PCCB official arrested, to be arraigned today
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Former Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) director of planning, monitoring and evaluation, Ms Kulthum Mansoor, allegedly conned fellow employees with a promise to sell to them plots of land in Bagamoyo.
Dar es Salaam. Former Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) director of planning, monitoring and evaluation, Ms Kulthum Mansoor has been arrested.
He allegedly solicited Sh1 billion from fellow employees after promising to sell to them plots of land worth Sh1 billion.
MsMansoor, who claimed to have been owning land in Bagamoyo, was arrested on Thursday March 28, 2019 and booked at Oysterbay Police Station.
PCCB deputy director general John Mbungo confirmed Mansoor’s arrest.
“It is true that she has been arrested. She spent the night at Oysterbay Police Station,” MrMbungo told this reporter.
Adding: “She will be taken to court later today.”
He said by the time President John Magufulispoke about the issueat the unveiling of PCCB’s annual report, investigations into the matter had completed.
Speaking after swearing in new Tanzania ambassador to Cuba Valentino Mlowola and receiving a 2018 PCCB progress report, the Head of State wondered why the culprit had not been brought to book yet.
“One of the directors at PCCB has sold ghost plot of lands worth Sh1 billion to his fellow workers but surprising she has not been taken to court,” he said.
Adding: “I have received no information whether she has returned the money to the owners, who are reportedly afraid to ask for the money because she is their boss.”
