President Rupiah Banda on May 26 received an Interim Report on the alleged financial scam at the Ministry of Health where billions of funds have been allegedly misapplied or stolen by civil servants.
President Banda has banned all civil servants or their agents linked to the scam and and are currently under investigations from entering the Ministry of Health premises until further notice. This decision is aimed at protecting and securing evidence as well as to prevent any interference with the ongoing investigations. Banda has also ordered law enforcement agencies to arrest and charge all the people involved without delay where sufficient evidence has been established
Further the president has directed Minister of Finance and National Planning Situmbeko Musokotwane and Secretary to the Treasury Ndalamei Likolo to immediately provide additional funds to the Office of the Auditor-General and the Anti-Corruption Commission to expedite investigations at the Ministry of Health.
The President also held a closed-door meeting with various aid donors and cooperative partners on the morning of May 26 to brief them on the findings of the ongoing investigations and the decisions taken so far. Banda urged the donor community to take keen interest in the ongoing investigations and asked those willing to provide technical assistance to the Office of the Auditor-General to do so.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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