M’mbelwa District Council suspends officer over K10 million salary arrears

M’mbelwa District Council has suspended an officer after being implicated in alleged unauthorized payment of salary arrears amounting to over K10 million at Mzimba District Health Office

Both spokespersons for M’mbelwa District Council, Joel Phiri and Mzimba Police station Peter Botha confirmed the suspension and arrest of Boyd Chipeta who was working as Assistant Human Resources Officer.

According to Phiri, Chipeta is alleged to have been authorizing payment of arrears to staff through fraudulent transactions that has resulted the council into losing of over K10 million.

Chipeta was authorizing payment of arrears to nine junior staff members bypassing normal payment procedures.

He has been including names of some officers mostly health workers on payroll since November 2022 till May 2023.

Phiri said more people have their arrears yet to be settled but these nine have been getting their arrears every month.