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Nimrod Mkono na Mkono Advocates watch

Here We Go Again .......!!!!!!! Mkono Tunomba Ujisafishe Kwanza Alafu Ndipo Uzungumze Kuhusu Ufisadi Unaoujua Wewe. Huyu Bwana Ni Mlaliaji Mkubwa Huwa Anavuna Bila Kupanda Kwa Sababu Anajua Kulonga. Ama Kweli Wengine Hatuna Aibu.
 
BoT probes dubious legal fees to Mkono law firm

-Auditors also query Malegesi legal fees 8 law companies short-listed to take over

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

THE Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has begun an official investigation into highly-questionable legal fees amounting to more than 8bn/- paid to Mkono & Company Advocates after terminating the services of the Dar es Salaam law firm effectively from January this year.

Sources have told THISDAY that the move is based on auditors' recommendations to the BoT board of directors, stemming from serious audit queries on the legal fees paid to the Dar es Salaam-based law firm owned by Musoma Rural Member of Parliament on a CCM ticket, Nimrod Mkono.

It is understood that by June 2006, the company had been the recipients of a total of 8,128,375,237/- paid by the central bank, out of which 5,138,153,330/- was doled out during 2005/06 alone.

Mkono & Company Advocates was hired by former BoT governor Dr Daudi Ballali (now deceased) to represent the bank in the long-running Valambhia case.

But according to our sources, in the wake of the audit queries on the apparently excessive legal fees, the new BoT management under incumbent governor Prof. Benno Ndulu decided to axe the law firm as from January 22 this year.

The sources say this move has now been supplemented by the commencement of a formal investigation to establish if there was any fraud involved in the payment of over 8bn/- to the company.

It is understood that an investigation file on the case has already been opened in the BoT's own investigation and internal security department.

A well-placed source told THISDAY: ''The new BoT management under Prof. Ndulu has made it clear that if any fraud is detected in the payment of the excessive legal fees to Mkono & Company Advocates, the matter will be forwarded to the police and other relevant law enforcement agencies for further action.''

According to the findings of the latest, 2006/07 BoT audit by Ernst & Young as approved by the central bank's statutory auditor - the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) - the Public Procurement Act of 2004 appeared to have been violated in the area of legal services.

The auditors expressed concern that such a breach of the procurement law in the hiring and payment of legal services ''could possibly represent procurement fraud.''

They noted that the unusually high level of legal fees paid to Mkono & Company Advocates was equivalent to 13.5 per cent of the government�s contingent liability in the Valambhia case (60bn/-).

Apart from questioning the dubious payments to Mkono & Company Advocates, the auditors also raised suspicions over the payment of $998,000 (approx. 1.2bn/-) by the BoT to another law firm - Malegesi Law Chambers (Advocates).

Interestingly, Malegesi Law Chambers is also among the 22 companies that were scandalously paid more than 133bn/- by the BoT from the external payment arrears (EPA) account using forged documents during 2005/06.

The auditors conclusively concluded that the BoT had hired Malegesi Law Chambers contrary to the procurement law, to ''provide an opinion on the case related to Valambhia and Rajani Industries.''

They furthermore questioned why the central bank had decided to use single sourcing of the legal service.

According to our sources, the new BoT management under governor Prof. Ndulu has also terminated the services of Malegesi Law Chambers, and asked the firm to submit an itemised bill of costing to justify the payment of over 1.2bn/-.

The sources said following the termination of services of both Mkono & Company Advocates and Malegesi Law Chambers, the BoT has now short-listed eight local law firms as potential replacements in the provision of future legal services to the central bank.

Six of the short-listed firms are based in Dar es Salaam, two in upcountry regions, and all have been formally recommended by the Central Tender Board following a competitive bidding process in compliance with procurement law, the sources added.

In the meantime, it is understood that the new BoT management has now hired the services of Law Associates (Advocates), led by prominent Dar es Salaam lawyer Dr Ringo Tenga, to handle the Valambhia case to its conclusion in place of Mkono & Company Advocates.
 
