ACB still keeping some millions from Chaponda
Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it is still holding some millions it took from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice- president George Chaponda in the Maizegate case.
Malawians, in different social media platforms, reacted angrily to the decision by graft bursting bodyto give back K29m to Chaponda.
However ACB director Reyneck Matemba said the money had not been part of the case.
“The money had not been part of the case. We are still holding on to K95m which is part of the corruption case,” said Matemba.
He said the ACB investigation on money laundering on the K29m fell out hence the decision to give back the money to Chaponda.
“I knew that Malawians would not be happy with the decision. I knew that they would be ridiculed and condemned,” said Matemba.
He said the ACB would always work according to law than please public opinion.
Matemba said the ACB obtained a court order to confiscate the money and the court also ordered to give him back the money which was not part of the case.
Chaponda, who was fired from President Peter Mutharika’s Cabinet, is answering three charges, including giving false information to ACB, influencing a public officer to misuse his position and possession of foreign currency while businessperson Rashid Tayub has one charge of persuading a public officer to misuse his position.
Meanwhile, defence lawyers have expressed dismay at continued deferment of the court proceedings andfeel the State is deliberately applying tricks to delay the proceedings.
“Each time the State has been coming up with excuses. For example, they asked for the recusal of Blantyre chief resident magistrate Simeon Mdeza. After that was declined, they came up with an application to have the matter be transferred to the High Court, all those were efforts of trying to delay the case,” observed Banda.
The counsel observed that Chaponda and Tayub would want to see the case concluded as quickly as possible because it was affecting them in various ways.
“The court case has an effect on businesses of both accused persons and as for Honourable Chaponda his political career is also impinged on,” he said
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What people are saying Mr Matemba is that ACB is so sloppy and unskilled that you don’t even have the minimum knowledge to interpret the relevant laws and provisions. You have imbecile investigators and prosecutors incapable of dealing with basic cases. you have lost case after case for lack of evidence in some cases blaming the magistrates or judges forgetting that these judges rule on the basis of the strength of the each case before them. If your investigators and prosecutors are weak then the judge has no choice but follow the law to the tee. I suggest you contract external experts to investigate these politically charged cases. The public has lost confidence in ACB…….completely. You keep bungling cases making thinking that you’re in the pockets of politicians.
Zgowera. Chaponda anabela limodzi ndi Peter Mthalika amangidwe.
I like Matemba’s attitude on this case.That’s what we call objectivity.He doesn’t care what you think as long as the ACB does it’s job.
ACB inadziwa bwanji kuti ndalama zina ndi zachilungamo ndipo zina ndi zamachimo
DPP FIELD MARSHALS
PLAYING THE MUSIC
BUSHIRI PLEASE RESCUE
THESE PEOPLE (MALAWIANS ) AM BEGGING YOU ON BEHALF OF THE YOUTHS
AND THE LESS PRIVILEGED
Useless comment on this forum. Only GOD can and will always rescue anybody in trouble and not your so called _______..
Repent to the Almighty God before you perish.
The George Chaponda I know and the one I read about in media are totally different.You might know this but the George Chaponda I worked with at the ministry of foreign affair and his PS Daliso Kabambe during was very strict, committed to work and disciplined.
They should have just given him back all this money because lets face it ACB is just buying time and thats why akuchulutsa ma excuse ever since the case started. This is unfair to the accused, otherwise George Chaponda suffered public humiliation for nothing.
Chaponda BOMA!!!!!!!! DPPP BOMA!!! MUTHARIKA BOMA!!!!!!!!!!
ANTHU ANAYESETSA KUIPITSA MBILI YA CHAPONDA KOMA MULUNGU SI MUNTHU.EVERYTIME YOU CURSE HIM OUT THE MORE HE BLESSES HIM.PHUNZIRO LATHU LA LERO: KUWELUZA NDI KWA MWINI WAKE JEHOVA.AMEN
Chaponda has no case to answer. ACB is embarrassing itself because they relied much on Chaponda’s public perception koma paokha anakanika kupeza umboni okwanira against him. How I wish mbuzi yotchedwa Kondowe was still ku ACB kuti aone kuti dyera limaonga ntchito.He was used by DPP enemies pano ali kuti???
