Dausi said this in statement released on Saturday, in reaction to a Daily Times article which claimed Malawi has lost the said documents.

According to Dausi, The Daily Times’ article emanated from The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee interface of on 31st August 2017, which aimed at the former to respond to financial management issues relating to the financial year 2012/2013

He said PAC wanted to know what the Ministry was doing to ensure that no documents get lost again as it happened with the 2012/2013 financial year documents. And in response, the Ministry informed Parliament that it is improving its archiving system as a matter of necessity because the Ministry keeps important documents.

“The Ministry cited documents on Lake Malawi only as one example of the important documents it keeps. Curiuosly however, The Daily Times understood this explanation to mean that documents on Lake Malawi dispute have been lost and they proceeded to make that a front page story on 1st September, 2017.

“Therefore, their article on lost documents on Lake Malawi was imagined outside the substance of the meeting between the Public Accounts Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Therefore, any information to the contrary of the spirit of the discussion is misleading.

 
The Daily Times has since retracted the said article.