Malawi Speaker refers K92bn DPP-era plunder analysis document to PAC
Speaker of the National Assembly Richard Msowoya on Tuesday June 23, 2015 referred the much awaited K92 billion (US$204.4 million) forensic audit report to Parliament Accounts Committee (PAC) contrary to what was announced on Monday that Government would table the report on Tuesday.


The Speaker did not give specific reasons regarding the change despite the order paper indicating that the first business will be to table the report.
The Parliamentary Order paper indicated that Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe would present the report which has been described as a data analysis document.
The Speaker referred the report to PAC which is chaired by MP Alekeni Menyani for scrutiny and further action as required by Public Audit Act of 2003.
National Audit Office (NAO) has said the report was only outlining methodologies on the reconstruction of the cashbook and not necessarily the actual forensic audit.
In the statement dated June 19, the Auditor General Steven Kampala clarified that what was available with his office, with financial assistance from the German government was a data analysis report as a first step towards a full forensic audit which would take approximately 10 months. The data analysis cost German taxpayers 250 000 euros (K125 million), according to NAO.
Kamphasa said the data analysis had identified discrepancies between payments made from government bank accounts and cashbook records held in the Integrated Financial Management Information System (Ifmis).
He said: “This is a data analysis not forensic audit, from analysis alone it is not possible to establish exact amounts or causes of the discrepancies nor how many of these funds were misappropriated.”
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) spokeswoman and Salima North West MP Jessie Kabwila has said the report “will have a bearing on the budget.”
The K92 billion mismanagement is believed to have happened under the watch of the first Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration led by former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika.
President Peter Mutharika has since said “whoever is found to have done anything wrong the law will take its course”.
On how his government is intending to make head way on cashgate issues, President Mutharika warned of the looming arrests of cash gate scam suspects.
“We are making a lot of progress I think more and more people are being arrested, am sure you are going to be hearing announcements soon that more and more people are being arrested for massive looting of the treasury under cash gate.
“We will make sure whoever was involved in that, is brought to book and that the properties are recovered so we are working on that”, said Mutharika.
A forensic audit report by British firm Baker Tilly that established that K24 billion was looted from Capital Hill between April and September 2013 under the administration of Joyce Banda and her People’s Party (PP).
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Kadakwiza,where are you getting this reconciliation lunacy? Dpp feeding you as well? Our country has never experienced civil war since independence,that is where reconciliation applies.
We can’t have reconciliation for thieving and corruption. We might as well close our prisons and let anarchy rule.
All parliamentarian regards on it(cashate) continue to shake them until it bear the fruits they had stolen that, don’t clinch with the bad deal. Look why database has been deleted? shame to them, they don’t even intend to develop their country but stealing too much. If so Lutepo amasulidwe sinanga database yafutidwa ndekuti umboni palibe.
Shame on Mr. Speaker for his betraying your own bussines paper! MCP, you are letting us down!
It is absurd, nonsensical and extremely corrupt to close the cashgate case without bringing the thieves to book and convicting them – even post-humously. Just like a murder case will never rot until justice is served, so this one. As we strive to extradite Chanthunya, we should strive to bring behind bars the living thieves.
palibe 4get nanga amene akumva kupwetekawo
When we talk of cash plundering, the train does not stop on DPP. It goes way back the time of one party system of government, where there was no difference between the party & government. The cars from PVHO were being used by the party without paying a cent to the government. A lot of people siphoned the money, the likes of John Tembo & his cronies. UDF regime even a child knows what happened that government tenders were given to the politically connected people & they siphoned huge sums of money that’s why Mpinganjira & Muluzi when they didn’t agree on the third term issue they started revealing each other’s misdeeds. Came DPP the same guys from UDF who just changed name simply continued with the trend. PP an offspring of DPP under a female Captain just came on the scene kudzayaluka after knowing that they had only two years then it was when things came into the open. Now this issue it’s not Joyce Banda alone to be blamed here, start with Tembo who was the Reserve Governor, Treasure General of MCP, Board Chairman of all Statutory Bodies or Parastatal Companies, Bakili Muluzi, indeed Late Bingu & of course Peter Mutharika all these guys they’re in it.
