Malawi government says Treasury is still reluctant to release any honoraria funding for the 20,000 chiefs former president Joyce Banda elevated during her two-year reign due to serious irregularities that characterised their elevation.<\/p>\n
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Kondwani Nankhumwa, said the chiefs do not qualify and government will only release funds for the traditional leaders who will pass the scrutiny test.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an ongoing process aimed at rectifying Joyce Banda\u2019s anomaly. When that process is complete, those chiefs will be put on the payroll.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that will depend on Treasury\u2019s willingness to release funds for that purpose,\u201d Nankhumwa said.<\/p>\n
He said some village heads were elevated to become group village heads without any subordinate village heads as required.<\/p>\n
Nankhumwa also said the law clearly stipulates that group village heads\u2019 promotion to sub-traditional authority levels is supposed to be done by traditional authorities with the confirmation of the District Commissioners (DCs).<\/p>\n
\u201cBut those steps were skipped, thereby creating confusion and disagreements among chiefs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The minister said the DCs were supposed to write the minister who is also supposed to inform the President, a thing which he said did not happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe [Joyce Banda] promoted the chiefs towards the run up to the 2014 Tripartite Elections. It was done to persuade voters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
However, in an earlier interview, spokesperson for the ministry, Muhlabase Mughogho, said government is failing to implement its earlier plan to probe the chiefs that were elevated during Banda\u2019s two-year regime due to a court case.<\/p>\n
Some chiefs, who were promoted at that time, challenged the ministry\u2019s plans to probe them.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the monthly wage bill for the 29,107 chiefs who receive honoraria from the government was at about K87.6 million in October 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe monthly honoraria vary from month to month. The October honoraria was K87, 564,499.77,\u201dMughogho said.<\/p>\n
She said the monthly honoraria vary due to continuous revisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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