter written and signed by Yona himself 'then Minister for Energy and Minerals in the Mkapa administration' on March 24, 2005.

In the letter with reference number CDA 48/171/01 and addressed to one of the Tan Power Resources (T) Ltd directors, Evans Mapundi, Yona wrote: ''I am glad to inform you that the government has agreed to go into joint venture partnership with Tan Power Resources (T) Ltd in managing and operating Kiwira Coal Mines Ltd, as outlined in your written proposal.''

''As you are fully aware, KCML is in immediate need of working capital and its expatriates as well as local staff need to be paid and reassured of the future of the company,'' he added.

He said the government had appointed a team to ''negotiate, on a fast-track basis, with Tan Power Resources to finalize the transaction and transfer of KCML legally and professionally.''

The letter named members of the government negotiating team as Treasury Registrar Ms A. Bukuku (chairperson), acting commissioner for minerals Omari Chambo, PSRC senior consultant J.J. Ngelime, and state attorney B. Sahel.

The letter was also copied to the then finance minister Basil Mramba, planning and privatization minister Dr Abdallah Kigoda, Attorney-General Andrew Chenge, Chief Secretary Marten Lumbanga, Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSRC) chairman John Rubambe, and KCML chairman Rumisha Kimambo.

The agreement itself, giving Tan Power Resources 70 per cent of the shares (and therefore controlling interest) in KCML, was signed on June 8, 2005, with signatories including PSRC chairman Rubambe, KCML general manager Adam Salim Abdu, and Tan Power Resources directors Mapundi and Wilfred Malekia.

Tan Power Resources later increased its shareholding in the coal mine to 85 per cent, leaving the government with just 15 per cent.

It has also come to light that Tan Power Resources director Mapundi had earlier written his own letter to minister Yona back in January 2005, in which the company's proposal to the government was first outlined, seeking to enter into a joint venture with KCML as a strategic investor pledging to invest over 40.1bn/- in three phases.

Said Mapundi in his letter: ''Our projections for phase one indicate that by pursuing the joint venture proposal, the company will start making profits from second year (2006) and achieve an internal rate of return of 19 per cent over a five-year scenario.''

He said during phase three of the strategic partnership, Tan Power Resources also pledged to inject 28.1bn/- in a new mine at Kabulo Hill near the Kiwira mine, and expand coal production to 300,000 tonnes and electricity production to 200 megawatts.

Shortly afterwards, KCML entered into a lucrative 271bn/- power purchase agreement (PPA) deal with the state-run Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (TANESCO).

THISDAY investigations have already established that Tan Power Resources was registered on December 29, 2004 as a partnership between ANBEM Limited a private company owned by Mkapa and then first lady Anna and DEVCONSULT Limited - another private company owned by Yona and his son.

They were joined in the Tanpower Resources shareholding structure by at least three more companies, including Fosnik Enterprises in which the then president's son Nicholas Mkapa and his wife Ms Foster (Mbuna) Mkapa are sole shareholders and Choice Enterprises whose majority shareholder is Nicholas' father-in-law Joseph Mbuna.

It has also been established that despite using their powerful positions in government to actively push for the Kiwira coal mine takeover by Tan Power Resources, both Mkapa and Yona neglected to disclose their personal vested interests in the matter throughout the process.

They have since come under increasingly-heavy attack for apparently violating public leadership ethics laws, by using information obtained while executing public office duties for their own personal gain.
 
Hicho mnachokiandika hapo ndo alikuwa anakisema kwamba watu muache wivu wa kike......
Unajua jamaa alikuwa anatutukana kwenye TV zetu wenyewe mbele ya wake na watoto wetu...huku tukikenua kama mipumbavu sijui ya wapi..
Ila mi naamua kuunga mkono ile statement iliyowahi kusemwa ... 'TUMWACHENI MZEE APUMZIKE
 
Tatizo moja kubwa ukiangalia hapo utaona watu wote waliohusika kwa njia moja au nyingine ni presidential appointees.Sasa watu wengine wanakosa integrity na kuangalia maslahi ya kazi zao, wanaona Mzee aliyenipa kazi ndiye dili lake sasa mimi ni nani nimkatalie?

Tunahitaji kumpunguzia nguvu rais na kuondoa hiki ki fiefdom tunachokijenga kwa kumpa rais nguvu kubwa sana.

Ndiyo maana Mkapa anachukua kitu bila tender wala kutoa shilingi, tena anachukua kitu na kupewa hela juu ya kukiendesha.

Mpaka tupate watu wenye ma integrity ya ku resign over such a scandal na kwenda public na details ndiyo tunaweza kuendelea.

Vinginevyo tutatengeneza mabilionea wa chache kifisadi huku nchi nzima ikididimia katika lindi la umasikini usio mwisho.
 
How a president and his minister robbed the nation

  • Sold 4bn/- coal mine to their own company for just 700m/-

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

NEW documents have surfaced showing that ex-president Benjamin Mkapa and his energy and minerals minister, Daniel Yona, sold the formerly state-owned Kiwira Coal Mines Limited to their own private company for a mere 700m/- in 2005 while the mine was actually built at a cost of over 4bn/-.

