By Dorica Mtenje
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is not comfortable with the acting positions of senior officials of National Food Reserve agency (NFRA) calls for Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) to confirm the position soon.
PAC chairperson, Shadrek Namalomba told Malavi post in an interview that its very unfortunate that the position of Chief Executive Officer ,Director of Finance and Head of Human Resource are all in acting for the past nine months.
Namalomba said the committee will summon OPC to appear before it to answer the cause of the delays.
He said the committee was also sadden to learn that there is no registration giving powers to controller Department of Statutory of corporations and OPC to Micromanage on providing any oversight of any sort of parastatals .
Namalomba said the committee has warned the NFRA officials to avoid using funds that are suppose to be used to purchase maize as they happen to image in an audit query.
The committee condemned the use of the said payment by the controlling officer without engaging the Board.
The committee has therefore called upon the agency to avoid late payment to Malawi Regulatory authority (MRA) to avoid using needed funds elsewhere
