{"id":42350,"date":"2023-03-08T22:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut"},"modified":"2023-03-09T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T09:17:57","slug":"dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut","title":{"rendered":"DPP laments criminal prosecutions budget cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has expressed concern over the decrease of the budget line for criminal prosecutions. Chamkakala expressed the concern when he appeared before members of the Legal Affairs and Government Assurance Cluster of Parliament Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the budget has been reduced by 24 percent, from the projected K1.26 billion to K954.494 million. Chamkakala disclosed that the Other Recurrent Transactions budget ceiling for the directorate has shortfalls, making it hard for the office to implement all its planned activities.<\/p>\n<p>He has since asked for an additional K1.6 billion for activity implementation. The DPP disclosed that his office has prosecuted 910 cases, as at January 2023, against the annual target of 1,300 cases during the 2022-23 fiscal year<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe completed 27 criminal cases related to persons living with albinism out of 104 cases which were submitted for prosecution. Worth highlighting is the [MacDonald] Masambuka case,\u201d Chamkakala said.<\/p>\n<p>He told cluster members that although the DPP office registered achievements, it only has three vehicles that are supposed to be used by 29 lawyers and this has led to compromise and inefficiency when offering services.<\/p>\n<p>Cluster deputy chairperson Francis Belekanyama said they would look into the issue and consider suggestions made by the office of DPP. Belekanyama said the office of DPP is a key government organ, such that it should not be starved of resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will write a report on the outcome of clusters and see how the office can be helped,\u201d Belekanyama said.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Ministry of Finance Deputy Director Lucius Chipendo advised the Office of the DPP to try to re-align its activities with the proposed budget line as one way of ensuring that essential services do not suffer.<\/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. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has expressed concern over the decrease of the budget line for criminal prosecutions. Chamkakala expressed the concern when he appeared before members of the Legal Affairs and Government Assurance Cluster of Parliament Tuesday. He said the budget has been reduced by 24 percent, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,10,410],"tags":[233,371,3128,4653,234,2610],"class_list":["post-42350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-featured","category-parties","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-director-of-public-prosecutions","tag-francis-belekanyama","tag-malawi","tag-masauko-chamkakala"],"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>DPP laments criminal prosecutions budget cut - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has expressed concern over the decrease of the budget line for ...\" \/>\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\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPP laments criminal prosecutions budget cut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Masauko Chamkakala has expressed concern over the decrease of the budget line for ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut\" \/>\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=\"2023-03-08T22:27:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-09T09:17:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678302000.37.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"550\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DPP laments criminal prosecutions budget cut\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-08T22:27:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-09T09:17:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut\"},\"wordCount\":297,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678302000.37.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Director of Public Prosecutions\",\"Francis Belekanyama\",\"Malawi\",\"Masauko Chamkakala\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Featured\",\"parties\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/dpp-laments-criminal-prosecutions-budget-cut\",\"name\":\"DPP laments criminal prosecutions budget cut - 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