Mzimba North MP (Alliance for Democracy) Yeremiah Chihana has called on President Lazarus Chakwera to fire Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda and all other ministers whose controlling officers have been suspended or fired over Covid-19 funds abuse.
Chihana says there is no way one chairperson of the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 can be fired leaving another chair.
According to Chihana, the other ministers could have been the ones that made decisions in the abuse of the funds.
However, Chiponda has called on Chihana to get his facts right. She says Ministers in Tonse Alliance are not drawing allowances from the Covid-19 funds.
She says there is an audit into the funds which the MPs may wish to check.
She has challenged that should the audit establish that she pocketed from Covid-19 funds, she will be the first to resign.
Chiponda insists she is an honest person and is ready to resign when proven that she benefited. (NATION-ONLINE)
Does it mean the fired technocrat co-chair swindled the money? Why then firing him alone before the finalization of the audit? Its interesting, very interesting indeed. Another co-chair fired and the reasons stated were that of incompetence not of funds abuse. The remnant one has been spared and incompetence has been put aside and given a chance of having his fate hanging by audit. Chineke!!!