Meremeta & TANGOLD Revealed!

[Mafuchila]

Na wizi ni siri, hivyo kuutoa nje ni kuidhalilisha serikali-Hon.Marmo

 

[Fidel80]

Ngoja tusubili nini kitakea endeleeni kutupa news.....

 

[Gembe]

Asante Zitto,Nakushukuru Mwanakijiji...Leo najua patachimba,

Je watakuwa na Uwezo wa kumfungia Tena?

 

[Tuandamane]

Ngoja tusubili nini kitakea endeleeni kutupa news.....

sasa leo ndo mtaiona rangi halisi ya Pinda kama atamjibu Zitto, ndo mtamjua ubabe, kiburi, umbumbu, na kazi halisi iliomueka pale....

 

[Ibambasi]

Duh Mh. Zitto as daring and bold as ever...kaamua kabisa kutimiza ahadi yake ya juzi hapa,Halisi Dr. Slaa yumo pia ukumbini?na Mh. Pinda?

 

[Halisi]

Pinda alikua Kigoma, sina hakika kama karudi!! Nimesikiliza lakini sijaangalia vyema, kwa wanaofuatilia labda watuambie kama karudi Dodoma

 

[Mtu wa Kwao]

na amesema kwenye kamati ya madini ya raisi kulikuwa na watu wa kawaida /wafanyabiashara ambao hawakuwepo chini ya kiapo sasa huo usiri a usalama wa jeshi uko wapi?

 

[Kichwabuta]

Ukweli kuhusu MBIVU na MBICHI utaeleweka LEO !!! Heko kijana wa Chadema (Kigoma), Mh. Zitto sema usiogope kwani walalahoi wote tuko nyuma yako HASA kwa SALA !!! Mwaga nyuki rusha MAWE mpaka kielewekeee hapo BUNGENI maanake wamezoea kutudanganya HATA KAMA SISI NI WADANGANYIKA !!!!!!!!! Mwisho wa siku utaeleza na kuchambua yapi MAKAPI na upi MCHELE !!!!!

 

[Halisi]

Muhimu kwa walio Dodoma kuweka hapa maelezo yote ya Zitto LEO MCHANA

 

[Kichwabuta]

..... endeleeni kutuhabarisha matokeo ya huo mjadala wa Meremeta !!

 

[Ibambasi]

Marmo atang'ang'ana na mambo yake ya "classiFISADI documnets" ili kuendelea kuwalinda majambazi yaliyovaa sura za Mkapa,Chenge,Rostam,Lowassa,Karamagi,Mgonja,Mramba na mengine...

 

[KakindoMaster]

Ongera Mh. Zitto. Hila pia serikali kama imeshindwa kuwashughulikia mafisadi badala ya kutumia hila kutudanganya, basi waturuhusu wananchi tuwashughulikie wenyewe. Vinginevyo itakuwa ni unyanyasaji tu.

 

[Mwikimbi]

tunasubiri kwa hamu kuwafahamu hao wezi, wanaoilisingizia jeshi

 

[Rwabugiri]

Duu, wakaieni kooni, kwani ukweli siku zote hujitenga na uongo!

Lakini pia wanajeshi tusaidieni hivi hizo hela mlizikula kweli? ama ni jeshi la wapi lililo pewa mabilioni hayo?

Come on wajeshi unajua nanyie mkiamka mkasema kweli mkaacha kubebeshwa mizigo ya mafisadi mtakuwa mmesaidia sana katika ukombozi wa Tanzania yetu bila kutumia SMG!

 

[Halisi]

Hivi hawa wakati wanachunguza hawakuwa wakijua kwamba ni mambo ya kijeshi? Mbona walipewa maelekezo na serikali yenyewe? Na huko hawakubaini hata chembe ya "MAMBO YA KIJESHI NA USALAMA WA NCHI!" kama alivyo 'copy and paste' kaka Pinda

Meremeta Gold: Security, intelligence units all on red alert


-Revealed: 'Quiet' investigations in progress

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

The mysterious dealings of the now-defunct Meremeta Gold Mine Company Limited have become the subject of collective curiosity from a number of top national security and intelligence departments long after its reported liquidation in 2005, it has now come to light.

Impeccable sources have informed THISDAY that investigators from the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Services (TISS), the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB), and the Tanzania Police Force's own criminal investigations department (CID) have each been snooping around Meremeta company records filed at the Business Registration and Licensing Authority (BRELA) offices in Dar es Salaam for the past two years or so.

The sources said the investigators appeared mainly interested in gaining access to the company's financial statements and its list of shareholders.

It is understood that although the parallel investigations by all three state agencies are believed to have gathered a significant amount of evidence on the UK-registered company, there has been no status report so far.

It also remains unclear if TISS, PCCB and the police CID were and still are even working together at all, including coordination in gathering, compiling and analysing the evidence on Meremeta.

THISDAY has now learnt that after being formed in the UK, a local branch of the Meremeta company was registered in Tanzania in 1997 and given certificate of compliance number 32755.

