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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Speaker of the National Assembly Nellie Mutti has reserved ruling on a point of order raised by Mufulira Member of Parliament Golden Mwila who wanted to know whether Bwana Mkubwa is in order to continue chairing the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) when his company Balaam Limited has been implicated in the irregular supply of facemasks to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU).<\/p>\n

On Monday, Mr. Mwambazi instructed DMMU National Coordinator Dr. Gabriel Pollen to get hold of his predecessor Chanda Kabwe by whatever means possible to explain to the Committee why companies affiliated to PF cadres received supply contracts for COVID-19 items.<\/p>\n

In her briefing ruling on the point of order, Mrs. Mutti said she will have to conduct a thorough investigation of what is going on in the Public Accounts Committee and render a ruling on the matter.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, information emerged that Chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee Warren Mwambazi\u2019s company Balaam Ltd is one of the firms that supplied Face masks to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Some senior officers from the Ministry of Health who opted to remain anonymous have revealed that Mr. Mwambazi\u2019s company known as Balaam Limited was awarded three contracts by the Ministry of Health to supply DMMU with Covid-19 items valued at over K14 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are shocked that Hon. Mwambazi is now championing audits of the Covid-19 supply contracts when his own company Balaam Ltd received three contracts at over K14 million to supply Facemasks, PPPs, and Thermometers in very suspicious circumstances,\u201d the sources said.<\/p>\n

The sources added,\u201d he used the same company to get another Covid-19 tender at ZESCO valued at over K700,000. We don\u2019t understand why he is using PAC to embarrass his own friends who supplied to DMMU when he also did,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

They accused Mr. Mwambazi of turning the PAC hearings into a tool for embarrassing officials from the previous administration. \u201cYou know that Hon. Mwambazi was in PF until he was left out of the adoption process but before that, he used his friends in the party to get numerous contracts just like everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

They have since challenged Mr. Mwambazi to declare an interest when matters of DMMU and Covid-19 response are brought before the Committee hearings. \u201cHe cannot continue chairing those meetings when he is clearly conflicted. PAC is a very important institution and we cannot have a Chairman who is compromised, the sources stated.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. Speaker of the National Assembly Nellie Mutti has reserved ruling on a point of order raised by Mufulira Member of Parliament Golden Mwila who wanted to know whether Bwana Mkubwa is in order to continue chairing the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) when his company Balaam Limited has been implicated in the irregular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-17504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zambia","tag-zambia"],"yoast_head":"\nSpeaker to rule on PAC chair\u2019s alleged involvement in DMMU mask scandal - Zambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Speaker of the National Assembly Nellie Mutti has reserved ruling on a point of order raised by Mufulira Member of Parli ...\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Speaker to rule on PAC chair\u2019s alleged involvement in DMMU mask scandal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Speaker of the National Assembly Nellie Mutti has reserved ruling on a point of order raised by Mufulira Member of Parli ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Zambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-04T20:04:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-03-04T20:26:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-622275dfcd80e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\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\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Speaker to rule on PAC chair\u2019s alleged involvement in DMMU mask scandal\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-04T20:04:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-03-04T20:26:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal\"},\"wordCount\":440,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zambia\/sites\/35\/2022\/03\/img-622275dfcd80e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zambia\",\"Zambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/speaker-to-rule-on-pac-chairs-alleged-involvement-in-dmmu-mask-scandal\",\"name\":\"Speaker to rule on PAC chair\u2019s alleged involvement in DMMU mask scandal - 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