Parliament orders Finance Minister, Musokotwane, to show proof of K65 million forfeited to govt

Speaker of National assembly, Nelly Mutti, has again ordered Finance and National Planning Minister, Situmbeko Musokotwane, to render a detailed report on how the K65 million forfeited to the state was used.

The minister was advised to provide explanations next week, Wednesday.

Mutti on Friday ruled that Musokotwene should issue a detailed statement.

She said this was because the matter was still attracting too much attention both in parliament and with the members of the public even after the minister issued a ministerial statement on how the money was disbursed on Tuesday last week.

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The ruling came after Lunte Member of Parliament, Mutotwe Kafwaya raised a point of order on June 13, 2023 on the acting Minister of Finance, Charles Milupi whether he was in order to mislead the house for allegedly not laying the deposit slip for the K65 million by the Anti-Corruption commission (ACC) on the table.

“In view of the forgoing I direct the Minister of Finance to issue a detailed statement to clarify the matter,” he said.

She said Milupi laid a number of documents related to how the money was deposited but Kafwaya rose on a point of order to query if the minister was right to purport that the deposit slip was among the documents that were laid on the table when, in fact, it was not.

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