June 2012 Blog Posts (11)

My coleage, Michael Dalal has made this analysis and here it goes: http://wewrite.or.tz/2012/06/tales-of-thefts-and-fraud-of-govt-funds-and-vehicles/

In Brussels we emphasized the use of music and other cultural makings in the war against corruption. Sports and games could be also a means for message delivering depending on societal appearance. 

Poems could also be among the tools in the war against corruption especially in raising mass consciousness on the matter. Follow this poem as shared by one of young writer in Tanzania in here; …

The Global Youth Anticorruption Network (GYAC) and the World Bank Institute (WBI) Voices Against Corruption Program are launching a competition to call for proposals from students, recent graduates in Business Schools, and other interested and qualified individuals, firms or groups for  a detailed business model that will steer the network towards sustainability. The proposal should consist of an outline for the business model as well as an indication of qualifications and relevant…

The integrity of Tanzania's Parliament is in scrutiny. One out of the two alleged MPs by one of the youngest MPs in this lawmaking chamber has been caught by the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) and has been sent to court.

This is happening while the speaker of Tanzania National Assembly has been quiet on allegations of bribe soliciting by some members of Parliament from district executives brought forward by one MP.

The Parliament of Tanzania has been seen…

We have been struggling for an accountable government in Tanzania for so long. It was difficult in previous years because  citizens had no knowledge of what has to be a peoples' centered government and that the government is responsible to citizens and when the mass decides anything against the government which serves not their interest, there is no option for that government other than that of surrendering to the Mass. This happens when the Mass is knowledgeable.

With Corruption and…

Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network Competition

Send us your application for a chance to take part in the 3rd Voices Against Corruption Forum …

Call it a plague, a disease; a game, an endemic, a life style whatever adjective one uses to qualify corruptions in Nigeria, I bet you it all remains an understatement. It is getting crazier, dirtier and increasingly incredible as each day passes by. One can never imagine in a hurry, situation where it has seemingly become completely eccentric to refer to bribery in thousands (Naira) when the case of bribery, corruption and money laundering has since eluded the Millions (Naira). My heart…

Most people would begin to wonder why most Leaders in Africa who commit serious and grave criminal acts, are nowadays tried in the European criminal court in La Hague. Are Africans now impotent to take care of their own internal affairs without asking outsiders, to settle our problems at home? Is Africa beginning to loose it´s image to the rest of the world? What is the African culture and where is it heading to`` These and many more questions, African begin to ask themselves.

The…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has formally instituted criminal charges against former governor of Bayelsa state, Timipre Sylva, for laundering close to N5 billion of funds belonging to Bayelsa state.

The charges filed by EFCC prosecuting attorney Festus Keyamo accused Mr. Sylva of money laundering, conversion and obtaining by false pretense.

 

Mr. Sylva has just ended a grueling political battle with president Goodluck Jonathan regarding his candidacy…

ABUJA — An Abuja High Court, yesterday, gave the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, the nod to arraign former Inspector General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindero, over allegation that he misappropriated about N558 million belonging to the Nigerian Police Force.

Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi ordered Ehindero to appear for trial alongside a former Police Commissioner in-charge of Budget, Mr John Obaniyi, on June 28.

The duo will be answering to a…

Hello dear all, are you interested to know what efforts are being made by the UNCAC by States parties to implement the Convention?

Follow up the activities leaading to the third session of the Implementation Review Group (IRG) that will take place in Vienna (Austria) as from the 18 of June to 22nd , at particularly the NGO's briefing scheduled for the 20 of june.

You can log on: www unodc.org, or www.uncac-coalition.org and…