Annual general report of the controller and - Parliament of Tanzania

• The Government should enter into performance
contract with Boards of Directors of PA&oB and set
the pre determined deliverables to be achieved
during its tenure which will be made public. In this
regard, Boards of Directors should also sign
performance contract with Chief Executive Officers
who will also sign performance contracts with their
subordinates.
• The Boards of Directors of PA&oBs should hold
senior management of Public Authorities more
accountable for results. The results that senior
management are accountable for should be made
public. In this connection, there is a need to
consider the practice of having CEO’s appointed
through the Board of Directors instead for them
being appointed through Presidential
Appointments. The President should be left with
the responsibility of appointing Chairperson of the
Boards of Directors.
• Since Parliament is the highest representative
organ of the people charged with the responsibility
of scrutinizing the performance of Parastatal
Organizations through POAC, and in order to avoid
conflict of interest, the Parastatals accountability
conference held on 23 -24 January 2009
recommended that members of Parliament should
not be members of Boards of Directors of public
entities.
• Considering the fact that my report for 2007 had
stated that the extension of the TICTS contract
was improper, the concession be rebid from 2010
onward, at the end of the period specified in the
original contract. TPA should continue with its
vision to transform itself into a land port in
accordance with the plans specified in its Strategic
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