The Maravi Post

Donors, who support Malawi’s development efforts, are more and more losing confidence in the National Audit Office (NA0) set up to check against misuse of public resources.

Blogger Wise One From The East (Wofte) points out that the Norwegian Embassy was the first to raise the alarm and they’ve been joined by the United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for International Development (DfID).

They are “dismayed and shocked beyond belief by the national watchdog’s lackadaisical handling of resources”, writes Wofte, adding that the “revelations of the NAO’s financial impropriety have come to the fore after an external audit conducted by professional certified accountants firm, Deloitte; and raises serious questions vis-à-vis the credibility of the country’s supreme auditing body.”

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