Tanzania Descent into Dictatorship Security Organs vs. Democracy

Presented To:

United States Congressional Committees

By

Tanzania Human Right Activists

December 27, 2012

PRESIDENT KIKWETE’S BRUTAL KILLING OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS AND

OPPRESSION OF DEMOCRACY

President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania and his Government are silently reigning terror on Tanzania citizens and

journalists. Mr. Kikwete a Washington darling supposedly, has turned to be a dictator destroying country’s little

democratic gains. He has turned to be a murderer of innocent civilians by using Tanzania Police and Intelligence

Services. Kikwete’s and CCM’s headache has been the opposition party CHADEMA and its leader Dr. Wilbroad

Slaa.

The Government has gone to higher heights of threatening and kidnapping of medical doctors who simply

demand better pay and better working conditions. All these brutalities are carried by the State Agents (Tanzania

intelligence Services) along with the police under direct instructions from President Kikwete and his ruling party

CCM, that receives hundreds of millions from the US government in the form of foreign aid. Kikwete’s is extremely

corrupt and inept in its administration. The ruling party leaders have stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in

offshore accounts while hospitals have no medicine. Despite the damning evidence against the corruption

kingpins, the president has kept mum

Andrew Chenge, a member of Kikwete inner circle, was mentioned in a British Serious Fraud Office investigation

on the BAE Rada Scandal on corruption; keeping millions in Jersey accounts. Unfortunately president has

shielded him against prosecution. The president himself is implicated in numerous corruption scandals along with

his Son Ridhiwani Kikwete implicated in scandal after scandal. The wikileaks report revealed how president

Kikwete was bribed by an Arab Investor who wanted to invest in tourism sector

The president owned Richmond, and Dowans ghost power companies which keeps on emerging with new names

are stealing billions from Tanzania taxpayers. Outlaw nations such as Iran; Pakistanis drug dealers and money

launderers; Somali Pirates have all found a new East African Friend. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete. President Kikwete

was very privy of the Iranian shipping tankers registration, because he received the Iran vice president a few

weeks before the tankers were registered in Tanzania.

Ordinary Citizen under police torture for peaceful demonstration. This is normal for Tanzanians under ruthless

Kikwete’s regime

Political Activist detained for a simple reason of attempting to visit his political party branch

A lady and a political Activist bleeding from injuries sustained through police beating. The lady along with others,

were attending a political rally organized by an opposing political party CHADEMA

Unarmed Ordinary Citizen SHOT dead by Tanzanian Police in the city of Arusha during a peaceful demonstration

Police in Action Against armless Civilians. Tanzania is becoming like Zimbabwe in which the ruling party CCM

does not want to see opposition making any kind of political gains

Opposition party activists are constantly murdered by either state agents or thugs hired by the ruling party CCM.

The lady believed to have voted CHADEMA. Was murdered by CCM goons to send a message. Ordinary citizen

and a member of CHADEMA opposition party Killed by police in Songea

Young people peacefully demonstrating for a new constitution before 2015

Peaceful Defenseless women and children are tear-gassed by the police for coming close to a political rally.

Peace prevails most of the time in public gatherings until police comes in. Police are the perpetrators of violence.

Peaceful demonstration is a sin in Tanzania, especially under Kikwete and CCM political party Regime

Opposition activist arrested for holding a rally at their political party office

School Children Protesting Lack of Teachers were met with Battlefield Weapons. This corrupt

regime does not discriminate whether children or adults

Police are ready to tear gass and arresting unarmed school children protesting lack of teachers

Shameless government that arrests little children demanding their right to have teachers.

As can be seen in the pictures, Police are holding battlefield weapons in Arresting Children. Kikwete is a dictator

receiving millions of dollars from The United States Government. The US government must black list this man

from its soil for raping democracy

KIKWETE AGAINST JOURNALISTS THREATENING HIS REGIME

Channel-TEN news reporter (David Mwangosi) Very healthy looking two hours prior to his murder

The Journalist above getting the beating from police officers before his body is shredded into pieces by the police

officers. Leading the beating is the police Commandant Michael Kamuhanga, an International Criminal Court

(ICC) Potential Candidate

Journalist’s body shreded into pieces. Besides his body lies his laptop and bodyless left harm

Only a few deaths making to the national headlines. Hundreds of families aren’t so fortunate to get the story of their beloved ones out.

