The Malawi National Council of Sports (MNCS) Board has tightened the screws to address all governance shortfalls at the institution.
The board has set a timeline of six months to complete the process.
This comes in the wake of alleged breach of statutory requirements after MNCS reportedly went four years without conducting a statutory financial audit.
Council board chairperson Jim Kalua said the honeymoon was over for individuals who like taking shortcuts.
“We, as a board, will make sure that we speed up the forensic audit [process].
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Anyone who will be trying to frustrate the exercise will be disciplined accordingly.
“We want to regularize all governance shortfalls within six months.
Everyone should go back to governance basics immediately,” Kalua said.
Kalua said he wanted to live by what he promised when the board was sworn in.
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“I promised that [the] first six months [were meant for] identifying the gaps and the next [months] to fix [the issues]. Thereafter, [there will be] normal operations and strategy implementation,” he said.
Currently, MNCS has engaged investigators to undertake an external forensic audit of financial and procurement and contracting processes relating to the BAT Stadium project in Blantyre.
The investigations on BAT Stadium cover associated office infrastructure, external construction works and the procurement of design, supervision and monitoring services that support the project.
MNCS acting Chief Executive Officer Ivy Chinangwa promised to revert to us.
Failure to undertake a statutory financial audit is in breach of provisions of the Public Finance Act of 2022.
