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- Feb 19, 2012
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SEVEN top management
officials at the beleaguered
Tanzania Zambia Railway
Authority (TAZARA) have
been suspended as the
strike by 1,200 workers on the Zambian side fizzled
out yesterday.
The affected
officials have
apparently been singled
out as "stumbling blocks"
as the railway firm continues teetering on the
verge of collapse.
Tanzania's Ministry of
Transport Permanent
secretary Omar Chambo
confirmed the suspension of the senior members of
staff and indicated that
they would be handed
over to law enforcement
agencies.
Tazara has been
stalked by a series of strikes as
operations continue to
plummet with a huge debt
stock in unpaid retirement
benefits, unremitted
statutory contributions, and outstanding payments
to suppliers of goods and
services. Mr Chambo, who is
also
Tazara board chairperson,
said in an interview that Mpika-based regional
general manager Sinonge
Masiliso had been sent on
forced leave.
The
suspended officials are:-
1. chief mechanical engineer, Wenslaous Kamugisha,
2.
finance manager Sarah
Masiliso,
3. traffic manager
Pondani Mwanza,
4. head of
commercial services Ally
Idd,
5. information and technology manager Pascal
Mulengathe
6. marketing
manager Evaristo
Kasumbai and
7. marketing
officer Manyeteya Lonin'go.
Mr Chambo said the
suspended officers would
be handed over to law
enforcement agencies to be
probed for theft,
corruption, mishandling of company procurement
procedures among other
allegations. The board
would make a
decision on the managing
director Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika and
deputy managing director
Damas Ndumbaro. "There
are serious
allegations levelled against
the suspended officers such as cases of theft of
company property,
corruption and issues to do
with rules and procedures.
They have to answer to
these allegations so that we can know what the
way forward is," he said.
The two holding
governments have since
appointed other officers to
act in the positions left vacant by suspended
officials.
TAZARA Workers
Union
(TRAWU) on the Tanzanian
side and the Workers
Union of TAZARA (WUTAZ) on the Zambian side have
welcomed the development
which they
said was long overdue.
TRAWU general secretary
Erasto Kihwele said the union had been part of the
talks with other
stakeholders concerning
the removal of top
management officials in
order to facilitate investigations.
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officials at the beleaguered
Tanzania Zambia Railway
Authority (TAZARA) have
been suspended as the
strike by 1,200 workers on the Zambian side fizzled
out yesterday.
The affected
officials have
apparently been singled
out as "stumbling blocks"
as the railway firm continues teetering on the
verge of collapse.
Tanzania's Ministry of
Transport Permanent
secretary Omar Chambo
confirmed the suspension of the senior members of
staff and indicated that
they would be handed
over to law enforcement
agencies.
Tazara has been
stalked by a series of strikes as
operations continue to
plummet with a huge debt
stock in unpaid retirement
benefits, unremitted
statutory contributions, and outstanding payments
to suppliers of goods and
services. Mr Chambo, who is
also
Tazara board chairperson,
said in an interview that Mpika-based regional
general manager Sinonge
Masiliso had been sent on
forced leave.
The
suspended officials are:-
1. chief mechanical engineer, Wenslaous Kamugisha,
2.
finance manager Sarah
Masiliso,
3. traffic manager
Pondani Mwanza,
4. head of
commercial services Ally
Idd,
5. information and technology manager Pascal
Mulengathe
6. marketing
manager Evaristo
Kasumbai and
7. marketing
officer Manyeteya Lonin'go.
Mr Chambo said the
suspended officers would
be handed over to law
enforcement agencies to be
probed for theft,
corruption, mishandling of company procurement
procedures among other
allegations. The board
would make a
decision on the managing
director Akashambatwa Mbikusita Lewanika and
deputy managing director
Damas Ndumbaro. "There
are serious
allegations levelled against
the suspended officers such as cases of theft of
company property,
corruption and issues to do
with rules and procedures.
They have to answer to
these allegations so that we can know what the
way forward is," he said.
The two holding
governments have since
appointed other officers to
act in the positions left vacant by suspended
officials.
TAZARA Workers
Union
(TRAWU) on the Tanzanian
side and the Workers
Union of TAZARA (WUTAZ) on the Zambian side have
welcomed the development
which they
said was long overdue.
TRAWU general secretary
Erasto Kihwele said the union had been part of the
talks with other
stakeholders concerning
the removal of top
management officials in
order to facilitate investigations.
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