Authorities in the education sector have bemoaned rising cases of selling government school property.

According to Minister of Education Agnes NyaLonje, much as government is committed towards reducing number of missing desks, the efforts are being derailed by a tendency of selling damaged school desks by some people.

In an interview, NyaLonje said it is expensive to purchase new desks unlike repairing the readily available ones.

“We look and damaged desks because damaged desk represents the worthy of this country, it is the steel that is in every that is hugely expensive,” NyaLonje said.

“There are Malawians who are taking advantage of damaged desks and selling these damaged desks, that is wrong and please my to you the media, help us to carry the message.”

NyaLonje has since called upon school authorities to always engage local artisans when repairing such damaged desks.

“Support systems that use local artisans, we have a lot of young men and women who are qualified and living in these areas and looking for something to do and so why not use that?”

According to NyaLonje, government is working on further strategies to see how it can have a formal system of producing desks.