Mkapa above the law?: Allegations
Mkapa above the law?: Allegations
- Thread starter Mzee Mwanakijiji
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Hiyo mbona straight forward,
1. Freeze accounts + assets zake zote zinahosiwa kupatikana thru abuse of office
2. Place him under house arrest to pave way for criminal investigation
3. Peleka mahakamani and most likely lupango thereafter for uhujumu uchumi + abuse of power
1. Freeze accounts + assets zake zote zinahosiwa kupatikana thru abuse of office
2. Place him under house arrest to pave way for criminal investigation
3. Peleka mahakamani and most likely lupango thereafter for uhujumu uchumi + abuse of power
JK alishatoa hukumu kwamba tumuache Mzee wetu (BWM) apumzike! Nadhani JK alisema hivyo baada ya kuona kazi nzito iliyofanywa na BWM ya kuiba mali ya walala hoi kwa kutumia mwavuli wa ujasiriamali na utandawazi, kweli anahitaji kupumzika maana hiyo ilikuwa looting ya nguvu.
Sina hakika kama BWM atachukuliwa hatua yeyote na hiyo inajenga msingi mbaya sana wa kulindana. Hapo hata JK anajiwekea mazingira kwamba akiondoka madarakani ataachwa apumzike hata kama amekomba mabilioni ya shilingi!
This could be the correct action, tatizo, aliwapa zawadi za Nyumba za Serekali watu wote ambao wanaweza kumshika, au kupiga kelele, na bahati mbaya wabunge machachari nao kawapa kama sio nyumba za serekali kawauzia miradi ya serekali karibu ya bure, ndio hao akina Mzinda....., etc.
Wajinga akina Seleli wanakalia Barabara ya Nzega.... na nidhamu ya chama
Kichuguu
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Sidhani kama Yona na Mkapa wana uwezo kifedha wao wenyewe kuinvest na kuiendesha hiyo project ya Kiwira, hasa ukichukulia kua ANBEN ni changa sana. Ila wametumia madaraka yao vibaya kujichukulia huo mradi toka PSRC kwa madhumuni ya kuuza ama kutafuta mbia mwenye uwezo, yaani lazima kuna third party. Pia wanaweza tumia kupata mkopo toka mabeki ya kitapeli ya nje kwa kutumia mkataba wa malipo ya uzalisha wa umeme wa makapuni yao na TANESCO (Serikali). Hivi PSRC iliwauzia huo mradi, hata haijaeleweka. Yote kwa yote, ni lazima Mkapa achunguzwe ama atufahamisha kulikoni. Kiwira imekuwa inazalisha umeme karibu karne moja iliyopita, hivyo kiwira yenyewe, wafanyakazi ama watu wa pale ni muhimu wakauziwa share. Mkapa and Yona pamoja na familia zao waache tamaa ama watapasuka msamba.
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kwa mujibu a Sheria Mpya ya PCCB (TAKUKURU) Mtu kama Mkapa akichunguzwa inakua ndio mwisho wa kuandikwa ama kujadiliwa kwa habari zake.. KIfungu cha 37 cha Sheria hiyo.
kwa mujibu a Sheria Mpya ya PCCB (TAKUKURU) Mtu kama Mkapa akichunguzwa inakua ndio mwisho wa kuandikwa ama kujadiliwa kwa habari zake.. KIfungu cha 37 cha Sheria hiyo.
The Mkapa-Yona-Kiwira connection: Shrouded in secrecy from the beginning
-The story of the 'disappearing' file
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
NEW details are emerging of how a private company set up by former president Benjamin Mkapa and one of his cabinet ministers, Daniel Yona, swiftly assumed ownership of the previously state-owned Kiwira Coal Mine Limited with very few other people in government even aware of what was going on.
Investigations by THISDAY have now established that Tanpower Resources Limited, the company formed in late 2004 apparently with the primary objective of taking over the Kiwira coal project in Mbeya Region, was from the outset shrouded in such secrecy and mystery that only a handful of government functionaries knew of Mr Mkapa and Yona's joint omnipresence in it.
''The fact of the matter is that all records of Tanpower Resources apparently disappeared from the Business Registrations and Licensing Authority (BRELA) offices, and it was not possible for anybody to access these records during the Kiwira takeover move,'' a well-informed government source told THISDAY.
Our sources at BRELA also conceded that the company's file appeared to have been ''deliberately hidden'', and only resurfaced recently after THISDAY began publishing a series of exclusive reports on the company's shareholders' profile.
Once the file resurfaced, it was also noticed that some changes had been made to important information contained therein. These included the inclusion of a one-page document from a 2005 company board of directors' resolution, whereby ANBEM Limited � a private company owned by Mr Mkapa and his wife Ms Anna Mkapa - had forfeited its listed 200,000 shares in Tanpower Resources.
Back in May of this year, THISDAY made a formal, written request to BRELA for access to the Tanpower Resources company records, but never received a response.
''I have been looking for the Tanpower Resources file for more than a year now, but couldn't find it anywhere in our databank,'' said one senior BRELA official when pressed last week for the long-awaited response to THISDAY's request.
Tanpower Resources was officially registered on December 29, 2004, and within just six months (mid-2005) had succeeded in acquiring majority shares in the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Limited company.
