Infighting at MBC: Mungomo in smear campaign against Sumbuleta

September 30, 2015 Nyasa Times Reporter 61 Comments

Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Director of Programmes Albert Mungomo is reportedly distributing a series of anonymous letters attacking MBC Director General Aubrey Sumbuleta, President Peter Mutharika and his aide, Ben Phiri among others.

Mungomo: Suspected to be behind smear campaign against MBC boss
Mungomo: Suspected to be behind smear campaign against MBC boss

This week messages have gone viral on email and Whatsapp message sharing platform chronicling wide allegation against Sumbuleta ranging from abuse of office and sexual offences.

However, an investigation reveal that the IP addresses from which the slanderous emails originated have been traced to IT gadgets used by Albert Mungomo, one of the senior managers at the public broadcaster.

According to our investigations, Mungomo’s official email address is [email protected] and it uses IP address number.16.345.279.41. The slanderous mail in circulation uses the same IP address but with a fake account named “[email protected]”.

For close to three months now, Mungomo has been sending malicious emails to almost all media houses in Malawi but the organizations have been turned them down due to their slanderous nature.

Using account name [email protected], he sent the emails to media houses in July this year and the second anonymous letter followed on the 25th of August, 2015. The latest version of these anonymous letters was sent to the media houses on Thursday 24th September, 2015.

In all these attempts, the emails used the same IP route and address used by Mungomo’s official email.

This is not the first time Mungomo has been connected to chaos at MBC. Previously, Mungomo and his third wife Gloria Banda had been accused of running the programmes department at MBC as a family business.

Sources in administration at MBC say in the department Mungomo is Director while his wife Gloria is Chief which means Gloria reports to her husband.

But in this current of attacks, Mungumo has gone flat out hitting his own Director General and his colleagues in the ruling DPP including the president’s special aide Ben Phiri.

Nyasa Times understands that Mungomo has a grudge with the DPP leadership and that’s why he is attacking everyone he feels is close to the DPP ass he claims to have done so much for Peter Mutharika to win but he was not rewarded accordingly.

‘‘ Come and ask anybody here.. Albert Mungomo says Mutharika brought Sumbuleta to head MBC simply because he is Lhomwe.. Instead of making him Director General, apparently that’s what they had agreed,’’ said one of the MBC employee.

The investigations have also discovered that Mungomo was demanding that he be returned as Presidential Press Secretary following the 2014 election victory by the DPP in May last year.

For two years, Mungomo served as Presidential Press Secretary for late President Bingu Wa Mutharika.

Inside sources at MBC say that, Sumbuleta was the one who promoted Albert Mungomo to the position of Director of Programmes after previous Director General Benson Tembo turned down pressure from government to give Mungomo the post.

Investigations have further revealed that the email was first circulated to three receivers whose IP addresses are owned by Globe Internet Services but rented to MBC. At the time of posting the story we had not traced the users of those IP addresses.

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61 replies on “Infighting at MBC: Mungomo in smear campaign against Sumbuleta”

  1. Mr Mungomo ,smearing someone about sexual offences? Really? Lets not forget that people do change therefore I reserve my comment. It had many words like a thesis.

  2. Komatu agalu awiriwa onse alibe University Degrees at all. Mungomo has just started his Diploma at Poly. But Mungomo wants to be the DG with nothing academically with his wife Gloria Banda. Shaa Malawi has gone to the dogs indeed.

  4. Sumbuleta mwangodana naye chifukwa ndi Mlomwe. Look guys, Sumbuleta is a performer. He is among the few Malawian journalists to have worked for the BBC and other prominent international media. He left a high paying job for MBC just to help the institution. Zikakhala izi zonyengana zili paliponse. Ndani sanyenga pa ofesi?

