“Corruption Is thwarting Govt To Roll Out Key Public Services”: Dr Chana -

By Staff Reporter

THE Minister of constitution and law, Ambassador Dr
Pindi Chana has said presence of unpatriotic acts of corruption and embezzlement
within the country is thwarting the government to effectively roll out key
services towards the public.

Also, Dr Chana observed that the poor tendency was
seeing most of the development projects implemented below the needed standards
as the funds injected by the government to support facilitation of the useful
projects are often being swindled by the few greedy and unscrupulous peoples.

The Minister unveiled the challenge over the weekend
in Dodoma Capital City during her remarks to launch the celebration of this year’s
Human Rights and Ethics Day.

She said the government, through the Prevention and
Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB), was working numerous efforts to monitor
implementation of various development projects in order to prevent and stamp
out any form of embezzlement, as well as corruption.

“The sixth phase government has been making
great efforts and steps to help control corruption in the country and President
Dr. Samia Suluhu Hassan has always been directing PCCB to monitor various
development projects in order to curtail elements of embezzlement, including
corruption,” she expressed.

And she added: “The war against corruption is not an
easy task, it calls for collective efforts, ranging from government officials,
politicians, religious leaders, traders as well as the journalists who must properly
use their position and pens to educating the public about the importance of negating
corruption,”

This year’s anniversary of Human Rights and Ethics
Day is being celebrated in sync with the 75th anniversary of the Declaration of
Human Rights (”Universal Declaration of Human Rights”).

“Since its announcement, on December 10, 1948, the
declaration of Human Rights has laid the foundation for many other human rights
treaties that have followed. It is a declaration that has defined civil, political,
cultural and economic rights,” Dr Chana insisted.

Together with that, the minister expressed that Tanzania
is among the countries that have included this declaration in their
constitutions, whereby in Tanzania, the declaration has been inserted in
Article 9 of the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania.

“The Article explains that the country’s authorities
and all its agencies are responsible for directing all its policies and
activities in order to ensure that human dignity is protected and maintained in
compliance with the principles of the World Declaration on Human Rights,” Dr Chana
detailed.

Dr Chana said the government will continue
implementing various efforts and programs to help negate and erode all forms of
embezzlement and corruption in different sectors in the public and private
sector in order to assure the funds being injected by the government and the
development partners is being utilised effectively so as to fetch the needed
end-results.

Moreover, she challenged the public servants to
execute their daily roles while embracing a spirit of patriotism in order to do
away from all forms of corruption.

“Corruption is a serious venom which if not
contained properly and reduced to zero, will end up eating away our economy
and thus, leading the country into poverty,” she cautioned.