My fellow Malawians let us forget about Cash gate. This is time for us as a nation to focus what we can do to develop our beautiful country. I decide there should be a reconciliation committee, so that anybody who was involved in looting of government resources must come forward so that us as a nation should forgive those people. And move forward. The more the government is trying to find out what happened to K92billion, the more is loosing the money which could help in other areas like hospitals. We need a reconciliation committee. What us Malawians we expect is the the big fish. And we know it is difficult for that fish to come out of the waters. Let us just close this chapter called cash gate. I still believe that even MCP stole from us. UDF may be also stole from us. I still believe that PP stole from us. Why I believe so, is because it is now 21 years since MCP lost to UDF but still the party exists. So I ask myself, how. Where are parties like UNIP in Zambia, KANU in Kenya, NP in South Africa. But MCP is still exist I believe that for 31 years this party stole from us. The same UDF, PP,DPP. I suggest The Reconciliation Committee (T.R.C) is the only way to go.
iweso ndi mbuzi eti
Tiyeni tiyende tipite tokha ku PWC tikatenge report. Akatilora?
Mayi kabwira mayi Lunguzi ndi Anzanu onse a opposition
Gwilanani manja populumutsa mtundu wa a malawi ku mbava zimenezi
Why should an audit firm do data analysis of financial information?
iwe analyst wa fake, u r talkng of btz,lz, mz. mwana okulira mu mpanda, ku mayani ukudziwako iwe(dedza) ku ntchisi ukudziwako iwe. uziyenda usanachite analysis yakoyo. amene watchulawo nd ma city okhaokha.
Malawians we must put things in perspective. External auditing is my day job and I can testify that audit fees even in the region of MWK30 million would be a big audit indeed. Now to have fees of MWK125 million and only get a ‘data analysis report’ would be an insult of the highest order. We deserve a fully fledged forensic audit report for an amount this big.
This is the way opposition MPs should approach the issue: Whatever report is presented to them the question should be “Is this report worth MWK125 million?” If the answer is “no” then they should take the donor (the Germans) and the auditor (PwC) to task.
Another point that is being overlooked is the question of skills. Between NAO and PwC who is better equipped to to carry out a forensic audit? Why should a firm with far superior skills just carry out a “data analysis” and leave the forensic audit to be conducted by NAO which can barely conduct normal audits of Government departments? NAO is under-resourced, under-staffed and under-everything – I doubt that they even have enough stationery and fuel to do their work!
As Raw Stuff used to say “…akutidyetsapo nyama ya galu apa” (We are being given dog meat here)…
Tsiku la mowa, On top of that there is the constant corruption and political interference. For this reason,no malawian auditor can do any meaningful forensic audit report. You just have to look at the stupid auditor general.
Ati Germany yapanga clear pitala
Inu mmati anene chani wanthu ???
Akupatseni dollar yopangira kafukufuku
Kenakonso akuuzeni zochita ???
Inuyo muli gono gone kumangophwisa
mmakabudulamo muli azungu atichitira zonse ???Kuzolowera umphawi ndi kuberedwa masanasana
nkona amwenye ndi anthu andalewa amatitora udyo
PAKUFUNIKA KUCHITAPO KANTHU IFE ENI AKE
Please kindly release the report as it is. We shall judge it ourselves. Basitu titero.
Rubbish! Joyce was the one to solve the 92 billion case but she didn’t for she had the same motive of stealing as depicted by her saying ‘Nafenso titakate’. I think this is a spilt milk it will be a waste of time and resources to cry for it!
Koma dziko limenelo! !!!!
Number 22, Analyst is wrong to say we have construction works all over the country. Categorically he may be right.
You Analyst, go to Dowa district and see if the road to Dowa boma is under construction. If not,then you nust be very biased in your opinion and unfair to some people as if they do not deserve any development.
Example;Peolpe from Dowa district do not use Chipembere Highway when going home.So what benefit do they get from construction of Chipembere Highway?
In short you are selfish. At the meantime government has no means to finance projects but they promised to do a lot of things. Let them withdraw their promises then I can forgive them.
