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.
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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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.
This is a non starter, no one can stop reggae. Civil service is the engine.
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 all out!
Please mr president, the vice, ministers whole three arms of the gvt. For once , just for once please let citizens of this country enjoy the little treasures of this land. Please we envy other countries where the gvt share/rationalize wealth to it’s people. How about us???? What’s wrong with us???? When???
We know you don’t care and we are not in your plans. What if you consider your motherland for once???????? Just once!!
Malawi is really rotten with rotten leadership shame
Fotseki tisiyine ma civil servants nanunso muli ndi njira zanu
ndiwe mbuzi
This is not good at all, sometimes l wonder how an official personnel do such kind of stealing
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 tax for every commodity he/she buys. Some fool at Capital Hill steals it for his own benefit. Please take these thieves head on and HRDC and other please help protect our money from the vultures, the civil servants.
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.
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
Rubbish
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!!!
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
Sizachicholendo. Ine dzana ku HRDC ndatenga 10 nights koma akuti sotizapita
Without hiding words,this is total stealing Government money.
The must be investigated and arrested.
Minister&Ps,do you know this development?if yes,you 2,must be fired no discussions.
Mwawonekera…uku nkheiba @its best.
Your Excellency, as nother issue….minister of Education&Pa must stand before you to and 2 or 3….
Fire them please!
Concerned Citizen,
Mzakwacha Nixon
Kwazulu Natal
Durban.
+27724922299
And we always keep complaining that foreigners are siphoning money
Kodi anthu simudziwa kuti ndi mmene civil service imayendera? Izi sizachilendo. Bola awa anachita attend meeting for two hours . Ife timalandira allowance a month without going out ku field. Ma Ps amakhala pa list ilioyonse ya anthu omwe akupita ku workshop Koma Ngakhale iwo Sapita kukachita attend workshop apo bii sasaina vouchers ya a ma. Allowances athu.So inu a hRDC this is sizachlendo. Reason: salary imatha munthu asanalandire. Ndiye pa town apulumuka bwanji? Asiyeni amenewo. Check ku agriculture thats what is done sharing funding
This is honesty of the statusquo; being honest with words & oneself. Salvation is inevitable
sitting allowance ngati alibe zokhalila.
basi lelo mimba mawa mwana kubadwa.
eish long expired projects esp madzi ndi classroom blocjs. zivetsa cisoni.
komabe lets try it ana atgu aphuzileko.
ana amabwana amaphuzila akulu za ku abroad.
kodi strain iyi yatulukaiso mwaimva????? khaya ati B1. 525 akuti khaya atinji? tikutsekulila bcoz of the public pressure osati Covid data
It’s common at Chancellor College for departments to get receipts from lodges e.g. geography department gets receipts from Palm Valley along Blantyre-Thyolo road. Lectures then share money/allowances for meetings which never took place.
Pathetic. Malawi is rotten to the core.
Thought the educated lecturers would be more professional.
yes they are professionals in theiving
mpaka kuitchula Palm Valley….
the minister should step aside. too many scandals in her ministry
Palibe nkhani apa. Chonchi Malawi sangapite patsogolo. Concentrate on ‘REAL’ issues. You may not succeed in prosecution of officers getting allowances!
palibe chachilendo apa. Bola amenewo adapita; they get money for five days while sitting in the office. Ngakhale a PS akudziwa zomwe zomachitika. she has been part of the system. Just ask for workshop payment documents and check the list of people paid. Especially project money; its worse.
Let them pay back 3 times as much! They will learn their lesson for next time! In fact every wrongly or over claimed allowance payout should automatically attract a punishment fee of 300% !
Kudya Katatu as advertised by His Excellency Chakwera N’gombe. Alekeni anthu adye. Mudya.
Allowance syndrome, we cant develop
Ndalama zaphweka ndithu. Kudya katatu.
enatu akudya kanayi patsiku
Keep on doing the good job. It should not be business as usual its high time they realize that time for free for all is gone