HH should have assured us the next audit report will be credible – Mundubile
By Walusungu Lundu
AFTER President Hakainde Hichilema presented a report on the progress made in the application of national values and principles in the National Assembly yesterday, Brian Mundubile said there was need for the issue of the Auditor General’s report to be addressed.
Mundubile, the Mporokoso PF member of parliament said President Hichilema should have assured the nation that the next report will be credible.
He said the transfers of “experienced auditors” amid an audit that is currently taking place raises concerns.
“Lastly, the issue of constitutionalism. They say the greatness of a nation lies in its fidelity of the Constitution. I think the specific issue that we are addressing now is the role of the Auditor General’s office. What we have seen in the recent past is that parliament gets a lot of work through the Auditor General’s report, meaning that is a very important report. We need the Auditor General to produce a credible report. The happenings in the Auditor General’s office in the recent past, transfers of the experienced auditors and the general movement around that has raised a lot of suspicion especially that we are having an active audit at the moment,” Mundubile said. “So under constitutionalism I thought that the President should have come out very clear and assuring on the aspect of the Office of the Auditor General to assure us that the next audit report that is coming is a credible report.”
He expressed dissatisfaction with how President Hichilema handled the issue of regionalism.
“There are two things that I think the President didn’t address. The growing discussion around regionalism. It is something that I debated on yesterday [Thursday] as one of the expectations. We expected the President to have a much stronger voice on it,” he said. “While there are speculations that people are posting names every day on appointments and so on, the President needed to put that debate to rest. Unfortunately, he did not.”
And Mundubile said the sensitisation of the people against the abuse of alcohol is progressive.
“Of course we can do more, given the numbers of our children whole are under alcohol abuse. I think that there is still room to do more. But that work that has been done so far so good,” said Mundubile.