{"id":10344,"date":"2021-11-29T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cso-pens-attorney-general-over-suppliers-payment-delays"},"modified":"2021-11-29T21:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T21:32:20","slug":"cso-pens-attorney-general-over-suppliers-payment-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/cso-pens-attorney-general-over-suppliers-payment-delays","title":{"rendered":"CSO pens Attorney General over suppliers payment delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>A local governance civil society organization \u2013 Centre for Mindset Change (CMC) \u2013 has written the Attorney General (AG) Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda, seeking clarification on why the government usually takes ages to settle debts with private companies, which provide various goods and services to it.<\/p>\n<p>CMC Executive Director Philip Kamangirah draws the attention of the Chakaka Nyirenda to the recent case in which Reliance Trading Company and Africa Commercial Agency dragged the AG to court over failure by the Capital Hill to honour its obligations to the two firms.<\/p>\n<p>Kamangirah warns that delays in settling private firms, contractors and companies will, in the end, prove to be exceedingly costly due to interest charges and legal costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are of the opinion that any negation and disinclination by the government to settle such claims in the instantaneous term is putatively dangerous as government will ultimately pay hefty sums of money on the expense of already most poor Malawians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe it is quite detestable for the taxpayer to be made to foot these inessential extra charges just because a few decision makers, for reasons only best known to themselves, have decided not to honour government\u2019s contractual commitments,\u201d reads the letter CMC has written to the AG.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the AG acknowledged receipt of the letter on 8 November 2021. 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