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The amounts involved and the frequency with which the DAC procedure was used was patently improper, but you will struggle to pin illegality or misconduct on the perpetrators. So, do not waste time and more tax-payers money on investigations or suchlike.

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The Office of the Integrity Commission is observing International Anti-Corruption Day 2021, under the theme “Your Right, your Role: Say no to corruption!”

In examining the work of the Complaints Commissioner’s Office during a hearing focused largely on budgetary issues and the hurricane recovery, the Commission of Inquiry questioned current and former Complaints Commissioners Erica Smith-Penn and Sheila Brathwaite on July 1.

Both leaders said the office needs more legislation-backed teeth to get information and enforce its recommendations.

Ms. Brathwaite assumed the role in 2015, succeeding founding commissioner Elton Georges, and Ms. Smith-Penn took over on Jan. 1 of this year.

Government offered a clearer picture of the role United Kingdom lawyer Sir Geoffrey Cox and Withersworldwide are playing in its response to the UK’s corruption probe this week with the announcement of a new Inquiry Response Unit.

The Virgin Islands Cabinet established the independent unit on Feb. 5, two weeks after the commission of inquiry officially launched, to support the investigation into alleged misconduct, according to Government Information Services.

Civil society organizations (CSOs) and actors under the banner of National Advocacy Platform (NAP) Has given President Lazarus Chakwera’s Tonse Alliance administration. a poor rating, accusing the leadership of entrenching the same governance shortfalls it promised to address at the height of the campaign for the June 23, 2020, Fresh Presidential Election. The CSOs have observed […]

Human Rights Defenders Coalition (HRDC) has dragged a South African medical supplier, Fresenius, to graft-busting body, Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) over a ‘shady’ deal in procurement of a dialysis machine for Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) . A notice served to ACB indicates that HRDC is troubled with how Fresenius Medical Care got the deal […]

The commission of inquiry probing alleged corruption in the Virgin Islands is now focusing on collecting information and documentation from public officers, including elected and statutory officials, according to COI Secretary Steven Chandler.

President Lazarus Chakwera  on Sunday conceded the public perception that Malawi government is like a crime scene of the mafia-like criminal enterprise, saying public sector reform is what the country needs and delegated the country’s second-in-command Saulos Chilima up a turbo-charged reforms to clean the system. Chakwera said this on Sunday during his weekly briefing […]

The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (Cdedi) has decried high levels of nepotism and corruption in government and, challenged President Lazarus Chakwera to clear himself on allegations that he is entrenching the two vices in his leadership robbing the country of its development opportunities. Cdedi executive director Sylvester Namiwa said the vices are […]

Thirteen days after Sir Gary Hickinbottom was sworn in to head the commission of inquiry into alleged corruption in the territory, he and his secretary returned to the United Kingdom last Thursday, promising to return before April 4.