Less that a year after that (March 2006), the Kiwira company entered into a huge, $271.8m (approx. 340bn/-) contract with the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) for the supply of 200 megawatts of electricity to the national power grid.
It has now been verified that Tanpower Resources was the joint brainchild of Mr 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.
When the Kiwira company shares exchange deal took place, the two were still occupying their all-powerful positions in the third phase government.
Tanpower Resources currently holds at least 85 per cent of all shares in the Kiwira Coal and Power Limited company overseeing the coal-fired power project in Mbeya Region, with the remaining 15 per cent shares still formally retained by the government of the day.
At the time of the company's establishment in December 2004, its first listed directors were the then first lady Mrs Anna Mkapa; the then minister for energy and minerals Daniel Yona; Nicholas Mkapa (the president and Mrs Mkapa's son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa's father-in-law); and Evans Mapundi.
Amongst many other things, some stated objectives of Tanpower Resources are to ''carry on the business of miners of coal and iron, to process such coal and iron and generally treat, prepare, render marketable, sell and dispose of such coal and iron or by-products resulting therein in their raw or manufactured state.''
The company was also 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.''
According to THISDAY's government sources, the multi-billion shilling contract between TANESCO and Kiwira Coal and Power Limited is now beginning to raise new questions regarding its potentially-damaging effects on the national economy, as delays continue to hamper the still-pending launch of the project.
In the light of renewed scrutiny of the contract details, there are now growing fears that the deal could eventually turn out to be another expensive trap for the national economy, along the same lines as the infamous 1995 IPTL affair.
-The story of the 'disappearing' file
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
NEW details are emerging of how a private company set up by former president Benjamin Mkapa and one of his cabinet ministers, Daniel Yona, swiftly assumed ownership of the previously state-owned Kiwira Coal Mine Limited with very few other people in government even aware of what was going on.
Investigations by THISDAY have now established that Tanpower Resources Limited, the company formed in late 2004 apparently with the primary objective of taking over the Kiwira coal project in Mbeya Region, was from the outset shrouded in such secrecy and mystery that only a handful of government functionaries knew of Mr Mkapa and Yona's joint omnipresence in it.
''The fact of the matter is that all records of Tanpower Resources apparently disappeared from the Business Registrations and Licensing Authority (BRELA) offices, and it was not possible for anybody to access these records during the Kiwira takeover move,'' a well-informed government source told THISDAY.
Our sources at BRELA also conceded that the company's file appeared to have been ''deliberately hidden'', and only resurfaced recently after THISDAY began publishing a series of exclusive reports on the company's shareholders' profile.
Once the file resurfaced, it was also noticed that some changes had been made to important information contained therein. These included the inclusion of a one-page document from a 2005 company board of directors' resolution, whereby ANBEM Limited � a private company owned by Mr Mkapa and his wife Ms Anna Mkapa - had forfeited its listed 200,000 shares in Tanpower Resources.
Back in May of this year, THISDAY made a formal, written request to BRELA for access to the Tanpower Resources company records, but never received a response.
''I have been looking for the Tanpower Resources file for more than a year now, but couldn't find it anywhere in our databank,'' said one senior BRELA official when pressed last week for the long-awaited response to THISDAY's request.
Tanpower Resources was officially registered on December 29, 2004, and within just six months (mid-2005) had succeeded in acquiring majority shares in the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Limited company.
Less that a year after that (March 2006), the Kiwira company entered into a huge, $271.8m (approx. 340bn/-) contract with the state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) for the supply of 200 megawatts of electricity to the national power grid.
It has now been verified that Tanpower Resources was the joint brainchild of Mr 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.
When the Kiwira company shares exchange deal took place, the two were still occupying their all-powerful positions in the third phase government.
Tanpower Resources currently holds at least 85 per cent of all shares in the Kiwira Coal and Power Limited company overseeing the coal-fired power project in Mbeya Region, with the remaining 15 per cent shares still formally retained by the government of the day.
At the time of the company's establishment in December 2004, its first listed directors were the then first lady Mrs Anna Mkapa; the then minister for energy and minerals Daniel Yona; Nicholas Mkapa (the president and Mrs Mkapa's son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa's father-in-law); and Evans Mapundi.
Amongst many other things, some stated objectives of Tanpower Resources are to ''carry on the business of miners of coal and iron, to process such coal and iron and generally treat, prepare, render marketable, sell and dispose of such coal and iron or by-products resulting therein in their raw or manufactured state.''
The company was also 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.''
According to THISDAY's government sources, the multi-billion shilling contract between TANESCO and Kiwira Coal and Power Limited is now beginning to raise new questions regarding its potentially-damaging effects on the national economy, as delays continue to hamper the still-pending launch of the project.
In the light of renewed scrutiny of the contract details, there are now growing fears that the deal could eventually turn out to be another expensive trap for the national economy, along the same lines as the infamous 1995 IPTL affair.
Kichuguu
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Kusahau ni tatizo kubwa sana kwa watanzania. Wenzetu huwa hawasau kabisa; mwaka huu wamemshitaki na kumtia hatiani jamaa mmoja huko Mississipi kwa makosa aliyofanya mwaka 1963. Lakini sisis Watanzania tunasahau kwa wiki moja tu.
