We’re untouchable and seeking immunity to cover our crimes
While Algerian courts were dishing out long prison sentences to former bigwigs of the political regime accused of corruption and sleaze, Tanzania’s rulers were rushing through parliament a law that will offer immunity against their eventual prosecution in their personal capacity for any infraction they will have committed while in office. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
One could not have missed the irony that at the same time that the Algerian courts were dishing out long prison sentences to former bigwigs of the political regime accused of corruption and sleaze, Tanzania’s rulers were rushing through parliament a law that will offer immunity against their eventual prosecution in their personal capacity for any infraction they will have committed while in office.
The two stories are a set of twins, really, in that the one from the north comes to tell us what any self-respecting state should do with its thieves and embezzlers, while our story is about people who know they shall do wrong and want the burden for that wrong to be borne by some faceless office called attorney general.
