ACB arrest ex-Accountant General Kandoje: Malawi cashgate

March 26, 2015 Wanga Gwede- Nyasa Times 106 Comments

Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested former Accountant General David Kandoje, one of the key officers in the ongoing Capital Hill cashgate investigation.

Kandoje : Arrested
Kandoje : Arrested

ACB  confirmed the arrest of Kandoje.

“We have arrested Mr Kandoje on cashgate related issues. We are interested to question him,” ACB spokesperson Egritta Ndala told Nyasa Times on Thursday.

She said the Bureau conducted investigations which established that
Kandoje, the then Accountant General authorised payment of two cheques amounting to MK500m payable to Staddal Building Contractors without appropriate supporting documents.

ACB said Kandoje is likely to be charged with the following:

  • One count of abuse of public office contrary to Section 25 B (1) of  the Corrupt Practices Act.
  • One count of procuring of a person for the improper payment of public  money contrary to Section 88 g (1) of the Public Finance Management Act
  • One count of theft contrary to Section 178 as read with Section 21 of the Penal Code.

Kandoje was removed from the position of Accountant General and was redeployed to become PSII in the Ministry of Health.

He was Accountant General when Capital Hill was embroiled in a financial scandal christened as cashgate which saw public servants and private businesspersons siphoning money from public coffers without delivering goods and services.

The culprits took advantage of loopholes in the government’s electronic payment system, the Integrated Financial Management Information System (Ifmis).

In the wake of financial scandal, some of the country’s major donors suspended their budget support .

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106 replies on “ACB arrest ex-Accountant General Kandoje: Malawi cashgate”

  1. Muli ndi umboni wanji kuti muzimutukwana munthu…request and approvals are prepared at individual Ministry but cheque printing and signing is done at Accountant General. .do u see sense in this system??

  6. Iwe waganyu ndiwe mbuzi ya mano kunsi ngati makolo ako anachita retire alibe nyumba, galimoto ndiye ukufuna aliyense azitero! Panya pako wamva! uzafa ndi umphawi wakowo!!!!

  8. David Kandoje ali m’bwalo ma PS onse akonzekera. PS, salary K500,000 per month koma kumanga nyuma cash ku Area 47. Furniture ma container awiri from China. Mufotokoza bwino ma PS inu. Mbava nonse.

  9. whatever the ACB is doing, we deserve to support them for that we will see the justice taking its route. ACB i beg u to go ahead and i ask God to give u strength and emit fear from u. mwina ena nkutengerapo phunziro and dziko lathu nkutukukako abale. bravo ACB.

  11. All civil service must be overhauled our mothers and fathers retired with single govt houses no car buy today a clerk has a magnificent house Lol mbava zimenezi kumangoti Ku Lilongwe kuli business mukukaba Ndalama zaboma anyani inu

  12. Ndipo inu ACB munachedwa kumumanga Kandoje. Ameneyu ndi mbava yotheratu ndipo samaopa kuba. Mufufuzeni bwino. Anamangaso nyumba ku 18 cha early 2000 ndipo ndalama zake amangoba kwa accountant general dept. Mufufuzeni bwino. Munthu amene ali ethical koma mwina boma silimuona ndi Matanda. The guy is smart

  14. What sort of prosecution is this? you start by charging acomplises and start arresting the principle offenders?

  15. ACB nice job sin does not change its value and whether somebody steals much or less or took part in driving the robs,all are accountable and responsible to receive a penalty no matter what part you took in robbery.Kandoje deserves the prick,la 40 lakwana!

