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by
Ayam Maeresa, 09 June 2003
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16:46:45
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Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) deputy director Alexius Nampota said on Monday the bureau is investigating the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) over allegations of an irregular employment process.
Nampota said the bureau has received complains the process the revenue authority used to take in new recruits for various positions in the organisation was faulty.
“This investigation has just begun,” said Nampota. “It will be done thoroughly to find out whether there was really corruption involved.”
The revenue body is being accused of having allowed some of the new staff to come in through the back door without doing interviews but Nampota declined to discuss the nature of the complaint.
The recruitment process has attracted loud protests from within the organisation and the public, who feel there was an element of nepotism during shortlisting of candidates.
Nampota said the bureau will not stop the training process of the concerned recruits that started on Monday because a complaint only was not enough under the corruption law to make such a move.
“They will continue until the complaint is proved right or otherwise. A report itself is not a licence to disrupt things,” he said.
No immediate comment was available from the revenue authority on Monday.
Nampota said officers from the bureau have started combing documents at the revenue authority first to understand the matter before deciding the course of the investigations.
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