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John Momose Cheyo was member of parliament for Maguconstituency from 1997-2000, and has represented Bariadi Eastconstituency since 2005. During each parliamentary term, he has beenchairman of the Public Accounts Committee. In 2008, he was appointedto the presidential Mining Review Commission under Judge MarkBomani. He stood as presidential candidate for the United DemocraticParty in 1995 and 2000, and since 2005 has been the party’s solerepresentative in parliament. The UDP supports land tenure forsmallholders, drawing most of its support from cotton farmers and cattleherders in the regions near Lake Victoria. Mr Cheyo formerly workedin Swaziland, where he exported pine furniture to La Redoute, a Frenchretailer; and as a regional technical manager in southern Africa forICI, a multinational chemicals group. He studied textiles technology atLeeds University in the United Kingdom.54
The Public Accounts CommitteeKeeping the booksIn 2007, for the first time in the recent history of Tanzania, the PublicAccounts Committee (PAC) received the annual report of the Controllerand Auditor General (CAG) by March 31st, that is, within nine monthsfrom the end of the government financial year. We have a law stating thatthe CAG’s report should be tabled in parliament no later than nine monthsafter the end of the government financial year – and that is what happened.The report is then discussed by my committee, the PAC, which presentsits own report to be discussed by parliament. In the six years prior to2006, the deadline had not been met and our report had not beendiscussed. In 2006, we managed to have our report discussed inparliament, and then in 2007 the CAG’s report arrived on time. It raisedquite a few issues, including the potential of the mining sector to fundgovernment revenues.The PAC is becoming more effective because the quality and detail ofour information is getting better: the CAG report in 2007 was an A4document of 450 pages. A number of structural problems within theNational Audit Office has been addressed since the appointment of anew CAG in 2006. The new Public Audit Act, which came into force inJuly 2008, gives more independence to the CAG, in terms ofmanagement and funding.The role of the presidentThe first report of the new CAG became a high profile document fromthe moment it was tabled in parliament in 2007. There was a cabinetmeeting specifically to discuss the CAG report. A special meeting wascalled for all the accounting officers for central government, chaired bythe president. It became clear this process was taken very seriously bythe president.55
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