It is clear that, notwithstanding the Tegeta Escrow scandal, the battle for Ubungo was/is the battle between the global North – in this case represented by the United States of America – and the global South – in this case represented by Malaysia – almost as it was between the West and the East back in the hot heydays of the Cold War. This reality is thus captured in Cooksey’s chapter when it documents what transpired in 1997: “Jim McCardle is not happy.
Kwa mantiki hii ya ‘ubinaadamu’, inashauriwa tusimhukumu, anayesemekana ukurugenzi wake ulileta tija na ufanisi TANESCO kuliko wa wengine, kwa sababu tu aliwahi kuhusishwa pamoja na Chenge kwenye kashfa ya Rada badala yake tumpongeze hasa ukizingatia Taarifa ya CAG imemuandika hivi: “Katika vipindi tofauti mwaka 2008, aliyekuwa Mkurugenzi Mtendaji wa TANESCO, Dr. ldrisa Rashid alifanya mawasiliano mbalimbali na IPTL kuhusiana na madai ya TANESCO kwa IPTL yaliyotokana na kutozwa zaidi kiwango cha tozo ya uwekezaji (capacity charges)”.