Mr. Mwangosi being a reporter of a major TV Channel, his story caught the world attention

This is the end result of a healthy man above. He was killed by the police. Actually a bomb was pushed into his stomach

shredding his body into pieces

Smiling with the camera is the Journalist David Mwangosi whose body lies above, recording a conversation with Michael

Kamuhanda the police chief that ordered his killing. This was 15minutes prior to the killing….Because justice will never be

rendered in Tanzania, Mr. Kamuhanda, Kikwete and Inspector General of Police needs to go to the Hague

Police aiming at Civilians in the opposition activists’ vehicle in front of

them

Less than a week ago, Mwananchi Communications Reporter was shot by the Tanzania police. The man

allegedly compiling a report critical of the Kikwete Government

KIKWETE AGAINST SOCAIL ACTIVITS

Dr Stephen Ulimboka is the head of Tanzania Medical Doctors association. Early this year, he was kidnapped in

Dar-es salaam and brutally tortured by the state agents that left him thinking he was dead. Luckily, he was still

alive and managed to seek help

Dr. Ulimboka Kidnappers, whom he identified, were President Kikwete Assistants. (Tanzania intelligence Services

Agents) Meaning Kikwete sent them to kill the Doctors Union president. Dr. Ulimboka vows to name his

kidnappers Dr. Ulimboka in his own words after surviving assassination VIDEO Part I Part II

Medical Doctors seeking help from the UN to intervene in their situation

PRESIDENT KIKWETE AGAINST THE MEDIA

This newspaper was banned by the government after running an investigative report above that exposed the

kidnappers. One of the kidnappers (president kikwetes assistant) Ramadhani Ighondu, works for Tanzania

Intelligence Services (TISS). Kikwete’s regime has threatened with closure a number of publications critical of his

rule.

KIKWETE WITH OUTLAW NATIONS

Weeks leading to Iraninian oil Tankers registration, President Kikwete met with Iranian Vice president who

requested him to help with the registration of the tankers to evade the international sanctions. Despite his denial

following the letter below from Senate Foreign Relations committee, Kikwete, known in the west as a beggar,

knew of the deal…..Defense Cooperative Agreement between the two countries In wikileaks

Currently, a number of Tanzania Intelligence agents along with CCM activists are in Iran being trained on how to

disrupt elections on the pretext of religious tensions in 2015. All these are paid for by Iran including construction of

multiple mosques in Tanzania. Kikwete’s main goal is to keep his party CCM in power to protect his vast financial

interests acquired through corruption. Iranians also discussed with Kikwete on how to obtain Uranium which

corroborate with Wiki Leaks Uranium Report

Source: http://democrats.foreignaffairs.house.gov/112/Letter_Tanzania_President_NITC.pdf

MASSIVE CORRUTION AND SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS:

While president Kikwete is trotting the world begging for foreign AID, ordinary citizens do not benefit from the

money obtained from other countries. Kikwete and his cronies, instead of investing on domestic projects, Kikwete

and his friends are diverting the funds to Swiss Bank Accounts. Currently, hundreds of millions of dollars have

been stashed in Switzerland, Jersey Island in the UK etc. Despite the fact that, some of the countries corruption

kingpins have been named, none has so far been prosecuted despite the staggering evidence. Ruling party CCM,

and Mr. Kikwete are Shielding the culprits.

Tanzania is actually one of the richest countries in Africa. Unfortunately, countries wealth is being enjoyed by a

handful few. Despite the country’s massive wealth, those in power are SELLING THE COUNTRY’S at a throw

away price. Live animals were transported from Serengeti to QATAR

QATARI military Jet in Kilimanjaro Airport to pick live animals destined for QATAR in UAE. The government that

gives away its wealth has no right to the American and western governments taxpayers money

Live Animals in QATAR, snatched from Tanzania. The culprits of the heinous act, have never been arrested. Only

mid level officials were suspended from their positions

BAE's secret $12m payout in African deal

David Leigh in Dar es Salaam and Rob Evans

The Guardian, Sunday 14 January 2007

The UK's biggest arms supplier secretly paid a $12m commission into a Swiss account in a deal which led to Tanzania, one of the world's poorest countries, buying a controversial military radar system. A Tanzanian middleman, who has a long-standing relationship with military and government figures, has admitted that the sum was covertly moved to a Swiss account by BAE Systems, which is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office.

