Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete

The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania  (SAGCOT) one of ex-President Jakaya Kikwete's favourite projects touted globally as a radical policy to support smallholders while promoting foreign venture capital investment in the sector is in deep trouble after the government cancelled the US$47 million Matching Grant Fund (MGF)...

Under-pressure tax collectors will continue to squeeze domestic investors while foreign businesses understand that although the regime is markedly less friendly than that of ex-President Jakaya Kikwete informal negotiated settlements will remain the basis of much investment and taxation...

The party is still dominated by the last president Jakaya Kikwete whose influence Magufuli is seeking to supplant sources in Dar es Salaam say...

Former Attorney General Andrew Chenge and former Presidents Jakaya Kikwete and Benjamin Mkapa however are normally regarded as untouchable...

He was also mentioned in connection with the Escrow affair which so damaged President Jakaya Kikwete's government's reputation in 2014 (AC Vol 55 No 24 Power scandal rocks ministers)...

Although the then President Jakaya Kikwete had visited Sweden to drum up corporate investment shortly after being elected in 2005 and although BEE was sited in his political heartland he seems not to have stood in the way of those opposing the initiative...

During the presidency of Jakaya Kikwete in 2005-15 the PAC regularly used CAG audit findings to dig deeper into the misappropriation of funds by government to sometimes dramatic effect (AC Vol 55 No 13 MPs demand answers & Vol 55 No 24 Power scandal rocks ministers)...

The year will be dominated by President John Pombe Magufuli's efforts to reshape Tanzania after ten years of President Jakaya Kikwete's directionless rule...

Those officials were all presidential appointees and so the public and media widely infer that they were complicit in tax evasion which was rampant during the government of Magufuli's predecessor Jakaya Kikwete...

This marks a change from the practice under former President Jakaya Kikwete where petroleum matters were held tightly by the Ministry of Energy and Minerals...