Mwaka 2002 au 2003 hivi wakati nikiwa pale Tanzania kwa likizo fupi kulikuwa mvutano sana kuhusu "uuzwaji wa TANESCO" kwa Afrika ya Kusini. Kuna mhoraji mmja wa katuni aliweka katuni ambayp sitaisahau. katuni ilikuwa kama ifuatavyo.
Kulikuwa na mwekezaji (kaburu), Kingozi wa tanzania (waziri), na kundi la wananchi waliokuwa kwenye kibanda. Wananchi wale walikuwa wamefungiwa kwenye kibanda huku waking'ang'ana kukifungua huku wakipiga kelele sana kupinga uuzwaji wa TANESCO. Waziri alikuwa anasukuma mlango wa kibanda kile kusudi usifunguke uendelee kuwafungia wananchi wale mle kibadnani huku akimwabia yule mwekezaji kaburu kuwa "Usiwe na wasi wasi, jamaa hawa ndiyo walivyo, tumeshwazoewa, watapiga kelele sana lakini baadaye watatulia na kila kitu kitakwenda sawasawa."
Tusisahahu la BoT wakati tunaongea la Mkapa.
Inaelekea hii ni kama 'Richmonduli' maanake hata IPTL haiwafikii kwa usanii.
Akina Mkapa wame-mute wanasubiri watu wasahau halafu watatafuta mnnunuzi kama ilivyokuwa kwa Richmond.
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China toy boss kills self after recall By AUDRA ANG, Associated Press Writer
23 minutes ago
The head of a Chinese toy manufacturing company at the center of a huge U.S. recall has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper said Monday.
Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd., killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China announced it had temporarily banned exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
Lee Der made 967,000 toys recalled earlier this month by Mattel Inc. because they were made with paint found to have excessive amounts of lead. The plastic preschool toys, sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the U.S., included the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters.
It was among the largest recalls in recent months involving Chinese products, which have come under fire for globally for containing potentially dangerous high levels of chemicals and toxins.
The Southern Metropolis Daily said that a supplier, Zhang's best friend, sold Lee Der fake paint which was used in the toys.
"The boss and the company were harmed by the paint supplier, the closest friend of our boss," a manager surnamed Liu was quoted as saying.
Liu said Zhang hung himself on Saturday, according to the report. It is common for disgraced officials to commit suicide in China.
"When I got there around 5 p.m., police had already sealed off the area," Liu said.
A company official who answered the telephone at the Lee Der factory in the southern city of Foshan on Monday said he had not heard of the news. A man at Lee Der's main office in Hong Kong said the company was not accepting interviews and hung up.
According to a search on a registry of Hong Kong companies, Zhang whose name is spelled Cheung Shu-hung in official documents is a co-owner of Lee Der. The other owner, Chiu Kwei-tsun, did not return telephone messages left for him.
The recall by El Segundo, California-based Mattel came just two months after RC2 Corp., a New York company, recalled 1.5 million Chinese-made wooden railroad toys and set parts from its Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line because of lead paint.
The maker, Hansheng Wood Products Factory, was also included in the export ban announced Thursday by the General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, one of China's quality watchdogs.
The administration also ordered both companies to evaluate and change their business practices.
Lead poisoning can cause vomiting, anemia and learning difficulties. In extreme cases, it can cause severe neurological damage and death.
The quality watchdog also said police were investigating two companies' use of "fake plastic pigment" but did not give any details. Such pigments are a type of industrial latex usually used to increase surface gloss and smoothness.
Telephones rang unanswered at the public security bureau in Foshan and at Dongxing New Energy Company, which is the paint supplier.
In its report, the Southern Metropolis Daily said Zhang, who was in his 50s, treated his 5,000-odd employees well and always paid them on time.
The morning of his suicide, he greeted workers and chatted with some of them, the newspaper said.
Chinese companies often have long supply chains, making it difficult to trace the exact origin of components, chemicals and food additives.
On Sunday, a Chinese court sentenced a reporter to a year in jail for faking a television story about cardboard-filled meat buns in a case that has drawn even more attention to China's poor food safety record.
Zi Beijia, 28, pleaded guilty to charges of infringing on the reputation of a commodity during his trial at the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was sentenced to a year in jail and a fine of $132, it said.
Zi's story, reportedly shot with a hidden camera, appeared to show a makeshift kitchen where people made steamed buns stuffed with shredded cardboard softened with caustic soda plus a little bit of fatty pork.
Zi paid four migrant workers from China's northern Shaanxi province to prepare the buns according to his instructions, Xinhua said. The buns were then fed to dogs, it said.
The story was first broadcast on Beijing Television's Life Channel, where Zi was a freelance reporter, on July 8 and then again on China Central Television. It was also widely seen on YouTube.com
23 minutes ago
The head of a Chinese toy manufacturing company at the center of a huge U.S. recall has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper said Monday.
Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd., killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China announced it had temporarily banned exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
Lee Der made 967,000 toys recalled earlier this month by Mattel Inc. because they were made with paint found to have excessive amounts of lead. The plastic preschool toys, sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the U.S., included the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters.
It was among the largest recalls in recent months involving Chinese products, which have come under fire for globally for containing potentially dangerous high levels of chemicals and toxins.
