Word: yusufu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the most blatant corruption has occurred in Tanzania. Last year a member of the country's parliament, Alli Yusufu Abdurabi, was discovered with 105 tusks. Abdurabi is now serving a twelve-year prison sentence for trading in illegal ivory. Indonesia's former Ambassador to Tanzania, Hoesen Yoesoef, was found trying to smuggle more than 200 tusks out of the country last January. Other illegal ivory was found in the hands of a Catholic priest, a leading local journalist and officials of the Iranian and Pakistani embassies. More than 280 tons of illegal ivory has left Tanzania...
Binaisa's downfall was not unexpected. After taking over from Yusufu Lule, Amin's first successor, who was deposed after only ten weeks, the chubby lawyer barely survived a string of no-confidence motions brought against him in the country's parliament. The immediate cause of Binaisa's overthrow was his attempt to dismiss Brigadier David Oyite Ojok as army chief of staff, reportedly because Ugandan troops, ordered to conduct house-to-house searches for arms in Kampala, had looted many of the homes. Troops loyal to Ojok quickly seized the radio station in Kampala...
...that "the country is making a very spectacular recovery. We are making wonderful progress in all areas of human endeavor." In fact, the country is no more secure than Binaisa's own shaky position as Uganda's second post-Amin Head of State. Since taking over from Yusufu Lule, his ousted predecessor, eight months ago, he has barely survived several no-confidence motions brought by his rivals in the country's interim parliament, the 129-member National Consultative Council. The main reason he has stayed in office seems to be that the N.C.C., whose 28 rival political...