The back-door payment represented 30% of the contract value. The east African state had to borrow to finance the deal, which critics said was unnecessary and overpriced.Tony Blair supported the 2002 sale but former cabinet minister Clare Short says she and the chancellor, Gordon Brown, opposed it. The SFO, which was recently forced to abandon its investigation into commissions paid on a massive arms contract with Saudi Arabia, is now focusing its attention on Tanzania.Yesterday's admissions by the Tanzanian middleman, Sailesh Vithlani, led Ms Short to call for BAE's prosecution if the allegations were proved. She said the prime minister had been personally responsible for forcing the licence for the Tanzania deal through the cabinet.

"No 10 insisted on letting this go ahead, when it stank," she said. "It was always obvious that this useless project was corrupt."In Dar es Salaam, Mr Vithlani's business partner, Tanil Somaiya, told the Guardian that British police had already flown out to trace and interview both men as potential witnesses. He said BAE had made two parallel arrangements with the middlemen. In the first, a conventional agency agreement was signed. Under this, 1% commission was to be paid if the $40m radar deal went through, to a Tanzania-registered firm, Merlin International Ltd.

Mr Vithlani was the majority shareholder in Merlin, Mr Somaiya said, while he had a small token interest himself. BAE paid $400,000 down this route in stage payments, Mr Somaiya said, as the radar equipment was delivered. But under a second, more unusual agreement, BAE's secretly owned offshore company Red Diamond deposited another $12m, representing 30% of the contract price, in Switzerland. That money was under the personal control of Mr Vithlani, Mr Somaiya said, and this had been admitted to UK police.

When asked about the BAE money, Mr Vithlani told the Guardian he had made no disbursements from the Swiss cash to public officials "in Tanzania". Asked if he had disbursed any of the $12m to third parties outside of Tanzania, he declined to comment. "When the UK police travelled to Tanzania, we met them at their request and answered all their questions," he said. Mr Vithlani acted as agent not only on the radar deal but also in the 2002 purchase from the US of a top-of-the-range Gulfstream official jet for the then Tanzanian president, Benjamin Mkapa, at a cost of more than $40m. When asked if he would allow British police to inspect all the transactions on his Swiss account, he declined to comment.

In the secretive world of international arms deals, a commission of 1% to local agents would generally be regarded as legitimate. The government's export credit agency, the Export Credits Guarantee Department, has guidelines under which a "commission" of more than 5-10% is automatically regarded as questionable. BAE System's payment of as much as 30%, coupled with the use of a Swiss bank account and apparent double sets of agency agreements, would normally arouse suspicions of possible bribery, investigators say. Police sources in Tanzania said the agreement to use Mr Vithlani as an agent had been signed off by the then chairman of BAE, Sir Dick Evans. Sir Dick, who has been at the centre of many of the arms deals under investigation, has already been interviewed by the Serious Fraud Office during their two-year inquiry.

BAE Systems were yesterday asked why they had made a 30% payment to Mr Vithlani's Swiss account. The company refused to answer, saying: "We will not be commenting on any point of substance. This cannot of course be taken as any kind of admission." The SFO also refused to discuss their investigation. The president of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, is due in London today to speak at a meeting with Hilary Benn, the international development secretary, on efforts to overcome corruption in Tanzania.

Later this week, the UK is expected to have to defend its actions over BAE at a meeting of the anti-bribery group of the OECD in Paris. Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat frontbencher and critic of the deal, said: "It was obvious at the time that this deal did not stack up, but Blair still forced it through, against the better judgment of his colleagues. It was not as if he was not

warned at the time." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jan/15/bae.armstrade

EAC residents stash

$1.3bn in Swiss accounts

Wednesday, 27 June 2012 08:48

By Mwaura Kimani, The Political Platform Correspondent Residents of the East Africa Community have more money stashed away in Swiss banks than those from any other region in Africa, a new report reveals. The Swiss National Bank (SNB), the central bank of Switzerland, in its latest report on the country’s banking sector states that the EAC countries of Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya have at least $1.3 billion in the country. Kenya tops the list with $857 million followed by Tanzania ($178 million), Uganda ($159 million), Rwanda ($29.7 million and Burundi ($16.7 million). While the cash-detailed by SNB as foreign liabilities held by Swiss banks in 2011-is not necessarily listed as dirty money, EAC countries have been grappling with capital flight, with individuals said to have set up companies and accounts in tax havens. Kenya’s Finance minister Robinson Githae hinted the government would investigate the ownership of these accounts. “Treasury has no idea of the source, the owners and how the money ended up there,” Mr Githae told The EastAfrican.