The Southern Metropolis Daily said that a supplier, Zhang's best friend, sold Lee Der fake paint which was used in the toys.
"The boss and the company were harmed by the paint supplier, the closest friend of our boss," a manager surnamed Liu was quoted as saying.
Liu said Zhang hung himself on Saturday, according to the report. It is common for disgraced officials to commit suicide in China.
"When I got there around 5 p.m., police had already sealed off the area," Liu said.
A company official who answered the telephone at the Lee Der factory in the southern city of Foshan on Monday said he had not heard of the news. A man at Lee Der's main office in Hong Kong said the company was not accepting interviews and hung up.
According to a search on a registry of Hong Kong companies, Zhang whose name is spelled Cheung Shu-hung in official documents is a co-owner of Lee Der. The other owner, Chiu Kwei-tsun, did not return telephone messages left for him.
The recall by El Segundo, California-based Mattel came just two months after RC2 Corp., a New York company, recalled 1.5 million Chinese-made wooden railroad toys and set parts from its Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line because of lead paint.
The maker, Hansheng Wood Products Factory, was also included in the export ban announced Thursday by the General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, one of China's quality watchdogs.
The administration also ordered both companies to evaluate and change their business practices.
Lead poisoning can cause vomiting, anemia and learning difficulties. In extreme cases, it can cause severe neurological damage and death.
The quality watchdog also said police were investigating two companies' use of "fake plastic pigment" but did not give any details. Such pigments are a type of industrial latex usually used to increase surface gloss and smoothness.
Telephones rang unanswered at the public security bureau in Foshan and at Dongxing New Energy Company, which is the paint supplier.
In its report, the Southern Metropolis Daily said Zhang, who was in his 50s, treated his 5,000-odd employees well and always paid them on time.
The morning of his suicide, he greeted workers and chatted with some of them, the newspaper said.
Chinese companies often have long supply chains, making it difficult to trace the exact origin of components, chemicals and food additives.
On Sunday, a Chinese court sentenced a reporter to a year in jail for faking a television story about cardboard-filled meat buns in a case that has drawn even more attention to China's poor food safety record.
Zi Beijia, 28, pleaded guilty to charges of infringing on the reputation of a commodity during his trial at the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He was sentenced to a year in jail and a fine of $132, it said.
Zi's story, reportedly shot with a hidden camera, appeared to show a makeshift kitchen where people made steamed buns stuffed with shredded cardboard softened with caustic soda plus a little bit of fatty pork.
Zi paid four migrant workers from China's northern Shaanxi province to prepare the buns according to his instructions, Xinhua said. The buns were then fed to dogs, it said.
The story was first broadcast on Beijing Television's Life Channel, where Zi was a freelance reporter, on July 8 and then again on China Central Television. It was also widely seen on YouTube.com
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Mkapa ajinyonge kwa shida gani hasa alizonazo??...huyu Mchina aliona mwenzie alichofanyiwa yeye akaamua kuwahi ahera mapema.
STATE MINING CORPORATION ELBOWED OUT OF 14-MILLION TONNES OF COAL DEPOSITS
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
KIWIRA Coal and Power Limited, whose majority shares are owned by a private company set up by ex-president Benjamin Mkapa and his energy and minerals minister, Daniel Yona, was controversially given control of an additional area with lucrative coal deposits that was formerly owned by the government.
Our sources say the Kabulo Coal Prospect also in Mbeya Region where the Kiwira mine is located was wrestled away from the control of the State Mining Corporation (STAMICO), a government-owned agency, and then handed over 'on a silver' platter to 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 up to 14 million tonnes of coal.
''The government had in the past borrowed millions of dollars from the World Bank to study the Kabulo area. A British mining consultancy firm discovered that Kabulo had the potential to generate up to 400 megawatts of electricity from its rich coal reserves,'' a well-placed government source told THISDAY.
He added: ''On the basis of findings of this study, it was then agreed that TANESCO (Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited) should start producing power from Kabulo by the year 1995. This plan was mysteriously shelved only to be revealed now that the Kabulo area has been given to owners of Kiwira on a silver platter.''
Before Kabulo coal reserves were snatched from its ownership, STAMICO had been actively promoting the area with the intention of attracting a strategic investor to develop a coal-fired power station.
Another highly-placed government source said officials at STAMICO were ''shocked by the decision of the ministry of energy and minerals to hand over the vast coal resources at Kabulo to the largely privately owned Kiwira company.''
At least 85 per cent of the shares in Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd are owned by Tanpower Resources Limited, a little-known private company formed in late 2004 by the then president and his senior cabinet minister apparently with the primary objective of taking over the previously state-owned Kiwira Coal mine.
The Tanzanian government currently retains just 15 per cent of the shares in Kiwira, which only last year entered into a controversial 20-year power supply contract with TANESCO.
When tabling his ministry's 2006/07 budget estimates mid last year, the then Minister for Energy and Minerals, Dr Ibrahim Msabaha, announced in Parliament that the government had concluded negotiations with owners of the Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd to expand power generation capacity to 200MW by ''using coal reserves at Kiwira and Kabulo.''
