The Minister of Natural Resources, Nancy Tembo, has vowed that she will not resign over the ‘plunder’ of US$50 million (about K40 billion), saying she was not the minister by the time of the free-for-all distribution of the public resources by officials at the ministry.
This week, the Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) demanded that Tembo should account for the money or resign within 72 hours.
Tembo–The loot happened before my time – Photo by Watipaso Mzungu, Nyasa Times
CDEDI executive director Sylvester Namiwa claimed that officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources have been dodging the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources and Climate Change, in their futile attempt to conceal the mess.
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CDEDI gives Malawi s Forestry Minister Nancy Tembo 72 hours to account for MK40bn or resign
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The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI), has demanded that President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera should fire the Minister of Information Gospel Kazako and Deputy Minister of Transport and Public Works, Nancy Chaola-Mdooko, for alleged failure to exercise due diligence and apply austerity measures when approving the obscene allowances and foreign trips.
The demand by the firebrand human rights watchdog follows revelations that seven board members of the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) blew K 46 million on a learning trip to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
MACRA is under the Ministry of Information.
As if they did not want to be outdone, members of the board of the Roads Authority (RA), which is under the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, spent K39 million on a trip to Pretoria.