K92bn cashgate report first, budget second – Malawi opposition

June 19, 2015 Wanga Gwede- Nyasa Times 119 Comments

Opposition members of Parliament have vowed to block the passage of this year’s budget until a forensic audit report on the K92 billion (US$206.7 million) Cashgate which was reportedly mismanaged during the first Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration is table and debated in Parliament.

Goodall walks in Parliament
Goodall walks in Parliament

K92 billion went missing over the eight years of the presidency of the late Bingu wa Mutharika and the structure of that government is the same which incumbent Peter Mutharika is using.

Germany-funded financial investigation—conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) will expose ministries and departments behind the K92 billion heist between 2009 and 2012 as well as broader public finance malfeasance as it also covers the years up to 2014, according to sources close to the audit exercise.

There fevered speculations that the President may be implicated in the cashgate scandal and top ministers in his cabinet.

National Audit Office spokesperson Lawrence Chinkhunda said the report is expected to be formally submitted to the Minister of Finance Goodall Gondwe in accordance with the Public Audit Act, for onward tabling in Parliament.

He said the report covers a period of five years, which includes the period when the K92 billion issues occurred but pointed out that it is “not restricted to the K92 billion.”

Gondwe said the report has not yet been submitted to him.

But opposition lawmakers pressed government to release the audit report through the Speaker’s office to avoid the government tampering with its contents.

Addressing a news conference in the evening, President Mutharika said he would pursue convictions in all scandals, pledging that his administration will not spare anyone as far as cash-gate is concerned.

Germany funded forensic audit to the tune of K9.76 billion.

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119 replies on “K92bn cashgate report first, budget second – Malawi opposition”

  1. Pricewater house Audit of the MK92B is a Bomshell. I’m glad Mathanyula said no one will be spared. I will hold him to those words. Opposition foot to the pedal don’t let up till this mess is done with,

  2. Mukungofuna kumatipweteketsa mutu ndikhani zopanda ntchito. Malawi should move forward not backward. Budget ndi zimenezo amalawi apindulandi chiyani.

  5. Watch how North and Centre handle important issues I mean the opposition with its coutious speaker: Malawians watch how these God sent, will rescue u from jaws of these Yao and Llomwe hypocrites, they wil fish them out on this one no one is shielding them infact everybody is feed up enough is enogh

  6. If the budget passes then this money is going to be cashgated as well.So we need the report first.You rushed to rig the elections hoping to conceal everything,Oh you missed the point.You just brought yourself into Lions den.What goes around comes around!!

  7. Cashgate ya mayi jb anthu anamangidwa mpaka pano akumangidwabe ndiye awa amangidwe nawo basi, nobody above the raw

  9. AT THE AGE OF 75 UPWARDS EVERYTHING IS UPSIDE UPSIDE DOWN

    I HAVE MY GRANDPA OF THE SAME AGE

    OH MY GOSH

  10. I hope they will listen to opposition and bring the report, other wise I see the government parading chiefs to back calls for budget.

  12. musiyeni mwana wa munthu ayendetse dziko ntima uli mmalo idzakwana yanu nthawi nanunso mudzayendetsa ,kumbukilani chomwe chinanenedwa ndi chitsime chakuya kuti wapakaliyala samaimba belu

  13. The 92 billion must be recovered and the culprits punished accordingly to serve as a lesson to generations to come. We must be serious about this issue and not protect any body who was part of this High Financial Treason

  16. this is arleady STUPID….!!
    Hw much do you think these Mps have and r still spending with those meetings.
    wake up malawians

  17. Lets have the report first that means regardless of when it is ready in parliament, I suggest that parliament should be adjunned until the report is ready. Debated and then budget. Meanwhile gvnt shuold not be allowed a mini budget nor shuold pay anything out and let us see what will happen. No side of the parliament should force the other into passing the budget until the report is fimalised then we will see who will rise whether it is the MP or us voters

  18. Mbava za dpp mwatisaukitsa kwambiri kodi amalawi tidakulakwirani chani? we want our money back.ndalamazi timazipeza movutika bwerani kumudzi mukaone momwe anthu akuvutikira ndi KULIMA FODYA.CHAUTA AKUONENI INU!! with these few remarks i support K92b first, budget second

  19. zachamba eti?
    Palibe za mlandu wa K92b. Prof mtima m’malo tamangoyendetsani dziko modekha,enawa zikuwaguguda akufuna u H.E.