  6. Sumbuleta and Mungomo mukazitengela izi mudana koopsya woyambitsa ali phee
    Mungomo can have weakness so too Sumbuleta but I dont think zobvula mabulukuzo
    nzoona. Keep your heads up, though I dont know or like the two but this is work of adani basi

  8. Hon Jappie Minister of Information although you are very rarely commenting onto matters of our concerns, We wish to urge you to review DG Sumbuleta and DP Mungomo positions so that they can be removed from MBC and assign other jobs because they have brought Shame , torture to reputable MBC .How do you feel always these people fight one another due to who should be heading MBC and victimising innocent staff.Dont practice Mediocrity

  9. Musatitaitse nthawi, talembani zomwe mukuti zaululikazo za Sumbuletazo. Kodi amatani…..tiyambire pamenepo osatiyambira mmalele nkhani tisakuidziwa

  10. Koma yaaaa. Sumbuleta anafika pamenepa. Zitengera anthu olimba mtima. Watch out my bro Sumbuleta AKA Innocent Mawaya

  11. Tayamba kumva zambiri tsopano as a result of this article. Kani ziri choncho pa nyumba ya mphepo. Staff yayamba kuyankhula tsopano. Shhaaaaa. Wapa tsindwi anaulula wapadzala.

  13. Sumbuleta and Mungomo onsewa ndi azibwana because they were promoted to those positions because of politics not profession,Both of them they dont have qualifications to hold those positions and I wish Ministry of Information to come up open and challenge me what qualifications do those guys have on their files.Kondwani Nankhumwa and Chimwemwe Banda tried to appease them and give them better positions.Sumbuleta is true kukonda ku mvula trousers mu office kwa azimai ku MBC and azimai ambiri amuona katundu wake,Mungomo ndiye chisimu amakwatira ku office konko no wonder anachita kulanda mkazi wa eni ache Ralph Banda waku MRA.Akumana a Miseche okhaokha akulu awiriwa.Aphanapo ndithu Mungomo from Zomba and Sumbuleta from Mulanje.

  14. I have been on the computer checking the so called Mungomob IP address. It is linking to something different. Sumbuleta akudyera poyerayera. Someone Ali phee akufuna muzingomenyana, chipani cha DPP chipuse komanso strength ya chipani pa MBC ithe. Look out Sumbuleta, look out Mungomo.

  18. WaWa! U mean Sumbuleta? Is a man who knows his job,he is not a failure, it is a sin to be Alhomwe? The clear answer is no so let’s give support to A Sumbuleta. Don’t involve Ben phiri here kodi anakuputani chani? DPP! Boma!,Ben is royal the National party I mean DPP! Wawa!

  19. Stupid, you want people to be busy with Mr Mungomo fake accusations instead of understanding how country is corrupted. Watch MEC figures, Ma Mbendera ukoo, ndee makalatanso ndee chani? Write sensible aah

  20. abale,mkuluyu anada ndi mtima womwe mwati?kapenatisagwirire ntchito limodzi ndi banja lathu?winnayo asiye ngakhale zomuyenereza ali nazo? Abale jelous silitipindulira

  22. Mungomo, apa walowa mkati ndipo uleke zopusa zakozo. Ukhale munthu wabwino ungakhale akazi atatu?? Nawe Gloria uzimulangiza fisi wakoyo. Iwe Albert ndimakupatsa ulemu koma apa wailakwa. Iweyo sukuyenera kukhala D M ku MBC ndipo uleke zauchitsiru zakozo. Mpofunika akuchotse ulandirepo zako.

  24. Menyanani agalu inu. Mulibe manyazi, wina director wina director general. Osachita manyazi washing each other in public. MBC is a cheap institution and surely with cheap management.

  25. The problem of turning mulhakho wa alhomwe as an employment bureau. Mac hende Sumbuleta. Naweso mungomo kodi ku ma studios aku MBC nkoka sokerana ndi akazi akowo?

  26. Remember that Mungomo’s brother was an MCP member. I am not suprised to see him attacking his own boss.

  28. Politically motivated appointments are always a challenge world over. Be smart be professional in whatever you do and you will realize that you don’t need politicians to excel in life.

  30. SCRAMBLE FOR SELF ENRICHMENT AND POWER IN MALAWI :-
    I for one am not surprised with such people’s behaviours. Such people have been given a licence to reap where they didn’t sow. No one would reprise them so long they support government of the day. The problem is how will PAM entertain and meet the personal needs of all his special supporters, the likes of Mungomo, Bright, Ben and so forth. The president should lead Malawi to prosperity through sound economic policies that will bring growth and development to the people’s lives and country as a whole. He should work to root out corruption and try to eradicate poverty and instill discipline in government and public organisations. There should be zero tolerance for corruption activities and this should start at the top most, the president himself. Encourage hard work and improve peoples working conditions and please Stop mis-using of tax payers money. people are dying in hospitals due to lack of resources and medication. People living in fear of their lives due to increase in robbery and insecurity. This can not be right and needs to stop now. people pay tax in order to have these basic things. Protection, good roads, good hospitalsand good education among others things.
    Victor Jumbo

  31. Is this story true? or you just want to seek attention. a mungomo mukanangolemba letter nkupita nayo ku Lilongwe ndi kuchipani mpaka pa social media. Thats where i am at difficulty to believe this reporter.