At the time, according to THISDAY latest findings, the listed company directors were Russel John Schwartz (a South African national), Wilfred Nyachia (then a senior Treasury official), Zulu Lyana (a Tanzanian civil servant) and Gerald Augustine Mrudi (also a Tanzanian national).

According to the government, Meremeta Gold was originally registered as a joint venture company owned on a 50-50 basis by the Tanzanian government and a private South African company, Trinnex (Pty) Limited.

At least one senior police detective, identified as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ernest Sakawa, is reported to have visited the BRELA offices and asked to see the Meremeta company files as far back as May 2006.

And again in 2007, the PCCB is understood to have sent one of its own top sleuths, Dunia Kaongo, to gather information about Meremeta from BRELA.

Kaongo is now the PCCB director of investigations, a post he took over from Dr Edward Hoseah after the latter's promotion to director general of the government's anti-graft watchdog.

Insiders have also told THISDAY that the police CID's own quiet probe took it all the way to the Buhemba gold mine in Mara region, which was run by the Meremeta company but has since also been closed down somewhat unceremoniously.

THISDAY investigations have already established that as part of the Meremeta bankruptcy process, former Bank of Tanzania governor Daudi Ballali authorised a questionable payment of over $118m (approx. 150bn/-) to South Africa's Nedbank to liquidate a loan issued to the outgoing company.

Following the liquidation of Meremeta, a new company was formed under the name of TANGOLD Limited, which then received an additional $13.34m (approx. 17bn/-) paid by BoT into its bank account at the National Bank of Commerce Limited Corporate Branch in Dar es Salaam.

Former energy and minerals minister Nazir Karamagi is on record as announcing in parliament that TANGOLD was a wholly-owned Tanzania government company, and that all assets and liabilities of the Meremeta company - including the Buhemba gold mine in Mara region � had been transferred to TANGOLD.

However, THISDAY investigations have also verified that TANGOLD Limited was in fact registered as an offshore company in Port Louis, Mauritius in April 2005 - albeit with at least five top government officials listed as directors.

They included Ballali and the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Gray Mgonja, who has continued in the same position todate despite a whole government changeover in the interim.

Others were the then Attorney-General and later senior Cabinet minister, Andrew Chenge; the then permanent secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Patrick Rutabanzibwa; and the then permanent secretary in the Ministry of Livestock Development, Vincent Mrisho.

Rutabanzibwa and Mrisho are now permanent secretaries in the Ministry of Water and the Prime Minister's Office, respectively. As for Chenge, he was recently forced to resign from his latest government position (as senior Cabinet minister) after being linked to the 70bn/- military radar scandal dating back from his days as AG.

It has also been verified that although TANGOLD is supposedly a government-owned company, the listed directors (shareholders) are permitted to transfer all or part of their shares to their next of kin.

Furthermore, the Ministry of Finance currently does not list TANGOLD among companies owned by the Tanzanian government.

SOURCE: THISDAY Saturday, May 17 2008

http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/3980.html

 

[Mtanzania]

Zitto alikuwemo kwenye kamati ya madini kwahiyo nina uhakika anajua anachokisema.

Pinda ilitakiwa asome hiyo report kwanza kabla ya kuingia kichwa kichwa bungeni.

 

[Kungurumweupe]

HEKO ZITTO. Uwasheni moto mpaka kieleweke.

 

[MiratKad]

Zitto alikuwemo kwenye kamati ya madini kwahiyo nina uhakika anajua anachokisema.

Pinda ilitakiwa asome hiyo report kwanza kabla ya kuingia kichwa kichwa bungeni.

Atakuwa ameisoma na anajuwa wazi kuwa anasema uongo. Hao majangili ni lazima washughulikiwe. Hawawezi kuendelea kutufanya wananchi kama mazezeta na wanafanya na kusema wanavyotaka.

 

[Gagnija]

Now we're pretty certain kuwa hofu za baadhi yetu kuhofia uwepo wa Zitto kwenye kamati ile hazikuwa na msingi. Bila kuwemo mengi kuhusu Meremeta yangefichwa !

 

[Halisi]

Zitto alikuwemo kwenye kamati ya madini kwahiyo nina uhakika anajua anachokisema.

Pinda ilitakiwa asome hiyo report kwanza kabla ya kuingia kichwa kichwa bungeni.

