Lawyer Mbeta puts Chakwera’s witness on spot over credentials: IT expert Bendulo has no qualification

October 31, 2019 Wongani Chiuta - Nyasa Times 90 Comments

President Peter Mutharika’s lawyer Frank Mbeta on Thursday in the petition case to nullify presidential elections results for the May 21 Tripartite Elections as filed by UTM Party president Saulos Chilima (first petitioner) and Malawi Congress Party president Lazarus Chakwera (second petitioner), pressed Chakwera’s fourth witness Anthony Bendulo to state his qualifications as an ICT expert which he said he has none.

Mbeta: Bendulo has no IT training from recognised institution

Bendulo has been in the witness box for a second day after he was first cross-examined by Attorney General (AG) Kalekeni Kaphale representing the second respondent Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) and had been narrating how the elections were manipulated through use of Tippex, other manual alterations and duplicate or fake result sheets.

On Thursday morning, Mbeta asked Bendulo to state his qualifications to ascertain his credentials as an ICT expert.

“I have international experience and international skills,” said Bendulo in response to a question from Mbeta on what are his qualifications.

He added: “My knowledge is beyond that [qualifications.]”

Mbeta further quizzed Bendulo: “Who qualifies you as an ICT expert?”

The witness said he does not have any qualification in IT.

President Mutharika’s lawyer asked Chakwera’s fourth witness if he has any certificate, diplomat, and degree in ICT.

Bendulo said he had no qualification.

“But you call yourself as ICT analyst?” asked Mbeta as Bendulo responded “yes.”

Bendulo told the court that he has taught in many countries in Africa on IT, saying he has experience and expertise in the IT field and has no interest to attain formal qualification.

But Mbeta noted that Bendulo has no training from recognised institution.

“Everybody am sure has gotten the point here,” said Mbeta.

He asked Bendulo again if he has any classroom qualifications, which he said “no.”

Chilima and Chakwera want the presidential elections results nullified and order a re-run.

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90 replies on “Lawyer Mbeta puts Chakwera’s witness on spot over credentials: IT expert Bendulo has no qualification”

  1. The guy is political expert too. Because he answered politically and his answers are the ones making him to be qualified. Otherwise, Mbeta would himself know his qualifications without asking further questions.

  2. Let’s call a spade a spade here. This guy has no qualifications period. He is not a credible IT expert. Which institution can hire someone without credentials? He was teaching in bogus colleges. He was teaching computer basics.

    2. Kkkkk that’s where we all got wrong.. U can have all those formal qualifications but not an expert in a certain field..I have a friend who dies not have those formal qualifications but he is an expert in IT and has been hired by lectures at certain government college to do their job they can not accomplish.. Am telling you the guy is an expert as Bendulo is..

  3. Even Bill Gates does not have formal qualifications, but introduced all window based systems which professors follow.

      1. Lol,,,so in ur myopic thnking, evidence and facts are obtained in a classroom? Do you have any formal education boss?

  4. As this young man Bendulo was giving his quick CV, I could see a gifted and hard working person who earns a clean income as compared to some lawyers who are best at robbing amwenye in town. My boy Bendulo, I pray that our God guides you at all times – for your good and for the good of your country Malawi. By the way, I hear Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were college dropouts!

      1. Your opinion..sometimes we degrade ourselves.. We can reach where we want if we think positively and stop degrading ourselves..

  5. Kumalawi kuno ndife amphawi that is why timawona ngati kuti computer umaphunzira ku school. Majority of dangerous hackers do not have any official qualification. Mbeta has a mere honours degree and majority of these guys copy each other cases. To have a person with a mere honours degree on radio sounding like he has higher qualification is shameful.
    He is also very corrupt and once we get rid of this corrupt regime he will face his day in court.

  8. This Attorney Bendulo has worked in 11 countries teaching IT, now you should ask yourself how did he manage to get all those jobs. He is too clever and smart. He never came to court to talk about his educational background. The era of formal qualifications is fading away and people now are moving with time. Have you ever heard of 4th industrial revolution? Classroom education will shortly be a thing of the past. You can still drive a car even if you don’t have a licence. Look now, he managed to teach in more than 10 countries but without formal qualifications. So who is clever between a person with 20 formal qualifications but without a job and Bendulo with no formal qualifications but managed to penetrate the job market. Za ma qualification mupusa nazo ngati che Muthalika.

    1. Mwana wanga ali 2 years old koma amadziwa kugwiritsa ntchito computer pamene ine tate wake only started using a computer nditapita ku college. Umphawi ndi umene umachititsa zonsezi ndiye thinking ya Mbeta is crowded by umphawi mentality.

  9. Mbeta kodi kufunsa maphunzilo ndi kufufuza za umboni wobela masankho zikungwirizana? Iwe Mbeta dziwa kuti ukutaya nthawi dala kuti mbuyanuyo abakhalabe pa mpando wachinyengowo. Tsiku ndi limodzi mumfune musafune wina ausiya mpando umenewu. Phunzilani kusunga nthawi pomafunsa mafunso a zisankho osati mafunso opepelawo FEEEEEEEEEEE..