Dr Msabaha, who has now been moved to the East African Community portfolio, declared in the National Assembly that the government, TANESCO and Kiwira owners had in March 2006 signed an agreement of intent for the development of the $271.8m (approx. 340bn/-) Kiwira coal-fired power project.
''The process of getting a formal government approval for the construction of the (Kiwira) project is already underway,'' he added.
It has now emerged that the state mining firm was blocked from developing the Kabulo area, which was eventually given to Kiwira owners.
The state-run STAMICO was formed in 1972 by Government Notice No. 163 under the Public Corporation Act. It operates commercially on undertaking contract drilling services and investing in mineral exploration through mineral rights acquisition, grassroots exploration and joint venturing.
Investigations by THISDAY have already uncovered that Tanpower Resources swiftly assumed ownership of the previously state-owned Kiwira Coal mine after being registered by then president Mkapa and senior cabinet minister Yona, with very few other people in government even aware of what was actually going on.
Sources say details of the Mkapa-Yona company were deliberately made sketchy from the outset, with its operations and shareholding structure shrouded in such secrecy and mystery that only a handful of government functionaries, if any, knew the powerful forces behind the company.
It has also been suggested that the company's file appeared to have been 'deliberately hidden' at the Business Registration and Licensing Authority (BRELA) for several years and only resurfaced recently.
According to THISDAY findings, Tanpower Resources was officially registered on December 29, 2004, and within just six months had succeeded in acquiring the majority shares in the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd.
Less than a year after that, the Kiwira company entered into a huge contract with the state-run TANESCO for the supply of 200MW of electricity to the national power grid.
It has now been verified that Tanpower Resources was the joint brainchild of Mr 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 establishment in 2004, its first listed directors were the then first lady Mrs Anna Mkapa; the then minister for energy and minerals Daniel Yona; Nicholas Mkapa (the president and Mrs Mkapa's son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa's father-in-law); and Evans Mapundi.
Amongst many other things, some stated objectives of Tanpower Resources are to ''carry on the business of miners of coal and iron, to process such coal and iron and generally treat, prepare, render marketable, sell and dispose of such coal and iron or by-products resulting therein in their raw or manufactured state.''
The company was also 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.''
According to THISDAY findings, the multi-billion shilling contract between TANESCO and Kiwira Coal and Power Limited is now beginning to raise new questions regarding its potentially-damaging effects on the national economy, as delays continue to hamper the still-pending launch of the project.
In the light of renewed scrutiny of the contract details, there are now growing fears that the deal could eventually turn out to be another quagmire, with officials already drawing similarities with the infamous IPTL affair of 1995.
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
KIWIRA Coal and Power Limited, whose majority shares are owned by a private company set up by ex-president Benjamin Mkapa and his energy and minerals minister, Daniel Yona, was controversially given control of an additional area with lucrative coal deposits that was formerly owned by the government.
Our sources say the Kabulo Coal Prospect also in Mbeya Region where the Kiwira mine is located was wrestled away from the control of the State Mining Corporation (STAMICO), a government-owned agency, and then handed over 'on a silver' platter to 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 up to 14 million tonnes of coal.
''The government had in the past borrowed millions of dollars from the World Bank to study the Kabulo area. A British mining consultancy firm discovered that Kabulo had the potential to generate up to 400 megawatts of electricity from its rich coal reserves,'' a well-placed government source told THISDAY.
He added: ''On the basis of findings of this study, it was then agreed that TANESCO (Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited) should start producing power from Kabulo by the year 1995. This plan was mysteriously shelved only to be revealed now that the Kabulo area has been given to owners of Kiwira on a silver platter.''
Before Kabulo coal reserves were snatched from its ownership, STAMICO had been actively promoting the area with the intention of attracting a strategic investor to develop a coal-fired power station.
Another highly-placed government source said officials at STAMICO were ''shocked by the decision of the ministry of energy and minerals to hand over the vast coal resources at Kabulo to the largely privately owned Kiwira company.''
At least 85 per cent of the shares in Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd are owned by Tanpower Resources Limited, a little-known private company formed in late 2004 by the then president and his senior cabinet minister apparently with the primary objective of taking over the previously state-owned Kiwira Coal mine.
The Tanzanian government currently retains just 15 per cent of the shares in Kiwira, which only last year entered into a controversial 20-year power supply contract with TANESCO.
When tabling his ministry's 2006/07 budget estimates mid last year, the then Minister for Energy and Minerals, Dr Ibrahim Msabaha, announced in Parliament that the government had concluded negotiations with owners of the Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd to expand power generation capacity to 200MW by ''using coal reserves at Kiwira and Kabulo.''
Dr Msabaha, who has now been moved to the East African Community portfolio, declared in the National Assembly that the government, TANESCO and Kiwira owners had in March 2006 signed an agreement of intent for the development of the $271.8m (approx. 340bn/-) Kiwira coal-fired power project.
''The process of getting a formal government approval for the construction of the (Kiwira) project is already underway,'' he added.
It has now emerged that the state mining firm was blocked from developing the Kabulo area, which was eventually given to Kiwira owners.
The state-run STAMICO was formed in 1972 by Government Notice No. 163 under the Public Corporation Act. It operates commercially on undertaking contract drilling services and investing in mineral exploration through mineral rights acquisition, grassroots exploration and joint venturing.