Otherwise such promises amount to cheating.
WE ARE NOT KIDS OK,,,ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, WE WANT DE REPORT
You Analyst,what you are saying is not for this article discussions. Talk about the 92bn. Digressing to create lies shows only your bootlicking expertise.
honestry this government is cheating us they know that they are beneficiaries of this 92 billion thats why they are delaying to table the report but mind you God is watching and atimenyera nkhondo mdima ungakule bwanji,kumayenera kuche basi,chitunda chingatalike bwanji kutsogolo kuli matsitso
APM u talking shear now
We should Just contact PricewaterhouseCoopers and ask for clarification as to whether or not they have finished their investigations.
PAC is part of parliament,so the speaker is right by referring the report to Pac who can seek or summon their own expert assistance to help them scrutinize the report.
I think No.22 you are a dead person walking if you were not you should have known that the almost completed Bingu Stadium in Lilongwe, the Chitipa/Karonga Road construction works never stopped when late Bingu died so too were the Zomba- Blantyre, Ekwendeni-Mpherembe Roads, Reserve Bank construction in Mzuzu and many other Development projects. The planning for the Zomba- Chinamwali Road extension works started under Joyce Banda administration, your Peter Muthalika is just continuing from where JB stopped that is the reason you are able to see Machinery all over just 12 months after Peter Muthalika took over. It is blindless and dead people like you who made the sleepy Muthalika into office at the expense od the jack up Dr Chakwera.
I wonder if the German Govt can ask for data analysed report rather than Forensic audit. Can someone put in 10 billion Just for data analysis?
QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS ON THIS REPORT ARE;
(i) CAN NYASA TIMES SOURCE THE TERMS OF REFERENCE(TORs) FROM WHOEVER SO THAT MALAWIANS CAN ESTABLISH WHETHER IN THE FIRST PLACE THE AUDITORS (PwC) HAVE SUBMITTED TO THE AUDITOR GENERAL WHAT WAS EXPECTED FROM THEM IN THE TORs?
(2) GIVEN THAT AUDITOR GENERAL’S OFFICE ALREADY DID AN AUDIT WHICH REVEALED ANOMALIES INCLUDING THEOSE HIGHLIGHTED BY THE AG, WAS THIS DATA ANALYSIS REPORT NECESSARY? IS THERE ANY VALUE FOR MONEY TO HAVE A DATA ANALYSIS REPORT AT A COST OF OVER MK125 MILLION INSTEAD OF THE FULL AUDIT REPORT?
(3) WHY DIDN’T PwC DO THE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT BAKLEY TILLY ‘s APPROACH ON THE MK24 BILLION?
(4) WHY WAS BAKLEY TILLY(AZUNGU) NOT ALLOWED TO CONTINUE FROM WHERE THEY STOPPED AFTER PROVING TO MALAWIANS THAT THEY HAD ALL THE REQUIRED CAPACITY TO UNDERTAKE THE AUDIT WORK WITH EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY?
(5) IS THIS THE WORK OF THE HANDS OUR PROFESSOR PRESIDENT?
(6) DOES THE AG AND THE PROFESSOR PRESIDENT THINK ALL MALAWIANS ARE FOOLS?
If my memory saves me right, I do remember at one point when this MK92 Billion scam was made public, the DPP hierarchy refuted this and told us that its was just an Audit query. Do anyone remember that? Now are you telling us again that the Germany government sponsored just another Adudit query on another Audit query or its me who is not understanding this whole debacle?????? I cry for my beloved Malawi
Ntata watiunikira kale
[ Ntata writing on his Facebook page claimed pressure is mounting on
President Mutharika not to release the MK92 billion forensic audit report
because he is linked to the looting from the public purse at Capital Hill during
late Bingu’s eight-year rule.
According to Ntata, a Mrs Sadiq of HTD allegedly defrauded government
through the Malawi Police close to K20 billion on bogus purchase of motor
vehicles like KIA Sorento and President Mutharika is “closely linked and
associated with HTD and the bogus payments could be linked to him.”
Ntata alleges that from 2010 to 2011, Mutharika travelled regularly with a Mr
Harris Sidik the Director of HTD.]
