• Ministry of Finance completes verification and reconciliation of repayments related to salaries for former Cabinet, Ministers.
• Attorney General to submit details of repayments and outstanding amounts.
• Double repayments will be refunded in line with public finance regulations.

The Ministry of Finance says full verification and reconciliation of repayments related to salaries that were paid to Cabinet, Provincial, and Deputy Ministers who served between May and August 2016, in line with the court judgement, has now been completed.
According to a statement issued to Money FM News, Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba said the ministry has in addition submitted the details of repayments and outstanding amounts to the Attorney General.
Mr Yamba noted that this is to facilitate the ministry’s verification process, adding that the Patriotic Front Party submitted a schedule of persons who were covered under its bulk deposits made to the Treasury.
“To confirm the deposits, the party submitted deposit slips to the Treasury and government receipts have accordingly been issued for the same,” he said.
“Therefore, according to our current records, 59 out of 63 former Cabinet, Provincial, and Deputy Ministers have been covered by the repayments”
Mr Yamba said the reconciliation process has revealed that some individuals who were paid for by the PF Party had also paid for themselves, resulting in double repayments.
He explained that double repayments will be refunded in line with public finance regulations.
“Taking both foregoing factor and the court judgement into account, the total outstanding amount of public funds due to the Treasury by the remaining four (4) individuals is K230, 064.36 (Two-hundred-thirty-thousand-sixty-four-kwacha and 36 ngwee),” Mr Yamba noted.
He added that in line with procedure and to ensure that progress towards the closure of this matter is conclusive, the Ministry of Finance has written to the Attorney General to submit the detail of repayments and outstanding amounts.
Mr Yamba notes that the details include names of all the fifty-nine (59) persons who have paid in full and the four (4) individuals who have not.
“To confirm the repayments, government receipts, some of which have not yet been collected from the Treasury, have also been issued for individuals who have availed the ministry with deposit slips.”
He has further encouraged some former Ministers who made repayments but have not yet availed the Treasury with deposit slips, to do so in order to be issued with government receipts.