Ringo tenga si ndiye aliyeingiza nchi yetu kwenye Mkataba wa Richmond?alisaini mkataba kwa niaba ya RDC na yeye ndiye aliyeuandika

Yaani poor Tanzaniaa,Mafisadi wale wale kila siku,Mwanakijiji kazi ipo kweli...ukiwabana huku wanahamia huku.
 
Gembe said:
Ringo tenga si ndiye aliyeingiza nchi yetu kwenye Mkataba wa Richmond?alisaini mkataba kwa niaba ya RDC na yeye ndiye aliyeuandika

Yaani poor Tanzaniaa...
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Mama Yangu!

This Ndullu guy is out of whack!!!

Hivi bongo hakuna ma law firm mengine zaidi ya Mkono, Ringo, Malegesi, Mkono, Ringo, Malegesi ??? Na kwenye mambo ya Katiba na sheria kila siku magazeti feki ya Bongo yanamuuliza mtu yule yule Shivji, Mvungi, Shivji, Mvungi! You got any fresh voices or something? Damn!!!
 
...."Nina hisia kuwa Mh. Mkono hatawania tena Ubunge wa jimbo lake la Musoma Vijijini ikifika 2010."
 
Japo ufisadi umepamba moto miaka ya kuanzia 2000 kuja mbele, huyu Bwana kuna ushahidi wa kimaandishi kuwa alijaliwa kuwa na Pesa -miaka ya 1992-1994, angeweza hata kufungua benki zake mwenyewe-sijui alizitoa wapi! japo niliambiwa enzi hizo kuwa alifanya kazi ya uanasheria uingereza!
 
Huyu bwana alianza enzi za Mwalimu Nyerere na mshiko wake nasikia unauhusiano na kuungua kwa Benki kuu miaka ileeee!!! na baada ya hapo akaenda fanya kazi UK, Nawakilisha......
 
Tusiende mbali sana.Aliona anajua sana sheria na amesomea sheria akagombea ubunge akijua kuwa JK atampatia may be uwaziri wa katiba au uanasheria mkuu wa serikali labda ndicho anasubiri kwa hamu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
degauche2008 said:
tusiende mbali sana.aliona anajua sana sheria na amesomea sheria akagombea ubunge akijua kuwa jk atampatia may be uwaziri wa katiba au uanasheria mkuu wa serikali labda ndicho anasubiri kwa hamu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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kwa taarifa tu ..mkono hataki kazi nyingine zaidi ya huo ubunge....ni mbunge anayeongoza kwa kujitolea..esp kujenga mashule kwa utaratibu wake wa mkono kwa mkono.....

Kuhusu uwaziri pia wakati jk anaunda baraza la mawaziri alimuomba kama angeweza kumsaidia na inaripotiwa kuwa alikataa...kwani ingembana kufanya kazi zake za sheria zinazomlipa vema......its like rostam pia alikataa uwaziri....
 
Phillemon Mikael said:


Kuhusu uwaziri pia wakati jk anaunda baraza la mawaziri alimuomba kama angeweza kumsaidia na inaripotiwa kuwa alikataa...kwani ingembana kufanya kazi zake za sheria zinazomlipa vema......its like rostam pia alikataa uwaziri....
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Kikwete asingeweza kumuomba Mkono aingie kwenye baraza la Mawaziri. Mkono ni mfanyabiashara. Kikwete alishaeeleza azma yake ya kuwataka wafanyabiashara watenganishe Political career na biashara. Asingeweza kwenda tena kumuomba Mkono awe mwanasiasa.

Wachunguzi wa mambo walidokeza pia, kwamba hii ndio sababu Kikwete alilazimika hata kum fire power broker wake muhimu, CCM financier Anthony Diallo. Japokuwa Diallo anadai alijaribu kumuandikia Kikwete barua ya kujitoa, kujiwahi, eti anataka ku focus kwenye biashara. Kikwete, much so much to his credit, akam fire bila kuzingatia hii barua, kwa sababu alipotangaza baraza jipya ni watu wawili tu ndio alisema wameomba kupumzika, Kingunge Mwiru na Joseph Mungai. Wakina Diallo na barua barua zao au bila barua, wangekuwa fired nonetheless. Hapa Kikwete alicheza kama Nascimento.
 
