| Organisation | Parliament of Tanzania (bunge) |
| Alternate Name | Bunge |
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| u.r.l. | www.parliament.go.tz |
| tanzparl@parliament.go.tz | |
| Country | Tanzania |
| Location | Dodoma |
| Address | Parliament House, Dodoma |
| Postal Address | P.O. Box 941, Dodoma |
| Telephone | +255 26 2323115 |
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| Fax | +255 26 2324218 |
| Sector | Parliament - General |
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| Notes | The National Assembly of Tanzania consists of the following categories of members: (Article 66 of the Constitution) (1) Members elected to represent constituencies. (2) Women members whose number shall increase progressively starting with twenty per cent of the members named in sub-paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) of this paragraph, to be elected by the political parties that are represented in the National assembly in terms of Article 78 of the Constitution and on the basis of proportional representation amongst those parties. (3) Five members elected by the Zanzibar House of Representatives from among its members, (4) The Attorney General. (5) Not more than ten members appointed by the President. [ Retrieved on 6/7/2006 ] Fight on corruption gathers pace, Bunge told President Jakaya Kikwete will soon launch the second Anti-Corruption Strategy Action Plan (NACSAP) which will involve the Parliament, judiciary, civil societies, media, and the private sector. The Minister of State, President’s Office Good governance, Philip Marmo, told Parliament yesterday when responding to a question asked by Zainabu Gama (Kibaha-CCM). The MP had wanted to know if there were new strategies to fight corruption. Marmo said it was true the national strategy on war against corruption was fought well if it involved stakeholders and the parliament. He said the government has been conducting seminars for members of the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC) to acquire skills that would help them fight corruption more efficiently. He said the current national strategy on corruption was prepared by the government in 1999 under Judge Joseph Warioba. He added that the plan of implementing that strategy started officially in 2001 after the government introduced Good Governance Department in the President’s Office, the arrangements which were completed in December 2005. He added that the government had another mechanism in place which would be implemented between this year and 2010 and the tactics would involve district councils, municipalities, cities and parastatal organizations. Responding to a supplementary question from Zainabu Gama who accused the former officials of negligence, Marmo said implementation of the strategy would start officially this year and the Parliament will be fully involved. He said the government was determined to fight corruption in its entirety as it always resulted in the denial of rights for a particular section of society or individuals. [ The Guardian (Dar es Salaam) - 28 Jun 2006 - www.ippmedia.com ] Speaker wants reporters to accompany MPs in foreign trips The Speaker of the national Assembly, Samuel Sitta has underscored the need for local journalists to accompany MPs in foreign trips to gain experience from their foreign counterparts. ’’We thought we should be going with journalists in our foreign visits and this office will cover the costs. It is your responsibility to decide who should go first and who follows,’ the Speaker said. He was addressing a press conference in Dodoma yesterday during which he urged journalists to learn about the high-tech applications of the facilities in the ultra-modern Parliament building in Dodoma. Sitta said it would be a good experience to let journalists go with MPs so that they see how other parliaments are and how their counterparts do their work. In these tours, Sitta said, MPs and journalists will be going into groups of seven or eight MPs and for journalists he did not specify the number but he told the journalists currently attending Bunge sessions to discuss and share with them their ideas. He called for a conference with press people following claims published in some of the newspapers (not The Guardian) that the new Parliament building is full of obstacles for those accessing it. Despite the building’s attractiveness journalists told the speaker that there are a lot of complications at entrances where people are being restricted to pass through some of the gates for the reason that they are not meant for them. On their part, journalists asked the speaker to change the gallery reserved for them because it is not sufficient for the work they doing. Some of the obstacles that journalists claimed to face are the tiny space they have to sit, not having to see the MPs in action easily, no communication between the MPs and journalists, lack of working facilities that they were promised to have like Internet service. Other problems they face include a long distance especially for photographers something that reduces the credibility of their pictures. The Speaker promised the journalists that the problems would be solved immediately and he thanked them for expressing their views. [ The Guardian (Dar es Salaam) - 28 Jun 2006 - www.ippmedia.com ] |
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| Position | Name | From | To |
| Senior Parliamentary Draftsman | Philip Marmo | 1983 | 1985 |
| Record last updated on 18 FEB 2008 |