Education ministry officials get three-day allowances for a 2 hour meeting: HRDC blows whistle

Ministry of Education officials have come under blisteting attack for pocketing three day allowances from government for a meeting that lasted for two hours only.

HRDC’s Luke Tembo : We  will submit the information to National Audit Office

The Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has since blown the whistle on the matter.

HRDC says it has received information alleging that officials from the ministry pocketed allowances amounting to K90,000 each meant for a three day training, for an activity that only lasted for two hours.

The development comes as government is investigating the alleged abuse of 6.2 Billion Kwacha Covid-19 funds.

Luke Tembo – National Coordinator for HRDC –  said the organization has received the information under its corruption whistle blowing initiative.

Tembo said HRDC will submit the information to National Audit Office and other prosecuting agencies who are investigating the  alleged mismanagement of K6.2 billion Kwacha.

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Zio ine
Zio ine
3 years ago

Stop it. Officials from opc. Auditor general and accountant general are involved in this big time. They claim for 20 nights and claim from both their office as well as their host agency or department.

Nyekhwe the Nyex
Nyekhwe the Nyex
3 years ago

This is a non starter, no one can stop reggae. Civil service is the engine.

Chillz
Chillz
3 years ago

What happens when the govt lacks integrity. Mindset change alone won’t help. How about strengthening internal controls such as awarding whistleblowers when credible evidence is provided, strengthening the punishment(in this case fire all those responsible for the mismanagement), and I don’t know what else……… I just wish if there was a way to make this country a warm heart truly and be run by people who really embrace that notion. I get sick of the way gvt and civil servants rob the country and the poor Malawian without shame. I mean if I had super powers would definitely take then… Read more »

Justice for all
Justice for all
3 years ago

Malawi is really rotten with rotten leadership shame

Jah
Jah
3 years ago

Fotseki tisiyine ma civil servants nanunso muli ndi njira zanu

Chillz
Chillz
3 years ago
Reply to  Jah

ndiwe mbuzi

Darlico Majawa
Darlico Majawa
3 years ago

This is not good at all, sometimes l wonder how an official personnel do such kind of stealing

Wakwiya ndi kadeti
3 years ago

Thieves in suits with empty heads. Chancellor College has bred a lot of thieves and you will see that most of the people running government are from Chancellor College. The Chikanda syndrome. How can one pocket allowances for a meeting which part of his job. What are allowances for? You mean you cannot meet without money. It is no wonder to see civil servants living luxurious lives from a salary of less that K1 million a month. This madness must stop. Everyone including babies pay tax. The clothes and foods you buy for babies include VAT. A poor villager pays… Read more »

Alex mgeni
Alex mgeni
3 years ago

Some of us have worked both in the public sector and private sector. All Malawians are thieves. Ku ngoti ku private sector amafinyana anthu. Ku public sector kuli mtendele. So when you are In the private sector imakula ndi nsanje kuti in govt people get money more easily. Basi tu……. Nsanje chabe….. Kuyiwala u earn more than a ku boma koma mtima kuwawa.

Ginimbi, the illuminate, the likes of Bushiri
Reply to  Alex mgeni

Mr! you are a mundane thief and a fortuitous crook, how can you talk like that with pride, you are really stupid, all the money you people have stolen could have avoided some deaths in hospitals

Hola
Hola
3 years ago
Reply to  Alex mgeni

Rubbish

abiti benson
abiti benson
3 years ago
Reply to  Alex mgeni

Stealing is evil… whether done for some reasons or not it still remains evil in the eyes of your Creator. Nothing changes with God. Kubera private sector kaya public sector no difference, you still are under God’s judgment and you deserve it. Mukalemera ndi ndalama zakubazo mukafa ndikukapita ku Gehena muyaya yense mukaiwala zimene mukunena apazi. My message is one and simple REPENT!!!

Dan
Dan
3 years ago

Whoever steal government money must be duly prosecuted and the right punishment meted again him/her. This is stealing and must be punished accordingly including getting fired and banned from any public employment

John
John
3 years ago

Sizachicholendo. Ine dzana ku HRDC ndatenga 10 nights koma akuti sotizapita

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