Nankhumwa disputes K1.3tn DPP plunder as ‘propaganda’: Encourages President Laz to prioritize nation-building
Leader of opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa, who is also Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president in the southern region has distanced the party from reported plunder of public resources when it was in power, saying if the claims by President Lazarus Chakwera that DPP has looted K1. 3 trillion from the state purse, the government could have collapsed long ago.
Speaking at a news conference Tuesday morning in Lilongwe, Nankhumwa said Chakwera is buying this excuse and narrative to effect his “politically motivated” arrests on opposition DPP officials.
“The President clearly deceived the nation that the DPP government misappropriated and mismanaged a total sum in excess of MK1 trillion.
“President Chakwera must be informed that if an economy, as small as ours, was robbed of that sum of money, his administration would not have found any penny in the government coffers,” he said, flanked by former minister of finance Joseph Mwanamvekha, DPP legal advisor Charles Mhango and the party’s deputy publicity secretary, Zeria Chakale.
Nankhumwa, dubbed the voice of reason in DPP, said President Chakwera based his allegations on the ‘Report of the Auditor General on the Government of the Republic of Malawi for the Year Ended 30th June, 2019’, saying the report of the Auditor General does not say that the DPP government stole government money.
He said the said report on page 9 is talking about non-compliance by ‘individual ministries, departments and agencies.’
The leader of the opposition said the report talks of delays in paying contractors: K13, 220,855,182.3, payment vouchers without supporting documents (Poor record keeping): K8, 660,464,313.21, abandonment of construction works: K1, 263,478,836.39, under Collection of Revenue: K1, 207,032,445.74, stores not accounted for: K762, 260,739.61, failure to maintain proper revenue records: K610, 879,500, suspicious long standing pensioners: K590, 766,657.28 misallocations of Public Funds: K 454,333,543.56, revenue Spent at Source: K425, 727,406.87.
He said from the above information, it is clear that there is no mention of DPP stealing money anywhere.
“What is clear from the President’s address is a desperate attempt to mislead the nation on matters of management of the economy, obviously taking advantage of people’s ignorance on the same,” he said, adding that the audit report will be presented before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee for scrutiny and the truth will be made bare.
Nankhumwa said one wonders how a delay in paying a contractor and under collection of revenue could become theft.
The leader of opposition said the move by Chakwera is just a political propaganda to dent the DPP image and sway the public misgivings against the unpopular cabinet that Chakwera has put in place.
“We have seen nepotism of the highest order, he wants people to lose focus on the unrealistic promises his party made during the campaign period, such universal Secondary education; the cost of obtaining a Passport to be at MK14,000.00; creation of one Million jobs; cheap fertilizers to all Malawians (MK4,900 per 50kg bag) removal of fees to all institutions of higher learning; duty free week every year; free water connections; free electricity connections; and construction of 400 roads in the first 8 months,” he said.
Nankhumwa said he has got the impression that Chakwera may not be well conversant with the financial operations of government.
The opposition leader said Chakwera is now the President and can do what he wants as long it is within the confines of the rule of law and good governance.
“President Chakwera should start working towards fulfilling the promises he made, otherwise, Malawians will not forgive him if he fails to deliver on his promises because he was busy blaming and arresting members of the previous governments,” he said.
Nankhumwa said Chakwera must prioritize nation-building and that his thirst for settling political scores against DPP will be counterproductive.
He reminded President Chakwera and his government that Malawi is facing the most difficult challenges amid the Covid-19 19 health crisis and that it was important that collective efforts and energy are expended on saving our people from this pandemic “instead of witch-hunting and persecution against perceived political enemies”.
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The promises that the Tonse alliance made were based on the country’s GDP and our tax base, assuming that the money is available and not in pockets of thieves.
Am sure that the way the Tonse alliance has started they will deliver their promises, the list mr Nankhumwa can do is to help the Tonse alliance government to recover all the stolen money that him and the DPP government failed to stop.
Can Nankhumwa tell the Malawi nation how the DPP cadets and party women ended up on government payroll? If DPP was not involved in the looting…..
Idiot Nankhumwa, payment vouchers without supporting documents, whats that? Do u know accounting procedures? How can you make payment without supporting documents? What are you paying for? That is stealing? Just be quite. I thought you were in government, can fertilizer be bought over night? 3weeks in government you wanted anthu ayambe kugula subsidised fertilizer? How can that be possible? Mesa boma liyenera kugula kaye fertilizer then people should start buying. Zina ukunenazo zingachitike bwanji popanda budget? I thought you as leader of opposition you should know well that some of the expenditure will only happen after budget, which is expected in October. Just keep quite. Shupit theives.
