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Catherine Namugala
Deputy speaker of the national assembly Catherine Namugala has directed that the committee on finance delivers to the house a comprehensive statement on the social cash transfer scandal which will include clarifications on whether the monies for the program went missing.
The deputy speaker said this when she delivered a ruling on a point of order raised by Mazabuka central member of parliament Garry Nkombo who wanted to know if finance minister Margaret Mwanakatwe was in order to remain quite over the recent revelation in one of the local tabloids that the missing money for the social cash transfer program is in fact safely kept in a Zanaco account.
In his point of order Mr. Nkombo reminded the house that the minister of finance had earlier indicated to the house and the country that government and the president had known about the missing funds for the social cash transfer program since June 2018 and preliminary investigations had been instituted which revealed that indeed the money was missing.
He wondered how the minister of finance could keep quite on the news reports by the daily nation that the money had been found.
And in her ruling, Ms Namugala directed that since the committee on finance is already working on a statement regarding the social cash transfer issue, the concerns raised by Mr. Nkombo should therefore be included and answered comprehensively.