THE Minister of State in the President Office, Public Service Management
and Good Governance, Ms Angellah Kairuki, has said she is going to
oversee that all Tanzania Social Action Funds (TASAF) cash transfers to
ineligible people are recovered and legal measures taken to those
officials involved in the fraud.
Ms Kairuki made the remarks in Dar es
Salaam yesterday during her two day field visit to the productive social
safety net (PSSN) programme beneficiaries in Kinondoni and Temeke
districts.
“I want to get a report of all names of
people who were fraudulently issued with the funds along with the amount
received and a list of those who have started returning the money,”
said Ms Kairuki.
She insisted on a speed up on the
verification exercise for the report to be presented to the president.
“We are going to use the National Identification Authority (NIDA) and
the voter registers to trace all the people who were issued with the
funds,” she noted.
Current data shows that out of the
32,456 unfit households countrywide identified, Dar es Salaam Region was
leading with 5,457 households in the three districts. A special audit
will also be undertaken to foresee whether facilitation allowances being
distributed to the councils and regional offices is properly utilised.
Kinondoni District Commissioner (DC), Mr
Ali Hapi, who was Acting Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner (RC),
noted that the programme’s objective was very important for the
development of the country only for a few individuals who were
destroying the image of TASAF.
A lot of funds are being issued but end
up into the wrong hands, something which was creating a lot of chaos in
streets. Funds that are allocated for facilitation by our officials is
used for personal issues,” noted Mr Hapi.
He charged that there was a need to review the entire operational and performance system in the programme.
On his part, Kigamboni Member of
Parliament (MP), Mr Faustine Ndugulile (CCM), said it has been reported
that some of the officials were employing their political affiliations
to enrol and evict people from the programme, something which was not
good for the programme.
“The PSSN programme has to reflect on
actual data for the government to be able to realise whether it was
making progress for the development of the country,” said the MP.
There is a need to devise useful plans that would make the programme sustainable for it is very good in eradicating poverty.
Responding to some questions, TASAF
Executive Director (ED), Mr Ladislaus Mwamanga, said the PSSN programme
was devised through a logical framework bearing all the key performance
indicators.
He said for the programme to be
sustainable, the government needs to allocate more funds because a big
part depended on development partners (DPs).
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