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Vaccines probe report ready for Lowassa’s action
2005-04-27 21:30:29
By Peter Tindwa
A Three-Man probe team assigned to investigate the illegal importation of two million doses of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) T1-44 vaccine from South Africa into Tanzania last December has completed its job.
An impeccable source in the Ministry of Water and Livestock Development told The Guardian in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the final report was now at the desk of the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Dr Charles Nyamurunda.
The source said Dr Nyamurunda was expected to submit the report to the Minister for Water and Livestock Development, Edward Lowassa, any time from now.
\'The probe team’s report is ready. Dr Nyamurunda is expected to forward it to the minister for action regarding the importation of CBPP T1-44 vaccine from South Africa,\' the source said.
Contacted yesterday by telephone, Lowassa confirmed that he had received the report and would issue an official statement on the matter soon.
We shall issue a statement later regarding the probe team’s report, the minister said and immediately switched off his cellular phone.
Members of the probe team were Dr Nyamurunda, Prof Dominic Kambarage and Prof Yongolo from the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA).
Lowassa formed the probe team early this month to establish how the two million doses of CBPP T 1-44 vaccine from South Africa got their way into Tanzania after The Guardian exposed the scam last month.
It has also been established that the Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA) has not registered the CBPP T1-44 vaccine manufactured by the firm that supplied it.
TFDA also had stressed that it has no importation records of CBPP T1-44 from South Africa, according to a written note that was dispatched in response to inquiries by The Guardian last month.
The consignment of two million doses of CBPP T1-44 vaccine from South Africa is still preserved at the Central Veterinary Store (CVS) at Tazara Area in Dar es Salaam.
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