Indians have always taken advantage of East African citizen by always engaging in businesses hinged on cheating and manipulating local black citizen, by bribing the government of the day till end.
Most Indians have enriched themselves through unlawful deals which disadvantages local blacks.

East African government continue to impoverish their own black citizen by sidelining them and selling everything to these manipulators who in turn continue to sack the blood of poor black citizen.
For example this Sethi, look at formation of his companies, normally they will ensure the business is fenced up against local blacks, only within their families or communities. That enables them to play dirty games of cheating, corrupting government leaders without information going outside the circle.

Which East African black citizen want such a company , which is actually using public funds to enrich itself at the expense of poor people, huge tax holidays while selling electricity to poor people at exorbitant prices.

When Idd Amin fired all Indians to leave Uganda and confiscated their wealth them we all criticized him as unfair, yes it was unfair.
But if you look the other side of the coin, you will find out that they have never realize how important is to engage local blacks and do business together as part of fully integrating in the community, and stop bribing government to secure deals which continue to suck poor people's blood, as they pile up tons of money becoming kings surrounded by black slaves in blacks own nations.
I find this very disturbing.

Sethi case is a tip of ice berg. We saw how another Indian company from Indian opened a university hospital, in the same way, and started throwing body parts
inn the streets to avoid incurring cost for proper disposal of human body parts used for experiments. Did they bring those bodies from India or were Tanzania bodies may be obtained in unlawful way, by bribing money. When this case was highlighted, the owners of institution Indians were arrested and letter released.
The case no news.

Recently so may Tanzania children were sent to India by Indians hospitals for heart surgery as charity, nobody knows if these children really needed surgery or not. They could have been used for medical training of Indians cardiology surgery etc.

After that we have seen mushrooming of Indian hospitals in the country, and local blacks have to pay huge bills.

We are not anti Indians or foreigners, however the truth is no one from Tanzania can go to India and do all these changelings or manipulation or even open medical hospital, etc. No one from East Africa blacks can do that. Why? Because they control their economy for their local citizen, now the question is why Tanzania government are so blind by accepting stupid bribes and destroying their own people? And why Indians come to East Africa and provide bribes to entice government leaders in order to cheat poor blacks?

This dangerous game has to stop immediately, otherwise you want be surprised one day local blacks turning against all these cheating!

Alex Kakala, you are only looking at one side of the coin. The worst culprit in all that is the black compatriots who allow all this to happen. Our Weremas are our worst enemies, more than the Singasingas, for without them, none of this would be happening.

Read history, there was no bribes in most of East African communities , especially Tanzania which we can understand very well. We know how they bribes came to flourish. However we can not rellly on history alone, human must be ready to change and get rid off bad behavior.
Chinese president his persecuting and sentencing communist party leaders who used to take corruption as a norm.

I already commented below, proposing AG to be arrested, charged, sacked, prosecuted, sentenced with highest punishment and his ill gotten wealth confiscated, including loosing pension money. While the side is done, we have to turn back to those ho offer these bribes to secure illegal business or to turn illegal business to be legal! They should be dealt with severely including revoking their citizenship and deporting them if possible, once they complete serving their sentences. I am not of fearing Asians or White man whatever! Whoever commit such crimes must be punished and we must send clear message, to them, if they lining up from India to put hand on this country by bringing in the culture of bribing, must stop immediately period!.

It is sad how this country is ripped off, especially when it is done in the ministry which is under top educated minister! with blessing from experienced judge! this is a big shame! so what should we expect? another reshuffle? Segerea? or business as usual! Well done Zito and all MP who expose this scandal!

Highfiving Kabwe and his buddies does not help anything. Kabwe always exposes scandals that sparks anger, outrageous comments, back-talkings and hardfeelings in our communities. This scandal of ESCRO-Tegeta carry with it the message of impeaching the president, freedom of TAKURU and High court to be included in the new constitution. The problem is that we all scared to be like Ken Saro-Wiwa and his movement to support Ogoni people-MOSOP!

Almost all officials involved in the illegal withdrawal from escrow account are from the Region of Mara (Call them all Mwita), thanks to domination in the Government!!!!!

