{"id":27285,"date":"2022-07-22T21:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:40:38","slug":"chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera says procurement laws fuelling corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Malawi President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has described the country\u2019s procurement laws as one biggest conduit fuelling corruption in the country. Addressing Malawians Tuesday when he unveiled the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigation report on allegations of bribery against public officers and Britain-based businessman Zuneth Sattar, Chakwera said procurement processes are defrauding government millions of kwacha through unfairly high and inflated prices.<\/p>\n<p>Chakwera said in it\u2019s investigation, ACB found that in the four years between 2017 and 2021, the Malawi Police Service (MPS) and Malawi Defence Force (MDF) awarded 16 contracts worth over USD150 million dollars to five companies belonging to businessman Sattar.<\/p>\n<p>The Malawi leader said the report cited an example of a business transaction involving a truck available on the market for USD 200, 000 thousand dollars but was sold to government for over USD1.7 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation, said the president, also noted that some public officers abuse their offices either intentionally or by usurping procurement functions outside their mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The president added that the investigation also found out that some public officers mandated to do due diligence and provide checks and balances allegedly neglected or failed to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that one driver of corruption in Malawi is the country\u2019s procurement laws allowing contracts to be awarded to companies without regard for the beneficial ownership of those companies which allows business persons to capture the state through unknown contract monopolies,\u201d said the president.<\/p>\n<p>However, President Chakwera said the report also discovered that some procurement processes are too cumbersome to follow as laid down in the law. \u201cAs such, the amendments we are making to the procurement regulations will also streamline and simplify the procedures and in the months that follow, controlling officers of all government ministries, departments and agencies will be oriented to the new approach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The president has since directed ministry of justice to fast track the new procurement legislation to help rectify gaps in the procurement procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The president said he has also tasked secretary to the president and cabinet to work with controlling officers of MDA\u2019s to look into acts of negligence and take appropriate action to discipline wrongdoers and strengthen oversight mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Malawi President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has described the country\u2019s procurement laws as one biggest conduit fuelling corruption in the country. Addressing Malawians Tuesday when he unveiled the Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) investigation report on allegations of bribery against public officers and Britain-based businessman Zuneth Sattar, Chakwera said procurement processes are defrauding government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":27284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-27285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chakwera says procurement laws fuelling corruption - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malawi President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has described the country\u2019s procurement laws as one biggest conduit fuelling corru ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera says procurement laws fuelling corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malawi President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera has described the country\u2019s procurement laws as one biggest conduit fuelling corru ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-22T21:20:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-22T21:40:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_4-62db193cdd00d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera says procurement laws fuelling corruption\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-22T21:20:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-22T21:40:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption\"},\"wordCount\":379,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_4-62db193cdd00d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-says-procurement-laws-fuelling-corruption\",\"name\":\"Chakwera says procurement laws fuelling corruption - 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