UK backed corruption audit exonerates Joyce Banda: Malawi govt releases Cashgate names
Malawi Government on Thursday publicly released the much-awaited Baker Tilly forensic audit report into state funds that had been stolen by corrupt officials containing names of companies and individuals but contrary to popular smear former president Joyce Banda and former vice president Khumbo Kachali names are not there.
Minister of Justice Samuel Tembenu told the media when he presented the comprehensive report that investigations into cashgate were still on-going.
The report showed that $30m was stolen in six months from April to September in 2013.
Tembenu who was flanked by Minister of Information Kondwani Nankhumwa and deputy Auditor General Langton Gomani, said the report was authentic and not doctored in any form.
He stressed that the report was not an indictment of anybody but investigations into how government lost billions.
“The report is not a court judgment and should be treated as an investigative report. Most of the names here are already in the public domain and these people are answering cases in court,” Tembenu said.
The names revealed were already in public domain and recently exposed on Nyasa Times report.
s Clive Engineering Company of Dennis Mwezi Mhango which cashed MK20,800,078.61; Covs Landscape Recreation and Nurseries of Omer Daudi Fane Chitipi collected MK30,965,868.40 and Super Signs of Alex Black Nyemba got MK600,000.00.
The report also mentions indicted Stafford Mpoola. He was charged with money laundering and being found in possession of property suspected to have been stolen in a case involving about K1.6 billion.
Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested Mpoola in October 2013 after he was suspected to be involved in siphoning money amounting to K1, 113,397,413.31 from the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) through his company, Stadal Building Construction.
Mpoola was charged with money laundering and being found in possession of property suspected
to have been stolen in a case involving about K1.6 billion.
Also mentioned in Kettie Chingoli Kamwangala of Explorations with a cheque payment of MK16, 750,600.00. She was already charged with money laundering and theft of K28 million (about $70 000) from government and pleaded not guilty to both charges.
The list includes Kaneno Building Contractors with Thokas Satema, Zefaniya Satema and Ndaona Satema collecting cheques of MK 27,359,630.43; MK60,142,560.00; MK55,182,612.31 and – MK52,466,530.89
Whayo Panel Beating services of Ellard Whayo at Biwi Triangle in Lilongwe appear in the list with K91, 000.00.
Others suspected include Afro Oriental Investments of Jan Davidse, Barbara Ndhlozi, John Douglas Spenser Gray, Hanifa Thomas with payment of MK1, 816,000.00 12. Walusako General Dealers involving Irene Nhlane Zimukilre Mwenechanya and Julia Banda
The list also has Sky engineering of Steven Golden Mwenitete; Dan Civil engineering contractors of Daniel Ndembo, Ziuya construction of Mzipasi Moyo; Standard Freight Services of Patrick Chilalika and Faith Construction Company of Angella Katengeza.
Appearing in the cashgate list also are Megan Construction with MK15 million payment to Doreen Nyirenda and Khumbo Mkandawire; Hardline construction company of Phyoka Oscar Kaunda – MK17,395,431.20 and Mk15 million to Makhausi constructions of Fatch Chungano.
Other ‘cashgate’ names in the list are already facing the charges including Sibongile Chimphango, Caroline Savala and Laura Savala.
Businessperson Caroline Savala accused of obtaining about K84.9 million (about $213 000) from Malawi Government pleaded not guilty to the two charges of theft and money laundering.
Building contractor, Laura Savala, is accused of siphoning K160.6 million (about $401 500) through the Ministry of Tourism between July and September this year.
Sibongile Chimphango is accused of stealing K286 million (about $715 000) for payment of services not rendered to government.
However, the appendices contained in the report are missing a list of individuals linked directly or indirectly to cashgate and charts showing links between individuals and businesses involved in cashgate.
The report says nearly half of the money went to 16 private companies for services they did not provide.
It says this was done by taking advantage of a loophole in the government’s financial management system.
Timeline of theft
- April 2012: Joyce Banda becomes president of Malawi.
- September 2013: Former state budget director Paul Mphwiyo is shot at his home and airlifted to South Africa. He survives.
- September 2013: Malawi newspapers break the story of the ¬massive looting of public funds.
- September 2013: President Banda hires London firm Baker Tilly to audit suspected government departments.
- October 2013: Police arrest the first Cashgate suspect, Victor Sithole, who is found with bags of cash at his house after a tip-off from his domestic worker.
- October 2013: The anticorruption bureau arrests three other civil servants, a contractor and the principal secretary for tourism, Triza Senzani.