  16. Ku justice akuwunikeso some guys there were conniving with lawyers to create bogus files claim millions from treasury and share the money

  19. No PS indeed can be convicted unless he allowed government cheque to be deposited into his personal account. Kandonje didn’t abuse his office because he was simply doing what he was supposed to do. ACB will be at pains to convince the court why only few cheques have been selected out of thounds he authorised. It wasn’t his Job to phone ministries to find out authenticity of vouchers. As long as all documents were there, his job was to simply sign as the final man period

  21. Comment
    KKKKKKKKKKK! ENA AYITHAWA OKHA NTCHITOYI NKUTULUKA DZIKO AKULIFUNA. GWIRANI NTCHITO YANU ACB. ASAAAAA! KUTUTA POSAFETSA?

  24. What about the minister of finance by then for DPP and PP Hon Ken Lipenga , is he not involved in all the cash gates ?

  25. Malawi needs to clean the whole system if it is to prosper.They shouldn’t look at the tribe,face,education or whatever.If lots of people are going to face the music this will send a very big warning to the general public who were ready to make a fortune in this way.Anthu amamanga ma mansions with three months ndikuitanitsa ma fittings from china the whole container.Amakhala ngati awina lottery pamene wina kanyumba kamodzi kamakutengela ten years.If even lawyers and other people of influence are going to shield these people God is going to do something on this.Nthawi yakwana kuti chinyengo chonse chinamachitika chiululike.Amalawi ambiri are poverty because of the greed of very few people who thinks people should be always kneeling to them because of ill gotten wealth.

  26. Koma Boma ili is very smart. They shuffled PSs to give way for investigation. I believe there is more to come. Ma PS akale muli m’madzi.

    1. Dont waste your time bambo atha kutumiza FBI or Scotland Yard palibe chiripo just go by the forensic audit report dont speculate my friend not every old PS is daft. Actually the govt can all PSs on 6 month leave who gives a shit.

  28. So you guys still dont know what happened. No PS can be found guilty unless he/she is as stupid as Senzani. Who made the funding? Were the cheques machine generated? Wasnt kandoje the third signatory? ACB very stupid.

  30. stupid people who thinks about tribalism and what lines have you. why ife aku kasungu wathu sadamugwireko.? koma adali nawo pogulitsa ndege ndi kugula zida ankhondo. kupusa mumasaina zilizonse mmaona ngati ndugu mngwamuyaya.

  31. Oops! this is what i was waiting for new arrest new names now lets see how Kasambara will link up with these all suspect either in bombing them or sending Snipers,i guess we are counting down now 100–99–98- yo! Good job guys.See my name

  32. kodi nanga ma Accountant aja amalemba ma printa ma cheque kwa Biwi munawatumiza kuma Embassy wina ali ku Zimbabwe anali ndi magalimoto 10 pa nyumba ku area 25 ku dela la ku Zibweze mumutenga liti?

  35. We are now getting the heads. The others were tails. Money cannot go out without authorization. This is done through memos and vouchers. This done at government level. The PSs and others do the authorizations. We have to get to the roots of cashgate and not only the surface. Kandoje is part of the roots and the likes of Karonga are the flowers. Game on.

    1. Jihad John it’s obvious you neither read not understand the govt system or what happened. You sound poverty stricken, bitter and very stupid. No wonder your wife is being sucked by three different people. Nane ndikamukwate basi. All these years in service you don’t show progress because you don’t have ambition. My advice is this die in peace.

      1. I think he understands the Government system more than you do. Have you heard of the Public Finance Management Act? It states that a controlling officer must put in place measures to safeguard Government funds. When Accountant General’s office took up responsibilities to be signatories of Government cheques, they effectively became the ultimate controlling officers thus Kandonje and co cannot claim that they were just doing their job. They were as responsible as all the others. Besides, the report by Baker Tilly recommended his arrest, I am surprised that his arrest took this long.

  36. If he is not guilty the courts will prove it so, so why are some people here getting jittery and barking, barking, and barking some more on his behalf? If he is guilty he will be locked up, simple as that!

    1. Mr BigMan, people have been telling you this since Cashgate came to surface. You kept on finding people guilty and almost sentencing them. Why is Kandoje not guilty until he is tried and found so. What is the difference with other suspects or those whose names are tossed into cashgate hat?

