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.
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