The Ministry of Local Government has instructed local authorities to ensure development partners finish all essential facilities that would make their structures function immediately after handover. 

The ministry of local government says it has advanced talks with mobile phone service providers Airtel and TNM to bankroll chiefs’ honoraria payments through Airtel money and TNM Mpamba in order to ease burden they face with bank payment system.

The Ministry of Local Government has slammed a move by Nsanje district council members who last month passed a resolution to have three of their officers transferred over alleged incompetence.