May 7, 2021 Watipaso Mzungu - Nyasa Times 4 Comments
The Minister of Civic Education and National Unity Timothy Pagonachi Mtambo has said time has come for Malawians to rise up and start challenging impunity and mediocrity in the public service, which he said is robbing the country of its precious resources for the national development.
Mtambo made the remarks in Lilongwe on Thursday when he graced this year’s International Labour Day, which the Catholic-based Centre for Social Concern (CfSC) organized at its head offices at St. Francis Parish at Area 25 in Lilongwe.
The minister emphasized that contrary to public opinion that politicians are the ones stealing government money; civil servants are actually the ones stealing thereby robbing tax-burdened citizens of their much-needed resources to transform the country.
The Ministry of Finance says it has started translating national budget documents into local languages in order to provide summarized and simplified contents of the budgets to rural citizens to enable them take part in tracking implementation of the fiscal plans.
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Assistant Budget Director, Lawrence Ngwalangwa, said government has termed the translated, surmarized and simplified booklets as the “citizens budget”.
Ngwalangwa disclosed this at Mponela in Dowa District during an interface meeting with media practitioners.
The meeting had been organized by faith based Centre for Social Concern (CFSC) through its project dubbed “Strengthening the Capacity of Citizens to Demand Transparency and Accountability in Public Finance Management for Reduced Poverty and Inequality.