  38. I like the arrests especially for those who are heartless thugs by ballpoint pens they have no mercy to steal from the poorest people of the world you will get punished here on earth and God also will punish you don’t think he is smiling for what you doing.

  39. He was simply authorising cheques on vouchers already approved elsewhere. Then all cheques he signed are fraudulent.

    1. Please don’t be simple you think if a man given his position saw something wrong he should just authorise. Why have someone in his position then if he cannot question but just authorise

  42. An honest professional. A vendetta against all from Zomba. Ridiculous. Tell us how you found yourself with US$8 Million in ur account. Isn’t it part of the 92 billion scam?

    1. There no bitter quarrel with people from Zomba. That is the worst thing a brain of a reasonable person can say. Justice must prevail, people in authority should never abuse their positions as it happened in cashgate. People are suffering and the cries and agony are unbearable. Why should few people cause such suffering? Today one says its a vendetta against people of Zomba? No no, not every one from that city is hated. In any district there are bad and good people. Every person is judged by his or her deeds. The justice system, expose the bad so that it never happens again in our time.

  44. Tasuzumilaniso ku Irrigation and Water Development. Kumeneko nde kuli systematic plunder of financial resources ranging from fake briefcase workshops to exergeration of prices of goods and services sourced. Ku ma meeting amapatsana ma allowances a rate yawo yawo. They can stage a workshop for a week, get allowances for a week koma ili ya tsiku limodzi. Penaso kulibe kumene just siphoning money. They exaggerate fuel too. Kuli akuti borehole fund, iyi ndi imene anyamata a drilling amangila ma mansion awo mu Area 49 mu. Ma project a Irrigation nde siyani. Conduit of siphoning money. Cement gate, wiremesh gate. Mpqka kumanga zinyumba ku Area 43. Tikuwululani muwona. Mumasimbwa mukuba muja. Pano nde ndipayere payere.

    1. What are you waiting for? Reveal and expose everything. Even you who have information on MK92 bi what are you waiting for? Unpatriotic creatures! You mention that figure when cornered, why you Nazinkambe who change your appearance according to the surrounding

      1. Iwe suku wona kuti PS and his Directors are responsible? They are failing to exercize control and by doing that they are also perpetrators

    2. Projects like SHiP, SCIMP, IRLAD, & so many other projects ndikumene mabwana pa Irrigation pano analemelera. Kuba too much. Kuyambila PS yo all through to Chief Irrigation Officers anaba kwadzawoneni. Wina amangogula nyumba ngati akugula tomato. Nde kuli irrigation fund iyi nde its being abused heavily by ps, directors, deputies. If the government can do physical checking of property of top leadership at Irrigation Department ndipamene adzadziwe kuti anthu akusolora heavy. Next time i will menton names of contractors in this syndicate. Another person is mzimayi who was coordinator of scimp she was transferred to Blantyre

  45. Bwana Kandoje, Osadandaula. Inu ndinu munthu wa chilungamo. Anthu akudana ndi Zomba ndiye nkhani yakula apa. Ted Nandolo has also been suspended.

  46. Kandoje break the ice. This is the right time for you to end the existing cash gate issues by telling the truth. Outline all the tricks which were being used so that you can be state witness all cases. But tell the truth and only the truth.we will help you to fish out the shark from Lake Ontario, how heavy SHE can be.

  47. Bambowa anaymaba kuba kale kale nthawi ya CODA financials ndi nyamata wawo wama computer woyambira ndi zina loti-Le……………..Ndipo alipo ambiri.Anayamba kuba using this system during Muluzis second term.Bingu inherited the system.DPP just perfected it.JB just destroyed it thats why it was discovered.Simunati.Prison idzaza mukakhala serious mpaka ku state house zifikanso zimenezi.

