The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
Patty Magubira, Mwanza
16 June 2008
Magu District Council officials will meet next week to discuss the alleged improper payment of Sh25 million to a 'ghost debt' owed to LAPF.
Council chairman Bonaventura Kiswaga confirmed the planned meeting yesterday.
He said members of the Council's Committee on Finance were trying to find out how a full council meeting was deceived into approving the payment.
A Council meeting held on April 24 approved the payment of the LAPF debt, which later turned out to be non-existent.
LAPF officials have since refused to talk to the media about the mystery surrounding the payment.
Efforts to find out from the Fund whether or not the District Council had any outstanding workers' contributions were fruitless as the officials remained adamant that 'the issue was not for media consumption.'
According to Mr Kiswaga, the District Council's management presented the debt to the April meeting, which also discussed several other debts amounting to Sh70 million.
But mystery still shrouds the origin of the 'Sh25 million debt' after it emerged that Magu District was not on the list of LAPF debtors posted on LAPF website.
The District Council was also not on the list published in local newspapers.
And since the story was reported some weeks ago LAPF officials have not been forthcoming to the media on the issue.
LAPF director general Eliud Sanga yesterday referred The Citizen to the Fund's zonal Manager, only identified as Kuyeyana.
But efforts to talk to Kuyeyana, who was said to be on an official trip to Kagera region, were fruitless as his mobile phone went on ringing without anyone picking it up.
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