You don’t know what you are saying. Ifmis does not produce payment without supporting documents. It is rather misplacement in filling of vouchers
Malemia is too noisy these days. Can someone follow up the certificate issue. He may spend some time in the cooler to be the voice of opposition from there.
My faith and respect for Kondwani Nankhumwa has just gone down the toilet!!!
How much did You Steal ….If we audit your Wealth will it be proportional to your Businesses and Taxes you have been paying ….Munatibera kokwana pano Mitema iri mmwamba ….What were you doing to Allow all this Rot that we are seeing .Kulipira msonkho ndi kuphweteka ndi Wina azingotapa ..
….Just like that ?At One time people were shocked when You distributed Bicycles Mr Leader of Opposition ….Namafunsani kuti Ndalama zake Ziti ?
Ok Bwana Nankhumwa you may have a point. But the issues stated are a clear indictment of your colleague Mwananvekha’s incompetency in that he was not in control at Finance.Can you please, in the meantime, comment a little on the rot at ESCOM, MACRA, MERA, MRA, Kammwamba Project, Chisale unexplained wealth etc. To some of us these happenings are proof that DPP were out to bring Malawi to its knees and I shudder to think what was going to happen were you given another mandate to rule the country.
There was a time I used to think that Nankhumwa was someone who could think but alas, the idiot has no brains! Chakwera is basing his One trillion theft from the Malawi govt coffers by DPP based on the audit reports. It is not Chakwera who does the interpretation but the experts in the area and Nankhumwa has the audacity to parry these findings! If you know Nankhumwa well, he is soft spoken But a croook. He is the same idiot who just before the Fresh Presidential Elections had predicted ‘a Landslide for the DPP’ ; the same man who sounded surprised and castigated DPP officials who had been siphoning ESCOM; The same idiot who thinks Peter Mutharika is not too old and still thinks he will be alive to run for presidency again in 2025! Watch this man carefully because he has a lot of skeletons in his cupboard and has a lot of unexplained riches. It won’t be long before the long arm of the law catches up with him. Shame on this DPP thief!!!!
If the audit report is for the last 6 years then 1.3T is less than K250 Million per year. There are DPP thieves that have more than K200 Million in their personal accounts. Also keep in mind that some money was not looted from Govt transactions but diverted through shady deals like the cement saga.
DPP is a child of corruption. DPP was born after Bingu whom Bakili Muluzi corruptly imposed as leader of UDF left UDF to form DPP. So DPP is a child of a corrupt union between Bakili and Bingu.
Autupele has reversed the process by going into an unholy alliance with DPP. Filth breeds filth. Those in DPP who are aspiring to lead DPP, be warned that Autupele too wants to lead DPP. So who wins?
Waiting for the day PAYE Cap will be 100,000.00 and when I will be buying subsidised fertlizer. Otherwise I wiil know what to do with my vote. On the other side, DPP leaders, you mean to say that you were not able to see all this rot in government?
Wait patiently: These will have to go through parliament first, most likely September. We want to do things right in TONSE. We shall reap the promised fruits.
No need for rocket science to realize Malawi was on the brink of collapse. See what happens in hospitals. Go also for Central Medical stores. It is infested with wickedness
Iwe George, Boma limapanga ndalama daily ndipo waiwala kuti kunalibedi ndalama.olo za chisankho zinali zangongole? Nyapapi uli nayeyo ananemanso kuyi olo kokongolako, tamalizako zonse sitingakonholenso. Ukalongosola bwino za dzina limeneri fatsa
What Nankhumwa is saying is that President Chakwera needs to learn how to read and interpret Audit Reports. It is not the same as reading and interpreting verses.
Audit reports are interpreted to the president by experts. Nankhumwa himself knows about these thefts being one of the thieves himself and yet he is pretending that the thefts nener took place!!!!
Mr. Nankhumwa please tell us how much DPP government stole/plundered during the past 6 years.
Let the Tonse Alliance recover the money that the past government looted, then we can talk of manifestos here. He is clear in his governance priniciples…sweep the rot, bring back the loot and start reconstruction of a better Malawi. Sanathe ndi mwezi komwe koma mwayamba yaviyavi ndi nkhani za manifesto..how long did it for you to deliver anything that you promised if you ever did at all..Only God knows…
Already, the so-called MRA abandoned vehicles are of the list because they have been accounted for. Chakwera wasowa zochita.