- October 2013: Banda fires her Cabinet, accusing some government officials of looting.
- November 2013: The chief suspect in the Cashgate scandal, Oswald Lutepo, hands himself over to the police after being flagged on Interpol’s most wanted persons list.
- January 2014: The anti corrup-tion bureau institutes an investigation and arrests more suspects.
- September 2014: The anticorruption bureau arrests Mphwiyo and his wife on allegations that he stole $5-million. He is charged with money laundering and theft. October 2014: The high court in Lilongwe jails Senzani for three years. She becomes the first Cashgate suspect to be jailed.
- October 2014: Lutepo links Banda to Cashgate, saying phone transcripts will prove his innocence. The court grants an order for Banda’s calls to be examined.
Policians will always back their friend coz they know dat they r to do the same next time.Mulzi got out with a lot,same Bingu nothing done.Please donors go to the grassroots with your money and not giving these Account No. One theives!
Kodi mesa amati Cashgate inayamba 2005? And where is the so called K94 Billion enquiry? Mlandu wa former President Bakili Muluzi wozembetsa K1.7 Billion uli pati kodi? I think the government is not serious with these issues, too much covering up milandu since the ones rulling us anatola nawo tizikwamato
Koma iyi nkhani ilko bad. Uku kunali kubelatu. Izi mbava zinalibe chifundo namwamene anthu wamba asaukila mu Malawi. Please have no mess on them. If possible you pull the balls(macende/mapolo) between their legs until they squeal like PIGS. Ati kupusa. You also seize any property suspected to have been acquired throgh the same Cashgate.
Jah gonna ben dem all
politicians hide each other because they knew each others dirty secrects
Onsewo ndi osalakwa. olakwa ndife tonse a Malawi chifukwa timasakha mbava kuti zizitilamula. Chimene tingawapange anthu awa ndi kuwawotcha kuti asazapezekenso akutibera kutsogoloku. Ngati pangapezeke chisoni, anthuwa atipunzitse momwe amasololera, chifukwa ngati satero, ifmis ikhala ikugwiritsidwa tchito yobera mpaka kalekale.
Cashgate report at its best.
A false report! Mzungu can not include love issues in audit report! mwagwa nayo! Izi mwalemba nokha! Akumangani azungu!!!
this report not true!!!!!
Ansewo akolole zomwe anafesa.Maboma enanso mbuyomu afufuzidwe.
a mec ndalama za aphunzitsi zili pati ?cashgate ipose apa .sikuba kumeneko akanakhala akumpoto zikanakhala bwanji?
anthu osaphhunzira vuto lanu ndilomwelo.tatopa ndikulamulidwa ndi matchona ifeso tikhozxa kulamulaso bwino osatidyera masuku pa mutu.zonse zinayambira ku mpoto .
Heeee!! Just look at the names themself I can recall its full of tumbukas,so they are the one who wanted to kill people of this nation by disgracing the innocent woman mama JB? Oh my goodness
Many people are disappointed because they wanted to hear what they dreamt to be big fish like Joyce Banda and Khumbo Kachali. This was anti semitism.
Enawa akapanidwa aulura yemwe amadya nawo ngati mmene wayambira kuulula Lutepo. JB sikuti ali pabwino ayi. Mmimba mwatentha kale pano.
I am so proud of JB 🙂
It will be interesting to see who will be mentioned in the 92 billion report, I promiss…big kahuna will be on top of the list seconded small kahuna. mark my words ………
I will trust a Report only from God.
@ 44,dont you think she made that statement after realising someone donated vehicles which might have been bought using cashgate money? As Henry Mussa said following the death of the late president “tinazulira mitu titazindikira kuthandauza kwa imfa ya a president”. JB is also a human being and has reactions as well as emotions. If you can remember,she made alot of blundering statements around that time. The question is when they “benefitted” do they mean who benefitted knowingly or ignorantly that the cash,gifts were from stolen money. Do we have to take to court pastors and Sheiks churches,mosques school blocks etc who recieved donations from cashgaters unknowingly? Will the churches and mosque be recovered by the gvt. How about orphanages etc?
vimangeni vaatumbuka vonse poti mevivi mvakuba zedi kumannamiza wanthu kuti mvophunzila da koma vili vimbava votha hito. eeeeeeeeeee dala otumbuka onse okathera ku maula and no fudolizimu poti onse oyendetsa okakhala oli ku maula da. nanu ojoisi muzisanha omuna okwatila nawo m’nga olitchadi othaitha ngati mewawa ongakuthandizeni? tawonani lerotu otumbuka aja zimene amapanga. tulupemphako opitala kuti ochotse votumbuka vonse kuyambira Goodal Gondwe. no wonder that Kamuzu had to send all northerners back home ndi vimbava votheratu.
so far,you are the only futureless brute that i have come across on this forum,go back to school and learn how to reason mordenly.
ndikukaika ngati mainawa ndiokwanila
Mukukaika chifukwa JB mulibe? Search me!!!!
