Dar works on new law to end scandals

Dar es Salam; Tanzania: In response to a growing outcry over corruption and abuse of office, Tanzania is working on a new law to ban elected leaders and civil servants from using their positions to build business empires and enrich themselves.

The law is intended to end the numerous scandals that have arisen in the absence of a clear definition of conflict of interest. Gertrude Cyriacus, the Ethics Secretariat’s Assistant Secretary, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation the conflict of interest law would prohibit public officials from transacting private business while in office and ban them from holding positions in private companies.