Tegeta Escrow: TANESCO yashindwa kesi dhidi ya IPTL. Yaamriwa kulipa zaidi ya Sh. Bilioni 320!

[maramia]

'rakini ore wako wewe unayereta majaribu, tutakufungia ri jiwee rikubwa tukutupe paree nyuma ya ikuruu'

In baba jesikaz voice

Haikosi wewe ni Boko Haram umejifunza kiswahili.

 

[maramia]

Je ESCROW ni pesa ya UMMA au ya Singasinga wa CCM?? Hilo ndo nataka kufahamu kwanza kabla ya kuhangaika na maneno meeeeengi ya mwanasheria wa upande mmoja.

Swali hili mbona mzee wa Chamazi aliishalijibu wakati uke alipoongea na wazee wa mkoa wa Dar es Salaam? Alisema ile pesa haikuwa yetu watanzania ilikuwa ya singa singa.

Ama ukitaka maelezo zaidi mu-inbox JK mwenyewe akutamkie kwa kinywa chake kama bado atakuwa na ubavu wa kuyatamka maneno hayo.

 

[nyumba kubwa]

Acheni uongo nyie matapeli, hamna mahakama yoyote ya "kulinda biashara ya mataifa". Makampuni yote yanafuata sheria za nchi husika; hamna mahakama ya "kimataifa" inayoweza kuiamuru, kwa mfano Coca Cola company kuilipa TANESCO. Kama TANESCO ina bifu na Coca-Cola, inafungua madai mahakama za Marekani, siyo mahakama zenu hewa.


Zimbabwe hawajapigwa ban na mtu. Wamewekewa vizuizi vya uchumi kwa sababu Mugabe aliwanyang'nya mashamba Wazungu halafu hela za fidia alizopewa na Waingereza akazi-escrow(kuweka mfukoni). Haikuwa mahakama yoyote isipokuwa serikali zao ziliamua.

Ni vizuri kujipa moyo...kama hakuna mahakama ya kimataifa kwa nini IPTL na TANESCO wanataka kushirikiana kupinga hukumu? Wanapinga wapi? Mahakama kuu ya TZ??? wewe ndio mpotoshaji mkubwa

 

[nyumba kubwa]

Hiii mahakama ipo na imekuwa critizised kuwa hukumu zake zinalalia private sector kukiwa na case kati ya state na corporation...afu mtu anasema hakuna mahakama kama hiyo...
Sema tu unaweza kupuuza maamuzi ya mahakama kama tunavyopuuza hata za humu ndani...lakini hiyo ya nje wanajua wapi pa kukukaba pindi unapopuuza...

 

[ragallah2]

Ni vizuri kujipa moyo...kama hakuna mahakama ya kimataifa kwa nini IPTL na TANESCO wanataka kushirikiana kupinga hukumu? Wanapinga wapi? Mahakama kuu ya TZ??? wewe ndio mpotoshaji mkubwa

Unawazungumzia TANESCO kama wana ubavu wa kupingana na IPTL. Kila mtu anajua IPTL imeletwa na nani, na TANESCO siyo kampuni huru inayojisimamia yenyewe. Unanikumbusha watu wanaosema kuwa Israel na Waarabu wamekuwa wanapigana karne nyingi kwa hiyo ni kuwaachia wenyewe, ambapo kila mtu anajua mmoja ana nguvu ya kumuonea mwenzie.

 

[TangataUnyakeWasu]

Pamoja na kutumbua bado tatizo lipo. Inatakiwa kugusa chanzo kinachopelekea Tanesco kupandisha gharama za Umeme Kwa walaji. Tatizo bado alijaguswa na still gharama za Umeme ni kubwa Sana kwa wananchi ukilinganisha na vipato vyetu.

Rai yangu Kwa Mh Rais

Chanzo cha yote haya ni ESCROW ESCROW ESCROW ESCROW ESCROW.

Jipu la Escrow litumbuliwe haraka Sana hili nchi ipate kupona otherwise bado utumbuaji kwenye Tanesco utakuwa ni Sawa na Kutwanga maji kwenye kinu.

