THE Public Accounts Committee says controlling officers should adequately prepare themselves as they appear before the committee because it won’t tolerate the “laissez-faire attitude”. On Wednesday last week, the Committee sent away a delegation from RTSA led by Ministry of Transport and Logistics permanent secretary Fredrick Mwalusaka after noting a discrepancy in the amount of under-collected revenue for road traffic collections by the agency. The Committee also chased away the Ministry of Tourism on Thursday for failing to explain how 14 title deeds submitted as collateral for loans amounting to K2,229,782 were ‘stolen’ from a safe and couldn’t be found as at August 31, 2022. Earlier, the Committee sent away the Ministry of Finance and the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA)...

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