Just to add more. An Asian exec in beam has sought back up from the first lady and is pressurising the police to give him a contract for his company to supply 40,yes forty land rovers to the police. Another scandal,thieves indeed never learn lessons.
Its high time we have been waiting for the audit report. Release it to us. Its our money/ taxes which wer squandered while our brothers and relatives suffered. Tym is up now for u to reap what u saw. Boma la usiku ilo.
Chamunyerera bwampini
wina apitanso apa ndi cardiac arrest , apita ndithu
Thats maturing Mr. Speaker and do the same approach with UDF. That is the african politics I know.Remember Jacob Zuma in south africa built his relatives chains of mansons. The Chakwera of south africa ( this is Malemiya ) opened their mouth wider than what Malawian Chakwera is doing. What happened next? Nothing. Zuma even made it into another term.
Then who are you MCP followers to disitabu peace here in Malawi. 2019 woo. What happened to Robert Chasowa report under DPP even under PP which could have handled DPP head on? Anthu andalewa ali ngati afiti masana kudana usiku kumagawana nyama za anthu.Even German itself can not just release the report without consulting the big Kahuna. No no mboshombosho.
Its good that the document is in the hands of Public Accounts Committee for scrutiny. It would be suicidal for the nation of Malawi if Goodall Gondwe was to table it unscrutinised. Because its in the hands of PAC, we know that they are empowered by constitution to dig for whatever info regarding public funds. It is in this vein that PAC must demand Pricewaterhousecoopers to release a copy of what they gave the govt for purposes of verification. Game yagona. Ngati amaganiza kupanga table forged or manipulated document adya njinga. Zakhalanso bwino kuti Muthalika wanenelatu zoti yense opezeka okhudzidwa, amangidwe. Tikudikira a PAC basi.
This is a lie, a total lie. If in the first it was known that the report was just a data analysis report, why then the delay? and we heard we the auditors themselves they had given Malawi government the long awaited report and it was up to the government to comply accordingly, meaning to use the information found there- in. You are telling us this whole time the Auditors were just analyzing data? Cry My Beloved Country
I know for sure it is an audit report, my sources are impeccable
Please release the report now. I am quitting supporting this rotten party now! This DPP led ‘Gooferment’ is now feeding us too many lies and this time we are not swallowing these lies silently. Or you want to kill us again as you did during Bingu’s era?
You ask me, I will tell you that DPP is geared to eradicate poverty in Malawi. Imagine this: when Joyce Banda came into office all big projects in the country stopped. Yet she continued to claim that donors are back. Immediately, APM took over, Malawians are able to witness construction works all over the country. Go to BT, LL, MZUZU, ZA graders and caterpillars are all over transforming the cities. All this is happening without donor money. Malawians let us wake up and support this government for the good of Malawians. You must know that donors are not happy that the year has ended without their donations. They are bitter. They dont wish us well. Ofcourse we must continue to provide checks and balances to this government. But truth be told: DPP is poised to deliver.
it seems u r a dpp die hard. probably u r viola or chingwalungwalu. is dpp using their money to do these developments? these are our taxes. the issue @ hand is the 92 billion not what u r saying.
Analyst, you are right that the year has passed without donor support. But I think one of you eyes must be blind. Why?
i. You talk of construction taking place all over the cities in Mz, LL, ZA and BT and graders transforming the landscape of this country, well I think these graders are in all these cities except Mzuzu. I bet you if you see a grader working on roads in Mzuzu, I am ready to give you MK1 mil.
ii. The government collects about MK280 bn from the North but spends about MK39 bn for wage bill and development in the north. You can verify with government stats that although the Bretton Woods has stopped supporting Malawi, Nyika is giving a lot of aid (MK241 bn) to Malawi more than the Bretton Woods used to do.
iii. Since last year, no northerner or a company belonging to a northerner has won a contract to supply or construct or deliver a particular service to the government. For us Banyika this has been one of the most trying times in the history of our existence in Malawi.
Analyst, I want to say to you that this is the worst form of government since independence to us Banyika. However time will come to topple it out.