USIPOZIBA UFA, UTAJENGA UKUTA.

 

[Chibolo]

Kina mzimu mwingine unaitwa aipitielo

 

[BAK]

Rugemarila na wizi wenzie waliiba bilioni 321 za TANESCO kisha mzigo akabebeshwa TANESCO. Pesa zile zilitumika kutoa rushwa kwa watu mbali mbali nchini ikiwemo Wabunge, Majaji, walio ndani ya Ikulu awamu ya nne na baadhi ya watendaji wa juu akiwemo Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali na Muhongo kupoteza ajira zao. lakini cha kushangaza hadi hii leo hakuna aliyeguswa! Waliopokea rushwa bado wanapeta kitaa na pesa zao za rushwa na wezi akina Rugemarila na wenzie nao wanaendelea kupeta kitaa na mabilioni yao na pesa nyingine nyingi wameziweka nchi za nje.

 

[mshunami]

inaongoza kwa mikataba mibovu!!!!

 

[gm lubuva]

Rugemarila na wizi wenzie waliiba bilioni 321 za TANESCO kasha mzigo akabebeshwa TANESCO. Pesa zile zilitumika kutoa rushwa kwa watu mbali mbali nchini ikiwemo Wabunge, Majaji, walio ndani ya Ikulu awamu ya nne na baadhi ya watendaji wa juu akiwemo Mwanasheria Mkuu wa Serikali na Muhongo kupoteza ajira zao. lakini cha kushangaza hadi hii leo hakuna aliyeguswa! Waliopokea rushwa bado wanapeta kitaa na pesa zao za rushwa na wezi akina Rugemarila na wenzie nao wanaendelea kupeta kitaa na mabilioni yao na pesa nyingine nyingi wameziweka nchi za nje.

na mkuu kaenda kumtumbua mramba mbele ya kilaini(askofu)

 

[Mama Obama]

Swali hili mbona mzee wa Chamazi aliishalijibu wakati uke alipoongea na wazee wa mkoa wa Dar es Salaam? Alisema ile pesa haikuwa yetu watanzania ilikuwa ya singa singa.

Ama ukitaka maelezo zaidi mu-inbox JK mwenyewe akutamkie kwa kinywa chake kama bado atakuwa na ubavu wa kuyatamka maneno hayo.

Ama kweli umemujibu kama haridhiki amutafute bwana musafri, ALISEMA pesa sio za Watanzania, na nani angepinga na ndiye alikuwa akituhifadhia PESA ZETU?

 

[Mama Obama]

na mkuu kaenda kumtumbua mramba mbele ya kilaini(askofu)

Mkuu alikuwa hana madaraka ya kuitumbua LPTL, aliyekuwa madarakani alimutetea Kaladinga akisema siyo pesa za Watanzania ni pesa za kalasinga, huyo ndiyo mutu wa kumulaumu, lakini ingekuwa sasa dili kama hizo zisingepita, kwa hiyo usichanganye CCM iliyopita na hii ya sasa. Hii ya sasa ni ile CCM original ya wapenda haki na inaongozwa na Rais mpenda haki kwa Watanzania wote.

 

[Chige]

na mkuu kaenda kumtumbua mramba mbele ya kilaini(askofu)

Hebu fafanua ndugu.... mbele ya Kilaini kivipi?

 

[Chige]

Mkuu alikuwa hana madaraka ya kuitumbua LPTL, aliyekuwa madarakani alimutetea Kaladinga akisema siyo pesa za Watanzania ni pesa za kalasinga, huyo ndiyo mutu wa kumulaumu, lakini ingekuwa sasa dili kama hizo zisingepita, kwa hiyo usichanganye CCM iliyopita na hii ya sasa. Hii ya sasa ni ile CCM original ya wapenda haki na inaongozwa na Rais mpenda haki kwa Watanzania wote.

Porojo at Work!! Eti alikuwa hana madaraka?! Hivi sasa yeye ndie kashika usukani... unataka kusema hafahamu kwamba Escrow ilikuwa ni wizi? Yaani kwa kuwa aliyemtangulia alisema pesa ni za Singasinga ndo basi tena yeye hawezi kutia neno? SERIOUSLY? Yaani bila aibu unaongea hayo mbele ya kadamnasi?