“Although some could belong to investors doing businesses in foreign currencies, I don’t understand why someone would put their money outside when it is allowed to operate dollar accounts in Kenya.” Anti-graft activists say huge unreported flows of money are leaving the EAC countries every year, ending up in rich countries or tax havens, denying nations desperately needed tax revenues. They argue that tracing, freezing, confiscation and repatriation of stolen assets is a cumbersome process because of differences in legal systems, the high costs of co-ordinating investigations, inadequate international co-operation and bank secrecy laws. “Most of these funds are dirty money and the accounts have been growing with time. It is a big task for governments to find out the sources of these funds and the owners,” said John Githongo, a Nairobi based anti-corruption campaigner. “The incidence of money being stashed abroad usually rises around elections, so it is expected Kenya’s share will grow in the remaining part of the year,” said Mr Githongo, a former ethics and governance permanent secretary. Contrary to popular belief, only a small share, three to five per cent, of illicit capital flight stems from corruption, a 2011 report dubbed Bringing The Billions Back said.

“Instead, almost two-thirds originates from multinational companies evading tax, and one-third is a result of criminal activities such as trade in humans, drugs and weapons,” said the report authored by Dr Attiya Waris, a lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Nairobi and Kristina Fröberg, a political scientist at Forum Syd in Sweden. “Illicit capital flight has severe consequences for developing countries-it cancels investment, undermines trade, hurts competition, worsens income gaps and drains hard-currency reserves,” says the report.

Its authors estimate that in 2008, Tanzania topped the list of illicit capital flight with over $5.1 billion followed by Uganda ($4.8 billion), Rwanda ($3.3 billion), Kenya ($2.6 billion) and Burundi ($2 billion). According to a report from Global Financial Integrity, the average of illicit outflows per year from Kenya during 2002-2006 is estimated at $686 million. In Tanzania, the report estimates revenue lost through a combination of tax exemptions and illicit trade involving foreign countries and multinationals amounts to over $1.2 billion a year. The SNB figures do not include money that individuals may hold in other’s names or that is managed by wealth funds.

Global pressure has been rising on Switzerland to ask its banks to share information about their clients with foreign governments. It is suspected that foreigners holding illicit wealth in Swiss banks may be moving their funds for fear of being exposed due to growing scrutiny. Although Swiss banks’ policy of secrecy and customer protection allows for such money to be paid in, Switzerland has adopted what is arguably the world’s toughest law for repatriating the ill-gotten gains of corrupt politicians to the people of those countries, allowing the country to return potentially corrupt assets more easily to where they belong.

The news about the money stashed in foreign accounts comes as the EAC countries battle budget deficits that have seen them go on a borrowing spree. Kenya’s public debt currently stands at 48.6 per cent of GDP, having marginally declined from the 48.8 per cent recorded in 2011. Uganda plans to borrow at least Ush2.6 trillion ($1 billion) this year, while Rwanda’s total external debt (including guaranteed debt) is projected to rise to $1.3 billion in 2012 (19.1 per cent of GDP). As of March 2012, Tanzania’s debt stood at Sh20 trillion ($12.8 billion). Most of the billions stashed away in foreign accounts by influential businessmen and powerful politicians are suspected to be proceeds of defence and security-related contracts and payments of fake debts. Stephen Kaboyo managing director, Alpha Capital Partners said the sums of money mentioned in that report are unlikely to have originated from Uganda. “It is extremely difficult to wire large amounts of money to foreign accounts because of increased scrutiny by local banks. Therefore, the bulk of that money could have been generated by payments from ‘dirty deals’ done between locals and foreign partners in overseas locations,” he said. This article was first published in the EastAfrican

RHINO AND ELEPHANT KILLING

CNN report and other media outlets carried a report of Elephant tasks intercepted in Hongkong. The origin of the