Actually The Citizen first broke this scandal. The MPs did the natural; take it further in Parliament and here we are

This isn't he first time this bugger to have fleeced a country. He did the same in Kenya. Such robbers are supposed to be touched in the public so that it can be a lesson for others. The guys is not even a tycoon as many media like to refer to him. Instead, the punk is a thief that is supposed to be jailed for life. Again, is this puta alone in this criminality? He is used by our homegrown thugs in power. It is time that we kick their assess (forgive me). This SOB with James Rugemalaya should be hanged for the sake of our integrity and prosperity.

This Singa guy is a crook for hire by thugs in government. Which is why it is more important that identities of the real fisadis behind "SIMBA TRUST" must be exposed.

Here we have a clear case of a government utterly out of control. All previous shenanigans, EPA, Richmond, etc., were successfully camouflaged. However, this time around, their hand has been successfully caught while in the cookie jar. For all of this, lets thank the steadfast and unwavering stand of our youthful trio Kigoma parliamentarians, Kafulila, Zitto, and Selukamba, plus a few others in parliament who stood up against these corrupt leaders in government. More importantly, the CAG report would not have been possible had it not been for the support from development partners who contribute to the budget. Their threat to withhold funds has made it possible for the report to be released in parliament. It is now upon parliament to go further and reveal who exactly are responsible for this corruption. If it goes all the way to statehouse, so be it, people have the right to know who is responsible for the misappropriation of funds.

Attorney General Frederick Werema, Minister for energy, TANESCO board of Directors and Managing Director and IPTL cronies including Harbinder Singh Sethi need to be in jail as soon as possible and pay back our money. IPTL SHOULD BE SOLD AND MONEY OBTAIN SHOULD PAY THE TAX AND VAT FOR WHAT THEY HAVEN'T PAID SINCE 2002 TODATE. Prosecute whoever involved in this scandal, PM Pinda should resign.

They have committed a felony first degree theft charges. The charge is punishable by up to 40 years in prison. But since they are CCM's house of congress members, their kids are in colleges, their wives need financial support, the sentence would be suspended!

We have heard enough of criminals government leaders hiding in beautiful offices provided by poor Tanzania citizen to them so that that can execute their duties for public, but instead they have been running amok to steal everything from poor citizen.
How many of Tanzania poor citizen have been paying electricity bills through their noses? only to find that all the funds have been stolen by these criminals.
Now is time for action not atlking!
1) Arrest IPTL, PA, nd other companies owners involved inthis IPTL -ESCROW
case with immediate effect, charge them under country law of maximum
panishment
2) Confiscate all their companies assets immediately including those in offshore
accountsrrest

3) Arrest Tanzania Attorney General (AG), Minister of enrgy and minerals (Prof. Muhongo), secretary of the same ministry (Maswi) and others involved in the case

4) Arrest TANESCO top leaders involved in the case, including the purchasing of electricity from these criminal companies

5) Confiscate all assets belongs to AG, Minister and secretary of ministry of energy and minerals.

6) AG, minister and secretary of ministry of fiance, BOT, TANESCO and all those involved, their services or employment should be terminated with immediate effect and their pensions cancelled!
7) The arrest and change of all above should take place immediately, and all should be charged under the section of stealing public funds, criminal breach of trust, and treason for attempting to destroy the nation!

8) May we should think of hiring FBI and other reputable intentional investigators.

9) We all already know that the minister of energy and minerals is a liar, thief, criminal and has caused so much loss to the nation till to date, but was kept in the job as protection among government criminals, this warrant an immediate confiscation of all mining, oil and gas contract documents and end them over to PAC.

10) Mining, Oil and Gas, TPDC, STAMICO, TANESCO should be taken out of ministry of energy and minerals , as there is no law compelling the nation that these public owned companies should remain in the same ministry, instead place them under special committee.

11) Dissolve ministry of energy and minerals and place section under ministry of works under Dr. John Maghufuli, he has proven to be capable of standing up to Japanese when they screwed up the Klwa road construction, he can stand up against manipulative wazungu of whom prof. Muhongo is very scared to death, kissing their feet!

12) If above not complied with by the government, it is then clear that time is running out, Tanzania citizen have to take to the streets and demand the government be dismissed and appoint care taker government until next elections. Care taker government should be by Tanzanians including oppositions.

TANZANIAN AT LEAST SHOW OUR POOR FARMERS IN THE VILLAGES, THOSE UNEMPLOYED, STUDENTS STRUGGLING TO PAY SCHOOL FEES, WORKERS WORKING DAY AND NIGHT AT LOW PAY AND THE WHOLE WORLD THAT WE CAN BE SEROUS TO PUT OUR HOUSE IN ORDER.

