Erring officers warned

…Misappropriated funds to be recovered via deductions

MISAPPROPRIATION of funds revealed in the 2016 Auditor general's report will be recovered through deductions from personal emoluments of erring officers, vows Public Service Commission chairperson Dickson Chasaya.

He said officers cited in the 2016 Auditor general's report for misappropriation of funds would be made to pay back the Funds

Mr Chasaya explained that the funds would be recovered through deductions from personal emoluments of erring officers.

Mr Chasaya said deductions of emoluments was the workable solution due to legal challenges.

He disclosed that government was keen to amend the law and regulations to ensure that culprits were made to pay back and were also immediately prosecuted.

Mr Chasaya said this in statement issued by first secretary press and public relation at the Zambia High Commission Pretoria South Africa Mrs Naomi Nyawali.

He however said the majority of cases highlighted in the report were as a result of negligence and procedural impropriety and were not cases of theft as was perceived.

He said government would deal with matters administratively by deducting funds from cited officers to recover such public funds.

He also said certain political commentators had taken advantage of the Auditor General's report to embarrass government.

Mr Chasaya said this when he addressed Diplomatic Staff at the Zambia High Commission in Pretoria.

Mr Chasaya was in South Africa where he was attending a meeting with the Public Service Commission of South Africa organised by that country.