SPC moves in to implement Chakwera’s directives on Sattar list
June 23, 2022
Owen Khamula – Nyasa Times 3 Comments
Secretary to President and Cabinet Colleen Zamba says her office is moving swiftly to implement President Dr Lazarus Chakwera’s directives issued on Tuesday to stem graft.
Zamba said this on Wednesday in Lilongwe during a media briefing.
Among others, the President directed the SPC to work with controlling officers of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to discipline wrongdoers who failed to do due diligence and provide checks and balances as regards to Sattar’s companies and contracts.
Secretary to the President & Cabinet Colleen Zamba
Further, the SPC was directed to make sure Chairperson of PPDA John Suzi Banda is excused from his official duties using appropriate legal instruments related to statutory bodies.
On the same directive, she has been told to work with relevant service commission to effect similar measures with respect to the other implicated public servants who do not report to the President.
Speaking to journalists in Lilongwe, Zamba said her Office is in process of implementing these directives with speed.
She however, said her office will only act on those that have been mentioned as the other names have not been made public.
During the address to the nation on Tuesday, President Chakwera withheld delegated duties to the Vice President Saulos Chilima because he is suspected to have benefitted from the wrongful contracts.
Perhaps, the biggest hypocrites exposed on Sattar’s corruption list are the Vice President, the head of police and the former director of ACB. The veep was the one with the loudest mouth against corruption during the presidential campaign. The head of police is a man whose responsibility is to arrest thieves and not to be a thief himself. The former head of ACB had personally prosecuted Mr Mpanganjira himself for corruption involving bribes. How ironical, that he was doing or accepting bribes himself. They might as well release the guy for getting prosecuted by a crook! And as head of… Read more »
Wow. I think we moving in the right direction
Perhaps, the biggest hypocrites exposed on Sattar’s corruption list are the Vice President, the head of police and the former director of ACB. The veep was the one with the loudest mouth against corruption during the presidential campaign. The head of police is a man whose responsibility is to arrest thieves and not to be a thief himself. The former head of ACB had personally prosecuted Mr Mpanganjira himself for corruption involving bribes. How ironical, that he was doing or accepting bribes himself. They might as well release the guy for getting prosecuted by a crook! And as head of… Read more »
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