THE ABBEY OF PERAMIHO DENIES ALLEGATIONS

THE Benedictine Fathers of Peramiho Abbey has expressed disappointment toward a statement issued by a single organization of information in relation to allegations of the death of the former Lecturer of the University of Dar es Salaam Professor Jwan Mwaikusa who was killed under controversial circumstances at his home area Salasala by unidentified people July 13, 2010 in Dar es Salaam.

Speaking to the reporters on Thursday last week during the press briefing, Fr. Fidelis Mligo OSB, who is the assistant of the Abbot, said that the Abbey of Peramiho is seriously concerned about these report’s non-truth, unfounded, malicious, cooked cause sedition and strife in society, which are recorded by a weekly newspaper namely Raia Mwema of 7th July, 2012.

"As it stands, killing some body (Mwaikusa) is a crime, to which the abbey has no jurisdiction to be the spokesman of it. It is true without ray of doubt that the Abbey was never involved in that murder whatsoever. And has never have contemplated to do so, because the Abbey being the religious institution by any means can not do such a very metal sin which is completely about abbey involvement in the killing of Mwaikusa is a criminal, as the abbey which we have no authority to address, and we do not know.

We know, this is a myth and a lie without a grain of truth. The goal here is to base our religious institutions anointed them with artificial mud in front of the community. This is the strategy of the information provider of revenge against our society abbey, monastery and chased because of theft of millions of shillings of abbey of Peramiho and other fraud, "said Fr. Fidelis Mligo OSB.

"Let me say a few words about the involvement in the company, the abbey of Peramiho, and UMICO Ltd; the truth is that the Abbey of Peramiho was a shareholder in UMICORE Ltd Company from the 1990s. This company was mining gold at Lukarasi in Mbinga District, Ruvuma region. The Abbey had a large stock (majority shareholder) and other shareholders were Mr. Johnson Nchimbi, Mr. Mathew, Barnabas and others”.

He said that early on; their shares were held by Mr. Johnson (in trust), later these shares were transferred to some monks as trustees (in trust), one of them was Mr. Nestory Mhuwa (ex Bro. Aidan). This was the former Director and later Managing Director of this company. All times Mr. Nestory (ex Br.Aidan) had always offered a variety of excuses for why he didn’t submit the report.

He continued to say that after seeing that we didn’t know what is going on in this company and trustee of us in this company who was Mr. Nestory (ex Br.Aidan) was not trusted and was not open on its performance. For a formal meeting of our council we decided that Mr. Nestory should submit the things of the company by selling shares because we didn’t see its benefits and we didn’t get the report.

Second, the shares which he possess (ex Br. Aidan) on behalf of the abbey in the company of other monks to complete our program based on the commitment in the company. This function was implemented properly by transferring these shares from Mr. Nestory (ex br.Aidan) in accordance with the law.

In 2010 the Abbey of Peramiho officially pulled from the company and sold her shares in accordance with the rules and regulations of companies (BRELA). Thus, in the practice of law, the abbey of Peramiho is not a UMICO member, and has no interest of any kind in the company said Fr. Mligo.

“Most information contained in the weekly newspaper (Raia mwema) about UMICO is old, the other is cooked. This Mr. Nestory (ex Br. Aidan) period assumed as a sponsor of these shares on behalf of these monks of Peramiho abbey.

According to the law of the Church the monk is not allowed to have a private property. So the ownership of Peramiho abbey shares through the monks and other people was not a secret, there was no reasonable basis for the existence of these secret that is why he had a different stock transfer documents.

Nevertheless, Mr.Nestory was expelled from being a monk for his deception, lack of trust, and courtesy of cheating the abbey of Peramiho by stealing millions of shillings, which focused used in various social service here at Peramiho.”

So, In January 2012, Mr. Nestory becomes (ex br. Aidan) was convicted by a magistrate court settlement with the offense of theft following the issue of hefting millions of shillings belonging to Peramiho abbey (Benedictine Fathers of Peramiho) until now he is still serving the punishment of imprisonment.