    1. Then Bendulo is more clever than an MSCE holder with 16 points who is sitting phwi at home doing nothing. Kuganiza mwachikale uku, zoti kuli 4th industrial revolution simukuziziwa? 10 years ago we would enrol for basic computer skills and awarded with diplomas upon completion of the training. These days an 8year old is more knowledgeable in basic computers and as such that kid will not need formal basic computer training but to up skill himself in the future by doing more research in computer programming and software development. Formal education and training are relevant to specific disciplines such as medicine.

    2. Kuganiza kwa umphawi uku. Kunjaku ma hackers owopsa kwambiri alibe formal education koma computer amayitha mothetsa dovu.

      1. The issue is not about using a computer which every Jima and Jack can do but it’s an issue of how the tabulation system was used to rig elections not just yapping. It goes beyond how the DBMS was manipulated/tampered with to change the outcome of the election which your IT expert did not explain. He never even explain the pattern he claims to have been used and how it correlates to the election outcome. Don’t call this dude an IT expert for he knows nothing.

  13. Why do people go to school then. If anything, on job trainings would have been appropriate for lawyers, doctors, nurses, bankers etc. May be IT is the least profession in the world that require on job training only for someone to become an expert. Wake up guys and put your politics behind. With this kind of thinking I don’t think Malawi will develop even with the best president in the world

  15. Is Bendulo presenting expert evidence? If so , experience is a mark of expertise. There is a divided case on this. Lawyers know better.

  16. If the same question was asked about late Steve Jobs, what would people say. They would be saying he is an IT expert. But do they know that he was a college dropout? Paper qualifications are nothing if you do not have the knowledge of the subject. People buy papers but you cannot buy knowledge and experience. Has he done something to dispute he is an expert in the field. I advise some know it all guys making silly comments to watch the movie My Cousin Vin when prosecution was trying to dismiss a witness as an automobile expert and was accepted based on the experience she had.

    1. Very true. even Bill Gates is a Harvard College drop out. He dropped college at 20 year old but look now every one uses his Microsoft products!! people are brainwashed to think that a mare paper/qualification makes one better…but people who have made big don’t even have any formal college papers etc but only have “Brains”

      1. The Microsoft application is not developed by Bill Gates himself he has a team of qualified-with papers software developers who develop the Microsoft applications. He founded it yet but he not a developer as such he cannot explain technical issues like software bugs etc which require technical knowledge which this hero bendulo was supposed to explain but failed. The fact that mumatha kucheka nyama does not in any way qualify you to become a surgeon.

  17. someone with dyslexia if at all mbeta knows its meaning runs the very posh,big train company called VIRGINS TRAINS and the guy has no any qualification. the idiot qualified people like you bastard mbeta better read widely and get better knowldge .ee are tired of myopic people like you wirh foolish idiots thinking you are the only people who knows it all with your corruptive pitala who is pumping money in your accounts to defend him so the poor go poorer.
    wait and you will see anthu osowa ntendere simikugona ndi ma meeting ausiku.

  19. Lawyer Mbeta want to tell the world that only people who went to school are qualified to be witnesses? Bendulo in this case is more qualified than yourself Mbeta!

    1. Ndipo mbeta yo ndi galu mbuli school ya Bendulo ikugwirizana bwanji ndi kukhala witness, kadzidzi mbeta finye udzafa imfa yowawa

  21. MCP Sleeping.Anyone can fool you and pay him.So you can pick anyone as long as he knows how to cook a story with no verification.Mavenda ndalama zabooka ku Mcp pitani mukadye nao.Bola kudziwa kupeka nkhani mukadya nao.

  22. This is a shame to MCP indeed kkk.Sure how did MCP employ this crook kkk.Ohooo paja achewa kkkk kupusa mwabota kkk.This Bendulo was a waste of human resources kkk.,Chimwendo and Mkaka are better of than this idiot kkkk.MCP inakungana mwakathithi bwanji ,komabe akubwera nazo kkk.Kutheka tiVotanso kkk.Komano ena akuzitengela ndale ngati amadya pomwe ali a pumbwa ngati ndemwe kkkk.I tried tosupport AFORD as my home region party koma aaash,ndale saakudya kkk tizingocheza apa kkkk

    1. Inunso kaya chamba chimakukolani kaya,Bendulo is not there to show his education level but to testify and give evidence of how votes elections were manipulated in favor of Petre Muntharika.

  23. Experience alone does not make one an expert, especially in high level court cases. A combination of academic qualification (and recognition) and experience is what does it, otherwise any successful tobacco farmer in the village may as well call himself or herself an expert. Would that be credible without even a diploma in Agriculture, abale?
    Bendulo is apparently only a vendor in IT knowledge. NOT an expert; and the Court should throw much of his evidence that relies on expertise.

  24. Mwapasa is the Acting IG, does he got qualifications for that job? I don’t think Mbeta you can manage to poke holes in this witness, ask Kaphale!

