Malawi’s Information Minister Gospel Kazako insists that he advised Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA) not to travel to Dubai for training because “it is very expensive and difficult to justify” but the country’s communications policing organisation ignored his advice and went ahead as they had decided.
On the other hand, MACRA appears to shift the blame on the Minister holding out that they were authorised to take the trip to Dubai.
Minister Kazako
So, who is lying and who is telling the truth?
An official confidential document from MACRA with Information Minister’s handwritten inscriptions on it appearing to authorise the wastefully extravagant two-week Dubai trip, which blew K46 million of taxpayers money has leaked to the public Saturday after President Chakwera lambasted the board demanding change.