AUDITOR General Dick Sichembe says the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) worked outside the law when they handled COVID-19 donations outside the framework of the National Disaster Relief Trust Fund. In the Interim Report of the Auditor General on the audit of utilisation of COVID-19 resources as at 31st July 2020, it was observed that when COVID-19 was reported in March 2020, the Fund had not been made operational, 10 years after its establishment. Speaking when DMMU national coordinator Chanda Kabwe appeared before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Wednesday, committee Chairperson Howard Kunda noted that the Vice-President ordered that the fund be operationalised in July 2019 but that had not been done to date, wondering why the matter...
