Govt official, contractor imprisoned for economic sabotage

 A former accountant in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Fire Brigade Department, Naamini Sangiwa, and a contractor who is also the director of Kiareni Investment Ltd, Webu Masawe, have been slapped with sentences for economic sabotage at the Ilala District Court.

 

The accused were facing seven counts including abuse of position, uttering false documents and lying contrary to section 22 and 32 of PCCB; forgery contrary to section 333,335 (d) (1), and 3337 of Penal Code chapter 16; and causing loss to the government. 

 

In 2009, the government issued tender for fence construction at the Fire Brigade College located at Mbopo Bunju within Kinondoni District in Dar es Salaam whereby Kiareni Investment Ltd won it and paid 81,963,360/-.

 

A competitive bidding procedure was not followed and Kiareni Investment Ltd which won the tender spent only 13,784,652/- of all the amount of money paid.  

The charges against all the three accused, who appeared before the court in 2014, were read by Resident Magistrate Juma Hassan.

 

One of the accused, Dotto Mgogo, who was acting head of Training for Ministry of Home Affairs, Fire Brigade department, died in 2014 after the charges against him were read and thus they ended then.

 

Sangiwa was charged with two offences of abuse of position, forgery and occasioning loss to the government.

 

In the offences of abuse of position, the accused Sangiwa has sentenced to pay a fine of 300,000/- for each offence failure which he would to go jail for six months while in the offence of forgery the accused was ordered not to commit any criminal offence for one year.

 

The accused Masawe, who was facing only charges of occasioning loss to the government, was sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay 67,913,748/- as a compensation of the loss he caused to the government.