Donors confirm withholding aid to Tanzania

Finnish ambassador to Tanzania and development partners chairperson Sinikka Antila. PHOTO | FILE 

It is now official. Development partners (DPs) have not released even a single dollar out of the $558 million (Sh937 billion), that had been pledged to boost Tanzania’s 2014/15 Budget.

They will only give it out upon seeing—and being satisfied with—the outcome of the investigations into the controversial payments of Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) escrow monies to Pan Africa Power Solutions Tanzania Limited (PAP).