  37. Ngati anthuwa adabwera ku MBC mu njira zina zosakhudzana ndi ukadaulo kapena ukatswiri pa ntchito, ndiye kuguzanaguzana kupitilira pofuna kuoneka wabwino. Anthuwa akufuna kudyera monga mmene akudyelera omwe adawabweletsa. Nyenyanani poti ndi nthawi yanu.

  38. Izi ndizotsakaikitsa. Mkazi wa Mungomo yemwe ndi Gloria anachita chotheka kuti Flora Nkusa Nkhoma achoke ku MBC. Gloria ndioyipa kwambiri pamodzi ndi mwamuna wakeyu kamba koti akutenga MBC ngati ndichinthu chakunyumba kwawo. Gloria behaves as if she is a Director of MBC. She’s fond of telling lies to her hubby, very unfortunate indeed!!!!! Malawians out there know that Kuli chipasupasu kuno ku MBC osati masewera koma ngati akuluakulu sachitapo kanthu kaya sindikudziwa kuti zitha bwanji ndipo zinsisi zambiri ziululika zomwe zikuchitika kuno ku MBC ndi M’boma.

  39. Those who thought they are done with Ben Phiri, he was spoted with the president in America. This dude called APM can not do without Ben. He is useless cant

  41. One thing about gmail is that it is deliberately designed with privacy in mind, meaning you won’t be able to extract the IP of the originating device. What you will get will be the IP of the carrier (AirTel, TNM, etc), if you are emailing from your phone, or the IP address of your internet service provider (ISP) if you are emailing from a computer somewhere. In fact, in most cases you just get one of the google servers in Mountain View, California if you try to do a trace. And since we have very few ISPs in Malawi, I wouldn’t be surprised if a trace on any one of them would have the same IP address as the one linked to Mungomo.

    I actually ran an IP trace on 16.345.279.41 an “invalid IP address” message.

  42. Kodi amalawi bwanji?? Kungofuna kumenyanitsa anthu basi. Smear campaign? Mwafufuza, mwapeza kuti ndi zonama kuti muziti smear campaign. Palitu nkhani apa, I think that is the starting yard.

  44. Shatapu. This is inside work meant to divide the DPP. Awiriwa sangamenyane, for what. May be there is something we dont know???????

  45. Fake ICT operators, dont destroy this good profession. IP 16.345.279.41 linked to mungomo? Go back to ICT School before I can school you.

  46. DPP this is felt inflicted….Mungomo left you and went to Amai….then came back and you gave hima job? zoziyamba musova. Njoka saweta.

  55. That is a routable IP address (a public IP address) and you can’t claim that it is assigned to a pc or gadget on an internal network. This is rubbish!! Just as bad as saying this parcel came from mr mungo mo just because it has the exit address of MBC exit when you clearly know that all MBC employees use the same exit to send parcels!! Ask people who know these things before you write and you will be guided accordingly!!! Aaaaaa a Malawi bwanji kodi???

  56. Its true there is alot of infighting at MBC and how come Mungomo and his wife working together and Gloria reporting to her Husband,and Mungomo is influenced by his Wife to make transfers of whomever his wife doesnot want inline.We are working in fear.We are always hunted with the named family,akuti Sumbuleta adali kutiko He has never worked at MBC,anabwela ndi andale apitenso ndi andale.

  58. OSADABWA, Ameneyo ndiye MUNGOMO amamva zake zokha,kodi osangomuchotsa bwanji akalime thonje?za zi tizingomva Mungomo , MBC, MBC MUNGOMO,

  61. Hey guys leave your friend alone. What is wrong with Malawians? Why do you want to fight friends in the media. Why can’t we learn to love one another? Politics everywhere? Do we really read the Bible. Where is our Love? Love thy nebour! That’s the most important commandment. Ntchito zikusowa sibwino kuonongerana mchere abale. Chonde kondanani

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