ON WEDNESDAY last week, the Anti-Corruption Commission announced that it was investigating allegations of abuse of office at the Ministry of Finance involving senior officials linked to a cartel that siphoned huge amounts of money between 2019 and 2021 using fictitious events to draw allowances. Over K100 million was reportedly drawn from the treasury accounts through bogus events. Following this development, word went round that the affected officers had been fired and others suspended from work. Secretary to the Cabinet Patrick Kangwa, however, refuted social media reports that some senior government officials have been fired. According to Mr Kangwa, the affected Permanent Secretaries have only been transferred to Cabinet Office while the Directors have been transferred to the Public Service...