    Ndalamazo anaba kunyumba kwanu?
    Leave APM alone, musova 2024 woooo!

  20. Atupele to resign in 2018 main reason being 92 billion scandal after milking dpp the same style the way he ditched pp. Watch out his steps. He is trying to avoid his fellow UDF members to be part of the cabinet sighting what Matola did

  21. Auditors usually do not understand the business if their client. They depend in interrogation to link the loose ends. They may have concluded the report but it may be 75% true if the activities that happened. Therefore the client thus the Government( the Auditor General, the Finance Minister and of course the President) have to see the report first, scrutnize it and request for changes where they disagree. Then thereafter; I repeat then thereafter can the report be made available. Do you think the report would go from the Auditors straight to the Speaker? Unless you are a bunch of dunderheads to expect that. That is not how it works.

  23. Wa civil society kaya ndi wa mpingo kaya ndi mafumu amene aikire boma kumbuyo athibulidwa basi.Tatopa kumabweza ngongole zobwerekera anthu akuba.Report first budget later.

  26. namaloko youre stupit,can’t read comments on de topic everybody is grieved and want dis report out and ure talking manye kuti agule,don’t we are stupit like u am lomwe but when it comes to squanderline gvt pace woo it pains,mps want justice kaya apm sanadye anadya ndi malemu zidziwike osangoti poti ndine mlomwe koma wina azitibela ai we’ve no drugs mbwiye kwa nyozololo afuna aspilin akanka ku clinic

  27. Faiti: The Rubbish You Vomit Tells You Are Less Caring For Malawi And, I Suspect You Are A Key Beneficially Of The 92bn, If Not, Mathanyulika Is Your Brother/You Work For Him. I Wud Rather Suport The Mps Than The Budget Coz As Malawians, We Have Been Already Bruised And Torn Apart By A Succession Of Thieves!

  28. Thats very sereous scandal!.why only politicians in Malawi imvolved in cashgate scandals? anthu ankhaza zonsezo kugawana basi.

  29. Malawians wake up let’s support our opposition MPs we need our khwidi back akanganyawa atikwana ndalama atibele chisankho atibele basi ife kumaasekelela, aaaaayi tiyeni nao we are on your side bravo ma members ya opposition uko ndiye mwana wakwithu Richard kulya chi scon uko yayi wavwile ma MP agha who knows maybe God brought u up on this position for this time and reason GOD HELP THEM I pray

  30. That 92 billion kwacha should be recovered first.Malawi is a very poor country to leave a collosal sum of 92 billion to go like that.Even if Pitala is implicated.Who cares?Some honest leaders will lead Malawi?Who said Pitala is only the intelligent person to lead Malawi after all his leadership is very questionable.He got it in a very unconvincing way.Whether they throw Bakili Muluzi,Joyce Banda,and Pitala in prisons,nobody cares.Why should we care of thieves who have abused a poor country like Malawi?The opposition should be firm with these people.We want the truth for the 92 billion.Nobody should be protected just because he is in the govt.We don’t want to be led by some useless govt full of corrupt people.We need a clean govt.

  32. Now I can understand why government wanted to borrow money from European Investment Bank for a project already done. These are financial bandits.

  33. The mother of cashgaters to land on the shores of parliamentary no-nosense. Go! Go! Lawmakers we sorely depend on you.You are really on track to renovate wrackage (Malawi) which is rotting.

  34. Criticizing thieves or botching their plans to steal is not pulling down anyone/party. You want the budget to pass without correcting the grey areas so that they steal and you share the spoil. This is exactly why we want a strong opposition to be doing what they are doing now. We have cried and prayed for this a long time, don’t just kill the opposition.