I hope and believe that opposition won’t allow this are they talking to kids or what,No ways bring the document we must have cardiac arrest again,See my name.
My appeal to Opposition and all DPP MPs of good will is that you should not be fooled. Mwai wanu wothandiza a malawi ndi umeneu. Also watch out for another Cashgate in the making ie. NOCMA vs PIL Ltd and fuel importatation.
What has Parliament to do with “methodologies on the reconstruction of the cash book”? Does Parliament even have the expertise to critique the “methodologies”?
Let Pricewater & Cooper tell us whether it is a data analysis report or a forensic audit report. In my opinion a forensic audit report does analyse data and discrepancies.
Are sure its just analysis?
Amalawi tonse tigalamuke apa.The Dpp are liars.Umphawi uwu is man made and it has affected even who claim to have votede for Dpp in the south.I don’t hate Dpp but we need to know the truth.For how long are we going to be fed lies just because some few greedy people want to benefit from the system while the mass Malawians are reeling in poverty?Apa ndi nthawi yoti amalawi tisalolere zopusazi.Mbava sikuti zinali nthawi ya amayi okha ayi ndi bodza.Everybody involved in this big theft should face the long arm of the law.This country is really rotten when it comes in management of public funds.
I hear from the audit report the figure is now at K150 billion and Peter externelised K50 billion
Justice delayed is justice denied. How many reports are we expecting in the first place? Please authorities, whoever is keeping the report just release it. You will do yourself good than harm. So do you want the budget not to pass and the poor continue to suffer? Please fear your Creator first and your boss second. God is seeing you!!!!!!!
Malawians wake up!!!!!! This is NOT a forensic audit report! The journalists are dull and lazy and misleading the people and the people are even worse! shame
It is only in Malawi that such reports are handled by the thieves called govt ministers. What a hell do you expect the same thief to hang himself. What I see is a doctored report that will implicate the usipa type of fish when the big fish goes scot free. In Malawi the ruling elite will spill the last drop of thier blood to defend theft, injustice, poor performance, laziness and cluelessness. It is only in Malawi where we have some educated and uneducated fools clapping hands and boot licking ruling idiots for the sake of money. They write nonsense post on FB and other social networks to divert people attention when millions out there are languishing in abject hunger.
I liken this country to a village family being headed by a hopeless man who is not very sure what they want do in life. A visionless man who does know any planning. A man who realises that he has a duty to take care of his children only when he sees them crying for lack of food. A man who steals from his own pocket and sneak to a tea room while everybody at home is sleeping on an empty stomach. Shameless leadership.
Opposition MPS asakuputsitseni agalu awa a DDP apaneni atulutse report basi akuwopa chani mbava za DPP izi munya muwona zinali kukoma pakudya pay back the money and rot in jail.
Speaker wadya Bans akususira mu Valiam Juice.
Komatu ndikupanda manyazi kumalola kuti amalawi ambili azisafara chifukwa cha kuzikonda kwa tianthu tongofuna zabwino zonse zikhare zaiwo basi
The speaker Richard Msowoya is now a grwon up person as what Chmunthu Banda and late Munyenyembe were doing. you cant support opposion.no noi mboshombosho.
Pitala should simply resign to pave way for investigation.We are not his slaves that we can be jumping to the whims of these failed politicians.Why are Malawian politicians obsessed with thievery riches.Why were you not billionaires in the first place before you joined politics?We are fed up using this terminology of “data analysis” while you wholly know the truth.You think all Malawians are fools that you can be playing cheap mind games?All the politicians involved in the 92 billion should be arrested whether it is the whole Dpp.Who cares anyway?Other people will take over.
so German Govt had to spend her money and time on a analysis .This is not true guys.We malawians let us wake up from tulo.
The report is out but it has names of almost 90% of ministers and DPP officials. DPP is trying to suppress it. Please opposition parties, make noise until the report is out.
sADYEKA AMADYEKA NDI MAFUPA OMWE———–munya Angulu inu
Joyce Banda the destroyer of Cash gate.
sitiilola tu zimenezo
Tamupanani Uyu wa DPP yu. Malawians have been duped long tym. Nonsense.