What are people failing to understand? Chaponda didnt get all the money back from ACB.Komanso choti tidziwe nchoti just like anyother person he is innocent until proven guilty and certainly TIMES GROUP mothandizana ndi KASAKULA, MADALITSO MUSSA, will pay him money for defamation.
Koma amalawi ndioipa.Anadziwa kuti Chaponda will in the end be cleared and that’s why adaotcha dala ma office a ministry of agriculture cholinga adzati Chaponda wasowetsa evidence and Malawians should continue hating him.
Most of us got our facts from facebook and Times newspaper but what we have to know is that Journalists don’t write anything good about George Chaponda simply because amati mkuluyu ndioumila.Thats why aliyense anamuukila nthawi imodzi koma he did steal anything.Soon ACB will give himback his money
I agree about our journalists. Give them money and they write good about you snd quite on your bad deeds. During the 2014 campaign one no bad news item was written about a certain running mate. He became vice president and still no story done relating to his bad deeds. Yet there is cleat history of theft, bribes, dismissals and ofcourse infedility. Money talks.
Mulungu amapanga njira popanda njira! Anthu ambiri timadana ndi Chaponda chifukwa cha nkhani zopanda mutu weniweni.Ilipo ndalama inasowa ku Agriculture? Palibe! Just like any other Malawian he deserves justice.
Finally justice is taking its course. God bless Chaponda and pay him back for he suffered for nothing. The only crime he committed was being close to APM and a lot of his fellow DPP gurus including Chilima and Nankhumwa thought he was being groomed for the presidency. Now that they know Mutharika himself is standing they have no reason to continue hating Chaponda.
Ndizosadabwitsa! Mkuluyu palibe chomwe adalakwa.Anthu anangofuna kumuonongera mbiri chifukwa ankaona ngati akhala president in 2019. Kwa iwo Mission accomplished koma anangomuonongera mbiri pachabe.
I wonder when people call Chaponda mbava without any bases.this guy a Yale university graduate.He has worked in so many countries at top level including Poland,France,Somalia,Zambia, Ethiopia, Swirteland and we expect him to be poor.mind you that was before joining politics in 2002.The only crime Chaponda committed was to close to Mutharika and people within the DPP thought he was going to take over in 2019
This is not surpring at all.ACB Had no concrete evidence against George Chaponda.Thats why mpaka lero palibe chomwe chikuchitika.Very soon he will have his freedom back! Congratulations GT!
Many Malawians particularly the elite are not happy with the development. But let us not forget that we are a nation governed by laws and not personal emotions displayed on social media, through MCP owned Times Group or overemotional George Kasakula. Facts are important in every case. Malawi government did not lose any single tambala from actions of the former agriculture minister. If you have been following the case you can agree with me that this timely and not only will George Chaponda win the case but also get compensation from Times Group for defamation
Ngati makhothi amasula chigawenga chotchedwa Raph Kasambara ndiye mukanene Hon. Chaponda.Its clear he will win this case.
George Chaponda ndi munthu olimba mtima.Tikakhala enafe titagwa ndi BP polingalira kuti nkhani zimenezi zinapekedwa ndi anzake ku DPP komweko.
I love how everybody was castigating Hon. George Chaponda on facebook when the maizegate issues came out and now that the truth is slowly coming out anthu ayamba kupinda michira.
If George Chaponda wins this case I will personally ask him to run for the presidency of this country simply because that will mean he is a survivor and nothing can come his way. DPP ndi Boma!
George Chaponda will win this case! And not because he is DPP but because there is no enough evidence against him. Misuse of his office ndikulandidwa ndalama zikugwilizana bwanji?
Anthu osamva ndi omwe akukwiya ndi Chaponda getting his money back.ACB has made it clear that the case is on going and the money involved in the case against him in still at reseve bank.Remember Chaponda is ONLY A SUSPECT.