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 Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) and the Youth and Society (YAS) have expressed serious concern over the decision by the Tonse Alliance-led government to cut funding to the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) and the National Audit Office (NAO) in the 2020/2021 national budget. The two human rights watchdogs, in a statement […]
Parliament’s Public Account Committee (PAC) has asked the National Audit Office (NAO) to audit the country’s 19 foreign missions and three consulates as the new administration will be recalling some officers and diplomats from foreign mission. The committee said NAO should ensure the audit takes place by end of this year to ascertain how they […]
An immediate forensic audit should be conducted at the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (Admarc) , Auditor General has recommended after an audit report for the year ended June 2018 revealed that the State produce trader could not give evidence on the purchase of items amounting to K3 billion. The Auditor General Thomas Makiwa has […]
An extensive audit report has exposed rot in the country’s 10 foreign missions where K2 billion public money cannot be accounted. The recent National Audit Office report says the K2 billion cannot be accounted for due to weaknesses in the management of public finances. The audit report covers from 2013 to 2017 and shows daring […]
An audit report in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation reveals that the country lost million of kwacha in public resources through Malawi diplomatic missions abroad. The audit was conducted by National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that about K444 million was paid into personal accounts with intent to defraud the public funds. […]
Parliament’s Budget and Public Accounts cluster committee has said it wants to summon Finance minister Goodall Gondwe to explain low funding levels at the National Audit Office despite acting as a watchdog to public funds. Vice chairman of the committee John Chikalimba said it was worrisome that the government has given the office a budget […]
That we cut an image of a country that is unable to govern itself is a foregone conclusion. Whether in the Executive, the Legislature or the Judiciary, we seem to have no clue about what we should do to forge ahead. Specifically to take the majority of Malawians wallowing in excruciating poverty out of their […]
Some government departments at Phalombe District Council are failing to pay for services that they obtained from various suppliers in the district after issuing out huge amounts in allowances to auditors from the National Audit Office, Nyasa Times understands. Some of the sectors that obtained the services are failing to settle their bills after the […]
Malawi’s Auditor General Stevenson Kamphasa has bitterly complained that a 43 per cent vacancy rate is crippling operations of the office. Kamphasa said this on Wednesday when he appeared before a joint committee of parliament of the Public Accounts Committee and Budget and Finance committee during cluster meetings. He said the National Audit Office has […]
Chairperson of the parliamentary Public Account Committee (PAC) Alekeni Menyani said they are pushing for the autonomy of the office of the Auditor General as recommended in the review by KPMG international audit private firm. Menyani said they are pushing for the autonomy to allow Auditor General to retain his own staff at the National […]
Officials from the office of the Auditor General say investigations into the infamous K236 billion now goes into the third and last phase. Spokesperson for the National Audit Office (NAO) Rabson Kagwamminga said following the release of K500 million from Treasury on the exercise, the office is now doing procurement and outsourcing of jobs for […]
Economic governance civil society organisations are raising eyebrows following the failure by the office of the Auditor General to audit government ministries and departments for the past three years. Spokesperson for the office of the Auditor General said the failure to audit government books was due to lack of money and capacity. “But now we […]
Malawi government has been advised to ensure that there are regular and timely audit in all its departments as required by the Public Audit Act and that National Audit Office (NAO) should be independent. The advise is contained in an editorial comment of The Nation daily newspaper on Wednesday Novemebr 30, 2016. The daily comments […]
Parliament’s powerful Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has told the Auditor General Stevenson Kamphasa to deal with the latest audits of government as fears for more plunder of government money at Capital Hill, the seat of government continue. PAC chairman Alekeni Menyani said the Auditor General is four years behind but the parliamentary committee wants the […]
Auditor General Stevenson Kumphasa says his office has not sent auditors to Malawi foreign missions because of lack of money. Finance minister Goodall Gondwe and Foreign Affairs minister Francis Kasaira said in May the government would send auditors in all foreign missions following reports of massive loot of public financial resources in Ethiopia, Japan and […]
Seven senior cabinet ministers in the Peter Mutharika government have been fingured to have a key involvement in DPP-era Cashgate—the plunder of K577 billion (about $856 million) of public funds the forensic audit for the period 2005 to 2014 indicates. The National Audit Office (NAO) has submitted 13 files related to the pilferage of public […]
The National Audit Office (NAO) has finally submitted an audit report chronologizing on how some dishonest officials from Ministry of Health managed to loot the donated funds from the US- funded Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In December 2015, Malawi Government suspended 63 workers from the Ministry. These included the Director of human […]