 Hello viewers, it's Kaye Felix here and I welcome you to my YouTube channel Kaye Felix Inspire. I'd like to say a very big thank you to all of you for the support and the contribution you are giving to this channel. If you are new to this channel, please do not forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon so that you get notified whenever I post new videos. Stay tuned for more details in this report. We cannot be dealing with the same questions every day and still getting the same answers every day, but people continue asking about the same things. So we hope that this is the last time I'm going to talk about it and we move on to other things as the nation. Remember that number one, this is not an outright overall audit pese. It is strictly an exclusive verification exercise of an overall domestic debt which sharply rose from 51.82 billion in 2016 to 76.4 billion in 2022 as of June. Just like other multilateral organizations like the IMF had to verify the authenticity of our external debt before coming to support our local economic recovery program, we too as a government need to verify this huge local debt deal especially after finding pockets of fake or air supply in ministries such as that of the local government where you had the people bringing delivery notes or bringing certificates for payments for reporting to have supplied goods and services when in fact not. So with that kind of discovery it is only important that you verify everything that consists of the local debt. The verification is across all ministries, panel status and government spending agencies, hence the office of the auditor general is overwhelmed. We only have one office of the auditor general that is supposed to deal with all government institutions and ways. And as we speak there is a verification going on in all government ministries, all spending agencies, all panel status. So naturally the office of the auditor general is overwhelmed and the auditor general made it clear and in writing to the minister of finance that the office is overwhelmed with the workload and therefore sought the permission of the minister of finance and in accordance with the law and the powers vested in the office of the auditor general to seek for external hands to help meaning to bring on board private firms to assist the auditor general. Remember that they have not come on board to come and audit they have come to verify these are specific matters, specific issues. So in accordance with the law the auditor general informed the minister of finance of the workload and need for particular external hands and again in accordance with the law and after satisfying two procedures the auditor general procured the services of six private firms and allotted them tasks as follows. Number one, EY advisory was given to verify fewer. Number two, client focus was given to verify awards and compensation. Number three, Mark Daniels was given to verify D80, D80 refunds. Number four, CYMA was given to verify FICI. Number five, PWC or Price Waterhouse Coopers if you like was given to verify road contracts. And number six, Grant Thornton was given to verify goods and services. So considering this is not an all-out audit verification process of targeted specific areas of concern, the auditors only have access to files relating to the claims accruing to the dates. Meaning that these auditors even as we have put them in government institutions and the one which is of concern are those that are verifying the claims in the ministry of defense or the defense forces. It's not like they've gone there outrightly to look at all the files in the ministry of defense. They have gone there to look at specifics and they are looking at goods and services and those files they are looking at are being given to them by the ministry of defense. So there is no risk or iota of risk of these auditors having sites of any other files or documents relating to operations or anything that may be considered a danger to national security or an exposure to the security of the nation. They are there in the room that they are working from and they are being given the files to verify. There is money being owed by the ministry of defense and other department queens. But before the money is paid down or the final debt is known to be this is the actual debt, there is need for verification. So there are no, it's enough to verify are these claims genuine? Are all the documents attached? Is everything that is supposed to be there there? That is all they are looking at. They are not looking at how many guns we have as a country. How many bullets we have as a country. How many gun guns we have as a country. They have got no iota of business to do with that. And besides, even the documents they are looking at like a stated area, they are being given by the authorities. It's not them going out there and opening files and opening cabinets to get any file they want. They are being given by the authorities to say the money we owe is this much and we owe it to company A, company B, company C and here are the documents. So now there is a verification process going on. So to this effect we want to make it very clear that no law, no law has been contravened as is contained in the constitution and as it relates to the office of the auditor general. No law has been abrogated. The issues that have been looked at by the auditors are verification issues and if you are talking about them verifying how many bullets we have, no sir is no such thing. If you are asking if they are verifying if you supply the campaign, if you supply the beans. Yes sir, there are such things because you are owed money you need to be paid. Now we also know that there are some unscrupulous characters that have been hidden in ministries including of our defense forces where they have supplied air. By air I mean where you have not supplied but purported to a supply and you are hidden on the list of not being owed money. I can tell you in no uncertain terms if you are not happy. Let me repeat what I said in Mazabuka. If you supply the government air you will be paid air. So don't think that if you supplied nothing and you found your way on the list through corrupt practices of people being owed money that you cash out not this administration. If you supplied air you will be paid air. If you supplied goods and services and they are verified and they are genuine you will be paid your money. So in this regard we want to make it clear that there is no breach of the law. There is no breach of the constitution. The office of the attorney general is on Kerafema. Minister of finance is on Kerafema and there are no issues to do with the constitution being appropriated. The issue of impeachment of his ex-president by the opposition based on this kwa particular fuzz of it becomes a lackable manner. It is preposterous. There is need for impeachment, yes. Impeach your brothers. Acquire new way of reasoning as opposition. Provide checks and balances. That are beneficial to the country. Impeach your current thinking. But on the other side there is no need for impeachment. And it doesn't arise. And the matter that you raise is it is at all base on what you think happened here. It is laughing. It is a measurement. Unless there are questions. Yes. The issue of the access to information bill has moved. It has already received what you refer to as having been agreed to by Congress. And as assured by the minister, this matter will be tabled before parliament in the opening of the first quarter of next year. So we can assure you that next year this bill will be enacted. Any other million settlement will be issued. We will determine. Yes. As government, are you worried that they are going to court concerning the secretary? As government, we want to encourage them that if they feel that they have got a case in as far as them claiming that the constitution has been abrogated in this episode, they are free to go to court. In fact, we encourage them. But what we will not do is to continuously play Chise by keep answering them, asking them, asking the same questions every day. We give them answers and they still come back with the same questions the following day. We can't engage in such kind of games. We are serious people. We've got the country to run. And therefore if they feel strongly that they have a case, let them go to court. We encourage them. We shall meet them in court. In fact, we wish them good luck. Again, I want to urge you as colleagues in the media that always take interest in what is going on. How can the issue of single saucing be analyzed? There were 12, it was an open tender, 12 companies bidded and six were picked. So how can somebody say today claim that there was single saucing? There was no single saucing. And that is why I encourage you scribes. Please ask questions so that we verify matters. Because today you pick up this news and go. And tomorrow you come back with a headline, the single saucing. It's the same thing that happened in Fisi. There was a long discussion over single saucing, over companies that were not single saucing. And it was the same thing that happened in Fisi. There was a long discussion over single saucing, over companies that were not single saucing. But were actually the way through a whole process to be selected. Even in this manner. There was an open tender, 12 companies participated and in the end six were bidded. How could you say single saucing? Yes? My name is Anakwa Magilana from Millennium Radio. After a press briefing held on 1st Wednesday, Mr. Wintaka was positioned by the president. But a serious indication that the president could be connected to the two companies that were awarded the contracts in relation to the minister of press and he challenged the president to step his interest of connection with me because according to them he may have went for one of the two companies and was a partner. So I'd love to get government's position on this. Yeah, again if they feel strongly that they have a case in that matter and they feel they have strong evidence suggesting that there was mishandling. In the whole matter of evidence, they are free to go to court. But for us, we advertise, we selected six and we gave the six companies the road to do and they are doing a good job. Whether people wait for them or not wait for them is neither here nor there.