Cabinet says they received and are studying the Forensic audit report on the alleged misuse of the Social Cash Transfer funds.
In September 2018, Britain and Finland froze funding to Zambia on suspicion that US$4 million they channelled into a social welfare scheme believed to have been misused.
Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet in charge of Finance and Economic Affairs Christopher Mvunga says the report was submitted to the Secretary to the Treasury on January 29th, 2019.
He says the report will be availed to cooperating partners in a meeting Mid-February 2019 after it is studied, to discuss the way forward with regard to continuing the program.
Mr. Mvunga says the way forward will be made public after the meeting with cooperating partners is concluded.
He said this when he addressed Journalists at state house in Lusaka today.
President Edgar Lungu last year gave the country’s top civil servant a week to take decisive action to curb all “malpractices” in the administration of the scheme.
The social cash transfer scheme is a donor-supported programme under which the government relays money to vulnerable households in rural areas in Africa’s No.2 copper producer.
The British High Commissioner to Zambia, Fergus Cochrane-Dyet, said in a tweet that Britain had frozen all bilateral funding until audit results were known. “(Britain) takes a zero tolerance approach to fraud and corruption,” he said.

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