A group of civil society organisations has accused the Malawi Global Fund Coordinating Committee (MGFCC) of running an “irregular, unjust, and deliberately exclusionary” process to select a Community Principal Recipient for the Global Fund’s eighth grant cycle (GC8). In a joint statement, Allie Mwachande, executive director of MANERELA+, and Zinenani Lucy Majawa, of the Female […]
The convicted principal secretary (PS) to Treasury, Cliff Chiunda, risks another contempt of court is he fails to facilitate payments to suppliers after a High Court decree. Chiunda was slapped with a 24-months suspended sentence by the High Court on March 6 for contempt of court. He was found guilty of defying an order by […]
Government is this June deleting 4024 pensioners from payroll for failure to avail themselves for pay parade. The outgoing Secretary for Treasury Cliff Chiunda says in a statement that the government has 37,984 pensioners on its payroll but only 33, 960 came for the verification exercise. “The remaining 4024 pensioners failed to avail themselves for […]
There has been a minor shake-up in the civil service as President Peter Mutharika has made some changes to top technocrats with convicted principal secretaries (PS) to Treasury Cliff Chiunda removed from his post, Nyasa Times understands. Chunda has been relocated to the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) where is deputy chief secretary […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has handed a nine-month suspended sentence to Principal Secretary for Agriculture Gray Nyandule Phiri and Secretary to Treasury Cliff Chiunda, over snubbing a Malawi Supreme Court of Appeal order to publicly apologise for a flawed procurement and disposal of tractors bought with borrowed funds. The suspended sentence means that the […]
Secretary to the Treasury Cliff Chiunda says funds realized from the sale of tractors earmarked for the Green Belt Initiative are safe since they have been deposited into the government consolidated Account Number One. Tax payers are repaying the $50 million (about K37 billion) the Malawi Government borrowed from India in 2011 to mechanise agriculture […]
Secretary to the Treasury Ben Botolo has been moved out of Ministry of Finance as President Peter Mutharuka has appointed Cliff Chiunda as the new Secretary to the Treasury, Nyasa Times understands. Chief Secretary Lloyd Muhara has already informed the Principal Secretaries (PSs) about the changes. The information gathered by Nyasa Times indicate that Botolo, formerly Commissioner for Disaster […]
Principal Secretary responsible for Administration in the Office of President and Cabinet (OPC), Cliff Chiunda has appealed to all government principal secretaries to remove all obstacles that are slowing down the finalization of the process of decentralization. He said this on Tuesday in Salima when he opened a meeting for PSs on the progress of […]
Rice is considered as one of the key strategic crops to be promoted in Malawi not only because it has the potential to be promoted primarily as an import substitute, but also secondarily as an export crop. As an export crop, rice has the potential to generate the much needed revenue in the country, explained […]