  25. Irrelevant when it comes to the evidence being represented by Bandulo regardless of whether he’s qualified in IT or not. The premise is based on unveiling of the stinking crap MEC / APM, were trying to conceal for the nations interest. You’re caught pants down with zero justification.

  26. If this is the company that chakwera keeps, then ayaya mcp yathadi. Poor lawyers, poor witnesses. Bola in 1999 Clive stanbrook presented stronger case against MEC. Yet mec still won the case unanimously

  27. Mbeta he himself is just reapiting what his boss Kaphale asked already, is he a qualified lawyer or better than Bendulo shame on you Mr. Mbeta with our TAX money

  28. I Can say the same of our current president who is over qualified but cant show any of it in the way he runs this country. If qualifications meant so much we would not have Zimbabwe languishing as a sorry state because late Robert Mugabe was regarded as a well schooled guy but left his nation in tatters. Come on guys that argument does not sit well with me until Professor Peter Muntharika shows us what he has done with his qualifications

  30. Iwe bendulo, mec’s database/results management system is beyond your understanding. Poti umatha kuloda nyimbo mufoni komanso kukonza mafoni a touch basi utizunze ndi umboni wolotawo? Tiye uko

  32. But let’s be honest guys and don’t take sides, analyst without credentials? This case is of national interest, is this the overwhelming evidence we’ve been made to believe that it’s available? Please save us money and not waste our resources with this mediocrity.

  37. Seems the unqualified is more better than the qualified kikkkkkk wisdom doesn’t come from school. Some of you called lawyer are just useless, you know nothing but stealing and being a liar.

  38. Mbeta should know that Kamkwamba has no formal qualification in electricity, but he lit power in his whole village. Intelligence and school are two different things.How about the microsoft guy what qualifications does he have, but the same Mbeta uses microsoft on his computer. This is a very silly argument Mbeta is advancing.

    2. Dubious analogies apa: Evidence given in Court cases requires a high degree of confidence that it is correct and appropriate.

    3. You are lame.
      Can we call Kamwamba an electrical engineer then? Simply shows nanunso simunapondeko ku xul.

    4. You don’t know what SC Mbeta is trying to prove to the judges about the witness’s credibility is all about. Achimwene this is a serious case my friend. Simasanjetu Ali Pandora.

  39. I don’t see any logic with the argument presented by Lawyer Mbeta..The court can’t dismiss facts or arguments presented by Bendulo on the grounds of qualifications. A Court witness is judged based on his evidence not qualification . Infact the lawyer has just wasted his time by focusing on the witness’s qualifications.

      1. Baba we have nothing to do with certificate , what we need its truth and honestly heart , certificate its just paper does not work.

  41. ministers are running portfolios without MSCE imene ndiye izi? Onsewa ma cadet akupatsiidwa ma contract’iwa alindi mapepala?

  42. He is not an authority in the field how then can he give expert advice. Osaphweketsa sukulu ndi yobvuta. Should I be advised by a non-IT expert?

  43. Just to remind Mbeta that The Boy who harnessed the wind did not have any qualifications from Poly.

  44. Is any qualification important in this case…? Mbeta wasowa nkhani apapa koma iwe walemba izizi ndiwe mbuzi yeniyeni ya mano kusi…tell us about irregularities not qualification ya witness… thats why ku DPP you are busy buying papers to qualify on paper and blank in your minds… big brains do not like showing themselves as you claim….

    How do you think one can teach students in IT internationaly without any qualification pajaso mumaganiza ngati mbuzi eti or nkhuku eti…?
    Leave h8m alone mukufuna mukadziwa mumulondole ndikukamupha muja muchitiramu eti?

    1. Which institution would allow such a person to teach any programmes? What did he present during interview?

      1. In developed you do not need to show papers to be given a job. All they want/need is your knowledge and skill it’s in Malawi where people are given job because of papers even there is nothing in the head. Check in UK/USA.

  45. Expertise means skill or knowledge in a particular field. One can pick up, gain or develop expertise.

  46. If we go by Mbeta’s reasoning, the trial is a waste of time if witnesses are supposed to be academically qualified. Experience matters and Bendulo seems to be very experienced in the IT field. It’s just that APM/MEC lawyers are trying hard to catch any floating stroll. .

    1. The guy has qualifications but in his sworn in statement he did not include that ,the best is to.move on like that without any qualifications.

      He is actually highly qualified and he has conducted it trainings for world bank it guys in some countries including western Europe.

      Don’t under estimate him ,He is doing his job as far as it is concerned.

  48. Koma Yes. Meaning Bendulo is not an authority on IT. Mumaziyambiranji zinazi. Wangofuna kuwadyera oChakwera uyu. kkkkkkkkk

  49. MBETA YU ARE A USELESS LAWYER SO WHATS YOUR BUSSINESS, JUST GO STRAIGHT TO THE POINT, ZIMENEZO ZILIBE NTCHITO CHIMENE AKUFUNA AKHOTI NDI UMBONI, WHAT ASTUPID LAWYER MBETA

      2. Sikusinja Peter mutharika anapha bingu mkuluwake chifukwa cha mpando nkana pano akuvutitsa dziko la Malawi. Mulungu akuona

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