{"id":17143,"date":"2009-01-12T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=17143"},"modified":"2019-12-27T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T15:44:28","slug":"tanzania-planning-new-banknote-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=17143","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania planning new banknote series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to an article in The Citizen dated 8 January 2009, \u201cThe Bank of Tanzania (BoT) plans a major change of the country\u2019s currency notes\u2026The central bank has in a notice published in the media last month, and also posted on its website, invited tenders for the printing of the currency notes\u2026 The central bank\u2019s invitation of tenders means that Thomas De La Rue, which has been printing Tanzanian currency, is not guaranteed continuation of the contract\u2026The plan to change the currency, the sources said, was also partly due to the central bank\u2019s desire to remove from the notes the signatures of two former officials implicated in various scandals. The current notes bear the signatures of former BoT Governor Daudi Ballali, who was sacked by President Jakaya Kikwete after it was revealed by an international audit firm, Ernst &amp; Young, that the BoT lost Sh133 billion under his watch. The notes also bear the signature of former Finance Minister Basil Mramba, who is facing abuse of office charges at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate\u2019s Court in Dar es Salaam.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in The Citizen dated 8 January 2009, \u201cThe Bank of Tanzania (BoT) plans a major change of the country\u2019s currency notes\u2026The central bank has in a notice published in the media last month, and also posted on its website, invited tenders for the printing of the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=17143\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,340,337],"tags":[248],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-17143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa","category-banking","category-new-note","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21308,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions\/21308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}