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- Complaint number
- NTB-000-449
- NTB Type
- 7.3. Corruption
- Complaint
- Corruption along the Northern and Central Corridors (police roadblocks, weighbridge and border gates.
- Status note
- This NTB is no longer obtaining .
- Progress update note
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During the 7th EAC Regional Forum on NTBs held on 27th – 29th June 2012, Kampala, Uganda, the Ministers decided that Partner States should:
(i) Sensitize their stakeholders;
(ii) Enforce sanctions for offenders;
(iii) Expedite the introduction of electronic tracking of cargo; and
(iv) Increase highway patrols as preference over road blocks.
Following Status reports were submitted by partner states:
Kenya: Deployed 10 vehicles doing highway patrols to ensure security; ethics and anti-corruption commission.
Tanzania: PCCB to sensitize all government departments against corruption. Each institution has a budget line for Sensitization of corruption in Ministries; Cargo tracking system
Uganda: dealing with issues of corruption by fitting cameras to monitor activities at the borders, weighbridges etc.; police officers have been arraigned in court with cases of corruptions; hotlines to report corruption cases by the public.
Rwanda: hotline; cameras; anti-corruption commission; police anti-corruption campaign; print media against corruption
Burundi: Anti-corruption bureau and a hotline established - Policy or regulatory NTB
- No
- Location
- EAC
- Reporting Country or Region
- Rwanda
- Country specific trade issue
- No
- Date of incident
- 2011-06-16
- Status
- Resolved
- Date of resolution
- 2016-06-30
- Product Description
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All products
- Total value
- 0
- Date reported
- 2011-09-15 21:22
- Modified
- 2016-07-11 15:15
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