By NATION REPORTERThe Ministry of Finance and National Planning has no power to enter into an audit contract for the Defence and neither the Ministry nor indeed the President have the power to order the Auditor General to do so, therefore the hiring of Grant Thornton and Price Water House Coopers (PWC) is illegal, null and void, Mutotwe Kafwaya has said.And Mr Kafwaya, an auditor, says there is no legal provision in the statues that allows the Secretary to the Treasury to contract private auditing firms for such is but an exclusive mandate of the Office of the Auditor General.Mr Kafwaya, the Lunte Patriotic Front Member of Parliament has stated that Finance and National Planning Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane had committed an illegality by first not consulting the Auditor General and secondly by hiring the two audit firms to intrude into the books of accounts for the defence and security wings.In an interview, Mr Kafwaya explained […]
Defence audit null and void