You must work for Tanzanian. I believe you have all the qualificatin needed. Sacrifice for your country. You will be rewarded.

Thinking aloud, these corruptions will continue weather we change the president or the CCM itself unless we have independent law enforcement institutions, the institutions which can freely investigate and prosecute without being asked to or fear of repercussions. I cant understand TAKUKURU and the fraud unit of our POLICE forces, they are likes ........ waiting for the command from their masters if the command did not come expect nothing

'' In fact, according to the CAG team, IPTL still owes Tanesco an extra
Sh15 billion because the total amount the state-owned utility has been
overcharged is Sh321 billion.''
Tanesco's board of directors implicated in this scam is led by an Army General , a former Chief of the Defence Forces.This saga is larger than we perceive it to be. Somebody has to cough-up this money and return it back. Kimenuka..!

In order for that somebody to cough up the money, identities of the real 'somebody' must be revealed. Lets start with identifying the real force behind "SIMBA TRUST."

UR right kasome..!
Now , who are the real owners of Simba Trust ?

The power of people with good will is enormous. I believe with patience their identities will be revealed in due course.

God forbid what a scandal!!!!!!!! unbelievable and yet the President has not yet ordered for their arrest and remand at Segerea pending farther actions by the Government!. I here some of the prominent money grabbers were once working with the United Nations as executive director and to make it worse a W O M A N who received kickbacks indirectly as a vote of thanks for having facilitated the looting of the poor Tanzanian peasants money as the UN salary was not sufficient for her. What a shame and indeed unbelievable. The son of Mwl Nyerere, I mean President Kikwete a clean statesman, has been demeaned by his lieutenants.

richard, are you serious with that 'clean statesman being demeaned'? May be you are in a better position than anyone else to tell us about this 'clean statesman' who's always being demeaned by his liutenants. And clearly, this 'statesman' must be a genius in his ways of appointing lieutenants who invariably are prone to deamining him!

Miss Tibainyuka? got a gift?
Land grabin? helipng school. Wasnt she fired at UN? to be elected by our presiden? go figure.

A country like Tanzania where vote rigging is what determine its political leadership is always ruled by corrupt politicians and Government institutions. It is a country ruled by corrupt politicians and Government officials who loot State coffers to enrich themselves and empower the political party they belong to against national interests and the interests of other political parties. The only way to eradicate escalation of corruption in our Government institutions is to give the CCM corrupt dictatorship we have for too long a break. This is a new stealing from our government via TANESCO-IPTL escrow account, what about the earlier one which happened via TANESCO-RICHMOND power generation Contract ?. The Government was ordered to pay a big fine for illegal termination of the RICHMOND CONTRACT, is fine paid already?

End of CCM Now.

This all has nothing to do with CCM, we can change CCM but can't change the corrupt attitude of our leaders. May be the opposition will be worse.
I believe, Ministry of Energy needs a big mop to clean the garbage leadership.

No, all of it is a product of the highly corrupt CCM dictatorship which has seeded corruption throughout its ranks and Government institutions to create for itself a nationwide corrupt alliance which will ensure all national resources are always directed on overcoming the forces of multiparty democracy to maintain its cling to power forever. Corruption will continue sinking the country deep into the red till when all Tanzanians would stand-up and walk as one towards State House to drive off the Corrupt CCM dictatorship which has the country into its own Colony.

Replacement of colonial rules with corrupt African dictatorship which rule for own benefits is what liberation of most African countries from western colonialism did. This well explained here:

WE LET AFRICA DOWN BADLY by Prof George N. Ayittey ...seunfakze.wordpress.com/.../we-let-africa-down-badly-by-prof-george-n...

Don't be pessimistic else you would never think of making progress in any field. You could have as well said that Arab rule/slavery, or Germany, British rule was better than current independence

What a joke....."under control" you've got to be kidding! As is typical, the government of Tanzania is once again OUT of CONTROL. Why would any one want to do business in an environment where corruption is like an incurable cancer! These people need to put in prison and the key needs to be thrown away!

Kenya is looking forward to buy a fastest speed travelling train. They have also planned to use nuclear energy for domestic purpose. Tanzanian politicians are still dreaming how stockpile stolen money in their Swiss banks!