By the way, yeye anamfanyia kazi JK au anaifanyia kazi serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania? Amechaguliwa na JK au alichaguliwa na wananchi wa Tanzania? Kuna maana gani basi ya kuwa na Rais ambae ataacha kukifanyia kazi kila atakachoambiwa na aliyemtangulia? By the way, huyo Rais mpenda haki ni yupi? Ni yule yule mwenye kashifa ya kuuza nyumba za serikali; au ni yupi hasa? Ni yule yule ambae alitudanganya Watanzania kwamba Wizara yake imenunua boti safi kabisa kwa mabilioni ya pesa na boti hiyo hadi sasa haijawahi kufanya kazi; au ni rais yupi hasa unayesema mpenda haki? Rais mpenda haki anaweza kutumia mabilioni ya pesa kujenga international airport nyumbani kwao ambako hakuna any flight business potential?

 

[CattleRustler]

Porojo at Work!! Eti alikuwa hana madaraka?! Hivi sasa yeye ndie kashika usukani... unataka kusema hafahamu kwamba Escrow ilikuwa ni wizi? Yaani kwa kuwa aliyemtangulia alisema pesa ni za Singasinga ndo basi tena yeye hawezi kutia neno? SERIOUSLY? Yaani bila aibu unaongea hayo mbele ya kadamnasi?

By the way, yeye anamfanyia kazi JK au anaifanyia kazi serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania? Amechaguliwa na JK au alichaguliwa na wananchi wa Tanzania? Kuna maana gani basi ya kuwa na Rais ambae ataacha kukifanyia kazi kila atakachoambiwa na aliyemtangulia? By the way, huyo Rais mpenda haki ni yupi? Ni yule yule mwenye kashifa ya kuuza nyumba za serikali; au ni yupi hasa? Ni yule yule ambae alitudanganya Watanzania kwamba Wizara yake imenunua boti safi kabisa kwa mabilioni ya pesa na boti hiyo hadi sasa haijawahi kufanya kazi; au ni rais yupi hasa unayesema mpenda haki? Rais mpenda haki anaweza kutumia mabilioni ya pesa kujenga international airport nyumbani kwao ambako hakuna any flight business potential?

Hakuna mnafiki mbaya kama anayefanyia unafiki wake kwakutumia Dini.

 

[Chige]

Hakuna mnafiki mbaya kama anayefanyia unafiki wake kwakutumia Dini.

Kivipi yaani?! Manake kuna swali hapo juu nimeuliza na sijajibiwa!

 

[jerrytz]

Naona kama bill ya umeme kupanda ghafla

Ulitabiri vyema.

 

[doama]

Tunaomba mwenye bili ya slip ya bili ya umeme tuone kabla ya lile katazo la kwanza la kupanda kwa bei kama kuna mabadiliko yoyote

 

[BAK]

Ahsante sana Mkuu. Nondo tupu hizi.

Porojo at Work!! Eti alikuwa hana madaraka?! Hivi sasa yeye ndie kashika usukani... unataka kusema hafahamu kwamba Escrow ilikuwa ni wizi? Yaani kwa kuwa aliyemtangulia alisema pesa ni za Singasinga ndo basi tena yeye hawezi kutia neno? SERIOUSLY? Yaani bila aibu unaongea hayo mbele ya kadamnasi?

By the way, yeye anamfanyia kazi JK au anaifanyia kazi serikali ya Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania? Amechaguliwa na JK au alichaguliwa na wananchi wa Tanzania? Kuna maana gani basi ya kuwa na Rais ambae ataacha kukifanyia kazi kila atakachoambiwa na aliyemtangulia? By the way, huyo Rais mpenda haki ni yupi? Ni yule yule mwenye kashifa ya kuuza nyumba za serikali; au ni yupi hasa? Ni yule yule ambae alitudanganya Watanzania kwamba Wizara yake imenunua boti safi kabisa kwa mabilioni ya pesa na boti hiyo hadi sasa haijawahi kufanya kazi; au ni rais yupi hasa unayesema mpenda haki? Rais mpenda haki anaweza kutumia mabilioni ya pesa kujenga international airport nyumbani kwao ambako hakuna any flight business potential?

