Even the Chair of the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC) briefing paper that appears in, among other places, the official website of the Development Partners Group (DPG) Tanzania, quotes Cooksey’s chapter extensively. Fittingly entitled ‘How Pan Africa Power Ltd [PAP] acquired Independent Power Tanzania Ltd [IPTL] for almost nothing and looted US$124m from the Bank of Tanzania[BOT]’, it contains a footnote that affirm that its first “section summarises Cooksey (2002)”. It also contains a footnote that provides this revealing disclaimer: “This paper expresses my own views, not those of the PAC.
Ni haki yetu sote kuhoji tafsiri na watafsiri. Inaitwa “Taarifa ya Ukaguzi Maalum Kuhusiana na Miamala Iliyofanyika Katika Akaunti ya ‘Escrow’ ya Tegeta, Pamoja na Umiliki wa Kampuni ya IPTL.” Kuhusu “Madhumuni na Wigo wa Ukaguzi Huu” kipengele cha 1.4 katika “Utangulizi” kinatoa angalizo hili muhimu: “Madhumuni ya kufanya ukaguzi huu maalumu ni kumwezesha Mdhibiti na Mkaguzi Mkuu wa Hesabu za Serikali kutoa mapendekezo yake kuhusiana na utaratibu uliotumika kutoa fedha kutoka akaunti ya Escrow ya Tegeta iliyokuwa katika Benki Kuu ya Tanzania. Ukaguzi huu maalum umefanyika kwa kuzingatia matakwa ya viwango vya kimataifa vya ukaguzi na kuzingatia hadidu za rejea kama zilivyoridhiwa na pande zote.