By Dorica Mtenje
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-President Lazarus Chakwera’s Tonse government Alliance cabinet ministers on Monday, October 10, 2022 failed to disclose amount of money used during the recent United General Assembly (UNGA) trip.
At the Government Faces the Press episode, four cabinet Ministers kept a tight lid on expenses that were incurred.
The ministers which including Minister of Information, Gospel Kazako, Minister of Health, Khumbize Kandodo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nancy Tembo and Minister of Education Agnes Nyalonje
Kazako said the expenses await proper tabulation of figures from the ministry of finance.
Instead Information Minister said people should learn to appreciate positive results that UNGA has brought to the nation than figuring out the costs.
He said UNGA is a very important trip which need the first gentle man to attend himself as he attracts potential investors.
Chakwera with many delegates spent three weeks in New York blowing out forex while the country is grappling with cost of living, inflation, fuel crisis.