Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:25:56 +0000 By MUKOSELA KASALWE THERE is glaring financial mismanagement at Kwame Nkrumah University in involving K900,000 unretired imprest and failure to account for equipment worth K1 million, Higher Education Minister Professor Nkandu Luo has revealed in Parliament. Prof Luo said added to this mismanagement at the Kabwe-based institution was the tendency by some lecturers to inflate overtime days to colossal sums amounting to K65, 000 within a period of only three weeks. She said lecturers at the university were claiming for 511 days or more in a year when they had a total of 365 days. “Mr Speaker, I must say that some of the figures asked by the lecturers were actually believed to be inflated and management asked for them to be authenticated as they were as high as K65, 000 in overtime within a period of three weeks but those within a normal range were paid promptly,” she […]
