The Deputy Minister for Infrastructure Development, Dr. Maua Daftari
The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) has collected 5.9bn/- from over flying aircraft charges during the 2006/ 2007 financial year, MPs were told yesterday.
The Deputy Minister for Infrastructure Development, Dr. Maua Daftari revealed the collection to the MPs when answering a question by Ibrahim Mohamed Sanya (CUF Mji Mkongwe) who sought to know how much fund had the TCAA collected during that period.
He also wanted to know how much share did Tanzania Zanzibar receive from the collected amount and how many Zanzibarians are represented in TCAA Board.
Dr. Daftari said that over flight collections was one of TCAA revenues and were used to run the Authority`s activities.
She said that for the time being TCAA was not receiving any subsidies from the government and the government also does not get any revenue from services delivered by TCAA.
`Therefore, TCAA collections are not divided by basing on Tanzania mainland or Tanzania Zanzibar, the fund is used for running TCAA activities,` she said
She added that in 2005/2007 a total of 379 were spent in investing and running activities in Zanzibar and Pemba airports.
Concerning how many representatives from Zanzibar were in TCAA board of directors, the Deputy Minister said that TCAA has a total of six members including the Executive Director of the Authority.
She said among the members there are two members from Zanzibar.
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