SHODDY WORK; AUDITOR GENERAL’S ‘SPECIAL AUDIT REPORT’
Mr Hakainde Hichilema has messed up the very important office of the Auditor General.
From the way the previous Auditor General was removed to the way the new one has been appointed, very serious questions arise about the independence and impartiality of this office today.
The quality and credibility of the Auditor General’s reports have been greatly undermined.
It’s unbelievable that the Auditor General can release a audit report on work that is so incomplete and shoddy in his Special Audit Report on External Public Debt for the Republic of Zambia for the Period 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2022 without qualification and disclosing its limitations.
The Auditor General’s conclusions on Mikalile Trading Limited without seeking explanations from the company passes for gross negligence and unbriddled malice.
We urge the Auditor General to immediately withdraw this very embarrassing Special Audit Report and apologise to all those affected in any way by this negligence and shoddy work.
This is what happens in a nation when principles are lost, values are lost, professionalism is lost, or traded on the altar of political expediency.
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
What makes you conclude that the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Home Affairs who were the OAG’s clients did not seek clarifications from Mikalile.
The OAG was auditing the Ministries not Mikalile Trading Company, which is a private company.
Should the oag have kept quiet even after confirming with schools the poor quality of the equipment supplied, in some cases non deliveries. For example the report indicates that one slasher costed the Government 20USD, a mathematical set 20 usd.
Surely, Dr. Mmembe did you expect Mikalile to tell the oag that a slasher that cost 20usd was of poor quality.
Wait and see the evidence the oag has. You need to understand the oag processes before coming to your conclusion.
You want to be President of this country but you are supporting wrong things. It is shameful.
Iwe Chinyenyenye mmembe, when did you ever ascribe to principles or ethics? Kushula every day sure. Let professionals work, you are not qualified in everything and your power of pen has killed many people. Have you ever apologized? Inchinkula ici bane!
As expected he will go his way to criticise anything coming from this Government. I have never heard him praise anything even if it meant saving his own life. What is there to cross examine overpriced invoices ? Facts are already there on comparative transactions..
Mr Mmembe is a lost sheep. If this how he wants to take power through deceipt l shudder to know what more when the reign of power is with him, shall people cough sure. I fail to understand the calibre of some of these who aspire for higher offices.
Mmembe has no moral basis to speak. His friends resign when the truth about them comes out. Shaddy work? Did he pass ACCA himself to speak about a professional that has done better than him? Has this professional ever failed to pay statutory dues? Has this professional ever borrowed from the bank and failed to pay back a loan? Has this professional run an airline or run down a bank due to reckless borrowing? If the answer is no then Mmembe has no moral right to lecture anyone on anything. Mmembe is a trouble making degenerate that causes confusion each time he opens his mouth. The Socialist Party will lose their credibility with a man who is a Putin and Chinese front and will sell the nation once elected. Failed leader who has no moral sense…