 Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for coming at such a short notice. My hope is that this will be a very brief, first briefing that has been called to address allegations that 65 million quadra forfeited from Ms. Faith Musonda has been misappropriated by the Corruption Commission. These allegations are contained in a purported interim management letter which is circulating on social media and has been carried on mainstream media such as news diggers newspaper. We wish to start by emphasizing that we have not received the document that is circulating on social media and have only had sight of it from social media and press reports. We are therefore not aware of the authenticity of this document. This having been said, we hope that this letter has not been leaked from the auditor general's office without it being appealed to us best. The history of this matter and the surrounding circumstances raise great concern. Ladies and gentlemen, you may wish to know that the investigation at the Ministry of Finance started in November 2020, down before this board was appointed. Following the investigation, the two deputy auditor generals and the auditor general were arrested on the 1st March 2023, 2nd March 2023 and 9th March 2023 respectively. Earlier, the auditor general was interviewed on the 10th of February 2023. On the 3rd of March 2023, we received a formal request for information from the auditor general's office in furtherance of an audit. The audit was therefore only initiated after the interrogation and later arrest of the top officials in the auditor general's office. We have every confidence in the office of the auditor general, which is a key institution of government. We support the work of the auditor general and would not want to see a day when that important institution will be deployed to fight personal legal battles of any of its officers. Ladies and gentlemen, please bear with us. We will not address the document that is circulating on social media in its details, but suffice to say that it contains a lot of inaccuracies and details that appear tailored to deliberately embarrass the anti-corruption commission. For example, at page 61 of the purported management letter, there is an allegation that 65 million quarcha forfeited from Miss Faith Moonsonda was misappropriated. This is a blatant falsehood. All view members of the press attended a media briefing and a handover ceremony on the 23rd of February 2022, at which the anti-corruption commission handed over a check for the sum of 65,333,046 quarcha to the Honorable Minister of Finance. There were press reports carried, interestingly, by news diggers, that this money had been handed over to the Bazaarist Committee by the Minister of Finance, but that's an issue that can only be clarified by the Ministry of Finance. I wish to inform you members of the press that the money moved from the anti-corruption commission account at Bank of Zambia to the Ministry of Finance on the 3rd of March 2023. It is therefore not true that this money was misappropriated in this institution. Let me take this opportunity to complain to you colleagues in the media. We are at pains to see why you colleagues would publish and confirm documents when you attended the handover of the money from the anti-corruption commission. No attempt was made to verify any of this information with us here at the anti-corruption commission, the Bank of Zambia or the Ministry of Finance. You members of the press are key partners in the fight against corruption and in future would urge you to avoid publishing alarming statements without at least giving us a chance to verify this evidence. You are our important partners. We can't fight corruption or ensure accountability without your help. Ladies and gentlemen, corruption fights back and it does so viciously and we must not give in to the machinations of those who wish to weaken the anti-corruption commission and the fight against corruption. Having said that, I wish to reiterate that the anti-corruption commission like any other government institution is open to accountability and we are warranted criticism but such criticism must be based on fact, not in UN. We of course value audit queries because they help strengthen the institution but audit queries are queries which we haven't received by the way but they are queries which are subject to answering. The process of a government audit is internal and it's about clarifying certain important issues and that is the major reason, ladies and gentlemen. I don't want to delve into that document because first of all it's something that we haven't received. Secondly, even if there was such a document that was delivered to us it's a matter that would have to answer internally and let the auditor general act on it subsequently. So thank you very much for coming and I don't know whether you have questions just on what I have said. Thank you very much. Yesterday I thank you so much. I think at this point in time I would like to ask a couple of questions. Returning to the point of discussion, who is there, out of there, Darius? My name is Mukwe Machilada from Belengambria. You've touched on the ministry of the institution. I wanted to find out how far you are in this case and I want to give clarity to you on the reports and some officers that accused me that most of the students issue have asked if they can give you some refunds and that issues I want to get an update on that. And secondly, what you have addressed does this confirm that or is it to say that the SEC and the auditor general are working in isolation and there is a back and forth fight between the three institutions. Thank you. Can I answer? Okay, so all I can say on that investigation is that it's very advanced. I can't say more than that. On the second question you asked there is no back and forth and working in isolation. The fact of the matter is there is this leaked document now which we have been received and there were investigations on some officers within that institution and beyond that there is really no back and forth. The officers of the auditor general and this institution have always worked very closely. We actually have a memorandum of understanding with them and it's an institution we value. So that's why we hope that this document has not been leaked from that institution and if so, we would wonder what the motive would be for such a document which has so many inaccuracies to give it from an institution as important as that. Thank you. We are now inviting Guillermo on TV. Good morning. My name is Darius. I joined from Guillermo on TV. Just on that matter, I don't mean getting updates from the commission as it relates to the ongoing investigations. The last update we got maybe a month ago, one of the second two months ago was that we are consolidating charges against them. Is that the current situation or the consolidation part has been done and that if so, when are we likely to see the case going back to court because the matter that the commission said was investigating sometime in 2022 and yet there are other matters that the system has not gone to court. Then I'd like to see if you don't write on the authenticity of the leaked audit later. Are you saying that this later is fake? You don't want to say? Let me start with the second issue. That letter has not been delivered to us in the normal course of government communication. That letter should have been given to us before it's on social media. As we speak, we don't have it. So I cannot comment on the authenticity otherwise of that document. If in fact it's authentic, there is something fundamentally wrong. Why would it be on social media before it's with us? So I would not like to believe it's authentic if it's on social media but if it were, it would raise serious concerns. The operational team at an appropriate time would interact with yourselves. I don't want to get into operational matters. Thank you so much, chair. I think we had a hand from ZMBC. Yes. Good morning, chair. My name is Brian from ZMBC. I just want to see the clarification. You rightly indicated that the money was handed over from the Minister of Finance to the Minister of Finance last year. I remember covering that issue. But somewhere... So you were an eyewitness. That's why I'm saying clarification because I think somewhere in this statement you indicated that the money moved this year. No, no, no, no. Sorry. And thank you for clarifying that issue. It moved on the 3rd of March 2022. Okay. It moved a few days after that hand-over ceremony because it was a check, a symbolic check. Mr. Maiba, is that correct on the day? Yeah. Mr. Maiba is our finance director. So, chair, as far as you are concerned the money moved from the hands of the ACC. We don't have it. Brian, we don't have it. I've never seen 65 million in my life. So I can tell you that that money was handed over and it moved from the Anti-Corruption Commission. We don't have it and certainly we didn't misappropriate it. Thank you so much, chair. I think as we are winding up we are calling for one more question. Just one. Yes. Mr. Maiba Mr. Maiba Mr. Maiba Mr. Maiba Mr. Maiba I want to tell how the procedures of this are going to hand over the money to the Ministry of Finance and the Minister of Education and the students on my team. I can't comment on the details of that document. What I can tell you is that కివకదాయంలాతి ‫ధరశ్విండధ మధనంలతి మాపనెనంవాినింాక రస౿లైండనం ...