Kuhani said:
Kikwete asingeweza kumuomba Mkono aingie kwenye baraza la Mawaziri. Mkono ni mfanyabiashara. Kikwete alishaeeleza azma yake ya kuwataka wafanyabiashara watenganishe Political career na biashara. Asingeweza kwenda tena kumuomba Mkono awe mwanasiasa.

Wachunguzi wa mambo walidokeza pia, kwamba hii ndio sababu Kikwete alilazimika hata kum fire power broker wake muhimu, CCM financier Anthony Diallo. Japokuwa Diallo anadai alijaribu kumuandikia Kikwete barua ya kujitoa, kujiwahi, eti anataka ku focus kwenye biashara. Kikwete, much so much to his credit, akam fire bila kuzingatia hii barua, kwa sababu alipotangaza baraza jipya ni watu wawili tu ndio alisema wameomba kupumzika, Kingunge Mwiru na Joseph Mungai. Wakina Diallo na barua barua zao au bila barua, wangekuwa fired nonetheless. Hapa Kikwete alicheza kama Nascimento.
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Kama usemayo ni kweli basi asingemchukua Karamagi katika serikali yake. Hata Waziri Masha. Huyu ni wakili mfanyibiashara mwenye kampuni.
 
Jasusi said:
Kama usemayo ni kweli basi asingemchukua Karamagi katika serikali yake. Hata Waziri Masha. Huyu ni wakili mfanyibiashara mwenye kampuni.
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Kweli Jasusi. Toka mwanzo aliteua the well healed CCM financiers, kina Diallo and them. Lakini kumbuka baadae kabisa akaja zaliwa mara ya pili. Akaanza kuwatosa mtandao.

Sasa Kikwete ni mtu anayejali sana loyalty, hususan hawa enablers wake. Kwa kukubali kubatizwa kwa damu na nyama namna hii, na kuamua kuwatosa hawa rafiki zake na kuwatangazia wachague utajiri wa business career au kupita kwenye tundu la sindano la Siasa inabidi useme mnyonge mnyongeni. Rais pale alidiriki kufanya vitu tofauti na Kikwete-esque playbook. Haki yake mpeni.
 
Waungwana,

Gavana wa BoT Ndullu aliunda tume ya viongozi wa juu ndani ya BoT ili kuchunguza kama malipo yaliyofanywa kwa Mbunge Nimrod Mkono yalikuwa ni ya halali. Aliahidi kufungua kesi mahakamani ili kudai pesa hizo zirudishwe BoT haraka sana kama itagunduliwa malipo yale hayakuwa ya halali. Je, uchunguzi huo umefikia wapi!? Maana kama sikosei ni karibu miezi sita sasa.
 
Uchunguzi huo ulitangazwa na Ndullu karibu mwaka mmoja sasa maana hii article toka THIS DAY iliwekwa hapa may 30th, 2008

BoT probes dubious legal fees to Mkono law firm

-Auditors also query Malegesi legal fees 8 law companies short-listed to take over

THISDAY REPORTER
Dar es Salaam

THE Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has begun an official investigation into highly-questionable legal fees amounting to more than 8bn/- paid to Mkono & Company Advocates after terminating the services of the Dar es Salaam law firm effectively from January this year.

Sources have told THISDAY that the move is based on auditors' recommendations to the BoT board of directors, stemming from serious audit queries on the legal fees paid to the Dar es Salaam-based law firm owned by Musoma Rural Member of Parliament on a CCM ticket, Nimrod Mkono.

It is understood that by June 2006, the company had been the recipients of a total of 8,128,375,237/- paid by the central bank, out of which 5,138,153,330/- was doled out during 2005/06 alone.