Mkuu Mtanzania uko sahihi kabisa, hebu kumbuka hizi story: na kwa taarifa ni kwamba Kamati ya Makatibu Wakuu wote, chini ya Katibu Mkuu Kiongozi, Philemon Luhanjo, imeyakubali kwa asilimia 100 mapendekezo ya Kamati ya Rais ya Madini, likiwamo la kuifanyia uchunguzi Meremeta na hatua kuchukuliwa. Sasa Pinda anakurupuka kama alivyokurupuka Mkulo kuhusu EPA. lakini sishangai, hayo ni mapendekezo/maamuzi/usanii wa vikao vya CCM ambavyo Mkapa aliibuka na kushiriki na sasa mambo yote yanayomhusu Mkapa nasikia harufu ya kuyasafisha!!!! Watanzania wa leo si wale wa enzi zake bwana Mkapa, ambao alikua anawafokea waandishi wanaokemea rushwa kwa kuwahohi kwamba, "na wao waseme wamepata wapi mitaji yao"

TANGOLD, Meremeta back in the spotlight:As Bomani team seeks deeper probe into whole affair


THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

THE presidential mining sector review committee has called for an official investigation into the supposedly government-owned TANGOLD Limited company, whose controversial list of shareholders includes former Cabinet minister Andrew Chenge and the reportedly deceased ex-governor of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), Daudi Ballali.

In its report submitted to President Jakaya Kikwete last weekend after more than six months of research, the committee chaired by retired Judge Mark Bomani has raised more questions on a series of payments amounting to more than 158bn/-, made by BoT to both TANGOLD and its apparent forerunner company Meremeta Gold.

As such, included in the report's recommendations is a call for a thorough investigation into both the Meremeta and TANGOLD companies, encompassing their formation and (in Meremeta's case) liquidation, the extent of government ownership interest in them, and ''the legality of the payment of $132m by the BoT to South Africa's Nedbank.''

According to the report, there are several discrepancies in the financial records of both companies behind the Buhemba Gold Mine in Mara Region.

It notes that: ''Based on the (BoT) governor's report, the central bank paid Nedbank a total of $132m, equivalent to 158bn/-, with regards to the Meremeta company. However, other reports suggest that the loan amount to be paid was just $104m.''

''The committee was unable to get detailed explanations on the establishment, ownership and liquidation of the Meremeta company, and the eventual registration of TANGOLD outside the country,'' the report states.

It is understood that the formation of Meremeta Gold company had the strong backing of former president Benjamin Mkapa, whose government (and State House in particular) was seen to aggressively promote the company's gold mining activities in the Tembo area of Buhemba in Mara Region.

On the other hand, it has been established that TANGOLD - which was the beneficiary of a highly-questionable $13.34m (approx. 17bn/-) payment from the BoT - was registered as an offshore company in Port Louis, Mauritius in April 2005, months before the Mkapa administration wound up its tenure.

At least five top government functionaries were listed as TANGOLD company directors at the time of its registration, these included the then BoT governor Ballali, and the then attorney general Chenge.

Others were the then permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Gray Mgonja (who still retains the same position in the current government), the then permanent secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Patrick Rutabanzibwa, and the then permanent secretary in the Ministry of Livestock Development, Vincent Mrisho.

Rutabanzibwa and Mrisho are now permanent secretaries in the Ministry of Water and the Prime Minister's Office, respectively, while Chenge later relinquished the AG post, entered politics, won a parliamentary seat and was included in the fourth phase government of President Jakaya Kikwete, first as Minister of East African Cooperation and later as Minister for Infrastructure Development.

He was, however, forced to resign from his ministerial position last month, after being implicated in the 70bn/- military radar scandal. As for Ballali, he was sacked from the central bank governorship by President Kikwete earlier this year, and is now reportedly deceased.

This means that of the five registered company directors, only Mgonja has remained in exactly the same position as at the time of registration in April 2005 (just over three years ago).

The BoT payment to TANGOLD followed another payment amounting to over $118m (approx. 150bn/-), ostensibly to liquidate a loan issued to the Meremeta Gold company as part of its winding-up process.

It is now understood that Meremeta Gold was in fact a joint venture project owned on a 50-50 basis by the Tanzanian government and a private South African firm going by the name of Trinnex (Pty) Limited.

Further mystery surrounds an announcement made in parliament by former energy and minerals minister Nazir Karamagi, to the effect that all assets and liabilities of Meremeta Gold - including the Buhemba Gold Mine � were transferred to TANGOLD Limited as ''a new company wholly-owned by the Tanzanian government.''

However, it has since transpired that the TANGOLD Limited company does not appear on the list of government-owned companies recorded with the Treasury registrar at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs.

It has furthermore been established that the official constitution of this supposedly government-owned company has provisions that give its five registered directors - namely Ballali, Chenge, Mgonja, Rutabanzibwa and Mrisho - the right to transfer their shares to family members.

According to a section in the TANGOLD Limited constitution directly pertaining to family transactions:''Any share may be transferred by a shareholder to, or to trustees for, the spouse, father, mother, child, grandchild, son-in-law or daughter-in-law of that shareholder; and any share of a deceased shareholder may be transferred by his executors or administrators to the spouse, father, mother, child, grandchild, son-in-law or daughter-in-law of the deceased shareholder.''

President Kikwete is understood to have ordered the incumbent Minister for Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja, to study the Bomani committee's report findings and submit his own recommendations to State House for further action.

SOURCE: Thisday: Tuesday, June 03 2008

http://www.thisday.co.tz/News/4076.html