  36. We also need a report on ahmed who was to remit dollars were is the case and also mapeto case and lido case were is it we want the money for hospitals n roads don’t leave anyone there enemies if nation farook gani is helping lido with MRA pls check peter

  38. Your Excellency Peter Muthalika, vutotu tiri nalo ife a Malawi nkuti tufuna kudziwa anaba 92bn ndi ndani. Ngati ndi malemu musadandaule akayankha okhapamaso pa Mulungu koma ngati inu muli mommo tikumangensoni mukaseweze nkupitiriza mumalemba ku Lumbadzi kuja

  39. asaaa, a ndalewa atibera kokwana. Budget amangotonamiziramo hanthu hakumuzi hakungotafuna ndiwo asaa. nthawi yathu yokondwa ife hakumuzi yakwana. hapange kaye za mabilionizo. otherwise pa Malawi pano with or no budget no difference pa munthu wakumudzi. komanso tisayiwale makani hanapanga a DPP mu parliament momo nthawi ya JB- sipaja hamatonena kuti hatofuna big fish hatchulidwe? if they can’t sing the same song today, then they must never talk about having welfare of poor man. after all the report can’t take whole day to read!

  41. dddont take ransom of the budget. Follow appropriate ways to force the MK92 bn, theft report out. Otherwise this move will be percieved as a deliberate ploy by the opposition to punish Malawians who are already reeling from cashgate shockwaves. Leave the budget alone. We are keenly following the deliberations.

  43. No comment,when ever I remember that I’m a Lomwe by tribe,I feel sorry for myself. Tikumachita manyazi,this tribe of mine is a disgrace.

  44. This cashgate report must indeed come out first and get debated in our august house for the safety of about-to-be-approved budget. Let us not equate the importance of section65 to MK92bn cashgate report.

  46. Pin down the thieves. We will see no end to this cashgate madness if the culprits go unpunished. So, yes 92 billion kwacha report first. Why accept a budget prepared by thieves. Let the report prove otherwise or let it crucify them.

  48. Mbuli za ma MP. Do you think delaying budget will bring back that K92b. Tell me if
    all the recent K24b cashgate money has been recovered. This opposition led by gulewamkulu will never change. Malawi will have a responsible opposition if it will be led by a party other than the Nyau party. Kongolesi sidzatheka and it will never rule this country. Zanu ndi nyau ndi dambwe basi mukatopa kulima burley.

    1. Namaloko unyela mpwiiiii ikatuluka audit report. That report will blow the lid of corrupt government officials irrespective of political affiliation. Hard working malawians are sick and tired of enriching lazy crooks.

  49. Malawians do not know, what is good for us. How can some one just think of pulling all the riches for Himself. Thus insanity, don`t you know that you killing the country?

  51. John Tembo lost popularity because of this retrogressuve mindset. And chakwera is just inelligent, but lacks wisdom. How can he sit back and watch this madness happen? Everyvody is looking up to the same budget……..Malawi’s politics is fucked up.

    1. You are the one who is fucked up. The opposition has a responsibility to check government excesses and there is no reason to pass a budget whose money will end up in privgte pockets. I would pay a million dollars to guage your IQ.

  53. I think the report is also important. But by now, the leaders have known the contents,if we see being delayed,we will definitely know that some mathematics similar to those of elections are the answer.

  54. what is the point of taking new budget leaving an elephant. If we cant that new budget to serve its purpose, first step is sort out the problem of wasteful expenditure, thereafter, new budget. i silute opposition. EFF refused to deal with new business while Zuma has not yet paid back the money. Opposition stick to your guns, we will not die even if the new budget is delayed. i am positive Peter family has lion’s share in that K92bln. Watch it closely so that no alteration should happen.

  56. Bwana Sweet Boy, I want you to envisage a chicken and egg situation. We had to come down here for the colleges are located here. We finished college and we had to look for a job here because the companies are here. You might need to blame the then government for not ensuring that some of these should be allocated in the north. Then we could not have been here.

