By Rosina John , The Citizen Correspondent
In Summary
- Mr Chenge, a former Attorney General and Cabinet minister, is among people implicated in the Tegeta Escrow account scandal
Dar es Salaam. Bariadi West MP
Andrew Chenge (CCM) has filed a constitutional petition at the High
Court challenging proceedings of the Public Leadership Ethics Tribunal
and parliamentary resolutions in an application relating to violation of
the Leadership Code of Ethics.
Mr Chenge, a former Attorney General and Cabinet
minister, is among people implicated in the Tegeta Escrow account
scandal. He was named as among those who received money from Mr James
Rugemalira of VIP Engineering and Marketing Limited.
In his petition, Mr Chenge cited 13 grounds to
fault the tribunal’s proceedings and recommendations presented by the
Controller and Auditor General (CAG) and the Public Accounts Committee
(PAC) regarding the matter.
He alleged that the tribunal’s proceedings and
parliamentary resolutions made on November 29, 2014 were in violation of
an order given by the court on November 25, last year, temporarily
stopping the deliberation and discussion of reports relating to the
transfer of money from the Tegeta escrow account.
The matter, which is set for hearing on May 21,
this year, is before a panel comprising judges Stella Mugasha, Augustine
Mwarija and Fauz Twaib.
The panel directed the respondents in the matter,
the Ethics Secretariat, Ethics Tribunal and Attorney General, to have
filed their responses to the petition by May 8.
In the matter, Mr Chenge is represented by ten
advocates –Deogratias Ringia, Wilson Ogunde, Jamhuri Johnson, Michael
Ngalo, Respicius Didace, Okare Emesu, Cuthbert Tenga, Dosca Mutabuzi,
John Nyange and Stephano Kamala.
He has asked the court to order a permanent
injunction restraining the commission and the tribunal from continuing
with and or contemplate instituting any ethical complaint against him in
respect of the matters that formed the basis of the CAG and PAC
reports.
The MP seeks a declaration that the complaint
initiated by the commission and preceded by the tribunal is null and
void for being tenanted with material irregularity and that the
proceedings by the National Assembly and resolutions passed were
irregular, improper, illegal and, thus null and void.
He is further requesting for declaration that his
constitutional and natural justice rights were violated and would be
deemed to have continued being violated by the respondents until the
date when another compelling restraint order is issued by the court and
obeyed by the respondents.
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