  48. ACB tathokoza lero tikadyerako kachambo bonya tidatopa naye. Taongonani bonya pamwmbapa, apo mwalemba related post chakumanjako. Bonya ali pachinthuyo ndi wapolisiyo angakome.Chinthunzi cha nambala 4 far right-malawian pictures only.

  49. What it means is that all cheques he signed are wrong and fraudulent. Are you going to be selective?

    1. There were set procedures that entailed when the Accountant General can sign a cheque and if those procedures were flouted then he is answerable. Iam surprised that it took this long to have him arrested because the audit report by Baker Tilly recommended that he be arrested.

  50. In yao we say (ambere chire) dat means ucant give money to someone while no receving goods. Apaneni aulure abamboooooo!!! Basi!!

  51. Hede ulu? Atsala ma controling officers. The massive fraud was performed under their watch and scrutiny. Paying officers sign cheques, controling officers approve payments. Paying officer is the last gate. The controlling officer opens the main gate. Sangalakwe mmodzi yekha wa amenewa. Makamaka paying officer sangagwe yekha; controlling officer nde woyamba ka. Kuli chada!

  52. ACB mwayamba kugwira ntchito tsopano. Koma muchenjere akushutani anthu amenewa ndalama adakali nazo.

  53. Where are the other ‘big fish’? We are still waiting. Don’t spare them. We want to see sharks and whales in our nets as well!

  54. Ine ndimadabwa kandonje amabwela ndi columm pano uja , kulephela kumuza iwe jb sawina , ayi awinana basi anthu akumudzi sachedwa sachedwa kukopeka akuwagawila chimanga, akuwamangila manyumba ,aaaaamumathawa cash gate mwagwidwa basi

      1. If you were stealing it is the act of stealing ikumangitse not someone else. If you connived with somebody to steal under false pretence that you have supplied things or services yet you did not that’s stealing you will face the law. If you repent to God you will be forgiven but know that stealing destroys a lot of people. Don’t look for scapegoats umaba vomera.

  57. this is pathetic!! all the signatures on the FRAUDULENT CAHGATE cheques BORE both his name and the PS approvals and you are arresting him NOW!!!! He should have been the first to be arrested together with the relevant PS nand of course the sitting Big fish hiding in USA! may you all rot in HELL!!! ACB means A CLUELESS BUNCH of fools!!

  61. Useless ACB. If Kandoje is being arrested because he signed cheques then all the cheques bearing his signature are fraudelent. Approvals and vouchers originate from ministries so why not pick PSs

    1. Most of the vouchers were not properly approved at the respective Ministries, since he was the signatory then he was responsible as he should have checked to find out if these cheques were indeed properly approved.

      1. If cheques were printed in the system then it means appropriate approvals regarding funding and payments were done at Ministry level…signing a cheque is part of the process after the respective Ministry has completed the payment circle

  62. Koma Mdala Iwe Ulibe Nasoni Kumanenepa Dibwiri Dibwiri Anthu Akufa Kwachulu Kukasungu Cifukwa Kucipatala Kulibe Makwala Zoona Koma Ulindi Mtima Ulindigazi Dala Iwe,kulima Fodya Kwachulu Kukasungu Kukhoma MSokho Koma Kupita Ku Cipatala Kukapeza Makhwala Kulibe Kufusa Akut Cash Gate.Why Amalawi Why?

  67. My problem is Joice Banda. Koma ameneyu sakhala asylum seeker? What is she doing outside the country? I just want to know this one thing and that is the day she will be returning to Malawi. Mphanvuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! Kwa ifeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Ken Msonda moni mbale!

    1. Your problem should be APM as well. This fallacy that only PP stole public funds and DPP did not does not hold water. PP used exactly the same methods that DPP under Bingu used. And we all know who the real number 2 in that administration was. From 2009 up to Bingu’s death over Easter 2012, there was a free for all under the DPP regime.

