Lusaka, 4th January, 2022.The Movement for Democratic Change MDC, an alliance partner in the UPND led government, notes with great concern the increase in financial irregularities, particularly, in the Local Authorities as reported in the latest Auditor General’s report for the year ending 2020.According to the Auditor General’s report, K3 billion of financial irregularities was reported from Sixty Seven (67) local authorities out of the 116 which were audited during the course of the year 2020. This shows an increase of 50% on the K2 billion that was reported in 2019.This is of great concern. With the coming of the New Dawn Government which is showing good will in taking public resources closer to the people through increased allocation of the Constituency Development Funds (CDF) from a meagre K1.6 million to K25.7 million, all efforts should be made to ensure that no such irregularities occur henceforth.These are public resources that will be managed by the […]
INDIVIDUALS CITED FOR FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES IN LOCAL AUTHORITIES MUST BE DISMISSED
