House team gears up to nail farming inputs crooks

The East African Legislative Assembly sitting in Kampala, Uganda,  yesterday adjourned debate on the EAC Electronic Transactions Bill 2014 to pave way for stakeholders to make additional input. 
 The adjournment came after a request for deferment of the debate by the Chair of Council of Ministers, Hon Dr. Abdallah Saadaala was approved. 
 In his ruling, the Speaker, Rt Hon Daniel F Kidega directed that the Bill be brought back to the Order paper during the next Plenary in Nairobi, Kenya.  The...

>The chairman of the parliamentary committee on Land, Natural Resources and Environment, Mr James Lembeli, yesterday demanded that the government should table the report on the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the cotroversial ‘Operation Tokomeza.’

The government has been advised to repeal the 2008 law which allows foreign currency usage locally in a bid to prevent ‘dollarisation’ from taking root in the country.

The Parliamentary Local Authorities Accounts Committee (Laac) has approved Ilemela Municipality’s financial and construction report on its five major development projects after being satisfied that it meets the prescribed criteria.

Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) is in financial crisis and if the government does not pay the debts it owes the communications company, TTCL risks going bankrupt.

Political analysts, academicians and human rights activists yesterday commended the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for tabling what they termed as a comprehensive and well analysed report on the Tegeta Escrow Account scam.

High interest rates that local commercial banks impose on borrowers were yesterday blamed for the central bank’s move to increase Treasury Bill rates.

House team touts more funds for social services
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IN order to improve the health of Tanzanians, the government has been urged to allocate 15 per cent of its annual budget to the health sector, the parliamentary committee on Social Services said on Thursday. Reading the committee's 2014/2015 report in ...

>The Minister of State in the President’s Office, Mr Stephen Wassira, is caught between a rock and a hard place.  The man in charge of policy and co-ordination in the President’s office must move out of the house he lives in for the simple reason that he has no business being there.