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Govt planning to recruit new Immigration officers
2005-07-09 07:27:47
By Guardian Correspondent, Dodoma
The government will recruit 322 new Immigration officers and give training on dozens of its employees in the 2005/06 financial year, the House was told yesterday.
Home Affairs Minister Omar Ramadhan Mapuri told Parliament yesterday about the government’s plan when presenting his ministry’s budget estimates for this financial year.
’My ministry also intends to send 137 Immigration officers to attend various long and short-term courses,’ he said.
Mapuri also said that his ministry had set aside a total of 2.3bn/- for preparations prior to issuing of national identity cards.
He said that the money would be spent on building offices, conducting public education programmes and purchasing of equipment.
He also said that the ministry would conduct security inspections to ensure that all foreigners visiting Tanzania did so for genuine reasons and their stay was legal.
Moreover, he told Parliament that the ministry would, from next financial year, start building remand prison rooms for children, women and disabled persons.
Giving the opposition’s views on the budget estimates, opposition spokesman, Frank Maghoba (CUF, Kigamboni) said that the government was obliged to improve conditions of all prisons in the country.
’The opposition requests the government to improve conditions of our prisons. There is incredible congestion because criminal offenses are on the increase,’ said Maghoba.
The Home Affairs ministry proposed 72,641,816,200/- for recurrent and development expenditure for the 2005/06 financial year.
The House resumed activities yesterday after a recess on Saba Saba day Thursday.
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