Commissioners at the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) have denied being party to anomalies raised in a draft report by the National Audit Office as reported in the press. “The current Commission would like to state categorically that it is not answerable for issues arising from management of the 2009 elections. The current Commissioners were appointed […]
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)Advisory Services who were working on methodologies on the reconstruction of the cashbook in the wake of audit query for the K92 billion (US$204.4 million) mismanaged under the watch of the first Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration led by former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika, have recommended comprehensive forensic audit. In the 52-paged […]
Thieves smartly moved into three offices at the National Audit Office (NAO) and got away with three computers from influential offices of the Deputy Auditor General, his secretary and that of the Assistant Auditor Genera, Nyasa Times has learnt. The attack comes barely a week after the Auditor General Stephenson Kampala indicated that his office […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has moved out Rexie Chiluzi from the position of deputy Auditor General in the National Audit Office (NAO)—an organ mandated to check abuse of public resources – to Ministry of Transport at the height of investigations into the cash-gate. Chiluzi will be Principal Secretary 2 at Ministry of Transport and Public […]
In Weekend Nation newspaper, award winning columnist Ephraim Munthali of the ‘Cut the chaff’ has tackled the rot in National Audit Office . Here is the full article as it appeared: I am outraged by the outrageous behaviour of the National Audit Office (NAO). Imagine if the Malawi Police Service—yes, those characters who swore to protect life and […]
Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda has appointed a private practice auditor, Peter Kamange as new Auditor Genera to replace previous office holder Reckford Kampanje at the National Audit Office (NAO) —an organ mandated to check abuse of public resources The appointment follows the parliamentary rejection of Anderson Kaligomba during which 64 parliamentarians out of 151 […]
Malawi Parliament on Wednesday suspsended the motion for the confirmation of Anderson George Kuligomba as Auditor General following the retirement of the previous office holder Reckford Kampanje in August. Finance Minister Ken Lipenga moved a motion to ask the House approve Kuligomba, who was appointed by President Mrs Joyce Banda to replace Kampanje at the National […]
Malawi government has elevated Rexie Chiluzi to the position of deputyAuditor General in the National Audit Office (NAO)—an organ mandated to check abuse of public resources. “The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has promoted Mr. Rexie Chiluzi as the Deputy Auditor General (DAG) of the National Audit Office (NAO) with effect from 27th […]
President Joyce Banda has accepted an earlier retirement application by Malawi’s Auditor General Reckford Kampanje whose supreme audit institution the National Audit Office (NAO) has been smeared with allegations of donor funds mismanagement. Kampanje is one of the country’s most decorated senior civil servant who has had untainted track record until a disagreement over shift […]
Germany’s Parliamentary State Secretary, Ms Gudrun Kopp, has urged Malawi President Mrs Joyce Banda corruption in its totality. Kopp is on her four-day visit to Malawi and met with Banda, Africa’s second woman leader after Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, at her official residence State House in Lilongwe on Tuesday where the two exchanged warm words. She discussed […]
A free for all at NAO: According to the Nation, donors in Malawi are increasingly losing confidence in the National Audit Office (NAO) —an organ mandated to check abuse of public resources – because of glaring flaws in the way the office manages its own finances. The Norwegian Embassy was the first and now the United Kingdom’s (UK) […]
The Auditor General of Malawi Reckford Kampanje has opened up his institution, the National Audit Office (NAO) to be audited by any private external audit firm on the ORT funds it receives from government for the first time in Malawi’s history, officials have confirmed. Kampanje, who rose from several positions in government as Director of […]
President Joyce Banda has given more powers to the National Audit Office in its quest to become independent by elevating the post of its Auditor General equal to that of Deputy Chief Secretary, Office of the President and Cabinet officials have confirmed. Reckford Kampanje, the Auditor General has his post upgraded to “B” in Civil […]
Top government officials involved in massive corruption probe are said to have hired thugs to destroy evidence at Malawi’s Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) and the National Audit Office (NAO). ACB and NAO are acurrently investigating the loss of K400 million ($2.3m) at the Accountant General’s office which also implicates the Police , Malawi Defence Force […]