Who broke they nation that had to be built? Komatu mdyomba
Nankhumwa should be careful not to make himself obsolete and irrelevant.
Peter Al Capone Mutharika was a mafia and a thug. Look APM would have destroyed this country for ever. It was very difficult us parents what to tell our kids what to do in life. Work hard to become what? WHO? Mchacha?
Look working hard in school, at work, business sports, farming became completely useless under Al Capone Mutharika.
Under his rule it was either you are a lhomwe or his boot licker blind royalist. But how do one tell your son/ daughter to be a “Mchacha ” How many people can be a Mchacha of this world. This thug Al Capone Mutharika should not be claiming innocence now he destroyed the country
Bwana Nankhumwa, this is what we call patriotism. I like u Sir. Now that u have refuted this figure, kindly vividly state the figure you are sure your government plundered. By the way, that position you are holding does not fit you, but Dr. George Chaponda. You need to go to school for 10 years and then come back, surely you will be the President of this country. If not, you will end there just like this fake lawyer called Atupele Muluzi.
What ever the case, Chakwera is right Mr Nankhumwa, this was your system, have you forgotten already that you were a system? You think mukapusitsana ku DPP ndiye kuti enafeso tipusa nawo? Ok, the figures are wrong, tell us how much do you remember that the DPP has mismanaged when it was in power by force? How much tell us!
Nankhumwayi kodi mchitsiru eti m’mene anthu ayamba kumuyamikira ngati atha kuyendetsa chipani cha anthu akufachi cha DPP akuyesa kuti ndi wanzeru eti stupid Namkhumwa munya muona.
Honestly speaking we know for a fact that the arrest Chakwera is making are masked. He is trying to kill several birds with one stone.
1. Exude a positive image of his administration being against corruption. Not bad at all.
2. Divert the attention of people from his poor cabinet choice to the arrests. This is so subtle that only Frank Underwood (House of Cards) can counter
3. A decoy from their failure to implement all the outrageous promises they made during campaign period. This is too shallow as by and by the public will know with certainty the abilities of the president
4. A decoy from their failure to properly manage COVID-19 the very pandemic they refused that it exists. This is outrageous and if people the gravity of this problem under LAZ they would be angry on how much govt is hiding.
5. Intention to completely demonize DPP that they limit the potency of opposition and scare off any form of critique in fear of being investigated and arrested
In conclusion, the Tonse Alliance success is not so much in their abilities but rather the failures of the previous government and running of a very successful smear campaign. There has not be the most successful smear campaign other than the one run by Tonse Alliance against DPP. The question and advice is smear campaign only works when you are in opposition. Once in power people wont focus on DPP in the medium term but your abilities. How long will the Tonse Alliance rely on spinning public opinion for success other than success on key deliverables.
Bravo 100 percent right. The drive on corruption will hunt Chakwera as he will find it impossible tp prevent corruption in the ranks of Tonse Alliance. There are some Hungry Lions in Tonse. What about the 2 buses Mutharika bought with government funds but said he paid for them, in this deal Rashy Gaffer is very involved. And get he is Chakwera’s Minister. Please Bwana Chakwera don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house yourself.
Kalembe kaye MSCE mbuzi iwe! Nawenso akutapa pompano ndi MSCE yokubayo
chabwino anankhumwa nenani zomwe munaba poti achakwera alakwitsa amount.
Whether it is administrative issues but malawians in Bt , central and northern region are done with your demonic evil satanic regime. Tell us about njaunju, buleya, the arson attack, mota Engel money , cement , mera, etc.
Nankhumwa is desperate to be dpp president no wonder he is talking talking. Like atupele you will never rule malawi. Nkhosilo limphwa.
Mr Nankhumwa my I ask you a question under which partys adminstration did this happen? Are you denying the hugginess of the amount or that Dpp gaffumenti didn’t plunder malawian resources? Okay how much was plundered under your watch because we have indicators of corrupt activities under your Dpp admin, such as 145,000,000 why did you return the money is it because we know what happened? If this happened how many other things happened that we don’t know? The other is in court the judges bribery case who ordered? Why did the CEO of escom Evelyn Mwapasa deployed to a small company some sort of punishment for not complying with your Dpp admin endeavors to loot government resources, because you can’t prove that she was incompetent? Why did the director of finance at escom resign? Was it not under your Dpp adminstration??? Only investigation and court trials will set you free and clear you. So just shut up and wait.
How much did you plunder then FAT BOY? Nation building?, yes after clearing you dirty thieves.