JB ndi deal. She has served the nation from these DPP monsters!
the report cant be trusted coz they made alot of noise when they were in opposition but once in power they developed cold feet,why?their business associates who bankrolled their campaign are mentioned.and lawyers who defended cashgate suspects are in gvt,what an irony?
Matthew 7:1-5New International Version (NIV)
Judging Others
7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Amalawi penapake tidasinzapo pamenepa 1). Bingu adathamangitsa azungu otibera fodya ndi thonje. 2) Joyce anakawapembedza, anali pachinzake ndi kumuikira kumbuyo. 3) ku Mangalande adalemba ganyu gulu lofafaniza mbiri yoipa ya JB ndi boma lake lokuba.4)a Billy Tilley ofufuza za cashgate ndi akumangalandenso kom, timayembekera kuti angaulule atakhala kuti mzawoyu adaba nawo? Tikadapeza wina wapadera afufuze! Pamenepa “tadyekanapo galu!”
Kodi ngati tikuda akuluakulufe ana athu akhala otani?
Report likapitilizidwe coz ena mwawaiwala.Njoka timapha kumutu.
Mwaona alomwe pamenepo?????? nyika republic
mumadikila chani nthawi yonseyi vimboyonga imwe.
Can we trust the report?
BIG NOOOOOOOH TO ME
why not chifukwa silintchule JB? SImunamve kuti wogawiridwa alibe vuto? Mufuna kunena chiyani? Mbva ndi imene yagwidwa.
Tikonzepo: O Thokas odamuka
kale-kale.Panopa omayendetsa
bizimizi ndi wana wawo otsikana
sikomo nonse
Even JB is not mentioned the writing is on the wall that she benifited! She spoke in public that ” a thief is the one who takes but the one who just receives is not athief” end of the quote. “Olandira sanabe nawo koma amene anatenga”What does this mean ? search me!
Bravo Baker Tilly. Ambiri amafuna JB koma agwa nayo. Kaya mwana wake anatapa izo ndi zake as aliyense adzafera uchimo wake.
atumbuka atumbuka atumbuka kutereku mmene mmumati mukufuna kupita kwanu muja munali mutatibera ife ini nthaka? simupitaso mubweze mukayambia pa zero ndipo boundary iyambira pa Mzuzu airport
amenewaatu atikwana pitani ku ma kampani a Illovo zili thooooooooooo kuyambila dalaivala clerks okolopa ma ofesala mamanagala azikazawo anaawo azianti kuma banki mboma tawakwidzingeni
Iwe zereza nawenso iwe! Read the report again!! May be you wanted it to be in your venacular to appreciate that it has your compatriots!! Bububu iwe!!
Ndikutti upite ku ma barracks okha okhawo amafuna atiphe ife ife amenewa angonyongedwa
koma report limeneli ndiloonadi ayi ndithu ndakayika
The report might have been doctored.
Malawian people you know how the world is moving it’s like our country, corrupt, abuse young child, fighting the same country, this is like our leaders is doing right now, but God he know this
Only God knows
So if your name is not in the Baker Tilly report then that means you had nothing to do with cashgate? Koma umbuli ulipo ku Malawi abale!
Mulungu si nzathu kaya ena agona kaya. Have a blessed Friday
Thanks for report and remember God is GOd, those who wanted some people not on the list to be arrested pls find another reason as it seems you are trying everything in your power so that you arrest someone, you have called people to interview them so that one mentions a name so that you do what you know best – Nkhanza. Let justice be done on those involved – not 3 years sentence of course as this is a mockery to justice. Pls lets build Malawi instead of spending sleepless nights in order to nail someone. Pole.
Ok!koma ena akuluakulu asiyidwa chifukwa chani?
