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Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has accused President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera of conniving with Speaker of the National Assembly Catherine Gotani-Hara to paralyse the parliamentary committee meetings on the pretext of the Covid-19 preventive measures.
CDEDI Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa said this in a statement posted on his official facebook page seen by this publication.
Namiwa said that Chakwera instructed Hara to ensure that parliament is not functional during this time, in an attempt to cover up the abuse of the Covid-19 funds.
“Our expectation was that the parliamentary committees such as those on Health, Budget and Finance, Public Accounts Committee and the Welfare Committee, were supposed to be meet to discuss the MK6.2 billion which has mysteriously grown wings at the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA).
GOTANI-HARA: Got instructions from Chakwera
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) has accused President Lazarus Chakwera and Speaker of the National Assembly, Catherine Gotani-Hara, of paralysing parliamentary committee meetings to dodge questions on the K6.2 billion Covid-19 response funds, which is feared to have been looted.
CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa claims that their independent investigations revealed that the Gotani-Hara got instructions from Chakwera to ensure that parliament is not functional during
this time, in an attempt to cover up the abuse of the Covid-19 funds.
“CDEDI has noted with disappointment on the conduct by the State President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera and the Speaker of the National Assembly Hon. Catherine Gotani- Hara who seem to have conspired to paralyse the parliamentary committee meetings on the pretext of the Covid-19 preventive measures.
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