{"id":12918,"date":"2020-07-31T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2020-07-31T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:52:03","slug":"take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told","title":{"rendered":"TAKE TO COURT 34 SUSPECTS IN POLICE CUSTODY, PCCB TOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: <i class=\"fa fa-user\"><\/i>MEDDY MULISA\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> THE Tanzania Local Government Workers\u2019 Union (TALGWU) has accused the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) for failing to take to Court its 34 employees, who over a month now are still in remand at Biharamulo for graft charges.<\/p>\n<p>Kagera Regional TALGWU Chairman, Mr Naseeb Rama Maselle told reporters in Bukoba Municipality that requirements of the law stipulate that a suspect be taken to court immediately, not kept waiting in vain in a Police custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 34 workers were arrested by PCCB on June 23, this year on allegations that they failed to remit revenue collections of 307,063,160\/- . Our main concern is that justice has been denied to them. The suspects have not been arraigned for more than a month and no charge has been filed against them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He named some of 34 suspects as Sospeter Makene (District Treasurer), Justine Banula (IT expert), Beatrice Gurusya (Procurement Officer), Ladislaus Magezi \u2013a Community Development Officer and several Village Executive Officers (VEOs).<\/p>\n<p>Reached for a comment, Kagera Regional PCCB Chief, Mr John Joseph said initial investigations revealed that the suspects were using a fake Electrical Device (EFD) that was operated by unnamed person, who was fired from government service for collecting over 10m\/- and not deposited in government accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: MEDDY MULISA\u00a0 AfricaPress-Tanzania: THE Tanzania Local Government Workers\u2019 Union (TALGWU) has accused the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) for failing to take to Court its 34 employees, who over a month now are still in remand at Biharamulo for graft charges. Kagera Regional TALGWU Chairman, Mr Naseeb Rama Maselle told reporters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[5087,537,5086],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-naseeb-rama-maselle","tag-pccb","tag-talgwu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TAKE TO COURT 34 SUSPECTS IN POLICE CUSTODY, PCCB TOLD - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Tanzania Local Government Workers\u2019 Union (TALGWU) has accused the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) for failing to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TAKE TO COURT 34 SUSPECTS IN POLICE CUSTODY, PCCB TOLD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Tanzania Local Government Workers\u2019 Union (TALGWU) has accused the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) for failing to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-31T17:52:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/01\/2f44064dce0b6141e9bb97b2003decf3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"573\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"TAKE TO COURT 34 SUSPECTS IN POLICE CUSTODY, PCCB TOLD\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-31T17:52:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/01\/2f44064dce0b6141e9bb97b2003decf3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Naseeb Rama Maselle\",\"PCCB\",\"TALGWU\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/take-to-court-34-suspects-in-police-custody-pccb-told\",\"name\":\"TAKE TO COURT 34 SUSPECTS IN POLICE CUSTODY, PCCB TOLD - 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