Mkono & Company Advocates was hired by former BoT governor Dr Daudi Ballali (now deceased) to represent the bank in the long-running Valambhia case.

But according to our sources, in the wake of the audit queries on the apparently excessive legal fees, the new BoT management under incumbent governor Prof. Benno Ndulu decided to axe the law firm as from January 22 this year.

The sources say this move has now been supplemented by the commencement of a formal investigation to establish if there was any fraud involved in the payment of over 8bn/- to the company.

It is understood that an investigation file on the case has already been opened in the BoT's own investigation and internal security department.

A well-placed source told THISDAY: ''The new BoT management under Prof. Ndulu has made it clear that if any fraud is detected in the payment of the excessive legal fees to Mkono & Company Advocates, the matter will be forwarded to the police and other relevant law enforcement agencies for further action.''

According to the findings of the latest, 2006/07 BoT audit by Ernst & Young as approved by the central bank's statutory auditor - the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) - the Public Procurement Act of 2004 appeared to have been violated in the area of legal services.

The auditors expressed concern that such a breach of the procurement law in the hiring and payment of legal services ''could possibly represent procurement fraud.''

They noted that the unusually high level of legal fees paid to Mkono & Company Advocates was equivalent to 13.5 per cent of the government�s contingent liability in the Valambhia case (60bn/-).

Apart from questioning the dubious payments to Mkono & Company Advocates, the auditors also raised suspicions over the payment of $998,000 (approx. 1.2bn/-) by the BoT to another law firm - Malegesi Law Chambers (Advocates).

Interestingly, Malegesi Law Chambers is also among the 22 companies that were scandalously paid more than 133bn/- by the BoT from the external payment arrears (EPA) account using forged documents during 2005/06.

The auditors conclusively concluded that the BoT had hired Malegesi Law Chambers contrary to the procurement law, to ''provide an opinion on the case related to Valambhia and Rajani Industries.''

They furthermore questioned why the central bank had decided to use single sourcing of the legal service.

According to our sources, the new BoT management under governor Prof. Ndulu has also terminated the services of Malegesi Law Chambers, and asked the firm to submit an itemised bill of costing to justify the payment of over 1.2bn/-.

The sources said following the termination of services of both Mkono & Company Advocates and Malegesi Law Chambers, the BoT has now short-listed eight local law firms as potential replacements in the provision of future legal services to the central bank.

Six of the short-listed firms are based in Dar es Salaam, two in upcountry regions, and all have been formally recommended by the Central Tender Board following a competitive bidding process in compliance with procurement law, the sources added.

In the meantime, it is understood that the new BoT management has now hired the services of Law Associates (Advocates), led by prominent Dar es Salaam lawyer Dr Ringo Tenga, to handle the Valambhia case to its conclusion in place of Mkono & Company Advocates.
 
In the meantime, it is understood that the new BoT management has now hired the services of Law Associates (Advocates), led by prominent Dar es Salaam lawyer Dr Ringo Tenga, to handle the Valambhia case to its conclusion in place of Mkono & Company Advocates.
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Ringo Tenga lawyer wa Kagoda ndio Ndulu amemuweka ku replace Mkono & Company?!?!
Hawa BOT wamelogwa?
 
huyu nae fisadi.. alafu yupo Power Pool.. Tenga jambazi mpare yule.trust me.
 
Kwa mujibu wa nadharia ya separation of power&rule of law;mtu mmoja haruhusiwi kufanya kazi katika mihimili miwili tofauti katika utendaji wa shughuli za kila siku na hii nazungumzia in practical way ya hizo nadharia mbili.
Sasa kwa Tanzania,nafikiri wapo wasomi lakini hawajaelimika na kama wapo walioelimika basi hawapo madarakani(ktk system) ila watakuwa wamejiajiri/wajiariwa ktk taasisi binafsi,wako nje ya nchi mbali na serikali na taasisi zake.
Kwa maana hiyo basi ndiyo tunaona chemistry ndani ya serikali na taasisi zake.
 
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