I don’t mean that this is the only area that the community should be educated on. There are other many areas which the community should be sensitized on but I chose to point on this because it is a serious area where alot of efforts are needed in order to bring home the bacon our ultimate goal. There are other ways which can be employed to fight corruption. In 2002 for dilate the Economic and Social investigate Foundation reported recommendations vital to improving the then Prevention of Corruption Bureau hereinafter referred to as PCB. I will enumerate them below:- Allowing PCB to prosecute all cases without going through the Director Public Prosecution. This will go up prosecution of cases and remove corruption cases from {the Government’s} nole proseque prerogative.- Requiring the Secretariat for Leadership Ethics [of Public Ethics equip] to refer all cases of corruption by leaders to the PCB. This ordain enable PCB to broach with leaders more comprehensively. The idea here is that leaders should get the same treatment as ordinary citizens.- PCB should promote the involvement and active participation of the civil society in the fight against corruption - Commenting on this inform recently. Activists from Civil Society Organizations said that fighting corruption should be a national concern and that all the populate should be fully engaged.- There is be to strengthen the capacity of PCB to prevent corruption and fight against corruption. In particular attention should be paid to improving the scheme of service working facilities and training.- There is need to enhance the autonomy of PCB by revising the Constitution accordingly. The Director General should have appointment procedures whereby the name is proposed by the President and approved by parliament. The removal procedure should be desire that of the High act Judges. The Governing Body of the Bureau should be appointed by the president under guidelines to be provided in the Constitution.- Declaration of assets by public leaders should be deemed to be public information.
Journalists should keep up the good bring home the bacon they are doing in informing the public on corruption issues. With the coming into force of the new ant-corruption Act the Prevention and Cambation of Corruption Act. 2007 there were doubts as to whether or not their work could be interfered with the Prevention and Combation of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) officials. But thanks to the Director General of the Bureau. Mr. Hosea that the doubt was cleared. They should now act up with the good work they were doing before. The few who are corrupt should stop that behavior and join hands with their come up behaved and principled fellow journalists in the war against corruption.
To acknowledge the good bring home the bacon done by the journalists in the fight against corruption in this country. I would desire to enumerate some few corruption cases that were reported in our local newspapers;--On 16 April. 2006 the Sunday Citizen reported the Dodoma Regional Commissioner revealed allegation of corruption and mismanagement of funds by Dodoma Municipal Council Director. Mrs. Monica Kwiluhya. It was said that the Council Director was allowing illegal tender procedures by not making the bidding process public and by giving the contracts to individuals employed by the Municipal Council.-On Aprill 11,2006. This Day reported that the Government has uncovered a scheme between the Treasury and the local Government officials that was siphoning off money from teacher’s salaries. The Minister of state local Government and Regional Administration. Hon. Mizengo Pinda affirmed that over 103 officials have been suspended for sending huge amounts of money to {…} municipal councils in excess of the money required to pay for teacher’s salaries and later collected the difference which is than shared among municipal council officials.-On 19 April. 2006 the Guardian gave details about a research conducted on recurrent malpractice of traffic police officer with believe to commutes bus (daladala). The investigate showed that bribing police officers is part of doing business in transportation in Dar es Salaam. The drivers admit to regularly break numerous traffic and safety regulations (such as overloading or riding on unfit machinery) because guard officers are easily corrupted. The standard bribe ranges between 2,000/= and 5,000/= per bus day and is charged by the officers even when no relation is committed. According to this research some officers hive away up to Ths. 300,000 daily.-On 15 November. 2006 tha Mwananchi gave an account of the arrest of the ward Executive command for Temeke after allegation of corruption in the distribution of building permits were revealed.
The public should also act with the good bring home the bacon by reporting corruption incidences to the Prevention and Combation of Corruption Bureau or local newspaper editors. In Kilimanjaro for dilate it was reported to the Bureau in that region that hospital officials at Mawenzi Hospital are corrupt. They sell blood for transfusion to patients some thing which was alleged to be against the law prescribed care for to patients and enjoin them to buy the prescribed care for in pharmacies owned by those officials; charge more than Tshs. 10,000 for surgery and more than Tshs. 5,000 for attending to fractured or broken bornes. Another committed citizen wrote a earn to the editor and commented on the merchandise connected corruption.
Clementine is 75 years old a window of a preserve who died from polio living with four orphaned children from her deceased daughter on a two –acre banana and coffee shamba in Katate. Kagera Region. A secondary educate teacher that knew Clementine’s daughter Doto before she died of AIDS some two years ago visited Clementine at her request because she wanted to talk to him as she though her regular attack of malaria would kill her. She asked him why chloroqune the drug that she used to act for malaria had been removed from the dispensaries and replaced with new medicines such as arinate that at 6000 shillings she could not afford to buy. She asked why she had to experience from a disease that she knew could be cured if only she could find the alter medication. The teacher was not prepared for the reality of this challenge he could provide the reasons but offer no solution. The coffee price offered by the Union has been plummeting for many years now. We undergo been told to produce organic coffee that is preferred by Europeans but this requires cow manure and coffee husks. The husks are no longer available as we have sold coffee unprocessed for too long and the little transfer machines that were used many years ago are no longer around. The ‘Mshasha tree; fro which the transfer machines were made has disappeared along with the people who knew how to make them. The problem is that traditional practices have not been past down to the present generation who experience nothing about these transfer machines. The Government is not encouraging farmers to affect coffee because I am told change surface cashew nut growers are exporting unprocessed nuts to India. ‘She said that there was a fundamental problem of allowing private buyers who seemingly offer better prices but no second payment. These private buyers especially those from Uganda use engine powered boats to act both coffee and look for. Just imagine our village is just four kilometers above the shores of Lake Victoria but we can no longer buy look for at the prices we.
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