{"id":23514,"date":"2016-02-26T00:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzania-corrupt-officials-face-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2016-02-26T00:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T00:25:50","slug":"tanzania-corrupt-officials-face-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzania-corrupt-officials-face-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania:Corrupt officials face sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

{He sounded the warning in Dar es Salaam during a seminar on ethics for ministers and deputy ministers, which was facilitated by the Ethics Secretariat in the President\u2019s Office. \u201cPublic leaders and servants ought to adhere to ethics and laid down regulations, failure of which they will face the long arm of the law.}<\/p>\n

They have to avoid conflicts of interests, selfishness and favouritism when serving the people,\u201d Mr Majaliwa stressed. During the occasion, the Ethics Commissioner, Judge (retired) Salome Kaganda, noted with concern that several ministers and deputies had as well not signed the pledge of integrity certificates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Public Leadership Code of Ethics Act of 1995 requires public leaders to declare their assets and liabilities to the Ethics Secretariat but a number of them have not fulfilled the condition as we speak.<\/p>\n

I will present the names before you,\u201d Judge Kaganda told the PM. The commissioner on the other hand hailed President John Magufuli for his purge on underperforming and unethical leaders; noting that moral decay in public service was becoming rampant.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are incidences where ministers went as far as ordering permanent secretaries in their ministries to allocate for them funds for personal use, which is a blatant breach of public leadership code of conduct,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

The retired judge disclosed further that some leaders were fond of providing false information on the declaration forms, forcing the secretariat to cross-check with various state organs to verify the information.<\/p>\n

Even with such misconducts, Judge Kaganda said her secretariat \u201chad its hands tied up\u201d due to limited funds and shortage of manpower to enforce ethics in public leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the past three years, we have not assessed declaration forms on assets and liabilities filled by pubic leaders due to lack of money. It is useless to have the declaration forms which are not evaluated to ascertain their genuineness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is more; there are over 15,000 leaders who are supposed to be assessed and yet the secretariat has less than 200 workers.<\/p>\n

However, if required cash was availed to us we could at least work on 400 leaders,\u201d she explained. On his part, Mr Majaliwa explained that the seminar was not a retreat for ministers but rather a platform to train them on the do\u2019s and don\u2019ts for public leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aim of training the ministers is to have in place solid base for public leadership to avoid unethical practices such as conflict of interests which has been cited as among leading vices in the public service,\u201d Mr Majaliwa remarked.<\/p>\n

The PM pointed to the fact that ethics in public leadership was a crucial pillar in the development of any nation as it ensured equal treatment of all the people.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Minister of State in the President\u2019s Office (Public Service and Good Governance), Ms Angellah Kairuki, said such trainings will be extended to permanent secretaries and their deputies as well as other civil servants.<\/p>\n

Ms Kairuki said her office will put in place proper systems to enforce ethics and curb corruption to achieve good governance.<\/p>\n

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