The Plenary sitting of the Chamber of Deputies recommended Prime Minister solve the problem of compensation in the expropriation process for public interests. Deputies made this declaration after adopting the report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the assessment of the 2021/2022 Auditor General’s report, on 1 November 2023.

Members of Parliament also requested the Prime Minister to take serious measures against Heads of public institutions who did not respond to the request for written explanations as to why they did not receive a “clean audit” opinion as per the 2021/2022 Auditor General’s report.

The Chairman of PAC, Muhakwa Valens, told the plenary sitting that the common issues in some public institutions are power planning, delays in contract execution, unfinished construction works, Unused property, issues in the payment of compensation to people expropriated for the reasons of public interest, human resource management issues, Common issues in accounting books, mismanagement of public funds.

During discussions, the Deputies recommended that those who mismanaged public funds should be held accountable. They also asked the Minister of Justice to inform the Chamber of Deputies, of the plan for the recovery of public funds squandered by public institutions and agencies due to decisions that led the government to invest in lawsuits or fines which should be avoided, and how persons who are responsible are held accountable. 

The Chamber of Deputies tasked the Minister of Finance and Planning to take concrete measures to definitively solve the issues of poor planning and those identified in public procurement, including the market price analysis.