Tanzania: Bunge Committee Pushes for Tirdo Special Audit

FOLLOWING reports of misuse of funds at the Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organization (TIRDO), an oversight parliamentary committee has directed the Control and Auditor General (CAG) to conduct a special audit on the corporation.

This is despite the fact that the CAG slapped TIRDO with a qualified opinion for its financial records for the fiscal year 2010/11.The Parliamentary Public Organizations Accounts Committee (POAC) also declined to endorse the organization's books of accounts for the respective year, describing them as 'flawed.'

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