Amalawi mbuli zofikapo. otsaganizila status yomwe Richard anafika pakuchita retire. ndiye kumaganiza kuti angalole mkazi wache kuti akhudzidwe ndi za utsiru ngati cashgate. Whatever was going to affect JB was going to reflect RB behind. Whatever mistake she had made while ruling was going to rflect the weakness of RB. Behind any leader there is a spouse as a 1st adviser.
Kaya tione mmene za a Gelemani kuyamba 2005 kufika 2012 zithele.
When Tilly was auditing they did not stop anyone from providing evidence or guidance. Now the report has come out, armchair experts are coming forward with their theories. The rubbish the report for not having JB and Khumbo Kachali on it. This is a report which is not the end on its own. Go to ACB with your evidence on both. Come on,be patriotic enough. Dont just bark here. Someone says he is an auditor,well, as a citizen,go and do your indepth auditing. You will our hero when you bring these two in the open.
Before anybody pays back the cashgate money the following has to be done
Ndata and mpumulo wa mbava has to be returned
pROFESSOR Mathanyula has leave the state house because he also stole votes
chabwino tikukumvani olo muname ife tingoyang’ana popeza ife kunalibe.
Psaaaaa kokaaa,….Khwiyaaa lummaaaaa….tomwe walumati ndi tiakalulu tung’onotung’ono tamasakabe ugwira Nguluwe…uzimba uli bwino anyamata inu zunguliran kuseri kwachulu icho,iwe tapita kuseri kwamtengo uwo psaaaa khwiyaaaa mpaka tigwire Gwape pano
‘Inu’ iwe ndiye ndi mbuli yotheratu. JB akanatulutsa report bwanji pamene report lo linaperekedwa kwa a dpp? don’t comment for things u don’t know kape iwe.
Much awaited Baker Tilly forensic report is out; so the figures appearing here amount to
K20. billion or K13. billion? school me please on total amount so far. Enafe masamu amativuta kuyambira kala-kals ku Primary.
so many names from the north. Does it mean that Atumbuka ndi akuba?
So Khumbo is clean !!!!! eeeeeeeh A lomwe ndi A yawo munangodana naye munthu ameneyu. Manyazi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! muwone report la 92 billion. mupita basi.
Mukunenazi nde zamanyi zeni zeni. Mundiuza kuti dziko lonse la a Malawi lingamagundike kunva mabonya anu munenawa. Kodi mukuoperanji kutchula anthu onse involved? Enafe nde zutinyasa mutitayitsa nthawi. The problem is mukati cash gate names are out tikuona ngati kuti ndi onse amene kuphatikizilapo odya ma 92 billion alinso mommo. Mwaonjeza enawa mukuwaopa chani?
By the way, why did JB not release the report? Was it because dear Roy was on the list? This was obvious that her children were involved. They need to pay back what they stole from us.
your idiot old man Peter Mutharika must be the one to pay you because him and his late brother Bingu are the ones who introduced cashgate to the soil of malawi. Ndata and Mupumulo wa bata were constructed from tax payers and donor monies!
How can so many people that close to the former president, Joisi Banda, including her own son, be implicated without her being at least complacent? At the worst, a participant?
NyasaTimes should be asking tough questions, and not take the soft touch approach. This country is in a hurry to break the trail of malfeasance practices; the trail it has been on since 1964!
As malawian I need a report on 92 billion to be out don’t hide arrest those names on 92 billion
Why didnt PP conclude the 92 billion kwacha case? Bcoz its a hoax. There is no case.
Old man Peter Mutharika is heavily involved in MK92 billion cash gate scandals and must be arrested as well!
I do not understand what the reporter here intends to suggest. What kind of a fool of a president will pen his/her signature on money that is being siphoned? Did you not read the report that most of the people that were involved were just being used to launder the money? The fact that the name is Jb is not there does not say anything. It neither means she is innocent or she is involved. Please our good journalist, do not take sides when you are reporting. What will happen if it turns out that she was involved?
Do you remember the theory that was given when Paul Mphwiyo was shot? Now do you not understand that all those names that were mentioned in that theory are answering charges? What makes you then that whole theory could be true and only one part that involves JB was not.
For me, i really do not care who is on the list or not as long as all those that are involved are brought to book. This should be the standpoint of good Malawians. We are paying heavily for the greed of a few people.
Satemas and savalas kudya ma million paMalawi… koma ya ena ma billion mmalawi momuno….
ena mwana aliyense galimoto yakeyakepa town cashgate money….mk1 million pocket money yopitila ku lake…..