Investigations by THISDAY have already uncovered that Tanpower Resources swiftly assumed ownership of the previously state-owned Kiwira Coal mine after being registered by then president Mkapa and senior cabinet minister Yona, with very few other people in government even aware of what was actually going on.
Sources say details of the Mkapa-Yona company were deliberately made sketchy from the outset, with its operations and shareholding structure shrouded in such secrecy and mystery that only a handful of government functionaries, if any, knew the powerful forces behind the company.
It has also been suggested that the company's file appeared to have been 'deliberately hidden' at the Business Registration and Licensing Authority (BRELA) for several years and only resurfaced recently.
According to THISDAY findings, Tanpower Resources was officially registered on December 29, 2004, and within just six months had succeeded in acquiring the majority shares in the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd.
Less than a year after that, the Kiwira company entered into a huge contract with the state-run TANESCO for the supply of 200MW of electricity to the national power grid.
It has now been verified that Tanpower Resources was the joint brainchild of Mr 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 establishment in 2004, its first listed directors were the then first lady Mrs Anna Mkapa; the then minister for energy and minerals Daniel Yona; Nicholas Mkapa (the president and Mrs Mkapa's son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa's father-in-law); and Evans Mapundi.
Amongst many other things, some stated objectives of Tanpower Resources are to ''carry on the business of miners of coal and iron, to process such coal and iron and generally treat, prepare, render marketable, sell and dispose of such coal and iron or by-products resulting therein in their raw or manufactured state.''
The company was also 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.''
According to THISDAY findings, the multi-billion shilling contract between TANESCO and Kiwira Coal and Power Limited is now beginning to raise new questions regarding its potentially-damaging effects on the national economy, as delays continue to hamper the still-pending launch of the project.
In the light of renewed scrutiny of the contract details, there are now growing fears that the deal could eventually turn out to be another quagmire, with officials already drawing similarities with the infamous IPTL affair of 1995.
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Hivi unafikiri mambo haya yatatokea BONGO siku za hivi karibuni??
Mkapa-Yona-Kiwira: Abuse of power?
-Following the paper trail�in chronological order
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
A PAPER trail left behind after the controversial privatisation of the state-owned Kiwira Coal Mine in 2005 has unearthed evidence of obvious abuse of office by former president Benjamin Mkapa and his energy and minerals minister Daniel Yona.
Painstaking investigations by THISDAY have succeeded in unravelling the intertwining interests of the two once all-powerful politicians and their immediate families in this apparently-lucrative but astonishingly-secretive deal.
For chronological purposes, the beginning of the story can be traced back to 1999, when Mr Mkapa and first lady Anna Mkapa founded a private company called ANBEM Limited while they were still occupying public office at State House.
This company would in late 2004 enter into a partnership with another private company, DEVCONSULT Limited, in which Yona and his son are sole shareholders, to establish Tanpower Resources Limited.
They were joined in the Tanpower Resources shareholding structure by at least three more companies, two which were Fosnik Enterprises � in which the ex-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.
And hardly six months after its formation, the seemingly obscure Tanpower Resources swiftly moved in to take over the Kiwira Coal Mine - with very few people in government actually aware of the real, powerful forces behind the company.
Following is a chronology of official events and happenings, backed by a paper trail of evidence, that suggest a planned and systematic abuse of public office by people perched at the very top of government, culminating in the takeover of the potentially very rich (and formerly state-owned) Kiwira Coal Mine in Mbeya Region:
June 22, 1999
While serving as sitting president and first lady of the United Republic, Mr and Mrs Mkapa officially registered ANBEM Limited in Dar es Salaam as a private company in which they were sole directors, shareholders and �entrepreneurs�, as described in the company documents.
Among other things, the stated objectives of ANBEM Ltd include: �To carry on business and to act as merchants, general traders, warehouse, stockists, shopkeepers and operators of supermarkets, commission agents and carriers.�
From 1999 to 2005 - when Mr Mkapa completed his second and final term in office as per national constitution � the private business affairs of ANBEM Ltd were conducted from registered offices at Plot Number 15, Luthuli Road, which is a building within the official State House walls in Dar es Salaam.
July 2002
When ANBEM Limited was three years old � and with its sole shareholders still occupying public office at Ikulu � the company applied for and was granted a loan of $500,000 (approx. 650m/-) from the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) Limited. This loan came on the heels of a heated national debate over the privatization of the previously state-owned bank, which was fiercely opposed, amongst others, by the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, until his death in 1999.
Several members of parliament from both ruling and opposition parties were also strongly against the bank�s privatization, arguing that the once-giant national institution was being sold off far too cheaply. But as eventually transpired, the privatization of the then NBC (1997) Ltd still went ahead as scheduled, with the formation of NBC Ltd in April 2000 and acquisition by South Africa�s ABSA Group of 70 per cent of the bank�s shares - for a reported total price of just 15bn/-.
Records will show that Mr Mkapa, as sitting president, was always a vocal supporter of the bank�s privatization process resulting in its takeover by ABSA Group - whose direct association with NBC actually began in August 1999 when the South African firm effectively started managing the bank at the request of the third phase government under Mr Mkapa.
