The
Minister of State in the President's Office, Public Service Management
and Good Governance, Ms Angellah Kairuki, has ordered the suspension of
five top officials of Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), after a
verification exercise unearthed a total of 55,692 ineligible TASAF's
scheme households.
She also directed
the suspension of 106 Community Based Conditional Cash Transfer (CBCCT)
Monitoring and Consultative officials, who were responsible to register
the ineligible beneficiaries of the TASAF-run CBCCT scheme in the
municipalities.
Ms Kairuki told a
press conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the government had
saved 6.4bn/- after scrapping 42,034
"I also direct
TASAF to conduct investigations on the officials to establish their
involvement in the matter so that action will be taken against them. The
investigations should be completed within one month from today," said
the minister.
Ms Kairuki noted
that the fund's senior officials including the Director of Coordination,
Mr Alphonse Kyariga and Coordination Manager, Ms Tunu Munthali, who
were responsible to supervise the CBCCT consultative and monitoring
officials in municipalities while registering poor households for the
scheme.
"I have consulted
Minister of State in the President's Office, Regional Administration and
Local Government, Mr George Simbachawene, who has already directed the
suspension of TASAF district coordinators involved in the matter,"
explained the minister.
Ms Kairuki pointed
out that the verification, which started in January, this year,
discovered that 13,898 households that benefited from the CBCCT scheme
were no longer existing while households that were actually not poor
numbered 13,468. Also, 17,746 households did not show up in the
verification exercise.
She mentioned other
ineligible beneficiaries removed after the verification as village
CBCCT committees' members (4,352), while households that moved to the
project areas before the scheme commenced totalled 6,228.
Ms Kairuki pointed
out that since the exercise to remove ineligible households in CBCCT
scheme was sustainable, the government will announce again the amount
saved from the exercise in January 2017.
"The actual amount
saved from the exercise between October, 2016 and January 2017 might
change after completion of the payment to the eligible households in the
CBCCT scheme," she said.
According to the
minister, eligible households in the CBCCT scheme would from now have to
submit two identification cards to get paid, pointing out the
identification cards as voter card or citizen identification card.
"This is to ensure
the payment is made to the right beneficiaries. District Executive
Directors (DEDs) will supervise the exercise of paying the poor
households," she concluded.
ineligible CBCCT households
(beneficiaries) between January in 2014 and September in 2016.
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