Ive lost hope Mkuu!
When u hear a law on this or that.. I dont think it will bring any more hope to the hopeless.
To me its more of rhetorics...
Can u reflect as to what it will entail to lift the wagon back on track and let it move? It will require massive overhaul of almost the entire system.It will mean purgings that you can never phantom!
Anyway..miracles do happen.
It will entail kuwabana hawa ambao hawataki hisopo ya MWONGOZO iwasafishe na kusafisha nchi ya kifisadi:
Zitto's move on parastatal board fails
By Damas Kanyabwoya, Dodoma
Mr Zitto Kabwe's bid to get politicians removed from various parastatal boards was yesterday frustrated when his proposals (the schedule of amendments) to amend the Executive Agencies Act, 1997 were blocked.
The Kigoma North MP unsuccessfully submitted the schedule of amendments to the Clerk of Parliament yesterday to the effect that politicians and Permanent secretaries be removed from parastatal boards.
He shares the view with the Controller and Auditor General Mr Ludovick Utuoh, who has also been advocating for the removal of politicians from boards of public corporations and parastatals as a way of improving governance and accountability.
The Act was being amended to, among other things, remove representation of politicians and permanent secretaries from the ministerial advisory boards of government executive agencies and social security and pension funds.
A Permanent Secretary is a chairperson of the board of an executive agency which is under his/her ministry as per current structures.
In a twist of events, the Minister for Public Service Management, Ms Hawa Ghasia, who was tabling the amendments refused to include Mr Kabwe's amendment proposals on the ground that they were late.
This sparked heated exchanges between the MP on one side and the Minister and the Attorney General Mr John Mwanyika on the other side over Parliamentary rules and regulations regarding submitting of schedules of amendment.
Minister Ghasia said the schedule of amendments was not submitted to her in accordance with the procedures and therefore she could not include them in the overall amendments to the Act.
But Mr Kabwe stood firm and replied that the schedule of amendments was not supposed to be submitted to the minister but to the office of the Clerk of the Parliament, something that he did.
The Chairperson of the Parliament session that was debating the amendments to the Act, Mr Zubeir Ali Maulid (Kwamtipura-CCM), said he was informed that the amendments were submitted very late, barely a quarter of an hour before the tabling of the amendments of the Act by the minister.
Mr Kabwe said that it was a lie, as he had submitted the amendments at 9 am just before the starting of the morning session as the regulations require.
The AG then stood and said according to Parliament Regulations the schedule of amendments were supposed to be circulated to all MPs before the Act was tabled for amendments in Parliament.
But again Mr Kabwe said that it was not the duty of MPs to distribute the schedule of amendments to MPs but it was the task of the office of the Clerk of the Parliament.
"Mr Chairman the removal of politicians from the boards of public corporations and parastatals, as suggested by the CAG, has been met with strong resistance from various quarters, including from some MPs and Government officials, so I am not surprised by my amendments being blocked, but I will find another opportunity to present my proposals," he said.
The amendments of the Executive Agencies Act, 1997, were then passed by Parliament after a debate contribution of only one MP, Mr Zitto Kabwe.
Tabling the amendments earlier in Parliament, Ms Ghasia said other issues included in the amendments were the remittances of the agencies surplus revenue to the Treasury, as well as giving agencies employees an opportunity to appeal to the public service management or the President in case their rights were violated by their employers.
These amendments seek, especially, to reduce the role of Permanent Secretaries to that of policy advisors. Formerly as Chairpersons of the ministerial advisory boards they were involved in the strategic management of the agencies.
"This caused much interference and confusion in the running of the agencies and resulted into bad governance of these agencies," she said.
In their proposals, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice, Constitution Affairs and Governance tabled in Parliament by the committee chairperson George Lubeleje (Mpwapwa-CCM) proposed that the revenue submitted by those agencies with surplus should fund the activities of those agencies that depend on government subsidy.
The amendments gave a legal stamp to the Government's decision in the 2008/09 budget to ensure the surplus revenue of agencies are used to fund the national budget.