  57. It is wise for the lawmaker to press on for the report before passing the budget because once the budget is passed then we can forget of the report. There is no country in the world that can run without the budget but it cwn run with the report not released. Opposition this is your only golden opportunity to have the report out.

    Report first budget to follow

  58. Section 65 Number One, Budget Number 2. End Result: Landslide For Dpp. Mcp Will Never Learn At All! Tikuonani.

  59. Tivomerezeranji budget pomwe tikudziwa kuti ndalamazo zigwa mmanja mwazimbalangondo. Issue iyi ndi ya section 65 ikusiyanilanatu! Chonde ma MPs athu tithandizeni kuti tisese zimbalangondo zovala ma suit’zi.

  60. So you think K92b was stolen by DPP politicians and the current Cash-Gate was not stolen by PP politicians. The mastermind of both cash-gates is abiti who is in hiding now!!

  61. Pls budget first coz my friend from audit office toald me that the report implicates top DPP guys so this will lead to early election a thing w dont want now.

  63. At the same time its wrong to equate 92 billion report to Section 65. Do not forget that Section 65 was filled with vengeance and what was perceived as selfish motives. We all know the consequences. When someone thinks the opposition is wrong when it tries to speed up justice, it is very wrong.

    At the same time, don’t think villagers are stupid. They might only vote for DPP because they have liked it not because the opposition blocked budget to force the report that reveals theft of their money at the highest order. We all want to know who stole our money, whether its PP or DPP, period!!!!!!!

  64. MCP tsopano yazelezeka basi. Its not strange for MCP to equate budget and other things. Ask Ungapake. The results were disastrous. He retired without tasting presidency. Wait and see what people do at that njuncture.

  65. Congratulations Opposition. This is the way to go. We have had enough of thieving by DPP. By the way, PP was DPP(UDF) in disguise and they just continued wisth Cashgating. And Malawians, please let us not have this nonsense of forcing Opposition to pass the budget (which, in effect, is a stupid one) with silly sentiments. How can you have allocations to institutions such as Unoversity, Judiciary, Health, ACB, etc, mercilessly trimmed, in some cases to less than half the last year’s ? This is just a face saver for the DPP Government to comply with the budgetting requirements. Otherwise there is nothing in the so called ZERO-AID budget.

    It is about time DPP knew the Nation is watching all their moves.

  67. Ife ndife ongoonelela. Zidachitikakotu zotelezi. Do you remember JZU’s “Section 65 first, budget second”. What happened? Budget was passed, section 65 njee. Timva!!!!

    1. Munya muona. Do you really think it is a bad thing for PP to steal, but okay for DPP to do the same? M’mayenda moyera agalu inu.

      Even if the budget is passed without a hitch, the report will still come out. Umbava wa DPP uonekera powera. Munaitengetsa PP, lero ndi nthawi yoti nanunso mumve mbebe. Chaona mzako chapita, mawa chili pa iwe…

  69. #10 How is the budget helping the poor when moneys are being stolen????? Thus the reason the poor are getting poorer and thieves are getting richer!!!!! The thief must be caught first to reverse this trend. Pass the budget today and come September all the money has vanished!!!! What is the point in passing the budget then???? Lock up the thief first and our taxes will be safe…..

  70. DDP, PLIZ pay back K92B which you stole from the poor Malawians. Peter, the K62B, your late brother stole should be given back to 16M poor Malawians. Who doesn’t know that your brother declared that he had K150m soon after being elected to the throne but 7yrs after his death he accumulated a total amount of wealth of K62b. The question is that what type of business was your brother doing. Pay back the money so that the poor Malawian benefits from the spoil. Tell your friends in DPP to do the same otherwise they are going to face the anger of the land’s law. Most of those Ministers from your region, namely Mulanje, Phalombe, Thyolo and Chiradzulu, are involved in the Cashgate. It’s long time now we have been talking of Cashgate, what we poor Malawians would like to see is ACTION, ACTION and nothing else. Mulli should also pay back the money, do not shield him. OKAY

  71. pala president nayo walimo mu report, kasi ndikokuti boma nalo lamala?