December 2002
A few months after securing the NBC Ltd loan, ANBEM Ltd landed another big credit-line in the form of a 250m/- loan granted by CRDB Bank Limited. During the same year, the then president Mkapa announced a cabinet reshuffle which included the appointment of senior cabinet minister Daniel Yona to head the crucial energy and minerals portfolio.
As the minister for energy and minerals, Yona's duties included overseeing the then still state-owned Kiwira Coal Mine Limited, and coordinating its pending privatisation process.
December 29, 2004
The registration of Tanpower Resources Company Limited - a private company formed as a joint brainchild of then president Mkapa and energy and minerals minister Yona � is completed, with its stated objectives including �to carry on the business of miners of coal and iron; to process such coal and iron and generally treat, prepare, render marketable, sell and dispose of such coal and iron or by-products resulting therein in their raw or manufactured state."
The company is also 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."
At the time of its registration, the first listed directors of Tanpower Resources were the then first lady Mrs Anna Mkapa; the then minister for energy and minerals Daniel Yona; Nicholas Mkapa (the president and Mrs Mkapa's son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa's father-in-law); and one Evans Mapundi. Mrs Mkapa sat on the board as a representative of ANBEM Limited: Yona from DEVCONSULT Ltd; Mkapa junior from Fosnik Enterprises; Mbuna from Choice Enterprises; and Mapundi representing yet another company, Universal Technologies Limited, in which he shares ownership with one Wilfred Malekia.
During this period, Mr Mkapa and Yona - through their positions in government - were deeply and directly involved in the pending privatisation of the Kiwira Coal Mine.
Mid 2005
Tanpower Resources enters into a joint venture with the government and acquires 70 per cent of the shares in Kiwira Coal Mine. The private company later increases its shareholding in the coal mine to 85 per cent, leaving the government with just 15 per cent.
The president's son, Nicholas, is appointed a member of the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Limited company board of directors, while his father-in-law Joseph Mbuna becomes board chairman. Other shareholders of Tanpower Resources, Wilfred Malekia and Evans Mapundi, are also named on the new Kiwira board.
The privatised Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd is also given control of the Kabulo coal prospect, a separate additional area owned by the government with proven lucrative coal deposits. The State Mining Corporation (STAMICO), a government-owned agency, is kicked out of the Kabulo project which has proven reserves of up to 14 million tonnes of coal.
December 2005
President Mkapa retires from office at the end of his final two terms in office, as per national constitution. Yona also announces his retirement from active politics.
March 2006
On the basis of fast-tracked negotiations already concluded by the Mkapa administration, the fourth phase government under President Jakaya Kikwete signs a 20-year deal worth all of $271m (approx. 340bn/-) with the Kiwira coal-fired power project. But government officials now privately tell THISDAY that the contract, which is basically between Kiwira Coal and Power Limited and the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO), is steeped in controversy and dubious details - and could end up being an expensive quagmire for the national economy on a scale even worse than the infamous IPTL affair of 1995.
August 2007
THISDAY begins publishing exclusive reports on the Mkapa-Yona link in the Kiwira coal project. The Tanpower Resources file, which had been missing in public records, mysteriously resurfaces, but with a one-page resolution now inserted inside which purports to show that ANBEM Ltd (the company owned by the ex-president and his wife) forfeited its 200,000 shares in Tanpower Resources on January 10, 2005.
However, the former president's son Nicholas continues to sit on the Kiwira board, while Yona - who started Tanpower Resources with Mkapa senior in 2004 - also remains a shareholder. According to our highly-placed sources, ANBEM Ltd has since regained its shares in Tanpower Resources - and is still a major shareholder todate.
-Following the paper trail�in chronological order
THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam
A PAPER trail left behind after the controversial privatisation of the state-owned Kiwira Coal Mine in 2005 has unearthed evidence of obvious abuse of office by former president Benjamin Mkapa and his energy and minerals minister Daniel Yona.
Painstaking investigations by THISDAY have succeeded in unravelling the intertwining interests of the two once all-powerful politicians and their immediate families in this apparently-lucrative but astonishingly-secretive deal.
For chronological purposes, the beginning of the story can be traced back to 1999, when Mr Mkapa and first lady Anna Mkapa founded a private company called ANBEM Limited while they were still occupying public office at State House.
This company would in late 2004 enter into a partnership with another private company, DEVCONSULT Limited, in which Yona and his son are sole shareholders, to establish Tanpower Resources Limited.
They were joined in the Tanpower Resources shareholding structure by at least three more companies, two which were Fosnik Enterprises � in which the ex-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.
And hardly six months after its formation, the seemingly obscure Tanpower Resources swiftly moved in to take over the Kiwira Coal Mine - with very few people in government actually aware of the real, powerful forces behind the company.
Following is a chronology of official events and happenings, backed by a paper trail of evidence, that suggest a planned and systematic abuse of public office by people perched at the very top of government, culminating in the takeover of the potentially very rich (and formerly state-owned) Kiwira Coal Mine in Mbeya Region:
June 22, 1999
While serving as sitting president and first lady of the United Republic, Mr and Mrs Mkapa officially registered ANBEM Limited in Dar es Salaam as a private company in which they were sole directors, shareholders and �entrepreneurs�, as described in the company documents.