Of course, JB’s name does not appear on the list. Is anyone surprised? It was very clear when she said that police should only arrest those who took the money but not beneficiaries. That statement for me clearly showed a mother trying to sacrificing her own children. It was each person for him/herself. These boys and girls will have to decide whether to go down on their own or to reveal who the main beneficiaries were. That PP received 22 vehicles from Lutepo is a matter of fact. That amayi tried to portray the cashgate kingpin Mphwiyo is also a matter of fact. If not under the ACB cases, amayi has a case to answer esp on benefiting from proceeds of a crime. She must also be called by PAC to explain these statements she made on Mphwiyo’s shooting.
JB is indeed innocent. Tifunilanjinso umboni wina?. JB 2019 Bomaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
1.LET GOD BE GOD,
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Salary ya ma civil servants: SIINALOWE mpaka pano. Ifetu bizinesi zathu zimadalira civil servants. mukachedwetsa malipiro awo ifenso gain zathu zimalowa pansi, Chain reaction bwana prof. Apatseni anthu ndalama zawo.
Tawona anthu omwe anawononga 20 billion kwacha, tikudikira germany itulutse mayina omwe anawononga 92 billion kwacha mundawi ya bingu.
Kodi anapangisa kuti a Malawi aziwe za umbava wa m’boma si JB yemweyu? Ena kumati ndi big fish. Big fish ndi Peter. Tiyeni nazo kuyambira 2005 tiwonenso monga wapangira mzanu JB
Whayo anaba 91 sausande kikikikik. This Panel beater deservea 3days in prison
Seriously, how can one steal K 91000. He should be jailed for 3 minutes
Be cool mama
This is just showing white man our stupdity .You claim that 20 billion has been stolen,yet you give the figures are far less than have of the stolen money.Would the white man take as serious people?
Mudzitsanza ndalama zathuzo agulukunyinda inu
How can you say JB is not implicated when her son is in the report? How do you know she was using her son?
Iwe ndi bamboo ako? Roy si JB akulu
I can see people clutching straws on JB. Too much intoxication on politics blurs minds.
A chatonda tulutsani lanu report. Zikuwoneka kuti ili simukugwirizana nalo. Its not always that what you want happens. After all this is not the end. Whoever you wish so much to be arrested, will be jailed i assure you. And your wishful thinking will come to fruition.
Tikufuna 92bil report kuti nalo lituluke mwamsanga kuti madonors ayambe kutikhulupilira ndi kutithandiza.kaya APM ndi team lakhe adzapulumuka ndi kukayika
More fire Mai Joyce Banda,mwachita zinthu zomwe azibambo amazibisa,anthu ambiri ankaganiza kut ini mupezekamo,ine ndinkaziwa kut mukanakhala kut munachita,simukanagwira angapo,bwezi mutabisa nkhani yonse coz munthawi imeneyoyo munali mtsogoleri waziko,dikiran muone mmene azengelezere a Dpp ndi 92 billion ija,mutu wa nkhan suoneka ndipo aipondelezapondeleza,once again more fire Mai Joyce Banda..
So JB does not appear on the list, we knew that duh! We also told you that was the whole reason the report was being held back. What we dont understand is why the DPP with their new ACB kid want to let Lutepo go if he implicates JB, implicate her on what?
The Baker Tilly report is gone, now we will see what the Germany report will reveal (2005-2012)! Mubva madzi muonanso! Apa ndiye nkhanga zaonatu.
More fire Mai Joyce Banda,mwachita zinthu zomwe azibambo amazibisa,anthu ambiri ankaganiza kut ini mupezekamo,ine ndinkaziwa kut mukanakhala kut munachita,simukanagwira angapo,bwezi mutabisa nkhani yonse coz munthawi imeneyoyo munali mtsogoleri waziko,dikiran muone mmene azengelezere a Dpp ndi 92 billion ija,mutu wa nkhan suoneka ndipo aipondelezapondeleza,once again more fire Mai Joyce Banda
it’s so tricky, there are quite big fishes in the report! it’s government’s timing not to scare away the big cashgate beneficiaries. there’s no way a finance minister can go scot free! goodness ACB is working on this and there are more to go.
Real thieves do not use their real names so are the two suspected gurus missing on the list. Use some tips from Lutepo to get into the real issues using his call logs.
No body should call this witch hunting but allowing the wheels of justice to take its course. Let the courts, police and ACB do their work independently. No interference from the AG as we have heard before. You should remember that you are in the position to serve the nation and not otherwise. Decide what legacy you want Malawians to rem,ember you with.
God bless Malawi.