 

[Nena]

Shirika la umeme Tanzania (TANESCO) limeshindwa kwenye kesi yake IPTL -Independent Power Tanzania Limited.

Hukumu hiyo imetolewa na mahakama ya inayoshughulika na migogoro ya uwezekaji, ICSID yenye makao yake mjini Washington DC, Marekani na ipo chini ya benki ya dunia.Tanesco ilikuwa ikiwakilishwa na makampuni mawili ya wawanasheria R.K. Rweyongeza & Co. Advocates na Crax Law Partners ya Tanzania, pamoja na lile la Zurich, Kellerhals Carrard. Pesa hizo zinatakiwa kulipwa kwa Standard Chartered Bank-Hong Kong (SCB-HK).SCB-HK ililinunua deni la IPTL kwa punguzo la bei ya milioni 76.1 kutoka Danaharta Bankin ya Malaysia, August 2005 baada ya Danaharta kushindwa kuchukua mkopo wake kutoka kwa IPTL.

Hiyo ina maana kuwa SCB-HK imepata faida ya dola milioni 172. IPTL ilikopa dola milioni 100 mwaka 1998 kutoka kwenye kundi la benki za Malaysia ili kujenga mtambo umeme Tegeta wenye megawatt 100.

TANESCO ilifungua kesi ICSID baada ya kubaini kuwa imekuwa ikitozwa zaidi na IPTL. Kesi hiyo inahusiana na ripoti ya uchunguzi wa kashfa ya IPTL iliyohusisha uchotwaji wa shilingi bilioni 306 za kitanzania.

Hukumu hiyo imefikiwa mwisho wa wiki iliyopita ambapo World Bank tribunal (international centre for settlement of investment disputes.

ICSID imeamuru TANESCO kuilipa Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong (SCB HK) kiasi cha dola za kimarekani milioni 148.40 pamoja na tozo riba.

SCB HK ndio walionunua mkopo wa IPTL kutoka bank ya Malaysia Danaharta kwa gharama ya dola za kimarekani milioni 76.1

Kutokana na gharama za riba na nyinginezo sasa TANESCO inatakiwa kulipa Bilioni 700 ZAKITANZANIA.

BILA SHAKA TANESCO WANAYAANGAZA MAISHA YETU

Kwa habari zaidi soma the Guardian la leo:

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TANESCO ordered to pay $148m over IPTL dispute


Washington-based tribunal rules in favour of Standard Chartered Bank, saying dubious payments made from the Tegeta escrow account to businessman Harbinder Singh Sethi do not discharge TANESCO's obligations to the bank


By Guardian Reporter

THE Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO) has suffered a massive blow in its protracted legal dispute with Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) after a World Bank tribunal last week ordered the state-owned power utility to pay Standard Chartered Bank-Hong Kong (SCB-HK) $148.4 million (over 320 billion shillings) plus interest in outstanding capacity charges.

The ruling comes nearly three years since the government controversially authorised payments of over $200 million (440 billion/-) from TANESCO-IPTL’s Tegeta escrow account to businessman Harbinder Singh Sethi’s Pan Africa Power Solutions Tanzania Limited (PAP).

This was after SCB-HK purchased the IPTL loan at a discount price of $76.1 million from Malaysia’sDanaharta Bankin August 2005, following the latter’s failure to secure its outstanding loan from IPTL.

The actual face value of the debt was $101.7 million, according to available evidence. IPTL borrowed over $100 million in 1998 from a consortium of Malaysian banks in order to finance construction of its 100-megawatt Tegeta power generating plant.

Under that transaction, SCB-HK was assigned a number of contracts, including the 1997 Security Deed, the Implementation Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement concluded between IPTL and the Tanzanian government. The available details show that SCB-HK also became the Security Agent under the Share Pledge Agreement and the Shareholder Support Deed.