Among other things, the stated objectives of ANBEM Ltd include: �To carry on business and to act as merchants, general traders, warehouse, stockists, shopkeepers and operators of supermarkets, commission agents and carriers.�
From 1999 to 2005 - when Mr Mkapa completed his second and final term in office as per national constitution � the private business affairs of ANBEM Ltd were conducted from registered offices at Plot Number 15, Luthuli Road, which is a building within the official State House walls in Dar es Salaam.
July 2002
When ANBEM Limited was three years old � and with its sole shareholders still occupying public office at Ikulu � the company applied for and was granted a loan of $500,000 (approx. 650m/-) from the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) Limited. This loan came on the heels of a heated national debate over the privatization of the previously state-owned bank, which was fiercely opposed, amongst others, by the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, until his death in 1999.
Several members of parliament from both ruling and opposition parties were also strongly against the bank�s privatization, arguing that the once-giant national institution was being sold off far too cheaply. But as eventually transpired, the privatization of the then NBC (1997) Ltd still went ahead as scheduled, with the formation of NBC Ltd in April 2000 and acquisition by South Africa�s ABSA Group of 70 per cent of the bank�s shares - for a reported total price of just 15bn/-.
Records will show that Mr Mkapa, as sitting president, was always a vocal supporter of the bank�s privatization process resulting in its takeover by ABSA Group - whose direct association with NBC actually began in August 1999 when the South African firm effectively started managing the bank at the request of the third phase government under Mr Mkapa.
December 2002
A few months after securing the NBC Ltd loan, ANBEM Ltd landed another big credit-line in the form of a 250m/- loan granted by CRDB Bank Limited. During the same year, the then president Mkapa announced a cabinet reshuffle which included the appointment of senior cabinet minister Daniel Yona to head the crucial energy and minerals portfolio.
As the minister for energy and minerals, Yona's duties included overseeing the then still state-owned Kiwira Coal Mine Limited, and coordinating its pending privatisation process.
December 29, 2004
The registration of Tanpower Resources Company Limited - a private company formed as a joint brainchild of then president Mkapa and energy and minerals minister Yona � is completed, with its stated objectives including �to carry on the business of miners of coal and iron; to process such coal and iron and generally treat, prepare, render marketable, sell and dispose of such coal and iron or by-products resulting therein in their raw or manufactured state."
The company is also 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."
At the time of its registration, the first listed directors of Tanpower Resources were the then first lady Mrs Anna Mkapa; the then minister for energy and minerals Daniel Yona; Nicholas Mkapa (the president and Mrs Mkapa's son); Joseph Mbuna (Nicholas Mkapa's father-in-law); and one Evans Mapundi. Mrs Mkapa sat on the board as a representative of ANBEM Limited: Yona from DEVCONSULT Ltd; Mkapa junior from Fosnik Enterprises; Mbuna from Choice Enterprises; and Mapundi representing yet another company, Universal Technologies Limited, in which he shares ownership with one Wilfred Malekia.
During this period, Mr Mkapa and Yona - through their positions in government - were deeply and directly involved in the pending privatisation of the Kiwira Coal Mine.
Mid 2005
Tanpower Resources enters into a joint venture with the government and acquires 70 per cent of the shares in Kiwira Coal Mine. The private company later increases its shareholding in the coal mine to 85 per cent, leaving the government with just 15 per cent.
The president's son, Nicholas, is appointed a member of the renamed Kiwira Coal and Power Limited company board of directors, while his father-in-law Joseph Mbuna becomes board chairman. Other shareholders of Tanpower Resources, Wilfred Malekia and Evans Mapundi, are also named on the new Kiwira board.
The privatised Kiwira Coal and Power Ltd is also given control of the Kabulo coal prospect, a separate additional area owned by the government with proven lucrative coal deposits. The State Mining Corporation (STAMICO), a government-owned agency, is kicked out of the Kabulo project which has proven reserves of up to 14 million tonnes of coal.
December 2005
President Mkapa retires from office at the end of his final two terms in office, as per national constitution. Yona also announces his retirement from active politics.
March 2006
On the basis of fast-tracked negotiations already concluded by the Mkapa administration, the fourth phase government under President Jakaya Kikwete signs a 20-year deal worth all of $271m (approx. 340bn/-) with the Kiwira coal-fired power project. But government officials now privately tell THISDAY that the contract, which is basically between Kiwira Coal and Power Limited and the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO), is steeped in controversy and dubious details - and could end up being an expensive quagmire for the national economy on a scale even worse than the infamous IPTL affair of 1995.
August 2007
THISDAY begins publishing exclusive reports on the Mkapa-Yona link in the Kiwira coal project. The Tanpower Resources file, which had been missing in public records, mysteriously resurfaces, but with a one-page resolution now inserted inside which purports to show that ANBEM Ltd (the company owned by the ex-president and his wife) forfeited its 200,000 shares in Tanpower Resources on January 10, 2005.
However, the former president's son Nicholas continues to sit on the Kiwira board, while Yona - who started Tanpower Resources with Mkapa senior in 2004 - also remains a shareholder. According to our highly-placed sources, ANBEM Ltd has since regained its shares in Tanpower Resources - and is still a major shareholder todate.
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