Bingu must be rollong in his grave, his brother has presided over the demise of a once mighty party. Total theft from the ground to the top.
The arrests are not coming fast enough. 《..of course, the Agencies are still full of these DPP criminals…》
Chakwera has already started building the nation eg Chakazi Bridge but he needs to arrest those who killed people like Njauju, Chasowa, Tambala family , Albinos including those who have stolen government money
Fact is that looting of government money started after Bakili Muluzi was elected in May 1994, continued under Bingu, Joyce Banda and Peter Mutharika. Trillions has been stolen.
aNankhumwa ngati mudzinamiza kuti mukhala a president achipani changa cha DPP, mudzikwata ndichala taa mng’o mukhawula mulibe MSCE, pamnyopanuso, ndituluka ndilowa Ku UTM ndi banja langa lonse komanso azibale anga onse, ndingoti Mudzi wonse wa agogo anga, bvomerani Boma lanu ndiloyendetsedwa ndi mamafiya ngati inuyo, ndinu akuba, ndiye mukamakamba za 2025, tikungokumverani . Musayiwaletu it will b a total different ball game, nkhalamba zonsezi zikhala zitamwalira monga, Peter, Muluzi, Goodall, Dausi, Chilumpha, mwanamveka, Musa ndiena ambiri. I don’t see the Thief Engineer Bakili Muluzi surviving this COVID 19 , coz pple who died of during his rule are very angry with him.
Apumbwa.
Chakwera should be sent for a short course on finance for non-finance managers for him to analyse and interpret public accounts or audit reports. Chakwera does not know what he was talking about or he is just another sleazy pastor turned president which is bad for our country.
awanso inu. Ntchito ya ma accountant ndi ma auditors imeneyo. Chakwera wangonena zomwe zili mu report
But one needs to understand what one is being told or else one can easily be fooled. Finance for Non Financial Manager course gives one a very basic understanding of figures. One should also read basic accounting to have basic understanding of financial reports
I would agree with Nankhumwa and also with Atupele that Chakwera is in government as a student learning and that is dangerous. i know some basic auditing and what Chakwera was saying that the DPP stole 1.3 trillion was complete garbage. He should have consulted Chilima before displaying his ignorance to the public. What the auditor raise were audit queries and indeed no sane auditor would say in his summary that DPP stole the money.
I think Chakwera now is coming to reality of running government because we used to listen to him speak in parliament as an all knowing person now the ball is in his court. The issue of 1.3 trillion is deliberately mentioned just to create a stupid scapegoat that he is failing to run government because the DPP stole money. Chakwera should be told that government is a going concern and all agencies entrusted to collect government revenue are still collecting and he should use that money to run current affair instead of of wasting our time with past events. If that money was wasted then it was for past activities .
In the world of DPP
– Payments without supporting documents
– Abandonment of construction works
– Stores not accounted for
– Failure to maintain proper revenue records
– Suspicious long standing pensioners
– Mis allocation of funds
– Funds spent at a source
Is not a plunder!!
mmm mbava izi. Khalani phee muone momwe azanu achitira.
These are the issues that Ken Kandodo was already busy dealing with when he was chairman for PAC.There are many lazy/incompetent clerks in government who will continue to do shody work if not retrained properly.
Former ministers za kuba kubangula mokweza like V12 Ferrari old engines. Winayo Joseph Mathyola kuvula mask koma he is in the vulnerable age group for Covid-19. Watch out. Chakwera and Chilima will build the nation that you and Bakili Muluzi destroyed. We don’t want you back. You thought that the Lomwes are a super tribe just like Hitler thought of the Germans as a super race. Yes they were or are still good. They make good cars. They made a lot of inventions like X-rays, the Diesel engine and the first car just like you invented how to steal public money and how to trample on other people. You have be crushed like a rock in a jaw crusher of the mine. We will be have not to have you back again. We will clear the rubble that you left. We will dispose of the garbage you littered Malawi with. You belong to hell. I want to see your CV George Malemia. Where are those men whom you said you had forgiven for revealing that you do not have the papers?
tell us then how much did u stole
Chakwera has a big job to accomplish if he continue wasting his time focusing on one thing he will definetly realise that after 5 years he has done nothing but arresting his opponents. Yes it is good to follow any mismanaged money and bring to book all those who mismanaged the money but along the same cause it is good to make sure that justice is followed accordinly – please don’t just arrest people for the sake of arresting prove to them that they stole the money by taking them to court for justice to take it’s cause. You it pains to keep someone incustody whom you have not proven guilty., imagine it’s is you how would you feel as a Pastor? Please try to follow what the bible says regarding justice otherwise the word of God will haunt you. It is obvious the says if you do good – next goodness will follow you. Be of good courage fulfill what you promised otherwise a million eyes of Malawians are checking on you.
