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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
A couple officials from Tanzania’s state-run TPDC have been arrested for failing to release to parliament oil and gas contracts the government signed with foreign and local investors. James Andelile, acting director general of TPDC and its board chairman Michael Mwanda were arrested for refusing to comply with its deadline for releasing oil and gas contracts to a parliamentary oversight panel.
Local media reports have TPDC asking for more time but being denied its request and ordered to turn over all documents relating to the contracts as well as an audit report for the 2013 financial year by November 3.
“It is confirmed. They were arrested today and they will be charged in the court according to the law,” Zitto Kabwe, the committee’s chairman, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
TPDC has resisted requests to disclose the production-sharing agreements on the grounds that it was bound by confidentiality clauses and the company’s information officer, Sebastian Shana said it was impossible for the agency to release the contracts, given the short time frame, before consulting with investors.
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