  74. If the scandal indeed implicates the President, MALAWI will have new elections. Let the audit report channeled through the Office of Speaker as my fellow friends have suggested. Lupanga lomwe umphera mzako ndilo lidzakuphe. Malawians are waiting for the results as soon as possible.

  75. These opposition sadists think by blocking the passing of the proposed budget they will penalise government, NO!! The villager in the remotest areas is the one to suffer. And these federal thing are even a very sad lot. The same government they are castigating has brought a number of developments in their region ie the Karonga/Chitipa Rd, the grain silos (although Joyce would wish that was attributed towards PP), the Reserve & National banks, the high Court etc. One crucial thing these aboriginals are overlooking is the population aspects and the amount of money realised from taxes per area. How does government put up a hospital of the magnitude of kamuzu central for a smaller population in the north, apparently whose owners have relocated to south/Central regions leaving theirs desolate and inhabited? By the way what makes these nganyas resort into migrants who go about developing other regions and not their own, mukuthawa chianti ntchewe inu? With what you have started don’t cry foul if the same government you are accusing decides not to construct the Mombera university just like what the plonkers in Mangochi refused a hostel due to myopic reasoning of their PP MP who took an aerial development on personal differences.

  77. Now that’s meaningful opposition. Govt must accept scrutiny that’s how things work in a democracy. You can’t prosecute others and sweep your own dirt under the carpet

  78. Mass protest gentlemen and ladies .These politicians have taken a common malawian for granted for too long , Cashgate-MK92billion first -Budget second-Totally agree

  80. K92bn report first, its long overdue. Budget should be the last thing after all we budget to steal. Lets catch the thieves before the steal more from this years budget. Prevention is better than cure.

  81. Don’t pass the budget before the 92 billion cashgate is tabled in Parliament through the speakers office and those implicated are taken to task. After all, the budget is full of ambiguity and thrush. This budget needs to be revised or redone. How can a reknowned professional accountant tables budget bills which were already passed a year or two years away? This is unfair to us Malawians, and worse tax payers.

  82. I will not be surprised if more than half of the current Ministers are in the audit report! We will get a cabinet reshuffle due to most of cabinet members being arrested including the one who chairs cabinet meetings!

    This is the year the Lord has made government shall be purged of corruption and Malawi will rejoice. God almighty intervene!

    You did it to Pharaoh and his cohort; you will do it to the untouchables of cashgate and all guilty parties.

    Let the fire from the enemies of Malawi consume them in Jesus name.

  83. i this report shall not have hidden names like the Baker Tilly one. PwC watch out. You have a reputation and professionalism to protect. Malawians need to know the truth. The German Government funded this exercise and we dont want the Auditor General to tamper with the report.

    Thumbs up our opposition. It shows you really have at heart people’s concerns and not these other recycled thieves who are in the stolen government. Pin them to the corner till they all bow out.

    A Malawi tavutika kokwana chifukwa cha anthu otibera poyerayerawa.

  85. Che Chaponda ndiye bwanji ???????????????The fish has wrotten from the head indeed. Chitsiru. Lucky enough you have already painted the prison cells.

  86. Koma ma mp musaiwale kuti izi zomasankha chinthu china mmalo mwa budget mumaluza nazo popularity anzanu ambiri analephera chisankho chifukwa cha izi b careful.

  87. Iwenso Zadziwika ndiwe zeleza chomene -Fisrt of all -You need to think whats the purpose of having Abudget yet some top officials they are stealing the amount -Tell me the tangible thing happen in your area where you are coming from

  89. The cause of our poverty has nothing to do with theft. Yes stealing tetards development and should be stamped out. However Malawi is poor because her people are poor in the heads. This country has no infustries worth speaking about. Apart from tobacvo whatelse is there to talk about. India is a very developed country relative to Malawi but it can feed its more than a billion people, has a nuclear bomb, put a satellite in the sky has TATA motor corporation churning out TATA trucks and buses. Bottom line TILIBE NZERU.