According to official government records seen by THISDAY, Kiwira coal mine was built by the state in the 1980s with funding from the Chinese and Tanzanian governments at a construction cost of around 4.29bn/-.

An assessment made by Chinese geologists in the late 1970s established that the mine had economic coal reserves of up to 35.14 million tonnes, with proven coal reserves of 22.14 tonnes.

In the dubious privatisation of the coal mine, which was done in a manner most secretive, the government sold off a controlling stake in the lucrative mine to Tanpower Resources Company Limited, a private company personally set up by Mkapa, Yona and their close relatives.

Using their powerful positions in government at that time, both Mkapa and Yona are understood to have fast-tracked the privatisation of the mine to ensure it was very cheaply sold to their own private company.

The now-defunct Presidential Parastatal Sector Reform Commission (PSRC) signed an agreement to this effect with Tanpower Resources on June 8, 2005, for the sale of at least 70 per cent of the shares in coal mine to the Mkapa/Yona company.

Tanpower Resources then quickly increased its stake in the mine to 85 per cent and in March 2006 signed a controversial, $271.8m (approx. 340bn/-) contract with the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) for the supply of 200 megawatts of electricity to the national power grid.

The remaining 15 per cent shares in the Kiwira company are still formally held by the government of the day.

Official documents show that Mkapa and Yona personally took charge of the sale of the coal mine to Tanpower Resources for just 700m/-, with the company also given a generous payment schedule.

It has now been revealed that the company was asked to pay just 70m/- on the date of the signing of the agreement, with the remaining balance of 630m/- payable within six months from the date of signing of the agreement.

The contract for the privatisation of the coal mine was signed on behalf of the government by the former PSRC executive chairman, John Rubambe, and his senior legal counsel, M. Mahanyu.

On the other hand, the coal mine’s former general manager, Adam Salim Abdu, and his finance and administration manager, Ramadhan Idabu, signed the agreement on behalf of Kiwira Coal Mines Ltd.

Representing Tanpower Resources in the signing of the controversial deal were Evans Mapundi and Wilfred Malekia.

Mapundi and Malekia are directors of a company known as Universal Technologies Limited, which is also under the Tanpower Resources umbrella. They also sit on the six-member Kiwira board of directors.

Investigations by THISDAY supported by official documents from the Business Registration and Licensing Authority (BRELA) have revealed that Tanpower Resources was the joint brainchild of Mkapa and Yona, formed during the later stages of the third phase government when one was still serving as president of the United Republic and the other as minister for energy and minerals, respectively.

At the time of the company’s registration in 2004, its first listed directors were the then first lady, Mrs Anna Mkapa; minister Yona; Nicholas Mkapa (the president and Mrs Mkapa’s son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa’s father-in-law); and Evans Mapundi.

As already previously reported by THISDAY, Yona and his son, Danny Yona, were also prominent shareholders of the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Limited under the umbrella of Tanpower Resources Company Limited.

Yona and his son own shares in the high-powered Tanpower Resources through a private company called DEVCONSULT Limited, in which Yona senior owns 90 per cent of the shares while Yona junior holds the remaining 10 per cent.

Mkapa and the former first lady, Mrs Anna Mkapa, also have shares in the same Tanpower Resources company through their own private firm, ANBEM Limited, which was registered in 1999 with the couple as sole shareholders and directors while they were still at State House.

Apart from the shares held by ANBEM Limited, it has also been established that Mr and Mrs Mkapa’s son, Nicholas Mkapa, also has his own shares in the same Kiwira company through another company going by the name of Fosnik Enterprises Limited.

It is understood that Mkapa junior owns Fosnik Enterprises on a 50-50 basis with his wife, Ms Foster (Mbuna) Mkapa.

At the same time, Nicholas Mkapa’s father-in-law Joseph Mbuna has also been discovered to be one of the shareholders and major figures in Kiwira Coal and Power Limited, which is based in Mbeya Region.

Mbuna, whose stake in the company is under the name of Choice Industries Limited in which he is the majority shareholder, has been serving as chairman of the Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd board of directors.

Like ANBEM Limited, DEVCONSULT Limited and Fosnik Enterprises Limited, Choice Industries Limited also falls under the umbrella of Tanpower Resources.

Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd under the ownership of Tanpower Resources was later controversially given control of an additional area in Mbeya Region with lucrative coal deposits that was formerly owned by the government.

Insiders say the Kabulo Coal Prospect was wrestled away from the control of the State Mining Corporation (STAMICO), a government-owned agency, and then handed over to the new Kiwira owners.

Previous studies commissioned by the government itself have shown that the Kabulo area, which lies within the East African rift valley system in south-western Tanzania, has proven reserves of an additional 14 million tonnes of coal.
 
Mh. Kikwete, ulisema tumuache 'mzee wa watu apumzike', hudhani kwamba hadi sasa ameshapumzika vya kutosha? au tumpe brake zaidi?
 
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