Tusks was believed to be East Africa. Yes Indeed, the tusks came from Tanzania. Abdurrahman Kinana, a former

cabinet minister and the current secretary general of the ruling CCM was known in Tanzania to be the man

behind the Rhino and Elephants killing. Indeed, he was the man behind the shipment. The man claimed that, his

company shipped the tusks; however, he was not the owner of the consignment and did not know the content of

the shipment. Funny enough, weeks later, the man believed to the Rhino killer, was awarded CCM-ruling Party

Secretary. This means therefore, that the top persons in the government shipped the tusks

Mr. Kinana, ruling party CCM secretary general admitted owning the shipping company but denied owning the

consignment. He is the politician believed to be behind the Rhino and Elephant Killing. The report in Swahili is

accusing him of being behind the killing of Rhinos and elephants in Tanzania. He is also accused of being the link

between Somali Pirates in Tanzania. Kinana Denies owning the Ivory intercepted in Hong-Kong

In the Kisarawe region of Tanzania, more than 19,000 acres of land is being used for a biofuel plantation

While Tanzanians are dying of Starvation, the country leadership are selling the land to the Chinese and Arabs to

grow food for their own people. They even evict their citizens. Tanzania Prime minister Mizengo Pinga led the

way by signing a very controversial deal to Agrisol Energy, displacing 160,000 people. This story was investigated

by abc News: Extremely Troubling Video Report also can read KILLING THE KILLING FIELDS OF LOLIONDO

Aziza Gonjwa and her family have lost their five acres of fertile land to an international biofuel business. The biofuel

development has affected 11 villages in Kisarawe

Athumani Mkambala with his family. As chairman of Magda village committee, he remembers the promises made by the bio-

fuel company to build clinics, schools, roads and boreholes for clean water, and to provide employment and livelihood

The former water sources became off-limits to the communities, and the only accessible well was nearly three miles from

Halima Ali's village. 'During dry seasons we get water from our neighboring community and we walk for almost four hours,' she

says

Halima Weli and her children have lost land to a biofuels plantation that has acquired 8,000 hectares of land in the

Kisarawe region of Tanzania. Land has been grabbed with little or no compensation resulting in a loss of

livelihood. Residents have lost access to water sources as well as the grave-sites of ancestors. Public amenities

including schools, dispensaries and wells, promised as part of a compensation package for local residents, have

not materialized….. Source Actionaid

Religious Tensions

Tanzania has been a relatively peaceful country. Religious differences were not part of the society. Recently,

Kikwetes government feeling cornered by its ineptness, corruption, it started using intelligence services to coerce

religious tensions in the country. Muslims are favored. Their demonstrations are mostly protected by the police.

Soon or later, these tensions will spill out and Tanzania will fall into a bloodbath

Islamic Demonstrations against Christians are normally accorded state protection

Muslim protected by Kikwete (a muslim) regime (CCM) demonstrating against Catholics and Christians.

Fruits of Kikwete religious divisions. Catholic bishop was shot by people believed to be state agents in Zanzibar.

Religious tensions have been designed by Kikwete and his CCM government to weaken opposition led by a

Christian Dr. Wildroad Slaa.. Media Report

Tanzania is descending into an historic ditch. Therefore, President Kikwete must be held accountable especially

by the international organizations propping the country financially. United States should STOP President Wastage

of Taxpayers, and donors money he uses to unnecessarily trot the world with large entourages

ALQAIDA affiliated and Arab sponsored Group UAMSHO in Zanzibar is spitting venomous dangerous and

divisive words yet the government is allowing them to continue addressing the public. Attached video clearly

supports that UAMSHO I

KIKWETE AND HIS REPRESSIVE REGIME DOES NOT DESERVE FOREIGN TAX PAYERS MONEY

Below are some videos showing Kikwete and CCM Brutalities

Video: Kikwete and Police Suppression of Democracy

Video: A must see Police Brutality & Serious Human Rights Violation In Tanzania

Video: Kidnapping of a Medical Dr. By Security Agents. Part I

Kidnapping of a Medical Dr. By Security Agents Part. II

Video: Ruthless Eviction of 188,000 In Tanzania. Special abc News Report

Video: 8 Villages Burnt to Enable Arabs Hunt in Serengeti Part I

8 Villages Burnt to Enable Arabs Hunt in Serengeti Part II