The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) says it will summon controlling officers for various ministries and heads of various clusters of the Covid-19 response team to explain how they spent the K6.2 billion for Covid-19 response.

PAC`s intervention over the development comes barely two days after President Lazarus Chakwera through the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 has also summoned the officials to account for how they used the money.

The Committee`s Chairperson Shadreck Namalomba says PAC has already written Office of the Auditor General to commission an audit on the matter.

“This is very unacceptable and as a nation and as PAC we are not happy, we are very disappointed, these monies were disbursed in August last, and in August up to now, not report detailing how the money were spend, that’s why it’s a sad issue.

We are going to summon them, right now I have written Office of the Auditor General to commission an audit immediately and report to us in seven days,” disclosed Namalomba.

Namalomba has told us that the Committee will convene after seven days upon receiving the audit report and summon the controlling officers.

“After that seven days, PAC is going to convene, and as we convene we are going to summon any officer involved in the mismanagement of these funds, so the nation should expect that we are going to do that,” the PAC chairperson assured.

In his address to the nation on Sunday night this week, President Chakwera warned that any cluster that either fails to account for the money it received or is found to have abused their funds is a cluster in which heads will roll.

The said taxpayer`s money were disbursed in August last year as coronavirus response funds.