For 11 years, Tanzania's government has quietly built an argument it has never had to defend in public: that it no longer needs the private bar. Since the 2018 restructuring of the Attorney General's Chambers, every ministry has had its own state attorneys, reporting through a newly created Solicitor General.
The logic was sound on paper: reduce reliance on external counsel, retain institutional knowledge, save money.
In the last financial year reviewed in Parliament, the Solicitor General's office reported savings of over Sh643 billion in cases the government did not lose, a genuine achievement.
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