Surely there are some cases which you know are not all that crucial put them pendingbut start working on real issues that matters you know someone in the remote village may not see the need to appreciate the arrest which you are doing now, becoause a day’s life for him is to get something to eat that’s all and if that thing is not available it becomes a big problem.
The times are very crucial mainly with this Covid 19 pandemic indeed you need to spend sleepless nights to save the lives of Malawians – as the number of affections keeps increasing at an alarming rate it’s time you forget about the past and start healing and building the Nation otherwise blame Game will not or can not be an excuse when people are dying now.
Kutsutsa galu nkukumbadi ntheradi kkkkNankhumwa kumawauza anawa palibe chomwe akudziwa zakayendesedwe ka Bhomaaa.They are doing it out of hate kkkk.Ntima wankhwidzi kkkk.Mphamvu zikuwapelewela kkkkk
Nankhumwa’s points of arguement may be partially ‘correct’ in the sense that he is painstakingly trying to distance his DPP party officials from the government departments which ironically were part of the DPP government looting machinery. It sounds very identical to Mutharika distancing himself from the cement saga!! Furthermore Nankhumwa appears to sound like he knows how difficult his task is now in attempting to defend the indefensible. He appears to concede and also to be hoping that looting was only in the region of billions of Kwacha other than the trillions discrepancies reported by the Auditor General. May be Nankhumwa should learn some bitter lessons from the incidence where Mr Ngeme, former presidential spokesperson, was too quick and fast to publicly defend the legality of Mutharika’s procurement of 1.2 million bags of cement from some neighbouring countries, as it has transpired now, Mutharika has also publicly distanced himself from the cement saga in spite of glaring documentary evidence that emanated from the State House. Mr Ngeme is probably at a loss now as to how he is going to explain his defence of the indefensible. Mr Nankhumwa may probably be a ‘clean’ DPP cadet himself but sometimes clean people get mudded up in the process of attempting to defend unclean transactions. Just like for the former presidential spokesperson’s incident, passage of time will tell who is right and who is wrong!
So even the ACB Director is lying describing the financial plunder as “Tsunami”? Let’s wait and see as cases begin to add up.
matemba is just doing biding to have his contract renewed. The guy is a talker not doer.
The man has spoken facts.. we have a well informed leader of opposition. let the president educate himself and give us real facts not political twists.
Facts something that you are even seeing,shame.Are you in a position like what Nankhumwa is saying?This is not the time for rhetoric but its time for DPP to apologies to the Nation for the plundering of our coffers.So you better go to hell with your point.
Nankhumwa you have raised good points. That is the way to go. Malawi was expected to be stable after election . It’s worrying to see that Kwacha value is declining every single day
Birds of the same feathers they flock together indeed.What point has he raised to hands clap him.Who was in Government?Don’t support blindly please.
Bravo Bwana President for the amount plundered by the DPP Government- We really need to know everything. But it will be a shame to you if this is really a propaganda. My hope rests in the Minister of Information who has asked honorable Nankhumwa to openly tell the Nation how much did his DPP Plunder while in Government if at all he feels that this is just a propagander. The amount may increase as the Audits are being conducted in other government institution.
Cadet
Mbava inu mukuvomera partial. End of dpp we will never ever allow plunders in govt.
Eti inu, why are people so blind…….beats me big time
What I know is that the Auditors report will be responded by the MDAs in question. After the MDAs have made their responses, the figures will drastically go down. As KN has ably explained, queries do not mean money was squandered, but could not be accounted for due to failure to provide auditors with documents, non availability of fuel ledgers, the list is endless. Abusa has been wrongly advised. Within a month so many blunders. Mabvuto alipo. God help us
Good point good point ya ciani? Awa ayenela kutsutsa , Tha is what they are, otsutsa, opposition.It is the government priority to get our money back so we can use it to build the nation. Ndiye inu zitsutsani. That is what you are. It would have been odd if you did not say anything about this. And do you know what, there is more coming!!
Honorable Nankhumwa, musafulumire kulubwalubwa. The search for the looters is real and will leave no one so long you plundered government resources. Should it happen that you are amongst those who looted and plundered government resources, surely the ACP and other state agencies will pounce on you.