No , Kenya is actually worse than you think. The CoW project is faultering and they have nothing to show for..... since this CoW was 'created' 3 years ago.
http://www.theeastafrican.c...

I highly doubt whether you understood the article you have quoted.

I sincerely & fully understand your reaction to my quote.
This CoW coalition is something you hold so dear, the fact that your Presidents' CoW coalition '' took the cow to the water, it could not get it to drink'' is so disheartening.
Obbo says '' In Kenya, and now it seems Uganda, the railway project has been plagued by fighting over the contract and legal battles. The Single Tourist Visa looked to be the easy win, but while we have tourism data coming out of Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda, there is no assessment offered as to how the visa initiative contributed to it.''
This is testament that the CoW coalition is a total failure.
But Obbo adds...Tanzanians are '' slow burners — slow off the blocks, yes, but still in the marathon race when fast-paced Kenyans and Ugandans have long fallen by the wayside.''
I couldn't agree more with Obbo.

This Singh came from Kenya is it? Are they coming here to sabotage economy! Every now and then hear a lot of racketeers in our streets, if they are really genuine is ok , but they are not!
Is this kind of free trade among EAC countries they are talking about? Is very lucky Nyerere no more, otherwise he will be inside the prison as we speak!

We keep complaining to the investers and the world. They keep praising Kikwete as African leader to copy. There is an agenda behind this. Conspiracy? We dont want to fight in Tanzania as it was in Eygpt. Keep praising a dictator for their own reasons. As peaceful as Tanzania is, Wake up people. You being ruled byy some one who is an investor. our leaders just obey to them and give them what they want. Please dont mess up Tanzania. If you have bribed, name who received the bribes. If you were part of money Tranfer offshore name them all. Other wise all contracts signs are bogus My friends. We are tired to be manipulated.

Can the speaker of the parliament order the police to confiscate mining, oil and gas contracts from the minister of energy and minerals prof. Muhongo and TPDC?
We knew the minister is not credible, he has no trust of Tanzania people to keep those contracts. Please handle over the contracts to PAC.
We don't want the speaker to continue playing the game of wait and see to protect criminals. Release public documents to the people, that is all we asking you madam speaker, if you can't do the job, just issue a letter authorize PAC and police to do it. the country is already under water due to mismanagement, and you all instead of trying to lift it up, your dragging it further to fall completely. This is not acceptable. It is better entire government to resign rather than tarnishing image of every Tanzania citizen and crippling the economy on the country.

We can supina him. Its legal. Muhongo is the most arogant man sitting on earth. Stilling from the people, protecting Wazungu, and making sure him and his girls are covered. What a shame to have such a puppet in our government. With all the high education he is still a thug.

Bodi you are right, we are trying to find a quick solution how to deter a destructive individual from continuing inflicting damage to our national economy , but the top government leaders are are not bothered. We can't continue like this. Some countries have no resources they see our stupid government crying for budget money while they have been handing over the country resources to foreign companies at throwing prices in return for huge bribes.

Remember three years back, no one expected that foreign donors will withdraw their budget support to Tanzania government budget. Because they government top leaders thought they are very smart by handing over oil and gas projects to most of British companies to cover their wrong doings, but they donors have rejected them, and they want to put an end to acute corruption practice by CCM government especially where it involves their countries tax payers money.

We are loosing but at the same time we are starting to win this war against the corrupt government ruling with impunity.

There is no way Tanzania can improve economically without taking stern actions to eradicate corruption.
They are very criminal, forcing taxes paying to pay through their noises by increasing price of goods, but all the money being stolen and kept in offshore accounts.

They don't care, the minister of finance crying for budget funding, they are issuing orders to her to release millions of usd for stupid bio-metric voters kit for racket set up with SouthAfrica company. Pinda quickly already instructed the bio-metric voters kit system to start in Katavi his home region.
kikwete coming back, he has to sack this pm, this time he must go with minister of energy and minerals.

I will expect more international donors to completely freeze all foreign aid until the government of Tanzania prosecute all high level corruptions cases, sack corrupt leaders, Spanish them, and confiscate ill gotten wealth. Including offshore accounts, Swiss bank money stashed by government leaders..

Tanzania is going Zimbabwe way day by day, Kikwete is good charming is not working, he need to understand that western countries can accommodate any one based on what they present to them and make promises, however western donors are not naive, they have their own checks and balance.