FOUR officials from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) appeared before the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday charged for stealing several items valued over 100m/- meant for disaster management.
Before Principal Resident Magistrate
Respicious Mwijage, the accused persons were Hamed Yusuph,( 48), Halima
Mwanjiro (33), both supplies officers and Martin Tyeah (31) and Mwaija
Kimata, (55), all assistant supplies officers. They denied the charges
and were released on bail upon meeting the set bail conditions.
The conditions demanded each of them
securing one reliable surety, employed in any government institution or
registered institution. Such surety, according to the magistrate, was
required to sign a bond of 25m/-.
The case was adjourned to August 22 for
mention as investigations into the matter, according to the prosecution
led by Inspector of Police Jackson Chidunda, have not been completed. It
is alleged that the accused persons committed the offence between April
and September 2014 at Keko area near Medical
Store Department (MSD)
warehouse in Temeke District, Dar es Salaam.
The prosecution told the court that
being employees of PMO, the accused persons stole 5,074 iron sheets, 200
cooking sets, 348 blankets and 300 sleeping mats, all valued at
100,164,000/-, the property of their employer, which came into their
possession by virtual of their employment.
Meanwhile, a Chinese, Senxin Van,
yesterday escaped a jail term of three years having managed to pay a
fine of 500,000/- for violating immigration laws. Before the same court,
Principal Resident Magistrate, Huruma Shaidi, convicted Van of failure
to comply with conditions specified in his resident permit on his own
plea of guilty.
An Immigration Department prosecutor,
Novatus Mlay, had told the court that being a citizen of China, Van was
found on July 12, this year at Tenglong Investment Limited in Kinondoni
District working as a doctor. According to the prosecution, the
Chinese’s working permit allowed him only to work as director in the
Tong Xing Foot Wear Company Limited.
Before being sentenced, the Chinese had
pleaded for light sentence because he has a family that depend on him
and that being the director of the company, the business he was
supervising would collapse if given a custodian punishment
