Ex-ATCL chief condemned to 21 years behind bars

FORMER Air Tanzania Company Limited (ATCL) Managing Director David Mattaka and his acting Chief Finance Officer Elisaph Ikombe were yesterday convicted of conspiracy, abuse of office and occasioning loss.

The convicts were sentenced to either pay 35m/- fine or serve 21 years behind bars, each. Mattaka who once served as Director General of PPF Pension Fund and Ikombe, who currently serves as the Bishop with Pentecostal Motomoto Church, were also linked to dirty deal of 26-vehicle purchase.

Senior Resident Magistrate Victoria Nongwa, who tried the case at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam, meted out the sentence after convicting the two accused in all the six counts they were facing.