  90. I THINK NOW WE HAVE THE OPPOSITION WHICH REALLY DOES THE JOB IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO. NO MERE HANDCLAPPING. NO NAME WORSHIPPING OR FEAR. IF WE REALLY CARE FOR THE RURAL MASSES LETS FIRST DISCUSS THE 92 BILLION, THEN WE CAN SPEND THE BUDGET IN AN ORDERLY MANNER. BRAVO OPPOSITION. I SECOND THE MOTION. CASHGATE #1 BUDGET#2.

  91. Gud idea 92 Billion cash gate first n then the budget. Mbava za anthu inu. Tatopa nanu anthu akuba inu. Mukhawula. Its high time tiwadziwe akuba amenewa. Sakufuna ndiye kuti akubisa kanthu.

  92. So the report should go through the speakers office.

    Are these not the same people that were saying the budget is illegal.

    So they want the report to be illegal?

    Indeed we are our own enemies, we want to follow the law only when it suits us.

  93. Iwe no 1. (zadziwika) wadzika kuti ndiwe wa DPP Deseal, Petro Palibe. Unadya nawo ndalama zakubazo ubwenza uwooona chaka chake ndi chino. Oposition more fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wina alire basi.,

  96. I just hope our parliamentarians can stick to their guns for once. Too often in the past our MPs have queried budgets only to pass them at the close of business without any changes.

    “Zadziwila” @ comment No 1 above is wrong. Contrary to what Zadziwika is saying, it is this type of stand on issues of this importance/magnitude that will get you votes in any election. Obviously he/she is one of those who benefited from the K92bln bounty. Obviously, his/her name must be in that report.

    Malawi is not moving forward because of cashgates (K92bln here and K24bln there and God knows how many more).

    Please, ‘honorable’ MPs, stick to your guns. If you let down your guard, DPP will hide this Audit Report long enough to tamper/alter it.

  98. Keep it up opposition like what DPP AND OTHER Opposition did during PP cashgate scandal . Be the truth prevail.

  102. what an ill-timing of report release, couldnt you wait for budget to pass? but I copy that the president has immunity to any court prosecution so whatever peter is safe till he leaves plot # one.

  103. pass the budget to help the poor then dont conclude the meating unless cashgaters are done.

  104. Hope that will woken ppl who r targeting others lucky of which region u come frm. cashgates scandals is a disease that can afect ppl doesn’t matter which side u come from and this disease it has no cure unless all of us malawians act on it and take no side whoever is involved bring them to book for justice to be done. By calling each other names won’t solve anything

  106. We are waiting to hear the truth, otherwise our taxes must be respected.
    K92 billion #1, budget #2.

  107. Abweze basi.Unless they r faced with an iron feast,w shall remain poor.The money is too much,plz make a recovery plan inu a opposition.

  108. The rat has sitted on the pot LLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOK (LOOK) who is going to kill the rat lets see and wait is it the Budget ? or the concern Citizen

  110. Stupid Opposition! Your colleagues did the same in 2008, and they were judged accordingly by the electorates. Is that what your people sent you to do? 2019 is coming, most of you and your party will not make it again! You have not studied Malawians!!

    1. Iwe #1 ndiwe opusa kwabasi, it means u support the plundering of our tiny/scarce resources? Ngati akutuma akupweteketsa. Ya Lutepo inali cashgate part II ndipo iyi ya K92BN ndi part I. How can u understand a film when you watch only part II.
      I fully put my weight behind you my beloved opposition. Let them face the law or tikakumane kumseu konkuja ngati that report will not be tabled now.
      1. Cashgate report tabling
      2. Budget
      ** Ndiye winawe unapinyolitsa chipani poteteza bambo ako ku katangale hahahaaaaa*******

  111. A doctored report will certainly be tabled. And, Malawians being fools as we are, will accept the doctored report and insist that we forget about the past. We are a pathetic people. I hope the Germans will release the original report if a doctored one is presented. Anyway, no longer trust the Germans after all the mess in Greece.

  112. DPP is dodging a K92b report they know that almost all the big fish in DPP are implicated in the scam including the big man.

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