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    IPP Media: CAG Wants TPDF to Take Over Oil and Gas Security (Tanzania)

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Tanzania's Controller and Auditor General Prof Mussa Assad says the Tanzania People’s Defense Forces should be paid to provide security to foreign energy firms

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Press Notes, Africa

IPP Media: CAG Wants TPDF to Take Over Oil and Gas Security (Tanzania)

Oil and gas exploration companies operating in the country pay foreign private security companies US$3 million (about over 6bn/-) annually, which the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) says was improper.
 
CAG Prof Mussa Assad said the money could be put into proper use if it was paid to Tanzania People’s Defense Forces (TPDF). 
 
The national army, he said last week in Dar es Salaam, was mandated to deal with all the security of the country, including oil and gas drilling rigs. 
 
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