mwanakijiji
03-19-2009, 05:21 PM
N? 1213 28/04/2007
TANZANIA
Kikwete in the firing line
The installation of new electricity capacity by certain foreign companies is running late, causing suspicion that could fallout on President Kikwete.
President Jakaya Kikwete may have been badly advised to tell Tanzanian journalists at the beginning of the year that he would be “amazed” to learn that the United Arab Emirates company Dowans Holdings had been paid in advance for a project to install 100 MW electricity generating capacity. This company had taken over the contract left uncompleted by Richmond Development Company (RDC) and has good contacts (ION 1211) with heavyweights in the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCC, government party).
It has still not completed the contract and has been given further time, until May or June 2007. Accordingly, MPs now want to debate the matter since according to some official documents Dowans is indeed one of the four firms the Tanzanian government has already paid $400 million for energy projects.
Dowans is thus believed to have received the sum of $102 million, Wartsila 133 million for two electricity power stations, Aggreko $61 million and another company operating in the Mwanza region $115 million. The CCM MP Anne Kilango Malecela raised the issue last week. However, the Minister for Energy and Mines Nazir Karamagi did not deny it in Parliament but subsequently issued a denial.
N? 1204 16/12/2006
TANZANIA
Richmond contract investigated
President Jakaya Kikwete is planning to set up a commission to investigate the award of a contract to the small American firm Richmond Development Corporation.
According to a source in the Tanzanian State House, President Jakaya Kikwete is considering the idea of creating a commission to investigate the $172 million contract awarded a few months ago to the small American company Richmond Development Corporation (RDC). As could have been expected (ION 1194), this firm had not been able to complete the first part of its contract within the specified time, namely the installation of 20 MW of generating capacity. However, this contract concerning a total of 100 MW and signed without the knowledge of the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco), was not terminated. RDC has support in high places and the son of a member of the government is believed to sit on its board. If Kikwete goes through with his idea, the investigating commission would be constituted next week, with the former Prime Minister Joseph Warioba as chairman and the High Court judge Mussa Kipenka as his assistant.
TANZANIA
Kikwete in the firing line
The installation of new electricity capacity by certain foreign companies is running late, causing suspicion that could fallout on President Kikwete.
President Jakaya Kikwete may have been badly advised to tell Tanzanian journalists at the beginning of the year that he would be “amazed” to learn that the United Arab Emirates company Dowans Holdings had been paid in advance for a project to install 100 MW electricity generating capacity. This company had taken over the contract left uncompleted by Richmond Development Company (RDC) and has good contacts (ION 1211) with heavyweights in the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCC, government party).
It has still not completed the contract and has been given further time, until May or June 2007. Accordingly, MPs now want to debate the matter since according to some official documents Dowans is indeed one of the four firms the Tanzanian government has already paid $400 million for energy projects.
Dowans is thus believed to have received the sum of $102 million, Wartsila 133 million for two electricity power stations, Aggreko $61 million and another company operating in the Mwanza region $115 million. The CCM MP Anne Kilango Malecela raised the issue last week. However, the Minister for Energy and Mines Nazir Karamagi did not deny it in Parliament but subsequently issued a denial.
N? 1204 16/12/2006
TANZANIA
Richmond contract investigated
President Jakaya Kikwete is planning to set up a commission to investigate the award of a contract to the small American firm Richmond Development Corporation.
According to a source in the Tanzanian State House, President Jakaya Kikwete is considering the idea of creating a commission to investigate the $172 million contract awarded a few months ago to the small American company Richmond Development Corporation (RDC). As could have been expected (ION 1194), this firm had not been able to complete the first part of its contract within the specified time, namely the installation of 20 MW of generating capacity. However, this contract concerning a total of 100 MW and signed without the knowledge of the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco), was not terminated. RDC has support in high places and the son of a member of the government is believed to sit on its board. If Kikwete goes through with his idea, the investigating commission would be constituted next week, with the former Prime Minister Joseph Warioba as chairman and the High Court judge Mussa Kipenka as his assistant.