National Assembly Passes 2014/2015 Supplementary Budget: Two Amendment made to DPP, Legal Aid Votes

National Assembly Passes 2014/2015 Supplementary Budget: Two Amendment made to DPP, Legal Aid Votes

The National Assembly has authorized the government to use total sum of sum of K769.2 billion following passing of the Supplementary Appropriation Bill of 2014/2015 financial year.

In the just passed Supplementary budget, government was seeking an additional resources amounting to K32 billion.

Allocations to Directorate of Public Prosecution and State Advocate (DPP office) and Legal Aid have been passed with amendment while Road Fund Administration vote which was deferred on Friday has been passed without any alteration.

The adjustment made by the Minister of Finance on the votes was to maintain the resource allocation as approved in the budget.  Therefore resources for DPP office have been sustained to K495.7 million and not revised K536 million while Legal Affairs Department vote has been retained as approved provision of K227.3 million and not revised K210.4 million.

The amendment has been reached upon following member’s from opposition benches proposal that the two institutions be sufficiently funded for the effective prosecution of the ongoing cases particularly of Cashgate and enabling less privileged Malawians to access to justice.

Excited Goodall Gondwe in an interview said his two months labour has finally paid off. He said passing of this bill will help government to be effective 

“If we didn’t have it there would have been problems, because there are some votes which are very important but did not have enough money therefore it means that they would not have been performing. Now that they have money every ministry should be able to perform, they cannot say they are unable to perform because the money is not available.”