Vice President Saulos Chilima has stressed commitment in ensuring transparency and accountability in domestic and external resources for attainment of national development in line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Chilima made the assertion on Wednesday during a virtual media conferenced hosted by the UN office of the High Representative for the […]
Ombudsman Martha Chizuma has made directives and recommendations to be implemented by government following revelations that K6.2 billion Covid-19 funds were abused. The report was released at a news conference in Lilongwe. The directives and recommendations are contained in a report titled A Report on an Investigation into Allegations Concerning Lack of Transparency and Accountability […]
The main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has accused President Lazarus Chakwera of trying to hoodwink Malawians that he is cracking down on culprits who misappropriated K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds, faulting the decision to include in the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 representatives of Civil Society Organizations, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and the Malawi Human […]
State-funded human rights watchdog, the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC), has demanded a thorough and transparent audit of the K6.2 billion Covid-19 funds feared to misappropriated by public officers. The Commission’s Executive Secretary, Habiba Osman, says this is critical in ensuring that rights were not and are not being unnecessarily violated due to abuse of […]
Nsanje District Council has denied assertions by Leader of Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa that the council misappropriated on Covid-19 response funds. At a news conference on Thursday at Parliament Building in Lilongwe on the alleged general mismanagement of Covid-19 funds, Nankhumwa alleged that Nsanje District Council’s allocation disappeared immediately after the funds were deposited […]
Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Kondwani Nankhumwa has threatened to resign as member of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 if President Lazarus Chakwera does not order a “forensic audit” to establish whether or not the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) and some government clusters abused K6.2 billion, which was released by government to […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Dr Steven Kayuni has told the Malawi Police Service to start criminal investigations against officials at the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) and Reserve Bank of Malawi over abuse of Covid-19 response funds. Kayuni has verified the authenticity of the letter he wrote to Inspector General of Police […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Member of Parliament for Nsanje Lalanje, who is also chairperson of Budget and Finance Committee of Parliament, Gladys Ganda, has said parliament must step up and play its oversight role to ensure that public funds are not being abused by people with ulterior agenda. Ganda said this in reaction to revelations […]
State House is calling for calm as the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 is scrutinising reports from various clusters on how K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds allocated to them last August has been used. In a statement released Wednesday, Press Secretary Brian Banda says also calls on people to be “vigilant” on how government is using […]
UK government is keen to see the audit of how the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) in the Office of President and Cabinet has used K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds from Treasury as Britain had given an additional £6 million (approx. MWK 5.3 Billion) for scaling up the country’s virus preparedness and response. President […]
At the expiry of 48- hour ultimatum Tuesday evening which President Lazarus Chakwera issued for clusters to account for K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds allocated to then last August, it emerged that the public fear of money being misappropriate is “well-founded.” Chakwera warned that he will fire any controlling officer or cluster heads who fail […]
A powerful parliamentary committee has told the office of the Auditor General to institute an audit into the K6 billion covid-19 money which the Department of Disaster Management (Dodma) received from government. This follows widespread reports that the money might have been abused. The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has since written the office of […]
The main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has expressed serious reservations on the conduct of Department of Disaster Management Affairs (Dodma) in the way it has used or abused K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds from Treasury, fearing this could just be a “microcosm” of a much larger rot happening in President Lazarus Chakwera administration regarding the use […]
Heads will roll if any controlling officer or cluster head fails to account for the K6.2 billion Treasury released last August for the Covid-19 fight, President Lazarus Chakwera has warned. President Chakwera in his National Address on the update of Covid-19 from Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe Sunday evening said it was unfortunate that some controlling […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has accused President Lazarus Chakwera of playing hypocrites for failing to come out clear on how it spends government money on public events. CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa, in a statement issued on Thursday, cites failure by Chakwera to disclose how much the government spent on […]
As Nyasa Times, we welcome the arrests Malawi Police Services has made, so far, on figures such as Osman Jomo, Norman Chisale, Rosa Mbilidzi, Ahmed Chunara and several others for their involvement in alleged crimes committed during the previous regimes. We view such as arrests as positive steps toward ensuring that the rule of law […]
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) has urged governement to immediately operationalize the Access to Information (ATI) legislation to help enhance transparency and accountability in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. While recommending government for responding to calls to nationalize the COVID-19 response, the organization said it is well aware of the high […]
The civil society organisations (CSOs) pushing for resignation of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Minister Goodall Gondwe—who is under pressure over the K4 billion allocation to legislators that critics say is irregular— on Wednesday accepted Gondwe’s request of holding a roundtable discussion on the matter. In a letter dated March 12 2018, Gondwe invited leaders of […]