By Ayoub mzee-London
BAE Systems has made sustained efforts to become recognised as a leader in responsible business conduct. The formation of this Board forms part of this process and is in line with the settlement agreement with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), approved by the Court in December 2010.
As part of the settlement BAE Systems agreed to pay the sum of £29.5 million for the benefit of the people of Tanzania. The Company is now holding the sum as a fund in a treasury account and will confirm with the SFO the payments made from this account are consistent with the settlement agreement.
The independent members of the Advisory Board will guide the Company as to the optimum means of applying the £29.5 million for the benefit of the people of Tanzania in accordance with all applicable company polices. In addition to disbursements from the fund, the Company is willing to explore opportunities to enhance its overall contribution by utilising its advanced technological capabilities to maximise the effectiveness of projects supported by the fund.Lord Cairns said: “I welcome the opportunity to Chair this Advisory Board.
It provides us with a great opportunity to deploy this substantial fund in a way that will provide sustained benefit as Tanzania advances down the path to full development. I look forward to working with my fellow Board members, the company and others with relevant knowledge to deliver this important piece of work.”
Notes to editors
Advisory Board on Tanzania – biographies of Independent MembersLord CairnsAn investment banker by profession, Lord Cairns has had a long and distinguished career in both the business and the voluntary sectors. He served as both CEO and Deputy Chairman of S G Warburg plc, Chairman of BAT Industries plc and Chairman of Allied Zurich.He has also served as Chairman of the Charities Aid Foundation, Chairman of Voluntary Service Overseas, Chairman of the Overseas Development Institute and Chairman of the Commonwealth Business Council. He was a trustee of the Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.Lord Cairns has extensive experience of Africa through many of the above. He was also for 10 years Chair of the Commonwealth Development Corporation which made substantial investments both in Tanzania and across other African countries. He was Chairman of the African mobile communications company Celtel International (which became Zain Africa BV). He is currently a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
Philippa Foster Back, OBE
Philippa has 30 years of business experience, having begun her career at Citibank. Following nine years at Bowater, leaving as group treasurer, she became group finance director at DG Gardner Group, a training organisation. She joined Thorn EMI in 1993 as group treasurer until 2000. She was appointed Director of the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) in 2001.In connection with her IBE role she served on the Woolf Committee 2007/8 looking at ethical business practice in BAE Systems plc; and has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Centre for Corporate Reputation at the Said Business School at Oxford University and consequently as a Visiting Fellow of the University.She sits on the Boards of the Institute of Directors and of the Norfolk and Norwich University Foundation Trust Hospital, where she chairs the Audit Committee. She is also Chairman of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.Philippa was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours 2006 for services to the Ministry of Defence where she was a NED and chaired the Defence Audit Committee from 2002-2007. In July 2008 she was awarded the Marks & Spencer Sieff Award.
Mpaka wa nje wanajuwa kuwa tunaibiwa, lakini viongozi wetu hawajui!Kazi kubwa.
ReplyDeleteHivi kweli na matatizo yetu yote kunahitajika advisory board,kwanza hii hela si tulikopa kwanini wasilipie deni,wanataka kuigawagawa mwisho wake ukiangalia haitafanya chochote cha maana na hopefully hawa board members hawatalipwa kwa kutumia maela hayohayo maana wazungu mazingaombwe yao babu kubwa.
ReplyDeletealiyesababisha hiyo hasara bado yupo mitaani na hakuna lolote alilofanywa. Ufisi utaisha kweli Tanzania?
ReplyDeleteHao watalipwa na hiyo hela ya BAE, msifikiri selikali ya Uingereza itatoa hela kuwalipia nyie watanzania. Hivyo ndo wanavyofanya, hela ya kwenu inamegwa na kuwalipa watu wao. Mwisho wa siku mtapata hela kidogo sana. Wao wameshafaidika. Wala si mazingaombwe ndugu yangu, mimi nina uhakika Kikwete angepiga tukelele kidogo ingesaidia hata kama tusingepata yote
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ReplyDeleteWazungu hawana haja wala tamaa ya kuzigawa hela hizo, ukiangalia Borad Members hapo juu wengi utakuta ni Trustees wa Charities za UK ambao sheria yao inawataka kuwa Volunteers, yaani Trustee members are not allowed to be paid for being trustees by Law, Soma Charity Commission Act 2006 au CTI 2005 ndiyo utajua maada ya Board members.
Watu waliopaswa kuona aibu ni serikali yetu ambayo inalilia hizi hela kama vile zimechotwa hazina na majambazi wakati kuna watu waliokuwa custodian waliliingiza Taifa katika hasara kubwa na mpaka leo wapo nje wanadunda na vijisenti vyao off shore. Wazungu wanajua kuwa hela hizi zikirudishwa hazina hazitafanya la maana kama ambavyo misaada yao mingi waliyotupatia tokea tupate uhuru ilivyoyeyuka.
Viongozi wa Tanzania wakiwapiga marufuku hawa jamaa kuzitumia pesa hizo Tanzania basi wajue kuwa bado pesa hizo zitawafikia tu watanzania kwa njia yoyote ile hata kama ni kwa Scholarship abroad. Nafikiri kama serikali imetambua hilo cha kufanya ni kukubali kuwa utamaduni wetu wa kukaa na visu na sahani tayari kusubiria pesa za BAE utatulaza njaa, maana hazitakuja bali tushirikiane na Board hiyo kuhakikisha inafanya kazi effective, huenda baada ya muda wakawaamini na kuwaachia hela hizo waendeleze huduma hizo. The price tag ya kuwaacha corrupt officials waliotuingiza kwenye mkenge huu ni kuzikosa hizo hela.
HONGERA SANA BAE.
DAA HII HELA INALIWA HIVI HIVI KIDOG0 KIDOGO.
ReplyDeleteSafi sana BAE keep it up. We are not yet ready to manage anything help us guys
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have thought in a million years that a refund (or whatever you may call it) would have been made in 'cash' as many thought. Because that would be crazy, bearing in mind that both parties played foul(don't quote me please incase I am wrong). I congratulate the UK Gov for looking into the matter and resolve it, however, one would ask; Why would BAE Systems still get involved if they were involved in the first place? Here, I'm left in the dark!
ReplyDeleteHivi vichwa vya kidanganyika vililogwa na nani? Jamani tunatia aibu mbele ya uso wa dunia kwa kujiibia wenyewe ma viongozi yetu ni sawa na baba anaeiba msosi wa famialia .Hivi hatuwezi kuiga kwa KAGAME hata jirani yetu tuuu wadau muwe mnapitia web ya Rwanda muone walivyo so organised na mambo yao yanavyonyooka sisi tupo palepale tunaibiana kama vibaka.
ReplyDeleteHili ni Changa la macho. This is nothing but a way to make sure the money is channeled back to UK. This is similar to what we have seen from other developed nations, they give you a loan or aid but force you to spend the aid back to their industries. Why do we need a board of Brits? This is nonsense.
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