      If anything APM and his brother are worse thieves than JB. While we are demanding that JB should come home and face justice, we should also keep in mind that APM too will have to answer for his own plunder during Bingu’s ill fated second term. For now he is ‘immune’ from justice; but the moment he is no longer president he is also going to face the music for reaping where he did not sow…

      1. Absolutely true.Kuona Fisi you are saying the truth and Lutepo was DPP then and he only joined PP on the eve of the PP convention in BT together with Mijiga.They had lots of monies in their car boots and they moved around buying votes from poor PP members so that they continue stealing from where they had stopped with DPP. Malawians have to know this.The Formular that Lutepo was using with the DPP was carried forward into PP government and hence the cashgate

    2. A Jimu Banda mukulankhula bwino vuto mwayiwalapo za 92 billion.JB assylum seeker are you day dreaming? Akangolengeza tsiku lobwerera nonsenu Mpwezi.Bwanji osangosangalala kuti dziko lukukanikani JB kulibe.Inu osadabwa minyama mukuyiwonayi ma floods mu Chilobwe.Mulungu sakulola ulamuliro wakumidima.Mvula njeee chimanga 50 to 60 percent chafota chisdakhwime inu nkumalankhula moduka mutu mmalo momapemphera.Chaka cha mawa thumba la chimanga ndi 15 to 20 thousand kwacha.Zaziii! !!

  69. ACB is now talking. Some of us expected this kind of action. When you go to the Bank with a cheque of an amount more than a hundred thousands they hold you so long to verify the authority. What more with cheques of billions or millions, somebody big must be in the corner saying yes to the payments.

    We need to know the truth, and not this meandering around the small boys who may be just tools of heavy loads racket. We expect to see the Directors, PSs, Principal Accountant, senior accountant, accountants, Reserve Bank big guns , Commercial Banks officials also coming into play. This was a big scam, not just the level it is rated.

  71. Lachifote likakwana fanta amanyung’unya. ife kumakhumbira mukumanga manyumba, kumakwera magalimoto opuma zili zakuba…..nthawi yanu yakwana…..Christopher Tukula ukapeleke list ya ma asset anapanga declare Kandoje ku ACB alande. Apa a ACB savutika konse.

  73. Tsopano ndiye kuti ma cheque onse amene adasayina iwowa chaka chonse ndiye kuti ndiwolakwikatu. You will not select a few cheques

  76. Thank commercial banks as well need to be thoroughly looked into and any check deposit more than 100 thousand needs to be cross checked by the issuer so how come did the cheques go through? A lot more people have to go in.this cash gate has hampered Malawi heavily. I wish kamuzu was around

  78. At least the lake was fair with us today . I hope there was no strong wind. That is why today we have managed to have at least a big fish. This fish was enjoying happily with the biggest fish of that time which is now swimming in Lake Ontario, lake Erie, lake Huron with other big fish from the White House in USA.Not later or sooner our fishnet will catch this fish which is in USA. Of course lero tipumirako kabonya.Nanga tikati tadya kungodya bonya wotchedwa sithole basi.

  80. Mukukeni Chitchendecho awulula basi Osamusekelera zulani mapwala adziwe theba m’dala opanda ulesi ndikuba chuma cha anthu osauka Please ACB We need your help squeeze his balla real hard until he cries Chweeeeeeeee Chwiiiiiiiiiiiii Yaa…! koma pamenepo uku ndiko kudza watsala Pitala

  82. I can’t see people with names like Munthali,Mkandawire,Nyirongo,Kumwenda or Singini being arrested for such malpractice in the plunder of public resource… why?All i see or hear are names like kandoje,namathanga,lutepo

    1. Quota at play. They were completely kept far from ndalama? kapena they are principled? or it is just a matter of time? Is second one, then Malawi should entrust ndalama with these people.

  85. Thats good komanso ma directors ndi ma accountants onse atengedwe for questioning. Ma cheque akalembedwa amene amasayinila ndi anthu amenewa. Ne zimadutsa bwanji ma billions osagwidwa, amagawana. We are waiting

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