Tanzania: Lawyers Challenge Ndugai's Statement

Dar es Salaam — A statement by National Assembly Speaker Job Ndugai that Parliament will temporarily stop working with the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) is bad and a threat to constitutional democracy, pundits observed yesterday.

Mr Ndugai told some media outlets of his decision, which went together with changes to two parliamentary committees that work closely with the office of the CAG, including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and Local Authority Accounts Committee (Laac).

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