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Device to keep sexual bribery in check ready
2007-11-28 09:07:10
By Jane Mkonya
The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau has said it has come up with a device to help nab people soliciting sexual favours from women as a bribe.
PCCB Director General Edward Hoseah made the revelation to journalists at an occasion to unveil the enhanced National Anti-corruption Strategy and Action Plan (NACSAP II) in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
`The device will record voices as well as take pictures of people demanding sexual favours. We therefore call upon women to cooperate with the authorities concerned in efforts to curb sexual corruption at workplaces and elsewhere,` he said.
Hoseah explained that some victims have not been reporting their cases to the bureau, thus making the incidence of the vice appear low while the media are inundated with reports of such incidents.
`We will monitor corruption in Government ministries, departments and agencies and in the private sector and we will take appropriate action against all those suspected to be behind them,` he stated, adding that President Jakaya Kikwete has already blessed the strategy.
The PCCB chief reiterated his earlier stand that they will seek to tame not only cases of petty corruption but also those involving prominent people and institutions in both the public and private sectors.
He said the bureau would provide women willing to cooperate in the campaign with special gadgets capable of secretly recording voices and taking pictures of the suspects.
`The women will be required to carry the gadgets along with them wherever they go but in extreme secrecy to ensure maximum safety, confidentiality and efficiency,` he pointed out.
He said that, under NACSAP II, it is expected that corrupt tendencies and practices in the central and local government authorities would be effectively monitored and reported for appropriate action.
`We are sure that fighting corruption, particularly in the rich areas like natural resources which generate vast amounts of revenue, will enhance domestic resource mobilisation for national development and reduce donor dependence,` noted Hoseah.
Philip Marmo, Minister in the President`s Office (Good Governance), said in remarks at the occasion that the establishment of national strategy was in partial implementation of recommendations by the mid-1990s Presidential Commission on Corruption chaired by former Prime Minister Joseph Warioba.
`It is a continuation of the anti-corruption efforts made by the Government during the implementation of the strategy`s first phase - NACSAP I.
It is the Government`s expectation that NACSAP II will be the main vehicle for carrying out the spirit and intent of the national anti-corruption policy,` added the minister.
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