Part of the agreement said: “As Security Agent, SCB HK holds all of IPTL’s ‘right, title and interest in and to the Assigned Contracts, including all moneys which may at any time be or become payable to the Borrower.'"

TANESCO had earlier taken its dispute with IPTL to the World Bank-affiliated International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for arbitration after the state-owned power utility discovered that it was being overcharged in both capacity and energy charges.

Following this move, both parties agreed as stipulated in their 1996 Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to establish an escrow account with the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), to be used to deposit all payments pending the outcome of the arbitration.

But a few months before ICSID issued its ruling, the government controversially (and secretly?) paid all the escrow money to PAP after the company claimed that it had acquired full 100 per cent ownership of IPTL in September 2013.

The Washington-based ICSID ruled in favour of TANESCO in February 2014, ordering a tariff recalculation so that finally the escrow money could be paid to either IPTL or the power utility firm, only to then be informed that a third party (PAP) had already been paid everything.

SCB-HK took TANESCO to the ICSID after it realised that the money in the escrow account has been paid to PAP at a time when there was still another pending case over the tariff dispute.

The bank was demanding outstanding payments to clear a loan taken by IPTL’s initial owners to set up the electricity generating turbines.

The Hong Kong-based bank took over control of IPTL after the company failed to pay its loan in 2008, and has since then been fighting to recover the debt.

And after more than five years of rigorous legal proceedings, ICSID judges have now finally ruled in favour of the bank.

"The tribunal orders that TANESCO pay to SCB-HK (Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong) the amount of $148.4 million with simple interest at three month LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate) plus 4 per cent from September 30, 2015 until the date of this award," ICSID said in its latest ruling.

"Interest shall continue at the same rate until full payment is received," the ruling added.

DUBIOUS ESCROW ACCOUNT PAYMENTS

ICSID also ruled that payments made by the government from the infamous Tegeta Escrow Account "did not discharge TANESCO's obligations under the power purchase agreement (PPA) and thus cannot be used to reduce the amount that TANESCO owes SCB HK."

TANESCO paid more than $120 million from the IPTL Tegeta Escrow Account to Pan African Power Solutions (PAP)under dubious circumstancesin 2013.

The escrow account payments triggered a major national corruption scandal which ultimately led to the resignations of at least three senior ministers in then president JakayaKikwete's government.

A number of other senior government officials were also charged with corruption at the Kisuturesident magistrate's court over the IPTL escrow account scam.

Lawyers representing Standard Chartered Bank at the arbitration accused TANESCO of misleading the ICSID tribunal judges by concealing facts about the payments made from the escrow account to PAP.

"SCB-HK understands that PAP used $75 million of the funds obtained from the escrow account to pay VIP Engineering and Marketing Limited (owned by Tanzanian businessman James Rugemalira) for its 30 per cent shareholding in IPTL," says part of the 100-page ruling.

"The funds held in the escrow account that should have been available to satisfy TANESCO's payment obligations to IPTL under the PPA (power purchase agreement) have therefore been paid to two Tanzanian parties - VIP and PAP - neither of whom made any financial contribution to the construction of the facility," it adds.

The ruling seen by The Guardian was dispatched to the parties involved in the arbitration - Standard Chartered Bank and TANESCO - on September 12 this year.

The ICSID is part of the World Bank Group and is funded by the Bretton Woods institution. It is headquartered in Washington, DC, in the United States.

An ICSID award is binding on all parties to the proceeding and each party must comply with it.

If a party fails to comply with the award, the other party can seek to have the pecuniary obligations recognised and enforced in the courts of any ICSID member state as though it were a final judgment of that state’s courts.

Members of the tribunal that issued the award in favour of Stanchartwere Prof Donald McRae (president), Prof Zachary Douglas (arbitrator), and Prof Brigitte Stern (arbitrator).

In the arbitration process, the bank was represented by a team of lawyers from two London-based law firms - Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Linklaters LLP.

TANESCO was represented by a team of lawyers from Tanzanian-based law firms R.K. Rweyongeza & Co. Advocates and Crax Law Partners, and a Zurich-based law firm Kellerhals Carrard.

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