Kamlepo causes storm in parliament, claims Malawi govt bought K3bn luxury cars

Member of Parliament for Rumphi East, Kamlepo Kalua, nearly sent parliament in turmoil Tuesday afternoon when he accused the DPP -led government of nepotism, tribalism and extravagance.

Kalua: Made allegations in parliament
Kalua: Made allegations in parliament

The free-speaking MP, who is also vice chairman of Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, claimed government recently bought four six posh vehicles for the President and Vice President worth K1 billion.

Kamlepo said in addition to the four presidential vehicles worth K600 million and two for the veep Saulos Chilima worth K250 million.

He also claimed the government also bought a land cruiser vehicle for the chief secretary George Mkondiwa and some and 10 Prados for principal secrEtaries worth about K2 billion.

“We have all the evidence to prove this. We have the chasis numbers, we have engine numbers,” said Kalua.

Kamlepo accused the government of double standards when it accused leader of opposition Lazaruos Chakwera and Richard Msowoya of misuse of public money when parliament bought them cars.

Malawi government recently accused Parliament of abusing state funds on external travel at the expense of parliamentary committee meetings.

Minister of Information, Tourism and Civic Education, Jappie Mhango, and Minister of Transport and Public Works, Francis Kasaila, who is also Leader of the House in Parliament,s aid the Parliamentary Services Commission (PSC) and the office of the speaker had, within three months, blown over half of their annual allocated funds.

“Parliament has abused state funds,” said Mhango. “The PSC has already spent over 52 percent of its annual allocation and the office of the speaker has spent over 50 percent of its allocation just in three months.”

The ministers said instead of holding parliamentary committee meetings as expected of the arm of government, Parliament had spent the funds on external travel when the country was struggling with its economy.

According to the Leader of the House in Parliament, Francis Kasaila, Parliament, which is headed by opposition legislator, Richard Msowoya, as speaker, got all its first quarter allocation of over 2.8 million United States dollars from treasury and used it all on other businesses other than convening parliamentary committee meetings.

Kasaila also disclosed that mid October treasury disbursed part funding of over 700 thousand United States dollars out of the 1.9 million United States dollars allocated to the arm of government for the second quarter of the financial year.

Malawi’s financial year runs from July to June and it is currently in its second quarter.

The ministers have since said responsible authorities of government would take Parliament and its secretariat to task to explain on the extravagance at the expense of necessary parliamentary activities that would benefit all Malawians.

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Uncle Regan
8 years ago

Y shud we say malawi z poor with o these billions being spent on luxury. How do u expect donors 2 giv us money n use it for buying cars? At v expense of pples lives sm r using money which cud have gone a long way in assisting pple at queenz abale zoona anthu azivutika ati cifukwa ndinu anduna kapena speaker

madzi
8 years ago

thats politics ov mw…U hv been talking with ur big mouth about chakwera andyet u keep on spent tax payers money fo personal gains.Now its you pitala, give back the money.

Mong'onyolani
8 years ago

musiyeni kamlepo he is a good intelligence person

Dr Haswel P Bandawe
Dr Haswel P Bandawe
8 years ago

If these expenditures are true then the country is not well-served.
Are these vehicles a priority at this juncture of the country’s economic performance? What sense does it make for the government ho be extravagant and then go out seeking donor funding? What do the countries we are begging from think of us?

Jailosichioko
Jailosichioko
8 years ago

Bravo Kamulepo.Mulaliki Wachowonadi Uyu Saopa Kudzudzula.Inu Mukutumikira Amalawidi.

Nana
Nana
8 years ago

A kamlepo yakula ndi nsanje..kodi mene munayambira kutsutsa bona muja simunatopebe? u’ll die as an opposer suzalinunkha bona iwe

Solobala
Solobala
8 years ago

All this is coming up because we made a mistake of electing a clueless Mtchona to be our leader.

New generation
New generation
8 years ago

This is very unfortunate, corruptive , careless and extravagance government, why did people vote for DPP? the boma which cannot practice what it is preaching to Malawians. another specialgate is at special needs education directorate ‘ministry of education’ coz specialist teachers are fully funded by government but the same government is not recognizing these teachers yet they get funding in the name of inclusive education, please Kamlepo ask them again about this issue.

Kavuluvulu
Kavuluvulu
8 years ago

Bravo Kamulepo !

George
George
8 years ago

DPP full of thugs

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