Mizengo Pinda accused of authorising unlawful offshore payments under guise of energy contracts a month after donors withhold funding amid corruption fears
Tanzanian politicians are calling for the resignation of the prime minister, Mizengo Pinda, after a government report implicated him in an energy scandal that resulted in the plunder of more than $120m (£76.5m) from the country's central bank.
In a dramatic parliamentary session on Wednesday that was disrupted by power outages, Tanzania's public accounts committee (PAC) revealed that senior officials authorised fraudulent payments to offshore bank accounts under the guise of energy contracts. The state-owned energy provider Tanesco, along with five senior politicians - including the minister for energy and the attorney general - are implicated in the scandal, the PAC said.
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