{"id":221194,"date":"2016-06-09T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=221194"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:39:46","slug":"tanzania-electoral-commission-returns-5m-surplus-from-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=221194","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania electoral commission returns $5m surplus from budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Tanzania handed President John Magufuli a cheque of surplus money from its budget of the elections of November 2015, worth over 5 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr President, we were very stingy yet very diligent in our duties. So this surplus shouldn\u2019t mean that our work was compromised anyhow,\u201d the TEC Chairman said.<\/p>\n<p>NEC becomes the second public institution to hand over \u2018saved money\u2019 since the President Magufuli introduced cost cutting measures.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly also handed over 6 billion shillings approximately 3 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>President Magufuli commended the NEC for saving such amount and handing it over to the government to cater for other activities of national importance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis reflects how NEC is very honest. A sum of 270bn\/- was allocated for last October\u2019s polls. They spent 261.6bn\/-. You would have even said that no amount has remained and no one would have discovered or doubted it,\u201d said President Magufuli.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: CCTV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Commission (NEC) of Tanzania handed President John Magufuli a cheque of surplus money from its budget of the elections of November 2015, worth over 5 million dollars. \u201cMr President, we were very stingy yet very diligent in our duties. So this surplus shouldn\u2019t mean that our work was compromised anyhow,\u201d the TEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":221195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}